The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 22, 1904, Image 4
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UNION, S. C., JULY 22, 1904.
A UNITED DEMOCRACY.
Not since the nomination and elec
tion of Qrover Cleveland, has th<
national Democratic yarty been ac
united upon a platform, policy and
candidate as now. When the National
Democratic Convention met for the
purpose of iraming a platform and
nominating a candidate, president
and vice president, there were evidences]
of wide differences in the
democratic ranks as to party policies,
and a choice of presidential candidate,
differences of material aud vital importance
to the party; but after
much discussion, which sometimes
became uproarious, the Convention
under the leadership of a solid South
and Southern orators, statesmen and
diplomats, together with an equally
united East, the Convention became
harmonious and agreed, all things
theo worked together for the good of
the party, regardless of preferences,
personal and individual ambitioas
and aggrandizment, a platform
adopted, a unaminous choice of a
man for president and vice president.
The nomination of Judge Parker for
President, and Henry G. Davis fori
vice nresidonf u. *
"?wugiu( uoiiiiuuy uoa
anion to tho party. Mr. Wm. R
Hearst, the most prominent opponent
for the nomination, and Col. Wm J.
Bryan the disgatisfled aspirant, have
the ^
rp-^CT4k71.nation. and pledged
' ^their hearty support to the ticket It
is now left to the leaders North and
South to work judiciously for the
nominee, and doubtless Democratic
success will crown their efforts, and
once again as in the Cleveland election,
there will be a Democrat in the
White House, a leader whose followers
will have no cause to complain.
Our State politics are undisturbed,
and we believe without precedent in
that not a single candidate for u State
office has an opponent.
THE COTTON CROP
AND ITS LESSONS,
The cotton crop will lie larger t liar
last. year, how much larger no on*
knows, The condition of the crop, as i
wli .le, is entirely satisfactoty, Jhut th*
crucial i>er?nd lies before us. The con
diti >n of the crop almost invariably d*
clines between July and Octotar. as lb!
table of percentage from the ><ew Yorl
Pt?t shows:
July Aur. Sept. Oct
1903 77.1 70 7 812 66.
1MB 84,7 81.9 64.0 58.
1901 81.1 77 2 71.4 61.
1900 76.8 76.0 68 2 67.
1899 87.8 84.0 68.5 62
1898 91.2 91 2 79.8 76,
1897 86.9 86.9 78.3 70.
1896 92.5 80.1 64.2 60
1895 82.a 77 9 70.8 65
1894 89.6 91.8 85.9 82
The cotton mill men have met an
put a price on their goods. Why nc
the farmers meet and put a price o
their cotton? The campaign again!
the cotton growers by the cotton ben
and his allies means low price cotton r<
gardless of the number of bales of cotto
grown in this country. The cotton spe<
ulators and spinners of this country an
England are in league and are wagin
this campaign. The great scare cro
now being hoisted is the story told aboi
the successful growing of cotton in mar
other parts of the world, which wl
greatly lesson tbe demand upon Aoier
can cotton from other countries. An
thus it would seem that American co
ton will have no other than a hon
market, and unless there should he
very largely increased demand for cottc
goods, there will of aecessity be a larj
surplus ot cotton, If the present cro
should yield a crop in accordance wit
the present prospect, but as is sal
above, a serious change in condition ma
yf take place between now and day i
gathering the crop. >
On acconit of a previous engage
ment Senator Tillman declined th
invitation to the Charleston Count
.Democracy on 510th. While ii
Washington: he consulted his throa
specialist who told him it was no
necessity fpr hfm to remain in Wash
ington for farther treatment as wa
apprehended would be thaQsaae.
^ Shat unlawful weapon.
ifte are to judge by the frequenc;
of We 8 hoot log of men by meu ani
woaen throughout the State, the re
ceni adi of the Legislature with rel
* erepce to the carrying of pistols othe
~ twin the size, ete., as provided In th
L. auk has proved of little or no avail
- Iwwould seem, judging from th
OVpber of deaths resulting from pit
tof shot wounds, that legislation i
*' p&erless to prevent the carrying c
i Qgltofs upon the person. The legit
lMcre has at various times enacte
0 several laws looking to the preven
" tmi.pt carrying concealed weapons
^ THf^haa been a prohibition law tha
h?h not prohibited, and what is bes
j to be done is a serious question, 1
i. if tjie fault of the courts and jurie
la not convicting and punishing thes<
offenders? or is it the fault of th<
h people who seem to have degeneratec
- into a cowardly use of the pistol
tAose ancestors only resorted to na
ture's weapons when anger got thi
. better of their cooler and bettei
senses.
/The State, of Monday, contained t
- fery sensible and appealing editoris!
) On this subject under this head,
> ''What does it signify."
1 We must conclude that the people
- are fast becoming lost to a higher
i sense of honor, a reckless disregard
for human life and liberty, or a lack
of confidence in the justice and ef
lecuveness of the courts, in the enforcement
of the laws made for our
protection, from which we get no
protection through the only means
given for redress and vindication. If
the law is powerless, then we through
the press appeal to public sentiment,
and call upon the young manhood
and womanhood of our country to
come to the rescue by branding every
one who resorts to the use of the pistol,
an arrant coward.
It would take a standing army, a
soldier at every door or gate to search
a man every morning, noon and
night as he was leaving home to see
if he had a pistol on his person, in
order to enforce the law of our country,
unless as wo say, public sentiment
condemn it, the press condemn
it, the courts and juries convict and
punish each and every violation.
The presfc has done much and can do
more to create public sentiment and
mold public opinion, until each man
/will look upon himself as a coward
??na an OTrr.wwr-c:*"' . n
pistol for the purpose*^ resjjntinjj?_0?j
redressing a real or imaginary wrong,
or through fear and apprehension,
then his own concsience will revolt
against it and gradually everybody
will learn to look upon another as
honest and law abiding, against
whom there would be no need to pre
iu meet **oajjuu against, weapon,
and the jails would be comparatively
empty and the churches full.
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
On the 3rd day of May, 15)01, the
, 114th annual Council of the Kpiscoj
pal Church, of the Diocese of South
i Carolina, met in St. John's church,
3 Florence, 10:30 a. m. The 3rd day
-of the deliberation of this Council,
- the committee on the Diocesian
ichool for girls submitted its report.
K Jen. M. L. Bonham of Anderson,
aoved that it be the sense of this
t '.ouncll, that such a girl's school
? muld be established in this Diocese,
o tat a committee of 8 be appointed
t V the Bishop to receive proposals
~ bna the various communities deslr.7
l? the establishment of the school,
d al that this committee have power
>t taact in the premises. The motion
~ HVHiittu ana tne ronowing nameil
gttleman were appointed on this
ir CGmittee: Rev. J. M. Magruder,
DS. M. Orr, Rev. T. W. Ollft, Mr.
n HM. Ayer. Rev H. J. Mike)), Mr.
^ T,V. Bacot, Rev. T. T. Walsh, I)r.
E.I. Joyner. Immediately after the
^ adurnment of the Council, The
w
t 8tie put in a bid for Columbia for
thiechool, also Florence and AnderIj
sonounties. The Union Times put
p in bid for Union, and at the same
1(j tin accused -The State of being a
I. "gb all," all and everything for
ie Combia; The State replied, claima
inghat the local patronage which
in flAlnkia mAnl/1
U nuuiu YD 1U audi l/j IM1 to
[6 ttaerhsny other advantages. Thk
p Tim;Iket forth the many advantages
h Unk-could offer in pointof location,
d aodraed some of our leading citi y
zepdAake steps to secure the locatlOfJAthis
school at Union. No
MBBrere taken, however, the
i- of Commerce had then not
0 b#rn omnized We learn from the
y Praa'dl of the Chamber of Com0
merce Lt some preliminary steps
' had bpjtaken at the last meeting,
. and Hel Shannonhoose, rector at
s thff plol talked before them on the
a|dhek,|xd that il the city woald
jT r
make a sufficient dom&^on in ian
and ?mo#?y bonus^t was jjrobabl
7 that flie schOb^-Wuld b6 secured, a
it was preferred to build the scho<
in the Piedmont section of the Stat<
aud in a place where no colleges wei
r all ready established.
e The Times wou^l ijjQdestly call al
'? tiori to the fact that itrook the init
6 ative in putting in a bid for Unioi
for this school, feeling assured thf
s such an institution would add greatl
to tho prosperity oi the city. Th
Times does not feel grieved that n
^ notice was taken of what it said a
~ the time, but thinks some credit 1
< due it.
t Since writiDg the above we hav
t read a communication by the corres
s pondent of tho News and Courier, ii
which the correspondent very genei
8 ously gave to The Times the credit o
e bringing this matter of thoEpiscopa
Q college to the attention of the peopl
j of Union.
? Dolng-s Around Jonesvllle.
3 Jonksville, July 28th.?Farm
r crs have about put their crops :i
good condition, and the prospect fo
v both corn and cotton is very promis
I mg, but rain is needed and these ho
days will soon tell on the crops es
pecially upon early corn, which ii
; rpi
| luiiumg. xue rain is very important
at that stage of maturity.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the oil mill was held here
last week and tho report of the president
was satisfactory and showed
that the mill had done well for the
season it had just closed.
Miss Susie Hudson, of Morganton,
N. C., has for the last three
weeks been visiting her relatives
here, Mis. R. W. Scott, and last
Friday, Mr. A. W. Steele, a young
gentleman from Morganton, came to
Jonesville and stopped at the Jonesvillc
Inn and the next day Mr.
Steele hired a turn out at the livery
stable and he took Miss Hudson for
a drive and they drove to Paculet
and were married by Rev. A. A.
James. It turns out that this young
couple are from the same town and
have been engaged for some time
and the young man concluded to
hurry matters up so he just came
after his bride. They are stopping
for a few days at the Jonesville Inn.
Mr. J. J. Littlejohn returned last
week from Bonham, Texas. lie
came by Memphis and he reports
fine crops all the way along the road
lie traveled.
Rev. David Uamk*pit
Ticrc yesterday, ami Rev, LiJkrS
JfelJUUeg^tt^-pTTmfcfcted meeting tit
the Baptist church which will continue
for several days.
Gardens have been fine in these
parts, but they are failing fast for
want of rain under the hot July sun.
Country watermelons and peaches
are coming in these days, but chickens
arc scarcely ever seen on the
streets for sale.
Some of the wells and springs in
the community are failing.
There was ijuite a jolly crowd of
onr npniilf Hnth nlrl unit
- ? - MWV.4 V.M UIIU JIWUII^ lUttt
went over to Fair Forest creek at
the Thomson bridge last Friday,
where they had a picnic. Mr. B. T.
Webber, who has a farm at thtt
place, seined the creek and cauglt
some fish for the picnickers, whin
they cooked on the spot and addid
to their menu. ?'
Miss Grace Littlejohn has returned
from Atlanta where she has beeA
for some time in the training deparfl
inent of a sanitarium. Miss Grace*!
health is not good, as it seems Atlanj
ta did not agree with her. Misi
Maud Whitlock, who was with Miss
Littlejohn remained, but she is ex
pected home soon.
Misses Dora and May Whitlock
attended the Sunday school and
preaching services at the Methodist
church here yesterday. J
The at home party of Dr. an<I
Mrs. M. W. Chambers last week in
honor of Miss Joe llodgers, of Atlanta,
sister of Mrs. Chambers was
attended by quite a number of the
society folks of Jonesville, Union,
Kelton and other places.
Prof. Ackerman is getting up a
magazine which will advertise Jones>
ville, and will be of much information
concerning the growth and resources
of our town for the past two or three
decades.
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J. lui. /lu&Diiiiuii, wiih i11m Wlie,
will visit Ids former home in Colleton
County soon and will also visit the
City by the Sea.
A daughter of Mr. S. J. Minton
about eleven years of age, died at
their home three miles from Jonesville
last Wednesday, and a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Berriman Holder
died at Rich Hill last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. 13. Foster and
two children returned last Saturday
from a trip to the mountains ot Geonea
Coqflty.
Mrs. J. J*. McWhirter will beat
home fo the John Hames Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacf *\Vednesday
evening five to seven o'clock.'
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Happenings at Santuck.
San tuck, July 18 ?The bink buildinj
here is neaiing completion.
There has been arrangements made U
hive preaching at the dam every Satur
day night before 3rd Sunday liev. W
H. White will preach.
NliRses Julia Jhomas and Stella Hob
son, from here vibited at Mrs Sallii
Thomas near Hebron.
The Misses Hnfr?pth nt tt~;?
U1 uuiuil, V ISl W(
Misses Lathe, Anniejand Sadie Gregory,
Mr. Frank O'Shields and Mr. Corker
from the Unirn Cotton Mills machine
shops were here all of last week and thii
week drilling and putting on new rim
to some of the Humes for the powei
house.
Mr. Frank II. Haskell, the resideni
engineer at the dam, with assistants lias
been surveyiug the river to get the leve!
of the water, or where it will be when
the dam is completed, and he savs it will
only reach Worthy's ferry, and wll not
hurt that. Now, that will not be neai
the twelve miles that it was said the wa
ter would be backed at the starling ol
the dam.
The river was reported rising quite
fast Saturday evening. Over at the
dam they have been troubled with it oi
late, as the waters are being confined ti
a narrow channel by the coffer dam, and
i a smart little rise tells considerably.
Three weeks ago some of the coffer dams
had to be rebuilt, they being so badly
"ram shackled'' by a rise in the river.
The farmers in the area around here
have been having such rains for about
six weeks that they can't consistently
grumble, only, that some "streaks" were
visited by very hard rains, damaging the
I lands. A heavy downpour of rain fell
1 here Saluiday evening 16th, with s>me
I hail, which almost ruiued the crops in
lthe sretions it struck, but fortunately,
Ithe hail was not general.
There were three well defined cyclones
eeu, two .vest of town, and two near
he dam, both doing some damage in
heir tracks, one unroofing the house of
>ong Hawkins and doing other damage
o t'e timbeis and then going through
he Hawkins "town" damaging rouie of
he cabins there. The one that formed
pur tl?? -0A
v..n iivcr, Hrter crosslog, I heard,
lid damage by unioofing several houses
1 the Chester side.
These cyclones, it cyclones they were,
ere peculiar formations, acted peculiarand
tilled one with awe. They looked
;e black, dense, coal smoke coming
am the ground, rise In a spiral wbirlg
column high In the air going slow,
en seemed to scatter, but immediately
me together again, then seemed to beti
a fearful race across the country.
JWhen the one struck Long Dawkins'
Oise, a man was looking at it, heard
tl cracking of the timbers, theo could
aigreat sheets of the roofing, limbe of I
tfts, etc carried, whirling high up, as
l?es in a whirlwind. Here, only the
omnan himself was slightly bruised. .
tme say they could see fire or sometlw
in these black whirling columns
Tfceverity of this storm formed only a
shi distance above here, and if it incjeid
as it went we do not know what
It dMurther ow. Hky Dkmvkh.
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Low Cut Shoes 'for Men, I
lies, Misses and Children I
we are now Showing. I
* entire stock of I
iw Up-to-date I
ippers 1
i price that will sell each I ^ ~T
1 every pair. Come in | I
I see that this is no joke. 1 I
solid facts. |
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DRY GOODS COMPANY,
F*. HARRY, Manager.
; Didn't Know Such
was in Union!
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This is a remark we often [|
l3 hear when we sell a new II
1 customer a pound of either || .
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1v/. me louowing tour brands II
of the celebrated Blanke's II
Coffee: II
Mocha and Java, per pound 35c II
Single Tax, perpound 25c 11
I Tip Top Java, per pound 20c I g
I Rock Bottom, per pound 15c 11
I If you have never tried these brands I
I you will say with others, the equal is II
I not found in Union when you get a II
I cup of either. 11
I We Have The Reputation II
I of handling the BEST COFFEE in ||
I Union and we are proud of it. We II
I did not make this reputation by ||. \
1 BLOWING AND PUFFING,. but II <
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noia or the right string I
S I and continuously pulling It. Try I .
11 one pound and if not satisfied the I
II money is yours and the coffee is |
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