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Sharing My Passion Part 3 Edna Broten
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RCHSOct
29, 2004
Throughout the past year the
Research
Center has been the used frequently by individuals from Greenbush
who are working on the Greenbush Centennial. They have spent
their time searching newspapers from the area, plus, looking at
the township and city files for information on the town,
businesses, schools, and residents.
For those of
you who are interested in writing a family history, the museum is
a good place to start. Many individuals have used the research
center in this way, it has a wonderful source for photographs and
information. Many families have donated family histories which may
cross paths with what you are looking for.
If you
have any questions, please contact the museum at 218-463-1918.
Museum Hours: Monday – Friday,
9 am to 4 pm.
RCHS Focus of
the Week
This week’s
Edna Broten shares her courtship with Henry from her book “Sharing
My Passion.”
Edna
writes: “Henry and I first met at his Uncle Tom Fjeld’s place when
I was fourteen and he was sixteen. I was visiting Henry’s cousin,
Nina, can you believe we bought this place in 1945? Henry
lived two miles on the same road from my folk’s, Peder Fugleberg’s,
place, he walked to court me. He later bought a Model T and we
got around in style. We would go to ball games at fox (they had a
pretty good team), bowery dances, house parties, visit friends,
toboggan rides, movies, and basket socials. When I was sixteen,
Henry bought my basket for fifty cents; I had egg salad
sandwiches, lefse, and a doughnut in it. He would tease me and
say that is why he fell in love with me, but it was really because
I was the best-looking girl in Fox, he bragged. Later that
evening we attended the bowery dance, Henry loved to dance. These
were fun and happy times.
“Henry
worked on a farm, near
Gilby,
North Dakota, milking thirty cows
a day, morning and evening, for a dollar a day besides field work.
Wages fill and Henry couldn’t see working for less than a dollar a
day, so he came back to Roseau, I think he missed me.”
The Fox
couple married at the Lutheran Free Parsonage on
July 7, 1932 by Reverend Quanbeck.
Edna says, “Ma made my dress and I wore a red rose corsage. Our
first meal together as a married couple was pork, gravy, and
potatoes. We didn’t have a honeymoon as Henry left the next day
to hay in the Roseau Lake
bottom.
“Our first
home was a log cabin, located one mile west of Fox on Highway 11;
we rented from 1933 to 1945 from Mr. Boberg. He was a carpenter
so he fixed it us some and I wallpapered, the paper had a blue
background with little pink flowers.
“We bought a
team of horses and farmed, raising grain, and in the winter he
used the horses in the woods at Loman
Minnesota skidding out pulpwood.
He worked for the State, building highway 11, he got his arm
caught in a belt running the screen on a gravel crusher, it was so
full of tar and gravel old man Delmore wanted to cut it off, but
his son, Dr. Jack, who had just come out of medical school, said
it could be saved. He id a wonderful job on Henry’s arm, it was
100% but he sure could milk cows. We sure were grateful for the
wisdom of Dr. Jack.
“Milo,
Kenny, and Ronnie were born there in our log cabin. For heat we
had another wood stove located near the bedroom, Kind of like a
pot-bellied stove. It warmed the front side of us and froze the
backside, in the winter we tried to dress as close as possible to
that stove.” (to be continued next week) |
