Volume 11 , Issue 13

Insight Into Grandpa

This weeks letter from John C. McClure take us back to February 22, 1904, Quincy, Illinois, postmarked May 15 and 17, 1904 by the respective postoffices of Quincy, Illinois and Alva, Oklahoma, respectively.

The 1904 letter begins: Quincy, Il., Feb. 22, 1904, Miss Constance Warwick, Alva, O. T.

"Dear Connie, I received your ever welcome letter this A.M. I perhaps will receive the letter you sent to Altona but have not yet.

"Well! I have got the mumps. The town seems to be infected with them. I have not been out for a week, but will be out again soon. Three of the boys who room here have had them, one had the measles, and one has them now. I expect I will have to have them yet.

"I would like to have been to your leap year ball, but I am not much good at dancing. That town will be real nice, won't it. You can walk over every day and go around the square, like you used to at Alva.

"In one of your letters you reminded me about my hat. I ddi not consider that half as bad luck, as when I got back to town that next Sunday Eve. You said you did not meet with a single refusal at the ball, but you can say that you never sent one. The only one a certain kid ever got.

"Ikie must be getting good at finding girls. I think my chances would be slim at even finding one. I would like to be at the literary society and hear that dialogue, and also some of those debates. Bevis for instance.

"You must have a stand-in (as the saying is) over at Snyders or mebby (sic) it is the other way.

You had better come here instead of going to Salina. A lady who taught at the east school (Mrs. Adams) is here attending school, attending the G. C. B. C. How do they charge at Salina? There is a girl from home going to school.

"Say! You never told me about that Bachelor School Board and Miss Gateka. I want to know about it. I do not write to her. How did you find out I was writing to her. It was no secret at all, I think that is what made her mad. She did not treat me right about one thing any way. Did you see her during the holiday vacation at xmas?

"Yesterday was my birthday. I was 20. When is your birthday and how old will you be. You will have to take an extra sheet of paper to answer these questions on.

"Those pictures were no count, so I am going to try it alone next time. He would not finish them. Say! Connie, somebody swiped that picture that you gave me. I think it was one of the boys, who stayed here last winter. Tell me in next letter, if I had better ask for another, if I would get one if I did. Don't forget. I will close. Write soon. your Friend, J. C. McClure, 524 North 9th St., Quincy."
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