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Page 43 We moved to Okobojo in the late summer of 1920. When grandpa Glessner died he had four quarters of land and his house and five or six acres of land in Okobojo. Charley and Hal got the farm land and Aunt Kitty and Ma got the house in town. I don’t know if George, who lived in St. Louis Missouri, got any thing or not. Aunt Kitty sold her share of the town property to ma. Pa got a carpenter or two to do some fixing on the house including a new shingled roof. He also built a woven wire fence around the place which is still there. Living in town was close to the printing office and Pa decided to run for representative to the state legislature from Sully Co. He ran on the independent ticket (he was a die-hard republican) and won the election. Elections can be heartbreaking. Dr. B.M. Hart ran on the republican ticket and was so sure of winning he had rented his suite of rooms at the St. Charles Hotel in Pierre and Mrs. Hart had her gown for the Inaugural Ball. He was Onida’s doctor. |