The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 14, 1902, Page 4, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES
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?by the?
UNION TIMES COMPANY
Second Flook Times Building.
J NO. R. MAT MS, Editor.
L. G. Young, Manager.
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S. C., as second-class mail matter.
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UNION, 8. C. NOVEMBER 14, 1902.
THE BELL REDUCES RATES.
The Bell Telephone Company has
bought out Mr. L. W. Floyd's telephone
business ioc'udirg Union,
Spartanbu.g, Greenville, Prosperity
and Cl'nton, while Mr. Gentries,
oneofvi'.e Be'l Te'ephone offinje's,
has bought the Newberrv e*-.cheMge
from Mr. F'oyd, of wb'ch Mr. Floyd
will still rett'n the maoogemeut.
The iocal exchange w'll coct'oue to
be operated in Union for sometime
for the accommodation of those who
have that phone and not the Be1'.
Should they wish tho Bell phone, the
old phone will be taken out and a
Bell phone insta"ed instead. Those
who keep botli phones will be expected,
of course, to pay for both phones.
The Bell will soon install another
8 vitch bo ird in central office to ac
commodate one hundred subscribers
and from the way new contracts are
being written, it will be unnecessary
to have two phones, as the whole
town will be covered by the Bell
phoaes. The business men will then
be relieved of the tax of keeping two
telephones. And if the Bell people
ontinue to furnish the excellent service,
both local and long distance,
that they have so far, and there is no
reason to doubt it, there will be little
inclination upon the part of the bu-tiness
men to establish an opposition
line. They have had a g.a"ious sufficiency
of the burring, buzzing
phones which allowed you to hear a
dozen people ta'k;og at once and you
had to get your words in edgewise as
it were, not knowing who all were
listening. Every word over the BeJl
is as c'ear as a bell and you know it
is private. We wou'd not care to
uzdertane the job of rebuilding the
opposition.
We have heard some talk to the
effect that now the Bell Teleohone
people have bought out the opposition
we may look out 'or a higher
rate to be charged for the ser/ice.
But in direct contradiction to tnis
Tl, En AYES HAvE BEEN I.OWEnEI).
Mr. P, J. Six, the affab'e and courteous
book-keeper for Super" i-tendent
Spier, in Charlotte, was in Union
Monday looking after the interest of
the business. He cal'ed at T' E
Tf >?E3 office and spent half an hour
very pleasantly with the editor. In
speaking of the change, he said that
instead of the rates beirg raised by
the Bell peop'e, they had been lowered
on the bus'ness phones. Tnat
tnis arrangement had been perfected
. to take e'Tect Nov. 1st?and It had
been done be.'ore the locn' company
had sold out. They were, there.*c.e,
not p'ayirg to the ga"ery, as it were,
but had, after mature deliberation,
decided that the business rate for a
town of the size of Union was somewhat
excessive, and had determined
to reduce it fiom $51.50 to $5) 00, making
a voluntary reduction of $6.00 per
annum to eveiy business house using
the Bell phone. He said th's iate
was now estab'ished, and there was
not the slightest probability of it being
raised for years to come, and
never until Un'on grew into a c'ty.
That the rates in cities were h'gher
because it cost mpre pro rata to operate
an exchange of say 500 subscribers,
than loo or 2(K) rotw'-tetandiog the
fact that in the majorty of other
case the reverse is the case.
We asked what about the probab'lity
of the Be'l giving us out of
town lines to the mo.e impoi.nnc of
our suburban vi'higes, such as Cross
Keys, Sedalia, West Springs, Carlisle
and Santuc. He said they wero now
figuring on this very thing. That
the lino was now being bu;,t to Lockhart
Mills, and that subscribers between
here and Ixkp.lche.pt. .InnpMnn I
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who wished to do so could come in on t
that line, giving each of them every r
facility wo enjoy in Union; that the
other points to which independent
lines now reach, (mentioned above,)
will bo reached either by buying up
these lines, running new linos or arranging
for the lines to enter the
Union switch board. If this is dono
it will give us all wo could ask for,
and will consolidate tho county of
Union into one great family circle or
neighborhood. We will tell you next
wee? now it can oe aone. i
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THE LA W AGAINST
TRESPASSERS. ]{
We c'ip the followering from the \
Yorkv'-lle Enquirer, for the Information
of The Tivircs readers as we have 1
had many to ask us regarding the |
requirements of the law. The follow- <
ing covers the point just about like
we have always explained it.
Of late there has been a great deal ]
of interest in the law as to trespass. 1
and several people have npp'iod to the
Enquirer for information on the sub- <
ject. Thej' especially desired to know 1
what was necessary to be done in '
order to properly post their lands '
against irresponsible hunters aud
others. For the convenience of tho ]
public generally, we herewith repro- j
dece the full text of the law in regard .
to the matter, as approved February ,
2,1898. It reads as follows.
"Every entry upon the lands of |
another, after notice from the owner
or tenant prohibiting the same, shall
be a misdeameanor, and to be punished
by a fine not exceedingone hundred
dollars or imprisonment with hard
labor on the public works of the
county net exceeding thirty days.
Provided, That wherever any owner
or tenant of any lands shall post a
notice in four conspicuous places on i
the borders of any lands, prohibiting
entry thereon, and shall publish once <
a week for four successive weeks, 1
such notice in any news paper circulating
in the couotry'where such lands 1
are situated, a proof of the posting 1
and of publishing such notice prior '
to the entry, sht.ll be deemed and 1
taken as notice conclusive against the \
person making entry as aforesaid for
hunting and fi hing. ,
Under the law as it stood before (
it was amended as above, the land- ,
owner or tenant was unable to prosecute
a trespasser unless he coo'd i
prove that he had previously given i
the trespasser personal warning. As ;
tho law now stands, the prescribed i
publication is of itself sufficient <
notice. The trespasser cannot c'aim
that he did not know, for the law 1
makes it his busines. to know.
And to keep up with all these
things it is encumbent upon you to
subscribe for The Union TteES, -It 1
may save you the price of fifty years
subscription and all it costs is one
i>oi.lar a year. (
1'rice and McCormick predict
higher prices for cotton and we believe
they are right. They say the
crop will not reach over 9,500,000
bales. With the remarkable increase
of spindles during the last 18 months
in the South, it will take a 11,130,000
crop to supply the demands. There
is a persistent effort of the Nei1' element
of prognosticators to lead the
people to believe that the crop will j
reach over 11,Of0,000 bales; but we
all rember Neill, and know his main '
object is to keep the price of cotton ,
down until it gets out of the hands i
of tho producers. We do not claim '
to be a prophet, but we are firmly {
convinced that the crop will fall far <
short of Neill's estimate, and that '
higher prices are bound to come. J
Notwithstanding the fact that every j
good day we now have before a kill- <
ing frost will add many hundred bales '
to the total crop.
Tho president is convinced that J
the Republican party must work j
hard to avoid defeat in 1904. lie has
already called the cabinet together
for the first time in four months snd
made it plain to the members that he
bolieves it incumbent upon the
rdministration to get to work and aid
in every way to secure legislation
that wiP satisfy the people. While
he has not been entirely specific
in starting his views, it is known
that he will strongly urge the passage
of laws curbing the trusts.
The Times office has both phones.
If you have anything in the way of
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ring up The Times offico and let us
have it.
FROM TUB OLD NORTH STATE
Recent Election to be Contested.
1
Editor Union Times:
All good Democrat* in South Carolina
will feel interested in the outcome
of the case now pending against James
Fisher, of. Tryon, N. C. He is indicted
in the Federal court for alleged il legtl
election meth'kls during the recent election.
Fisher is one of the election managers
of Folk county N.C ,and is a Dom- <
ccrat.
The (Congressional District which includes
Polk county is now represented by
a Republican, James Moody, and he was
defeated in his efforts for re-electiou, on
Nov. 5th, last by 150 votes. (
It is claimed that Fisher, previous to
,hf election, refused to allow known
^publicans to register and on election
lay chal'enged quite a number of re>ub!ican
votes at the polls and prevented i
hereby a good majority for the Repubicans
at that precinct. It is also charged
,hat Fisher had the loyal Democratic
;iti7.9ns of South Carolina's "Dark
Jorner" to vole in North Carolina on
his occasion to aid in reducing still
'urther the normally Republican maority
at Tryon and prevent the reslectiou
of tho Republican congressman.
The election will be contested and as
i matter of course the Republican will
v. u>nfu.i I
A) m.oi/vu iiiuwgu VJ uu^ct , cuo JL/OUIVT
:ratic nominee has been elected by a
majority of 150 votes. Senator Pritchurd,
whose term expires next
March, Hon. Thomas Settle and
Hon. Jeremiah Lusk are to act as
sounael for the contestant. Mr. Settle
is himself an ex-Congressman having
*en a member of the 62nd Congress.
He is a son of the llepnblican orator
who joined debate with Vance and met
lefeot in one of the most memorable i
political campaigns ever held in North
Carol'na.
The Appalachian Park association
was in convention here recently and it
is leported that the meeting was
principally composed of sh irks who have
bought options on huge lx>dies of land
which it is leckoned will included iu ,
the area to be purchased by tbo Govern- "
client for the park. Should the money
tie appropriated by Congress for the pur- ^
chase of an Appalachian P-ik all options
on hand, taken with a view of
eventually selling to the Government,
diould be declaved illegal for Hie reason
that, this is primarily a project for the
public benefit and not intended merelv i
is a key to t he Treasury Department., to
he used by laud spectators and real es- I
tateshaiks. Putuiie.
PRES. WOODROW WILSON.
The Prcs:dcnt of Princeton University
a Southern Man. Reared
in South Caivlina and
Georgia. {
Bonham, Te.v, Nov. Till '02.
Editor Un.on T.mes:?The election
of this td*u to the presidency of
Princeton University should be a cause
of piideto the South. His inauguration
Oct. 2oth, 1902, marks a new era
in his career, and bnogs him more .
prnmi neatly before the American i>eople,
[is an educator aud an historian. He is 1
quite we'l known in the east as a teach- j
sr. Since bis promotion to the Presilency
of Priucelon he will become more '
widely known tlnoughout the couutry.
President Wood row Wilson Is supposed ;
to be a noi them gentleman, and was so
denominitid by a writer in this state
receutly, who quoted from President
Wilsou's "Division Reunion" th's is not
true, however in one sense at least, because
he was born and reai ed in the
South, and. therefore he is a southern
man by nativity an l affiliation. I say
ailbiation because his wife is a Georgia .
lady. He was reared in South Corolina
and Georgia. President Wilson was
born at Siauuton. Va. in 185(5. Ilia
father was a minister in the Southern
Presbyterian church, and I presume was 1
livhig at Columbia in 187.5 as President
Wilson matriculated at Davidson Co'lego
in that year from Columbia, S. C.
lie did not graduate at Davidson, for !
only two yeais later he entered Princeton
and graduated from that institution r
in 1870. He had decided upon the law
as bis profession, and after his gradua- t
tion at Princeton he returned to his a
native state and entered the University f
of Virginia pursuing the law couise. c
Campleliug that iu 1881 lie settled to 4
practice his chosen profession at Atlan- ?
ta, Ga. This he coniinuel a little less }
then two years. During this period he t
found that his interest in the law was a
much deeper than he anticipated and in i
the mere practice of it. He desired a i
jcient^flc and historical knowledge of t
law, so he gave up his practice and went c
north again and entered the Johns Hop- t
kins Univeisity just abaut ths time of t
its es .blisbmeul, in order to acquire t
this knowledge. And wh'le he was >
earnestly engaged in these scientific and
historical studies, be b?gau writing histo.y,
a.id to this more especially I deji
-ed to call the attention of the realjrsof
Tiie TfMEs. After linlshing the I
studies in the Baltimore University, he i
was called to an Associate Professorship t
in the B?-yn Mawr College, Pa. Re- j
main'ng 3 years he was elected Professor i
if H story in the Wesleyan University, a
Conn , in 1883, holding this Professor- t
ship two yeais, he then returned to his ]
A.lma Mater, where he has held the po- t
Jiliou of Professor of Jurisprudence and t
Political Economy. Twenty-seven years i f
iftsr entering Princeton as a student he | i
iacomes the official head of the old Un4.- 1
HOLDING
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*ect fashions see our
STETSON HAr
A big lot of Hats we are r
10c, 25c and 50c each. They i
that very fast.
MEN'S SUITS
We have a big lot of Men's
tud Vests and odd Pants tt
thrown on our special bargain c<
must go and will go at the price
:hem.
motui:
R. P. HARRY, M;
rersity.
Wood row Wilson lias already written
everal historical works, among them
ire: "Division and Reunion," "Congressional
Government" and a history
tonsisting of 5 volumes called I think,
'The|History|of AmericanJPeople." The
louthem people should read Woodrow
iVilson's writings with a degree of pride,
>ecause the author is a Southerner himolf
K?? imf fnr that rM<nn alnn* for if.
^Ilf UUU UUV XVI vunu VM1WU wwavf ?w - w .
3 said of him that he deals fairly and !
mpartially with the South and the ques-,
ions involved in the Civil War. If this
ommunication takes too muoh space for
he subject, I shall be pleased if the edior
will call the attention of his readers
0 President Wilson and his Historical
vorks. J. S. Crawford.
Asleep Amid Flames.
Breaking into a blazing tnms, some
lreman lately dragged the sleeping innates
from death. Fancied security,
ind death near. It's that way when
rou neglect coughs and colds. Don't do
t. Dr. King's New Discovery for Coatumption
gives perfect protection against
ill Throat, Chest and Lung Troubles:
Keep' it near and avoid suffering, death
ind doctor's bill. A teaspoonful stops
1 late cough, persistent use the most
itubborn. Harmless and nice tasting,
t's guaranteed to satisfy by F. C. Duke.
Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free.
COTTON
3r, we will not attempt to
; to beck your judgment
u money on cotton stored.
3 REASONABLE.^.
ces if you need money,
nk. As we live we grow,
i Eight Hundied Deposie
too.
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Stockholders worth |800,000.
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Dry Goods Co.
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jOAD OF TRUNKS.
you want from the 25c kind
$3 and on up to $15. Can
illy low prices on trunks.
SS! SHOES!!
we well so many shoes, did
use we have a sin e for every
county and the price fits as
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DISPUTED FACT.
luted fact that the Mutual
is the place to buy Clothing,
runks, Blankets, Quilts, Flanress
Goods, etc. Our mamill
of bargains.We arc making
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COMPANY.
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