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535-03 Page 67Former Dereham Pupils Plan Reunion Prior To School Levelling By Mrs. Charles Holmes The red school, S.S. No. 3 Dere- ham will soon be among the memor- ies of many former teachers and pupils of the area. The school is situated two miles west of Salford on; the Culloden road and has recently been pur- chased by Mr. Tom Parker of Sal- ford who plans on building a new home on this property. Tom was a former school pupil there. A meeting was recently held at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Walter Wilson with about 15 in- terested area residents to plan a reunion which will be held for all teachers and pupils and anyone else interested on the afternoon of June 18 at 1 p.m, on the school grounds for a time of reminising and meeting, old friends. In looking for past history; some minute book's were found in an old tin box with S.S. No. 3 inscribed on it in gold letters. This contained minutes of meetings dat- ing back to the 20th day of May, 1862. Some of the school board's names in the late 1800's were Mr. William Wilson, W.W. Nancekivell, Robert Wilson, A.J. Budd and Pat- rick Clear. Since there were many Irish families on both the first and se- cond concession, west of the Culloden road which was nicknamed `Tipperary' for many years, it was considered a proper arrangementto always include one Roman Catholic member on the school board. In the 1920's some names were Charlie Nancekivell, Fred Quinn, James O'Neill, Walter Wilson, George Holmes, Richard Wilsonand Tom McBeth as well as many other still familiar names in the area. The first school was a white frame school built in 1840 - price of lot and school house $600., con- tents $110. This school remained until 1912 when it was moved south of the present one while our 'Red School' was built. One half acre of land at the south side of the old yard was purchased from Mr. Nance Bivell for $100. Trustees at this time were George Holmes, James Shannon, Reuben Nance Bivell and the teacher Daniel O'Brien:' After the new school was built the old one was moved to the farm presently owned by Mr. Frank Wil- son, one half mile east of the Culloden road on the first con- cession and used for an implement shed. Mr. Wilson reports that the black boards were still in the school at that time and an oil painting of an Indian with a bow and arrow was on one board. He thought this had been done by Mr. Jack Staples - a former pupil. This building was later torn down and lumber used in another shed. In 1860 the teachers yearly sal- ary was $184.25 but raised later to $300 yearly. Wood was 87 1/2 cents per cord, a boy was paid $2. to build the morining fire each day all winter. Some school expenses in 1868 were, six pounds of nails 26 cents; two brooms 31 cents each; one pump $7.75; a stove $9.00. An eight day clock was purchased from Mr. Fred Waters jewellery store in Ingersoll for $4.75. School attendance records have been located for the school terms 1917 - 1929 and from 1954 - 1968, but all records between 1929 - 1954 are missing. This is a sad state of affairs as they should be available and stored in the offices in Woodstock.' If any one knows about these re- cords we would be pleased to have them. We have some early teachers names as well as all in the past sixty years, Mr. Robert Mitchell, Sr. (grandfather of Mrs. George Nagle of Salford), taught there in 1862. Others after 1910 were Mrs. Charles Nancekivell, Mrs. Archie Quinn, Mrs. Ross Newton, Mrs. Mildred Batten, Mrs. Warren Rock, Miss Good, Mrs. M. Cassidy, Miss Walker, Miss Bates, Miss M. Dun- das, Miss Chowan, Miss McKay, Mr. Loughin, Mrs A W Megk, Miss Zerefa Smith, Mrs. Fred Cohae, Mrs. Jack Hutcheson, AndyKosako- vitch, Lorne'Groves. Leu Chambers, Mrs. Reg. Bradfield, Mrs. John Mc- Callum, Mrs. R. Shanks, Mr. R. Pratt, Mrs. H. Papke, Mrs. Zimmer- man, Mrs. Jupsin, Mrs. Whitesell, Mrs. Smith and Miss Carolyn Page. Written invitations are being ex- tended to teachers only but everyone interested is invited and it is hoped you all pass the word along to friends pupils and relatives so we may nave one last happy day together at S.S. No. 3, Dereham. Amill Semple McPherson - world wide known evangelist once attended this school and lived near by. Okay Salford subdivision -Iazs South West Oxford council has given preliminary approvals to a small subdivision proposed for the hamlet of Salford. The sub- division developer, Len Reeves, attended council on Tuesday, along with a representative of the Oxford County Planning Department, Liz Chandler. The subdivision will probably mean an additional 15 or 16 residential lots in the hamlet, located on a 10-acre site near the main intersection.. Council approved the basic road lay -out of the sub- division,which sees one street, now designated Quinn Drive, which runs through the development. As well, council approved a zoning change from -A-1 (agriculture) to R-1 (residential).. Mr. Reeves has. requested a special bylaw from council that would allow him to develop lots not serviced by a water system that. were �maller than .the township bylaw allows. The .bylaw states that lots that are not serviced must have a 120-foot frontage; while serviced lots must have -a 75-f9ot frontage. However, council stuck to. the bylaw, giving Mr. Reeves the choice of nine, 120-foot lots or 16- 75-foot lots, with an installed water system. Mr. Reeves says he will install such a system. He has been working on the subdivision development since 1973, and, there are still a great many approvals to receive... including a possible Ontario Municipal Board hearing, since objections to the development are expected, according to Mr. Reeves and councillor Norman Paton. Mr. Paton was less than en- thuiastie about the installation of a water system in such a small subdivision. He said that "the wrong thingto be doing is to develop a lot of little water systems." - - Mr. Paton questioned whether growth in a hamlet so close to a major centre(in this case, Ingersoll) is wise planning. He unsuccessfully urged council to "keep it on a small scale and not get into a water system we have to look after."