Mary Kauer: Aug. 2, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends:-
   Well how was your weekend? I think Mother Nature is either by-polar or going through the change. On Saturday it was such a mixed up day. Snow one minute sunny the next. Then sunny with flurries. Between Friday and Saturday the snow was once again covered with that white stuff but, now it's gone again. Robins don't know what to do from one day to the next.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mary:

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

                 Rib Lake Wis
                 Tues 10 a.m.
Dear Howard:-
   Well, you see I
am home again. I would
have answered from
Sturgeon Bay but I did
not know how long
I would be there. Jos.
came to get us Sunday
Mary Schneider came
with him and they went
to Fish Creek where Mary's
relatives live and then
they got us.
Gee, we sure had a
good time there, but
I am so brown now
that I look like a
real Indian. There

was a fellow there who
asked Kitty if I wasn't
part Indian. That's some
compliment, isn't it?
I guess no one would
ever take me for a
Swede, would they?
How are you getting
along, are you all thru
haying? Pa & John & Kauer's
boys are out about 10
miles making hay
in some meadow. It's
near the camp where
the boys worked last
winter.
We have our phone
now so I may call you
up tonite. It seems
good to be able to

talk to people when
you want.
I am canning some
cherries so I think I
had better quit now
or they will burn.
So long and good
luck from me. Mary

Well at least she had a good time in Sturgeon Bay picking cherries.It sounds like she got a good tan. I wonder if it was a complement to her to hear that or not.
I wonder if Grandpa was done with making hay at that time. I wonder where if her pa and the others had to bring that hay home. Ten miles is a long ways to bring hay home. Especially if it was loose. I'm not sure if they baled hay back then or not. I have shown you a number of pictures of hay piled on a wagon.
At least at this time she finally got a phone. I wonder how much time she spent on it. I wonder if she called
Grandpa up that night or not.
So many answers that have faded away.

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

A haying picture from around that time, I think.

Someone had a pup tent set up in the yard.

Not sure who Grandma Miller is. At least I don't think she is a relative.

I am thinking of adding another thing to this blog.
I have a number of viewer cards and a viewer. I'm think of sharing the cards with you.
Here is one of the cards:

 1. Refugee camp made of scraps corrugated sheet iron gathered from the ruins.

 This card is the first of 25 in this group. I believe that it is picture from the Great Quake of 1906.
I know the effect is better looking through the viewer but I'm not sure how to get that affect. But the pictures themselves are very interesting.
If or when I decide to start this I will be including one with every letter. You will know what I decide by next letter.

Well that's about all I have to share with you today.
I hope you will come back 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: July 29, 1924 Rib Lake, Wis.

Hello Friends,
How was your week? Mine was the same old same old. This weekend I will painting my living room and hallway. So I will starting to tape things up and getting thing out of the way so we can paint. me and my youngest daughter will have a busy day on Saturday.
Anyway here is the next letter from Mary.

As always, here is what it says:

          Rib Lake, Wis

          July 23, 1924

Hello Howard,

   Well, since I am

not busy just now

I'll try and right

write a decent letter.

I sp'ose your busy making

hay while the sun shines

and I'm glad I've not

got your job today.

Me for the shade.

I like warm weather

but if I had to work

outdoors today I

think I'd die.

  How'd you spend

your Sunday. I didn't

see you at Wellington

But Rosie gave me an

introduction to Dorthy

Mathews & Mildred  Engstrom.

Saturday evening I was

to a barn dance 7 Sunday

afternoon to a church

picnic out at Greenwood.

And Monday morning I

was so tired I almost

forgot to git up.

  How did you get home?

I hope you didn't break

down on the way.

And did they make you get

up at 5 o'clock again?

Say, I told Rosie about

those nets and she laughed

like a fool. She said:

"Well that's going some.' She

can laugh because she

doesn't use them any more.

   Well so long now

    good luck from

           Mary

Wellington is a lake that people like to hang out at, then and now. I've been there I think maybe once that I can think of. I am a swimmer but I did most of my swimming at the lake my other grandparents lived on, Sacketts Lake and  Mondeaux Dam. But a lot of people from the Rib lake area hung out there. I'm sure how much they do now a days. As for Greenwood, that's south of here aways so that was a lot of running around for a weekend. 

I'm not sure right now if Dorthy Mathews or Mildred Engstrom wrote to Grandpa but we'll find out over time if any of their letters show up here.

Well it looks like the hairnet in the last letter was her just being funny.

Now for a few random pictures based on things mentioned in this letter.

Just a couple of pictures taken at some lake. No idea who are in them.

And another picture of someone sitting on top of a hay pile. it kind of looks like it could be one of Grandpa and Grandma's kids.

Well that's about all I have this time.

Tomorrow, I paint. Wish me luck.

Your friend,

Sandy

Rose E. Hoelscher: March 20, 1922 Albert Lea

Dear Friends,
Hope are you? Me, I'm doing good. My week was uneventful. My husband had a fright on Thursday. He was raking some hay when suddenly it was almost like a kind of tornado that took the hay and started whipping it around. If it was a whirl wind it was the biggest he had ever seen. When it was done over half of the field was scattered all over including a near by road. If only he had a camera with him so I could prove it happened.
Anyway here is the next letter from Rose.

It's a little hard to make some of it out so here is what I make out.

                 Albert Lea Minn.
                  March 20, 1922
                  Hoelscher's farm
                  near 5 bells
Dear Friend
I received your welcome letter some time
ago, and of course should of answered
sooner. It is some job to write when
a person keeps putting it off.
I wrote one letter since the last one
I wrote to you
Well how's the weather where you live
It is very horrid weather here now
It has been raining soon and it very
cloudy yet no sunshine at all

You say it is the hardest winter
you can remember. Well it is not the
hardest Winter Minn has had since
I can remember We didn't have much
snow this Winter but lot of ice.
You asked if we had any Parties
here not now, There isn't any it is
lent now I wouldn't go any way
if there was some
I there a lot of parties where you are
There is a lot of dairying in the country
for most farmers have a lot
of cattle
You say your Brother and you
have a Ford together If I lived nearer
you Maybe you would give me
a ride in your Ford Ha Ha
I sure was surprised you get
the pictures they were just
fine and dandy was very glad to get them
thanks very much for them
Well the pictures had than were
no good on good at all the worse

I ever seen but just as soon get
 a good Picture of myself I sure will
remember to send you one
How's that it is the best I can do
O say do you know a girl by the name
of Carol Johnson of Ogema Wis. the time
my brother had his name in the paper
she wrote him a letter he answered
but she never wrote again
Well as news is scarce I will close
for this time hoping to hear from
you soon Your friend
excuse poor  Rose E. Hoelscher    Albert lea
writing                                             Minn
                                                       R. box 26

In this letter I learned one thing about Rose. She was not a party kind of girl.
Grandpa must have told her that it was the hardest winter he could remember. At least at that time.
Here is a picture from the scrap book.

Four Oconomowoc farmers--(left to right) Oscar Stiemke, Art and George Heubner and Leonard
Rowe-- dig their way to freedom on Highway P in Waukesha county a mile north of the village of
Gifford-- Journal Staff Photo
Remember the scrap book is from about 1936.

Not to much to comment on in this letter, so here are a couple of random pictures.

I don't know who is standing on top of this hay. I choose this one because of what happened to my husband yesterday. Just imagine this hay being whirled around in the air in front of you. Minus the horses of course. To me it's a scary thought of almost being caught up in something like that.

 I choose this picture in honor of a cousin who is getting married this weekend. It was taken at a studio called Wilde in Shawano Wis. I'm not sure who this couple is but they look to be on the young side. I also want to mention that my youngest daughter is engaged and getting married next year in May.

Well news is scarce so I will close for now.
Till next time.
Your friend,
Sandy