The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-06
LOCkHART JUNCTION

have several very pretty spring days
the past week and a great deal Of gar
dening has been done. Saturday was
day for planting and fixing the gar
dens in this section. This morning the
plows are going everywhere and if this
| be fair week there will he lots of
work done.
1t seems the speculator has it his
way now; everything is so high. Of
course in some places feed stuff was
not made last year, even this section
of Union county suffered great loss
by too much rain, but the prices should
not be so high. Irish potatoes, %I.OO q
bushel-isn't that too high! | hear
many people say they will not rlant
any this year, too high-can't afford
to buy them. l believe we ought t.
buy some and make our own seed. |
am going to plant and am in hoNcs |
can make some to eat and then | Will
save my own seed for planting. Ny
father never had to buy any seed-al-
ways had plenty.
! 1t seems now that the war is bring
ing about their times of speculation
and we do not know the outcome. War
talk is all we hear these days. | do
not like to prophesy but if the United
States gets into war, fear prices
will go higher and we will have to do
! like the people in the Confederate war.
/ remember my mother making salt
from the dirt she dug from the smoke
house and others did the same thing.
! They boiled the dirt down till it made
some kind of salt cannot tell Just
how it was done but it was done and
made salt for their own use. Other
things were made; some made shoes
without leather, they were made with
wooden bottoms and cloth uppers. Cof-
fee was made from the wheat, rye and
sweet potato and | have heard them
say it was good coffee. We never
know what we can do until we have
it to do.
My father said he had filled his can
teen of water from a mud hole in the
middle of the road. This seems strange
but they could not always wait until
they came to the next stream. It looks
like water is free but it was not al
ways plentiful. Listen again! I
/ heard him say he had seen some gath
er waste corn from off the ground
where the horses had been fed and
parch and eat it, could tell lots
more and will some future time when
] can think of it.
Congress meets today, but we do
not know what the outcome will be.
Rev. Mr.. Justus and Mr.. II. ].
HameS took dinner at the home Of Mr..
A. l.. Gault Sunday and attended the
Sunday school at the Gault school
house in the afternoon. Mr.. Justus
made fine talk and had many atten-
tive hearers.
Rev. ]. II. Brown of Monarch
preached fine, educational sermon at
New Hone Sunday morning
Rev. Thrasher filed his pace at FL
ford Grove and reports good school
at that place.
Miss Sallie Cunningham, the we'll
known ard efficient teacher of the Ma
bry school, has finished her term and
is at the home of her sister. Mrs. A
I. Gault.
While in Pinckncv township last
week I stopped at the home cf Mrs
Medora Garner. where I had dinner.
Mrs. Garner says she makes everv-
thin" at home on her farm, has not
anything to buy but sugar and coffee
but like everybody else she is short
on fcedStuf for her stock. She IS Il
fine business woman, looks after her
farm and has many hoods of young
chickcnS and has seven or eight hers
.Sittin" ] enjoyed my stay at her
house and appreciated her kind hos
pitality.
Mr. Carwile, the demonstration
AGENT, and Prof. w. II. Johnson o. the
Wesley Chapel section, were in this
section todov Mann