The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 07, 1904, Image 5
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Points Porsonal and Otherwise
Picked up and Paragraphed
by Our Pencil-Pusher.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Thomas spent
last week in the city.
Mr. D. Baxter Wood, ofPacolet,
n?a m ivnu jcotviuajr
Mr. W. C. Nelson has moved hi*
beer privilege to Bachelor street.
Mr. Joe Betsill, of West Springs,
spent Friday of last week in the city.
- The Arkansas Traveler and our
' street sprinkler must be off together.
The new dress of paint on the
Ooss house improves it very much.
Mr. Plato Holland, of Pacolet,
spent several days in the city last
week.
Mr. H. E. DePass, an attorney
of Spartanburg, was in town Wednesday.
It looks natural once more to see
the yards of Clifford Seminary filled
young ladies.',
Advertising is the life of trade;
^ the merohant that does not believe
that is losing business daily.
Messrs. Stobo Simpson and S. D.
MoCravy, prominent attorney of
Spartadburg are attending court.
Mr. N. P. Dunbar is opening a
beef market in the room formerly occupied
by Nelson Beer Privilege.
Mess. T. I. Swygert, Dr. J. G.
Going and J. R. MoClane took in
the World's Fair at St. Louis the
past week.
Mr. L. K. Anderson, proprietor
of Anderson's Laundry, Spartanburg,
was in the city on business
this week.
p. We are glad to learn that Mr. C.
H. Smith, who hnd a stroke of pa*
ralysia and not expeoted to live. :
better and now able to sit up.
Dr. Henry M. Holuoes is n??w
connected with This Ukion Timkb
and will assist in the conduct of the
society, personal and local columns.
He is authorised to solicit subscriptions,
collect and receipt ft all
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Will Riggins, colored, on Wednes
day, while working with the roofing
corps of the Bailey Lumber & Man
ufacturing Co., had his hand verv
badly scalded with hot pitch.
Mr. Edgar Norman, now of the
firm of Norman & Scott, Herberts,
S. C., was in the city Wednesday.
Mr. Norman says that very little
cotton is^being marketed owing to the
low price.
Mr. F. C. Milling has severed his
connection with the Bailey Furniture
Co. and will commence business
for himself in the store house next
to T. A. Murrah. Mr. Milling will
do a furniture repair business and
deal in wall papering and. second
hand furniture.
The streets were thronged all day
Wednesday with the ladies of the
town and county as they came at d
went admiring and examining the
latest fads and fashions in head dress,
at the millinery openings of M. W.
Bobo, Miss M. E. Tinsley, Mutual
Dry Goods Co. and McLure Mercantile
Co.
Mr. H. P. McKissick called to
see us Monday and renewed his subscription
to The Times. He says
that Mr. Joseph Gault and he are
the only two out of twenty who
were among the original subscribers
to TnE Union Times, now living
This was done at the time the paper
changed its name from the Union
villb Journal to the Unionyille
Times. That he expects to take
The Times as long as he lives.
Mr, Joseph G Malone died Oeto
ber 1st at his home near Boiling
Snrincra in
?f- - ?fM ^piiivaMum^ VUUIIiy
and wm buried Sunday at Philadelphia
cburch grave yard. Mr M?
lone was a name f f Union County,
was born and reared in Cross K?*vh
township and married Miss Ernilv
Jane Kates, of thar township- lie
leaves a widow and seven children
Mr. Levi and James Malone and
fcMrs. James Turner, tbree <f hischil
dren are living in this county. Mr.
Joseph G. Malone was one of Union |
county's best ciuzens and when he
died, Spartanburg County, the hoti.e
of his adaption, let 0".e of her m<>sr
worthy citizens, lie was in his 78th
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An Interesting Letter from Texas.
(Continued from page 4.)
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bered. The buildings are several stories
high and a perfect net work of bridges
connect the different departments.
These bridges are all above us connecting
opposite floors in upper stories.
They drove the cattle up chutes into
tneee main bridges and then they "rack"
into the main steaming buildings. There
is a small town of stalls where they keep
cattle of all descriptions. They were
driving a drove of sheep in by leading a
goat with a bell on in front of them
They drove a herd of little calves which
looked to be a month old in to be killed
immediately. Such lowing and bellowing
you never heard. It was right i
mournful. I thought of going in, but
the odor outside threw aae off somewhat.
The Stock Exchange Building is a
lovely one. I went to that grand depot,
which is considered the Quest in the
South.
It was in the night when we arrived
home and found other cows and calves
lowing. This was a day to be remembered.
One of my cousins and family were going
through the country to visit relatives
neir Dallas. It was a distance of about
thiTty miles. We went in a covered
wagon and drove two old gray nags; one
had a colt following. This is a very
common way of traveling out here; you
see people traveling this way every day,
but it tickled me and I had my fun, it
being my flrst trip in a covered wagon.
It is certainly a convenient way to
travel. You can carry your baggage and
everything you want to make you comfortable.
I got to see more of the country
and spent two days in Dallas. The
last day there were about twelve in my
crowd and we went to do a little shopping
and to "bum town."
We took dinner at a restaurant and it
was one too. They were working in
I here like bees and handling dishes like
they were so many rocks. You may
guess how the remainder of the day was
spent.
We were not going around in the
cover td wagon let me tell you. The peoJ
pie we were visiting carried us around
I in a 1MV.O uiuin^ti ttUU QUggieS. One of
my fliends and I spent Sunday iu Garland,
which is a pretty town about the
!<ize of Union, excepting the mills,
t They were holding a series of meetings
at the Christian or Camelite church in
this town. We attended morning and
evening. They baptise as fast as they
join because they believe if they die be|
fore being paptised they will be lost.
I They baptised four that afternoon at
half past six o'clock. It was a beautiful
j scene indeed. They baptised in a tank
there in town. That which was new
and singular about this baptising was a
father and his son were baptised under
the same ceremony and at the same time.
After service that night we went kick
into the country about eight miles. I
was entirely among strangers this day
and night as there was not any of my
relatives with me, but I met a number
of people and enjoyed the day ever so
much; and thus eudeth another day.
Wednesday morning we crawled into
the "sheeting" wagon and bid all adieu,
k>und"f??r rVtnrw?ll Wn urrii/?ul <lir<uitlu .
have made this place headquarters ever
>ince.
I have been going and coming from
place to place, attending meetings and
shows. The first meeting was at the
Baptist church at Coppell. It was held
a week and a half. Rev. Hall, of Dallas,
assisted Rev. Morgan, the pastor.
They had a good meeting; about ten
joined, some were by letter. Rev. Mor
guu seems iu ue wen iiKea ana is very
pleasant. Every one out here calls the
preacher out here brother so and so;
never speak of them as mister. Of
course I am odd and do not care to depart
from my accustomed ways. They
laugh at me about some of my words
aud I at them. Well, I cannot write
everything so I will proceed with the
meetings. The next one was at a "Free
Will" church. This meeting was held
day and night two weeks, under an arbor.
They have such large crowds during
their meetings that they build arbors
at nearly all of the churches out here.
A good many things, of course, went on
with this meeting, such as three or.four
praying at the same time, men and women
shouting and ?lngtng, one fellow
losing his rubber tire off of one wheel,
another having his fun "high liflng" an
other fellow's poor old nag to see it move
off rapidly, etc. They showed some.iU
lustrations of Christ one night with a
magic lantern. They have a very comical
preacher who says "there is a time
for all things," aud would use some funny
illustrations. The women prayed
and shouted right along. The preacher's
wife got so happy she ran up and down
the aisle slapping h?r lv\nds and hollowing,
"Uno-ay, nothing but the blood,
nothing but the blood" and then bursted
out around the arbor and hollowed like
some one out rabbit hunting.
The next meeting was a Baptist. At
this meeting a boy was converted and
joined. His mother and tbe'pre&cher,
after mourners were invited lo the front,
were talking to him and all at once they
began laughing and talking and the
preacher said, "I want every christian
to come forward apd shake hands with
[this new berneone." The most of them
Wert ajul laughed and talked with him
add if f had not seen them wodld have
thought the meeting had broken. Nearly
all of the christians here believe in
shouting. They are invited often to the
altar to work among the mourners and
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it uue proie-sue-H or is converteu some ot
the workers will shout, laugh and talk.
They seem to realize the change so
much. Everyone that professes and is
I converted does not Join. The women
| talk in public too.
The next arbor meeting was a Pretby'
terian. They had a pretty a^bor, a good
meeting and a splendid choir, as Presbyterians
generally do. The arbor was
crowded in and around it. The crowd
wan estimated at about five hundred.
From meeting to a magic lantern show
here in Copp-11 the nex' nirht. It was
splendid. I know the rid Confederate*
would have enjoy* d it, as a great many
of th- illustnt'< ns were of the war and
an old man told the story.
The last of'be wee<< a show was in
Grapevine, a *mal' town six mites from
fibre, also the Tarmnt county association.
1 win Ntafel went to *m ?*m two
nightoand the association one. I must
not try to tell all 1 saw and heard, st
will hasten on.
Sunday night the Baptist meeting wai
in session. The house aud yard wen
full, several had to sit in their buggiet
and I was among them and at the sidt
door. A man was bringiug his litth
boy out the door aud it being a high stei
and he a short man he stepped in a waj
that he and the child both fell; this wai
during preaching and everything) wai
quiet and the child didn't cry but says,
"papa did you hurt your foot?" Enough
of this.
The next week the people of Coppell
were planning for something to eat and
somewhere to sleep. What was thh
about? **Y" the Dallas County Baptist
Association was to meet at the Baptist
church, and it did meet too. Thursday
afternoon when the five o'clock train
rolled in from Dallas, you could see vehicles
of different kinds going and coming
for the delegates. Some one said
there were seventy-iive and others came
later on. Theyisend ladies too?the men
consider their women out here. A number
of the hosts and hostess had to sleep
on palates, which were hard after having
to cook and fix for delegates and visitors.
This was a great meeting and a number
of good talks and encouraging reports
were heard. This meeting adjourned
Saturday afternoon. The ladies also
held a missionary meeting in the Methodist
church Friday afternoon.
I I will tell of a hail storm I saw here
I early in the spring. I never saw as
much and as large hail in my life. It
wits a tolerably dark cloud but did not
frighten me, but my aunt aud some of
the children were and wanted to go in
the storm pit. When the cloud came
over a few large pieces of split hail fell
off the house and the boys ran out aud
and got some for me to eat. It looked
like pieces of stones. Well, it began to
pour down as thick as rain and of all
sizes aud shapes. Some were very large,
round balls aud had clear and white
rings through it; others were very rough
and were more the shape of French caudy
than anything I can tell you. 1 could
not meet around some of it with my
fnraOnnror on/1 T *- ,4?1 "
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poor horses until they ran from one side
of the pasture to the other; aud it broke
out a number of window panes, destroyed
a lot of young chickens and the grain
in some places. After it quit the ground
was covered thick in places. It began
raining but quit before it melted the
hail and it looked like it had snowed.
A perfect fog of smoke arose and the
most of it melted away, but not befoie
we secured a wash tub full to make ice
cream with. A few pieces were brought
to school on Monday afterwards. The
hail came on Saturday evening. It was
more destructive aud a great deal larger
in other parts of the state. They Bay
some men cursed God for sending it,
but it only did them harm and it has
visited them again recently.
? very one here that is ableShas a cistern,
strom bouse, tank, windmill aud
have tneir windows, doors aud porches
screened. Some of the cisterns are under
the ground and keep the water cool;
others are of zinc and are sitting by the
back i>orch, more like a barrel to catch
the water as it runs off of the house.
This is called soft water; most, or all of
vsfixpjBe. "ard
go to bathe, they would say, "get soft
water." 1 know now, You get this
hard water and put soap in it and it will
not lather, but curdle. If you wash
your olothes in it throughout they will
be very yellow. It was a long time before
1 got a good "drink" as they call
ornttincr arntar HP (x*n?oi? T i---- ?' ?
ov.,.MQ ?*Mw?a N/?. w/uioo JL He*VC ^ULlCIl
accustomed to it all exoept the artesian.
I like it splendid to wash in but not to
drink.
I am in the black "wax" belt. It certainly
has the right name without it was
tar. After, it rains the least sprinkle
you cannot put your foot out without
getting a load and then have to kick
lively or get a rag and water and use a
little elbow grease and patience. You
bet you dont see the rubber tires out Immediately
after a rain, but backs, old
buggies and wagons.
it was a pretty scene here during harvesting.
Nearly every one who owns
land owns a reaper. They use them to
cut cane with too for the hogs.
I have seen them baling hay, plowing
with a steam plow and the cultivators.
They plow with the cultivator j?ll the
time and drive from two to six' mules or
horses. They do not shear their mule's
tails but a very little at the top, and say
they would not have them sheared. I
tell them they look ugly and lazy. They
do not work the horses they drive at all,
and a good many have horses and col is
walking up and down the road makiiu
their own liviug. They say when you
see a boy or man driviug a mule it is the
sign be wants to marry. .Let me tell
you here, I have been riding mostly in
rubber tires and behind Aery horses,
(several of the boys have road carts and
are breaking colts and 1 have rode with
Lhem in them too.
I attended an annual picnic here the
2Gth of April, it was the Odd Fellows
and Praternals. Th~y. had a band and
marched. There was a large crowd; the
largest I ever saw and the most dinner
at a picnic. They hud speaking, a lemonade
and soda pop staud, water in a
barrel and two lively games of trail i
attended another large one at Carrol ton.
They had different amusement to make
up a picnic. A Sunday school had a
program.
attended the Grapevine college commencement
the most of one week. It
has opeued again and*several of my cousins
from here attend.
I have been to several parties. They
have music but you are not allowed to
"dance to it." They have different
amusements. One of the leadiug plays
is "snap," but not with cards, and I will
not attempt here to tell how.
Some of the men and boys often go to
church without their coats, and those
who do not care or haven't any more
| pride go in their working clothes. Thoy
I all work in overalls and jumpers, which
are of the most peculiar designs 1 ever
saw. They are all dark blue with white
figures or designs in them, such as little
oil cana in lows connected by stripes intended
to represent, the oil; some have
stars and stripes, etc. Ail are trimmed
| in brass buttons and the most, of them
I have engraved on them "lone star," and
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