CORY - Walter to Andy Merle Cowan
From Walter G. Cory, Loranger, LA
April 20, 1919
Mr. Andy M. Cowan, Crawfordsville
Dear Cousin,
Your letter of recent date received and was glad to hear from you and that you are all right and back in college. Well now I am able to make a good report after so long a time I went to see the young lady that you talked about Miss Angus Walker and I had quite a talk with her and no joshing but just a fatherly talk and she is a sensible girl she wanted to meet you but as CO did not perform the duty as he should you will just make the best of it. I gave her the picture and she told me to tell that she was proud of it but would appreciate it more if she had a letter from you. I asked her then if it would be all right for you to write and she said she would be very glad to hear from you. Think you and she are in the same boat. She might be induced to make a visit in Indiana this summer her house was near Franklin, Johnson Co not so far away. Some of her Father’s people live in East part of Boone Co all fine people. You can do the out? Florence said to tell you that she would take Angus picture some of these days and sent it to you . Florence and the baby are all right they went to SS and Church today. Mary Jeanette is growing like a weed. The rest are well and able to take nourishment. We are shipping about 20 gal average of milk per day. Have you seen Sarg. Ed Rumff (?) in Crawfordsville? Say Meral we have a peach tree set out 2 years this June that the seed was planted about June 1st 1917 on April 7 I saw the tree was too heavily loaded and I picked 404 peaches off it and left 788 on it. It only had 1342 peaches on it. Well your Mother getting married could have been a whole lot worse. Write 2 letters to Loranger from now on. We are as ever your cousins – Walter G Cory