Re: Great Depression

Posted by olgentdc on March 10, 2017 at 11:13:39 from (184.16.217.117):

In Reply to: Great Depression posted by davidt1 on March 10, 2017 at 09:06:16:

Family folklore from all sets of granparents , As other posters stated ,, NONE carried much debt , , lots of stories , BUT most colorful,1st,my moms dad and brothers ALWAYS made whiskey for their own medicinal purposes,.. in the early days they used a model T to saw lumber and grind feed , then put the wheel back on and drove to church , fast Ff prohibition,,the folks at frenchlick ind , came rooting around dubois co , Ferdinand IND , for goodSAFEwhiskey ,,. and granpa Frank was renowned for the best, offered granpa 5 bux a gallon, granpa said,NO, its against the law, they doubled to 10, still granpa said NO,at 15 bux granpa realized he needed the money afterall, LOL, to improve things on the farm .lol ,,.by the time the depression came, he had a Fordson tractor for the mills and a new model a Ford, by 1932, they had a new WC allis chalmers and they were getting 25 bux a gallon , My uncles were delivering "Shine" in a new "32 "strait 8 Chrysler that was capable of going a hundred mph ,. and that was a good thing around Lafeyette IND one day , according to uncle Renus,. they never got caught in all their trips to Chicago, indy, Louisville and as far as St Louis and Nashville ,. granpa wanted to quit many times,for so many, many reasons and finally did for good ,, but my mom's bros. and pals kept up the enterpize,,. the county sheriff and the priest played a role more than once to protect them from the feds ,a telephone tip , would have them scrambling to throw the mash to the howgs ,bury the distilling equipment in the ground or ,strw stak , sawdust pile or simply thrown in the reservoir lake that backt up on to the WEYER farm . once when cousn Leroy was born .they stored the tubing and cooker in my aunts bedroom ....the Priest and the aunt midwife shamed the feds for wanting to go search her room, as she had a very hard time bringing in Leroy , at perfect timmin infant Leroy could be heard crying thru the door ,.. ..,the county sheriff told the Feds " These are Good folks you been botherin hereall day , You ALL best HIT the road boys and not come back to Dubois County ! ". . in 1936 they decided to legitimize the enterprize much to granpas relief,, but got no where with a know nuthin attorney . when the 37 flood devastated Louisville,, Uncle HUGLE needed men to help rebuild, and granpa Frank lost nearly all his good helpers to the big city .Irwin Bought some 85 acres where UPS is now located ,.that was the winter of 37-38,,,after Army service in the CBs in WW 2, ( The German Descent with accent were tested to be spies if they liked that choice , or were put in construction brigade, not so much because their allegiance was in question , but because other soldiers serving along side would question allegiance and )" beat the hale out of those with German accent" according to Oscar Wilmes..
over the next 30 yrs uncle Irwin would built and Sold over 150 very nice signature homes on that land ,.. only to live to see them all torn down for the freight terminals,,. the houses were to big to move ///// , my dads Dad worked at L and N RR for over 50 yrs ,. he got a decent retirement, and health insurance for life,, pulled a lot of 16 hour shifts during ww2 as a switchman .. he started out as a welder, and he told me that as young man they needed him California to r epair the biggest locomotive of all the Big Boy,.. they were called Alleghennys here.. when granpa got old ,, he was given easier jobs,,. now that was nice of good Ol L and N RR . compared to the corporate communism that prevails today in the workplace //////,, To hear my Dad and his uncles tell it (who were nearly the same age and Granmas side ) all the Bischofs did was work their az off for nuthin ,, during the depression ,..LOL ,,to their credit, I am most inspired to Farm with Case tractors ,, thru my Dads formative years, they threshed with steam, Bischof bros. had 2 steamers and threshers for about 10 yrs running a circuit around jeferson , bullit , nelson and Oldham co. KY ,.summer of "36" great uncle joe, Gus ,Pete and Louis , traded both steamers in for a new CASE L and a IHC to run the threshers ,it seems a FALSE nasty rumor had begun that a fire was caused by one of the steam engines that dry summer,.actually it was as set of bad pitchfork tines that was mistakenly tossed in the thresher ,,. the sparks blew into the strawstak ,While Gus and Pet e busied themselves with clearing the Thresher,,. someone hollered FIRE!! and it was a hale of a fight to keep fire from spreading to the buildings and crops , thanks to quik thinking a plow and disc quikl y put to use to make a fire barrier ,. while moving the steamer and thresher to safety joe snapt the belt and it was lost in the fire .. the summer of 36 was incredibly hot and Dry, and the bros were able to get a good deal on both gaspowered tractors,. and they knew how bad news would travel ,, but good news traveled well too ,.the threshing business was to be a good supplement income to all the Bischof bloods thru W W 2 ,,. only trouble was they could not find enuf help so the girls pitched in ,,.

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