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r-dki-ei-«nes? weren't there spelling bees, quilting bees, husking bees, feather-stripping bees. When he was given permission to say just one word, “Fuj”! The room astir with feathers; the laughing and fun! The taffy pulls when girls came in calico and boys in home-made overalls — usually barefoot. Good wholesome fun, when youth forgot the toil and worry e|of the day; no stewing or fussing e of a grand parade—just a good time. c_ One childhood prank I’ll not for-? I get was tying the snake in the onion patch; but I would like to forget the e I whipping that followed, s | Then in 1866 another ship hove into harbor and down came anc£her family of Bohemians, coming from the same little Bohemia near Prague. This time a little girl of some six years was walking proudly beside e I her parents, an older brother and 1.1 sister, looking through bright grey eyes into a new country where she would know both laughter and tears. Little Mary Jane Goller went with 11 her parents to Cleveland, Ohio, the t next year moving to Madison Lake, t Minn., in a covered wagon, drawn by j oxen, the only popular mode of trav-ir | el. Until 1877 they lived here where there was always work; the cutting of grain; the binding by hand in which women and children helped; the herding of cattle and hogs; the fear of the wild hogs in the dense woods where one time little Mary was t I treed by an angry wild sow for many i [hours; walking many miles to work in a house for very low wages in-11deed; walking to church on Sunday the same hardships suffered in Kan-i I sas were suffered in Minnesota.In 1877 they came in a wagon 11 train to Ellsworth, Kansas and here the same year she became the young bride of Frank Wransky. They at 31 once moved to Republic county and here in six months the dread epidem-f | ic of small pox raged and death claimed him. With the worries of widowhood added to hardships it was hard to carry on, but in a few short months a tiny daughter was born to her. A new life to guard and a new interest in life. Little Josephine grew and thrived into happy, healthy childhood.
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Republic County News
Republic, Kansas, US
Thu, Feb 14, 1935
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