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Dear Brother Charley.
"Well Charley the New Yrs. Is starting
In and I feel some how like its going
to be a lucky yr. for me and I'm going
to try and do my best to make it
lucky. I bet they went be no throw
ing away money this yr. like they was
last yr. and by a yr. from now I wont
have no mortgage hanging on my head
but will have the house all payed for
and every thing clear and a little mon
ey, in the bank besides.
Between youf and I Charley theys
some money in the bank right now and
believe me thats where she going to
stay. I got some thing over $600.00
salted away and they wont be another
paymunt on the house dew till July
and nothing to pay between then and
now but regular expences that a man
can pay out of your salary if you dont
make a monkey out of yourself. Thats
what Im going to do this yr. Charley is
live close and not toss my money a
round like it was a drunkard sailor.
In the 1st. piece Im going to cut
down on smokeing because I figgure
where I smoke to much and when a
man smokes as much is I been in the
habit you get up in the A. M. feeling
like a tramp and hawk and cough like
you was going to l.i.ise a lunge. And
Im going to try and make my cloths
last as long as theyll hold together and
if I play cards it will he jest for fun
and not cent apt. or nothing like that.
The $500.00 thats in the bank is what
Gave me to keep for her and she says
she was scarrred to trust herself with
that amt. in her own name or she would
be blowing it in for cloths. I never
seen the woman yet that could hold
on to a chunk of money but they got
to throw it to the birds as soon Js
they get there hands on it. So Grace
vised good judgement turning it over
to me and they couldent no body get it
away from me with a crow bar unlest
Us to pay honest debts or some thing.
Of coarse the $600.00 was part of
Graces birthday present from her old
man and she can do what she please
with it but she turning it over to me
looks like she had better sence about
money then the 1st. few yrs. we was
married.
Happy New Yr. and presterity to
you and Mary.
Your Bro. F. A. GROSS.
Allison, 111. Jan. 22.
Brother Charley.
Well Charley I was wandering how
long.it would take before Grace begin
iching for the little hunk of money she
gave me to keep for her and a good
thing I got it where she can't touch it
or she would be as clean is a whistle in
side of a month.
"When I came home last night she
was all excited and I ast her what
was the idear and she says she had j
some thing to tell me but she was t
scarred to tell me so I told her to
hurry up and get it off of her chest.
So what do you think she sprung
on me Charley. She says she had
been down on Wabash ave. with Mrs.
Dutton and walked .paesed a piano
store and seen a piano in the window
that was advertised to sell for $110.00
and the reglar price of that kind of
of a piano was $250.00. But they was
selling this 1 cheap because some body
had ordered it and made a payment and
had it sent out to there house and then
desided they dident want it and sent it
back. So Grace says she wanted to
buy it.
Well I says if them other people
dident want it they was probily some
thing the matter with it and may be
it was off the key. No she says it
was O. K. because Mrs. Dutton set
down and tride it. So I says I dont
want Mrs. ' Dutton hanging a round
the house all the wile and they aint
neither I or you or the babys that
can play a piano so .what good would
it be to us. So she says she or the
babys could lern on it. Yes I says
you got a lot of time to lern a piano
and as far is the babys is conserned
the 1st. think I want them to lern is
sleep nights and get there mouth lo
cated at table.
Well she says suppose they wasent
no body to play it It would look good
in the liveing rm. All right I says I
know where I can get a man down
town to paint I on the wall for $20.00.
So she says she knowed I would
act that way a bout it and I says
Yes and your pretty lucky to have a
husband thats got some thing under
there hat besides scalp deceases.
So she left the rm. without saying
nothing and thought I would feel sorry
for her , and chase after her and tell
her she could buy her old piano and
higher a formner to come out evry
night and play it but I wasent going
to fall for no sob stuff and when I
says I would keep her money for her
I ment I would keep it and not throw
it away on junk we cant aford let
alone got no use for it.
Well Charley tomorrow Im going
up to the Coliseum to the automobile
shaw and Id rather lay a round head
quarters but I promised Alec Welsh
Id go a long with him.
Regards to Mary.
Your Bro. F. A. GROSS.
Allison, 111., Jan. 24.
Dear Charley.
Well Charley I was up to the au
tomobile show yesterday and the shows
the prettest sight I sceen in a long
wile and when I come home I tride to
get Grace to go with me some night
and see the show but shes still sore yet
on acct. of me not leaveing her throw
her money away on a piano.
. I dident have no idear that you could
by a car as cheap is they got them
for sale now and you can get a big size
t passenger car and not no flivver
neither for .$550. It would be pretty
soft to drive to town and back every
day in your car and not half to patter
nize them suburban trains where your
lucky to find rm. enough for your ft.
to , stand on let alone rm. enough to
set down unless you starve your self
for a few months 1st.
Alec says it aint no trick at all to
lern to drive and hes got a car that
holds 7 passengers and never had no
trouble with it and it dont cost him
hardley nothing for gasoline and new
tires and etc. and its only the grate
big heavy cars that costs money to
run them and of coarse I couldent aford
1 of them big boys. I wisht though
that Grace wasent such a old grand
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mother about leting loose of a little
money on pleasure and I would cer
tainly invest in 1 of them light cars
that dont cost hardley nothing in the
1st. place and practically no keep up.
Well Charley it seems like a crime
to not take advantage of the price you
can get good cars for now and I wisht
I was in a position where I could blow
myself to 1 but I dont believe in a
man spending money for what you cant
aford and liveing behind your means
and a mans 1st. duty is pay your
debts.
Regards to Mary.
Your Brother,
FRED A. GROSS. .
Allison, 111., Jan. 27.
Brother Charley.
Well Charley old boy I got grate
The min. ths engine started I Kot lKrtd and nm
news for you Im a full fledg motorist J
now. What do you think of that Char
ley only of coarse I aint got no car
yet but I made a paymunt on It ail t
ready ana took a ariveing lesson .vni
I could drive O. ' K. right now only
these cars like the kind I bought is
such a bargain that every bodys went
crazy .over them and the Co. is behind
there orders and cant deliver without
you give them a little time. But they
promised me mine by the middle of next
wk.
I guess you dont know much about
cars Charley but you must of herd o?
the kind I got. Its a Swift Six and
the name tells you how fast it can go
but you wouldent need no name to tll
you if jrou seen it spin up and down
Mich. ave. The Six means 6 passen
gers it will hold but I dont only want
rm. for I and Grace and the kids,
because Im not going to take no cheap
Tb.
skates along that cant aford cars of
there own.
The price of the car is $550 fob De
troit and that means its made up to
Detroit and if you buy it there you got
to pay for the freight to get it here
but I wasent sucker enough to go up
to Detroit and buy I when they had
them for sale right in Chi. I payed
$490.00 down and I dont half to pay
the rest till I get the car and I gue3s
I can rake up $60.00 some wheres and
I aint like the man that aint got
friends that will come acrost for them
in a pinch. I could of payed for the
hole thing at once only for Grace
makeing a holler and- I had to leave
her have her way this time or sha
would of whinned a round the house
till we was all deef.
It was yesterday I went up to the
show on acct. of haveing to find a fal
low and I figgured thats where he
would probily be and I made the deal
for" the car there and I says I was sure
of takeing it only 1st. I thought I bel
ter ask my wife to ccme down and
look at it to see weather the color sui
ted her O. K. and etc. So I come horn?
and I says Well Grace you cant call me
no Sherlock no more and I got a big
suprisa for you so she says Did you
buy me that piano. So in the stead
of me answering I hailed a pitcher of
the car out of my pocket and show
ed it to her and I says how would
you like to ride in that. So she avs
she would rather ride in a limosene
this time of yr. So I says Yes but we
cant aford no limosene. So she says
pitchers of limosenes dont cost no more
then any other kind of pitchers unlo-st
there in gold frames. So I says Yes
but I got some thing more then a
pitcher of this baby. I bought the car
today.
At 1st. "she thought I was Jokeing
but I finely convinced her and she
says whose going to pay for it and
I says the price aint only $550 and
we got $6ft0 in the bank. Yes she
says but who does the money bellong
to. I says You give it to me to
keep untill I seen some thing that
we needed and was worth buying.
So then she got sarcastical. So she
says No I turned the money over to
you so as we wouldent be worried
about it more then a wk. or 2 be
cause it would keep me awake nights
thinking about it but if you had it
we would be sure to be broke again
as soon is you seen some thing that
cost the hole amt weather it was
$600.00 dollars worth of fresh eggs
or a set of dimond buttons for your
under shirt. So I says This here car
aint going to cost the hole $600 but
we will still have $50 yet to do what
ever we please with it or leave it lay.
So she says Yes on $50-00 we can
take a trip to Japan China or save
up the intrest for 10 yrs. and buy a
evening paper.
So I got disgusted with how she
was earring on so I says all right
kepe your old money and be a misser
so she says I will tell you what I
will do I will leave you buy me that
piano tomorrow " and you can take
whats left of the $600.00 and . spend
it on the. ear.
So today she met me down town
and we bought the piano and payed
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$110.00 cash for it nad then I took
her out to the Coliseum and showed
her to -Swift Six and of coarse when
she seen it she couldent help from
likeing It and they couldent no body
that seen it and" seen what a bargain
it is when you consider the price we
are geteing it at.
Its fixed so you dont half to turn
no crank to start the engine running
but jest press your ft. on a peddle
and its got red wheels and a reglar
set of tools under the front seat so
a man can do all your fixing but
they claim it dont hardely ever need
nothing done to it and the way it is
now theys a top on it but you can
take the top down on a nice day and
1 man can put it up or put it down
and theys a tank to hold gasoline so
right 8t a crowd of people that was crossing the st.
you dont half to stop at every gar-
rage and buy some more and cush
ions on the both seats and every
thing spick and spand
v ell Charley I cant hardley wait
untill the middle of next wk. but to
morrow Im going' to take an other
lesson driveing and then I will be
ready to run her to hellanerone as
soon is they got 1 to spare for me. i
Dont you wisht you was in my shoes !
Charley but never mind and when
you and Mary get out here next time
I will ride you till the cows come
home.
Regards to Mary.
Your Brother.
F. A. GROSS, motorist.
Allison, 111. Feb. 15.
Charlej'. Well Charley they prom
ised I was to have my car the 3 or
4 of Feb. and says they would take
care of me 1st. before they filled any
other orders and here it is 2 wks.
late and not no sine of a car and the
way it looks like to me there filling
ther orders in alphabet order and be
gun at the Zez.
But they 1 thing sure that Im
makeing thefa birds give me plenty
of driveing lessons and Im getting so
now I can go any wheres without the
man telling me nothing and he says
I picked it up quicker then anv hndv
he ever seen and the funny 'part is
that Grace thinks I will half to start !
taiteing lessons after I get the car
and she dont know that all ready I
can drive as good is . any body so
when the car gets here I will drive
it out Jjome that night and she will
be the most surprised woman in the
world.
Well Charley I supose I should
ought to be thankful that I aint run
ning up no gasoline bills but Id be
willing to put a little Iread and butter
In John Ds mouth if theyd give me
some thing to use gasoline for besides
takeing gravey spots out of my heavy
overcoat.
My kindest to Mary.
Your Brother. F. A. GROSS.
Allison, 111., March 3.
Bro. Charley.
Well Charley if you was here co
night I could give you a little ride and
I wisht you was here so as I couii
have a excuse to go out and ride a lit
tle myself but I don't dare go out alone
because Grace would feel ..bad and I
wisht Id called her up from down town
when I knowed the car was here and
then she wouldent of left the girl that
stays with the children go over to he
dutch church to a dance but I wanted
to suprise Grace so she dident know
what was comeing off so she left tne
girl go and now we got to stay in our
self and of coarse its a pretty cold
night to drive down about zero or a iit
tle better but I wouldent care how cold
it was if I could jest get a hold ot
that wheel.
They called me up as soon is I got"
uacK irom luncn today and told me
my car was in town and I ast the
chief to leave me beat it for the P. M.
and I got there and was going to tako
her right home but when I erive thtn
the $60 that I borried off of the chier
to pay the bal. what I owed they says
it would be $20.00 more, I ast what
for and they says to pay for the freight
irom uetroit to Chi. So I says I
bought the car in Chi and not in n)
Detroit or no other place. So thy
says Yes but the cars made in De
troit and when a man in Chi gets 1
he pays the freight. So I says Yes and
stamps is made in Washington out
they cost 2 cts. weather you buy them
here or there so we argude back and
4th and they says I couldent have the
car unlest I payed for the freight
and I finally got tired of argueing aid
ast them if theyd leave me take thj
car and they could charge the freight
to me and Id pay it next month and
they says that was O. K. So then
they ast me did I want a extra tire so
I says yes and they hung 1 on the
back of the car and the man says that
would be $16.00 more so I says they
could take it right off again so by the
time I finely got started it was dark,
and I hadent never handled a car in
the dark before but I got along great
but my hands got pretty near froze.
I wasent thinking when I got to the
house and I run right passed and I
forgot for a min. how to back up so I
run a round the blk. and the 2d. tim I
stopped O. K. in front of the hous?
and then I tuted the horn and that
was for. Grace to come out but she was
puting the kids to bed and so I finely
got out of the car and went in and it
was 7:30 and Grace heard me open the
door and she come downstares. Well
she says what are you getting home
this time of night for. So I told her
to come out in front and Id show her.
So she come to the door and swn 'h
lights on the car and she was so ex
cited she couldent hardley talk and
then she says I would half to' take her
for a ride before I ett supper or done
anything so I was going to take her
and she happened to think" about civi
girl not being there so she couldent o
and she was about ready to cry but
I told her she should run out and del
in the car a min. so she did and sh
dident set there only a min. on acct.
of how cold it' was.
; But she was tickeled to death when
she seen we realy had our car and she
couldent hardley beleive I knowed how
to run it and she says I must lay ofiL'
tomorrow and I and her and the babys
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and all of us would have a ride 1st.
thing in the A. M. So Im going to
give them a ride 1st. before I go down
town to the office.
While we was eating supper Grace
ast me where was I going to keep the
car. Well Charley thats the 1st. time
I thought about - .that and of coarse a
man couldent leave it out all night in
a blizzerd or rain storm or the seats
would get spoiled. So it looks like I ,
would half to build me a garrage and
maybe spend another $150.00 on thnt
but they aint no hurry about it be -
cause 1 can leave " her stand out on
clear nights for a wile and if it look
like its going to storm I can take it I
down to the town garrage. Grace says '
it might may be rain or snow tonight
and spoil the seats but I looked at.tna
sky and they isent a cloud in sight
and besides 2 above zero is to cold for
rain or snow either 1 so every thing is
safe for to nite.
Well Charley I must get up early in
the A. M. and take the family rideing
and I wisht you was here to go with
us. O you Swift Six.
Regards to Mary.
Your Bro. FRED GROSS.
Allison, III., March 5.
Dear Charley.
WelT Charley the cars down to the
town garrage here in Allison and Grace
aint had a ride in it yet and the mm
says it will be O. K. tomorrow A. M.
There fixing up the batery now so as
the self starter will work and I would
of took it "in to town and made the
Swift people fix it free for nothing only
I called them up and told them about
it and they says they was so busy thev
couldent do it this wk.
The batery died on me when I wa3
trying to start her yesterday A. M.
and I made a mistake leaveing her out
the doors1 In cold weather like it was
but how did I know what would hap
pen. I guess they think a man shou'.d
ought to know all about a car if he
seen 1 before or dident see 1 before
Well Charley the night I left her
stand out all night the engine froze up
and it took the garrage man pretty
pear 2 hrs. to get her runing again.
You see when I 1st. went out there in
the A. M. and tride to work the self
starting peddle it dident do nothing so
I was af rade I wasent pressing hard
enough so I give her all the weight 1
got and nothing doing and finely they
wasent even no more noise when I
pressed on the peddle and I pressed
and pressed for a 1-2 h. and then 1
went jn the house and set on the kit?l -en-stove
till my legs was so as I coulJ
stand up, and then I called up the chivf
and ast him to leave me stay home
and he says nothing doing I would half
to come down so then 1 called up th2
garrage and they sent there man over
and he seen that the thing was frozo
up and I stayed there and helped him
as long is I could and then I had to go
and now there chargeing the baterys
up because it seems like I done wrona;
standing on the peddle so hard and be
sides they aint nothing a garrage can
do as sood as it can charge.
And today wile I was down town
Grace called up from home and says
I woufd have to buy a couple robes
to help keep the - kids warm in tne
car and I ast her what was the mat
ter with useing blankets off of the i?d
and she says all right go ahead and
use them but I won't ride wr.h you.
So it cost me $11.00 for the 2 ehes.p'St
blankets I could get a hold of :;nd the
next thing is build a garrage beeausa
the garrage man says- the a-r will
freeze up every night I leave it cut
the doors and if you keep your car
in the town garrage its $10.00 p-r mo.
If it don't cost nothing for the kop
' up of this car Charley Im glad I dident
set a dodSe .or a saxon 6 oi any of
them other big babys.
Kindest to Mary and yourself.
Your Bro. . F. -A. GROSS.
Allison, 111., March J.
Dear Charley.
Give me what this here Sw'ft Six
has cost me all ready Charley and I
will sell it to you fob ChicagD and no
questions ast.
Im staying home this A. M. and
Grace tailed the chief up and. told him
I was sick and when she told hinvthut
she wasent springing no automobile
story but she was telling him the
truth.
After the garrage had a hold cf the
car fixing it for pretty near ?. wk. and
promiseing every day that I could have
it tomorrow they finely gi-'e it to me
yesterday and give me a oih for $7.10.
So I says I would settle the 1 of next
month and I got in and drove her out
to see how she run a mint'.e and it
was such a nice day that I says why
shouldent I drive down town an. so I
started and got along fie mvl ..f
coarse I wa a little shakey going in
the loop the 1st time but I was O K.
till I got to 5th ave. and Washington
st. ana tnen i ot the tramc mm hol
lered at me. It was Jerry Donahue.
So I says Hello Jerry ml ljit cn
going but he hollered fo: me i bi. p
and when I stopped I was rij;h In
the middle of the car tricks. Fo he
come up to the side of the car and then
he sees who I was and I says Whats
the matter with you stopping a old pal
and he says I dident know you at Is:
but I jest noticed you was driveing
without no lisence. Well Charley that
was the 1st. time I thought about a
lisence. So I told Jerry Id forgot about
it, and he says You better get 1 or all
the boys will be stopping you so he
says your blocking up the traffic so
beat it. So then I found out all of a
sudden that my engine wasent run
ning and it had died on me and I stuck
my ft. on the starter peddle and Id
forgot to stick the gear in neutruis
and the min. the engine started I shot
ahead and run right at a crowd of peo
ple that was crossing the st. Well I
felt for my horn and it dident make
no sound and I thought it was gool
night but Jerry seen what was going
to happen and yelled to the people
to duck so I jest missed them and bv
the time I got to LaSalle st. I had
her under controls.
Well Charley I finely managed to
get to headquarters and all the bovs
come out and overlooked the car an 1
I offered to give them a ride but it
seems like Jerry the big fool had' call
ed them up and . told them what ha
pened over to 5th. ave. and they all
pretended like they was scarred to ride
with me.
Well Charley wile I was up in the
office 1 of them dirty bums out of
spite work for me calling them a
cheap skate come down and let the
wind out of 1 of the back end tiros
and I dident never know it till I was
clear out here and run the car in to
the garage. You ought to seen the
rim on the wheel Charley and ' the
Fred A. Grors, assistant Cief of de-J
teCtlVPS whn . ,.io, flat fr
Chicago to build a home in a su
burb, acquires a car.
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hole wheels pretty near a wreck and
the man says they isent only 1 thins
to do and thats get a hole new wheiil
and a new tire because the tires cur.
all V pieces. Hows that for a fine
trick Charley.
The man at the garrage says he
dident see how I could drive all the
wav out here, and not know they was
some thing wrong and wile he was
talking the car begin to smoke ana
Wames begin shooting out the front
part and I thought for a minute n
hole place was going to explode nut
the man had the fire out' all most as
soon is it started. So I says I got a
fine bunch of friends that leave me
come home on a flat tire and then tiy
and burn me ud. So tne man &.. r
your friends may of giva you the flat
Im making tW birds .give
tire but the reason you was going to
burn up was on acct. of they not b3
ing no water to keep the engine cool.
So I says did they leave the water out
to. So he says when did you put some
in and I told him I hadent never put
none in. So then he laughed till I
thought he was going to choke and I
wisht he had. This A. M. I been pour
ing water in my radiater all A. M.
but T cant get the old engine to cool
off.
Regards to Mary.
Your Bro. FRED GROSS.
Allison, 111., March 18.
Bro. Charley.
Well Charley sence the last letter
I wrote you about all I been doin is !
borring money and paying it out ana
the garrage that I ordered built i:s
going to cost pretty near $200 dollars
but I couldnent get 1 for no less anl
the Swift peoples going to soak me for
a new wheel and a new tire and thy
kitcKm urv tili ms ItV cmid st"d
garrage says I owe them $30.00 and it
would be some satisfaction if I couUt
fine" out who done that dirty trick
about leaving the ' wind out of the tire j
and I would brake them in 2 but tne
boys down to headquarters jest laughs
like it was a good joke and wont
squeal on who ever done it.
An other thing I had to pay for wa.3
the lisence and its costing me $3 for
a lisence to own a car that I aint harcr
ley seen let alone get any pleasure out
of it."
The Swift people called up today and
says I could come and get the car to
morrow. Grace aint had no ride in it
yet so any way if the cars ready tomor
row I will ga and get it and give Grace
and the kids a ride before some thing
else happens but I guess its pretty
near time for the luck to brake the oth
er way hay Charley. Thats what I
told a fellow today that come in and
tride to sell me some insurence. What
kind of insurence I ast him. He says
automobile insurence. No I says my
cars cost ' me enough all ready with
out it costing me no more. So he
says its libel to cost you a hole lot
more before your threw if you dont
have no insurence. He says its libel
to burn up or run in to some body
and kill them or some bodys libel to "help
themselves to it when its laying in the
st. Yes I ays theyd be libel to steal
a car that bellonged to 1 pf the detective
bureau. So he says No probily not be
cause it would be like stealing pennys
from a blind man. But anyway he
says the fire insurence and libility insur
ence would cost $40.00 dollars per an
num and $40,00 dollars is pest as plenty
a round me these days is whiskers on u
flute.
Well Charley give ovr kindest tr
Mary and I hope lucks been bettel
with you than I.
Your Bro. . F. A. GROSS.
- Allison, 111. March 22.
Brother Charley:
Well Charley I wont write you no
more letters about my car Charley be
cause I got no car and whro evers got
it can keep it. And Im tickled to
death that they dident get it till Grace
and the kids had 1 ride and they dident
only ride about 4 or 5 miles but long
enough to say they road in their own
car any way."
Well Charley I Will tell you what
come off. In the 1st. place 'lie car
wasent reac'y the day the Swift people
says it would be ready but it was'finely
ready esterday and I went ouz there
earl i:i the P. M. and got it. So it
was the 1st. day of spring and the finest
day I ever seen for March. It felt
like June and thi sky dident have no
sine of a cloud in them.
I called up Grace before I got there
and told her to fix it so as her and
the kids could go when I convj for them
and I got out there about 4 a clock
and then by that time they wes a big
cloud in the sky and I says some thing
about may be we better postpone the
trip. But Grace says Not much vou
dont do no more poscponeing. So they
come' out and got in and I set alone in
front and Grace and the kids behind
and away we went.
Well Charley we was jest turning in
to Ogden. ave. tords town when I felt
a rain drop and I hadent went mur
then 3 blks. after I felt the 1st srincv,
when she begin to beat it down a mi 'a
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a minute, well l stopped the car and
jumped out and tride to get the top
-t T .lnv- miCTP Millie
fhed?o7 anl UkeTt'o ZSt
s? and it was raining ns
coutfent see nothing but finely I gratt
bed the kids and run tords 1
the st. and Grace after me and as Iuck
would have it we ran right m to a
lunch room. ' " .
So they was a couple wommen set
ting in there the props wife and n
other and between thenv and rand
Grace we got some of thejeids - aok -a
things off and the props wife dug JP
a couple blankets B0 feS"a !
raDned the kids up and then Grace
g?nPhowling about how near drownded
fhe was and I thought Id be better off
me plenty of driveing lessons.
in the storm then listening to she howl
ing so I blowed out again and th
rain- had let up a little but jc-.V:
enough so as I could see acrost the
st. Well Charley the car wasent ' no
wheres. They wasent no body a round
no wagons or no st. cars or nothing.
Well Chai-ley they wasent nothing to
do but brake the news to Grace and
she got hj-stericks and the kids was
pretty near as bad. Well any way
Charley when it stopped raining and
the kids cloths wasent so wet no more
we went home on the st. car and
dident only half to transfer twice.
Its been over 4 hrs.. sence the car
was stole and not a word about it from
no wheres and they tell me theys r -
many Swift Six been sold in Chi that
it aint nothing but luck when you
identify witch is yourn.
So Grace is . upstares giveing Mi-
kids some hot baths and I been set
ting in the pianos rm. flgureing out
how much that there car cost all to
gether and I got it figgured where it
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21 West First Street. i
STORA GE
Lardeerr
stands me $849.00 and that inc-lud-garrage
Im building and th r,
and the repairs and gasoline ;)rJ -ence
and robes and etc. 1 ?
A fine investmunt that was v
Charley and I guess Grace wpi
enough next time to try and savp . ;
money and not go splurgeing 0n ,. 1
and cars and stuff that fhev ,-ant
body aford unlest there miilior.a. n
-Kindest to both of you. s ;
Your Bro. F. A. rjRos,
Allison, 111., ;.Iay ;i
Bro. Charley.
Jest a line Charley to leav .
know wear getting a long o. k V
not starveing to death.
Theys an other interest rtav pn
mortgage comeing the 1st. of ,,lv "J k.
how wear going to meet it i Y' ;
know but we will meet it some v.-av v'
cause we Cant aford to loose our rr,1
etty now because its more valu-l'"""
then ever on acct. of there hr ir:?
garrage. in the back yard. 15
Well Charley I bet youll he Sjprv,
to hear that Im a piano p!avr ' -v
and I picked it up myself vithoyt'C""
body showing me nothing and I gQ. '5
now I can sing a couple Por,S ,.
company myself with cor-is and .
coarse I cant play the hard coris ''
Theys a hole lot of things Cb -. '
that makes a piano better than a--mobile
and 1 thing is that voU r:
leave all the keys on the piano a."i
go in a lunch room and they wont
body steal the piano and you can ,.,,
your ft. down as hard is you waV.''i
on the peddle with out uncharg
no baterys and you don't half to vi'.
no license for it and dont half to ,
new tires for it and you can leav -anjwheres
all night and it will s5"
up next A. M. and you dorr, half.-'
pour water in them all the ivii to j
them from catching on fire and
'dont take no gasoline or they a'U
get stalled in the middle cf a st. r',.
track.
And you dont half to buiM no v,r
garrage to Keep tnem m necause th
plenty of rm for them right in '
house. ,
Kindest to both you and Mar.-.
Your Bro. F. A. GEO?;
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any denomination Unitarian hyz?.
will hold a conference here or. S-rv.-..
her 1, 17 and 18 at which no citrsry-s;
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bring chapter presidents from a';'. ?
tions of the United States, Canada a-.: '
Mexico.
The conference is the first ever i-.f:
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o and jf successful will be made an s
nual event.
Amonsr the
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