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Stoughton March 26th 1936

Dear Folks

This is going to be a good sunny day. time now for spring to show its face we hear the frogs at night, the robins & song sparrows & partridge woodpeckers. also grackles & others we have noticed, floods are a thing of the past here we have not seen much of thanks be enough to read about them, what is the use to borrow trouble. Lottie called me up yesterday to ask about Sidneys folks if you came up & had gone back. she says Maude is no worse off than we are. she has got to live it down the same us others have done, its awful for us all. but she is growing blind and as Dr Ewing says she will be liable to go in a shock, the same as he did. the quicker she has that bad eye taken out the better, for its liable to affect the good one they say. they experimented with her all the time she was in the hospital & did her no end of suffering. darn such work, people seem to think if doctors do these things they are all right. they did her no good & it cost her a lot of money she was past help when she went to them & Ewing told her so. Georgie Perkins was here the other night she said Maude got terribly poisoned & called her she washed her all over with a soap that was