The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-01-12
Letter From Master MOOrhcad.

|
Dear Mr.. Editor and Readers of The
| Laurens Advertisers:
Please do not judge by my delay
| with this letter that it is an indication
| that | have forgotten to thank the
many kind subscribers for their as
sisancc extended to my Mother in her
work for the automobile You will
each recall that | wrote in my first
letter If you would just hold your
subscriptions until Mother could get
to see you that we would certainly go
over to see my Grandpa and Grandma
Moorhcad in Union County in the au-
tomobile for the Christmas holidays
Well sure enough We did, and Daddy
left word at home for Santa Claus to
just come over there, so on Christmas
morning my Aunt Belle, who teaches
school at Hickory Tavern, opened the
parlor door just before Grandma's an
nouncemcnt for breakfast, and there
| beheld most beautiful tree with
! lots of pretty things which Old Santa
had brought all the way from Gold
Vile for me. Santa had also been no
tilted that little first cousin Of mine
would be there too, but at the last
minute Grandma had a letter from her
Mother stating that her Daddy's col
lections had been SO poor they could
MT make the trip. Her Daddy Is a
| physician In Beaufort SO guess there
are other physicians who can sym
! pathize with this poor old Daddy.
Well, Santa left whole lot Of bun
| dies there for Syvie Moorhead Hughes
| anyway, and Grandma had time
keeping ME from tearing into them.
Syvie is only nine days younger than
me, she will be two years old on Jan
nary 18th. Well, we were all very
much disappointed not to have them,
but We had good time just the same.
Me, Mamma, Daddy, and Miss Maye
Roper (of Hickory Tavern, left here
for Union County, or to be exact for
Mt. Tabor about twelve o'clock, Dec.
2lth and all along the road Mamma
would fuss at Daddy because he didn't
know how to dodge the bumps in the
road, until finally Daddy couldn't
stand it any longer and impolitcly
stopped the car and invited Mamma to
take the wheel Well that cased mat
| tcrs for awhile and then 1t all started
again when we got nearer to Grand
mas and Daddy said he believed he
could detect the smell Of that big
turkey, fruit cake, etc, and this caused
| him to give the automobile more juice,
which, Of course, created more bumps
with an inexperienced driver. How
ever, we made the trip in good time
and didn't have to get out Of the car
during the whole journey
Miss Maye doesn't want it told, but
she met George" over there, the re-
suit of which she Is wearing a
diamond ring. hardly know what
diamonds mean, but | heard Daddy
say it was getting matters in seri
Gus position.
On our return trip We had with us
besides Mamma, Daddy and me; Miss
Maye Roper, Miss Cora Watson and
my beloved Aunt Belle. We spent
Monday night In Spartanburg, and
left there Tuesday morning in heavy
rain, and 1t poured all the way to
Goldville. We all praised Daddy for
his mastery driving, as he only got
into the ditch one time, and had 1t not
been for the assistance Of three hand
some little boys just about three miles
above Laurens | guess we would have
all gotten our feet wet. But these lit
| tie fellows came to our rescue and we
invited them to come to Goldville to
see us, but failed to take their names
so can't call them by name. | wish
| could
| Now, / want to again mention my
proposition which made prior to the
+, closing OF the contest. I promised that