When Gloria was born, we lived in a house on 1224 East Cleveland.  For some reason, we had to move out of that house.  We temporarily moved into a house on East Thompson.  It was not a very nice house and we lived there only a short while.  We then bought the house that Robert was born in.  It was located at 1408 East McKinley.  This house was a three room house with a kitchen, living room and bedroom.  There was also an unfinished bathroom with an antique toilet.  This toilet was like the pull chain toilet that are seen in very old homes except the seat triggered a spring operated valve which flushed the toilet when you got up.  The seat was made of wood and the soil pipe came up above the floor and the bowel sat on top of it.  Shortly after we moved in, I put in a modern toilet and bathtub.  There was a garage where I kept the company car.  We rented a garage down the street to park our car.  This was a Model T Ford Touring car.  One day I told Virgie to try to sell the car because I had use of the Company car.  She sold it for $15.  She seemed to think it wasn't much trouble to sell for that price.  I suspect she could have gotten $50.  On Tuesday, Feb 12, 1929, I stayed home on account of Allen and Gloria being sick.  I am still working on Saturdays.  

 

On June 27th, Robert Earl was born at 5:25, AM.  Dr. Sweeny delivered him.  He was a nice old Doctor probably about 60 years old.  I was off all day.  Eunice Robinson came over to help for several days.  On Sept 16 through Sept 30, I was on and worked around home.  On October 14, I was off on account of Allen having Scarlet Fever.  I worked Wednesday and was off Thursday, Friday and Saturday to help take care of Allen.  On September 17, I bought the new Zenith radio set.  

 

I stayed home on new years day, 1930.  I was transferred to Oklahoma City during February, 1930.  On Friday, Jan 17, the temperature dropped to -15.  It was probably this evening that I left all the faucets in the house running at good strength.  In the morning they were all frozen tight with icecicles down from the faucet to the drain.  I had to get an electrical transformer and thaw pipes.  Deep snow and slick roads on Jan 21.  Thawed water pipes on Jan 26 & 27th.  We had about 12 inches of snow on the ground in Sapulpa before we were ready to leave and it froze good and solid.  The weather kind of sneaked up on us because I left the hose, spade, hoe and rake out in the yard.  That is the last I ever saw of them.  On Jan 30, went to Oklahoma City and looked for a house.  On Friday, Jan 31, we loaded up.  On Feb 1, we came on the train to Oklahoma City but the furniture did not arrive till Sunday, Feb 2 at 10 AM.  It was delayed on account of snow.  We stayed at Roberts Hotel on Feb 1, & we put Robert to sleep in a dresser drawer.  On Sunday, we moved into 3225 SW 31st street.  On Monday, attended to personal business.  On Tuesday, I went back to Sapulpa on business for about two weeks.  During February, Virgie went out looking for houses.  She found our new home.  On March 3rd, we moved to our new place at 1816 NE 24th street.  I believe it was just being finished when we bought it.  Everything was clean and nice.  

 

Regarding the truck we bought for Allen and Allen used and it finally got pretty well beaten up.  At the time we finally decided we would rejuvenate it and fix it up for Robert, the steering wheel was all broken up and gone.  I made a new steering wheel out of a piece of number 6 bare copper wire and I made the spokes out of flat form coil wire used for transformer windings.  I soldered them all up on the steering wheel column.  It made a very substantial steering wheel which still in service at this date which is October 18, 1993.  I fixed up hoops and hoop brackets for a cover for the truck bed which were probably made out of iron wire from coat hangers.  Virgie made a cover to fit it.  I put head lights on the truck made of flash light reflectors.  I mounted them on the front of the truck.  I used a big number 6 dry cell like you used to use for rural telephone lines.  This dry cell was a cylinder about 3 inches in diameter and 6 inches long.  I fixed a retainer strap to hold the battery under the truck body & a little miniature knife switch mounted on porcelain all mounted on the truck running board to turn the head lights on and off with.  I guess we painted the thing up all fresh and new with red paint.  I can't remember too much about that.  It was quite a usable little truck when we got through with it.  Pretty sturdy and lots of fun for Robert.

 

I call this dictating my life history.  But it seems regrettable to me that there is not much diary record of my personal life with the family.  Most of what I get about the family, I got out of Virgie's letters.  I of course can remember a few things but not very plainly.  There just isn't very much I can pick up out of my mind concerning what happened to the family in 1928.  I know we would take lots of rides.  We would go out and go over that hill country around Sapulpa.  That country was very interesting to us.  We had lived most of our lives before that around Enid where it is flat.  These hills and valleys and rocks and black jacks were all very interesting.