8-15-58
Mrs. Conrad Zarend	( Katharine Muehleise)	818 E. 2nd.

Aged 79 in December.

Daughter of John and Rosa Krug - who had met as young People, both in the
employ of the banker Wing, who lived on the corner of Elm and Macomb. Rosa
was hired first as kitchen helper under Christine, the Wing cook. John was
the "chauffeur" for the horses.

Holy Ghost area:   Indians: Rosa was the oldest girl in the Krug family who lived
on Sandy Creek in the Holy Ghost Lutheran Church area. She remembered how her
mother used to go out into the fields to help her father clear the land, wielding
an ax like a man  The youngsters, under Rosa's care, were locked inside the
house to keep them safe from the Indians in the neighborhood. Rosa said that
the children often saw the Indians looking in the windows but that no effort
was ever made to enter.

    Neighbors in the Holy Ghost area were the Raumans, Weemans and Sperrs.

    The custom of sending the girls out to do housework as soon as they reached
15 or 16 was quite usual among the Germans.  Rosa was about that age when she
went to Wings.  She stayed there 3 years.

SW Monroe:  When Rosa married John they went to live on the corner of Third and
Hubble in a house that wasn't new then (about 1875).	It was an all-German
neighborhood.  John had lived across the street over since he arrived in 
Monroe.  His father had died in Germany where he too, had been a groom and driver
for a wealthy family.  John brought his mother to America - also a brother and
several sisters.  His next job was working at Noble's Lumber Yard at a salary
of $7.50 a week.  The young Krugs raised most of the food they needed and kept
few cows (which they pastured on land just west of their house), pigs, chickens,
and geese.  There were always a couple of sides of beef hanging in the attic
each winter - it always kept in good condition because the winters were so cold.
As the children increased, they had to work, too: sawed wood, milked the cows,
etc.  Rosa was busy woman, finding time to bake all sorts of good things and
to knit stockings, mittens and hoods from the yarn that she spun on her small
sized spinning wheel.

In the summer evenings John often got out his accordion and played German
songs for the children to sing as they all gathered on the steps of the house.

One of the old street lamps was on Third Street at Harrison.  A little quiet
man came along each evening to light it.

A public pump was a nearby (on W.5th, she thinks), but it had sulphur water so
most people had their own well.

The Krugs spoke only German in their home.  The children began to learn English
when they entered school - attending Trinity Lutheran.

Columbia Hotel:  When Katharine was 15 she started to wark for two maiden ladies
(Clara and Sue (?) Lewis) who ran tbe Columbia Hotel  was on the 2nd floor
where the Stoner-Kemmerling Building now is, for $1 a week.  It was owned by
Wm. Hubble.  The Misses Lewis had about 25 boarders at this time.  It was K's
job to wait on table, wash and wipe the dishes, and run errands - she worked
7 days a week (but had Thursday and Sunday afternoons off) from 7 A.M. to about
8 P.M. Her younger sister used to come down evenings to help with the dishes
and to walk home with K. afterwords.  With some of their first money the girls
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