The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-09-14
TOWNSVILLE

Jonesville, Sept. 11.-There is talk
of Jonesville having small knitting
mill to go up soon. Parties have been
here investigating the prospects of
getting site or house suitable for
a small mill of about 80 machines.
The people of the town will do all
they can to help bring the mill to
Jonesville.
1t is hard for farmers to keep their
hands since the United States is do
ing so much work at the canton.nents
at Spartanburg and Columbia. The
farm hands are leaving their work and
going where wages are so high but
this work will soon be over and there
will soon be lull in such work. The
time is coming when farmers can't
hire any work by the day or the job,
there is so much public work going on
all over the country and wages are
so high that it leaves the farmer out
for they can't compete.
The controversy over the street
near the Southern depot has taken on
a new phase. The Southern railway
has come in and put obstruction across
the street, which may open a new
slow in writing of the affair as Inv
mention of it in The Times of 9th
of August is taken as unfair to one
side of the contending parties but
there never was greater mistake. I
have no interest in the matter, no
axe to grind and no prejudice to either
side.
Mrs. F. NJ. Ellerbe is in Charleston
with her husband for a days visit.
Miss Marie Littlejohn goes to Lau-
rens to teach school this year and her
sister, Miss Elizabeth, goes to Cow
pens to teach.
| am glad to know that the fall and
winter fashion of the ladies' dresses
are to be longer than the present ones.
love to think of the ladies' fashions
away back in my young days-the
girls and young ladies were so sweet
in the plain costumes, often the goods
made at home. Not many young la
dies 'wardrobes in the country cost
more than eight to ten dollars, shoes
counted in, and boys in the country
would not have suit that cost more
than two dollars, and every boy had
to stay at home and work for his
daddy until he was 81 and the girls
were never free until they got mar
ried. l often think of an expression
of Cole Pool in time of the late war.
Cole would say, "Times are not now
like they formerly have been."
Mr.. Sam Vaughan, who has been
outside boss at the oil mill here for
several years, is going to take charge
of Mrs. A. H. Fosters place three
miles below Union, known as the
Patsey Beatty place. Mr.. James Whit
lock is going to move to Charlotte in
the near future.
Mr.. Joe Spears is visiting her faith
er's family. He is on duty in the
U. S. service at Brownsville, Texas.
Last night and this morning the
wind is quite cool and feels very much
like frost was near by.
Miss Coreen Ingraham of Montgom-I
cry, Ala, is the guest of Miss Pearl
Lybrand.
The States Rights Gist chapter of
the Children of the Confederacy was
entertained last Wednesday afternoon
at the home of its president, Miss
Sarah Scott. The meeting was one of |
unusual pleasure in that very de-
lghtful program was carried out and |
for the first time in the history of |
the chapter, number of Boy Scout |
friends were guests. 1t was decided |
to invite the young boys to become
members.
Those having part on the program
were Misses Mary Black, Mary
Wilkes Brown, Mary Gault and Sarah |
Scott.
Delightful refreshments were
served late in the afternoon by the
hostess, and her sisters, little Misses
Josephine and Dorothy Scott.
The next meeting will be held on
the first Wednesday afternoon in Oc-
,tober at the residence of Miss Gladys
Whitlock. Telephone.