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burned so badly it had to be plowed up later. Pastures were also went to Dighton to go to high school. We took him
short too. We had borrowed money bought quite a number
of cattle. Later the money of a few hundred dollars I got
from the estate went to pay the loan off on the cattle.
In September of 1932 we got a terrible hailstorm, some hail
as large as baseballs – broke windows and beat the paint
form the north side of the buildings. No one was injured.
Don’t remember much that happened the winter of 1932
and 1933. But the year of 1933 Mother Holmes decided
that she wanted Otto to come back and farm the place. So
we moved back to the Holmes place late summer of 1933
– in time for the “kids” to start to school. Mother Holmes
always boarded the teachers, but no longer wanted to, so we
took her in to board. Guy moved to another place several
miles north of us. Seems he no longer wanted to farm the
home place.
It was cold that winter as usual and also dry and the prospect
for what didn’t look good. We did raise plenty of feed for
the stock though and for the chickens. Mother Holmes con-
tinued to live in her part of the house, but went to Dighton
part time to be with Mae who taught school there. Edward
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over Sunday evenings and went after him Friday evenings.
Usually the weather was pretty good and the winter went
by without incident. We had a fair crop, but the summer
was awfully. I was giving a music lesson to one of the pupils
who came to the house. I had a terrific pain in my side but
it passed on. I didn’t feel good all eve, but had lots to do
as we were planning to go to Garden City the next day, 4
th
of July to a rodeo. We made ice cream, I fried chicken, etc.
We set table with friends to eat. I couldn’t eat. Just after
noon while watching the rodeo, one horse and rider came
right for our car – surely scared us. We left Garden City for
our 80 mile drive home. Was hot and we all were so tired.
We had cows to milk when we got home which was near
midnight. The children went to bed while Otto and I did
the milking. It thundered and lightening all time we were
doing our chores, but it didn’t rain to speak of. We went to
bed somewhere around 1 o’clock a.m. I couldn’t sleep, my
side hurt so bad. So Otto took me to Utica to the doctor
around 4 a.m. We left the children asleep, but stopped and
told neighbor Cliff Jones to go and see about them when
morning came.