We didn't stay there on the farm too long.  Mother and Daddy decided that with six girls, they didn't have anything on the farm to live for, so we moved to Enid.  We were there on the farm for I think about two years.  I am not too sure how long.  I don't think it was two years but it was I believe over one year.  We enjoyed it there but then we just hadn't been planning to work on the farm.  I know I enjoyed working for Daddy on the farm.  After we moved to Enid, Daddy rented farms and he would do farm work and he would take me out and let me do things.  Mostly around the place there if he was mowing, why he would let me run the mower and if he was plowing, he would let me run the plow.  He let me milk the cows and I would carry the little calves out and he trusted me and we just had a good time together.  [Note by Gloria:  "Mother used to talk about rounding up the cattle on horseback with her father."]

 

[Note by Linus:  "I think they moved into the State of Oklahoma shortly before the turn of the century.  They were certainly here before statehood.  When we moved to town, they lived at 921 N. 6th street and I lived on the same street, about 2 blocks south, but I think it was called 7th street.  Orma and Virgie were going to high school at that time.  Before that they lived over on the west side of town and, I believe, attended a school by the name of Kenmore.  Before that they lived between Garber and Covington."]

 

"They attended church at a Methodist church in the north part of Enid, probably before the church down town was built.  I have seena picture of that church.  It was a church very much on the order of the churches we saw back in Pennsylvania."

 

Mother said I was so rough that I needed a calf to play with.   [Note by Linus:  "Virgie had a deviation of one of her shoulder blades.  She said her father let her ride the harrow and she fell off and the harrow ran over her."]

 

Now about the lighting we had.  Of course there wasn't any electricity.  Other houses that I knew of didn't have any electric lights.  We had kerosene lights and they had the wicks in them and we just turned the wicks up, they had little knobs that you turned to roll the wicks up and then you would light it with a match.  The wick extended down into the bowl of the lamp which contained the kerosene.  They would make a nice light.  We liked it all right.  We didn't have any trouble with them and we would have a light for each room.  They were tall enough lamps so they would just throw the light across the table if we were reading at the table.  Of course at that time that was the only thing there was and so we thought it was fine.  We were perfectly happy with it.

 

When we lived there on the farm, we had a very nice home.  It was in a nice shaded place and we liked it alright.  But when we were going to school, school wasn't very close and it was a country school and my father being quite well educated, didn't want his daughters to go to a country school.  He just didn't think we were getting quite what we needed.  So that is one of the reasons's that made them decide that we would move to Enid.  After we moved to Enid, I think they were very happy about it after my father got his business started and we children were happy in school.  And especially, it was easy for us to go to school and easy for us to get to church and to Sunday school.  So, I think it was nice that we did move from the farm.