Dear Cousin.  I got your letter last night.  I was glad to hear from you.  it found us as well as comin.  I am feling as well as I ever did now.  I am dad now.  maby that makes me fel better.   we have got a girl that weighed 9 pounds. 

She was a week old friday night.

Elma (STAGE) PETERS.
Doing a little calendar math, courtesy of https://print-a-calendar.com/., she was born on Friday, November 9, 1894.

we have had an ofel dry sumer out hear.  the corn crop is short.  I am about half done husking.  I will have about 2000 bushles of corn this year.  it is worth 40 cts a bushel now.  wheat is worth 47 cts a bushel.  I have got about 900 bushels to sel but i hat(e) to take that for it.  I have got 16 head of fat hogs and 35 heard of pigs and sows.  hogs is only worth 4c now.  

harrison and Em

Harrison REDDING and Mary Emma (STAGE) REDDING. Emma is Elmer's cousin and Bert's sister.

was over Sunday.  thay are well.  harrison is going to move on old billies DARESTs place on the BOLDING farm next spring.  I supose you heard about

the riot at Washington ch

Washington Court House riot details from Wikipedia.

dident you?  that was bad about killing them men on acount of that n---r (misspelled), wasent it?  I saw the solgers that morning when thay come from thar.  I went to grandrapeds that day.  well birt I supose you blame me about that

deat not being fixed

This deed comes up a few times in relation to Elmer and his sister, Lib, not getting something done for Bert. What was it?
I don't believe Bert ever moves back to Ohio; was a transfer of some sort?

but I am not to blame.  I have done all I Could to get them to go.  I told them that I would go eny day that they cold go.  I told them to let me no but thay never went so then I sent them the deead and told them to go whenever thay could and leave the deed and I would go and get it.  thay havent done that yet.  thay have had a way to go all sumer. 

pa

Elmer's parents are Edward T. and Thankful Francis STAGE.

let them have his buggy and thay had HARPERs horse whenever thay wanted it. she was down to paws 2 or 3 times a weeak.  you neadent get oneasy about the deed.  I will see that you get it allright.  I dident get one cent of the rent that you pade wes for us.  I dident no enything about her sending for it untill she had got it and pade it to DARLING.  she never sed a word to me and I saw her evry day to. 

she sed she wold pay me but she hasent yet.

Elmer plays the pronoun game quite a bit. "Them" and "thay" and "she" refer to Henry TENSLER and Elizabeth Helen "Lib" (STAGE) TENSLER (extrapolated from John A. STAGE letter). Lib is Elmer's sister. Clearly he's not happy about their efforts to help him do something for Bert.

  goodby for this time rite soon.  from Elmer and nancy STAGE.   love to all.   to Bert and Helen STAGE.