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Rhoda . : their home warm in the winter and cool in the also grew acra, herbs and watermelons. She ' " "' 1 ' . ' : , summer. A long screen porch which Joneses , : always had sales at Mathis Market in Sl .'. !,, ;," i'.-:T I had built on along the east end of the house George . for her garden produce as well as ';'. ': ,:'.:;\.' \; l..'f':. , ."' ..:' ~" \". ": ".' was a favorite meeting place for all the eggs and the butter and cheese she made. ".,:'(.!:'~ ; ~>'." .)'., ;" "; " \ ,: " grandchjildren during hot summer days. There was a specail demand for the tender : . ' < /~ ': ' ::~'; \',:,1 / ':, !.~"::';:. " . " ~fr::, ~ ;;.'. . . : ~. :<}~.' '~' " ", During those years the old homestead rang .asparagus ~hootssh~grew whi~~ reached ~ne '. ,:./ ::}r 1;';{>"':.' : ; ' . with laughter. Two grandsons, Robert and '.;\.i: ', .: : T~eBlakes '; :>:\i, , . , an. d a half mches thick. In add..It.IO.n to selh.ng " , ~ : . ·~'· ;r " ' .. ' '.;t Arthur Cromwell, grew up there and went to her wares in St. George, she ' also sold to ., ,. 't!li.1I1d ~h~ tur~ of the c~~tury, there were , ' school. Later, a granddaughter, Very Snyder, neighb.ors, usually ~eing paid;nother goods " Uite few hoines being built in Bloomington, " " joine4 them . The three children rode . one , or gram for her chIckens . . ' ': ;.;J. " : ., ,' , , ' itbough the' (irst house had .been built the~e horse to school in SL George, sometimes ' . ;, , " Due in part to their garden, the McCalns P ' , il879.' When a house was bUilt, everybody In " , taking turns and occasionally all three riding , " were almost self-sustaining. They' had their . c; . , ,: , '" , ,, ,/ ; ';' / lc;" (own turned up to help. It was not a together. In the summertime frome .one to , ' own milk, butter, eggs and meatinaddition to . . : .;', ~ ;',(:., ~!' ! ' , /,.,,' ,,' ". i9!le~~ making proJect, but rather a chance two dozen grandchildren joyously went to live ' . their fruit and vegetables. During the bar· ; :'.¥ V· '~:! ' : ;i, :" -! :' !1.r;", ~i ;i ; \· if : i:I~ighbors to work together with each with their grandma I:lnd grandpa. Beds were vest, they canned their own vegetables and \I ,~~:;,,\:;·i'~;>: 'A~ :·>.''' ;· ;:::j:;: ~ no problem. They slept on the floors, or ' fruit for the winter ahead; they also dr1ed "ti~$~,\~!,&,,:'!;, 1:::,1;';::';:: [ ' . , " . '. " sister, ' Zelda Larson, ' preferably, out under the pomegranate muchand of atheir .. They bu . Y sugar ~nd~i .f:::.r.:::.. ; '.~': . ~;i~. ~..'.·~. :. .:;j."/.;;:;.'.,·.r.,;.:! , 'feiUL '" ,: ;llq ,now .liVes in St. George, Utah, reme'mbushes with a quilt and a pillow. Much of the salt few.fruit other little~d ItemS:'·.<r" " " I.: >·!':,:~. .\o'i',~~';', V,.\ ; ' ; ' , " : . -o. ~' WJ\ uA. ¢r&l;wheri Wally and Isadore's home was ,' time it was too hot for even a sheet over them Rhoda had an incubatorand , would ' ·"' ,· ",i,: fl'1l" f;:}\ .;" . , • • , " ' , uilf:i.Jn ,j 1908. . Zelda was an . inquisitive .and nothing stopped them from simply sometimes hatch out as many as one hundred . :. " " , ,":.,;.:. " : It "., ..'. _ '" . . . ,' o~rigster ' of , seven who made a point of little chicks a t a time. She also put eggs under " ,". : stretching out on the grass after a long dfay of i.siJing them often, which was not hard to do ·work and play. ,. , , ' ' ., ' . Albert, with Robert and Arthur helping God! th~y met the challenges of each: d~y · any chickens that wanted to set. They raised ~causeshe liv~ just a baU a block away. Parks or playgrounds were unknown; the ' . several pigs every year, giving them enough him, kept busy farming. He always had a Their friends respected theJ'!l; their famil) ~~r~t(lmeinbers ; how proud they all were . <' pork to last all year 'round. Albert cured the ' grandchildren played along the ditches, in the ' saddle horse or two. Along with raising their love them. Who IS to say that they did nOI cea-use" for that day, it was really a nice - , hay fields and around the corrals. Up on the hams and bacon. They ground the rest of th~ own hay, grain, sugar cane and corn, he even have wealth? . ' ,,, OUSf!~; it',,;;\; -:;., " " .. . ' , , hill above the ditch were acres of open space. ... meat into sausage, then stuffed it. into little . grew broom 'corn. Alfred Carpenter, who Here on the old homestead, and later inSt: f.Thit 6ld church building acrOss the river at '. Nothing greew; there was no water. But it cloth bags or IitUe sacks. Sometimes she ' . ' "lived next door, had a broom corn shop. George where they moved, they spent tbeh ~i ce City was torn down and the rock used to ' was a children's paradise. There was an old, cleaned the entrils out and stuffe<:l sausage Albert worked with him in the broom corn last years surrounded by loved ones whc \il; d .;tl!i~\ ~ouse. , Dode Worthen, wh~ did into them. which was grown in the surrounding fields. honored them. ,_ . ." . .. ' crumbled-down house with no roof which the 111111' I'ock hoUses ip Southern Utah, laId up Albe~t went out Into the !ields where it was .' · They also made their own head cheese and ' grandchildren loved to p. lay around and chase 1"¢'j 'ockwork. A true work of art, the black _. the squirrels that lived there. ' . . · liver hash. To make head cheese., sh~ scraped '. growlI~g! helped harvest It, and then helped And what of the Old Homestead'! : ....,.' ' oeldoundation was eighteen inches thick and everything she could get out of the head, ears, ' ...'., . make It mto brooms ther~ in th~ shop. People " , ' ,' ,' '9~..!l '7N~l1~'still~tand to tell their story of tongue and feet of the an'ima!. After thorough .;, '; ; ; were allowed to turn In theIr old broom 1·'orsaken.AII alone as the sun r~des behbld' oneei' mastery. It only cost ten dollars to cleaning, she cooked it and pressed it Into nice ;.» ,~ handles toward the purchase of a ~ew broom. the distant' horizon. The passer-by sees you' ~ingle~ the house. Brig Carpenter did , the blocks or rounds of head cheese. Toeat, It was 4:', i:i;: ,The men sanded. the handl~~, pamted them, only as a broken-down, old house with ~rpe'ritry workiJl it, including th~ designs sliced off and used like cold luncheon meats ' :{~;. ' and made the'!l mt.o ne-.y brooms. cr umbling chimney, thick, rough walls and ver the door frames and man tie pIece. The now. (Have you ever read the list of· :·~ , Once AUred s Wife ElSie ne~ded a new wccds growing rampa nt. Now weed!> and ~~t "of :.the building was a familr and com· ingredients In some of the canned meats on . broom, so she sent one of her children up to thorns thrive. You've always borne weeds, , " ' . , " , )umtyeffort. o:. ' , but but they were carefully pulled from grocery shelves nowdays? At . least Ule ' th.e shop ~f~er one. They se!lt her a broom C ' , ~~loomington tiad its only little branch of the ' pioneers knew theirs was clean.) '. WI~ a refinished handle, ~hls was not at all among the flowers and gardl'n hack when: (ormon Church, but leaders from near-by St. . A few steps from the kitchen' door', down ' satisfactory fls ,far as ElSie ~as concerned . The frail,never-over-ninety-pounds-hl"her. ~orgewent Out to visit and supervise about ' . ! 1! . and the br90m was returned WIth ~e m~sage lite granlimolht'r nUl·turt'" her f1owcrli, railied under the old granary, was Rhoda's cellar. ~ce a month. When Bishop James McArthur, There were shelves lined aU around with ., .' ,(that .~he dId not want a broom With a slivery chickens and pigs, and worked with the rfc,lrew Windsor and George Whitehead went " goods, Including bottled fruits · and " ,'Wsit;' theytoOk a wagon load of boys and vegetables, a variety of raw vegetables and Tls :oftheir own, The children loved to go ,produce, and pans of cold milk. She had no ". ' " !cail$Edhe Bloomington families always had , . refrigerator to keen the milk or blltterl!Old ' .. , ~Tothe grandchildren, the history of one of ~o pioneer houses still standing in lo'omirigton, Utah, began when Albert and .hoda McCain traded their dry farm' at Mt. Turnbull, Ariz., for it. But there was a time efore<thatfor the old . homestead, a time ,hen.:,: its . approximately twenty acres were rstsetUed by Wally and Isadore Blake and ~t of the desert a home began to take shape.· . ! ~t~:tf.i\ :r! \· ::: ': . i'e> ' (16'.fke a . 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