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

will go to Greenville today. l guess
in few days Uncle Sam will "put the
harness on him." He is looking for
it.
We will soon have an election here
for township road commissioner to fill
the unexpired term of Commission
er ]. P. Jeter, now county supervisor.
Messrs. M. B. Meador, John w. Greg
ory, Jr., and r. S. Hames are the can
didates for same.
Cotton is opening rather fast and a
job is coming on, in which colored wo-
men and children can get into. And
now just about as soon as the new
crop begins to come in cotton price
has gone down thirty or more dollars
a bale. 1t ought not to be allowed.
Those futures" dealers ought to be
checked.
About as big fool piece of business
believe have ever heard of is those
suffragettes pickiting the White
House and ground. 1t is more of
selfish motive, or downright hardhead-
edness, 1 am thinking, just because
the President would not at this time
commit himself or advocate equal suf >
frage. Well, have seen several pic
lures of some of them and they are
a pretty tough, or hard looking set. |
have seen the photos of safecrackers,
train robbers, ETC., that had no harder
looking features than some of those
"he"-women pickets. 1t certainly
seems to me that they could use them
selves for better things at this time
If they cannot enter into nice, modest
womanly ways, if they wish to be
"manish", why not go to plowing,
working in saw mills, ginneries, etc.
Why not go to war, digging trenches
or using rifles? Are they, too, Ger
man agents, |. w. WIS, or what? Cor
an incubus on the government. House
keeping, home-making would be more
womanly).
For some time the newspapers
talked, there were meetings for, etc,
to get people to eat corn bread, to
save flour in these terrible times, and
some can brag, or praise themselves
that they are acquiring the habit. They
are doing a patriotic deed, and well
they may, for it is some patriotism if
they take up the corn bread habit for
the aid of this war that we are in, if
the bread is made from probably
musty, bolted, store bought meal, with
perhaps the starch extracted, and very
likely made from damaged corn, and
when it is baked it will crumble all to
pieces-you cannot make it good. But
take good, sound homegrown corn,
grind it on a good mill, with a screen
and fan to take out the dirt and dust,
then make it up wet enough, bake as
quickly as possible, and you have
something good. I cannot remember
when l learned or took up the habit.
I cannot remember which I ate first
corn or wheat bread. I know the kind
father prepared for us to "try our
prentice han" on. 1t was from home,
raised corn, I am sure it was thaf1I,
blue and white grain "Massie" variety
of corn, was ground on a 42-inch top
runner stone water mill at Meals
Shoals, Broad river, and I guess it
was good, and to this day, even now,
times seem to be going tough with me
II L cannot have corn bread every
day, and three times a day is TO my
liking, and I will sometimes "slight"
the biscuits until they have to be
"doctored" to make them palatable.
OF course some people are peculiar in
their taste. l am myself, but it is
mostly bad meal, and not knowing
how in cooking, is why it goes bad.
But l am often amused to hear, or
read about people sacrificing in eat
ing corn products at this time, when
many, most all country people would
feel like it was sacrifice if they hao
to give it up now.
/ went up to Jonesville on the 29th
of August to the Union County Bap-
tist Association, and I certainly had a
fine time. The business part of the
association was good, was instructive;
also the association with so many peo-
pie I knew from every section Of the
county was very agreeable. There
were some prominent men there from
other parts of the State representing
various objects fostered by the denom-
ination. The ladies did big part at
the dinner hour, did themselves proud,
one long table was spread, everybody
was invited, and to such dinners-it
was impossible to surpass-and the
ladies waited upon the congregation
themselves, supplying each one with
plate. to put the viands on, and of
course these had to be washed and
taken care of, and I thought about
how much trouble they were taking
upon themselves for the visitors COM
fort and pleasure, and we ought to,
l do, extend to them the very highest
praise and thanks, for what they did.
Anybody else may try, and may, some
day, equal, but can never surpass the
Jonesville ladies in the manner of en-
tertaining a people. I know. This
was not my first time at Jonesville.
And they are just efficient at their