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Uell, I»n just about fchrou^jh with the dishos,
Lai ric, there ;;00s bhc tclophonc - ;;ell - dpn't
rin^ it'off the vvall - just rlvo ug tii'io - I*n
a'c.jjiin, just as quick as I can c^t r.iy hands dried
drat it - thoro it fjoos a['cdn - Lawsy nc,-I'i:! a'cordn
Oh-IIcllo, Oh Hoilo-Hollo, is that you Dot, well hoiv '
arc you, I’a so {jlad you cr,Hod ne, ivhat do you Icnowj
and vihat you boon doin^’ - is that so - you don't say.
No, I hadn't hoard that so iiany folks had boon hoi;io, v/ho did you say - Ar.i Palls,
his vdfo and little r;irl, vi siting; the Falls and Eriia's faiiily too, Nellie’and
Charles ;/ray, here too, they're all froa BcJLtijiiorc, aren't they - uh-uh, Ilr, and
ilrs. Everett V/ease of '.JiJ/iin ;ton v/ero hero for the v/eok-end >ath Ilrs. Shcrr.ian
Brackett anc’ Ilr. and Its. CharJae V/easo, and v; ho else, oh, lirs. Dvd^^t Brackett
and her little boy, they li^'c in UiLdnrton too, you say they're here to see her
parents, III', i. Iirs. Jli-Blanton - well a'int that nice they all close enou£,’h to
c j^io h-i. 10 onco in awhile, Yeh, and Junior Da^'erhai’dt v;as here fro:i Bainbridjo,
Ho carae down to ^ ut his wife and baby, they boon visitin^r her folks, llr,
& i’rs. Till Vfcllace - Juiiior said, its .d^’hty cold up there - yeh, I 1-oiow it -
Iirs. Jodie
's Ciix:le riving; a party honorin£
Wasn't that nice about the
Neason - it was a "Shower", she £^ot so .'.any i^retty thin£;s — shcs joining Jodie
in Wiloin;;ton, he's vjorlcin^^ doivn there nov; - I saw Br:intley Devinney the other '
day, ho xvas here spending conoti.io -with his far.iily - yoh, he works in Hichnond,
Va. and so doe Jufhn S.iawloy, he'a been h^ae recently, I hear- Did you see Lt.
'./iC:;ins, T^hen he was here - everyone see led awful ;;lad to sec hiii - just lots
uf folks'h;'.d he a nd his fa.iil;;,’- out to dinner - I see soi.xc of our boys hone on
furlough, iiost every Ccy, l.)ut I recokon you )coep up with the:.i thru the Hoover
Rail - say you do like that little papor, yeh, its a sight the way everybody
3cc:i3 to 0 njoy it - its selling for 10^ a copy now, but it is in groat doriand -
ych, IIx’s. Effie Parker is a very enthusiastic sales iianager for it and Irene
PaLier keeps the boys iiafias and addressoj all in apple pie order - yeh, that
a nice job they're both doing - whats that, didn't understajid you - Oh, how's
. y ;:arden doing, not mch good yet, its been- too cold - say i ly first Robin-
today, so Spring can't bo very far off - yoh, I saw Ilrs. Burns last Sunday,
she spent the day with Bob and Kita, she said Bill was getting along fine,
sure do iiiss having hor iii Laimdalc, ’jut our loss is Shelby's gain, L.'I your
hadn't heard that she v/as living in Shelby, yoh, she's iialcing her hone thci’e
now - yoh, thats who I was tallcing about last tir.io, when did you hear it - I
been knowing it a long tiiie - they're siu’cly tickled to death - yoh, they been
ordering all kinds of cute little things outa the catalo(^e - what say - jigglo
your receiver, I can'o hear a vjord you’re saying - yoh I h eard tte.t
Alex
Wease ajid Ilr. Charley Pritchard had been to Canp Pickett, Va. to see- their boys,
Gene and /uidy, found then both in the hospital, but .mch bettor, yeh, lots of-
our boys have boon sick in t he caiip hospitals — too bad - \/ell so- long. Dot, I
never was one to nonopilize a party line - no, n.;t ne - Coiio see ne, Dot and
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