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to have an elegant home if money will make it. where Alice his first wife saved money Mary will make it fly, that was the trouble when she married Forest Holmes he didnt have any to much for such an extravegant wife so Eldon lent them $3000. & gave them the place, so when Mary was left alone, she gave back every cent they borrowed. & that was before Eldon was married to Mamie Kate. the house she sold & went to work for her brother in Canton who afterwards died & now she sold out his business & retired. his widow is living.

Well it still blows but its cleared off the sunshines out fitfully, this is just such an afternoon that Lena if she were here, would come up to see us but guess she is bookt for a job for a while in taking care of an old lady who is down with an incurable disease.

Mrs Barry has been down to church & it was palm sunday, she sang in the quire to help them out & said it went off much better than she expected it would, Percy did his part well for him, he is loyal to his church, he went to his fathers funeral & met his brothers & old friends he hadnt seen for twelve years or more & Alice said he had the time of his life. his father was 91 years old, a few years older than Sue would have been had she lived. she was Celias age one from the 18th and the other the 19th of December. doesent seem possible they would have been as old. well people like me live too long but what can one do? its up to god almighty I guess Ma