HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-07-30, Page 40Congratulation
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Happy
125th Birthday
Dungannon
And
Best Wishes
For The Future
From
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them from the rafts: My f ar m.
Grandfather Considered I have mentioned our
frogs leas a delicacy and school several times. We
one' day we had a won-
derful catch which my
cousin took to him in the
village.
One Of the first spring:
crops was that lowly bpSh
plant ,- the leek, There
was a bush behind the
school "arid some ,of the
boys would go at noon and
have `a feed'. Life was
almost unbearable in the
room for the rest of the
afternoop, but I expect
the boys were getting the
vitamins their systems
craved after our winter
diet. Next, the floor of the
bush would be carpeted "
with .wild flowers. We did
not know the names of
many. of the wild flowers
but we loved their loVely '
subtle colours.
„ One . special day at
-school was Arbour Day; a' -
Friday early in May. The
gir,ls came to school with
pails, soap, scrub bruShes
and cloths and the boys
brought rakes and forks.
It was clean-up day for
everyone. And when the
day was over the school
property had a New Look. •
Often we would go to the
bush in the afternoomand
sometimes brought back
little Maple trees which
were planted along the
school fence. That may
be the reason so many of
ntes et out. c
*fonn page 9 the little old red felt rather superior about the corner! We hal slates verb:ins parts off the ' probably . Hallowe'en' r
Finally, the snow began schoolhouses' have it, It Was not just a 'little- and scribblers - and schoofyard. They were one building fell over and
to go and it was maple maples around them now red schoolhouse a ', It was Simple, plain text books. not supervised by a - the lady who Was the,.
syrup time but we did not ,.new that they have, two-room brick school . They were functional but . teacher so there were village correspondent for
make sYruP until later become country homes built about 1870 of brick not entertaining. There plenty of fights. And of the ' local. Weeklies
• Years. One: of my for city people or garages from a brickyard in *as no radio, movies or course; there was always referred to it delicately brothers still_IPVes t9'1et_for_township--.1.,...road-a.-D -- TV- urigmmon,, — -,-,-...-----:-to--s.upplement—the---a----bu lly--ito—ntErke----lifer- ci. '`the-titrall4,1411ding-at out in, the bush in, machinery or a Storage ' One hot day this week,1 leisoaS, There . was no miserable for the the schObl' and it;',has ,
springtime , - ,S•qve r al Place for superannuated .heard a youngster Vol; assembly: hall, or ' younger children. been :that to me .:'ever
schools froni nearby farm machinery.: My comPlain that .. "There schoolyard .with,. `wow. The Junior Room since.. Those buildings
townships and towns former schools have isn't a• AN in ourrbom." derful equipment, -There teacher was always a were very necessary and • bring the children to see become all of these. - What a calatriity!. There " were no expensive Math, lady teacher and the useful, but „neither syrup being made. They At home? the `little .were no Mod cons of any • Scien-ce, His tor y ,, Principal who taught the beautifuitor sanitary., are almost more in- garden' near the house kihd at our school. There Geography , or „English, Senior Room was man. MoSt of these memories
terested in watching the was ploughed and the were two box stoves' for boAs supplied . by a He was sometimes called have. been dredged up of
wood fire under the earlipr, hardy. vegetables heating and a pail of benevolent school beard: in to administer justice to the • years before': and
eviporating pan than in planted. We had our own water in each room for We boUght . our • . own. some of the slow learners. during the 1414-1918 War.
the syrup itself. Some hot bed or cold frame drinking - if someone had , supplies - hooks, slates, :who just Q'sat" in the ' Like all rural Corn-
modern children have where we started our own gone to the well or spring . scribblers, pencils, pens, Junior Room and often . mutinies, ours prqueed .
never seen a wood fire. In tomatoes, cabbage, etc. A in the morning. There ink et disturbed the peace until many good 'citizens -
our day, Many of us never few weeks . later, the were blackboards. - • -- : -they found some work or some . outstanding and saw-anything else. 'back garden' was literally just that - and In the winter, the boys . just stopped sdh961.• seine just ordinary like
Then there was our ploughed and the corn, desks screwed to the played dibs (marbles) -On, I was,terrified when the 'roost of us. Some might
pond behind the barn. We pumpkinS, squash and floor. The WindoWS were the floor at recesses and Principal . came, in with have become outstanding
spent hours buildingrafts other tender things were high and `froSted' and men, bht that was not a his strap, and always if they had had a • better
and poling them around ,planted there: SO " the there were no artificial gable for girls. Often the • .asked to leave the room. ' chance. There are always the pond. Wet to the skin, cycle of the year began lights. But we struggled boys.would have SnOwball That Meant going out .to some .who deserve better
I am sure, but again it a ll • over again. We along. ' : fights outside. In .fine the small building in the. opportunities And : so
was fun.. There would be children were a , year Some of, the children • weather there . was ' a back north:west corner'of often some who are given
frogs and frogs and frogs older and able to do a bit walked two or three miles •game km:4n as FoX - not ' the. Sehoolyard.• (There these opportunities do not and_we_woulitr-y-tocatch____rnore_of_tbe_werk of the to get there-in-the-mor Fox-and-GooseT=which—was-a-sitnilar. One, in the . ' take advaritagebT the-ff.--
ning and again to get ;was .played outside, and south-west Corner for the Sincerely,
home. No tars to take there were often three boys.) One' time. : The Co,iintni Mouse,
them a few rods around ball. games going on in
The Oldsmobile
Runabout was
_ a favorite car
n 1902.
Best
Wishes ;,
D.UNGANNOR
"125th
Birthday"
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