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 [Coney?] 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 [scholars] 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 [raise] that much more than
we had to rase [raise] 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 [Coney?] school on account of warm
weather. We went to mass as I wrote we would

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 [illegible], but has missed
it now. Miss Lola's school or [illegible] 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 [illegible] 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 [illegible] that much more than
we had to raise 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
[illegible] of the [illegible] school on account of warm
weather. We went to mass as I wrote we would