The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-07-21
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to work, anl destroy property. and in
jure people, perhaps kill them, like
some strikers, but "striked" grass,
weeds, briars, creek banks, button
bushes and general bottom land rub
bish and lastly, but not least trou
blesome, boil weevils, and they are
"some punkins" too. 1 struck spot
where l think the generalissimo
among them had planned the cam
paign. You can't find an old one now.
Only 1 chanced across one the other
day. think it was a lay-on Ueg-
torn) weevil, as l think l had one
of that kind, and l hope got it. l
thought | would not let any new ones
hatch out in my patch, but l believe
they will get by me anyway. You see
they are great big things when you
begin to wrestle with them, and will
likely drive us back across some Rhine
yet. But | am learning whole lot.
Some things no "expert" has told me
yet. 1 have just found one of the
danger points, and that is where l am
going on the rocks, ] am afraid. No
boil weevil expert can tell you all
unless he ties bandana handkerchief
on his neck, put four penny nail in
his hat, and gets out in the hot sun
on the job, and buck him there. l am
going to a boil weevil school now.
We have just had the finest rain
that one need wish for. 1t was Ia
hours falling and things look much re-
freshed, though crops were not badly
in need of it. Some people have al
ready said that they believed we are
going to have a wet spell of weather,
but, anyway, we must just have faith
and trust on.
Two of the teachers in the Baptist
Sunday school gave their classes, with
few specally-invited guests, an af-
ternoon picnic at Neal Shoals last
week. They report that they had
most enjoyable time and I guess the
children did, over by that big pond.
That is a nice way to make Sunday
school classes enjoy time.
have learned that Mr.. Manning
Jeter, who was principal of the grad
ed school here last session, will teach
at Union the coming session. We are
glad TO hear of his rise, and that he
will be about at home-no farther off
than Union, and we commend him to
the Union patrons. He is fine young
man, Christian, recent graduate of
Furman, and we feel sure that he will
make good, He and his young
wife, most excellent young woman.
will make good additions to any cit
iZenship, but we hope to have them
quite a part of their time, at home,
here, however.
The corn crop around here is far
from being encouraging generally.
There is some that has been highly
fertilized and pampered that is fine,
and all that is needed now is plenty of
rain. On the other hand, if drought
should strike it, good and strong, it
would be ruined. About all of the
poor corn is from the lack of work
and farmers could not help them
Selves. PlOws were idle about half of
the time (and mui,s we're eating feed
all the same). I am MT seeking to get
on the pessimistic list, but on a whole,
this section is going to be hard hit
by shortage of corn. We should
turn our thought toward. begin to
think about, good acreage of oats
for next season.
Old fashions are sometimes renew
ed, and so We may say that there is
nothing (really( new under the sun.
There used to be under the old way
of working roads-befOre the fast
moving automobile-"b or
"breakers" made on hills to break the
water. Then oversecls knew how to
make them. Mr.. Deneen, the county
engineer, has had four put on the
Baker Hill, in our section. Some Eau
toist,' not knowing they were there.
ran over them and the car played
"hop-toad." A girl driving a big car
down the hill bumped into the first
one and learned something new to her.
A man asked, "What in thunder was
those terrace banks put across that
road for?" There ere quite a num-
ber who make as many comments, but
they had better learn to slow down
and crawl over, lest they cut buck.
A couple Of friends and / spent a
half afternoon at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. p. Reddick's. We enjoyed a
time, then he "turned" us into his
orchard among his Elberta peaches.
He has quite number of this variety.
and they are fine, in good condition,
generally, as the orchard had been
sprayed. This is about the only way
that one can have really good fruit
these days. Mr.. Reddick ~ making a
good thing of them, but believe a
cannery is needed to use them to best
advantage. By the way, MIR. Red.
dick is a pretty good peanut eater Ct
have SEEM but / can stand my hand
with him, or better, in n peach or
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