Show I I I I R REMEMBER i EM ER aY Tn rile OLD TIMERS From Frank T T. Garland Pittsfield Pills Pitts- field N N. II IL lIt t I 1 remember when when man many people baked in a stone tone oven and burned what was 1111 called caned a witch a shallow dish with tallow tallow tal low and cloth string for a light t I also remember when neighbors took turns in going to the store with an ox cart and a yoke oke of oxen to bring back supplies for the entire neighborhood IS From George W W. Earp Karp Lamar l I 1 remember 80 60 years ago when I was nine years ears old living with my parents on a farm near Lamar Missouri the town where President Truman was born in 1884 My parents bought green coffee coffee cof cof- fee tee at the grocery store for five c cents a pound This green coffee was shipped to the grocery merchant merchant merch merch- ant In pound bags M My mother would roast it in the biscuit pan in the oven of the kitchen stove she sho called it parching and It was my dut duty to grind this in a small coffee grinder for our Sally dally meals From Mrs Oliver Johnson Us tag Ing Fawn Georgia I t can remember her ber in 1893 1895 when I 1 was eight years ears old It was hard to get matches to make fires so my mother would take spun dyed thread put it on the old spinning wheel and turn it so fast that it got hot enough to catch fire re With the burning thread she would start our our fires Ores |