"The first photograph? I don't exactly remember the actual occassion, but I do remember doing that same job many, many times. We used to raise a lot of them [chickens], and I used to clean a lot of them. And we took them in to town to cleaned and took them in to town for people to use as fryers, you know."
Question: "How would you clean a chicken?"
"Well, first you have to cut their heads off. Pluck them good. Then, we used to always have to singe them to finish getting them clean and then wash them."
Question: "The photograph identifies you as borrowers from the Farm Security Administration. Do you remember that?"
"Yes."
Lynn May: "Definitely."
Madge: "Well, I imagine probably we couldn't have even survived probably without them because we had to have they gave us what financial background we had when we started. And they were helpful."
Lynn: "I think probably that's where you got your start in bookkeeping."
Madge: "Well, that could be. I don't know."
Lynn: "We always had to keep books. She was good keeping books. And to this day, she still does that."
Question: "And what are you doing now?"
Madge: "I'm doing bookkeeping. Well, from the farm, we started a Purina Feed franchise here in town. We had that five years, and then decided that wasn't that prosperous and a lot of hard work, too. And so he then sold that and bought a propane gas delivery service. And I decided then to go to work in Lincoln, and I went to work at Hovland-Swanson's in 1953, in January of 1953. And I'm still there. Hovland-Swanson's is a specialty store in Lincoln, exclusive."

