Franklin Pa.
Nov. 7, 1944
Tues. eve.
My Dearest Jimmy,
Was I ever surprised today when I came downstairs and found four letters from you. They were all real good ones and I am very glad to get them. One had the locket in it and I sure do like it. It means so much more to me since you made it. Pauline’s was a little smaller and it had a coin pressed in it but it was made out of the same material. I like the one you sent me very much. Thanks a lot darling. I sure do appreciate it.
I didn’t get up today until 4:00 and I got dressed and went to find the place I had to vote. I finally found it and voted. I then came home and Pauline was up. Then she ate supper. I washed the dishes while she dried them. Then Stella and another girl came to see if I had found the place to vote. Then Pauline decided to go and vote. They couldn’t because they thought they could vote on age and they found out they couldn’t so she came back and was sort of mad. She is now typing a letter to Bud because she received one letter from him today. Bud’s letter was written on the 29th of Oct. and it was air-mail. The ones I received from you today were written on Oct. 22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th so his still get here sooner than yours do.
I hope surely by this time that you have gotten that package with your surprise in it because it was something you had wanted. Since you want to know what it was I will tell you. It was an identification bracelet and I still hope that you get it.
Honey, why is it that you think I am not saving enough? It seems funny because I think it is wonderful the amount I am saving with both your allotment and my $50. I have the $18.50 taken out of my pay for our bond. What more can you ask? Now everything you buy over here is so much higher in price then what it was when you were here. There are so many taxes on so many things. We have $1580.11 in the bank now and I have 15 bonds. I have been keeping up with the cost for your car and your insurance and the insurance for the car. I really do think I am doing pretty good because I hear that most of the girls, whose husbands are in the service, aren’t saving much of anything. Now what more can I save? Every month I pay $25.00 for room and board and then I buy extras sometime. Whenever I go home I usually take something along. Then when I need to get clothes and go to the show and bowling, get my pictures taken, and send boxes and letters to you it takes nearly all my check. It will soon be Christmas and that will take some more money and when it’s anyone’s birthday I usually get them something. So that is what I have to say about the questions you ask. I hope that answers it.
They are starting to give some of the returns on the election. But they say that we won’t know for quite a while who will really win because it will take longer to count the ones in service.
It is pretty cold out today but we haven’t had any more snow. It will probably soon be snowing. Then winter will soon be started. If only you could send some of your heat over here.
Sweetheart, I am being the truest and best wife in all the world and I will be the same as when you left me. I still am 25 ½ around the waist and I still wear what you were asking me about.
Honey, yes whenever I see Jimmy I wish I had Jo Carrol but on the other hand I want you here when I have to go thru it. I want you to be able to be with her and see her grow from day to day.
I will sure be waiting for all that loving and kissing you have promised me. And looking for that teasing you are going to give me.
I miss you Honey, and I wish that you were here with me all the time. I am thinking of you all the time. I look at your pictures and long to be able to kiss you and see you.
I can’t think of anything else for today so I am going to close until tomorrow.
Love & Kisses,
“Ruth Alice”.
P.S. Just because I haven’t said much about not learning to drive don’t say I don’t want too and you had better keep your promise to.
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