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Stoughton Oct 18th, 1936

Dear Folks.

It has cleared after our storm of Saturday & is cooler she has gone off to church Mr. Marshall is going to leave after the end of the month for a much larger & more paying church he is a good christian man & has done much good here & elsewhere a very hard working soul which is not always appreciated in this world.

Did you hear or read Hoovers speech? it was the best yet he slapped it to them good & didn't hesitate to call the old President names. hope he was listening in & heard it, the conceited jackass. do you know they have got wind of Percy going to vote for Roosevelt throug fear of losing his job & it was Bert Winslow who got it & the fool thinks it was the Democrats I guess Winslow has gone for him red hot. as near as I can tell, Mrs Winslow is intimate with Mrs Barry she came here the other day & brought us a quart ice cream freezer that she said was down in her cellar doing her no good & Mrs Barry bid on one at the Marden auction how she knew she wanted one. that is the way things are supplied to her from the crowd, they are ready to help her every way.

Did you have much cold? Harry Southworth died Saturday the poor fellow is out of his misery at last. a great many years he has suffered. funeral will be Tuesday. Mrs Barry will go. she used to play with him as a child. when Mamie Kate & she visited his mother no relation bit cousin to Mamie through the Phinneys. his mother Mary Phinney. was sister to her father Sylvamus Phinney.

Mrs Barry has just called up Mr. [[Kempilis?]]. he said he had been & loked at the Bruces step & offered to fix it so no accident would happen while he could do it as it should be done as he said the whole thing is rotten & they refused to have it touched untill it could be done right. he tells me not to worry for this job is not quite finished folks are waiting to move in then he will surely tend to mine so thats a relief.

Ma