The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-12-03
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ASheville, n. c., and Mr.. Frank Moss
of Green Mountain, N. c., speht few
days with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. E. Moss.
DR.. and Mrs. J. T. Jeter went to
Greenville on Thanksgiving Day to see
their children who are in Furman and
the College for Women.
Mr.. A. w. Gilmore went to Column
bia on business last week and saw
the movie, "The Birth of Nation"
Mr.. w. ID. Speffs has been trans
ferred from this station as railroad
agent and Mr.. Bolin, from Columbia,
is now the agent. =,
Thanksgiving Day was quiet. Some
took it" because of a chronic habit
of quitting work on every known hol-
iday.
Last Friday night at the school
building here Prof. Reid Smith, of the
University of South Carolina, ad-
dressed an audience on Community
Development" All who heard it said
it was just to the point. He has a
good voice and was very plain. He
showed that as no one could live to
himself no community, city, village Oh
"burg" could live by itself. That it is
the duty of every one to help some
one, to cheer him, or her, in anything
for good, to doy, to help improve and
develop a community. That amor
the several drawbacks to communie,,
development that of Indifference is to-.
worse, the most to be dread, etc: The
length of his address was As minutes
There were not so many out as
expected to see. For quite number
of years l have heard the complaint
that this community needed develop
ment, needed improvement, that there
was too much indifference.
There has been quite an amount of
rain during November, 3.77 in., and
grain sowing has been retarded. There
is not near enough being sown. Many
are not through. | begin to fear that
there is not going to be much wheat
sown this year as last. Some who
sowed last year, a few, hear, will not
sow again this year. They made a
failure. They made failure this year
on cotton, making four to five bales
per horse and the cropper to get half,
the guano merchant to get part, and
in some cases the land owner to get
part. Will they plant cotton next
year? / have heard of few farm
ers who said they would not sow any,
because cotton was too high price
to sacrifice land to wheat More are
that way, but they are no country
builders, are poor ones to follow un-
less your are having for gas.
Hogs are still dying, as some are
losing hogs, very likely from cholera
and it is rumored that someone bur-
led very carelessly. The small shoats
and pigs that l am interested in, we
have been very careful about. We have
tried to keep them isolated from any
others, threatened to quarantine dogs
ond 4~seel~es -~e~ld ;not=Eu-n near rne
sick hogs, and told the hands on tn
place to not go near them in order
that no germ might be brought back
to the farm, yet we lost just today
seven weeks old pig, after all the
precaution we had taken, and it may
have died from cholera, but 1 hope
not. Nevertheless we put that little
thing four feet deep in the ground.
Will that do? AS for myself, am 60
ing to be very careful not to help
spread the disease in anyway.
A man said something about the
Sunday running of freight trains,
about the loop holes the Legislature
leaves or creates for the chronic law
breakers to creep out through, etc!
Well, it does seem so. In the case of
the railroads, every Sunday the reg
ular daily through freight trains pass
through here, and every Other town
on the line, l guess, end the only diff
ference on that day and the regular
weekday is white flag on the en-
gine. This is, no doubt, the loop hole,
that they withhold the regular train
number and call it an extra. A train
of coal, box cars, a string of empties
and, perhaps, crate of fruit or vege-
tables, etc, for perishable freight. If
| would hitch up my wagon, go down
to the field for load of stuff, or hire
it out, the community would be ''hor-
rifed" and dub me a nuisance, and
turn about to put stop to my doings.
Christmas is coming and how will
we celebrate the day-the Savior's
birthday? Some will do so in way
"holiy uePldNeu "HeH you HnedSuIe IL
up by what should be on such an event
as Christ's birthday. Circulars are
now coming to the postoffice, thick,
get many, some sayings "Order your
Christmas liquor early" "Time you
were thinking of your Christmas or,
DER" "No doubt you will want some
liquor" etc. Yes, and some people
will be almost crazy for "Christmas
liquor" Even some church members
will talk Of their Christmas DRAM"
1t is almost blasphemy. 1t is sacre-
ligious to debauch that day with drink
ing. The day of days that they should
not. Many will worship their "Christ
mas Euuoro or dram or epp-nop moro