Charlotte, N.C.
Tues., Jan. 12, 1926
We haven't gone far in the last week, the weather was so sleety and cold. Since we left the north we have had hardly anything but rain or snow. There one expects the cold and it is invigorating, but here, it chills to the bone and is most annoying.
On Wednesday Bill looked into the matter of glue used in the manufacture of furniture in High Point. As Thursday was fine we could find no excuse to linger longer, so with many regrets, we left the Smiths.
Reaching Charlotte too late to camp we took a room in a small hotel and left the motorcycle to have new spokes put in the wheels. Expecting to leave the next morning we arose early, but found an inch and a half of snow on the window sill. We were snowbound, for our machine skids badly in the snow, which remained on the ground for the next three days.
Charlotte is a fine town, the center of the cotton industry. Today I had lots of fun fixing up the box I have been intending to send the Browns. The doll for Barna wears a store dress, a pair of rubber bloomers and a shirt I made out of an old handkerchief of Bill's. The maid, noticing that I was cutting up a handkerchief, gave me some pieces from the linen room to put in the box. For the boys are 10¢ store toys, and the baby gets a little knitted jacket to match the cap her grandfather gave her. Mrs. Junior had told me her eldest girl planned to get a jacket for the baby, but hadn't been able to because funds were so low. So I feel sure our gifts are what they want. I also included some snapshots I took there.