[Route] 1 Centerville Pa
November 9th 1916

My dear daughter and family

We recd your letter [too] glad to hear from you but very [sorry] to hear Will is sick hope he is much better you must have your hands full. Well I am setting in the rocking chair writing & am gaining quite well now Nolia is down [here] so Hobert [came] [here] for dinner & I went out & [ate] dinner with them for the first time for over 4 weeks I have such a good [appetite] I [hardly] know when to stop eating [every] thing [tasted] so good Minnie it [seems] [there] was a providence in it that you did not come home is it [Typhoid] [fever] hope he

will pull through & perhaps have better health. We have been [having] fine fall weather but very frosty nights it has been real indian [summer] for a few [days] but today it the wind hard & it began to rain before noon & I think it will get colder Marie has been home from the grape country a week she was up to see me once a little while I had a letter from Eva last week she has [had] 2 [attacks] of bronchitis & coughs quite bad & is not [?] well & also a letter from Belle she is well her son Stanly is home for 4 years now Minnie my hand is so shaky I will close [hoping] this will find you all better [don't] [worry] about me for I have the best of care Nolia is so good to me write when you can your loving Mother