The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-29
SANTUC

Sunday was 100 per cent beautifully
The first robin of the season wa II
heard here last week. Winter is comA
ing. u
Rev. A. McA. Pittman filled his
appointment at the Baptist church,
here Sunday, preaching good serp,op
to big congregation. nm
Miss Mary Jenkins, who has beeb II
confined to her home some weeks wit
typhoid fever, attended church sen
vices again Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie d. Moss and
little children, of Irwin, Tenn, are Wis
iting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r
f. Moss, and will attend the StateI
Fair.
Mrs. Rowland Pittman, of Los AM
geles, Cal, is visiting her father and
mother-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. A. McA.
Pittman. Mr.. Pittman himself is ex-
pected to come out here soon. ~
We are sad to say that Mrs. w. j.
Fridy is still in a critical condition in
the hospital in Spartanburg, where she
has undergone an operation. Mayors
at religious gatherings have zen of
fered for her recovery. ,,
Prof. E. NJ. Littlejohn, principal of
the graded school here, went to Paco-
let last week to attend the funeral of
his mother, who died the latter part of
the week.
Mr.. w. d. Steps, the railroad agent
here, was off on a vacation for a
week and came back to his positIo,,
last week. Mr.. George Thomas of
Carlisle was the relief man during
Mr.. Steps absence. 4
The steam mill and ginning at
Leeds, Chester county, burned few
weeks ago, and Mr.. w. S. Mcdaniel,
who had corn mill in this town, h3 :;
moved it to Leeds, and is how operat-
ing the mill there.
AS a new addition to our neighbor-
hood we have the family of Mrs. Mary
E. Davis and her daughter, Mrs. Maud
McCredie of Florida. Mrs. Davis is
we'll known here-this her birthplace.
She was Miss Mary Mcdaniel, and
her husband was Mr.. Philip Davis, o.
this county, and quite a number of
years ago emigrated to Florida, and
died there several years ago. M,
Davis had quite a number of rela-
tives and friends here, as has also
Mrs. Davis, large family connection
and friends. Mrs. McCredie was
born in this county, at this place, and
was small girl when they went to
Florida. We are very glad to have
them here. / am not welcoming them
to their "new" home, but back to their
old home. Mrs. Davis has purchased
small farm, a part of the cold
homestead" and is one of the writer's
near neighbors.
Hogs are sick and dying again on
some farms, and it may be, cholera
again. If cholera or not sit is
menace, and makes ga burnt child
dread the fire. 'as there weres some
heavX losses last winter, HS.uaak
Jeterlis at present a heavy fosew nNWr
ing lost three large ones, with several
sick now. l would like to see them,
but must not, as l am interested in
some pigs and shoats on our little
farm. We are thinking of quarantine
ing our hog pasture, and shoot every
prowling dog we catch near the hogs.
They may carry contagion. / think
those interested ought to get Mr.. Car
nell down to look at the sick hogs.
Now while there is talk of investi-
eating the alleged cotton combine, or
a combine of mills in restraint of
trade?) to hold down prices of cotton
to certain extent, l wonder if it
will be carried far enough to be of
real benefit to the producers. 1 have
often wondered if there were not
little sneaking undercurrent when
cotton mills divide up the territory to
! buy in, and the buyer for one mill will
not "bid" above the buyer for another
mill. And why is it that Monarch and
Union-Butfalo are the only buyers at
Santuc, and when they choose they
can snap their teeth together, as it
were, and order the buyers to buy no
more for awhile, and thus close the
market for days at time, which is
often a great inconvenience, when one
needs to sell. Near Christmas they
often take their buyers out the mar
ket, and there the farmers are, they
have "all they need" but later con-
tract buyer will come along and buy
in lot; and | believe ship right to
them. Why does not Lockhart or
Jonesville ever buy any at this place?
! wonder what territory is assigned
to them. There may be, and there may
not be trust, but it seems the prices
keep at little lower figure around
or near factories than away from
them. And there is boast that cot
ton mills make better prices around
them. But dc they? / am asking
these question for information, as /
am like many others, ignorant to de-
gree of the wishy- -washy turning and
twisting of cotton prices, up a few
points today, down a few tomorrow,
one price here, another at Carlisle
and still another at Union, differens