To Bertha from C.C. Ballou – October 14, 1920
War Department
Headquarters Recruit Depot
Fort Logan, Colorado
My dear Specks,
I have neglected you as of late – partly owing to “much trabajo” and partly to my deep disgust at being ordered to Spokane. We are in the throes of packing up. I received your check, and bought you a Victory bond, and owe you a balance of $3.55. The bond costing $96.45. It pays 4 ¾ percent, and matures on May 15, 1923, or about two and a half years from now. The interest you will draw, plus the $3.55, makes you about seven per cent on the investment, should you keep it till it matures. At any rate you get 4 ¾% at any time you want the money at what it cost you.
I make my last speech here Sunday night, Central Christian church, “Our duties to The Government.” Mamma is busy and – also disgusted – we will be about as near you as we are now, but farther from the others. I also regret leaving my many friends here. The worst is the packing up after getting things looking so nicely – my regiment is the 21st – scattered over five posts on Alaska and there in Washington, Montana and Utah.
Sorry we don’t go via Elks.
Your loving old dad.