handwritten letter postmarked September 30, 1936

9/29/36
In Bed

Dear Bet -
    Please excuse the pencil but my pen is about dry - too lazy to fill it now. 
    Your letter of the 25th received and contents partially absorbed. 
    My N.D. man's name is Ernest Hamen and he's married and has a boy nearly two years old.  I think he is the best man we have had yet.  He has purchased a lot in the NW end of town.
     The house we looked at has no upstairs. (not my idea of the way to use all that good space). Did I tell you the owner is an old bachelor, maybe a chance for you.
     Keep busy working for the old maids for in about three months I'll be wanting to borrow quite a bit.  Ha! Ha! That is provided the interest has not changed.
     No we did not know your folks had taken the vacation they needed. We knew they were not at church.
     We finished up out at McWilliams and received the money in full so today dad and I went to Portland and brought back a sheet metal brake. Only cost the little sum of  $211.00. We paid cash for it and let some of our other bills go.
     Dad had a little add in the shopper last week so this week he'll probably have something else.  Bro. Bade dropped in the shop Saturday and visited with Dad. Maybe he'll be back to see our brake now.
     On Sherman Street where Eichner had his cream station and Feed store they tore the old building down and are rebuilding. We did the plumbing. Bade went to Joe Myers (he owns the lot and is having the work done but Frank Gleason is the man in sight) to see about doing the Plumbing.  Joe told him that Frank had the contract.  Bade went to Frank and Frank told him (a lie) that he was furnishing the material and that I was putting it in.  Bade went away just a fogging, saying "just as I thought, just as I thought."
     I took the folks for a ride Sunday.  First to McWilliams to inspect their house and then to the house we went to (Peter Whitakers) and home over the hill and through Sodaville - Remember the time we made the trip?  Very pretty scenery.
     I saw Eldon Sunday but he was tired.  George had gone deer hunting and he claimed he was having two mens work to do.
     Good luck to you and your social entertaining.  If you can't make this out, burn it up.  Glad to hear that Catherine got to go back to school.
                      Sincerely,
                                    Lee