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Okobojo, Pierre or Onida. Onida soon changed this and checks were held at the County Court house. You had to pick them up in person.
This gave the Onida merchants first chance. Onida had a city liquor store and several beer joints. Many a pay check never found its way to a grocery store. If it hadn't been for basic commodities handed out some families wouldn't even have had beans on the table that night.
For the most part I believe most of the money went where it did the most good. Food, clothing etc. but it opened a loophole for the parasite and he has been living in heaven ever since.
One of the projects at Okobojo that still stands more than forty years is the Okobojo Dam. It furnished work to quite a few men.
I worked with a team on a dump wagon for a while and then bought an old Chevrolet truck that almost got me killed. For about a hundred dollars more I could have bought a later
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