The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-06-20
SARTUC NEWS NOTES.
Agrees WITH the Editor Rc6ar.iilj1
the Campaign Dead Beat.

There is maxim, old and true
Let me whisper it to you:
Laggards always como too late,
Time and tide for 10 man wait"
The human race is too prone to he
laggard i'll many ways.
What sort of a duck is viaduc(t &?
1t must be highmindcd one.
Prof. Moore, principal Of the school
their old home to spend vacation.
Miss Ethel Jeter, teacher in the
college at Salem, \. c., is enjoying her
vacation with her fathers family here.
Miss Stella lLobson has gone to Fair
field, near Winnsboro, to visit DR.. +.
c. Jeter's family.
Miss Daisy Jctcr is attending Com
mencement at Winthrop College, Rock
Hill and will visit relatives before re-
turning home.
Mr. J. L. Lcbby, of Piedmont, and
his two daughters, Misses Matte and
k!zzie have been on a short visit to 1Ir.
j. r. Lobby, the K. L. Agent here.
The Quarterly Conference of this cir
cult will be held ut Sardis church the
9TH Sunday in June, if understood
the announcement Alright.
The Baptist Sunday School conven-
ton is forthcoming and will be held
with the Beulah church, beginning
Friday before 9TH Sunday in June.
Apples SHOW signs of worms and do
not think the peach crop is very prom
ising. The trees badly damaged
and the fruit will be short this year.
| was the recipient OF a compliment,
not Il month of Sundays ago; from Il
real intelligent lady and one who is not
"!gushy', and don't you know Iappre-
ciatc it; and now | am moro hopeful.
II is pleasure to receive even 4 small
compliment from lady who has too
lofty mind to stOop to mere tlattery,
but will give word of encouragement
or praise -strowing flowers, as it were.
| heard some men discussing the new
road law, working eight days, if ne
cesSary," etc, and | was led to believe
they did not bave the right conception
Of the law, and were jumping at con-
clusions. | have heard it explained to
some extent, can see it and do not COM
plain. do not care to discuss it here.
as it all depends upon how we sec a
thing.
There is some very good wheat in this
section after all, but it is low. That
which was in the worst of the hail
storm while jointing was seriously hurt.
l notice where there was decaying veg
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better than on other land ordinarily
more fertile, but containing less of this
vegetable matter.
Dat cutting is getting under way, bus
there are so few fail oats that they will
be short horse quickly curried while
spring oats are not tall. 1t is too soon
to say what sort of heads they will
make: The scarcity of oats will surely
bring about hardship on many farmer
who generally raise oats and who from
this time TO laying by time feed only
oats. This year it will be mostly feed
ing with bought corn.
l learn that b. Il. has run of from
home, quit quill-driving and has gone to
shcritting, and if Sheriff Sanders sends
him DOM here much more, / believe
Will arrest him and take him from tho
sheriff for couple of hours anyway
TO see me when he was here. We
could have given him hog and hominv.
have lost my grip in keeping up with
him of late. He is a fine, jovial fellow
and ! wish him much success for be-
licvc he deserves it.
The cannidates may make it lively
and interesting this year. | hope good
feeling and friendship will prevail
throughout the campaign. There is no
reason for it being otherwise.
! agree with the editor exactly about
those cadaverous fellows trying to beat
dinners, 80 cts, and drinks out of the
candidates. That is low down on the
ladder, ay, sitting down in the rubbish
ut the foot Of it. Then 100, the various
benevolent committees are too prone to
try to collect contributions for some
church work from candidates lust be-
cause they are candidates, and seem to
think they dare not refuse. Suppose
every church of all denominations
should Jump on candidate for 50c
or 81, and he should give it to keep in
| favor, it would take considerable, that
| perhaps he could ill afford to give. Let
! It's be reasonable, and remember they
are not all rich men.
| President Roosevelt, in his speech at
Arlington, talked like there never
were such men as the Union soldiers
and they won the greatest victory ever
won, when they "saved:the Union" by
| taking four or five men to whip one.
like The British fighting the 'Boers,
Then he had to step aside to bring in
the lynchiugs in the South, done in de
| fense of the virtue Of Southern women,
rs n cushion for the crueltes of the ad-
ministration's policies IN the Philip
pines to fall on. Perhaps the reason I
notice this 80 much is because l have