The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-01-19
TOWNSVILLE

day. 1t doesn't seem to me that our
late winters are as severe as they
were in the long ago. l am sure we
used to have much more snow than
we do of late years. have heard
ID said by old men that when our coun-
Try was cleared of it's timber that
the winters would be more severe and
the summers would be dry and that
we would suffer more for rain, but
that theory doesn't prove true. Last
summer proved to the contrary. The
Bible says whether there be pro-
Phesies they shall fail" So it is
very evident that our modern prophets
are failures. Men often ask each 9TH
er what they think the weather is
ssing to do and the same thing as to
the price of cotton, which is all idle
talk, for no one knows when it will
rain or what the price of cotton is
going to be, and 1 will add, what the
verdict of petit jury will be.
Something that should have ap-
Peared in my communication to The
Times last week-the marriage of
Miss Madge McWhirter, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. McWhirter, of
our town, few days since. Miss
McWhirter visited relatives in Bir-
mingham last summer and spent three
or four week out there and it was
then that she first met Mr.. Bennett,
and during the time Cupid got in his
perfect work and a correspondence
followed until a few days ago Mr.
Bennett came to Jonesville as very
innocent stranger and he spent few
hood of this county until about grown.
of his intended bride and left for his
home on Monday morning The same
morning Miss McWhirter took the
train for Inman, where she taught
school last year, and was to teach
again this year, but when the couple
reached Spartanburg marriage Ii
cense was procured and a marriage
followed and the groom and bride
boarded the train for Mr.. Benefits
home in Birmingham Mrs. Bennett
is one of Jonesville most loveable
young women and has many friends
here who wish her and her groom a
long happy life and much success.
This was no unique proceeding, for
| am going to tell of another Just
and lived in the Mt. Tabor neighbor-
days in the town, called at the home
He went out West and stopped at
Bailey, Texas. While in this county
he attended school and Miss Bell
Moorehead, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
w. A. Moorehead, attended the school
school. A few years ago Miss Moore
head visited relatives in Texas, who
lived near Mr.. Crawford, and they met
and it seems that the words of the
Aud Lang Syne occurred to them
SHOULD auld acquaintance be forgot"
and Cupid came on the scene with
his rabbit foot and got in his perfect
work, and after Miss Moorehead re-
turned home a correspondence fol-
LEVIED until a few weeks ago Mr..
Crawford came back to look upon his
native heath as he portended, but he
had something else in his heart, and
when he started for his Texas home
he and Miss Moorehead met by ar
rangement without notice to the old
folks and left on the next train. Both
these couples did we'll and their many
friends wish them success and long
life in their Texas homes
Mr.. Ashemore Vanderford, of near
Adamsburg, was in Jonesville Friday
on business and, by the way, Mr.. Van
derford's daughter and son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. M. Adams were married
few days ago without giving any
notice to the old folks at home on
either side and they, too, have both
done well and have the we'll wishes of
their many friends.
Two communications in The Union
Times last week were very interesting
to me. One of them about old Sims
town and the other about old Reids-
town. Much of the wrte-up of old
Reidstown is familiar to me and some
Of the Incidents of old Simstown is
also a.niliar to my mnd 1t certainly
took much time and work to dig out
all this old history. | love the wo-
men and have very lately declared my
self in favor Of female suffrage, but
I think few women at least are
making mess of it by placing them
selves at the gate of the white house
in Washington. They certainly are
menace to the president. of whom they
wish to curry favor. 1t reminds me
of "Mordecai who lay at the kings
gate"
think President Wilson would do
well to take all the United States
soldiers out of Mexico and only keen
an army along the border sufficient
to protect our government from Mex
lean raids and let Carranza and Villa
fight it out like the Kilkenny cats.
The ladies of the Methodist church
will serve oysters on next Friday
evening in the basement of the church
beginning at o'clock. The proceeds
will go to the church All are invited