July 3, 1927.
Dear Mother:
I have just returned from preaching at Hespeler to-day, and it is now nearly 10 o’clock; so I will have to make my letter “short and sweet”, as it were. Financially I did pretty well to-day clearing a little over $14.50, as my expenses were inconsiderable. This money comes in good just now, as I lacked quite a bit of having enough out of my month’s salary to pay my bills. However, by preaching every Sunday during the vacation I hope to make enough to keep my head above water. Next Sunday I will preach here at St. John’s in the evening, Pastor Roberts being away on his vacation. Tomorrow the Women’s Missionary Society meets in the Seminary and also the Executive Committee of Synod, of which I am now ex-officio, a member. Following upon this will come the Summer School which will begin on Tuesday and last through Thursday. Some of the speakers are Eckert of Chicago, A. H. Roth of Milwaukee, Dr. J. J. Schindel of Phil’a and Miss Kemp. I don’t know whether these will measure up to those of former years or not. O yes, Dr. Hunton of the Young Folks will also be on the program. I am afraid I will not be able to attend many of the lectures as I will be busy proof-reading the Minutes of Synod around that time. By working at speed limit Dr. Schorten and I got all our copy ready for the printers last week and they are going to rush it
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through this week, they say. As the copy will make nearly 100 pages we will be pretty well occupied the greater part of the week. We had two very hot days last week, Friday and Saturday. The thermometer registered close to 90 in the shade; but last night it suddenly turned cool and was almost cold to-day all day and nearly frost to-night. I don’t think I ever saw so sudden a change. I think if you had been here to-day you would have felt for a wrap, whereas yesterday I took a cold bath in the morning and went swimming in the lake twice to keep cool. We had a great celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation on Friday. Waterloo and Kitchener were put in gala attire with flags and bunting. The school children all marched in parade with flags flying. Each of them received a copper medal commemorating the event. There were also many fine floats and nearly all the people of the twin-cities were on the streets. But for all that the celebration was one of quiet dignity. There were no fireworks or firing off of guns or fire crackers; but except for the fierce heat, everybody seemed to be enjoying himself. Yesterday morning around 9 a.m. we had the pleasure of seeing the famous Lindbergh with the ten planes accompanying him fly by here on their way to Ottawa. They flew almost over our house and in perfect formation – 3-2-2-3 with Lindbergh to the right at a considerable distance from his escort. They were, I judge, from 1500 to 2000 ft. high and were flying at a great speed. I was starting down town and had a full view of them as they passed almost directly over my head just below Schantz’s. I raised my hat in salute, but couldn’t tell whether they returned it – not the hat, but the salutation or not. We heard that they had a rather unfortunate accident in landing in Ottawa. One
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of the machines struck another plane and one of the airmen was killed after they had safely reached their destination. The boys have all completed their examinations and seemed to be assured that they passed on all the subjects. The results will show whether they are too optimistic or not. I received a letter from Lena the other day informing me that they would not come up this summer, owing to shortness of finances, but might come up next summer. It looks to me as though I am not the only one in the family that is hard up. We were, however, disappointed that they are not coming. Well, I will have to stop here. With love to you all and good wishes, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
Carroll H. Little.
