MY STORY

21 OCTOBER 1924 TWIN GROVES IDAHO

IT'S ANOTHER GIRL

IS THIS HOW MY BIRTH WAS ANNOUNCED OR DID DAD DO AS HE DID WHEN JOSSINE WAS BORN?? HE CAME TO THE SCHOOL TO TELL OUR TEACHERS THAT WE HAD ANOTHER BABY AND IT WAS A GIRL. I NEVER THOUGHT TO ASK ABOUT HOW THAT HAPPENED. DID MOM HAVE TO WRITE HER FAMILY IN TEXAS TO LET THEM KNOW??? IT IS OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE HOWEVER AS I DID ARRIVE ON A DAY WITH ENOUGH SNOW THAT DAD HAD TO HOOK UP THE HORSES TO THE SLEIGH TO BRING THE DR. TO OUR HOME FOR MY DELIVERY. WHO ASSISTED? I DON'T KNOW AS MOM HADN'T STARTED THAT OCCUPATION AS YET WITH THE DR. THAT DELIVERED ME. THAT CAME LATER AND A DIFFERENT DR.

I JOINED THE FAMILY OF JOHN WILLIAM AND MILLIE BAKER FARRIMOND IN WHAT WAS ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS "THE BIG HOUSE" THERE WAS BONNIE DARLEEN, ALBERTA, RUTH AND BAKER. TIMES WERE FAIRLY GOOD AT THAT TIME JUST BEFORE THE GREAT DEPRESSION STARTED.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN IN MAY OR JUNE BEFORE THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN THAT MOM WAS IN TOWN AND I WAS CRYING LOUDLY. A MAN STEPPED OUT OF THE DRUG STORE AND APPROACHED MOM ABOUT WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE BABY. HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID "YOU'RE STARVING THIS BABY". THE MAN WAS DR. T.A ELLISON AND BECAME OUR DR. AS MOM FELT HE SAVED MY LIFE. I SUPPOSE I WAS PUT ON STRAIGHT FROM THE COW MILK AS I WAS PUT ON A BOTTLE AND WE HAD COWS. I AM PRETTY SURE FORMULA CAME MUCH LATER. IS IT ANY WONDER I CAN'T TOLERATE MILK?

ABOUT THE CIRCUS DAD TOOK THE OLDER KIDS TO THE CIRCUS AND WHEN THEY CAME HOME, RUTH WAS TELLING ALL ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD SEEN AT THE AGE OF 4. SHE SAID THERE WAS SMIDGETS THERE JUST LIKE DONNA THUS I GOT MY NICKNAME OF MIDGET, AND SOME CALLED ME SMIDGE. I DROPPED THAT AS SOON AS I GREW UP AND REQUESTED STRONGLY NO MORE OF THAT. IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE I WAS EVER THAT LITTLE ANYWAY.

DECEMBER 4TH 1924 I WAS BLESSED BY OUR BISHOP E. P. PETERSON IN THE TWIN GROVES WARD. I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING THAT PROMISED BUT I DID GET A NAME TO CARRY THROUGH OUT MY LIFE.

JUST TO LET YOU ALL KNOW AS I DO MY STORY I WILL ALSO DEVIATE A BIT TO ADD IN THE HAPPENINGS OF THIS DAY WEEK MONTH AND YEAR AS I REMEMBER IT THEN PICK UP ON MY STORY. I THINK WE HAD SUCH A SWEET CONFERENCE AND I'D FORGOTTEN HOW OUR PRESIDENT WAS SUSTAINED SINCE PRES. HINCKLEY WAS IN SO LONG. I APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF BEING AROUND FOR THIS SPECIAL OCCASION. ENOUGH FOR NOW IF YOU FIND ME BORING JUST SAY SO AND I'LL TRY NOT TO BORE YOU MORE. GRANDMA