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Savannah Ga.
June 6
Dear Eva,
I have a big surprise for you. We are going to move to Cincinnati. Will received orders yesterday to make arrangements to leave here the first of July.
I am all excited over it and am rather glad we are going. I am only sorry to leave the Farmer family and they are sorry too to have us go. Will brought Mrs. F. and the girls over last night. Mrs. Farmer said she and Ruth sat down and cried when Will telephoned to them that he had orders to go. They have Margaret over there today.
I received your letter today. It seemed so long since I had a letter. I would like to have heard the recitals. Now I am wondering if you will come to Cincinnati from Cape May. I don’t believe it is any farther than to Savannah. I hope you will. This will spoil all plans about going to Northfield. Will wants to go in the Buick and if we do we would have to start about the 25th.
I have the pussy willow at the dress makers, she stopped one day and took measurements and is going to make it at home. I may get her to make the last you gave me too, I had intended to make it myself but will not have time. After Will took brought the family over last night he took Kathleen out riding. He never did that before take one out without the other except when he took Kathleen to church and then go after her again. I have been wondering if it had any significance.
I called Mrs. Brigham up today to tell her we were going, she said she was very sorry and asked if we were going to take any body with us? I must now stop for awhile.
Mrs. B. said the people in the church think Ruth is the favored one. We were over at Farmers for Sunday supper.
Will just had the girls out riding Sunday. I didn’t care to go. Of course Margaret was one of the girls.
We were all at Farmers Sat. afternoon. It was a holiday - Jeff Davis’s birthday. Mrs. Mustin [???] Sr. and daughter-in-law and three children, also three other children all cousins, grand daughters of the old lady.
Mr. Mustin came in time for refreshments. The table was beautiful. They had strawberry ice cream, one cake had the center layer of pink, all the table decorations were pink, place cards painted like strawberries. I wish you could have seen it. The children were all very well behaved. They had games. The first was to see how many words they could make out of the name Jefferson Davis. Then a funny game after that that Margaret took part in (she had a pencil and paper and thought she was writing). Will and Mrs. Mustin wrote words also Kathleen and Ruth and the three old ladies talked. It was very pleasant. The Mustin family are moving to Tybee [???] for the summer. I would like to go to Florida before we leave here and Will said he would pay my way also pay for a chaperone, so I said I would choose Mrs. Farmer. We had talked about it one time about going together sometime but of course did not think it might be so soon if at all.
I don’t know what to do first. We will have a man crate the furniture and pack the dishes +c but I want to oversee it this time, not have so much going on at once.
I shall hope you will write often as you can at Cape May.
I received a letter a card from Alma today - from Buffalo. I hope she will come on to Cincinnati and help hunt a house. I dread that part of it.
Good by with lots of love
Mother
June 6
Dear Eva,
I have a big surprise for you. We are going to move to Cincinnati. Will received orders yesterday to make arrangements to leave here the first of July.
I am all excited over it and am rather glad we are going. I am only sorry to leave the Farmer family and they are sorry too to have us go. Will brought Mrs. F. and the girls over last night. Mrs. Farmer said she and Ruth sat down and cried when Will telephoned to them that he had orders to go. They have Margaret over there today.
I received your letter today. It seemed so long since I had a letter. I would like to have heard the recitals. Now I am wondering if you will come to Cincinnati from Cape May. I don’t believe it is any farther than to Savannah. I hope you will. This will spoil all plans about going to Northfield. Will wants to go in the Buick and if we do we would have to start about the 25th.
I have the pussy willow at the dress makers, she stopped one day and took measurements and is going to make it at home. I may get her to make the last you gave me too, I had intended to make it myself but will not have time. After Will took brought the family over last night he took Kathleen out riding. He never did that before take one out without the other except when he took Kathleen to church and then go after her again. I have been wondering if it had any significance.
I called Mrs. Brigham up today to tell her we were going, she said she was very sorry and asked if we were going to take any body with us? I must now stop for awhile.
Mrs. B. said the people in the church think Ruth is the favored one. We were over at Farmers for Sunday supper.
Will just had the girls out riding Sunday. I didn’t care to go. Of course Margaret was one of the girls.
We were all at Farmers Sat. afternoon. It was a holiday - Jeff Davis’s birthday. Mrs. Mustin [???] Sr. and daughter-in-law and three children, also three other children all cousins, grand daughters of the old lady.
Mr. Mustin came in time for refreshments. The table was beautiful. They had strawberry ice cream, one cake had the center layer of pink, all the table decorations were pink, place cards painted like strawberries. I wish you could have seen it. The children were all very well behaved. They had games. The first was to see how many words they could make out of the name Jefferson Davis. Then a funny game after that that Margaret took part in (she had a pencil and paper and thought she was writing). Will and Mrs. Mustin wrote words also Kathleen and Ruth and the three old ladies talked. It was very pleasant. The Mustin family are moving to Tybee [???] for the summer. I would like to go to Florida before we leave here and Will said he would pay my way also pay for a chaperone, so I said I would choose Mrs. Farmer. We had talked about it one time about going together sometime but of course did not think it might be so soon if at all.
I don’t know what to do first. We will have a man crate the furniture and pack the dishes +c but I want to oversee it this time, not have so much going on at once.
I shall hope you will write often as you can at Cape May.
I received a letter a card from Alma today - from Buffalo. I hope she will come on to Cincinnati and help hunt a house. I dread that part of it.
Good by with lots of love
Mother
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Mrs. B. said the people in the church think Ruth is the favored one.
Wow! Sixteen days before Will and Kathleen got married, and everybody at church is thinking it’s going to be Ruth!
Just in case you’re wondering what’s going on the world, here's a report from the New York Times on the 1916 Republican Convention, at which Charles Evans Hughes was eventually nominated for president:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/160608convention-gop-ra.html
CHICAGO, June 7. -- Somewhere between 12,000 and 14,000 graven images gathered together in the Coliseum at 11 o'clock this morning and viewed each other with cold, unwinking eyes and chilled steel faces for something like three hours, then dispersed. During those three hours they demonstrated convincingly the hitherto unrealized powers of the human race in the matter of not getting excited.
[And more. It would be nice if Will read this article, but I doubt he was getting the New York Times in Savannah.]
Wow! Sixteen days before Will and Kathleen got married, and everybody at church is thinking it’s going to be Ruth!
Just in case you’re wondering what’s going on the world, here's a report from the New York Times on the 1916 Republican Convention, at which Charles Evans Hughes was eventually nominated for president:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/160608convention-gop-ra.html
CHICAGO, June 7. -- Somewhere between 12,000 and 14,000 graven images gathered together in the Coliseum at 11 o'clock this morning and viewed each other with cold, unwinking eyes and chilled steel faces for something like three hours, then dispersed. During those three hours they demonstrated convincingly the hitherto unrealized powers of the human race in the matter of not getting excited.
[And more. It would be nice if Will read this article, but I doubt he was getting the New York Times in Savannah.]
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