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Show THE OLQ IIMSRS From Mrs Homer Cnsteel. Canton, buss.: I remember when men would congregate near hitching posts to catch a glimpse of a worn-ns worn-ns ankle as she stepped down irom her buggy,' From Johnson Uttcrback. Sulphur, v Okla.: I remember when my fladdy and mother turned the gut-ters gut-ters through the filter into the cistern to catch snow water, so Re would have pure cool water blttn MfVlOM nil 4U. J on tlic iL.e Wg cut from rivers and ponds and Itorcd in ice houses with layers of lawdust. i From S. I. McGinnis, Culloden, W, Va.: I remember when we used to go to bean stringings and ipple peelings, and what a good time everybody had. I don't hear f these things any more, j I From Mrs. Aura Kelsey, Weston, Ohio: I remember when I was l kid my folks used to make apple butter. They would peel the apples j iie day before and have several parrels of sweet cider ready. They ; vould get up early the next morn-j morn-j ing and begin stirring apple butter ! ind continue until midnight, making mak-ing 50 or 60 gallons of apple but-j but-j le. 1 have the large brass kettle '.hey used in my yard it is more than 100 years old. ! From Mrs. Edward Koch, Ft. Re-I Re-I covery, Ohio: When a person Sied. the neighbors laid him out j n a "cooling board" a wide j Doard on two benches and put large copper pennies, about the j tize of half dollars on his eyes to ceep them closed. The carpenter tvas called to take measurements or the coffin, and at the funeral, Instead of the smell of flowers, there was the smell of varnish. , The coffin was 'taken to the cemetery cem-etery in a big farm wagon. (Mail your memories to THE OLD TIMER, National Weekly Newspaper Service, 210 S. Des-plaines, Des-plaines, Chicago, 111.) |