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- One of George's chores as a young boy was to fill the coal bucket in the cellar of "the summer house" and carry it up the outside steps and into the kitchen. He remembers carrying this bucket on very cold, icy days when he was barely strong enough to lift the bucket. However, there was one reward for this task, he often napped behind the coal stove where it was warm and out of the way.
Another of George's chores as a young boy was to bring the cows in from the pasture. Of course they wouldn't always cooperate, especially when the horses got mixed in with the cows and of course there was often more interesting things going on at home that he was afraid he was missing. He remembers one time coming home without the cows to ask his mother for help. She had company, but went with him to get the cows, but let him know the whole way there and back home that she was not happy about the situation.
Frank and Lulu's house was apparently a very popular place to visit. George talked about loading the buggy with food and a change of clothes so they could visit friends and family right after church because if they went home after church company would often appear and they would not be able to continue with their plans.
Lulu was a very good cook and housekeeper. She always washed clothes on Monday, ironed on Tuesday, scrubbed the kitchen chairs and floor on Wednesday, cleaned the upstairs on Thursdays, cleaned the downstairs on Fridays and baked 8 pies and 8 loaves of bread on Saturday. When she was first married she had to bake in "the out oven" which was a wood fired oven built outside.
Lulu always had a crock of buckwheat pancake batter starter sitting on the cellar steps. One day George and his sister Jane decided to have a pancake eating contest. Lulu kept making pancakes and Jane and George kept eating away. George got full before Jane did but wasn't about to let his sister win so he started hiding his pancakes on a ledge under the table.
Family and friends often joined the Polliards on a Sunday afternoon to help them break wild horses.
George's biggest adventure as a young man was his trip to the "Century of Progress Exposition" in Chicago in 1933. He traveled to the fair with Chubb Chandler, Blair Henry and his cousin Don Phillips in a $12 car owned by his cousin Don Phillips. Each boy paid Don $5 for the ride. George had earned his $5 by raising and selling a pig. The car had a trundle seat so there was not much interior room. Don did all the driving so they remaining three took turns riding in the one remaining interior seat or the two seats in the exterior trundle seat. They slept along the way on blankets beside the car. After the Exposition they decided they wanted to return home by a different route so they could see Canada and Niagara Falls. Don agreed take to his car the longer route only after obtaining an extra $.50 from the other three passengers.
George was a member of the Eureka Lodge 290 in Greenville; Scottish Rite Valley of New Castle; and Zem Zem Temple, Erie.
Record of Deeds for the "store" property
Orrie O Wagner to Fred R. Corbett, Vengold Ice Cream, recorded Dec. 16, 1930
Vengold Dairy Products Inc. to Clyde E. Winters, recorded April 26, 1934
Clyd E. Winters to George T. Polliard & Florence R. Polliard, recorded April 27, 1944
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