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She was reading a book, I think it was.
She was a Greek, I don’t know or I don’t
remember. It was in a play, or well no,
she’s one of the characters. But anyway,
her name was Sappho. Oh. So, they was
building the old place over here, and the
store, and the hotel, and you get the post
office, so they named that Sappho. So
that’s where Sappho was originally named,
how it got its name – reading that book.
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Right here, over here just a little ways,
about a hundred feet the other side of
you. This is Sappho. That ain’t Sappho
down there. This is the town site here.
There’s one block over there, and one
here, and another one down below. And
one time here we had a saloon and a paper
and a hotel and a grocery and a livery barn.
When did they come out here, your in-laws?
I think about ’93, ’92 or 3, I think it was.
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They built the store first, I suppose. Yeah,
the store was out front, the hall was up
over, and then the buildings and the dining
rooms and the rooms was upstairs. And the
attic. And that building was just about a
hundred feet the other side of the house
here? I think about, yeah. Toward the
highway? I’ll be damned. It stood till –
it stood till it all fell down. I guess about
1900 and 38, something-thirty along there,
just went down. And that was all.
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Well did they have the hotel at the same
time as they had the store? Yes, it was all
built together. All built together, and the
hall too. What did they use the hall for,
other than dances? Well, in the wintertime
they used to use it to dry clothes, mostly.
It had a big mangle up there, a drying
mangle, they used to mangle the clothes
and sheets and everything. You mangle
them – now, you didn’t have electricity?
No. Just rolls about that big around and
about that long.
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But there was no heat on it. No, there was
no heat. No, you have to have them dry
when you mangle them. You’d say it was
about two feet long? Yeah, about that, yeah.
I’ve never run across that. Then, how much
would they charge for a night’s lodging?
Seventy-five cents. Did that include any
meals, or was that just – Your supper and
breakfast and your bed. Well, I’ll be darned.
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In fact, we lived there, we was married
the first day of January in 1901, and six
or seven years we lived down in the prairie,
why we lived there practically all the time.
The prairie down here, they were down
here first. They started that before there
was any Sappho. Yeah. When they moved
it up here, then they kept the name. Oh, I
see. I think my wife’s come back.
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Oh, hi. How are you? Doing good. Make
another excursion? This is my wife, Sylvia.
How do you do? I see you’...
