| Show when he started the coal furnace each fall always around or near September 22 Sterling Utah issinging dancing town dances to the the doors the tune ofpiano the halls teacher desk violin the teachers the sandbox the and happiest us will The bell to Primary of and Abraham Lincoln ever fires the schooldays and desks you initialed the dividing partition the old movies and the pictures These memories are some of the have hasncalled us to school church Remember blackboards to make one large room some drum the benches that would raise of George Washington Remember the old-time and for since 1956 but it has called us many other reasons Our every mood the very pulse of our town could be felt by the ringing of the bell Do you miss it on the third and Fourth of July do It was too bad that it could not send out its alarm to save the building in which it had hung for so many generations July 1968 wassad day in Sterling history for those who feelreverence for the past On this night through some carelessness the Sterling Schoolhouse burned to the ground A1l of us who have been or another pulled the rope we hadquickening of the raised or resided in Sterling have to ring the bell When we could hear pulse andfeeling of accomplishment Admittedly our schoolhouse was notmillion dollar edifice it rate At any it was ours and this oftimes makes the the noble Will be ours things it stood for forevermore ATTIC Nora MEMOIRS Mickelson Manti Utah Non-Professional Division First Place Poetry Now here is your great grandpacradle scythe The blade is rusty and the worse for wear But in its day it cutTot of grain Grandpa would hold it so then thrust and pull And lay the sheaf and thrust and pull again And no man Or work in beside these parts him hour could after match his hour For even though he hadcrippled leg In his arms and hands he had -10 unusual power its and thrust time peal pride or was difference Then Tet us keep that old bell ringing In our hearts just as before That at one |
