Royal's letter to Martha #14 assumed written 9/21/1936

In the letter below, "My sister and brother-in-law from Wellington, Kansas", would be Sarah and her husband H O Blanchett. Henry (assume H O) Blanchett was a early teacher in the county. He taught in a country school there sometime 1915-1920. The story as I heard it from Mom (Martha) was that H O showed up to spark Annie Rutherford, the mother, but caught the eye of the older daughter, Sarah and that was it. One can see from the picture above she was a striking woman. Sarah was also a bit of a flapper from what I can tell from pictures in the Baca County Book. They left to study chiropractic under Doctor Palmer. They both became Doctors of chiropractic setting up offices in Wellington, Kansas not far to the East.

What I remember as a kid was that when ever they came to visit we all got adjustments. They would line up chairs or put us on a table and we would lie down and get our bones cracked. By that time late 40's H O was usually sick but Sarah was a ball of fire.

H O would have been the one who said he knew Landon who was running as a Republican against FDR that year. In other letters Royal refers to the Communist Canadate for president being arrested in Illinois and Norman Thomas who was the perennial Socialist Candidate complaining to Roosevelt. I never thought of Royal as a polical being but he certainly stayed aware of things around him. I will have other things to say about Dr. Sarah later.

RLR

Letter 14 assumed written 9/21/1936

Dearest Martha,

I was out to a bridge party after I came in from the country one of the teacher's fiance came from Greeley & Mrs. Michal had a little party. I had a very nice time. Everything was quite tame, I played one no trump hand and cleaned up. My sister and brother-in-law from Wellington, Kansas were here over the weekend. They came Sat Morningng at 3:00 am and left about 3:00 pm Sunday. I went home Sat Night and came back about six Sunday. I brought back some swell petunias for the window box. Also a nice banquet of snapdragons and one of zinnias. I went to school planted the petunias as soon as I got here.

I did not expect a letter Saturday but the one I got certainly was a fine one. It was next best to seeing you. I won't be too long until I shall see you. It has been five weeks since you pulled out of Union Station in Denver. Xmas will come sure.

My brother-in-law, who knows Landon quite well, does not think him such a big man. He thinks Landon is being backed by big business, and that he will be a machine in the hands of big business.

I wish I could see you today. You will be here by me this time next year. It looks as if June would be the month?

Love,
Royal