Milford chronicle., 1953-01-02
4780 81 Cerrito Way
Sacramento is. Calf.
December 9th. 1862


Sacramento is, Calf
December 27th, 1852
Dear Friends:
BY the time this letter IS In your
home / will be one year older and
my parents will have celebrated
another anniversary Of their mar
riage. My birthday is the Both and
their anniversary the 31st. When ]
was little I used to tell every one
was born the day before Mother
and Dad were married!
Sacramento is the city Of high
fences, white shoes and stamps.
Last week Z told you about the six
foot fences in all the yards, and
now I'll explain about the other
two. When we first arrived in Sac
.ramento, I though there was a sur
plus of nurses or mattresses here
when we noticed all the white
shoes. We later surmised it's the
teen-age fashion. Here, in all this
rain, too, they wear white, all white
Spalding shoes with white socks.
Where they buy those socks I'll
never know, but they are the skim
piest lookin' things and barely show
above their heels. At the Univer-
sity of Delaware the fashion there
was socks, heavy wool socks that
the girls wore half way up to their
knees. I don't know which looks
wOrse-too much sock or too little.
We were here only about ten
days when Mrs. Edna Bush came
to call. She is the equivalent Of
the wonderful Welcome Wagon.
Here it is called Commercial Ad-
vertising. Those Of you who help
Mrs. Walter Hoey at home fill her
Welcome Wagon basket are not
only helping strangers get acquaint-
ed but are helping your business,
too. Mrs Bush brought us the bus
schedules in town, the dates of the
Town Hall lectures, the Drama
programs, the names and denOmi-
nations Of the nearest churches and
more local information, plus her
gifts. Her gifts included a pound
of butter, jar of mayonnaise, a love-
ly African violet plant, (Which ]
mentioned last week. a free grease
and fabrication job on our Dodge
an ash tray from department
store, a thermometer from a drug
store, a pyrex pie plate from a
hardware store and many more
gifts, plus book Of partially start.
ed cash stamps. Mrs. Bush saiC
Sacramento is the city of stamps
and now I know exactly what shl
meant. They have eight differen
types of stamps here. We cOllec
only three varieties. I said / would
not bother with stamps, books, anC
all that, but you are almost com
PEELED to here When we buy gai
we are given Cash check stamps
which are purple. We never Du.
groceries we are not given Action
stamps, which are red, and at drul
stores and some service station
they give S. and H. stamps Whicl
are green. Some books when file
are redeemed for $500; some Onl
$3.50, but every housewife has
pocketboOk full Of books an
stamps. You just do in Sacramen
to.
Since the welcome wagon ha
= broughts its gifts we have repeat
/ edly returned to the various store
we became familiar with throug
2 Mrs. Bush. Those. merchants bt
: come your friends since they weI
= out Of their way to welcome you.
e About two weeks after we arriI
= ed the local (Sutterville Height
e where we hVe) Methodist minist,
came to call one evening. We loV
s Sacramento. Everyone has bee
Y especially nice to US and WhC
n you're so far from home it's great
= appreciated.
Something that rather shocked /
, was the stores being open, no ma
ter when you shOpped. On Thank
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