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Waln K. Brown
7/19/72
Margaret Maloney
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Bus service was available in the 1910-1920 era.
If you let a boy in one door and let him out the other door, it
meant you didn't want to see him anymore.

Food was preserved by canning (Ball Dome Bottles) and was kept
in the basement. Most of the meats were bought from butchers, but
way back the meat was pickled to preserve it.

Wednesday and Saturday nights were the major nights for bathing.
The miner would take a bath every evening as he was dirty from the
mines. If someone went huckleberry picking or mushroom picking,
they might take a bath. The usual nights, however, were Wednesday
and Saturday.
The girls and mother would scrub each person's back, but the
men would not scrub the women's backs. the water was heated on the
stove. The water before the 1930's was drawn from the outside hydrants,
and on a wash day there was much water to be drawn. The women would
carry two buckets and make repeated trips until they filled the amount
needed for the family's baths.

The man would give his wife the pay check when he received it. The
wife would then budget the money. She was never to have any debts but
to make due with the money. Most women were able to save a portion of
the pay check each pay day.

The girls were taught at an early age to run a household. From age six or
seven, the girls were given little chores to do, and as they grew older, they
were given more and more complicated jobs. This was to enable them to
prepare for runnin' their own households when they were married. At
about age twelve the girls would learn to bake and cook. They were
constantly bein' given tougher assignments to fulfill.