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drunk put a couple of well placed bullets next to Ike’s feet.
It was sometime in the 1930’s that Beryl McGannon (the store owners son) heard the story, found the holes and dug the dirt out.
In January 1921 Pa
went to Pierre the session of legislature.
During the session I spent several days in the State Capital with him.
Had I been two years older I could have been a page.
Only seventh grade and older could qualify.
I was in the fifth. However,
sometimes one of the legislators would give me a note to get him something from
the supply room and I would hasten to comply.
I didn’t do this often. I
suppose it would have been called “moonlighting without honor”.
But it gave me the feel of being a page. I was in Pierre, and of course in the halls of the capitol,
the night the House and Senate adjourned for the season. I’ve joined in with high school