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[Hotel Charlton
Frank Charlton, Prop.
Wellsburg W VA]
[No date; envelope postmarked Aug 11, 1916]
Dear Mother:
We have put in a pretty faithful day today. The boss wrote asking for an abstract we
were working on and we have been rushing to finish it, and at that, will not get it done by the
time he said he would like to have it. This has been a good week to work—much cooler than last
week. We have done a lot of work this week after getting started. The B. & O. was over an hour
late on Monday morning and that caused me to miss a train from Wheeling up here. I did not get
here until about 11:30. Dugest did not pull in until about noon Tuesday, so I put in my time on
what little work I had ahead until he got here. He was sick and did not begin until Wednesday
morning. We started an index of their Chancery proceedings here on Wednesday but had to quit
it when the boss’s letter came for the abstract. I am getting accustomed to their system until I
like it much better than I did at first.
It is raining here just a little this evening. There has not been scarcely any rain here.
While you were getting large rains up there they were not getting any here. There have been
only two or three little showers here since we came. The rain I spoke of was over and the sun
shining before I finished the next sentence.
I do not think that I will come home this week. I wrote to Ed Kuhn and am going out
there (to Hundred) over Sunday. While going or coming I have a little work to do at Wheeling
on a title. I think I will do it Monday on my way back. I have not seen Ed for years and decided
that this would be a good time to go down. I would like to go to Burton some week while down
here, also.
I had a letter from Mary this week and as I understood it she expects to get home about
Tuesday week.
I guess the railroad strike was settled. I was glad to hear that.
I understood, from what Hufford said, that Bennett had a haystack burned by lightning
and James Fonner, a barn, on last Sunday evening. The storms seem severe in that section this
year. I guess the storm was the cause of the train being so late on Monday morning.
I had a letter from Ira and one from James Hall this week.
Your son,
Guy
Frank Charlton, Prop.
Wellsburg W VA]
[No date; envelope postmarked Aug 11, 1916]
Dear Mother:
We have put in a pretty faithful day today. The boss wrote asking for an abstract we
were working on and we have been rushing to finish it, and at that, will not get it done by the
time he said he would like to have it. This has been a good week to work—much cooler than last
week. We have done a lot of work this week after getting started. The B. & O. was over an hour
late on Monday morning and that caused me to miss a train from Wheeling up here. I did not get
here until about 11:30. Dugest did not pull in until about noon Tuesday, so I put in my time on
what little work I had ahead until he got here. He was sick and did not begin until Wednesday
morning. We started an index of their Chancery proceedings here on Wednesday but had to quit
it when the boss’s letter came for the abstract. I am getting accustomed to their system until I
like it much better than I did at first.
It is raining here just a little this evening. There has not been scarcely any rain here.
While you were getting large rains up there they were not getting any here. There have been
only two or three little showers here since we came. The rain I spoke of was over and the sun
shining before I finished the next sentence.
I do not think that I will come home this week. I wrote to Ed Kuhn and am going out
there (to Hundred) over Sunday. While going or coming I have a little work to do at Wheeling
on a title. I think I will do it Monday on my way back. I have not seen Ed for years and decided
that this would be a good time to go down. I would like to go to Burton some week while down
here, also.
I had a letter from Mary this week and as I understood it she expects to get home about
Tuesday week.
I guess the railroad strike was settled. I was glad to hear that.
I understood, from what Hufford said, that Bennett had a haystack burned by lightning
and James Fonner, a barn, on last Sunday evening. The storms seem severe in that section this
year. I guess the storm was the cause of the train being so late on Monday morning.
I had a letter from Ira and one from James Hall this week.
Your son,
Guy