Dickinson House
Corning N.Y.
Fitzpatrick and Brann,
Proprietors
August 20, 1921
My Darling:
Just as I was going into breakfast this morning, the clerk handed me your letter and one from Co. It was a great surprise and has done me a lot of good. I didn't dare expect one here. Quick work written yesterday PM. It is 8:00 o'clock and I must get out on the job. Glad to hear from Mr. Aulick. I called at Colliers only a few days ago and pictures had not been received. The Barea class is to frame one of the pictures and send with their best wishes.
Mr. Collins doesn't need to chase you off to farm to look after catalog. Don't know that I have one. It's an easy matter to get a catalog of International Harvester Company or he could see Will French. Don't bother with him. It might be well for you to offer him a 2 cent stamp for a letter. It's not up to us to fuss with him.
Clyde and Gertrude are getting a fair start for a good sized family.
Love for each dear one. Hope Frank can find another job of some kind for a week or two.
Your affectionate
Jack
8/20/21
29 ARE WOUNDED AS KNOXVILLE MOB TRIES TO STORM JAIL
3,000 Persons Surround Prison, Calling Upon Deputies to Yield Negro Prisoner. BOTH SIDES BEGIN FIRING Groups Hunt Hardware Stores for Weapons—Wide Area About Jail Cleared. TROOPS CALLED ON CAPE COD Guard Barnstable Jail to Prevent Lynching or Release of Three Negroes.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 19.— Twenty—seven persons were wounded, two of them seriously, when deputies guarding the Knox County Jail fired tonight on a crowd which had crossed a dead line to demand that the guards yield Frank Martin, a negro held as a suspect in a criminal assault upon a county school teacher.
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John has excellent handwriting. However, in some instances, I cant decipher it. If I can't, I simply mark the spot with "xxx"s to signify thank the word isn't decipherable.
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