The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-29
KELTON

Kelton, June 25.-We had a shower
of rain last night, but we need a good
rain just now. We are having some
| fine growing weather for all crops
| if we had a good season and if we
have a drouth now and the growth
of cotton checked right now when
cotton should be doing it's best on
| account of its lateness there is no
telling the damage that will be done
to the crop. Let's hope for the better.
Last Saturday at Kelton the ladies
sold ice cream for the benefit of the
Red Cross and at night cream was
served at Kelly's school house for the
same purpose. / was not present.
Hon. J. C. Otis of Spartanburg deliv-
cred a speech setting forth what
America is doing in this great world
war, which was well received. Mr..
Otis is an able young lawyer and
was reared right in the bloom of the
Pea Ridge, poor parents, and his faith
er died while lie was only a lad and
his widowed mother left with three
little boys to rear, he the oldest one,
and by his help she reared them all
to manhood. His education was not q
college one, but he labored on the
farm at day and his mother taught
him at night as far as she could and
then he went one session to the Kel-
ton high school, taught by Professor
Willie Blake of Spartanburg in the
fall and winter of 1886 and 1887. He.
with two other Pea Ridge boys, made
the senior class, one the cashier of a
hank the 0fhnr lynift,nn
at one time in Tennessee and South
Carolina at the head of several mills
until he was severely crippled in an
automobile accident and he afterwards
resigned. Those three boys proves to
the educators of the world that it is
not education that makes a man but
is the talent given us and we do
not bury them as the fool did but used
them. We often hear it said such a
one is a self-made man. God pity the
self-made man or woman. There is
no such thing as self-made men or
women. They are those that God has
given talents and they used their tai
ents. The works of these boys are
known to all who know them and all
young boys and girls can do the same
them, but those who loaf around at
the railroad stations and towns saying
what they would do if they had the
capital, visiting bar rooms or places
were cold drinks are sold spending all
their nickels and dimes there No, my
boys, If you had thousands it would all
soon be gone like the poor fellow who
had only one talent. My heart is
made sad when 1 visit public places
and see the young ladies gathered
around there places where Coca Cola
and other cold drinks are sold, turning
up the bottles to their lips drinking
1T like the poor unfortunate lover OF
his dram. Do, girls, if you do drink
Cola, make the seller furnish
glasses. Well, have drifted
off from what I had started to say.
Those boys which 1 have mentioned
ere not all the ones from the bldg,
who have made their mark who start
ed with nothing. was talking with
father some time ago whose son had
worked his way through the State
university and 2ow was at the head
of some college in the West or North
west and his father was poor farm
er. He said if he had been a rich
man probably his son woud have been
no good and he was Pea Ridger.
There was a Sunday school conven-
time at Bethlehem churc hlast Sunday.
l was not present; my horse was sick.
There is not much sickness on the
Ridge that l hear Of G. T. G.