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Stoughton November 12th 1939

Dear Doris

Windy to day but very sunny. its growing cold tonight & report says very cold after sunset Armistice day we were just through dinner when Helen Wales & Ethel marched in, they had come to town to visit their mothers grave for the first time since the funeral. they called on Jack Wayland & found him in a terrible condition very nervous. they said his hands were going & he tried hard to keep them still. Irma was out so they did not see her. They were both very much pleased to have me come to their mothers funeral & feared that I was over come by so doing. I told them it was a terrible long ride, but it did me no harm & I made an effort as I knew there would be but few mourners. Helen lets her upstairs tenement but reserves one room for herself & takes her meals with Ethel down stairs the two sisters are more united as they grow older. it helps Ethel & Heln also. Margaret works she has some of her mothers ingenuity probably. she has beaus,