The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-11-24
JONESVILLE

man won't promise us any rain and
the dust is just dreadful and the
farmers are complaining of hard
ground, too hard to plow in their
small grain
Most of the cotton has been picked
and the major part of it has been
sold at prices ranging all along from
10 to twenty cents, the highest price
it has been since shortly after the
late war. And when cotton was so
high flour was five cents pound,
corn $1.5O per bushel and bacon 25
cents pound and most everything
else in the stores was in proportion.
to these prices. remember paying
S54.00 for a suit of clothes and 5000
for pair of boots, but there was one
great difference-taXes were not near
so high as they are now; that is after
we got shed Of carpetbagger rule. I
remember one piece of property that
| had an interest in, an old-time grist
mill, the tax on which just before the
late war was thirty-siX cents and Just
after the war the tax was $64.OO on
the same property. So many strikes
over the country, and perhaps some of
them are proper, all things consid-
cred, but | shall not pass upon that
question, but it really seems the hens
have caught on the strike craze and
have cut off the egg supply and now
they are selling at 30 cents the dozen.
My wife has one good old dominecker
that has just laid on stretch %
eggs. This is no fish story, but a.
| positive egg truth.
Rev. j. A. Cook, pastor of the
Methodist church here two years
since, came down from Spartanburg
and preached in the Methodist church
Sunday. He had good congregation
and he gave them a good sermon and
then shook hands with his many
friends that were present. Mr. Cook
has been transferred at the late an
nual conference in Greenville to the
North Carolina conference.
Sunday afternoon DR.. Nation, who
is with the chautauqua here. preached
fine sermon in the Methodist church
and Sunday night.
DR.. Hyde, another one of the chau-
tauqua speakers, preached in the
Methodist church. The sermon was
strong one and enjoyed by a large
audience. The chautauqua will be
here Monday and Tuesday. They are
giving satisfaction at all their per-
cormances.
Mr. Thos. II. Gore is for the present
in charge of the Jonesville Cash Drug
company at the DR.. Southland old
stand.
Capt. f M. Ellerbe, of the Jones'
vile company now on duty at Ander-
son at the Gluck and Equinox cotton
mills on account of the strike at these
mills, came home on short furlough
Sunday.
Mr.. w. C. Johnson has hogYr mis-
pen that will certainly tip the beam
at five hundred pounds. The hog is
about sixteen months old. Mr.. John
ston says he hasn't bought a nickle's
worth of feed for it, just feeds it on
the scraps from his table.
Miss Pearl Lybrand has taken a |
school at Cannon's Camp Ground in
Spartanburg county.
| saw q young man the other day. |
formerly Of White Stone, Spartanburg
county, who had gone to Florida few
years ago. He told me something
west of Jacksonville. He said there
lands were good and fertile, plenty of |
timber, fruit in abundance, don't use
any guano, make bale of cotton per
acre and from 80 TO 40 bushels of |
corn per acre. They raise long sta |
pie cotton and this season they have |
realized % cents for their cotton. He |
spoke of Mr.. Tom Henderson, who left
this community several years since |
and said he was down in Florida near !
and that he had with his own la
Dor made % bales of long staple cot
ton, which he had already sold for 2S
cents. He said there were no negroes
in his neighborhood and they had a
good government and were prosperous |
Miss Allie Whitlock, daughter of .
Mr. Munro Whtlock and Mr.. Babe .
Evans of Spartanburg were married .
Sunday afternoon by Rev. w. s. Por-
ter at the Presbyterian mansc.
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