Parker Homestead in Carson

Merton Parker who lived here was a potato inspector with my father Kenneth Peary. Merton was short and my father once told me a story of Merton being thrown out of a Potato house where he was doing a state inspection. He got up and told the man, "This scale in my hand is made out of brass and if you ever try that again you will get a brass necktie." Merton's daughter Lois was the first girl I ever fell in love with but I was to shy to ever tell her. Maybe she will learn about it here. She was beautiful. I showed her picture to my next door neighbor Jay Clark and he said she wasn't as pretty as as I thought but when Lois and others of us moved to Washburn high school Jay and Lois got together for he rest of his life.