THE KIMBERLIN'S (TAKEN IN THE 50'S)

MR AND MRS WILLIAM KIMBERLIN

BILL AND NELLIE

This is two of my grandparents. She died when I was about 10 or 11 years old. He lived to be 92 years old and died up in the 70's. This is about the way we saw her on Sundays, even though she wore dresses all the time, she's more 'dressed for Sunday' here.

Mom gave me this book where she kept many little notes in. We've thought it to be rather interesting, hope you do to.

In January of 1936, she has a list of grocery items here.. 24 lbs flour@ $1.00, 2 lbs coffee, .30cents, 1 cake soap at .05 cents, baking powder at 025 cents, chewing tobacco at .05 cents, 3 lbs sugar @ .28 cents, 3 lbs beans @ .24cents, 1 gal lamp oil .16 cents, 10 lbs meal @ .30 cents,

matches .02 cents, and pencils .03 cents. 2 packs rice @ .20 cents, tablets .15 cents, and pepper @ .10 cents..

COWS BRED.. IN 1935

Maud on Oct 29 , daisy on Oct 31, Jersey on Nov 3, Polly on Dec 15 and Mr Smith's cow on Dec 16, and another of his cows on Jan 7

Set my first hen for 1935

April 26

Milk and butter sold 1936

Feb.. 25 1 gal buttermilk at .20 cents

6 qts of sweet milk at .60 cents

1 lb butter at .25 cents
Aug 1936

got me a pair of shoes from JCP

Howard and Nellie come up today and stayed about one hour and half April 5, 1933

Oct 16, 1935 Ida's baby was born, a boy

Thought maybe you all would like to see that, those prices are something else.

We will write more about her little book at a later date.

Hope you enjoyed it!

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RIDING INTO THE SUNSET

THIS PICTURE WASN'T LIKE THE HORSES THAT WE RODE ON

ON THE FARM, BUT IT GIVES THE IDEA OF IT.

We used to make stick horses out of sticks we cut in the woods in Richpatch. We used shumate if we could find it, and fauter twine for the bridle.

It sometimes was quite a few of us, between the brothers and cousins that would play cowboys and Indian's. A lot of the time, I just played by myself, after my chores were done. I called myself riding around the ranch, pretending I was a cowboy, checking out the cattle and livestock.

Sometimes I played I was an Indian, riding my paint Indian stick pony, other times I was just a cowboy, riding around here and there. Sometimes I was a sheriff, looking for outlaws and other times I was the outlaw trying to get away from the sheriff. Other times, I would pretend to be characters in books I was reading, (books about the west, or horses) I read books like Black Beauty and Flicka stories about different wild horses in the west and cow ponies. I did my reading by lamp light most of the time. I loved reading those books, I could get lost in the books and in my imagination I could be anywhere. That's the places I would visit on my stick horse.

I also read books about Teddy Roosevelt and his charge up San Juan Hill. In the book the horses were named, and the mules were named, made it even more interesting. I read books about the Wild West, books about Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane.. were some that I liked reading about. When I was done 'traveling' for the evening, I would just ride off into the sunset (over Nichols Knob), put my horse up and go in and do my homework and sit and read, by lamp light mostly. Then, out went the lights because morning, and morning chores came real early in Richpatch. Good night friend, until we meet again.

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