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Show I' II '' 1 I yj' 5 'V 1 ffibyCAROL S. I,E MON im&.jl&jS I ff'h ' Iff ' 4 . U I s; ' j ' . f , y - . 4 v ' : .A : i.r. . - .- -r ."7 - . . - T . ' , 1 - Jf - . . r ' r-"""- ' 7 vi i . t ;.v ? ' 1 i :. K : - ; v i 7 :: "We're not natives of Mil-ford," Mil-ford," laughed Mr. andMrs. Fred O'Leary, "but we might as well be. We've been living liv-ing here for 50 years. We came for a visit and were talked into staying. We worked work-ed for Mr. Henderson on Mil-ford Mil-ford Flat for eleven years before moving to town. Then Fred worked in the KingDa- Fred and Hilda O'Leary with a small part of their collection. i vid and Horn Silver mines, was water master and sexton sex-ton for Milford for many years, and also worked at the airport." "As children we worked hard. Sugar beets were the main industry in our area," said Fred, "but we had fun, too. We did a lot of skating on Wales Reservoir. Once our coach cam e along to supervise the bunch of us as we skated. He was the only one who fell in!" "The first year we lived on the Flat, we raised mostly most-ly alfalfa seed. I also helped with Mr. Henderson's 2500 sheep." "There was only one phone in the area. When we finally got electricity, the power ran down two barbed wires to the house. Quite a few hoboes came through then," said Hilda. "I was a little afraid because I was there alone with my small children so much of the time. Once when I had two children, we had a really heavy snowpack which melted all at once. Fred was cut off with the sheep and I was home alone. We had our own food, etc., but I was mighty glad to see him come home. We had terrible winds then. Worse than now, I think. There were no trees, nothing to hold down the soil." Fred and Hilda are parents par-ents of four children, grandparents grand-parents to nineteen, and great -grandparents to two with two more on the way. "We started collecting things way back when it wasn't even a popular thing to do. I often remember having hav-ing a baby under one arm, going out looking for bottles, etc." said Hilda. "However, we've done most of our collecting col-lecting since Fred retired." Talk about collections! The CLeary's have literally hundreds of different types of bottles; old nurse rs, poison poi-son bottles, inkwells, liquor, patent medicines, almost anything you can think of. Added to these are drawers of old silverware some real silver locks, horseshoes, horse-shoes, insulators, flat irons, ore crucibles, and a brass pot from the old Moscow Mine. Then come many types of rocks, fossils, crystals, artifacts and the list could go on and on. When Fred decided to add on to his home, he made 1820 cement blocks in a mold he designed, which erives them Even Mrs. Ford has a license. li-cense. Her handle is "First Mama". The O'Learys enjoy en-joy CBing so much that they just recently received their own license. They haven't chosen a handle yet but I'll bet it will be a good one. It just goes to show you that you can retire from work but you never have to retire from life. Fred and Hilda are good examples of staying young by keeping busy and en joying their many, many hobbies. Hilda sent along a favorite light, refreshing salad for these warm, spring days. EMERALD SALAD 1 3 oz. pkg. lemon jello 1 3 oz. pkg. lime jello 1 C crushed pineapple (drain and save juice) 2 C liquid, including pineapple pine-apple juice 1 C mayonnaise 1 C cottage cheese 1 C nuts 1 C evaporated milk, chilled Heat liquid, add jello, dissolve dis-solve and cool till partly set.' Whip. Whip cold evap. ' milk, add to jello. Add mayonnaise may-onnaise 'and other ingredients. ingre-dients. Chill. Serve on lettuce. let-tuce. Decorate with a cherry. Makes 12 servings. "Lots of wells in the area were almost artesian in nature na-ture until so many were drilled. Many of them were warm springs, too. I remem -ber once in 1918 I went to Black Rock for some hay. A Mr. Hickman lived there. That day he'd plow a furrow, walk over about 25 paces and plow another furrow, then repeat again and again. By morning the whole place was watered over. It would run down these furrows then sub under ground to the next furrow. Never saw anything like it." a lovely, sculptured attractive attrac-tive appearance. Hilda enjoyes making those cute, little, 7 -Up bottle dolls. She and Fred both like to paint and still love roaming the hills. Perhaps their favorite hobby is listening to CB and Police Radio bands. "It's so interesting. On the CB bands you have to get to know people by their "handles"." You can't use your real name, (should really use your call numbers), but everyone goes by a handle; Ladybug, Chevron Chev-ron Kid, Grasshopper, etc. |