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Show "I REMEMBER"! BY THE OLD TIMERS - From AlfaretU Conrtrlght, McDonald, Mc-Donald, Kansas: Did you kriow that 'about 1910 buggies were still being told in the middle west? I know, because a dapper young guy (In an automobile, at that) sold one to my folks. It was one-seated and my mother said" doubtfully, "But, there's four of us." To which he answered, "But these girls will soon have beaus to take them." So we rode in the bottom bot-tom under Mom's and the hired girl's feetl We finally grew enough to drive an old white pony to the country store and post office, sell the eggs and get the mail. On time We started reading the funnies on the way home; got the lines tangled under them and cramped the wheel so much it broke down. We walked back to the store and the postmaster postmas-ter rolled us another wheel down the road, put it on and started us on our way. He never did tell on us, either. From William Sommervllle, Parsons, Par-sons, W. Vs.: I remember when our neighbors grew flax for making cloth and raised geese for feathers to fill ticks for the beds. Also when the maple sugar orchard furnished most of the folks with large portions por-tions of their sweets, while honey and cane sorghums also had their place among the articles on the food shelves. At that time, the common source of medicines was derived from herbs of various kinds gathered and dried during the summer and fall months. (Send contributions t this (claraa t The Old Timer, Commanlty Press 8r-I, 8r-I, Bx SS, Frankfort, Koatackf.) |