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anatveprso(Eighth in a Series of 10)Tlmt in winter the Seminarystreet side of the school groundswas always piled high with cord wood — good old hickory, cut ac-j cording to specifications. Bids hadbeen received from farmers for the wood The lucky recipient of the contract began hauling one year after it had been cut. It had to be dry. Literally hundreds of cords of wood were piled in that back yard to await the coming of cold weather. I remember that one winter the boys tore down most of those nearly stacked piles and rebuilt ja them into houses and tunnels and ' as there was much snow, covered them all to the depth of about afoot. That made them w a r menough to play underneath at recess or after school Mr. Loretz the Janitor, objected strenuously but to no avail. Over to the east of the big piles of wood were the toilets — they were called something else in those days. The girls and boys compartments inside andout were separated by a board ‘partition which in earlier days had contained many knots. Time had worked on the knots and one by one they had either been punched out or had fallen out, so I that the partition had somewhat the appearance of a sieve. Both boys and girls were curious, but jlt;1* we were little shavers then, so j what? The west side of the building was a sheer wall three stories high without a door or window. In spring and summer the older toys used it for a place to bat up a rubber ball. A hard rubber ball! cut from the rubber cushion! springs of a railroad car. The ball would be batted high in the airagainst the wall from which it would shoot still higher, and falling would eventually drop into the bare hands of some good catcher.I At the east side of the building trees had been set out and grass grew — that was by common con*I sent — on the girls side, where j [el1deonstiHlt;tr;ofrumshtoththaithMill — vill mr- I Lthe bovs were not allowed to play. *. * ~ INUtlotlnnThe girls played “anti-over. 01 such named game. In the fall the Rirls made leaf houses. The girls of those days were “sissies “ They were demure lntie things They always wore stockings, knit in vivid colors, summer or winter No bare legs then. The front yard had much the appearance then as now. except more space is now’ taken for newer buildings. Bcau-tiful tree . most of them set out by former graduating classes or j oil Arbor Day which had then come into existence and was always observed with appropiate exercises. I remember one class set out a tree in honor of Samuel Clemens Mark Twain1. Markwas notified of the fact and in due time responded with a note of cthanks. At another time on the oc- lt;casion of the marriage of Frances|i Folsom to President Grover | lt;Cleveland a tree was set out to honor her. She. too. sent a letter-of thanks to that class. lt;Continued hC1r1\
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Wed, Aug 07, 1957
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Bursley M.
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