{The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Nova Scotia
Office of the President.}
Bridgewater, N.S.,
Aug. 28, 1912
Dear Mother:
As another week has gone by since my last letter I will try to write you again to-night. We are having quite cool weather now, very much resembling fall, which is indeed rapidly approaching. Yesterday was dark and dull, but there was no rain and to-day the weather seems to have taken a decided change for the better. I am inclined to think that the wet season is over and that we will have fine weather for our big reunion next week at Wentzel’s Lake. I have been busy to-day making final arrangements for running the Tea and Coffee stand and the checking room at the Lake next Thursday. The profits from these places go entirely to the Home. If we have a fine day we will probably make a hundred dollars or more from them. Last week I sold our big yoke of oxen for $160 and on Saturday I bought a younger and smaller pair for $108. By next summer they will be as big as the ones we sold and will be worth as much, possibly more. In another week
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we will have all the sweet corn we can use and may be able to sell some. We have been eating beans of our own raising for some time. Our cucumber vines have small cucumbers on them now and we will soon have plenty of them. Our cabbage has quite large heads on it now and will be of unusually large size shortly. We have been using turnips for several days and they are fine. We will have a great crop of salsify this fall. I have a lot of it planted and I never saw anything grow finer. I was out canvassing yesterday for the Home but did not find many men at home and only got in a few dollars. I think I will make another trip tomorrow and the next day and hope to raise enough to tide us over till after the Wentzel’s Lake Reunion, so that I can stay at home next week. We had no Church here last Sunday, so Bonnie and I drove over in the evening to Mahone Bay and heard Pastor Bermon. He gave us a good sermon. He is a better preacher then Pastor Buchholtz and, I understand, is so far well liked in the Bay. He is making a strenuous effort
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to pay off their big Church debt and I think he will succeed. This afternoon I went down town and took Carolus and Herman with me. Herman insisted on driving and in order to keep the peace I let him drive all the way down and back. He held the lines and plied the whip and yelled lustily at the horse. He is the greatest boy to talk you ever saw for his age and can form all kinds of sentences.
I wish you could see Carolus now. I think you would like him better than ever. He says so many bright things. He is very much interested in automobiles and tried to get into one that was standing by the curb of the sidewalk this afternoon, but he said the doors were shut and he couldn’t open them. When is Mabel coming home? We haven’t heard from her since receiving a post card written in Paris shortly after her arrival. I don’t know that I have any thing more of special interest to write, so will close. With best wishes and love from “the whole family”, as Carolus says, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little
