2 for some weeks Sarah was quite sick but is now about as usual and as busy as usual. Our California friends are all in
their usual health Mary John Reid has been visiting the Fair at San Fran and some of the others are going. David Ette have
been working very hard Ette has often some of Johns workmen boarding with her 3 Sarah two girls are still in the Dry Goods
store and seem to enjoy being there. What a great deal of trouble these strikes are making all through this country from what
we read about in the Papers we hardly know what to expect next, however Portage affairs seem to move on about as usual