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• *Elmo1methrme?uniingor,wbset1ripHewlitoTliart ciglitv years of mycover the years of which f have vary distinct r* collection of almost every event or episode that hastakrn place in Norwalk. I lookback over those years with great pleasure They complete for the what I am pleased to call a fullYears filled with Joy for tin* most part, but not without tin sorrows that come to us all. Mvmind goes hack chronologically toalmost the entire story of Norwalk. Often when 1 go out to Wood- j (lawn I stroll about noting t h e j goinames of hundreds of my formes j Rifriends or acquaint nee,s as theylt;piuappear on markers or m o n u to ments. Then, thoughts of fi*r away days rome vividly to mind, and in most cases comes some personal thought or incident connectedwith the life of the one so many years gone.My life has brought me in contact. with few exceptions, with all the men who have been a part of Norwalk throughout all the yearsI have had acquaintance withseveral Presidents of the United States, and several Governors of our own state. Other great men from time to time have come into my life. Thomas A Edison, whose birthplace over in Milan I was,some ten years ago. selected by Mrs. Edison to restore to the period of his birth m 1847. John Burroughs. the naturalist, was afriend of my boyhood. I also hail acquaintance with Oeorge Kenn-an, a Norwalkian of Siberianfame. Those acquaintances are but a few made during long and observing life. I have been a“home town’* boy without the Horatio Alger riches ending. 1have never desired to live elsewhere Norwalk for me has beenI have lived through the village’* days with unpavedstreets and wooden sidewalks with deep ditches at the curb line tocarry o'f the rain water. I haveseen those days depart and give way to our present beautiful city.1 ik regret some of the “face lifting induced by over-zealous young men who mean well enough, buthave little respect for the traditions which only age can impartand which they themselves will come to see as more mature lifegets to them. I started out early with one thought. I wanted to Ik* a newspaper man and 1 have neveideviated from that thought For allthe years that I have been writ-ting this column, which has been good, bad and indifferent at times, it has appeared under my _ name, Perhaps the thousands oftimifK. lnav bo formed a hazard1erifirSi lt;rdrui*»MitingeintfiroftinonhebefepaEiT1I-IkiStw7:scthRlt;stories may be termed a hazard .history of the town from its be-ginning to the present time, I al-lwavs have taken pleasure in writ-111ting them and when I have missed a few days I have the feeling a that I have let my readers down.I have been honored by the management of the Reflector-Herald jw in having every Did You Know” |A column placed on Page One for many years in Column One, Page One. Since the late 1880‘s I have dabbled in newspaper work more than seventy years — w gives me the idea that I am the oldest working” newsman in thestate. I hope to keep at it as longas I can lap the keys of a typemachine.The series of ten reprints” covers. in a way the stories of the lives of the boys and the girls of forty, sixty and eighty years ago. The forty and sixty year ones arecomparatively numerous, but the jeighty year ones have dwindled toa very few. In my own case to four or five, only one of whomlives in Norwalk. Tins is the lastof the series.ttci’n?c
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 09, 1957
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Bursley M.
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