J.C. Albers: March 8 & 12, 1934; Phillips, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was just right. But it was a little to hot and Monday started out with some rain. We do need the rain tho. Because of the heat we decided not go hiking. Maybe next weekend.
Anyway, here are two letter from J.C. Albers (They were in the same envelope. The second one was written on a postcard):

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

                      Phillips Wis
                      March 7, 1934
Howard H. Johnson
                Ogema
                    Wis
Dear Mr. Johnson
            Rid your letter today. I was
looking in the various books at some kerosene
brooders, I never have had one & I don't know
much about them, does yours have a stovepipe?
I will make you a pretty quilt, star design,
of color fast prints and white, that will be
nice enough for a "company bed". I have a
cream colored cotton bolt that is new that
I would put inside, I'd put plain muslin
back on it so it could be washed. I would
quilt it but I couldn't quilt it very closely
as I wouldn't have time you know.
I made a quilt just like the one I'm offering
to make for you for a lady in Milwaukee
she paid me $11.50 for it last May. & She
finished the quilting as I didn't have time
else I would have had $15.00 I will quilt
yours as much as I did hers tho. enough
for ordinary use, but not enough to stand

frequent hand washing. So I can make
you some other work.
If you don't succeed in selling your incubator
maybe we could get together on that too,
I would either give you work enough
to pay for it or else give you my note for
its price, payable Dec 15th 1934 @ 6%,
will have marketed enough turkeys by
that time to pay my feed bill (if any) and
have something left too.
Or I will rent it from you and guarantee
to take good care of it.
Is your brooder a "Sears" brooder?
I would be glad if you could drive out
but the roads are just terrible. I am going
to town next Saturday but I wouldn't know
you or you me, even if we met. I usually
run in and out at the Dobie hardware &
feed store quite a lot. We might leave word
there if we both happen to be in town, I'll
inquire for you.
                    very Truly Yours
                      Mrs. J.C. Albers
Our little boy age 7 1/2 fell & broke his right
arm Monday P.M. so it will be hard for me
to be away long.

( Here is the second letter)

Dear Mr. Johnson
    I write to let you
know that I am very
anxious to get the brooder
I will make you the
quilt as agreed & then
if you think you didn't
get quite what was for
you we can arrange
the balance later.
I would like very
much to get the incubator
too, if we can get together
on the arrangements.
Hoping you get this
card in time.
           Very Truly
            Mrs. J.C. Albers
What do you hold your
incubator at?

I wonder how long it took this deal to get settled and if everyone was happy with the results.
And if he did get the quilt, how long did it last?

Here are a few stories from Thursday, March 19, 1936 from The Milwaukee Journal:

Just a few court cases that might peek someones interest. I like the shortest court session story the most.

Now here is something different I will start showing:

I will be showing you a few things from this book. They will be the shorter stories of in some cases jokes in this book. I hope you enjoy these stories form November 1950.
Here is the first story:

I do wonder what year this happened in if the woman was wearing a corset.

Finally, here is a random picture:

No idea who they are or when it was taken. I would like to know what secret they are sharing.

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

Last three letters from 1933

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was good. We spent Saturday with our youngest daughter who is now 30. Yesterday was a nice day also. We did spend the day at home but I had house work to do. it is really feeling like it should for this time of year. But I'm still waiting for my plants to start growing more.
Anyway, here are the last three letters from 1933. two letters and one Christmas card:

This is the first letter. It looks like the first page was written by Grandpa and the other side by S. Stryk:
I think this one is very easy to read so I will not rewrite it.

Here is the second letter:

I will copy this one for those that find it hard to read:

                          12-20-33
H.H. Johnson
Ogema wis.
Dear Sir,
   I am paying 350  per cord
of Hemlock Pulp wood 4oo for
Balsam and 7oo for spruce
F.O.B. cars Ogema Wis. All wood
must be 4" on small end 100'
long and must be free from
any Burned or Bark Blackhand wood
if you any to load out let
me know and I send you
Billing for some
                You Tuly
                Martin Mueller

These two letter deal with selling wood. I wonder if he got both of these chances.

Now here is a Christmas card:

                Post mark is Dec. 20, 1933 Evanston Ill.
                From Helen B.

Here is a story from March 19, 1936:

Now this was a very busy gang. I wonder what kind of sentences they got for their crimes.

Here is the last joke from the joke book "Bedtime Laughs" 1956:

It sounds like they couldn't get away from each other even in death.

I will see if I have any other kind of jokes that I can share with you.

Finally, a random picture:

I thought that with two letters talking about logs, I would show another logging picture.

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

Ethel and Earl G. Aug. 26, 1933

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good week. Mine was so so. I do have to work this Saturday, darn. Oh well, that's life. The weather is suppose to not be very nice. Rain with maybe some snow thrown. Winters way of still hanging on just a little longer.

Anyway, here are two little notes that were not in envelopes. One is dated and one not.:

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

Dear Howard,
Its me again
Say was wondering
if you'll do me a
favor to-morrow
night I'd like to
have you take us
to wellington. If you
aren't busy come over
this way ---------
- to-morrow then we
can talk more about
it okay?
  Will be seeing
you
   Love Ethel

I wonder if he picked them up and if they were able to talk about it. I wonder what it was?

           Howard Johnson
           Earl Garjenn
Between   Aug 26-33
If roan horse
is not a good
worker and about
j eight years old
I agree take said
horse back in exchange
for one that is
and roan is to
be service able sound
    Earl Georgeson

I'm not sure if I got some of the words right. I tried.
It almost sounds like someone got a horse and maybe wanted to return it.
At least that's how I understood it.
How about you?

Here is a story from  The Milwaukee Journal Thursday, March 19, 1933:

 It's to bad he had to feel like that was the only way out.
He must have made a huge mess of things.
How many other people lives were messed up from his actions?

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

 An old favorite.

Finally a random picture:

Maybe this is the horse in question.
Ya never know.

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

Mary Kauer & Rose: Dec. 19, 1927 Wausau, Wis.

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was good. On Saturday my husband and I spent the day with our girls over in Wausau. We had dinner together for Mother's Day and our youngest one's birthday, which was on May 5th. She is 28. After that the husband , me and our oldest went and saw the Movie, Captain America, Civil War. It was O.K. After that we shopped a little and went home. Sunday for Mother's Day my husband took me out to eat and then we bought a few plants to plant outside. The rest of the day was just a chill out.
Anyway, here are two letters, one from Mary and one from Rose. They were in the same envelope.

I decided to show you Rose first. As always for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

                 Wausau Wis.
                 Dec. 18, 1927
Dear Howard:-
 I suppose you'll
be surprised to get
a letter from me
but as Mary is
writing and as I haven't
got any thing else

to do. I thought I'd write
you a few lines.
We are all O.K., hope the
same of you.
We like Wausau awfully
well but we're going back
to good old Rib Lake for
Xmas any way I am
I'm not saying for sure if
Mary is or not cause she
don't know whether she's getting
off or not well Howard guess
I better be quitting cause
I'm writing so scrawly you
won't be able to read it.

Anyway I wish you
a Very Merry Christmas
& a bright & happy New
Year.
as ever
        Rose.

And now here is Mary's letter:

                         Wausau Wis.
                        Sunday Eve.
Dear Hart:-
Well, first off I'm going
to wish you a merry Xmas
and a happy New Year. I
don't know whether I'll be
home or not this year but
I hope so. It wouldn't seem
much like Xmas if I'd have
to stay here, although I
must say I like my job,
my boarding place and
Wausau in general, real
well.
Anton is coming home,
I think he's home today already
but John isn't coming this
year. That's heck, because I'd

miss him if I do go home and
he isn't there.
You asked me what I'm doing
Well, inspectress. I have to
look over the rooms and
see that they are all right and
such stuff. I work from 9 to 12
and then from 1:30 to six. I must
say that I like it awfully well.
We went on a sleigh ride last
Sat. eve and there we about
40 of us and the sleigh tipped
over. You should have
seen us. I guess we were an
awful looking sight with
our heads buried in the
snow. One girl sprained her neck
and the other one hurt her
ankle but it wasn't bad.
Well, so long and good luck
and Best Wishes from
                             Mary.

I wonder if either one of them made it back home that year?
At least it sounds like they both enjoyed their jobs.
I like her job title, "Inspectress" It sounds like it was someone who checked rooms before a guest moved in to it.
The sleigh ride sounded like it was fun until it tipped over. It must have been a big sleigh if it held 40 people. But I'm sure there was more then one sleigh for all those people. I wonder if there was any law suits. I know if that happened today there would be some big law suits.
This was the last letter from 1927.
So the next time you drop by it will be a new year.

Here are two more cards from the viewer cards of the Earthquake of 1906.

 20. City Hall--Photographer in foreground--Tall brick chimneys left standing.

21. View from Moulder School distributing station showing tons of flour on sidewalk.

I wonder how long all that flour lasted.

Here is a random picture for you to look at.

I didn't have another sleigh picture but here is a wagon and horses. I have a correction. This is a manure spreader.

Well that's about all I have to share with you today.
I hope you find yourself coming back again for more Fading History.
Till next time.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Kauer: May 5, 1927 Rib Lake, Wis.

Dear Friends,
It's the beginning of another week. And this one is not starting off very well for me. I had to start two hours earlier on Monday. I am no fan of getting up at a little after 2 am and start work before 4 am. That day was a very frustrating day for me. So I was a little on the tired side Monday.
Enough of my whining, here is the next letter from Mary.

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

                         Tuesday Eve.
Dear Howard:-
  I got your letter this morning
and was kind of surprised to get
one so soon.
  Mrs. Hipke came this morning
and Pete left last nite for Mil-
waukee so we were all mixed
up around here. Clara took
Pete to Chelsea last nite and
went to get Mrs. H. at 5 this morning.
  I was to Fuchs party Sunday
and had a real good time. In the
afternoon we were at Kauers and
took some pictures. John & his
brother Felix were there but they
said the roads towards Merrill
are pretty rough yet John said
if he took a couple of trips like
that his car would be gone. It's

over 30 miles to they're home
from Kauer's. Leonard Thums, George
and Mary Daubert and Norman Kurtzke
were at Kauer's too in the afternoon.
That's a regular community hall.
Joseph & Pete Lamberty were to
Marshfield Sunday to see some
fellow who got hurt in camp and
is in the hospital now.
 Well this is Wednesday eve.
and my letter isn't finished yet.
I wanted to send it out before
six but then the kids came
up for their supper so I didn't
get around to it.
  Say Howard, you wanted to
know if you could come Sunday,
gee, I wish you wouldn't. There
is no party or anything else
going on but ma scolded
me again when she heard you
were here Sat.. She says

if we don't get married I should
quit and Howard I can't get
married. I know you think
I'm hard but I can't help it. If
I'd marry you and feel the way
I do I certainly wouldn't make
you very happy, would I? I'm
not in love with anyone else
but I don't want to settle down
and I like to dance and have
a good time and that is
something too that you don't
care very much about.
I know you love me more
than anybody else ever did
or ever will I guess. And
Howard I pray every day that
I will be able to marry you or
that you will find some else
you will like. So you see I'm
not quite as bad as you think

I am. So that's why I wish you
wouldn't come, at least not so
often. I'd always have a row
with ma & pa.
  Say Howard burn this
letter will you? Please do
and don't be too sore at
me. I feel foolish writing
all this stuff but but when
you are here we generally have
a scrap and then I'm mad
and don't care what I say.
                        Mary

I always have to giggle a little when someone tells Grandpa "To burn this letter". Grandpa saved a lot of things. If he had not saved these letters, this blog would not exist.
In this letter she is trying to get Grandpa to understand they were not meant to be together. She was a party girl who liked to dance. He was not a dancer, that I know. He was looking for a wife who would keep house and raise his children.
I wonder who the fellow was that got hurt at camp and how bad was he that he ended up in Marshfield. Even back then Marshfield had a go to hospital.
As for the roads leading to Merrill, today they are paved. Back then they were not as well cared for as they are today.

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

No idea who this is or when it was taken.

Part of this picture was torn off. There are names on the back. This is Grandpa and the girl is I think Hattie (Lundstrom) Hippa. At least that's what is written on the back. I think her first name Hattie, part of it was torn off. No idea when it was taken.

 
Washington Monument. Taken during someones class trip.

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

Welcome!

Welcome to Dear Howard, A Fading History.
I thought it was time to share with anyone who is interested in history that is slowly fading away.
The history I'll be sharing is from my grandparents time.
My Grandpa was born in 1900 and past away in 1984.
My Grandma was born in 1909 and past away in 1980.
The things I'll be sharing are pictures and old portraits.

A lot of the pictures my dad does not know who they are.

I also have a basket full of letters that were written to my Grandpa from about 1919 to the early 1930's.

The letters were from a number of different women and one male cousin. My hope here is to maybe find the families of the women and learn what happened to them. This was a time when my Grandpa was looking for a wife. The only letters I don't have are the ones from my Grandma. They were buried with her when she past.

Reading these letters are very interesting and sometimes challenging. The hand writing and spelling can be very hard to decipher. Some letters are very newsy. Some are just brief notes. And some are written on index size cards. I just wish I knew what he wrote them.They make it sound like he was very good at writing.  Sometimes they tell him not to be so mushy. Others tell he to burn the letter after reading.

I've learn things about him that I never knew or thought he would do. It's hard to believe your Grandparents as young people. It's surprising to learn they could be, how should a put this, risk takers in a way.

As time goes by I'll fill in things I do know about or comment on different things.

I hope to encourage other members of my family to share things they have and stories from what they knew growing up.

I do have one other thing I will be sharing from time to time.And that's things from a scrape book someone kept in the 1930's.

It was about the time when those 5 baby girls were born in Canada and some really bad snow troubles. There are a number of other things in it also.

Well that's the plan anyway.

I hope you will enjoy the history I'll be sharing and maybe someday encourage others to share their history before it all fades away, never to be seen or heard of again.

Well that's all for now.

Yours always,

Sandy