1944 tidbits

From the August 3, 1944 issue of The Sutton News we learn of the second sale of the local sale barn within a short period with Alex MacDonald buying the business.

The banker was a handyman.

Writing the weekly history column for the newspaper provides exposure to the minutia of the past. Here is where our neighbor bought his farm in 1944. They were within rural District #16 where Jerry Erickson entered kindergarten in the final year of the school when I was in the fifth grade. The next year we were all town kids.