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Erie, Pa.
Saturday, June, 17, 1939.

Got home to find two very proud children with their reports. Bab got A in everything she had a term mark on, and Rog had 5 A's and 2 B's, which I think is remarkably good for a first grader. Everyone was well and I soon was hard at work on the house, which incidentally begins to look like something but an awful lot to do yet! And it was work, work, work all day and all evening trying to get caught up and do the heavy mean jobs that Willie and Ann couldn't very well do without me.

Erie, Pa.
Sunday, June 18, 1939.

Another day of work about all day, one job after another and almost no end in sight. Once during the day, I heard an air horn that certainly sounded suspiciously like the U.P. locomotive and the thought, soon rejected, flashed through my head that the U.P. might be coming back here. I dismissed it, however, as very, very unlikely. During dinner the phone rang and it was Peg Durham! She was at Mercer en route to Erie and thence to Buffalo and New York on a business trip with Charlotte Hagaman, her New York representative. About 4 PM they arrived by automobile and stayed until 6 when they hopped off for Buffalo. They couldn't stay longer because of a call en route at Fredonia. It was nice to see Peg and they showed us some colored movies of the school they carry for "sales" work - beautiful pictures that ought to sell the place to anybody. I was glad we were in the new house when Peg came because it is nice and she can take a much better story home about us. To my surprise Peg showed surprisingly

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