NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:  Elizabeth (Miller) Roemhild interview, Prairie Farm, 
                         Barron Co., WI

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NINETY-THREE YEAR OLD LADY REALLY ENJOYS.....

Your editor had the pleasure of interviewing Mrs. Frank Roemhild recently, 
and we don't know when we have visited with a more alert and interesting 
person. This interview may skip around a bit, but it is written in the 
sequence that our aged friend gave it to us. Mrs. Roemhild was born in 
Rengershaosen, Germany, in 1866 and came to America in 1879 by steamship, 
accompanied by her father. Her first job in this country was doing 
housework for the Fred Kahl family of Prairie Farm and later she worked 
in the kitchen for Knapp-Stout and Company, being paid $2.50 a week. In 
those days Prairie Farm was but a small place, having two stores, a 
church, postofice, and a few dwellings owned by the K-S Company. Our 
economy at ths time can be arrived at by looking at the price shoes, the 
most expensive pair costing $4.00. When Mrs. Roemhild left Germany there 
were land-owners in control and not much in the way of opportunities 
being afforded the bulk of the population. Her journey to this country 
was paid for by relatives and they were repaid as soon as she started 
earning money, at the fancy salary of $2.50 a week. In 1890 she was 
married, her husband being a native of Dane County, by the Rev. Gassman 
of Prairie Farm, and to this union four children were born: Mable, Mrs. 
George Marks of Minneapolis; Clarence, who died at the age of 10; 
Herbert, now of Napervile, Ill., and Eva, Mrs. Edgar Neck. Mr. Roemhild 
passed away in 1925, and since that time she has resided with her 
daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Neck, on their farm on Prairie 
Farm, Rt. 1. Our 93 year old friend told us that she had not had many 
days in her life when she was ill and she is very spry now, always 
anxious to help her daugher with the housework. In closing this 
interview let us all join in wishing Mrs. Roemhild a very Happy New Year.

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