Laura Spiels: March 31, 1924 Westboro, Wis

Dear Friends,
  I hope this post finds you all well. Like me I suppose you are looking forward to the weekend.
Here is the next letter from Laura Spiels.

As always here is what it says:

            Westboro Wis
            March 31, 1924
Dear Howard:
                 I will
answer your letter
this afternoon.
Sunday seems to
be the only day I seem
to get time to write
letters.
  I got your letter
and pictures two
weeks ago, and I
thank for the pictures.
  We had Friday
off, but we had to
go to the Farmers
Institute so I don't
call that much of
a vacation. I am
getting tired of school
and I will be glad
when vacation is
here!

What are you doing
now?
It was some snow
storm we had
yesterday. I was
wishing the snow
would go away
so I could go home
but I guess it is
going to stay awhile.
I am here alone to
day so I am going
to answer all my
letters and then
I am going down and
play the Victrola
the rest of the after
noon.
I don't know of any
thing to write you
know theine there
is never anything
going on here, so I will
have to close
                 With love
                  Laura Spiels


Not a whole lot here. I wonder if going to the Farmers institute  was what we call a field trip today? I wonder how much snow they got that day? I also wonder what she listened to on the Victrola?
So many questions that will never be answered.
Oh well. Here are a few random pictures for you to see.

One of the unknown pictures of an unknown woman. I wonder when this one was taken?

Since it's fall I thought I would share another haying picture. On the back it says "Ma" Summer 1941. This is Grandma standing on top of this load of hay.

This is a picture of a young deer that was crossing the road. I'm sure the date on the side of the picture is not the date it was taken but just when it was finally developed. I decided to share this one with you to remind you that it's that time of the year when deer are becoming more active. So drive carefully.

Well that's all I have for you today. Enjoy the nice warm sunny weekend.
Your friend,
Sandy

Laura Spieles: Feb. 24, 1924 Westboro, Wis

Dear Friends,
   How are you? Did you have a good weekend? Mine was drama free.
Here is the next letter from Laura.

As always here is what it says:

            Westboro Wis.,
             Feb 24, 1924
Dear Howard:
         I think I
will answer you letter
this afternoon. Saturday
afternoons are always
so long that I don't
know how to pass
away the time.
  I was to the basket
ball game last night.
There surely was a
big crowd there.
were you there? I
don't think I saw you
or probably I didn't
know you.
  I think I know who
wrote that letter

and signed my name
to it. I will tell you
who it is when I
see you. I didn't send
you the valentine and
I think the same person
sent the valentines that
wrote the letter. Save
the letter because I
would like to read
it.
  I am glad you like
bobbed hair then
probably you will
like me.
  I would send you
a picture if I had
one. I haven't had my
picture taken since I
was a little girl.

Will you send me
a picture of yourself
if you have one. I
will close for this
time.       Yours truly
            Laura Spieles

It looks like the mystery continues over who wrote the first letter. As for the valentine she is talking about, this might be the one she is talking about.

   I wonder if we will ever learn who the mystery writer is.
The reason I know that this is the valentine she is talking about is that this come in an envelope with the post mark of Feb. 13, 1924 Westboro, WI.
Sometimes reading these letters it's almost sounding like somebody from a time that is not so long ago. Talking about going to a basketball game, the team might have looked something like this.


Oh well here are a few random pictures.

I'm not sure who she is but she was asking how her bobbed hair looks.

Another unknown person with bobbed hair.

This is a picture of my older sister and it's her birthday today. Happy Birthday Sis!!!

Well that's all I have for you this time.
So till next time.
Yours truly,
Sandy

Laura Spieles: Feb. 10, 1924 Westboro, Wis.

Dear Friends,
How are you? A little wet? I'm getting very tired of all this rain we have been getting around here. Now it's starting to get colder also. Before you know it there could be snow on the ground here. Out west they have been getting snow already. Nothing is sticking yet but it won't be long and a winter wonderland will be happening.
Anyway here is the next letter. According to the writer she has never written to Grandpa before but I have put a letter out there already by this same name. Is it possible someone just used her name just to write? Or did someone do it just to play a joke on her? Will there questions ever get answered?
The writers name is Laura Spieles. You decide if they could possibly be the same person or not. Just go to the other letter written by this name.

   As always here is what it says:

           Westboro Wis.
            Feb. 10th 1924
Dear Howard;
                  I suppose
you will be surprised to
hear from me. I got
your letter about a month
ago but I didn't know
who had written it.
You didn't sign your
name to it. I showed
Olga Sulko the address
and she said it was
from you. I did not
write that letter you
spoke about and I
don't know who could
have written it.
Altho I didn't write
the first letter I hope

you will keep up the
correspondence I think
I have seen you once
and from what I have
heard about you I
think I will like you.
I don't think you will
like me because I heard
you didn't like girls
with bobbed hair and
I have bobbed hair.
I am a Junior in
high school and am
rooming at Mrs. Evan's.
A school teacher is
rooming here to and
we sure have some
good times. I will close for this time
hoping you will answer
my letter.
             Yours truly,
              Laura Spieles

Looking at this letter and comparing it to the other letter, The Sheik letter, the hand writing is different. You compare.  As for grandpa not liking bobbed hair, I don't think that was true. A number of the girls he wrote to along with Grandma, had bobbed or short hair.
I wonder why she was staying in a rooming house. Just another question that will never be answered I guess.

Here are a couple of random pictures of girls from Grandpa's past.

I have no clue who they are, do you?

Now something from the scrap book.

"I always wash and iron on Mondays and my 'usband works in 'is
garden-- flood or no flood."     (Passing Show, London)

I thought with all the rain we have been getting I'd show you it's something people have been having to deal with for a very long time. Just something to think about this weekend.

Well that's about it for now.
Till next time.
Yours always,
Sandy

Laura Spiels; Jan. 10, 1924 Westboro, Wis

Dear Friends,
I hope everyone had a good long weekend. Mine was good. Got together with family at the family cabin. I did bring some of the old pictures to see if anyone could I.D. anyone. Plus some of the cousins were there and I thought if they were interested in any of the old pictures I've already posted they could have them for themselves.
Anyway here is the next letter from a new girl, Laura Spiels. I know the letter says Jan. 8, 1923 but the post mark says it's Jan. 10, 1924. I wonder if she just wrote the wrong year on the letter of if I've just posted it wrong. Here it is.

It's a little hard to read in some spots so here is what I've deciphered.

       Westboro, Wis
         Jan. 8, 1923
Dear Sheik of Ogema
    Several of us West-
boro flappers have been
writting notes to-day
in school & I found
your name in one of the
list of Ogema Sheiks
& the way they wrote of
the Ogema Sheiks I
thought I would like
to correspond with one.
There were a number
of names in the list
But I always liked the
            2
Howard. I used to go with
a boy by the name of Howard
& he moved a way.
So Howard dear please
answer this letter from
a lonesome Sheba
of Westboro.
I am a junior of the
Westboro High. I am
fifteen years old & rather
stout & large for my age
I have my hair waved
like all us flappers
My hair is dark & also
my eyes. I no you
will be satified with
my looks
          3
have you a car If so
please come down
some time. But please
write before you come
as I wish to prepare
for your company.
I have been home
the last several nites
making a patch quilt
all girls my age should
no how to sew. Don't
you think so Howard?
I learned how to make a
devil food cake, Howard.
What did you get for Xmas?
           4
I got ten dollars from my
brother, a Camera,& a
necklace also a box of
power, a box of stationary
and a fiction book one of
Zane Grays novels. WildFire
I do love to read novels. They
are so romantic. But if we
correspond that may be the
starting for great romance
So Howard dear please
please answer.
  Your Westboro Sheba
xxx       Laura Spiels
            Westboro
                  Wisc.
P.S. Write so I will get your
letter before Friday & write
  soon Soon

On the back of the envelope are these letters: S.W.A.K.  Which I'm sure stands for Sealed With A Kiss.

She definitely sounds like a teenager.
The names she used were very popular in the 1920's.
When you called a young man a Sheik, it means a young sexy man.
And when you called a girl Sheba, it means a sexy young flapper or lady.
Reading this she was modeling herself a flapper.


She liked to read Zane Gray novels. Grandpa like to read these novels too. I wonder if she is the one who got him into them. I wonder if anyone claimed the books or if over time they were thrown out?

Westboro is only a few miles from where Grandpa lived so it would have been easy for him to go there and hang out for awhile.
I like her comment that all girls should know how to sew. Well she is right, they should. Do I? I'm sorry to say I don't sew. I did a little when I was younger but over time I never got into it. I do make things from plastic canvas, does that count?

I wonder how her devils food cake tasted?




Anyway here are a few random pictures.

Peter, Clem, George and Jeannie.
Lisa they tell me that one of your little guys looks like Peter. Is it true?

No idea who they are but it looks like love to me.

Now that's a pile of hay. Anyone for a roll in the hay? Or maybe we should look for that needle in the haystack.

Well that's about all I have for you today.
So till next time.
Your friend,
Sheba Sandy