Katheryn Clary: Sept 14, 1920 Chicago

Dear Friends,
I hope you all have a very good Memorial Weekend. Mine was quite and a hotter then I was expecting. Just the way I like it.
Well here is the next letter. As you see it is from Katheryn. The post mark on the envelope was Sept. 14 but the letter is dated Sept. 11. It must have taken her a few days to get it in the mail.

As always if it is hard to read, this is what I made out.

                            Chicago Ill.
                             Sept. 11, 1920
Dear Howard:-
            Well I
received your letter
and was very glad
to hear from you.
    Gee if I had
my vacation now
I'd come up and
have you teach me
how to drive your
"Henry".
    So Elmer has
a steady eh?
 Well
that must be
exciting and you

haven't, how funny.
   Why don't you
get a steady? Do
you go to many
shows out there?
I live in them
here. Theresa didn't
go to Hayward, as Lucy
drove back to Chi. so
 it's all of with "Ogema'
this year. I don't
suppose I'll see you
again as I am not
expecting to go up
there this year or
next, because next
year I want to go

To Baltimore Maryland
next year.
   Do you take
many trips in
 your Henry? Gee
I wish we could
have a machine.
would I go some,
"Oh man"!  I'd knock
telegraph poles and
everything down.
What do you say?
Lamberts came home
a week ago Sunday,
Lucy drove home.
Well I guess its
time I'm closing

as I've got to get to
bed.
  Answer soon and
send me some pretty
scenery pictures of
Wisconsin.
   Your friend
   K. Shirley Clary
P.S. please address my
letters
Miss K. Shirley Clary
3818 N. Ashland Av.
Chicago Ill.
 and oblgo (Thanks)

Well at least Elmer finally had a steady. I wonder who his steady was and if anything ever came of it.
She wanted some pictures of Wisconsin. So going through the pictures and postcards I picked a few for you to see.

This one is I think from the 1960's. It's a greetings from Ogema Wis.

This one is of Rib Lake, Wis. It might be from the 1920's or 1930's.

I think this is one Grandpa might have taken in the 1920's. It might be from Copper Falls, Wis. There are a number of pictures from there with a few with words written on the back.

Here is one more from about the same time.I wonder who the people are sitting along the bank?

I wonder if she made it to Baltimore Maryland. 

I did find a postcard from that time.

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

Lucila: Dec.3, 1919 Chicago

Dear Friends,
How are you? I think it's going to start to warm up here.
This next letter I think is from maybe a sister of Theresa. If not a sister a very close friend. She is I think writing to let Grandpa know that Theresa was not mad at him. Well here is the letter.

In case it's hard to read here is what it says:
Howard Johnson
Dear Friend,
Theresa isn't sore
at you. She hasn't any
thing to be mad at.
She has been busy&
I guess hes didn't have
 time. She goes to her
 music lesson almost
every other day. Of else
she is at her girl
friends house in the
evening. She answered
your letter last night.
Theresa is going to Wilmette
to-night with her
music teacher & other
        II
pupils. We have not
very much snow here at
all. My mother put
the thermometer out
this morning (that was
about six o'clock & it
was 5 above zero. You
certainly have it cold out
there. I wouldn't like
to be there. Br-r-r-r.
We have fun with our
sleds. The snow is little
but it is pressed down
hard & swell to coast on.
We pull each other &
tumble in the snow
       III
I have a gay time. I
thought of having a sleigh
ride party. I am president
of a little club for the
girls my sister, Valeria &
I originated. We could
have the party from
the dues. We get three
cents from each girl every
week. If we were in
the country now probably
we could have a hay-
rack party. That's lots of
fun. I went to one & we
had the best time. We
each at the end of it
        IV
got a little bundle of hay
with a ribbon tied ar-
round it. The kids are
 calling me to come out be-
cause they are going to
have a ky-y. I don't know
how to spell it but it
is a long chain of sleds
& about 5 children pulling
it. There's about 15 boys &
fifteen girls out there now
& we're going to round some
more up. Best regards
Your friend,
Lucila

Well I hope that is her name.  She sounds like she is younger, but I could be wrong.
What she is trying to maybe explain with the sleds might be a version of crack the whip with sleds. We use to do crack the whip when we ice skated.  When she says gay time, it means she had lots of fun. Boy how meaning of some words can change over time.
Before I go to much farther with the letters, my grandpa name was Howard Johnson. Not the Hotel one just a Howard Johnson. So don't go saying it's the well known one where you may have stayed.

Now it's time for some more random pictures.
A wedding portrait.

Here are a couple of pictures that were also postcards.

I wish I knew what kind of class this was from 1914.

This is a post card of Rib Lake. Not sure when it was but it looks like there was a lot of lumber things going on, I think.

Here is just one more random picture.

Not sure who they are but there is a chance that the tall one in the back is Grandpa.
I think this picture could have been taken in the 19 teens or 1920's. What do you think?
Well that's about it for now.
Till next time.
Your friend,
Sandy