| Summary: | of the choir. Barbara as soloist in the choir made a goodwill tour to Iceland. Barbara is married to Dr. Phil Griffin, Malstrom Airforce, Great Falls. Rebecca Marie our second girl has her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She graduated with honors, Cum Laude, and has a position with Public Health Dept. in Tacoma, Wash. Our son David Albert, is a student at Concordia College where he will be a Junior this school year. David likes sports and earned letters in football, basketball and track in high school, also was picked on the Little All America in football his senior year when he was the leading scorer in the state of North Dakota. He plays fullback on the first eleven at Concordia. - As a senior at Crosby High-he was chosen by the faculty to receive the Kiwanis award. Charles Fredrick is the youngest and has finished his freshman year in Crosby High. He likes sports too. Mrs. Heide is a graduate of Minot Teachers College and has attended Valley City Normal taking a summer course. Then she has taken several special courses at the University Center in Williston. She has taught school for seventeen years. She was district president of the Women's Missionary Federation for several years. Some of the memories from childhood on the farm during the early years-recalls one day when I was about 7 -and my brother Christian 9, my father had gone to Alkabo, with a load of grain-mother came to us and suggested that we surprise dad by milking the cows for him. We had 5 milk cows, and were eager to do as mother had suggested, so we proceeded to the pasture some distance away and corraled the cows. They were a bit surprised to have us little fellows milking for the first time, but we finally had milked two cows a piece, and had left a big red cow until the last-so we sat down one on each side of her and proceeded to milk into the one pail directly under the udder-this was a good milker and it took us so long to milk her that she tried to lie down many times before we were thru. Thus began the job of milking which became a regular experience from then on. . . Another job which I remember doing at regular intervals was to go along over to the strawpile and fill several homemade mattress cover with wheat or rye straw. This was clone for economic reasons, and I believe for the first 15 years we slept on homemade mattresses and believe me they were as good as any best commercial ones. The town of Alkabo got its name from the two words Alkali and Gumbo, by taking a part of each of these two words. Two things that I remember as a part of good training as I see it-one was that my father told us that he expected us to begin doing some work every day at age 8,-the other was how we were impressed of the value of money and the importance of spending it with utmost frugality. and filed on a homestead in Daneville Township. They spent the fall and winter on a farm near Oslo, Minn, and in the spring of 1906 came to Langdon, N. Dak., where Fred worked on a farm owned by Dan Hart. In early November, Fred and Bertha and their two sons, Christian and Albert, set out for Ambrose. The train arrived in the evening and being young and ambitious Fred was up very early the next morning. He had been speculating on how they would be able to get out to the homestead, as well as how to get the lumber (first of all how he would be able to get the lumber dealer to understand what he wanted), and then how to get the lumber out to the building site. He was waiting at the door of the lumber yard office when they opened for business. Imagine his surprise to find another newcomer, Harold Borg, employed at the Kulaas Lumber Yard, who spoke his own native tongue and also assured him there would soon be another homesteader along who had already seen him about a possible job of hauling lumber out to the homestead. After a short conversation he stated that for $5.00 he would deliver the lumber to the homestead building site. He stated emphatically, "Give me the description of your land and the lumber will be there when you get there." This was agreed upon and Fred spent the whole next day looking for the lumber. Fred reasoned that he had perhaps made the mistake of unloading the lumber in section 10-161-101. However, there was a small slough in the extreme NE corner of the land, and here he found the lumber unloaded and hidden from view by the tall slough grass. This was a happy surprise and Fred hurried across the prairie to the home of a neighbor, L. O. Bloom. Bloom with his young wife and two daughters, Cora and Myrtle had come a short time before and had been building their house. He had invited Fred to stay with them while building his house. Fred walked around the house looking for the door and after the third time around Mr. Bloom opened a window and invited him in. Bloom's hadn't made a door to their house yet so they entered thru the window. When Bloom learned of Fred's plight with the lumber in the slough, he said he had a couple of halter ropes that they could perhaps tie together. This was done and Fred spent much of the next day dragging the lumber to the west end of his homestead, using the rope and tieing it around as much lumber as he could handle with the rope over his shoulder. His carpenter tools consisted of a saw, square and hammer. With these tools he proceeded at once to build his first home in a new land. On completion of the house he had a couple of 2x4's left, each 8 feet long and from these he made a pair of skis. They came in very handy as he and the neighbors used them to go to the Rolson Post Office and Store for groceries and mail. This Rolson store was a distance of about 6 miles and the neighbors would take turns going to the store for groceries and supplies for each other. FREDRIK HEIDE Fredrik Heide came to Canton, S. Dak., together with his wife Bertha in 1904 and to Divide County in 1905 The winter of 1906-1907, stood out reportedly as the most severe winter in 50 years, and our house being built on the south slope was soon drifted over completely with snow, with only the stovepipe seen sticking out of the snow. ISO Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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