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first part of August that I was in Sexauers Elevator at Onida talking to the manager.  I had purchased a sack or two of feed for the pigs and was feeling pretty low.

 

The manager said "I know of a job open in a Peavey Elevator.  It's at Agar".   I knew enough about an elevator to drive in one door, watch someone else unload my grain and then drive out the other side.

 

He talked to me for a while longer and told me who to write to.

 

I wrote a letter to Walt F. Lytle at Huron and in a few days got an answer back wanting an interview.  The war was calling in all of the good men so Peavey was groping for most anything.  I was hired at $100 per month.  No training.  Here's the books get busy - good bye.  It wasn't quite that bad but almost.

 

I was to go to Agar.  That way we wouldn't have had far to move.  Ended up going to Houghton.  I had it figured that the farther we got from Okobojo the better off we

 

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