Gladys: Nov. 23, 1932 Chicago, Ill.

Dear Friends,
I hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was quiet. The weather right now, could be better. Snow and ice. I'm just hoping it does not stay around very long. I'm starting to really crave warmer weather. How about you?
Anyway, here is the next letter from Gladys:

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

                Chicago Ill
                 Nov 23-32
Dear Howard:-
   Got your letter yesterday
and glad to hear all the news
of the club- I think it
would be a grand idea
to build a log cabin
on the order of a hunting
lodge and I am sure
every one would cont-
riute some thing to
furnish it
Do write & tell me
all about that big
buck for the banquet
If you don't get one
you'll maybe have to
donate your twins
for a veal barbecue.
Well I hope you'll
have a nice Thanksgiving
I have to work my 24
hrs tomorrow as its

shift day and Miss Gus-
tafson's minister will be in
from Rock Island. So good
for her that it was my
turn to do the 24 hrs.
every body will be out so
Miss Avery & I will be
alone and you know
she is very low so we
don't plan on much
around here.
Mrs. Lukes (Ebba Holt) phoned
me yesterday & invited me
for dinner with the whole
Holt tribe. Gee that would
have been nice.
I will go over to Selma's
again some day when I go
on night duty. The other
evening when I was there
I was so sleepy I could
hardly talk at all. I've
been so dead tired lately often
my 12 hrs. of hard work & I mean
hard. It sure is now. So I've

been in bed almost every
night by 8:30 or 9.
Edna phoned me yesterday
She is having her dinner with
the family she lives with. And
Friday night they are all
going to our church to some
doing & as luck will have it
I begin my night duty Friday
night so I can't be with them
Oh! well every pay day counts
Now & I'm afraid there
will not be so many more
I hope your arm will heal
O.K. Gee burns do hurt don't
they?
Minnie & Arthur Johnson
were up to Al Holts last week.
but none of us were there
to see them.
So Hattie is still going with
her boy friend. Did you ever
hear if it was true that Freda
was married. Where is Julia

now. You see I don't know
much about the big relation
of mine any more. "Ha Ha"
Well I am very disappointed
the mail just carry & nothing
from home & of course no
deliveries all day tomorrow
so I'll have to wait until
Friday now.
Well guess I'll close and
finish my work before
dinner-
Write me all the news
& here hoping you fellows
get your buck.
      Best wishes
          As ever Gladys

I wonder if they did build a hunting lodge somewhere. If they did I wonder where and how long it lasted.
I wonder how Grandpa burned his arm and how bad it was.
I wonder how long she worked for Miss Avery.
She's right, every pay day counts even today.
I hope Grandpa got a buck that hunting season.

Here is a picture from the scrap book:

The music went around and round but the old rocking chair was saved in this home at Cordele, Ga.,
heaviest sufferer in the tornado Thursday.- A.P. Wirephoto.

I wonder how much damage happened with that tornado.

Here is a cartoon from the joke book, "Bedtime Laughs" 1956:

I'm getting to the end of the joke book. So I'll be showing one joke at a time to make it last longer. Then I have to find something else to share with you. No more old joke books, sorry.

Finally, here is a random picture:

Taken during someones class trip.

Well, that's all I have to share with you today.
I hope you have a good week.
Don't forget to drop by again real soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: Nov. 12, 1924 Rib Lake Wis.

Hello Friends,
I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was quiet. On Sunday nite after dark, after hunting season officially close, I think we had a whole herb of deer in our yard. My husband said he counted at least 15. But I don't know if any of them were bucks. So who ever said the deer count was down could not have been in my neighborhood.
Anyway here is the next letter from Mary.

 As always here is what it says:

                  Rib Lake Wisc.
                  Nov. 12, 1924
Hello Howard:-
     I almost forgot to
write to you so now
I'll do it -- right away
before I forget again.
How are you? I hope
fine the same as my-
self. I am kind of tired
because I was up at
our church fair last
night. I had about a
bushel of confetti in
my clothes after I got
home. It was quite cold
last nite but the folks

were all in. I saw my mother
so I'm not lonesome today.
 I saw Anna Roinila
Sunday Evening and she
said Rose was coming
home today, but I haven't
seen her. I thot she
would come in to see
me.
  Hows the weather
in Ogema? It rained here
yesterday and I hoped
it would snow but
nothing doing. This is
all the news I know so
goodbye        from
                    M. Kauer

Not a lot here. But I wonder what kind of church fair it was that there was confetti being thrown around.
There was one more thing she included with this letter. A cartoon from a paper.

I like what she wrote at the bottom.
Is this so? Me for an old maid.

It kind of makes me wonder if she wanted to get married or if she wanted to make sure others knew she didn't, at that time. I wonder how many relationships are like this. The guy is perfect before the ceremony but after they turn into a monster.  If your wondering about mine. It has it's ups and down like every relationship does. The monster inside is really just a puppy dog.

Anyway here are a few random pictures I choose to share with you.

   I don't know who these people are. The picture was taken in Algoma, Wis. at Wilbur Studio.

I'm not sure who they are but I chose this picture because it looks like a young girl and maybe her mother sitting on a porch enjoying each others company.

I have no idea who this is but I just had to share the hairdo she has. It's telling me this picture was taken in the 60's. What do you think?

Well that's all the news I have for you today.
so goodbye.
Your friend,
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