The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-05-03
Last year, as have mentioned in these


letters already, was a very prosperous
| year for the farmers in this section.
This prosperity was brought about in II
| measure hy diversifcatiOn of crops
helped to a great extent by good prices
prevailing. With view tO diversified
.tion again this year, last fall a great dc al
of wheat was planted, and in February
| the usual amount of land was sown in
oacs Everything seemed to be moving
along nicely until about three weeks
! ago green bugs made their appearance
in central and north Texas which have
ravased the wheat crop to great extent
and the Oat crop is just about destroyed.
Ii were to tell you the oat fields in this
section looked as if fire had burnt over
them you could hardly realize such
thing, but such scene is what they
practically present to the view, caused
the plants. The like of which has never
been seen or heard of before. 1t is
great disaster indeed, almost a calamity
to the section of the State visited by
these little pests.
Men usually write about everything
that happens, they have written and are
still writing about the green bugs. What
has been said so far has been mostly
prosaic, yes, very prosaic, but one gen.
tleman down at Denton the other day
broke forth in a poetic strain, and /
herewith reproduce his production.
"The green bugs get our wheat,
The June bugs get our honey,
The red bngs get our tough old shins
And the gold bugs get our money"
This may create a smile when YOU
read 1T and doubtless you will catch the
m Nf hn I,,f osv
lived in Texas on the black waxy land
you would laugh when you reached the
third line in this poetical effusiOD. l
close this paragraph by saying the green
bugs have done incalcuable damage to
TO the cat crop.
Col. A. H. Belo, one of the proprietors
Of the Galveston Dallas News, died at
Asheville, n. c, April 10Th, He was
one OF the progressive men of this State.
Ills death is Il misfortune for Texas.
The papers he Contr lied and founded |
were Potent factors in the upbuilding of |
the State. IJ is said of him that his |
watchwords We're ''progress, ''liber-
ality," independence, s.fairdealing,"
all of which was demonstrated in the |
conduct of his newspapers. Col. Belo |
was a native Of North Carolina. He |
was born. reared and educated in that |
State. His home was at Salem. He |
came to Texas some time in the COS and |
soon thereafter engaged in the newspaper
business. 1t Is needless for me to tell |
you he succeeded in his chosen profession.
Col. James Q. Chenoweth, of this city,
who was first auditor of the treasury
during the first Cleveland administra-
tion, and for a number of years county
Judge of Fannin county has embarked
in the newspaper business here in Bon
ham. Col. Cbenoweth has associated
himself with Mr.. }. M. Terry, who was
the editor and proprietor of the daily and
weekly Fannin FavOrite. Col. Cheno-
weth is fine lawyer and fluent orator
and I am happy to say number him
among my best friends, and am glad he
has decided to enter the journalistic
field where he can and will make the
power Of his faoile pen felt.
BOnham will have another railroad
soon. The road will come from Denison
into Bonham, distance Of twenty-eight
miles, and is to be built with Bonham
and Denison capital. This city, that is
to say Bonham citizens, are to put into
this enterprise $135. 900 and Denison
citizens are to put in Sl15, 900, S25O,OOO
ia all.
And Bonham's cotton mill will COM
mence operation in week or ten days
hence, J. S. G.
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