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As America's industrial prosperity of the Roaring Twenties soared to increasingly greater heights, farm families, including those at Springdale, found themselves faring less affluently. The unfortunate circumstances of the decade, combined with the absence of most of the Clark boys from the farm and other factors, contributed to Springdale's economic decline in the Twenties.  Thanks to "Aunt Millie's" excellent management, the home, the ice cream factory, and the farm all survived; and thanks to the help of newly independent sons, Springdale Farm endured a near-sale in 1926 to pay off the farm mortgage.

By the time of the Great Depression, and as all the children had grown and married, Springdale Farm had largely served its chief intent: that of producing children. Its subsequent years as farm and ranch and proving-ground for other Clark generations were now ready to pass into younger hands for actual management, although Bishop Clark retained his identity as its master until his final years.

[Place photo of LeOra and her brothers here. Choices are located in LeOra's biography on pages 14, 163, 172]