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" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> 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