R.F.D. #2 Box 17
Logan Utah
Mrs F.H. White
511 Douglas St.
Petaluma
Calif
N.
Logan Ut. R #2 Box 17.
Aug
18—1925
Dearest Lovis
yours so kind and welcome letter off Aug 10—11th was recived yesterday
afternoon the letter been a long time on the road, We were glad to hear from
you and we are sure thankful to hear you are fine, you must be feeling much
stronger by the way you say you can wash clean upp your house and cook in one
day. I am also glad you live in a nice house and place and have Annie for your
neabor even if it makes you sick looking at her give her my love seeing it my
dear Annie. Uh what a lot off chickens you can look at are they all white? and
can you bay [buy] eggs cheaper in Petaluma than in Berkeley or Oakland? and do
the[y] have an egg day like they have a Peach Day at Brigham and get eggs free?
We have
about 50 white pullets leg horns I exchanged eggs this spring with the old Lady
Charlie Nyman before she took down with her last spell off sickness. I have
also 18 pure red rhode Irland pullets and 35 old hens we are going to get redd
[rid] of the old mixture off chickens we have and just the one or the two kinds,
it will russell us get feed for the chickens but we will disspox off the old
mixture and sell or fry the new spring roosters Grace is watching the springers
every time she comes to see if the[y] are not yet big enauph to fry, yesterday
morning F.O. came out he had 4 white leg horn spring roosters he had bougth
them in town for their last Sunday dinner and they were so poor Annie would not
cook them so Frank took them out here for to grow and to get fat he bougth feed
for them, I lauph every time I see one off them they are so poor and scrubby
looking I asked F.O. how much he paid for those four but he did not say I bet
he paid enauph for them and did not like to tell me so I just lauphed at him
and the pullets and Annie was cross about it and said a few camocal [comical]
things and that made me lauph some more and then she lauphed to.
your Dad
do not seeme to be any worse or any better he cauphs a good deal and can not do
any work he spends his time in reading he got a good appetite and consume a
good deal more food than some well people does I am baking a breadpan full off
sugar cockies [cookies] twice a week for us your Dad said that what he had in
Berkeley last winter, he eats the cockies to his coffee, your Dad is also
getting very religious he goes to meeting every Sunday and to the High Preast
meeting in Logan he has now administered the Sacrament every meeting for the
last two mounths and he payes his tiding [tithing] every time we get the pay
for the milk, I am sure thankful for the change.
next
Friday the N. Logan Relif Sosity sisters is asked to go to the Temple to clean
I am asked so I am going to go and help and do what I can do. We got lovely
weather here now a little warm in the afternoons but the nigths are cool.
F.O. and
family came out this morning again We have him to bay [buy] a few things for us
in town and take out as we dont have any thing now to go in on, so FO had
bougth potaotes and butter an a little meet [meat] this morning for us. F.O.
had me to get in the car and he took me for a ride way around and upp to our 10
acres, and Oh what a lot off grain theere is all over in the fields and clean
and good grain at that, the threshers are a going and F.O. sold them the
threshers. I mean some gas and oil for the motor on the Nymans machine, we did
not stay long as F.O. had to go to work at 12 noon. Your Dad have bougth fish
from the fish man this afternoon and I shall clean and fry them this evening I
am kind of looking for Grace to come down this evening so if she comes we shall
have a fisherie and you are invited, well as that is imposible mebe we
can see you at some chickeries that we migth have in the future, I see you
think off us and dream about us well I dreamed I saw you and Gladys togather
and you were both smoking cigarettes.
you asks
about Arthur we heard from him last week and he said he was alrigth then we
have not heard from him this week yet but I shall write to him in the morning I
guess you have got the letter I wrote to you and told you all about our visit
to Ogden or to the Abbot Cottage I shall now go and take care off the fish and
feed the chickens and finish this letter to morrow x.
I was to
the Temple all day last Friday I done the work for two off sister Ormonds dead
ralations. I enjoyed myself immensly it was such a good spirit in that house
that day and it being the last day before closing for the vacation for the
workers and for the cleaning off the house they had a kind of a closing meeting
in the morning and the closing hymn was God be with you till we meet again and
when it came to the place in the hymn were [where] it says we shall meet at
Jesus feet I felt as I could melt and that I was sitting at the Saviours feet
rigth at the time, Oh it was lovely. and farther on during the day it was a
grand and heavenly feeling and my thaugths and wish was with you and Grace
wishing you was with me in the house off the Lord that day.
It is
now 12 or noon Aug I been buissy all forenoon doing first one thing first one
thing and then another untill I am tired already to day Grace did not come last
evening so your Dad and I had the fishery to ourselfs, theere is a circus
comming to Preston to morrow or next day so the Baker family theere is buissy
preparing for a good buisness on circus day and the[y] got no time to visit. I got
a letter with a lot off codak [Kodak] pictures inclosed last Monday from Audrey
the pictures were taken early last spring when Joe as at San Diego and they are
very nice Audrey says she is going to enter the San Diego General Hospital
Training school for nurses this September 1st and was going to get
her uniform the next day after she wrote she says she feels very well now and
have been so for the last two mounths, I think this will be much better for
Audrey to do then to be at book studies Audrey asks for your addrass. I can not
remember if I told you I sent to Lane & Bryant for a dress and when it came
it did not fit me so Grace helped me to send for another one and so we sent the
first one back, well the dress we sent for came last sarturday. It is a nice
dress I have had it on but I do not know if it fits more or not but we will see
when Grace comes what she says, this dress affair for me is a hard problem or
consern inspecial when you send away for your clothes. I think I shall patch
upp my black dress ones [once] more and make it do. I am awful hard on clothes
any way and I am out off patience with myself.
when did
you hear from Joe I have not heard from him for the last two weeks or more the
schelude [schedule] he sent me before he went says that or reads like the Navy
is on their way back to the U.S.A. and are now at Auckland N.Z. at liberty to
Aug 25 and from Aug 25 to 30 at sea enroute Pago Pago and from Aug 30 to Sept 1st
Pago Pago fueling and Sept 1 to 10 at sea enroute Honolulu and from Sept 10 to
19 Honolulu over haul, Sept 19 to 26 at sea enroute U.S.A. and Sept 26 San
Diego area.
Well I
am now about through writting to you for this time I only got a little news to
tell you and then I close, Susan Ferguson is visiting her daugther Nettien at
Los Angeles Nettien gave birth to a baby boy Aug 1st. Sister Ormond is feeling some better I guess
I have told you she been very sick with dropsy. Sister Folkman is sick in bed
to she got the milk leg.
I am
still writting with a lead pencil every time I been to town I have forgot to
bay [buy] a ink pen but I hope you will exuse me. This letter will gave you
work to find the pages I got nerveious yesterday when I was writting your Dad
kept asking me to come and make coffee so I got mixed upp well you can see for
yourself how confused I was I have numbered the pages but I can not guarantee
the[y] come in the rigth order. [They
were very confusing to sort out!--CDS]
I have
enclosed some news paper clipping for you to read. Thanks for what you wrote in
your last letter to us in regard to our religion, how far or where do you now
have to go to our Meetinghouses. give my love to Floyd.
I shall
now close with much love I am for ever and ever your mother
Carolne J.
Peterson.
1 45 p m FO just called to see how we were. He been home
for his dinner.
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