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I have been reading about the Tornado in our Traveler & feel that you must have got away from those regions in the nick of time. it was very sad & I don't know what will come next. we are going through a spell of tragedies unknown to us before. what it is for no one knows. people must be pretty wicked perhaps it may be to teach us not to live for ourselves alone. I pray there will not be much more for us to go through, it is terrible to read, what would it be to experience. I hope none of us go out by accident. Mrs Barry heard that Henry was to have his fathers position in the Cooperative bank. it may make him turn over a new leaf. certainly be an incentive & his fathers memory may do the rest. so if good comes out of it thats something. Maude is trying to make the best of things in her faithful way, no one can wish them back to live through these trying times. Cleon Fobes is from door to door trying to sell paper & envelopes he is to be pitied he made a good post master. its a pity they had him routed out for a man who had a job. nothing goes as it should these times. even here a small rat got into our mousetrap last night after thumping around all night and