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Correspondence to Ellen Mowrer Miller in Boone County, Iowa from family in Pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota, 1865-1890

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not to cold to go to Rippey to get no the train: I am teaching our winter school and getting along nicely the school is not quite as large as during the summer months for the weather is to cold for those at a distance to come The teacher's are allowed Christmas and New Year's day without making up those days in this township. The heath in this neighborhood seems to be good at present One of our near neighbor Old Mr Grow died about a month ago his wife died not quite six months before of dropsy of the heart Mr Grow of malarial fever. It is said that wolves are quite numerous in the northwest part of the county enough to destroy some property. The day after Christmas and organized hunting party of about a hundred persons
 
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries