Vernal, Utah

Jan. 7 1934

Dear Aunt Hattie:

I was certainly glad to hear from you. I thought that I was going to get to see you about the last of October, but I got fooled. I went out to Salt Lake with Alt’s brother and the day that I could have come to see you he had the keys to the car. I was only there a couple of nights.

I went out to see about getting a little growth taken off from Lota’s nose. Dr. Rich, the skin specialist treated it and said that we would have to come back again sometime.

Alt’s brother and his wife have a new baby boy. This makes five boys for them and no girl. They wanted this one to be a girl so bad. Lota is the only granddaughter on this side of the family. I guess that accounts for part of the reason for her being so spoiled.

I was up home to-day. Everyone up there is well. Milt said that his little boy wasn’t feeling so well.

One of Alice Bodily’s grand sons died the other day. He was three years old. It took sick out to the mines and they hurried and brought him in to the Dr., but he only lived for 15 minutes after they got him here. The Dr. gave him some king of a shot and it was too much of a shock for his heart. He had some form of the croup.

There have been several babys and small children die here lately.

We are having the funniest weather here. During the middle of the day we leave our doors open and let the fires go out. We had one little snow, but it didn’t amount to much. There is a quite a lot of snow on the mountains. Up Deep Creek there is two feet.

Our new chapel is just about rebuilt. It certainly is a wonderful building.

They are tearing up the roads around her and doing a lot of work. The projects have given a quite a number of men work.

Lorna went back to school to-day. Uncle Joseph sent three of his children out to school. He certainly is giving them all a chance to learn something.

Well, Aunt Hattie, guess this is about all that I can think of right now. I hope that I will see you the next time that I get out that way, but that isn’t very often. I forgot to tell you that Lucy had all of her teeth out, and she certainly was sick. The dentist said that she wasn’t out of danger yet. They had to take a quite a bit of the bone out, so that they would be able to fit her with false teeth.

With love to all

Jen