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Show Sterling Starr and Alva were across the street and they played with us. We had a club, a piano box which we had papered and met often in it. Mother made us delicious pineapple sherbet which we churned in a hand ice-cream freeze then sold a dish for 10 cents to Orville and Gifford'’s friends. We made o $1.80 or a little more and then we put it in a nice little basket, pretty round one, put it in the piano box with a 15 cent lock and that night, someone stole the money. We often felt we knew who took it but were never really sure. We never got the money back. Sterling took Beth to a show often. We remained good friends with the Starrs for life. Mother and Mrs. Starr were fast friends. Beth became very popular and had many boy friends who thought 4 lot of her. One thing about Beth, she always went with the first fellow who asked her. Keith Wainsguard brought her beautiful flowers from their garden. He lived out at Five Points and they had a grocery store out there. And then she went with o Emmett boy and I think he was president of the student body at high school. He came in his upright Ford and took her out. President David oO. McKay's grandson, Ron Morrell, took her out, Delt Bramell dated her, and then the fellow who became a doctor gave her a beautiful sewing basket filled with chocolates. She'd taste one and if it didn't appeal to her, Shell and I could eat them. And she kept that basket for as long as I knew. It was a very fine sewing basket. One other boy who played the guitar liked Beth. I remember he had lots of pimples. He had a picture of Beth and he was called on a mission and while gone sent her a picture of Beth along with himself side by side. And she didn't like this much. And she went with Jay Glen, a twin, his folks owned the music store in Ogden. And when the circus came to town, Mother suggested that they take Sheldon and I to the circus. Well, Beth had a lovely mesh bag which she loved and it was stepped on and broken. And then Beth attended Weber College and became president of the girls association. They had a dance where the girls invited the boys. And Beth told me that she was going to ask Raymond Price so she took me over along Jefferson Avenue where she said we could see him and when we arrived, there was this fellow in his shorts and he came along and she pointed him out and all I said was "You mean that pink-haired boy?" Anyway she asked him. And he never took another girl other than Beth after that. And during the summer, Ray had 4 job with the Parr Ice Company delivering ice. He drove the wagon and always stopped at our house and sat on the steps to visit with Beth for about an hour and then we had an opportunity to get some ice out of the wagon while he was there. And with us. Mother's years. then She with we moved to 578 23rd ST. and grandma came to live had gotten forgetful. She had a room off Dad's and a sliding door between. And she vas with us for ten |