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Page 73 One semi cloudy day in August Aleck McGannon (store owner) backed his old Ford truck up to the door and we loaded it with household goods for the trip to Huron. Willis went with Aleck in the truck and Ma, Cathie and I took the car. We had a good trip as I remember it and arrived at Huron an hour or so before the truck and furniture. The house was a three story affair and had ten rooms. six bedrooms upstairs and one on the ground floor. The six up stairs were for rent and were occupied most of the time while were were there. The house was heated with a coal furnace and the type of heat was hot water. I slept in the basement most of the time. It was my job to shovel coal in and take ashes out. We got the furniture in place but what we had didn't fill much space so Ma and Cathie shopped the next few days and put beds and dressers in the rooms upstairs. By Sept. 1st Ma was ready for her new adventure of running a boarding house. She got along good and it lasted for three years. |