The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-10
TOWNSVILLE


country in the evening. There was a
great display of electricity at Jones'
vile. One man, Mr.. General Floyd,
and his wife were struck with a cur
rent in one of the back streets and
were knocked unconscious into the
ditch and Mrs. Floyd remained so for
some time, while Mr.. Floyd soon re
gained consciousness. They have both
about recovered. A miIch cow was
killed by an electric bolt. The COW
was in a pasture and had her feet
against wire fence. A man and
woman were slightly shocked and
much damage was done by the wind,
especially in the neighborhood of
and brothers lost mo st of their corn
crop by the wind. Mr.. James w. Pick
ems, William Vinson, M. c. Gault, T.
B. Kelley, ]. l.. Mckinney, Charley
Parks and many others suffered heav-
lily by the storm. The rains have been
fine over most of the country and the
crops have made wonderful improve
ment and just now there is promise
of fairly good cotton crop and fire
corn crop over this country.
understand Mr.. Robt. w. Hamilton
has body of 80 acres of fine bottom
corn on Pacolet river. This body Of
corr promises tc yield more than a
thousand bushels of corn without a
Particle Of fertilizer. This land has
been much enriched by the overilows
of the past few years. So you see
that while the high waters Injuries the
bottom crops ttey often enrich the
land. 1 believe there is going to be
plenty of bread next year. Yes, corn
bread in abundance. Won't it be nice
to have cheap corn bread once more.
| went to the store the other day TO
buy some corn meal and | got most
paralyzed when the clerk. young
lady, told me the price. She looked
bushel. Well, / didn't take any, for I
don't like corn bread any too good
anyway, so / concluded to make out
on cake bread for awhile at least. I
remember some years ago | had
steam mill here at Jonesville and l
ground much corn and | had quite
lot of toll corn in my mill and I
couldn't get so cents a bushel for it
here at Jonesville and | shipped it to
Farr & Thomson at Union, paid the
freight on it and sold it to them for
SO cents the bushel> and l would be
glad to see it that cheap once more.
travelled the country some the pres
ent year and l imagine 1 can see a
disposition on the part of the people
to save up something and live little
cheaper and this is right-it is good
sense; but then, on the other hand,
there seems to be a reckless spending
of money. Take the railroad travel,
the automobile craze, the dope craze,
the movies and all kinds of shows and
amusements and they are equal to the
days of Nero when he fiddled while
Rome was burning, and Just the otter
night while the evangelist was 1ah9-r ;
ing for the salvation of the soldier
boys they had dance near the gos-
pei tent. am glad to know that not
many of our Jonesville young ladies
engaged in the dance and that the
most of the dancers came over from
Union, Newberry and other places and
several of the Jonesville boys didn't
join in the dance or even attend it.
Several of the company are from
Newberry.
Mr.. ]. B. T. Scott of Prosperity
was in Jonesville few days last
week. Mr.. Scott has a son in the
Coast Artillery company here.
Mr.. F. A. Goforth of near Gowdyes-
vile spent several days in Jonesville
last week
Work on the new Baptist church is
moving along very we'll now.
Mr.. Sparks and family of Union
cotton mills spent Saturday and Sun
day with Mrs. Sparks sister, Mrs. j.
b. Foster, on Main street.
Miss Irene Foster is visiting rela-
tives at Johnstone, S. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Lawson of CO.
lumbia spent the weekend in Jones'
vile with the family of Mrs. j. w.
Bates.
Mr.. Pierce Kinard, the Evangelist
preacher who has been here for some
days, has gone to Greenwood to at
tend the funeral of relative. The
other two workers in the meeting, Mr..
j. w. Uandrum, the piano player, and
Mr. Ray Watson, the gospel singer,
will remain while Mr.. Kinard is away
Quite number of visitors were
here from Newberry Sunday to see
the soldier boys.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Moorehead of
Blacksburg were visitors to Mr.. ]. w.
Scott's Sunday and attended preach
ing at the gospel teent Sunday night
Lieut.. E. F. McWhirter of the Coast
Artillery, DIR. Fl. T. Hames, C. N.
Alexander, all motored to Spartan
burg and Greenville Sunday and Wis
tied the soldiers camps.
DR.. Jeter and Mr. William Lawson,
with the chain gang force has made