The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-05-23
DOTE WRITES LETTER
TO EDITOR, DEALING
WITH TIMELY TOPICS
Abvul, S. c., May 31st, 1921

deer eddltoral.-l has DIN reedln
in yore paper where it sais that ad-
vertisin pals. it is not so. and if liz
zie wusnt standn here looking at
what am ritin wood say that it is
dam ly. have tride it out and it is
is anything but payin. the last time
ordered fish had yuo to put note
in your papier that the fish wus
comm and wood be hear sattidy af-
ternune. we'll, when the fish was rid
in into the Seaboard depot, dr..
Nifar was comm down the rode to
git hisn, and so was sevrul uther
fellars, and by the time my boys got
the fish to my plais, there wus a
streem of ordermorebiles and wun
hoss Wagons in frunt of NEE as long
as nigger funeral. and no sooner
had the fish bin unloded than evry
fellar wanted the biggest fish and
wanted to git it fust. I nevar was
wurked as hard in my life and by the
time reached the bottom of that
fish kag j was swettin drops of
pusperashun bout the size of wal
nuts, and sais to lizzie no moar ad-
vertisin fer NEE. I don't mind little
wurk when cant git out of it nur
push it off on a nuther fellar, but
when it CONS to work want it un-
derstood that i amt no ellerphunt,
and amt goner try to carry no trane
load of nuthin.
wanter tell you bout a nuther
bizness whitch aint no lemmonade
stand nur smokin no good seegar. it
is this bizness of sellin ice. says to
myself this spring i will git the job
of peddlin ice on 5. name this sum-
mer and will have a nice cool biz
ness, which will get oaver evry day
bout leven o'klock and will cum up
town evry evning and talk pollertics
with the boys. well, took on the
job and the furst mornin j drive
down with the ice evry woman in s.
name run out and say that everybod-
dy in town git ice before she do, and
she wanter to know, sumthin bout the
way she bein treated. One good lady
say as how she traded with me fur
twenty punds and that after cuttin
off enuff to make pitcher of water
and settin it in the sun fur fifteen
minutes and then washin it, it did
not way but nineteen and seven-aths
pounds, and she say she is goher re-
port me to the boss man. Ernuther
lady was out tendin the missunary
society, bying groceries, or jest talk
in to sumboddie else bout the naburs
when i got to her hous and had to
go on by not KNOWN what she want
ed and immediately after she come
home she foam the boss that i has
passed her hous every day this week
and give her short mesure when she
run after me and ketch me. Ernuth-
er say that the ice is full of ermony,
and ernuther that it aint no count no
how bekase it is made out of ole pipe
water. one fellar got a dime worth
from me on credit and say he amt
goner pay fur it bekos it melted
Quicker than sum he got last Kris
mus. on top Of this the next day af-
ter started my wagen it brake down
and this kost me sixteen dollars and
Is cents, and the next day the boss
had to be shooed. and then the next
day it got skeered at wun of these
backless dresses which the wimmin
is wearing and runned away and not
oanly tore up my wagg;n again, but
split the ice and while I go to git the
boss, all the peepul gather in and do
nate the ice to theer own use nully
bully. has sed that will run the
durn ice bizness till fall and will
unless it fust run me to the pore
hous or to to the Syum. Lizzie say
i nnednt be skeered of neether as it
talk man with sents to go crazy
and git in the Sylum and that Pore
hous Tom wood objeck- to a fellow
wifi no more sents than me bein in
the pore hous. an has not yit kon-
vinct lizzie that the hoss runned
away. she say that no hoss got
skeered of "a Woman's back and that