HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1960-08-31, Page 6J .
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•BP W B T. Siiiiley
People : keep asking Ale. how I
got 'on this school teaching' kick.
"Didn't you like the newspaper
business?" they query, Sure, I
like being a weekly editor, I am.
also- very' fond of , pickledpigs'
feet,, butI don't want -thein for
breakfast,' lunch, dinner and bed-,
time snack, every day • except
Sunday.'.
1t wasn't a sudden aberration,
'just one • of those wild impulses
a man has when he 'hits the 411,
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL , L,UCKNOW, ONTARIO •
Year mark, It • was carefully r>'a- AGED GENTLEMAN
soned out. This column, written
four years- ago, is proof of that,
Here's • the way I told it back in
'56:
DI ED, A'T HOLYROOD
• WILLIAM E. . TAYLOR
WEDgiFSDAY, 'AUG, :31st 1960,
The other. day I was sifting in Mr. William Edwaxd. Taylor,
the heat, feeling sorry for my- an esteemed resident of Vy'alker
self, watching the tourists walla ' ton for fifteen years, passed,
past the ' office window: They away on Monday' of this 'week,
looked lazy, carefree, healthy; I August'22'rd, at the home ofhis
started worrying about how h d daughter, Mrs Harvey; IIoust n,.
I, work,, :how seamy are, the m'
.holi- of Holyrood, with .who. he• had
'days, • ' how .many " thou ands of made his home for the, past. ten.
Words. I• had to p'xoduee , in the months owing to: failing health.
apHe had reached, the, advanced
next, few days, What - I C ty l The late Mr Taylor a s
though,. that." an intellect like
y � ge of . ei ht ei yea as born
mane should be chained to• a 50.-. i ,
f/
year-old Remington Rand when n Greenock Township, a son. of
all these, .other clods are 'having the. late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph'
two weeks with pay." Taylor. He spent the greater'
part of ` his life on Concession A
in• • that township, near the vi1
Just then .. one of .our 'local mlags w
high-school teachers sauntered ofPi ekssefrullyton, unhetirlehe fifteefarn
past in Bermuda shorts, licking (years .ago when ,he retired from
an ice-cream cone and looking active farm life, taking up:. -
as` happy' as a beach -comber. In- siderice in Walkerton'at the" recor
spiration. struck me so violently ,
ner of Scott and .Peter Streets
that my old swivel; chairalmost. where he continued to ' reside
went over •backwards, oaigo.
Eirerybody knows there IS a he abdecueatsedone possessyear.ed •a quiet
great shortage u• ntTil
e of teachers i. Why
uldn't I take bine,,' of 'those likeable, disposition .and during
s - • .. :his • residence' in. Walkerton made •
co
er courses and obtain a
friendswho held him in
. ,
teacher's: certificate' Then.I'd many.high regard and deeply regret
get a job teaching: At. the '.local phis passing: He was a member
high school provided I chantof �St.' Thomas Anglican. �C'hurc'.
ed eight or ten. 'of. my personal . Mr. Taylor'was married on Oe:
habits. * * tober ard, 1903, • to MisS. Marg-
10.•aret Isobel Napper, daughter of
Then I'd hire: some smart kid the late . Mr.' and ,Mrs. ' James
just out sof journalism school, .as .Napper of Brant Township,arid
editor. I d ., make. enough • money I she.. 'predeceased him . in 1945:
teaching to pay hissalary and ('Surviving. are an only. son, Ray,
have some over for • smokes And • of . Walkerton & an only , daugh-
=-eget this I'd have two Months.' ter (Elsie) .•Mrs: Harvey Houston
holidays' out of.the deal: I • went of -Holyrood. A son,' Merton,
predeceased him:in ;1943'.. He .also
leaves six grandchildren and one
great-grandchild. -
..The funeral service, which
was attended by .;many • of the.
late ' Mr. Taylor's' numerous
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CALL BYE
NUMBER
IT'S TWICE
AS FAST!
over ` . the . scheme , a •. ,couple • of
times, checking : the logic of • it:
I could find a flaw. It 'Was fool-
proof, , thegreat escape. ,
**;*:.
I went happily home to lunch,
practically drooling as ' the sim-
ple beauty of the plan sank
Eight -thirty to ' four, five days a
week. Holidays at Christmas.
Holidays at Easter, Two glorious
months! in the summer. Wow!
Teaching and. I were made for
each other.
*' * *
"How.. would you like to go to
Europe ; next summer?" T pro-'
positioned .the' Old Girl when, I`
walked in "Fine, says :she, get-
ting out the can Of soup. "How
around the. house,: if you had
Saturdays free." .I • felt a .:slight
chill, ' as though .:,a corpse had
•lifted the lid of acasket and.
winked at me...'.
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"Well," 'I ;temporized,: , "actual
ly, I: thought 'I'd drop down to
the office on Saturdays, & kind
of poke :around and check oln..
things, and write some editorials
and sort„of tidy up 'loose, ends,
and you .' know '-• She nodded
would' YOU like o go and bring : thoughtfully. /.
in 'that,' lineful of .. :clothes?” ;Boy, *• * '*
that makes : .me mad. Always "It ;will certainly be good' for:
•
those art-alec answers when,you . t
,smo. 'give; up • smoking' and
I have. the :world by the tail. swearing and 'Making rei larks
To take ,her:down a. peg,
outlined . my',scheme , about teach -
Ind. She just. looked at. rne, dead-
pan. "That would ' be' lovely.
dear," she observed: "You'd be
to get • a lot ' more ' done
1
like `Took at. the lungs' 'on that'
'and . drinking, beer," she pointed
mit in. a kindly way, ' "Now hold
it a minute,"' 3returned• hotly.
"School teachers aren't. like that.
,any more, That was in the -•;good
:old days, when We had the spec -
MONUMENTS
For sound, counsel: and a fair price on a monumer t
correctly designed from quality material,
rely
SKELTON`; MEMORIALS
Pat O'Hagan, Prop..
•r
Established Over Sixty Years'•
Walkerton .Phone •638-w.
Ontario
ugust
ies under our thumbs; ,and a: tea=
cher' couldn't even have a snort.
• of dandelion:wine without turn
:.ing out all : th'
e::lights in the.
house and locking the door." , •
It's . an: excellent idea#" • she
went On., "Of . course, you'd' have
to study hard all summer` to get
your ,certificate. " No fishing' or
golf. •No , pleasant • cool drink
When you come home : from
Work. No swims with 'the:' kids.
No home -cooked meals.. But w'e'd.
all have to make, sacrifices.":
* *
"Uh, yeah," I said, with a lit-
tle less than exuburance. "I'rn
sure --you d`"be: able to cope • with'
those. delinquents, in school;'
she pursued • inexorably., • "You
'can't mdb 'a thing with your own
children,, but I know you'd. have
'no discipline 'problem's with
teen-agers. I 'think there's a lot
of exaggeration iri those *:stories
about switchblade knives and: ail.
that `stuff anyway." • '
*
•
SUMMER 'GOODS
ELECTRIC HOT ELATES • ELECTRIC PANS
OUTING JUGS
MINNOW .PAILS'
PICNIC HAMPERS
BARBECUES.'
LIFE JACKETS
DisC�tint
ON ALL ITENMS 'LISTED •
urdie Son
Hardware :.1- Luckno+v
"Uh,'yeah," 1 said. `•'You know
what?"' I .said •
. It's. a little , late
to' get on that summer course•
this year. But next year, for
sure, I'll tke it, and we'll be
sitting on op r of :the world."
"tTh, yeah," she said. •
And that' was • the start of the
whole thing,` four years • ago:
And if • that's . the top .of • the
world were ',sitting on,it must
be made of snow, because
melting rapidly from under nie.
Or, as the little polar bear said
to his Morn; "My tail is told,"
ecoratirs
And GIF:11.; SHOP
Phone 2t8 -a- Lucknow
• THC PRQMIUM.PAINT6
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friends' in the .Pinkerton ' district
as .well as those in Walkerton,
.was:' held at the Tanner .&: Pear-.
son Funeral Home on'. We.dnes-.
day afternoon. Rev. N. W. Okell.
pastor 'of the Walkerton 13aptist
Church, in • the •absence , of Rev.
Archdeac'bn;..'R D.: Mess,:::who is
on ' vacation, :conducted the, ;•ser-
vice and : also the last: rites:- at
the graveside" in •D'ouglas.•, Hil'1
cemetery, . near 'Cargill; where
interment ' took ; place:
' The' pallbearers Were ' Messrs.
•James : Napper and .Morris'.
Young' of 'Eden ;Grove;.: Gordon
Pinkerton, Dennis Donnelly . and:
Donald. .Garland'.. of Pinkerton,
and . Howard. Clark • of Owen:
Sound:. '•
.Tigt.EE AV ILIARY ' LADIES
BOWLED AT PALMERSTON
' On . Wednesday, August 24th,.
11,1lrs. Peter 'Johnston, ;: Mrs. Jim
McNaughton' and Mrs:."'Ron' For-
ster attended the 3r d annual
Legion, Auxiliary lawn bowling
tournament held in Palmerston..
Twelve .branches. were .repre•
sented , and • twenty-two rinks
competed. In 5th' 'p, lace ,vas., a
rink comprised of 'Mrs., Krampp,.
Walkerton, skip; - Mrs. Forster,
Lucknow, lead; and Bernice Al.
exander, Owen . Sound.
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