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a V / ■ \ UNIONISMS. i .o, 'o' This Department is intended for the use of the members of “ K| l l,u 4 . |npecial p the Farmers’ Union in this county and is open to their use. rights to privilege* to none' the old alliance motto. \va* Let your communications he in Saturday to insure appear- St kes j ^ j. j • «D « — ance the following week., —Tn lieip a brother in disTresi* i« ' true brotherhood. This is what THE COUNTX FAIR At a recent meeting of the county Farmers’ Union it was decided to raise funds for a County Fair to be held some time this fall and each fall there after. A committee of seven members was appointed to solicit subscriptions to the capital stock, which was placed at *15,(XX). Of this amount it was decided to get about 12,600 subscrined of which 50 per cent was to be paid in this year or about $1,300. It was thought that this would give am ple funds with which to pur chase ten acres of land, making \ VALUE OF GOOD ROADS. Throughout this country there are being hauled over miserable roads by four, six cr eight horses , t | | Vice-President or mules wagons of produce Gleason. Tenn. FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORY MATIONAL. President Chas S Karrett, Union City. Ga J K Montgomery, haul • Secretary-Treasurer—R H McCul loch. 116 1-2 W. Broad street, Texar kana. Tex. STATE. President. R. Harris S.C. A. J. A. Perritt Pnndleton. Vice-President, Reid Sec-Tre&s., J. A. Willis ville. which a single team could • + on an improved highway. No nation is rich euouch to be as extravagant as the United States owing to bad roads. A statistician has figured that bad roads cost ua 1250,0x1,000 a Lamar. S. C. year: that is to say, it would cost us $25,OX),OX) a year less to haul crops to market over good roads than it now costs* The waste in a single year a first payment thereon, and would build 50,<XX) miles of high- erect suitable buildings for this way, costing $5,000 a mile, first fair, arranging for premiums A writer in the New York etc* > Evening Post, speaking of other Shares will have par value of advantages of good raods, says: $10, so it is necessary that 260 “Had roads restrict educational shares be subscribed. It should' facilities, limit the rural free be an easy matter to get this' delivery service, and prevent the amount of stock right in the proper development of social life Agent. Walterboro. Union, but it was decided to ac- in the country. Good roide- W. W. Smoak, Jr. cept subscriptions from outside, permit of gradedpschocls in the ganizer. ° as this is to be a County fair country, extend the rural free Executive Committee G. A. Ben- and not a Union fair. A nuni-j delivery service and checks the ton, W. C. Saunders, J. I. Seigler, ber of shares have been subscrib- jexodus of young men and women ed and the committee is actively from the farm to the city, engaged in getting others. The-Already, in localities where terms of payment put these i roads have been improved, we shares within the reach of every 8 ee the movement from the city person desiring to take one; only to the farm.” $5 per share payable this year at i There was never a time when the rate of $1 per month begin- the public generally was so much ^ en ^’ f'-secretary-treas- iog in July . 1 aroused to the importauce of the Those desiring to help get this subject. Fair should not wait for the Every mile built has its good Get ready for the Union rally meetings to be held the second week in Julv. stokes has a members have spirit.- live local; the the true union What are vou doing to improve | conditions i*» your community— in tout home? . Sober, Competent Workmen Full line of all kinds of Sanitary, Toile t. Kitchen and Household Plumbin^Fixtures, Water and Gas pipe always on hand. See the Model Kitchen at Brown’s Hardware Store and the Hath, Toilet and Sanitary Display at my Main Street shop. E. F. HAMMOND, Machinist and Supply House. BOX 235 ’PHONK 77A PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO OUT OF TOWN ORDERS. How many shares have you taken in the County Fair Asso ciation? Remember the change of date the next meeting of the for iCounty Union to Monday, July J. Whitner Columbia, S. C. COUNTY. 1*2. » I L. C. Padgett President, Smoaks. J. O. Jaques, Jr. Vice-President, The most vital question con- Cottageville. fronting The American farmer G. W. Sweat—Sec-Treas., Hen- today, and the one to which he dersonville. seems to pay less heed than anv W.d. Brant Chaplin, Ruffin. other is the question of good Conductor, Cottage- r ort (l 8> Chrokee county spende , „ .. ,. .. ... . eight <»r ten thousand dollars L. H. Roger—Door-Keeper, \Nal- , , terhoro ^ eveay year on her roads—or rather wastes it—without receiv ing an adequate return for the money invested. Instead of SUMMER HATS. SUMMER SUITS. Summer Dress Goods. Groceries, Hay, Grain, lime. etc. Call on us while in town. COLLETON MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING CO. W. . W. Smoak. Jr.—Business : County Or- T. H. Caldwell, C. F. Roger. Meeting 1st Saturday in each month at 10 a. m. at the courthonse. LOCALS. Stokes—W. C. Saunders, Presi dent. E. B. Way. secretary-treasurer. spending that eight or ten thous and in throwing up a dirt road to be washed away by the next heavy rain, why not use it to pay the interest on two hundred thousand dollars and invest that two hundred thousand in per- manent roads. We could build abv>ut sixty miles of good roads Maple ('ane—J. F. Addison, presi- with that amount of money, rer. Sniders—W. C. Brant, president; J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer. .... t n . . ,. , , , , , Williams-Dr. C. E. Kinsey, presi- scolicitors to call upon them for infiueuce, and soon as the people dent: j v o’Quin, secretary-treas- they are all busy men but send of the w hole country understand U rer. them a card telling them how the economic side of the question Islandton—A. E. Rentz, president; many shares you will take. ( there is bound to be a treinen- Make the work of the committee dous impetus given to the work . easy. Act today, whether union C. R. Mears, secretary-treasurer. Dry Branch—T. H. Caldwell, member or not. The members of the committee are; W Smoak, Jr. Walterboro, chairman, Jas E Peurifay, Wal terboro. L C Padgett, Smoaks, W C Saunders, Stokes, Dr W A Kirby, Cottageville, LJ Jones, Lodge, G W Sweat, Henderson ville. *- * USE THIS DEPARTMENT. o — We would like to urge the Union members in this county to let us have articles for this department. If you are interest ed in Unionism m your county, and you should be whether a farmer or not, let us know of your enthusiasm. Tell us what you are doing and how yon are gettingjou. Is the Union doing any good in your section? Is it growing? Are the members alive to their opportunities? Who are your active workeie? etc etc* Let us know what you are doing. It costs this paper something to conduct this de partment, and it wants to feel that it is appreciated. Only a very few papers in the State give any much space to the Far mers Union, and none so much as this paper does. So help it to help your organization. This paper believes in the power and righteousness of the Farmers’ Union, and in the nobility of The great need of the hour is president; J. W. Avant, secretary- education of the public to the treasurer * importance of the subject. Once it understands fully what our neglect is costing, an era ot road building will begin which will eclipse any the world has ever witnessed.—Ft. Smith (Ark.) Record. HOW MUCH? A local of the Farmers’ Union in the southern part of AUbama pays $4.00 a year local dues. They also employ a member at a salary of $1,000 a year to find a market for their products. This member of this particular local Weimer—D. M. Yarn, president; J. E. Yarn, secretary-treasurer. Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore, president; M. H. Carter, secretary- treasurer. Smoaks—L. C. Padgett, president J. W. Kinsey, secretary-treasurer. Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., president; P. M. Johns, secretary-treasurer. Horse Pen—Jos Langdale, presi dent; G. L. Smoak, secretary-treas urer. Cottageville—Dr. W. A. Kirbye, president; H. W. Ackerman, secre tary-treasurer. Walterboro—W. W. Smoak, Jr., president; Jno. W. Hammond, secre tary-treasurer. Bethel—H. W. Breland, president; has an office in the city and handles all the products from Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer members of his local. i Bells-W. H. Saunders, president; A short while ago two mem-, F - M * Thomas, r secretary-treasurer, bers of this particular local did Hudson s Mill—J. D, Hudson, something to cause them to be let out. They w*ere out only two president; Dr.CA. secretary-treasurer. Willis Hudson, or three mouths when they made , p . r , K ^ C t ^ dent; Paul K. Crosby, secretary- application for reinstatement. treasurer The local voted on their applica- SUREWfAR GUARANTEED. HALE HOSE. 'COST NO MORE—GET YOTR GUARANTKK Are warranted to <jive perfect satisfaction in wear, tit and comfort. 0 We guarantee 6 pair to last six months, or we will refund your money. BEACH BROTHERS, sou acts. BEEF, TEAL AMD FOSE. Customers can be supplied at all times with the freshest and best at my Market. Highest Prices Paid for Beef Cattle. H. A. FRANCES, . WALTERBORO, S. C. which would mean at least two good roads rnmiing entirely across the county* 'Ihen by tax ing ourselves about 3 mills more we would have money enough to pay die interest on a quarter ot a million dollars more, which would build sixty or seventy more miles of good roads. We could have good roads with a very smRll*>otlay if we would but go after them in the right way. The money saved on the wear and tear of vehicles, stock, harness, etc., would more than pay the additional tax. We haven’t said a word about in crease in the value of the pro perty or the comfort to be de rived from riding over good roads. In view of all the ad vantages to be had, it puzzles us to know why the people will submit to an almost reckless watte of their money without even a protest.—Gaffney Ledger ICE, ICE, ICE, Have begun to make ice delnvery in town. Let us have your orders. tions and decided to let them come back provided they paid a fine of $15.00 and $25.00 each. They accepted the proposition, and after the meeting at which they were reinstated, one of the old members said to them, “Hoys, it*a pretty hard for yon to pay such heavy fines.” One of the reinstated members, » * speaking for both, said they would have paid $59.00 before the profession of farming, and 1 thev would have stayed out. it ever stands ready to help the farmers in their work or or ganization . Is there a good farm in yonr community? Tell us about it. Do you favor a county Fair? Tell us your views. Are you a member of the Union? Why? Do you know of a section where there should be a Union? Where is it? Are you netting an exhibit for the county Fair? trne story is that we get out of the union just iq proportion to what we put in, and that the union is just what we make it... Are you doing your part to make it better—Union Guide, PUBLIC RALLY MEETINGS. Uesident Harris will address the farmers of the county in a series of public mass meetings to be held in July. 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JONES CARBONATING COMPANY. Farmers Should Use Printed Stationery. Let us quote you prices on what you wish. 250 note heads and 250 envelopes printed f° r jM-ys—enough to last the average farmer a year. The Press and Standard. THE MISSION, HISTORY AND TIMES OF THE FARMERS’ UNION A Narrative of the Greatest Industrial-Agricultural Organiza tion in History and Its Makers BY CHARLES S. BARRETT This is a book that should be in the home of every farmer whether Union or non-Union—but more especially should every member of the Farmers’ Union have a copy. It gives a history of farmers’ organizations Irom beginning to end. It tells about the efforts made by the farmers in the Alliance, the Wheel and the Grange. It tells the history of the great Farmers’ Union from its inception up to the present time, now having a membership of over two million farmers. No tiresome or dull reading in this book. Every page is brim full of live stuft. 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