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We stayed there all night. Next day with the help of Garretts we made it to Okobojo by noon and held the election. That was a hard winter. Lots of now and it stayed cold.
We went to Haughton for Christmas and took the long way around and stopped off at Clear Lake to see how Willis and Lucille were wintering. They weren't having a picnic. They were having enough to eat because they had butchered the fattest steer in the heard which was mine. I suppose at the time it was worth maybe forty dollars. If they would have given us a quarter of the beef it wouldn't have been quite so bad but we got a piece of flank which isn't much good except for boiling.
After Christmas it kept snowing and every one in the Bend was snowed in for quite a while. One day Jim went to Onida with his '33 Chev truck. About seven or eight of us went along to get supplies,. Part of the roads were open to one way traffic but part of the time we
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