The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-12-12
Alive and Won.

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Station, who mysteFionsIy disap
peared Last June, and who was ex-
tensively advertised at that time. |
is living and we'll, and his father
received the following letter from
him and which was sert to us last
week too late for publication:
ST. LOUIS Mo
November 10, 1905.
Dear father and sisters:
After waiting so long / will
now write you few lines, to let
you know that I am well, aud tel
You where / have been, and Whist |
l have been doing, and also where
i am heading for. II landed in st.
Lonis" (you remember the song
Pat nsed to sing it, Friday eve
I will leave for Flofide Tuesday
a. m and go from there to Por,o
Rico. q. s A. If I do not like it
down there 1 will go to the North |
West next summer.
I worked on farm near Chilli.
cothe, Ohio until the 9th, of Au-
gust. got 81 90 per day and heard
for common farm work 81 % for
harvest. hay harvest, and threshing,
and mind you We had some har-
vesting and threshing to do toe.
We run two 4 horse bindare an6
one horse for 5 days, We had 81
shockers and then We GOULD not
keep up. It just took as 5 days to
thresh, he had 6 teams of his own
and had 5 others hirsd, he had
something over 1900 bushels of
wheat.
| It was sight to see Us blowing
corn 6 teams in one field. he had
lis acres field corn and IS acres of
sweet corn for the canning factory
quit him when it came time to
harvest the sweet corn as did not
like the idea of going into those
corn felds at day light on a foggy
wet morning to jerk sweet corn;
they just Jerk the ear off hnsk and
all and get so much ton for it
The canning factory people run a
big dairy in oonnecti, n with the
factory and use the husks and cobs.
and off4ls. for silsge they milk any
place from 80 to $50 COWS. I
worked at the canning factory for
six weeks, made from $1,000 to
! $l5 80 per week, it is most all piece
work. Then / started ont cutting
corn I got II and 125 cenfs per
shock and board for ID hills square
1 cut from lie to % shocks per day.
When that snow came in October
I was outing for q men up in
Green Co. Ohio. SO 1 concluded il
IVES too late to out corn and started
for Illinois to husk corn I husked
in ell between 1900 and 1900 bush
els. Igot q cents per bushels and
board I husked from GO to rs
bushels per day. 80 you see that /
have not been idle very much of
the time.
My intention now is to go to
Florida aud Investigate the pine
apple growing business and go
from there to Porto Rico and go
into it there, there is a company
here in ST. Louis which I have
been corresponding with. who have
plantation in Porto Rioo and
they are going into the pine apple
cultivation on an extensive plan.
| did not see the man Saturday as
he was out of the oity. 1 will see
him to day.
ate dinner with Mr.. and Mrs.
Swayne at P,ris. ILL.,. Sunday the
IL to inst they seemed glad to see
me and send their best wishes to
all.
l husked corn for man about
or 5 miles east of where the Fry
boys are bnt did not see them
/ saw Dock (his brother) and
Belle the night they had to trans
fer for the wreck at Rstcliffs, was
on the next section behind the one
that got wrecked.
received Holy Communion at
ST Johns Church yesterday q. n.
also attended High Mass at the
Cathedral where Archbishop Kane
used TO be. / got Prayer book
and had it blessed in the Cathedral.
send you some pictures unde,
serarate DOVER.
COZ to Dixie. inst time to catch
train
Yours sffeoticnately
WILL.