Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — Union Skraps. [ARTICLE]

Union Skraps.

Mr. Edtur—We ain’t used to much writin’ and you will have to do some correctin’ in spellin’ and logic, as we never had the privilege of goin’ to school much when we were young like the young people uv to-day. Wether ruther warm. Thrashers at work sheila out the grain. The clatter of the mowin’, machine is heard from every side. What’s the racket about the Gilim garls and those “top buggies” from Union? A certin young man from Keener sed he’d like fur solne ov us litrary fellers to put his name in the paper. We’ll do it, Elasha Shortridge! Wp have a poor opinion ov young men who play time killin’ games on Sunday.

Why is it that the Keener boys try to shine around the Union garls? It must be because the Union garls are better lookin’ than the Keener garls. We had oocashun to visit the Nor-

mal at Rensselar last Friday and couldn’t help noticin’ the diffrence between the schools ov to-day and those when we was young. When we was young the boys and garls studied readin’, writin’ and ’rithmetic, and somethin’ else (Eve forgot the name ov the book) that told ’bout the rivers and their orbitraries, the states and their dormitories, the sections ov a country and sich like. Now th e boys and garls fills their heads with a hull lot ov supertoolus nonsenses that don’t do themselves nor anybody else any good, and us studints ov olden times can see it as well as anybody 1 else. Our opinion should be respected. Peple should have respect for gray hairs. Uncle Simon. July 18,1881.