The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-03-06
DOTE ATTENDS COURT
Meets Old Friends and Compares
Jurors with Other Panels. Asks
Questions About Guano.
Sattidy mite.

attind kOrt this week anu SlL qudllt-
ed with the leedin Ticker makers OF
the kounty so i wood kno where to
go when i got it agin. well, it seam
frum the wuns what wus called up
that moast of the Ticker makers IS
niggers while a good part of the
ticker drinkars air white. ernuther
thing is that moast of the makers IS
now on the chane gang helpin eet
UP the county rashuns and rase tax
es. this will maik it still harder fur
a Teller to git the contents of a
, dram when he is struck down with
the fhuenzer. but i CESS sum of the
makers will soon be out, if not there
will be a nue. crop may bee.
I struck up with my ole fren jon
Mergill frum due west on the joory.
it useter be that they got stitch prom
ernent men on the joory as myself,
but i seed no stitch lookin men as
that on the joory this time. in fact
Judge Wilson and myself was bout
the only prommernint men in the
ikort house durin the whoal kort. Jon
was bout good lookin as emmy of the
luther joorers and i CESS he has bout
as much sents bekos he sed that of
all the writin in the prest Banner he
reeds what j has to say fust. i tole
him that wus wun of the things
which j wus ritin fur, to enliten the
mines of the peepul frum due West,
that they is bout the %greenest set /
has ever ran against. Jon sed he
didn't think so as they has 2 kol-
lidges at Due west but i sed that |
dindt think shorely that menny pee
pull went to them frum the looks OF
things when j mooved tom putnam
up there a fue yeers ago and from
the way they all acked. Cording to
my noshun arch Kennedy and Jon
Wurdlaw is the britest men up there
and they don't live fur from the
sylum. tom putnam live there too
but frum the little whit i heer frum
him in the ~leggilatur he may bee al
ready in the sylum, if not and he
keep foolin with reel estate it and
taxes will put him there.
. ole sam Milfurd wus down tendin
kcrt. sam had a good COB as a wit
ness which kept him hear the whoal
kort. you kno sam and j M boys
tergether tho sam looks bout fftean
yeers oledr than i doc now. wun rea-
son is that sam fur a long time didn't
hev no better sents than to work
hard but he has burnt better now. a
man kin maik as mulch out of a wit
ness COB as anything else and it is
mulch eesier than haulin wood or
kuttin hay. well sam ask me how is
you gittin long and j tole him that
you got down purity low wunst, but
j let you hev a little mummy and you
wus up agin but it seam to me that
you air sinkin agin, and j wus tryin
to git where j wood not 60 down wifi
you, but it look like j wus goner have
a COB to scape. i tole sam that it
helped a feller's looks a lot to lone
him sum money, but j sed to sam
that he is so ugly now that it wood
not do him no good to let him hev
eny. mind you sam didn't asst me fur
no lone of mummy but j didn't kno
but whut he mite, so i thort i wood
say this at wunst and not halter re-
fuse him like i has dun sum uther
f~ellers.
, whit is the law on this hear thing
of Joanner bein bout ten dollars a
tun hier on kredit then kash. how is
a Teller goner pay kash fur his Joan
ner when the joanner kumpeny dun
come through the kuntry last yeer
and colleck all he kan and then 500
evryboddy fur what is left. sum Of
theas fellers who sit round the Kote
Hous and think they kno a little law
say. tibet the Joanner kumpnies air
taken vantage Of the poar man and
is gittin yousury on the kredit prises.
it may bee yousury that. they is
chargin but it seam to me moar like
dam r~askallity. thay say that you
kant maik no cotton now less you has