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Anything or[inserted] excuse to make money. Its a crazy ordinance. Sally Robbins was pinched also.

Frederick "Fred" Linderman wants me to go to Davis for a short practical course for a short time on hogs as soon as Dr. Eaves will let me. I should like to do it as he says he would stake me financially that is buy all the hogs this fall while young & for me to fatten them on his rice land for market. He

Home June 5, 1918.

Dear Edward:

I meant to write some time ago to congratulate you on your commission. It certainly is fine and everyone is delighted. Well I have been almost too busy to write for I went to Willows, California in the Sacramento Valley onto the rice fields with Mr. Linderman. It

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surely was wonderful.

They want me to work up there & I think I'll leave next week to work. They are giving me a position of light work, an overseers job, so I can study rice, grains, hogs, etc. It is the best chance I ever could expect to get. They have egged [underlined] me to work because a U. C. Ag man. They feel that after a few months I'll be a handy man. That is valuable man for the concern. Mr. Linderman

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June 11th 1918

My dear old Snedward:

You are a good boy to write to your Mother as often as you do. It certainly cheers us both to get letters from our absent sons and to know that they are all doing their duty. Jos left this morning for Willows where he has gone to work for the Western Rice Fields Co in which Mr. Linderman is interested.

It is very hot here, yesterday was blazing, and to day bids fair to be as hot. In a letter you wrote Jos recently, you said you might have to borrow $100.00 from me, but I have never heard any more about it. You know whenever you need any money, you can have it, so don't be uncomfortable about your equipment. Get whatever is necessary and call on me. It is going to be lonely around our house, particularly for Mother. I want her to go to San Diego and stay a month so that she can see something of you and Les besides having a rest. Do you think she could get a room and bath at a reasonble figure.

I wish you would write her about it. I wanted her and Jos to go down in the car, but somehow they did not get started. I think it was because Jos had to be here to register for the draft.

Last night Helen & Martha came to dinner

July 24, 1918.

Nelson, Butte Co., Cal.

P.S. Martha asked me when I wrote to say goodbye to you and to give you her best love, as did Mr. & Mrs. Linderman.

Dear Edward:

After staying around home the other day, I went down to Brookdale for Mr. Linderman as he went to Cuba, I came back and left for Nelson which place I arrived last night.

You remember me complaining of a bum cold and teeth aches, well I visited Dr. Eaves to find out if the after effects were causing the teeth to ache. He said impossible, so I went to Dr. James, who said my teeth were alright, so I left.

When I got there last night my front tooth ached terribly in fact I couldn't sleep last night and this morning Jewell made me go to Chico where I interviewed dentists. They all said it was an ulcerated tooth and an abscess was forming. So they drilled into the tooth and right into the nerve which was dead. They claim the dead nerve was forming gas and that I would