The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-12-08
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That is true wisdom, so they claim.
You have to think about week
Before you speak a Russian name."
/ tried some for about a year, and
then failed, but how about many 9TH
ers?
"Uncle Zeke" says, "It's hard ter
b'lieve sum men are bigger fools than
they look"
When 1 was little boy, why the
teacher made me spell such word as
incomprehensibility was beyond my
incomprehensibility.
Mr.. Curtis Gregory, who has been at
Macfeat's Business College sometime,
spent Thanksgiving day with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Gregory, Sr.
Mr.. Manning Jeter, a Furman stu
dent spent the weekend with his pa
rents, DR.. and Mrs. J. T. Jeter, and
was accompanied by fellow student,
Mr.. Wood, of Laurens.
The boys of the First regiment,
from this county (and elsewhere) will
soon be at home. There are two from
Harry Jones. Mr.. Jeter enlisted with
the Butler Guards of Greenville, and
Mr.. Jones with the Johnson Rifles of
Union.
The new Methodist preacher, Rev.
R. l.. Doggett, preached his first SER
mon here Sunday, his text being from
John 1888, "What Seek Ye." He made
very favorable impression, and
seems to be very friendly man, de-
sirous of making everybody like him.
or rather love him as a friend and
pastor, and that he may thereby be
more useful in his calling. Everybody
liked his predecessor, Rev. Mr.. Boul-
ware, who made friends easily, and
the new preacher may win a place as
easily, and be as well liked.
The cold wave which struck us on
Nov. 10Th, bringing the first general
killing frost and freeze, 20 degrees,
proves now to have wrought quite an
amount of damage. Many farmers are
complaining that the oat crop is about
killed, and in that quite an amount of
seed was lost. Turnips was killed
badly, some patches being a complete
loss. Cabbage were killed, some as
dead as if a fire had been on them
Even the hardy plant, rape, was badly
killed off. The weather this year has
been abnormal anyway, it seems. Af-
ter the extreme wet summer, the fall
has been so dry it was difficult to
plow in oats, what came up was badly
winter killed at the very start. There
are no winter cover crops, rye would
not come up in cotton felds if little
shower would bring up crimson clover,
drought soon killed it. Volunteer bur
clover came up and died, and no sown
seed would ever start to come up, and
there is not thing to speak of in
the gardens.
have noticed that it is of no use
to give the average negro big price
for work, as he will waste it and never
saves anything. Of all the negroes
about here who quit their jobs on the
farms, several who had crops, were
troopers" to work on the rebuilding
of the dirt dam at Neal Shoals, at
from $1.25 to $1.50 a day, few, if
any, have saved any money. When
they were "fired" they limped back to
the farm where they had quit and
went to trying to borrow money or
take up small jobs. They had no mon
ey to pay any debts they had made
on the farm. But it is against the
principle of many Of them to pay a
debt, if they can in anyway cheat"
you out of it. They quit their farm
jobs, and crops to go to the dam, then
lost out, and is now drifting back to
the farm for shelter and winter fire
wood. Prices paid by farmers are
often sneered at, but the farmer is
the only employee who furnishes all
fuel free, and that is quite an item.
A price of $1.25 a day ruins a negro
for farm work, and few are worth
$1.25 when he gets it.
| came near being wicked enough
to say | wish there would he no ir,orL
proclamations for a special Thanks
giving day, because it is more often
misused, and many especially the col
ored folks, think it is for hunting. BY
the way, / heard such a great lot of
shooting, and believe it was at birds,
and the season had not opened for
hunting either. 1t may not have been
bird hunting, but it is not once in a
lifetime one can hear such shooting at
rabbits. The day was very quiet here,
but for the hunting heard. The SER
vices / mentioned to be here was held
at the Baptist chdrch, and was a small
affair, from size, but this may have
been the "two or three" the Bible men
toned, gathering together. Most of
the "sheep" may have gone off and
jumped into the pen with the goats"
(using an expression of Rev. Dean
Crane) and l wonder if any of them
"came home with the very hound
butted out of them," as he said again.
Hey Denver.
The (luInIne That Does Not Affect Tha Head