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Our Correspondent Swings the Circle
From Abbevilie to Kentucky-Ice
in Cold Storage-FrOm Kentucky
10 ChattanOOga-The National
Park.
Chattanooga, Tenn.. Mar. 5. 1905.
NV dear Mr.. WILSON,:
Every week 1 have intended writing you to
thank you for the paper and 10 say now
much I appreciate II and look forward 10 lts
coming: My those w VINO pr are s away Rs n noe
is, Every ad vel tlsement even, Ia Interesting.
All my friends have been 80 good TO me, and
each mail brings me a ietter. posi- oaIa or or
paper from them. II Is indeed a pleasure 10
know that our friends think of us;
The time has slipped by so quickly since
came TO Chattanooga that l can scaroeiy reai
lie that l have been here nearly three
months.
stayed a while with my sister: l mad Always
wanted TO be In Kentucky in the winter ana
I certainly enjoyed my stay there. IL is
pretty cold out there, but l don't believe you
feel the cold like we do at home. kentuck!
Is q beautiful state and especially In me blue
grass section. II seemst TO me 100, That they
have more 10 eat out there titan they do IL
most places.
TO spend the day and there were nine vege.
tables served, besides other things. Most peo'
pie think that In November Kentucky Is
frozen up" and everything has gone into
WlusS VI u
Nearly every farm has its own ice-house
and this is filed during the first hard freeze.
You don't have to depend on the ice man or
lieve in living at home, they raise everything
enough for home use and to sell.
After my visit TO Kentucky came tc
Chattanooga aud entered the Chattanooga
Business College to. take q course In short
band and typewriting. Mr.. Hawkins, WEo
Is in charge Of this school. Is assisted by mis-
wife and tw3 other ladies. They have a
10 rchnnl and are yary thorough In their
work, NJ. and Ms. Hawkins are charming
and are attentive to their pupils. 1t seems
to me that they have been nicer TO me IMAM
they have to any one.
Chattanooga isn't nearly so large as l
thought, 1t seems little more than an over
grown country town. They have very few
handsome buildings and the residences are
very ordinary. The James building, a twelve
story building just completed. is the Idol OF
the town and The Patten Hotel, almost COM
p'eted, is another JOY. The Patten Hotel is
after the order OF the Piedmont in Atlanta
and gives promise to be quite an attractive
building. / don't think tho that they are
having 1t any too soon for the other hotels
are anything but attractive.
They have a Carnegie Library here and
ground has been broken for a new Y. M. 9.
A. building that is TO be quite a handsome
Since Atlanta and other towns have gone
"dry" Chattanooga has become the dumping
ground for all the whiskey men from every
quarter. I've seen so many drunken men
place on Market Street Is a saloon. There is
q movement on foot now 10 put whiskey out
OF Chattanooga. All the pastors, ladies ana
business men are working hard for this end.
A meeting has been conducted in Cente-
mary Methodist church since Feb. 9th and q
great work is being done. The pastor, Or.
Baylor, is conducting the meeting with the
assistance Of laymen. My room Is only q
block from the church, SO I can attend when
ever | want TO. l have gone there real often
during my stay here for / like TO go TO church
nnpp q dav ANYWAY and whan II raln0d /
didn't like to go around 10 the presbyterian
church which is ever SO many blocks away.
One afternoon several weeks ago went out
to Chicanieuga Park. 1t Was a lovely, alter
noon and l started for a walk. l had only
gone about q hundred yards when l looked
up and saw Andrew White coming, He had
his kodac and was taking some of the vi. vs.
in the Camp. I turned back and walked
with him to The station; then. when his car
came, l tock.s carriage and went for a six
miles drive through the Park. I found that
the Park contained only 1000 acres and that
If l wanted to zee anything at all l would
have TO drive. Some OF the monuments are
South. Caralinh's is on a very high hill, but Is
too far from the drive to be seen very we'll.
saw by the paper that ever So many from
home went over 10 Atlanta in January TO see
"Ben Hur." I went 10 see it here and 1t was
decidedly the most beautiful play I have
ever seen. II Ia really wonderful how real
these plays can be made. ! have seen quite
good many plays this winter. / only care
for the good plays. l wouldn't 60 to the
others even II l felt | could afford IL.
saw by the Times this morning that MIR.
Gary had been elected TO succeed Senator
Latimer. am glad an Abheville man has
been chosen and that Mr.. Gary was the for
tunate one. 1 am sure he will reflect credit
on the position. l have been watching the
papers to see the outcome.
When l started this IL was 10 be only a note
by O woman's falling Ia to say too much. !
hope, however, you will not be too weary to
go to the end. Thanking you again for the
paper. l am,
Very sincerely yours.
Lily Templeton.