The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-03
TOWNSVILLE

life has always been dear to me, al
though | have lived in the town for
a good many years. Yet the country
still has the charms for me. | love
to pass through the country and look
upon the fertile fields and the golden
grain and | love to see good farming
and / love and respect the good
farmer, the Industrious farmer. Yes,
deliver me from the slothful lazy fell
low and then when | come into the
country yard and go into the home
and see the good house wife's toilet,
cook room, dining room, | will not
mention parlor, for the parlor is not in
evidence any more like they once
were. All this brings me up, or down,
if you please, to the golden age of my
life time. Some of my friends may
say had better call it my dote age
but not sol haven't quite got there
yet.
On the oath inst. Mr. T. M. Little
john took Mr.. w. !. Coleman and
myself in his Ford over to Mr.. T J.
Bishops, four miles in the country
and here we found a good well-ap-
pointed country home The good lady
was canning beans, providing for the
winter which will come around after
awhile and how nice the good green
beans will be after fruit and water
MELONS are gone. We took a stroll
down through the bottoms into the
corn. We took in the fine corn Is
acres, and | am sure it will turn out
40 bushels to the acre and the fodder
will turn out at least four to five
hundred bundles to the acre. Then
Mr.. Bishop has peas all over the land
and later on he will SOW crimson Glow
er broadcast over the land and let the
peas and clover just do their work of
fertilizing the land and put it in good
condition for good crop Of corn next
year. Mr.. Bishop has a fine cotton
crop but then he makes speciality Of
corn and he has it down fine. Then
he has a hog pasture and some nice
Shoats and the yard and lot was full
of nice chickens. Mr.. Bishop has
been keeping house 20 years and has
never bought any corn during all that
time, but has sold corn every year but
one.
On Thursday Mr.. John L. McKin-
ney drove up to Jonesvile in his fine
Overland car and took Messrs. Jeter,
Smith and myself down to his home
four miles in the country to look at
his fine corn and cotton and we found
it about ID acres in corn and the same
in cotton which is Mr.. McKinney's
special crop and he counts on 40 bush
els of corn per acre and 20 bales of
cotton on the ID acres and there is
not much guessing about this for the
stuff is about made. Then the peas
are there and Mr.. Mckinney will sow
clover in his peas and make the land
rich and ready for big crop next
year. There is hog pasture on the
branch{ with q. nice lot of shoats in it
and the lands all about the house is
working alive with chickens. Mr.. Nc
Kinney has sip fiue hound dogs and
there are plenty of rabbits and pos
sums on the place and the season for
hunting them will soon be in so the
man that is bottled up in town sweat
ing and fighting flies and mosquitoes
had most as well be in the French
army; his life is no comparison to
the country life.
There are plenty more such homes
in our community and if it were not
for the Internal war our country
would soon be in good shape and ev-
erything would be plentiful and lovely.
The Russians have proven that
there is no confidence in them and
that the allies can't afford to depend
on them for any substantial help in
the great European war, and I don't
think there can be much expected of
Greece and Japan and as see it the
three nations-England, France and
America-will have to conquer Ger
many and whip her into submission
and it will take at least four or five
years to do it for Uncle Sam can't
get ready to do much effective work
for twelve months or more and dur
ing that time many of our poor Amer
lean boys will go to their death. Yes,
many of them will never see their ma
tive country when they leave her
shores.
Saturday morning about O'Clock
the dwelling occupied by Mr.. Caldwell
on Main street was destroyed by fire
The fire was first discovered by Mr..
Caldwell in the closet in the hall. The
flames soon had the building in their
grasp and but little of the contents.
in the building were saved Mr.. Cald-
well saved his pants, his hat and the
sewing machine; everything else went
W III smoke. Mr.. Porter lost all his
furniture as it was stored upstairs.
lie had all his mothers furniture and
it was valuable and it was all total
loss. Mr.. Porter had thousand dol
lar policy on his furniture and he val
ues his loss at two thousand dollars.
Mr. Henry / Hnmnc hnr thn nn,,