John, Lester, Harry

So school went along alright till the spring I was fourteen when my parents moved to Hollidaysburg. Edna and me had a lot of fun there. There was a silent picture show there and we babysat for the people that owned it, and so got free tickets. We went to Lakemont Park a lot too. Later she worked in a candy factory and I worked in our grocery and milk depot when I was needed. George continued to go till he was seventeen in the winter months when his Dad didn’t need him for farm work . At my home I grew up on a farm and there was always plenty of work to do. Dad had a dairy farm. His cousin, Peter Baker, stayed with us and took milk in a milk wagon. He drove to Hollidaysburg every day. He had a milk route . When he got back there were bottles to wash and get ready for the next day. That lasted several years then they rented a store building in town. Pete stayed there and Dad shipped his milk on the train which ran through his f arm. While we lived in Hollidaysburg my brother Lester was born. When I was seven years old my brother Harry was born. My mother had typhoid fever when he was a year old . Then the next year my Dad hired a boy to work for him and he was sick when he came, so he had the fever too, then my Grandpa Baker got it and Dad, and me too. There was four sick in the same house. The hired man’s mother came and took care of him, but he died. Grandma took care of Grandpa. He took pneumonia and died. While Dad and me were sick in bed we had a nurse from the hospital, and finally we got well. But it wasn’t all bad times. We had lots of fun too. We always had lot of company. Edna and me had lots of girlfriends . We always went to Sunday School and church. We walked a mile. Dad and Mom went to church too, but they always went in carriage with Grandma too. Dad would take us in bad weather with a horse and buggy or sled when there was snow.