Oral History Interview with Alexander Bate, September 19, 1986 Page: 3
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a five-cent loaf of bread, you know. We lived at this place
where there was no water. We got water across the street.
Everybody in my family worked. My job was--and I was a very
little fellow--to feed the chickens for these Kimler people
in the evening, and I got 25 a week for doing that. Then
when I got a little larger, I could clean out the hen houses
and could do other little errands, and I'd make 40 and 50
a week.
Kumler: This is about 1909 or 1910?
Bate: It was 1912. Something like that.
Kumler: Something like that, yes.
Bate: On Saturday night everybody would come in and ask, "Well,
where is your money?" "I have a quarter!" Everybody had
their banks--tin cans--to put their money in. He didn't tell
you to put it in and leave it, but everybody would put it in
so he could see you put it in. I'd have 10 for myself.
I could spend a nickle and have a nickle for Sunday school.
Of course, according to the amount you made, why, you got
a nickle, a dime, 154 or whatever it was.
I had some other brothers. My older brother had lived
for some time with a great aunt. I told you we came with
J.O. Head. Well, they kind of wanted him to stay over there
with him. He was a musician--a very good musician. He
played and he sang. There weren't any Victrolas and things,
and he played for dances and at people's parties and things.
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Kumler, Donna & Bate, Alexander. Oral History Interview with Alexander Bate, September 19, 1986, book, September 19, 1986; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306902/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.