10-4-1985
I recall an incident concerning Rosa. Looking back it seems somewhat amusing but it probably was not amusing then. You will need some background to fully understand this. In those days the seventh and eighth graders were required to take and pass a county examination before they were promoted to the next grade or in the case of an eighth grader, this examination must be passed before receiving a diploma. These were no nonsense exams and they took a good part of the day. A country kid often took along a lunch. Mom always baked bread and when she did she often took a portion of the dough and filled a pan similar to a cake pan with rolls. I believe the proper name for them then was Parker House rolls so named because a certain hotel and restaurant named Parker House was supposed to have been the first to bake them. Around our house they were called light biscuits. This may have been a rather common name. I really don't know. The Hoxie Bakery advertised in the Hoxie Sentinel that they were selling rolls for ten or fifteen cents a package, I don't recall the exact amount. You kids certainly didn't have much spending money when you were growing up. I think we had even less. It was decided that Rosa would be given enough money to buy a package of these rolls. We all believed that she would be getting cinnamon rolls. At our house, cinnamon rolls were simply rolls. You can imagine her predicament when she ordered and received the rolls. She didn't have the courage to let them know that she thought she was going to get cinnamon rolls.  I suspect she ate some of them because that was all she had. I wouldn't have either (let them know). We country kids didn't understand city ways but we were proud and stubborn.