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Show Her mother raised fine raspberries, apples, red c-urrants, gooseberries, and practically all garden vegetables and there were other people near her who raised cherries and various other fruits. Often, in season, Virginia took empty bottles in the buggy when she went to Freedom and brought them home filled since it seemed easier to bottle choice fruit at its source. Pearl, Aleen, and Ellen (dinger's niece) were employed to pick the berries of various kinds. Because of the thorny nature of the bushes, the girls always wore long, knitted stockings, old and footless, to cover their arms as they picked. They received their pay in eggs or pennies which they promptly spent at the tiny streetside store toward the lower end of the only steet in Freedom. AUTOMOBILES AND ROADS John K bought his first automobile, an Overland touring car, in the spring of 1915. He paid around eight hundred dollars for it. The word "automobile" was an exciting word in those days, and a popular phrase from a new song was "Come away with me, Lucille, in my merry Oldsmobile." Soon the use of "car" supplemented or replaced that of "automobile" in daily conversation. The Overland wasn't totally a family car because John K used it in place of a wagon to carry a few lambs or ewes, and to haul sacks of grain. He had soon discovered it to be 160 |