Monday morning
July 6, 1981
Dearest family,
Hope you all had a nice holiday weekend. New Vienna had its 7th annual celebration. Mary Virginia and Mie Young were busy both Friday and Saturday there. The girls' softball team had a booth to make money for their group -- sold donuts and coffee in the morning and chili and ice tea and Kool-aid later in the day. That and the drill team's funnel cake booth kept Mie Young busy. The church softball team also made a float (which took 1st in its category) for the parade and Mie Young rode on it and Mary Virginia marched with the East Clinton band. All day long they had gospel singing groups -- each were given a half hour. Some you could have listened to longer as others were much too long. Mary Virginia played for the Sears sisters group and the Rankins (sang one number with Jody) and sang with her own choral group organized from the high school chorus. Mie Young sang with Judy Henderson and Jerri Mahanes and did real well in a solo number. They stopped for an hour or so during the parade and then rain came which delayed them pushing all the groups an hour later so MV was late in getting to the square dance held in the street in front of the gazebo. We danced for about two hours there. They had about six squares and people seemed to enjoy watching altho I felt awfully conspicuous, especially when our square broke down which wasn't too often but so many people said they didn't know we danced.
The drill team is trying to make money to buy new uniforms so Mie Young was also looking for sponsors -- each uniform is about $110 and she got over $150 in pledges and checks. And she still had some other people she plans to ask. Today they are being paid to move books out of the library at the high school while it is being re-carpeted. Actually they are working for several days but Mie Young has to be back at her summer job at Wells tomorrow. She and MV are going to be working in the rubber room this week til vacationers are back in the rest of the factory.
It seems like such a long time ago now since last Tuesday when we went up to see John and Carol and Piper. Mary Virginia also went but Mie Young wasn't able to go as the drill team practiced each day last week working on new routines etc. We got up there about 1PM and had a delicious lunch with them. Dad and John took off for the courthouse and other places downtown. Later all of us got a grand tour of the Park National Bank's remodeling and talked with the vice president and head trust officer who would like to have John in his department. We had dinner at the Golden Wok (?) where we ate when the Morgans stopped there last March. Had a real nice day getting back home about 11 PM so was a full one.
Dad has been busy keeping up with the raspberry patch and he picked our first green beans of the year and also peas on Saturday. I forgot to mention that John and Carol have a real nice garden and gave us some bib lettuce to take home with us which we have been enjoying. They have so many pretty flowers too all around their house and garage.
Enjoyed all the letters, cards and phone calls this past week -- G'ma got three from Roberta in one day, the same day as we got one which included another letter for her from the East Mesa seniors at the center. She really had a rough day (Roberta) when she had two teeth pulled, three people a the center fainted from the air conditioner failing to work, another having to be taken to the hospital with a heart attack, losing the air out of one of her tires completely and breaking her backpack on the way home. Just one of those things is bad enough. Hope the teeth are ones that you will not miss too much -- you didn't say which ones they were.
Grandma had rather upsetting news when Judy informed her that Sid Clay has accepted a church in Circleville so they will be moving in a couple weeks. Kim (Susie) Ertel is helping her temporarily but she isn't ideal. She wants to go ahead on her own which would be good but not always what she wants done like winding G'ma's clock -- she had to move it out of her living-bedroom area as she wound the chimes part too.
Aunt Mary and Uncle Bill are to arrive sometime this evening for a few days on their way to Uncle Bill's East Springfield reunion Saturday. Joe is coming to New York to attend art school there for a couple of weeks and he arrives around the 23rd of July.
Yesterday the Sankers came up -- had said they'd get here in time for church and finally arrived at 1PM. I was rather tired after a full day Saturday that I would liked to have cancelled them out -- was so tempted to call them. It turned out that Bill had an ad in the paper (Sunday's) to sell a couple of cars so he felt that they ought to be getting back earlier than usual. Bill said he is quitting the car repair business. He had just returned from a business trip to Cairo, Geneva and some other places. We enjoyed talking about the places he had visited and some of the experiences -- like the $5.00 ice cream soda that he enjoyed before he found out the price.
Last Thursday night we went to our regular square dance club meeting, which was special in that it was an all singing/dance calls . . . they are easier for us to follow.
Serena we read in the papers where the bus etc. fare is going UP in Chicago. NYC is also having their problems in public transportation. How is the bike riding going? We would like to get up some weekend but right now it seems impossible to get a weekend that does not have some problems, also thinking about the possibility of combining a Chicago visit with going to Oregon. So, time will tell.
Finally got our tree pile across the street cleaned up. Had Pug drag the two BIG logs away and Wayne Davidson came and chopped up the other pieces as our wood pile will rot away before we get it used up at the rate we are using wood. Wayne really waxes ecstatic over his wood-burning stove he has. Says if he uses it just this coming winter will have it paid for in the amount of fuel he used in previous years.
We had a damp weekend here and wonder how the campers got along -- there was a steady stream headed for Rocky Fork when we went toward Wilmington on Thursday evening. Did the Morgans go camping? With their other activities it is hard to work it in (and have a good place to camp on such a holiday weekend). The days weren't too wet but seemed like it rained most all the nights. How are things at Payson, Roberta? Do hope that all goes well for Marion with her up-coming operation. We will be thinking about all of you. Always interested in the temperature outlook for all over the country.
Dad has gone to Wilmington to the Commissioners meeting MY to East Clinton so hope I have talked MV into going to the school to help me with the inventory which I haven't done for quite a few years and needs to be done badly. She had her breakfast and I an early lunch so should hold us over for a few hours.
The Harners wrote glowingly of their trip west -- went to Marvin Fawley's wedding in San Francisco and on to Seattle for the National Square Dance Convention where they hope to set a Guinness record of 2200 squares for there were about 26000 people there for it. They are traveling with the Campbells from Dayton -- Stan, Sr.'s sister and husband.
Roberta would you have any brochure or anything to tell about the itinerary of your trip to Alaska? Grandma didn't even think she would see any more than the Alaska shoreline if that much -- I thought you are scheduled to make several stops. It doesn't have to be elaborate but she would like to know a little more about it -- not that she doesn't trust you but she has begun to tell people that she is going or planning to go.
With much love to each one of you -- our next letter may be ??? as next weekend -- Sunday we leave for Louisville to attend the National Commissioners Meeting there for a couple of days. The girls are going to stay by themselves this time. With their having to be at work at 7 AM I doubt if they feel like too much mischief and Ruth might be more in the way than a help except for having dinner ready for them and clean up the house.
Love again to all of you,
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