I went back to Jackson's and taught school at Nora another winter - Russell worked at the Post Office awhile and finally went to Nordyke + Marmons [1910 Indianapolis City Directory lists it as motor cars and flour mill engines] where he made "big" pay - $70 a week. Before he came home I went to Ind'polis one day intending to get a new bedroom suite. I wanted a white antique one + since I slept in the room Cac uses for a sewing room off the living room, Nora was real enthused. After looking around I bought a Columbia record player or Victrola as they were called then and a bunch of records. That didn't go over very good at the time but we had lots of pleasure out of it after the fire burned down. I didn't mind too much sleeping in the same old bed and looking in the same old mirror. Russell bought a new car, he had a Ford that Jesse had owned when first out of the service. He bought the Seneca from Uncle Perry. If I remember right it cost $820 and was quite a car. We sold it later for $800 to buy furniture when we were married.

1919 passed by and in the spring of 1920 we planned to be married on September 1, 1920. Dad [John Ellsworth Hague] was ready to retire from the farm so Russell and Girstle took over the farm that fall and the folks moved to College Avenue in Broad Ripple [6148 N. College Avenue, J2 on map].

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