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PAGE 25. Buxton. 
heal and it had turned blue and green so this incident lead to very beautiful friendship. The Nurse was an equestrian that really loved horses and since she like riding for excercise; would I loan her a horse and the answer was an over stipulated "yes". We talked too much in the office and too much over the telephone and now I could see and feel that his resentment had caused our beautiful friendship to suffer a total relapse. To back out of this commitment I lied to her and told her that the fellows had been teasing the horse and it would not be safe for her to ride at that time until the horse settles down and get to his normal self again. I had always been taught that it was alright to use a "lie" if the truth will not fit. Dr. Musser left Buxton and went to Knoxville, Iowa to practice medicine or in one of the Government institution and later he cut both of his wrist trying to committe suicide but somehow they saved him from this fate. After this his destination was unknown. 
Jack Williams owned a Drug Store only 10 yards from where we lived and when he was not present his eldest son Tom would dispense medicine and prescriptions in his fathers absence. There was a little swarthy thin gray haired man that stayed with us for several months and he made frequent trips to the Drug Store but this time when he returned and went up stairs to his room; something went wrong for he passed me so fast that if I had not side stepped he may have broken both my legs. I found out later that he was injecting morphine. I believe he made that 100 yards in less than 10 seconds flat for he thought it was a matter of life and death. 
There was a total of five Drug Stores in Buxton for one on the Sharpe End owned by Ich Hutchinson but was in operation by his wife Hattie Hutchinson and she was at that time the only colored pharmisist in Iowa. The drug stores all had their day but it was said that B. F. Coopers drug store was made famous by my uncle George who was claimed to have bought more Yellow Seal Bonded Whiskey than the pharmisist could keep ordered.
The two bands by Dick Oliver and his brother Bob Oliver gave concerts regularely on unworkable days but it was always standing or marching; unfortunately they had no band stand or pavilion. It had always been customary and they seem to enjoy it. When there was pay-day or no work a hugh crowd could be seen between the Monroe Mercantile Store and the Y M C A. Scottie Bolton a Small diminutive Scotch boy of 88 pounds decided to get on top of the Y M C A without any latters or any other support; so he climbed up the corner to everybody's astonishment and amazement. After that feat he was known as the human fly. We worked together one week for the Coal Company disassembling a Coal Hopper which stood about 15 or 20 foot high. He would run up a rope like a monkey on a string and I was left behind to struggle the best way I knew how to start on the days work shift. I held the chisel fastened to a handle and he

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PAGE 25. Buxton. heal and it had turned blue and green so this incident lead to very beautiful friendship. The Nurse was an equestrian that really loved horses and since she like riding for excercise; would I loan her a horse and the answer was an over stipulated "yes". We talked too much in the office and too much over the telephone and now I could see and feel that his resentment had caused our beautiful friendship to suffer a total relapse. To back out of this commitment I lied to her and told her that the fellows had been teasing the horse and it would not be safe for her to ride at that time until the horse settles down and get to his normal self again. I had always been taught that it was alright to use a "lie" if the truth will not fit. Dr. Musser left Buxton and went to Knoxville, Iowa to practice medicine or in one of the Government institution and later he cut both of his wrist trying to committe suicide but somehow they saved him from this fate. After this his destination was unknown. Jack Williams owned a Drug Store only 10 yards from where we lived and when he was not present his eldest son Tom would dispense medicine and prescriptions in his fathers absence. There was a little swarthy thin gray haired man that stayed with us for several months and he made frequent trips to the Drug Store but this time when he returned and went up stairs to his room; something went wrong for he passed me so fast that if I had not side stepped he may have broken both my legs. I found out later that he was injecting morphine. I believe he made that 100 yards in less than 10 seconds flat for he thought it was a matter of life and death. There was a total of five Drug Stores in Buxton for one on the Sharpe End owned by Ich Hutchinson but was in operation by his wife Hattie Hutchinson and she was at that time the only colored pharmisist in Iowa. The drug stores all had their day but it was said that B. F. Coopers drug store was made famous by my uncle George who was claimed to have bought more Yellow Seal Bonded Whiskey than the pharmisist could keep ordered. The two bands by Dick Oliver and his brother Bob Oliver gave concerts regularely on unworkable days but it was always standing or marching; unfortunately they had no band stand or pavilion. It had always been customary and they seem to enjoy it. When there was pay-day or no work a hugh crowd could be seen between the Monroe Mercantile Store and the Y M C A. Scottie Bolton a Small diminutive Scotch boy of 88 pounds decided to get on top of the Y M C A without any latters or any other support; so he climbed up the corner to everybody's astonishment and amazement. After that feat he was known as the human fly. We worked together one week for the Coal Company disassembling a Coal Hopper which stood about 15 or 20 foot high. He would run up a rope like a monkey on a string and I was left behind to struggle the best way I knew how to start on the days work shift. I held the chisel fastened to a handle and he