143. Continuing Ruth Allen Miles' autobiography -- trials and lovely moments.
This is a continuation of my mother Ruth Allen Miles's life, as she wrote it. Her life story began in blog # 137, continued 138, 139, 140, 141, and 142. Her birthday was May 10, 1908, and this May she would have reached age 106! As Mother's Day approaches, I want to finish her writings in a few more entries. Often her birthday was on or very near Mother's Day. Her writing continued: The summer before the government had paid farmers $12 a head to kill their beef cattle because of the oversupply and depression. They were not allowed to sell the meat but could use it "for their own families." We went out to Panguitch when Earl killed several. He gave us 2 veal (young beef) which we bottled. That was our meat for a few years. The next winter Pratt was feeling some better. Mother was with us. We had 2 darling little girls and were doing a lot of public singing. We now...