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get back his speach and the use of his arm but couldn’t do much at the office.
Winter came and went and In July 1922 Pa and Ma decided to
go the Hot Springs where Pa could be at the Battle Mountain Sanitarium.
They took me with them and we got an apartment in a house close to the sanitarium.
I moped around for a week or so and then got a job shining shoes in a barber ship. It was a basement shop just across the street north of the Evens Hotel. The shop furnished all equipment. The price of a shine was fifteen cents and I got five cents of it plus the tips where were not many. I didn’t make much but it gave me a little spending money and I stayed with it until we went back home in November.
In September I started school the seventh grade. It was different than the Okobojo school but I got along OK and was liking it by the time we left but was