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Cincinnati, O.
October 2, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
How could you expect me to do any writing this week with all I had in hand? Before this week you were only one little postcard ahead of me. I intended to go to church Sunday and started in the car rather late as I had been trying to get it in running order. I offered to take Mr. + Mrs. Ross to their church on the way as I saw they were ready to go. The engine missed very badly and when we got up on McMillan Street I was afraid we could not make it. I forgot to say that they decided to go to our church instead of their own. I turned around then and took them back to their church on Maplewood Ave. and went back and worked on the car.
I went to the Ottermann’s for dinner and started up to Logan, W.Va. on the 7 P.M. train. It was a hard trip. I arrived at Huntington at midnight and finally got to bed at 12:45 am time. I had to get up the next morning at 4:45 am time to take the train to Logan. I held a bridge hearing there. The man interested in putting up the bridge was the only one there until a few minutes before we adjourned when the County Road Engineer happened in because the hearing was in his office room.
I went to the bridge site about 3 miles below the town before the hearing. After it I had about 45 minutes to spare and got them to take me into a big coal mine. The handle the cars in the mine with little electric locomotives. It was very interesting. The mine was quite cool and after I went out in the open air again it felt so hot that I didn’t get cooled off the rest of the day. I got back to Huntington in the evening and thought I would get a fairly good night’s rest 4 hours in the hotel, and a little more than that on the train. They didn’t sell berths at Huntington but said there would be plenty on the train. Instead there were plenty of people who had to sit up. As I got up at 3 o’clock am time you may know how I felt when I got in.
I went straight to the office and worked until nearly ten, went out and got a combination breakfast and lunch, went back to the office until nearly eleven and then went home and went to bed. After a pretty good sleep I came down again for the last part of the afternoon, bringing down the pen as I received your pathetic appeal about it on my return. I had decided not to send it as it had to be crated and I thought the rates were too high. Anyway it's sent now but I haven’t received the bill for it yet.
I saw both games and was delighted I have a ticket for the third game here if the series goes that far.
I worked on the machine some more Wednesday evening and made a great improvement in it. I took Mrs. Ross, her niece Edna Perry aetat XIII and the Ottermanns to church in it. After church we all stopped in at the Ottermanns for a little while.
The Geres came back early (Wednesday morning I think) on account of Mr. Gere’s having a cough and because it was so wet and cold up there. The Geres asked to be remembered to you, also the Ottermanns, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Morrison, I think, and Mrs. Herkness. The last time I saw Mrs. Gere was two or three days ago and then she said that Mr. Gere’s cough was better. Mrs. Ottermann said she would try to find us a house and so did a lady at the church. I think she was a Mrs. Randall. Mrs. Ottermann said this lady was around in Clifton a good deal and that she might get one. I think she may be a practitioner.
I really didn’t have time to write this letter but wrote it anyhow, and now I will have to quit.
I am glad to hear that you are resting and getting fat and that the kids are doing so well.
I love you very much even if I don’t have time to write as many letters as you ought to write to me.
I will try to write more often now and get my average up.
With lots of love to you, the kids, and the family,
Will
P.S. Kisses for you and the kids.
W.
October 2, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
How could you expect me to do any writing this week with all I had in hand? Before this week you were only one little postcard ahead of me. I intended to go to church Sunday and started in the car rather late as I had been trying to get it in running order. I offered to take Mr. + Mrs. Ross to their church on the way as I saw they were ready to go. The engine missed very badly and when we got up on McMillan Street I was afraid we could not make it. I forgot to say that they decided to go to our church instead of their own. I turned around then and took them back to their church on Maplewood Ave. and went back and worked on the car.
I went to the Ottermann’s for dinner and started up to Logan, W.Va. on the 7 P.M. train. It was a hard trip. I arrived at Huntington at midnight and finally got to bed at 12:45 am time. I had to get up the next morning at 4:45 am time to take the train to Logan. I held a bridge hearing there. The man interested in putting up the bridge was the only one there until a few minutes before we adjourned when the County Road Engineer happened in because the hearing was in his office room.
I went to the bridge site about 3 miles below the town before the hearing. After it I had about 45 minutes to spare and got them to take me into a big coal mine. The handle the cars in the mine with little electric locomotives. It was very interesting. The mine was quite cool and after I went out in the open air again it felt so hot that I didn’t get cooled off the rest of the day. I got back to Huntington in the evening and thought I would get a fairly good night’s rest 4 hours in the hotel, and a little more than that on the train. They didn’t sell berths at Huntington but said there would be plenty on the train. Instead there were plenty of people who had to sit up. As I got up at 3 o’clock am time you may know how I felt when I got in.
I went straight to the office and worked until nearly ten, went out and got a combination breakfast and lunch, went back to the office until nearly eleven and then went home and went to bed. After a pretty good sleep I came down again for the last part of the afternoon, bringing down the pen as I received your pathetic appeal about it on my return. I had decided not to send it as it had to be crated and I thought the rates were too high. Anyway it's sent now but I haven’t received the bill for it yet.
I saw both games and was delighted I have a ticket for the third game here if the series goes that far.
I worked on the machine some more Wednesday evening and made a great improvement in it. I took Mrs. Ross, her niece Edna Perry aetat XIII and the Ottermanns to church in it. After church we all stopped in at the Ottermanns for a little while.
The Geres came back early (Wednesday morning I think) on account of Mr. Gere’s having a cough and because it was so wet and cold up there. The Geres asked to be remembered to you, also the Ottermanns, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Morrison, I think, and Mrs. Herkness. The last time I saw Mrs. Gere was two or three days ago and then she said that Mr. Gere’s cough was better. Mrs. Ottermann said she would try to find us a house and so did a lady at the church. I think she was a Mrs. Randall. Mrs. Ottermann said this lady was around in Clifton a good deal and that she might get one. I think she may be a practitioner.
I really didn’t have time to write this letter but wrote it anyhow, and now I will have to quit.
I am glad to hear that you are resting and getting fat and that the kids are doing so well.
I love you very much even if I don’t have time to write as many letters as you ought to write to me.
I will try to write more often now and get my average up.
With lots of love to you, the kids, and the family,
Will
P.S. Kisses for you and the kids.
W.
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1.
I held a bridge hearing there. The man interested in putting up the bridge was the only one there until a few minutes before we adjourned when the County Road Engineer happened in because the hearing was in his office room.
I searched on newspapers.com for something about the bridge hearing - an announcement, maybe - but found nothing.
2.
After a pretty good sleep I came down again for the last part of the afternoon, bringing down the pen as I received your pathetic appeal about it on my return.
Pathetic, huh? Kathleen was just plain mad. Alas, she didn't receive the pen before she wrote her next letter to Will - see:
3.
I saw both games and was delighted I have a ticket for the third game here if the series goes that far.
Wikipedia says:
The 1919 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1919 season. The 16th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine series (along with 1903, 1920, and 1921). Major League Baseball decided to try the best-of-nine format partly to increase popularity of the sport and partly to generate more revenue.
The events of the series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers, allegedly led by Arnold Rothstein, to throw the World Series games.
4.
her niece Edna Perry aetat XIII
13 years old. Alma also occasionally uses aetat.
I held a bridge hearing there. The man interested in putting up the bridge was the only one there until a few minutes before we adjourned when the County Road Engineer happened in because the hearing was in his office room.
I searched on newspapers.com for something about the bridge hearing - an announcement, maybe - but found nothing.
2.
After a pretty good sleep I came down again for the last part of the afternoon, bringing down the pen as I received your pathetic appeal about it on my return.
Pathetic, huh? Kathleen was just plain mad. Alas, she didn't receive the pen before she wrote her next letter to Will - see:
3.
I saw both games and was delighted I have a ticket for the third game here if the series goes that far.
Wikipedia says:
The 1919 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1919 season. The 16th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine series (along with 1903, 1920, and 1921). Major League Baseball decided to try the best-of-nine format partly to increase popularity of the sport and partly to generate more revenue.
The events of the series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers, allegedly led by Arnold Rothstein, to throw the World Series games.
4.
her niece Edna Perry aetat XIII
13 years old. Alma also occasionally uses aetat.
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