Luray Kansas
Dec 9, 1942
Dear Mable Archie &
Shirley,
Rec’d your Christmas card and
the nice letter inside. Was so pleased to hear from you and to know you are
getting along so well.
We are well. Been having
terrible cold weather here now for over a week zero and below every morning. Ground
has been white with snow since the day before Christmas not over 6 or 8 in on
level but has drifted a little.
Had a letter from Fred White
said they had two ft on level and drifts 5 ft deep.
Curry was along today Rosa’s husband.
He travels and sells combines you know. Helen is still in Calf Dale works in
the Volte Air Craft & Helen still works in the walnut house. Began work
there two years in Sept. They closed down in March last summer & didn’t
open until Oct. but she drew her compensation check $10.00 a week until they
opened. She is an over seer or check girl has a table of 20 women & girls empty’s
their boxes of nuts & grades them & punches their card and one for herself
keeps her busy. There are always around 150 girls women working there. She
makes about $18.00 a week. Dale gets $5.00 a day. Dale was off work a couple of
mo’s had an appendix operation. Gary is in 2nd grade. Was 7 yrs old
Xmas day.
Howard & his wife came
home from Calif. A couple of years ago in Oct her father died.
Then they went to Kans City
and have been down there now two years this month they both work and make
pretty good she does off ice work.
Lucille is quite a big girl
will be 12 yrs old the 9th of Mar. Anyone would think she was 14 or
15 that didn’t know her. She is in 6th grade. Plays basket ball and
plays in the band.
Your new range must be very
pretty. Yes I know everyone out there burns wood. I visited Cliff a couple of
years ago and they had a nice white range stove. We would sure love to visit
you folks but it seems so hard for George to ever get away from home any more
and money is always so scarce.
Has so much land to look
after since Cy’s death & Ruth has moved to Osb. He put that place out to
wheat himself hired it done so if there is any wheat this year it will all be
his own. He went up there every day for 3 mons from fall to Christmas. The old
place was so terrible run down.
Everett Dawe & wife live
down at the stone house. He and Everett painted the old red roof sure does look
nice had to all most build a new porch on North East & south porch was so
rotted out & put on new shingles on roof of porch. Tore the south part of the barn off and
patched up the north part & shingled it new and fixed up grainers &
machine shed and painted them red. You sure would hardly recognize the place.
Has had two or 3 new government
pounds on that place was two then had another on built over west this fall has
a nice pond down on the place where Everett lives that keeps the well down by
the barn supplied with water now.
Geo. Bought 120 head of young
cattle a year ago last fall sold them this Dec. made good money on them.
He now wants to buy about 75
head of cows. Bought and old Mother pig and 10 little pigs 2 weeks old about a
mo. Ago paid $66.00 for her isn’t that a terrible price.
Everett & wife are both
good workers had a pretty nice garden and she canned lots of things had their
potatoes & squash & pumpkins.
Geo. Had Everett put outa
sack of potatoes for us and we got around 15 br. in return sold some &
still have potatoes. Last spring Everett had a horse struck by lightning he
skinned the horse sold the hide and bought 50 little chickens and had them up
in the brooder house & ten old hens setting in there and lightning struck
it one night and burned it to the ground. Was such a loss to them & made
her chicken’s a little late, but she kept right on trying and raised quite a
nice little flock. My this war is getting to e serious don’t know when Howard
might be called am afraid it won’t be long they are going to take so many in
Feb. Helen is 30 miles from Los Angles (ave) 18 mi from Long Beach. They have
only had one black out at Orange. Her address is 136 W – Culver, Orange Calif.
Joe & Nettie moved from
Dodge to Topeka, the first of June. He has a job traveling for a Farmers Union
I guess it is they furnish his car & pay al expenses and get $130.00 a mo.
Well I must close & get
to bed it’s 12 P.M. I couldn’t sleep so got up about 10:30 and have been
writing letters.
With lots of Love from
Aunt Violet & Uncle Geo.
