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FRENCH LICK.Editor Recorder.—After an absence of nearly six years on last Friday Imade a hasty • visit to French Lick Springs, Indiana, and lectured in theA. M. E. church, of which Rev. «/. W. Sims is the pastor. There has been a great change, both at French Lich andWest Baden since 1 first visited thoseplaces. The colored people who live there are in the main a superior class. Live in good houses, furnished up-to-date. S. C. Pitman owns two beautiful cottages, bought and paid for within three Vears. He is the porter at the French Lick hotel. [R. J. Holden owns a beautiful cottage and does a tailoring business in the hotel. George M. Jones is the owner of a tasty home,and is also in the tailoring business. HL. Babbage is the general news dealerHandles all the papers and magazines, is buying a home, and is a hustler from Hustlerville. W. O. * artin has a tailoring business. Mrs. W. L. Alexander and Mrs. W. M. Scott are the up-to-date dress makers and do a fine business. Erbin Slye has a fine cafe, and had Rev. Sims and myself to takedinner “on the house.” I met many old friends and formed some new friendships among the strong piliows of the A. M. E. church, are Wiiliam Payne and his excellent wife, IsaacLoyd, Jas. M. Cook, Ernest Bobsonand Sisters Pittman, Morgan and others. Mr. James Gibbs, well known in Indianapolis, is head waiter at the Frenk Lick Springs hotel, while n.y old friend Wigginton plays the “devil” as usual. 3® Yours.Rev. Chas. Hunter.
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Indianapolis Recorder
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 16, 1909
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