Dear Calla,
Your breezy before breakfast letter was very much enjoyed. I would never be up in time to do anything of that sort. Am quite thankful if I don't over sleep since the clock's now set ahead.
This is a lazy household today. Not one of us has been outside thus far. Seems the April showers continued all day & a substitute preacher in our church gave me the desired excuse to at house & be as lazy as I felt inclined.
We live in a great bustle these days because of so many "Drives" beside our own regular affairs to look after. Just now it's Liberty Loan & immediately following comes the big Red Cross Drive.
Last week our oldest sister was here to say goodbye to Clair that we suppose sailed for France April 13th but of course nothing has been heard from him yet.
We haven't taken our little "Ford" out of winter quarters yet largely because of so many different kinds of "busy ness" but plan that we will the last of this week. Haven't made any plans yet for our Summer vacation but suppose it will be spent somewhere in the Ford with Sidney certain to be included in the trip.
Sidney papers don't afford us the kind of news we like best to read of late. So many sudden deaths of people we knew so well makes us sober & wonder who of our friends will be left there in a few more years.
Seems to bad for all the teachers to be compelled to leave but I don't blame them when they can get better pay elsewhere. I am wondering what the new "prof" will be like. I read that he would become a resident of riverside. That surely shows good taste on his part.
Tell your good mother that I say its a shame for her to be troubled with neuritis & I sincerely hope she is feeling much better by this time.
We both keep very well but do not get fat, if you discover how we could, let us know.
Shall love to hear from you anytime & certainly hope that you will be home this summer while we are in Sidney.
Much love to your father & mother & yourself.
Sincerely yours,
Mae Sackett
Sunday P.M.
UPDATE: The Historian for the Sackett Family Association confirms that this is Mae Sackett, twin sister of Adda Pearl Sackett. Both girls lived in Sidney in the 1900's with their widowed mother Mary J Sackett. Just after this letter Pearl's address is known to be Brooklyn, but he did not relay where Mae would have been living at the tiem of this letter.
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