Sis, Bud, Felix and I were confirmed at St. John’s Schubert. Sis and Bud never did get to go to high school. Sis worked for Wilford’s and Schuberts’ our next door neighbors. In order to make some kind of contribution to St.John’s, I was a janitor of sorts. I had to go up and build a fire in the church furnace. My first paid job was for Charlie Wilford. I helped him candle eggs, then he gave me a putty knife and I went inside the incubators and scraped chicken poop off of the bottom of the incubators… Ha! For that I got 35 cents per day.
Felix went to high school for about two and a half years. Later when he went to the CCC camp, they gave him a night watchman’s job and he finished high school at Mexico, Mo.
Margie started high school while at Schubert and also took confirmation instructions from Rev. Schmaltz in Jefferson City. I attended high school one year while we lived at Selma’s place.
After Felix left for the CCC camp, I took over the newspaper route. Bud and Felix were paid $30.00 per month while in the CCC camps. $25 of it was sent to Mom and Daddy and they got to keep $5.00 per month. I think the rule was that only one family member could be in the CCC’s and you were limited to two years.
When Bud got out, Felix went in, but Bud seemed to have worked himself into some kind of a position that they couldn’t do without him. He was the mess sergeant. So they were both in the CCC’s for a while.