Chapter 12
Toward the end of the year
of 1935 I had almost no work at the shoe factory; maybe one case of shoes a day
for lasting. That meant only about a dollar a day. The row house became too
expensive and my parents again had rooms free in their house; so we moved back
again to another set of rooms. Every time we lived there we had a different part of the house. How else could they have always been a different NEST?
Often, I was finished in the
factory by seven or eight o'clock A.M., so I began finding some carpenter work
on the side. Dan Stauffer, the young man Papa had employed as a helper the year
I started the trade, had by this time opened a machine shop business in
Murrell. He was building a house for himself. I put on the trim for his house
at thirty-five cents an hour. That job lasted a few weeks. Then Ada's brother,
Bishop Amos S. Horst, asked me to help him trim a house he was building in
Akron for Robert Benner. He paid me thirty-seven and one-half cents an hour.
In the meantime Papa got a
job to build a two-story double kitchen to a large stone farmhouse owned by
Mary Geigley. She was making a double house out of it. The farm is on Royer
Road near the creek, one block west of the Rothsville Road. Before we were
finished Ada and I decided to rent the eastern half of that farmhouse.
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