'til the babies

Spring came and Dad rented a farm in Cowley and Milton got a job-herding sheep. Dad had the house in Cowley, and Frank and I moved into it, but he left to find a job and Alvin came to stay with me and he walk to Lovell 7 miles morning and night. When Alvin got a place to rent in Lovell, I moved out on the ranch with my folks. Daphne came home from Logan and we were there, till the babies were born. Tootsie was the first (July 17, 1922) and three days later Daphne had little Robert.

In August of 1922 Frank sent me the money to meet him in Bozeman, Mont. so I picked up my little girl and left for Bozeman. He took us out on a farm.

the farm
The man had a daughter and his wife had a daughter, two different girls, the mans daughter was a raw bone and freckles, the ladies daughter was a little dainty girl, and from what I saw the little girl got the best end of the deal. The house was a big two-story house and the girls and I had bedrooms upstairs. At night I could hear the mans daughter crying in her room. One night I went to talk to her, her mother had just been dead about a year, and the old man had married again, and the second wife had just about pushed her out of her own house.

One night as I was going to bed I heard screaming and yelling out in the hall, but went back to bed and things quitted down. But the next night I heard the girl crying in her bedroom so I went in to see what was the matter. She told me that the men had been killing some hogs for winter meat, she took one of the hogs kidney and put it in the others girls bed, she was put on probation and some of her privileges had been taken away.

Frank got a job making cement blocks, there was a lot of sand in that area for the cement blocks. The plant was located about half way between Crowley and Graybull. Frank came and got me. We lived in a two- room shak. I told Frank that I was pregnant and we needed to put Toots on regular cow’s milk. Frank quiets his job and I went back to papa and mama. Frank went to Graybull and gets a job at the refinery. Frank rented a house on a hill above Graybull, and then he came and got me.