Well dear Helen the dinner dishes is washed & I have sit down again to write. I feel so miserable. I dont care whither school keeps or not & I might just as well study writing as anything. Dick has just come from the office & oh dear there is no letter again. I guess you are going to give me a sentimental punishment for my neghyine [nagging?] here to fore arent you. but dont do so any more for I am punished thoroughly now.

This is the 1st of Oct & a warm blue smokey day. 14 long years ago this time we was preparing for your wedding day. is it possible you have been married so long. & Dick will have a birthday on the 8th & you one the 11th. dear dear. how I would love to besmear your nose with dough or somethin else. we are haveing a beautiful fall. so nice the men say for putting up grass. & the grass is so good now Farmers are putting up lots of feed. everybody has cut up so much corn. we have had warm days & cool nights only vines on poorest land are needing rain. altho we had a splendid rain last Monday morn did not rain long but just poured down while it did rain. but we need some more now. I suppose Ross & Blanche is going to school now & you are all alone. all of Lesses children goes. & the Teacher has huge times with Charlie & Dan Morris & Eddie Williams. he threatened to take a cradle & cow there so he could give the babies some milk & rock them to sleep. & was going to poke one in the stove & another in a coal barrel if they did not simmer down. & I guess he simmerd them some what. but has to thump Charlie about every day. Mabel declares she is going to school but its always tomorrow with her. One day she wanted to know if She couldnt have some meat & crowder peas to carry for her dinner tomorrow. she is the greatest girl for meat & cornbread & onions. they had spelling friday night. & I guess they had lots of fun for its the first spelling there has been in our district & some of them had got pretty rusty & made some terrible blunders spelling that would cause them all to laugh.

Bird's eye view of Kingman, Kansas, where Nett wrote that cabinet photograph portraits could be made for 75 cents a dozen

Well Helen, have you got through cooking so many meals & got your sewing about done. I dont have as much to cook as you do but I declare I cant get much sewing done. some way. but the most of mine is patching. I have made Late too shirts & Dick one & got another to make for him. have been trying my best to get my navy blue dress done that Ella cut for me last fall but it is good for a hang on. I am some longer waisted than I was then. therefore I had to cut a new basque for the one she cut would not do any way I could fix it. & they wear plain pointed basques now & over- skirts are long & just one point just one & a half widths & pleated up in big pleats on one end & side. & it looks pretty. & so many wears them. I know I never have sent you a piece of it & I will this time if I dont forget it again as usual. I got the baby a white dress the other day. rather late in the season you will say but maybe if nothing happens next month we will go to Pratt City & get there pictures taken & if I have hers taken I want it in white. if we only lived near Kingman we could get Cabinets now for 75¢ per dozen. Sue said Sel Bowman got some fer that & they are real good. I guess tho the artists are cutting for a short time. sel attented the Institute at Kingman this summer. Ed is in Topeka & Billie is in Sterling, I think thats the place. not far from Winfields. Win is a year older than Less. but looks lots older than Less, more wrinkels in his face. he said he was too days older than his wife & too inches taller & too pounds hevier. I wonder if she is as lazy as she use to be. he never said one word to one of us about John & didnt say much about his folks. or anything that would allude to John. he is chuck full of conceit. has been around a good bit & tells what he has seen & knows so it will interest a person.

Is there much in your paper about the Yellow fever in the South our paper is full of it & oh dear what a time they are haveing. Our neighbor Hogard went down to Texas week before last but was only gone a few days till he was back home. he said the people was leaveing by the trainload. & people on top of trains any way to get away. We see in our paper that they have quarintened Cairo, Ill & wont let any trains come in from the south. I feel uneasy about Uncle Hen & Ellies families altho we have not read of it being in Tenn yet. but I hope it wont reach them. Well Helen this is Tues afternoon & still no letter from you oh dear I feel it in my bones you are sick. this has been a cool day. the wind got in the north last night & give us a cool breath. but got warmer by noon. Ella Morris & I took our Lasses kegs back to Sawyer today to Mr. Miner [relation unknown]. we got them filled once but he found out in a day or too after we got it that it had been made of cain that was mixed with Broom Corn & sent us word to come back & get them filled with better. So we went over this forenoon & got back about 2 or I might have got this started off today. Miner gets over to see Mrs. Williams every too weeks. & I think she thinks a right smeart bit of him. the men are going to slaughter a swine. Water all hot & ready to scald & go to picking & I expect you would laugh to see me cleaning the guts. its all new buisness to me but I get along very well rather awkward tho.

Bear dont come down as often as he did. he has been sucking Giles & his wife lately & I guess they have been feeding him on yams. he was down this morn & sit by the stove as gruffy as an old Bear. just what he is. & didn’t say a dozen words. People are getting down on him. he shoots his mouth off to often & then he charges outlandish. he has Less charged with $29. But Less says he will come out even with him. & I cant imagine what our bill will be. he charged Luther Hover $5 for lancing his hand in the spring. & a little medicine to put on it. & charges everybody else according. the county will be better off after he is gone.