Portage City Wis July 29 /69 Dear Brodan? I recd the balance due me on that debt yesterday I return you my thanks for
the same - also enclose your note - Harvest has just commenced here both in the openings the prairies Times? continue very
dull here Money is scarce but we live in hopes of better times in a couple of months illegible will perhaps bring us out of
our troubles - hope so at least? Wheat crop promises big at present - it never looked better Mary Annie start this morning
for Oconomowoc (where Elder Whitman lives) ?