South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-16

yourself at home in his coy little
triangular office.
A couple of days ago ] went over
TO dig up his first dollar, fguTatively
speaking, and incidentally to enjoy a
short visit. l found him with chair
tilted back towards the window over
looking the river and reading a late
copy of the American Machinist.
Proceeded To Work
With the customary greetings over,
| proceeded to operate on him for
that malignant growth-the memory
of the first dOllar-which is being re-
moved from our best citizens daily.
The operation in most cases is not
the least bit painful.
Gosh, I couldn't remember how
earned my first dollar" he declared,
that was too far back"
I reminded him that some of our
octofenarians had no trouble recall
ing their first money and resolved not
TO be OutdOne by such odds, he finally
recalled his first salaried job, digging
potatoes
There were seven kids in our FAM
lily down in Porter county; two were
boys and / was the oldest. OF course
we didn't get paid for the work we
did around home, but a neighbor
came over one day and wanted 10
borrow US TWO boys to dig his po-
tatoes
Dad told us to run along. We dug
potatoes for a couple of weeks,
think-anyway it was long enough
for me to begin to think a potato
was the hOmehest object / ever set
eyes on; then our job run out and
We came home"
On the following Sunday Mr.. Ha-
berle said, he and his brother had
some spare time on their hands
Sunday being the only day they did
have spare time on their hands-and
they walked the two miles to the
neighbOr'S to collect their pay. Their
two-mile walk was in vain, however,
for their employer said il was against
his principles to make any transaction
on Sunday. so they trudged the two
miles through the dust back home.
Next time they went on a week day.
Those were the good old days, 4"
unused my host. never had any bet
ter time than 1 did down there on
the farm. Didn't have any amuse-
ments, either, to speak of. and if
there were any, / don't suppose l
could have enjoyed them. because we
were pretty hard up. That was a
chronic state with everybody arc:G;IrG
there, L guess.
One Circus a Year.
would get to go TO a circus-little
one-ring circus that came every year
Ny, but those elephants used to look
big to us kids. and we thought Gee,
IL they didn't have chains on couldn't
they raise a rumpus!
"On the Fourth of July dad used
to buy one bunch of firecracRers-I
suppose they must have cost a quarter
then-and he would give me half and
my brother half. We made 'em last
all day, too
Red top boots. IT seems. were one
of the coveted possessions of boys at
that period. Mr.. Haberle described
them as being made OF thick, tough
leather. having red tops and copper
toes. The copper was TO protect the
toes when scuffing along a rocky road
sort OF armored cruisers. those
boots were.
TO make them waterproof they
were CREASED with tallow about once
a week and when the user got too
near the stove the tallow would soak
through the boot and sock as well.
The boy who had the highest boot
was the prOudest; and the highest
/ boot was determined by wading in a
creek-Whoever go in the fartherest
without having the water spill over
the top had the highest and best
boots
And. by solly. how those boots did
stick TO. the feet" said TIaberle.
Sometimes 1t was almost impossible
TO get them off. even with boo: jack
Had 20 get down on the floor and
grab hold of something while my
brother would tug away at the boot
till | thought he'd pull my leg Off