Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - November 8, 1937

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - November 8, 1937

Subject

Old Mission Peninsula (Mich.)
Agriculture
Farmers
Crops and climate

Description

Carolyn Gay Taft (1873-1952), was the owner of a small cherry farm on Old Mission Peninsula in the early 1900’s. While she spent her summers on the Peninsula, her primary job as a teacher at the Illinois State School for the Deaf required hired hands to run the farm in her absence. These farmers, and their families, lived on the farm and sent frequent written reports to Ms. Taft. Most letters are written by the farmer’s wives, and provide a record of both agricultural and social history.

Creator

Ralph Kitchen, Joseph Kitchen, Essie Kitchen, Max Gilmore, Hazel Gilmore

Source

Collection donated to Peninsula Community Library by the surviving members of the Taft family.

Publisher

Peninsula Community Library

Date

1937-11-08

Contributor

Mary T Morgan

Rights

This document is protected by copyright law. Contact the Peninsula Community Library for permission to reproduce, display, or transmit this document.

Relation

None

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Document

Identifier

LHC 010

Coverage

Traverse City, Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan

Scripto

Transcription

To Miss Taft

we have had a beautiful day to-day. sunday.

Suprise is coming back to good health again slowly. Max don't let her out only for excercise know she has got be such fence breakere.

yes the murder + sucide had ever one worked up to high pitch. the love afair had been going on for two year and more. So there had to be a climax sometime.

Ronald letter is in mail to alberta.

max is starting the work on cottage this week men have been very scarce.

So many apples to pick. Max brother Curt. has been working steady for $2.50 per day. all fall for Zoulek's. But he is thru know.

Levi took stark up town. and they made him take them back home again. So here thay set. So max went in Saturday again. and made them say when thay. would take them. In middle of week.

We have all weight slips here holding over them up to get them all to-gethere. to straighten all up at once. They sure are funny up to packing Co 

and slow.

Levi isen't going away know. this winter

Harry zaug has some oats on buy. $0.40 per bushel dilivered. But Harry wants Max to go out and buy them himself. Max say to tell you $0.35 bushel and $0.05 bushel for hauling.

My sister Millie is home so she is setting up the sweatere for me at last. If I get gray headed I'll know it from kniting

There trucker are in here with straw know and there at $9.00 or $9.50 per Ton

Ronald + I are kind miserable with cold's.

We have some new telephone pole on line from wounch's.

yes your rug has been here since september but would alway for get to tell you.

I guess that all new's. hopeing this reaches you best of health.

Sincerly, Max + Hazel

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