[or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II

[B. Smith]

And the Alpenrose milk came to our box outside the front door in brown
bottles.  Milk alway tastes better in brown bottles.
To this day I prefer Alpenrose milk, some habits are hard to break.

I grew up in Glenwood to the west of Forest Grove and during the WWII
everyone helped manned a lookout tower,  It was manned 24 hours a day to
watch for Japannes planes.  The high school kids watch during the day
and the older generation were there at night.  This went on for a few
years, no sure how many.

The high school kids gathered scrap metal and there was a contest
between the classes.  I could never figure out how come, we Freshman
worked so hard and our pile was the biggest one day and after the
weekend the seniors pile was the biggest!!!

Glenwood was a logging and mill community but  in WWII they pledged to
buy Hundreds of Thousand of dollars of E Bonds.  The community would
meet at the school house and have auctions.  Local farmers would bring
cream and eggs and it would go up for  bid.  The saw mill would donation
lumber or a wood logs etc and even us girls donated a night of baby
sitting.  One time they were so into the bidding they bought the
suppender off the auctioneer pants.

Barb