The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-05-30, Page 6Page. 6—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 30, 1979
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LUCK,NOW SENTINEL
• "The Sepoy Town" Established 1873
On the Huron -Brace Boundary • Published Wednesday
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- To the Editor
Dear Madam,
Mr. Newbold's letter has
inspired. me to write about..
my feeling for the Lucknow
Sentinel. .
As long as I can remember
th- s ' - as been a ver
valued newspaper in our
home. With pleasure we read
it for it contained.news• about
• all, ,our dear friends. In all
those years I .cannot. recall"
remembering an error.. To
me the news was important. I
feel very sorry. for Mr. New -
i
hold if he reads just to find
errors. There are so many
newspapers printed and they
keep us alert to what is
happening.. Enjoy the news
and forget to look for errors.
My love to all. Sentinel
Readers.
Sincerely, -
K.. Smith.
Lucknow, Ont.,
To the Editor:
I enclose a_ cheque for.
$11.00 for renewal of the
Se tinel for another. .year.
"Always. look for each issue
as -it comes to,give.the news
of the home town.
To the Editor:
It gives me great pleasure to send three
. short articles by Harold Burns, two
pictures about ..Frontier College, and a
recent article about Frontier College.
It is abaft ,sixty years since .Ada
Webster's only brother Gordon„ and
Harold: Burns engaged by Frontier Col-
lege to go West to;work on the Railway
and (each,immigrants at night and on
Sincerely,
• Cameron Finlayson.
• Willowdale.
More letters
'page . 7 0
P'sychedeifrmuir.. . semens
Remember when hippie meant big in the hips,
and a trip involved travel in cars, planes or ships?
When pot was a vessel for cooking things in,
and hooked was what Grandmother's rug' might have been?
When fix was a 'verb that meant- mend or repair;
and he -in meant simply existing somewhere?
When neat meant well organised, tidyand clean, -
and grass, was a ground cover, normally green?
When. lights and not people switched on .and. off
ff
and the pill might have been what you took for a cough?
When camp meant to quarter outdoors in a tent,
and pop' was what the weasel went?
When groovy meant channeled with •furrows and. hollows,
And birds were winged creatures, like robins and swallows?
Whenfuzz was a substance that's fluffy like lint,
and bread came from bakeries, not from the mint?
When square meant a 90=degree angled form,
and cool was a temperature, not quite warm?
When roll meant a bun, and rock was a stone,
and hang-up was something you did to a phone?
When chicken meant poultry and bag meant a sack,
and junk trashy cast-offs and old bric-a-brac?
When jam was preserves 'that you • spread on your bread,
and crazy meant barmy, not right in the head?
When cat was a feline, a kitten grown up,
and tea was a liquid you drank from a cup,?
When swinger was someone who swings in a swing,
and pad was a soft sort of cushiony thi,g?
When way-out meant distant and far, far away;
and a man couldn't sue you for calling him gay?
When dig meant to shovel and spade in the dirt,
and put-on was what you would do with a shirt?
When tough described meat too unyielding to chew,
and making a scene was a rude thing to. do?
Words once so sensible,' sober and serious,
are: making the freak scene, likepsychedelirious,
it's groovy, man, groovy, but English .it's not,
Methinks that the language has gone straight to pot!!!!!
Taken from 'Legion. Air; publis ed by t
sh to railroad .g
weekends: Dr. Victor Johnston the last
summerbefore graduating` in Medicine
chose.. to :do :what Harold;and Gordon had
done. There is an. interesting section m
"Before the. Age of Miracles" about this ..
experience.
Haroldhad his . seventy ninth birthday,
on the ides of March this year.. Both his
parents lived to be over ninety, and were
a wonderful; couple. Harold's three broth-
ers have died, .and I think that Harold
HAROLD BURNS
would be able to write a valuable series of
articlesif he lives to be as 'old as his.
father:
Although there are no close relatives of
Harold's around Lucknow,.. he would not
be without The Sentinel. He and -his wife
get back' to the old town quite often. If
you are interested in Frontier College, I '
think Harold would be able to supply _
snaps to go with the others:
e it orce u' 'o ir. sor
Sincerelyyours,
Sandy Nicholson.
FRQNTI:ER COLLEGE
BY HAROLD B. BURNS
That prairiesumnier morning in 1919 1
slept in - 'slept through two clanging bells
and the confusion. of sixty workmen
starting up the C.P.R. railway line; When
I stuck my head out the window the boss
was. right there. a, •- " •
"You stay here this morning, 'Profes-
sor, help the cook. Come up on the jigger
with the grub at noon."
He called me -the Professor because at,'
-nineteen years of age- I was the Frontier ',:,
College teacher for this railroad gang in'`
Southern Saskatchewan. I worked as a
\ navvy ten hours a day and at night taught
Russians, Czecks," Italians or what have
you to speak English. My classroom was
a box car one end of which was my
bedroom; my text books were the regular
'Grade 1, 2 and 3' readers as .sold by the T.
Eaton Co: ' ,
To arrive at this job (with $35 in my
pocket) h had applied with several other
students at the office of the Frontier
'College in Toronto, We wete given
passes to Winnipeg and arrived there in
time to witness `The One Big Strike' in
May 1919. Imagine my surprise at seeing
a Lucknow boy, Lyman Malcolm, among
1
the special constables at Portage and
Main using a fire hose tokeep' back the
crowds. '
We remained in Winnpegnearly two
weeks then went on to Moose Jaw where I
met Gordon, Webster from Lucknow
whose activities were curtailed by .a knee
injury: I stayed there with my aunt, Mrs.
Alex Mackenzie, while the boxcar was
fitted up then went to Loreborn. on the
Outlook Branch of the'.C;.P:R.
The weather was blazing hot; the flies•
voracious' and the work demanding. The
only Englishmanin the gang, Big Bill,
sought me out for a work mate and taught
me the ropes.
Our days were spent renewing railway
ties, .tamping and fitting; them in -place.
At night, ' exhausted, i•. went to my
teaching job: As a rule•otly six or eight
men came for lessons.. They were the
ones ambitious to be foremen.
When I reported the small 'numbers to
Mr. E. W. Bradwin, the Frontier College
;.Representative, he assured . me that my
job was as much to convey the image of a
good Canadian as to teach the language.
My competition was the card game
with fairly high stakes$ When liquor was
-available in -a nearby village there was a.
total exodus from camp.
Our `extra'' ,gang worked about a week
out from each station. At a small town
called Plenty the station master who had
recently lost his wife took me to a church
garden party.. What a treat that was,
I had given my family„ in Lucknow
'Rosetown' as a forwarding, address so '
when we .got to Fortune within six miles
of Rosetown, I walked in with hope in my \
heart. 1 was homesick-. Sure enough , 1
.had letters -from home and copies of the.
Lucknow Sentinel•" Waiting for me.
After a summer on the railword I
registered, September 1919, for, a. four
months course at the Regina Normal
School. This led to a lifetime hi the field
of Education.