The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
PROSPERITY AT ANTREvILLE.
Full Barns Plenty of Cotton - Fat
IOgS..CO Of all SOrtS--A Word
About Mr. T.. $. AddiSOn..Thc Good
old Press and lSsnarr
ANTRENIi.LF:. =. g., M

ANrRENlLLE. =. e., Nov. ., lNS9.
Editor Press d,d JdIincr!:
We have had the hest fall to gather crops !
remember Of, and the cropsarc Far. Cotton
picking Is well up and i!;r most O! that pick
ed has been sold at from ~ To i" :. sni!!" OF
the Alliance men haze not SUl'i, rN"pt Whrn
Obliged to do So and some have sold iiE" lhC
others and done we'll. The corn cribs In ilI, SG.
parts are cribs hOidin" from 2'n To 5lS bushels
and the most of them full. and the siitIcks af
ter filingall the spare room in bainSarc piled
in big rail- pens.
This neishborhood worship at First Creek
Baptist church, Il neatly painted building,
With-a membership Of 20. Service ON the
fourth Sunday. Pastor, Rev. II. {. Smart.
Sunday School and prayer meeting every 9th
er sunday, Mr.. T. L.. Glinkscalcs, Supcrintcnd-
ent, with loo in the school and they lO not
believe i'm plentNof waicralGEc. You can see
on every hand plenty of cotton, corn. pota-
toes, peas, hogs in pens weighing from POO to
40 pounds now, 1ino horses, mules and cattle,
and now and then Il mule and horse c"!t.
fish pondS, and all that make life worth iv-
ing. and still these big hearted people are I'M
proving their homes, building ana painting.
Mr.. j. |. trowthcr is having his house painted
now AMI two or ihrr" others have >r"kcn To
Mr.. Moore, the painter, tlIont having their
homes liked up.
[ tell you Mir. Editor, it would do You GOOD
tn come up to one of the com shnck!m%s they
have up here. | don't mean that there Is
much fun in sitting i'll Il chair by II pile OF i'f
or dH bushels of corn and pulling Siiuc!iS all
day and then have sore hands aud arms for II
week Hiicr, DuI lllt lun comes III Wlhil we iii
stop for dinner and go 10 Catin" and taliin"
about tho news OF the day. Alliance schools
and other matters. thought if Mr.. T.. =. hd-
olson had come 10 the conclusion that | had
he would have wrote 10 YOU !? this wise
"You will please send Hill l"r Press and
Unl5,cr. am II mCIiil"r of Tie Alliance and
l can / read IL myself, but send il To my wife
ar SGmc near friend and will pay for it for
them and will Just look over IL to sec II tho
paper contains nothing that they ought not
10 read.
can assure him there would be
nothing wrong about il for how many do you
zee now who live in their wiio'S house, drive
their wile'S stock, and even buy goods III their
wiie'S name. and good members of the church
and other orders, and don't think the Ali
ance could object. but The poor wife has horne
so much already think She could risl; taking
your good old paper for her husbands good
and she can even read IL TO him after he comes
home from the \ lliance mad hccauSe he has
held his cotton until IL is u little oil. Nj
harm to the Alliance | wish them GodSrcrL
in all things | want them to make two bale!
of cotton where only one grew, and five bush
els of corn where only one grew, but don
intend them To tell ne what paper and bnnf
1 can or cannot read. BE sure yon are r!%h
and go ahead. VI. Z. VI.