March 2, 1963
Saturday, cloudy and warmer 20-32, very little sun around noon. Thawed a little. David worked in am. I baked and cleaned up the house got ready for Cliffords for Sunday. Mrs. Mayo, Joyce Bailey and Donna Brown came in afternoon to practice singing for rally at night. Gerald called and said he and Mary Ann would be here Sunday for dinner. David drove his car from Raymond Browns to Scherrmerhorns and it wouldn’t start and he left it there. Clifton the girls and I went to church to see “Walk the Tight Rope” about 40 there. Broke spring on our car.
Comment: More car problems, a lot of our life revolved around cars because of the remoteness of the area. You really could not walk anywhere because miles were involved getting anywhere. Otis and Myrtie Hall were just up the road, but then our nearest neighbor was about a mile away. The only people who walked were "city people" or "boarders" who came up from "the city" to stay at the various boarding houses in the area. Maude and Almond Haskins had one of the bigger operations, but my grandfather and Uncle Merle also "had boarders" who came up and stayed for a week or two. I think Maude told me once that a person could stay for $6 per week and that included a room and three meals a day. We would often see the "boarders" walking and it seemed as if they owned the road and would walk right down the middle of the road, slowly moving to the side as our cars approached. Mrs. Gonzelek, a "city person" who lived about a mile and a half away, walked a lot up by our house. They bought the house where Rudy Blakesley was brought up on the corner of Hubbard and Blakesley Roads. We always called her a "city person" even thought she and her family had lived there for about 25 years. Big Sunday dinner coming up........below is picture of the Elmer Hubbard house where they "took boarders", LaVerne said the house is now torn down....
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