Ministers in those days were not paid very well and my father told me if it had not been for his father being a veteran of the Civil War and receiving $13 a month pension, lots of times they would not have had enough to eat.

Slim started a barber shop and pool hall in Lind. He later put in light lunches and magazines in what was known as "The Palm" and sold ice cream and sandwiches. My mother made 6 to 8 pies a day and sold them for at The Palm for 10 cents a piece. Mother was German and spoke the language. Many of her customers were German people she could talk to.

He purchased the building now known as "Slim's Tavern" from the Salvation Army in 1916, then put in a roller skating rink upstairs in what is known as the Odd Fellows Hall.

There was a 3-room apartment upstairs also. That is where my sister Bernice and I lived with father and mother until 1917 when he purchased a house from a painter and paper hanger by the name of Standish. I think the price was $800 for the house. Later he had Paul Henker add two bedrooms as my sister, Leta Mae, arrived in the early part of 1919 and we needed more room.

My father was very active in the Lind baseball club and was always doing things so they put a fence around the ball park and other things for the support of baseball.

Slim would always try to help having a 4th of July celebration. They would have a parade and races on Main Street in the morning, a baseball game in the afternoon, and a dance at night.

After the parade and before the ball game, they would have races for the kids, age groups 6-8, then 9-14, then over 14. In each race everyone who would enter the race would receive a dime and all the kids, including myself, would receive a dime. In those days you could get a bottle of pop or an ice cream cone for 5 cents. A dime was great then!

In about 1922 Slim put in a public book library. It cost $1 to join and 10 cents to take a book home for a week to read. Most of the books were western stories by Zane Grey and other authors.

He and mother put in a toy line and Christmas gifts in approximately 1925. This was the east side of the room that was known as The Palm.

Saturday nights when the harvest was on was a big night in Lind in the early days. There were always two barbers in the shop and they would give out a number to get a haircut or shave. If your number came up and you were not there you had missed your turn.

In 1924 my father bought a Mills piano-violin. In 1963, when he passed away, we discovered it was valued at approximately $30,000. We gave it to the Cheney Cowles Museum where they put it on display at different time of the year.

My father always liked sports and he would go to the World Series most every year. He would leave Lind in the spring (sic) and arrive back home when the Series were over, just in time to go hunting. He took in the World Series 23 times.

Slim always liked to send people card from New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or wherever he might happen to be staying. He told me that he always mailed out 20 postal cards each week.

Slim received an award for being the most active baseball fan in Spokane as he didn't miss a game in 4 consecutive years.