Chapter 11
TERRACE AVENUE
The winter at Good's
Crossing was so difficult and so inconvenient that by February we decided we
should have a better home. That winter my income was better, so we rented the
second house from the end of a long brick "row-house" on Terrace
Avenue in Ephrata. We had a living room, dining room and kitchen on the first
floor; two bedrooms and a bath on the second floor. We also had a nice front
porch and a pipeless furnace in the basement. There was also a hot-water tank
in the basement heated by a bucket-a-day stove. We never had it so nice, all
for eighteen dollars a month.
We moved in on February
15th, 1935 and left on February 15th, 1936, Rice coal was much cheaper than
larger size coal, so I put a piece of wire netting over the grate of the
furnace and a small electric blower an the ash pit door. It worked very well
and we had a warm house with little cost.
Terrace Ave., Ephrata
Before we married Ada had
worked at W. W. Moyer's Knitting Mill. After we were back in Ephrata again she
started working again at Moyer's. We employed a young woman, Mary Troxel, to
keep the children and tend the house.
A few months later on January 6, Ada became ill and the doctor
said that her appendix had to come out. She had surgery and recovered nicely,
but did not return to the factory.
That summer we had
difficulty to get the children to sleep; so we would get into the roadster and
drive around until they slept. They became so spoiled that we had to drive
every evening; maybe only a few blocks around town. Ada would carry Arvilla in
to bed and I carried Jay. After we had more children we learned better methods.