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and things looked bad. We only got from 28 to 25 cents a came. I felt pretty good, we had a real nice garden and lots
bushel for our wheat and living was high in comparison but
we had cows and chickens, and our own meat.
Ramona Mae was born at the Ransom Hospital January 15,
1930 at about 11 p.m. I had gone to Utica the week be-
fore to stay with Fahey, so was only about 11 miles from the
hospital. Fahey and Alma took me to the hospital around
9 p.m. Someone went for Otto, he arrived in time. He
and Edward were batching
as Edward was in school. It
was awfully cold while I was
in the hospital, which was a
ten day stay. Went back to
Fahey’s for a few days and
on home again. Otto and
Edward made out fine. Lar-
ena stayed with her Grand-
mother Holmes during that
time.
Spring came and the spring
Edward and Ramona farming and other work
26 Part of my Life as a Story
of water. The windmill was a few steps from our kitchen
door. That is, our garden was good until the Colorado bee-
tles hit it one day. In a few hours my beans were nothing but
little stalks and stems. They ate the leaves. We didn’t have
bug repellent in those days. The crops weren’t too good that
summer and not a good price either. The depression was re-
ally on, the banks even closed up and no one could borrow
money. If one had money in the bank it was even tied up
for a time.
Therefore we were lucky to get to board our school teacher.
We lived 1 ½ mile from the schoolhouse. We charged her
28 dollars a month for board and room. She was willing
to share the room with Larena. Edward and Cecil slept in
the front room and our bedroom was larege enough for our
bed and Ramona’s crib. So we made out real good. Charged
our groceries until the teacher paid us for the first month,
then her board money and with the chickens and cows we
made it through the year.
We had a terrible blizzard in March 1931. It came about
noon or a little after, we had no way of knowing it was com-