Hutchinson
June 13, 1875
My Dear John,
Bobby received a letter from you last night. They have not been able to get a load for any
of the stores since you’ve been gone.
Will try to get a load when they come to meet you. Hoping that Edwin has arrived for you must be
awful lonesome if he has not come. I
hope you manage to buy a shirt bosom and cuffs to put on Sunday for that one
must be terribly dirty by this time.
I went to grange yesterday.
The attendance was quite good but no Master or Secretary. Something must be done or the thing will go
down and another Master and Secretary must be appointed. They are having splendid meetings at other
lodges and why can’t we if there was more interest taken. Will you try to see the grange store in Minneapolis? There is one kept by I.T. or L.B. Wache, a
general apartment store. See how they
will sell. Bring samples so that our
lodge will see.
I took tea at Chesley’s.
He seemed quite pleased to think you had got a store for them. He had been cultivating his farm. Mrs. Chesley looked nicely.
The children have just come home from meeting and Sunday school. Olive went down with me yesterday to practice
at Mrs. Lewis’s on a piece they are going to sing at the Praise Meeting
tonight. It has rained hard this morning
and looks some like rain this afternoon.
I have my __ filled.
Have filled it in ten days with splendid butter. They are paying 20 cents here got I asked
yesterday. Winifred is out of shoes. I can’t help him on his feet. Could you get a hair cheaper there or not,
shall send his measure. The boys have
got quite a piece of the pasture fence up.
Plumb is going to bother. She jumps
out of the fence to and out of the pasture to ___ calf she has taken up with.
Oh! does it look so lonesome here without you. It makes me blue today and I have a terrible
headache. I can scarcely sit up. Bennie was on the breaking yesterday. He said it, the wheat, was beautiful and thick,
so Bobby has gone to see if today nothing has bothered there.
Shall give my love to Edwin, hoping you are all both well.
I remain your affectionate wife.
Elizabeth B.
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