Olney Area High School - Olnean Yearbook (Olney, IL)

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Oriel- ' ZW An Autobxography wntten by Mr Charles Van Cleve if How would you ltke to be assrgned the task of J V Z wr1t1ng your own hrstory at the rrpe old age of one ,J , N., hundred? If you made a few errors of memory you Oy sl' would no doubt thtnk you should be pardoned for so m 5 dorng and so do I Now rf you frnd such errors rn thrs story please be charrtable and Just attrtbute thqn Q9 M 'J to advanced age However rn sprte of my hundred years and havmg been cut up 1nto numerous preces called addrtrons I arn st1ll hale and hearty and accordrng to a recently 0 u adopted slogan rn my honor I am sttll Growrng All tn Ways In fact these cuttrng up occasxons have acted wrth about the same effect as blood transfuslons and I have constantly grown blgger and stronger As I approach my hundredth b rthday I look forward to the second hundred wrth a great degree of opttmrsm and have only the greatest contempt for that oft heard adage The frrst hundred vears are the hardest I was born on the thrrd Monday rn lune l84l Now rf you wrsh to be techmcal and want to know Just what day of the month that was on all vou Nrll have to do rs to look up an old calendar of the year of l84l and see for yourself When you get to be a hundred years old you wrll know that such ltttle rncxdentals are of no great rmportance Rrchland County of vxhrch I have been for a century the county seat was porn a few months before I was but couldn t functron untrl I was born so we are practlcally tw1ns My off1c1al name rs Olney Ill1no1s and there rs qurte a story attached to that Most parents have a good many serrous arguments before they agree on the name of a new offsprrng and I was no exceptlon In fact 1t almost broke up rn a famrly row The truth IS there was a famrly row before I ever arrrved I arrlved there were already several older ch1ldren who coveted the honor In the f1rst place there was Watertown Watertown was four years old when I arrrved Watertown was born rn l837 on the west bank of Fox on the old Trace Road a mtle and a half west Amos Bullard a great uncle of Attorney lohn Lynch was the daddy of Vl'atertown Naturally Watertown r srdents who had gone to the trouble of plattrng thelr locatron off mto town lots thought they should hate D1'1OT1lf over a young upstart who was s1mply rmored to be on the way Then there was also the lrttle vrllage ot Fatrvrew on Lalhoun prarrre srx 'lll6S south that had a prxor clatrn Mr Hugh Qalhoun after whorn the place was later named was the father Cf Farrxlew and lolaly asserted the cl I ot I rs offsprmg tothe honor of ha rng t lc trtle of the polltrcal capttal of the ne .vly r crn county Dox 1 rn Decker townsl rp lllcIE? x as a busy llttle hamlet on Fox known cs Fransonra or Matthews Mrll Tm rla e had a full fledged store and a x ater null where everybody had to gc to get their wheat ground lnto flour A Gflkl 1 -J I ' A ' ' . 1 - ' 35, X: 1 mmf , - as ' , ., -'n k - ,sn 1 A Q v' , . . - 'NI N V V, ' 1' . 1 K I ' ' ' 1 A . . . ll I I I V ' I , , . . , , and that is even more regrettable. Titles often go to the eldest born, but before T1 f r , I f , .J . nat rt .4 , 4 .,- 1 A - ' . A , Ay: ' 1' l 'X -,V ' l l A ' l 'Q - f. , A .' . , , A ' - .. ' , s