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J--?-.w.r 1 chairs _roued a out a l_eater at
one end of the room. This was t,e sevinoom. and here ere
t o lon- t 1, used for cuttin out olothinj 'and for In -Irking
aZii/MA _arments 202 alter-Aion. Fini3hed garments almost
filled ti long rack one end of the room. Between two large
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modern electric 7:-..achTh
2edal
tale was flanked Y Se fl nchines- one was
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C of the old f?s'ioned
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The tailor/ of Miss. :DaVIsis located in the second story of
the Morris building, A long flight of stairs at one side of the
building leads up to the shop. As T reached the head of the stair-.
Mrs, Margaret Davit(?),4)
,19Axracoohee Ave.
Athens ,Georgia.
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way where a light was burning,I was in a long narrow hallovacant
eacept for a table 4whiah held the telephonotand a stool,
I knocked at the first door and a very friend11411,"coae IA.
_DpentMg=4*=4vvi. I entered la ge work ro a, 8eeljaelifi7oa the
different dry ceaning establisaaents were talk/
pd
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trirer stove at Tê U1Lrooa to
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my firet—rta
with ,tha_twal_lca4;-
alterationalI. saw-tilatr-t4te-y-
long rack at one end
g4.4.44.44mArs
4,4em if any
,Apeom
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rge raum7-
tting and markin
rze electric mwOhineslam4-the other was
As the men put their work down and started out the door,an-
other aan came in and daid,"Miss ilaggie,can you turn these shirt
collars for.,me7.1 ney a e pretty bad,but I know=117you can fix
the collarsoshe'
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one can.
them as good as new,but
have twait,for
and hasr.a.aj
cents for
e_
turning collars °cording to how_,hadrdebmrr-*eawb 144s-m&D.s644-..624//
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He said that would be
ceVerri.,!
She told him that she -64A-4-0" ana.
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come for them th
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Ifte ,aan-ettri not 2iflid. before another was ineaying,"Miss .Alager
gle,can you fix a hole in my coat right quick) I got it caught in
a screen door a few minutes ago and you know that I can feel this
cold wind." Miss Maggie laughed and said,"ALnd me the coat and I
/yin 4L
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,see what I can do. He pulled off his leatherilumbet.
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and minutes bollOra he was on his wayloat?Iitand
only cost him fifteen cents*
alledn
a
ress
sgro man came to the
doors&44-4.a.114-44G-to fix up the firerorqhfsroomSWrgetting cold
and
turned to me with a friendly smile and sai(!)"gid you think I would
never get through;g0 it:its:like this every day.
"But that'As where I get mo t of business Z031,.,ror I don't
get as much from the stores now.,BnIrthey,LOre not doing so much
business tr444 t,ia Af thR _rbnr, Yet I have all Weak. I can do,and I
don't take but very few new things to make since I have been running
the shop by myseitfor I don't have the time for that, A4'1'44'1142
*Mt:ill this is not inter ting to you I know/ 1344- I ex--.
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plained that was what I wante nd her work. She
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laughed and said," I don't think my story woulynteresting to an464-4
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Ajo go off,for the plenty of work to do ilt She
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eoelfor I guess itlAs just bou like mostx ones. I have had my
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ups and downs,pleasures and)yes,troubles toppwe all have liomo
g.,
There was another knock 7.t the door and in answer 10 her
"Qome In" a We8ro man
AW6eir and:OF:al ude think of a
At
sa44 he V'a pair of pants that had a hole in them and could she
,!71", 3 fix them e of two hours,0 2ause Mistiss I has just
'em. Mrs
Davis told him that she would do Ailise best
he was dressed
preacher Plittr,
have
As he went ourtlthe man from Lee TiorrioNk Clothing Store
cale in with a 'air of new
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toiner would be back for thex in two hours.
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the CUA
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As he closed the door behind hiA,Mrs. Davis looke atn1e and
-om laughed againemoimoes44,"I Id.11 make a bargain with you,/VEsee all
this work that 1 have to do*11/ if you will fix this pair of pants
for me,I will give you a story of my life and my businessohow about
s$
it, are you a good sport
I -5=4,464p!Alled off my hat and coat art_rld her to hand
Wia4e 7>t.e ot• f
ale V= pants Shert41 jouivp#11 have to french
cuff them,for I know they are not long enough to get a cuff without
it.Am% I 'fil;Itel'CLt I could do that =se. =Id as 1 took the pants t3
ii -tiqfie
the table to measure tnd,..6mark them,she said 4-Deliev you know what
you are doing. Ili,was my =Mb to laugh,and I her that I had fix4
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od...a....g== pair/of pants,lentthat she need not worry about them,
that I was willing to work for my story,
.1ka.......Darvi-er-eatiAr"well I like a good sport,but I difrpt
think that youl
do itlimetrI).1 be a uoi sport AkrAnd if
jou dont mind me talking and working to°,at the same time I mi*I1
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that t=oftn. But don't think that I won't
have to stopsfor I will, ltic. you see how it
It did not take me long to finish
is,
,and I handed
Vasa to her to pee if they She saids"well I was
if al i
fooled OAS tine,andwu did a very good jobovite-seadeiret," 111-110446
-mmlimmeminale Vitii0fOi7hin to convoke sa dondo you like coffee
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1-4.04/=:0113 =tilaid=14 Teda such.
,tev.1.144 Au4L4. 71:::t we
will got tor
2.0111
tp i, 41.0$
ink a geed
cup of °ere will help us out, Ltd went out and came back with a
a.
MOCCPWICtIWOCIOD3OCCEIx -4-
colts. pot,4104-4-wateriphe up tho fire again .and the
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coffe pot on the heater. Mrs,4á said' he w&* -net -forget our coff
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ee,I just don't know what I°wouideithout Wm.'s* has boon with ne se
long and knows just how I want every thing dene.and he is one 'most
ogre, ?lover bothers a thing,.
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"But got your book and peneliAlyou don't havo to amok any
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aoriland if I talk te/nuch ,just stop soWor I roa4r like to talk'
and get lonesome for some to talk too. The wind was rattling the
wIndowRand the-wedber-*T1-4140.coffee pot warn begining to- as she
started her story.
"I was born in a little two.roon log houstenIty Grandfather
Saners place,out 'mar where Princeton is now, While I was still just a
914.4ati
baby paddy noved *a the old paper nil. The placeis now called the Cord
Mill. iiikotthe old paper nill building is still stading,but in todissamiler—
a condition to be used for anything.
"My far and Jerome Wallace were the mea that the Paper
machinekorlp-jinesfas they called then thou. Of course they had
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holpers,but had t e on duty all the tine. 4ssio if one of
sr
then was ofor sick,or or any other reasoaNisomobisor one had to stay
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until the othortilimitUt on duty. Ariftwwwwwwww was 4111111. only wonan
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in that part of the Kill. -iforibmo counted the paper it
was nade in Isrgo syyrye&T for tho printers, q.ucip())444.441-44nto
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Old aan Sin oP ramiTci; f nis ng machine. have wet°
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them work aany a tins when I was a child,for it was so interesting to
see the machines run, out from the Raper Milltwas tho rag rooa.
where the rags were sortitesod samertand each color wal a sopiiwnte bin.
tes11504mTt. They bought old clothes and rags to make or. All but-
t -ea
tons were cut off very careful about ,for tow
eh Q•e•
stestast ruin Anso- nithineX
I was sent to school when I was about elution* it was not like
.the schools ate now, School then was in the Old Hallvand was, all in one
rooa, _Miss Bally Woad Was our toackervand then was only teacher for
the whole sehoolieu*she taught all the children, 44411bout one hun-
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droll children.all sizes and ages frou,six litr up nd sons of theist.*
NiZt
alaost grown, Our books were tea- ld B1 Back Speller rithnotis and
at."(
geography. We,Nhad to study0tveryNstood up -in rowSleseggNiesendaW0b-OMMme
spelling beessand every tine you missed a wo,/pu had to ,go the bottoa
of the rim° Oh plasm" Aldied„but at that we soma goodZPOWtines in
4that old sokoolhouse064040.1n later years was made into a dwelling houseo
and issI belleve)stUJ atanding.a4E4N2W-weissom A
"It was a groat thing to us kids,to work in the rag room at the
paper mill after weY were out of school. They were glad to have us toe.
Oar job was to sort the ragspand we enjoyed thwworkesSaFthey paid us
_fifty cents a nontk, 100P that was a lot of money to us then/of course
it wouldn't mean muck to the kids these days. People.froa all around
sold their old clothes and rags at the paper mill, And many times we
found nick's* and dines in the bags of rags,We were allowed to keep'
-this sonsy,and we bought candy with it and had a big tine.
R4Reiroane daysj sure reamiber that tin., for I think that pleas-
ures and disappointments in our childhood days are better rempubered
than any thing found a large bag of new cletimes,and they were
nice onesldresawfor women and childrenounderwearostoehingnd sone
mensshirts„ Well we just dressed ourselves Lip,and put these things
aside,for we wanted to keep Akan. But the very 27t morning,a woman
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from town was out there hunting her clothes. Bar maid had sold then
and kept the money)ind as the old saying goesour feathers fell, for
Nol/rAwy -"))4<•1
we had to give up all -emi.veafgarkeclothes.
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About this time they put inioslograachintl to make paper
bags. The machines would out a hundred bags at a timosand t tom s no
thing else igkrtarkido tied.the bags in bundle4we hundred
bags to a bundle,that was fun,for we folded half one way and the other
half the °thin, way. Those bag machines were a great curiosity to the
poople thensand they would come for smiles to watch them run.
'fluty also used jut. to make paper. That was bought in large
balestand "lie; another job for unitive would tear up the jute into small
pineres to have it ready for the machines. One day we found a lot of
paper money in a bale of jute, But two of the women that worked there
took that away from us and said that they would have to send it back.,
But folks said that they kept it and bought them a home 7z:rti, dosat
know about that,but I do know that we did..741t get any of Vise money,
-4.nd did you know thahey useo(te make paper out of wo;Aeven
back in those days. 11•14:Ithey did.I don't remember jusAwhat kind of
wood they used for it,but they would out young saplinge;skin the bark
ogeand grind them into pulp ready fort.i.ho paper machine. The paper
made from the wood was a heavy brown paper such as they use for wrapping
and was called manila paper.
People was paid 01100 a month then for their worksand it was the
custom to buy a months supply of provisions on pay day. AM they all
traded at the company store. The AIM all liked their tobaccovand this
was one supply that was not forgotten when they were buying groceries%
-osp..it was somothing they felt like they could not do without,
"And kids would slip tobacco out and chow it the boys especially.
One day, some of the kids swiped some of their dads tobacco and told me
that I had to htditoand I had better put it where it would not be found.
I decided that the old well would be the boqt_place if t could climb
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up and put it on the sills ii4he tope I managed to climb up and
it so nice along the sills,and was sure that no on. would see it. tut it
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started raining that night,and it gained for a solid week.
4After the rain w6 over .the kids told no to get tbetrtobacooi
"j
I went to the old male Alt was ruineds:the topA7 had leaked,and the rain
had that tobacco until it *ice as thick as it stout be. And
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1 almost got a itp.$fng fro* those kids,for of course they chewed it,
and was sick. No f did not try any,for I knew better100,6111ama would
sure have tanned my hide.
I had some older sisters and our house was just a gathering
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place for the young folksstkere was a crowd of them in and out all the
timetand I could got the biggest thrill out of watching and l&sttng to
them talk.'One nigh S two girls cone to our house to set a dumb supper.
I wa;ust about ,seven the;xland I cried because they put me to beZfor
they had these suppers at midnigh-ttust on the stroke of twelFe.
"They started their supper and one ofeisters and another gir4
put on pants and was going to scare iskem. I.could hear them talking
for wasn't asleep if I was 'in bed. I slipped up and told one of my
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Uncles what they yore going to do. It was a disgrace in then days for a
girl to dress up like a boy,so he said that he would fix than. And
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when they stabbed around the kitchen to scar4 the gtrls4000kingti. got
after4Ntem,and did they screaar MC any way it broke up the supper and I
was satisfied.
"Did you ever hear about them old time
poplar then. That was the way the girls found
their future husbands. I know it seems funny now
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then.. But after all,I think
a")t-exeJ,
dumb suppers?a.they maimoto;ow
out who was going to be
42 look back on
Well 4 4111 try to toll you how they cooked these suppers, Two
girls did the cooking set the tablesand each one Used their right hands
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everything was done backwards,even to making the breadsthey did every
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thing togethersand each one just used one hands They,could not speak or
laugh from the time they started until it wasv for if they did the
spell was broken and nothing would happen.
"Evesything must be ready just at twelve,the table set for twos
esseimisteji Bible and a bottle was placed on he table. Then t wind
was supposed to blow doors come open 4PF men oem4d come in and
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gt..)wAlt.
eat. They.did not speak either, just '11k and walked out. If titer pick
.d up the Bible,
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would make a good husband butob lam of the
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Aan that moved the bottlftfor you would sure get a -son. would turn
*mom- A
out bad and be a drunkard for sure. And If nooKiWo.ottmesand your coffin
co4then you was demed to die an old 0,11d.
These suppers were lots of fun,forsmost every time the girls
would get scared and wake up everhtiv. in the-house,Oh yessthey had to
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be the only p ople awake in t house. At this tine Bditcans in
r 41414t C.4444
our coffeed, .:!he digredmommp came back for his
with cups
oohys.
pmele4amdqhen mi. only charged him fifteen cents for the works -4w
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eft.Opmd ...rmetftwiloNlismoSibwiti-Mrs.
__LBgewas tired.for _the had reduced that pile of work as she talx
ed. When I mentioned it,she,said "I an us4to itand it does not worry
me. My customers are alli so nicesand if I am/la littl late simmO=XXE86
in getting out their workothey never say anything. But I guess I had
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better get back to work. 101116 you can rest .;f jou are V4.040
nq-t--Wa-
at.
Well I an going to tell you about how we use to spend Christ,
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mas. Christmas himiLlasted a week,frosiChristmas4vesti4 New ylq,6. No
body workedsjustiiAdancel)and visited all during that week, %4710,0ms---
A/,
on. -1a4 wi-l1 bout is o that iaTe 4*Ir s 414&
iddmmCW-- tv.Pti 414"44 C40-j)"4.4w,
fIrr4.1
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--titd
cver t)i
:ley came. ITo e have 11,..d many laughs
CLI,Istmas, and !tri join Ej to tell kOu about
't Ma3t ex,_t",7 as 1 re,-erriber it. Our u Lie and aunt 'ot here
three
days 1-,cfore arri ed. LL.e so many other
peOple in those days, they did not have enou„ money for the
such a
fa,-ily to rife or t e train do t X/ lonr trip, so the
Ildren started of several days ahead of their parents. They
2o:le Jlt_ r1erds part of the way then set out to walk the
balafice of_tl_e way. Those to _irls and the boy jot here on
(.L.ri,tmas —ye; and id tl ey we.,3 't a siLht! One of teilfEirls
ieijhed ov r to hundred :pounds and se had walked the soles off
.s•
1-sr‘,t sho
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"Mamma was looking for her half-sister and family from Alabama
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to spend Christmas with us, None of us had ever seen tl:and4 was sure
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looking forward to their coming. We was having aisupperi‘for than on Chmst-
mas4ve nightosioe-e-iftemoo, We ids were just on ti021.oes,so Oxcitediadwt..4,
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just couldn't Willy wait*41 of/coursei it w mere looking for Santa Clause &c,
And our tree was all ready. Mamma had killed turkeys and chickenstand had
been cooking cakes and les for two weeks.
)KIIIMM4 at last the oamo, Now gkild ust
remember it
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_Aunt and pale got here several days before the children did. SNP. like se
,W-41-4-1 other people in those daysIthey did not have money enough for all Of them
to come on the trainj lidathey started the children days before they
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1:1.•%4" RiOng part of the imp with friends,and walking the rest of the
pNiows#10
way. But the two girls and boy got here on chrlstmas ovedi 1110. if they
wasn't a sighane of the girls' weighed over two hundred pounds ,and had
walked the soles off her, oMmes4 fr$41')44r
"All of our folks and many of our fsiinds were there, Amlene,ofA
is and her hu037:1, nta,Stencile. Also one of.Ny Uncles and
his daughter;they4 ere to furnish the music for the danoe,Por 1.ney Etk
plereg=rEgftwe. Everything was cleared out of two room5IMOSOMINMN!, And
about three o'clock the young people starteddancing We kids were
haddyl-Our_ffe could watch them as long as wanted to Wilidn't have to
go to bed early on shriataae4-(
"The older women were busy cooking and getting the supper ready.
At\
every body was having a good timeethe man calling for the dancleould
holler,swing your pardnersistkoit was a grand t4maile7re*-blePPrlat"""
._
oremplowe kids were so interested in the fat girl from Alabeaathat we
stayed pretty close around her. She did not siem.to want to danceend we
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couldn't understand that, And when we saw one of the boys start toward
herswe just had to hear what he said. H. asked her if she would dance
that set with him. We held our breath for her answer,
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...11037,"I had just as Wyllince with as any body else',.but I has walked all
the way frAt7 om to see Aunt Sis,and an too tired and galledem 4 -rim
o
walking tf danc04,71th anCody.
There was a knock at the doogy:prs said,"cone ire, A man
from the dry cleaners brought in eine werksand with bin w a mint-freir
...44irlaundry,whe wanted to know if she had been able tellimm.the coveralls
that he brought her tø day !trio. She laughed:and said," you'll be
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surprisedajedmOdon4 man caraistAliginamiliammpwout of en yet the
looked at the coveralls...P'said„"Iliss Minspe,how do you do it? It makes
no difference how bad anything isehen we ring it to yousiti's always
fixed when we get it back, He his bill for the day before
,paid it all and
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Mrs. said,where was leran't we just fixing to eat:?welli
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anyway, -they started eatiP7aout five o/olockpand we hadl; set th4table
eigiii times,there was so many to eatoand of course,we children did not
.eat until all the grown people Wellithis man Stencile,qt down
tiahiidt 4.
at the first table,and that nan stayed there,sating with every table full
of people. I never saw one person eat so muck in all my life. Tim,. was
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plenty to .but we kids were watching the turkeys there was one *es
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left on the disk eirsa the last table fullAnfinishiereating,and that man
Stencile reached over aad got it. We was so mad,but we knew better than
to say anythipi. et much as we had to eat,we couldn't, enjoy it for think4447
4,44- that last 4ce of tirkey.
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The dance lasted all nightebut we kids.rggye it up and.emois.40,41
47 euPri 4ve—r-ixi4
ek,
be were up early the next morningpready for breakfast, 441!
see what Santa Clause had left for us. Of course we did not have things
then like children 41ow,but we had many nice thingspand when it
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for dinner,Mamma saved out some of the turke nd I guess it was a good'
thing that she did for that man Stencil* was still theregtand.still eat-
ing just like he did the day bettors.
*I had just about finished sOhool tonsan*;when theAPaper Mill
closed dowilipand we ,oyedatttlAthens,near the old Check Millen Broad St.
We went to work ook-
I don't think that I will ever forget L*4)>°141- 0.43 -1474 -awe
C.-1qt had large posts all through the nilloand-ons day my sister was
lea ing,against one resting. On. of the,wonea thinking she wo
,ol.].le to h r totmove quick. It scared my slate
one laughed,but it made as Asernade hit her so hard limn she fell in the
tap :AWL,
floor. We were new people ip g settlenentirvrtms,
but after that they did' not
therecand having the same good old times that we
Just when I was thinking that I wasAgrown,
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..taarunt....*Ne=vvr-1,49041.0=ttulFt I met my present husbands) He came to see my
have
she jumped
Every
us any more. d we wore soon satisfied
i our old home 4lotimmo
brother-in-law and Iiaç1. the prettiel-horse and buggy. He carried me to
rlde,but we just wen down the rAptd,not far enough to get out of of
the house. But even at thaZsypana heard about it. She didn't believe
much in whipping,but she sure could find other ways of punishing,and
crni.
just for that,Ilittle ride,I had to stay at hone for three long months.
*W. I was not even allowed to go to church and Sunday school.
I had a girl friend that AI us) o spend the night with real
often,and she would visit me 4Prm,ftkett441INFI was spending the
aZt
night at her housepher mother and fa er were away visitingiland there was
except the childrenes*m44;sister4laCk older than we whorprr
no one at home
so nobody was
all gonejo
wanted4:10.
afraid to stay. But we decided that after the others had al
,that we woul/ slip and. cook a dumb supper,for we had
a ong timelbut theyAsaid that we were t4iittle.
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"After they were all in bed we got upoyes we weebepscared,but
was determined to show 491tem that we cOuld do it as well as they could.
And we did get the supper ready,didn't even forget the Bible and bottle
Two boys that knew us had been fishing and was on their way homWthe
light in the kitchen so late they thought that 9024,444 might be sick,
and came by to see if then o was anything that they Could);But when they
saw us in the kitchen they knew what we was doing,and just pushed opened
the door,walked in and picked up the bottle and went out. We were scared
so badecouldn't move for a few minute!‘but when we did get to yellingee
had everOnd. in the house up. But strange as it may seeasene of those
boys is now ay husband,and my girl friend married the other, so..
"And now I am going to stop a little while for lunch and drink
y"
another cup of Blyis coffee. Do you go home for lunch,or doo sat in town
I said that gs to tar oul.wamerI usua4 embe4.4.2
in town."Well the4441 will just order'us soothing sent down here,for I
do not leave the shop there's*. always some one coming in. W. ordered
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sandwiches and were arguing who was miggitozoLIUkem;‘a cutomer came
in and suggested that he-camtp.a coin and settle** lialEMIMMWM I
AatZt
lostomy last fifty cents,, to pay for the sandWiches.117* sante our lunch
Mrs Davis said" I glad that you came to see me to da4olla sorry that
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I made you workipma At aitwos like I
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have got along so well with my work. MistrI guess I had bet r ES b=141'
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at-itibut we can still talk.
I have been married twicsomillt-I met my first husband en 4
picnicippos we had real picnics thenimod .very one wen.
old tallahejk just put straw in the bottoo to sit ontand a 1 40
in thdWIAL
tdgether,
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After dinnercithere would be a ball game,and my husband was one of the
-loMMir players.' It wan not lezi
we went with a crowd of
young people the Old Beaver Dam Ohurchlto,a foot washingeafter that was
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over we rode to the Jim Smith Place; One of the guards showed us 1:1=2206-
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off his clothes and shut all
AA* camp. Thera was so many prisonersesome oL1.11,m were crippled up in
different waystsome with one arm/and some WMISC*4 ono legebut hey I
had to work. It was the way home from there that 4hala
...."06gr,And in about three months we wore married..
We went to housekeeping in the house with Mr.and Mrs.letttet4,
W. Aigt: both young but got along fine,and wasevory happy It was during
thii time that my Daddy got burned so bad. Ho was working at the old
lea
watet:borks plant than, And soma of the pipits had been condemed,but they
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had not changed them. And ono day just as Daddy passed by,one tho large
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pipes with about two hundred pounds of steam in it bursted the steam
went all over,paddy's left sid*, head amirjuet,miae LI eyeis,he
was juI t a solid blistor. There was no ambulances then
they carried
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him homAln a cab. They had two doctors with him and they tIold u* that
eaol
he could not live until dinne43ime. All *be family was called kOmeelsmOi..
two of like neighborp puti:hia in bed
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the windows said tin air would make the fire go inside)
.4"Thoy,arionv started Oir giving him whiskey old my Daddy'
....40,4er that he drank over a half of a lc n. don't know about that,but
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I do know thpt they gave him somesfoilemsk !relit to the dosponUry and
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got it The doctors cam* back at nookexpecting to find him dead
dLo-ilaj stayed' a long timyroVtold us lant he had a chance to get mil1.
jurutttrILakey had run the fin -lithe ouc)ido.10-6* it took, him a long
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time to get up and when, he could go back to work, Ant in a few years
he a rted to having strokes of paralysis in his left sidejand-the fourth
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killed him.
"MY husband died in 1907. After he passed away I went back to
live with Mamma and Dadi. I was blue and discouragod,and decided that if
I could work it would help motand I
Mill. I worked thortfor a while and then I went to work for
I had 'lover done any of
work at Um Climax Hosiery
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that kind of wirk,but I startWin and4learned it from the bottom up.)
4110mt I made a week.4111gp we made some Khaki work pants
did so good on liolkeistttkuit Mk. 4144 deci4;d'he would open up a talacir shop.
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He got the place fixed ahlokl the machines:eismn he sent to New York for
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two Bohemian:sot° learn us how to be tailors,
etts5, 6N% (I 4i:144mm
1 t byr Ashisehoss t
a week each. I guess they
earned it too,for we was hard to learn. 44sn the war came ,on we got
to .eettewtroos-
orders for officers uniforms
sdol.
a week. -thit., orders kept coming,and he had to put on tea mere girls
to helpolisay. sewei‘on buttons fellgOseams and whipss. in waistThands. Amd4
the older
got another raise to
just rusehed to death with orders all the tiaecaddr 0-41,4
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and things began te117h* cou n't
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to
et _44-1tA,
collectand his bl items began going down.
a weekomaimrwe
a week\and the extra help was laid off. It was Air this timi
that I saw my first fight between men. And I don't think that I el•r want
to see another one;)
:!!1 The Bohemians got to fussing about their worlzpnd the fighting
throwing things at each otherothe women were all searedpand I started
to go for Mr. Hessicoms* lust as I got to the doorsone of them threw the
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stand that the heavy press iron sitson,-ssW it just missed my head. I
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screamed,and that brought Mr. Herd to see what was the troubles-)
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!Nam he got ittela straightened out lie' tried to talk to 1i.M1 told
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NM that the. jAtuthern men did Rot fight in front of ladies. But they
told Mr. Headoit didn't hurt us,and that the ladies in New York didn't
think anything of a fight,that they were usSLo it. to they didn't fight
any more around us,
Odd. allitiQ
*Business mils setting worse,and Mr. HMIns about to go- broken,
4-ki.)1‘ a*/ tw) -01440,A 6,12,
amesoto got another cutetelAsalsko-41412301, a week. And that is whoa way
emegina and I Went into bUSOOSES for our se We rented a place on Clay-
iynte4,41
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ton street over the Dunaway furniture stor., And we mad, good while we
were there,
Then Mr,
got a big order for knicke tacker pants, He came
down to our place and begged us to come bmsk and work for him,at least IMP-
,wr:til he cpu14 get out that orderrsand-give him time to learn some one else
to do the work. He had always been so nice to use.hat we went back to
'help him out114 stored our machines and other'things,for we knew that we
would need them later.,
-"And in 1922,we rented this place,Itere-frem7hoo-Morr4e.
cute
down here then and went to work as soon as the shop was ready. But I
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stayed on with Mr. Hemdrfor several months,until his orders were all 'f144
ed and he *la someone t4at.cou d tyl work, But a01 long as he was in
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busines's here,hmaimmo* us to come back a d work for him.
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"We have done fairly well. Made a god living,and during the Hoover
administrationswe never mactunder ,TIMIIIM=022mmo each a week after -All
eypences were paid.-IhmS tturt-i-ir-ited...eibekt-etiterrsartitr all bills
were paidowe divided the rest .between us, We worked together until
died in Feb.44498, She was taken sick in 1937 ,and they found that she
had tumoramod. after that she was never well any more, lad part of the time
she was not able to work at all.
"But beforelal got sicPcwe made all kind of things,meno clothing,
ladies dresses ,coats,Irpact just everything that came to hand,as well as4koNI
our regular work of repairing and alterati
Ws also made pants for
the Cavalry Troops that are stationed here, And still make them, but
that is the only new stuff I takirnow.44‘ there,\no way out of that for
they just bring -glom in and leavedit;lem.
We have always tried to be reasonable with our custoisers,and
not over charge them. And they hays been very nice Austand we have
made everything from air:Plane wings to grave awnings,so I guess we have
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tried *boat everything that can be sewed,
trouble with collocting,as most of the time
lamp, ym-y)tz,.4.45,
"We u84to order most all of our supplies from Bruner *Mason Woolen
Co. in New York But since
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I have hover had any
when they get the
they give me their work,
sy her two dollar's a day.
,as she
that is just for a few hours a day. allk I like them both,and they soda to
liktlso.
wjusit ad is U t as gqpd ,,now as it us uo be,but as you see I
have -all tha4 I can do,,and4'make a good living out of it. I do not belong
to any unia*or "adlororganisationsand if there is ono here in town I
have never heard of it. My days work, here startL:ratimee-=wftri-I-1Mr--
efrni
-remerly=asf around SOVIDA in the aorni,But most timss around eight. I
always close around six except on Saturday nights,and then I say open
until the stores cloas I most always have work from them late.
One day not very long after I had gone to work for Mr. Hlit
I don.24.7d so much by aysolf,-/-4. 0• -same
hat I/can fr m the st
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gir1=JAMW helps on b
ei,horrt,as
ays„and
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just works when she can get away from home,and some times
I was walking down Broad Stroot,whon who shou/t I lOgib'ut the boy that
came to my dumb supper. He had been married, alse,but had lost his wits
not so very long after my husband died. And that meeting was the bo-
gining of a friondshilipthat later ended in a happy marriage. He was
then,and still Isla great teaso3And enjoys playing,/ jok4Pon me.
"Ono night he cam. down to the house, to see ao and asime and one
of my sisters to go to the show with him. Shows then only cost Ibloiteand
.-'431.1mmi. Well when we wejre almost thiero,he slkl that we could
go in the show and he would wait on the outZpide for us,as he did not have
enough money for all of us to go in.
w I was embrassed and said that we.would lust go bask home But
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is insisted that we go on. I got and and said that I could pay ay own way
in the skew. But my sister just laughed;it veined that she could tell
that he was teasingeand she told him to just give hero* dime and she
would buy peanuts and candy. Oh Timor* went to the show and he went with
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uslput I was so mad that I could not enjoy it. And after we cams etZitt
bought me a large basket of fruiteI wouldnbt have itsbut my sister told
him to just give it to he
show. 11.14/it was a long time b
they both ;Ike to tease me now about that
iroulamiet
"When arm, of my sisters was fixing to get married) H. cane walking
to.k'
in and toldiamma that it was going to be a double wedding,for he was go-
ing to marry me,and that she would lose two daughters instead oflxe, I'
told than it was not so‘but he would just laugh and 'say it was se;)and he
had every-pne belAyving itosimireyen when the preacher cauil;)he told then
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that we would be next. I was s mad)but the more I quarreled the more he
k.
laughed. But he won' out at last, nd in 1913 we were married,
We have our little home that we bought when we were marriO'Nnd
we are still living there. We have no childrentand there is ne one there
but just our:wolves. But we -have a very happy home ith ur chickenftand
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flowersooyes we have a lovely flower garden,butAis look itrkthat Smt
e: 1
-1;1:tztasirissio-e.looland he takes a great pride in his flowers" I have my
shoptand he has his barber shop. And did you know that he is the ,oldest
whitrithens. His brother was the first white barber to open a shop
it
hereall the barbers use4o be colored, He learned my husband the
barber trade when he was just a boy,and now all the older whittbarbers
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are dea4and he is the oldest one7 in the barber business, I mean by
that, he has been a barber longer than any of the others.
We both work every day. I do my housf2work at night and he tends
to his chickens and flowers. Wil_have our churchoind we visit our friends
and have a.lot of company. Sometimes we go to the shows,but we both
like readinand we read most of the tine, ,after we get through with our
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work at night. And then too,we have ourcareand can get out on Sundays
when ever we feel like we want to go some place.
But it has been lonesome here in the shop.since my pardner died.
And I sure do miss her,for we had worked at the sane ogether so long,
even before we went in business together. And we never had any disagree
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mints over our work,for what one done was 1 right with the other, Our
customers have been niciland we have tried to please them,and I believe
that I can say something that not many people in business can say, and
especialXy in this kind of btisiness. And thatiAs thisosinoe I have been
in businest,I!lbeve lost leas than five dollars, thatiis rigbt,I have less
than five dollars on'my books from the time that I first opened a shop
until now that has not been paid. -116WI think t. is .1
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Tiler was another knock at the dooroand in newer to heecome ml
a man a and MK asked her if she could sew some buttons on ihoimp /04,
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trowsersethat he -***H4rA. Mrs.114:=4 toid him to go in the nes14-Olsom6
it;
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WilleebMWOOM41.0* dressing room and that Bil would get his trewsers for 4.
4,4 0-vvi.
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ed4,4,a47 i.-0?-net-ol"..-: 4 4
pants,she said" i have three reems4bis is the work room,the next is the
dressing room,and the last one is where-Eltedoes all the pressing.
4 came in with the maxis n •ampit'she sewed on the su ender
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buttons '400-241mmi..Admilimis-4matemism4vhe A"))
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aske •'T*IrTatift:7771!".0-He handed her a quarter,and,
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said that he dld not have any change;ibia4 that he appreciated her doing
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the work so quick Na, nd-for,ithe ladies to just get VISIEW coca cola%with
the change*Whe ::11V4,4* before Mrs.s could give him his change.
"Well she saidowe will just have40 coca col4an(.Ofde3ed.tI$m.
As we waited .for the drinks 4Rik I egmi prepd to leave. said I
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sure am glad that you cameAodaymbut I'Acm sorry that I made you work.
the truth is didn't think timsee you misoled do it. But if you do as good
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a job on this story as you did en the pant youll be
The drinks came then and
come back a ain sjuit stop any tine Viimis you cone this way,and
Mb to do the best I could°
themosberwm011 ,I hope Alit you '11
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Ed/ will -18484. coffee for usiftt he doeckft forl'Oet that .when iti to. cold
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I thanked.her forUi. Los etSy.,ant. very pleasent dayeAmml I
had enjoyed #4.74.0.1-wm*--Vma2m0=0. very friendly shops mod as I went down
the stair was6 I knew that I would,like t4gb'ack MgAin and.have another
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cup of coffee,***FIMPft