Martha Community

the spinning wheels were harnessed and the farmer's daughters would spin 

the yarn. No man ever beheld a more beautiful sight than these pretty 

girls dressed in neat calico or linsey dresses without paint on their 

cheeks or lips except the beautiful that nature gave them. 

It is hard to show the old people that we are living in a better day amid 

high cost of living and staggering high taxes. Those were good old days 

with granaries full of wheat, cribs full of corn, meat houses full of good 

old hog meat, river full of fish, woods full of game, plenty to eat, and 

plenty to wear; a county of brave men and pretty women. We have got to go 

some if we beat those good old times. 

If we leave off our conveniences we must take off our hats to our grand-

parents' time. If they had had the railroad, the bridge at Elmwood, the 

hard road, and the home and farm equipment that we now have, they would 

have had us "skinned a block." 

It is hoped by the writer that this history while incomplete and 

fragmentary may serve to inspire some more gifted historian to prepare a 

more adequate and comprehensive history of our community. 

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