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Show and to know him better. The logs were stored in a pile in the Bottoms, and were added to until there was the required amount to begin building. During the time they lived back in town someone tried to jump their claim to the homestead by pulling a shack onto the northwest corner of the quartersection. The poacher also helped himself to the pile of logs. But discouraging as that was to the Madsens.they went ahead with their plans; and when they felt there were enough logs and other material, they hired Amaan Jacobsen, a carpenter, to begin working on the building of the farmhouse. The rooms were larger than the cabin rooms had been. After the carpenter began his work, the claim jumper realized that the Madsen family intended to stay and moved his shack from their land. When it was completed the house had an upstairs sleeping room above the main floor rooms, and as time went on, a cellar, a granary, and outbuildings were built, including a barn. HIS SCHOOLING During the first two years while he was living in the Bottoms, John K spent each December and January in town-staying with his father's first family in order to attend school during a limited session. His responsibility for that favor was to arise before daybreak and milk cows 34 |
