Original Valley PENNYSAVER • March 30, 2013
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So we think we are a better educated, more advanced society with more and better benefits than those of yester years? I have a photocopy of an envelope mailed by the war department to Charles Walter Vosburgh of Palatine Bridge, NY dated April 18, 1919. The paid postage was one cent. Citizens could mail a 1st class letter for one penny and now we have to pay nearly a half buck. Are we advancing backwards? In the issue of February 16, 2013 we published a list of the men and women from this area who served our country in the so-called war to end all wars: the World War. Charles R. Vosburgh of Palatine Bridge graciously allowed us to copy the honorable discharge papers of his grandfather, a World War I veteran. I believe his father was the Montgomery County sheriff. One good deed deserves another. If you are in the market to buy hay or straw, give Mr. Vosburgh a call: 518-993-3749. I’m sure he will be able to help. I found it very interesting to learn that the Vosburgh family name and the Nellis family branched from a common tree, or at least had common ancestors. It would be an interesting study to learn of the connections of the families living in the Mohawk Valley. For example, who was related to whom? In my case, our family history in America is basically only four generations old. We love America but we are as Irish as Paddy’s pig. Wouldn’t it be interesting to learn the family names now living in our valley? Whose family name was part of our list of those who served in the first World War, second World War, and even the Civil War? This yarn is proof that it’s tough to beat apple pie. It seems that a Sunday School teacher was teaching her young class about heaven and hell. She said, “All of you students who want to go to Heaven say ‘I’.” Little Johnny Alone was mute. When his teacher asked, “Johnny, don’t you want to go to Heaven?” he said, “When Grandpa drove me to Sunday School this morning, Mom was baking a couple of apple pies.” This afternoon while writing Hello Again, I had an interesting visit with a lady who says she has used her body as a human guinea pig/laboratory to study the affects of food as it pertains to her own health. She said she is 72 but in my opinion she talks, thinks, walks as a 30 year old. I should have asked her — “If some food does not seem to agree with you — is your body trying to warn you? Could it be causing more damage than you ever imagined? For example, one of my favorite dressings for a meat sandwich is mayo. My stomach has a continuing argument with mayo. Is it possible that it is causing some serious problem unknown to me?” Sunday to Christians will be the most important day of the year. The Bible teachers and I believe the day we call Easter, Jesus willingly obeyed God the Father, allowed his earthly human body to surrender to death on the cross so that we who believe will be forgiven of our sins, and will enjoy eternal life with him. Naturally this is a personal decision one must make — to believe in Christ or not. I do not suggest you have to — I just wish you would. Watch for the little red bike — when the robins come back, so will the bike — wave hello and may God bless you, your family, and friends.
Fred Lee and Family