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Stoughton July 14th 1936

Dear Folks

We are having cool muggy weather with occasional showers it looks showery this morning. I dread them they are so disasterous. Mrs Barry called on Mamie yesterday afternoon while she was down town she found her better Myrtie was suffering with her knee her whole leg was painful & terrible swoolen. I am afraid she will have to suffer from it from now out & feel very sorry for her. she asks Mrs Barry if I have anything against her. Barry replied that she ought to know Aunt Lou well enough to know that she was not that kind. Myrtie said she thought a great deal of me, as I was all the aunt she had. I guess she has worried about my cool treatment of her a lot, to tell the truth I felt provoked at her, she talked too much & was too intimate with Maude Capen & Chan, as every body shuns them, they have but few friends in Stoughton, Dr Ewings wife is just like them, [[underlined]] he [[/underlined]] is blunt. she goes around telling lies about Dr Brides, that he is a boozer. when her husband goes to [[underlined]] his [[/underlined]] patients [[underlined]] dead drunk [[/underlined]] or has known to do so in years gone bye. hope he doesn't so much these times. Dr Faxon is the best preserved man for his age there is he is 85 years & has lots of patients & goes out a lot he ought to