The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-06-14
Our Jonesviile News Letter.

Jonesville, June 11.-From Friday
morning till Sunday was hard spell
Of weather fo rthis season, but then I
have seen it as bad on many occasions.
Thank you, Brother c. B. Bobo, for
your compliment and invitation to
visit you, in your correspondence in
The Times last week. 1t would be a
great pleasure to me to visit you in
your great country home and talk of
our hard service together in the
bloody struggle of the early sixties,
but age and physical disability are
against me and I doubt If / ever make
the visit. i. extend to ysu the same
cordial invitation. You spoke of the
battle of Clay's farm and said you had
never heard from General Walker af-
ter the Yankees amputated his leg. 1
had the pleasure of meeting up with
Gneral Walker at the reunion in At
ianta in 1897 ,and had talk with
him, he was using his crutch. 1 asked
him how he was getting along in the
world. He replied: ooh, 1 am starv-
ing on two pensions" He was draw
ing a pension from the United States
as Mexican war veteran and also
Confederate warpension. Both
amounted to about 5000. The General
died few years ago. Brother Bobo,
you said you thought Colonel Wal
lace succeeded General Walker, but it
was General Elliott that succeeded
Walker until the battle of the Craytor.
Walker was severely wounded and
was never able for service any more
and then Col. Wallace was promoted
to brigadier general and served there
until the surrender. General Wal
lace was, however, promoted tenn
porarily to the command of Gen.
Bushrod Johnson's division, which he
commanded until the surrender.
Mr.. T. E. KerA who has been living
in Jonesville for the last several years.
has sold out his property here and
will move with his family to Indianap-
polls, Ind in few days.
That's f1attering invitation you
have received, Mr.. Editor, from the
Fifty Years in Business Club, of
Nashville, Tennessee. Hope you will
have a good time in that beautiful
city on the bank of the Cumberlin.
Yes, The Union Times has never been
out of business since its first issue
and l have been a continuous reader
of 1T all the time, except the years of
the late Civil war. 1 claim to be the
Oldest person of the Times force now
living, as l worked in the office for
Robt. A. Mcknight in the year 1859,
and again 1 claim to be the Oldest
correspondent of the paper Having
been regular writer for it's columns
for the last thirty-five years.
Mrs. Boyd Gallman and Misses
Mary and Vina Porter of Kelton are
visiting the family of Mr. S. o. Pal
mer.
Mr.. N. S. Fowler spent Sunday in
Spartanburg.
+ Mr.. Albert McWhirter of Lockhart
in Jonesville today.
r Mr.. T. M. Littiejohn spent last week
on his farm in Cherokee county.
Mr.. Marion Roberts, former sec
tion foreman on the Southern rail
-road here, moved with his family to
Belton last week.
Mr.. Coke Ariail who has been teach
ing school has taken a position with
the Jonesvilie Drug Co. during the
vacation.
Rev. Lewis M. Rice filled his pulpit
at the Baptist church here Sunday
morning and night.
Rev. w. H. AriaiI filled his pulpit
at the Methodist church Sunday night.
Miss Sallie Lybrand of Spartanburg
is spending some time with relatives
in Jonesville.
Miss Grace Farr has lately returned
from Kansas City, where she has been
for some time at the Scarritt training
school, preparing for missionary work.
Mr.. D. B. Free and daughter, Miss
Anna, spent Sunday in Jonesville with
Mr.. D. B. Free, Jr.
Mr.. Harry Byars of Union spent
Sunday in Jonesville.
received a letter a few days since
from cousin, w. T. Harris, at Mexi-
sco. he writes crops are fine in his
section. Corn is in silk and tassel,
and cotton looking we'll. A well was
bored near him for water but they
struck vein of gas and oil and the
oil spouted one hundred feet above the
surface. Still another we'll was bored