Sometime around 1920, Anna Witmer attended school near Manheim.
She gave a postcard, a hand-colored drawing of flowers, to her “schoolmate”, Anna Ober.
The postcard was not mailed, suggesting that it was hand-delivered.
It was a nice thing to do, and it would be churlish to note that the sender could improve her spelling.
It is, of course, quite possible that she was raised in a home in which Pennsylvania “Dutch” was her first language.
(A Research Note is attached to this postcard story) Mrs. George H. Strickler lived in Lancaster, the charming and historic city in southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania
Mr. Raymond Shoener lived in McKeansburg, a census-designated place in Schuylkill County of east-central Pennsylvania. This small community grew up around a crossroads of two
Mrs. Elizabeth Walk lived in Washington Boro, a pleasant community perched above the Susquehanna River in western Lancaster County, PA. Today, this census-designated place maintains
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Peck lived in Quimby, a very small city near the Little Sioux River in northwest Iowa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimby,_Iowa In 1930, the population