Sunday, June 16, 1912

Bernice & I drove to S.S. Mary & Mabel both were there. Then I came home and Zella & I went to the depot as I am going to Lyndon with her to get her things. We went past Hull's I got introduced to Bob Hull. In Osage, on our way to the M.P. depot, we saw Lillian Long, one of the Institute girls. She took us to her sister's house to stay until train time. Her sister etc. had gone "Fishing." Lillian goes with Harold Dew. She took us over to the depot. I think she is real nice & I like her. When we got to Lyndon depot, it as sprinkling so we took the hack to Mrs. Cowan's where Zella is staying. I think Mrs. Cowan is a lovely woman. Her daughter, Mrs. Vandevort lives with her, with her son Maurice. He is an awful sweet little fellow and thinks the world of Zella. Stokes Dodson was the only "boarder" at Cowan's. He has been "going with" Zella during Institute. He lives in Carbondale and I think he is "O.K." We three went to supper about six at Schoepflin's. On our way from supper, we saw Roy Jenson & Zella introduced me to him. He is positively the craziest kid (man) I ever saw. He got us some peanuts and pretty soon went to bed. I felt lonesome because while Maurice wasn't on the porch with us, all Stokes could see was Zella. Everyone seems to think everything of Zel. It rained awful hard late tonight. They had Children's Day exercises at Havana (as well as town) today. Bernice went out, in my place, I guess.