Drew Advance June 10, 1924: >From A Subscriber: Lacey, Ark June 5, 1924 Mr. Hod Dammitt: Care Advance Dear Sir:-- I seen yore long letter in the Advance last week an my hart jest naturally went out to you. I no you must feel so terrable lonsum sinse your deer wife dide an left you with that flapper dotter May on yore hands. I no jest what it meens to luse yore life pardner as my old man dide jest after probishum took up, and it has ben mity hard on me, spechly since Jed, my boy went to Little Rock to work for the State. Jed will sune be home bein as he gits three months off fur good behavior. No I gues I had better tell you something of my self. Sincee my old man dide I have been a wider, and I am not so old eather, tee hee. I can cook and sow, and still do a fare sized wash. An my fust deer husban sed I was mity handy with the frien pan an tolin pen, an I allus like good company, that's why I''m wrightin to you. ha! ha! Now if you want to no any moore about me jest go down to Collins and ask old Bill, (every body in Collins noes Bill) and he can tell you a plenty. But don't you beeleve everthing what peepel tell you, spechuly in Collins, for the old town aint what it used to be back in the old days of Trice & Boyd, and Vick Moss, for in them good ole days you could see Courtney Bro's Store as you entered town an the Babtis cherch comin out, but now they is advertisin there own gerls so much on account of there not bein eny fellers there. Bill may not want to tell you the hole truth about me, an besides Bill has et sum of my cookin and he mite be jelus, seein as hes a widedwer, tee hee, but I ain't got no time fur Bill so you need not to wury won bit, Hod. You don't mind if I call you Hod do you? It sounds so ramatick besides it makes me think of my fust deer husband's occupashion. Now as fur that young up start of a Castleberry, a courten your May, jest tell to wait till my Jed gits home and may be he will go over to Dammitts Corner, as Jed is a natchural born traveler any how, and wouldnt it be too funny if they took ta each other and got married right suddent lik they do in books and pictures. And then you an mee would go to visit them sum times and we would jest natcherly drift to gether, oh! Hoddie wouldn't that jest be too romatick for words? Now Hod, I am not going to give you my street address as I want to see if you air sensear, but if you will send your letter to Mr. Whittington who is a very gud fren to my furst deer husban an he will sea that it gits in the proper hands. Mean while I will wach and pray, Your expectant, Helen Camp Lacey, Arkansas (those are not typo's-------) Jann I looked for the other letter referred to in the above, but that issue was missing. Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com