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which made their hair easy to cut. The four girls never seemed to have a cross word when
they all played with each other.

Very often Fay and Opal spent the night with us. Just before their bedtime, Eric
bought a couple of quarts of ice cream at the drugstore across the street, and we all1 filled up
on ice cream that night. When Ma and Pa picked up the girls, they cried because they wanted
to stay with us.
As time went by, we had more and more company. We liked having company, but we

hardly knew many of these persons. They would just amble in off the street so we decided to
rent an apartment a little farther away from the center of town.
We got an apartment on West Duval Street right where Popeye’s Fried Chicken is

now. The apartment was in a large, two-story house owned by my great-uncle, Guy Gillen.
He was Grandma Gillen Dicks’s brother. Guy Gillen was the county judge for many years.
Uncle Guy and his wife lived in this house, too, but his wife was so nosy! We stayed there
for one month.

Mr. Fred Young and a relative of Eric’s owned two rental houses together. They
offered to let us buy one and pay for it just like paying rent. We accepted their offer and
moved into 215 South First Street in June 1928—the same house that I live in today. We

have added on to it and spent enough on it to build a new home.
I’m really glad now that I don’t have a bigger home. The taxes would be eating me up.
This old house is really fixed where it’s convenient. The house is more than I need now and
more than I can keep clean. We’ve had a Hot of enjoyable times, and the house is filled with

many memories.

We had a German shepherd named “Rex.” Every time I got into the car, Rex jumped
onto the fender and sat between the fender and the engine on the driver’s side; his ears

always perked straight up. Rex would stay right there on the car until I came back—and
nobody would get near that car. If anyone approached the car, Rex warned him off with a
husky growl, showed his teeth, and raised his bristles which were darker than the rest of his

coat. If someone didn’t heed Rex’s warning, Rex would go right for the throat. I could park
anywhere because I knew Rex wouldn’t let anyone touch me or the car.

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