The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-09-30
TIE FARMERS UNION.
A Great Organization That Has
Done and is DoingGreat Coed
Two Rattlers Killed Mt. Eli
am Personals and News Items.
Corespondcnce of The Robcsonian.


of The Robcsonian
In my correspondence to The
Robesonian (the best semi-Week
ly paper in the State) | like to
write about the best thing; and
the best thing and the thing
that's doing our county the most
good, besides the church, is the
Farmers Union. / am sure you
who have already joined never
joined a better thing since you
joined the church. Well, you
may say education is doing our
country more good; but if you
did not know it, education and
more of it is one of the many
great aims Of the Union. I'm
afraid I'll do the Union an in
justice by not saying anything
good enough about it. l am glad |
to know that the farmer the
heart of the world, for without
heart man is no good and with
olt the farmer the world is no
goods beginning to see how
things are and how they could
be, also. The Union is very young
in North Carolina, but any man
that could tell a coon from a
'possum can see good that it has
done already and is doing. So it's
no use to tell what it's going to
do. But if ran a farm or if
farm ran me, | would join the F.
E. and C. u. of A. if l had to
pillow an OK and use potato vines
for lines. Some few say they
are too poor to keep the member
ship fees paid up. Well, would
not keep an old hen that would
not lay S1.O0 worth of eggs in a
year and if you join the Union
your hens will lay more eggs
anyhow. Then | know a few men
who say Mr.. Swanson is just
fooling the people. / hope no
one will believe such stuff, for
where ignorance is bliss, It's
folly to be wise," and the man
that would talk such stuff would
not know a good thing IN the
daytime. Then some say farmers
, won't stick. Suppose they all
,, say that? A man like that does
!. more harm than good and he
ought to be stuck in a tar barrel
; and made to stick. Every good
) thing has 'pullbacks," and he is
J the 'pullback" of the best thing
! he ever will pull back. He'll
: stick, but it's to the old-time
3 way of being run over and step
: ped on; for some men have beer
3 done that way till they think thu
3 world could not go higher with
2 out they remain in the mud. Blu
2 we have plenty without him. The
/ farmer has what the world ha
3 to have and then he is looked OF
3 as being the remnants. The tim
= is near at hand when a farme
e can hold his products in one han
. and the prices in the other. Tn
@ farmers sun is already shinin
and is going to shine very brigE
$3.50 in the time to come. The Unio
is growing faster than any othe
secret order ever did and there
something in store for the oil
fellow if he'll only keep going u
and it will be Happy Joe" an
Happy SAL VIXEN the top
reached.
The Farmers Union is not tt
biggest thing, although it's vel
large and the best; the late
style OF ladies' hats is the bi
gest thing. II you hear a ma
say he saw the preacher you m;
rest sure one of those top piec
was not between him and Il
preacher. Some of them won
make fine air ships. with t
proper attachments.
Mr.. Tom Britt killed raft
snake near here Friday with
rattles and one button. 1t W
5 feet long.
Messrs. Orion Martin and Il
man Britt were somewhat frigl
ened one night recently while s
I ing through the woods. Son
thing looking like a dog jump
n into the buggy with them a
d jumped out at once.
b The cotton raisers all wear
8 smile.
4 Messrs. Thad. Stone, Groy
Britt, John Stone and OrionM:
tn went to kingsdale Saturd
on business.
Mr.. Rowland Stone spent S;
. urday in Lumberton.
Messrs. John J. Britt and Ii
ter Taylor, of East Lumberte
spent Saturday and Sunday w
~ Mr. Crny7nr p,.,f+ n M Lol;o,.,