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Dad would close at midnight. I often think when we all sat down at meal time Mother and Dad always sat side by side and us twelve children around the table, there was a big bench in the rear where us boys sat, the girls sat at each end and in front, I can see Mother putting food in Dad's plate, there was plenty to cook for this family, in the fall we made a barrel of sauerkraut and put ten or more barrels of potatoes in the cellar for the winter, we did quite a lunch business there was Shults bakery and J. R. Carpenters lumber yard nearby, mother, Elizabeth or Anna would do the cooking, soup was always free, the lunch was .15 cents, a different menu each day, pot roast, pork chops, beef stew, tenderloin, and on Friday fish and two vegetables on each table was a big plate of rye