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THE UNION T I M E S | IT BUSHED DAILY EXC EPT Sl'NDAY AND Till'RSI)AY BY THE 1" N ION TIMES CO. TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE -Editor Registered at the PostofTice in Union, S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One A'ear .?<1JD0 Six Months 2.00 Three Months 1.00 \ 1 LM)TI13 LMl rV'IV One square, first insertion. $1.00 Every subsequent insertion? . .?>0 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS I The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917. "Go-to-Sunday School Day" will be observed Sunday, Nov. 4. All denominations are included in this great movement, and it is a worthy one. It should he observed by all church and Sunday school workers, and can be made of great value. The churches do well to foster and in every way ecourage the Sunday schools, for, from actual statistics this is the chief source of supply for members. Out of the schools, more than from all other sources, comes the vast majority of church members. Get your Sunday school workers lined up for the great day, Sunday, Nov. 4. Go yourself, invite others to go with you. Blessed is the man who builds anew the face of the earth, ridding it of unseemly and unproductive gullies and barren spots. Ilappy the man that can so work together with mother earth that rich harvests p:rowwhere barren hillsides once held sway. We say to such a man: Your work is noble; the thing you are doing j is really worth while; you are a build' er together with God, and the work is of high worth. And there are many gullies, many waste places throughout this county; many non-productive and run-down acres to be brought back to life. Happy the man that takes hold of this task and really brings about the wonderful transformation. ON THE FIItING LINE. At last "our boys" are on the firing line in France. We are now able tc realize that we are at war with Germany. The ghastly thing. War, i? thus brought right home to us. Man) of our fellows will not come back; they will be called upon to make the supreme sacrifice; life itself must it many cases be given to our cause The thing is now real, fearsome, hor rible, for the exactions in suffering long anticipated, must now begin ii reality. It is a time for sobei thought, for prayer, for introspection It is a serious time for the Americar people, bet us not minimize the dan gors and horrors of the situation, 1101 seek to evade the issue. We are nov in the trenches; our men are facinj (ierman soldiers, lioth are ready t( kill; many will be killed. This is th< ugly side. There is yet another side The bravery, the daring, the determi nation and the willingness to, if nec essary, pay the extreme penalty, dis played by our soldiers do but revea the fact that our country has not los its "metal." We are yet a fightlnj nation: there are some nossecsien that we hold dearer than our pold an< silver, yea, than life itself. It is wel that this is so. A nation that wouli not, under any provocation, fi^ht would receive its condemnation frori (lod Himself, (lod would blot then out. A nation that will not, in th fear of (lod, protect its liberties, wil certainly perish, and so it should. J nation that will not fiprht to protec its women and children, its homes am its altars is damned, doubly damned To play the craven is to confess un worthiness to live. While ail this i true, it is yet a sad thinp, a heart rending thing that the blood of ou best and strongest men must be of fercd up in sacrifice. Hut it is th ft will of (lod, and we say: The will o (.lod he done. ft' r > ^ Editorial Clippings | . 0 The food bill that's bothering most ^ of us is not the one that gave congress so much trouble.?News and Courier. c< cl It's generally understood that the people in Spartanburg are learning the "Yankee brogue" since the New p York soldiers have been there.? Grenwood Index. ? 4l b A German U-boat has sunk an ^ American transport and destroyed 70 v lives, for which the Imperial government will have to pay with heavy ^ interest when the representatives of ^ that country meet around the peace e table.?York News. ^ Rod Cross News. ^ A world-wide campaign to organize * in the American Red Cross the thousands of Americans living outside the j. United States proper will shortly, be j inaugurated from Red Cross national ^ headquarters, at Washington. An Insular and Foreign Division of the ^ American Red Cross will be created, c according to an announcement made at National Headquarters, today. Otis H. Cutler, a prominent New . York business man, has volunteered ^ his services as manager of this new division. Mr. Cutler will have his of- ( (ices in Washington and will serve without remuneration during the pe- ^ The American Red Cross now has ^ seven chapters in Alaska, two in Hawaii, and one each in the Philippines, j Canal Zone, Porto Rico, Cuba, Peru, t England. Guam, Uruquay, Persia and ^ Syria. Under Mr. Cutler's direction, , additional chapters will be organized in these and other countries. I Many of these foreign chapters have been particularly active. The roll of ( the London chapter contains many . names of national prominence. This chapter has been cspeciall yservicea- , ble in connection with Red Cross units Istopping in I-ondon en route to France. I The Cuban chapter is now engaged in a campaign for a milion dollars to equiup a base hospital for service in France, $100,000 of the fund having already been raised. Hawaii has an unusually large membership and a number of Americans in Shanghai are organizing. They recently raised $.'>,000 for the purchase of material to be made into surgical dressings and hospital supplies. The new division is the Fourteenth Division of the American Red Cross. The division organization resulted from the plan of decentralization of administration of Red Cross affairs inaugurated by Harvey D. Gibson, general manager. The increased membership of the Red Cross, with its present enrollment of more than four million scattered among 2,800 chapters, together with the increased war activities of the Red Cross, necessitated a reorganization to relieve the congestion at national headquarters. Ae; cordingly, the country was divided in, to thirteen divisions and a division manager placed in charge of each. Prominent business men have been se! cured for these positions and in all ' cases are volunteering their services , to thf> Foil without romnnnvn. tion for the period of tlu* war. Each division manager has entire direction 1 of activities of Red Cross chapters . in his division and is assisted hy a . staff o fvolunteers. BUFFALO 1 _________ t r Buffalo, Oct. 28.?Harley Malone of Co. E. Camp Sevier, is visiting at the j home of 11. I.'. Woodward on a five 1 days furlough. Quite a number of our people are i* buying Liberty Bonds. By some misunderstanding the Daily Times is not reaching Buffalo in ' the afternoon, but Ralph Carter, the 1 agent, hopes to have it amended by s Monday, October 28th, so the people here can get the latest news in two hours and a haif after press. P. C. Hundley and J. I,. Padgett motored to Spartanburg Saturday. The road to Union is being scraped, ] making a good road to Union; we are ^ glad for it was very badly needed. Miss Lily Trammel and Charles ' Landings were married here Monday s and will make their home in Creen1 ville. Mr. Manning is a member of j Company E. at ('amp Sevier. i aii tne fraternal orders here will call ofT their meetings next week on ? account of the revival meetings at the n Baptist church by request of the pasa tor, W. A. Collins. The public is cordially invite dto attend these services. J. L. Woodward . I V Families of three persons constit tute 10 per cent of the total number I and are the most numerous in England; families of four make up 18 percent; families of five, 10 per cent, and - families of six, 10 per cent of the tos tal population. An auxiliary set of wire net blades 1 in a new electric fan are driven by - the air moved by the regular blades (. and pass through a tank of water, vapori/.ing it so that it cools and purifies the air of a room in which the fan is used. ome Old Churches | in Union County | Lly Mrs. J. Frost Walker, Jr. written for "Fair Forest" Chapter I). A. R.) One of the oldest churches in Union ( >unty is Mt. Tabor Presbyterian t lurch, in the Eastern portion of the | ounty, Pinckney township. Of course we all know that old , inckney was once the County seat, his church was a wooden structure ^ n'd was burned, but a new one was < uilt and stands a power for good in . he Countv todav. The old church of ,-hich this sketch deals entirely was rganized in 1807 or 1909, by Mr. 3 Villiam Davis, an Independent Pres- I yterian. He, with a number of othrs withdrew from the regular Pres- , yterian church at Bullock's Creek to stablish a church of their own at 1 nit. Tabor. In years afterwards the 1 wo organizations reunited. The lumber of which Mt. Tabor vas built was all cut and planed by land?loving hands of christian mem?ers who left us a heritage of faith nvaluable. The skilled slaves of these members vere sent each day to work in conducting the church. A gallery was daced in the rear of the church for hese salves to sit in and listen to the iVord of God as spoken by the Minisers from year to year. The pulpit vas built at the end of the church aulitorium, small steps led up into it vhich was boxed up all around. There vere elevated pews on each side of the )ulpit, but the pews directly in front )f the pulpit were not elevated. A landsome and hand-carved walnut sounding board shaped like an inver:ed shell .was just above the pulpit. This sounding board threw the sound >f the voice to the furthest end of the church. This church is almost hallowed with the memories of her saintly pastors and consecrated members. The first pastor was Mr. Robert Russell, (the title of "Reverend" is of later generations.) There would be two services a day, iMivr in LIHJ ill vi I 111 11<11111 Ullt? 111 LI1C illtc-rnoon with an hour at twelve o'clock for dinner which was served in picnic style or in friendly proups. The sermons of the ministers were always over an hour in lenpth. Many sonps would he sunp, the tunes beinp raised by some members as no musical instruments were in the church. For administering the Lord's supper tables covered with white damask were placed in front of the pulpit and around these sat the communicants, the sacrament was passed to them by the elders of the church. The negro slaves who sat in the gallery were then given the sacrament at the same tables after the white2 people had finished. Preaching to these slaves the word of God and setting them this wonderful example of faith that Christ's blood was shed for all mankind can well account for the faithful ness and devotion of these slaves to their masters, and their masters families in the years of the War Between the Sections. There are 110 very old graves at Mt. Tabor, the deceased members who were not buried 011 their own plantation burial ground, were buried a? Bullock's Creek church, across Broad River in York County. The members of the church attended services in carriagese drawn by | one or two horses, gigs, and on horseback. Many ladies rode horse-back beautifully in those days. They, of course rode on the side-saddle and wore verv lonir skirts as a ridinc habit. For these ladies to mount and dismount horse-blocks were made by sawing huge cedar tree-trunks into blocks, the first a foot high, the second about two feet high and the third about four and one-half feet high, the two lower blocks were placed as steps to the third block from which the ladies could easily mount their horses or dismount ,as the case might be. Another of the oldest churches in Union county is Padgett's Creek Baptist church in Cross Keys township. This church was organized Nov. 2% 1781. An interesting and complete history of this church by the late Mr C. B. Bobo was published in the minutes of the Tenth Annual Unior county Baptist Association, and subsequently appeared in one of our county papers. Cane ('reek church is perhaps the oldest church in our county. It is situated in the Butch Fork section be tween Enoree and Broad Rivers. This church was built as a union churcl bv the Christian nnnnln r?f Snnluo iZn shen Hill and Fish Dam township.and used hy each denomination foi many years. The deed of the churc! property was finally made to the Pres hyterians anil this it is today. Mr .Tames H. Sayre was a minister foi this church. It is said this church wa< established before Mt. Tabor. A church whose history opens jusi after the close of the American Revo lution must be given some space hen ?Quaker church of Cross Keys town ship. This church was founded bj Irish Quakers in 17K4 or *85 who mi grated from Virginia (between thi close of the French and Indian Wai Listen, Friends! I have always given you a lecent place to get your bar)er work, and if you will ?ive me a half chance I will continue to do so. I have 3een among you for 23 pears, and I am going to stay if the Germans don't ?et me. I have always used my influence for all that was ^ood. I have tried to be honest in all my dealings, and if I have not succeeded it was an error of the head and not of the heart. I will appreciate any business you can turn my way. Yours to please, ' BEN A. WHITENER aad the opening of the Revolution) to North Carolina. Soon after the Revoli^ion a number of these Irish Quakers and their families together with ' other people left North Carolina and ( settled on Tyger River in the region which includes the present site of the Quaker church. Among these Irish Quakers was Absolom Bishop, Senior, who helped to build the original log meeting house for Quaker worship, near the site of the present Methtodist church building. He built the first grist-mill on Tyger river within the present limits of Union county. There were a number of Quaker organizations and meeting houses. One stood not far from Col. Bob Beaty's residence near Beaty's bridge which spans Tyger river. The Quakers, as an organization, migrated to Ohio because of the spread of negro slavery in Soutth Carolina. The Methodists bought the church building and grounds at Quaker. Sardis Methodist church, situated in the South of Union township, is an old church, nearly a hundred years . _ 1J mi- 51 i ? oia. i ms cnurcn congregation witndrew from White Hill church across the Forest and huilt Sardis. The same structure is still standing. It is in a wonderful state of preservation. It is ceiled on the inside walls with ten-inch planks. This being a small community, in this church there was no gallery for the negro slaves but they /occupied the rear pews. The cemetery for Sardis deceased members was one-half mile from the charch in those days. The Young Talrtttjr' -Was first to bury their dead thlere. Now a cemetery in the church ' yard grove is used for the deceased members. Many Confederate Veterans and their descendants are buried there. Conservation of Food. To the Civic Preparedness Workers: During the spring South Carolinians conducted a most successful campaign for the production and conservation of food. As a result of that campaign the food crops of the State were greatly increased. Production was stressed in the campaign. Now, the United States government through the food, administration is callintr linnn thp nnnnlp tn pfinaoruo food. During the week of October 28 to November 4, an effort will be made to register every home in South Carolina in the food saving movement. The record of the civic preparedness commission has caused favorable conlment from many sections of the country. Can the food administration depend upon you to give assistance in the coming campaign. Urge all of your friends to sign the food pledges. The food must be conserved if America is to win this war. > Impress upon your friends the necessity for saving food' The government is not asking the people to starve i themselves. The government i3 merely asking that the people save meat, wheat, sweets, fats and sugar. A , meatless and wheatless day was advoi cated recently by Mr. D. R. Cokcr, . foor administrator. Yours faithfully, i Joe Sparks, Executice Secretary, South Carolina Food Administration . Exhibition Game Ball ? Aid Red Cross Hospital (By Associated Press) Dublin, October 18.?The President 4 of the American Baseball Associatior in liondon offered to arrange to brin^ ' to Dublin two teams of American ant 1 Canadian soldiers from camps in Eng ' land to give an exhibition (jame ol baseball in Dublin in aid of the Gattb * Red Cross Hospital. The Executivt Committee,of which I Ami Decies ii * Chairmanfi gratefully accepted the of fer an dthe match was arranged foi ^ October 27. baseball is quite unknowi in Dublin and the event was expect ? cd to draw large crowds. t For persons who have much strinj - or thread to cut a knife-blade at 5 tached to the clothing with a safety r pin, has been invented. * ?% % ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? $ The Citizens N oi Y UNION Y ? Offers to the Farmei X and Wage Earners of ?|> County Every Induce Y We encourage sa 1 tVirifl onrl +V?rif+ mr? 1a o uiiu uiiiitiinia of the county. Y V Interest Paid on ?|> Open An Acco Let your spare dollars \ "Money Talks" but?1 A only says: Good Bye. !? R. P. MORGAN, Y President. V + y Cold Weatln Fresh I We are fully pre] your w Fresh Meats, Fresh Fi Let Us Have Your Orders, We Dunbar's Phone 376 Main S Good Literature Soldier's "Chow." Home Papers Are Hid Between Mat tresses Till Every Line is Read Soldier is Newsboy's Friend. If ever a people craved information, term it curiosity if you care, it is the soldiers at Camp Jackson. Every scrap of printed matter in the form of a newspaper is "chow" for a soldier. Chow, by the way, is the term used in the army to serve in the place of breakfast, dinner and supper. They literally eat up all that they can get in print. The Sunday issues of the newspapers come in for the big share of the week's happenings and anythting pertaining to the aramy and navy is closely scanned and any reference to "our branch of the service" gets a second glance. "Soldiers are merely men," said an old army officer a few days ago. "Just like the fellow that you see at civil work only he is garbed in a uniform and remembers that with him the little customs that once hewas familiar with and practiced unconsciously meet consideration and he questions if it comes under the regulations." While to many this seems unusual, it can be most easily explained by saying he questions if it affects his discipline. So the soldier ^eads about home and the country, the sea and of its travel the foreign battle fields and the life of the civilian population of our allies. The soldier craves information about himself and all these things are "chow" especially when it is in a news paper. Why so7 Very easily answered. There is very little space for a soldier to pack away books in his bar. racks. A newspaper gives him .the information necessary and when he has devoured its contents it is passed on to his bunkie?the fellow whose . cot happens to be along side of his, and so on until the next bunkie exclaims that he has already jjunched it; then to the trash basket it goes and there is no trace of trash. Sunday when the drill period is tabooed, finds the fellow you know al home, sitting on the edge of his cot has face dug down in the folds of t | newspaper and a bunch on either sidt of him stealing a glance at the heat! lines and doing his best to find oul " who won the prize in his home countj 1 for canning the most tomatoes, whc ' sold the first bale of cotton, who killec ! the largest hog, when the next increment of his pals move and all of th< ^ things that you read yourself, j The little fellow who calls in thr early morning to leave your paper or your front step, and he* must do il r in silence, finds the soldier up am t awaiting him. It must be fine foi those newsboys who find the fronl doors closed to get a bright cheery 'Here boy, paper." He finds men uj X with an eagerness to get their hands - on a newspaper. The "newsy" know: / that the soldier is his best friend am sad will he the plight of that mat U. i^A A^A AV 4^4 ational Bank I Y [ .. , is. c. v V rs. Mill Operatives ? Union and Union A 3ment to Save. ^ irinrf f Ar fVio+ Krir?rfo r nig xvsjl tuat uniigo es for the well being <|> T X Time Deposits. unt At Once. ?|> vork while you sleep, to the Spendthrift, it & | C. C. SANDERS, % Cashier. Y V + # Br Calls Cor Vleats! jared to care for ants in sh and Fresh Oysters Will Give You Good Service. Market treet Union, S. C. or bunch of men caught roughing it for the "kid with the papers." 'Paper here" is the cheery greeting to good morning, for both newsy and soldim* o 1*0 An t aa intlmntA " u>v< miv vii tw iiiviiuatc wci nid auu in % too hip a hurry, one to pet the paper, the other to pet into the next company street before some other newsy beats him to it. The paper from home is saved until the bip daily has passed on its journey and then it comes in for the bip feast. Under the mattress it poes until some time can be found when it can be carefully pone over, when the "locals" can be read and re-read, when I the advertisement^ can be scanned and until the news from home is thor- V ouphly dipested, the paper from home 1 is hidden, away for another attack of " a preedy, hunpry newshunter?Columbia Record. University Loses Morse to Red Cross Popular Professor Leaves Chair for Duration of War. Dr. Joseph Morse, professor of philosophy at the University of South % Carolina, is leavinp his chair there to take up Red Cross work. Dr. Morse will be director of the Red Cross work for South Carolina and field director of the work at Camp Jackson. Dr. Morse let it be distinctly understood that this chanpe of occupation was only for the duration of the war. Dr. Morse brinps to his new work a wide experience as sociolopist, educator and business man. He is one of the most popular members of the university faculty and it is with repret that his many friends both amonp the faculty and student body, see him leave even though it be but for a comparatively short time. At the same time their best wishes go with him and they feel confident that he will make a succes of the work he has chosen to do as his "bit" in the war.?The State. One-half of the gasoline used in the United States (1,250,000,000 gallons) is used in pleasure riding. It is es' timated that the United States army will need 350,000,000 gallons for aeroplanes, trucks, automobile tractors, and other machines. There is no way of obtaining this in this country except by saving from the existing sup' ply, and this economy may be pro' cured by voluntary cutting down of 1 pleasure riding (for instance, the man who takes his family out on Sunday for a 50-mile ride can cut this in half) " It has been estimated that by econom' ical use enough gasoline can be saved ' to supply not only the United States but also its allies for war purposes. ! A recently patented chair, the back of which can be adjusted at several ! angles, contains a shot shining outHA. 2a.~ 1 1 * * i iiu iii us uase ann can De convened t into a typewriter table. 1 Seventy-five million cigarettes are r smoked in the United Kingdom every t day, which means an average of four , cigarettes for every male person in > the British Isles. * Apparatus for automatically spray* ing oil from the bow of a vessel upon 1 a rough rca has been invented in Engl land. I