The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-27
LETTER FROM DOTE.
abbeville, S. c., oct. %, 1915.

great many people have been pleased
with his manner of writing and espe-
cially with his capitalization and
punctuation; one lady said that he
punctuated so well that she knew he
would make a punctual man in all
things.
well, went over to Jim macmillans
to the big reception they were having
over there the other night. jim's
daughter was to be married next day,
and so jim gave a reception, or
rather mrs. macmillan did, and Jim
was there. mrs. macmillan needed
a good many people to assist her in
having the reception go off alright
so they had a lot of people stationed
around but noticed that most of
them came from the street where you
live-greenville street, believe
they say it is. asked someone why
so many people were there from that
street and they said it is greenville
street.
we'll the people from that street
seemed to have their parts we'll in
hand and things moved off right
along except that there was one gen.
telman there who seemed to be a lit
tie lost. he was dressed about like
the others, but he didn't seem to
know how to do nor what to do with
his hands. they called his name kerr
and i saw that dick sondley was doing
: all he could to keep him in the right
line, but this man seemed to be get
ting in trouble and the dining room
at every step. invent in the dining
room three times myself and found
him there every time i went and
then saw him in there several other
times besides missed him once or
twice and couldn't tell where he
was. well said he didnt know what
to do with his hands but that wasn't
when he was in the dining room that
was talking about; dick sondley
spoke to him several times about his
hands. i heard him tell him that he
should stand with his hands behind
his back, or in front of him, or any,
where just so he seemed to be feeling
natural like as if he was in his own
drawing room. " j didn't know that
the gentleman was in the drawing
business; i heard several speak of
him as selling furniture for mr. stark
at the store just above mr. stark's
buggy store. but he must have
something to do about a drawing
room. i noticed him once put his
hands in his pockets and dick sond-
ley made him take them out and his
wife gave him a look which kept him
from putting his hands in his pockets
again, he had his breeches rolled
up so guess he walked over but
most of the people on that street roc!e
over.
we'll, the gentleman did not stay
until the reception was over although
ne was invited as one of the mana
gers. i don't know why he left. il
heard Jim tell him to say to some
ladies that if they were ready to go
that he would take them home, and
he didn't do it and it maybe that Jim
got mad and made him 20 home.
anyway heard Jim talking to mrs.
macmillan about it and he said he was
going to write the gentleman a letter
and express his surprise that one of
the managers of the reception would
leave before the party was over and
i guess he will do it. doubt if the
gentleman gets invited to the next
party Jim gives.
the county fair is still approaching
and l am ready. was up at the
j. m. anderson co, store the other
day and found a hat which suited
me so it is laid by. have had a
look at all the suits which white and
parker and reese and rosenberg and
pollykoff and henry dupre have for
sale, it is hard for me to decide
which suit will take they have the
suits with the styles this year and
they are still coming. i wish the
gentleman named kerr was selling
clothes as would buy from him as
he sells now and pay later; but he
only sells furniture to a few people
who cannot get suited at mr.. calvert's
furniture emporium.
again say to all inquiring friends
meet me at the county fair. several
other parties have agreed to get in
the mule race and it looks now like
we will have a full house in that
race. there will be several race
borco. from oil ovar tho ctata and