Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-07-17
Dear NJ. B. Friends:

Dear M. b. Friends:
You will find much eplcasure is reading
the following letters forswhich, ! thank
each of the nieces who so kindly remem-
bered us:
Dear Aunt Madse and Sisters;
II don't take time and write, never will,
haven't even begun to.ciean, and no use, for
it is plaster from one end OF the house to the
other. Hope tomorrow to clean up little
be down stairs again and have a cook-stove.
For the last monsh have lived by a sitting
room stove, and it is bard work.
You will never see that old paper / told
about before, for it is in ashes, with hundred
| other things; and Teddy, aud two cows, aud a
hog and 1850 hens.
Well, Aunt Ma ria, we are raising two calves
here, and named them Dido-and Daisy. BY
the way, think your daughter married my
cousins SON.
Did any Of the sisters put up rhubarb in
water? did, and it was nice. Cut it up ready
! to use, put 1t in jar and FIJI il with water and
| seal. preserved some.with raisins that was
| fine.
| will enclose poem 1 picked out of the
ruins
am sorry for the sick sister, and hope all
\ will be better soon. Would like to go to the
reunion and to snrry once more. Can re-
| member when ! used to go past Dells. Did
any of the sisters ever take a cup of straw
4 berries and one of sugar and the white of an
egg and beat it until it thickens for the filing
of cake? 1t is fine. With love to all
| PAssY.
p s.-rhe Fourth was very quite here.
The men are hurrying the new barn so to be
ready for haying. look over to Bluehiil
mountain every day Do You live near it,
/ Aunt Madges PASsy.
| Dear Aunt Madge:
| / am at home once more. It is good to be
| here. I sit and watch the buttercups and
daisies nodding among the clover, the pretty
graceful caraway tops, and even the orange
| hawk-week has charm. Were the fields
ever so beautiful befores I look away into
the cool green trees-my trees some of them
set out by my own hands. and now shading
my whole lawn about the house. have a
| syringa bush that will not exchange with
anyone. can pick the blossoms from any
! chamber window. Ny yellow roses win be
| gorgeous soon, and the white ones very nice.
| But now to turn leaf - I've had to cut
| down some of those lovely flowers. Had to
have a path around the house, so get my
scythe and set to work. Have put little Of
| the hay in the barn to-day. 1t is awful hard
work. To-day two summer friends called on
me- Yesterday only eighteen friends called.
One automobile full came from Brewer. am
alone at night; that is why write late until
II this evening.
| hope shall not biunder, for dislike TO be
misinterpreted. am too tired to write well.
Last winter / wrote you that / caught
| my fish (smelts) in a paper bag, and cooked
them, and ate them, too; whereupon the
| good AMERICAN printed that cooked and
ate them so". Yesterday brought home a
| big Goldfish and have cooked and eaten a
| part of that; but please don't say that ate 1t
| paper and all, for / didn't. Friends from
Jordan's summer hotel caught twenty-six
nice large cod fish and paddock on Saturday
The three weeks previous to this spent in
Ellsworth and vicinity. There the fresh
| greenness of the groves and the beauty of the
fields were wonderful. rode through Ham
cock and Lamoine (parrs of them and en-
| joyed seeing the good homes which so many
of the people who reside there have. Ellis
worth is clean, sweet, picturesque and won-
derfully beautiful little city. Some Of the
| homes there are almost palatial, and the
scenery can not be surpassed.
When arrived in Bangor on the noon of a
very hot day, and viewed the streets reeking
with dirt and filed with rubbish, wished
| myself back again. Ny business called me
into Broad street and around the foot Of
Union street, where the railroad crossings