The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-02-15
Doings at Jonesville.

Mn. EDITOR last two weeks Of dry
weather has given the farmers .!chsnce to
begin farm work, and . large amount Of
eats have been sown. II is to DO regretted
thstso small amount Of oars were eown last
fsll, - the winter has been SO mild the
few .sat we're sown then are looking emo.
think the farmers had better risk sowing
st least half Of the oat crop in the fall, and
II they shsuld get killed they can sow again
in the spring.
The Farmers Alliance is creating soDe
commotisn in our country. 1t seems they
ate gointNyo concentrate their purchases and
only patronife few of the merchants with
whom they can make the best terms. This
will certainly bring profits down to . small
margin. What the result will be, the Tele-
phone is net able to communicate at pres
snt The Alliance men say they want no
guauo ut the advanced rate Of three dollars
per ton. The guano merchants bai better
lock cut, or somebody might get hurt.
1t may be very we'll for farmers not to
use any gusns, but there is ons thing they
are doing in which / think they make .
great mistake, and that is, selling their
cotton seed to the oil mills. 1t lssks like
there won't be seed enough left in our coun-
try for planting purposes. think the Al
lance had better take tho matter in hand
by another season aud keep tho seed a,
home to keep up their exhausted lands.
They might very we'll do without guano if
they would put all the cotton seed back on
thsland.
- As a'tn8 .swn, it is beautifully carpsted
with snow this morning for the frst time
this winter. 1t slipped upon US last night
without any warning, as it was clear and
bright at bed time.
Mr.. C. r. Long has opened grocery and
supply store under the Masonic Hall.
Charlie proposes to give heavy weight and
good measure, pressed down and shaken
together, at rock bottom prices, for cash.
Msssrs. A. o. Sprouse and W. F. Hames
have bought out Mr.. N. C. Rollins in the
grocery business, and promise to do as we'll
for their patrons as any other house in the
"oity."
Our Livery Stable must be doing a good
business, as it seems to be the centre of at
traction in tsun of late. Msssrs. McWhir-
ter & Crawford, its owners, it seems, can
size up mule or horse in quick time, and
Jim Buck can ride him around and show
him on In good style.
Tho Steam Mill, owned by Messrs. Cole
man & Whitlook, has made some change in
its ownership. Mr.. Coleman's two sons,
Thomas aud Robert, having bought out Mr.
Wbitock. So the mill is now owned and
managed by J. Fl. Coleman & Sons.
Miss Florence Boyd, after suffering in
tensely fer eleven weeks died in great peace
on the 2Sth Of January. Her remains were
carried hy her parents TO Nswbsrry County
end deposited near their old homestead.
Mrs. Ella Rowell has had protracted
illness from which she is recovering.
Our cotton market has been quito lively
for soms days; the platform and the
ground around it has been covered with the
fescy article. Good prices and better roads
suI,.ssa caused the rush.
One man in our community, and ho .
renter, too, came into one of the stores of
our town the other day to pay off the last OF
his indebtedness, which was ten or twelve
dollars, and presented q hundred dollar
bill You ought to have seen that mer-
chant shutting round TO get up the change.
Pity We have so few such renters in our
country.
Old Mr.. VoI, after swearing before the
Clerk, now swears that he will 60 for the
law breakers. He is exactly right. If all
the officers of the law would do the same
We would have less drinking and gambling
about the towns and in the woods, often
on Sunday. TELEPHONE.
You'll catch il, Mr.. Telephone, for call
ing Mr.. Vox cold" His wife has sore
fngeE how, and she is not in the bost Of
humors, but any mans eyes are in danger
when he calls the head of her family old
Mr.. Vox--EDIToR.