My Dear Martha,
I have made notes on what I should write so I will just take them in order and then write my letter.
1. It cost 15 cents to send your glasses back the same way you sent them to me.
2. I got the 2nd notice from Gore and will write them and tell them we cannot pay them for a little while but that we expect to have the money soon if we get the raise thru the NRA [National Recovery Administration].
3. I don’t think we can get the paint just yet but think we can get it done this fall.
4. I am awfully glad you are getting as much canning done as you are. And I hope you can put up a nice lot of tomatoes and peaches and such things. Peaches are just beginning to come in but I don’t know the price.
5. My hands are O.K. again but I had the hide off in several places at once.
6. I am glad John tends to the potato digging. About how many do they go per hill? and how big are they?
7. I sure wish we could put a little in the bank each month as you said. Our next check, Aug.26th, will be $36.00 and $4.00 of that will be savings.
8. The show with Tom Mix costs too much so I wont be going but they say that he and his horse, Tony are mighty fine actors and maybe we can all see him some other time.
9. I am just as well satisfied that you took the sign down. If they want one up let then come and ask permission to put it up.
10. (Well that’s that). Now for the letter.
Jack fixed us a good feed yesterday, it was macaroni and ground beef. He fried the hamburger good and then broke it up and he had the macaroni cooked in the regular way. Then he put a layer of macaroni, then meat and so on till he had the dish full and he also had broken crackers mixed in, and afterwards he baked the dish in the oven till it was nice and brown on top. It made us 2 nice meals. Your Pepsodent cream only cost 10 cents more than the kind you have been using so I bought it and the blankets were on sale at a dollar so I bought a pair. Things like that are going up in price and I thought you could use an extra pair. The price tags are on the youngsters’ socks so you can see what I paid.
We are marked off again today with a 2 hour pull-out this afternoon. The talk is that the [NRA – National Recovery Administration] codes must be in by the 18th and they must have them working by Sept.1st so we should hear something soon. McGill [head of Minneapolis Transit Company] has had to make the second trip to Washington but I don’t know if he is back yet or not.
I’ll bet it seems like fall to have the nights and mornings get so cool. It’s the same here but no rain. Tell Johnnie that he can take another drill out of the box of tools in the attic and keep it in place of the one he broke. I think the youngsters will like the 2 books I am sending today for they show how to make lots of things and there are some drawings of rustic furniture in John’s book that he can try out. If they need nails I will send some or you can get them some in town. Don’t forget to send me ropes because I had to use another piece of my clothes line today.
I guess that Carl Bowman is working at the Glen Lake Sanatorium. Well I must close with lots of love for you all.
P.S. Tell Ruth I will write to her soon.