Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-03-05

hHu blltk UOTht ID TlNc uDOn-
What happy little men
And If a traveller we met
We threw no sticks OF stones
To fright the horses as they passed,
Or break good peoples bones.
But with our hats beneath our arms.
We bent our litatls full low,
For ne'cr the school ma'am failed to ask,
Boys, did you make bowW
And all tiie little girls with US.
Would courtesy full low,
And hide their ankles meath their gowns
Girls don't have ankles now(
We stole no fruit, nor tangled grass
We played no noisy games,
And when we spoke to older folks,
Put handles 10 their names.
And when the hour Of school had come
OF bell we had no need
The school ma'am'D rap upon the glass.
Each one would quickly hCed
The school ma'am-Heaven bless her name
When shall we meet her likey
She always wore Il green calash,
calico vandykc
She never sported pan,alets,
Nor silks on her did rustic;
Her dress hung gracefully around
She reyet Wbte a hustle.
With modest mcn and loving hcaft
Her daily task was done,
And true as needle TO the pole
The next one was begun.
The days were all alike to her
The evenings just the same.
And neither brought a change to US,
Till SATURDAY. forenoon came
And then we had "spellng.match,"
And learned the sound of A,
And months and weeks that made the year,
The hours that made the day.
And on that day we saw lier smile;
No other time smiled She
Twas then she told us learnedly,
When next leap year would be-
Alas kind soul, though lean year came
And went full many time,
In single blesscdncss" she tOiled
Till far beyond her prime.
But now, indeed, her tolls arc DER,
Her lessons are all said,
Hcrru well learned, her words well spelrd
She's GONE UP TO THE HEAD
The old school house has been from
the first erection by Messrs. Hubbard,
Fisk, Booth and Smith, one of the most
useful editiceS to the public ever erected
IN this village. 1t has benefited four re-
ligious bodies, the Masonic fraternity, the
Township of Ashtabula, and the district
and academic schools Of the Clden time,
ut the expense OF the benetactors above
named, and almost solely at their liberal.
ity the public ought ever to Ge grateful,
as well as in some degree thankful TO
subsequent joint proprirtors
1t was used ior an academy twenty
years, and then sold to the borough for
$50, to be converted into Town and
Hall. The borough removed
the venerable old building to the south
west corner of the same square which it
has occupied for forty years at various
points. 1t now fronts Main street, as it
did for sixteen years On its primary loca-
ton, some eight rods north OF its present
site. 1t is the Oldest public building re-
and the first ever erected in the
village Of Ashtabula.
In 1912, by contract with the Trus-
tees, Mr.. Lou MO ID. Gates built in edi.
flee of wood thee stories high 4Ox5O feet
on the ground, at cost of Sl;S25, TO
which was added an expense of SAG for
desks and furniture, &c, amounting in
all to $l,97l. The stock in the academy
consists of siXty-tive shares, held by fifty
two stockholders. The third story OF
this building is equally divided into n
north aud south room. The lodge of
Odd Fellows purchased the occupancy OF
the south room at IA cost Of $500, and the
lodge OF Free Masons that of the north
room 1T the same cost, making a total OF
5000. These lodges made their contracts
with the Trustees of the academy in
1851, and commenced occupying their
rooms respectively in 1852.
The school in the pew academy was
opened in May, 1859. Its teachers were
MIR. and Mrs. Calhoun. In 1853 A. b.
futile was the teacher for few months,
and was succeeded by Samuel Weather
wax as Principal from the fall OF 1858
to the winter OF 1856. In 1856 the acad
emy was suspended by a village Uhior
School, as was also the common school,
within the boundaries Of the itfcorpora
ted village,
Continued ReH lceek.)