The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-07-05
Santuc News Letter. .
left. over from last weekly

tLeft, over from last weekly
Santuc, June 26.-At home from
college we have the Gilmore boys, w.
c., Ernest and Paul, and James Je-
ter from Clemson; Miss Lizzie Jeter,
from Greenville, Female College; Miss
Kathleen Jeter from the College for
Women at Columbia, and Miss Annie
Gregory, who has been teaching music
at Eastover.
Miss Mary Gregory, who has been
assistant teacher at the graded school
here, has been reelected. She made
no application for the position, but
the trustees elected her nevertheless.
I have not yet heard of the action in
regard to princinal. Prof. Weaver
will not be with us again.
The crops are very poor, / think,
down here. Cotton is small, ana red
looHng and is late. Cool nights and
high day winds were very injurious
to II. see much that looks as if frost
had been on it, but know that frost
does not fall at so degrees in June.
Corn Is not doing much. The fod-
der on some looks if it fodder is ready
to pull. A whole lot of it stands in
need of work. 1t too, is behind, Sc.
bafk. Some is simply inferior and
was planted exactly according to the
"moon."
Tobe Thompson, colored, was car
rifd before the u. s. Commissioner
Saturday, under tho charge of selling
whiskey, and was bound over to the
United States Court in Greenville.
No doubt Tobe sold it-he is contin-
uflly under suspicion, but this case is
npt fair. 1t is spite work, and it is
suspected white man is manipulate
ing the thing for another negro whose
cpw Tobe had taken up for trespass-
ihg, but letting of free the first
'dme and only charging for the second.
This whiskey selling ought to be
stopped, but it never will be when
easy-going, or unscrupulous, or "don't
care white men know of such facts,
and maybe wink at them in some
eases and maybe interested in some
"tooT selling, and only report or
seek to prosecute through a bit of
spite. BY all means don't do thing
only through, and because of spite,
and then take drilled witnesses from
among those employed in one capacity
or other, by the prosecutor. That al
ways lessons my respect for man, if
he ever deserved any. Now I believe
Tobe is guilty, if not just now, he has
been at it, and I, with others, be-
lieve it is going on by others, on the
same place with, and known by, all
involved in this case of Tobe's, and
will I go too far to suspect some are
co-partners to it.
This ~ IN hard year on farm
e he weather conditions,
een running behind
time" all OF the year, and are still
behind The recent rains are making
them more so, with two 10 nres days
a week laying off, for dry land. The
writer has been SO busy and hard
pressed that there has been but lit
tie time to write any news, and as
hard work makes one tired, working
at something even on rainy days,
thrashing peas, getting out seed corn,
and while it is wet, stopping gullies,
layin goff terraces, ditching, hauling
and even working at the saw mill,
keeps one too busy to write or too
tired to sit up late at night to write,
and consequently I may be counted
lazy. The fact is, I am hard by try
ing to build up improve, build
houses on a little farm that was so
badly abused, mistreated, almost
butchered, and meet paymentns, that
have been so busy, and was kept back
much by bad weather, that it has been
harder on me. But do not complain.
4 take pride in what I am doing and
some day this may be A Farm, though
have no money to back me up. II
pave to dig, plan, contrive-yes, work.
That's all. After a while hope the
path will be easier. But no one with
no more means shall surpass me in
This work. Hey Denver.