Oh! yes the ice blocks. We had a square sign with different amounts in each corner. You hung it in the window so the ice man would know the amount you wanted. He had thick rubber pads he wore over his shoulders when he carried the ice. Had to remember to dump the water from the pan under the ice box or it would be all over the floor. We have an old ice box in our dining room. It is still usable, and a conversation piece. I remember us putting the butter in a pail and lowering it in the well. Another memory is cutting cardboard and putting it in my shoe to cover the hole. Shoes were rationed and we didn't have a stamp....and maybe not the money. When I was 15 I walked up to the paved road, at the head of Six Mile, got on the bus, alone, and went to Oklahoma City to live with my mother, I am amazed even now to think I had the courage to do that. I do believe it was a strong influence on the person I became and the kind of people WV produces. Clara [email protected] wrote: Mom talked about buying the ice blocks although they had electricity. The last hose she lived in before she married dad had one light fixture. I suppose it just depended on where you lived and your finances. My mother's dad had died when she was a teenager so with no man in the home my grandmother struggled. Where as my dad's home had his parents and so many young men who all worked his family lived a little better as the boys grew up and helped out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "clara russell" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies I lived with my aunt and uncle, Dell & Vosta (Baisden) Miller on Six mile. She made her patterns from paper by looking at the pictures. I wore the dresses to school. When they bought feed Aunt Vosta would go along and pick out the sacks she wanted. Maybe had some at home that she wanted to match. I may be the oldest lady on this BB, I was 76 in Sept. I can remember when we got electricity. At first all we had was electric lights. That was big adventure. I can remember that Henley Miller's family got an electric iron first. One would be waiting to take over as soon as the ironer was tired. They weren't sure how much it would cost to run the iron, so the ironing was done as quickly as possible. When I left WV we still didn't have a refrigerator, Often when I throw food away, I wonder how we kept the food as long as we did. I know I throw away things we have used back then. Clara [email protected] wrote: My grandmother Clark (I was told) ordered one dress from Sears catalog, gently took it apart at the seams, made her a paper pattern and made her dresses from it. Of course she sewed the new one back together. This had to be over 70 years ago. Judi - ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

While we are talking West Virginia Ladies...We had a ICE LADY, yes she delivered the ice in Spring Hill, Kanawha County. Her husband was a cousin of mine. She delivered the ice until about 1947, or so. We had moved to Texas by then, but she delivered to my aunt (no relation to her) until then. I remember her lugging the ice, and we would sneak ice chips off of her truck. My Berry family was in Cabell county, as well as Kanawha and in Louisa Kentucky. Russ Turner The Woodlands, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "clara russell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies re Clara > Oh! yes the ice blocks. We had a square sign with different amounts in > each corner. You hung it in the window so the ice man would know the > amount you wanted. He had thick rubber pads he wore over his shoulders > when he carried the ice. Had to remember to dump the water from the pan > under the ice box or it would be all over the floor. > We have an old ice box in our dining room. It is still usable, and a > conversation piece. > I remember us putting the butter in a pail and lowering it in the well. > Another memory is cutting cardboard and putting it in my shoe to cover the > hole. Shoes were rationed and we didn't have a stamp....and maybe not the > money. > When I was 15 I walked up to the paved road, at the head of Six Mile, got > on the bus, alone, and went to Oklahoma City to live with my mother, > I am amazed even now to think I had the courage to do that. I do believe > it was a strong influence on the person I became and the kind of people WV > produces. > Clara > > [email protected] wrote: Mom talked about buying the ice blocks > although they had electricity. > The last hose she lived in before she married dad had one light fixture. > I suppose it just depended on where you lived and your finances. > My mother's dad had died when she was a teenager so with no man in the > home > my grandmother struggled. > Where as my dad's home had his parents and so many young men who all > worked > his family lived a little better as the boys grew up and helped out. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "clara russell" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:08 PM > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies > > > I lived with my aunt and uncle, Dell & Vosta (Baisden) Miller on Six mile. > She made her patterns from paper by looking at the pictures. I wore the > dresses to school. > When they bought feed Aunt Vosta would go along and pick out the sacks she > wanted. Maybe had some at home that she wanted to match. > I may be the oldest lady on this BB, I was 76 in Sept. > I can remember when we got electricity. At first all we had was electric > lights. That was big adventure. I can remember that Henley Miller's > family > got an electric iron first. One would be waiting to take over as soon as > the ironer was tired. They weren't sure how much it would cost to run the > iron, so the ironing was done as quickly as possible. When I left WV we > still didn't have a refrigerator, Often when I throw food away, I wonder > how we kept the food as long as we did. I know I throw away things we > have > used back then. > Clara > > > [email protected] wrote: My grandmother Clark (I was told) ordered > one dress from Sears catalog, gently took it apart at the seams, made her > a > paper pattern and made her dresses from it. Of course she sewed the new > one > back together. > This had to be over 70 years ago. > Judi > > - > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As I think of these things mother told us, she told them in a way of a story but not complaining. She was just looking back, but she never complained about her life and home, she love West Virginia, no matter what the style of it was. The ice carrier came by on a horse drawn cart as I recall. It was something the children looked forward to seeing. Mother wanted to go higher than 8th grade in school so badly, she did well in school. She went to Mt Gay. But her dad was strict/protective and she would have had to ride a train, he did not want her "out in the world", and would not allow her to go. I don't believe she ever got over that. For many years we always went home for Thanksgiving. Usually to my grandmother Clark's at Turtle Creek where she lived in a house on my dad's brother Carlos Clark's property. It was a quick trip home but I always miss Thanksgiving that way. :) Judi ----- Original Message ----- From: "clara russell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies re Clara Oh! yes the ice blocks. We had a square sign with different amounts in each corner. You hung it in the window so the ice man would know the amount you wanted. He had thick rubber pads he wore over his shoulders when he carried the ice. Had to remember to dump the water from the pan under the ice box or it would be all over the floor. We have an old ice box in our dining room. It is still usable, and a conversation piece. I remember us putting the butter in a pail and lowering it in the well. Another memory is cutting cardboard and putting it in my shoe to cover the hole. Shoes were rationed and we didn't have a stamp....and maybe not the money. When I was 15 I walked up to the paved road, at the head of Six Mile, got on the bus, alone, and went to Oklahoma City to live with my mother, I am amazed even now to think I had the courage to do that. I do believe it was a strong influence on the person I became and the kind of people WV produces. Clara [email protected] wrote: Mom talked about buying the ice blocks although they had electricity. The last hose she lived in before she married dad had one light fixture. I suppose it just depended on where you lived and your finances. My mother's dad had died when she was a teenager so with no man in the home my grandmother struggled. Where as my dad's home had his parents and so many young men who all worked his family lived a little better as the boys grew up and helped out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "clara russell" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies I lived with my aunt and uncle, Dell & Vosta (Baisden) Miller on Six mile. She made her patterns from paper by looking at the pictures. I wore the dresses to school. When they bought feed Aunt Vosta would go along and pick out the sacks she wanted. Maybe had some at home that she wanted to match. I may be the oldest lady on this BB, I was 76 in Sept. I can remember when we got electricity. At first all we had was electric lights. That was big adventure. I can remember that Henley Miller's family got an electric iron first. One would be waiting to take over as soon as the ironer was tired. They weren't sure how much it would cost to run the iron, so the ironing was done as quickly as possible. When I left WV we still didn't have a refrigerator, Often when I throw food away, I wonder how we kept the food as long as we did. I know I throw away things we have used back then. Clara [email protected] wrote: My grandmother Clark (I was told) ordered one dress from Sears catalog, gently took it apart at the seams, made her a paper pattern and made her dresses from it. Of course she sewed the new one back together. This had to be over 70 years ago. Judi - ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I applaud your good memory. I remember the house with no electric, no bathroom, and feed sack dresses. I can remember putting cardboard in shoes too, we probably didn't have the money either or a ration stamp to buy a pair. I still have the old oil lamp we used. I can remember when we first got the electric and like you, it was only for the lights. One light in the center of each room. I can remember the ice man coming and the thick rubber pad he wore. I was real young at the time but we had that ice box a long time after we got a refrigerator. I had forgotten about us having an ice box. Thanks for the walks down memory lane. I really enjoy all the stories of yesteyears. Keep them coming. Beulah McLemore Keeping in Touch Keeps Friendship Growing -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of clara russell Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies re Clara Oh! yes the ice blocks. We had a square sign with different amounts in each corner. You hung it in the window so the ice man would know the amount you wanted. He had thick rubber pads he wore over his shoulders when he carried the ice. Had to remember to dump the water from the pan under the ice box or it would be all over the floor. We have an old ice box in our dining room. It is still usable, and a conversation piece. I remember us putting the butter in a pail and lowering it in the well. Another memory is cutting cardboard and putting it in my shoe to cover the hole. Shoes were rationed and we didn't have a stamp....and maybe not the money. When I was 15 I walked up to the paved road, at the head of Six Mile, got on the bus, alone, and went to Oklahoma City to live with my mother, I am amazed even now to think I had the courage to do that. I do believe it was a strong influence on the person I became and the kind of people WV produces. Clara [email protected] wrote: Mom talked about buying the ice blocks although they had electricity. The last hose she lived in before she married dad had one light fixture. I suppose it just depended on where you lived and your finances. My mother's dad had died when she was a teenager so with no man in the home my grandmother struggled. Where as my dad's home had his parents and so many young men who all worked his family lived a little better as the boys grew up and helped out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "clara russell" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] W.Va ladies I lived with my aunt and uncle, Dell & Vosta (Baisden) Miller on Six mile. She made her patterns from paper by looking at the pictures. I wore the dresses to school. When they bought feed Aunt Vosta would go along and pick out the sacks she wanted. Maybe had some at home that she wanted to match. I may be the oldest lady on this BB, I was 76 in Sept. I can remember when we got electricity. At first all we had was electric lights. That was big adventure. I can remember that Henley Miller's family got an electric iron first. One would be waiting to take over as soon as the ironer was tired. They weren't sure how much it would cost to run the iron, so the ironing was done as quickly as possible. When I left WV we still didn't have a refrigerator, Often when I throw food away, I wonder how we kept the food as long as we did. I know I throw away things we have used back then. Clara [email protected] wrote: My grandmother Clark (I was told) ordered one dress from Sears catalog, gently took it apart at the seams, made her a paper pattern and made her dresses from it. Of course she sewed the new one back together. This had to be over 70 years ago. Judi - ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Radio! Do you remember radio? Before electricity we had one hooked to a car battery. You could hardly understand it for all the static. Grand Old Opery on Saturday and for a special treat the Lone Ranger or the Green Hornet and remember the Shadow, the shadow knows. And the "stories" (soap operas) if all the work was done and the battery was charged or later when we had it to electricity. Real smoke house hams, fried chicken on Sunday. Blackberry jam and cobblers. No blackberries left now though. The hillsides and the valleys covered in crops. The outhouse in winter or on Halloween when the bad boys like Shelby turned them over. Clara Weatherford, TX Beulah McLemore <[email protected]> wrote: I applaud your good memory. I remember the house with no electric, no bathroom, and feed sack dresses. I can remember putting cardboard in shoes too, we probably didn't have the money either or a ration stamp to buy a pair. I still have the old oil lamp we used. I can remember when we first got the electric and like you, it was only for the lights. One light in the center of each room. I can remember the ice man coming and the thick rubber pad he wore. I was real young at the time but we had that ice box a long time after we got a refrigerator. I had forgotten about us having an ice box. Thanks for the walks down memory lane. I really enjoy all the stories of yesteyears. Keep them coming. - ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:23 PM, clara russell wrote: > Oh! yes the ice blocks ...... Clara Having grown up in a remote country environment, I don't relate to ice deliveries at ones house although my grandmother owned one of the old time ice boxes. My memory takes a slightly different slant. My great grandfather, Charlie Ferg Stewart, had on his place at the mouth of Coon Branch the remains of an old ice house that had served him and his father before him as a storage place for ice during the summer. I was told that during the winter when the river was frozen, the men would gather ice from the Laural Fork, saw it into blocks with a crosscut saw and store it in the ice house for very selective use the following summer. The ice was covered with several inches of sawdust as insulation and would be available most of the summer. One thing that intrigues me is that they were able to find ice that was thick enough to make it all worthwhile. As a boy I could sometimes skate on the river, but due to pollutants, the rivers in that part of the country rarely freeze solid anymore. If Al Gore had known, he could have devoted an entire chapter of his book to southern WV rivers . STAN