St. Patricks Day Memories

From my Golly Files:

It makes us happy when a Jewish store owner gives this old protestant scribe an emerald green necktie to wear on St. Patrick's Day.

Some of the best friends Golly has ever had have been of Jewish and Catholic faith.

Golly is reminded of the story of the farmers of the different faiths taking their grain to the same mill for processing. The miller did not ask by which route they had arrived. his only question was –

"Is your wheat good?"

perhaps this is the St. Patrick's Day Tie

Golly wrote this in 1957:

Fifty-five years ago –

Quite a spell –

Golly made his first sojourn in Coudersport on St. Patrick's Day - 1902.

For a month he was employed by the Potter Democrat as a printer. His salary – we like that word 'salary' - was $14 per week and the week was 60 hours of work.

The late John B. Coulston was the editor and publisher of the Democrat. The employees were the late Arlie Corwin, the late Mrs. Effa R. Beaver and Miss Cora Buck, later Mrs. Willard of Schenectady, N.Y.

Golly boarded at the Hotel VanBuren that stood where the Potter County Garage now stands at East Second and North East Streets. Of his $14 weekly stipend, five of it went to Landlord VanBuren.

It was 12 years later that Golly again came to Coudersport. He then went to work for the late M.J. Colcord, editor and publisher of the Journal, but this trip he received $20 a week, the week was still 60 hours.

From that day to this – more than 42 years – he has called Coudersport his home, and there's no other place on earth where he would rather live.