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A. Varesano interviewing Anne Timko -5- 7/19/72 Tape 22-2

of milk, but they would get a quart for a pint, but they only called it a pint, they were paying for a pint. I think it was five cents or something like that. Then, there was a nurse in town here, she had some people that, Mrs. Cox must have been giving some support or something, so then this nurse would get milk from my mother, through my mother, to deliver milk to these peoplepeople, you know. And then she would pay the regular price, you know, she's pay more. When she was getting a quart, she would pay for a quart, it was ten cents. So that helped her a little bit. But from one cow, how much milk do you have, and then we needed milk for the home, too, so it wasn't too much.
AV: How much did she sell, about?
AT: She had about four customers, I guess. I don't know if everybody was getting a quart, or were some of them getting a pint, or how it was, I don't know.
AV: That's not too much milk.
AT: No, it's not too much milk.
AV: How else did she get money for you people?
AT: She didn't. That's what I'm saying, that's the kind of life it was, you had to struggle, because you didn't have what you needed.
AV: Well, when the huckleberries were out of season, you only had the cow to keep you going.
AT: And the cow couldn't keep you going with that little bit, because we needed the milk for home, too, you know, there was five of us at home, six of us. Because Mike my brother and the two younger, and myself, and my mother, there was five. So we needed milk at home also.
AV: And did you at the time go to work, like in a factory?
AT: There as no work for girls. You know, I was asking Helen one day when she was here, I says, Helen, could you tell me, what year did you start working? You know, because I wanted to know, because we were talking about this, and I didn't remember when they started to work, like, the ladies to go to work in the factory. And she said she was working during the first World War. I said, Where? In a silk mill in Weatherly. That a truck used to come over for them and they used to take them, that there were several of them working. But as far as I can remember, there wasn't any work for women until World War Two. That's when they started hiring women already, and sisnce then, then the ladies kept working, even the married women were going to work, but til then there wasn't any work.
AV: You don't mean the First War?
AT: No, World War Two. Helen said she was working when she was fourteen. That she was working during World War One, that she was working in Weatherly in a silk mill. For how long she was there, she didn't know how lng she workied there, but she must have worked there a couple years, because I know her sister Anna Falatko worked there, too, she said. And I even forgot about it. When she mentioned it, I said that's right, I said, I do remember that you's were working. She says a man came up from Weatherly that was going from door to door where there were single girls, and asking them to go to work there, they needed workers there. And he said if he got enough, that he'd send out a truck for them, to take them to work. And she said that's how they were going , on this truck.
AV: Why did they ask the single girls?
AT: Well, usually married women can't work, like they have families, they have children. Well, you know, you can't be at work all the time, maybe miss too much time from your work, so they didn't want married women. They only wanted single ones, because single ones are sure to work.
AV: Well, did your mother take in boarders after your father died?