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November 1914 “Tomorrow night begin our prayer meetings. We have them every night this week and all of next. If it would assist me in my Bible lessons, I think I would appreciate it more. It seems to me it would have been a good plan to have had some of the meetings before Ohio went wet. Last night when Mr. Scott and I were coming from church, we were figuring out just where the saloons would be located in Wooster.” The girls are having a circus downstairs. They are singing ‘There is no place like Home’ or ‘Home Sweet Home’ and each verse is slower than the others and between each one they break down and cry and some break into crying before and the last verse is a wail. Now they are laughing and singing, ‘Weep no more my ladies.’”
April 1915
“Of course you wonder why I didn’t write on Sunday? Well I was too much occupied! On Sunday?!!! Now I am going to put in a plea first and I don’t In which Thea skips church for a country picnic know but what you’ll have to forgive me the crime committed yesterday. You and proudly pastes her letter of reprimand from know what a perfectly wonderful day it was, well, we couldn’t stand it. So the College’s disciplinarian into her scrapbook Merell and Gene got a Sunday dinner packed into Merell’s little bag, then they took their Kodaks and went about two miles into the country, in other words page titled “All on a Sunday’s morn.” to the bridge beyond Highland. Tish and I dressed to look dressed up. We walked out big as life and twice as natural . . . Until we came out of sight of Hoover, then redoubled and went out a country road.”
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