The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-09-07
SANTUC NEWS ITEMS.
Store Changes Hands Scratching
Candidates --EIeCtiOn--A Cor.
reCtiOn--PerSOndIS.

September came in fair-I smile.
Rotten fodder" is in the air,
roundabout.
have very pretty and sweet
cousin who ought to subscribe for
The TIMES, oughn't she?
Miss Daisy Jetcr, who visited for
quite while in Newberry, came
home last week.
Young Mr.. Ben Bobo, of Scdalia,
visited his sister, Mrs. r. &. A.
Jeter last Saturday and Sunday
but he did not lose time on the riv
er With won't tell on him. So
hush.
Mr.. d. J. FAINT, native of this
place, now engineer on the Airline
railroad, made short visit to rela
tivcs here this week. His family
accompany him.
Mr.. VIII Harris now Il conductor
ON the S. \. l.. railroad spent a few
days with his parents here last
week.
Mrs. J.. C. Schumpcrt, who visit
eel her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. II.
Randolph of I.andrum, stopped
over here few hours Sunday max
ing a short call ON her relatives, the
family of Mr.. J. W. Gregory. She
was on her way to her home IN Sa-
vannah, Ga, whore Mr.. Schumpert
| is dispatcher for the Seaboard Air
Line railroad.
The main whiskcy season will
soon he on; cotton is beginning
to open. Then some can walk with
out blind tigers. Blind tigers here
may be mostly for a five and a ten
cent accommodation.
THE TIMES Extra" giving the
election returns, was alright, and
appreciated, the people getting the
news Just few hours later than the
Columbia dailics, and that was by
only a matter in the direction of
the trains. 1t is just recently the
people have been getting extras
without extra cost to them.
! 'Ei,i- i- tho Hr't tirAa. this year,
that ever saw lice on the roots OF
young corn. | saw them myself,
and little corn looked as if moles
had been under it. That corn new
er did recover fully. | know one
field that had them bad, the land
was poor too, and now the crop is
only pucrile suggestion of crop.
There are fine pastures around
here, Japan clover, etc, going tC
waste for want of utilization; moth
. ing except Bermuda grass is better
! for sheep, yet people want to lay al
the blame OF not raising sheep OF
the dogs. There are no more dog,
F.; han there used to be they may b,
st hungricr, but aren't there some
5 homemade quarantine laws?
e One may talk about scratch
; ing" andidates-"rc rcbuking" them
j. etc., or any one, but if l can reac
> Alright, almost, or every one who
. had no opposition was scratched
, (rebuked) more or less, even in the
: county. Some would have beer
9 more, but some people knew that
would have been weakness, foolish
! ness, for they knew they could not
3 prevent their election-vcnting their
spleen in that manner, if / may sc
put it. There were several unop
= posed men who got votes from
voters who did not want them, but
! had no one else to vote for.
The primary election on the 2Sth
was becomingly quiet and orderly,
though some people were suspected
OF having the smell on them, and
the action about them, of one who
had taken a few drops-pcrhaps of
some candidates liquor, 1t may
have been used trying to secure the
election of one of both-what? the
dispensarite, and prohibitionist.
| don't care how a man talks, but
sometimes liquor is used to aid him
4 in securing his election, whether he
knows" anything about it or not
lit will be used. / do not know
who pays the freight" but sus-
spcct, as poor man cannot afford
it unless he is paid for his "valu-
able" service.
In the so-callcd race for magis-
trate---wcll, it was no race only a
happy-go- easy in Office, by Judge
b. j. Gregory, who has been our
magistrate the past I or s wears ,un-