The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 14, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1917.
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The situation in Russia prows 1
worse each day. It now seems that ^
the "bloodless" revolution instituted {
six months apo will, before it comes 1
to a conclusion, reveal a fearful J
amount of bloodshed. The civil strife i
now poinp on in that unhappy coun- 1
try will not be settled until a delupe *
of blood flows over the country. Thi?
does not mean that the new democracy 1
established there will fail. Nor does it
mean that the cause of the allies will i
po down in defeat. The fact is, Rus- 11
sia has not done any great thing in
the present war; they have been
slaughtered in great numbers, but
they have not contributed any great
strength to the cause of the allies. It i
is no worse for the allies now than it ;
was before. But Russia herself is
about to enter upon a carnage that is
fearful. As some say, the miraculous
may happen, but unless it does, Russia
is coming to a dark and bloody
day.
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A bright little woman of this city,
who is always working for the uplift
of the community, volunteered to sell ,
tickets for the Chautauqua and some
of her experiences are rich and she re- i
lates them in her own inimitable wa>. J
She says: "The men in Union are .
model husbands (which I would not <
have known but for the chautauqua); (
they cannot buy tickets without con- ]
suiting their wives; they cannot come 1
out at all at nipht?not at all; they J
have to rock the baby to sleep; they f
have to stay with their families and ^
on and on for quite a number of pood j
excuses." This little woman remarked t
that the husbands had made a wonder- I
ful impression on the advance apent \
and it would po forth to all the world i
that Union is unique in more instances '
V* O n f\ H .1 ? ?' V. H f 1 .tl 11' I. ("1 m/tw/, fUnn ^
i.iwin wut y one l ui uioueu iuui c iiuui
her quota of men for the army and
is furnishing more model husbands '
than any town in the whole United *
States. A new story but the same s
old Adam. p
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In the death of Dr. William Plumer ^
Jacobs South Carolina has lost one of 1<
utrr loremosi citizens, a mignty duiki- ^
cr in matters pertaining to the moral ^
and religious life of the State as well t
as a promoter of material develop- *
ment. His life, a long one, was spent t
in service to his fellows, a service that t
shows most beautifully in his minis- c
try to children. The impress of his s
gTeat character will live in the hearts f
of many who have received from him '
inspiration and help when they were j
weak, unable to help themselves. His s
work as founder and developer of J
Thornwell Orphanage is his greatest
achievement, but he was a man of f
mark in other matters of human in- h
terest. He was interested in civic s.
d
righteousness and gave much time j,
and thought to such affairs; he was a t
faithful minister of the Gospel, and p
has, through his preaching, led many h
souls to Ghrist. A hr??ntifnl lifo iirr.ll 1
rounded and full of service, he has left ('
g
to the entire State a rich heritage and h
a name that will not perish from the
earth. v
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We hesitate to advise the farmers h
upon the question of holding cotton. ^
It is a dangerous thing to advise upon.
I
Jut we feel this to be one time that is
porth while to take a try at giving
idvice. We feel sure that the farmers
in Union county can hold their coton
and we trust they will do so. It
s probable that the price will go up
o a high figure. But the renter and
he small farmer feels that he will
lave to sell to pay up what he owes,
le should take his cotton to a bonded
varehouse and get the certificates for
t, go to the bank and borrow what
noney he must have to pay his guano
tnd other debts. If you must raise
noney, do so through the warehouse
system. You will probably make mon;y
by the transaction; anyway, you
vill have shown a determination to
lelp yourself. We have a good bond?d
warehouse here in Union. You will
iind every bank in Union county wiling
to lend you money on the certificates.
This plan will give you ready
money and it will help prevent dump
ing the early cotton on the market,
thus driving the price down.
LOCKHART JUNCTION
Lockhart Junction, Sept. 11.?There
ins been a great change in the weather
this morning; the wind is blowing
,-ery cold and it seems as if there
night be a frost not far behind. The
.veather made a change last night as
,ve waked up and found ourself cold
ind we surely did get the quilt up,
which was very acceptable. Well, it
riay make a change for fair weather
tow, so the farmers can save all their
'odder, for the work season has come
igain. Fodder pulling is on and the
otton is opening in some places, while
>ther sections are late.
I see the price of cotton, like I prophesied,
is on the downward move because
it rained in Texas, and the estination
is over 12,000,000 bales. Well,
ivhat is coming, God only knows; the
ivorst mavbe ahead of us. We think
it is bad now, but I guess it could be
worse. There has been a fixed price
on wheat; why can't the price of
rntton be fixed? Give me high price.'.
:otton and I don't care if flour is
512.00 a barrel. We all know the
world is depending on the farmer for
\ living, and it looks like sometime
ie is struck down to rise no more,
lust think of high prices. This year
the man that had to buy bought in
:he dearest markets and now will sell
cotton in the cheapest markets. If
cotton goes below 20c a lb. the farmer
is behind again, and it ought not have
?one below 25c. Now corn meal is
52.50 a bushel. Well, there is one
crood thing; there won't be very much
bought at that price in Union county,
or at least, I don't think so, for everyone
will have his own corn and meal
it home.
Dear people, I don't think I am a
ticker. I always try and look on the
oright side of things. If there is a
oright side I will try and see it. We
ill know that cotton is the only money
:rop for the farmer, that is to take it
on an average, that is his main dependence
for making his money. Just
look how the price kept up when there
was none selling, but the speculator
cnows, he keeps up with things. Is
oot this a war of speculation? Yes,
;ome are betting on when the war
will close. The first of this year some
said, Oh, the food stuff is so scarce
s tne reason ot nign prices, some
bought the food stuff for man and
least would Rive out hut wasn't there
ilenty? Yes, there was and there is
ilways plenty. If you have the money
t can be found. Well, as an old sayng
has it, "Where there is a will
here is always a way," so we hope
sverything will work out best for all
>eople.
I forgot to tell in my last letter that
attended the Baptist association held
it Jonesville. I am a Methodist, but
urely I enjoyed meeting with these
rood people and hearing their able
peeches on the different subjects. I
>nly wish more of our Methodists were
here for some of them are so weakmeed
when it comes to the financial
art of the church, but I find this
lenomination right up on their joh
vhen it comes to the financial nart. of
heir church. They seem to be loyal
o their church work, which, I believe,
ire more so than us Methodists for
here are a few Methodists that seem
o bear the financial part of the
hurch, while I believe there is a larprr
number amonpr the Baptists that
eem to take more interest in the
inancial part, from what I seem to
earn.
I was at Gilead Sunday and heard
lev. Charley Garner preach a fine
ermon. Mr. Garner is a younp man
ust beginning in the ministry and he
leserves much praise.
I attended the baptism. There were
our baptized by Rev. Felmet. I
leard him say and make a public
tatement that he had baptized 2,283
uring his ministry and he had been
n the work for 40 years. I thought
hat was a fjreat work he had done.
While attending meeting at Gilead
hurch last week I was invited to the
ospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Noah
luice of Jonesville, where Mfe took
inner (i^irorirt V* i M in 1 Un t???? ? ^ f
j, v??.K ... wav ?i
;ood thinps to eat was prepared by
lis (rood wife.
Dr. Thrasher was also there and
/e surely did enjoy the few hours
pent at Uncle Noah's. He is an old
'onfederate soldier and a mar. who
as the social side of life highly deeloped
in him. He thinks a lot of
is friends and is a (rood citizen.
Moxy.
SANTUCK
Santuck, Sept. 10.?Dr. J. T. Jeter
will go to Greenville today. I guess
in a few days Uncle Sam will "put the
harness on him." He is looking for
it.
We will soon have an election here
for township road commissioner to fill
the unexpired term of Commissioner
J. P. Jeter, now county supervisor.
Messrs. M. B. Meador, John W. Gregory,
Jr., and R. S. Hames are the candidates
for same.
Cotton is opening rather fast and a
job is coming on, in which colored women
and children can get into. And
now just about as soon as the new
crop begins to come in cotton price
has gone down thirty or more dollars
a bale. It ought not to be allowed.
Those "futures" dealers ought to he
checked.
About as big a fool piece of business
I believe I have ever heard of is those
suffragettes pickiting the White
House and ground. It is more of a
selfish motive, or downright hardheadedness,
I am thinking, just because
the President would not at this time
commit himself or advocate equal sut"
frage. Well, I have seen several pictures
of some of them and they are
a pretty tough, or hard looking set. 1
have seen the photos of safecrackers
train robbers, etc., that had no hardoi
looking features than some of those
"he"-women pickets. It certainly
seems to me that they could use themselves
for better things at this time
If they cannot enter into nice, modest
womanly ways, if they wish to be
"m.-inisb". wbv not rrr> tn nlnioimr
working in saw mills, ginneries, etc.
Why not go to war, digging trenches
or using rifles? Are they, too, German
agents, I. W. W.'s, or what? (Or
an incubus on the government. Housekeeping,
home-making would be more
womanly).
For some time the newspapers
talked, there were meetings for, etc.,
to get people to eat corn bread, to
save flour in these terrible times, and
some can brag, or praise themselves
that they are acquiring the habit. They
are doing a patriotic deed, and well
they may, for it is some patriotism if
they take up the corn bread habit for
the aid of this war that we are in, if
the bread is made from probably
musty, bolted, store-bought meal, with
perhaps the starch extracted, and very
likely made from damaged corn, and
when it is baked it will crumble all tc
pieces?you cannot make it good. But
take good, sound home-grown corn
grind it on a good mill, with a screer
and fan to take out the dirt and dust
then make it up wet enough, bake as
quickly as possible, and you have
something good. I cannot remember
when I learned or took up the habit.
I cannot remember which I ate first,
corn or wheat bread. I know the kind
father prepared for us to "try our
'prentice han' " on. It was from homeraised
corn, I am sure it was
blue and white grain "Massie" variety
of corn, was ground on a 42-inch toprunner
stone water mill at Neal'j
Shoals, Broad river, and I guess i1
was good, and to this day, even now
times seem to be going tough with m?
if I cannot have corn bread every
day, and three times a day is to my
liking, and I will sometimes "slight'
the biscuits until they have to b?
"doctored" to make them palatable
Of course some people are peculiar ir
their taste. I am myself, but it is
mostly bad meal, and not knowinp
Vinw in nnnlrinor io wKir U U?J
... vv/u.wn^, io T* iiy 11, ^UC3 UttU
But I am often amused to hear, 01
read about people sacrificing in eating
corn products at this time, wher
many, most all country people would
feel like it was a sacrifice if they hac
to give it up now.
I went up to Jonesville on the 29th
of August to the Union County Baptist
Association, and I certainly had a
fine time. The business part of the
association was good, was instructive;
also the association with so many people
I knew from every section of the
county was very agreeable. There
were some prominent men there from
other parts of the State representing
various objects fostered by the denomination.
The ladies did a big part at
the dinner hour, did themselves proud,
one long table was spread, everybody
was invited, and to such dinners?it
was impossible to surpass?and the
ladies waited upon the congregation
themselves, supplying each one with a
plate, to put the viands on, and of
course these had to be washed and
taken care of, and T thought about
how much trouble they were taking
upon themselves for the visitors' comfort
and pleasure, and we ought to,
I do, extend to them the very highest
praise and thanks, for what they did.
Anybody else may try, and may, some
day, equal, but can never surpass the
Jonesville ladies in the manner of entertaining
a people. I know. This
was not my first time at Jonesville.
And they are just efficient at their
homes as on the church grounds. 1
was assigned to the home of Mrs. Jno.
T. Scott, but she already having sev*
eral, her mother, Mrs. Southard, captured
me and took me as her guest,
and Mrs. Southard and fnmilv nro
I ? ? *
adepts in the art of entertaining and
if I must speak so of a lady, Mrs.
Scott is "a chip off the old block,"
and both stand on the top rung; I do
not think there is any higher ground
on this sphere. I have been the recipient
of their hospitality, entertainment,
before. And have a very high esteem
for these ladies and their families.
I saw Telephone, spoke to him, and
would liked to have had a chat with
him, but time would not fit in right.
I looked for him after the close of the
meeting, but did not see him, and if
time had been long enough I would
have gone to his residence. I wish I
(could, for I did want to talk with him
some. I saw Moxy and did have a
nice, several minutes uritK Ki? T
,1
-
saw, too, Mr. N. B. Eison and had a "
talk with him. He is an old Confederate
Veteran, and was once a company
comrade of my father, and I always
enjoy being with him, as he
seems somewhat near because of this
fact. i
The next meeting, one year hence,
will be at Mon-Aetna church.
The officers of the association, as
elected, are: Moderator, Lewis M.
Rice; clerk, Geo. P. White; treasurer,
Paul E. Wilburn.
The moderator and treasurer were
reelected and the clerk is a new man.
This brings to mind that this association
is 42 years old, and the retired
clerk, E. W. Jeter, served the body as
clerk 17 years continuously. This is
more than any other man or two or
three together, has done. And we be,
lieve as a rule, a man, pardonably,
f ol/AO n ?>?.! J ? <** 1 - * ? l_ _ 1
' laxative" handy; they know children
' love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweeti
en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
I given today saves a sick child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent "
4 bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," :
r which has full directions for babies,
children of all ages and for grown-ups
? plainly on each bottle. Beware of
t counterfeits sold here. See that it is
, made by "California Fig Syrup Com)
pany." Refuse any other kind with
r contempt.
A CASH PRIZE
5 $.">.00 in Gold will be given the child
that brings the greatest number of
1 our Yellow Kid advertisements, either
5 cards or newspaper cuts to our store
' on Dec. 24, 1917. 36-4mo
I BAILEY BUILDERS SUPPLY CO.
| What is LAX-FOS
1 LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA
A Digestive Liquid Laxative, Cathartic
1 and Liver Tonic. Contains Cascara Bark,
" Blue Flag Root, Rhubarb Root, Black
i Root, May Apple Root, SennaLeaves and
XL.*.,.: ~ ? u: -
vpiu. vumumcs sirni^tn witlt palatable
aromatic taste. Does not gripe. 50c
The ntiser who has money to burn
ought to take it with him when he
dies.
ALFALFA GROWN I
Just as profitably in Georgia, '.iio Caroiinas and
Alabama. as in th< West i you time vour land
wuli LAOCO GKOUKD UMCSTONE.
Costs a triHo. Insert s irootl stand anil vigorous
growth of alfalfa, retch, clover* and grain;
Write for delivered price, valuable booklet and
reports. Attractive proposition to merchants
and farmer agents.
- LADD LIMC * STONE COMPANY.
MHIAUVUIUIIW, ATLANTA, Q*.
Woman's usual quest?conquest.
NOTICE
TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS!
AUTOMOBILES REPAIRED?
WE FIX THEM ALL
On and after Sept. 17 we will be at
Foster's Shop (Ijeo Jenkins' old stand)
and will operate a first-class Automobile
Repair Business under the firm
name Edwards-Longshore Garage. If
you want expert workmanship, bring
your cars to us. Prices reasonable.
Work guaranteed.
Clarence Edwards, j
R. C. Longshore.
Phone No. 93. .'i7-l-pd
NOTICE.
There will be a meeting at J. W.
Beaty's Undertaking Parlor Monday,
Oct. 1, 1917, for the purpose of considering
plans for a cooperation. All
parties interested are cordially invited
to be present. Plans are on foot to
organize a colored business league
and all th6 business men of the county
aTe earnestly requested to be present
on the above date.
Yours truly,
137-3 J. W. Beaty.
/
uinvn a jm mi- in Muwing ne nas served
a long term in any office, provided
he has served conscientiously, tried to
, do his duty, has done so, at a certain
amount of loss, at times, to his business,
(there is always some honor at,
tached) and knowing that he has been
, of some use, account and on being succeeded,
if he could feel that he has the
welcome plaudit of "Well done," etc.
, That if there was some evidence, of
[ word or deed, that his services lias
been appreciated; he could feel a little
security. But when there is not a
, bit of it; now then. But that is often,
, more often than not, the fact, in religious
bodies, as well as politics. With
the preachers who come into the association
for a year or two, then are out,
they know nothing of past history
and they?well, never mind.
To my mind, that is a pretty good
record, anyway. Hey Denver.
A CHILD HATES OIL,
CALOMEL, PILLS FOR
LIVER AND BOWELS
Give "California Syrup of Figs" If
Cross, Sick, Feverish, Con1
stipated.
Ltook back at your childhood days.
Remember the "dose" mother insisted
on?castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
| against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the .old from of '
1 physic simply don't realize what they
' do. The children's revolt is well-foundI
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
1 injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
? bowels need cleansing, give only deli1
cious "California Syrup of Figs." Its
. action is positive, but gentle. Millions
; of mothers keep this harmless "fruit
Atten
Young
You have been thin
ing your
New Fa
You are probably
kind of a Suit to get.
hard it is to decide ab<
have, therefore, an
things and have bough
of models, which gives
tion to choose from,
belt and pinch back im
ble-breasted and a gc
regular English and s<
in patterns to suit the
and critical.
Come in an
Help You
Your Sel
Also a big variety c
Hats! With nifty puj
And a handsome lir
and Dark Tan Shoes :
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Union's EES
WEAR
jGood I
Now, more than ever befoi
cise the greatest care in Buj
mi i i i i
iney snouia Duy tneir sno
liable in every sense of the i
We are giving the people
buying although some of our
Double what we are asking.
THE BEST SHOE VALUI
ANY STATEE
LADIES' DRESS SHOES
/ . at
$1.75, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00,
$3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00
LADIES' WORK SHOES
$1.85, $2.00, $2.25, $2.50, I
$2.75, $3.00, $3.50
They are worth 50c a pair j
more at wholeaale. ; i
Children's Shoes
in Union for \
UVEKYJ
Flynn-"V
Shoe Coi
ONE PRICE A]
tion!
: Men!
king about buy
11 Suit
undecided what
We know how
>ut Clothes. We
ticipated these
it quite a variety
; you a big selecThe
new trench,
xlels; a few dou>od
many in the t
imi-English. All
; most undecided
id Let Us
l Make
ection
f the latest Fall
?garree bands.
te of Black, Tan
for Fall.
h^n I
T Store
OUR
Shoes
re, a person should exerring
Shoes.
es at a Store that is Record.
i the advantage of our
AAC Orn nrnWh nnn> !IT B
v%o ??V nvawi "VOIIJ
IS THAT
> PRICE WILL BUY
MEN'S DRESS SHOES
at
$2.25, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50,
$4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $6.00
MEN'S WORK SHOES
$2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.25,
$3.50, $4.00, $4.25, $4.50
They are worth al least $1.00
a pair more.
i are the Best
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rincent
npany
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