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hings started getting li tt e en on . y
r was instrumental i n getting th He
ted it for at least 25 years ig e all
together and worked hard. en
didn't know wh t money loo ed like
en I as 12 years old driving the horse on a C
received 75¢ a day for a ten hour day, and y e
or ed for was a real oldti er in t h v lley; a
Fra es, a fine friend and neighbor.

y f ther would work t anyth · ng h col d get be · o ng
on the homestead. In the sum erti e he ould work fo Max Godde
or Sill Radloff, two of the real oldtimers in the valley. On
the h ybailerjob he would 9et $1.50 per d y, nd on the t sher
2.00 a day. For a ten hour day that was the tandard pay. Of
course his meals were included. These peo pl were all gre
friends and they used to really celebrate on New Years Eve at
the John Ritter Winer~ located eight miles west of Palmdale.

Another tragedy happened in 1911 when our good friend ana
neighbor Gottlob Ritter's daughter, Harth , 15 years old, as
acc1dently shot with a shot gun and it practically shot off her
left elbow. Had that happened in his d y nd ge the worst
would have b n a stiff rm. Th cc dent h ppened at four
o'clock in the fternoon, nd no doctor within 30 miles. Hy
brother, Eli, goth s bet te m of horses nd drove most of the
night to meet the four o'clock train 1n the early morning. The
Los Angeles County Hospital met the tr in in L.A. with an ambulance
nd inside of two hours a fine surgeon operated on the arm. But
1t w s too 1 te. Blood poison had set in nd he had to take the
rm off at the shoulder. The doctor gave her one chance in a
thousand to survive, and luckily she did. She is the most remark ~le

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