Dear Martha and Children,
I received your Sat. letter this morning was glad you liked the things I sent and I will look for a big letter tomorrow. I worked a day run yesterday and when I got home I got word the folks were up so I had my dinner and shaved and changed clothes and walked over to Emily’s, and Roy, Emily, George, and Ma were there. I visited till they left which was about dark then I came back to the room and went to bed. Today we were both marked off with an afternoon pull-out so after a breakfast of cakes we took a streetcar out as far s the Falls and then walked as far as the Mendota bridge along the river. We stayed on the West side of the river and it was a nice walk. We found another big spring down by the river about opposite the round tower on the reservation. Before we got home we wished we had taken along a lunch. We saw some quite good-sized fish in the river too, where they had been dredging.
Tomorrow I am working a run, the Emerson owl, go to work at 5 in the afternoon and don’t get thru till 3 AM. There are lots of rumors about the NRA– they are sure getting after outfits that don’t try and help. I hear the head of it has given them 2 more weeks to get agoing but we have not heard anything about our own jobs. Bill T. has moved back to town, 2919 Franklin Terrace right by Riverside Park. I have not picked out a pair of shoes yet but I have been in several places and looked them over. I want to get a real good pair and still not pay too much.
I have another book here that I think you will like it’s about a wild stallion the by name of Mistral and is written by Max Brand. If you have enough cucumbers will you make some sweet sliced pickles? I made biscuits and we had them with honey for dinner. I want to mail this at the P.O. and is now 8:20 PM so I had better be going, so by-by with lots of love to all, Daddy
It’s been real warm today but no rain.