A super sweet letter from Miss Jane from the late 1940’s – hope you enjoy it! ~ Ginger
Sunday Aft.
Dear Baby,
As some one* said over the radio, “The ‘humididity’ is bad this afternoon.” My hands are sticking to the paper.
I guess you will write today. We are so anxious to hear how things are coming.
I went to Sunday School and Church. There was a good crowd and Bro. Frey** preached a good sermon. Have you been to church at Boone?*** Don’t forget to pray dear. These are trying times unsettled. I feel you do good by example, but say a word when you can to help some one. Of course you are the dearest child in the world to us. So bright and happy when well. You know when you are happy – we are too.
I heard that Mr. Add Powers and Mrs. Alt Swetnam are to get married.
We ate dinner with May, and she came to the table – is doing fine. Daddy will mail this now – Lots of love, Mother.
*She uses “some one” twice in this letter. According to my research, the word “someone” began to be used around 1900, and its usage surpassed that of “some one” around 1930. Miss Jane probably learned to write it as two words.
**George C. Frey was a long time minister of the Owingsville Christian Church.
***Boone, Iowa
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| Boone Kincaid (Miss Jane’s great-grandson) in Chicago. No, he wasn’t named after Boone, Iowa. |
From the Journals of William Burl Kincaid, Jr. 
Ginger, This is interesting to me, as remember Miss Jane in my younger years in grade school (she was also my mom's and your Grandma Helen's teacher). Miss Jane was so sweet and soft-spoken. Mom recalls in some of her writings that when she had Miss Jane as a teacher, the boys needed an extra player to make their softball team complete, and my mom joined in to play. Miss Jane took her aside , and told her it that it wasn't ladylike for her to be playing ball with the boys. My, haven't things changed?We visited Boone, Iowa last summer (Glenn's first cousin, Bob Clayton and his wife live there) It is the neatest and cleanest town.Aunt Bonnie
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