                      Thank you so much Jean. GaryÂ
Thank you Florence. GaryÂ
But it is very busy with lots if people. Â
We are staying in a camper right on the Fairgrounds for the whole week because she is busy from 6 am to midnight. Â I so enjoyed visiting with Phyllis and Patsy on the cruise. Sure hate to miss out, I know you will all have a really fun time. Â Margaret Leonard
        The mock wedding skit was for a bridal shower for either Elaine
or Marlene Schneider and my guess of the year would be about ’60. It
was in the basement of the Stone/Methodist Church. I remember it mostly
because of how humiliated both Randi and I felt in having to pretend to
get married at around 8 and 10 years old. I remember our mothers
saying, “Oh sure, they’ll do it.” Back then if your mother said you
would do something—-you did it. Thanks Gary!
Dick
       Susan’s picture of Main Street is the earliest one I’ve seen
showing the majority of the businesses. I speculate it was taken from
the roof of the business that later became Woodford’s Bar. The corner
of the building in the very left of the picture is the business that
became K.C. Sine’s Red and White Store. Lloyd is correct with his date
being in the ’30s as all the cars shown are from the late ’20s with the
exception of the truck which appears to me to be a ’32 Ford. The car in
front of the truck appears to be a ’27 Model T—they were the only T
with wire spoke wheels. The car in the upper left, probably in front of
the Corner Bar, is a ’28-’29 Model A Roadster. The car in front ofÂ
Billy Wright’s Grocery across the street has me a bit confused. It
looks like a ’28-’29 Model A but the license plate shouldn’t be where it
is because Model As had fully spoked wheels and the guy would have had
to remove his license plate to use the spare. My guess is that it’s an
odd make like Whippet or possibly one of the cars that became GM
later—Pontiac or that type. These cars had rims that were hollow
centered and just slipped over the center part of the wheel that stayed
on the car when you changed the tire. In those years many of the off
shoot companies tries to copy the style of the other successful
manufacturers to cash in on sales. Whippet cars of those years very
closely resemble similar year Model A Fords. When I locate an old
stripped car body in the bush, I’ve been fooled by this before thinking
I found a Model A only to find out through closer inspection that it’s a
Whippet or other ‘copy’ from some odd car company. Enough on old cars.
    Susan, thanks for posting the picture and all the other articles
from your huge collection. As I mentioned before, I spent several
hours looking through some of Susan’s Grandma Kate’s scrapbooks one
summer day a couple years ago, at the Drive Inn in Dunseith, when I
should have been home baling hay. It’s just spellbinding to me to look
back in time through this amazing compilation of Susan’s. ‘Susie’, as
we knew you, please continue to post any and all of the pictures and
articles you have. It’s the major light of my day for sure! One side
note—Unless it’s just my imagination, I think you can see the rock
well in the center of Main Street up by the bank. This was right in the
middle of the intersection and was a public well but primarily was a
source of water for fire protection. There appears to be a dark post in
the middle of the intersection and unless my eyes are playing tricks on
me, a circular rock curb about 3 feet out of the ground. Thanks Gary!
Dick
 
 But as time went by, the traffic slowly built up and became so heavy and
so fast
that his chickens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day.
So one day Farmer John called the local police station and said,
“You’ve got to do something about all of these people driving so fast
and killing my chickens.”
“What do you want us to do?” asked the policeman.
“I don’t care, just do something about those crazy drivers!”
So the next day the policeman had the Main Road ‘s workers
go out to erect a sign that said:
SLOW: SCHOOL CROSSING
Three days later Farmer John called the policeman and said,
“You’ve got to do something about these drivers. The ‘school
crossing’ sign seems to make them go even faster!”
So, again, the policeman sends out the Main Roads workers’
and they put up a new sign:
SLOW: CHILDREN AT PLAY
That really sped them up. So Farmer John called and
called and called every day for three weeks.
Finally, he asked the policeman, “Your signs are doing no
good at all … can I put up my own sign?”
The policeman said, “Sure, go ahead.”
He was willing to let Farmer John do just about anything
in order to get him to stop calling to complain.
The policeman got no more calls from Farmer John.
Three weeks later, curiosity got the best of the policeman
and he decided to give Farmer John a call. ” How’s the
problem with those drivers. Did you put up your sign?”
“Oh, I sure did,” replied Farmer John, “and not one chicken
has been killed since then. I’ve got to go. I’m very busy.”
He hung up the phone.
The policeman was really curious and he thought to himself,
“I’d better go out there and take a look at that sign . it might
be something that WE could use to slow down drivers.”
So he drove out to Farmer John’s house, and his jaw dropped
the moment he saw the sign.
It was spray painted on a sheet of wood….
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NUDIST COLONY
Go slow and watch out for chicks!
Keep Smiling …..