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The day the milkman
stopped delivery?
When
we moved to Paragould in 1966, I ask the Foremost Dairy here in Paragould
for home deliver of milk. I was
quite surprised to find out that they did not do home delivery. So, to answer your question,
Foremost quit delivering milk in the early 1960’s.
We had had milk delivered in Kentucky
before moving to Paragould, and we wanted the service to continue, so I called
their competitor, Sealtest, and success! They had a route man who would deliver
milk and other products to our home.
So from the time we moved to our home on Highland Street we had a milkman
named
Bud Mann. A man
named Bud, Bud Cloyce, that is, delivered our mail. Now we were set up for the next 25
years, with “Bud”, as both made their delivers, one Bud six day of the week
and another Bud three times a week.
We had four children and we used seven gallons of milk and three gallon of
orange juice each week while they were all home. It did dwindle down to a smaller amount
after Marilyn died and I only had one child at home.
In
the early 1990’s we were the only family in Paragould that had milk delivered to
our home. The day that we stopped the delivery of milk to our home was
August 31, 1994. All the children were gone from home.