The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-02-16
Santuc Letter.

guess they have, personals, but I
have gotten go lazy (busy, too, and
have written 30 little since we moved
up2a number that l have missed
several personals and will not at
tempt any this time only that Mr..
aud Mrs. Geo. Harris has moved |
from here to Carlisle since I last |
wrote and since Mr.. B. G. Gregory
has gone there to merchandise, and
it is rumored that Mr.. Laban Whit
lock, the railroad agent here, will
rent the house vacated by Mr.. Har-
ris and his mother will come here
and keep house for him.
We had q snow storm, almost q
blizzard, Saturday night. Did you?
The fall was four and a half inches.
The strong wind blew it under shin |
giles badly and Sunday when it be-
gan to melt overhead and drip
through the ceiling we came near
having to move out of our cabin or
raise an umbrella. The tempera-
ture was down to Is degrees Sunday
morning but the snow acted as a
blanket and prevented the ground
freezing. We have had lot of
hard, freezing this winter. AS yet
it is too soon to tell exactly what it
has done for fall sown oats.
Quite an amount of cotton was
sold here the past few days and at
much better prices than much that
was sold last fall. Some could not
hold then and had to sell to meet
obligations Of various grades and
some could have held and wouldn't.
They got scared and the lower or
faster it went down the faster they
would let go. The buyers might
have got a lot Of cotton at 5 cents if
they had known it for all they had
to do would have been to put it at
that and / believe some people would
almost have broken their necks to
get cotton under the scales. But
some people with obligations has no
business with 80 much of it, but I
cannot discuss it now.
Roads have been badly frozen, but
last week they were thawing out and
drying down, but this snow will wet
them again so there will be more
cutting of them. Oh yes, / see
where Mr.. C. M. Bailey and Mr..
Lem Keisler has been using drag
in some places. I am sorter sorry
for / was thinking of beating any
body else at that myself. If I had
thought of the slabs I might have
beat them. but I was looking for the
split log. But L am glad somebody
has gone at it. 1t would help if
more people would do so. did 90
over place and knock the Jumps
back into the ruts with hoe while
the team was hauling and felt re-
paid for even that. Let us get at it
and keep at it if we are not too
stingy with our labor. .
If / could in this new year 1912
do as everybody else thinks ought
to do. act as everybody thinks I
ought to act, think as everybody
else thinks I ought to think, have
views as they think I ought to have,
agree with everybody as they think
l ought to agree with them and
would lay down my views for their 8
to keep them from saying I am ar
guing with them, do you think /
could make them happy, please
them or could I be happy? Won
der If / would be counted good
fellow?
Last week the weather was fine
and land was drying out rapidly af-
ter thawing out and farmers were
rubbing up" expecting and hop
ing to start this week sowing oats,
but alas! roads were drying out and
being packed but are rough and
lumpy. The wet weather and freeze
had them in a very bad fix. BY the
way. / notice an editorial comment
in Progress something to this effect,
How much would you be willing
to vote for bonds for permanent
good roads?" That raises the quss-
ton what is permanent good roads?
/ admit there is room for great i'm
provement, but have come to the
conclusion that nothing short Of a
solid concrete. cement or plank road
would stand the hard freezes 20 de.
grees down to 10 degrees that We
had after thorough saturation Of
water. had several hundred brick
but NOT the hardest kind that got
wet, froze and nearly every one
crumbled all to pieces. A bar OF
medium sand rock across the road
while very wet frozs and on thaw-