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00:00:07 - Funeral procession for "Belgian Pete" (Pete Legers) in Green Bay. (gave a little background on Belgian Pete) Slow march down the street.

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00:02:44 - Hearses came when cars were invented. Remembers first car he saw.

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00:03:11 - Description of Grandfather's hearse. Hearse belonged to Mr. DeBauche. Anecdote about Mr. DeBauche's widow searching for a new husband.

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00:03:49 - Mr. DeBauche was paid for his services. He was area undertaker.

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00:05:57 - First wife embalmed right in his home in 1921.

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00:06:56 - Many people broke their arms cranking their cars.

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00:07:32 - Peddlers. John Baum, a Jewish man, had a store in Green Bay. But earlier he had picked up iron from farmers and repaid them with trinkets.

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00:09:18 - He stayed with grandmother Brandt at one time as he traveled.

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00:10:20 - Few Watkins men visited. They lived off the main road.

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00:10:39 - Rough times during Cleveland's administration so farmers bartered with each other.

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00:11:27 - Got a precious silver dollar from grandmother.

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00:11:48 - Feels that kids aren't going to church nowadays because of the communists.

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00:12:05 - Fire departments. Got their water from the river. First running water distributed through wooden pipes. He worked at Public Service for a while.

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00:14:59 - Remembers fighting a fire in Denmark. Used sulfuric acid and baking powder.

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00:17:15 - Cost 10 cents for a shave and 25 cents for a haircut back then.

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00:18:14 - Few fires on farms back then because there was no electricity.

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00:18:52 - Construction of farm buildings. Neighbors helped and were supplied with beer and food (Quarter barrel of beer cost 70 cents).

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00:20:06 - Had no income tax back then. He wrote his first one in 1917.

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00:21:44 - Belgians transacted with the banks. Borrowed money for farms. But they often borrowed from each other; they trusted each other.

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00:25:16 - Method of retirement. They put money in bank and lived on the interest, had to spend wisely.

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00:27:02 - Mr. Noel heard about Vilatte being in Brussels. Vilatte only wanted to be bishop and dress in fancy clothes. Belgians liked him because he spoke French.

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00:28:15 - Location of two of Vilatte's churches in Green Bay.

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00:28:54 - Repented and died in France.

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00:29:13 - Neighbors tolerated friends of other faiths. Remembers a Holy Jumpers church.

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00:30:36 - Belgium was 100% Catholic. Church services a little different in Europe.

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00:31:23 - In Spain a commoner cannot be a priest.

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00:32:20 - Parade held on Pentecost.

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