Fancy hat and love in Rouses Point NY 1907

This is a very charming postcard from 1907 sent from Joseph Thompson to Lizzie Eddie. Click on the card at the right to read the text by opening it up in a new window. Joseph seems disappointed that Lizzie is going away but hopes that she will come back soon. Clearly there is a love interest on his part as he has written "love" on the bottom right corner of the card.

It is interesting that the card was sent from Rouses Point to Rouses Point with no address yet it is put in the mail. It is a small place and no doubt everybody knew each other.

Rouses Point is a town (village) in Northern New York State close to the Quebec border with the USA. It has around 2000 people - then and now. A train ran through there in 1907 from New York city to Montreal and Rouses Point is the last stop before Canada. The train still runs today once each way. I could not find the timetables for 1907.

It is possible that Joseph stopped briefly to buy, write and send this card on the way to Montreal. The train may have been taking on coal and water and changing driver and fireman prior to going into Canada. A northbound trip is indicated since the postmark is in the evening.

Perhaps Joseph was a conductor on the train and he used his pencil to write the card in a hurry so as not to miss the train? When and how did they meet? It's the subject of a romantic novel.

By the way there was a Lizzie Eddy (different spelling) living with her parents in 1910 (born in 1887 approx). It was on the 1910 census I was only able to see the list from Ancestry.com (I did not invest in the subscription). Perhaps Lizzie did come back. But did she eventually marry Joseph.

Any story suggestions or is there anybody out there that knows information about either person?