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THEFARMER'S FRIEND | ||
| Vol. 4 | October 1925 | No. 4 |
Your Neighborhood | ||
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A stranger can move into a community and he soon has a circle of friends that he calls his neighbors and when you hear him speak of the community in which he lives he calls it "Our Neighborhood." Who do you call your neighbors? How big is your Neighborhood? Every man draws the boundary line of his own neighborhood, for your neighborhood extends as far as your friendship and it is measured by the service you render. In the early days, neighbors were few and far between; the mode of travel was slow and laborious and there was no telephone connections with the outside world; the man who had half dozen neighbors was considered lucky. But today it’s different; you meet people in the every day walks of life who live ten, twenty or thirty miles from your home. You can visit a friend twenty miles away quicker than the early settler could visit his neighbor in the next section. Often we have customers from Wayne and Effingham Counties in the store trading at the same time, or customers from opposite sides of the country. The "Farmer’s Friend" covers a good big neighborhood; it gathers news about your far away neighbors as the days go by and passes it along to you from month to month. If this little paper can be instrumental in making life’s pathway a little smoother for you, can help you get more for the commodities you produce, pay less for the articles you need to buy and help you broaden "Your Neighborhood" then it has served it’s purpose. Written by Isaiah Kincaid, October 1925 |
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