more family momentoes.....

Uncle Roger's beginner swimming card...a picture from Summer '85 of the helicopter mailbox that Harold Mathes made...grandpa Alfred grade card from South Dakota in 4th grade....1923-4....signed by great grandpa Johnnie! he missed 23.5 days out of 151 days school was in session. he was tardy 20 times, his deportment was from 85-90 each month, his classes were reading, writing, orthography, arithmetic, geography, Lang. & Gramm., Phys. and Hyg., art & drawing. grades from 70%-97%, highest grades in orthography, arithmetic, & phy. and Hyg. His teacher was Evelyn Foncannon. he was promoted to grade 5. ....grandma Pauline rec'd a One Hundred Perfect Spelling Lessons award on March 16 1931.......a valentine card from grandpa Alfred "To the most ardent & devoted wife & angel mother. Daddy & Babies" to grandma Pauline. "Darling I know that all of your valentines in the future will demand the same tokens of love which you so dearly deserve, your lover, xoxoxoxo 1948.......a wedding card to grandma & grandpa from his sister Vi and brother in law Bill...