[Hotel Charlton
Frank Charlton, Prop
Wellsburg W VA]
[No date; envelope postmarked Aug 17, 1916]
Dear Mother:
I just now quit work and am waiting for supper. We have practically finished two
abstracts and have fifty-eight more to do. At that rate we will be here for some time. I think the
others will go much faster—at least, I hope so.
I was out to Burton and Hundred over Sunday. I went to Kuhn’s at Hundred Saturday
afternoon and then to Burton Sunday morning and back to Wheeling Monday morning. Worked
in Wheeling all day Monday.
Ed Kuhn was married about two years ago and now have a boy eight or nine months old.
He got a very nice agreeable little woman, and they have what I consider a pretty baby. They are
still living with the old folks, who moved to town about two or three years ago. They have a
bungalow practically completed. They would like to have been moved into it when I went out.
I went to John Hunt’s Sunday morning. There was no one at home except George’s
wife—the others all being at Sunday School. I went with her to church. I did not know her and
did not remember of hearing George was married. It took me most of the time on our way to
church to figure out just who she was. She was a West Alexander girl—Mary McKain—who
went out there to teach and married one of John’s boys—not letting the fact be known until her
school was out this Spring. She is going to teach there again this year.
I stayed Sunday night with Fred Lemley. He is at home this summer.
In short, I had a very nice visit.
I think I will probably go up to Pittsburgh this week. I have a little business up there, and
would like to go home the next week as Mary will be home then.
It is getting pretty warm again down here.
Your son,
Guy