The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-03-07
Santuc News Letter.

about eight hours. Thursday even
ing before we had a regular down
pour for short while, which would
have been a bad "trashmover" if it
had lasted longer. People speak on
March coming in like lamb" but
thsi one come in laundering.
There are rumors that some gar
deners have tomato plants up, and
have planted other things, but I won
der how they are faring this frosty
morning, with ice, and temperature
at % degrees. The early bird out to
catch the worm, but the worm may
catch the early bird. l do not believe
in running ahead of time, myself.
There was young negro man,
Charlie Thompson, died the first of
last week, down near where Mr.. ]. B.
T. Vaughan lives, caused by pistol
shot in the arm and blood poison set.
ting in. He shot himself. 1t was
reported to me that he was trying to
shoot his brother, and shooting across
his left arm, sent the ball into that.
Another report was, that in trying to
shoot his brother, because that broth
er would neither give him whiskey
nor money to buy any, the brother
caught his hand, turning it away to
save himself, and changed the direc-
ton fthe ball. If the reports
about the affair are true, he did what
he ought to have done, in trying to
shoot someone else, shot himself.
Instead of killing brother, kill him
self. l have just heard that the
coroner went down, had the body dug
up, and held an inquest. think
that was fixing needless expense on
the county. So far as 1 know, the
man never said but that he shot him
self, none of his people never said
anything else. He was the only one
who did any shooting or attempted
20 do any, or any fighting, just only
shot himself, and there can be no
further case against him in this
world, nor anyone else, as to trials
or the courts, and it seems that this
exhuming and holding an inquest was
needless. He was not found dead,
but lived more than week after the
accident to him.
The Secretary of the Union County
Interdenominational Sunday School
Convention has sent some blanks for
reports from Sunday Schools, etc.
But listen, l do not believe there is
a Sunday School in Santuc township,
unles it is at Beulah church. Around
| Sonfnn thnra &c eb of
church-going people. AS to Sunday
School that is more lacking. At the
church that I am best acquainted with
there has been Sunday School win
ter and summer for a good many
years, until this winter, when with,
one man in the hospital, his wife
overwhelmed with anxiety, the three
leading young ladies of the school
away, to wit: Miss Stella Hobson
having taken position at Halifax,
S. c.; Miss Minnie Stokes gone to
live at Burlington, N. c., and Miss
Lizzie Jeter at G. F. c., Greenville-
and only a handful, and very small at
that, of single men, no teachers, the
school atrophied for want of nourish-
ment. No parents attended. 1 am
wondering who is responsible. If pa
rents, members of the church, with
children, are not enough interested in
the training of their children at Sun
day School, to interest themselves in
the Sunday School, to go and take
the children, or even encourage them,
or help to support the school, and
single men and young ladies try to
keep up a school for the good of the
children, and fail for want of cooper
alton, will the Lord hold the latter
responsible. With the young ladies
mentioned going away, it took
about all of the young ladies of the
place who seemed to care about Sun
day School You may accuse me of
making serious Indictment, but II
think seeing is believing in many
things. Strong and vigorous people
may be ever so interested deep down
in their hearts, but if they do not
speak out, or show out for a thing,
the world will never know it. And,
as for the men folks and half grown
boys, they are without a question
nice, sociable, gentlemanly fellows
but they do not seem to be interested
in church or Sunday School work.
but / guess none of this is my bust
ness, but it may be of business of the
future of our place.
l am sorry to have to say it, that
if the Township Interdenominationa