MY BOOK...............LILAGCS (B2) 2

MY Parer Route Part 2

(continued  from Part 1)     

Somewhere next was a restaurant called Stub’s. It was the forerunner to the Stub’s cafe at the Clay County fair and also there was a Stub’s Ranch kitchen out south of town on the east side of highway 71. (My Grandmother’s use to love eating at all of them) One interesting note about the Stub’s I delivered a newspaper to was that one of the waitresses was the mother of one of my close Cub Scout friends, Kenny Harris. Mrs. Harris I think had worked there for a long time and she didn’t even have to write the orders down on a pad, I remember I was so amazed at her ability to remember the orders so well.

Here I am going to take a trip to my Cub Scout activity that I thought about when I mentioned it in the paragraph above. I attended Reynolds school (that was also known as the East school. In third grade I was old enough to join the cub scouts along with some of my other classmates. The other classmates that I recall were: David Polzin, Kenny Harris, (as I mentioned above), Hugh Tate, Kent Nelson and Kent Rozean. There were 6 of us and Mrs. Polzin, the other David’s mother, was our den mother. The Polzin’s lived right across the street from the school and made it very easy to walk there after classes was finished.

Now back to my paper route. After Stub’s cafe was a paint shop. It was owned by a man named Art Loats which also bore his name. Hanson’s Men’s Clothing Store was located in there somewhere as was the Spencer Music Store that I delivered a paper to.  Then I think there was small grocery store and then another cafe called Peterson’s Cafe as I continued south.

I remember Peterson’s Cafe because I would purchase small container of peanuts and in the small container would sometimes be a prize of money. The most I ever found at the bottom of the small containers was a 25 cent piece. (That was always an exciting find!)

I finally arrived at the corner where a department store where David Polzin, my Cub Scout friend’s dad worked called Davies. My friends dad’s name was Henry Polzin) I think Davies was on the corner of 5^th street and Main. I would then turn west down 5^th street and deliver papers to a couple of customers between the Main Street corner and the post office. I crossed the street south and I delivered a paper to Dr. Fair’s office. He was an optometrist and the one that fitted me with my first pair of 20/20 glasses.

Walking back East to Main Street put me on the corner where the Singer Sewing store was located. I had some customers up above the Singer Store and Leuthold and Crouse Men’s Clothing Store was located south next to the Singer Sewing Store.

The next delivery that I recall was in the basement level of a department store called Feldman’s. Feldman’s was unique in that it had an elevator and I use to love to ride the elevator down to the basement level to deliver a newspaper to the lady customer down there.

Continuing south after Feldman’s is a bit foggy. I know that there was a bank, Nelson’s Jewry Store in there somewhere before I got to the next customer that I remember, Bjornstad's Hardware Store. There was a very nice man that was neighbors to my Grandma Niemand on East 4^th street and his name was Bob Howe. Mr Howe had two boys and a girl that were close to my age that I use to play with when I was at Grandma’s house.