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Centennial History Book
Every community has cherished REMINISCENCES
MARY THRASHER’S REMINISCING
Mary Thrasher’s father and three brothers worked on laying the Burlington & Missouri track, as did so many of the men who were here in Farnam at that time.
They lived in a sod house that had three rooms. When she was four years old, she remembered their barn burning down. Her parents went to town and she and her younger sister stayed home.
She happened to look out the east window, saw their barn on fire. B. W. Ireland was her teacher. She was reading and he tried to have her read ’’Tick-tock" a certain way. She said apparently she wasn’t reading it at the right speed. He hit her hand with a pencil for this. She said that it really hurt her feelings. She laughed as she added this: he was the only teacher who punished her for not reading tick-tock at the correct speed.
Sophia (Franzen) Sobers say that she remembers when their community began getting their mail every day. It was delivered by Mr. Reeves. He drove a team of horses and later he got a car.
She remembers the windmill on Main Street.
Will never forget the shoe cobbler, Johnny Frank. It was always ten cents for what you had done.
The Parker Department Store was a large store. The ones in the store that I remember are Will and Cora Parker, Floy Caley, Harry and Grace Bailey, Marion and Ethel Faulkes and the Buss Family.
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