Holmes City
June 18, 1880
Dear Sonia & Olive,
I have written to Robby & Frank both but forgot to
mention to either whether or not I paid Mr. Higs the 2 5/100 dollars
maintenance money due him on the last notice.
I wish you would tell Robby to try & get the money from Mr. Goodnow
& pay it to Mr. Higgins. I think it
will be due on the 15th of this month. You also tell the boys to clear the bush out
of the trees & mow down the weeds and grass if possible for they will go to
seed now ___.
We have all just returned from church in a visit to a friend
of Williams who is very sick & not expected to live from one hour to
another.
___ __ & all are very hungry & sis is going to work
getting dinner for this ___ crowd. The weather
is beautiful today but the roads are abominable. No bottom to them in some places in these
woods. The storm of day before yesterday
was very severe. Between this place and
Alexandria the wind blew so hard that trees & houses & barns were blown
down in all directions. The thunder
& the lightening was most terrific.
One young lady a short distance from here was killed by lightening &
a sister of hers was also struck & badly hurt at the same time. I don’t know how we are able to get home
over such roads I am sure, unless they dry up before long. May is at her aunt’s & is expected here
tomorrow to go to Alexandria some days the coming week if it is possible. We met with Frank McKenzie today for the
first time. Him & his wife is
expected here to see us this afternoon. They
live about ½ mile from here. Frank looks
old and careworn. Nearly all the
settlers about here are Swedes & Norwegians. No society of any kind, only of the above
class & they are too clannish for white folks.
Have the boys fixed up the milk house or not, for the warm
weather will compel you to move the milk there, if not already done. ___ says that she is going to write to aunty soon. Give our kindest love & regards to them, hoping
that this may find you all & them two in the full enjoyment of good health. We expect to hear from some of you now
soon.
I think it will be useless for you to write for there is no certainty
of our receiving your letters at all, for all, or about all, the mail from here
goes via Alexandria and Minneapolis and takes about four days for a letter to
get found, and as we expect leave here the last of the week, the weather
permitting. Tell Byron & Winfred we
have not forgotten them but on the contrary think & talk of them & all
of you daily.
Our united love to you all.
From your affectionate,
Father
My Dear Children,
I have just returned from looking over William’s Sugar
Bush. There is a beautiful little stream
of water running through it. We have
been meeting today and on the way we overtook Frank McKenzie. Him and his wife are here now. He is looking a good deal older than older
than he ought to. Our meeting was held
in a log school house.
I think you may venture to write to us if you write right
away for the roads are very bad and we shall have to stay until the roads are
better for they are awful now. Tell
aunty and uncle I shall write to them tomorrow.
Give our love to all of them and all the folks. Arthur wants me to tell Bryon and Winfred to
mow the popcorn.
Our love to all, hoping these few lines will find you all
well. From your affectionate,
Mother
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