July 24, 1917 pg4

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the organ, I suppose your sister
does yet. She will be getting quite
at home at that work now.

Was Mrs. Owen home to help
on the "1st," and what kind of weather
had you for the garden party.

And so there is to be an election
over there in the fall. We will likely
have a vote here. Some of the soldiers
say they will vote for conscription,
but a great many don't favor
that, so they say.

I hear about every other one has a
new car now over there. They are
getting too common, I think I'll get
an airship and travel one hundred
and seventy miles an hour. That's
the record or something like that.

We are tired looking at aeroplanes
now. Sometimes I hardly bother
looking up when they are flying
over our heads, but they are