Einar Hovi came to the Hannaford area in the early 1900s. He purchased a farm 2 1/2 miles northwest of Hannaford. He made a trip back to Norway were he met and proposed to Hilda Smestad and she emigrated to America in 1916. They were married at the farm. They had two children, Tina, and myself, Eilif.
In those days there were no school buses and the roads were not plowed open in the winter time.
Since both Tina and myself went to school in Hannaford, Dad had to haul us to and from school each day in a horse and buggy or sleigh until the cars could get through.
To help with expenses in the depression era, we bottled and delivered milk to some homes in Hannaford. When we hauled the milk in an open sled it would freeze, so Dad built a plywood enclosed sled to keep both the milk and us from freezing. I think every boy in Hannaford jumped on the runners at one time or another for a ride. Sometimes Dad would gallop the horses around a sharp corner throwing the boys off into a snow bank.
I remember one time Dr. O. H. Hoffman ordered a quart of cream and one dozen eggs. The next day when I tried to make the delivery to his house, his wife refused them because she hadn't ordered them. When I stopped by his office to find out why, he bawled me out for letting his wife know. (He had ordered it to make Tom and Jerry's for a card party he planned to have at the office.)
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 161