Also, remember the big penny sugar or ginger cakes. Imagine a penny buying anything like that today. Schlecht's also made their own ice cream, but only in the summer. There was no ice cream in town in the winter until Coxey open his restaurant and made ice cream year 'round.

One corner of Coxey's restaurant was covered with tobacco juice and another corner was full of ice cream. The board of health today would close him up in a hurry!

At the back of Schlecht's stood a big can of milk with a ladle in it. One took one's own tin milk pail with a round, push-down top and ladle milk into it from the large can. The price was 10 cents or 11 cents a quart. Another "no-no" for the board of health today.

Schlecht's bread on a tray of six loaves for a quarter could be purchased, wrapped in white paper and tied with a string and carried home. Schlect's called it "Mother's Bread."

Reilly's Academy at one time had some girl students. Wire was placed over the windows of the building where they were housed to keep the boys out and the girls in. Eventually, the girl students had to be discontinued.

Howard Griffeth remembers as a young man that he had the job of pumping the organ by hand in the Episcopal Church. It had to be pumped up at least once each service. At his own wedding, he had to pump it up before the service (tuxedo and all) and as guests were leaving the church, the organ quit!

Remembering these bits of nostalgia is so pleasurable, and they remind us of other things that we enjoyed way back then.