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Show "I REMEMBER" BV TK OLD TIMERS i -- From Joe Vire, Monticello, Kentucky: Ken-tucky: I remember when the fire wood run low I would drive up old Buck and Berry, throw a yoke across their necks, take a chain and ax and hike to the hills. Later on when I wanted to take my best girl to church, I would hook Old Dobbin to the buggy and away we would go. After a while we got married. Three boys arrived, three years apart, and the buggy was too small, so we bought a Model Tee and all piled in and away we went. Now, as we near the 80s, we just sit on the front porch and watch the world go by in V 8s and hear the planes roar overhead. We have witnessed changes from ox-cart to airplane. From Mrs. Martin Madison, Spokane, Spo-kane, Washington: I remember 1893 . . . that was the year 1 lost my job with a Pullman, Washington Washing-ton mercantile company that went broke after farmers lost their crops. I went to Colfax, Washington, in search of another job. My girl friend and I went to the Palouse River to watch the log drive come in. I thought it would be fun to take a walk out on the logs . . slipped and fell ' between the logs . . . the logs were heavy and water icy . . . my friend screamed ... a young hunter passing nearby ran to the rescue, diving deep under the logs to bring me to safety. Those days of unguarded log drives are over now. (Send contributions to this eolnmn t The Old Timer, Community Press VerTioe. FranJtfort. Kentucky.) About ten per cent of the national na-tional income is spent in the United Unit-ed States each year for the purchase pur-chase and operation of automobiles and the auto industry is the chief consumer of steel, rubber, plate glass and many other products. Nothing new ' under the sun ? There are approximately 180,000 patent applications in the Patent Office awaiting processing. |