Here is another entry of Blaho family history - compiled by Ben Blaho. You will see many neighbors named in this document. JOHN REMEMBERS
The first time he seen false teeth, he was at the old farm watching the neighbor Mr. Lake working the field next door and about 10 AM his wife brought him a sandwich for his break and after he was finished with the sandwich, He took out his teeth to clean them and to this day John has never forgotten how this man took out his teeth. Another time at the old farm, he was quite small when during lunch break Mon dad went somewhere, John stayed to watch Queenie the horse and he decided to unhook the harness and as it was too heavy he just let it drop off. He took the horse by a wagon so he could get on the horse and take a ride and as the horse started to trot John fell off. Queenie stopped and just looked at him. And when Dad came back John got a talking to but no whipping. John talked of the time him, Mom and Brother Lou went to Manistee and went to the A & P store telling John to stay in the car but after a while John decides to get out and as he is crossing the street a policeman grabs him at about that time Mom is coming back and rescues him... And from that time Brother Lou reminds him to be good and listen or that policeman will get him. Frank the horse which was burned in a fire and dad cured him by putting milk foam over the burns. The horse turned out to be a good worker. Uncle John sent this horse by train to Manistee where dad picked him up and had to walk him back to the farm. He could not ride him because of all the burns. Nellie was another horse, John talked about. She was black in color, very tame and on the way to visit the Drobena family Nellie slipped on the ice and hurt her leg and then could no longer do heavy farm work but Dad kept her anyway and one area of the granary had a hole in it where the grain would fall on the ground where Nellie would like to eat it. And one morning Nellie was making a racket stomping by the back door of the house and when dad went to check Nellie turn around and stared toward the barn dropped down and died. John thinks she died of bloat or may be Arsenic poison. Anyway it seemed like she came to the back door to say good bye. Dad was out in back hitching up three horses together, Nellie on one side, Mable on the other and Bill in the middle when Bill knock his bridle off and all three start to run toward the barn when John grabs the lines of Nellie. Bill breaks loose and runs into the barn. In the back ground Ma is screaming and dad tells john never ever try to stop a runaway horse. John loved to take water out to dad when he was cultivating because most of the time dad would put him on the horse and let him ride for a long time. Telling him he is to steer the horse and this made him feel important. He remembers Jim another horse. He is big red in color would not pull just stands there so pa hires Mr. Milliron to train him but found out he was to stubborn to train. And later the horse was trained by Mr. Leatherman and finally Jim would work alongside of Bill the smaller horse. Bill was a very good riding horse very smooth rider but Jim just bounced along not good for riding John is 7 years old and is pestering Sister Marge to let him milk a cow, so she puts him on the stool under the cow and has him try and from that time on he was milking. He also talks of being very small and remembers dad at the end of the day would set on the porch of the house and peel apples and eat them. In Slovak asking John if he would like an apple so he peeled one and gave him slices of apple and they smelled and tasted like cigarettes from the nicotine on dads fingers from smoking so much.
They would go to church at the Suchy house as the custom at that time was the Minister would leave the organ at a home for about a month and conduct service there and then the next month at another home. Any way John is playing with the strings of his stocking cap and making little fuzz balls when Mom twisted Johns ear and give the look don’t do that and he got the message. John tells me about me doing something and he is running after me and as I go out the door Dad is coming in and as John flies out the door. Dad gives him a flat handed slap that turns him around He tells me whenever we would go to Manistee to visit sister Millie and she lived across the street of a shoe factory and how I would always say that is my shoe factory and to think that for years I Managed a shoe department store John tells how he thought Grandma Kapusta (momka) her little black rimmed glasses were funny and when she would watch the cattle she would pick up stones and put them by the fence Talking about what he remembers about the big barn fire, he is in school when they see big black smoke coming from the farm.( The farm is less that 1/8 mile from the school ) And the older boys and John about ten or eleven at the time. Chuck Melchek gets into the burning barn and unties the big bull and lets some of the other animals out but many perished in the fire. Mom who came from the woods area. Screaming as she wants to go into the barn because she thought Ben may be inside, Joe Suchy is holding her back as by now the fire is in full blaze and other men are throwing water on other buildings trying to save what they can. When Ted or Ray Rudman comes from the woods carrying Ben on his shoulders After the fire they want to put some cows into the garage shed so he and Mom were going to put a floor down. So he put part of a horse harness on one of the cows to pull the railroad ties up to the garage then fill the spaces between the ties and it made a good floor. Today he marvels that the cow would pull so well. (He was all ways thinking how to do the job easier Dad was moving the old page car with horses to be put behind old tool shed, Bruce Currie was in the car when pa stopped the horses then the car hit Bill the horse when he kicked his leg got caught in the bumper of the care and when he turned he knocked pa down while pa hung on to the horse both horses broke loose and dragged pa as they ran away. Pa was bruised up very bad before he got out of the way and the horses ran about a mile away before they stopped and were caught. John was raking hay, as he was going down the lane the wheel of the rake scraped the fence and the noise spooked Bill the house and he start running John jump off the rake as bill broke loose from the rake and was later caught by John Napora two miles from home After the tractor was bought gas was rationed and dad had to get R STAMPS to buy gas for the tractor. After the garage was built dad bought a windmill and John made the garage door with help form Ben
After Dad buys the tractor. We had no Jack so he gets a long pole to lift the tractor wheel while Ben would put blocks under the frame. Then Ben would hold a 2X4 while John pounded with the sledge hammer to adjust the wheels on the tractor
Brother Lou had a car magneto that he would wire to an iron day bed then would gave anyone who touched it a shock Recalls Ben going to doctor Quinn with a very swollen ear and he wanted to operate but Mom said no. And remembers Ben crying in the living room as they put peroxide into the ear. When he was 17 and Sister Marge would come home to visit he would take her to the dance with him and how his girl friends would not believe she was his sister. When he was 14 he recalls doing a cattle drive to the Springdale farm about eight miles away to be pastured there for the summer.
Here is another entry of Blaho family history - compiled by Ben Blaho. You will see many neighbors named in this document.
ReplyDeleteJOHN REMEMBERS
The first time he seen false teeth, he was at the old farm watching the neighbor Mr. Lake
working the field next door and about 10 AM his wife brought him a sandwich for his break and
after he was finished with the sandwich, He took out his teeth to clean them and to this day John
has never forgotten how this man took out his teeth.
Another time at the old farm, he was quite small when during lunch break Mon dad went
somewhere, John stayed to watch Queenie the horse and he decided to unhook the harness and as
it was too heavy he just let it drop off. He took the horse by a wagon so he could get on the
horse and take a ride and as the horse started to trot John fell off. Queenie stopped and just
looked at him. And when Dad came back John got a talking to but no whipping.
John talked of the time him, Mom and Brother Lou went to Manistee and went to the A
& P store telling John to stay in the car but after a while John decides to get out and as he is
crossing the street a policeman grabs him at about that time Mom is coming back and rescues
him... And from that time Brother Lou reminds him to be good and listen or that policeman will
get him.
Frank the horse which was burned in a fire and dad cured him by putting milk foam over
the burns. The horse turned out to be a good worker. Uncle John sent this horse by train to
Manistee where dad picked him up and had to walk him back to the farm. He could not ride him
because of all the burns.
Nellie was another horse, John talked about. She was black in color, very tame and on
the way to visit the Drobena family Nellie slipped on the ice and hurt her leg and then could no
longer do heavy farm work but Dad kept her anyway and one area of the granary had a hole in it
where the grain would fall on the ground where Nellie would like to eat it. And one morning
Nellie was making a racket stomping by the back door of the house and when dad went to check
Nellie turn around and stared toward the barn dropped down and died. John thinks she died of
bloat or may be Arsenic poison. Anyway it seemed like she came to the back door to say good
bye.
Dad was out in back hitching up three horses together, Nellie on one side, Mable on the
other and Bill in the middle when Bill knock his bridle off and all three start to run toward the
barn when John grabs the lines of Nellie. Bill breaks loose and runs into the barn. In the back
ground Ma is screaming and dad tells john never ever try to stop a runaway horse.
John loved to take water out to dad when he was cultivating because most of the time dad
would put him on the horse and let him ride for a long time. Telling him he is to steer the horse
and this made him feel important. He remembers Jim another horse. He is big red in color would
not pull just stands there so pa hires Mr. Milliron to train him but found out he was to stubborn to
train. And later the horse was trained by Mr. Leatherman and finally Jim would work alongside
of Bill the smaller horse. Bill was a very good riding horse very smooth rider but Jim just
bounced along not good for riding
John is 7 years old and is pestering Sister Marge to let him milk a cow, so she puts him
on the stool under the cow and has him try and from that time on he was milking. He also talks
of being very small and remembers dad at the end of the day would set on the porch of the house
and peel apples and eat them. In Slovak asking John if he would like an apple so he peeled one
and gave him slices of apple and they smelled and tasted like cigarettes from the nicotine on dads
fingers from smoking so much.
They would go to church at the Suchy house as the custom at that time was the Minister
ReplyDeletewould leave the organ at a home for about a month and conduct service there and then the next
month at another home. Any way John is playing with the strings of his stocking cap and
making little fuzz balls when Mom twisted Johns ear and give the look don’t do that and he got
the message.
John tells me about me doing something and he is running after me and as I go out the door Dad
is coming in and as John flies out the door. Dad gives him a flat handed slap that turns him
around
He tells me whenever we would go to Manistee to visit sister Millie and she lived across the
street of a shoe factory and how I would always say that is my shoe factory and to think that for
years I Managed a shoe department store
John tells how he thought Grandma Kapusta (momka) her little black rimmed glasses were funny
and when she would watch the cattle she would pick up stones and put them by the fence
Talking about what he remembers about the big barn fire, he is in school when they see big black
smoke coming from the farm.( The farm is less that 1/8 mile from the school ) And the older
boys and John about ten or eleven at the time. Chuck Melchek gets into the burning barn and
unties the big bull and lets some of the other animals out but many perished in the fire. Mom
who came from the woods area. Screaming as she wants to go into the barn because she thought
Ben may be inside, Joe Suchy is holding her back as by now the fire is in full blaze and other
men are throwing water on other buildings trying to save what they can. When Ted or Ray
Rudman comes from the woods carrying Ben on his shoulders
After the fire they want to put some cows into the garage shed so he and Mom were going to put
a floor down. So he put part of a horse harness on one of the cows to pull the railroad ties up to
the garage then fill the spaces between the ties and it made a good floor. Today he marvels that
the cow would pull so well. (He was all ways thinking how to do the job easier
Dad was moving the old page car with horses to be put behind old tool shed, Bruce Currie was in
the car when pa stopped the horses then the car hit Bill the horse when he kicked his leg got
caught in the bumper of the care and when he turned he knocked pa down while pa hung on to
the horse both horses broke loose and dragged pa as they ran away. Pa was bruised up very bad
before he got out of the way and the horses ran about a mile away before they stopped and were
caught.
John was raking hay, as he was going down the lane the wheel of the rake scraped the fence and
the noise spooked Bill the house and he start running John jump off the rake as bill broke loose
from the rake and was later caught by John Napora two miles from home
After the tractor was bought gas was rationed and dad had to get R STAMPS to buy gas for the
tractor.
After the garage was built dad bought a windmill and John made the garage door with help form
Ben
After Dad buys the tractor. We had no Jack so he gets a long pole to lift the tractor wheel while
Ben would put blocks under the frame. Then Ben would hold a 2X4 while John pounded with
the sledge hammer to adjust the wheels on the tractor
Brother Lou had a car magneto that he would wire to an iron day bed then would gave anyone
who touched it a shock
Recalls Ben going to doctor Quinn with a very swollen ear and he wanted to operate but Mom
said no. And remembers Ben crying in the living room as they put peroxide into the ear.
When he was 17 and Sister Marge would come home to visit he would take her to the dance with
him and how his girl friends would not believe she was his sister.
When he was 14 he recalls doing a cattle drive to the Springdale farm about eight miles away to
be pastured there for the summer.
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