A typed letter
No Envelope
Bell,
Cal.
Aug.
1, 1923
We just received your dear letter
and were indeed glad to hear from you once more. It was such a newsy and interesting one
too. You will notice how promptly we are
answering it too, about fifteen minutes I guess since we got it.
Everything is going along about the
same as usual; the weather hasn't even changed enough to notice. Elda is still going to school in the city but
she will be through a week from next Friday.
She says she will sure be glad as it gets to be quite a chore chasing
back and forth every day to the city. I
am still working in the store but expect to quit as soon as her school is out
and we intend to take a trip up to San Jose where Elda has an aunt living. We want to pay them a visit before my school
starts in the fall. Gosh it seems
everything in this life depends on school.
No wonder we have that old saying about "whether school keeps or
not:. It seems to be our chief business
anyway.
We were glad to see by your letter
that you had been able to get to Kilgore again and see the dear ones up
there. We are surely sorry we could not
get to see them before we left. I
certainly wish that you and they could get a glimpse of this wonderful
country. I don't suppose though that
they would ever be satisfied here as they would be so much more apt to get a
just compensation for their labors. I am
afraid they have been too long used to the slave life of Kilgore to brave the
change. I know it is hard to pull up
stakes and hit for a new country, especially when you haven't much capital to
start with, but gee any of you have as much as we have and we are not worrying
very much. After you get to the new
country and you find it a good one it doesn't take long to settle down
again. Of course we don't know all about
this country yet by any means so I wouldn't want you to come for a while that
is a year or so until we see what the whole year is like here but at present it
looks like a wonderful place to make your home.
We
are going to write to the kids in Kilgore one of these days and tell them all
our recent experiences. Sure wish you
and they were all here so we could see you once in a while.
Not
a great deal has happened to us since last I wrote so there isn't a lot of news
to tell this time. We had been sort of
hoping that we would get to see President Harding when he arrived; he took sick
in San Francisco and has cancelled all the rest of his trip so I guess we won't
get to see him this time. This city is
quite keenly disappointed about it but I guess it couldn't be helped as he is
only human like the rest of us and has not more control his destiny than we
would have.
No,
we haven't seen Lloyd P. yet. Did you
tell us his address? I don't know where
he lives. Would like to see him. We haven't seen Martin's wife either,
although we go through Huntington Park every time we go to the city. You know Marie only gave me her post box
number and it is pretty hard to find anyone here from that. In fact it is hard
enough when you have their complete street address and every thing. So if she
can give me that maybe I can find her.
Well,
dear ones, it is bed time and elda is already there, scolding me for sitting up
so late, (although it is only a little after nine.) You see we go to bed earlier than we use ter
because we have to get up earlier and besides this is the darnest place to
sleep I ever saw. So g o o d n i g h t I
a m g ett ing s l e e p y.
Fred and Elda
Fred's
note about seeing the family at Kilgore before they left suggests that Fred and
Elda left for California sometime earlier in that year. Given school year cycles and assuming that
Elda was teaching the previous year in Idaho, they would have left after school
was out.
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