how are you all   I hope you are all well and happy  we are all well and happy  we are able to eat all we want and can do a little work knitting mostly   I have knit 3 pair of sock and a half since I came here over a week ago   the lot we are knitting the feet halve to be 13 inches long and the legs 14 inches long   how is that for socks eh?   Well how do you get along with the little ones  how is Doras ears and how do they feel about leaving Juanita and how was she when you left her   and how are all the folks   is there Still as much sickness as ever   from what Ireen wrote there is there is lots of sickness down in Mexico   did Ray get his quilt and does it suit him   if so tell him to write me a short letter   the wind is blowing and it shakes the tent and it is hard to write and my hand shakes so I cant write so you will have to guess what I have written   I staid with Allie and Lem nearly tow monthes   Allie is not very strong   I hated to leave her   they live on a ranch 22 miles from Hatchita and no neighbors near them but I could not stay there any longer   Lem and Allie were as good to me as they could be but no prayes and such a spirit all the time I could not stand it   I am very strong and quite shaky but I hope I will get better but it is hard to tell at my age   has Edmon got any money yet   I am needing some and I want him to please pay Hettie what I owe her   she can tell him how much it is   I think I have waited long enoug and I want my money   I need little notions sometimes and I dont want to call on Fan for money when she has a hard time to get along any way   she had her tonsels taken    it cost her 30 dollars and Douglas had an opperation for appeticitus and Vern one for rupture and has cost them a big pile of money and Vern is not able to work yet   The Dr said he must not do any work for 3 weeks or a month   it was the worst case he ever had and he had had hundreds of cases   how is Jess    I heard he went home sick   give my love to all my dear friends down there and tell them I love them    if you knew how this table is dancing you wouldent wonder at this poor writing   will close for this time with love and best wishes to you all and God bless you all and write soon and all news   if you can get Samans Soup get a dollars worth and send it to me and oblige your old mother

     we all join with love to you all

How are you all    I hope you are not all boiled with the heat like we are but guess you are worse   I am worse than a boiled owl every mornin until noon then I begin to revive a little.   how did you spend the 4^th   we had a birthday dinner for virn and the men all Spent the night   a little 3 year old girl of Clair Smiths Earnest found after daylight this it was her birth yesterday   they live about 4 miles from here and She was 4 miles from her home Earnest got on her track and tracked her   rep Joseph Morinsen said he did some tracking   he said that the Uncle Will of him   She dident seem a bit scared  wasent crying   Earnest ask her where she was going   She said to find her sister.   Well Sadie the socks you stold are found   Lou didn’t bring them that night you were here   it was my stocking and I didn’t know she brought them but we shore did search for the socks   I expect Mrs Beavers thinks I have stolen them   it has been such a long time since I got the yarn.   I am so shakey I cant write decent   Oh I am about done for every thing   I am not worth the salt that goes in my mush   I about give out just this little I have written   Fan has one teaching today and Nila is helping Mary wash so I and Enzely are alone but vind [?] the vind [?] will keep us company    Vern and his girl will bo down there next week to be married   Fan may come with them if they can arrang it so  well there is nothing more and I am give out so good bye and God bless you all   we all send much love and best wishes  write all of you    this letter is for you all   it is too hard work for me to write so many letters

lovingly Mother and grand Mother

how are you all this Sabbath morning   I hope you are all well and happy   I am feeling Some better as the weather is a little cooler but we are all feeling a little sad as Vern has gone to serve his country and Pratt and Paul and Oren Adams Ugeine T.   that makes five grand sons for me gone to Serve their country and I expect Douglas will go as soon as he is opperated on for his rupture and then we are left alone and lonely   we will be but we are not the only one that is left alone and one poor boy is a prisner in germany and they have cut his ears nose off and split his tongue   he sent his watch to his sweet heart and she thought she would wear but it wouldent run and took it to a jewler and he and found a piece of silk paper in with this written on it and said she would never see him again he never would come back and we dont know what will happen to our boys but we can plead with Father for their protechion and if they are humble and faithful we have faith they will be preserved to return to us   but there are so many sad things we dont know what to expect.   they are all gone to Sunday School and I am alone and I feel alone I mis Vern So much he was lively and cheerfull   his wife parted with him bravely but cryed all the way from town his mother the same   She never let him see her shed a tear but she cryed all the home to and I expect   She will have many crying spells before he returns but she is thankfull he isent a slacker   he wanted to go and went cheerfull they are good boys both of them   I got a letter yesterd from Jerome   he said he was feeling some better but he is so sick of the people where he is but that is the only place he can get work and he has to keep his babas and them taken care off.

Mary Pratt and Inez Stephens are both are look for the stork this fall   Inez poor lost both of her babies little boys   She has come to stay a year with her mother   well I think I had better quit the more I write the worse it gets and I will close with love and best wishes to all

I will try to write a few lines to let you know that we are all alive but not all well    Fan Inez and Ensley are down with the flu but they are geting better  I dont feel very well this afternoon but I think I will be better tomorrow   I am not with the sick ones   I am staying with Lou and Orsen at present  they would not let me stay there   Inez got a baba girl as well as the flu    they are geting along all right   there is not much flu here   a few cases but they are all about well    only our folks and they will be in a few days if they are carefull   Mamia Mortinson is staying with them    her family all have had it and got well    I dont hear anything from Jerome   I have written twice and no answer and I am very uneasy because he is so good to write and they are dieing off with flu   I heard 12 in a day   if you know anything about him write and let me know   well it is late and geting cold and I am tired   So good by and God bless you all

your letter came last night and I laid awake half the night thinking about it   If I could come I would be glad but I have to waite until Orsen can come   we were Just ready to start about a week ago but Fan and Sister Payne talked out of it on acount of the Blews but I think he will come Soon but for I cant come before Edith gets there   I appoint you her Lula legal and lawfull guardian and I am coming Just as Soon as I can    My hand is so shaks so I cant wrigh decent   I am not very well and I forget what I want to write before I get it written   Fan has had quite a Sick Spell two weekes ago   I thought her time had come but She is about alright   I will close with love to all   Inez had a harty over you thinking She was mad   good bye and God bless   we all Send love to you all

lovingly Mother

Your short letter came to hand and found me as well as you could expect to find a poor old worn out woman   I was glad to hear from you if it was brief   what did Hettie go to ft grant for   is she going to join the army    our sick folks are all up and around   Fan and Inez are both at Mary Pratts to day   Mary is kind of poorly    she is not strong at all   nursing a baba is hard on her and now she has two   its doubly hard on her but she has a good kind husband that will help her all he can   he let one of the babes fall the other day and burht his head on the floor   they are shure big babas for twins 8 lbs apiece   Inez only 7   Fan will be in her new hous this week. and I will sure be glad   will go and live with and get away from these little noisey crying babas   ruth talks a blue streak from morning till night and she fairly deafens me and the crys by the hour and I feel like I cant stand it much longer   how is the flue down there by this time   I hope it is dieing out by now    I want to come down there but I am so affraid of the flue I dare not come while it is there   Well Lou is geting ready to take our picture and I will have to get ready   I have told all there is to tell So I will close with love to all    Oh did Edith come for Lou [?] tell me all about it   good bye and God bless you all

      as ever your loving

Mother

I got word this morning that Edmond is going to move north   are you going and how far north is he going   it breaks my heart to think of you going any farther from me.   I want to come down there but I cant get a chance to get there   I dont see why he cant be satisfied where he is    I just feel tirible   I want see you so bad   you and Hettie both.   Oh I cant stand it at all I am sick all over   I don’t know how to live if you go off   dont go you dont need to go     Fan sayes come up here   it is a good place and good people live here   I feel like it will kill me if you go off.    Fan said to tell you she loves you the same old way and I love more than I can tell   I cant write any more so good bye and God bless you and love all but Edmond if he takes you off I don’t love him any more

      lovingly   Mother

Your letter came to hand yesterday  found all well   hope this will find you as well as this leaves us  wish you a merry xmas and a happy New year   don’t send any garments as she has got some    I cant write much this morning as the mail man will be here and Fan wants this to go this morning    so good bye and God bless you   love to all from us all

      lovingly

Mother