1948 Jean's Letter - Sept.

[Sept. 1948]

Tuesday

Dearest Mother and Daddy,

We got the Independent yesterday and the change in print is quite startling.  I thought at first it was the Courier – Was it printed down there or in Weirton?  I am glad you have settled that about the Independent for I think you'll feel much better about it that way.

I was so sorry to hear about Frank Yount.  Thats the first attack of any kind he has ever had, isn't it.  I never thought about him ever getting sick.  Just thinking about him reminded me that I hadn't sent him a card so just wrote one.

Friday night Jeanne invited us to a Sohio Hard Times Party but we had been trying to get up to see Mr. & Mrs. Frank Uible for so long that we decided to get that off our list.  We went up about 8:00 but saw them all at the table eating so walked around for awhile – then decided they must be having company for they were still in the dining room.  Yesterday Harold was over & learned that the family was having a nice game of "Hearts" – that's all.

Saturday we went downtown and did a bit of shopping – in the kitchen departments – bread board, rubber scraper, griddle, round cake pan, etc. which we had sent out but haven't come yet.

Then we got a piece of pie and went down to see the 60th Annual Food and Home Show and what fun we had.  They were giving samples of everything imaginable – chow mein, very good (we bought some later), grape juice, honey-butter, margarine, frozen whipped cream, cottage cheese, crackers, potato chips, macaroons (which we bought – all you have to do is mix with white of an egg & bake – makes 60 macaroons) chili con carne, pea soup, beef gravy (delicious, bought some yesterday) chocolate & butterscotch syrup toppings, canned [?] hamburgers, and hundreds of other things – oh yes – Sapphire biscuits & waffles – which we also bought – the mix, that is.

Downstairs they had all kinds of home appliances – stoves, washers, refrigerators, automatic dish washer & dryers & garbage disposal units.  The General Electric and Hot Point (both made by G.E.) have butter conditioners (special compartment to keep butter at spreading temperatures).  The Hot Point is also self-defrosting but about $110 more.

Sunday we went up to the Epworth Euclid Church and sat with Mrs. Ackerman.  That afternoon Ruth & Mary Krickbaum dropped in – Ruth seems to like Maumee where she is teaching now.  She had to come back this first weekend because of a dental appointment.

Harold's exams are the end of the month and we have told the Uibles we'd be down there the first weekend in Oct. (1-2-3) I believe so no doubt I'll have to work the next Saturday so it will be about a month – Oct. 16 before we'll make it to New Cumberland.  This is an awful busy time at the library too.  So we'll be looking forward to then.

Mary & Bill may come up some weekend soon.

Love,

Jean & Harold