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Stoughton Jan 7 1931

Dear Doris-

A sudden change in temperature, after having most a week of warm sunny days, yesterday it rained & took away the snow & some of the ice & blew up cold during the night so when we got up this morning it was somewhere around 16 or 18° above. I have put out a line of clothes I washed this morning & they are frozen stiff. I took a bath last nigh [[night]] early in the evening & then turned in on account of my cold. I had hardly got warm before a car turned into our yard, Ralph & Maude I was told not to come down, Ralph had come to see Pa about some think [[thing]] about the Cooperative bank business that was bothering him, & making him mad, & came to talk it over with Pa so he sympathized with him & sent him home feeling better. R has confidence in your fathers [[father's]]judgement & since Henry Britton died, he relies on it a great deal. I am afraid he is going to see trouble with the young cub, he goes with a low class & ten to one he will form their habits, if he has not all ready, its too bad, but he is head strong & always got his own way in the end. Ralph was made of different material, with not so much of that White blood in him. My cold is better this time it seems to be more cattarral [[catarrhal]] I am going to be more careful in adding to it this time, I bundled up this morning to go out & hang my clothes. & am sitting over the fire to write the letter. I am not going down town if I can avoid it. Although the ice is gone from them

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PS Since early morning the sun is clouded in & the wind has come up & it looks pretty owly. my windows are frosting up. growing cold I guess.
Ma
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Transcription Notes:
Added corrected spelling for catarrhal Edited: few spelling mistakes. It does say "owly", whatever that means.