I remember when in the 20's and 30's no one living in the
mill villages knew much about hardwood or tile floors. Most
of the floors were made of rough lumber about 3 or 4 inches
wide— no tongue and grove—so there were a lot of cracks in
the floors. The way we kept them clean was by scrubbing them
using white sand, a large brush made of corn shucks, and
plenty of water. No need to worry about removing the sand
and water, the cracks in the floor took care of that.

I remember out in the country
everyone raised chickens that would run
lose in the yard, under the house, and in
the woods. Some country houses had
those floors with cracks in them. One of
the pastimes-far us boys was to take a
grain of corn, tie a sewing thread around
it, then drop it through the crack and
tease the chickens. When they went for
the corn, we jerked it away from them.
Finally, the chicken would give up.

I remember when telephones were
on the wall and had a crank you had to
turn to get in touch with an operator.
When you told her your number, she
would ring it for you. If you were on a
party line with others and knew what
their number of rings were, you could
ring them direct, but there was a problem.
Every phone on the party-line would ring
too.   Each house was a assigned a
specific number of rings..

I remember when, years ago, Upson
County had a prison camp here and the
inmates  operated a  farm raising
vegetables, cows, and hogs. There was a
sugarcane patch located on Yatesville
Highway and a cornfield in the Northside
area. The inmates did their own cooking
They even had a cane mill and made their
own syrup

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