The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-06-26

| h, Va ShVh0 III OuuS, 10 see no
Far and in what directionAthe exte,
of the drift-of smoke from the.
fires.
+ Sunday is great day for,crowt
to be seen going to the river. Som
can scarcely take the time to 90
the week, though they could se
more; the men would be at tworl
aud sope go on. Sunday because III
men are not atwork. i have hear
that among the negroes 1t is a yer
rough crowd, and that SUNDAYS ar
good days for gambling.
Mr.. Tenney has sent down an
other traction engine, and is now
hauling heavy stuff, such as boiler
and engines: they run "d9ublc.hca,
trains. " There seems to be ,muc}
trouble and break downs in moving
one of the big 60 h. p. boilers whicS
weighs II 900 pouois, on 1900
pound wagon, and about 5000
pounds of s!lls, make quite load f u
bad dirt roads.
Negroes will "spit things ou.''
sometimes. Sunday evening two
negroes passed our door taking.
seemingly trying to keep no secrets,
and one askeds THAT such and such
looking one, what is his name?' and
on being told said, "Well he and 80
ana 81 Zone of our home f,lks) tried
their best to chea. those fellows, but
It was no 60" They passed on
talking, and being strangers took
1T for granted they were negroes
from the dam, and they were talking
about gambling over there, and that
may be why some people 60 there
on Sunday. l saw that so-and>so
ON the way there.
Last week 1 tried it back on the
farm. On tde "hecls" of hard
ram work was much needed, hands
lew and crops were rapidly "going
back, L had one hand (myself) and
went as it, anl | did the best that
| could, and the result is, our band
IS not behind everybody else. But
n one way | paid for it, for nv face
and cutting grain nv
nnaalas-n.->s-ea-a--a. f.I. ~
we're full of briars. [ guess most
any of the farmers will know how
such change of work will effect
person.
Girls are occasionally making
excursion trips" to Meals Shoals
viewing the progress of the work and
no doub. enjoy the scenery. They
doubtless see many big, strange jobs.
Ladies have not generally tho oppor-
tunity to see and observe works of
the mechanic arts, as have men
sometimes they do not care to--not
being interested, as are men; and
some won't when they can, but this
dam being built right here gives many
of US an opportunity to see a big
thing, bigger than any Of US thought
going on, and it has hardly started.
Common farm cattle, with scared
ascentionists behind the m may get
over the ground pretty fast, but. re
Gently l was amused at a ground
squirrel trying to outrun itself it
seems. l was standing still in a
grain field and saw one coming and
when it got by my side it began tc
cut of some heads CT wheat fol
breakfast; then l moved; and all Of
the hurry it made turning around
and making for a pile of cornstalk
about thirty yards off, you scarcel.
ever see and it was hollering ever,
jump. It's heart must not hav'
ooped beating till noon, / go
sorry for the little fellow.
1 wish you could have seen bug
gy I saw few days ago, but perhap
it answered the purpose. 1t wa
home patched. The sides of til
body we're one inch rough edges oal
corner pieces scrap pine, nailed wit
twenty penny nails, gum be'tin
axle washers; felloe plates for ru|
locks. Guano sack cushions, shaf
of crooked sapling or crooked {
some folks lives; macintosh overco
and cape for full dash and back
was daisy but the fellow went
Union and came back with a brig
red new one hitched on his old on
, or the skeleton, and towed it HON
perhaps for relic.
/, - The condition of cotton is not fiji
rate by great many odds. All
that hood hefnre the hard rains