The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-08-30
Letter From
A. F. McKissick

Greenwood, S. c., Aug. 24th.
Mr.. w. P. Greene, Abbeville, S. G.
Dear Mr.. Greene
Article l. Section IL haven't
any favors to ask, and this is not for
publications; so relieve your mind. :,
My wife and read the Press and
Banner regularly every week, espe-
cially the editorials and your refer
ences to the young set
In these days of candidates l ad-
nit that the above remark looks very
suspicious, but I still repeat that
haven't any favors to ask. !
I do enjoy your paper very much.
I have been Grading closely the
last two or three issues of your pa
per to find out if Bill Greene, Jr:,
succeeded in catching an eel when ne
made his visit into the country. 1
also read with much interest the no
tice you gave Mrs. GarnbrelPs front
ward and especially did note your
statement that would lead one to be-
lieve that you 60 to church every
Sabbath. read the notice to some
of your friends here, and they say
that YOU made a mistake-that in
stead of being "every Sabbath" it
should have been zone Sabbath"
What brought about this letter rs
that I have read your editorial in
Yesterdays paper on "Better Homes"
in which I fully concur. We have in,
our mill villages about a of an acre
for each home, but these houses are
not fenced in. I, however, have
been thinking about fencing them in.
was down at Ninety Six on Tues
day afternoon, when DR.. Fouche vol
unteered the remark to me, in the
presence of several men. that the
cleanest part of Ninety Six was the
Ninety Six Cotton Mill village. He
eaid that we had very little sickness
at any time, and that the only case
Of typhoid fever we had had recently
was party who had moved in from
the country, and that as soon as we
found that there was sickness we
had everything disinfeeted:
There is one statement | want to
make that I wish you would grasp,
and this is: In the villages of Gren-
del Mills No. 1, Grendel Mills No. 2,
the Greenwood Cotton Mills, the Pa
nola Cotton Mills. and the Ninety
Six Cotton Mill, there is not a single
surface we'll. Near each Mill has
been dug deep we'll 6" in diameter.
This well goes through solid rock,
and a steel casing is driven into thi:
rock, and the water from this well
is pumped by means of deep well
pump and motor to each floor of the
Mill, so that the operatives get fresh,
cool water out Of sanitary drinking
fountains. You cannot devise a
better scheme.
This water is piped, also, after it
goes through the Mill, to tank
which feeds the village, and hy-
drants are located conveniently. One
objection to this water is that while
it is alright for cooking and for
washing, it is very warm in summer
time to drink.--So that in each mill
village you will find numbers Of deep
wells all bored through solid rock
and all with steel castings driven in
to the solid rock, and the water from
these wells is pumped by means Of
hand pumps; and as consequence
no ice is sold in the villages. We
have had thee wells for six or seven
years, and it is the best thing we
have ever done for our operatives.
AS a result of this, the health of our
villages is good.
In addition to this, we use plenty
of disinfectant i'm our villages, and
plenty Of kerosene oil sprinkled on
all ponds and damp, wet places, for
the purpose Of eliminating mosqui-:
toes.
With kindest regards, / am
Yours truly,
A. F. McKissick.
P. S.-60.3 per cent of the Stock
of tho Ninotv SiY Cotton Mill is held