81 8/11/1946 Helen Carlson to Sadie Erwin

Helen Carlson Box 281, Sparta Pike, Lebanon, Tennessee Sunday, August 11, 1946

Sadie Erwin Box 44, Enumclaw, Washington

Dear Folks, I had a nice long letter from you Saturday so will write to you now. We had a nice Sunday today. We slept until eight and it was such a nice cool morning we decided to go out to Cedar Forest for our breakfast. Cedar Forest is a very nice park a few miles from here. We hurried and got out of here and went out there and got a fire built and had bacon and eggs and coffee. It all tasted so good and we were all starved. Then we sat around and read the Sunday paper and took Mary and Jimmie over to the playground. We spent most of the afternoon there. What a shame about your car. I feel sorry for Jimmie too because I know how awful he must feel. Will you be without the car long while it is being repaired? I let our car roll down a hill too once but it went into a ditch and wasn't so badly damaged as it rolled backwards. It surely is a terrible feeling to wreck a car. I hope to get that letter from Seattle this week about the job. If he would only offer Elmer a good job it would be swell. Elmer doesn't really know what to do and of course can't decide anything until he has another offer. Meanwhile they are getting several nice jobs here and Mr. Sulley is making plenty of money right now so that all boosts Elmer's bonus. Anyway Elmer would like to leave too, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I had a letter from Florence Saturday and she said all children there were restricted to their own yards and weren't allowed on streetcars or downtown or any place on account of that epidemic there. She said it was mostly in North Minneapolis. The Ellises are having a tough break with their new store. They had just opened shortly before we came and business was very slow at first. But the last two or three months it picked up like everything and they were doing fine. Now that our road is being widened everyone has to detour and no one except the ones who live on this road are supposed to drive on it because it is under construction and all torn up so they have lost most of their business. Maybe it won't be for too long. Friday they blasted in our front yard all day long so I had to keep the kids in all day. A little Negro boy was blown up Friday down the road a little ways. He ran out and looked in a hole just as they touched off the dynamite. Elmer says because it was a Negro probably nothing will be done about it. Well Folks I guess I better stop and get my hair pinned up but will write more soon. With Love, Helen