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pleasant home life & hope it may continue but am afraid it
may change, they all seem to pity her lot to be

I see by the Enterprise the death of Joseph Raychards he has looked bad & guess has been sick unto death for some time, the old woman is good for many years more, a pity, for she does not get along with her daughters husband Morse, who has to furnish their support. our neighbors do not interest us much. mostly of foreign birth & we hear some are hard tickets down below us. Pete told Addie Ballentine it was getting to be a tough crowd. thats the way this world is going we read of it in the papers something to dread. I hope your Hugo will return certainly he has a friend in you & may sometime work his way with his
determination & genius combined. they hardly any of them ever care to go back to live in their own country after the freedom of living in ours. I doubt if Shorer stays there long enough end her days. has she sailed? funny you have not seen her. I called up Maude the other day. she is in a quandry to know what she is going to do she has no idea from day to day, just drifting with the tide. Bertha comes & gets her to go for a ride, she says don't know where. she was in to see Mort & Anna. he is very poorly she thinks, two feeble old people. soon they will be parted. a pity we have to be. such is life & we must make the best of it, same as others have done before. hope it isn't for long. Ma