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00:00:03 - Discussion of several relations. Henry Servais' mother was the only child from Grandpa Ausloos' first marriage. She was five when her father remarried a Vincent girl who lived where Vanden Plas live on Co. T now.

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00:01:26 - They had ten children, one of which died of appendicitis. When the doctor came out from Green Bay he talked about real estate because there was no hope for the child. Couldn't operate, but could give a handful of lead buckshot to unknot the intestines. Going to the hospital was considered certain death.

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00:03:35 - Ages of children (Frank's aunts and uncles): Sedoni 1862-1935, Winnie 1867-1930, Rosie 1868-1939, Lambert 1872-1961, David 1874-1945, Pa 1877-1907, Victor 1879-1946, Annie 1882-1898, Minnie 1884-1972, Julia Lillie died at only one or two, Mary Alice 1888- (Mac DeKaine's mother). Several other relations mentioned.

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00:06:13 - Pigs on the farm stayed around the straw stack and just ran with cows in their winter exercise yard. Little provision was ever made for them.

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00:07:18 - The present barn was built in 1906, one of the first in the area built with a tin roof.

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00:08:24 - Other brick buildings were not present except for another smoke house. The present home is brick veneer over logs.

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00:09:12 - There was also an outdoor oven which was freestanding. Could bake eighteen loaves of bread at once.

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00:10:17 - Description of baking process. Used broken-up pine stumps for fuel. Bread had a special flavor.

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00:11:55 - Frank was working at the shipyard in Sturgeon Bay during the war. Fifty years earlier his present foreman had happened by the Ausloos farm to watch them make bricks and had been invited to lunch. Thereafter Frank was assured of the best carpentry jobs available.

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00:16:19 - They didn't have enough land for sugar beets, because they had to buy the other necessary crops. They had to haul the beets to New Franken, and then waited hours and sometimes had to make a second trip. The Menomonee Sugar Beet Company paid $20 a ton the first year.

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00:18:37 - They never had many eggs to sell. But they did take them to Champion, or had people come to the farm and buy them, and even had some shipped to Milwaukee, usually brought about 15-20 cents a dozen, but during the 1920's it was 12 cents - a penny apiece.

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00:20:01 - The town of Champion had four bars and now has three, two dance halls and now none, but there's always been a grocery store and a creamery at two separate times. They used a dog tread mill to churn butter.

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00:23:16 - Horses ran on tread mills for threshing machines and pressing hay, too.

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00:24:03 - Fruit trees on the farm: apple varieties, cherry and pear. Now their plantings have all been cut down.

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00:27:06 - Varieties of pear tree: Bartlett - canning pear - and Flemish Beauty - dessert pear.

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