Saturday, November 4, 2017

Day 323 CJSM-book IV


Day 323

 

Candy buttons from Georgie May

 

 

When we lived on our farm at Maeystown, we dropped the kids at the town Post Office to wait for the school bus; after Beth turned 16 they didn’t need public transportation.

The kids had a ball waiting at the Post Office as Candy’s aunt Lillian was the Post Mistress for the town; in the spring she often received shipments of baby chicks for one of the citizens; the kids just loved petting the feathered-friends while waiting for the bus.

Kids seem to manage to make “Good”---“Better”. An elderly woman lived in the village and she befriended the kids as they gathered in front of her “once” grocery store; to make a “happy”-buck, Georgie May would sell the urchins stale-candy from some by-gone era. We learned that the favorite of her “patrons” was “candy-buttons” on a strip of white wax paper.

As Becky ascended the “grade”-ladder and she grew into maturity, of a sort, she began meeting her “chauffeur” after school at the local tavern, Hoeft’s, where she ran a “candy tab”.

Mom Candy would go in to visit proprietor “Rick” on Wednesday to pay Becky’s sweet-bill when we retrieved the children to drive them home. Always an adventure to be uncovered!

With a sense-of-humor attitude, all things can be accomplished for Good!

 
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “Just put it on my tab!” Memories!

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