ed out and took a string from his pocket and tied it around the horse’s ear. That
was all that was needed, the horse went off to Mordenl Oh! I remember many
nice things. We used to sit around the table after noon lunch and read the
“serial” story in the Onward every Sunday - each taking a turn reading aloud per
Sunday. There was always time to be “familyish” in that home and I so lucky to
be there for my first time away from home. I was only £7 when I went there,
taught on an interim certificate until I became 18. So I needed to be with the
Shores.

Parkhill then was the old original school and the attendance was in the low
20‘s and Grades one to eight being taught. Mr. Finn was our Inspector and
made his biennial visits. I hesitate to name the pupils now as I may miss some-
one but family names of some of the pupils whom I do remember are Shore,
.. Bayliss, Klassen, Dalke, Kuxhouse and Gutzke and I offer my apologies for any
I have forgotten I remember very well my Grade VIII classes for in that day
Grade eight pupils wrote Departmental examinations and students had to be
carefully prepared for passing these tests.

I resigned from Parkhill June 30, 1920, hopefully to attend further study in
Winnipeg but was not accepted until a year later. I taught that year at Pilot
Mound, then took more training in Winnipeg in 1921 and resumed teaching in -
the Opawaka School, Miami, Manitoba, in 1922. After two years teaching there, ‘ l
I married James Compton, a farmer of that community, where we lived a very
happy life and raised our family of four girls. We moved to Winnipeg in 1949.
Our four girls all became teachers too and three are married and two of them are
still teaching. Gwen Wela lives in Hilo, Hawaii; Helen, in Winnipeg, a resource
teacher on the Winnipeg staff; the twins, Fern Garner, lives in Thunder Bay,
Ontario and Florence Browning lives in Surrey, B.C. and is a consultant teacher
on the Burnaby, B.C. staff. My husband passed away in August 1974. Helen
and I still live in our home in Winnipeg.

Parkhill district recognized Centennial Year by joining the Cheval district
in a day’s activities at Parkhill when old friends met and reminisced over past
years. Any former teacher who could be contacted was invited to this gathering.
I attended and met again some of my former pupils and friends. It was then that
I first saw the new Parkhill school. It served its purpose until the larger school
unit system absorbed its pupils who attended Morden School from then on. I
have very sentimental feelings about the “little red schoolhouse” and the
teaching of “the three R’s”. Many qualified successful persons in our society to-
day are products of the one-room country school. I have no regrets of my
teaching days in that era.

Gladys F. Deacon, 1919-26.
now Mrs. J. A. Compton
493 Camden Place

ng., Man. R3G 2V8