Baptist Church 01

This is one of the oldest cards that I own. The "Academy" that is referred to is the Blees Military Academy. This was apparently written by a student at the academy. Who was he writing to? It seems kind of formal language to be writing back home to a girl friend, but that may be the case.

The Academy was all the way at the south edge of town and the Baptist church is about in the middle of town. Riding into town on, perhaps on horseback, every Sunday to go to church may have been quite a trip. But he was proud enough of his church to mention it.

Notice that it bears two postmarks; one in Macon on February 21 at 7:00 PM and another at its destination the next day at 6:00 in the morning. I'm not sure how a postcard could travel that far over 100 years ago overnight. But maybe it caught a fast train.

This was in the era of the "undivided" back of postcards. One side was devoted strictly to the address and postal regulations specified that no message could appear on that side. So many of the the cards at the time had wide margins on the "picture" side of the card where people would scribble short messages.

Subject:	First Baptist Church
Caption:	J.D.Smith & Sons Postals Baptist Church - Macon, Mo. No. 4
Date:	February 21, 1906, 7-PM
From:	MW
To:	Miss Lucile Actchison Oskaloosa Iowa
Message:	Feb 21, 1906. My Dear Lucile I received your postcard yesterday and thank you for that. We live out to The Academy (?) and I am having a fine time. MW This is the church I go to.
Notes:	This is one of the oldest cards that I own. The "Academy" that is referred to is the Blees Military Academy. This was apparently written by a student at the academy. Who was he writing to? It seems kind of formal language to be writing back home to a girl friend, but that may be the case. The Academy was all the way at the south edge of town and the Baptist church is about in the middle of town. Riding into town on, perhaps on horseback, every Sunday to go to church may have been quite a trip. But he was proud enough of his church to mention it. Notice that it bears two postmarks; one in Macon on February 21 at 7:00 PM and another at its destination the next day at 6:00 in the morning. I'm not sure how a postcard could travel that far over 100 years ago overnight. But maybe it caught a fast train. This was in the era of the "undivided" back of postcards. One side was devoted strictly to the address and postal regulations specified that no message could appear on that side. So many of the the cards at the time had wide margins on the "picture" side of the card where people would scribble short messages.