McFarland-Russell Letter, August 28, 1887 - Page 1

Bleakwood, Texas

Aug 28th 1887

Mrs. C.C. Russell

Dear Sister

I read your letter sometime
since. Was glad to hear from you. I hope your
health is improving rapidly by this time.
We are all up but not very well. Eddie has
been having fever & chills some, but has missed
it now. Miss Lola's school or Caney is out
and she will not take up at Bleakwood
untill the 12th Sep. We made every arrangement
for a Ten month school, but the assessor failed
to put in five of the schollars in time for for them to
draw any money from the state so we are
beaten out of near $40.00 and I don't know
that we can rase that much more than
we had to rase already. I fear we will fail
we will have a school meeting tomorrow and see
what we can do. We didn't have the concert at
close of the Caney school on account of warm
weather. We went to Mags as I wrote we would