Treasure Chest Thursday -- Postcards circa 1909

This week's treasure comes from great-grandma Piggott's box of goodies.  These two postcards must have been sent in an envelope like a letter, and I think there are 'pages' missing.

It seems that great-grandma had a man that was very smitten with her before she married great-grandpa.  His name was Frank Wilks. 

The cards are not dated, but since Hazel Madsen and William Piggott were married in October of 1910 I am guessing that they were written about 1909/1910. 

 

I assumed that this Frank character was about the same age as Hazel, but the census tells me he was ten years older.

I will now attempt to transcribe the postcards -- keep in mind that one or two are missing.

your shoes

in my trunk all you

have to do is to

come over and 

put them in. of course

Will has got the 

trunk for them 

though I forget.

where are you 

working over there

and are you going

to stay untill you

go home I hope

not there isn't

any thing dairy

over here at present.

I went to church

three times yesterday

don't you think that

 

...and the next one says:

I don't know

when I'll be able

to get back to

Evanston if it

keeps on raining

well Hazel my 

heart is just as

these cards

indicate so

keep a little cozy

corner in your

heart for me

yours forever

Frank Wilks

you know I've

danced in that

Historical pig trough twice

I was curious about the pig trough reference so of course I had to google it.  It seems that back in the day the oldest daughter was expected to get married first.  If for some reason that didn't happen and a younger daughter was married first, the poor eldest daughter had to dance in a pig trough!

So I gather from the last line in Frank's postcard that two of his younger siblings were married before him. I did find a record for his marriage.  He was married at the age of 36, two years after Hazel and Will got married.

Name:	Frank D. Wilks
Gender:	Male
Spouse:	Eva Perkins
Spouse gender:	Female
Marriage Date:	Apr 13, 1912
Marriage Location:	Afton, Uinta Co., Wyoming
Source:	This record can be found in the marriage book at the County Courthouse located in Bear Lake Co., ID in Volume 2 on Page 391.