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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.