IN NOV 1942, DURING WWII, ELDRED BACON AND LLOYD DUNN (A-2) WENT TO WENDOVER UT TO WORK ON THE AIR BASE CONSTRUCTING RUNWAYS AND HANGERS FOR PLANES. AFTER THE WAR THERE WAS A GUY BUILDING SHEDS AT THE MONTPELIER ID AIRPORT TO PUT AIRPLANES IN. ELDRED GOT TO HELPING HIM AND TOOK IT OUT IN FLYING LESSONS. IT COST HIM $5 A LESSON. THE PLANE WAS A TWO-SEATER. HE WOULD FLY TO POCATELLO ETC. HE WANTED TO BUY HIS OWN AIRPLANE, BUT HE DIDN'T. (T10)

ELDRED HAD A TEAM OF HORSES, NANCE AND BESS. THEY WERE A GOOD TEAM. THEY WERE SO USE TO HIS VOICE THAT HE COULD STAND BACK ON THE BUCK RAKE AND JUST MORE OR LESS TALK TO THEM. HE WOULD SAY "WOA! BACK UP, BACK!" HE WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE REINS. THEY WOULD STOP AND THEY WOULD BACK UP. HE WOULD SAY "PUSHER IN!" WHEN THEY BACKED UP HE HAD A THING THAT HE COULD PUSH DOWN ON AND HE COULD RAISE THE FORK ON THE BUCK RAKE SO THAT WHEN THEY PUSHED IT BACK IN THE FORKS WOULD GET UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HAY AND PUSH IT UPON THE FORKS OF THE RICKER BED. THEN HE WOULD SAY "LETS GET ANOTHER LOAD." AWAY THEY WOULD GO OUT IN THE FIELD. (T) WHEN ELDRED DUG OUT OF THE BASEMENT OF HIS HOUSE HE DID IT BY HAND AND WITH THE HELP OF NANCE AND BESS. HE WOULD TALK TO THEM AND AND TELL THEM WHAT TO DO. (T10)

THERE WAS A CLUB HERE IN GEORGETOWN. THERE WAS MYSELF, GLENNA ANDERSON BARTSCHI, ELVA WALLENTINE TIPPETS, JOSEPHINE STODDARD PETERSON, GENEVA LARSEN BEE, VEA HIGGINSON MUNK, VERONA SCHMID HAYES, LOLA THORNOCK DUNN, AND BERNICE BACON BARTSCHI. WE MET ONCE A MONTH AT A DIFFERENT HOUSE. WE WOULD SEW, ETC. (BBB)

MARY FERN WAS FIVE WHEN HER FATHER, NORMAN, DIED. HER MOTHER ASKED THAT A GRANDSON IN EACH FAMILY BE NAMED AFTER HIM AND EACH FAMILY DID. RUSSELL'S MIDDLE NAME IS NORMAN.(BBB)

IN 1984, FOR THEIR FIRST GRANDCHILD'S MARRIAGE, FERN QUILTED BY HAND A QUEEN BEDSPREAD. SHE HAD NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE. SINCE THEN SHE HAS BEAUTIFULLY QUILTED CLOSE TO 20 QUILTS. EACH ONE RECEIVED FIRST PLACE WHEN ENTERED IN THE FAIR. (BBB)

GROWING UP I REMEMBER MARY FERN MAKING HOME MADE NOODLES WITH CARROTS AND CHICKEN AND THE GRAVY WE PUT ON MASHED POTATOES. I LOVED THE PEACH SHORTCAKE IN THE WINTER. WHEN THERE SEEMED TO BE NOTHING IN THE HOUSE TO EAT I WOULD COME HOME FROM SCHOOL AND FOUND THAT SHE HAD MADE SOUR CREAM COOKIES WITH NUTS, CHOCOLATE CHIPS AND RAISINS. OF COURSE, THERE WAS NO RECIPE, BECAUSE HOW MUCH WAS MADE WAS ACCORDING TO THE AMOUNT OF SOUR CREAM THERE WAS. SHE ALWAYS COOKED BY TASTE. THERE WERE SO MANY COOKIES ALL THE KITCHEN PANS WERE FILLED. MMMM...GOOOD! (LLLLL)