Triplett Family - Dr Chance Letter - page 1

This letter written in 1908 was from the physician who remembered Shirley Greene Triplett's family in Little Falls Minnesota.
N. W. CHANCE, M.D.
     LITTLE FALLS, MINN

Little Falls, Minn,

July 7, 1908

Deaer Shirley -,

               Well I guess its about time I was writing. I waited so that I could get some news to gether but it was a rather hard [?]. Little Falls is dead and work is scarce they do not pay anything at any job. I have not got anything yet and am thinking of going on the rear.We have had rain all this year and it has been cold besides. In June twelve inches fell. But July is better and we are having some nice weather I haven't anthing todo but bum around and have

a good time. There were a couple girls up from St. Paul visiting Leonalla Wessel, maybe you don't remember her. There were several picnics and parties. And we had fun of one kind if not of another.
     The bunch of girls who used to run around are all gone and there isn't a thing in town. Alma Fortier and the crowd she goes with are on the streets as much as anlyl and that isn't so very often and you know themI've heard that it is cood country out there to [?] in will maybe I'll be out sometime.

     I guess you want to find out how the town is they are [?]ing some new building in the Golden Rule four of them. The opera house is not built yet but Kiewel is going to build one (Important ^ John Dolan got [?]mportant fined and had to quite his business. They are building a garage and plumbing shop in that hole by the city hall for Shoeder. Ed got his arm hurt 

he was crankin a auto and it sliped on him and flew back and smashed his wrist. We had quite a lot of fun here the fourth. there was a circus in town but I didn't go we went down to maple leland with a dog prints and I had a [?] with Dlinpley he was along. Stoll and Alma Fortier they go to gether all the time were down there and she thought it was kind of fast company.
     Well is the fellows don't do anything [?] they help [?] out anyway a bunch get tanked every night talk about your fun then. Sunday Uncle Jenner was up he wanted to stay till evening so he gave me a buck to go to [Royatton] at 2 & lock and get the horse and drive home I got another guy

and we hit the blinds but we didn't get ditched at Gregow. we got the horse but first spent the dollar and Ill tell you we came home fast the horse was foam both of us were sick when we hit town. Theres a new train the Winnipeg flyer it gets here at 745 and goes to St Eloyd in 35 minutes. We go down on the blinds about once a week get out with some girl and come back at about 130 in the morning. We know one of the cops down there and he's all right has got a auto and were coming down some day and go out for a ride.

                          

     Charly sent his picture to Roy and Ed but we don't count I suppose He's getting fat and forty now. Janet got a little broncho hes a flirthy little fellowa stallion and mean as the dirt We broke him the other day and we had circus the way he pitched the kids wasn't slow. I havn't got Charly saddlers and I don't think the other fellas have but if I can find it I will mail a postal with it on. well I guess I will close. Only I'll have to tell you the Fromelt girls live up by your old place and it ain't poor stuff around there when the old man isn't to home!    Jenner,

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Rippey Family - William Wesley E. Rippey Death Record - page 1

William Wesley E. Rippey was the father of Shirley "Tripp" Triplett's first wife Grace Hortence Rippey.

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Rippey Family - Charles Mahlon Rippey Death Record - page 2

This is the death record of Charles Mahlon Rippey. He was the teenage brother of Shirley "Tripp" Triplett's first wife Grace Hortense Rippey.

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Rippey Family - Charles Mahlon Rippey Newspaper article - page 1

Charles Rippey was the brother of Grace Hortense Rippey. As the article states he was electrocuted at work. His employer was the Southern Pacific [railroad] Company.

When my mother Lorna, had been declared "good" after performing certain tasks, she would be rewarded by receiving a stamp out of Charles stamp collection. We still have the stamp album.

The article reads:

CENSURES S.P. FOR DEATH OF CALL BOY

Coroners Jury Renders Verdict that Railroad Company Was Careless in Allowing Electric Wire to be Exposed.

The Sourthern Pacific company was censured mildly in a verdict returned yesterday at an inquest held at the Button undertaking establishment over the body of Charles Malone Rippey, 16 years old, who was electrocuted by coming in contact with a highly charged wire in the Southern Pacific shops Tuesday.
     According to witness, workmen in the shops discovered that a poorly insulated guy wire was highly charged with electricity and swinging in such a manner that it was dangerous. This matter was reported to the person in authority four hours before young Rippey, a call boy employed by the railroad company, ran against the wire.
     The verdict returned by the jury reads: "We the coroner's jury, find that Charles Malone Rippey came to his death by being electrocuted by coming in contact with a guy wire at the Southern Pacific shops, due probably to the absence of a cut-off in the guy wire and defective insultation, and we find also that the company did not use means to repair the defect when notified, allowing about four hours to elapse after said notification before the accident."
     The funeral arrangements will be made later. The dead lad lived with his parents at 1601 Pennsylvania avenue.

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