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J, F. SNOWDON, Proprietor.
1 Gellert Observations I
The removal of the rural schools
from the effect of the Adolescent
Act of folly, should be' followed by
the removal of the urban schools
also.
The :past, severe winter with its im-
passable roads should be evidence
that Consolidated Schools are not
adaptable to Canadian winters. Propa-
ganda may describe children arrivihg
at 9 a.m. happy and comfortably after
a ten -mile drive, but the fact that
such children have driven oyer a bush
road or along roads - protected by
bills, is carefully covered up. Any
thinking person will know that many
times during the past winter children
exposed' in the open country would
suffer. 'Then, think of the expense at
present time of high prices.
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TIME BEAPORTH riEWS
that1'dation inearts increas our locality, Now, I have to give this McKILLOP.
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cotton - of the dale- from memory, so "a word tnay have
ed taxation. -Many lace;
y'e. n enu tt� sran e. to i
Ban bitterly antagonistic. u'e v
a particular address in favor of took 50 Brent a building a fore -
Thursday evening, March 26th. The
consolidation, a trustee delegate noon to g programme " throughout was,of the
arose and demanded why speak- Yet. this is so, and if any one doubts highest order, each number .showing
ers were brought to the meeting these statements, they can call at No., careful choice and training on the part
and put up to supporta movement 6 schoolhouse where the teacher or of the teacher. Special mention might
not popular in the rural districts. any,of the pupils can direct them to , be made of an 'interesting and instruc-
The chairman at once invited the thespot where they can make en- i tive debate, "Resolved that the people
objector to'the'platforin and gave quiries.' of fifty ago were better citizens
"him the opportunity to voice his In two weeks or. so, the following than the people,of to -day." The of
objections. Instantly the dale- appeared: "Yes, we admit it strange : firmative was successfully upheld by
gate came forward and with ad- that Bob and 50 men could not titan] Imisses.Ti Mc'Kercher and h Jantzie,
irable candor and courage ex- trive to erect a barn in hours lesswhile the negative was ably taken by
?Misses F. O'Hara a and I. Bolton. The
consoli views The app; use which
to r ten. he oe this is true,aa et will r selections also were -most
n. applause "which deny the hailds were against us for two Easter consolidation. It ill Bob was. near -both
tribute rain and did fa • e. Much '.credit is+`due
speech was' a t effective.
his 1
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nes
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greetedmentis.' The aher,
as 'eotn us me Sday P and their teac
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fuing cold. The logs began to slide and Scarlett. The following is the ve-
to his convictions.
Surel the people of rural Ontario Bob,. avith the men,. adjourned atp- pbrt of school section No.. 6. The fig -
is
ten credit for having eventide- Next day the scribe ap='
might be given
Sense. enough to serve their own
school problems without free advice-
from Toronto. They appear to be
fairly well satisfied with the ,present
system and,'they are not willing to ex-
periment with the expensive consoli-
dated scheme. To adopt the new
system would mean that the present
buildings would have to be scrapped,
costly new buildings built, and a'fleet
of motor busses purchased. And
when all this was done, it is quite
possible that it would not work. The
busses might be tied up for two
months with snow -filled roads, or
keep of the schools would
most suceessfu e n e tainiheut
g t s had come to Convocation strayed out ofp that t� was given by the paipils of S.S. No.6,
tnc After• "Stra g , igl y t g , McKillop in
the school hos of
The three Tailors of Tooley street, 1
who called themselves "Vie; the peo-
ple of Loudon" are equalled by the
so-called "Trustee and. Ratepayers'
Association of Ontario, who last
week at Toronto called upon the Edu-
eational Department to retain the
Adolescent. Act. Mr. Hicks said re-
cently in the House, that not one
single school board in Huron agreed
with' the claims of the Ratepayers
Association.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS Ir
By W. H. T.
1 ?$
When is a young man's arm like
the gospel? When it maketh glad the
waste (waist),places.
Winter lingers in the lap of spring.
But notwithstanding, get your to-
mato ready for, setting out when the
danger of frost is. over.
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How cold, these days, are the winds
that blow over the ice -fields of the
upper lakes.
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the up
be more than the. ratepayers could
stand, and it would be necessary to go
back to the old system once more,
with a heavy load of debt.
Let rural 'Ontario settle its prob-
lems in its own way, without outside
propaganda. If, in kt4 course of
years, they see thaf consolidated
schools are practical, they will adopt
them. In the meantime, there is no
use nn getting hot under the collar be-
cause country people don't take up
Toronto's latest fad.
April 10th was almost as bad a day
for the Spring Horse Show as March
29th,
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peered and he looked both pale and
wan. We asked the reason why. He
replied, 'Last night was Hallowe'en.'
The efforts he put forth that day in
struggling with the beams would
bring discredit to a boy scarce enter-
ed in his teens. The men, however,
went to work. The thing was done
in style and such a barn as Barnet has,
you can't find itt a mile."
And, now dear readers, in conclus-
ion I will state that Weir Acheson
was then the teacher of No. 6, a jolly
and witty chap. Some of the Old
Boys, who were present, and reading
this article, may recall this occurrence
which happened in days of old, while
I was still a sojourner on Oid Huron's
soil
—ROBERT NIcNAUGHTON.
Duluth, Minn., April 7, 1923.
Recalls Raising A Barn in McKillop
Many Years Ago.
Another terrible tale of suffering
and death as an aftermath of the ter-
rible blizzard which swept the north-
west February 13th comes from Ab-
erdeen, South Dakotah. Two little
Indian boys, brothers nine and twelve
years of age attending school at the
Cheyenne agency, begged permission
to attend the funeral of a relative
near by. It was granted, but it seems
instead of doing so they started for
their home a long distan,pe away. The
day they started, February 12th, was
fine when they commencedtheir
journey, but they never reached 'home,
being caught in the pitiless blizzard.
Nearly six weeks afterwards their
well-preserved frozen bodies with
still frozen tears on their cheeks were
found by searchers who claimed the,
poor st
hunfortunate little
have traveledalmostfortyomilesws u n
the awful storm before death over-
took them. Oh what a wonderful en
durance, what terrible suffering they
showed and endured in their vain
and frantic endeavors to reach home.
The first to die was the youngest. It
seems he had lain down and rolled un-
der a barbed wire fence in order to
reach hay stacks near by Kut was so
completely exhausted and overcome
he never got up again. Failing, seem-
inlto move his littlthe
elder boy went another mile, cobrotherming
to another barbed wire fence with hay
stacks near by. He also laid down to
roll under this fence but failed to
rise again, though by impressions
left had tolled half the distance be-
tween the fence and the stacks, where
the searchers found his frozen body
This terrible and almost heart -break-
ing tragedy is another instance of a
heroic struggle for life and effort to
reach home in face of a pitiless storm
with Death the victor.
Did you ever think, Dear Reader,
what noble men and women the pio-
neers of Canada were? They chafed
under the crowded, hopeless condi-
tions
onditions of the old world, while Canada
appealed to them as the /and of op-'
portunity, where they would no long-
er be the tenants to the end of their
days of my Lord So and So, but
where they would own'the house they
lived in and the land they worked on.
It is true that .between them and
this land of promise there lay the
broad Atlantic, and hundreds of miles
of journeying over rough roads,
.through the forests primeval, where
the bear and, the wolf roamed in all
their wiidneds _ and ferocity, not to
mention the red man, perhaps more
to be feared than they. But, the vi-
sion.of sturdy independence, instead
of abject servility, lured them on, and
so with inflexible determination and
a courage which was buoyed up and
sustained bya faith in God which has
seldom been equalled, and never sur-
passed,they set forth to hew out for
themselves a home in the wilderness,
Doubtless there were thousands of
others in the Old Country who would
like to have made the venture, but
they lacked the stoutness of heart—
the courage—the faith. They were
weaklings. They stood and trembl-
ed on the brink and feared to launch
away. So we see the pioneers of Can-
ada were choice, superior, selected
souls, and well may those of us be
proud who have descended from such
ancestry. It is not to be wondered
at our Canadian boys in South Af-
rica, and in France and Flanders bore
themselves with a gallantry that was
unisin passed.
DON'T WANT CONSOLIDATED
OLS
Rural Delegates Show Opposition to
The Scheme at Convention Held
In Toronto:
The following report' of an incident
at the Ontario Educational Assoaia
ion conference is taken from Satur:
day's issue of "a Toronto paper, and
shores the strong opposition to
consolidated schools in this province,
It reads:
A dramatic moment came in the
Trustees' section on 'Wednesday.
Several addresses had been made
ih favor of consolidation. Now it.,
is well known that : consolidation
has many bitter enemies in some
rural districts. It is -snantained
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Restrictions.
"Don't they allow us to raise chil-
dren in this apartment house?"
"No," said the janitor.
"Nor kittens nor puppies nor par-
rots?"
"No. Nothing is permitted to be
raised here except the rent."
In Former Days.
Away some forty-one years and
never back on'a visit, my memory re-
verts often to Old Huron and the fa-
mous eighth and ninth concessions of
McKillop, particularly the 2i.4 miles
and a little over east of Winthrop and
the following incident often looms up
in my visions of the long ago past.
Isaac Bolton, a boyhood chum and
schoolmate of mine, at No. 6 school,
McKillop, and the eldest son of the
late Barnet Bolton of the eighth con-
cession and one of McKillop'srespect-
ed,pioneers who believed in doing his
duty to God and his fellow man to
the best of his ability.
Well, Isaac in the late fall of 1878
undertook to hew, and frame titnber
for a building to be erected on the
family homestead. He wasgetting
along fine, well and successfully with
the same, but the season was getting
late, winter drawing nigh, and it was
advisable to have it erected before the
cold weather set in. So two local
framers and carpenters, . brothers,
were hired to assist him, The time.
chosen to erect this building wasthe
afternoon -of October 31st, 1878, some
time ago. Well, there was a bunch of
us young chaps at the raising, full of
mischief and monkey work, and by
our repeated and combined efforts and.
antics the sante was not completed
at nightfall. Earlthe next forenoon,
with the men 'all -back again, we
were again resuming our antics of the
previous afternoon. The late Erwin
Johnston, ninth concession, a sturdy
pioneer of early days, remonstrated
with us and., informed us if we did
not stop these antics the elder men
were all going home. Well, that set-
tled it, and the erection of this build-
ing was quickly concluded. In a spir-
it of mischief and fun at that time, I
sent the fallowing to the local press,
not weighing what outsiders not con-
versant with the ' real circumstances
would think of the manhood power of
ures represent percentage.
Sr. IV—Irene Benton 81; Mildred
Wheatley 62.
Jr. IV—Helen O'Hara .76; Helen
McICercher 73; Irene Jantzie 67.
111.—Ferne Wheatley 84; Dyke
Wheatley 76; Wilfrid O'Hara 69; Wil-
bur Godkin 62; Aaron Jantzie 54.
IL -Herman Beuermann 74; Reg.
Little 74; Edith Biller 69;.
I.—Marion Little, Orval Beuer-
mann, Ivin McNabb. -'
Sr. Primer.—Harvey Hillen, Louis
Duffy. Jr. Pr.—Muriel Finnigan. —
M. T. Scarlett, teacher,
VARNA.
Rev. B. P. Colclough, of Bayfield,
gave a lecture under the auspices of
L.O.L. No. 1035 in the town hall on
Tuesday evening on "The History of
Protestantism", Mr. Colclough is
Past Grand Scarlet County; district
and primary chaplain of Prince Ed-
ward county. He delivered a most in-
teresting lecture.
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