While Elmer and I were going to the school on the hill his part of the upstairs was an auditorium and stage I was a fairy in the last program held on the stage for the next year it was made into class rooms.

Uncle Neal drove a small delivery wagon pulled by one horse to deliver groceries, When he had any to deliver up our way, he’d stop by and give us a ride. Grandma Heady took Elmer and I to Chickasha on the train to see the Ringling Brother’s Circus. When we got home at midnight and got off the train it was pouring rain and we really got wet.

Mother really worked hard with Elmer and me to catch us up in school. Also had neighborhood kids coming in for help. They liked to come to our house to play too, especially hide and seek for we had so many good places to hide. Some of those coming were Jewell McCord, Cephas Kelly,and the Burrell kids. All the kids liked to hear Mother tell stories about her early life. One time when some of’ them were there listening to ghost stories, Mother went outside to get clothes off the line. She wrapped a sheet around her and peeped in the windows. The kids were so scared Dad and Mother had to walk them home. Finally with hard work, double promotions and Elmer going to summer school we caught up with the kids we should be with.

Mary Jane Harvey, an old maid, had a show on the block where Hood’s Food Store is. On Saturday afternoon she let the country people in free. We just walked in until someone snitched on us and Mary Jane said we couldn’t come free any more. Grandma Heady and she were real good friends. She told Mary Jane that we’d just crawl through the fence to Uncle George place, then we’d be from the country. Mary Jane knew we’d never have any money to go so she just laughed and told us she’d turn her head the other way when we came in.

Two Jewish families had dry good stores, the Friends were on one side of main street and the Feurths on the other side. I always seemed to me like their stores were so dark. Yu really could talk them into selling things cheaper sometimes.

There were a lot of tent revivals on the corner across from the Peace Garden. As the song goes, it wasn’t just the Baptist, Methodist, Holiness but all people came to hear the gospel and praise the Lord. Had their baptisms out in’ someone’s creek or pond. Later they had revivals where the Peace Garden is. Didn’t have any air conditioning or nurserys. People brought their quilts and made pallets on the ground for the kids. Wasn’t just in- and out in an hour but some nights lasted rather late. The corner where the Peace Garden is was also the site of quite a few tent shows and some medicine shows. Any where they gave prizes for the largest family, we always got it. I remember one time they had a camp meeting on the Petree Place, wondered why people would came live in tents to go to church.

In December of 1924,. Dad and Joe Taylor bought 20 acres south of Cement from Mr. Estes. Later Mr. Thorne bought Mr Taylors 10-acres. In- January of 1925 Mr. Whitehead and Mr. Haney brought teams and wagons and jacked up our house, put it on the wagons and moved it to our 10-acres. Such pretty weather when they started out in the morning, but by night a big snow storm, It was 5 or 6 days before they could get the house on any kind of foundation. When they got reedy to move the barn, they put it on big sills and slid it over the ice.

Dad was working on the wells just this side of the creek. He built two foot bridges out of planks across the creek and draws for him to go to work and us to go to school for there were no buses to ride. Sometimes if we went across too fast they bounce up and down. If it was icy, we got down and scooted across or walked around the road.