Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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UNION RECALLS I LANDING OF FIRST I BALLOON IN 1861 Union, S. C., June 29.?Capt. Artimr's flight over Union in a big De Haviland plane this week, and the thrills it gave the crowds, recall the story of the first time an airship ever passed over Union County. It was April 20, 1861, when Prof. . Thaddeus C. Lowe landed in the afternoon at Pea Ridge, after having - O'J" o momnrahlp -flitrht. from din cinnati, Ohio, in a balloon via Vir_ j$nia, thence to the coast of the Carolinas and up into the Piedmont section, a distance of over eight kindred miles in less than nine hours, which was the world record for long distance and speed in air flight up until very recently. When Prof. Lowe and his great , balloon first appeared over the Pea Bidge section and attempted to K&ke a landing, it caused wild exNOT When you hav (WRITE, PHO The SOUTH I REALTY Home Office'GRE] I i The Land A & 1 i*. / & 1 t I f WW IWith your N You Will Se SPRINGFII and Some oi GOOD COP KELLY I Can be had Prices But t These Tir I progressive equipment a Which facts Tire of unex dinary Tire. We Have a 1 LMI I. I llctll 11 Tw * citement and consternation. One , i old man declared it was a bomb I from Port Sumter, while one old I yeoman, when Prof. Lowe landed, jtook up a fence rail and wanted to' kill him, thinking he was a Yankee | spy, and was only prevented when the late Squire McKissick, noticing1 the Masonic distress signal given by' Prof. Lowe, prevented the peoplefrom harming him. Later in the day Prof. Lowe and his balloon were brought to Union, and Sunday,1 which he spent in Union, Prof.' ? : J-?OWe, wnu Wits a very makinguisucu aeronaut, was entertained in the' home which is now occupied by Mr. | and Mrs. W. E. Thompson. | Forty-four years after this thrilling landing in Union County, Prof. Lowe furnished a detailed story of that air trip, which was published in' Progress, and aroused widespread interest, both because of its unusual features and its really historic importance, Prof. Lowe having ICE e land to sell < NE or WIRE I' !< i , 1 ATLANTIC ! CO., INC ' . I 1 I ( i ENWOOD, S. C. 1 I uction People '* \ ' i on the . f EW KELLY SPRINGFII I ie Lots of Last Year lLD Tires on Machines F Year Before Last?AL1 EDITION AND DAILY \ SPRINGFIELD in Cord or Fabric at U1 Giving Everlasting Se es are made by skilled, workers with the mo ,nd time and labor-saving all go to guarantee you celled mileage at the pric Complete Stock of Kelly Tires For You. iveMiut t been located in Los Angeles, California, after months of effort by Progress Editor, who could not find any definite information as to the aeronaut's name on which to base his investigation. As a result of the correspondence* Prof. Lowe furnished Progress with much interesting information as to his proposed great passenger airship which would surpass the German Zeppelins, as air carriers of passengers and freight, and he gave Progress Editor the distinction of first giving to the world the announrement of his complete plans. GUN FIRES 11,000 | SHOTS IN A MINUTE Washington, June 25.?A new model of machine gun, /operating by centrifugal force and using no explosive, is being secretly tested by army officials and other government experts at the Bureau of Standards. The weapon is said to have a capacity of 11,000 shots a minute against the 500 or 600 of the present types of explosive gun, but its muzzle velocity is only 1,210 feet a second, at 11,000 revolutions a minute, as compared with 2,700 feet of the Browning gun. The great advantage of the coenIrifugal gun, army experts say, vill be in its noiseless operation, which should make it difficult of lo:ation by an enemy. The gun consists of rotating bar el, approximately one half inch in iiameter, attached to motor-driven shafts, the speed of which are under nstant control. By ' varying the speed of the driving shaft, the operitor controls the range and is able I :o determine the fire of the weapon, jy adjusting the feed to increase or iiminish the number of projectiles nserted in the chamber in a given jeriod. WHY NOT JUST BOARD AND KEEP? The United States Civil Service Commission is announcing that on August 2 there will be a competive examination . for "educational director, $1500 to $2400 a year. HR H Road I Si :ld TIRES ij '8 KELLY Hi You Meet ! .STILL IN | JSE. |i TIRES I; Reasonable 9 j irvice p [ | well-paid.. - |jj st ' modern |g appliances. . a splendid :e of an orSpringfield -jt _ it Co. | Hie NO MATTER HO) READY BE ITS BI A Handso t OAK OR MAH We Have Some Bea Were Bought Six M Considerably Unde: Porch R Ve r. ' . Make the Loveliest : We have an Excellei Colors and Green 1 Comprehend in The I THESE ROCKERS W. A - - - Teacher?, $1400 to $2400 a year." The perequisities for consideration as a "director," we are sagelj told, are (1) graduation from a col }ege or university of recognizee standing, or a normal coarse of nol less than two years, and, in addi tion, at least two years' experience as principal or superintendent oi schools, or one year's experience ir in a responsible position in reconstruction educational service. Not long ago the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago brutally announced that some clerks should not be married without the approval of the bank, because their wages were not sufficient to support a wife. Perhaps the Government ought to issue i general order that all teachers not jnly remain unmarried, but also yilimilillllllllllllll mun . mi I lilt 1 I jj Operating Two Mea jj suits of which we pe Itomers. Supplying the tra< Market on Trinity S ity you receive will I conditions surroundi We buy Meats in therefore we get the | CLEANLINESS PI | BOSDE 1 STAR MEAT MAR Trinity St. Phoi Home Beau N BEAUTIFUL YOUR I iAUTY WILL BE INCRE me Period or Col TABLE i . [OGANY WITH GRACE] tutiful Library Tables Jus [onths Ago. We Offer tin r the Present Market. ockers Behin mutilating Sha< Combination To Combat it Assortment of Porch' K finish. The Low Prices o se Days of High Prices. ARE GOING FAST. BE YOURS TODAY. \ . Calvert & / HOME FURNISHERS . . * ' ' . T ' | wear nothing but overalls, in order to keep within their salaries. They j should be given permission, how; - ever, to eat occasionally. 1 When a man who has spent four t years in college anl has acquired be sides the executive experience of a ; principal or superintendent, the ofl fer to him of a beginning salary of i 51500 is an insult. No competent -! man could accept such a salary, and ! no competent man would have to. 2 : j He coull, with greater comfort to i j himself, engage in ditch-digging. . < il Poorly paid teachers are the : 11 most costly investment on earth, i ; j for they mean poorly taught < schools, and poorly taught schools :s mean a nation of mediocrities. Nop great profession can thrive in beg- i gary, and beggars cannot thrive in ( iVIN-MARKE it Markets gives us a greal iss on in SERVICE and Q1 le from either our Main 5 t. we can assure you that t >e the best possible to give ing our markets. large quantities to furnisl FINEST CHOICE MEAT <EVAILS WHERE WE LL & SIM H. BOSDELL, Manag< KET, HILL'! ne 302 Mail MIIMIIIillWl?llll? . ? . \ +- \ Vi-tf < itifiil . ! :-cM I i-M - ? *'*^5? iOME MAY ALIASED BY I * ' l ' . : ,V I -it I 1 I *L , lomal ubrary s . - . wi . ' -M FUL LINES. | t Opened Up Which s#4 to You at Price* ' I d Aerolux I 1 des Vi M This Hot Weather. | ?| ockers in Natural n These are Hard to \ \ '>% ' *$m TTER SEE ABOUT i iip ' ' "(. V ' s :'M SftnR MV1IU ' - ' ' ^ , ?>$ >r . . y; - . i | a great profession.?ManufactujnHp ] .' i/j Record. TWO THOUSAND PRISONER^ OF BOLSHEVIKI DROWNS} ' Lonlon, June. 28.?Two thousand British, Austrian, German and Finnish prisoners of. war were drowned when a bolshevik steamer was sunk ' / fiSI recently in the Neva river, accord;-. ' !:ng to a Helsingfors dispatch to the'- >-;' Ceneral News. A Reuter's report \ from Stockholm would seem to con- . firm this dispatch, saying that a ? !: lispatch,M, cmfwyp cmfwyp shrdljr >hip was sunk on the sixth of June ' with two thousand repatriated prisoners on board. It, howev.ef, ioes not mention any loss of life. BMaMMBHHBiBI T MFN I 1 I , ^ "yli fc advantage the reLJALITY to our Cusv -'<'1 Street or The Star ;he service and qualunder the favorable \ hi both Markets and ^ S at nrdinarv nricejt DO BUSINESS. I IPSON I 5 OLD MARKET, ^ n St. Phone 102 \ ' - 1 isfcd