handwritten letter postmarked October 28, 1936

10/27/36
 Dear Bet 
     Cold, chilly evening and here I am in bed and just a little after ten.  Received your lengthy letter today.
     I went to Portland Sunday afternoon.  Lena Musgrave went with me and we went via Silverton.  We attended CE  out at Freemont and Sandy.  Not many there but a nice meeting.  I stayed at Orin's.  Had a nice visit.  I finally got loaded up and headed out of Portland by noon.  I purchased an electric drill.  Better than ninety bucks.
     We started on Mr. Tuckers house today.  The drill is just the thing for drilling the holes for roughing in.  It is a large heavy one 3/4" heavy duty - Black and Decker.
     I spent most of my time over at Charley Green's watching the Silverton men install the furnace. They think they will have it finished by late tomorrow evening.
     They said they would show me a few tricks to the trade.  Today was mostly preliminaries.
     Gee, it sounds like you are getting up in about the 1000 class. You will never be able to leave all that.  It is better to be king among dogs as dog among kings.
     I don't know much more about the new building that you do.  Joe Myers is building it.  But they haven't started yet.
    Make up some more candy when you run out of something to do.
                                             Lee