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John N. Calhoun family letters, February 1941-April 1945

1943-03-24 Page 2

the telephone bill, the coal bill which was 30.02 and the taxes for the first half for both Birmingham & here. Was I ever provoked when I went to pay them this time and they were $50.98 for the first half. That is $11.00 more than last year. I told her about it & she went & looked it up and found out it was true. She said well its valuation has raised two hundred & some dollars, but I still think that is terrible. I thought maybe you could see about it when you come home. You got a notice tjat your note & Int. is due on the $250.00 note. I will pay the Int. & have him send the note to you to sign. Is that O.K.? 
Oh honey, the part for the furnace came & the fellow is going to fix it tomorrow. I guess it will be an all days job. I am surely glad. Then maybe we can get to house cleaning. 
Ruthie was here & spent the afternoon & stayed for supper. She say she is going to start working next week. I told her, if she was going to do housework, she might as well work for me as someone else, I told her, I would still have Mrs. Sellars do the washing & ironing & clean once a week & she could do the other work. She wants to go home at nights. She is to let me know. I think if she is going to do house cleaning & I want her, it is a dirty trick to go someplace else & not help me.  I told her I felt like I should come first. 
John R is going to take the bus & go up to Fairfiled on the afternoon bus tomorrow. He is counting on it believe me. Everyone is all O.K. again. I guess we will go over to Muscatine to see Warren Sunday, as he only has 5 days & Margaret wrote us & wanted us to come over. 
I got all my canned stuff tonight as the points for this month will soon be out. It is sure a nuisance 
Well darling I must close & get some sleep, I love you honey -
Hugs & Kisses, 
Dorothea & Kiddies

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the telephone bill, the coal bill which was 30.02 and the taxes for the first half for both Birmingham & here. Was I ever provoked when I went to pay them this time and they were $50.98 for the first half. That is $11.00 more than last year. I told her about it & she went & looked it up and found out it was true. She said well its valuation has raised two hundred & some dollars, but I still think that is terrible. I thought maybe you could see about it when you come home. You got a notice tjat your note & Int. is due on the $250.00 note. I will pay the Int. & have him send the note to you to sign. Is that O.K.? Oh honey, the part for the furnace came & the fellow is going to fix it tomorrow. I guess it will be an all days job. I am surely glad. Then maybe we can get to house cleaning. Ruthie was here & spent the afternoon & stayed for supper. She say she is going to start working next week. I told her, if she was going to do housework, she might as well work for me as someone else, I told her, I would still have Mrs. Sellars do the washing & ironing & clean once a week & she could do the other work. She wants to go home at nights. She is to let me know. I think if she is going to do house cleaning & I want her, it is a dirty trick to go someplace else & not help me. I told her I felt like I should come first. John R is going to take the bus & go up to Fairfiled on the afternoon bus tomorrow. He is counting on it believe me. Everyone is all O.K. again. I guess we will go over to Muscatine to see Warren Sunday, as he only has 5 days & Margaret wrote us & wanted us to come over. I got all my canned stuff tonight as the points for this month will soon be out. It is sure a nuisance Well darling I must close & get some sleep, I love you honey - Hugs & Kisses, Dorothea & Kiddies