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18 degrees above Thursday morning 

Stoughton Nov 15th 1933

Dear Doris

This has been a very cold windy day temperature down to 19 degrees above & wind NW blowing a gale.  I went down with James this afternoon for a treatment & he kept me on the front seat where it was warmer.  I got most home when I found Earl Kidder + family in the yard, just getting out of their car, come to visit their mother.  They will come after her to go home tomorrow.  She is only too happy to go home on a visit.  She is no hand to go out otherwise she seems a home body.  Pa is uneasy at the sudden change in temperature, as usual our storm windows we think were put on in the nick of time.  I had my oil Monday put in & one ton of coal this afternoon.  They had no trouble in putting it in the up stairs bin where it will save her from lugging it up stairs, as it was too much for such a little woman to do perhaps.  Now I am going to get James to take me down to pay my electric light & telephone bill.  I am waiting for Bruce to come with his rent so that I can pay the housekeeper her bill.  It does seem as though they are all coming in a