McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-12-17
Hiram Bridges Letter.
Possum Trot, Tenn,

what you sed about briggs yourself, {
red the thing itsef what the coar
don about them 5 BRIGGS what was t.
be bilt over them kanals and ovel
Tar creek and 2 littel wooden ones
somewhere over Rollens branch anG
about the $3.50 ter finish l what tha
had started. Me and Sally we both
red it, and | showed her the pease
rit. and then she had to reed it, and
arter she got the dishes wasn't and
brung the churn into the far and tuck
the littel Hiram's cloes off and kissed
ed EN- and put EN- to bed and got thru
patchin thare littel cloes and darnin
up the holes in tina stockens gittin
EN- ready for tina littel shuse, she sed,
Hiram, let me reed them peases out
lout and mabe it will rest me littel,
and she tuck the paper and red EN-
all agin out loud. She ketched one
thing hadent seed, it was WHARF the
chareman was to buy all this stuff his
self at reasonable prices and apint all
comities to help put EN- up, and she
counted all the BRIGGS up and tina cum
to $6050 and she sed it looked like
maxim / feller do hole lot by hiseff
to buy all them thare BRIGGS and she
sed she guest that the reasun it sed
fer him not to git EN- from the fsller
thatua sell EN- for the lowist figgur
but jest to buy them at reasonable
fggurs was cause it nd take him too
long to- here from all the fellers what
had briggs to sci and be too much
trubbel and she sed she I'D bet that
thar uther big Teller what tina sed
was always jumpin up in the coart
and maxim the uther fellers lissen
to him and mind him must q got him
out to / side and made up that thare
big indianny trip. She pinted out at
tha want nuthin in it about nobody a
gvin nowhare ard takin fellers along
to git them BRIGGS. Sally she has got
a he'd ful of sens, really moren me and
she sed why dident them fellers do
like she hurd Jo Unlisted did tother
day. She sed she hurd the fone ring,
and she tuck down the ceiver and
hurd.hi a askin abe rubil at karinth
what he nd Civ him fer 10 balls Of
cotton and he sed what he nd Civ and
he thin called up Bob ham at Ramur
and axed him the saim thing and he
tole him and he axed sumbody else &
hurd him say he was just gittin
thare prices and wudent sell to no.
body unless tina Civ him the moast, &
Sally, she sed, feller what I'D be SO
careful about his biznes as that was
bound to make money for hisseff and
she sed tina want marry bit of difruns
twixt sellin of 10 balls Of cotton fer
yoresef fer all you cud git and buyin
10 irnn BRIGGS fer us pore foeks fer
as littel as you cud, and ! sed it was
all the saim and that is the reasun Jo,
q cali him Joe caus weuz boys to-
gether, Is a gittin ahed ever year &
our pore ole county gittin deaper in
der and the tackez gittin hier too.
Sally she pinted out sumthin elce
ide never seed. 1t was about apintin
all comities to help put EN- up, and
that made me think who was put
tin up them thare irun BRIGGS, and
who was apinted to help EN-. land Sal
" she sed all this wood cum out at
that mast meetin, and what tina was a
gittin, how tina wac a gittin tina mon
ey and if tha had to giy anybody a
check fore tha got to put EN- up like
that feller did what made EN- and sent
1t to em fore tha got on the trane &
tuck that thare big ibdianny trip.
By this time all the littel Hirams
was all asleap and was a fixin to xiv
yer up the far and loap in bed, fel-
ler hollered hello, and jerked on my |
britches and went to the doar, and it |
was ole Cal Grumpy he lives clos to
the Hideout schoolhons and he sed he |
wanted me to cum over and help him
kill his hogs in the mornin eff it was
clear and the wind outer the north, & |
Is was and so went. Thare was of
US, countin me G. cal, and when cum
back home | tole Sally about whouz
thare and before i cud tell her how
many hogs we kilt, she blabbed out
that tha was as many thare as what
went to irdiaany arter them thare
i.an BRIGGS. Ole cal sed by rites he
orient to sell pound of these hogs.
but sed be was gointer take 2 tf
his best ones TO selmar and sell EN- to