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Emma
Casper, Warwick
Tape #55B Emma Casper (Warwick)
001 – Introduction
016 – Emma’s family arrives in North Dakota,
some family history
060 – Emma found the countryside and homestead
very lonesome
079 – Hauling lumber to build
088 – Emma starts her family with the assistance
of a neighbor midwife
103 – Nationalities of the area, the isolation,
Emma kept busy to stave off loneliness
151 – Good water available on the homestead
158 – Very few prairie fires in the area
169 – Hard times ease a bit when the Caspers
acquire some cows
185 – A bit of Emma’s personal life
195 – Community social life
211 – Otto and Emma move to Litchfield,
Minnesota but return to North Dakota which they
preferred
220 – Warwick grows, some of the better stores
in town
258 – Emma sells butter in Warwick, Hard but
good days, the local churches
292 – Neighbors more neighborly years ago, they
needed each other more then
299 – No radio or television then so they
entertained themselves after dark
318 – They took grain to Devils Lake for
grinding into flour
328 – Early Christmases
337 – Emma does not regret the early days nor
her leaving Sweden, some family history and
geography
369 – The 30’s were very bad for the Caspers
396 – Otto worked on WPA projects for a short
time
401 – Dust storms were pretty terrible
414 – Sewing helped to make ends meet
429 – Catalog buying was almost the only way
they bought dry goods
442 – Emma never felt poor even though there was
virtually no money, she is content and happy at
nearly 90 years of age
455 – The sewing club
464 – Emma taught herself to can, there was no
one to assist her in learning, the storage of
the summer’s produce
489 – Indians and the homesteaders, Indians in
the area today
516 – Threshing for the Caspers
528 – The telephone arrives in Warwick
535 – Warwick preferred to any other area in
North Dakota, North Dakota preferred to any
other state
551 – Wolves and coyotes calling was scary for
Emma
564 – Lignite the common fuel for Otto and Emma
and “Oh! The dust from it!”
573 – Dancing and card playing in the
neighborhood, general entertainment in the area
619 – Many peddlers throughout the area
640 – End of interview
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Mrs. O. B. Wood, Warwick/Crary
Tape #56A Mrs. O. B. Wood (Warwick – Crary)
001 – Introduction
016 – The arrival of Mrs. Woods family (Lane) in
North Dakota. Some family history
051 – Mr. Wood’s family’s arrival in North
Dakota, Scandinavians flood into the area, some
family history, Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Wood loved
North Dakota and the area on sight
137 – Indians and the Wood’s, Early housing
173 – Storing flax in the front room of the
Wood’s house, More family history, there wasn’t
always assistance available when babies were
born
202 – Crary as a shopping town, some of the
stores therein
241 – Socializing in the early days,
Neighborliness then and now
288 – Evening entertainment in the homes after
dark, Brumebaugh, North Dakota poetry of
February 1908
330 – A good life for the Wood’s, raising seven
children, good neighbors all around them
390 – Nationalities of the area
470 – First washing machine for Mrs. Wood
458 – The local churches and the school,
boarding the teacher
500 – The 1918 – 1919 flu epidemic
528 – Death and funerals in 1906 – 1910,
Typhoid fever
573 – The accidental shooting of Paul Wood in
1930
589 – End of side one (A)
Side Two (B) of tape #56
001 – The accidental shooting of Paul Wood
continued, Marvelous neighbors help in getting
Paul to the doctor. Paul lives
051 – A telephone for the Woods
069 – Some hard years. Cooking in the spare
times
100 – Coal used for fuel
114 – An old time Indian of the area
139 – Oscar Wood and his threshing machine, the
IWW’s respect for Oscar
169 – the nasty 30’s
178 – Oscar made life easy for his wife and
family during the bad years
196 – Moving the house around the area
200 – Oscar and Sherry observed wildlife in
their habitat
232 – Scarcity of reading material in the early
years, Later literature for the Woods
273 – Early friends and characters of the area
296 – Mrs. Wood was not a seamstress – School
lunches and general kinds of foods, storage, and
preparation
351 – “A portfolio of famous people in history”
367 – Electricity for the Woods
394 – Oscar was active in the Non-Partisan
League and thought highly of Bill Langer
417 – End of interview
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