The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-07-24
SANTUC SIFTINGS.
Hey Denver Eliminates on Various
Subjects "A Much Troubled Hen.


A curl of the lip.
| l guess that hurts fellow who can
take hint.
There are swings, but did any of ytu
ever see a gate swing?
People sometimes have sites. IL a
pig had one, it would be pig sly.
If wanted to get real "low down."
lin all things as good to a community
1 would gamble with negroes on Sunday.
Rev. w. II. White preached on his
regular appointment 3cd Sunday at the
Pres byterian church. Text Is l: 1G 20
Little Miss Lena and Clifford Bobo,
who have been here o1 a visit to their
sister, Mrs. r. G. A. Jeter, returned
home last week.
The minimum temperature registered
IS degrees ON two mornings last week.
Pretty cool for July.
We need light rain every week fer
some time. We think that corn and
cotton may 'taper off on" it after so
much wetness.
The young people have good Sunday
School at the Salem Baptist church.
Small in numbers, but good in contribu.
tions, A sort of B. Y P. U. in itself.
That pesky foreigner, the harlequin
bug has mad, its appearance in our gar
den at home; and they are just a little
bit worse than troublesome when they
get hitched on right.
Thursday before 3rd Sunday in
August series of meetings will begin
at the P'esbyt erian church here. The
pastor is hoping to get assistance, but
does not as yet know whether he will be
able to get it.
My thanks are due Senator B. II
Tlllman, and Mr.. j. W. Bower, Section
Director Weather Bureau for South
Carolil.a for having sent to me the year
book of the Department of Agriculture
for 1862. 1t is full of good articles and
tables and like it.
Grass still holds sway, am sorry to
say, in many cotton fields. Some from
the former being "over-croped" and
some from sheer neglect, turning the
farms over to the tender merces of the
c)!ored hands. l saw field which
made cotton last year waist high, and
now have it to date four inches high,
and corn is also last.
1t has been playing about my ears that
over az PAdsett's Geek church yes,er
day, 3td Sunday would be big mission
airy day. That d.. Bailey and others
would be there aiding interest to the
OCCASION. Padgett's Creek, 1 know
m ade 60 vi thing of it. Your c)rres.
poadent would liked to have been there
to take it in and hear D.. Bailey AMI
some other people over there.
The E litor telling "How to rest" |,
partly responsible for my not sending in
anything las! week. But I knew tha.
plan of reetiu2, but it worked afresh on
my mind, and had to rest, it seem,
had bat TITLE ne vs., bu, when sat down
to transfer it to paper, knew | woull
have to resort TO getting SON sthing
could rake up OFT of the played out
kloaiike of my poll region aud that was
not what was wanted.
Dr.. j. I. Jeter Was called to Carlisle
Saturday night to assist d.. Hin;)ct t,
sew up f,iyhtfui g ish in the SO onl,l
of Mrs. Page, caused by cow hook
ing her. 1t is considered dangerous, if
not mortal, wound.
Every Sunday evening for four weeks,
we have had good rains, and crop, ought
tob, growing fast but they aren't. The
rlIas are goo on Old corn that's in the
silk, but the stalks are 80 very snlll.
Crops of all kind, are far Inferior to
what they were last year, aud if a great
many do not have to go blck to buying
corn next year, do not know anything
about cornfield when see. 1t is true
the season has been cool, not unfavor.
able for time, but if it had not have
ralned, there would have been the COM
plant of it being too dry. / do not be-
lieve all of the fault is in the weather.
will risk the responsibility of saying
that it is nothing but piece of foolish
ness for farmers to overload themselves
with too many acres, and that poor land,
for if it turns wet, few acres of the
best, it well manure and worked, will
pay better, for where is the profis of
these big crops, poor stands AMI healthy
grass?
l have heard much complaint about