There were no cars at this time.  Wagon and buckboards were the only means of transportation.  There were no paved roads and streets.  Doctors weren't available so midwives such as Mrs. Titus Boerm and Mrs. Ernst Haertig, Sr. were used very often.  In 1909 Norma, the oldest of the children on the farm, returned to Runge to marry Richard Natho.  They had been sweethearts  before the move to Woodsboro.

 

After about seven years on the Winter's place, William had itchy feet again.  This time he sold the farm and built a nice home of the south edge of Woodsboro on what is now called the Walzel or Tuttle place.  It was in this house that Lillie and Eddie were married to Willie Haertig and Ida Walzel.  William opened a confec- tionary and butcher shop in town.  He sold Irish potatoes, onions, apples and bananas, candy and cold drinks.  The business lasted for only a short time and William moved once again.

 

This time is was back to a farm on the present Jurica place.  Again a house was built, but it was smaller than the house in town since  the children  were growing older and moving out on their own.  Not  much else is remembered  about this particular home.

 

Wanderlust once more got the best of William Schlabach after a few years.  He sold a bought a farm across from present Voges Hall in Bonnie View owned by a Mr. Hartman.  With the help of Loui Piehl he built a two-story house on the land.  it was actually more like a story-and-a-half.  Perry, the youngest child, underwent an appendicitis operation as a young man upstairs in this house.  It was about that time that Eddie returned from World  War I action in France.

   

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