My family all moved to the Parry Sask

First I must tell what Cliff was doing. He didn't finish his grade12 until he was married. He liked to go places & see things, He was an sort of inventor, as he got a small motor & maybe with dads help, for dad was always making things. Cliff had an older model bike, now I was told this, he fastened a small motor on this bike & road it around town. Neighbour's were saying that he was going to kill himself if he gets it going any faster. There were no speeders in those days, for I remember Violet Mayo, a friend at school was driving, for the first time on Hwy 13 with a friend & ended up in the ditch. The saying at school was, she was speeding at 30 miles a hour, that must have been considered a reckless speed in the early years of driving a car on the gravel roads.

Cliff decided to get a job in a Ontario lumber camp to make some money. He had been catching rides on a slow moving freight train to the next town from Hazenmore which was Kincaid. When I was still home Paul Haase used to take several of us to the church for Friday night meetings in Kincaid ,Cliff often went & he liked to visit with the Pilgrim girls. I heard that if Cliff was on the station platform when a freight train was stopping he would be allowed to jump on a rail car & ride to Kincaid to visit at his friends. He would then catch a ride on the next train to come home. Now I wasn't home when he left for Ontario but whether he rode a freight train or hitched a ride to get his first job I am not sure. He did get a job in a lumber camp, but I am not sure for how long he worked there. He had a little money he earned but hardly enough to get back home. It was in the winter, so how or why he was on his way home in this cold weather, I don't know. He got as far as Winnipeg Manitoba. He had run out of money & hadn't eaten for a while. He had a friend Ted Joyce who lived in that city. The family used to spend summers at Uncle Oscars & the Harry Johnson, Ted was Cliff age so they had become friend. He contacted the Joyce's & they picked him up. He stayed with the Joyce family & here he was feed & well cared for. I think he got a ride back home. He then got a job with a farmer after my folks all moved to Parry. They lived at & worked for his brother Oscar & Alta Lincoln at first. Later they were able to rented a second house in the Rasmussen's yard which was 2 miles from my Uncles. Cliff got a job on a neighbour's farm. My sister Clara worked for a cousin, Ralph & Lottie Gay, for a summer in Milestone. next she got a job in the drug store in Lang Sask. She also worked in their home where she got her board & room as well. My brother Ralph wasn't finished school. He attended a country school called Hawthorne school district. He went to school with some of his cousins, Eldon , Arlo & the 2 Rasmussen's children, Rachel & Earl. My folks had a garden spot & dad was good with the hoe, kept his potato & garden spot clean from weeds. I believe they had a few chickens & laying hens for eggs, a cow for their milk. Ralph finished his public schooling here & then he worked for Uncle Oscar. Clara & I both worked at different times for our Uncle & Aunt, Oscar & Alta Lincoln, we felt like it was home for us there as well as at the Johnson's. When my sister Clara was married the reception was held in the Lincolns home with help from all our relatives. I have many good memories of many times in this community.