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Frandrien Hissomi
July 31, 1937.
the NARA TRUMAN M
Dear Harry:- I think I promised to write another letter
that would prove a little better reading than the last but
I have been pretty husy even since and nothing real excit
ing has happened either.
They began threshing my wheat gesterday and its even
worse than I thought it would be. Vinian went with me
own to Photin City to the elevator are there and they agreed
to take what I had and would buy it now n hold A at
we decided that was the thing to do if it graded any
a cent a lnshel for as long as I cared to hold it, 20
where mean a docunt grade. Will as we came home from
the city yesterday An. Schmidt said her had been thesting
since tin 'o lock and had throshed less than two lundred
lushel and it was grading forty there pounds to the lushil
and offered my sixty cents a hishel for mine for feed for
his caws. We came to the house and asked what they would
pay at the elevator at Martin City and they offered ship
also, so we decided as it was much a perr grade of
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