I was transfered to the Anacortes field in 1938. This field had not been worked very hard so the work was quite easy. The boss in PortAngeles had made a sale on the moving job and so when the company sent me the bill for the moving the company had to pay it.It was in anacortes that we bought our first home. The Anacortes Plywood was just starting the cost of a share was $5.000.00 and later they were worth $35.000.00. About this time I became instered in the Masonic lodge and became acting master as the master was drafted into the army. The following year I was elected to the office as master of Fidelgo Lodge F&AM 77. At this time wife and I became interested in adopting a child, and finally we were succesful, a girl and we named her Gloria Lee Hatley. In 1941 the Japs hit Pearl Harbor and there was lots of activity, war bonds and labor shortage everywhere. WE were visiting the wife's folks in Custer Washington a town of 250 and when we got home that evening there were troups everywhere. Bremerton at that time had many ballons around the navy base.thess ballons at different heights was to make it hard for the Japs to dive bomb the base. It was about this time that Thelma and Merwin moved to Bremerton to take a job in the navy base. There were many artilary around Anacortes and barbed wire was everywhere. It was around this time that my wife had her first heart attack. Around this time we got our first trailer, bought it in a trailer sales between Seattle and Tacoma. Mom named it Nellie Belle. We went on many camping trips and had enjoyable times. This trailer was a small one and did not have modern appliances like our next trailer had. WE went over to Yakima and worked in the fruit one time, we worked in the Carr orchard and where the Camlu retirement apts., now stands. Each meal Mrs Carr brought us something to eat and one day when we started to lunch the wife finished packing a box of apples that a packer had left, she did not know that there was two grades of apples in the same bin and the boss fired the packer for making a mistake, he told her if she wanted to work to go on the sorting chain. I told him it was our mistake but he would not listen so I felt dorry for the woman and offered to give her some money, she just hauled off and hit me on the chin with her fist. my ego was hurt and I said I would give all the money that we would make on this job if she was a man for just a minute and she said she would have her husband come over and I said good. Someone said her husband was a very big man and I said bring him over. The next morning I was cooled off but Ihad said too much to back down and when I went to work there was agroupe waiting to see what would hapen. Her husband was a real large man and he asked where Hatley was and I was pointedout. He came over and said I wish you would have let her have one as she was always having trouble. Ha Ha..The wife's father passed away about this time and her mother went to the Pythisn nursing home in Vancouver Washington. I hired a U Haul truck and took her personal things down to her. It was about this time that Gloria went roller skating and fell and broke herarm, they tried to get us but for some reason did not and when we did I went down to the doctors office, she was getting a cast on her arm and when she saw me she started to make a big fuss, she was laid up for quite some time.Harry Ingham who was in charge of the Anacortes field was transfered to Californina and sent us an invitation to visit them. WE Took Gloria and drove down to their place and Harry told his wife befor he went to work to take his car and drive over to SanFrncisco, I was driving and when we crossed the big bridge the wind was blowing a gale and I said something wrong with your car, she just laughed and said the wind is blowing and the bridge is swaying several feet. We injoyed SanFrancisco and the cable cars very much. This was the time that mom had an operation on her nose and the result was that it was cancer and short yime later it came back and doctor Noble said he would git it all this time but he did'nt and it came back so he wanted to put a plastic nose on her but I decided to take her to the Swedish hospital in Seattle and they gave her 35 ray treatments and we had to go back every month and then every six months and then once a year for five years and then they declared it cured. WE took a trailer trip to Arizona and stayed down there for the winter. Had the pleausre of seeing several base ball games, the Cubs and the White Sox had theur training camps down there.We stayed in a trailer court and the charge was $22.00 per momgh and that included the water and garbage removal.There are lots of things to see in Arizona, the cliff dwelling place, the desert, a trip to Mexico, the ghost towns,the indian villages, the Superstition mountains, the big copper mine and the old Tuson town and grave yard. Wyap Erp's famous place. You can spend a lifetime and not see it all.and don't forget Death Valley and the castels.Here is an incident I won't forget, I was helping Mr March with his farm work, his son and wife and their young son was there and in the middle of the afternoon his son and wife had to leave. About three PM Mr March and wife was called away and they left the young boy with me, after they left the young boy wanted to do something that I did not want him to do so he layed down and started to scream. I Put him in the root house and closed the door. Mr and mrs March came home about five PM and I said good by and went home. About six thirty the boys mother called me and wanted to know where he son was, I woke up, I had forgoten all aboute him, Well1 I expect to be sued but several years later Gloria and I was visiting the mother and she said young Freddie wanted to see me, he wanted to thank me for putting HIM IN THE ROOT SELLER, IT SEEMS HIS FOLKS HAD BEEN TAKING HIM TO THE DOCTOR thinking he was having fits and this cured him. Ha Ha. --About this time Florence my neice go married to a mr Jones. Bill used to court Florence at my house. I had a customer at Similk beach named ten million, an od name.

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