CEHBates_1918-1926_005a

(Postscript to letter)

Had just finished this when we
got word of Peace [double underlined]. Isn't it Grand [underlined]?
God bless the Boys & bring them safe home.

(Letterhead)

Pacific Department [centered]
North British & Mercantile Insurance Company [centered]
244 Pine Street [centered]
San Francisco, Cal. [centered]

Wm. P. Rixon
Resident Agent

Billings, Mont.
Nov. 7th 1918

(Text of letter)

My dear Becca & All:

Mother asked me to write you a card to let you
know how she was, but am going to write you a short note instead.

Mother has been very miserable for the past week, but seems a
little better yesterday and today. She is in bed, so it is impossible
for her to write, and she worries about it all the time.

We were all delighted [underlined] with Edward's letters, and you have no
idea how proud we are of him. (And of all [underlined] your boys.) Edward has
certainly had some wonderful experiences, and has come through it all
wonderfully well, and with great honors, which shall never be forgot-
ten, by any of us. Lora is just as proud of him, as if he was her
own son. She copied down his address, and says she is going to write
to him herself. I want to write to him too, but to me it seems like
writing to someone one who has suddenly become very rich [underlined], and I really
hate to do it.

It looks, now, as if the war could not last very much longer and
I hope and pray that you will have all of the boys safe at home again
before so very long. Harold expects to be call in this month's draft
but, of course, none of us can tell whether he will be or not.

We got a heavy fall of snow on the 5th. (Election day) and there
must be ten or twelve inches on the ground now. We are hoping it will
stop this "Flu", as there has been a good deal of it here.

There doesn't seem to be anything at all to write about, and as
I must write to Anna too, I hope you will pardon this short excuse
for a letter.

Be sure and give our love to each of the boys, when you are writ-
ing to them, for we think [underlined] of them, many, many [underlined] times, every day.

With loads of love to all of the boys, and to their dear Mother
and Father, also, from every one of us, I remain,

Your affectionate brother.

William Panton Rixon

You can tell Edward
that his name will be
as well know around Bgs (Billings)
as "Bill" George's, for we
are certainly advertising him.
(We won't "tip off" any of
the secrets [underlined], so don't worry.)

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