The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1914-03-13
c. w. kerlin Writes

doubt prove OF interest to his many
friends in Mellette, All will be glad
to know that Mr.. Kerlin will again be
a resident of Mellette county on or
about April 1st. He is the Demo
cratic candidate for county auditor
of this county.
Des Moines, Iowa, Merch 2, 1914
DEAR BRO. KIRCH:-
Have been wanting to write you
! for some time, but am very busy dur
ing the day at my work, and evenings
there is always something TO do and
some place to go, and find it hard
to settle down in one spot long en-
ough to write.
read of your appointment as U. S
Commissioner, and want to congratu-
late you on same. Don't know of
anyone would rather see have it
than yourself; sorry you didn't get it
before so many of the homesteaders
proved up. | got my patent in Janu-
airy.
Well, | see you have had some snow
up there. We have had quite a good
! deal here, and it has been very cold
and cloudy and raw here good part
OF the time. | notice the cold so
much more here on account of the
dampness in the air. 1t is warming
up again now, and hope for some
nicer weather soon.
rooming at the Y. M. G. A.
here and am very comfortably situa-
ted. Plenty of heat, swimming pool,
baths, billiards, pool and bowling,
newspapers and magazines, every
thing handy and clean, and there is a
nice bunch of fellows here, and am
just beginning to get acquainted.
Sunday evenings we have fire of big
chunks of wood in big open fire
place, and pop corn or toast marsh
mallows. or sit in big easy chair
and watch the glowing embers, and
dream of the past days and old friends
on the Rosebud. Some one will start
to play the piano. and whoever feels
like singing will gather around and
sing until bed time, but they don't
pull off any of the ''hi-lee, hi-loo"
stuff, or working on the levee," we
use the soft pedal entirely. Band
concert every Sunday afternoon in
the lobby at $3.50, some moving pic
lures and mems meeting after that,
and have joined class that meets
every Thursday night, and we have a
nice supper served in private room
and good sensible talk along lines
Of right living by the Dean of one of
the Colleges here, and then a little
informal talk among ourselves, and
little singing before we disband, all
OF which goes to make the days work
little easier, and life seem more
pleasant.
| hate to leave here just as / am
getting "broken in,' so to speak; but
] got to thinking it over, and decided
that if / am coming back there this
summer, | might as well come early
enough to put out some garden truck
for | hate to think of you having to
go out and eat salt grass for want of
lettuce. Fritz is coming back next
month with bunch of cattle, and
will have quite good deal of work
to do in fencing and making sheds
for winter, and putting up hay. l
have two school quarters leased that
join my place, and Fritz has rented
the whole business of me, and wants
me to help him get things in shape,
as it will be pretty hard for one man
to get things in shape, watch the
stock, and do the cooking too. Fritz
has "a good dam ON his place, and
part of it fenced, and will run his
stock over there part of the time.
He takes to the stock business natur-
ally, and predict that he will make
a success of it. have not got in asl
good shape physically as want to be
| improved quite bit while home
steading, and think another summer
spent in the dry and matchless clim-
ate Of the Rosebud, living close to
nature, will be of more benefit TO me
than my work here, so expect to re-
turn to the claim by April 1st If not
sooner.
We had quite wind storm here
Saturday, and some snow with it.
Blew in number of plate glass win
Idows and reminded me Of old times in
South Dakota. | suppose it was the
tail end of blizzard that came from
your way. Yours very truly,
G. w. KERLIN.
/ FOR SALE Piano, team of mares,
. colt, harness, tent, sewing machine,