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Show m m An Open Letter Editor The Pyramidal read your editorial on "Our Home Town" with very much pleasure. I thought to myself, how true those sentiments are; and how forcibly they come to those who have left the old home town, and are now living in other localities. The haunts of one's childhood, child-hood, how they cling to our memories! memor-ies! The writer well remembers toe little one room log school house, with its slab benches strung around the room; the rough board desks, sloping downward, carved deeply with the initials of many a schoolboy. The students sitting with their facs to the wall, and their backs to the teacher. The old "swimming hole'', just across the track of the D.&R.G. Ry., where it crosses pleasant creek, west of the old Jessen home, hidden from view by large clumps of willows that grew on the hanks of the creek. The birch rod that was wielded with terrific force many a time across the back of some obstreperous youth who had dared to be disobedient, disobedi-ent, or had tried to draw the caricature cari-cature of the human face, a cow, horse, or perchance some weeping willow tree on his little slate. The boys and git Is of our youth! The older folks too; we all knew eacn other in those days. We were all well acquainted with each ores faults, failings and excentricities. We look back 10 those old clays; and often think that "Old tunes are sweetest, old friends are best." There were the "Rocky Heaven" boys and girls, all living in the eastern east-ern part of town, then there was another crowd, wno hailed from the western part of town and known as the "Copenhagen" crowd. Let me see, who were some of the boys and girls of "rocky heaven"? There were the Madsen's, Allen's Rolph's Day's, Johnson's McArthur's Farnsworth's, Candland's, and Johansen's, and lastly your humble servant. In the western part of town, and known as "the "Copenhagen" crowd, we might mention the Monsen's Erieksen's Simpson's, Christensen's and others whoe names; we, easily remember. |