Once a week a delivery hack from Abbotts Grocery and Dry Goods store of Holton came to the Buck's Grove community to deliver their wares. One winter day, when the driver was coming down the steep hill west of the Kroth home place, the wagon tipped and pinned the driver under the wagon. He was rescued by some of the Kroth family and taken to the house. Dr. Reed of Soldier was called and found a broken leg which he set. The huckster was cared for in the Kroth home until the store could send a hack to bring him to Holton.
"The Kroth Sisters" told of their threshing day visit from Indians. The long table was set with food and they had spent the long morning preparing for their brothers and neighbors who had come to help with the threshing. At high noon a string of Indian ponies rode into their yard, their riders swung from the horses, and with no ceremony, walked into the house and surrounded the table and devoured every morsel of food.
The first home of Charley and Maggie Kroth was east and south of the Henry Kroth homestead about three miles. Charley erected a large steel windmill by his feed lots and used it to grind corn and other grain for hogs and cattle as well as to pump water for his horses. One day as was his habit, he climbed up to the tower to oil the cogs. The wind shifted and the big wheel started. His glove caught in the cogs and one finger was left in the glove atop the windmill. Charley came down and Bertha ran across Haines pasture to ask Arch Kroth for help. Arch tool, him in a spring wagon to the doctor. Dr. Reed cared for the wound which healed nicely but left Charley without a fore finger. All of this without the miracle of drugs, which does so much for like injuries today.
May Loughmiller taught district school at Adrian. It was customary to have programs with box suppers or other entertainment every month or two. The school children sang sons, gave readings and sometimes played pieces on the piano.
Arch and Harley Kroth had purchased a phonograph that created a lot of interest among neighbors. May asked the brothers to bring it to furnish music for the program at the school house. It was a successful venture because the phonograph performed beautifully and people marveled and enjoyed it. Among the crowd that evening was Jess Willard who later fought Jack Dempsey and was declared champion of the prize fighters of the ring.
Stella remembers how Grandmother Kroth used to remember each grandchild at Christmas with personal gifts. One Christmas her gift was "Five Little Peppers", a big flat book with the picture of the five children, Polly, Ben, David, Joel, and little80 Next Page
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