{Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Canada
Rev. J. Reble, President
104 Hughson St. Hamilton, Ont.
Rev. J. Maurer, D. D., Vice-President
49 Irvine St. Kitchener
Rev. H. Schorten, German Secretary
170 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ont.
Rev. A. A. Zinck, D. D., English Secretary
Waterloo, Ont.
Rev. E. Holm, Treasurer
St. Jacobs, Ont.}
Waterloo, Ont., Sept. 13, 1925.
Dear Mother;
Your most welcome letter was received on my return from conference Friday evening and was greatly enjoyed. I will try to write you a few lines this evening. I had a fine trip up to Ladysmith in the province of Quebec. Ladysmith is a little hamlet in the Laurentian mountains some 60 miles north west of Ottawa and 14 miles off the railroad. It lies in a picturesque country, wierd and wild. The country looks very much like Nova Scotia with its evergreen trees, the murmuring pines and hemlocks, and with its rocks and hi lls and lakes. I left here on Monday morning and arrived in Ottawa at 4:20 in the afternoon. Pastor McCreery met me at the station in Ottawa and took me with him to his rooming-house. I stayed with him till noon the next day.. He drove me around in his car to all the principal sights of the city and also over to Hull on the Quebec side of the river where they sell good beer. We arrived at our destination on Tues. evening in time for supper and were comfortably housed in the hotel of the village and well-fed at the parsonage. The conference was opened in the beautiful little stone church on the hill. The sermon was preached in German bhy the convener Pastor Voss, after which the holy Communion was administered. The business meetings of the conference were all held in the parsonage. This had the advantage that it enabled us to smoke during the sessions, thus enabling us to kill two birds with one stone. The conference is bi-lingual, but the language mostly employed was German. This gave me some good practice inGerman speaking. Iwas able to follow the discussions fairly well. All the English brethren would understand some German but McCreery and he is learning. Toward the last he could catch a word every now and then. The Rev. Kleine., pastor loci is QUite a gourmand, and set one of the finest tables you ever saw. He fed all the ten ministers for two days and gave us chicken, roast beef, wieners, vegetables of all kinds, honey, cakes etc. galore. I haven’t weighed since I came back, but I am sure I ate enough to gain at least 2pounds. We returned to Ottawa on Thursday p.m., and I left Friday morning for home, reaching here at 8 p.m. after a run of about 400 miles. The College School opened Wednesday with 36 students. The College of Arts will open next week. The expect to have about 40 students in that department, In that case we will have about 90 students, counting Seminary and all. This will make a good showing.. Todaym we had the Willisons Prof.. R. Hirtle, and Mr. Nickel over for tea. Bonnie put them up a wonderfully fine dinner which I think they all enjoyed. The Willisons are leaving on Wed. for Kingston, where he will take a course in Quee8s University. He is taking his family with him. They gave a sort of farewell party to the members of the faculty atbtheir home last night. Prof Roy Hirtle is taking Dr. Willison8s house for this winter and will live in it with his mother who came backwith him from Nova Scotia..
We are having wet weather now for a change. It has rained every day now for a week. Today has been particularly wet. Friday night Carolus and Herman donned their new suits and went down town to a band concertand were caught in a shower and webto the hide. Wheir suits were quite bedraggled.
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and Bonnie was worried nearly to death overit. They took them toa tailor shop, however and had them dried and pressed, and they don8t look too bad again, though they have lost something of their newness and freshness. Herman was surprised at the opening of school to receive a prize of $5 for his last year8s work in German, He did not know that he had won this prize, and was quite ticked over it. As to how we succeeded in devouring so much fish on our fishing trip, the mystery is explained when I tell you that we brought most of them to Denbigh, where Pastor Christiansen had his familyat his father in law8. The rest we ate at the camp on the lake where we were fishing. 88 Our church which has been redecorated will be reopened next Sunday. The Rev. Dr. Sperling of Kitchener is to be the principal speaker. People who have seen it say that it is very nice but I am sure it will not be as fine as St. Matthew8. The latter is the most beautiful interior of a Lutheran church that I have ever seen. Little Ruth is over the chicken-pox. None oft the rest took the disease this time, thank the Lord. You should just see my my line of sunflowers across the garden. They are a sight for sore eyes. Some of them are I$ or 15 feet high. We are having ripe tomatoes by the bushel now. I was sorry to hear that Aunt Frone was so seriously ill. I am afraid she will not last long. Little Catharine is getting prettier and sweeter and more intelligent every day. When any one calls her 8baby8 she says I am no baby, I am a girl. Bonnies said I should tell you that she received your letter but that the bead work has not yet arrived. She says she anticipates no trouble, however, as there is a woman down street who has offered to show her how to do the beads. Please excuse all the errors as I am not professional at typewriting as yet. This is in fact the first letter I have written on the typewriter. My ten year life insurance policy expires this month. To keep up the same amount I will now have to pay nearly double premium, viz. $67.08 a year. This is going to be pretty hard to meet. But now I must close. With love to all,
I am
Most sincerely yours
[signed]
Carroll H. Little
