The house that Daddy had built for us to live in was a very primitive house and there were just outside walls and a metal roof. Daddy kept working to improve it every chance he got. He worked 7 days a week, 10 hour days because he got double time on Sunday and we needed all the money he could make to live. We had a couple of cows, some chickens, a few hogs and mom started planting her garden as soon as she could, until the new crops came in we had to rely on what she had canned, the milk from the cow and the eggs from the chickens.
We went to school in a stone building that was used for school all 8 grades, church and community meetings. When your grade was called out by the teacher, you went to the front of the room and had your class time, lessons for the day. I loved math so learned all the other math classes too, especially when the students or teacher used the blackboard. We had arithmetic, reading, writing, spelling, history and geography. We used an outdoor toilet, one for boys and one for the girls and did not have toilet paper so used pages from the Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog.
We carried our lunch in a little metal bucket that had had lard in it. I usually had a bread, butter and sugar sandwich and whatever was left from supper the night before.
to be continued......
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