~x-$laYe Stories	~	Two
( Texas)








	t, I only st eyed there a few months and hi red~ out t o Maj or Legg ‚ and worked for hirn several years. I felt I wasn‘t learning enough, so I joined the Unit cd States i~rmy and with a hundred. and eighty..five boys ment to St . L~iis,

‚ Missouri, From there we were transferred with the Tenth Cavalry to Fort Concho.

‚~ I helped haul the lumber fr~ni San Antonio to finish the buildings at the fort.

: I was there five years.

~	“ASter I went to work at private employmet I did some carpenter work, but n~ost of the houses were. adobe or pecan pole buildings, so I got a job from

. ~ Mr. Jimi~:r Xeating as niechanic for awhile, and then drifted to Mexico. Odd jobs

~	were ail I could get for awhile, so I landed in El Paso and got a job in a hotel

..~	~‘That was the start of my success, for I learned to be a skilled chef

~	and superintended the kitchens in some of the largest hotels in Texas. I mRde as high as $80.00, in Houston. M~ last work was done at the St. Angelus Hotel

r here in San Angelo and if you don‘t believe I‘m a good cook, just look at my wife

~	Over there. ~:;hen I married her she was fourt.~en years old and weighed a hundred and. fifteen pounds. Now it‘s been a long time since I COuld get her on the s~1~ not s mcc she passed the two hundred pound mark.
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