HODGE:  Well it’s really a privilege to have the opportunity to interview Honora Bauman. You are a lifelong resident of Tuolumne County, and we’d like to use this for the Columbia College Oral History series. So may they have your permission to do so.

BAUMAN:  Yeah, surely.

HODGE:  OK. Today is June 29^th, 1989, and we are visiting in the home of Ms. Bauman. Would you tell us about the first members of your family who came to Tuolumne County?

BAUMAN:  Uh, well, my grandfather, Bauman, came to Tuolumne County, uh, I have the information, I shouldn’t have taken it out. He came here when he was about 16 years old, and he worked in the brewery over in Columbia, then somehow or other he collected enough money to buy the brewery in Sonora. And he ran it for many many years, making beer and porter and ale. And my father worked for him, and delivered it around the county. My grandfather went back East and married my grandmother, and brought her out. And they had eight children. And she died in childbirth, with her eighth child. And then my grandfather remarried and had two more daughters. And they lived in the old home, which was at the Y, which is now Columbia Way, through the center, and the old home straddled the two from Columbia Way, to Shaw’s Flat Road. Then on the other side of the family, my grandfather – I don’t know just what year he came up. But he came out around 18- close to 1860 I would have thought. And um, he came out to find gold in the streets. But he didn’t find it. But he did have a trade – he was a moulder, in a foundry. So that he was able to earn a living that way. Then he sent for my grandmother, but I do not know how she got out here. But I do know that – my mother told me – that she, my grandmother, said that when she met my grandfather, in Stockton I think, that she expected to see a dressed-up gentleman. And he was not! She was very disappointed. And ??? ??? have them married, in Maine. And then she came out, and he bought this house, not in the shape it’s in now, but on the same foundation, and they lived here. And then when my mother was married to my father, he came here, and built on the house, and I have been here ever since I was born, 83 years ago. My sister was born here, actually my mother was born here. And then that brings us, more or less, up to present time.

HODGE:  And what was your mother’s name?

BAUMAN:  My mother’s name was Mary  Wollister. Her maiden name.

HODGE:  I see. Well, that’s a long time in Tuolumne County. Would you tell us something about your early childhood? Um, on this spot?

BAUMAN:  Well, I don’t remember great things about it, but as I say it was here, and of course we used to play in the streets! When we were children, which we couldn’t possibly do nowadays. And I, right behind the house, right behind here was a little boy about 11 months older than I, and he and I used to play together a great deal. And we used to go to the movies, and then we’d come home, and reenact what we saw in the movies. And we played together until the boy, he got, thought he was too old to play with a girl. And so then, he um, he went on with his boy companions. And his sister was four years younger than I. But we played together somewhat. And then when I started school, I had a, took up with a girl companion and all my way through school I always had a girl companion that I traveled with, and associated with during school time. And of course I went to the Dome, and all through the Dome, and uh, then I went to high school, and I graduated from high school in ’24 (1924)

HODGE:  Here in Sonora.

BAUMAN:  Here in Sonora High School. And then the, I took the teacher’s examination, the same year that I traveled, and then I graduated from high school. I took it that summer, at the superintendent of schools’ office. G. P. Morgan was the superintendent of schools at that time. And passed it, along with my girlfriend. And we got schools, that same September. And I taught in Tuttletown for one year. Then in Tuttletown, with Mrs- I can’t remember her name. And anyhow, they used to bring me to town on Saturday morning, and then a friend of mine would take me back on Sunday night. And then I left there that year, and then I went out to Wards Ferry. ??? Creek, it was called. And I taught there, and lived with the Ed Millers family. And Ray Millers was going to the school. He was, well he was twelve years old I think. And he always said that he got dragged to school because he had to go with a teacher!

HODGE:  And that was the community of Blanket Cave, but the school then was actually called Wards Ferry School. OK, then?

BAUMAN:  I think it was. And it was out on the Millers’ property. And he owned 640 acres out there at that time. And we walked to school. And one incident that I remember particularly was that the only people who lived at the Y, at the Columbia Y, and had cattle, ranged cattle, made arrangements with Ed Millers to range his cattle out on Ed Miller’s property. And of course the Hodge boys were used to dairy cattle. Of course they weren’t used to range cattle. So Mr. Hodge, uh, what was his name.

HODGE:  Albert. The father was Albert.

BAUMAN:  Albert Hodge, sent his boys down to walk to school with me. I was absolutely terrified! And Ray Millers, would tease me of course. And he said “Oh there’s one, there’s one, they come behind this tree”. And so we spent our time dodging behind trees on the way to school. Another incident I remember that um at Christmas time I made a Santa Claus suit, and Joe McCullock was Santa Claus. And we had a nice Christmas tree and we had candles on it. And I lighted the candles. And Joe reached over on the tree for something and caught his Santa Claus suit afire. And Ed Millers, of course, immediately, he was the Assistant Ranger,  he immediately grabbed hold and tore the suit off of Joe, and then someone grabbed the Christmas tree and threw it outside. And Ed was a little bit upset about the fact that I had lighted candles on the tree way out there in the country. But there were no casualties excepting the Santa Claus suit. So everything came out all right. And then another time, we put on a little show there, Little Black Sambo. And I think I should have had pictures of it but I can’t find them. And Joe McCullock was Nabby, and Ray was little Black Sambo. And the little Hodge boys were somebody or other, and little Rose Marie Millers, who was only about four years old, brought out, I made sort of a ballet costume for her, and she brought out the placards which told what was going on in the show. And everybody in the neighborhood came. It was outdoors. Everybody in the neighborhood came and watched the show, enjoyed the show. And I’m sure I have pictures. I made a um, tiger, tiger costume and somebody was a tiger.

HODGE:  Oh, my.

BAUMAN:  Then a, well, I said we walked to school, it was quite a little distance. And I just taught there, I taught one year lived at the Millers,

HODGE:  But that house was rather small, did you have that front bedroom, was that for you?

BAUMAN:  Yes.

HODGE:  And then just behind that room, was that a second bedroom or was that a dining room?

BAUMAN:  Yes, uh, I think Mrs. Millers had that bedroom. And then over across from the living room there was another bedroom and Ed and Ray I think had that bedroom.

HODGE:  Kind of off the front porch there.

BAUMAN:  Yeah. And um, then the two – I don’t remember where the other two children, maybe the ??? ??? minded them in that bedroom also.  I guess maybe Rose Marie was with her mother, then I had the best bedroom, of course. But there was no electricity, there was no running water, there was no bathroom, and we just got by the best way we could.

HODGE:  Did they have a little pitcher pump? A little hand pump?

BAUMAN:  They must have had – I don’t remember that too much. But the privy of course was outside! And so then I lived there the one year. And then Mrs. Millers became pregnant again. So next year I moved down to the Fitzgerald ranch, with Anne Crane. And she – they had electricity.

HODGE:  Oh!

BAUMAN:  And I think they had running water. Seems to me they did. Jim Lasante lived there. And he was very handy with a lot of different things. And he may have managed to put in running water.

HODGE:  Perhaps it came gravity from somewhere nearby.

BAUMAN:  Yes. And so that was very much better from before, and they had a bathroom. And of course hot water from the kitchen range. And I remember one incident there, that it um, it was April Fools’ Day and I had never thought anything about it. And I had a private room there. And so I came out for breakfast and Jim said “I’m making pancakes.” Which I should have realized was ridiculous, because Jim never cooked any. So he and Mrs. Crane had contrived to put a layer of the, uh, what do you call – the pancake mix in the pan, then a piece of cloth over that, and then another layer of pancake mix. And he served me these pancakes, you know, and I tried to cut them. Eventually they wouldn’t cut. And of course Anne and he were hilarious, you know, to think they’d gotten the teacher with an April Fool. So anyway I lived there the year and Anne Crane brought me up. She had a car.

HODGE:  Oh, oh, school. I see.

BAUMAN:  And of course the Millers had a car, too. And she brought me up to school, up to the gate at the fence. And then I walked across, Ray would usually meet me there, and sometimes Joe would meet me there. Joe went the first year, Joe McCullock. But I don’t think he graduated. I think he just quit.

HODGE:  Oh, I see.

BAUMAN:  And then the second year, Will McCullock, and his sister Margaret came. And the Hodges, Everett and Chester Hodge. And Isabell, and Eric Richards. They came up on a big white horse. And the horse just stayed all day with a saddle on because I didn’t know anything about it, taking off and putting on the saddle and the children were too small. So the horse just stood all day with a saddle on.

HODGE:  So did they come up a trail, then, or did they come up –

BAUMAN:  They came up somewhere from behind, I don’t know just where the Richards’ ranch was.

HODGE:  Oh, I see.

BAUMAN:  But then the two Mayhall girls came, but I don’t know why they weren’t in the picture. I think they should have been, at that time.

HODGE:  This one you have right here? Could you identify these, from left to right?

BAUMAN:  Yes, I can identify them. It’s a picture of the eight pupils, which was the entire school. They’re sitting on a gate. And I’m standing down below. And the first one is Will McCullock. And Ray Millers, making a face. Isabell Richards, looking at Ray Millers, David Eastman, Chester Hodge, Everett Richards, Everett Hodge, and Margaret McCullock. And it was taken about 1926, I think.

HODGE:  I see.

BAUMAN:  And I can’t offhand remember too many more things about the school.

HODGE:  IS this gate out on the main road, or is this –

BAUMAN:  I don’t know, I can’t remember where that gate was.

HODGE:  Was the school fenced in itself? The schoolyard?

BAUMAN:  Not actually, no. I don’t remember that it was. I think it was just out in the open.

HODGE:  I see. What kind of activities did the children have there? Outside? It’s such a beautiful area. You could do things –

BAUMAN:  Well, they played baseball, and of course they were all such different ages, you know.

HODGE:  Oh, yes.

BAUMAN:  But they played baseball, and handball, and ran around of course, and played Tag, and nothing organized that I remember. I was not musical, I had never had any music, so I persuaded them to buy a phonograph. And so we, and I bought records, that I thought would be appropriate, you know, and so we played records for our music. And I remember that I got some marches, and they marched around the room to the music. And in fact I think the Little Black Sambo thing was on a record, and that’s how I took it off the record in order to have a little show.

HODGE:  I see. That would have had to be one of the hand-cranked models –

BAUMAN:  No, it was a – Oh, yes, it must have been actually. Yes, it had to be.

HODGE:  Because you said you had no electricity.

BAUMAN:  No, had to be. Well, uh, we all, otherwise I don’t remember too much about it. Ray Millers graduated there, and took the county examination, and I was very fearful that he wasn’t going to make it, but he did. And nobody else was old enough at that time, except Joe, but I think he just quit.

HODGE:  Did the children bring other pets to school sometimes?

BAUMAN:  No, I never remember that they ever did. And they were a good group of children, very good group of children. All of them, and paid attention, although I was not experienced in any fashion, but I taught them what I knew.

HODGE:  And what kind of subjects did you cover, then, throughout the year?

BAUMAN:  Well, we had reading, writing and arithmetic, of course. We used the regular state textbooks. But of course they were various grades, there was first grade, and second grade, third grade, then I think there was seventh and eighth I was sure. I could have had some of them even in the middle grades.

HODGE:  I see.

BAUMAN:  So you had, you know, the older people. Pupils would help the younger ones. But It was a question of getting through whatever you could. That was about all it was.

HODGE:  Where was the water source for the school? Do you recall it?

BAUMAN:  No I don’t. But I know that Joe or some of the old ones would get a bucket of water, but where they got it I can’t remember.

HODGE:  I see. And did they have separate cups or did they have a dipper?

BAUMAN:  They just had a dipper. They just kept it outside on the porch. And there must have been a water source of some kind. But I off hand just can’t remember. And the older boys would bring the bucket of water.

HODGE:  So everyone had to help lug it.

BAUMAN:  Yeah. Probably was outside.

HODGE:  You probably didn’t have a janitor in those days so the children helped with that?

BAUMAN:  No, it was up to me and the children to sweep out and we had I don’t know who furnished the wood, but we had to light the fire and the stove.

HODGE:  Was that one of the jobs for the boys?

BAUMAN:  well, I usually, you know, of course I wasn’t there, well, of course we had a wood stove here, you know, so, so I knew how to, you know, how to light a fire. But the older boys, they would take care of that. And –

HODGE:  Fortunately, then you never had to deal with the schoolhouse catching fire?

BAUMAN:  No, fortunately not the schoolhouse caught fire, even though we had the Christmas tree fire. And I don’t remember a great deal more about the school particularly. We trudged to school in winter and summer, you know, and rain and sunshine, and I would have been about 20 years old at that time.

HODGE:  Mhrmm. And probably your eldest walked from the road quite a distance.

BAUMAN:  Oh yes, they’d walk clear from Miller’s.

HODGE:  From Miller’s house.

BAUMAN:  From Miller’s, yeah. And then when Mrs. Crane brought me up, then I walked all the way from the road.

HODGE:  I see.

BAUMAN:  And –

HODGE:  Well?

BAUMAN:  The second year that I was out there, the whole school got measles. And where we got it I don’t know. But nevertheless, some of the children went home and told their parents that they had the funniest-looking teacher; she was all spotted. At the time I was living at Anne Crane’s, and her sister was a registered nurse, and her sister was staying there at that time, so that I got expert attention. But I was worried for fear that my sister had gotten the measles. And she was home with – we had no telephone at that time, so I had no way of communicating with her. But as soon as I was on my feet again, Mrs. Crane brought me home and I found out that my sister did have the measles. So I had to stay home, and the whole school had to be closed for several weeks, until we all recovered from the measles. I do remember one time that Ed Millers had gotten what he called a new car, but of course it was a used one. And for some reason or other, he kept beating on the front of the car and I think he thought that there was something wrong with the oil. And he wanted us all to go for a ride to try it out, but Mrs. Millers wouldn’t go. But Rosemary and I went, I had her in my lap in the front seat, and Ray was in the back seat, and I don’t know whether Chester went or not. And he kept beating on this, on the front of the car, and trying to get something working, and the result was that I had oil all over me when I got back to the ranch. ??? ??? ??? seen me and you see now why I didn’t go.

HODGE:  How many years did you teach at Wards Ferry School?

BAUMAN:  Just two.

HODGE:  And then did you go to another school after that? Or did you choose another career?

BAUMAN:  I didn’t teach for a while. My mother was ill at that time, and she was taken to St. General’s hospital in Stockton. And had surgery. And I went down with her at that time and stayed there with her, and so then I didn’t teach for some time, I don’t remember just how many years it was. Then I went out to Curtis Creek. And taught at Curtis Creek for three years.

HODGE:  Where was Curtis Creek School located?

BAUMAN:  The old school was right on the street, the main street of Standard there. Where the new school is now. But just out on the road there.

HODGE:  I see.

BAUMAN:  And I drove through Standard the other day and I said when I left Standard the school hall was too big. The old school was too big. Now I think it’s one of the largest schools in the county.

HODGE:  Yes, I believe you’re right. Well, then after Curtis Creek School, what’d you do?

BAUMAN:  Well, after Curtis Creek school, I believe it was around into the Depression time. And there were less children every year in the Curtis Creek school. So one teacher was let out every year because they didn’t need them. So it finally got to the point about – there was Sadie Nichols, and Helen Kimball, and I. And Helen had the primary grades, and Sadie had the higher grades, and I had the middle grades. And so I was the one that left that year. And I didn’t look for another school after that. It was depression time and things were, you know, pretty far down. So I didn’t look for another school after that. And one year, I worked in the bakery. A man by the name of Birthold had opened a bakery here. Why he did it during Depression time, I don’t know.

HODGE:  That was in Sonora?

BAUMAN:  Right in Sonora, yes. It was on the main street. And he owned and managed to run it for a year. And it, you know, he couldn’t make it after that. So then I, after that, I heard that Atkins at Sonora Furniture store needed help. So I went down and asked them for the job, and got the job right there. And went to work for them for oh, I think nearly forty years I guess.

HODGE:  Oh, that’s a long time!

BAUMAN:  Yes, I don’t offhand remember just how long it was, but seems to me it would have been about forty years.

HODGE:  A valued employee.

BAUMAN:  Yeah. And I took my Social Security at 62, but I still worked to the extent that you could at that time. And so then after Atkins sold to John Wilson, they moved what they had left in the store out to the old Columbia Way hospital. And I went out there once a month and tallied up the books and made the reports and that sort of thing. And then finally they just went out of business completely and that was the end of it.

HODGE:  Yeah I think that’s in ill health there... Ms. Bauman, since you’ve lived in Sonora for such a long time, do you recall when electricity first came here or if you’ve heard stories from your elders about it.

BAUMAN:  Well, I don’t actually recall it. But I remember my mother telling me that my grandfather Williston was rather senile and he, my uncle, William Bulston, was afraid that my grandfather would drop the kerosene lamp. So he put in one drop electricity globe in the kitchen. And it was about 1890. And there was electricity in Sonora at that time. And it was, he just had it brought in, from a pole, into the house.

HODGE:  It’s certainly much safer for an older person. What about cultural events in Sonora when you were living here as a young woman, and later?

BAUMAN:  Well, about, when I was old enough to know too much, they had Shitaqua, came every year. And it was very interesting. It would be for about eight or ten days, and they would bring all sorts of singing and dancing and lectures and all sorts of things like that. It was one dollar, for a child, to go through it. And I remember that my mother would say, “well, it’s a little bit difficult, but I’ll make sure you’ll get your dollar.” And so I had my dollar and we went to it, and we’d go to all the events at the Shitaqua. And of course there was movies here. And my sister and I always went to the movies on Tuesday evening. It was the Perils of Pauline and then later on it was the Exploits of Elaine. And there were some, of course there were dances, there was an open-air platform over in Columbia, back of the Fallen House theater, and there was no Fallen House theater, if I remember. And there were open-air dances there on the platform, and they, every weekend, there were dances there. And the opera hall garage was used as a inner county or city fair. And people brought in their handcrafts and their fruit and vegetables in there, although I do not actually remember it. I do know that my last doll and also my sister’s last doll, were purchased there, at the opera hall garage.

HODGE:  And who gave those to you?

BAUMAN:  The Burton family gave them to us. The Burton family, C.H Burton family, lived across the street and their daughter, Carrie Burton, was living there with them, and their other daughter, Grace Brown was living there because her husband had passed away. And she had a daughter, Marian Brown, and they all lived in the old Burton house. Mr. and Mrs. Burdon, and Carrie, and Grace.

HODGE:  And that’s the red house, that –

BAUMAN:  The red house, yeah.

HODGE:  What is in there today? I don’t remember.

BAUMAN:  It’s a deli.

HODGE:  I see.

BAUMAN:  And they still have the two dolls. The two old dolls.

HODGE:  That’s a nice keepsake.

BAUMAN:  Yes. But we were fairly old at the time, I think we were ten or twelve years old, so we were almost past playing with dolls, but, so. The opera hall was used for that, at that time. And then of course the Francis and Damass, I don’t know that they had an actual garage there, but they had a garage there as soon as there were cars.

HODGE:  I see.

BAUMAN:  And –

HODGE:  Was this for something that happened every weekend, or was it just once a year?

BAUMAN:  Oh no, once a year. It was just like a regular county fair.

HODGE:  I see. That was sometimes held in the schoolhouse?

BAUMAN:  It could have been. But I don’t remember it very much. Course we always had Fourth of July. I don’t remember if we actually had a parade, but there must have been because we always went downtown on the Fourth of July. So there must have been a parade.

HODGE:  Did they decorate the store buildings?

BAUMAN:  Well, to some extent. They had bunting on things. There was it to some extent. And I always remember that a neighbor of ours always went with us, and she always would say “Will you have some cream?” She meant ice cream. So we always had ice cream on the Fourth of July.

HODGE:  That kind of goes together.

BAUMAN:  And, but – And I do remember Memorial Day. We always marched to the cemetery. All the schoolchildren marched to the cemetery. The girls in their white dresses and the boys in their dark pants. And we marched to the cemetery, and some days it was awfully hot.

HODGE:  And that would be from the Dome to which cemetery?

BAUMAN:  To the old city cemetery.

HODGE:  And where is that located?

BAUMAN:  It’s out on the west side of town, here.

HODGE:  Is that out by the Department of Motor Vehicles?

BAUMAN:  Yes.

HODGE:  What about special picnics? Were there some?

BAUMAN:  The Catholics used to have a picnic every year. And I remember one year I had a friend who was a Catholic and I was invited to the picnic. But it was, excepting by invitation, the Catholics. But it was out at the Sylva ranch. Which was out here, on Greenley, along Greenley road out there. Sylva ranch. And – But otherwise, I don’t remember going to any picnics. Course there were just family picnics that people might have, and of course they went by horse and buggy in those days. And

HODGE:  There were camp meetings, religious revivals held out in the country

BAUMAN:  Yes, there used to be revivals, yes would be what you would call them.

HODGE:  Did you recall your parents telling you about that?

BAUMAN:  No – I remember going away to one of those, I think it was down where the fairgrounds are. Seems to me it was down there somewhere. And of course they used to have the rodeo, the original rodeo was out on the high school grounds.

HODGE:  Is that right?

BAUMAN:  Very tight, small fair, naturally. And then the rodeo went out onto, well, it’s the continuation of Snell street. Racetrack Road. The rodeo went out there, was a good sized fairgrounds there. And the rodeo was out there.

HODGE:  Do you recall any particular events or happenings?

BAUMAN:  No, I don’t remember anything in particular. I don’t think I used to go to rodeos. In fact  I don’t go to them now. But it was, I remember hearing, one of the ones out at the highschool, that one of the bulls got away.

HODGE:  Oh my.

BAUMAN:  And raced up the back steps Stewart Street and there was great consternation in order to get the bull back again. Of course the horses raced up there and they finally lassoed it and got it back where it belonged. I remember as a child that we were all very exited about that and all collected into the yard so that we wouldn’t be out in the street.

HODGE:  Do you recall them driving cattle through Sonora?

BAUMAN:  Oh yes, oh yes. We could hear the cattle lowing and said “Oh, here comes the cattle, here come the cattle.” And everybody should get in on the porch you know? And I remember one time I don’t know what it was Pedro, Somebody was driving cattle from the north and there were two cherry trees, two quite small cherry trees out on our sidewalk. And of course a lot of the cattle got up on the sidewalk. And they hooked down one of the cherry trees. And my father was very incensed and he was out yelling at them that they had knocked down the cherry tree but they kept right on going, and they paid no attention. So we had cows, sometimes they’d bring them on Stewart Street and sometimes on Washington Street, and they came right through town.

HODGE:  Did they have bells on them in those days?

BAUMAN:  The lead might have had a bell. But you could hear the cattle lowing, you know, as they came through town. They made quite a racket. And of course the horses and the cowboys would yell at them you know, and whack at them, they’d have dogs and it was quite an event.

HODGE:  Yeah, sounds like it. What about medical care in those days? Did your family use any folk remedies, rather than going to the doctor?

BAUMAN:  Well, I suppose they must have used some. But Doctor Rawley was one of our original doctors. And Doctor Gould was here about the same time. And Doctor Rawley built the Sonora  - Rawley Sanitarium, he called it. It afterwards became the Sonora Hospital. It was down on the corner of Church and Washington streets, where Yosemite Title’s parking lot is now. And it was a good-sized building, a three-story building. And then Doctor Gould had a hospital out on Columbia Way. It was – had been originally – a private residence, but I don’t remember whose residence it was. But it was a beautiful big colonial, white colonial, building. And he turned it into a hospital. And then later on, the Doctor that was in Standard, they had a hospital up in Standard City. And the doctor who was there –

HODGE:  Richardson?

BAUMAN:  I don’t remember his name. Um. I can’t remember his name.

HODGE:  That’s all right.

BAUMAN:  Maybe I will at some later date. Nevertheless, he was the ??? ??? ???, Pickering Lumber Company. He was Pickering Lumber Company’s doctor. And they had built a hospital in Standard. And he was up there. Then later he left there. And he added to Sierra Hospital, out here on Columbia Way. And added a considerable amount of building to it. And he practiced down here, but he never completely finished the building. Then later on, Drabkins bought the building and finished it. And a Mrs. Proctor took over as administrator and named it the Columbia Way Hospital. She had ideas of calling it Ponderosa and several other grandiose things, but she finally came up with Columbia Way Hospital. And so she ran it for a number of years. And then Cleo Marsh had gotten her hour in, and came and bought the business from Mrs. Proctor, and ran it for a number of years. Then Cleo decided to build her own hospital, and she built the Sierra Hospital, and ran it for a number of years. And the Columbia Way closed down. And so when Drabkins went out of business, they still owned the Columbia Way hospital. And they moved what they had left of their furnishings out there and sold it out. And then after that the hospital building was just vacant for a number of years. And finally somebody bought it. And it’s being used for  - this one dentist is there, and there’s some other businesses in what was the Columbia Way hospital.

HODGE:  Yeah, it’s been extensively remodeled.

BAUMAN:  Yes.

HODGE:  It’s hardly recognizable anymore.

BAUMAN:  Yes, mhrmm. At the time that I was at the Wards Ferry school, and I really don’t know just when, we did get our telephone.

HODGE:  Here in Sonora.

BAUMAN:  No, here in the home. But it was in Sonora for quite a number of years. But I really don’t know, I don’t know enough about that to know just when telephone service came in, but there must be records of that.

HODGE:  Made life very easy for folks, anyway, when one was connected.

BAUMAN:  Well, Mrs. Bauman, we certainly thank you for your interest in recording all of these wonderful memories and sharing your lifetime with others. Especially those which will come to Columbia College in the future. Thank you.

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General Information:

Interviewer:  Hodge

Interviewee: Bauman

Name of Tape: (bauman_h)

When:

Transcriber: Alden (1/27/08)