Evening star., 1921-07-24

but not try and inselt some body and
call them @ crook. Hes SO crook II
himself that you couldent pull corks
with him hey Charley.
Your Bro. F. A. GROSS
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Allison. ILL., March 1.
DRO. CHARLEY. Well Charley ] wisht
u you could Of been along with us last
night you and Mary the both OF you but
don't know II Mary would OF liked to
went long or not because we was
over to the Martins and when your IN
the same house with a lady that dresses
like Mrs. Martin a womman must feel
pretty slopy long the side OF them
c,ose Mrs. Martin wares and of corse
aint sane that Mary cant look GOOD
when she wants to but this here Mrs
Martin has got them all beat when II
comes to close but at that shes All
ways talking bout she wisht sne
could get hold OF some close nke
Grace wares and only last nignt she
was after Grace to leave her porry
Of her dresses ana ware IL " "i"en
Well Charley Martin give US some
cock tales that he made them up MIN
self and il man drunk OF them you
would start down the dranease caanet et
in finger bold but he gives US OF
them and few bottles Of beer and
before the evening was over Mrs. Mar
tin was lerning Grace the ballad dance
and YOU ought to see Mrs. Martin dance
Charley and it's better than any tNng
| ever seen down, to the columbia put
IL Grace had to make a liveing ballad
danceing she would starve her self to
deth for lack Of nothing to eat and they
wasent nothing in Martins house that
she dident run in to and i pet II tne
chairs and tables could talk they would
Of hollered murder. -
Well we dident play no cards but we
fooled round and done this In tnat
and they turned on the phonegraf ana
and Mrs. Martin danced to gether ana
| thot | had a arm full Of flowers ana
then we set down and talked and Mar
tin asst me hadent l did nothing to Ham.
ilton for sendinE me that valentine ana
s1ys no | hadent because ! and Grace
had talked it over to gather and id
;od her all bout 1t and ! and'her had
made it up in our mind TO mol 90
nothing more about II but just leave
the Hamiltons a lone and .act like they
wasent no such peopl and then Mr.. and
Mrs Martin both says they thot we
was suckers to leave Hamilton get on
so easy when he'd inselted l and Grace
so ! says well l cant think or notnins
to do only go over there and bust him
in the jaw and Martin says well may be
he could think up some thing him SELF
and il he could think up a good he
would tell me because he was my friend
and don't like to see a man get the worst
Of it and that's the kind Of a friend to
have hey Charley Martins entirely diff
ferent from the big stiff which is TO
cheap TO light up the lights in his house
when hes givcing a party.
Well Charley I wisht you and Mary
could see the Martins and ! bet they
aint no body liveing near you that's AZ
good Co as them and | and Grace is
pretty lucky TO have them liveing the
next door to US only We don't no more
than brake even on neishbors with the
Hamiltons on the other side.
Well | guess | amt told you a
bout I and Grace is going TO give
a party and ! thot We was all threw
with partys for a vile but Grace
SAYS that Mrs. Martin told her we
should ought to give hole lot of
partyS on acct. of us bean new
people in town and il we wanted to
stand in good we should ought to
enter tame good eel SO wear going
to give porty next Friday night only
II wont be none OF these here stew
partys or no ruff stuff but every thing
the best and up to date and Mrs
Martin has grave Grace lot of tips
IL bout how should a party be ran
and l guess the peopl will think
wear as good is the Hamiltons or
any of them swell heads before wear