The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-02-11
BUFFALO

CERT, formerly of Monarch but now
of Aiken county, visited his daughter,
little Miss Ruth on Sunday last. Mr..
Swygert is very favorably known here
| and has many friends here who are
| always glad to see him, he having
been the popular manager of the Mu-
tual Dry Goods company for a number
of years.
Dolores Todd, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Todd, who has been des-
perately i'll for several days with
pneumonia, we are glad to state there
= decided Improvement in her con-
dition and it is now hoped she will
soon recover and able to be out.
Mr.. Jas. Smith of Converse was the
guest of Mr.. T. J. Rountree Tuesday
night.
Miss Annie l.. Green, one of the
popular and beloved teachers in the
Buffalo Graded school, received tel
egram last Friday night announcing
the death of her father, which oc-
CURED very suddenly at his home in
Newberry. She left Immediately by
automobile. Many friends through
out the county deeply sympathize with
her in this her sad hour of bereave-
ment.
The new store which is being erect
ed on Union street and will be occu-
pied by Messrs. Rhinehart Evans ana
Baldwin is nearing completion.
Rev. Mr.. Garvin of Union occupied
the pulpit at the Baptist church Sun
day night, he preached an able and
lnstructing sermon to large and ap-
preclative congregation who were very
favorably impressed with him.
Since the closing of the dispensa-
rles at Union, a drunken man is sell
dom seen in our town, before they
closed on Saturday afternoons when
the O'Clock train rolled in it was
something awful, cursing hollerine
and staggering not fit for decent peo-
pie to be near. Now it is quite diff
ferent. If stranger was there at
train time he would think it was
Sunday school picnic returning home.
judging from the bright, cheerful faces
and the friendly salutations, peace,
happiness and sobriety now reigns. A
minister Of the town says his conpre-
cations have increased 80 per cent
this year. Then you hear some old
men argue that prohibition won't do,
say with an oath, never did nor never
will vote the prohibition ticket and
church members at that with their
names recorded on the church regis
ter, such membership is a disgrace to
the church. The poet could not de-
scribe 1T better than when he says:
My native land, mid thy cabin
homes,
And mid thy palaces, a demon roams;
FrenZied with rage, yet subtle in his
wrath,
He crushes thousands in his fiery
path;
Stalks through our cities unabashed
and throws
Into the cup of sorrow bitter woes:
"Gives to pangs of grief an added
smart,
with keenest anguish wings the
breaking heart,
Drags the proud spirit from it's envied
height,
And breathes on fondest hopes kill
ing blight;
Heralds the shroud, the coffin and the
pail,
And the graves thicken where his
footsteps fall
Samuel Stoudenmire, son of Rev.
and Mrs. Stoudenmire, continues dan
gerously i'll, and the end is expected at
any time, all hopes having been shat
tered for his recovery. The entire
ommunity join the parents in sorrow
and sympathy.
Mrs. f. C. Blackwell is teaching
he classes of Miss Annie L. Green
this week, she having been called to
her home at Newberry on account of
the death of her father.
Pedestrian.