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Show MRS. SEAMAN . STATES POSITION In a Communication to The Record Details Help Received Can Nov Manage Nicely Without Aid. Lund, Utah, Nov. 3, 1915. Editor Iron County Record: I am distressed, by the publicity given mo in The Record. Rec-ord. I intended to answer the first article, but other matters crowded mo so that I neglected it. In thto first place, I don't Ho in bed all day to keep warm or for any other reason. My boy with me is nine years af age on the 10th of next January. My next child is a girl of GV6 years. They get up all the sagebrush wood .vo need to keep warm. I suffer reatly at times, but I still have hope .hat I may improve. Wo camo here ibout the last of March, 1015. I grew vorso during the first three months, ut havo improved some since. To satisfy some, I will tell just how nuch help we have received, as the ast article in The Record said, "Wo lave helped them out right along." 3eforo my husband left for Califor-iia, Califor-iia, Mr. J. D. Leigh gave us credit .'or $20 which has been paid in full. Our horse wandered off and died, vc think, so we have had no use this lummcr for our farming tools. These I loaned to three different homestcad-3rs. homestcad-3rs. One borrowed a harness, culti-ratov culti-ratov and post-hole digger, for tho use f which his wife did my washing for a few weeks. Anothor used our plow, loublc harness and a half dozen smaller tools a part of tho summer, ind in return the wife of this home-Header home-Header took care of my four-year-old "irl a part of the summer, and made i few now clothes for her. To one kind neighbor I loaned a buble-barrel shot-gun and a water )arrel, for the use of which ho some- imes does an odd job and .gives us a rabbit now and then. Now in Borne way reports have been circulated that the favors all camo my vay, which is not true. I believe they have had "value recoived" at least. If not, thoy should have come to mo ,vith complaints. Thoso who have helped me not expecting anything in return, I will hero name: Mrs. Root f Lund, Mrs. Southwick, Mrs. Kluss-man, Kluss-man, Mrs. Booth and Mrs. Doolittle, :ach gave small items of food or of clothting. Dr. Green was tho means of our jetting' by subscription or otherwise iome $12.00 worth of groceries and a few clothes. Mr. Leigh sent a small oad of cedar wood, which Mrs. Carter's Car-ter's boys and a Hammond boy cut for us. Mrs. Carter sent us grocer-'cs grocer-'cs to the value of $1.25, or such a matter, and I loaned her boys the bridle bri-dle and reins to our single harness. This is the extent of the help that we have received and I take this opportunity op-portunity to thank thoso who have helped, for their kindness. My sister sent mo a little money and said that if sho could get some money she had tied up she would, help me some more. My husband and his folks havo provided everything else wo havo had. We can get along nicely nice-ly now without further help. Both my husband nnd my oldest boy have recovered now from typhoid, for which we aro very happy. My husband has plenty of work engaged ahead. Wo hopo to boost for Iron county some day. Wo like it here and hope to be able to provo up on our homestead home-stead in duo time. When I am able, I will give $13.60 to some worthy but suffering family in Iron county, but will not send their name to be printed. JULIA H. SEAMAN. |