The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-01-23
SANTUC

Boseman, of the Baptist Courier, was
in Santuc Sunday and preached for
the congregation of the Baptist
church His sermon was on prayer,
and it was a good sermon. Had It
been previously known that he was
going to preach there might have.
been larger congregation, but this
day it was one of the smallest, as
the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Pittman, usual
ly has large congregation.
Young Malcolm Jeter happened to
a very painful accident last week
when he had his leg badly cut by an,
axe, in the hands of negro boy, who
was helping him do some work. The
cut is just below the knee joint, and
a "ticklish" place. :
DR.. L. H. Thomas, who has been 10.
Gated here for the past several years,
left for his new field at BranchvilleI
'ast week. DR.. Thomas was q good
physician and the people regret that
he has decided to leave us. He mari
ried at this place, Miss Minnie Gil
more, two years ago, and so he takes
away native Santuc girl. Person
ally, l wish DIR. Thomas could have
seen his business way clear to have
remained with us. Now this section
is without resident physician, un-
less DR.. j. T. Jeter could be persuad-
ed to take up the work again, as
the people will have to import one.
DR.. Thomas said that he would sub
scribe to The Times.
Mr.. w. o. Jeter went to Columbia
Sunday to see his brother, Mr.. R. G..
A. Jeter, who has been in the Co
lumbia hospital for more than a week
with compound fracture of the leg,
which accident happened at Parr
Shoals, where the injured man had
employment. @
This correspondent is in the tolls
of very bad cold-and have never
had good one and I am trying to
sow some oats, and feel that 1 have
big job on my hands, in my condition.
This morning I feel like a big bear,
or some ugly thing has run me up
big hill and could not run from it
mile further, but if a big bear was
straight in behind me, perhaps
might scrape up energy enough to
go mile and half. 1 don't know.
l saw in the paper where Georgia
judge is sentencing some men for
"pistol toting," and said he was 90
ing to ignore the fine, but would send
them straight to prison, to stripes;
that pistol toting had to stop and he
was going to cut out the alternative
of fine. Those men were said to be
men of good families. Well, if men
of good families, white men, irh oJss
state carry pistols, .ho~,s we2 8
pect negroes, for instance, to\ stoS, !, N
be more law-abiding. I see TO, that
Attorney General Peoples was clear
ed of the charge of murder for kill
ing the negro chef, and, we'll, 1 guess
he was innocent of real murder, but
how about the lawless carrying a
lawless pistol. That he was carry
ing pistol is no question of doubt.
Had he been observing the law that
negro's blood would not now be on
his hand. There can be no excuse for
the accident of killing a negro with a
pistol away from the attorney gem
erals home, if he had not been a law
breaker. So far as it concerns the
dead negro. 1t could have been no
more fatal than if Mr.. Peoples had
aimed point blank at him. He is
dead negro, the result of certain
degree of lawlessness, and that by a
state official, other than a sheriff, or
constables of some sort. Of the pres
ent regime, supporter of the re-
gime, which wants some action taken
in regard to the concealed weapon
law. But what is going to be done
about Mr.. Peoples "toting" one. Let
mum" be the word?
Some time last fall two young ne
gro men were standing in front of a
store in this place and they put up a
kind Of make believe" falling out
and one pulled a Coca Cola bottle
and said: "I''l shoot you," then
drifted away, perhaps loafing, and
all was forgotten, for. time at least.
Some time later two negroes got into
a fight and knives were drawn and
they were called to trial. The trial
was at Union. The young buck of
the Coca-Cola bottle episode happen
ed to be a witness in the case, and
against the big fellow in the fight.
and it seems man who was deeply
interested on one side in the fight
case reported the negro who pointed