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Steward Ill
May 11 1919
Hello Thor!
This is Mother's day and I remember that you made me feel so good a year ago today. You had written a letter to your own Mother and then you sent me a nice letter also and that thought was so dear to me.
We wish to thank you Thor for the dandy letter you sent us a few days ago. It made Will so happy in the hopes of you getting out of camp life now and of course, it pleased us very much to know you are an Orderly to the General Bundy. You must have captured him in some way or other and let us hope he will send you home soon. It must have been the effect of you being a real good boy as you said in your last letter. We know you can be a fine fellow Thor, if you only will apply strong will power, furthermore I have always thought it of you, that [company] or associates had a great power over you. Either way now it must be that you have [chosen] the better way. Well do your best to continue, we all [here] wish you well as you know, and we feel bad when things go wrong with you. For we think you are [too] good & have to be made a wreck or go to [run] in anyway. We will be glad to see [you] back. I do hope they let you get a decent and tidy outfit, you deserve a good uniform for keeps.
It has been so cold & rainy up till now. They are plowing the 40 south for corn now. We have Howard [here] and young Corwin earns & works by the day to help out, we planted some garden yesterday & we set out a few ever bearing strawberries and our old patch is blossoming so much the cherry trees are all white they bloom so. Also the apple trees. I only hope we will get a lot of fruits this year to earn. V has 160 chicks now & 2 incubators going & 16 hens so I hope she gets a big flock. She sold poultry for $140 last winter you see that is her big money. I told Helen that she & I would claim each dandy little pig for ours, we have over 50 little pigs now.
What is Victor S. doing now? Say Thor should there be a soldier comrade who has to come this way as his home trips. You shall be welcome or free to ask him to come along with you, or stop off to see you if they wish to. You must try and get hold of pictures & other souvenirs you will love to have them later on. Just think, either John B. or your brother Einar has not been [here] since you left us. Will & I & V & H are planning to go to Lackland next Tuesday to get our new coats, but Oh! everything is sky high in price now. Lark Kaalaas has bought the Graham farm west of us you know. 160 acres $2.45 per acre. John Allenswang expects his nephew from S Lakota to come & work for him. He's alone yet we all join in best wishes.
- Your friends at Maple Knoll Farm. [...] & write soon.Language
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