I find these two items very interesting. I have several receipts like the one above and several letters like this one. As far as I can tell, this was almost like a health insurance plan. At this point in time the cost for a family was $24.00 per quarter. I hage no idea what that covered. One interesting point in one of the letters was that they asked, "In order to complete our records and give further consideration to the problem of retarded children in the home, we would like those of you who have retarded children in your homes to write us . . . " They ask for information about that. One other interesting item in these documents was that they were addressed to Reverend John B. Dick. Yes, grandpa was a reverend. As I understand it was was quite an orator and spoke a great deal about fire and brimstone. The only problem was that his orating was all in German. When he got to California and there was no further use for German Speaking Ministers, Grandpa was out of a job. Because of this and other factors, Grandpa spent most of his adult life as a farm laborer. You would not call him migrant because he figured out a way to become skilled enough to find work most of the year so he did not have to move. But, man did he work hard.
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