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he & Bill used to be neighbors & always knew each other. they both played in the Symphony but now Gilcher keeps their looks & I guess he has a bigger salary than he used to have when he played the horn.

The family over in the Ballantine house are very quiet children are brought up in a very polite way. the youngest is a baby six months old. they have a son of their brothers living with them a dozen or more nice & well behaved. she washed every day. a truck very large came from Florida with some of their largest pieces but most of their furniture came by rail. he was at the electric light office when Mrs. Barry went down to pay our electric light bill & the man told her that was one of her neighbors he seemed a nice man I said he sold his electric refrigerator before he moved up from Florida intended to buy a new one; he said he was in the meat business down there as intended to still continue it here they say he seems to be a nice gentleman. 

Early yesterday afternoon young Doris called us up on the phone saying she wasn't coming up home this week and as she was going to a dance I would be too sleepy so think she must be enjoying her life all right. We had a good dinner waiting for her of a roast of pork with qreens & a pudding (my favorite) of butter scotch, apple pie and home made cake cup cakes. with oatmeal bread. this is all.   love Ma