Emma's Letters

  Maple Lane Farm Hampton 24th Jan 1923 My Dear Joe, Your "dandy" letter of a week ago got here today. Before the mail came I decided if no letter came today, I would write to you tonight, so now I will anyway.  We are all well at present though there is a lot of sickness (called "flu") around and in Oshawa.  Ted got home on Wednesday last. The coldest day so far this Winter arrived in about ten minutes too late to catch Mr Stainton who went in with the milk. The 'phone was out of order that day so he couldn't raise any body on this line - nor we couldn't get Oshawa to find if he was there. He came walking in just tea time having "chanced it" and   walked a good part of the way. He reports a fine trip - no one in Webbwood knew him - several took him for you. (Mrs B got him in the paper as visiting "his brother at Espanola near North Bay!) This afternoon he is at a wood-bee at Fred Langmaid's. He and their saw and engine a...

Maple Lane Hampton R.R. 1 19th Jan 1919 My Dear Joe, I have lost track of when I wrote to you last but I'm sure it's time to write again anyway. We are always so glad to hear from you or from the North Bay folks now to know whether your luck still holds as to "the flu". It's still around here too. Harold Gifford and Foster Snowdon (did you know him? Hilda Langmaid's young man - worked for Percy L all summer) are two of the newest cases. It is getting kind o' lively now the season for wood bees having opened up. "Papa" and I were at one - Arthur Langmaid's - About twenty couples - besides seven or eight children - were there. They go as early in the afternoon as possible and saw wood till dark then such a supper! (the women have quilted, served carpet-rags or done their own fancywork and gossiped all afternoon and eaten supper first - so half a dozen of 'em can wait on the men) and they stay and play games etc. till midnight...