Granny's Letters:
We are now at Franklin Ky. We had fine roads. We are now 50 miles from Nashville Tenn. Frank is so cold he had to stop and warm, I was not cold. It was 18 dgs. Above this morning. We decided as it was 11 o'clock we would stop and eat our dinner. We ate 2 bowls of soup apiece and it cost us $1.00. We are ready to start if we can decide which way to go. We fell in with an old Jew yesterday at Cave City, he went with us to our camp, then he came on, we have just met him again, he came this far last night, this morning he could not get his machine started. I don't know if he is having it fixed or what he is going to do. Talked to the Dutchman he is going on the train, he is a widower with 2 children. We detoured from Franklin to miss the cobblestone roads, the road we took had a good little town on it called Portland and one called Whitehouse, from Whitehouse on the roads were bad, water some places up to the fenders, then we had a mountain we went up by degrees but as we came down it was just one long hill, one mile long. We camped about 4 miles from Nashville where there was a nice spring. There was some Michigan people there and one young man who said he was from Wyoming, he had been on the road since the first of Oct. He came in our tent and spent the evening, he was almost froze and so were we. He had two guitars, one was Hawaiian, he played for us, he said he was a showman. He sang some songs. Frank got his fiddle but he was no good on the second. He was a windjammer. We did not hurry this morning as it was Sunday, we left camp about 11 o'clock and are now at Nashville, the men are out telling people where we are going. Nashville is some town, reminds me of Dayton. It is warmer this evening and we are glad. We made good time from Nashville, we struck a toll road, cost $2.25, the good rich people of Nashville directed us. We have had fine roads. We stopped at Cottage Grove and got gas and oil, stopped at a town named Lewisburg and got bread, came about 8 miles and camped in Oak Grove school and church yard, they had a well in the school yard with a bucket like a piece of spouting about 3 ft. long. It was raining when we went to bed but when we got up in the morning there was snow on the ground. We are now at Fayetteville, the men are hunting something for dinner, a lady came up and talked to me she said her home was in Iowa, she said the Michigan people are first, Indiana second and Ohio third, she said the people in these three states had gone crazy. Her man was a salesman. Fayetteville is as large as Greenville maybe larger, it is a pretty place, such wide streets, three stores have sales advertised, we don't get out to see anything. We got skinned in town, Frank lost his gloves, Carrie and Frank both bought a side of meat and it was so strong that they sold it out in the country for 5 cts. less on the pound and was glad to get rid of it. We next came to Huntsville, it was a fine place, they had large cotton mills here we stopped at the square where they drove in to sell their cotton. Mrs. Burns and I went to the ten ct. store, we bought a foot tub to wash in for 50 cts, we have not washed yet.