1926*

dere elmer, i dont unnerstan wy you never rite to me. i tri awful hard too giv you all the noos i get an stil you don rite, sumbuddy tole me we wuz havin a reunyon nex jun but i aint hurd from enybuddy about it. i unnerstan a lotta peepul are coming but i dont know who they are. i hurd it wuz a gude idear too rite peepul two get noos but i muss hav the rong adress cuz i dont here from peepul. i hurd theys a comitee thats got gude idears about reunyon but i aint hurd hooze gonna cum. every time i sit down to rite too you i think how nice it wud be if i hurd from you so i cud tel sum uther fellas wat you are doin.

yours, abner dere abner, i got your letter an i have two tel you that i been awful bizzy. i ben savin sum noos for you. it aint much but i here reyoonyun is cummin gude. a lotta fellas are cummin an i hope your cummin two. i seen charly singleton an he says he got a little gurl born October 22, 1940. name uv melinda powell singleton—her bruther james s. singleton says shes swell, hur ma says its about time you tole sumbuddy about hur.

i seen a paper that says george scott wuz put in a gude job by the national association of insurance agents, heez gonna run education wurk under a noo division started two bring all state education under a sentral hed. the paper sed a lotta nice things about george an i sure wuz glad, heez a nise fella.

i seen anuther paper ware ed steel wuz hed man running the meetin of the warner brothers pictures stockholders, ed tole them everything wuz better in the company an that nex year they wuz changin distribushun methods so as two plees the federal guvverment.

i here that george snodgrass is with jones and laughlin steal co. an is livin in avalon, pa.

miney la fever aint had time to rite but i hurd from wes la fever that miney has a office at 629 south spring street, los angeles.

i seen a fella that says murray wright is principal uv the junior high school in nashua, n. h.

al metzger is a teechur in the englewood school for boys in englewood, n. j.

i here that don church is manager uv the le roy hotel in miami beach, i sure wud like to go down there, abner.

i here sum of the fellas have moovedken korten is livin at 426 west grand avenue, Chicago pete ide at 550 Windsor avenue, Stratford, conn jack bickford at 315 grove street, westfield, n. j art smith at 2437 third avenue, south, minneapolis carl Stanley, 293 Washington St., gloucester, mass shorty bengtson at 115 east elm street, greenwich, conn.

thats all the noos i got exsept two say ime cummin to reunyon an i hope i sea you there, wun uther thing, i dont sea wy that class exekutiv cumiteedont rite, wen i sea them ile tellem. ile rite again sum time, abner.

yours, elmer

Secretary-Chairman, Whitney Road, Short Hills, N. J.