wild ride

Then there was another time that Alta and I were walking around town and two girls that we went to school with drove by us. They were with two boys from Powell, a town near by. They wanted some girls to go somewhere with them and asked Alta and I to go, because the other girls could not go. So dummy us we got in that car with two strange men to go to Powell and back only we had to go way out in the county, about 35 miles.

The trip out there was not too bad but coming back was a bear,

the boys had a station wagon and Alta was in the back with one

guy and he got pretty ruff with her.

I had it pretty nice because Guy Mayer had to drive and all I had to do was hold his hand when it got to wondering. It was getting pretty bad in the back of the car. So I told Guy to make his Uncle behave. I can not remember his name; I told them I had three big brothers that would beat them to death if anything happen to Alta, he said he would if I would hug him all the way home. So thats what I did for thirty-five miles.

“The night that I came home from Powell from that long ride, papa was waiting up for me, and he set there with his arms around me, telling me I was the only daughter he had that worried him so. I could not understand why then, but later on in my life I understood.”

gus rector duncan (bud)
That fall Earl rented a house about a block from us and his sister Maud was going with a young man by the name of Gus Duncan or Bud as he was called and Daphne wanted to give them a party. I did not know the Duncans at the time but I said I would help her. She was getting big with her first child.

When I walked in that house that night, I look at that bunch I was suppose to show a good time and my heart went down to my toes. I thought I had never seen such a bunch in my life. There set, the Duncan bunch on one side of the room and the Despain setting on the other side, I think they were as uncomfortable as I felt.

We finely got them loosen up playing games, along about halfway through the night a car drove up outside and someone wanted me, so I went out there and there set Guy Mayer and a car full of people wanting me to go riding with them. Guy bagged and said he would be good, that I had nothing to fear.

There I was, fed up with the party and wanted to get away, but I know I should not go with them. Then Earl came out to tell them that I could not leave because I had to help with the party. They drove on down the road. Guy came back alone two or three times to get me, but I was always gone.