Nov 21, 1941
Whitneyville, PA

Dear Wayne,
When do you boys celebrate Thanksgiving, was it yesterday or next Thursday? Mail didn’t go here yesterday, but our Thanksgiving is next week. I haven’t made any plans yet. Will you have a special dinner, or will you have to wait until you are back at Indiantown to celebrate? Did you get the last box I sent, cupcakes and candy, and what shape were they in? I hope you get your share from the box from school. How long will it be now until you come back to Indiantown Gap? If it seems like a long time to us, I wonder what it has been to you.

Last Monday after Dunham store went by I had let Jeannette get candy for her and Bernadine, I heard Jeannette talking to someone. I had been out to the line and didn’t know but what someone had come in. I looked in the sitting room and she was sitting on the arm of the rocker talking to your picture. “Look Wayne, I got some candy, do you want a bite?”, and she held out the stick and she kept on chattering for a long while.

I have had an awful toothache yesterday and today, I can get it to ease for a while and then it goes again. Of course the kids have to play the flute and mouth organ, and make all the noise they can. I just sent Barbara home after they spilled half a bottle of pain-king I had by me.

Bernice Hall is working in the Arnot-Ogden hospital as a nurses-aide.
Did you hear that Rose Drew (Vern’s mother) was struck by a car and killed last Saturday night? She was crossing the road between the house and barn.
Jeannette says to tell you that her boyfriend is married, Don Day, we saw it in the paper. Harry Rose has another car, an Oldsmobile. Ivan Neil combined a piece of clover for us, got about 1 1/2 bu, I think.

We had beautiful weather the first three days of this week, must have been our Indian summer. The wind blows now and it is colder, will probably have snow in the air tomorrow. It is bear season, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting one. The men here want to go tomorrow, Harold Rose and I presume Joe Robinson will go too.

Eileen feels better but she didn’t go to school yet. Wanda is going to Bloss today and tomorrow for county chorus. Edith Naylor wrote a card and invited her to stay all night with her and I suppose they will go to a school dance tonight at the Bloss.

Guess I had better get to work. Hope you are keeping well. We are all OK. We have three fresh cows, Nelly, Grace and Sadie. Jay’s big Maltese cat died the other day and he felt real bad, the only cat he thought a lot of. It was the kitten I wouldn’t let anyone have, you remember.

It won’t be too long now before we see you, we hope.
Love from Mom and All.