The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-01-26
Santuc News.

ing of the days seems to be bring
ing real winter. Should all farmers
tremble for the oat crop2 An ex-
perimental station director said IS
degrees for three or four days was
sufficient to kill oats. How about
10 and IL degrees.
Comparing this year with last
farmers are simply away behind
tied up like shipping on the great
lakes They can scarcely get fire.
wood. They are almost afraid of
getting out into the fields with a
wagon and team.
BY Judge" B. G. Gregory leav-
ing us and going to Carlisle there
will be a vacancy here as magistrate,
but l understand there are at least
two aspirants for the place. Of
course we cannot tell yet who will
be the magistrate. There may be
seve d. applicants.
There is not much cotton in our
town at this time. 1t is all sold.
People had to sell AMI they. are. still
blue streaked for their money has
most all been spent and not enough
at that to go around.
There have been some business
changes here since the old year
went out. i. e., the firm Of Jeter e.
Gregory has been dissolved by mu-
tual consent and Mr.. B. G. Gregory,
one OF the firm, is going to do, bust
ness at Carlisle and Mr.. L. B. Jeter,
the other member, will move his
stock of goods, known here as l.. B.
Jeter No. 2, and which was con-
Quoted by Mr.. l.. b. Jeter, Jr., has
been moved into the old Porter
building just vacated by Jeter &
Gregory.
Sunday, while snow was on the
ground, must have been fine day
for hunting, and several went hunt.
ing. Sunday was preaching day
here but it was too bad for that. but
if you had been here and heard the
guns popping around you would
have thought you we're in the back
woods, where there was no church
or Sunday school. OF course they
miscounted and thought it was Sat-
urday, for certainly those men would
not offend the religious sensibilities
of the Christian ladies or set a bad
example for the boys, the future
hope Of the country, by hunting on
Sunday.
Don't repeal the game law or do
away with the game wardens. There
is going on around here the, killing
Iof protected birds-moGki& birds,
blue birds, robins or an a kns5
man-boy can get a shot at. AMan
gave some of. these bird Killers 81
warning and one said, what do /
care for that law.' have seen a
dead mocking bird that I thought
was shot with a small rifle and just
as sure as l see tne shooting mock
ing bird l will report him. I do
not think one ought to charge the
parents with raising their boys.bad-
ly, but they need house of correc-
tion at home.
| have just been told that on the
last two Sundays while snow was on
the ground people, both white and
colored, in the section toward the
river. werehunting and killing large
Quantities of rabbits. Really are
we. as community, drifting back
wards or has some freak uf nature
placed us in Greek Nation" (In-
dian.) l am sorry, for though
every man must answer for his own
sins that reflects badly on q COM
munity. All this makes seem
ingly pessimistic batch of news for
a new year.
We are having winter in earnest
now. That northwest blizzard after
giving Kansas City and other places
about that region a nip came across
in two days and was on the job in
our to~n Saturday. We had plenty
of cold last week and plenty of rain,
hail, sleet and snow with tempera-
turo almost stationary and a range
OF only 3 to 8 degrees for several
days and several dates down to 26
and 81 degrees. From a set maxi
mum of IL degrees Friday at sun
set, the hour of observation, the
thermometer fell to Is degrees set
maximum. Saturday afternoon
Just before night it fell 8 degrees in