KEENEY, JM - 1908 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Letter from the Sunny South – There is quite a colony of Indiana people in and around this town, something like one dozen people from Montgomery people alone among them. Ten days ago Warren Bratton and JS Turner of New Ross and Guy L. Dazey of Waveland came here. They are delighted with the country and all have employment Turner and Bratton are in the general freight office of the L&N line here, at handsome salaries and young Dazey will be employed at the Navvy Yard. They have a nice boarding place in the city and are rejoicing that they did not go to Oklahoma as they at first contemplated. Incidently, they are picking out a piece of land not far from here and will improve the same. WH Hicks of Waveland, is the leading barber of the city. He and his wife came here on account of her serious suffering from rheumatism, which has been entirely cured by the change of climate. John W. and Shelby Todd of Waveland who have bought a handsome farm of a section near Gateswood have sent word to the boys that they will be down with their six or seven in the party, right after holidays, expected to build a house and clear up their lands preparatory to putting a cop in the early spring. Dr. McCorkle of Terre Haute, formerly of Thorntown is here with a party of a half dozen and expects to spend the winter. The next half rate excursion will be Dec 15 good for 21 days. All the boarding houses and new hotels are filling up with people to spend the charming winter months, and many of them will make this beautiful Gul Coast their future home. There has been only a few degrees of frost and the e is most beautiful – there will be the largest immigration in this country that any section of the US ever experienced within the net few months. I had expected to be north for the holidays but indications are that I will not leave here until early in the new year. If anybody drifts down from the old country I will be glad to see them – JM Keeney, Jr.