The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-02-15
News from North Pacolet.

you seem 10 shoot" Mt our method of pre-
venting a cold, by bathing the top Of tho
head with cold waters We use it as pre-
yentive, you use it as a cure. We arc actipg
| under the advi ce of a man who stands upon
the top round of his prsfession-medicint
and surgeIy-you are following the whim OF
some "crauky" old woman. For toothac ache
We would rather risk first-class "conjuror, y
one Of those old fossils of the fortune ling
stripe for which this county in its halcyor
days was proverbial.
We are sorry that the bridge letting at
Thomson's mill last Friday turned out SO in.
definitely. The plan and specifications pro-
posed by the county commissioners are good.
and "will make O bridge" as Uncle George
Garner, says "for the grandchildren. We
are afraid great many Of the grand
children will be here in time to build it,
unless our county finances improve In
health.
As o mere cipher in the community, we
would suggest that the proposed stone pill
lars he substituted with suitable timbsrs
that would support the bridge for IL or Is
years, and that is a, long rs the bridge will
stand anyway, unless it is covered. By that
tine We hspe the county will be able to
build more permanent structure. As a
matter of economy wo hope tho county COM
missioners will take our suggestion for VIII al
it is worth
hn arta thsf Ill 1nSA
one Of our best citizens in the person of
Mr.. G.. W. Whisenant, Of Wilkinsville. He
has sought some building lots at Hicory
Grove and will perhaps remove there some
time this year, our community has but few
such people to lose as Calvin.
Mrs Vox's bealing finger has turned
out to be o felou. She's not the first poor
woman in this county who had to put up
with "felon."
Mrs. Hon. A. A. Sarrstt of Skull Shoals,
has tho largest hen egg we have ever seen.
It's longitudinal circumference is s inches
latitudinally it measures inches in cir
eumference. We want Messrs Lem
Brown and John Estes to see it. Mrs s. is
satisfied that 1t is a hens egg, and whom
Mrs. PacOlette Sarratt says anything it's SO.
Our farmers have done moro blowing
than they have this early in tho season in
ten years. Go it boys. That's tho way we
got our start but it was down hill
The answer to our sum Of two weeks ago
is: A makes l0S steps and B. makes 72
steps.
A correspondent sends US the following
for this week issue:
.'lf past midnight i, is hours moro
than 3-5 OF time to midnight, what is the
time of day!" Boys tryit
Service on mail route from Yorkvile to
this place has been curtailed, omitting York
willie and Robinia. 1t will start from Hick-
ory Grove after the 18th inst. Vox.
Not at all, Vox, we never tried your
"top dressing" for cold; but we have
practiced 1t for many years, as q preventive
for teothache, and have recommended the
p sctice to others, and in but few instance.
have we known it to fail. We are over 73
years OLD ana, II possible nave wet the TOP
Of our head thoroughly every merning, and
never had the toothashe, TO hurt much, bu
twice, that we rcmbember; and one Of those
times we had neglected to do so for nearly
week. Our old friend Col. r. J. Gags
once told us that he honestly believed tn,
practice prevented toothache with him. Mr.
Mcdowell, of A.heville was great suffer 81
from toothache until we told him Of our
preventive. He tried it and some years after
he told us he had not had the tooIhachs
since. There's no whim about it. Den y
decry cranky old women as you call thom
they are often the best doctors in fs smily
sick .-EDIToR.
THE CRINE OF THREE NnGROHs -