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(Third in a %vr\v% of 10) aThat my very earliest p 1 a y- irH)VC• «mates were around the Hesterstreet corner of Main street inthe near vicinity of my father’s i! store which was and still is calledthe “Williams Block. Next west of father’s store was the tin shop and plumbing establishment of Uri-I y ah Pritchard He owned the pro- j yperty now occupied by the Ebert! store. Mrs. Pritchard lt;wife of ^ Uriah» whose first name wasPhoobe, conducted a millinerystore and catered to Norwalk's stylish ladies. The Pritchards had two children, Frank and Nellie.Frank was a bit older than I Nell-Vliyaie was my own age and they, to- tsgether with my younger, brother. Charles, who died many years a-go, with Charles V. Shlt; pherd andhis sister Cornie Mrs. I W Good-i ^vdte11\ell* made up a little group of playmates whose friendship ti e v e r waned Frank Pritchard became a fine physician and located in San Bernandino county, California. The sister made her home in Boston for many years. In a roundabout way I tried to keep in touch with them. There was a girl named Minnie Sellick whose mother kept a millinery store on the corner where the Odd Fellows Temple lt;Case block* has stood since li$84 In a house on Hester Street directly in the rear of the Odd Fellows building lived the Rohrbacker family. The parents conducted a cleaning and dye shop. They had a son Sam who frequently joined in our play The late Carl Rohrbacker was in some way related Aliie Si-monds and his sister Eloise, grand*children of one of the fine men of ( ’ Norwalk, William J Alley, whose small confectionary shop on Whittlesey near the corner of Monroe |jwill be remembered by many of the older ones. Allie Simonds became a railroad man and went to Lima to live. In that neighborhood lived a woman who was the bane of our young lives. She was Mrs. Casper — real name Eisen-jj hour. She was one of those crabby j widows who usually sat in herfront window ready with a broom in hand to pop out her front door whenever one of us kids attempted to shake her sweet apple tree or to pick up an apple which had dropped of its own volition Just across the street from Mrs. Casper, on 1 j the lot now the McConkey gas station, lived the Newman and Shepherd families where Grandma Newman aad Mrs. Shepherd worked their heads off on baking days jmaking cookies and doughnuts with which to appease the appetites of all of us children. (Continued tomorrow.)1I1*(IRussia’s CropConditionsMay Be PoorMfACUTM/l m\r iTTP Tlrnuohtl
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 01, 1957
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