The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-17
NEWS FROM SAKTUC.
ShoeinS a Vicious E!UIe-YeIIOw
Jackets ana humble Lees TrxcH
Pan q Lesson - Personal aud
Other News Notes.

| hiN' IicdI,l VI i us VI prayers,
And l'vo listened to some singing
That had TUX me up the stairs,
or Glory land ard set me
Just below the Masters throae,
And bad left my heart a. singin,
In happy after tone;
But those words so softly murmureG
Seems to touch the softest spot
When your nanny says the blessing
And the corn-pone is hot"
With a letter corn crop negroes
can have many hot corn -pones with
out paying $1.20 for corn.
That frost hasn't got here yet, ard
many ale the people who are glad,
but they have been trembling.
The Misses Nora and Agnes
Thomas have gone to Onion to live
and go into the dress making bust
ness. They are sure to be missed at
this place. | wish them success.
Mr.. D. A. Thomas, cf Gaffney,
was here several days visiting rels-
lives and old friends. and left for his
home on the 9th. lie is a native of
this place and knows all of the older
people we'll and enjoyed himself while
here.
Miss E,tclle Thomas, Of Charles
ton, and who spent the summer in
the mountains, visited h,re last week
on her return from the mountains.
Miss Eva Je:er, who has been on
several weeks visit in Georgia, re-
turned home yesterday, accompanied
by her friend Miss Annie Sue Jones,
of Herdmont, Ga.
A crowd of Gypsies passed through
here tod'y, telling fortunes and ira l.
ing mules, | guess, for th'y had
quite number with them.
Rev E. NJ. Merritt preachel-
his regular appointment-at the
Methodist church Sund,y, 18th,
from the text Heb. 1914 The Gen
eral Rules of the Methodist church
we're read.
A cold has the grip. At least
the one have had for over week
has had the grip on me and it won't
tnrn loose, though l am more than
wiling. have hardly been in con
dition to do anything.
1t seems that business of saving
what is made is holding flrmvrs 50
steadily that little in general has
been done towards sowing oats and
right now Is the best time.
You can safely count on a negro
never taking his cotton t. the rad
when picking, unless the road hap.
pens to be very near. When it il
but an acre across tie field they will
leave it there and drive wagon
across the very best cotton, breaking
it down, JUS: to keep from "toting"
it short space.
Tie winds have been blowing cut
cotton where it is not kept closely mp
with and tie rains beating it in the
ground. We had steady, and at
timts, hard rain all last Friday
night end Saturday, and besides
beating out cotton, plowing has been
suspended for few days.
Last Saturday l reckon the biz
gest crowd was at mule shoeiny
that ever was at onc at this place.
A mule was sent to Mr.. w. O. Jeter's
shop t. be shod and refu sed to be, SO
stubbornly that Throwing" was res.
essary, so it was thrown down, tied
and held on tho ground until shoes
could be put on. This attracted a
large crowd, and many, more than
/ was necessary, both white ard CO.
ored volunteered to lend helping
hand, SO the niue was held so firmly
it was not hurt. There was such u
crowd of men around it that one
could scarcely see II.
Isn't it blessing to be out hero
in the country and Southern coun-
try, at the approach of cold weather,
where wood is plentiful and to waste,
only for the cutting and hauling,
and the coal strike and steep price Of
coal for heating purposes is no men
ace to US. There never has yet been
a countryman in these parts who
suffered for the want of wood fol
fuel if he was not sick or too lazy to
get it. Wi.hall there is great deaI
of advantage Of being in the country
l am no danccr-I could not no v
if was ever 50 anxious; but if | was
going into the business I certainly
would dance the "round dance" ther
l could be hugging the girls ant