Evening star., 1921-04-10
Allison, Ill, July 8.


~ Ror"R cHARLE1. Wen II
X Charley ezry things going a
long smoth & last wk. ]
payed the 1st int on my lone
down to tho bank and now 1 don't
half to worry a bout that again until
Jan. Graces old man come acrost
with the money SO as could pay the
int. & dident make no holler bout
1t but bet he wishes & Grace had
insted of building because we was not
never so hard up when he was hveing
in the fat that we had to ask him to
pay our rent.
1 don't like to be no drag on the
old man but you can see how II is
Charley or that is you could see II
you had build a house. 1t looks IKE
you don't run up agin the real ex-
pences until you've got 1t all puiid-
] ALWAYS thot it was real old houses
that half to be repaired d hXed up All
the vile but I'm finding out now that
the new ones is twict as bad as the
old ones
But don't think we aint Satisfide
Charley because wear perfectly sat
isflde so don't get the idear we amt
satisfide & you couldn't higher Grace
& 1 to go back in town d live In d
fat because they aint nothing to that
kind of liveing & this has got it beat
all hollo. The babys is a hole lot
better than they was in the city. That
is they would be if the house waSent
damp & if it wasent for the smell OF
the paint that l guess We amt never
going to get rid of it. But they amt
all cooped up like they was in Chi
& now they can get out & run a
round with out no danger of falling
under a ST. car & getting there leg cut
on. By a st. car.
of Corse We miss the Walters &
the ArnoldS & others that we made
trends of them in the city a speshally
Grace but as | say il they cared any
thing bout US they could get out
here & see US because they know
Grace cant get way on acct the
babys & besides this towns got
plenty of fine peopl Hveing in this
town & as soon is we get acquainted
we can for get all a hos the peopl
We knowed in Chi & not Sever think
q bout them.
guess the last time l wrote to
you we wasent no where's near set
teled but wear pretty well setteled
now & things a round the house is
beginning to look 0. X. & you can
open most of the windows If you
start them with a crow bar & then
give a quick jerk.
FRED A. GROSS.
j. ~
Allison. Ill.,, July "a.
DEAR CHARLEY. I suppose you
been getting a hole lot of rain
to because 1 see in the paper where
its been raining all over the u &
IL 1t rains any more I will half to
buy 1 of these here divers suites to
go down in the basemunt with it &
fix the heater that we heat the hot
water with. a bout the I'd. day it
begin TO rain the water begin rum
ing in the basemunt & now its pretty
near as deep like it was in the bran
dywine crick where l & you Termed
to swim do you remember Charley.
l called up the plummer & he come
up & seen it & says the drane pipes
would carry it off & 1 had to give
him 81 dollars for telling me that &
1t wasent true at that because they
I can see & II a plummer gets 81
a peace for evry time he lise to you
I wonder what does he charge when
he tells man the truth only / guess
that don't never happen we'll any
way you could dive off the top step
of the stares in to the basemunt &
not bump your head on the floor &
Grace says l should ought to dig
some angel worms out in the yard
& set on the basemunt stares & fish
but I guess all the fish in the house
is liveing up stareS. / mean wear
the fish for building house Suck
ers see Charley.
An other good thing all the wood that
was left over from building the house
is down in the basemunt & Grace has
been useing it up pretty fast building
fires in the fire place all tho its been
so hot outdoors & in the house to that
you cant hardly stand it but she says
the fire looks 50 pretty that she would
like to keep it burning all the vile &
why not when we got all that wood.
Well / says that wood will burn just as
good in the winter time when you need
a fire in the fire place & it will look
Just as pretty burning when it's cold &
the sooner you burn up all that extra
wood the sooner we will half to buy
some regular wood to burn. l says il
your going TO throw a way money just
to make things look pretty why don't
ter them a round the front yard. they
would look swell as long as they last
Well she says the fire keeps me from
getting lonesom. l says IL your lonesom
why don't you dress the babys up &
go out and see some body & she says
/ amt got no close to ware that's good
enough for this place 50 my little talk
is going to cost me $4,000 dollars be-
cause shes going to buy sonlo clothe &
have a couple dresses made up. But
as say We can save on FIRE wood as
long as the baseruunts full of water be-