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* I lived in Kokomo (at the age of 10) for one school year ~ * 4th grade ~ it's about 25 miles from Marion.
My dad had rented a small chicken farm and we had "Omish" families as our neighbors. Our school was out in the country and we rode a very cold school bus ~ The "stick your tongue on the hand rail in front of you" kind ~ and it would stay stuck till you got to school!
The nice part of that school year was it ended: in April ~ So the spring farmers could have their little helping hands at home to work. I don't think we had day-light-savings time (DLST came a few years later); However, we knew it was day light.
Our "Omish" friends were neat. They had cool hair cuts, wore black and white outfits, and rode in one horse carraiges. My dad said they would buy retired harness race horses and had fast transportation. Some might consider these as "hard times"; But that's not how I remember it ~ They may have been simple times; However, filled with wonderful memories!
We lived in an old farm house. It was small and I can still smell the "coal-oil" odor that filled the house. We had eggs (fried, poached, hard-boiled,etc.) for breakfast. We took our lunches to school and would come home to tend our chores, after which, we had a great supper!
My Dad who was selling life insurance for The Prudential Insurance Company before WW2 (1941-1945) and was forced to do a war effort job; was back in sales. He now sold hospital supplies for The Continental Hospital Company, with an "Indiana" territory.
He moved us from Kokomo to Jonesboro (6 miles south of Marion) in 1946. This was a small town of 1600 pop. it didn't have a theater or even a bank. We had to go to Gas City 3300 pop. to go to a movie and open a savings account.
It was here in Jonesboro, that I got my first selling job. My friend Wilber Webb and I worked in his dad's drug store: Webb's Drug. We worked behind the soda fountain and waited on other customers when Mr.Webb was out of the store.