Dear James,
We looked for a letter on Sat. but none came. I hope you are all right. We are all feeling real well. We are going out “nutting” after the mailman comes. Please let me know if you received the laundry and glasses and my last letter. All of yours have come thru except the one I expected on Sat. Perhaps you are busy getting things tended to.
It is 7 AM. The children are gone after the milk. I got up at 6 AM and it was real chilly. The sun was half-way up the prettiest oak in the front yard. Mitzi sleeps in John’s house now. I let her out the first thing then built up the fire, got the children up and have bread set. We must wait for breakfast until I get the milk.
Sat. AM I baked a rhubarb pie, some cookies and cake and cleaned the kitchen and gave all our heads a shampoo. About 4 o’clock PM we went to Park Rapids, got our supplies and were home by 6:00. I’d hate to be caught in that town after dark.
They threshed at Jenson’s and George Wrightly’s Sat PM. 2 different rigs. It took only a little while. You never saw such tiny little grain stacks and I hope I never do again. I haven’t heard whether Rood’s have threshed or not. Sunday morning we went to church and in the afternoon we walked to the Wrightly corner looking for hazelnuts. Some one had stuck up a sign on our land advertising a camp and I took it down. If one starts, they all will and these camps have no connection with us. I threw the sign down there but shall take it away if some one else hasn’t removed it by this time.
After we got home I read half of “Hans Brinker” to the children. We had supper and had our little meeting and went to bed.
Tom Mix is at the Orpheum this week. The children are crazy to see him. If you get a chance, you go and tell them about it. Some one drove in Sunday morning and wanted us to buy a Journal so we did. The kiddies are coming so I must get breakfast. Goodbye, lots of love from us all, Martha