Volume 11 , Issue 36

Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

This week's 1905 letter from John C. McClure to Miss Constance Warwick takes us to October. I could not make out the exact date in October 1905, because part of the postmark was destroyed when Constance tore open the end of the envelope.

There was only one letter in October, 1905 and it is beginning to sound as though thing might be cooling down between the two of them to some extinct. We also find out that the person, Lowe, that John talks about in his past letters has just bought an interest in a pool hall in Alva, Oklahoma Territory.

John was still living and working at the First National Bank in Alva, Oklahoma Territory. Constance Warwick was teaching in rural schools in northwest Oklahoma Territory, in October, 1905 was getting her mail by rural delivery, Alva, Oklahoma Territory.

October 1905 letter -- A short, one-page letter begins, "Alva, O.T., Tuesday Eve, Dear Connie, I may be out Thursday Eve. I worked till 12 last night and will work tonight. Lowe has bought half interest in the pool hall.

"I reckon I did act mad Sunday Eve. You hurt my feelings a little on the road out there. I would not have cared had I known that I was doing something that I had not ought to do. But that calling down hurt me awful. Jno McClure."
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