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D.] ARCHIVES "NATIONAL AND RECOROS SERVICE When I qudiated from High Schoolin May 1901 there yould he some chance educa it was expected by the family and the the that tion. Difficulting overtook us which resultedia the home place at Wald. and River Blad in In - the loss of the family farm of 160 aces and of dependence. It Mas necessary that some ad- dition he made to the family mcone income S. goot outht reader L. J.Smith He was fuilding a a job as ticackeeper oa a Gailrood construction little double track for the Sante Fe Railroad from a place name d Eton to Sheffield, a safurt Hausas City they salary was 35th a month and of hoard. There mere three construction Comps about fine miles apart It was my jot to check they was furnithed with a tricgle car. St power that mean at each of there comps tine daily by hand and punnished the possen The workmen there hotos and they worked for one need end dunk Payday was every from pay day to pay day to get enough money tero meeks. If a moa other his pay under the teranceks time he was discounted tea per ceat. Daily pay was fifteen ceasts an hour for teahoms /