The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-03
JoEesriiic News Notes.

louisville. SEPT. % The Weather
Is ii' e b:&c:Ug wea;he", all that oula b
desired at this season of the year.
Farmers ale gathering in their Gro.
in hurry The cotton gins are qui e
busy thaze days, bat the cotton is n, t
all going Oh 'he market, me OF it isle
ing he'd fOr he' ter prices and it ,nay b.
a mistake to do SO bat men will b-t ON
their Judgment.
In my cammniicati IN iii TIE TIMES
last week the tvprs made ina s.y Mr..
Mike SeilarS had built a cotton gin in
JoHesvil!e and would move his family
here this fall. I.sh)n,d II we read butt
nice c,ttage instead of cotton gin.
The Gau,t family, living near Jones
vile, seem to be a long lived people.
7 hare are four r,therS of them that
have attained to the following advanced
ages: Thomas f. Gault, S5 yelrs; Hen
ry NJ. So years; Joseph G., 76 years; and
John L. F, 73 years. Th y are ali
betlthy, heaty men. and seem to I've
here for many more years.
-Four men sat At The same dinner table
in JOnesvil.e tho other day whose aggre.
gate ages was three hundred years. They
were Jesse J. NJ lhrey, Henry II White,
Adolphus G. White and Gnd 'rcy B.
Fowler. They all enjoye1 a good dinner
with Mrs. G.. B. Fowler. Urc'e .Jes; e
Mabrey was in toHn the other daT lovk-
ing quite young for a mln Of hi, aga.
lIn says ne is here to stay as long rs he
can.
The sad news of the death of Ed Nc.
Kissick reached Jnne'ville this IN ,rniny
Ell spent many of his Young days ii
Jnnesville with his grand father, B B
Foster. a kind j>yial fellow lie was.
ard had. mary friends in this comuiunitv.
Misses Marie McWhirter, Mi!iied
Lindsey and Helen Littlejohn have re-
turned to ChicOra College in GresnylIe.
Mr.. Ernest McWhi.t has returded
to WOffoId.
Miss Bell Whitlock has taken charge
of her ;hool ut Union.
Miss E,ha IIames has been elected a
teacher In the graded schDol here ana
took charge of Ter class this morning.
Miss Grace Littlej I'm witlg to Ches-
terilell soon to take charge Of school
| am of the opinion that we ha, g afte,
all one of the best countries On this
green earth. l have nephew il. J,ck-
sOnville, Fla and one in Baltimore, ard
| supposed they were both living on
fruit, melons aud in fact all the luxuries
of the North and South, but they both
write that they haven't tasted fruit or
melons this ST a5on, and frying chickens
are not to be tasted only at sixty cents
a piece.
took ride ten miles into the coun
try today, aud saw many hands in the
cotton fields gathering in the fleecv stuff,
one negro boy was working on his knees
picking with both hands; he said he
he could pick four hundred pounds day
One small white boy said he could pick
two hundred p,unds day and b, out at
play before night.
A protracted meeting will b'ein here
at tho Methodist church toniaht and
continue through the week. Rev. w.
Hodge, of Gaffney, viii assist the pas
tor in the meeting.
Miss Macge Fort, Of Gaffney. is visit.
ing Miss Mary Southland on Main street.
Mtssrs Webber and Whitlock have
finished tie bridge over Fair Forest, a,
the Thomson place, and 1 am told th at
| it is one Of the best built bridg., in The
county. TELEPHONE.
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