Blocked

                   Went to school distric #16 and to Menahga High School for three years.

Bought some trucks and hauled lumber from Nels and Edward Pulju's sawmill to Minneapolis and sold to Gersther Lumber Co.  In the years of 1941-42 worked in Newfoundland building Destroyer and Army base.  Went to San Francisco and worked in shipyard at night and drove truck hauling gravel during day. (Hans Pulju owned the truck).  Sent family back to Minnesota.

In 1943-44 went to work for Utah Construction Co. traveled to Skagway, Alaska by boat, Whitehorse, Yukon Territories by train, and then to work on the Alcan Highway.  Went back to Minnesota and started sawing lumber.  Moved to White Sulphur Springs, Montana and worked for Barnum and Bailey Railroad between Ringling and White Sulphur Springs.  Rebuilt railroad, built sawmill to cut railroad ties, logged and hauled gravel for railroad.  Moved to Portland, Oregon and hauled logs between Estacada and Willamette River.  Divorced and went back to Alaska and worked in the 302 Operating Engineers Union on projects in Alaska:  Snettisham Power, Ketchikan Airfarm (just for the timber) 1 1/2 miles south of th eNestor Samuelson farm.  Nestor worked for him as a cutter and skidder.  They hauled off 5 million board feet of lumber and cut and delivered many carloads of pulpwood out of the Menahga area.  Part of the arrangement when he bought the Flowers Farm was he was to take Mr. Flowers to Menahga once a week so he could sell his flowers (he raised flowers) and buy his groceries.