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

[Verdena Veelle]

What the heck?  The milk came from the cow down in the barn.  First it went through the
strainer and then sometimes through the separator and the milk cans with the cream were
put out by the road to be picked up by Mt. Angel Creamery.  My city nephews and neices
wouldn't drink the stuff but it was fine for me.  As well as the butter made at home.

My mother did a lot of her canning using the wood cook stove outside in the summer.  The
house stayed cooler that way.  She butchered the chickens for Sunday dinner-a job you
won't find me doing.  My favorite soup was made from chicken's feet, all scrubbed up and
clipped and canned.  Don't think I could eat it now though.

A favorite time was when the bakery truck came by.  The only other delivery truck I
remember out at Colton was Molalla Cleaners picking up and delivering dry cleaning.

Of course I wasn't born until the end of 1942 so don't remember the war.  I found an empty
ration book for me in my father's trunk however.
Verdena Veelle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. Smith" <singingcedars at webtv.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: RE: [or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II


: 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
:
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