Urbana, Missouri.
Route #1,
Ssept., Lotni,1959.

Rear Phog -

Received your letter of August 12th and better late
than never will answer it this morning. Have had lots of company thids
last month, and it has been so damned hot and dry havn't had energy
enough to whip a cat.

Claude Nichols was here Augugt 23rd and said that he
had mailed you a bottle of "Sporodyne". Think you got the wrong im-
pression in regard to my letter. Did not want you to give it to the
trainer but wanted you to keep it for personal use, or if you had an
exceptionally tough case to try it out, and I am sure it will open
your eyes. I asked Claude to mail you a bottle and one to Dr. Hub -
Little Hub turned his over to a skin specialist in St. Louis, and is
very much interested. Even Big Hub is sitting up and taking notice
as he got some for North Mehornay for some kind of a skin infection
and it is getting the job done. I have gotten three bottles for three
of my friends in this section, and it made real converts out of them.
I am not the least bit interested in the sale of it, only I am a good
friend of Claude Nichols at Versailles who has the distribution of it
in this section of Missouri. Murray Nichols, who was our ex-partner
in the Automotive business is in Dayton, Ohio looking after the sales
of it for his brother Harry Nichols. Murray was in Kansas City last
Saturday and was telling Hub his troubles in getting it in the big chain
drug stores, but says he thinks they are over the hump now as the two
last months have put them in the black. Dr. Scholls have offered them
fifteen thousand for it, but they claim if they sell they want a royalty
also. Lets forget all about the damned stuff as I am not trying to sell
you anything, but thought I was putting you hep to something that would
be a benefit to you, and really think it will be. Know there are scads
and scads of remedies on the market, but the old world does advance and
sometimes someone finds something that is head and shoulders above the
rest of them.

Over night Hub had a chance to dispose of the business
and he let it go - He was dumping every cent he could get hold of in
business and each year we went further and further in the hole, and it
is a cinch we didn't get anything out of it. I did not average thirty
five dollars per month out of it, and Hub a very little more. Dr Needled
poured cash into it, and was carrying the load, and finally said to turn
it loose. It was practically given away as Hub sold it for $1,000 to
Ted Kuhn, and he was able to clean up all of the back rent and outstand-
ing wholesale accountsand quit with a clean slate. Told Hub I had gotten
a letter from you and he said that he would pay you for those tires you
traded in when he saw you. Think he was out in Lawrence when you were
down South. Am sure he used two of the tires on his car - I did not hear
from you, and I didn't touch them. He is trying to collect some of the
old accounts but when I saw him last week he was having very little luck.

As you remkember I told you I was fixing up this farm
with the intention of operating it on the shares, and have been down here
most of the time for the past year. I would go in and Help Hub on the
first of the month, and then back as quickly as possible. Have it pretty
well stocked and am getting started. Getting it all in Lespedeza, and it
will be a stock farm on a small scale. : 2