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1 es? weren't there spoiling bees, quilt- ■ r ing bees, husking bees, feather-strip- L * bee*. When he was given per- ■* 51 mission 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 — usuallybarefoot. Good wholesome fun, when youth forgot the toil and worry of the day; no stewing or fussinggrand parade1—just a good time. 11 ‘ dhood prank111FI'll not forget was tying the snake in the onion , . patch; but I would like to forget the whipping that followed.Then in 1866 another ship hove into harbor and down came another | a family of Bohemians, coming from | ■ the same little Bohemia near Prague. This time a little girl of some six years was walkjing proudly beside | ] her parents, an older brother and sister, looking through bright grey eyes into a new country where she would know both laughter and tears. Little Mary Jane Goller went with her parents to Cleveland, Ohio, the next year moving to Madison Lake, Minn., in a covered wagon, drawn by oxen, the only popular mode of travel. Until 1877 they lived here where there was always work; the cutting of grain; the binding by hand in which | 1 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 treed by an angry wild sow for many hours; walking many miles to work in a house for very low wages indeed; walking to church on Sunday the same hardships suffered in Kan- 2 sas were suffered in Minnesota. ]In 1877 they came in a wagon train to Ellsworth, Kansas and here the same year she became the young bride of Frank Wransky. They at|l once moved to Republic county and here in six months the dread epidemic of small pox raged and death~ t— ucai/ii 2claimed him. With the worries of I -V.V.W..VW TT Itu l/HC WUI11C3 U1 |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, healthyrhilH Vinnrl
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Republic County News
Republic, Kansas, US
Thu, Feb 14, 1935
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