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Page 91 The decade of the "Roaring Twenties" was over but repercussions of the 1920's crash were rumbling louder and louder as banks continued to close their doors and the trusting customer discovered his life savings were gone and he was broke. I don't remember the exact year that the Bank in Onida folded. Ma had over a hundred dollars in it but less than two hundred. One day Alex McGannon told her he had a tip the bank was going to close. He was going to Onida and she could go along if she had money in the bank and wanted to get it out. She went and drew out what she had. Next day the door didn't open. She had been one of the lucky ones. The spring of 1931 didn't look too bad. Willis had a pretty full line of (IHC) International Harvester Co. Machinery including a Farmall Tractor that he got new in 1929. I was fresh out of a State College that knew all of the answers (too bad I didn't) about farming so how could we lose. |