Mary Kauer: July 6, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good Easter. Mine was uneventful. We went to my parents house on Saturday. Sunday my husband and I stayed home. The weather was on the dreary side.
Oh well, here is the next letter from Mary:

As always, for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

              Rib Lake Wis
               July 6, 1927
Dear Howard:-
  I s'pose you will
be good and sore at me
but honest I din't have
time to write yesterday
morning. It was so dark
and rainy that none of
us got up till almost 7 and
then I had to mend pair
overalls and by that time
the mail carrier was here
already. I almost wish you

would get sore. How would it be
if I'd pray for you to get mad at
me? Do you think the Lord would
answer my prayers? Still I think
I would rather have you for a
friend, because I don't think any-
one else would ever be as good
a friend as you are. Honest Howard
I do wish I could marry you but
gee, I can't make up my mind to
do it. When it comes right down
to it I'm not very satisfied with
the way I'm just bumming around
now. I guess I'll end up by being
an old maid or maybe I could get
a job as being some rich old
mans housekeeper if I'd marry
him and then he wouldn't live
long anymore when I'd start to
cook for him and then I'd be a,
"charming young Widow"
Well, this is enough nonsense

I have a big washing
waiting for me so it's
good bye for now
                 Mary
I'll try and write more
sense next time.

 I'm thinking that Grandpa was really trying to get her to agree to marry him and Mary could not see herself married to him or maybe anyone at that time.
She is always saying how bad her cooking was. I wonder if it was that bad or if she just didn't like cooking.

Here are a few random pictures for you to look at:

No idea who this is. it looks like it might have been taken in the early 60's or late 50's.

On the back of this picture it says: Howard Johnson's place, 1926,  S.E.S.E. Sec 35. I think Grandpa or someone else, like to write the section directions on the back of some of the pictures.

No idea which school this was or when it was taken. I wonder if it exists anymore.

Well that's about all I have to share with you today.
I hope you will come back again soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: June 28, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good week. Mine was kind of uneventful with the exception for the snow we got Wed. night, Thursday morning. I think we got about 8 inches or more here. Just when the ground was bare it gets covered with that white stuff. Oh well, it will gone before this time next week.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mary:

As always, for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

                 Rib Lake Wis
                 June 28, 1927
Dear Howard:-
   I got your letter
last week some time
so I better answer it
or you'll think I'm sore.
I've got to try this pen
or you won't be able to
read my letter at all.
How are you? I s'pose as
busy as any farmer

Do you notice the nice weather
we are having now? My praying
helps some, anyhow. I guess I'll
have to pray a little more so
the weather stays nice till
after the 4th since they are
having three days celebrall celebration
here. Gee, I think they are over
doing it. People will all be broke
by the 4th.
  Did I tell you that Joseph is
working at the mill? He said he
worked with some fellow by the
name of Vic, that heard knew you but
he didn't know what his last
name was. it's a fellow from
Ogema.
What are Roseen's girls doing? Are
they still at home or did

Anna go to work again.
  Gee, we haven't got our
phone yet, that fellow's
so darned slow, I'd like to
set dynamite under him.
I'll forget how to use a
phone by the time we get
it.
Mrs. Kauer, Joe & Anton went
to Iowa last week, I guess
they will be back for the 4th
tho.
     So long and good luck
                         from Me.

I wonder how long it took before they got their phone. I guess somethings never change when it comes to some service people.
It sounds like the weather was nice at that time.
I wonder who this Vic person was from Ogema?
I hope Mrs. Kauer, Joe & Anton had a good time in Iowa and made it back in time for the 4th.
Nothing exciting in this letter. Just you average everyday kind of letter.

Here are a few random pictures for you to look at:

Just a couple of farmers out working in their field. No idea who they are.

This is some of the flowers I remember at my grandparents place when I was growing up.

Even tho this was taken many years ago, this is what it looked like around here yesterday morning. Mother nature repeating herself.

Here is a picture from the scrap book.

Clayton Brown, 25, is shown in a hospital at Charlevoix,
Mich., where he is recovering from 50 hours on ice floes in
Lake Michigan. Doctors first feared that he would lose his legs,
frozen when he crawled eight miles to shore, but now believe they
can save them. His father-in-law and a coast guardsman perished
in the cold when they and Brown were swept into the open lake
in a small boat.             (Associated Press Wirephoto)

This was one lucky guy.

Well that's all I have to share with you today.
I hope you have a Happy Easter .
Come back again soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: June 22, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was interesting. Not bad interesting, just not totally boring.
My husband worked a 16 hour shift Friday. Which means he did not get home till after 6 am Saturday. He tried to sleep for about an hour and a half . Then he wanted to be woke up to go to an auction. I woke him up and we went. We took the car. He did buy a couple of things, which means we had to go back on Sunday with the truck to bring the things he bought home. There was a Home and Business expo in town which we then went to after we were done at the auction. After that we came home and he slept most of the afternoon. That was my weekend. Not exciting. Just different.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mary:

As always for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

                Rib Lake Wis
               June, 22, 1927
Dear Howard:-
  How are you? I hope fine
the same as I. I got your letter
the day before yesterday at Kauer's
John Kauer is at home this
week too. They said that Celia Kress
is going back to Milwaukee with
him.
  You asked if ma & Joe went to
Mil. with the car. Joe went down with his
car and then John came back with
them but I guess that was kind of
crowded for such a long trip.
  Joe just came home from town.
he is working at the mill now but
I guess its raining too much today.
Pete Lamberty is at camp alone now.
My cousin Frank Denis is going
to Canada again and his wife and

4 kids were here last week. Now she is
at her sisters. Gee it seems nice and
quiet again. The kids certainly made
a lot of racket.
  Oh say, I wanted to tell you that
nearly everybody in Mud Lake read those
5 books that you gave me. Margret
said that teacher was always taking
books to Pate Lamberty when his leg was
broke so she took mine over and she
said he liked them better then any
he wanted to know if I didn't have
some more.
  Today is Rosie's Birthday, she
will be 22. We are going to make a
cake for her and take it over tonite
We;re going to ask Katie Lamberty and
Fuch's to come down.
I guess I better quit now and
make dinner or I'll get fired. Oh yes
we went swimming 4 times already.
Last Wed. twice on Sunday and last nite
We almost froze Wednesday but the rest
of the times it was nice.     Mary


Not much here. It's just an average kind of letter with a little info here and there about things going on around Mud Lake. I get a kick out of her calling it Mud Lake. I guess I can understand someone calling where their from a more boring or dull name. Like when I was younger we often referred to Medford as Dudford or Deadford. It's just something you do for different reasons from time to time.
I hope Rosie had a good 22nd birthday.

Here are a few random pictures for you to look at.

Not sure who this is. It could be Grandpa. Would you climb up something like that and just hang around for awhile?

No idea when this one was taken. It looks like it could have been a flooded river, maybe.

No idea who these guys are or when it was taken.

How about a picture from the scrap book.

A political cartoon of the day. On the bottom it says No egg!

Oh before I go I would like to tell you that the one picture from last post where I said it was a neighbor? Well it was cousin Tommy. Once I looked closer at it I did see it was him.

Well that's about all I have for you to day. I hope you will come back again for more Fading History.
Till next time.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: June 14, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I don't know about you but I'm ready for a nice weekend. I'm just hoping that the snow we got the other day will go away soon. Just when I was getting use to seeing bare ground it got covered with white again. oh well, it is March in Wisconsin, anything can happen.
Anyway here is the next letter from Mary:

As usual for those that find it hard to read here what it says:

              Rib Lake Wis
              June 14, 1927
Dear Howard:-
  I've got to make my
letter short but sweet today
as I want to wash yet.
 I got your letters and what
do you think the mail carrier
took one of them to Fuchs.
  How are you? is it so cold
in Ogema as it is here? I guess
John is coming home today.
Joe and Ma went to Milwaukee
Friday and then ma went to
see Anton but I hope they
come home today.
Say, what was that you
said about it being another

fellows fault that Ed got killed.
Did his uncle write? I suppose
that makes it much harder yet.
 And what about those outlaws?
Gee you got me all excited and
curious.
  Well, goodbye for this time
I've got to get busy or I won't
have the washing done when
Ma gets home.
                     Mary
I don't know if you will be able to
read this, it's worse than usual.


It sounds like Grandpa was writing Mary so much that she would get more then one letter a day from him.
I wonder what the temp was that day if she said it was cold.
Remember the letter from May 9, 1927 that mentioned that Ed was dead. I wondered what happened to him. I wonder more now seeing that he was killed. Someday I will have to look up what could have happened to him.
I wonder what outlaws she was excited and curious about? Were they well known outlaws or just something local?
I hope she was able to get the wash done before her ma got home.
I just realized that this letter should have been before the last one. I guess I better look at the rest of the letters for this year to see if the rest of them are in the right order.There are three more that should have actually been shown before the one I showed you on Tuesday.  I'll try to pay closer attention to the dates.

Here is a picture from the scrap book that might remind some of the flooding that is happening now. The scrap book was put together in 1936.

Flood waters were receding Wednesday afternoon in Johnstown,
Pa., after the second great flood in half a century. This view
shows citizens on a bridge in the heart of the city surveying a house
which crashed against the span.--A.P. Wirephoto

I wonder when the first one was and how many others there have been since then.

Here are a few random pictures for you to look at:

This was taken June 1973. It looks kind of familiar but right now I'm not sure why.

I think this was one of their neighbors. I might know who it is but I'm not 100% sure.

No idea who they are, but I'm sure one of the relations will tell me, maybe.

Well that's all I have to share with you today.
I hope you will come back again soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: July 12, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I hope this post finds you all doing well. I'm good. No excitement for me lately. It is suppose be on the kind of rainy side around here for this week. Nothing heavy like some places just a little bit here and a little bit there.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mary.

 As usual for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

                 Rib Lake Wis
                 July, Tues. 1927
Dear Howard:-
  I s'pose you are
busy making hay by
this time. We did not
get any in yet but pa
cut some yesterday.
 I'm all in today. We
thinned out our ruta-
bagies yesterday and it
was so darn hot and
I washed in the forenoon
so now I think I'll have
to take a vacation today.
We were at Wood Lake
Sunday afternoon and you
should see Marts neck
now. It's burned as red
as a crab.

Katie Lamberty, Mart & I
are going to Sturgeon
Bay next week to pick
cherries. Pete Lamberty is
going to take us, we
are going the 19th and
stay till about the 6th
of August. Rosie wants
to go along but her
mother doesn't want
to let her go. I don't see
why they could get along
without her for 2 weeks.
Ma said we work hard
enough all the rest of the
time so we can go. Joseph
told Mart he'd milk her
cows and if she makes
any money she should
buy him a pint of moon

but if she doesn't it's all
right too.
  Well, I don't know
any more news so
I'll quit for today. Don't
work too hard its bad
for your health.
                   Mary

It was haying time so I suppose Grandpa was busy doing that.
I wonder if Mary was able to pick cherries at Sturgeon Bay. For those who don't know where that is, it's on the other side of Green Bay in Door County. Door County is known for it's cherries.
I hope Rosie was able to go. Two weeks away from home is a vacation no matter when you live or how old you are. I do hope she was able to go and get Joseph his pint of moon (shine).


Here are a few random pictures for you to look at.

Picture of the Statue of Liberty, taken during someones class trip.

Putting hay up in the 1920's.

I think this is a picture of a dam. No idea which one it could be.But I could be wrong. Any idea what you think it could be?

Well, that's all I have to share with you today.
I hope you will come back again soon for more Fading History.
Till next time.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: June 8, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
The week is almost over, wait. I still have to work on Saturday. I volunteered. Shocked? I surprised myself when I did it. But I just might do it a couple of times a month, maybe. So My weekend will be short, plus it's also time change. So we lose an hour. I'll live, I hope.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mary.

As always, for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says, I think:

                     Mud Lake Wis.
                     June, Tuesday,
Dear Hart:-
  Are you sore already or are
you short on ink and pencils? Or
did you write and your letter is at
Bogumills yet.
  We want to go to town tonite
so I t'hot I would write and mail
it then. But maybe we won't go
because by the looks of things
I think "it's gonna rain."
Well, I think we will have a
phone pretty soon. Joseph laughed
at us, he said Mart & I could start
gossiping pretty soon. Its too
bad for him that Schneider's
aren't getting one.
I just took a look at myself

because there is a glass right
here and you ought to see how
I look. I had my hair cut so
short Friday that I look like a
real moon face. I should have
had them cut a little shorter and
I'd have a boyish bob.
Rosie is home again, you know
I told you she was working. They
have a nurse there now. She
came to town Friday eve and
then I walked back with her and
on the way a car full of boys kept
going past us all the time and they
almost ran over us. I was afraid
to go back alone so I stayed and walked to
town the next morning.
I better quit now I hear Joseph
downstairs and he might come up
want to read what I wrote.
              So long, Mary Kauer

I wonder how much she used the phone once they got one. It sounds like Mary liked to gossip a lot with Mart. I wonder how long it took Schneider's to get a phone?
I wonder if the phone looked like one of these.




It sounds like it was a rainy time. Why else would she write Mud Lake.
It sounds like young people liked to cruise around in their cars even back then. And I thought that started in the 50's.
I wonder if she was able to get the letter sealed in the envelope before Joseph got upstairs.


Here are a few random pictures for you to look at:

This was taken Jun 1964 from I think the second floor of the house. No idea by who or why.

Merv class of 1960, I think. I wonder if he went cruising for chicks in his day.

 I might have shown you this one already.I don't know who the girl is of when it was taken. But can you imagine cruising up and down the main drag in one of these back in the day.

Well that's all I have to show you today.
I hope you have a good weekend. Mine will be shorter for a couple of reasons.
Come back soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: June 3, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I hope this finds you in a very good way. I know that sounds weird. In other words, I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was uneventful. The weather here is starting to get warm. This week in suppose to be in the high 40's to 50's close if not over 60 degrees. Spring is just around the corner.
Anyway here is the next letter from Mary.

 As always, for those that find it hard to read here is what it says:

                        June 3, 1927
Dear Howard:-
   I should by rights send
only a card but I have
none so I'll have to write a
letter. That fellow on the
card that you sent is some-
thing like you I think. How
about it? The poor fellow is
so lonesome and if he just
turned around he'd have
more than an armfull.
 Well, I'm glad you got home
alright. I did too. But I was
so darned tired the next day,
same as always so I went to
bed at 8 o'clock. Last nite Agnes
and Emma Heisler and I went

to the Armory. They had com-
mencement last nite. There were
twenty three graduates.
  How is the poor dear? Is
he mad or tired or is he all
O.K.? I hope so.
  Is Luella home yet or did
she go back to Minneapolis. You
know I'm worried as long as she
is at home. haw haw
I smell the macaroni boiling
so I've got to quit writing a little
while and get dinner.
  I had my dinner now so I feel
better but I can't think of any-
thing to write. I guess the only
time I can think is when I'm hungry
Oh, yes there was a wedding here
yesterday. Elsie Wulfe's brother got
married. They had their car all
decorated and were going up and down
the street with a big sign on "Just
Married"   I want to go to the barber shop
                So long Mary before the baby comes.

I wonder what kind of card he sent her? I wonder if I have something like it somewhere.
It sounds like they were still hanging out together.
It must have been graduation time. I wonder if the size of the class was about average at that time.
It almost sounds like she didn't like Luella. Or maybe she was just being snarky.
Other wise it's just an average kind of letter.

Here are a few random pictures for you to look at:

This is Merlmay Weberg with some puppies. No idea what year this is.

No idea who this is who graduated in 1961.Do you?

I think this is one of my uncles. Not sure what year it was taken.

Well, that's about all I have to share with you today.
I hope you will come back again soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: May 30, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
It's the end of another week. My week was just the same old same old hum drum kind of week. Which means no drama.
Well I guess I'll get right to it. Here is the next letter from Mary.

As always for those who find it hard to read, here is what it says:

                         May 30, 1927
Dear Howard:-
  I don't know how much
I'll be able to write now but
I'm going to start anyway. I'm
waiting for Pete & Clara to come
for dinner. They went out to the
cemetery with the parade. Are
you celebrating today, too?
  I was home yesterday but
there was no party. Dauberts
were at Kauer in the evening.
Amelia Daubert & her husband are
here for a visit. You know that
the one I told you I picked out
for Thomas. I guess she is 19 and
he is 20. They look like a couple
of kids. She wanted to stay home
a little longer but he didn't

want her to. He said "If I wanted
to be a bachelor I would have stayed
single." It sounded so comical
because he is so awfully young.
Ma is in bed but I guess she
is not so very sick there but the doctor
told her to stay there until she
is all well again. She said she
want that you came to see her
and you had brought some cookies
for her.
Joseph brought me to town
this morning. He said he might
stay at home this week.
Say do you think you can come
tomorrow Tuesday eve? Or have you
another engagement for then? I
hear the band now so I guess they
are coming from the cemetery and
I better get busy.
It's after three now and I
just got thru with the dishes.
They had company so we had

to make some more dinner.
And I guess they were all quite
hungry.
Gosh, now I don't know what
to write to fill up this sheet. I
can't afford to send it empty.
How are you and what are
you doing today? Freezing? Say
do you know what you should do?
You are always so cold you should
get a real fat lady for a wife
and then take her along where ever
you go. You could always make
her stay on the side that the wind
comes from, she'd keep the draft off
of you. How's that for an idea?
Should I get a patent on it? And if
you know of any real fat men
that is looking for a wife then

let me know will you, I might
try that myself. But he must
be at least 3 or 4 hundred pounds
and as tall as I am else the wind
would blow over the top of his
head and my ears would get cold.
Oh say, did I tell you already
that Pete Fuchs & Marie Niggeman are
out of a job so they won't get married
this summer? That's hard on them,
isn't it?
Well, so long now that's all the
foolishness I can think of.
                           Mary Kauer
P.S. I couldn't write any other
name as fancy as that, could I?

It must have been Memorial Weekend that there was a parade to the cemetery.
I wonder what she was talking about picking something out for Thomas and then saying something about a girl that was 19 and a guy that was 20. Was it connected or just two different thoughts?
Grandpa must have always been saying he was cold that she made the comment she did about getting a fat wife. My thought, he just said that so he could try to get her or someone to snuggle up with, not to just stay warm.
I wonder if Pete and Marie were ever able to get married. I wonder what kind of jobs they had that they both lost them at the same time.

Here are a few random pictures for you to look at:

    I was trying to read the name. I think it says Veneer Mill Wisconsin Timber and Land Co.

 This is written on the back: "This is the mill Fred is working in.
                                            Nearly sixty men are employed there."

Just a picture of a log yard, or what ever it called.

Someones class mate.

Well that's all I have to share with you today. Enjoy your weekend and come back again soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy