Show Old School Family Li Living There TIK mi L- L ia D-ia Make f jv t r Way for tor A Arms Plant m- m m ms Editor lr's note nole Forty will III I hate hau to b be moved monel from th the alte of the ordnance plant Many llan are arr old timers timer who an m e Un there 30 to 40 40 tar eari How do t they feel about beut moIn In x mot 1 aja ht Z This ii I the fifth h In a erle erieg rl tellina Mho ho the they are and aDd what haC the move mote mean meant to them By STEFFAN AND ANDREWS May Bourne is the little woman I who lives in a school She is not a school teacher She Is not a pupil In fact she never went there to school But the little red schoolhouse is her home just the same It was established she thinks about 1890 That was the year Edwin A. A Senior doughty Salt Lake City real estate promoter of the settled the western half of the Salt Lake valley and called it the garden city of the west His settlement ran roughly from West to fo West streets between and 2100 South streets The school red brick one story with rows of wide oblong windows windows windows win win- dows spanning each side was known as the Garden City school I It was the settlements settlement's most prized structure Recalls Early Days DaysI I remember it as a lovely littie little lit little lit lit- tle tie place with catalpa trees shading shading shading shad shad- ing its windows and children swarming all over the place but butI I 1 never went there to school I Iwas Iwas Iwas was too old she said smiling Short pretty and platinum- platinum hair haired d this housewife of 63 says she has nas as a strong personal attachment attachment attachment attach attach- ment for the remnant of Garden City days As May Barker she was a nurse to the two Senior boys when she was 21 and they were youngsters of 3 and 6 Most of the Seniors and the Garden City children at attended attended attended at- at tended the little school near the Seniors Senior's summer mansion between between be between be- be tween 1300 and 2100 South streets on West street Moved 1 Into Town In 1903 the crash came the bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn fell out of the real estate market and May and her mother moved back to live in town But May couldn't forget the pleasant summer evenings and the cool night breezes the ice- ice packed thrills on the old White lake and the fun of days in the valley She vowed that some day she would come back In the meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time she had married established a home with her husband George E. E Bourne in Salt Lake City Thirteen years ago when they started thinking of retiring May Bourne thought again of Garden City Now was her chance she thought to show her husband the place where she had spent her girlhood School Remained Most of the old homes when we came back were gone she said but the old schoolhouse was still standing We looked at atit atit atit it and didn't hesitate a minute we bought it right up That's how the Bournes came cameto cameto cameto to establish themselves in a little red schoolhouse as a home They have been living there 13 years When army men told them two weeks ago they must move out within three weeks to make room for the arms plant construction the Bournes were deeply disappointed disappointed disappointed pointed but they raised no ob ob- ob Willing to Help They were willing to do their part for national defense they said Next week they will leave be behind behind behind be- be hind them the trees the garden and nd the flowers of the little red schoolhouse May Bourne will no longer be the little woman who lives in the school |