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PS The Electric light people are trimming out the high way of trees that hit the wire. they came to me & I told them to trim all they wanted to. so they took two trees down on my corner & those scrub oaks & some of that forcythia bush that I wanted to get rid of. he was very good & it makes the place look much better. he had half a dozen men working. he seemed to be the boss. now the place looks less like a wilderness the wild cherry but lies once in the pasture where it fell, the branches were all carried off in the big truck. I don't know what to do with the trunk. Ma 

Stoughton July 22nd 1936

Dear Folks, 

We are having it cool with the wind North West. a rain during the night, with a promise of more this afternoon. it certainly is dull weather but suppose we should be mighty thankful to think we are not roasting as they are in other places. I am sitting here writing the letter with my sweater on & all the windows shut down & dont feel any too warm. this has been a cool summer with not many hot days so far. I pity you & hope you will get through the summer & not be overcome with the heat you are having so much down in that section. things are never rightly divided, so we have to make the best of life however unpleasant it is portioned out to fellow creatures, trusting it wont be so in the other existance. as long as we have health & retain all our faculties, we should be content. but we never are, we are always looking for more.

I was out on the porch yesterday afternoon & who should come but the Colcords Miss Colcord is having a vacation & is visiting her brothers family. She says he lies there in bed perfectly helpless with no desire to try to exercise hand or foot his son told me that he seemed to be having the time of his life. & I told them his good