Granny's Letters:
Every place, large or small are having reduction sales and things are sure marked down, that is clothing. The eats don't come down quite so fast. Frank asked in one store for coal oil and they didn't know what he wanted, he happened to think and told them kerosene. The sun is shining today and it is warmer. After we left Augusta we passed through Langley, a mill town the houses were made somewhat alike, they were fine looking. The roads began to get bad almost as soon as we left there, the next place was Aiken South Carolina. We stopped there and had the machine looked at again, cost 25¢. Detoured six miles around through country roads, struck the highway and it was worse than the country roads, camped about 14 miles outside of Augusta in a pine grove. The old man where we got water was a grouch. February 23---Had poor roads to Columbia and worse ones afterwards, I think. We got on the wrong road, we came where there had been a flood and washed the roads out, we pushed each other out of the mud holes and held the cars up to keep them from falling over and finally got on safe ground where we camped in a small patch of timber,it had rained all afternoon so that the ground was soaked. We went to bed as soon as we had supper. February 24th---Had 11 miles to the next town, Winnsboro. Started at 9 o'clock and reached town at noon, we pushed each other out of one hole into another. Went on low most of the way from there to Chester, the roads were some better and since that they have been good and they tell us they are good the rest of the way. We camped about 2 miles north of Lando in a pine grove just across the road from a nice big house, people by the name of Tompson lived there, she came over and spent the evening,she was very nice but they had a dog that stole all our bread, we had 2 loaves and Gardeners had 2 loaves and it was all gone. Gardeners had part of a loaf that the dog didn't get. February 25th---It was raining this morning and it turned to snow, did not get up very early and did not start until 11 o'clock. The roads were good lots of cement. Left South Carolina about noon. North Carolina is much better, every few miles there is a mill town and they are some towns. At one place we saw the largest towel factory in the world, but I don't remember which one it was. We drove within six miles of Lexington and camped on the side of a hill, not a very good place, no water handy. February 26th---We got up early and Frank and I drove on to Lexington, he got shaved and I got me a suit of underwear and a skirt. 98¢ for my B.V.D's and $1.98 for the skirt. The other people were not ready so we came on. We may not see them anymore. Just as we were leaving we saw them coming behind us so we went on but went too fast for them, I guess as we left them behind and they have not caught up yet. We had some bad roads but short stretches but we got through all right. Got lost in Durham, had some time getting out, one man would send us one way and one another, but we got out at last. When we left Durham we left the factory district behind us, up to that North Carolina was just one factory after another. We came past Elon College but could not locate it, there was so many large buildings. All through North Carolina we saw tobacco houses, we saw where they made Bull Durham. The tobacco houses are built of log and are dobbed air tight, they strip the leaves off in the field and kiln dry them in these houses. We kept driving after we left Durham until we got 5 miles from Oxford. It was getting late so we got permission to camp in a grove close to a house, we had neglected to get bread but had enough for supper and had the lady bake us some biscuits for breakfast. They were not baked good so we just ate the tops off. February 27th---It rained this morning before we were up and after we started sprinkled a little more, just a little rain makes the roads so slick you can hardly drive, we got to Oxford and had to stop and fix the radius rod, did it ourselves. It was then half past nine, we drove on as best we could up hill and down, it did not rain much and the roads began to dry and we were soon in Virginia and the roads were better, at 11:30 we were in Clarksville Virginia. It is a small place and very dirty. We crossed a toll bridge there and cost 50¢.