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I used to watch Mark carve out those birds pretty clever, the head would bounce with every step.

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.....by the time Ernie got around to the back end Blues on the walkaround and went into this dance there was no doubt what number was on!

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Horace Laird at right was the Mail Man when we were on the Cole Show.

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Hiram Orton our Founder.

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The Ortons with my Grandfather at right exhibiting the outgoing demeanor I would later inherit!

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Bayard, Miles, Grandfather Arzy, Grace and Criley.

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Everyone likes to think their mother is the most beautiful person in the World.

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Early in the morning my Mothers' job was to round up kids to work for a Free Pass.

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The Orton Sisters Nellie, Grace and Sarah. Being the last of the Orton Brood my mother was called "The Baby" then "Babe" a name I called her from infancy. When I grew older and we were on the Cole Show the ladies chided me into calling her "Mother" and I did.

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Aunt Grace.

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Aunt Nellie looking pretty Hotsy Totsy here eventually married a wealthy old gentleman named Hoogewaning who had considerable holdings in Down Town Ottumwa, Iowa.

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My mother (behind the kneeling clown) colored this picture to the dismay of my father, an avid collector who wanted things left as printed.

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All the Orton kids. Aunt Grace didn't have any kids at the time but managed to adopt Chinese  girl she named Alice. That's my mother's hand writing but the names are not in sequence.

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