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Show "I REMEMBER"! IYTHX OLD TIMERS r From Mrs. Fannie Smith, Stanford, Ky.: I remember the good old times when my grandma baked sweet potatoes and corn bread in the old Dutch oven in front of the fireplace. She would cover the top of the lid with fire coals. ' From C. S. Wyatt .Metamora, Ind.: I remember when I had to grit, or grate, ears of corn on a piece of tin, punched full of holes and nailed on a board, to make meal for bread. I From Mable Cox, Larkspur, Calif.: I remember when we had sar-saparilla sar-saparilla and no root beer. First bicycle I ever saw had large and small wheel and first ones with ' same-sized wheels were called "safeties." The first washing machine ma-chine was the vacuum tin funnel full of holes and on a stick for plunging up and down through the clothers. I made one by nailing a perforated tin can on a broom handle. han-dle. Also made lye soap and hominy. hom-iny. From W. A. Morton, Checotah, Okla.: The back of our dirt-floor log hut was covered with deer hides. You could buy dry salt meat for two cents a pound. From Mrs. S. C. Shore, Richmond, Ind.: I remember my dad deciding decid-ing that coffee above 25 cents a pound was too high and bringing home a 100-lb. sack of green coffee, il remember how good the house smelled when mama roasted it in1 bread pans in the old wood stove. From Bertha Andrews Phillips, Randolph, Wise: I remember the I "Old Oaken Bucket" and its windlass wind-lass well. (Mall your memories to THE i OLD TIMER, BOX 340, FRANK- Jfort, KY.) |