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house, no running water, no bath. Clothes were handed down, shoes, when you had any were worn only to school or church.
Men that could find work made no more than $1 a day. There was no money, we traded beans and wheat for the doctor or whatever.
We took wheat to the mill, one hundred pounds of wheat equaled fifty pounds of flour.
One year the baby came down with scarlet fever. Everyone got it in succession. I was last and missed the final four months of school.
Someone came in the night and left a lot of canned goods on the porch. I remember being ashamed that we were getting charity. That was the first time that I thought that we were poor.
One good time recollection, my grandmother’s sister and husband came to visit from California. We thought they were rich. They knew we were poor. They took all of us that were old enough to town, gave us each a quarter and told us we could buy anything we wanted at the Five and Dime (Woolworth Store). It was overwhelming joy.
The first time I had bought anything so I got my mother a plastic rose.
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