Owensboro, Ky. 29 Mch 1893.

#417 W. 3d St.

 

Dear Father:    I received a letter from you some time ago and have delayed answering untill now. We are all well at present and I hope you are the same. Business is much better here than it is further north we received one order for 29 buggies to-day besides other orders which is a sample of the business done by Amos. He has just completed an addition to the shop 30 x 40 2 stories and has the foundations laid for a brick & iron building 35 x 60 and also has ground broken for brick building 3 stories to cost $8,500⁰⁰ The last will be completed by fall and will be used as wood shop / I think that he will do a good business this year. he certainly did last year. Next fall he is going to put in the latest improved woodworking machinery, and build every thing himself.

I mailed you some seeds of what is called the "sweet potato pumpkin". It has very thick and solid flesh, almost 2 inches the average, and has a crook neck like some squashes is yellow slightly striped with green. I do not know how they yield but am satisfied that it is equal to ordinary pumpkins and the cutivation is the same I think as they come on the market at the same time The way to prepare them for the table is cut them in large pieces and bake them the same as sweet potatoes, they will then taste something like John Allan M^cDonalds old fashioned "pumpkin" potatoes. I would not advise planting very many until you test them. /

 

I will be very glad indeed to have some of those whetstones as it is almost impossible to get a good one at any price here I have some that cost 80¢ and I would take 10¢ and be satisfied. It would be cheaper to send by mail for am't's of 2 pounds and less. The rate is 16¢ per pound but for larger packages express might be cheaper.

 

I saw a man from Salem Va a few days ago. It was Fred C Burdette a very nice boy. F. F. Seawell wrote me from Salem he wants a job here There is no chance for him now and if he came he would fight with the boss [?] before a week Old man Fryell has a cancer on the back of his neck and is not expected to live He is at Owens in Roanoke Va. /

 

The amount of whiskey on which the tax was paid last [?] was over 98000 barrels in this place and tobacco paid almost as much I hope mother is getting better. I expect she works too hard. she nearly always did.

 

Dollie is writing too.

 

I believe that I have no more news to write.

 

Write soon

 

All the fruit in this part of the country is supposed to be killed. The thermometer fell from 90° to 12° in 12 hours peaches were partly in bloom which was exceedingly early for this section

 

Hoping to hear from you soon

 

I am your most affectionate Son

Angus

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