Pay-Up Week.

This is National Pay Up Week. It began on the 21^st and will end on the 26^th. A number of our friends, in making their rounds and squaring their accounts, have forgotten the editor. But there is still time.

Why Pick On Pie?

There is a tendency on the part of some highbrows to sneer at pie and to pretend a fine scorn for pie-biters. Evidently they don’t know as much about pie as they pretend. We have made a study of the subject and are proud in our possession of knowledge of that peerless pearl of products — the perfect pie.

            The so-called highbrows do not know, perhaps, that Emerson ate pie until the day he died and that his system of philosophy was founded upon custard pie. They are ignorant of the fact that Carlisle never ate a pie in his life — and lived and died a grouch. We’ll bet four dollars that they do not even suspect that Dr. Samuel Johnson ate pie all his life until one fatal Good Friday, when he switched to a hot-cross bun. He never smiled again, Boswell says …

Tell Us the News.

If anything happens at your house, tell us.

If you have a friend visiting you, tell us.

If you are going away on business, tell us.

If you or any of your family are going away on a visit, a vacation or any kind of trip, tell us.

If any of the folks are ill, tell us.

When they get well again, tell us.

When you return home after a trip, tell us.

If you hear of a birth, tell us.

If you hear of an engagement, tell us.

If you hear of a wedding, tell us.

If you hear of a death, tell us.

If you hear of a new family moving to town, tell us.

With your help we can publish a good newspaper. Without your help — well, we are only human and we can be in but one place at once. So, if you don’t help, don’t find fault.  

From “A Retrospect in History.”

Reproduced from The Enterprise Files.

Twenty Years Ago.

(Feb. 23, 1896.)

(Guilderland) A sleigh load of people from Rotterdam became snowbound here Wednesday night and were entertained at the home of Simeon Westfall.