The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-01
JONESVILLE

| Jonesville, May 29.-The weather is
getting right for cotton to grow and
make start. Some cotton has been
chopped out, but much of it is poor
stands. 1 think 1 can truthfully say
that there is the poorest prospect for
crop at this time of the year that
L ever saw and Notwithstanding this
poor prospect the people are having
all sorts and amusements and pleas
ures and are living as though there
was an overflow of the necessaries of
life. The colored people especially
are taking the world easy.
Union Lodge No. rs A. F. M. hello
special communication Friday night
and they made job lot five Masons.
There was large turnout of the fra
ternity and brotherly love abounded
In abundance. Past Grand Master
Geo. 7. Bryan of Greenville was pres
ent by special invitation and presided
with ease and dignity. Several breth-
ren from other lodges were present
and enjoyed the good work done in the
masters degree and then last, but not
| least, the refreshments were bounti-
full. The brother that cut the cake
certainly never ran a cake stand in
the market for he cut slices of cake
as large as the late loaf on the bread
counters and his cream was like the
widows oil in the cruse". it never
gave out.
The Coast Artillery of the Jones'
vile Guards has a full company now
and are ready for service and I un-
derstand they have orders to 90 into
service the 18th of July.
Mr.. John Tip Fowler has been
quite sick at his home two miles from
Jonesville for more than a week. Mr..
Fowler is over 70 years of age.
Mr. j. c. Spears had sudden at
tack Saturday night with something
like paralysis, but DR.. Hames thought
1T was not a paralytic stroke.
DIR. and Mrs. Russell Littleiohn of
Sumter were the guests of Mr.. Lit
tlejohn's sister, Mrs. r. B. Smith. Sun
day.
The Southern Railway is giving
free passes to five Veterans of Camp
Boyd at Jonesville to the WASHINGTON
reunion June as next. The passes are
being secured by w. II. S. Harris.
commander of the camp. They get
berths at $50 for two, which will be
rs cents each.
| have been requested to write nv
opinion about the big war on the
other side, but | decline to do so. for
| don't know what to write Ny opin-
ion would not be worth the paper
upon which it would be written.
will say this much, that I think the
war will continue two or three wears
longer and will also say that I don't
believe what anybody says about it's
results. There is such a change in
the manner and mode of warfare since
L saw service that results can't be cal
culated. The infantry with musketry
once did the most of the fighting but
now the artillery does a big share
of it. / notice sometimes where thew
put their artillery in a solid bank
along their lines and do most all the
fighting with it and it would seem
that not one on the other side in front
of this artillery would be left alive
and again the submarine has come in
for big part of the fighting and de-
struction of life and property and
then the aeroplanes have bobbed up
and butted in and it makes me shrink
to think of the little devils flying over
inland towns and country thousands
of feet up in the air and emptying
out their deadly bombs on innocent
and helpless women and children.
noticed an account where a whole
lot of. these Internal machines the
other day made raid over the enc
my's country and they were so high
they looked like ducks and they
poured out their deadly missiles and
killed lot of people, innocent peo-
pie. We had our battle in the Civil
war that we called the battle abov>
the clouds, but it was fought on land
up on Lookout mountain, no flying
machines in it. If I had to go to
war again I would not like to do any
submarine fighting nor any fighting
up in the air, it's bad enough on land.