Putnam patriot., 1926-09-24
OLD HOME DAY QUADIC
 SCHOOL LAST SATURDAY

had pa, sed away. Yet t was pleas gre to him to see So many If their de- .scendants. He said he was reminded of his avn school days on Thompson Hal when Elder Rawsen had scholars from almost every state in the nnion. He recalled especially twe little Dutch boys full of pranks. They were re- lqulred Co speak. and one came out with. Wonderful, Wonderful, Black l hen lad a white egg. And the sec l Iond one, T he eagle scared higher and higher and lit upon a stump" After the laughter had suhsided Mir. i Converse told the story of a king who had called his servant to him and I held out a cane ta him. telling the I servant To take the stick and Co keep l it and carry 1t until he found someone who was a bigger fool than himself. i Time slipped by and finally the king called the servant to him again and asked jf he hadn't found anyone to l give the cane to. and the servant had lnot. Then the king informed the ser want that he was going on a journey. Iwhereupon the servant inquired Are you gong to be gone long ?' "Yes Well. are you prepared to take such long iourneyg Is everything in readineSsss "No,p replied the king. You're coming back ?'' No said the king. "I'm not coming back " Well. said the servant. ''you say Iyeu 're not ready for the journey?" Nc. We'll. sir. saId the servant. .'here is your stick.
 Any Ministers
 | Sylyanus Sheldon. one of the older students of the school particularly desired to know how many. if any. of the Quadie pupils had entered Che min Ilstry. No one seemed to know. though it was stated that the school had pro duced it's share of teachers and law lyers. Then Mir. Sheldon wondered how many of the faces then before him woud be at the next gathering Makes me think of little Johnnie, he said. Johnnie went fishing and he managed 1t so as not to get back to go home until the sehoolehildren were also leaving for home. His schoolmates greeted him with. Johnnie. what luck7" ''I don't know he said, T haven't been home"
 Mir. Ballard had saved the best for the last. and Mrs. Josephine Law gave a fine reading entitled The Debate. which was heartily enjoyed by every one. The length of the poem showed what a remarkable memory Mrs. Law still possesses.
 Havcles of Putnam. the same pho tographers who took the pictures of the gathering last year. took another this season, and the same may be ..7-.,5stf,.ss.4 4 f,..fs, bat,s for N1 m
 Letters Read
 Letters of greeting were read from John \ Ballard of Philadelphia, Pa: and Prof. Walter C. Bronson of Brown
 University. Providence. Both Mr. Ballard and Mr Bronson were former teachers of the Quadic school.
 It was voted that the same commit tees and officers service until the next gathering. which will be some time in the early part af September. 1928 The exact date will be announced by the committee at a later date. The meet |iug was then declared adjourned, but the visiting did not stop for some time, and everyone pronounced the day delightfully."- spent.
 \ feature of the program was the ! HHAtHAAtHE Ht0AtiF ft Hfatta WANAt tANt.A pains hy Oscar Munyan. former pupil of the school. now a member of the town school committee.
 Historian,s Report
 I was asked 10 prepare a short his torical paper on Quadic, or, to be more exact, about Thompson School District No. 3.
 The past teachers and the dates when they taught were as carefully prepared. as recorded facts permitted, last year by Newton 4. Ballard, a former teacher in Quadic School.
 The information l have secured IS not great in amount and in reality only naturally followed the settlement and building up of that part of the town.
 The first resident proprietor of land | in the Quadic vicinity was Henry l Green of Maiden ia 1T19. He had eight sons. Very soon after. the Mer- rills settled eu the farm now owned | by Louis Converse; and tbe Clouehs on the Asa Hozs farm. Al this time there were na town officers, no roads. no schools. and auls che privilege of attending the church iH killinely The cause of this ch8atir ecadl-na was l the question af oa hlp ot property which had been lnled ta taelis1 pronrietofs. Sir J4seph Thompson and other. thus preventing kilingty eEef- | eisinp authority oEar the laul
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