Clinton Naugle lived in Hooversville, a small borough of Somerset County in southwest Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooversville,_Pennsylvania
In January of 1911, Clinton received a postcard from Chester.
Chester wrote from Somerset, a borough and county seat of Somerset County.
Somerset was a center of the Whiskey Rebellion in the early years of this nation (1794).
Hooversville is about 15 miles northeast of Somerset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset,_Pennsylvania
The face of the postcard is a bright drawing of poppies blooming beside a rural road.
The unpaved road passes a wooden fence, and a pair of birch trees.
Overhead, a swallow darts across the sky.
The colorful postcard was printed in Europe.
On the reverse, Chester reports that “I am living yet …”
Unfortunately, Chester did “not have a nice time at Christmas as I had the mumps.”
We do not know Chester’s age, but mumps can have serious effects in adult patients.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/mumps-in-adults
One hopes that Chester has recovered completely, that Clinton was pleased by the pretty postcard, and that the friends remained correspondents for many years.
