On September 21st 1924, Virgie wrote a nice long letter to my folks.  She told about canning peaches and tomatoes.  The peaches were $1.25/bushel and the tomatoes were $1.  She told about us driving to Spavinaw Lake, that was quite a nice little trip for us and we were very impressed with Spavinaw Lake and enjoyed Spavinaw Lake very much.  We ran thru a rain while on that trip and had to put up the side curtains.  That was something that was ordinary in those days and the best was to keep out of the rain was to put up the side curtains.  It took about 20 minutes or so I guess and you might get pretty wet after you put them up but any way they kept you some what out of the rain.  It went thru the cracks and some time ice cycles would stick to the sides of the side curtains.  That was quite a time we had in those days.  

 

Virgie had made a new pretty gingham dress and we had been baking bread and said the radio worked OK.  That was my old 1 tube type like we had in those days.  I had a lot of fun with that old radio in Enid and also in Sapulpa.  We really enjoyed it.  Oh yes, I was working on the carrier current.  I inherited that job because I had been interested in radio and made my own set and also had had some experience in Enid in installing that one there.  Also installed the other one when I got to Sapulpa.  

 

I don't know whether I mentioned anywhere previous but these were the days when you worked 6 days per week & sometimes on Sunday.  Overtime was unknown.  You were working by the hour.  You just put down 8 hours per day.  It didn't matter how many you worked.  Even if you worked 12 or more.  Sat, it was my job at this time to go over to Tulsa and read the interconnection meter at the West Tulsa Public Service Co.  Meter on the 66KV interconnection and change the demand meter chart on it.  Sometimes I would have a list of instruction books that I wanted for various types of apparatus and meters and I would go to the GE office over there and get them or order them.  If he didn't have them, he would order them for me.  He sent me a diary.  That was the first time.  Around the first of the year, 1925.  That is how I happened to start on the GE diary.  

 

In those days, there was a saturation of radio interference.  Radios were fast becoming more plentiful.  They would pick up stations as well as static and radio interference.  Or you might say principally radio interference some times at greater distances.  I would hunt interference at all hours.  The calls were more frequent in the night time when people got off work and would listed to their radios.  In those days radios were used like TVs are now.  No matter how poor the family was, whether they could afford one or not they had a radio of some kind.  They really listened to it too.  

 

These Sundays are nearly all blank in this diary.  I should have put down what we did on Sundays.  We very often went for rides on Sunday.  There was a long curving hill about 3 miles East of Sapulpa.  When you were coming from the East toward Sapulpa, the road made a big curve toward the right and fairly steep down hill to go across a bridge.  One day we were coming back home toward Sapulpa.  Allen customarily sat on the outside of the seat on the old Model T Ford.  He was continually fiddling with the lock on the door.  The handle on the door that released the door.  One day as we were coming down that hill, about half way down where it was swinging furthest to the right, he unlocked the door and rolled out.  Just rolled over and over like a rabbit.  Of course we stopped as quick as we could and rushed back there and picked him up.  He was just a little shook up but wasn't hurt a bit.  Sure lucky.  That was quite an experience.