Bio: Fisher, Bill

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Fisher, Thompson, Horn, Hanna, Machlett

----Source: Family Scrapbook

"I have fine reminiscences of our boyhood days when it was so much fun to walk the roads barefoot in the summer with the dust oozing up between our toes.

I will never forget the first time I became conscious of sophisticated civilization in other areas of our beloved country. A large, open touring car detouring from the historic Yellowstone Trail, just south of town, stopped at old Machlett's hardware Store for additional gasoline which the store then carried in limited amounts in five gallon cans, in contrast to the modern filling stations. The occupants of the car were a family attired in the usual linen dusters and visor caps. Immediately, a group of youngsters came to see the strangers. The girl in the back seat, about our age, seemed equally as interested in us natives. When I saw her stare at my bare feet, I perceived somehow there was a class distinction and I must have blushed vividly through my suntan. The next day without revealing why to my chums, Alfred and Ralph Horn and schoolmates Minnie Thompson, Dorothy Horn, Elizabeth Hanna and others, my barefoot days were over."

Submitted by: Bill Fisher