List Readers: Our featured photo for this week is of the canning factory in Pioneer. Alice Allen shared this great old photo with us a few days ago. For several days now I have been looking at this photo and wondering who all the people are who are pictured and thinking since the photos so clear that we should be able to identify some of them. So earlier this morning I looked through some photos that I have of the Haddock family to do a comparison. I may be wrong, but it looks to me like the man sitting on the crate and behind the tree with his arms crossed might be Claude Everett Haddock. I have 3 photos of him but only one really shows his face so I am not sure about my identity. If you can help, please let me know. My address is given below. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm Again, thanks, Alice, for sharing this wonderful piece of Pioneer history with us. Donna Cooper

Interesting photo. I appreciate all the photos that everyone shares. Even if it's not of a relative of mine, I love looking at old pictures. This photo caused me to wonder whether anyone knows anything about another industry in Barry Co. in the "old days." Several relatives said in census records that they worked in the lime works. Can anybody fill me in on this? Was that a big industry in that area? Was it quarrying for chat? Or for cement? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. Patricia --- Donna Cooper <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > List Readers: Our featured photo for this week is of the canning > factory in > Pioneer. Alice Allen shared this great old photo with us a few days > ago. . . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/

A silly question: Does anybody know what they were canning? Patricia Topolski --- Donna Cooper <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > List Readers: Our featured photo for this week is of the canning > factory in > Pioneer. Alice Allen shared this great old photo with us a few days > ago. > > For several days now I have been looking at this photo and wondering > who all > the people are who are pictured and thinking since the photos so > clear that > we should be able to identify some of them. So earlier this morning I > looked > through some photos that I have of the Haddock family to do a > comparison. I > may be wrong, but it looks to me like the man sitting on the crate > and > behind the tree with his arms crossed might be Claude Everett > Haddock. I > have 3 photos of him but only one really shows his face so I am not > sure > about my identity. If you can help, please let me know. My address is > given > below. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm > > Again, thanks, Alice, for sharing this wonderful piece of Pioneer > history > with us. > > Donna Cooper > > > Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is > Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/

I really liked the canning factory picture. I took my magnifying glass to see if I could find my mother. Before she passed away in 1985, I asked her to write down things from her childhood and one was that she worked in a tomato canning factory.. I thought I found her in the picture, but when I went to her memories, the canning factory she worked in was in Fairview, which is in Newton County, north and west of Wheaton. While this wasn't in Barry County, I thought her notes of the tomato canning factory were interesting. These are some of her notes: "I worked in the canning factory in Fairview peeling tomatoes. The tomatoes were put in big buckets, dipped in hot water, put on a track that circled around and we took off a bucket as we needed it. Sometimes those on the far end were a long time getting tomatoes to peel. We were paid by the bucket after they were peeled. Had a special kind of knife to use to cut out the cores. It was spoon-like on the end and had a short wooden handle. When we had a bucket of peeled tomatoes, we had a card that was punched. Mr. Hightower was the man that punched the tickets. He always wore white shirts. He was so prissy that sometimes the women filling the cans would somehow manage to shake their hands when he got close. The results, tomato juice on his white shirt. He'd go home for lunch and came back with a fresh crisp white shirt on. Mrs. Hightower sure laundered a lot of white shirts that summer. Mr. Grimes owned the canning factory. The farmers put out acres of tomato plants and made good money from their work. One summer Ida Carpenter helped peel tomatoes. Her husband owned the grain elevator but she thought everyone should help work up the tomatoes. We even worked on Sunday if there were several wagon loads needing peeling. The skins were dumped just outside the back door and before summer was over, the peelings made a big pile and didn't smell too good...." Mother also wrote about picking strawberries and blackberries. I know that picking strawberries in the summer provided income for a lot of people. These are her strawberry memories: "...they had a strawbery patch and while we still lived in town, we all went out and worked. Dad was what they called the straw boss. He started pickers on the right row so they didn't skip a row or get on one already picked...." Ruth

Ruth: I love the notes you shared with us. I bet that they bring back memories to a lot of folks who grew up in Barry County. Like your mother, I worked one summer in a tomato canning factory, and like her, I remember the different looking little knief that I used to peel them with and the buckets. I can't remember how old I was but I think maybe about 14. I also liked Jack's story about the blackberry and strawberry picking. And like Jack, I picked strawberries to make money and also I picked blackberries during the war. I was still not in school so I was very young but I remember it. In those days there was no repellent for insects and so I also remember the ticks and chiggers that came with the blackberry picking. I remember hearing that the work we did was to help feed the soldier boys. In the strawberry fields I can remember the long days and long rows - all part of picking berries. I also copperhead snakes that we sometimes encourtered. In May and June of 1956 - I picked enough that I had 4.75 earned. It seems like that I was paid 5 cents a quart, but I don't know if that is right or not. Maybe some of you have a better memory about what the pay was than I do. I know that this is telling my age, but I suppose it isn't much of a secret anyway. [smile] Donna -------Original Message------- From: mobarry@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, November 18, 2007 13:22:11 To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] Tomatoes and Strawberries I really liked the canning factory picture. I took my magnifying glass to see if I could find my mother. Before she passed away in 1985, I asked her to write down things from her childhood and one was that she worked in a tomato canning factory.. I thought I found her in the picture, but when I went to her memories, the canning factory she worked in was in Fairview, which is in Newton County, north and west of Wheaton. While this wasn't in Barry County, I thought her notes of the tomato canning factory were interesting. These are some of her notes: "I worked in the canning factory in Fairview peeling tomatoes. The tomatoes were put in big buckets, dipped in hot water, put on a track that circled around and we took off a bucket as we needed it. Sometimes those on the far end were a long time getting tomatoes to peel. We were paid by the bucket after they were peeled. Had a special kind of knife to use to cut out the cores. It was spoon-like on the end and had a short wooden handle. When we had a bucket of peeled tomatoes, we had a card that was punched. Mr. Hightower was the man that punched the tickets. He always wore white shirts. He was so prissy that sometimes the women filling the cans would somehow manage to shake their hands when he got close. The results, tomato juice on his white shirt. He'd go home for lunch and came back with a fresh crisp white shirt on. Mrs. Hightower sure laundered a lot of white shirts that summer. Mr. Grimes owned the canning factory. The farmers put out acres of tomato plants and made good money from their work. One summer Ida Carpenter helped peel tomatoes. Her husband owned the grain elevator but she thought everyone should help work up the tomatoes. We even worked on Sunday if there were several wagon loads needing peeling. The skins were dumped just outside the back door and before summer was over, the peelings made a big pile and didn't smell too good...." Mother also wrote about picking strawberries and blackberries. I know that picking strawberries in the summer provided income for a lot of people. These are her strawberry memories: "...they had a strawbery patch and while we still lived in town, we all went out and worked. Dad was what they called the straw boss. He started pickers on the right row so they didn't skip a row or get on one already picked...." Ruth Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message .