| Show We see before us huge bottles filled with goodies--large all-day-suckers jelly beans Boston baked beans and stick candy to name few We watch amused as one little tyke bargains forpennyworth of jelly beans andnickelworth of all-day-suckers and demands that they be packed in two bags--one for each hand The smiling clerk obeys We leave Beck Mercantile and procesd down main street to the Anderson Meat Market As we approach we seetiny girl of perhaps four years of age climbing the two steps to the door proudly clutching an 2gg in one hand which she hopes to trade for candy She reaches the top step stumbles and drops the precious egg Choking back sobs the child turns and runs back down the street There is no egg for trading today We enter the market--what is that enormous white thing on the floor It is the stiffened carcass ofnewly slaughtered critter awaiting to the cooler The weather is now cold enough and we will soon have fresh beef on our dinner black and unskinned transportation for butchering tables Is that another market down the block Yes 1t is the Blain Market where we can buy almost anything we need to eat even large julcy oranges to be hidden in the toes of Christmas stockings John Blain the owner is standing in the open doorvay his genial face crsased inbroad smile ss he Jjokes withgroup of teen-agers who have just bounded off the bus after attending High School at Mt Pleasant All the young people respect John he treats tham as equals and there is no generation gap here Let us stop for an ice-cream cone at Baxterconfec tlonary near by hear they have the best ice-cream in the state Oh here is the Lyceum Theatr --I see Tom Mix is playing tonight inwestern movie Tomorrow night the floor will be cleared for an evening of roller skating and next week the Jr High School is presenting an operetta Then next month in this building the 0ld Folks Committes will host the annual dinner and dance for the slderly of the town Also later in the season magic show andtraveling vaudeville troupe are ooked We must stop at the Post Office to pick up our mail There 1s the usual crowd of people gathered by their boxes walting for the mail to be sorted This is the general meeting 76 |
