Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - October 29, 1917
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B.G., [Missouri], October 29, 1917. Dear Bennett: Recieved your telegram this morning. Glad to get it. Glad you are well. This is an awfully cold, blustering day, snowing & sleeting. I reached here yesterday via Gilmore at 11:37 forenoon. Your mother has just arrived an C & H afternoon from [Kansas City] Both well. B.G. is threatened with fuel famine. I got along all right in [St. Louis] and had a very large and enthusiastic audience at Montgomery - half people could not get in. I got Loula to write me about 40 letters. Dawford says business filing upon office. So I think I will stay here only a few days. Jim Biggs left for Fort Benjamin Harrison to-day. Wish I could get him into your regiment. Will try to do so. We will send you to comfort to-morrow. Much corn ruined by freeze.
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The new Court House is going up all right. George Stedding’s boys are at Camp Doniphan. Hunt them up. Think I hope I have got Harry C. Turner a place in Secret Service. Every body wants place & Drafted men nearly all want to get out. Sterrings quits hotel Friday. He wants to go to France to run a steam engine. W. F. Campbell’s wife is suing him for a divorce. I enclose list of property, notes etc. Better keep it. Before I leave I am going to write a new well & put it in my box in band. You had better [ms illegible: 1 wd] property list Everybody sends love. Goodbye & God bless You. Your Father Champ Clark [written vertically in right margin] 30. Weather improved. Cold but clear. Glad you liked 1st Chapter. Reason Watterson stayed in that article was in proof & corrected year ago. I cut him out of another chapter
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Title | Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - October 29, 1917 |
Creator | Clark, Champ |
Source | Clark, Champ. Letter to Bennett Champ Clark. 29 October 1917. Clark, Champ (1850-1921) and Bennett Champ (1890-1954), Papers, 1853-1973. C0666. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
Description | In this October 29, 1917 letter to his son Bennett, Champ Clark discussed travelling and speeches. Champ Clark, a long-time resident of Bowling Green, Missouri, was a politician in the Democratic Party. He served as a representative of Missouri from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1921. From 1911 to 1919 he served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Bennett Clark served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 140th Regiment, 35th Division and as Assistant Chief of Staff for the 88th Division during World War I, and was Missouri State Senator from 1933 to 1945. |
Subject LCSH | Clark, Champ, 1850-1921; United States. Army. Camp Doniphan (Okla.); Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; Fort Sill (Okla.); World War, 1914-1918 |
Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
Site Accession Number | C0666 |
Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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Date Original | October 29, 1917 |
Language | English |