GEORGE E. RAMSKILL

JUDGE
COUNTY COURT PROBATE COURT JUVENILE COURT
OSAGE COUNTY LYNDON, KANSAS

July 14, 1938.

Mrs. Alberta Hulteen,
Secy. Phys. Educ.,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansase

Dear Mrs. Hulteen:

Would you do me a big favor? I am badly in
need of the check for the work that I performed during
the last payroll terminating on June cOthe Would you
please get the check from the business office when it
arrives and mail the same to me in Osage City.

I began work for the probate judge on the lst
of July and the next day I took the oath of office of
pro tem judge for the summer months so that I might act
in that capacity in the absence of the judge--that is ~~.
issue marriage licenses, perform wedding ceremonies (be-
lieve it or not) and sign and place the seal of the court
on other legal instruments that are filed in the probate
or county courtse The judge was out of town the other
evening so I was called over to Lyndon to handle the pre-
liminary hearing of three men arraigned into court on
misdemeanor chargese The county attorney was also out of
town so the only manner I had of determining “even a guess
on the fine and costs of the action" was to refer to a
previously recorded case in the docket of similar nature.

My regular duties, however, are stenographic and
recording in nature. The county has a new Underwood wide
carriage typewriter with an electric carriage return and
an electric shift key that make typewriting a pleasure.

Also I have a “Error? No" copvholder with a sort of a
magnifying glass attachmente Please excuse my unnecessary
divulging into how my summer months are being spent, but I
thought you might be interested and I do enjoy writing about
£4.

I would deeply appreciate it if you would oblige
me by sending my check to my Osage City address. I am living
in Osage City and I communt to Lyndon daily with the co. supt.
of schools whose home is also in Osage City.

Please give Dr. Allen my personal greetings.

Sincerely yours

Harold E. Johnsén,
(420 Lord Street, Osage City, Kansas.)