6-18-1926

Mrs C. J. Peterson

R.F.D. #2 Box 17

Logan Utah.

Mr Arthur F. Roskelley

36 State Street

Preston

Idaho 

% Quality Bakery.

                                                                        N. Logan Utah R.F.D. #2 Box 17.

                                                                                    June 18—1926

My dear Grandson Arthur

            I feel like writting a few lines to you I got lonesome after the folks left last evening and I begun to think why you did not come down home with them. I hope you are well. Grandpa has not fell very well again this morning and I dont feel well either I am washing to day but I know I vont get done to day. I thaugth you be down last Sunday like you said you would I stayed home from meeting a purpose and looked for you.

            Dearest my dearest Arthur plaese plaese take care when you are out so very late at nigths not to get o to any troubble do not do any thing you be afraid to let any body see or you be afraid to tell you know when a boy been to were [where] you been the State got detecktives the[y] send out in dissguise to see what thoose boys are doing and if they see them were [where] they should not be at nigths or anytime the[y] nab them and tell them to come on, and plaese keep company with boys that you can see is good and strong. and do not go to close to girls as therein liyes [lies] danger, Pray to the Lord to make you strong and to proteckt you in temptations so you would not fall I realaze the danger the young poeple are in but if you watch as well as pray and take my and other good folks advise you will be on the safe road.

            Plaese exuse me my dear Arthur but I am so very worried over you all the time and I knows if you would get in some troubble and I could not see you I know I would get sick. think about how you felt when I went to see you in Ogden all alone and I had to go home alone and you stood by the limit and oculd not go any farther plaese plaese bevare, you wrote and said how bad you felt.

            you know F.O. Been to Salt Lake to get examened and the Drs theere found out he got a very bad head, and as he is as it were a federal man yet they told him they knew all about him and the[y] told him he did not had any study work and the[y] knew his where abouts all the time, they also have detecktives and that is why the[y] knew all about him just like they do you. I just thaugth I tell you by writting as I have not had much change [chance] to talk to you.

            give my love to the folks

            I am always and forever your true Grandma

            Will now close with an ocean of love and x ses and bearhugs

                                    lovingly your old and humble

                             Grandma Caroline J. Peterson.