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Sheet 2 were insufficient to pay my expenses. I borrowed in all about $350 from Charlie secured by my first $1000 insurance policy, an endorsement policy with Northwestern Mutual. On graduation I went to work as a draftsman for the Illinois Steel Co. in Chicago. I continued to live on one meal a day with a glass of milk and breakfast food for breakfast and a couple of sweet rolls for supper, eating a hearty dinner at a laborer's boarding house near the steel plant at 35 cents a meal. My main idea in life was to pay back Charlie that $350 and then save a little to get married on. I found an old account book of mine recently that showed my regular payments to him. It took a little over three months at $50 a month but not many more months at $75 and travelling expenses when I went to Beaumont Texas in September.

I heard from Charlie regularly probably every week while I was in Texas and often I went to Montana. He never wrote much but always sent many clippings from the Lawrence paper.
Charlie, as we all know, never went to College. I never knew why not, but I'm ready to bet he knew more of worth while knowledge than most of his brothers and sisters who had the advantage of a college education. He was very well read and kept thoroughly abreast of the times.
I don't believe he ever joined a church but he was a regular attendant at the Congregational Church in Lawrence and while I was there, at least, attended old Cap't Haskell's Men's Sunday School class every Sunday even during the year  I was persuaded to teach a class of 11 or 12 year old girls. Very frequently also we attended the Midweek prayer meeting. I suppose I was brought up to believe that it was necessary to belong to a church to be a Christian but I learned different those years with Charlie. I'll stake his chances for a happy future life against that of any one else's.