Oct. 10, 1917

Dear Bro Sister One & all,

we received Lillie's letter telling us about Hadden's death though we say it in the paper a few days before hard to realize that it was realy Hadden I have been watching the casualty list for some time & he was always in my mind & his name appeared at last which I suppose is nothing more than one might have expected but it is hard to feel that he is gone & made the sacrifice that so many are making in this terrible war & they all belong or are especially dear to some person many a surrounding heart is left to morn the loss of a loved one. But we remind you that their is a silver lining though the cloud may be dark. We know & feel that Hadden is well off to night & has escaped many a sorrow & pain besides he might have been tonight a German prisoner & then we know not what would be before him. The girls got a number of letters from him he told us he was going to make us a [?]site when he came back but he also said it might be a long long time before he came back which showed through he always was cheereful that he was thinking & realized what might happen. Now we join in sending you all our deep sympathy which is not much we can do at this time we also ask you to look on the bright side for God is rulling & some day we will understand for we know that their is some things a thousand times worse than death which we should all remember.

Well we are all quite well as usual thankful for the blessing we are busy as usual expect to fill silo tomorrow we have only one steady man now it is all we can get we also have Jim Isabel still on the war path plowing every day he is a wonderful man. Say Shepheard I am enclosing that note of Henry Redman I have spoken to him & written to him but he pays no attention & it will soon be outlawed if you sign it on the back & return it I will sure just for once if he sent you anything on it mark it on the note he is likely just putting it off till it is outlawed now it is bed time & will bid you all good night.

R. Ellis
Iroquois