The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-09-07
JONESVILLE

association of the Baptist church was
held here last Wednesday and Thurs
day. Rev. Lewis Nj. Rice was made
moderator and Rev. Geo. P. White
was elected secretary, both very eff
ficient. The association was we'll rep
resented with good looking number
of delegates, quite number of them
ladies. Discussions on the floor were
strong and edifying. Reports showed
progress along all lines. The sessions
were held in tn auditorium of the
graded school because tn new Baptist
| church is not yet finished.
l attended the old time singing at
Bogansville last Sunday, which l en-
joyed very much. There was a large
crowd of good country people present
and few from the towns. The sing
ing of the old time songs was grand
and the dinner was abunnant.
l hate to write what | am now
about to write but conscience dictates
it. am going to let it go in. 1 have
thought all along and have so said and
written that l thought the German
kaiser and the German people were
the meanest folks on earth and that
we Americans were good folks and
that South Carolinians were especially
good and full of generosity and hu-
manity but my confidence is badly
shaken when / hear such startling
news of the extortion that is in the
hearts of the people. Columbia and
Spartanburg, if reports on them are
true, have just put conscience aside
and are going for the life blood of
their friends and neighbors They
are putting rents up twice as much as
they were. They are putting rents up
on poor laboring men whose salaries
have not been raised a particle. A
| captain in the U. S. army, who had
just come to Columbia the other dav,
went out to get lodging for himself
and wife and the offer he got was
$500. One good Methodist preacher,
or at least supposed to be good, that
has a house and lot rented out is
talking of putting the rent up double
what it is and the renter is a poor
laboring man and no raise in his
salary. Talk about praying for sue
cess in this war, and for early peace,
would like to ask where does our
claims for peace or success come
from?
1 understand Mr.. C. F. Scales died
at the hospital for the insane in Co.
lumbia last week. Carlos was raised
and lived in my old neighborhod all his
life, therefore l knew him we'll and
liked him. He was a member of a
company of 16year-old boys late in
the civil war and was therefore a Con-
federate Veteran. Dear Carlos. I hone
your soul is at rest.
| Mr.. Jehee ]. Spears died in Spar
tanburg Sunday at Steedley's hospital
after an operation for appendicitis the
day before. He had not been COM
planning very long but his condition
was found to be beyond hope and he
only lived day after the operation.
The remains were brought home to
Jonesville Sunday night and buried at
Gllead Monday evening. Funeral SER
vices were held in the Methodist
church, conducted by his pastor, Rev.
Lewis M. Rice. There was a large
! number of people attended the fun
eral and also the burial. The church
and Sunday school room were packed.
There were at least 500 people pres
ent. Mr.. Spears was an exceptionally
good young man. No stigma was ever
marked against him. His 26 years in
the world were clean and undefled.
He was a fellowcraft Mason and a
deacon in the Baptist church. A fuller
account of this young man will be Civ
en- by the editor this week.
The Presbyterian Missionary Insti-
tute of Union County Pacolet and
Limestone church will meet with the
Presbyterian chutch of Jonesville on
Thursday, the 18th of the present
month, session to last one day.
Mr.. Charlie Scott of Luxova, Ark.
has been on visit to his mother, Mrs.
Dudie Scott, at Mrs. l.. J. Fowler's.
Mr.. j. Suber, who belongs to the
quartermaster's department of the u.
S. at Spartanburg, spent Sunday at
Mrs. l.. j. f'owler's with his half
brother, Mr.. Bob Tribble.
There has been much rain in our
neighborhood during the last week and
the streams have been up and out in
the bottoms but the corn seems to
have escaped destruction and is safe
so far and there is promise of much
corn being made in the country.
Te1aphona