My Grandfather wrote often about change in his weekly "Golly" newspaper column. I think he would appreciate this quote, though he wasn't a big fan of President Kennedy or most any Democrat!
Some of Golly's observations:
From 1952:
How times change!
Not so many years ago the agricultural crops of Potter County were pretty much limited to potatoes, oats, buckwheat and the like.
Within the last few years, hundreds of acres of peas and snap beans have been grown for canning concerns and frozen food companies.
Now broiler chicks are being reared in great numbers.
But there seems to be no end of the change. This year hundreds of acres will be planted to cucumbers. It has been found that this fruit of the vine yields tons to the acre on the higher lands of the county and will prove a profitable crop.
Indications are that we can all get pickles or pickled plenty.
And strawberries – Yeah, Golly is told that this is natural soil to produce that delicious fruit. There will no doubt be large strawberry acreage within a season or two.
Up to now no one has appeared to recommend a crop of grapefruit and oranges.
This diversified crop plan seems like a good one. If all your eggs are in one basket and you stub your toes – Oh well!
From 1957:
Times change – and how!
When Golly was a kid – long, long time ago – a haircut at the barber shop cost 15 cents. Fifteen cents was real money.
There was a fellow employed in the livery barn, a good-hearted guy, who would use the horse clippers and peel the hair off a boy's pate for free.
Along about the arrival of summer, we were saving our pennies - and an occasional nickel - for firecrackers and ice cream on the Fourth. Money saved on a haircut was a big boost in the horde.
Way back then men had to pay 15 cents for a haircut and 10 cents more for a shave.
Who could imagine the time would come in 1957 when a shave would be a big dollar and a haircut another whole dollar.
Yeah, times change.
From 1965:
Sounds – even they change with the years
I have commented on the difference of the rather pleasing sound of the hand lawn mower and the raucous noise of the power machine.
Woodsmen years ago used a crosscut saw, and it produced rhythm and melody, but now it's a gasoline machine – one that whines and roars so loudly it may be heard a long distances.
Time was when horse drawn vehicles, heavily loaded, passed quietly along roads but now the sound of a big truck climbing a heavy grade, and the false explosions of some of them on down grade.
Styles – even of noise – change.
From 1963:
How times change –
Golly recalls sixty years ago investing in a hand numbering machine while publishing the Cross Fork News. That small bit of equipment cost $14 and mind you, that was real money in my small printing office.
The thrill of such a machine in that day was greater than the recent purchase of a paper cutter by the Enterprise, even though the new machine to cut paper cost over $3,000.
That seems to be the difference between 1903 and 1963.
Wonder what sixy years more – 2023 – will be like!
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