790 10/23/1946 Albert Erwin to Sadie Erwin

Albert Erwin 1120 Cole St., Enumclaw, Washington Wednesday, October 23, 1946

Sadie Erwin Box 281, Sparta Pike, Lebanon, Tennessee

Dear Sadie, Received a nice letter from you today, the one you started on Friday the 18th. Very glad to hear that Ben is improving. He may have been able to talk to you before you left for Helen’s. Frank’s meeting you at Little Falls will make it much nicer for you. The Bensons got home Sunday evening. They got only nine birds. Jim and I took turns going over there for supper Monday evening. The Dahlstroms won’t be up this weekend on account of they are attending a very formal wedding Saturday night. Mr. Prest has been sick for a week. They took him to a Seattle hospital early this morning. We have been quite busy, have gone over a hundred every day and over two hundred each day last Saturday and Sunday. We are going to try and get some cookies and raisins put up this evening. With the O.P.A. going off this evening some of the scarce things may show up. There is no white rice on the market now. Carl G. says that the 15 oz packages of raisins that he has ordered will cost him 23¢ a package. We have 96 packages that cost us about 11¢ per package. Christensen told me yesterday that a salesman said that if the shipping strike was settled at once there wouldn’t be any new salmon until about February. Jim has taken a new interest in things. He has fixed up the baby food a little better (more room) and has put the soups on the top shelf instead of on the bottom one. We bought quarts of ___ July 12th but I didn’t get it in the shelf until yesterday (that’s very bad). Mrs. Hall has had a 9 ½ # boy. She was in the store yesterday (didn’t keep her down long). She looked very nice. Last night I said to Jim, that lady that was in this afternoon looked a lot like Mrs. Hall. We will try and get peanut butter packages on the shelf this afternoon. We have a box of cranberries selling for 45¢ a pound. My leg is better but I have had a cold for a couple of days and feel quite weak. I think that Gladys has finished the ironing. We send all our dirty clothes down. She probably has washed and ironed them also, at least she has brought back three boxes of ironed clothes. We are having plenty of rain. September was the wettest September on record and October is plenty wet. I have been home now for a couple of hours and will get back to work now. We will be glad when you get home but we don’t want you to hurry, and when you do get back we want you to stay at home most of the time so that there will be good meals and a nice cozy house with a nice real wife and mother. Love, Albert.