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? A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS. C Vs 4 * I will tell yoa all of my trip to the n mountains. Those of the party were u Charlie Alexander and daughters r w Misses Ammie and Bessie and Jette ?< (all of Monarch) Miss Pearle Roches- c< ter and this writer. We left Union Saturday morning si at six o'clock, as we made the trip C through the country in Mr. Alex- o ander's seven passenger Oldsmobile w we went by the way of the Saluda v mountains, the scenery is beautiful, w We stopped in various places and ar- u rived in Asheville at twelve o'clock, li We then went to the ftew York cafe t] and got dinner, we walked around " sight seeing, but we were all the time is dodging cars and street cars. Ashe- T ville iB a beautiful town; the streets tl are crowded. There are some pretty t< buildings there, some of which we a got views. V * ]^e left Asheville for Mrs. J. C. e Alexander's county home which is g \ about thirteen miles from Asheville d we arrived there a tired bunch, we n rested got an early supper and went si back to Asheville that night to the li Mejestic show where they have the v real acting. I thought it was extra fine but some sajd it was nothing like c as good as it was at some times. s Sunday morning dawned clear and d bright in the beautiful mountains, a That mornim; Miss Bonnie Alexander e and myself went to Sunday school at t the Methodist church and met many fi friendly people, while some of the c others went to visit relatives, and the others remained at home. After ( dinner a crowd of us young people a motored to Sulphur Springs. I do not h like the taste of sulphur water. From ti Sulphur Springs we went to Sun Set P mountain the prettiest place of all. c< The view of Asheville from Sun Set Mountain is beautiful although Ashe- c ville looks small from there.. v Grove Park is a beautiful place; it C is one of the notable monumental fi structures of that country. It was built not for the present alone but t; for ages yet to come, and it probably will be an object of wonder and of admiration of generations yet to j come. Its location is on the side of Sun Set mountain, two miles and a half xrom tne center oi Asneviue. c Biltmore's house, America's beauty spot, home of the late George W. 0 Vanderbilt, four miles from Asheville; U is a beautiful place although we did s not go very r.ear but the view from a j, distant is beautiful, from Sunset 0 mountain we visited various other points too numerous to mention. a Monday morning we arose early, * ' so we could have longer to stay at d " *>- - ? ' i - - - ' " / , mmmm?m ?? [a e n A \ HAS < BEd OF Cj NISH CON( \ UNLJ MEN A. W. ] w. f. : J. J. Gi s. r. g \ II JUD' L ? 1 JOHN I* ' * : * V LEWI J' . c 1 / fc. Unic ' ^ ? i i ? > ' ' r' * *? / . N v . ; . K y t ' ' ' s . ? ., xf ' v. ?> i ,' ' . ' * v." ;V . C ra&s&siS v / himney Rock we sure did have fome oads to travel and some steep lountains to climb but our car did go p them without a bit of trouble. The oads to Chimney Rock are crooked eems as if we would meet ourselves oming back. After walking around a while we barted up the stair way to the top of Ihimney Rock my, what a long flight f stairs! we were a tired bunch when re reached the top. The views of the alley were lovely, you will stand berildered when once you look upon the ncomparabe < beauties of the wonderind of Chimney Rock, in the heart of he Blue Ridge mountains and in the lapd of the ek^\ Each year thehe ? something new at Chimney Rock, 'here is a fine cafe being built there, he lumber is sent up from the ground a the top of the rock on some kind of sled, which I cannot fully describe, /e girls wero so tired when we reachd the top of Chimney Rock we did not t> up any higher, but the gentlemen id, we then went in a cave we did ot go so very far as we had only a mall search light pnd the electric ght globes had not been put in. It ras cold down under the ground. We left Chimney Rock at ten thirty ame back by the way of Saluda mts. topped at Tryon, N. C., and got our inner, and went down to a spring nd had a regular picnic, which we all njoyed. Th; roads all the way from Inion to Leicester N. C., are just ne, we traveled over a many mile of oncrete road. I certainly did enjoy my stay at Irs. J. C. Alexander's I dont know s I ever was in a more hospitable ome every one was so friendly and ried to give us a good time. All the eople I met while there were exeedingly kind and friendly. We made thfe trip both going and oming without a bit of car trouble, fhich is due to Mr. Alexander's new fidsmobilc. 1 will never forget my rst trip to the mountains. This was rr.y first trip to the mounains but hope it will not be the last, Pansy. 'RINCE INDICTED FOR ISSUING BAD CHECK isew xorK, May zi.?rrince Mi-| hel Murat was indicted on a charge: >f grand larceny today by a state rrand jury. A bench warrant was isued. The prince is now in Paris. He s alleged to have given a fur dealer' i check for $1,500 in payment for a table neckpiece when there were no 'unds in bank on*which the check was Iraw. The offense is extraditable. tRIVl jnerica Soi ORDERED ANOTHER DR i NNING AT ONCE A fVNVAjSSERS ASKED TO A ED BLANKS AND INSTR1 ^ERN TO THE FARMERS ESS THERE IS A CONTII T. YOU OWE IT TO YOl PITTMAN, Carlisle. fr'ARR, Adamsburg. VRNER, K el ton. IARNER, Kelton, Route 2. .ITTLE, Kelton, Route 2. HE N. GALLMAN, Union, Route 4. S M. RIC >n County Bn i / SM / % , V.:.' \ \ THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BATTLE SHIP Quincy, Mass., May 28.?The keel of the world's biggest warship will be laid down here within six months. The battle-cruiser Lexington, combining in a degree unequalled any ship of war now built or building the qualities of powerful armament and high speed, has taken from in drawings and awaits the arrival of materials to be advanced from the hands of the architect to those of the builder. By fall, it is estimated, the prospective queen of the United States navy will become a ship under construction instead of an ambitious plan. The Lexington is the name-ship of a class of b.\ttle-cruisers which will give Uncle Sam within four years a fleet of six big-gun fighting ships unmatched by anything then afloat. He* sister-ships, the Constellation, Saratoga, Ranger, Constitution and United States, are also under contract. They bring names cut of the old navy with whic to develop for the first new capital vessels of the post-war fleet a traditional background for fresh exploits. With the others of its class, the Iiexington will be a whale of a ship. It will displace 43,200 tons and wil have the power of 180,000 horses, as measured in mechanical terms. Its length of 874 feet is within *6 f$et of the length of the Leviathan, moisten passenger liner. . The 101.4. feet of width of the Lexington will mike that floating gun platform broader than any pa3senger ship. The Lexington, which is to te equipped with electric drive, will it tain a. speed of 35 knot^ This cruiwr speed, higher than that of many <festrcyers, is the object of much of tie designing that entered into the creation of the Lexington class. Armor will be sacrificed to make possble the 35 knot speed?the main belt oeinor only five inches thick at its macimum as compared with the 12 iich steel belt on most battleships, jut armament will be of tremendous power. The Lexington thus will hive not only the strategic advantage of high speed but will be able to fir. a heavier charge over a greater <istance than any other battleship .'or which the plans are known. The Lexington in action will speak with a voico of 16-inch guns, of wlich she will have eight. The levies of Great Britian, France and if*ly :ontair. no gun greater than /5 inches and that of Japan includ i 16-inch guns only on battleships < 24 knot [ speed which are now under :oniLructI ion. Unlike the dreadnoi :ht class, i FOl r =TJ in Cott uthCarol IVE FORpMBERS IN UNI CAMP^N FOR MEMJ lCT IN TiR RESPECTIVE [JCTIONJPLEASE DO NOT OF UNIjCOUNTY. THE g >JUATIO>F OUR STRUGGI JRSELK COME IN AND I fS T. BELUE, Union, Rou fLL GAULT, Kelton, Route tNARD FANT, Santuc. D. LANCASTER, Jonesvi] IV. WHITE, Jonesville,. Rou I M QDDATTOCi * ... a oi uvuofj, jonesvine, i i , ,C. I/ITTLE, Jonesville, Rou ?j lEJiec. L incj reliance on big guns execlusively, th Lexington will carry 16 six-inch gun as a secondary amament. 'Taking a page from the naval lea sons of the war, the designers of tb Lexington have equipped the shi] with four anti-air-craft guns, eigh torpedo tubes, four of which are sub merged and / four on deck and witl means of defense against aeria bombs and aerial torpedoes. Defens< against submarine torpedoes will b< obtained through force and aft tor pedo bulkheads, by which the stability of the vessel will be preserved n< matter where she is pierced . Unde any conditions but an explosion, i is claimed, the Lexington class o: warship should prove unsinkable. An indication of the Lexington') greatness is afforded by comparisoi with British warship Hood, whicl when it is floated will be the biggest ship in the British navy and afloat. Speed Lexington 35 knots Hood 31 knots Displacement Lexington 43,200 ton; Hood 41,200 tons Length 874 feet Hood 860 feet Horsepower Lexington 180,000 Hooc 144,000 Big guns Lexington 8 16-inch Hooc 8 15-inch Main armor 5 inch Hood 12 inch UNVEILED IN JUNE London, May 14.?St. Gauden'a monument of Abraham Lincoln, which has been presented by the American peop'a to the British people probably will be unveiled in June, on the site given by the government in the Canning Enclosure, Westminster, facing the Houses of Parliament. The Anglo-American Society, through which the gift has been made and which is responsible for the arrangements of the unveiling, has invited Elihu Root, to make the presentation of the statue during his forthcoming visit to Europe. The statue is a replica of the bronze monument of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln, Park, Chicago and represents President Lincoln in a standing position. CASE OF BAKERS GOES OVER UNTIL SEPTEMBER Greenville. M?v 9ft?Acti?io*? United States District Attorney C. G. Wyche announced here today that the cases against ten bakers of the Peidmont section, charged with violation of the food control act, was continued yesterday from the Anderson term to the Rock Hill term of court next September. ??g? ?? R Ml tie on As; ina Divis UN COUNTY. IN OBEDI 3ERS. BELOW WE COMMUNITIES, AND EA REGARD THIS MATTER ] JPLENDID VICTORY ALR JE. WE HOPE TO ENLIST 1 IELP THE CAUSE. te 4. R. M. WH X- \ ' .J. I) .HAf V . JESSE F. le,.Route 5. H c WI1 loute 1.- JO? ?* SI te 1. J- BOYD I XDWNDI COU] t ? # / . - ' l 0 IRISH BOY GIVEN LEAVE s FROM HOSPITAL TO VISIT OLD COUNTRY p To say thai his hair 'was red, his p eyes were bluer, would describe Wilt liam A. Kelly as he came into the city - Thursday morning: from the hospital [i at Camp Sevier, but the tinge of his 1 hair was redder and the sky-blue of e his eyes was bluer as he fingered the e transportation from Greenville to the - "old country." y Kelly, a native of the Emerald Isle a but an American by adoption and a r veteran of the war with Germany, has t been a patient at Sevier for many f months. He has taken an active interest in the American Legion and 3 other things organized for the boys, i 'With the patients'of the hospital he is l a general favorite his comrades say t and few there are in tho entire institution who do not know William A. L Kelly. During the time that he has been i in the land of Dixie, Kelly thinks that he has made slight progress. During the twenty-three months of service as I an American soldior he contracted a diseaso which has been battling, day I by day, against the reserve strength laid up in younger days. He has been able to hold his own, says he is well pleased with the treatment he receives at the hospital but with all his progress has not been what ho feels it i should be. He was sighing for the i "old country." i Several weeks ago he started a 1 movement to secure a leave of absence i that he might visit the scenes of his boyhood. Thursday morning he was awarded by the news that he was to be given a leave of six months to return to the Emerald Isle. His trans-! portation has been arranged for and with the completion of a few minor arrangements Kelly will be ready to j cross the briny deep. "I believe six months in the old I country will about fix me un." he stat- I cd. "I Tike this climate and am well j pleased with the hospital and every- j thing but there is nothing like thci place where a man was born when his j heart grows sad for the sight of the | familiar surroundings. Yes. I am' coming back in December, but be-1 tween then and now, I am going to let my peepers gaze upon the scenes i of my childhood and talk with the boys on the other side of the Atlantic. ?Greenville Piedmont. The death of patients when the I male ward of the Ohio State hospital for epileptics, at Gallipolis, was burned has led to the arrest of six patients suspected of setting fire to the building. i ? *' EMBE sociatio ion ENCE TO THAT CALL, WE ANNOUNCE THE N^ CH CANVASSER WILL BE LIGHTLY. IT IS OF MOST V EADY ASSURED WILL BE EVERY FARMER IN THE M / tITE, Santuc, R. F. D. 1. JCOCK, Union, Route 5. WHITMIRE, Union, Route 2. -BURN, Union, Route 2. WITH, Union, Route 2. -ANCASTER, Jonesville, Route 2. IS BROW / * nty Chairman \ * ^ . ! v\ V, < ?? GIRL MAKES 'EM GASP .Miss Dare Startles Audience With Stunts Kansas City Titties. In 1903 the Wright brothers star tied the world by making the first successful flight in a heavier than ui> machine over a level stretch of country near Kitty Hawk, N. C. Since then the world has had its daredevil exhibition flyers and "aces'" of the world war, but it has fallen to the lot of petite Miss Ethel Dare, 1H ! years old, of Kalamazoo, Mich., to I give the citizens of Kansas City the ! latest wrinkles in hair raising stunts and thrills with the blue sky as a background. At Swope park recently Miss Dare climbed into an airplane piloted by E. L. Partridge, a veteran of the air, and left the earth for what the few spectators w'no saw the "take off" supposed to be merely an aerial joy 1 ride. But if those who saw the beginning of the flight were at all bored because Partridge failed to "spin" of loop the loop with his machine and passenger, they soon lost their feelings of complacency and matter of factness. For, when the plane had attained an altitude of about 1,000 feet, they saw Mias Dare climb out of the front seat of the lower wing and, using the wires and struts as supports, walk to the end of the wing while the mere men down below held their breath and wondered. Not being satisfied with a stre1' along the lower wing, she climbed to * the top cf the plane and there proceeded to stand upright with her feet braced against the cabane struts and her arms outspread. After a few more masterpieces of aerial "darnfoolishness," she calmly strolled back to her seat in the front cockpit of the fuselage and remained oeitiuu wiiue rarinago landed the plane on the Swope park field. "Foolhardy?" repeated Miss Dare in response to a question. "I don't think so. Others have done it, why not I ? I'll never be satisfied until I've changed planes in midair and I intend to try it out here soon." % "Some day/ a spectator remarked, "someone is going to ask, 'Did she fall or was she pushed?' " The collosal wooden statue of Hindenburg, which was studded with nails at so much per, was sold to a dealer in curios. It has now been tmporarily confiscate by the police to prevent its being used as an emblem in political disorders. RSI | >n J * ARE VMES FURITAL I LOST | OVE* ?? ^NING r wrr VI J>ifu ^?4 ial