29 November 1918

Dear Don,

I just wrote to Leone and might just as well do things up right so here goes.

Were you sober on peace day? I never saw such a hulabaloo as there was here.

Harold had a revolver on one hip and a quart of ski on the other and sure acting like a nut. Every one of Mason City's leading citizens was loaded except J.H. [their father].

School hasn't opened yet and the flu is awful.

Earl Wiley died last night. Isn't that awful.

Mrs. Geo. Phalen died Sunday and left two small children.

Johnny Hubbard's sister and her husband both died of it.

Mr. House died last Wednesday of apoplexy. He had been to a show, came home and went to bed and had this stroke. He lived till the next afternoon.

Yesterday Hazel Dunn went up to Horace Beemers office to have a tooth extracted, took gas and died in the chair. That will finish his practice won't it?

John Shapley's [sic] have a boy. I hope he looks like his papa.

We will eat turkey at Grammie's [sic] Thanksgiving. Wish you could be here. We would go to the Thanksgiving dance. Co. C. has a dance very Monday so when you get home we can surely go.

Betty talks nearly everything now and jabbers about Uncle Don.

Write.

Lovingly
Ruth