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not favor a man long, soon gets sick of them, Addie says. but she wants some thing to love. Mrs Barry is home today she is going to Hyde Belchers funeral tomorrow. she called on Mrs Belcher the day before he died, she cheered her up & then the next morning after she heard of his death, called up again & Gertrude Belcher answered the phone & she had a chance to renew her acquaintance with her old childhoods friend. so they are going to meet & renew their acquaintance sometime with Alice Tilden who told Mrs Barry how pleased Gertrude was to have talked with her old friend whom she used to know as Blanche Monroe when they were children & lived on Morton St that was before George Belcher made his money. Hiram Belcher was his nephew & his mother was sister to Eldon Holmes and she married Jim Belcher a brother to George. Laura Gebhart asked Mrs Barry if there any body to take me to the cemetery memorial day & Mrs B said no. & told her to ask me if I would like her to take me up. she told her I said of all her friends I thought Laura was the most genuine. It rather pleased her. she sings my praises to everybody. I think people have rather an exaulted [[exalted]] idea of me in town & try to live up to it too bad. Old Ace Sylvester came here today to see if he could get an old pair of glasses he broke his. I told him Arthurs would be too narrow for him his face was smaller. well my letter wont get there till Monday it goes out tomorrow. your package came yesterday. finished the rug today no more rags Ma

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I feel like the names might be incorrect, so that needs to be fixed overall though the transcribing is good and well done.