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letterhead G.P JONES E.W. EVERETT JONES and EVERETT Dealers in GENERAL MERCHANDISE Olpe, Kansas letterhead end March 19, 1888. Dear Sisters, Your letter mailed the 16th came to us sat eve. The engineers and firemen on this branch of the Santa Fee road joined in the "strike" at 4 P.M. Thursday last and our Post master got a horse and went to Emporia sat and brought the mail. Besides your full letter I received an eight page letter from W.P. Williams, the first we had heard from him in nearly a year and it was the most newsy letter we ever got from there since we left. He wrote it during the snow blockade last week. He said it was the