Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

my good clothes and some new shoes. An awful combination. I rode the trolley to North Lima whence I hiked to Petersburg, a dis­tance of eight miles where I expected to find Aunt Sue and Uncle Eph visiting with the former’s sister, Mrs. Hess. I was disappointed Uncle Eph who has been ill for about a year with kidney trouble* had become worse, and would be unable to come until the following week. However I stayed to dinner being ^“urgently pressed”and then came back about the middle of the afternoon.

     The Jingo Club has had two parties this summer. The first was a house-party Over Saturday and Sunday when I came home held at our house. The second was a similar party given by Gibbs on the Fourth. Needless to say we had fine time at both events. At Gibbs we boys slept in a tent in the back-yard. That was a riotous sleep nothing less.

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Another activity was the building of the