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Star-Gazette Sunday Telegram, Aug. 25, 1985 3B Reunion is class at Red Schoolhouse By TOM MAGUIRE Lacking a dean of discipline or school psychologist, the one-room schoolhouse in East Campbell nevertheless dealt effectively with recalcitrant types 60 years ago. The treatment was called "a lickin'," and it was administered with a rubber hose. Olden days of education, when teachers dispensed justice as well as 'knowledge, were celebrated Saturday at a reunion sponsored by the Red Schoolhouse Museum Association. Four generations of families that attended the school talked of teachers who were respected -or else.

In the early part of the century, teachers were given free board in area homes. They taught grades one through eight simultaneously in a room heated by a potbellied stove. Water came from a pump in the sink. Teachers were strict in the classroom, and then turned playful when they romped outside with their pupils at noontime. The schoolhouse on Dry Run Road was more than a place for kids to learn and a dog named Bingo to sleep by the stove until 4 p.m.

when the school day ended. Church services, ice cream soeials and parties also were held there. It was a community center. "I met my wife here, in church," said Norman Horton, who now lives 16 miles away in Tyrone. Sixty years ago, he lived a quarter of a mile from the school.

"I used to come up here to Skirmish (Continued from Page 1B) the woods. 3 A small band of Yankees tried to flee along a shallow ditch. The rebels split their forces, sending one unit to outflank the enemy and another to pursue the Union soldiers. A third Confederate force remained behind to keep an eye on other Yankees still in the woods. The rebel pincer movement caught the Yankees with their backs to the Chemung River.

A Confederate charge overran the Union position. Four Yankees were killed and another taken prisoner. The rebels lost two men. Moments later, the remaining Yankees marched from the woods Debate (Continued from Page 1B) state, he said, can break the contract between the states and feder. al government.

Quoting from James Madison, Davis said political institutions exist to ensure the safety and happiness of their citizens. The institutions, he added, must be sacrificed to protect that objective. "A breach by one party (the federal government) gives authority for others to render the contract void," the Confederate leader said. "The states did not surrender their sovereignty and independence by signing the Constitution. Reason forbids it." -New York, he noted, based its ratification on continued sover- PIONEERS ELMIRA PIONEERS VS ERIE CARDINALS Elmira Chrysler Plymouth Honda Night Tickets available at Elmira-Chrysler-Plymouth SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 DUNN FIELD GAME TIME 7 P.M.

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Kathleen Lum, one of three E.L.K. partners, said the group is concentrating its search for residential properties on the city's Westside. They are working through brokers or dealing directly with property owners. "We are also interested in commercial and industrial property in the Elmira area," she said. "We have faith in the region.

I think the partners have seen things happen that give them some insight into potential growth." Lum would not specify the source of E.L.K.'s insight. But she said the Toshiba- Westinghouse joint venture, the reopening of Thatcher Glass and the possibilities of a new prison signal an economic turnaround. Lum, a real estate agent, identified her partners as licensed broker Leo Keenan and Elliott Landsman, a real estate developer and property manager. "Our intent is to renovate and upgrade these houses and retain them as rental properties," Lum said. E.L.K.

has acquired properties at W. Clinton St. for a price between $26,500 and $27,000 according to tax stamps; 510-512 W. Third St. for between $29,500 and 397-399 W.

Water St. for between $18,500 and $19,000, and in the Town of Elmira at-928 W. First St. for between $28,000 and $28,500. Columbia Banking Federal Sav.

ings and Loan Association holds the mortgages. Asked about reports that E.L.K. has $500,000 available for Elmiraarea acquisitions, Lum said, "I- would rather not put a dollar fig-. ure on it. But we certainly it is a buyer's 4 Staff photo by Tom Maguire Amos Balch of Caton, an alumnus of the Red Schoolhouse, now a museum, in E.

Campbell, looks the part of the perfect pupil at a reunion at the school Saturday. church and you'd be there," Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Horton said to her husband. "Some of the girls said, 'You ought to get acquainted with "I said, 'I don't want to. I've got a boyfriend.

I don't need I changed my mind." and were met by a fusillade of rifle fire from their left flank. Another force of Confederates advanced and the Yankees had only one option surrender. Civil War weekend continues today at 9 a.m. when the opposing camps reopen on Foster's Island at the southern end of Hoffman Street. At 10:30, the troops will march to the Civil War monument and participate in dedication ceremonies.

The major battle begins at 2 p.m. with the reenactment of the 1862 Battle of Bloody Run at Antietam, Md. Camps will reopen after the battle and close at 4 p.m. eignty over its own affairs. Those Fleisher.

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Instead, he said, they delegate that right to the government. "The people," Davis said, "maintain control and can reassume that right at any time." It was Mr. Horton's job to build the fire in the wood stove, and he got five cents a day for it. Attending Sunday school at the schoolhouse, Mr. Horton learned something about rainbows.

"They told me," he said, "that a rainbow is the Lord's promise that the world will never be flooded with water again. When you see that rainbow in the sky, you know the Lord's still up Mrs. Horton recalled teacher Fannie Anthony Bement, who "made clothes for my kids who were going to school here. She was a wonderful teacher." Another teacher, Lois C. McElwee, is remembered by Amos Balch of Caton.

"I was supposed to stay after school one night and I sneaked out," Balch said. "Next morning I got a lickin' for it. She put the rubber on me." "When you needed a lickin', she gave it to us," Horton said. "And when we got home our parents would give us one besides that." Balch and his buddy Horton didn't need snow to have fun on the hill across the road from the school. "We used to slide down the hill on a board or plank," Horton said.

"Sometimes we'd bring a shovel from home, and slide down. Boy, would it get hot." Balch used a slightly different technique, sliding down in an old sheet iron sink. "You'd come down there just a scootin'," he said. Balch passed all the eighth grade Regents exams, except English, while he was still in the sixth grade. "The only reason I didn't pass English," he said, "was because I didn't have a pen.

I went and did my English with a pencil, and of course they wouldn't pass it. It had to be done in pen." The one- room grade school, which closed in 1958, "had it all over the city school where there are so many (pupils) jammed into each class," Balch said. "Today they have too many in their classes. They can't do an individual job on them." In the old school, he said, "if they lagged behind, she poked them up and got them going again before they got behind so far that they couldn't catch up." Obituaries NEW YORK Beilby Funeral Home, Sunday, CHEMUNG COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA William C. Coon, 66, of 1297 Pennsylvania Pine City, Saturday, Aug.

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