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Arlington, VA.
Sunday 19 Aug 51

Dear Sid:

I called up Kimtis about noon and told him that you wanted someone to tear down the Blake farm for lumber and by 1.30 he was up here with another Lithuanian who was willing to do the job, a Konrad Sigmund who lives down near him on Clapp St. He has worked with Kimtis sometimes but is in the machine shop now working. He would do this odd times and on his vacation, and thinks he could get it done in 3 months, possibly 2, and says he would take away all the wood. He is apparently a hardworking man, a bit younger and not so heavy as Kimtis, but I guess he would do it. He seemed all right and Kimtis said he was a friend of his whom he had known for a long time. So you could get it off for nothing with this fellow. But I told him I would have to put the decision up to you and would write to you and you could think it over and then when you came up you would talk to him. So they left feeling very much pleased. 

Kimtis says he thinks taxes will be another $5 higher this year,  - such the rumor. We had a chat about conditions. If I had asked him, I think he would have done the barn, wish I had. He said work is letting up, that lumber is still very high, but work is slackening everywhere, - shops closing, and business very poor here in New England.

I have done quite a wash - it has been such a fine breezy day here - and have painted the front and back steps and live in fear of being locked out.

Hope you are spinning along over the new bridge.  

Transcription Notes:
changed weary to heavy changed work to wash