By Elsie BADER, from "Hilda's Golden Heritage" 1974 Write-Up —
In the year 1911, Brother Richard and I, with our parents and all their earthly possessions, emigrated from Bismarck, North Dakota to our homestead near Buffalo Head, Saskatchewan. Our first home consisted of a two-room lean-to on the barn which Father had previously built.
Among my very earliest memories was the day when I was put to bed for my afternoon nap under a patchwork quilt, looking up at the bare rafters and hearing the wind whining around the building. Another memory is brother being assigned the task of chasing away a red fox who came to steal chickens from our sod chicken house. I shall also never forget taking a bath in rain water in our galvanized wash tub. Richard, who was a tease from the day he was born, said he saw a black spider in the water. I lost no time in getting away from the fierce creature and vaulted over the side of the tub – dragging tub, water and no spider to the kitchen floor. Much to the delight of brother, I received a trouncing while he went scot free!
School days began in Process School District No. 3876. How proud we were of our two room, brand new school, so clean and shiny with sweet peas and other flowers in the windows! Frank Radcliffe, Dick Stuart, Teddie Fowler, Emanuel, Gustave, and Katie Straub, Richard, Elsie and Leone Bader were the first pupils. Our teacher was Miss Naomi Bernstein, who, on our first day of school was dressed in a brown tweed suit and brown high button shoes. I admired her and stood in awe of her superior wisdom and intelligence and felt sure that none of us in her charge would ever attain to her scholastic level.
Our first church experiences were in meetings of several families who took turns hosting the meetings in their homes. This was the nucleus from which emerged a small Seventh Day Adventist Church which was organized in about 1926. This was the church home of our family while we lived in the Hilda area.
My own education continued in Alexandra High School in Medicine Hat, Canadian Union College at Lacombe, Alberta and La Sierra College and Loma Linda University in California State Mental Hospital. I make my home in Yucaipa, California.
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In the year 1911, Brother Richard and I, with our parents and all their earthly possessions, emigrated from Bismarck, North Dakota to our homestead near Buffalo Head, Saskatchewan. Our first home consisted of a two-room lean-to on the barn which Father had previously built.
Among my very earliest memories was the day when I was put to bed for my afternoon nap under a patchwork quilt, looking up at the bare rafters and hearing the wind whining around the building. Another memory is brother being assigned the task of chasing away a red fox who came to steal chickens from our sod chicken house. I shall also never forget taking a bath in rain water in our galvanized wash tub. Richard, who was a tease from the day he was born, said he saw a black spider in the water. I lost no time in getting away from the fierce creature and vaulted over the side of the tub – dragging tub, water and no spider to the kitchen floor. Much to the delight of brother, I received a trouncing while he went scot free!
School days began in Process School District No. 3876. How proud we were of our two room, brand new school, so clean and shiny with sweet peas and other flowers in the windows! Frank Radcliffe, Dick Stuart, Teddie Fowler, Emanuel, Gustave, and Katie Straub, Richard, Elsie and Leone Bader were the first pupils. Our teacher was Miss Naomi Bernstein, who, on our first day of school was dressed in a brown tweed suit and brown high button shoes. I admired her and stood in awe of her superior wisdom and intelligence and felt sure that none of us in her charge would ever attain to her scholastic level.
Our first church experiences were in meetings of several families who took turns hosting the meetings in their homes. This was the nucleus from which emerged a small Seventh Day Adventist Church which was organized in about 1926. This was the church home of our family while we lived in the Hilda area.
My own education continued in Alexandra High School in Medicine Hat, Canadian Union College at Lacombe, Alberta and La Sierra College and Loma Linda University in California State Mental Hospital. I make my home in Yucaipa, California.
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By Elsie BADER, from "Hilda's Golden Heritage" 1974 Write-Up —
In the year 1911, Brother Richard and I, with our parents and all their earthly possessions, emigrated from Bismarck, North Dakota to our homestead near Buffalo Head, Saskatchewan. Our first home consisted of a two-room lean-to on the barn which Father had previously built.
Among my very earliest memories was the day when I was put to bed for my afternoon nap under a patchwork quilt, looking up at the bare rafters and hearing the wind whining around the building. Another memory is brother being assigned the task of chasing away a red fox who came to steal chickens from our sod chicken house. I shall also never forget taking a bath in rain water in our galvanized wash tub. Richard, who was a tease from the day he was born, said he saw a black spider in the water. I lost no time in getting away from the fierce creature and vaulted over the side of the tub – dragging tub, water and no spider to the kitchen floor. Much to the delight of brother, I received a trouncing while he went scot free!
School days began in Process School District No. 3876. How proud we were of our two room, brand new school, so clean and shiny with sweet peas and other flowers in the windows! Frank Radcliffe, Dick Stuart, Teddie Fowler, Emanuel, Gustave, and Katie Straub, Richard, Elsie and Leone Bader were the first pupils. Our teacher was Miss Naomi Bernstein, who, on our first day of school was dressed in a brown tweed suit and brown high button shoes. I admired her and stood in awe of her superior wisdom and intelligence and felt sure that none of us in her charge would ever attain to her scholastic level.
Our first church experiences were in meetings of several families who took turns hosting the meetings in their homes. This was the nucleus from which emerged a small Seventh Day Adventist Church which was organized in about 1926. This was the church home of our family while we lived in the Hilda area.
My own education continued in Alexandra High School in Medicine Hat, Canadian Union College at Lacombe, Alberta and La Sierra College and Loma Linda University in California State Mental Hospital. I make my home in Yucaipa, California.
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In the year 1911, Brother Richard and I, with our parents and all their earthly possessions, emigrated from Bismarck, North Dakota to our homestead near Buffalo Head, Saskatchewan. Our first home consisted of a two-room lean-to on the barn which Father had previously built.
Among my very earliest memories was the day when I was put to bed for my afternoon nap under a patchwork quilt, looking up at the bare rafters and hearing the wind whining around the building. Another memory is brother being assigned the task of chasing away a red fox who came to steal chickens from our sod chicken house. I shall also never forget taking a bath in rain water in our galvanized wash tub. Richard, who was a tease from the day he was born, said he saw a black spider in the water. I lost no time in getting away from the fierce creature and vaulted over the side of the tub – dragging tub, water and no spider to the kitchen floor. Much to the delight of brother, I received a trouncing while he went scot free!
School days began in Process School District No. 3876. How proud we were of our two room, brand new school, so clean and shiny with sweet peas and other flowers in the windows! Frank Radcliffe, Dick Stuart, Teddie Fowler, Emanuel, Gustave, and Katie Straub, Richard, Elsie and Leone Bader were the first pupils. Our teacher was Miss Naomi Bernstein, who, on our first day of school was dressed in a brown tweed suit and brown high button shoes. I admired her and stood in awe of her superior wisdom and intelligence and felt sure that none of us in her charge would ever attain to her scholastic level.
Our first church experiences were in meetings of several families who took turns hosting the meetings in their homes. This was the nucleus from which emerged a small Seventh Day Adventist Church which was organized in about 1926. This was the church home of our family while we lived in the Hilda area.
My own education continued in Alexandra High School in Medicine Hat, Canadian Union College at Lacombe, Alberta and La Sierra College and Loma Linda University in California State Mental Hospital. I make my home in Yucaipa, California.
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