Camp Willis, O.
Aug. 27, 1916
My Dear Mother: - As I want to get this on the night mail, I shall just write a few lines.
Pretty cool all day, with a slight shower now and then.
Only one visitor from Toledo at our camp today. I was at the station with one of the fellows when the train came in. From the looks of the crowd I don't think there were more than 40 or 50 people from Toledo.
I am sending you a receipt, which was in my note book. Guess you had better keep it for me.
We had a fine dinner & supper today. Am feeling fine.
Love to all
Howard
Wow, Howard. You really know how to impress a mama with those receipts! I guess all of his accounting prowess runs in his blood, considering his father John was a treasurer at an oil company. Not surprisingly, <Spoiler alert!> Howard never ended up in the medical profession after the war. Rather, he continued in business like his father. In 1930, the census listed him as buyer in an auto factory. In 1940, he was a purchasing agent like his father before him.
Minding pennies must have gotten the Goods far. John and Effie had live-in "servants" as listed in the census in 1920, and Howard and Leona also had servants living with them when my Grams and her sister Sue were small in 1930. I find it kind of funny that the only "hoity toity" branch to be found in my family tree is the Goods, considering that Grams was adopted and we're not related by blood. Only white trash running through these veins!
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