Correspondence from missionaries at Lintsing, Techow, and Paotingfu, China, 1924

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1522 Tralnut St. Berkeley Calif. March 3 1924 wondered how you are enjoy-: Dear Fater Tafifinom; We have oft* ing this dry winter. ': . > The rain of Saturday night however must have ^ been very welcome. Yet we are still about 16 inches short he- $T about the Ba$. (re You may wonder how we are putting . in our time. It is something of a question wore all the time goes to. but it certainly • yoes In a little over two months the U.C. comes to its long vaoat on" and we expect to go to our summmer home at Kontesano again. I was in Guerneville two weeks ago to sup­ply the church there one Sunday and went out to Ha drone cot­tage in the afternoon finding everything in good shape. We took off the redwood shingis which were entirely rotten and put on malthoid roofing .The matched flooring you put in made a yood foundation for it. «~ The coming summ <er I hope to • <a« spread on a coating of asphaltum ad while still hot a coat of fine gravel 'from the river bottom. That ought to last a good g*. many yeas -as long as I shall probably. The county road which runs past the place is in good condition being used all winter excepting three days when a bad slide was being cfeared away. I bought the lot in front of Madrono cottage,-the one between it and the river and cleared it up so we have an tin-ovstruoted view -up and down the river • Lots are bringing gooa prices there now and I fancy the demand will increase in the years to come. _. J ._ _ . I wish that you and Edith might eomo up for sons time this summmer. I have still some wood to split to make you feel at home. , . .^ y Y7hii@ there in October I put in two pds> of onion sets and they were looking fine when I was tiers. I nave as many in here which is about the limit of our gar­den here also, 'e are away so much of the summmer that it does not nay. I patronise tie? Free Market in Oaklaimd weekly .All winter I have gotten lettuce four s^id. heads for a dime. The North Church here is barely holding its own yet is doing *ood work. About 30 families were afffeoted by the great - fire Many have as y't-wo°^r tse.trtlred retlrstenwhdere ,anJd ^neuw o>nes h«av ej £no3t scrom%o 1*j z^ ' this s.ason . D.aft Chas.R.Brown gave us nine , Prof.Koford three G.campb.ll Morgan 12 and mny others. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ to be in Oakland for three w.eKs.I hop. to hear him often . "^«n ™v w« exoect to see you at our house in B«:.x./ »£»*" President CaWhS! i» to inaugurated Maroh 22. That would be a g ° ° £ . *SSh ^ n d ^ o v * . 0 " I d i t ? iyour .an of all worK and ohi.f fturm manager.. Affectionately Yours, Ben.F.Sargent. Is % ft