The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-01-19
Dec. IS, 1922.

mere. Inc lGllST lOllOWo.
Dec. 10, 1922.
Mr.. Jensen, Banker,
Circle, Montana.
My Dear Mr.. jensen
| am afraid that you Will be very
much surprised at getting TINS letter
but / was thinking the other day OF
the first time that saw anyone from
Circle, and think it was you, coming
from Circle to Glendive to get some
Doctor to come and help out IN caring
for the Influenza victims at and about
your place, and / have not forgotten
the long ride with you to Circle, and
the stops we made to see the Ill peo-
pie on the way. Also, the pleasant
further acquaintance with you ana
your good wife while at Circle. orten
think of the very busy life l led
there, and the many delightful people
I met there, and had it not been for
the very trying climate there snould
have been very much tempted TO re-
main there. AS you probably know
was ordered by the Surgeon General,
when | left your place, to go to the
Coast, first to Bremerton and the
Navy Yard, later to Port Townsend,
where under DR.. Earle, dhe Quaran-
tine Officer) l was placed in charge
of the u. S. Marine Hospital there.
When the influenza died out, offered
my resignation, which Surgeon Gener-
al Blue accepted, conditionally, in
that he said should the Influenza rage
again he reserved the right to call
me again, and complimenting me on
the record / had made for the Govern
ment I came home in the late winter
or early Spring, and began practice
here where | have been since. | am
somewhat hungry to learn about you
all whom | knew and attended while
at your place. have heard from few
of them, once or twice, but not many.
AS 1 guess you learned from me while
there, l am pretty bad in remembering
names, so | cannot recall the names
of very many. I cannot now call the
name of the Nurse who lived out OF
town on Homestead, but who after
wards married Mrs. Tillotson, who
lived in town, Miss Olson, who helped
nurse the sick, the O'Keefes, the Mil
lers, Che was Post Master) The Kings
who lived out of town, the Meat Mar
ket Man, who was so kind to me, |
cannot call his name, il Icould |
would write him. There are so many
whom | remember well, but cannot
call their names, the Editor of the
Paper family by the name, some
thing like LaBorde, woman attorney
,rrb h,1c
the street from the hotel, the drug
gist, think Lowell There were quite
a number of patients, also, who lived |
in and about towns out from Circle, |
etc, etc.
How are you and your good wife, |
and that very nice lady who were |
with you in the Bank? There was |
man, cannot call his name, who had |
very short name, two or three let
ters. My l do wish that l could call |
names better.
Sometime when you can do so, and |
will take the time to do it, will be
very grateful to hear as much about
the old friends there as possible. l
assume that some will have gone to
the Beyond" since l left there.
1 heard somewhere, that you were
not in Dawson County any more, and
that Circle was now County Seat
itself.
| have been pretty well, wife and
are living alone, both our children
and their families are living in Spo-
kane, each of the girls have four liv-
ing children, and they are all fairly
well. My wife was quite i'll all the
latter part of last winter, and l took
a severe cold visiting patient up in
the Mountains in February, resulting
In Pleuro Pneumonia of the right lung
with the formation of an abscess in
the lung, and we were compelled to
visit Mayo's at Rochester, Minnesota.
Came home in April, and both have
gained considerable since, but neither
are as strong and well as before, we
realize that We are older, but we have
lots to be grateful for. We have had
a very hard year here, for us, at least,
first had almost no rain during the
consequently was very dry,
and the hottest weather we have seen
here, and very long continued, always
however, cool nights) then early in the
Oecem Der we had heavy SHOWS, and,
or us, extreme cold weather, it has
cached % below zero, much the cold
,st weather / have ever seen here.
Last November, year, Judge Bald
vim of Chicago, my brother, died, and
asst July, my only sister died here,
n her seth year. there is but three Of
ny parents family left, and all over
ixty-five.
| guess that I had better not write 4
more for / better wait and see if you
uryive this letter and are able and
Wiling to answer this letter. With
indest regards to any and all those
yhom / met while there and large
ot to you and yours. And with kindest
Holiday greetings to you all, am
Yours most sincerely,
A. E. BALDWIN,