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Show r I ' 1 REMEMBER": BY TKS01D TIMERS I . . From Harvey A. Heath, Detroit, Michigan: f remember when Nebraska Ne-braska sandhill farmers raised watermelons for the sale of seeds. We were allowed to eat all we desired, de-sired, so long as the seeds were left on the empty half shell. The flesh could be taken home, but the skins and the seed had to be left. We bachelors would buy flour in 50 lb. sacks and the neighboring housewives would bake it into bread for us, keeping half of the bread as their share. The trains pulling freight, across the "Great Nebraska Desert" were driven by friendly engineers, who tooted a greeting to each homestead home-stead shack. We never ate refrigerated re-frigerated fruit and vegetables. Until I went "away" to school, I had never eaten fresh fruit, except a Christmas orange or two. We did our own butchering, canned extra vegetables during the summer, made sauerkraut (stomping method) meth-od) and sold corn and potatoes at 10 cents per bushel. On Sundays we worshipped in a straw baled church with a wooden spire pointing heavenward. Laymen Lay-men took turns "leading," as mis-1 sionary preachers came our way only semi-regularly. When I taught school, I walked 15 miles each way, each weekend to see the girl that has been my wife for 33 years. (Send contributions to this csljmn to The Old Timer, Community Press Service. Serv-ice. Frankfort. Kentucky.) |