Ida’s Notebook by Ida Risser Recently, I got a phone call from a man who wants to have a RED WING SHOES BOOTS THAT WORK OVERTIME WORK HARD ENSVILLE al: Allensville Shoe Shop Fisher Harness & Box 7 State Route Shoe Shop Star Route, Box 47 HONEY BROOK Brandywine Shoe Shop 1620 Cambridge Rd. Waynes Dry Goods 271-273 W Main St. 215-683-7686 bed and breakfast in the house where my grandparents lived. He Fitting You Right Is Our #1 Priority. MADISONBURG MARTINSBURG Zimmerman Harness RD 2 Box 36 814-793-3961 Leo’s Shoe Store Godfrey St. Lost Creek Shoe Shop 717-933-8169 RD #1 Box 88 MIFFLINTOWN wants the house and furnishings to be authentic. When I think back to the house, as I remember it as a child, I doubt that he real ly wants authenticity. It was a dark house which has since been remodeled. Windows have been added and several par titions removed. Instead of a closed staircase, it is now an open one and bathrooms have been added. My grandfather owned one of the first radios, and to hear it we had to wear earphones. Therefore, only one person at a time could listen to it. There was MILLER, Tall Pines Country Store 796 Kessler Rd 717-362-3024 (voice mail only) REHRERSB a very ornate pump organ in a small back room and my great aunt could really play it and sing along. There was a front parlor with a large phonograph. We children liked to hear the music that came from the revolving discs. But we did not like the loud noise from the cream separator that was in a back kitchen. It was powered by wires from a small windmill. There was a large room over the kitchen where the boys and hired man slept. There was no heat in the house other than the big black kitchen stove. Two bed- ;burg Red Wing Shoe Store 237 Baltimore Pike 610-544-1664 RbJl&g^r Igpf RG Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2, 2000-811 'RINGFIELD rooms were never used unless cousins came to visit. Some bed room suites remained almost new and I inherited two of them. Every morning my aunt swept the rag carpet in the kitchen. First she scattered wet coffee grounds on the floor and then she swept them up. I believe this was to “keep down” the dust. On Tuesday, she sold flowers at the Central Market in Lancaster. The gladiolas were stored in big white crocks in the summer house overnight. She was my special aunt as she always had a supply of candy, cookies, and raisins to give me. Made in U.S.A.
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