Talking with Grandma...

I learned today that Great Grandpa Robert Emett Burns, father (John Burns) pasted away when Robert was in high school so he had to drop out of school. He was the only one that could drive, and he had a mother and three sister to take care of now. He had to do the planting of the crops, the next year the superintend of the school came out to the farm and told him that he should come back to school and graduate which he did. Do to the death of his father he wasn't able to go on to school and become attorney like he would have like, but all three of his sister were able to go on and get teaching degrees. Later in life he would always be reading to educate himself, and he took at least two daily paper and would read both of them. He would also sit with his chair closest to the radio that the family had so that he could keep up to date with the news around the world.

I also learned that Grandma Runkle and at least three of her sisters would have the job of delivering the Indianapolis News (which is now probably the Indianapolis Star). They would go after school to where the Indiana Autobus would come drop off the papers, fold them, and then walk around Fulton, Indiana delivering them. Then every Saturday they would collect the money for the paper.