The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 16, 1903, Page 4, Image 4
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UNION, S. C. JANUARY V\ 19C1.
We said some time ago that we
thought that the now tax law was a
great improvement ever tire old plan
of waiting to the last moment and
extending v.xes, and that we believed
it would be the means of brine: considerable
more money into the hands
of the Treasurers than heretofore and
obligations and claims coul 1 thus bo
met more promptly, we lind that we
were right in our conclusions. Whih
there are still quite a number who
have not paid their taxes, many of
them are using their money intending
to pay later and pay the percentage.
Others perhaps could not pay.
Rnfc thi.4 would barmen if extension
vras made ten months, It is the best
plan wo have yet seen, and if no extension
is imide the people will com?
to time promptly next year, mark
the prediction, li the Legislature
should'be so short-sighted us to oxtend
the time the Governor should
stamp the act with his veto.
I p to Monday there had been b.oOi.
tax receipts issued by the id-1 usurer
of Union county out of >i? t :xpa.vers.
The collections from t!? se
L \ JiAMJ/MVrt ?;< "*tr*" **
tar receipts had been issued and the
collections amounted to only ton.
Just half as much as this year. It
is easy to see that that furnishes
money to pay interest on debts, pay
oil school claims that usually huv- to
wait a long time, and puts the county
in much better shape. Wo hope
that extension of taxpaying time is
to bj a thing of the past, unless some
great and unforeseen calamity fU fall
lie OAtwnf linn ! r. t U i - >
? t, aviuviillic ill tile- lUlUri' U) inilKO
un extension of time absolutely iuCdssjry.
Chief .Justice Henry Mclver, after
a tedious illness, died at hi.s Ji"me at
Coerusv, S. at 11 T> Monday jCtrrn
>on .Un. 12lh, at the ripe ago < !' 7?'..
The remains were intered at tit.
Divid's Episcopal church at ' ) o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. The Chief
Justioo leaves in l.is iuiincdi.tt l'aini
1 v two sons and one daughter, Mr.
Tnoinas P. Mclvcr, of (Charleston;
Sjn itor Edward Mclver, and Mrs. K.
C. Watts, of Clieraw. "J. II. (i." in
the News and Courier, gives the following
short^icetch of his nfo:
"Chief Justice il n y Mclver, son
of Mr. Alexander Mclver hi I h'*
wife, wh"> was Miss Mary Han ford,
was born at Society Hill, Srp{< mbor
27?, 182b, lie moved to Oheraw '.vht n
(( ito a lai and married Carrie Harrington
l'owe, daughterof Dr. Thomas
E. Powe, ft large ante-bellum planter
and prominent man in this section,
on June 7, JSI'd. She (lit d Jaiitn.rv
1?, 1!H)2. The Chief Justice graduated
at th# South Carolina (College. < >n
the death of his father, Solicitor Alexander
Mclver, in 18."0, he \v.?s ;ip.
pointed by Governor Manning to Jill
hitt nnnv Airod - ?
? .....v.. wmi. i'4o"1 n, wnen
(ion. Iln.ina died, he wuh elected eoIicitor,
and was re-elected for several ,
successive terms, until the \v:ir begun
Jle entered the Southern army and 1
was a captain of a cavalry company 1
in Hampton's Legion. ifo was c
wounded at Hawe's Shop. f
"He wis elected Associate Justice J
on May 19, 1877, and Chief Justice
in December, Jx7'.)( but declined, 1
when Governor Simpson was elected 1
Chief Justice. He was njrnin eleotid a
Associate Justice in Iss:; and Chief ,
Justice in 1897, aid never misled a
day from court Until last year, when "
he was at the bedside of Ins faithful 1
wife, who died on January 9, 19: i
In his doatli South Carolina loses e
one of its grandest and most distin- a
guishei men ar.d possibly her most n
able jurist. 1h) Supreme Court, c<
which was in sefsion at tlto time of !<
his death, at once passed an order of w
adjournment in respect to the deC?M*d,
a4
v. /
KT US It.AVE GOOD KOADS. o
There has been ;i continued cry for r
ood rouds in Union county as far !}
tick as our memory reaches- It is f
ortainfy lime our people were be- t
omiug to understand that good roado ?
annut be made by talk. We believe i
hat our commissioners are conscieu- i
liously doing everything in their i
>ower for the betterment of the eon- ;
litfon of our roads, but they only I
mvc u limited amount of money with i
vhieh to do this, when that is ex- <
lausted they are necessarily at their
row s iml. The people are paying their
road tux and they do not find results
;is they would wish. I u order to secure
permanent good roads it i3 absolutely
necessary to go to some considerable
expense to secure machinery with
which to build good roads. Wo believe
we would be safe in saying there
is not one man out of every ten in
Union county who would not gladly
double his road tax for a year or so
if he was sure of getting the desired
results viz: < oor. roads. It is almost
impossible to estimate the loss annually
to the farming element alone
of the county, on account of bad
roads, to say nothing of the loss to
the town on account of its legitimate
trade going elsewhere to do business.
When a man will not spend a dollar
to stop a leakage which will amount
to he is standing in his own light
and would be considered a poor financier.
The same is true of a town or
county, a State or a nation.
Other counties throughout theState
have come to realize that the most
important tjucstion with which they
nave io cuuiuuu is me ijuesima ui i
roads, and they are beginning to arrive
at the logical conclusion that the
only way to get tlieni is to make
them by machinery adapted to that
work, and they have set about securing
these road-working outfits. The
carpenter must have the necessary
tools fur building bafore he starts his
building. The couuiy that determines
to have good roads must prepare
for the building of them, thfs is
an initiatory expense that cannot be
gotten around, the question then
arises how to make this expenditure
bring best results?
A representative of a manufacturer
of roud machinery was in town one
Jay last week to meet the County
"wis tur iurnisnmg road building
machinery to Union county. The
Commissioners failed to meet the appointment
and only the Sup< rvisor
was seen, consequently nothing was
done farther than discuss the mutter.
We learn since that the County Supervisor
is favorably impressed with
.the idt u o: the county purchasing a j
complete road working outfit, but j
says he cannot take the r< sponsibil- }
ity of putting in an order without an j
act of the Legislature authorizing a j
tax le\y for the purpose that wiil r.l- '
low of the purchase. We understand \
thul the Commissioners will r< r i
mend tho levy, and it will then ! p I
to the members us to whether no ,
Union county is to have pcrmaui r.t 1
good roads. As wc s.iid, we do not!
osiieve there woull be ;u.y obj-et.on j
to a sufficient levy being made if the !
taxpayer could bo assured of good '
roads, in the true sense of the word, j
as a result.
Realizing the great need of permanent
good roads for Union county, vein
ule ii a point to see t lie represent.i|
tive above rcf- rr i to and inado some ,
investigation, tin result of which v.v
I
will give to our readers for what, it is
worth. We found that for $.">,72.")
this company would furnish a coinpi
te road-working outfit guaranteed
to do everything claimed for it; the
outfit consisting of two traction engine*
of Id horse power, one rock
crusher, plows, distributors, water
tanks, etc. Upon being questioned
as to why two traction engines should
be bought, the agent replied, "For
the sake of economy, as the two
mules that would he required to haul
wood or coal and water for the online
could attend to two engines just
is well as one, an experienced engincr
could keep both engines in first
ilasa shape us well as one. the ov.-r
i?rr could ovorseo tho two forces of
lands us well us one, and Hint just,
wiee as much work could ho done." (
"liia outfit he guarantees to handle <
ny road no in at I or how steep, no
nattrr how rocky and bilrg same to
proper and convenient grade. If '
his is true, then Union county, with <
his outfit, could in a few years have 1
very public road in the county in a
ondition of u turn pike, second to ,
one in the country. Now as to the ;f
>st in beginning this work. Lets h
>? k into that a little m l sei if it j.
ill pay. Tho erst of this outfit is f
with as long time to pay for it p
i is desired with interest at the rate a
i \
I
f (> per cent, per annum. Lets fee g
fhat it would cost you. The U.xublo I
>roperty of Union is something like I
>1,811!>,<>! .}. Suppose* an exlra mill Q
or this road machinery were added, I
his would bring in the first year I
something like $ t,8LO, in two years
t would amount to $8,600. This
vould pay for the machinery and
furnish $2,875 toward paying the two
rears operating expenses in road ,
building, to say uothing-of the umount
of money that would have been spent
on the same roads under the old system.
Now for an individual taxpajer.
Suppose you pay taxes on
worth of property, you would p: v
one dollar extra, if ou $.">00 worth ot
property you would pay 50c extra tax, and
so on at the satne ratio. Would
you object to do this to secure good ^
roads for Union county? We thii.k
not. Now for comparison. I;' you \
break a wagon tongue ou account of
a bad place in the road, how much %
does it cost to replace it? how much
is your lost timo worth? if a broken
wheel how much? if broken harness
how much? if horse goes lame hew
much? almost any of these more than
a dollar. You use three mules to
haul half a cord of wood now.
You can haul a cord on good $
roads with two mules, and have li e <
other at home to plow. Half a cord <
of wood at a load, two loads ' ) mules
one day $2.. On good roads, one 1 d
two mules half a day $2, or two trips
one day .ft. Figure out the saving
gained by your dollar tax. The same '
upplies in hauling your cotton ai d
other produce. A pointer to the tov n
people, whenever we give the people
good roads by which to reach our
town they will come to our town to .
do their trading from the extreme
end of the good road. It strikts us
very forcibly that Union should ^ t
the necessary outfit and go to work
to building permanent good roads.
Union is considered a leader along ; .
the industrial line, but she is getting
lu .. .......KM .I,A 1 1 1
v..i vv ti i/ti v, rv iiuniuui it* tuc UU">" J
'mess (in account of other counties
stepping rapidly to the front in this ,
most important mutter of building
good roads. Let Union not play laggard.
___________ I
Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee, lias a
bill before the House of Representatives
asking for the appropriation of I
'Jill ?TtTCcMSse^ "by the deferent
States. The condition being that I
each locality using tho fund shull
supplement the amount raised by t
the citizens of that locality. This fi
bill is a kind of feeler fur governmental
aid to county road improve::;- : t. j
Mr, Brownlow explains in dot a hew c
there would be a saving of thr. dol- t
lars to every county for every d..|| ir *
so spent. Speaking of this hi'. !'o ^
Washington Star says, among r }
things: "The first roads to he built- t
in New York by State aid was ii. Iv-'.i.
$70,000 being spent half and halt by
Stair aid and county and town-, lo u
miles was the result. The result was c
so satisfactory that in 1!>!>2 the ?';ite 1
engineer had received petitions from 9
the counties of the State for the 1
building of'J,0<>7 miles of road ui l? r c
the same conditions, to cost ifli'-.o ?),. '
: >m." From this it seems that :-ct- 1
uul experience proves the enormous 1
advantages of good roads.
"It is conservatively estimatnl by
< O'/crnineiit r.fTirtl.ilj ?!... -
_ ......... ....o ?iitn, ?> c nre ' f ori- i
lessly losing or wasting over $('. >-j.- i
!>'rti,(m>u onch year because of our hud
ro ids, making a mud tax of over $'2,
i nt,ooo for every working day in tho
year and an individual tax of no.trly r
fcs each year for every person :n the 1
.country. t
"An ir.crease of only an acre on 1
tho estimate of <?l<?,4HK).f>UU acres fur
tho country would amount to some- s
thing like or rir.ro 1
than enough to build the hest and \
finest main roads iu the world?about (
l.tioit(Oo)?throughout the entire
country sevoral times over, by the
brick track roud system by which the
best of roads can bo built for a co*t 1
which should not exceed an. average_ j
of $'2,0t>J a mile. The interest on \
this sum of $.*>,000,010,000 at I per ?
cent, would built nil the mainly traveled
road in the country In less than
ten years at a cost of only 10 per cent. '
of tho increased farm value. ^
IXfKKrtSE Of- KAKM VAI.IIKS. i
"from this it appears that wo v
would receive benefits from iinprov- e
ing our main roads in tlie increase of r
farm values alone equal to two and q
one-half fold, or'JoO percent of their ?
L'0*t. J
"A direct saving of ?000,000, (KM) a '
rear figured at 1 per cent, interest, 11
ivould carry a cost of $ 12,000,000,000. ^
This is over six times, or (><H) per cent. li
>f the necessary costs of the main j,
Qads for the entire country. j
"If the indirect comforts, benefits
ind snvings will equal the direct sav- "
ng, we will have another item of
!000,000,0<l0. This makes the total l'<
>enefits from good main roads equHl ce
o something lik* tfcdQ.OfMt.O'JO.CKMi, or nr
fteen times their cost. 'I ho interest iQ
rom this sum at 7 per cent, wduld u ,
ay tho cost of building the fTaest. |
nd best main roads in the world
" I
But you can't cat
tell everybody y
CO. are the only
Sell Clot
Spring ulothir
we ha^e decided to ma
Lug price on our FALL 1
For the h
?5.0 ) IVlen's Suits for
?6.60
?7.50 " 44 44
OVERCOA
BOY S PA
Mackintosh
9
HATS! HATS! 50c ho
BOY S OVERCOATS.
and get
HUTU&L D
R. P. HARRY, M
hroughout the entire country each
ind every year.
"These benefits are so enormous
hat it is difficult to right!}' comprelend
them without making some
lompflrisons. The benefits of $dO,K)U,(JO0,00o,
for instance, are nearly
00 times the amount of the Spanish
far, and certainly appear to mnk'e
his the greatest economic question
>efore this country at the present
hue." i
We are glad to report that there is'
1 very reasonable prospect of our souring
the ward voting precincts for
he J own of Union, of which we had
lomcthing to say in our last week's i
ssue. We have . talked the matter
ver witli our Senator, Capt. J. T.
)ouglass, and lie was very favorably
mpressed with the plan, and prom*
sed us that he would introduce a
iill in the Senate alowinsr us to es-.
o - ? ?
nblish theso box38, we hope ull will
mil together for this very important
neasure. It is probable that other
{rowing towns in the State have ur'ived
at tho conclusion that we luivo
egarding additional voting precincts,
f so, they should all got together,
hrough tHeir representatives, and
mvo one bill cover them all. Wot
lincerely hope that by tlio time the
n-xt eli'ction comes around there
vill be in Union a voting precir.ct for
uch ward.
nectnnuir?Muu?MMW?
Tiiia is wliy wc need a conipnlsary cdualion
l.iw in South (Carolina; a coin
taritive statement of tho illiteracy of
vhite children in tho Northern m..l
Southern States shows South Carolina
ip in a very h.i<l light, not only as coin- i
>ared with tin* Not ill but as compared
silh th<* other Southern Stales. A comnils*
ry education law would go a Jour
vay toward feettling the question of
Wild lalKir in the cotton mills as well as
educing our percentage of illiteracy. 1
?he statement shows tint in T? xas d 1
er rent, of the native white papulation
Em years old and over can neither read ' .
or write; in Mississippi S i>er cut. ; in
'lorid.i b.d per cent ; in West Virginia |
I) per cent.; in Virginia 11 1 )**r cent.;,
i Georgia 110 pec cent.: in Arkansas ,
I. dper cent; in Kentucky 12.fi per cent ;|(
i South Carolina I "CO per cent.; in Ala- t
una 14.ft pfT cent.; In Louisiana 17.3 H
jrcent.; in Noith Carolina .10 5 p?r t
nl; in Missouri 4 8 j>cr cent ; in Itli- a
lis 2 1 per cent. ; in Iowa 1 2 j#r cent.; e
New York 1 2 paj cent ; in Michigan s
7 |>er cent ; In Wisconsin 1 3 percent.; N
Massachusetts 8 per cent. *, in Miaut- o
Grain
ch em with chaff. Do 1
ou see that the MUTUAL
people in the world who
hing Abo
Will snrm p.nmin
|fj As our cellar is full <
somewhat puzzled t
ke room in our clothing
1ND WINTER CLOTHIN
lext Thirty Days We i
$4.00 u $8.00 ]
$5.00 ? $10.00
$6.00 m $12.50
TQ Only a few
i I O, duction in p
MTC !9o, 25, 35
l^a I O Pants will
Coats at
Must have room.
ts for 25c. $1.00 hats f
$3.50 and $5.0O.
" They are small and s
, them, boys, they are
RY MODS
gr.
sota .8 per cent.; in Nebraska .8 per
cent.; in Connecticut .8 per cent.; in
Wyoming .7 per cent.; in South Dakota
.0 per cent.; in Nevada .(? per cent.; in
Washington ,5 per cent. It should to
remembered this doe? not include colored
I pec pie or foreigners in any Stats. North
Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama being
the only States showing a greater percentage
o'filliteracy than South Caroliua.
Etta Jane Etchings.
Etta .Tank, Jin. 12?As I have not
been heanl from through The Times
iu a week I trust that the readers
have not been badly diaappoiated.
They haven't missed much I assure
them.
Last week I made a visit on the ,
i'ork side of Broad river, und find
tho people cf that graded school district
more interested in the education
of their children than any rural sec- (
lion I have visited or know of. Last (
Friday evening the trustees and pat- {
rons met at M iss Agg'o Wylie's school.
This they do regularly; something
very unusual for a country school dis- j
trict I must confess. It is goncrally
the case that the children are turned }
over to the teacher to do the best she
can with them. If she succeeds in |
her work all well and good. But if ^
not, the fault finders go to work and
raise cain generally. Those York j
county penp'o are exceptions t) tlys (,
rule ef> far as my observation goe?
The l itest novelty I hear of in this
section is the "talking table." It ?
1~ -
.?..r mjinu i'iiK8 everyunng thoy want
to know, (bo they say.) Even the 0
dead it is claimed are hend from, and
they tell ?ll about their condition and 0
surrounding in the other world. It it
it seems that it only 1 as communie*- _
tion with the inferual regions?th's, I Jl
think, iii easil/ understood.
The holiday sensou has brought its ^
vari.d p'casurrs and both old and
young havo eoj >ye l them according
to their several taites. Thtas quertionnhlo
pleasures go under ao nnny
liferent names and omditions that I
leave our readers to draw tbo line he- C1
.wren those that a*c right aud those in
',h*t are wrong. "I
The vio'inist in giving nn account ^
>f one of tho siciab'e gatherings a tew c
veniogs sioca said: "V^ry fAw of w
he church members would go into a j*.
.raight-out dance, hut most of them
ook a hand in 'twiatificitinn' and gy
uch other p'ays that are not comid- i*
red danciDg, but I is d the very
'me kind of music in both caaer.
Vheu they (the church membe n of
u:n*) a'l got their 'partuc*' aad
till ll
us the favor to
, DRY GOODS
ive Cost.
g in and in large lot?.
or goods we have been
,o know what to do, so
department by reducG.
.
Give You
Mien's Suits for $0.5G1
44 $7.50
44 4% 44 $10.50
left to go at big rerice.
>c and 50c. These
hold the boys.
Half Price.
or 50c. Stetson Hats
to is the prioe. Come
yours.
Nirm.
Opposite Hotel Union
strung out for twistifieation the other
follow, who ian't much of a fiddler,
began to play some old slow tune like
u a Hundred,' but they wouldn't
move a peg. He tried another with
about tho same success, and it really
looked as if the p!ny was going to be
a failure until I told him to 'hand me
that fuddle.' I took it aod struck off
ou 'Yellow Jacket,' their 'jints' began
to supple up and in less than half a
minute the whole tbiog was io a good
s*ing. I run them uufjl I thought
they were beginning to get tired and
then I switche 1 off on 'Fire in the
Mountains,' w'?an they g >i faster aod
faster?they ju?t got up then and
don't you forget it. Erery one in the
Bet wore members of the church except
and C mtinuiug he said:
"The next time I intend to tune np
and begia on 'Iiock of Ages' or some
good old church piece, &ad will pre.
tend that I can't catch on to anything
sxoept some gocd ohuroh pieces, just
to see what they will do. It takes
close clipping to find out the differhnlw^Aii
ll?o ?? ?< ? *
?... ?? >?v uaurou
neraber and the worldling?especially
in the frolicking ssason,"
I will not say anything mme of tba
cport ray inform int gsve mem the
gentle reader will draw hie own oondusiona,
and b< H:dea it'a not neeaeeary
or the beuefit of the gosaiping public.
I regret very muoh to learn that
Dr. A. ?. Pant it in bal health and
inable to be out. He at one time?
10 years ago?wat ea fine a specimen
>f msnhood as could ba found in any
ountry.
The weather ia quite cold now and
utaids work ia at a stand dill.
The rotds are bad a id travel ia
lade very difficult.
The Sinuyaicle school, nca this
lace, is without a teacher in conse?
uence of Mr. Vaasey having resigned
i&t p >sition. Any one applying
;on will likely get a good paying
b. Vox.
Z1 .At. ?
The peculiar cough which indicates*
'oup, is usually woll known to the
lOthura of croupy children. No tima
lould he lost in thq treatment of It,
id for this purpose no medicine has
iccived more universal approval than
hAinherlain's Cough Remedy, Do not
wste valuable time in experimenting
ith untried remedlear no matter how
ghlv they may be recommended, bat
ve this medicine as directed and all
mptoms of croup will quickly disaplar.
For sale by F. C. Duke, Druggist.
DeWltf* JKtt Salve
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