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and old. even Myrtie has got over her grouch & sees the error of her ways. she seems to be doing all she can in taking care of Mamie & doing the housework Mrs Barries sister is coming to see Mamie but will not stay more than a day & possibly a night in Stoughton. We are going to find out by next week where the new post office is to be located. I have not the slightest idea where 'twill be, they are all anxious to sell their land. I did'nt know but it would be Webster Smiths old location next to the railroad on Porter St, if not too far out of the way. Mrs Barry thinks the Chickataubut lot the best, time will solve the question. it is too bad Sidney is not going to have a longer vacation, its the people who don't need one, who get the longest ones. he will have to take days off occasionally. we get fresh eggs from the Gebharts they ask only .35 a dozen, so when you come up there is no need of your bringing any with you. the Toomeys get theirs of them. Frank Toomey wanders around town up to Careta's & Laura Gebharts they neither want him hanging around. he has tuberculosis so they don't let him in and it would make talk. Gebhart tells him to his face that his wife don't want him, she is a married woman & Careta dont go to the door. the disease makes him anxious to be with the girls, too bad for Frankie. Mary still has her beau, he is a German from Canton, Addie says he is there to court but never to wed. going on four years now. her folks dont like it, he is there till four in the morning, people talk Addie says, I suppose she means their neighbors. (little town gossip.) well hope you dont melt away before the month is over. dont be too strenuous take it easy such weather. Ma