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his place and served until the Presiding Judge became dissatisfied because
I gave the County too much for the money. In the meantime Congressman
Borland appointed me Postmaster at Grandview. I let a widow woman who was
helping to raise and educate her younger sisters and brothers run the office
as Assistant Postmaster and take the pay which amounted to about $50.00 a month -
a lot of money in those days. It would have paid two farm hands.
RECORDS
of
Es SERVICE*
After moving to the farm in 1906 my attendance at Battery drills
in the National Guamd were not as regular as they had been while I was working
at the Bank. Nevertheless I attended as often as I could and kept up my
contacts with the members of the organization. When the Missouri National
Guard went to the Border in 1916 the whole burden of running that six hundred
acre farm fell on my shoulders and I couldn't go. It was a real regret that
I didn't get that Mexican Border training.
When President Wilson declared war on April 6, 1917, I helped
I
to expand BatteryA/s B and C into a regiment. At the organization of
Battery FI was elected a lst Lieutenant. I had not expected to be more
than a 2nd Lieutenant and would have been happy just to remain a sergeant.
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