Chapter 18
SOUTH STATE STREET IN EPHRATA
The house we rented was on
the east side of South State Street between Sunset Avenue and King Street. A
widow, Emma W. Frank, would lease only for five months. I had to pay $50.00
"under the table" for the lease. Rents were frozen and she wanted
more than the former rental. The rent was twenty-five dollars a month and we
lived there from November l, 1944 until the last day of March the next year.
It was a large frame house
with all the conveniences and heated by a coal stoker fired hot water system.
It was also equipped with "water-bugs" and "roaches". I
never saw so many roaches until we got to Belize.
328 S. State St., Ephrata, PA
By that time I was again
using the old Chevy, but I now walked the four blocks to Moyer's. I remember
taking some walks around town with Arvilla. She would have been ten years old.
Dr. Reynolds delivered our
fourth child, John Eric, in that house on February 11th, 1945.
On public sale
on December 16th, 1944 we bought a large rundown old stone house in Murrell
from the estate of Harriet Stover for $3630.00. We took possession January 6th,
1945 and I began remodeling. I had six rooms restored and ready by the time our
lease expired. We moved to Murrell on March 31st, 1945.