[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading.]Templeton, Mass.
Oct. 4, 1903.Dear Lucy:-
I don't know as I can find anything to write but I will try: Linnie and I drove up to the cemetery yesterday morning. We went clear over in the back part where the fire was. The pines are most all cut down and it looks as if there was a "jumping-off place" there. We saw one tree go down. Then we saw a road, a real good one, and we wondered where it went to. We got out of the wagon and looked and found that it was just for the teams that were taking the trees away. When we started home we went to the saw-mill to get some saw-dust. The road was terrible. First we were up on a stone & then we were down in the ditch. We got the saw-dust and started out a different road and if we thought the first one was terrible! the second one was twice as "worse". I saw them cut them cutting logs into boards. Did you ever see them?
We had a L.A.H. meeting Saturday. We made about $21.89 at the Fair I think it was. We voted to give $2 out of the $5 prize to the Grange and $2 to Arthur Lamb. We have at present in our treasury a little over $44. Isn't that pretty good?
Alice Culling is sick with bronchitis. We are going to send her two tray-cloths to work and each of us are supposed to write her a letter. Mine is fearful and wonderful. It is all about cats, dogs & babies. From now until Christmas we are going to make something for Xmas and in doing so learn something new. I am going to make a handkerchief hemstich [sic] it and put some drawn work in. A lot of us are going to make them. I think I shall give mine to Auntie, but you needn't tell her.
Amber has been watching for a mouse out there by this cellar window, where the eave-pipe comes down & he got it at last and felt pretty big over it. He seems better than he did last week.
Just think "Carl" hasn't got home yet. He is out visiting his brother that's in the army. We didn't know as we should get to school the last part of last week. The motormen's & conductor's wages were cut down 2 1/2 cents an hour, making it eighteen cents an hour and there was a good deal of talk of their striking. But they didn't or if they did they have settled it.
With love,
X Mary X
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