September 10, 1945 envelope
Letter transcription:
September 10, 1945, p. 1
9-10-45
Dear Daddy –
Yours of Sept. 6, 7, & almost the 8th came this a.m. I am so excited over the prospects of your trip to Chicago. If you do get to come, I think I’ll have Dorothy drive me up and stay with her mother until I am ready to come back. However, I’ll plan when the time comes. (I mean for her to stay at her mother’s).
I was downtown this a.m. and saw Ed Barce. He said to tell you he has another office and will get out as soon as you come back. I saw Betty & Jack Yost. Jack has been discharged.
We hear that Mr. R. is going to put the Nu-Joy out here – that is if this new road goes thru. It’s very early to get any definite predictions on the situation so I am not taking that as “whole cloth.” After having one old trap of a building burn, I would think no one would want to put a business like the restaurant in that old Kent house.
I put some corn in the locker this morning and that winds up my food preparation. I want to save the space for the beef in Oct. We heard over the radio this a.m. that meat rationing will be off Oct. 1 so we won’t have to worry about points for our beef.
It’s 2:15 and since noon I have cleaned the stove and little bathroom. Geo. Tilton
September 10, 1945, p. 2
[page 2] promised to get someone to fix our linoleums, but I am not going to get excited about how soon he fulfills his promise. I think if I went in and gave him an order for some new furniture he might send someone out, but I don’t believe he is in much of a hurry as it is. If he doesn’t act soon I am going to try and get someone myself. The bathroom should be fixed soon.
When I talked to Ed Barce I thought he might have some information but he seemed to know nothing. I wonder if he could find out anything – Nothing has been said that we have heard over the radio or in the papers about Navy Drs. However, the Army has announced that a number of Drs. are to be let out soon.
If you do get to go to Chicago you won’t get this until after I see you.
I hurried to town and hurried home this a.m. so didn’t hear any news.
Will be anxious for a letter tomorrow –
Love Mother
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“We hear that Mr. R. is going to put the Nu-Joy out here – that is if this new road goes thru…” This seems to answer my question…that the building that burned down was somewhere else in town….not near our house.”
“We heard over the radio this a.m. that meat rationing will be off Oct. 1 so we won’t have to worry about points for our beef.” I was wondering how soon after the war that rationing would end.