20.	Fred Volkmann to Alexander Krueger, March 28, 1892

[10] FRED VOLKMANN TO ALEXANDER KRUEGER, MARCH 28, 1892
Slides 199 - 200.

Evanston
Illnois
March
28
5 	Deares Alex we are all well
we sold the horses to day on
monday for $180 I hovent no work
to do now I just need to saw a little
wood we baugh some nice wood
10 	for $4 a cord and got old stumps
for nothing our old Millie is very
afraid of the train and other gray
horse we sold ran a way from
that man he is very surry he bought
15 	it he broke the new carrage all up
in pieces my fathe got hurt by the
horse he has been laying around a
baught a week old Millie jumped
righ on his heel its swelled up very
20 	thick we are glad we got red of them
we had a nice konsort in the
babtist curch a trip to China we
all got in free they have us
a ticked for nothing the other peop{le}
25 	hado pay fifty cents for a tickett
and for chirldren twenty-five cents
this is a beautiful town very nice
buildings I wis_ you could see this
city some day I wish you would
30 	come and see us some d{a}y our
house is west of Evanston its one
of the old k{…}k house the a fence
on top of the house we live up—
stairs and old woman living down
35 	dou stairs who gets s{...}ll every
day {+} my mother alway gets goes
to town with her some times
I hope your are all well and not
sick I dont like to be sick I we got
40 	a postle card to day the old uncle
Goetsh was dead my mothe felt
very bad t   when she herd it
we live on washington
street 
45 	F. V.