Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years

Days Gone By In Staunton

Thursday, February 22 , 1923 -- DON'T BORROW, SUBSCRIBE--Listen to this classic print-shop fable which is going the rounds. Once upon a time a nickel-nurser Sent his kid to borrow his neighbor's paper and the kid upset a hive of bees and soon was covered with lumps. His father ran to help him and caught his chin on a clothes line and sprained his back and fell and broke a $25 watch. The clothes pole fell over on the car and smashed the windshield and mother rushed out to see what occasioned all the excitement, upset a five-gallon churn of cream into a basket of kittens, drowning them. The elec...

 

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