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Dear folks
Another cool cloudy day a fire is a comfort. such days we are having so far more rain this month than last. Every lilae has gone by also the dog woods + now our vibernoms just flowering a lot of them out our back way they have a spread + are very pretty. they don't last long any of our spring flowers. 
The Ballentines are sitting out lots of new flowers. she is lame and suffers with her knees. the Bing and she don't seem friendly. Mary Toomey has got a steady fellow at last, so Addie told me they are engaged. Addie advised her against looking him up as she said he was low down + rough. not good enough for her. which of course made Mary mad. So their intimacy is over. I told Addie guess she thought she thought it was her last chance. Mrs Toomey is very miserable + Frank sick again. they have had to get someone to do the house work. a cousin. Addie thinks their mother is nothing but a nuisance. that's the way old people are regarded now a days. by the younger generation. wait until they play out after they grow old. the paper has it that  Edison's widow in her old age is going to marry again did you ever, she is in her seventies. would you think it.

PS She got home + brought home three lemons one bunch of asparagus 1/2 pk of peas. Careta said she was going away over the week ___ they would spoil so gave them to Mrs Barry for 25 she would not take them without paying her something. she said they were all speaking in praise of me. she won the prize. Mrs Barry told me that I was the liveliest person she ever lived with & I did not seem old to her. Addie said that Mrs Osborn was the gloomy one for she hated Stoughton + did not want to go any where + I was not to blame for being blue after Arthur did + I had no one to cheer me up. Ma

Stoughton june 6_ 1933

Transcription Notes:
viburnum flower spelled wrong