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and Anna have staid together and Father and I have gone. We have excellent sermons by Prof Salley. A week ago Eld. Smith who was pastor here ten or twelve years ago, preached. He was on his way home to Minneapolis from the Gen. Conference which was held this year at Cleveland Ohio. We have been much in- terested in reading the reports of sermons published in the Independent lately. We read them and then Father sends the papers to Holden and Hattie. We were expecting a visit from them before this but they do not dare to come while diptheria is here for fear of exposing Eva. Eva is almost a year old now, and Anna nearly six. It makes me feel pretty old to look at Claire. She is fully as tall as I am and twelve years old. She misses her school which is closed on account of diptheria. She is in the last year of the Grammar school and goes down town. Frank writes that he is now with Arthur. Arthur and Hannah keep