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, " ' V I ?TI Merchants & PI; "The Old j The Oldest and Larges i | Is Your Money Suppo ; At this critical period in crs are offering their mills ai I their services to the United I J Would you like to do yoi | your money where it will sup ; Banking System, which the C stand back of our commerce ! You can do this by openin of every dollar so deposited > J tern where it will always be 'i LOOK FOR THE BANK \ And deposit your money wl > F. M. FARR, ; President. > I B * " | mr. f A | Why not reduce your Fertli J prove to you that it can b< ? soil at the same time. A r / would be glad to demonstra ; l. m. j c $ UNION, *>vv*vvvv>^%%vvv*vvvx3CKXVx: One Pair oj ...Life! 1 Are you abusing and r you will pay the price lat( of all headaches arise froi ' aching, burning eyes that and many other ills are < strain. In such cases the that is an unfailing one? SCHOOL CHILDREN | carefully examined before 1 if necessary, fitted with gl An examination will cosi l'c nr\ Hood fn i? T II iiv/ X V-/1 ^ lUOOUO A vv for glasses are very reaso every pair with an absolu tion. F. C. DUKE, 13 Main Street The Pi For Electric Lights, Wat Farmer has at last been s< We have the Agency fc trie Lighting and Pumpin You can burn Electric Irons, Sewing Machines, with the same outfit Pump Bath Room. When in the City drop i outfit in actual operation. Union Plumbini Main Street There are some mighty mean men in this country, but the medal should be awarded to the fellow who tried to smutftrle arms and ammunition to Villa. pVfffVflVVVVfVVVfmVVVIVIflfM UNDER ] \COVERNMENT ^SUPERVISION MEMBER. BANK UNDER J ' FEDERAL RESERVE ACT . anters Nat'l Bank ! ' I Reliable" i : t Bank in Union County j i ] a >rting the Government our history our manufactur- J id our young men are offering j , States Government. ] ir share and help by putting J (port the new Federal Reserve jovernment has established to ? 1 > industry and agriculture? ! ( g an account with us, as part ] j joes directly into the new sys- J ready for you when wanted. I IVITH THE CHIME CLOCK i here ii will be absolutely sale ! < I J. I). ARTHUR, ? | Cashier. < ? 1 ; i ! i I i i < iRMER | ; zer bill ?5.011 a Inn? I ran i i done and improve your * cmarkable discovery that I ; te to you. Let me tell yon ol it ] iRDAM I I S. C. 3--tf '& i f Eyes to a ' time... 1 leglecting yours? If, so, 1 }r. More than two-thirds 1 ti eye-strain. Dim vision, soon tire, granulated lids ! lue to some form of eye i re is but one remedy and i properly fitted glasses, should have their eyes j being taxed by study and i asses. 1 t you nothing, and if there i ill tell you so. My prices nable and I stand back of ite guarantee of satisfac- , i .. .< 1 i U }J IU111U i I Union, South Carolina 1 i i oblem er and Plumbing for the < Dived. | >r the Famous Delco Elec- i g Outfit. 1 Lights, run Fans, Electric J Churns, Wood Saws, and > Water for your stock and I * rt I 5 in and let us show you the 1 ( i \ I & Electric Co. j Phone 205-J 1 \ 8 Dear little j^irl with the nimble feet c and soft hands. You can fitfht for your s country. Arm yourself with needles, t rollinpr pins and frying pans, and you i are indeed more terrible to an enemy e than an army with banners. I p30 H W H ' HUH W8C3 TRIP TO THE PANAMAA Graphic Description s Scenery West of the Gr The Great Plains of Texas, the De* Arizona, the Evcr-Bloomlng Flowei | Lakes of Utah, the Gorgeous Moui urn?inn, in Bv Mrs. Chas (Written for ' On Tuesday, the 27th day of July, f L915, our party of five left Lexington, I Mississippi, to take in the World's i Exposition at San Francisco, Cal., and < jther points of interest West of the < Mississippi river. s We reached New Orleans at 8:15 < a'clock Tuesday night. After petting I lunch we took in^the business section : Df the city, also went upon the roof 1 garden of the Greenwald Hotel in or- s dcr to pet a view of the city. From < there we could see the great old Mis- 1 sisissippi as she ran out into the Gulf, : and the little sail boats standing still i as if resting from a hard day's work, i At 11:30 we left for T.os Angeles. 1 Our train with all its passengers were ' taken across the river on a boat. : There could never be a prettier sight than what we saw as we were cross- < ing the river. The full moon was shin- ( ing down in all its glory upon the Mis- ( sissippi. ( We arrived in San Antonio, Texas, I at 8 o'clock Wednesday night. Hav- 1 ing forty-five minutes to wait there < we went to see the famous "Alamo." ! There was only a portion of the thick i old walls left. One could not help from i shuddering to think how those people i must have fought for merely exist- i ance itself. t Just before reaching El Paso we i passed through a little town called 1 Fort Hancock. The soldiers were en- ! camped there in little huts covered i with brush and sage. There was a t long fence which ran perpendicular to i the railroad and the soldiers were en- < camped on the other side. After leav- 1 ing El Paso we crossed the Rio f Grande river at an early hour in the morning. The scenerv was lovelv. < rhe river bed was wide and sandy, surrounded by large rocks and hills on each side, but the stream was very small, due to the lack of rain in Neij Mexico. f When we reached Arizona there wrtg l decided change in the tepiperature.. The winds were blowing- the hot sandff^ until there was no comfort in sitting by an open window. For miles there ;ould he seen nothing hut sand, low shrubbery and cactus. The cactus are 5f different sizes and variety; some uro tall, some small with long stems; ithers round and flat. The houses ire mostly low and small, built in the shape of a box with double roofs, so is to knock off the rays of the sun as much as possible. The Ranchers' bouses are beautiful. Most of them lave their own water works?the wa? pumped up by wind mills. There was "luite a number of Indians at most of :he small stations selling heads, crockery, rugs and other quaint articles uade by hand. We tried to take their pictures, but all in vain; they would turn their hacks at the sight of a ?amera. At India, California, we saw some late palm trees. The dates were banging off in hunches and were about the size and color of olives. In this part of the country could he seen much sand hut the winds were cooler. There lould he seen many small cedar trees scattered about in hunches, and large white stones. We rode about .10 miles along the iank of a little sea called Salton Sea, which is 2.1 miles long and 10 miles wide. As we neared Coachilla, Cal., we segan to see pretty trees, grasses, ;tc., which was quite a contrast to the uarren desert lands. At Coachilla T saw my first pepper tree. There were Tumorous red halls which, when dried, :urn black and are ground up into ilack peper. From Coachilla to Los Angeles we uassed many beautiful orchards, >range groves and palms. It was 9:10 o'clock Friday night vhen we got to Los Angeles, so we vent direct to our rooms at the Rosayn Hotel. After getting breakfast Saturday morning we went out to ( r>?i mi. uuimcii muiuciih. i nesfi par- 1 lens were given to the public by the ' ate Anhcuser Bush, who is the in- N mentor of the famous Anheuscr Bush 1 H>er. His son, Alolphus Bush still re- ' iides there. Upon entrance into these 1 rnrdens one has to walk down steps vhich wind in and out among the I 'ems and springs . There can be seen '< ish, ducks, cranes and pigeons where- ^ iver there is a nice cool stream. In 1 valking around these winding paths \ imong the trees, shrubbery and flow- a ;rs, one never knew what Fairyland F icenc they would next encounter. For- a laps thero would be "Little Red Rid- o ng Hood" almost at her grandmoth- < ir's house and standing by her could s ?e seen the old wolf whom she thought c PACIFIC EXPOSITION] of the World-Famed \ eat Mississippi River 1! sert Lands of New Mexico and rs of California, the Great Salt I ntalns and Canons of Colorado g . B. Counts iw v\r*?mm?>1 The Times) :o kind; or else the "old woman Who r :- ? C?1 99 n T 1. J A?. n jiveu in u ouue, t/iicK ana tne i>can >talk" and others. In these gardens ould be seen all kinds of flowers, actus, and trees. The terraces were io pretty and green and at a distance jne would think some were benches, For there was placed at each end either 1 concrete or iron arm. Some flowers ivere arranged in beds in the form of stars, wheels and other designs. The tool house was built on the plan of a ivater mill. The idea was gotten from i water mill that Mrs. Rush saw while n Europe. The trees that especially ntcrested me in Los Angeles were the flowing Eucalyptus trees. The leaves ire long, narrow and flat, curving like 1 banana. We hired an automobile at Pasalona and took in the residence section if all the millionaires on Oak Knoll. Talifornia street, and others. The irange groves in this section were loautiful and loaded down with fruit. We rode over one of the largest vialucts which is 1,400 feet long, 150 feet ligh and cost $200,000. We saw a lumber of houses owned by some very prominent men. Among them was ^kiffman's home, inventor of Skiffnan's Asthma Cure; Wrigley's home, lie man who makes Wrigley's Spearnent chewing gum; Montgomery A'ard's home, Harkness* home, the Standard Oil man; Willy's home, pres j* jl /-v ? ? ueiii, ui tut; laciory 01 uveriana Au:o Company; Widow Garfield's small cd shingle bungalow. She is the wife >f the late ex-President Garfield; also Robert Burdett's home, one of our rreat authors. Los Angeles and its surrounding ountry is what I would call the "Garien spot of the West." It is the vonder and admiration of every visito. There are to be found roses, geraliums and other flowers the whole ear round. There are great gardens if citrus trees and the palms are lovey. It was a common sight to see >alm trees in the fr<*nt yards with geraniums of nasturtiuns growing out from between the cones, and great >ig carnations could be had at most iny fruit stand for five cents a dozen, some times two dozen for five cents. Los Angeles claims a population of >16,317. There are twenty-two public >arks within the city limits, and the lotels, schools, churches, hospitals, and ibraries are many. On August 1st, we left the hotel at 11 o'clock and went out to San Ga>ariel. While there we went through ;he Mission Curio Shop, also San Gajariels Mission. In the latter place of nterest we saw many old paintings which came from Spain and other foreign countries. We saw a small round nirror which was 163 years old. There was a Baptistry in this Mission where 16.000 people had been baptized. There were four bells in the tower that worn rvf rr?'Ao f ..wv ?/i fsivai* nii-cicai 10 us on iccount of their extreme old ape. One wme from Spain in 1795. The largest )f the four was made in the United States in 1730. There was an old library hook there that came from Spain 333 years ago, also one that was 120 years old (three years before Coumbus discovered America.) We alio saw the oripinal doors that were aken from a Mission in 1771. . There vere numerous statues and pictures of The Apostles, the Virpin Mary, and Christ, and the Spanish vestments .vere quaint and valued very hiphly >y these monks of the Mission. There was a grape vine near this Mission which was planted by them, .hat is 14'0 years old. This vine is remendously larpe?coverinp two >uildings?one where prape juices are icrved, made from these prapes, and .he other is called the home of Ranona. Ramona was a beautiful Inlian pirl who became noted because of i poem that was written of her life. There was a rope hanging in front >f her home?and anyone wishing to niter had to pull the rope and a ell would ring. In order to see the ine an entrance fee bad to be paid. There were tables and chairs under he vine and prape juices were served her also. While in San Gabriel we saw the Mission Play, which was giving its '27 performance. On their 700 anni'crsary they had a great celebration, rhis play was written by John Steen McCIroarty, the Californian poet ind historian, and has never been ilayed outside of California. It is pageant drama, and tells the story f the bringing and founding of hristian civilization to the Western hores of America. It is the chronile of that marvelous Franciscan en terprise which began in the year 17G9, and ended a little more than a half 01 century later, succeeded in converting C1 an entire rac6 from heathenism to S Christianity. The Mission Play is to tt America what the Passion Play is to bi | Europe. It is the greatest pageant T ' drama of this or any other country, si The actors of the Mission Play live in m San Gabriel in quaint little bunga- tl lows and old adobe houses surrounded ai by ever-blooming flowers and orange si ! and lemon trees. This they do from pi choice and also because of the fact bi that they must be in daily attendance ej upon the play. Most of these actors fc are native Californians, descended in either from old Spanish families which w went to California with the first pion- ul eers, or from the Indians who were converted to Christianity by the Fran- cc cisian Fathers. There are more than thirty Indians in the play. w [ On the second day of Auprust, about w 10 o'clock we left the hotel and went 7* siprht-seeinpr aprain by way of automo- Ir bile. We passed Suprar Beach over s* San Gabriel river to El Monte, Puente, Spadre and Walnut. There were num- tc erous walnut prroves in Walnut and ol Spadre and mock oranpre vines were scattered every where. We could see ( San Antoria mountain, called "Old 1 Baldy", which is 10,080 feet hiprh. We went throuprh Pamona where we saw plenty of camphor trees, olive and oranpre prroves. Under each oranpre tree could be seen Smudpre pots which ?s are used to keep the frost from kill- *'< inpr the trees. In between these oranpre trees could be seen the spineless cactus, which is a splendid ani- ^ mal food?its food value beinpr about . one-half that of alfalfa. It can pro- ^ duce from 25 to 50 tons of forape per acre. In passinpr throuprh Ontario we saw j. a mountain fire caused by some campinpr party. There is a fine of $150 for any one eauprht leavinpr fire in the a mountains as it hurts the water supPiy. I( There were many Apricot prroves XJ and prrape vineyards to be seen be- s< tween Ontario and Riverside. Just be- sj fore reaching Riverside we went up on ir M.t Rubidox, which is 1,500 feet hiprh. ir On top of this mountain is a cross fi which can be seen for miles around, ti and early every Easter morning ser- d< vices are held there. After getting: S1 lunch at the Reubidoux Grill we went ei up in the Glennwood Mission Inn. This d] Inn is unique, carried out in the s Spanish style. The waitresses were cl dressed in Spanish costumes, having tj on yellow jackets and dark skirts, h During the meals there is singing and a playing. The performers also, having T on the Spanish costumes and stand- ti ing in a balcony on one side of the a building. On the roof garden there ir were numerous bells, one being the fi oldest known in Christiandom, be- b ing made in Spain in 1247. a' After leaving Riverside we drove ^ down Magnolia Avenue, which is seven miles long. There was not a curve in the road, and the street was paved all the way. On one side there was more pepper trees, and on the other side ^ were palms, all in a row, each being ^ about the same distance apart. We ^ passed the Arlington Egg Ranch, Riverside Portland Cement Co., which was Cl built on the side of a mountain, and a great many alfalfa fields. We went ^ through Rloomington, and Rialto, both j i place-s noted for their grape fruit I groves, and at Glendom wo wam "VIV VWIU w that we might help ourselves to some oranges?this being quite a treat to us as we had never, been in an orange i grove before. (j The next day we went to Venice, a little town on the coast, 14 miles from p Los Angeles, called the "Coney Is- ^ land of the West." This town is pat- ^ terned after Venice of the old world p with canals and architectural fea- ^ tures. We went in bathing while there, both in the ocean and the swimming pool. After taking in the curio p shops we went to a Cafeteria where C) we had lots of fun waiting on our- q selves. From Venice we walked about a mile up the beach to Ocean Park, a There we saw a great crowd cl gathering together and upon inquiry ei we found that a movie nrtor ten seriously injured while divinpr in the ocean to rescue some one. This accident broke up the scene?and other 81 actors and actresses were seen to pet a in a car and leave. ^ While here we went to an auction * sale at a Japanese curio shop, then left for Los Anpeles, poinp throuph Santa Monica. About 7:30 we left the Rosalyn Ho - I if tel and went to the Shriners auditorium. There were many famous people on the stape, preat sinpers, dancers, movie actors, etc. Amonp the number was Schumann - Heink, Blanche Rinp, Chas. Winninper, Huph Allen, Georpe McManus (the creator p of the comic pictures, "Brinpinp up Father" and "The Newly Weds") also Roziski Dolly, Eddie Foy and the "Seven Little Foys," Florencio Con stantino, Raymond Hitchcock, Nat Goodwin, Miss Flora Zobelle, Miss Maude Allen (n preat dancer), Miss Marcelli Craft. Besides these \Mere the famous movie stars: Charlie Chaplin, Fred Mace, Charlie Murrey, Roscoe Arbuckle and Bob Albripht. 1 On the morning of the 4th we went Jt to Cowston Ostrich Farm, which aims to be the largest in the United tates. There were one or two os ichs that were trained to pull a jggy and one was a good saddler. 0 look at them it would seem imposble that beautiful plumes could be ade of their feathers. The eggs of le ostrich are almost as large as 1 ordinary persons head, and the lells are so thick it is almost imassible to break them. The male ird is known to sit for hours on the rgs while the female is out getting >od and exercise. It was interestig to watch the ostriches while they ere being fed. They were particlarly fond of oranges and would vallow them whole as fast as they >uld be given them. After leaving the Ostrich Farm we ent out to the Alipator Farm, which as equally as interesting to us. here also were trained alipators. An icline had been built with small ops leading up to the platform on >p. These a!?gators would climb up > the top and dive off into a pool f water. The main food of these anilals is raw meat. They are preat iisturbers of peace" and sometimes jrinp their quarrels some were known > loose a lep, while others had their iwer jaw entirely bitten off. The ounp ones bad to be separated from le old ones or else th%y would be iten up. There was a curio shop ad>ininp the farm where there were umerous and valuable purses, baps, jps, etc., that were made of the alliator hides. It was interestinp as well s instructive to hear what procesjs these sides had to underpo before einp properly cured. After pettinp our dinner we took trip to Universal City, a lovely ttle city where every person is enaped in some capacity in makinp Universal Pictures. The homes, lawns, nd streets are so beautifully kept, nd the flowers and trees are lovely. ; was interestinp to po throuph the Universal Film Company's plant and ie how the picture were made. The tape is 500 feet lonp and divided off ?to rooms by slidinp doc\s. Perhaps i one room would be seen a scene rom India, in another a court room ial, while in another would be a eath-bed scene. Not far from the tape was a row of dressing rooms, ach one having its own water works, ressing table, etc. We also saw a treet scene* beSng taken, where a aauffeur was held up and his car iken from him. This picture was eing directed by the famous director nd player, Robert Henley Ford, here was a long bench under some , ees where actors were sitting, each \ waiting his or her "turn." It was iteresting to search for familiar ices. 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