The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-11-29
SanfIIc News Notes.
"We'd 30 for our great coat,
Aud quickly unlock it

Put c. in the pocket"
Alas! that it does not; may be the fate
of many this season.
IL seems that winter let down sudden
ly and IT, stay when it did come
We had rain last Saturday .43 of
inches fall. 1t was very beneficial to
the land.
1t is a good time to gather persim-
mons aud locusts TO make beer. We
certainly have the "beer privileges
along that line.
1t won't do for man to blow his own
horn too much, he might split it, then
II would cease to- he musical to others.
Some complain that turnips are sIringy
and hard to cook soft. l reckon these
IRE those that struck streak of hard
.uck.
Just one month to Christmas and the
hens OH a strike. AS negro said, ''they
have been laying, but have remilted
uow.''
A young farmer said that if you didu't
believe he could "raise cain" down here,
just look at some of his cane, sorghum
cane. 1t was iine aud he made some
fine syrup too.
1t is not unusual now to see Wh ..
fires lIaSr byer about in the pines owl
deuce Of gauthrls. SCLda,S atc ',,
great day tor trtn, and no duuDL, Ofrtn
some "m,t men ae mrit ep cilnun-
l i'ave be,n busy for SCme time han
ing wood. We iai i large quau' i'y c''t
and SPLIT. hrt AID liza, ,dwOod, and | u.v.'
hau!, Il about 1oiJy Dig lhrce-hUrsc A., ,,io,
with ;,HOur fifteen more to haut Wns,
the c"id rains and snow come, won't WI
be "healed.''
do not think l saw where any Of
The TIMES girls said anything about.
seeing the automobile At the Fair.
wanted to get down, like the old clown,
and examire it to see what made it gn;
in fact | would like to have raised my
hat tO it. but | didn't wish to become
too conspicuous so put on 'knowir q
look" as ii TO say well, | have seen the
thing before 1t was very pretty thing
beautifully painted, but looked no mrre
! strange than an elechc street Car, only
you saw no wire overhead, "A rod run
ming up to that. aud ku,w there was no
engine off somewhere in a house to gave.
power 10 p,opel it.
read the letters from the you,g
ladies VITO formed the TIMES Party"
to the late State Fair, and will not hes-
tate to say that | enjoyed them very
much. But there is one other TO hear
from. There Was a great deal TO write
about, enough to divide among all of
them. and the little Laid of Ho Ior too
| The Editor and my humble se!t did not
exhaust it by auy MEAS as Miss Mag
| gle in her letter said We did: and she
told it in way we did not. They all
| told it in different words thought
they were more interested in rh- p nj
tenriary and State House than any hing
else. and noticed that they AL saii so
l was too. There are State Institu-
tiODs and we are proud of them be-
leve the "UNIoN TIMES Girls" would
lend interest ii they would write an az
ticle occasionally. thluk | saw other
men interested in those letters
Some of our people, aud believe they
are all young ladies, cnmplaiu of bsing
flooded" with letters wishing them %
60 into the business of sell So many
cherry trees or apple trees, for SO much
then get A position to do writing, etc.
that thev are becoming diSgusted The
salary offered is $40 per month, and TO
write six letters a day. Eve'S letter
received is exacCiy the Rtmn s'yle, All I
almost the same, wording and | belirv+
that is the kind of writing they are
promised the salary to do IL 30, and
for every letter received. they sell sixty
trees and it, continues. this Country will
be converted into vast orch .rd. Thea
if every one writes six letters dav, all
take it up they will soon have to b)r-
row somebody 10 send lett.rs 10, or it
will have to e" arIult again. Has
somebody inv .nt.d the erpe aal IN lion
or is 1t II hui y? or n scheme u cut
producti,u Of cotton? Very likely
humbue, b"tt-r tell your lady friends u
let il alone I'D
expect Cti-"s in 'uOre advertising ~
Ian':s, that people must not hulIL, fish,
ride, drive, walk. cut timber, or in any
way tIespass eic of late, than ever
before. Some Of it NAV be for good to
save white oak, rabbits or 'possums, or
TO save the much sought after partridge,
and some may be d ne for retAlinion.
seiiSfincSS or pure mrannesS. However
much ,ll this may he so, isn't it p .ssire
strange or bear inconsistency for mhn
TO p 81 his own iani agai ,st treSpdSsprS.
then he or his 'srln riut'' over other
peoples. IN one or more ways. or inrv.Iy
way conceivable To the average mind.
Yet there is some of the above various
ways IL appears il is done S"mrthin1
must be wrong somewhere or this 'post-
inG" Of land would not have to be done,
in som" cases
In Telephones article | noticed h
said: 'Sinoe the frost many farmers say
their late bnlls of cotton will not open. !"
or to that effect | wonder If they
really Thought they would open. |
thought hat if not killed some of thern
| would open but never entertained any
hope that one-third would open.
! looked at them as being out OF seaso
en-! whether frost or not they would
quit devos;osing and a; last come to
nanght. do NOT Heinember seeing any
Ole who ever saw a late crop come to
anything, but people, to iheir detripent,
will hrIn of what a Ino lata nron oI1