Leonard Family - Lenoir Inez Leonard - 49 Days - page 8

Sunday, 25th of June: Went to Sunday School, no church, a little program. A bunch for dinner(15), ate at last table. Alaric left a few minutes after 10 for Waverly. Folks left later in the afternoon and took the three girls back to Cedar Falls on their way. Dorothy, Ethil and Lorna came over and spent the afternoon. Dorothy bro't some pictures. Lee Briden came to see Joy about supper time. Folks took Winnifred down and had her tooth pulled. I wiped dishes twice and wrote several cards and went to bed about 15 to 9. Slept swell in the breeze.

Mon. June 28: Dad called us about half past 6. Left Aunt Ivy's about 7:30. Uncle Del rode to work in the truck and Joy rode down with us. Pretty fair roads, many detours. Struck Lincoln Highway at 8 to 12. Stopped for dinner on the Highway about 3 miles south and west of Toledo. Saw some fellow from Tampa, Florida and gave them some sugar. "Birds of a feather flock together". We stopped under a nut tree, and saw name Aurora, Illinois printed on the table, where we ate dinner. After dinner we saw a squaw with her papoose on her back, and passed 4 New York boys in a Ford, from Youngstown, New York. Swell Camp Grounds at Cole.  telephone service free to campers, everything handy. The cop was talking to us and so we played an "Official" game of pitch, with the fo[lks]. results:  Billie 3 Mother 3 Winnifred 1.

That's as far a s the game went. Settles came up and bro't Grandpa Gandy with them. Ice-cream 2 quarts, candy, gum, cookies. We had an Ice cream Social, lots of fun and joking[?]. They went

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