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SALEM, WASHINGTON CO. 



YORK 



March 8th 1928 



Dear Mr Deane. 



Your letter was as always gladly received «md I 



was pleased to hear that you had been pretty well all 



winter and had escaped the colds so many have had. 



As we grow older we have to give up doing some things 



but you keep very active still ^nd I think I do, 



For three months I was housed with a bad bronchial cold 



owing to the flood and dampness of my house but I am 



very well again *nd this week went to Troy for the day 



which by train Is a tiresome trip and the times are so 



inconvenient. I prefer to go by "utomobile but the roads 



are very rough and torn up this winter and not many of 

 my 



friends have been that way. In early April my friend 



who has spent the past six mon ths with me will return 



to Hew "ersev which she likes better and has more in- 

 ner 



terepts.it has been a comfort to hsve had this season 

 with me for Salem has been very dull with so many away 

 I am glad that Spring will soon be here. though our win- 



ter has been 



a mild 0ne< 



