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Show narrower width. Some were smoothfinished, having no treads at all, and John K was jubilant when tires were finally manufactured of heavier material and were actually guaranteed for a thousand miles. Besides his trucks, John K used various makes of cars, usually Chevrolets, Fords, or Phymouths for his handy car. Virginia loved Buicks, and after trying one Cadillac she returned to the Buick. She remained proud of the fact that she never had an accident of any kind yet was one of the first women to drive a car in her area. It isn't recalled that John K ever had an accident either. PLANS FOR A MOVE The building of a new home on State street had been a long-standing dream of John K's-ever since buying the lot in 1907. And when Chris and Henrietta Thompson wanted to buy his old house in the southeast part of town his plans for a new home were begun. Until then (1917) John K and Virginia felt they could not manage the expense of building a new house even though they wanted to. They made a few trips to Richfield to see and talk with an architect, I. L. Wright. He showed them houses he had planned in that area and they were impressed. They worked with him until their own specifications were satisfactory. Local men, George Brand and Charles Jacobsen, were the contractors and builders of the new house. It was of cream- 164 |