Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library

Edmmd A. Bringer 16
Q:
So, en, when you were travelling around, you know, going to all
those various places did you spend mch the in any of them, any one
place or did--howmuch . . .
A: Lbat do you an?
Q: About average time?
A: You man mrking?
Q: Yes.
A: Oh I'd be in one tam mybe a week or tw weks or ten days or smthing
like that. The woxst--longest I stayed was up in Joliet for--oh seven
mnths . But I was, no nine--at the end there I was just out of town
maybe three or four days a wek or three days a wdc at the mst and I'd
be back here then. No, kt vhen I'd go south, when I was a cable splicer
going south I might be out for a mth or tw at a tb, because there
muldn' t lx any sense for rm to caw back up here and then go to bunt
Vemon from Cairo and then go back dom to Mount Vemon or go to Salem
and then down to--ccme hum and then go dam to Cairo again see. k I
ws out q@te a few tines that way. And then I m t
over to Springfield.
I drove back and forth there though for a while. I was wer there for a
couple of mnths at a th. But it was. . . . Telephones has changed a
lot since I went to wxk for them. Fran those old crank on the mll
kinds...
Q: And that was right before, before dial or that they went . . .
A: Yes, that was sight up until dial corn on. had those old farmer
lines that they called them out all around the tom here, big old boxes
with a generator in them and batteries and they 'd get noisy and you
couldn't hear on than and everything else.
End of Side W, Tape One.
Q: akay. I wanted to talk to you today a little bit about *en you ere
first married to Grandma which was . . . do you r&r--we11 what year
was that in?
A: Oh I 'd have to go back and. . . . gee &iz I 've been married fifty-
eight years !
Q: &11 here, here did you live first? (tape turned off)
A: ell E wre--rember--mrried on I think it was April 27, 1925.
Q: And you weren't mrried here in Decatur?
A: No, we =re mrried in Sullivan, Illinois. k went dom there--1
called up down there and had the Presbyterian minister, asked him if he'd
marry us and he says, "Yes. " He says, "Carrie on dom. " So e m t down
Edmund Bringer Memoir - Archives/Special Collections - Norris L Brookens Library - University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS