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closed here for some weeks because of the Influenza. The children have been getting orange boxes together, standing them on end, & making the most attractive doll houses, & it has kept them busy for weeks. It seems to me all the neighborhood children have been camping here & bringing all their trash with them, but they have all had a wonderful time. Now that they are completely finished and decorated, (10 & 12 room houses comprising each as many as 6 & 8 orange boxes adorning the Boudoir & Pink bed rooms) I do not know what they will do if school keeps closed until Xmas. 

There are a great many deaths from it here. & I have been staying away from stores, & elevators. & keeping the children out of danger.

It is very bad in Butte. Bill has been over there almost all the time since you left with the exception of two or three brief visits here. He bought that Western Mining Supply to help his brother-in-law you know, & has him installed over there now, & Bill thinks he will make good at last. He is to buy it from Bill on very easy terms & seems to be making an honest effort. It is the third time Bill has tried to do for him, & the other attempts have been so very expensive & such sad failures in every way. That I hadn't any faith