Once upon a time, Country Charley was dissatisfied with shoveling corn into his father's fat cow in Green Bay Township, and decided that he would go to Osceola and become a Town Sport. He has been looking enviously at the boy in the city standing in front of the church chewing on the star plug on Sunday night, waiting for Xiao Liangyan to absorb a bunch of religious beliefs, appear at the door, and escort her home after the choir is over. Tear off the last national anthem.
When he saw the boy in town reading Cap Collier and feeling tougher than any Western desperadoes, there was a wave of jealousy in his heart. He wears striped socks and a red tie playing sevens, drinking in the uniform barn on Sunday afternoon, and his heart aches.
When his father sent him to the southern plot to feed the pigs, he lamented his fate and regarded urban sports as a real thing, learning knowledge on the fountain head.
His father and brother Bill begged him not to watch "Urban Sports" when his self-esteem blushed, but to stay with the old people, save his money, marry the blond little peach at the crossroads, and buy His own farm. But he thought it was ambition calling him. One day he sold the chestnut pony to a buyer in Omaha, then turned his face to Osceola and began to understand real life. If it cost him four and a half dollars, Throw a little red paint.
Country Charlie did not come to Osceola for two days, he could chase the No. 13 ball into his side pocket from time to time, and he could tell two new and colorful stories about Omaha. continue.
My name is Mary (my maiden name is Gardner) White, and I have always lived in Clark County. Married to Bob White, daughter and son-in-law, and 2 grandchildren. The son passed away in 2017. Graduated from Clark in 1962. I have been a member of the Historical Society since 1971.
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