Thursday, November 27, 2008

77 7/15/1946 Helen Carlson to Sadie Erwin

Helen Carlson
Box 281, Sparta Pike, Lebanon, Tennessee
Monday, July 15, 1946
Sadie Erwin
Box 44, Enumclaw, Washington

Dear Folks,
I just got Mary and Jimmie into bed so will write to you now. They don't get into bed so early now that it is so hot out but it still cools off pretty nicely at night. You must not be having such hot weather if you have had a lot of rain. It hasn't rained here for quite a while now.
Pop, I felt so sorry for you when you wrote to me and kept falling asleep. You Folks surely have to work hard and late so don't worry about me at all when you don't have time to write because I know how it is.
I don't blame Glad for wanting to know when the kids were going to have a party there. That would be an awfully big crowd to have drop in unexpectedly. I don't care much for surprises like that. I had a letter from Betty Davy in Oak Ridge last week and she said one of these weekends they and another couple were going to surprise us and come down for the weekend. Remember Betty, Mom, she is one of those who made us so mad when I first came home from the hospital and she has those two children who are so unmanageable. When Elmer was in Knoxville he called Bill Davy and he went in after work to see Elmer.
Yesterday, Sunday, Mrs. Jackson had her husband drive her out to the grandmother's house to see the children. Mrs. Jackson said every one of the children just screamed when they saw her because they didn't want to go back home. The grandmother came to the door and told Mrs. Jackson to go away and leave the children alone. Mrs. Jackson said she would like to bring one or two of them home with her but the grandmother said the children weren't going to be separated. She didn't even get to see Judy, the three year old, because I suppose they thought Judy might cry for her mother. Anyway they wouldn't let her see her. Mrs. Jackson said the children were all so clean and she knew the grandmother took much better care of them than she did. The grandmother sounds like a pretty decent person. Mr. Jackson has two or three sisters who live around there and they all help with the children too. I asked Mrs. Jackson if she was still getting along all right with her husband and she said she lets him do all the housework. She certainly doesn't do anything. Now that she has a man she doesn't even clean herself up.
Sunday morning when we were still in bed the young Mr. Rawlins came over and said, take me to town. Elmer got up and didn't even know who it was so he asked him if it was an emergency and he said no, he just wanted a ride to town. I got up to see who it was so told Elmer. Elmer told him to walk to town if he wanted to go but he turned around and went over to Jackson's and Mrs. Jackson's husband took him. I asked Mrs. Jackson today why he had to go to town and she said he wanted to get some more whiskey.
This morning I was having my second cup of coffee before Jimmie and Mary woke up and I heard this terrible screeching so looked out the window and this Mrs. Tribble, who lives a couple of houses down, was standing out in front of Mrs. Jackson's house screaming at her, telling her to stay away from Mrs. Tribble and she was jumping up and down and shaking her fists. She made so much noise she woke Jimmie and Mary up. Everybody around here seems to be a little crazy.
Well Folks, I should write a letter to Glad so had better stop for now. Elmer wrote a letter to Cully about jobs out there so I want to add a few lines to Glad. Goodbye for now.
With Love, Helen

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