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Gloria Kline Osler Aprill2, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon Side A 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4.5 4.5-6 6-7.5 7.5-9 9-10 10-11.5 Recounts when and where she was born- had two siblings. Her mom worked as the first women cashier in a bank and her dad fought in World War I. They met when he got a land grant in the Tobacco Valley area of Montana. They moved to Deep Creek in Fortine, Montana. Family got a Model T Ford and went to help elderly parents in Minnesota. Her Mom got a job there and her in-laws disapproved. They stayed for four years and then went back to their two room cabin in Fortine. Everything in the cabin had been stolen, so they went to live with a well off family for a while. She asked the lady if she was a whore because she smoked, had painted nails, red cheeks, make-up, and a permanent. In first grade there was no bus, so she had to walk to school or got picked up by a man who took them on a team and wagon. The first school bus was just a car and the driver would make two or three trips. At 11 years old, they moved into a large house on 420 acres because her dad inherited some money when his parents passed away. Her mom still worked and kept books for companies and it was frowned upon. She had to milk cows and deliver it to the store all before she went to school. Then, she had chores to do after school, like caring for the chickens and gathering the eggs. The farm was self-sufficient. The Fortine school was a two room schoolhouse. The teacher got paid $20 a month to teach, clean school, and stoke the fire. In fourth grade, a lady decided to start the hot lunch program. All the kids were supposed to bring a can of food that could be heated on the stove. They were never told to take the lids off and they started popping. That was the end of the hot lunch program. In 5th and 6th grades, the teacher taught them everything. They kept an ax handle on the desk. In 7th grade, there were not enough kids, so they had to go to the Eureka school. The bus was a car that had been extended by wood. One winter morning on the way to school, there were cows in the road and one slid into the bus head first. She went back to Fortine school the next year. Mr. Armstrong was her teacher and she had to keep his books. She did not get them done, so she got a D in deportment. She attended Lincoln County High School in Eureka. There were 48 in her class, but only 24 graduated. Involved in a lot of activities, but had to Gloria Kline Osler April 12, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon 11.5-13 13-16.5 16.5-18.5 18.5-21.5 21.5-23.5 23.5-25 25-26.5 SideB be on bus to go home. Her parents got a divorce when she was a junior and they got kicked out of the church. Her brother had to drive her mom to work, but then Gloria got her license for 75 cents. Senior year was the start of World War II and almost all the boys in her class went to it. Her future husband, Gerald, and her brother both fought. She had known him since the 6th grade, but he was five years her senior. She still did her chores and worked at a grocery store while waiting to drive her mom home. She went to Seattle for a typing job, but then quit and worked as a cook in the Washington Hotel for over a year. She made salads, sandwiches, and the cocktails. She wrote to the boys in war and Gerald came home in December and she was there to meet him. They got married in January. They have five children, eleven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. During war, women had to work. Everything was rationed- shoes, sugar, gas, and tires. She went to Seattle because she wanted to be a dietician, but she did not have the money for it. Her mom never got her license. Gloria was invited into the clubs because they wanted her to drive for them. She was one of the first women drivers in the area and they had a car. Gas was about 32 cents. She is glad that women are getting out there, but thinks the country is brought down by it. Also talked about places for women and how day care was bad. On the 420 acres, her, her father, and brother cleared the land and built fence. The cemetery was a place where they all got together and cleaned up. To get to Murphy Lake, they had to walk and she never saw Trego until she was 18. Gerald and her had to take his family car to get married in Kalispell. They could not check into the hotel until they had a marriage license. His brother got back from France that day and since it was the family car, they had to pick him up and he was with them for their honeymoon. They had their first child when she was 20 years old. People did not have sex unless they were married. There was not birth control and so their children were not planned. The first three were close and then the next two came eight years later. They lived with her mom at first and then in a trailer. Gerald got surgery and then built a one room cabin on Deep Creek. They built on a new room with every child. Gloria Kline Osler April 12, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon 0-2 Her mom got the land and the car in the divorce. Her dad was 38 when he got married and never got along with children. He did farming and then got a government pension. He also got money from a GI bill. 2-3 3-4 4-5.5 5.5-6.5 6.5-9 taken as veal. 9-13 13-15 15-17 Her mom sewed their clothes and remodeled the ones that their friends from the east sent. The kids would sometimes get teased at school because of those clothes. Her Grandpa Kline was a professional soldier from Germany that fought in the Civil War for the Yankees. He got a land grant in Minnesota. People said that when they drove there, Indians or wild animals would attack them. Her maternal grandparent lived in the Flathead area close to where Gloria grew up. Her mom and siblings were all born in the area. That is how her mom me her father. Saturday was wash day and they baked all the bread for the rest of the week. It was Gloria's job to clean the barnyard and transfer all the manure up a hill to the garden. She had to care for the chickens. Every weekend, the nests had to be replaced and the floor painted with used oil. On Sunday, the kids got two hours to play. In the summer, they went swimming, but could only swim for 15 minutes because any longer than that was supposed to make them lazy. They had pigs that her father butchered and made something out of everything. They canned all kind of things. The dairy claves were away from the mom as soon as possible, bottle fed, and then eaten They raised hay and grain for the cows. Range cattle were scarce. The family sold cream and butter. There was a big herd of sheep and nobody liked them. People had goat on mountainside. For the butter, they used a cedar chum with paddles. They also had frying chickens. They put the cream on the train to Eureka every other day. Gloria once shot a bear in the heart because it had attacked the dog. She put the baby in the car and got her dad. He butchered it like a pig. The bear rug was on her sons' wall for a long time. She helped to start the first 4-H club in the area and was a leader for 15 years. She was in the Just Neighbors club, she likes to paint, do needlework, cook, and play cards. She thinks that all kids should be taught to play cribbage to learn how to count really fast. Gloria Kline Osler April 12, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon 17-19 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were the only days to do sports. She played basketball, was a runner in track, and played on the boys' baseball team. They had to wear shorts to the knee and tennis shoes were scarce. 19-21.5 21.5-24 24-26.5 26.5-27 Her mom did income taxes for people and they were due on March 15. That night, she got off the train, walked to the house and at 11 o'clock that night, gave birth to Gloria's little sister. She was 11 at the time and helped to deliver her. The doctor came two hours later. Gloria's brother was a year and a half older than her. They had to wear corsets, girdles, and the whole thing. There was no such thing as sanitary napkins. Instead they sewed together pieces of flannel and wore them on a belt. They would wash them. Poodle skirts and saddle shoes were in fashion. Her mom went to Flathead High School and during her senior year took business classes through a college program. She got her degree in 1920. There were no bathrooms and had to use outhouses. Gloria and Gerald put in one of the first in the area. When there was no running water, people would build their houses close to creeks. Her bother was Bart Lee and her sister was Mary Ann. Gloria and Gerald were married by a Methodist minister. The Fortine Church was strict. The only dance at the school was the prom, which she was queen of.
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Title | Osler, Gloria Kline Oral History Interview, 2003 |
Interviewer | Brandon, Melissa |
Date | 2003-04-22 |
Description | 56 minute oral history with Gloria Osler, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She describes her early childhood in northwestern Montana and her rural education. She talks about her parent's divorce and being the first woman to have a driver's license in the area. She moved to Seattle, Washington after high school for a short time during World War II, but moved back to Montana and married a World War II veteran. They raised five children together. |
Subject | Rural women; Housewives; Economic & social conditions |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Montana--Lincoln County--Fortine |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua262b06f63 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Full Text | Gloria Kline Osler Aprill2, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon Side A 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4.5 4.5-6 6-7.5 7.5-9 9-10 10-11.5 Recounts when and where she was born- had two siblings. Her mom worked as the first women cashier in a bank and her dad fought in World War I. They met when he got a land grant in the Tobacco Valley area of Montana. They moved to Deep Creek in Fortine, Montana. Family got a Model T Ford and went to help elderly parents in Minnesota. Her Mom got a job there and her in-laws disapproved. They stayed for four years and then went back to their two room cabin in Fortine. Everything in the cabin had been stolen, so they went to live with a well off family for a while. She asked the lady if she was a whore because she smoked, had painted nails, red cheeks, make-up, and a permanent. In first grade there was no bus, so she had to walk to school or got picked up by a man who took them on a team and wagon. The first school bus was just a car and the driver would make two or three trips. At 11 years old, they moved into a large house on 420 acres because her dad inherited some money when his parents passed away. Her mom still worked and kept books for companies and it was frowned upon. She had to milk cows and deliver it to the store all before she went to school. Then, she had chores to do after school, like caring for the chickens and gathering the eggs. The farm was self-sufficient. The Fortine school was a two room schoolhouse. The teacher got paid $20 a month to teach, clean school, and stoke the fire. In fourth grade, a lady decided to start the hot lunch program. All the kids were supposed to bring a can of food that could be heated on the stove. They were never told to take the lids off and they started popping. That was the end of the hot lunch program. In 5th and 6th grades, the teacher taught them everything. They kept an ax handle on the desk. In 7th grade, there were not enough kids, so they had to go to the Eureka school. The bus was a car that had been extended by wood. One winter morning on the way to school, there were cows in the road and one slid into the bus head first. She went back to Fortine school the next year. Mr. Armstrong was her teacher and she had to keep his books. She did not get them done, so she got a D in deportment. She attended Lincoln County High School in Eureka. There were 48 in her class, but only 24 graduated. Involved in a lot of activities, but had to Gloria Kline Osler April 12, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon 11.5-13 13-16.5 16.5-18.5 18.5-21.5 21.5-23.5 23.5-25 25-26.5 SideB be on bus to go home. Her parents got a divorce when she was a junior and they got kicked out of the church. Her brother had to drive her mom to work, but then Gloria got her license for 75 cents. Senior year was the start of World War II and almost all the boys in her class went to it. Her future husband, Gerald, and her brother both fought. She had known him since the 6th grade, but he was five years her senior. She still did her chores and worked at a grocery store while waiting to drive her mom home. She went to Seattle for a typing job, but then quit and worked as a cook in the Washington Hotel for over a year. She made salads, sandwiches, and the cocktails. She wrote to the boys in war and Gerald came home in December and she was there to meet him. They got married in January. They have five children, eleven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. During war, women had to work. Everything was rationed- shoes, sugar, gas, and tires. She went to Seattle because she wanted to be a dietician, but she did not have the money for it. Her mom never got her license. Gloria was invited into the clubs because they wanted her to drive for them. She was one of the first women drivers in the area and they had a car. Gas was about 32 cents. She is glad that women are getting out there, but thinks the country is brought down by it. Also talked about places for women and how day care was bad. On the 420 acres, her, her father, and brother cleared the land and built fence. The cemetery was a place where they all got together and cleaned up. To get to Murphy Lake, they had to walk and she never saw Trego until she was 18. Gerald and her had to take his family car to get married in Kalispell. They could not check into the hotel until they had a marriage license. His brother got back from France that day and since it was the family car, they had to pick him up and he was with them for their honeymoon. They had their first child when she was 20 years old. People did not have sex unless they were married. There was not birth control and so their children were not planned. The first three were close and then the next two came eight years later. They lived with her mom at first and then in a trailer. Gerald got surgery and then built a one room cabin on Deep Creek. They built on a new room with every child. Gloria Kline Osler April 12, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon 0-2 Her mom got the land and the car in the divorce. Her dad was 38 when he got married and never got along with children. He did farming and then got a government pension. He also got money from a GI bill. 2-3 3-4 4-5.5 5.5-6.5 6.5-9 taken as veal. 9-13 13-15 15-17 Her mom sewed their clothes and remodeled the ones that their friends from the east sent. The kids would sometimes get teased at school because of those clothes. Her Grandpa Kline was a professional soldier from Germany that fought in the Civil War for the Yankees. He got a land grant in Minnesota. People said that when they drove there, Indians or wild animals would attack them. Her maternal grandparent lived in the Flathead area close to where Gloria grew up. Her mom and siblings were all born in the area. That is how her mom me her father. Saturday was wash day and they baked all the bread for the rest of the week. It was Gloria's job to clean the barnyard and transfer all the manure up a hill to the garden. She had to care for the chickens. Every weekend, the nests had to be replaced and the floor painted with used oil. On Sunday, the kids got two hours to play. In the summer, they went swimming, but could only swim for 15 minutes because any longer than that was supposed to make them lazy. They had pigs that her father butchered and made something out of everything. They canned all kind of things. The dairy claves were away from the mom as soon as possible, bottle fed, and then eaten They raised hay and grain for the cows. Range cattle were scarce. The family sold cream and butter. There was a big herd of sheep and nobody liked them. People had goat on mountainside. For the butter, they used a cedar chum with paddles. They also had frying chickens. They put the cream on the train to Eureka every other day. Gloria once shot a bear in the heart because it had attacked the dog. She put the baby in the car and got her dad. He butchered it like a pig. The bear rug was on her sons' wall for a long time. She helped to start the first 4-H club in the area and was a leader for 15 years. She was in the Just Neighbors club, she likes to paint, do needlework, cook, and play cards. She thinks that all kids should be taught to play cribbage to learn how to count really fast. Gloria Kline Osler April 12, 2003 Interviewed by Melissa L. Brandon 17-19 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were the only days to do sports. She played basketball, was a runner in track, and played on the boys' baseball team. They had to wear shorts to the knee and tennis shoes were scarce. 19-21.5 21.5-24 24-26.5 26.5-27 Her mom did income taxes for people and they were due on March 15. That night, she got off the train, walked to the house and at 11 o'clock that night, gave birth to Gloria's little sister. She was 11 at the time and helped to deliver her. The doctor came two hours later. Gloria's brother was a year and a half older than her. They had to wear corsets, girdles, and the whole thing. There was no such thing as sanitary napkins. Instead they sewed together pieces of flannel and wore them on a belt. They would wash them. Poodle skirts and saddle shoes were in fashion. Her mom went to Flathead High School and during her senior year took business classes through a college program. She got her degree in 1920. There were no bathrooms and had to use outhouses. Gloria and Gerald put in one of the first in the area. When there was no running water, people would build their houses close to creeks. Her bother was Bart Lee and her sister was Mary Ann. Gloria and Gerald were married by a Methodist minister. The Fortine Church was strict. The only dance at the school was the prom, which she was queen of. |
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