Thur»., Oct 11, 1965 (Uc. 1) THE SANDY (Or..) POST
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HUNTERS NOTE!
By LILLIAN TEN EYCK
When the comfortable yellow deaks, most of them home mad<
school bus passes my home 1 by a Mr. Emery. Th. boys sat
each week day on Ita way to on on. side of th. room and the
th. mod.rn Sandy School, my
!i is on the other. We lud the
thoughts in r.trosp^t turnback <et up tn Illinois and I can
fifty years or more.
still r.tnetniwr how disgraced
My early home was in
a I felt one year wtum there were
northern county of Ililnoia not more girls than boy» and my
far from what wascalled”Four big »later and I had to sit on
Corners.'' A mile east of th. the boy's »Ide. In the Marmot
four corn.rs was a small one school
some student» came
room school; a mile west of from Brightwood and beyond,
the corn.rs was
an equally horae tuck or on »tank's mare.
small school. Since our house
Sometime»
there
were
was on th. west side of the twenty five or thirty pupil»
road, 1 went to tl>« west school. often three sitting atonedoubh
I can recall plowing my way desk. There was of course an
through deep sand in the road old box »tov. wldch roasted and
but that la all the hardships trim
its victims by turn».
1 can remember. I evidently In tli. tuck of Ute room hung
didn't go to school In the win- tlu> traditional
black board,
ter month» and we moved to made of some kind of soft
town when I eight. Hut
the material which could lie rolled
■and wua nothing compared I to up when not In use.
th. difficulty of securing an
At first there were just three
education bark in the 70’s in months in the term, June, July
till» section.
August tut later It was lengh-
Th. near.st school was the ened to six months. There were
log one lullt on the old Revenue several teachers In the old log
Donation land claim on the txiriks school, one a Miss May Max
of th. Sandy Rlv.r a ahort well whose sinters, Miss Louise
distance west from the present Maxwell taught the first year
Sandy Bridge.
of the new frame scliool which
When Mr. Hoffman and his was built after the old log one
family arrival liere from
had served Its time.
raska In th. 70’s his children
Louise Maxwell, now Mrs.
for a year walked tl>e six miles Nelson is living in Otis, Ore
to the Sandy School.
gon. She taught many years
However, Mr. Hoffman thought and enjoyed every minute of
and rlghUy that the Marmot those
years.
Her greatest
children d.s.rved tietter edu- pleasure now is writing letters
catlon.il opportunities so
ir to her former pupils. She par
1877, he took around a petlUon ticularly
enjoys tier letter«
and the Marmot sc hr» I district from
her
former Marmot
was organised. It extended from pupils.
Government Camp to a mile
Those were the days when
west of the Hoffman farm. Be the social life of the community
fore a school house was built, centered
around the
little
an upstairs room in the Hoff school. The young blades of
man home was turned Into a the neighborhood went dashing
school. A teacher was hired for by on their fiery steeds strain
$25 a month and her board. ing their necks to get a glimpse
Th. first school was built of the "n.w school marm’’.
of split logs with three windows I had a red skirt which I wore
on each side. The floor was o
when I started to teach
in
unplaned, one by twelve boards Marmot. One smart aleck rode
with at least an inch crack by the school several times
between each lioard, a handy yelling ••Eli «• Fire” It wasn't
place to lose slate pencils if a bright red either.
one didn't feel like doing sums.
Another time one of
th.
There were two rows of double director»
»topped by before
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Applyng finishing touches to signs and pricing "White Elephants" keep* Bill Swan
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school took up and asked If 1
would like a ride on his horse.
Well, that m one reason I
had come w»st. My head was
full trf cowboy romances and I
figured I would !uve to learn
to ride if I expected to be a
part of such a tale. So, I got
on the tall »teed. He seemed
'gentle enough and paced along
at a slow spMd as long as we
were going a »ay from the school
but when I decided I had left
my pupils
long enough an<
turned the torse around, ther
since he wan homeward bound,
off he went it a furious gallop,
while I like John Gilpin hung on
for dear life. The owner of the
horse when I finally got the
animal stopped laughed
and
laughed and declared he could
see daylight between me and the
horse at .very jump. He also
handed me a handful of hair
pins he had picked up in my
Such entertainments we had
and such box socials and ho»
the blds were run up on som<
lov. sick swain. He simply hao
to get his fair one’s box. All
sort of subterfuges were re
sorted to In order to thro,
the offending parties ott the
track. Looking back on those
times they seem ctarmlng tut
I suppose to tills generation
they would seem very dull but
nevertheless they all helped
to make our country great.
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