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Show ety, and teach a class of boys in the Sunday School. I have helped some in the Industrial School, sold tickets for the Ladies' Social concert, led cottage prayer-meetings and made bandages for the 50th Iowa soldier boys. As to school work, I taught as a substitute one day and a half in the Grinnell High School, and at present am tutoring a pupil in geometry. I have also been able to study some regularly. I am anticipating great pleasure in once more meeting the "Fifty" through the medium of the '98 class letter. Faithfully Yours, BESSIE M. FELLOWS. Grinnell, Iowa, Feb. i, 1899. Dear Classmates:- Nearly seven months have passed since our last '98 meeting in Grinnell. Surely each member of our remarkable class must have had experience enough in that time to furnish material for a long and interesting lett'er. Yet there is at least one exception,-in my case. The summer months passed quietly for me, as I stood by and watched the rest of the family work. That there was work to do you will not question when I tell you that during the month of September not only did the school year begin for me, but we moved into our new home, and had a wedding! A very pleasant .event of last summer was a visit received from a classmate of mine, who drove up from Charles City in company with a classmate of hers from Grinnell. They are the only '98-ers whom I have seen Bince June. I enjoy my school work more and more as I become |
