Dear Jim,
John says thanks for the letter and the saw and the shoe polish, and thanks for the magazines and papers. Ruth came home sick on Thurs. afternoon and was in bed all day yesterday, but got up and dressed this morning. It was her ears, but we put on cold applications and have it checked. The teacher let the fire go out in school and Ruth got chilled clear thru. She couldn’t eat anything either but I got a chicken from Jensons yesterday and she ate some cold broth, and this morning she ate a biscuit and drank a glass of milk. Send us a few oranges in the box with your clothes.
The thermometer read 38 degrees at 7:30 A.M. and the ground and car were covered with frost. But the days are lovely. There’s a lot of shooting going on around, since the 16th of Oct. We’re going to put the paper on as soon as Ruth can be out to help us. I’m glad you went to church. I wish you could get a raincoat. The samples of material were nice. The black leatherette is good but I like the blue gabardine and oxford gray better. We’ll write again on Sunday.
Love, Martha