That fall Dad sold out his crop and went into partnership with Mr Huggins in a blacksmith shop. It was across the street from where Donald's Trucking Company was and across the alley west. Dad traded 3 colts and $50 dollars for four lots and a 3-room house in the north part of Cement next to the place Aunt Sallie had gotten in 1901. Two of the rooms were good size and plastered. There was a shed room lined with gunny sacks and newspapers, that was our kitchen. We cooked with kerosene and had kerosene lamps. On Febnaary 7, 1914 my sister Iva May was born. We had flags along each side of the walk. On Saturday before Easter, after we were in bed and asleep, Mother boiled and colored Easter eggs. Next morning before we were up, Mother hid the eggs in the irises and other bunches of flowers. For a long time we really thought an Easter bunny had laid them. On October 2, 1916 my sister Bessie Marie was born. Dad sold out his part of the blacksmith shop and we moved to the Catren place 3 miles east of Cement.

Elmer had gone to school on the hill for 1 1/years. I had just started in January before I was 6 years old in March. When we moved we didn’t go to school any more that year. The next year we supposedly stayed in town with our Uncle Willie Robertson. We just went ½ days for there were too many pupils for all to go all day. We’d get homesick and when we went home for week-ends we wouldn’t come back for several weeks so really didn’t go enough to make our grades.

We had a Model-T at this time. Dad usually came to town about once a month to buy staple groceries for we had cows and chickens and raised a lot of our food. We kids fished for crawdads in a creek on the place. One day when Dad was chopping wood, Arthur Zachary, who lived on the next farm, walked up behind him, Dad cut his arn with the ax. It wasn’t all that bad a cut but when Arthur saw the blood he fainted and Dad almost did, Arthur’s Mother, Beulah, later had a beauty shop up by the Baptist Church by Spindle Top. Guy and Hub Young who lived across from Uncle Willie in Cement worked for Dad helping him farm. I remember having a crush on Guy. My brother Marion Clinton was born on May 16, 1918 while we lived there.

We moved to a Martin Place for several weeks, then moved back to Cement. Sebrants who lived in our house in town wouldn’t move out. Grandma Heady was in Colorado helping take care of Great Grandma Morris who had had a bad stroke. Uncle Neal was staying with us, so we moved into Grandma Heady’s one-room house on the other end of the block from ours. Grandma Heady came home the day we moved in. There were 2 double beds and a feather bed they put on the floor for us kids. Don't know how we made it but we did. All of us except Grandma and Neal had the flu for it was the year of the bad flu epidemic, when many people died with it or complications. My sister Sally Margaret was born on February 27, 1920. Dad was so sick he fell out of the chair while waiting, and when he went for medicine someone had to bring him home.

As soon as Dad was well, he built us a 2-room house on our four lots. He built it with lumber from the barn. Later he built 2 shed rooms on the back. Dad got a job dressing bits in the oilfield. We walked over the school hill and brought his lunch for he worked on these wells just south of Cement.

They built a public swimming pool on the corner across from where the old high school is now. Dad wouldn’t let us go to see the (naked?) people swim. But on Sunday afternoon May 28, 1922 we were allowed to go with our cousin. When we got home we had a new brother, J.V. He weighed 13 pounds, was large until 11 months old when we nearly lost him with double pneumonia. Then when my sister Verna Salina was born on