We had the old wooden crank phone that hung on the wall. People that listened in on others' conversations were called rubberneckers.
We didn't have running water for drinking so we had to carry it in a pail from the pump and we dipped it out of the pail with a dipper. It was the best tasting, coldest water ever.
I wanted to go to the country school 1 1/2 miles from our farm but we were half mile across the cutoff line so we had to go to school in town. It was a small school though, 2 grades in one room and I remember there only being 9 kids in our class so we got alot of individual help. Not like today where there can be 30+ kids in a classroom. It's amazing kids can learn anything in today's school systems.