Dear Folks,

I hope by this time you are home with out having got washed away several time on the way back. From the tone of things in the newspapers and over the radio just about everything is underwater in Ill. I heard over the radio tonight that there were a million acres in Ill. alone flooded. ^[1]The May 1943 flood resulted from a series of storms during May 6-24 1943. Early rains May 6-10 in the Kaskaskia and Embarras River basins were followed by widespread rainfall throughout the State. As … Continue readingIt seems like every thing exciting has to happen when I am away. Down here there hasn’t even been a cloud in the sky since I don’t know when. Today was the worse day that we have had so far I am afraid to look at a thermometer so I can’t tell you what the temp. was except that it never got this way at home even in July.

I received your card from “Etels” I wish I could have been there with you but I guess we will have to postpone that date for alittle later.

I also got both of your letters from Chicago but I am going to have to answer them together. About my slide rule that is home. If I remember right that one didn’t have the Log. Sin, Tan. scale on the back which is pretty important now. I will try and find one out here, but if I do want that one I will write you for it.

Dad, I hope everything went alright at the convention. I went over and saw Mr. Allison last Sun. while I was at the Perkins. He is the owner of one of the largest steel plants down here in the S. West.

I guess they don’t know where Warren has been sent to yet, do they?

I hope you received the picture in as good shape as possible. I also sent Grandma and Elaine one that wasn’t colored. Maybe you saw them. Zoe might have got one also.

I am going to have to cut this short because it is five till 10.

Love, Tom