The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-12-17
JONESVILLE

| Jonesville, Dec. 13.-Twenty-s
horses were sold at auction here last
Friday. They were Tennessee stock
and they brought fair prices from
$125 to 5000. The sale attracted men
here from Union, Kelton, Pacolet and
other places.
The sad news reached Jonesville this
morning that Mrs. Lizzie Wactor died
at her home in Columbia yesterday.
Mrs. Wactor was daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Munro Whitlock and was
born and reared near Jonesville. She
had many friends all over this COM
munity who will be sorry to hear the
sad news.
The bazaar conducted by the ladies'
of the Methodist church last week was
quite success. About $1OO was taken
in, which will be applied to church
purposes.
Rev. w. B. Justus held his first
services here Sunday for this con-
ference year.
The first quarterly conference with
be held here the 2nd Sunday in Jan
uary.
DR.. M. w. Chambers will leave to-
day to attend the annual communica-
tion of the Grand Lodge A. F. NJ,
which convenes in Charleston tomor-
row.
The good fall weather came to al,
end here last Friday. The snow Sat-
urday was about two inches thic,.
the first of the season. The bad
weather set in last year the first
of December and it held on well into
the spring.
l didn't see an automobile out dur
ing all day Sunday.
Mrs. Samuel M. Lipscomb of Bruns-
wick, N, j., is visiting her mother.
Mrs. G. c. McWhirter, on Hames ave-
nue.
spoke last week in my article OF
Woodrow Wilson, VIM. Jennings Bry-
an and Henry Ford being three of the
greatest men on earth and l should
have added Thomas Edison to the trio
and made it four of the greatest men.
| wish to write something of the
automobile which has lately come into
use. They are used for draying and
delivering freight and other COM
modities as well as the pleasure and
joy riding and this is all very we'll if
1T is done with care and caution, but
there is good reason to believe that
there is much carelessness and reck-
lessness in the driving of automobiles.
l am friend to the automobile for l
own one myself and it is a source
of pleasure to me. Mine is little
runabout Ford and l have named it
Little Mary" and Little Mary" can
sure scale hill in high gear, wade
creek and jump a gully and get
there on time all the same. The roads
suit me very well for can make
very good time the way they are.
It's the owners of the big, fine, heavy
cars that want the good roads because
their machines can't glide aIonns I'm 44ilttseyI
Editor Rice gave good advice. in, his
editorial column last week on care
and comfort of the use of the auto
mobile. When I drive out over the
country in my car consider the other
fellows have the same right of way
that /, even if he is negro driving a
mule. l don't blow and try to scare
him and run him in the ditch. The
other day | was out driving with Mr..
Henry Herring and we met two heav-
ily-loaded wagons with cotton seed
and we drove out in the ditch, stopped
and gave them all the road, for it
would have been a hardship for them
to have even divided the road with
us. We didn't lose more time than
minute and we accommodated two
friends.
While in this connection I wish to
say something about fast, reckless rid
ing and driving of all sorts of We
hicles across the railroad crossings.
Most all the damage is laid to the
railroads, it dosn't matter what the
circumstances are. Let's be more lib
eral and give the railroads Justice.
have been living between two railroad
crossings not more than a quarter of
mile apart and have never had anv
fears of being "run down" by a train
and | never expect to get hurt on
these or any other crossings because
am careful, look and listen, if I
don't stop, but l see hundreds and
hundreds of people rush over these
crossings and never give any heed to
the railroad and it is really a wonder
that many more people are not hurt
on the crossings than there are.
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