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VOL. LXVII. NO. :si>. UNION, S. C\, FIUDA^T, (SEPTEMltlci! 28, li>17 *l.r>0 A vT^ \ It
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BRITISH SMI
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Attack Was Made
at Dawn.
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tant Positions Were in
Hands of British.
Field Marshal Hair's men again
are striking in Flanders and the force
of their blow like those that have
preceded, is meeting with good results
on a front of nearly six miles.
Notwithstanding the necessity of
carrying the battle to Crown Prince
Rupprecht across uninviting ground?
virtually a morass owing to recent
rains and against the inevitable concrete
and steel redoubts and woods
and shell craters teeming with rapid
lire guns?the English, Scotch and
Australian troops have snatched valuable
vantage points from theN Germans
but not without terrific opposition.
The battle at last accounts was still
raging with the greatly reinforced
Germans, who had anticipated the new
thrust, to fighting with, ,'inusual bitterness
to hold back furrier British
advances or to recapture ibrrain already
wrested from them.
Ilaig's New Thrust.
> Gen. Haig's new thrust was delivered
from the base of front line po
sitions captured and consolidated last
week, before which the Germans held
numerous vantage points of strategic
value, barring the way to further inroads
by the British or for harassing
the British line by machine gun and
rifle fire.
As on previous occasions Gen. Halg
loosed a veritable inferno of artillery,
. launching his attack in the early
nours 01 w eanesaay morning and
when night fell many important positions
had been cleared of the enemy,
but with the Germans at numerous
other points savagely contesting, the
right of way.
Most Significant Gain.
< . Probably the most significant gain
of the British which the Germans
assert was to a depth of two-thirds
of a mile at certain points, was near
Zonnebeke, to within a few hundred
yards of the western outskirts of
which village they penetrated, placing
them about six miles from the railroad
running from Ostend through
Roulers and Roubaix to Lille. The
cutting of this line, which seems to
be the objective of Field Marshal Haig,
would seriously affect the trans] )>rt of
the Germans from their naval bases at
Ostend and Zebrugge to the south.
Prior to the land attack British
naval forces heavily shelled Ostend
and again Wednesday afternoon repeated
the bombardment, meanwhile
naval airplanes dropped bombs on
towns in tNorthern Belgium with visible
effective results.
FIRE AT MT. TABOR.
The store of Mr. R. A. Brawley at
Mt. Tabor was totally destroyed by
fire .1:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. The
entire stock was completely destroyed.
The value of the stock was $4,600,
with $2,500 insurance.
Mr. J. L. Calvert owned the store
room, and had insurance of $500 on
the building, which was well worth
$1,500.
It is probable that the store room
will be reb(V;lt at once and business
opened up again.
Both Mr. Calvert and Mr. Brawley
had a safe in the building, the former
a small one and the latter a large
once, and the contents of each was
found to be undamaged.
INFORMAL PARTY.
Among the informal parties that
broke the extreme quietude of the past
week was the lawn party given by
Mrs. Wm. Sparks Thursday evening
in honor of Miss Flossie Wilburn, who
left Tuesday for* Winthrop, and Miss
Lizzie Hollis, who enters Limestone
College.
The lawn Was beautifully lighted
and seats arranged so that the large
number of guests spent a most pleasant
evening.
AmAnr* AikAwa **rV* A J 1
mnviiK uviicio n?*w anCIIlieu Hit*
party and left for college were Miss
Sarah Thompson, who enters Limestone
College; Miss Mabel Alverson,
who enters the high school in Union,
and Mr. Wm. Thompson returned to
Clemson, where he will enter upon
his fourth and last year at this institution.
, LOCAL COTTON MARKET.
Cotton brought TWz cents in Union
Wednesday and 23% cents Thursday.
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REV. JOHN G. FARR
DIES IN COLUMBIA
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End Came on Thursday of Last Week.
He Was a Servant of His Master
for Many Years?His Body
Was Laid to Rest on
Saturday in Foster's
Chapel Cemetery.
Jonesville, Sept. 25.?The death of
Rev. John Good Farr, which occurred
at the Baptist hospital in Columbia
last Thursday, was a shock to his
many friends in this community. Mr.
Farr was born and reared on Pea
Ridge near the town of Kelton. He
was of humble par^fits and his opportunities
for education and advancement
in life were limited. He only
attended the country schools. He
married a Miss Newberry in early life
and it was not 'till several years after
he was married that he felt called
w me ministry aim oi course oeing
married and with no means to back
him in the ministry would .naturally
make his success look gloomy, but
5ohn Farr was not the man to be discouraged
and give up, so he pursued
his course and worked the harder for
success and he was finally admitted
into the S. C. conference and he, to
use a common expression, "made
good" and attained to position in the
conference and has served the following:
Kelton .Green Street, Columbia,
Union .Bethlehem, Hartsville and
Lexington circuit; was local preacher
14 years and itinerant 12 years.
His first wife died several years
since and he was again, married the
second time to Miss Arizonia Williams,
who survives him, but has no children.
He leaves seven children by his first
wife, only one of whom is married
Mr. Farr had some four or five
thousand dollars out on interest and
some insurance, besires one thousand
in the Woodmen of the World. He
was a member of the Woodmen and
a Mason. i
His remains were brought back to
his old community and buried by the
side of his first wife at Foster's Chapel,
the funeral services being conducted
by his presiding elder, the Rev.
James W. Kilgo, assisted by Kev.
L. L. Wagnon, Rev. J. W. Speake, Rev.
Mr. Kelley, Rev. J. T. Fowler and
Brown. There were some six or seven
hundred people attended the funeral
There were 75 automobiles on the
church lawn. Telephone.
Methodist Divine Died in Columbia.
The Columbia Record had the following
article on the death of Rev.
John G. Farr:
"The Rev. John G. Farr, a well
known Methodist preacher, died this
morning at a local hospital, where he
had been brought for treatment. Mr.
Farr would have been 51 years of age
on November 1. * At the time of his
death he was pastor of Lexington
circuit in Lexington county. Prior to
entering the South Carolina Methodist
conference he was for 12 years
auditor of Union county.
"Mr. Farr was a man whose influence
for good was felt in the communities
in which he had lived. He
was a good preacher and pastor and
had many friends among his fellow
preachers in the two Carolina conferences.
"Mr. Farr was twice married. His
first wife was Miss Addie Newberry
of Union county. Of this union seven
children survive. In 1910 he was
married to Miss Arizonia Williams of
Spartanburg, who survives him.
"The funeral services will be held
at Foster's Chapel in Union county,
Saturday morning, and will be in
charge of the Rev. J. W. Kilgo, D. D.,
presiding elder of Columbia district,
in which the Lexington circuit is situated.
The body will be taken to Union
on the Carolina Special Friday afternoon."
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.
Mr. Jacob Cohen has received tidings
of his nephew, Harry G. Adler,
who is first sergeant in Johns Hopkins
base hospital unit somewhere in
France. Mr. Adler is the son of Mr.
Cohen's twin sister and is from Baltimore.
He is delighted with his work
and writes of the day "when he will
be coming home again."
LIEUT. THOMSON IN FRANCE.
Lieut. Herndon Thomson has landed
"somewhere in France" or England,
according to a cablegram received by
his father, Mr. W. E. Thomson, Tuesday.
On account of government censorship
restrictions he was only able
to state that he had landed, no particulars
as to the port or country.
There are hosts of friends in Union
county who will join The Timos in
good wishes for our young friend and
for his safe return when the war is
over.
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Complei
Washington, Sept. 2G.?How a small
coterie of active anti war workers,
operating under the direction of the
Industrial Workers of the World, pursuaded
hundreds of Oklahoma farmers
to take up arms against the government's
enforcement of the selective
draft law is revealed in papers
seized by federal agents in the recent
nation-wide raid of I. W. W.
headquarters.
Testimony given at Enid, Oklahoma,
recently to the effect that a national
uprising was planned in which
towns would be sezeid, cities attacked,
bridges burned, was taken by officials
here as an indication that the Oklahoma
farmers recently believed thr.
plans would carry. As a matter 0?i?
fact, officials assert, even the mos
radical leaders of the movement kne< ?,
that it would accomplish but littU;
more man local disturbances. Th?^
farmers were incited to take up arms
with the full knowledge that the movement
would lead to nothing, simply
as an expedient to embarrass the gov-'
ernment temporarily. The anti-draft
demonstration started as an agrarian
movement, the records show, in Oklahoma,
where a number of illiterate
farmers obtained an exaggerated idea
of the law's operation. Certain I.
W. leaders learned of the secret
Rev. Geo. P. White
Goes to Bamberg
Rev. Geo. P. White resigned the
pastorate of the First Baptist church
here Sunday to accept the pastorate
of the Bamberg Baptist church, and
will at an early day move to Bamberg.
Mr. White has been pastor here
for more than four years, and is a
strong preacher and a wise leader.
Many members of the congregation
have expressed regret that he felt
called to accept the work in Bamberg.
His successor has not been secured,
but a committee has been appointed
to suggest a man. The committee ia
composed of the following names: J.
A. Sawyer, R. C. Williams, D. Fan*
Gilliam and Geo. W. GoW>
Recently Brother George P. White,
pastor of the First Baptist church, of
Union, was called to its pastorate by
the Baptist church of Bamberg We
see from a special to The State that
he has accepted and will soon enter
on his new duties. This settles and
settles well the problem at Bamberg,
but it leaves vacant one of our best
pastorates. It also leaves vacant the
clerkship of the Union Association, a
position to wnicn rastor wnite was
called at the last meeting of the body
and which he was fillinjr at the last
meeting of the body and which he was
filling with great acceptance.?Baptist
Courier.
WM. WALLACE CHAPTER, U. D. C.
The William Wallace chapter, U.
D. C., held its regular monthly meeting
Monday afternoon at the Chamber
of Commerce and the hostesses were
Mesdames M. L. Garner, T. E. Bailey
and Anderson Browne and Misses
Blanche Garner and Edna Tinsley.
In the absence of the president, Mrs.
Davis Jeffries called the meeting to
order and dispatched the routine business.
Delegates to the general convention
were elected and the following
program rendered:
"A Reminiscence," read from the
memoirs of Mrs. Mary Dawkins, by
Mrs. J. W. Mixson. Sketch of Admiral
Semmes by Mrs. C. H. Peake.
Life of Maury by Mrs. W. W. Summer.
The round table discussion was
led by Mrs. W. D. Arthur and adding
a touch of local interest was a reading
by Mrs. J. I). Arthur of some
clippings from The Union Times of
1862, consisting among others things
of the letter from her uncle, Mr. Mil
ler, wno was principal oi tne Male
Academy, but resigned and volunteered
to serve his country by joining
the army. He was made a colonel
and was killed in battle.
By special request, the chapter considered
the matter of raising money
to equip libraries for soldiers at the
army camps and the following special
committee was appointed for this purpose:
Mrs. J. W. Mixson, Mrs. S. M.
Rice, Mrs. Macbeth Young, Mrs. Ida
N. Perrin, Mrs. D. H. Wallace, Mrs.
John Fant and Mrs. J. D. Arthur.
During the social half hour the hostesses
served ices and wafers, assisted
by Misses Maude Garner, Theo Young,
Etha Palmer and Annie Tinsley.
HER IDEA OF MAN.
According to the Hendersonville'
Hustler a little girl of that town has
penned this composition on the mere
male of the species:
"Men are what women marry. They
drink and smoke and swear, but don't
go to church. Perhaps if they wore
bonnets they would. They are more
logical than women and also more
zoological. Both men and women
sprung from monkeys, but the women '
sprung further than the men."
. W. Are
tely Revealed
meetings held by farmers in churches
and other buildings at night and sent
agitators to the scene to fan the discomfort
into open rebellion, it is said,
by playing upon their hearers.
It was represented to the farmers
that thousands of their neighbors in
Missouri, Kansas and Texas were
ready to unite in an armed uprising,
that millions of "men working for
wages" would join them in other
States and that the movement could
rvot fail to result in an overthrow of
the government. With the government
overthrown, there was to be a
general division of the money of the
rich among the "men working for
wages," and other benefits, of wide
dimensions, were to be obtained.
V Department of justice agents, opOtatillC
in thp wiclnifw lnornn/l ?< ?i?
_o w .w.iovj f ivuiilCU Ul Lilt
ambitious program and prior to July
iJ7, the night set for the general uprising,
brought the project to an end
with the arrest of the alleged ring
leaders of the movement. At no time
it was said, was the disturbance more
than local in character or regarded
here as likely to spread.
The fomentation of this trouble is
only one of many activities which authorities
here are investigating in
connection with the recent seizure of
I. W. W. papers throughout the coun'try.
> EUTERPE AN MUSIC CLUB.
I
The Euterpean Music club met with
Miss Maude Garner Saturday morning,
Sept. 22nd.
An unusually enjoyable program
was given, and is as follows:
Piano Duiet?Taistsperl Overture
f?Bird. Misses Mary Jones and Edith
Smith.
| Vocal Solos?Joan of Arc?There's
p Long, Long Trail. Miss Ludie Jordan.
Piano. Solo?Etude?Mayer. Miss
!Theo Young.
Vocal Solos?Avia from Rigoletto?
"The Land of the Sky Blue Water".
Miss Katherine Layton.
Piano Duet?The Anvils. Mrs. D.
M. Eaves, Miss Fannie Duncan.
Vocal $>q1o?Spinning. Mrs. R. A.
'Vocal Quartette?Honey-town, Lullaliy.
Misses Jones, Layton, Jordan
and Mrs. R. A. Jones.
Mhs Elizabeth Lemmond was
guest of the club and gave several
beautiful piano solos, among them,
Hungarian March?Farentella.
Several new members were welcomed.
The program committee was urged
to prepare the program for the year's
work at nnoo
The hostess served sandwiches and
tea.
TO PREACH SUNDAY EVENING.
Rev. E. A. Fuller will fill the pulpit
of the First Baptist church Sunday
night. There will be no service there
on Sunday morning. Mr. Fuller led
the prayer meeting on Wednesday
evening of this week.
A MARRIAGE.
At the Presbyterian manse, Union,
S. C., on Saturday, Sept. 15th, in the
presence of friends and relatives Mr.
Arthur Buyers and Miss Ida Stines
were united in marriage by the Rev.
J. F. Matheson.
Mr. and Mrs. Burgess will reside
in Union. Our best wishes are for
their happiness.
FROM HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Battery I),
9th FIpM Arlilloi'1'
Schofield Barracks, II. T.
Dear Mr. Rice:
Will you please spare me room in
your paper to say a few words to the
girls, as follows:
Us soldiers over here are having a
hard time, the weather is so hot that
we cannot hardly stand it; we have
no winter here at all on the Hawaiian
Islands. We are 2100 miles
from the dear old U. S. A. I am a
private in the service and surely like
the army. We are getting $110.00 a
month, our board and clothing. We
surely are lonesome over here; there
are no American girls here and we
are so lonesome that we do not know
what to do. Girls, will you do your
part in the war and write us somi
loving letters? Do keep us soldiers
comfortable and write us some loving
letters. We never see any pretty
A * ?
/vmerican girls here and I would love
to get a letter from one in the good
old U. S. A. Girls, please write us,
for we are so lonesome that we do
not know what to do. We are here
fighting for you and our country and
we want you to do your part by writing
us.
We are ready and willing to go to
France when our Uncle Sam says so.
Yours truly,
Jennings B. Wright.
The above letter is self-explanatorv
and it is now up to the girls to write
the "loving letters" to this home-sick
loldier.?Editor.
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SAD STORY CO
SOUTH CAROLINA BOY
WOUNDED IN FRANCE
Columbia, Sept. 25. ? Edward
Wheeler, second lieutenant, British
Royal Artillery, has been wounded by
gases while in action in France, according
to a cablegram received by
his mother, Mrs. E. B. Wheeler, of
Marion. He is 22 years of age and a
brother of Major J. Aubrey Wheeler,
recently named as ordnance officer for
South Carolina, now stationed at an
arsenal in New York.
BOX SUPPER.
There will be a box supper at Fair
Forest school house on Saturday
night, October 5. The enteitainment
will be given by the Sunbeam society
and the proceeds will go to the benefit
of that society. The public is invited
to attend.
APPOINTED TO FILL VACANCY.
Mr. Herbert Thomas of Santuc was
on last Friday appointed commissioner
of Santuc township by Governor Manning
to succeed Mr. J. P. Jeter, recently
appointed supervisor of the county.
RETURNS TO BALTIMORE.
Mr. Morris Silberman, who has for
more than a year held a position as
bookkeeper with J. Cohen clothimr
store has resigned to accept a flattering
offer in Baltimore, his old home
city.
Mr. Silberman has made a wide circle
of friends during his stay in Union,
and they regret that he has decided to
leave.
GERMAN AVIATOR KILLED.
Amsterdam, Sept. 25.?Lieut. Voose,
a leading German aviator, has been
killed in an aerial flight with his 50th
adversary, according to a report received
here from Berlin. Vosse was
considered the greatest German airman
after Baron von Richthofen. He
was credited in German official reports
with having brought down 42
enemy machines up to September 10.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Mrs. Donald Eaves (Douisa Duncan)
will leave next week for Columbia to
spend several days with Mrs. Albert
Oliphant.
Rev. L. W. Black welder will leave
Monday for Columbia to spend a
month supplying a mission station at
that place.
Dr. J. T. Jeter, who enlisted in the
medical corps, received orders Sunday
to report at Ft. Oglethorpe and he left
immediately for that point.
There will be a very important
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday evening, Sept. 27, at 8
o'clock. All members are urged ti.
jattend.
Paul Stroud, a lad living on Malone
avenue, son of M. M. Stroud,
brought to our office a freak ear of
corn, one large ear and ten wellformed
small ears growing around it.
The corn grew in the garden of Paul's
grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Richards.
Mrs. J. E. Brown and Miss Eugenia
xxr oi ? ? -- ?
weaver 01 Salisbury, N. C., will arrive
this week to spend the week-end
with their sister, Mrs. L. W. Clackwelder,
at the Episcopal rectory. Mrs.
Blackwelder and children will return
with them Monday for a month's visit.
ANOTHER STRIKE ORDERED.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 25.?A strike
at 10 o'clock Saturday morninfr of
12,000 members of the fifteen metal
trades unions employed in Seattle ship
yards and allied contract shops was
ordered today by the Seattle Metal
Trades Council, the central organization
of the fifteen unions. The strike
call, it was said, is the result of the
insistent demand of the rank and file
of the ship yard workers for a "showdown"
on the long pending wage increase
controversy.
SAY EXPEL FA FOLLETTE.
Minnesotans Demand He Be Ousted
From Senate.
St. Paul, Sept. 25.?Expulsion of
Senator Robert M. La Follette, of
Wisconsin, from the United States
senate is demanded in a petition addressed
to that body today by the
Minnesota Public Safety Commission.
Senator La Follette is accused >ri the
commission resolution of making an
address of a disloyal and seditious nature
at the non-partisan convention
here last Thursday night.
GERMANS USE LIQUID FIRE.
Paris, Sept. 25.?Liquid fire was
used by the Germans in an attack on
the French lines in the Beaumont region
north of Verdun last night. The
French, however, repulsed the assault
with heavy losses to the Germans, the
war office announced today.
MES
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A Girlish Wife Abandons Infant
at Hotel in Akron, Ohio?She
n
negisrerea as Mrs. Dorothy
Evans From Lockhart, S. C.
Police are Investigating.
Chief of Police W. C. Harris of
Lockhart received the following letter
from Akron, Ohio:
Chief of Police,
Lockhart, S. C.
Sir:
Enclosed find story of baby boy
abandoned by a girl here in Akron,
Sept. 18. Only clues to her identity
are her registry as from your town,
and a suitcase.
Dorothy Evans is the name she
gave, married of course.
On one side and end of the suit case
is written the name F. F. Callahan,
or Callian, in pencil and over the name
on the end is written the monogram.
It. B. E. Evans is spelt out after the
last initial in pencil.
Please look up whether or not there
is a Dorothy Evans of a Callahan, or
someone with a similar name in your
city. Advise by mail, the City Editor
of the Akron-Beacon-.Tournal, Akron,
Ohio.
Ask your local paper to aid in the
search.
Thanking you in advance.
Very trulv yours,
C. B. Axford.
The following story is from the Akron-Beacon-Journal.
Akron, Ohio:
"Under a blue and white checked
blanket, very small in the big double
bed, lay a baby Wednesday morning
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uic iwuuiii nuit'i, sucKing contentedly
at an empty feeding bottle.
"There are times when baby cries
with its wee voice, and then the bottle
is replenished from a mixture in
another bottle left with the baby.
"Mrs. Dorothy Evans, who registered
from Lockhart, S. C., in a girlish
hand, brought the baby and engaged
a room in the hotel Tuesday afternoon.
"C. H. Hinish, manager of the hotel,
describes her as a stockily built,
light complexioned American ?-frl of
about 17, passably pretty, dressed in
ordinary clothes. Possibly she was
an Akronite. Her accent, he affirms,
was assuredly not Southern.
"With her came a tall, slim man,
to whom Hinish paid little attention,
and the two engaged a room, while
an older woman stayed outside the
door, almost unnoticed. Leaving the
girl with the baby, the men and older
woman walked away immeditely.
"Dorothy Evans took her baby and
suit case to the room and left it only
a few minutes at supper time. When
she returned, she asked to be called
at 9:45 p. m. She had an appointnmnt
on/-J * *
... ...... .iti rtimu wiiicn was i?roKen.
"At 0:15 she paid the room hire
and went out into the night. She
has not been heard from since. When
she did not return two hours later,
the police were called.
"John C. Weber, city humane acorn,
was called Wednesday morning, and
made temporary provision for the
child's welfare. Police advanced the
theory that ^he girl who signed herself
Dorothy Evans, might have been
hired to abandon the baby, but Weber
doubted this when he was told how
lovingly the child was fondled by the
crirl 11 - . ? 1: " *1
?.?? iiuany purling Willi 11."
FAIRFOREST CHARTER, 1). A. R.
The Fairforest chapter, D. A. R.,
will hold its regular monthly meeting
on Tuesday afternoon, October 2nd, at
the home of Mrs. John A. Fant on E.
Main street and the assistant hostesses
are Mrs. Norman Jones and
Mrs. Davis Jeffries.
NOTICE, MASONS!
A regular communication of Union
Lodge, No. 75, A. F. M., will be held
on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The
M. M. degree will be conferred. Grand
Master Itobt. A. Cooper will preside
at this meeting. All neighboring
lodges are cordially invited to attend.
Refreshments will he served.
I;. C. Wharton,
Ben L. Berry, W. M.
Secretary.
CHAMPION COTTON RAISER.
A. Cato, the colored champion cotton
raiser, brought to this office a
stalk of cotton that had 10 bolls unopened,
one wide open boll, one bloom,
and two forms, all on one stalk and
covering a space of less than 12
inches. If you do not believe this,
look in our show window. Cato says
he has been working in the cotton
field all his life and never saw this
sight before and he showed it to numbers
of people and they all expressed
the same surprise.
Mr. Wallace Austell of Trough was
visiting relatives in the city for several
days this week.