249 3/7/1950 Helen Carlson to Sadie Erwin

Helen Carlson 4008 Randall Avenue, St. Louis Park, Minneapolis 16, Minnesota Tuesday, March 07, 1950

Sadie Erwin Box 44, Enumclaw, Washington

Dear Folks: Your nice letter with the lecture enclosed came this afternoon. Thanks for the lecture. I am going to read it tonight. We had about two days of spring weather, where the temperature got as high as 50 and most of the snow disappeared. It was raining this morning and then this afternoon it started snowing real hard and a terrible wind came up and an awful blizzard is really raging outside now. It took Elmer two hours to get home from work. I'm sure the schools will be closed tomorrow. I'm also quite sure I will have to cancel my bridge party which is tomorrow. Doris Ducret, (you know Doris and George were transferred to Portland) well she was taken to the hospital there Saturday with a heart attack. I sure am anxious to hear how she is getting along. Mabel Bray still doesn't feel too good but she has something else to think about now because Mary Lee was taken to the hospital Sunday night with appendicitis. She had them taken out that night. More trouble. Frances Woodfill's family is perking up a little now. Her baby weighed over nine pounds. All her babies were large. Mamie Praull called me yesterday and she certainly hopes to see you folks when you come. Frank Woodfill said be sure not to forget him. I'll wait and see what your time allows, but if you want to see them I could have the sewing club while you are here and Frank too then you could see all of them but I'll wait until you get here before I make plans for you. Hazel isn't feeling at all good. She fell awhile ago and broke her ankle. She has recovered from that but still doesn't feel good if she gets out of bed. Mamie says she still talks about coming back here for a visit this summer, though. I will get to the library for the book, "The Cascades." When is it now your club meets? Well Folks I will stop for now. I would like to write to Ruth and Gladys tonight. Also to Doris. Good night for now Folks. By the way, it wasn't a bit of trouble to exchange the dress. With Love, Helen In our bridge club we have a traveling prize. Whoever takes a trick with the deuce of trump gets the prize and it travels from one person to another all evening. The one who ends up with it gets to keep it. For the traveling prize for my party tomorrow night I bought a real nice 10 inch Pyrex pie plate and baked a cherry pie in it. I was going to pass something else around instead of the pie just during the game as we couldn't pass the pie from one person to another. Well that pie has made my mouth water all evening so I just broke down and went out and ate a couple of big pieces. Was it ever good. Now what am I going to do for a prize for the party. Well I'll worry about that in the morning. I still think it was worth it as it just hit the spot. Besides I needed a pie plate myself. Love, Helen