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Bess Peebles Fox letters to her daughter, 1943-1945

1945-01-11 Bess Peebles Fox to Helen Fox Page 1

Thursday night - Jan 11 - 45
Dear Helen -
No letter to answer so just rambling remarks to you - I waited here Tue till after the postman came.  He brought a wail of distress from Mr. Koser in Mo.  He had gone off & left his bill fold with all his A gasoline coupons - lodge records etc.  Would I go over and go through all his pockets and see if I could find it and mail it to him in Houston, Texas.  I went and found it in the third pair of pants I investigated.  I felt very hurried because I had so much to do over town before going to the Ration Board - In my haste I fumbled with the night lock and couldn't get out!  I was in a sweat for a few minutes, then found I could go out the front door - go back & unlock the back door from outside and go back in & start over - Finally got everything under control - wrapped the little case - wrote him a card (he was feeling so sorry to bother me, but I told him it was a pleasure to go through a man's pants pockets again!)  I walked over to the Court House and got our auto liscense for 1945 - $16.00 - just one plate for the read & a sticker for the wind shield.  I also paid the taxes for 1944 on our house $6.10.  Next I went to the Public Library & left the book Grace Allen had left here for me to read - then to the P.O. where I mailed your box - registered the case to Mr. K. then to the Board where I worked till 5 - I had been so lucky in keeping away from folks with colds up to then - hadn't had the tiniest sniffle all winter - but the girls there all had colds - one was home sick - another had to call a taxi and go in the middle of the afternoon & the rest stayed and breathed down the back of my neck - I did everything I could think of when I got home but woke up in the night

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Thursday night - Jan 11 - 45 Dear Helen - No letter to answer so just rambling remarks to you - I waited here Tue till after the postman came. He brought a wail of distress from Mr. Koser in Mo. He had gone off & left his bill fold with all his A gasoline coupons - lodge records etc. Would I go over and go through all his pockets and see if I could find it and mail it to him in Houston, Texas. I went and found it in the third pair of pants I investigated. I felt very hurried because I had so much to do over town before going to the Ration Board - In my haste I fumbled with the night lock and couldn't get out! I was in a sweat for a few minutes, then found I could go out the front door - go back & unlock the back door from outside and go back in & start over - Finally got everything under control - wrapped the little case - wrote him a card (he was feeling so sorry to bother me, but I told him it was a pleasure to go through a man's pants pockets again!) I walked over to the Court House and got our auto liscense for 1945 - $16.00 - just one plate for the read & a sticker for the wind shield. I also paid the taxes for 1944 on our house $6.10. Next I went to the Public Library & left the book Grace Allen had left here for me to read - then to the P.O. where I mailed your box - registered the case to Mr. K. then to the Board where I worked till 5 - I had been so lucky in keeping away from folks with colds up to then - hadn't had the tiniest sniffle all winter - but the girls there all had colds - one was home sick - another had to call a taxi and go in the middle of the afternoon & the rest stayed and breathed down the back of my neck - I did everything I could think of when I got home but woke up in the night