Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01

aat Some times it would be fried H
eggs, butter and milk, Some times u
would be hominy, meat and gravy and
wind up with a bowl of fine peaches i,
and cream, all this by good hickory I,
fire, my, would often think of my old
friends and would loved for them to
step in. We are eating to live and
living to do good Wife singing MY
! Shin Is On The Ocean" as she pieces
on her quilts or some times tearing
carpet rags or lacking them together,
while read good BOOKS or papers; you
can hear her singing "How Firm Il
Foundation Ye Saints OF The Lord
tell me we are not having a good time.
IIfIt is cold and we have to drug wood
in the suow or put long rope around
corn shock and hitch horse to u
. and trot to the barn. My, my, no"
they do slip on the snow; its fine spot
. Ny. this living in the country with
, good orchard, good cellar, and good
wife. can't be heat. A big wood hre.
plenty to eat and clear conscience
, sit by the fire and warm, think over
the good times in the past, the big
meetings, the good preaching and sing
ing and the people getting saved and
, sanctifed. Glory to God, YOU talk to
me about carrying a cross. l am al
= ready cross-glory to God have been
a cross for thirty years. like the
20 Canaan country so have pitched my
tent in Canaan to stay don't have to
) cross over. My, if this wouldn't make
.. fellow shout there is not much tc
q him. ......... ..., ado .g.y..l q.
a We'll. wife is now looking at some
n pictures and am writing this lettel
- N Won all who read the Record Press
= The thing to do is to look up and g
Il. IN keep the lire burning, eat you
X peaches and cream, sing and shout Cd
IN q, the world and the backslide
4; church members know that you ar
: not dead. Listen! Hear wife singin
~ "We'll Work Till Jesus Comes. y 81.
IT, Hello, Mr.. Editor, had you though
how January went out? 1t went OF
- with storm and February came
frozen. The lst and End were bllzza'
cold and we still eat around the ii
n out of our tin plates. My, them i
~ biscuits. corn bread, roasted potato
- and pop corn.
- The end day of February thu
ara happened at cur home for the I'll
. time in forty-nine years. wife nev
took work in her hands Il mean VII
I'M. she wasn't sick in bed,) but now q
the then she would sing. 1t didn't ma
nary any difference what song was
ia n. chorus was more wood and bet
ul,s. fire. ... ..
'sOc. When | think of the good things
have to eat around the log fire
drive on knowing that there is u
coming when we won't need
: fire nor wood, where we will walk
V, streets of gold and won't slip and
fled s'.ee SEES u - .hs snov and cold but s
all with the angels If we be true to
ting end of life. Good will to all men.
.o16 Feb. 18th was a regular blizzard
n wife had a big fat chicken for din
,o,. Nv. that pot of rich gravy, sweet
1917 tatoes and them fine biscuits; brin'
the your gravy, what | did was pie
Gem. Nv. if some of my old friends
that dropped in we would have had phi
H., -, Monday cut and drug up "
su Tuesday wife and killed 300 p
iu'' hog. O, the sausage and them
~ or hams and middlings. Wife said, y
thout trim off much for lard. haven't
to do. any of my last years lard yet and
ord a gallon of year before last lart
so we don't need it," So we put
10 i fine lot of sausage, don't YOU l
'cuteu il, for next spring and summer
~ Of T. Oakley likes them. you bet he
al Ia and ham too. Joe Dean don't
around very often but when he
he makes up for lost time,
state Well. we have gathered our
as re- pulled it and put it in piles an
A gave would drive the horses and We
=, tho the wagon bed and we would Oh
lily the She Is a he,p-'n.e'' you I ssa =,
overv hauled wood in the wagon bed ST
,o,;re TO help load-not many WON
1,n,lv Polly Jane. Uncle Mack and au
Phillips raised some fine girls
~. sure beat the boys. When 1t C
'''' '' beauty, work. managing and
she is a number |. She has 20
,,, up and go, and don't you forge
NIL. She likes TO see others do the
,,or n,,s Won see this puts hustle on !
o,3 s,vs tongue lashing in a mild form.
49,, ma, lie as il really is This wom
:, .o.ord mast. She used TO card and $
o,. Was. summer clothing, towels, b
II yon meal sacks, spin and weave m,
! you ask clothes 90 we nave wv" !"
-, 4, tho good time these forty-n,ne 20
.no,,h IN we live until Oct. 18th, 1884,
,orla,and our golden wedding day. /
49,. - YIN heat il? Saved and sancti