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	“I votea a Republican ticket. Misa, I don‘t know nothin much bout votin, caislonly I vote to help my aide out a little. We used to elect our town officers lier-e in Biscoe ~it the white folks run it now. Professor Hardy and Protessor Walker was the postmasters (both Negroes) for a long while. 3~ohn Clay was constable and Oscar Clark magit~trate (both Negroes). One of the school board was Dr. Odom (Negro). They made pretty fair off icera.

	“I wa8 a cow herder, and a fire boy, and a farmer. When I co~ to Biscoe I was a farmer. I married and had two children. My wife lef me sud went wid another fellar then she jumped in the river right down yomder and drowned. I started ~rkin at the saimill and workin in the lumber. I owns a little home and a apot of ground it on 25‘ X 90‘. I made it workin fer Mr. Betzuer (white farmer). I‘m farmin now.

	“Times is hard. You can‘t get no credit. Between times that you work in the crop it is hard to live. Used to by workin hard and long hours could make a good Ilvin. Wages better now, $1 to ~1.7~5 a day. Long time ago 6O~ a day was the price. Then you could buy meat five and six cents a pound. Now it 20«. Flour used to be 40« a sack. Now it way outer sight. The young folks don‘t work hard as I used to work but they has a heap better chance at edgercation. Some few saves a little but everything jes so high they can‘t get ahead very much. It when you get old you needs a little laid by.“