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FORM A
Oireuretances of' Interne,
Nhw f aOVER Nommi Huta% ADDRMS 1108 116. Unman. Mobr•
t. 'T *Amber aka t SUBJECT &Wpm labrattak____
1* Nam and address of infonaut jemea I. gastmang, 603 North 21th
2. Date and time of inters -Ws Wasdny, 9 to 11e30
3. Plaoe of interview 1/326 Werth 2141 Place of Nestman railing Company
4* Name and address of person, if any, who put you in toulah with
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5.Niue and address of person,, It any. aeoampanying you
None
6, Description of rocs, hoses1 surroundings' etc.
Ltree at 603 North 27bh Street* Yr. Eckstein has an old—fashioned
stone hubs mill at 1035 north last Street. Possibly the only auell mill
e this "Ail left tm volaraska. He is a farmer and at his residence at
North 27th his hone is old-fashioned, but +comfortable*
FORMS
Hiator7 at lmtermant
NAIL OF 1;01s ER ADESGas 1111.13 st&. Liasols
Dm. Nobs. 1934
m&VEA ADORSOS or wow
alsrAese.Reattacka. 6.011 aria Ma
1. Anseetry Sembnbelridk
2* rim,* and date of birth liebrasica. 56 year* ago
3. Partly
4. Plaoea lived in, with dates Tecumseh. 1555 to 191T. Liman. 1917 until
Sere
5. Edematione with datem 9th grade
do Oempationi and a000mplishmenta, with dater Farmer. miller
7. Speolal an:: interest* and his family
So Community and rd l igi activities Presbyteries
9* tmeoription of inforwant Leeks Wm farmer. Is tell end thin, owlit,
ehembagand talk' lesde
lao Other points gained in interview
Hs claims he has had a hard life. One of the few stone buhr
left in the country.
CST C
Test of Interview (Itneiled
I Gene frau Tecearsdi, Nebraska, vhere IMO born U years so.
The first revel mil route in the United States wee estebliehed is
Tesumselh, SetureeWL about 1896. The terrier drew* an eid peer read eert
behind the pegged serried the mall*sesdcbetween his legs The first
routs vent out five miles west of Tesumseho
I have seen ears terrible prairte fires. The fires mold etas* way
down in Kaneohe and eons 'slur up to Nebraska. The fires would gis faster than
eniherse could rm. Small genes sueh as rabbits, snaW4 would to bereed
alive. The fires would be so hot that you could see the grass sink 30 garde
aherd of the flares. You o/uld hear a treat roar and the fires were herr-
Ole to behold.
In the earlier days of our childhood we had a terrible tile to keep
viern4 to never knew 'shell a great storm would vane up and just hew Cle nett
dir would be. Nrallvir would send me out to plot: up Bend° daps, sun*
flower stalks, end big weeds end sticks whieh we piled up for fUelo
have seen frost in Nebraska in July. Seen the leaves frees* off and
all of our oornirmad be ruined. Then win I have aeon the own frees*
in June and we wculd use the corn than for heritoed but even then it wasn't
mnoh good even for that. I have mover eeen it frost in Au.ust in Nebraska
but have seen a kkiling frost on September 10, 1917. The frost would kill
the wild crtrt. haylOhieh hurt us ooneiderebly. in 1903„ 1006 and 1-011 we
plowed twelve menthe of the year and in these three years there won't any
slow at all.
In the early days of Nebraska, gore used to be lorj plentiful. LIU
&tokens by the thousand now they are all ono. Plovers, and 1111 Deers*
two birds which used 4.0 be plentiful are now extinot.
Ann I was a boy egad to go fiskimg with an eld ran. we would c
to a large straws little ways out of Toeuresh. The stream was a beautiful
plats* with all kinds of wild clovers, water estAstalle and so forth.
Out of this stream we would oath large ositstidt0 bullheads end sameth frogs.
The strew vas about ten foot deep and as I said just about the nowt boautifnl
pleas in rev &alai* New if you would go to Teemslei shore the stress goo in
nor boyhood you would. find it Goss and nothing thore at all to thew for it.
Mot redo it leave was the plowing that was done all about it. The farmers
plowed *doh rade the dirt ran Ewan and that and maw, zany dreuths dried it
up and so ono of the rest bate ins/ plume of Nebraska fifty years ago is
now Cons but not forgetter. How war such beatiful plawmos that have Perished
from the work of man and atm torture no on. know.
My father was a miller and taught me the trade. Bs was a stone buhr
lm' @mild() the earrs kind two*. In fart I think Ion the only *tone buhr
rAller left in Nebraska.
I have seen many ollary,vs ease shout hero in Nabraldsa. In the early days
the farmors wood to throah tuft eimetii by flailing. That is we with sons.,
thing libs earPot boatore would hit the leheat and thresh it thtt ego T
ten would bosom very fast and proficient and hit the whoat in rotation faster
than one could oolskt.
Th first throshiar raohine had no whoels end had real harass to flattish
the power.
The first strata threshing 111043M1118 was a blessing to the farmers as it