The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 19, 1905, Image 4
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ttntov ? n \nv in irar.
A minister in Atlanta made a
strong arraignment of the public
school system the other day. lie said
that the children were "crammed"
intellectually rather than educated,
and that the public school system
of Atlanta and the country at large
was a perfect farce. He further
said that the system tended not only
to stunt the children mentally, but
that the platform of non-moral or
non-religious training made it tend
to develop educated criminals and
moral degenerates. This is a pretty
severe indictment, but there be
many people who believe that it is a
t"Ue one. The public school system
is not perfect by any means and
much of the criticism which it receives
is based upon conditions as
they exist.
ICE TRUST.
I'nion, as are other cities and
towns of this state, is in the clutches
of an ice trust. The combine formed
bv and between the ice plants of
tin- state, one says to the other if
you won't ship ice into my territory
1 won't ship any into yours, the
consequence is the people of t'nion
can't got any ice from Columbia or
Spartanburg, so they must depend
I'.lh'Yc*1 Visd?/' V'f he'" cityV* fwV? ice
houses have uniform prices for certain
deliveries both of which are
supplied with the Buffalo ice. We
hear no complaint of the quality
of ice sold here, as there was last
summer, when the Virion Grocery
Company ordered ice from Spartanburg.
We presume there is no use
to complain or kick since one cannot
better conditions by so doing.
Jc* in a city where city water from
the water works is used, is no longer
a luxury, hut a necessity, therefore
wc can have no patience or tolerance
for such a trust or combine any
more than for a corner, trust or
combine on wheat or any other
breadstuff's. Certainly the consumers
of ice in this city are at the
mercy of the dealers in ice.
TRUSTEES AND PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.
(Mic venr auro Tin- I'vinv Tnuv
contained an editorial on the subject
of our public schools, in which
was quoted portions of the address
issued by the superintendents of
education of several states who met
in Atlanta, October, 11KKJ, as follows:
"With a keen sense? of .the
responsibility laid upon us, beads
of the department of education, by
the people of our respective states,
with a fixed faith in the native capacity
of southern children, through
whose veins course the purest strain
of Anglo-Saxon blood on the continent,
the strongest, clearest blood
on earth, with a firm reliance in
the patriotism, chivalry, courage,
pride and sense of justice of the
southern nivmlo n-itl, .. -.1
- - . |/v w1/IV/) MIUI 11 } H 1 ' I 1 II I I I I I
conviction of the necessity of universal
education for the preservation
and perfection of democracy with
an assurance of the evidence of all
past experience and all past history,
that the only means of universal
education are the public schools,
we are moved to lay before our
people these facts. The public
schools are inadequate to their stupendous
task and unequal to the
educational demands of the country.
The defects of the public
school system arc several. First,
necessary physical equipment in
houses, furniture and grounds.
Houses and grounds and equipments
are largely dead mechanism without
the vitalizing touch of a properly
qualified teacher. It is after all,
the teacher that breathes the breath
of life into the school. We need
licttor teachers and must have them
before we can have better schools."
Has this opinion and appeal reached
the people of the south and by them
been heeded? We fear there ha$
been but little a t ten tun v-paid to
this warning, in^ Uyt^ election and
selection of jUfiehcrs for our public
schools in South Carolina, at least
in Cnion county. The advertisement
in this issue for election of
teachers of the four graded schools
of school district No. 11, 22 in
f ii ?
minion, IfllllllUN UN (II II1C peculiar
practice of this hoard of trustees for
the past few years in electing tcaeheos
each year a few days before the
close of the schools without giving
any public notice, therefore known
only to the hoard and a favored |
few recommended or endorsed by
some influential friend male or
female whose election or re-election
is assured, yet the farce of going
into an election of teachers is
enacted each year. The law requires
every applicant for the position
of teacher in the public school
to he a graduate of some chartered
institution of learning in South
Carolina or hold a certificate issued
by the board of education, certifying
that the applicant had made
the required average on examination
upon the questions propounded
by the state board of education,
that these certificates must be re
ncwcd every two years, by the applicant
being subjected to a similar
examination as that upon which
the first certilieate was issued, unless
the applicant has taught school
ten years consecutively, having
gained by experience, that which
the applicant should have known at
the very outset.
The board of trustees for school
district No. 11 has had ample opportunity
to till the schools ir 'his
i- t , -.i .j.uiiiiieu ais
tile law provides. Has this been
done? How could this be done if
no publicity is given to the time
and place of election of teachers by
the hoard? By whom arc teachers
for the summer schools appointed?
by the state superintendent of education,
but at the instance and
recommendation of whom are these
touchers* appointed? Does the
superintendant rise above political
advantage in these appointments,
as the appointments are somewhat I
in the nature of patronage.
I'pon the public schools of our'
country depend universal education,
therefore they should lie quipped
as recommended and urged by the
address of the state superintendent
of education above referred to.
There are few if any graduates from
the public schools in our state who
could enter even the freshman class
in any college, without lirst entering
the preparatory department or
fitting school. Is this the fault of
the teacher or child, sometimes one
and sometimes the other and sometimes
Iwith. We say let the world
see that our efforts are to place the
best teachers in our schools, and if
necessary borrow some ideas and
inspiration from the great conference
for education, at any rate let's not
be behind in our educational development
.
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD.
Rev. D. E. Camak Doing
Eaithful Work?24 r?n
didotes Received Into
His Church ? School
Closes Next Week.
Joncsville, May 15.?The routined
rains mixed with hot sun and
warm nights has gave good stands
of cotton and good stands of grass,
and the latter is disturbing the peace
and quiet of the farmers and causing
tliein some uneasiness, hut the
fact is the farmers would not cut
their cotton crop with any big slice
aud it seems that an overruling
providence is working or ruling for
the interest of the farmers, and the
country generally, which, I am sure
will l>e for the best.
l
Gardens arc unusually fine and ,
except apples there will bo a full
fruit crop.
Paeolet river was out in the Ix?ttonis
last week, but little damage
was done to the crops by high
water.
The county hoard of commissioners
is being sharply criticised by
some people for turning down the
petition for an election on the dispensary
or no dispensary question.
The people of the State by their
vote at the ballot Im>.\ in 181)2, 1
believe it was, asked the legislature
to give the State prohibition, but
the legislature led by B. II. Tillman
ignored the wants of the people
awl gave us the dispensary law
a thing rotten to the core, and now
Union county asks by petition for
an election for or against the dis"
pensary, and it is turned down,and
the grounds upon which it is turned
down is not by any means satisfactory
to many people in this community.
Memorial services were held in
Gilead church at the village cemetery
last Wednesday under the
auspices of the John Hamcs chapter
U. I). (!. Services opened with '
prayer by Rev. C. T. Felinct, recitations
by Misses Bernard McWhirter
and Carrie Alman, Songs by a
select party of girls, addresses by
Rev. I). K. Catnak, W. 11. S. Harris
and Rev. C. K. Felmet, poem
read by Brof. 11. \V. Aekermanand
the audience all joined in singing
"When the roll is called up yonder,"
after which Rowers were laid
by the ladies and little girls on all
the Confederate soldiers graves,
about <>() in all.
Rev. A. (1. Gantt, of North Carolina,
a retired Methodist preacher
is in our town representing the Van
Linly fruit nursury of Greensboro,
X. C.
M iss Bessie Bassctt is visiting the j
family of her brother, A. R. Bassctt.
*
Mrs. Sue West is visiting relatives
in town.
Mr. U. N. Harris, of Brown's
Creek neighborhood, was in town
yesterday to See relatives.
Hew 1). E. Camak tilled his pulpit
at the Methodist church yesterday
morning, and at the close of
the service he received twenty-four
candidates into full connection in
the church. Fourteen of the eandi- .
dates were young ladies and girls
and ten were hoys. Most every one
of them were Sunday school scholars.
Bev. A. A. James attended services
at the Methodist chuieh here '
in the morning and then QlledL,
his l u"1 ,...1^!* " *? ?* urrrrllxniil illlU j
no*received into his church four
members, one young lady, one girl
and two small hoys, all Sunday
school scholars. Mr. James witnessing
so many young people com- j
ing into the church in Jonesville i
in one day, was moved to tears as
he-spoke feelingly of such a gathering
in of the young people into
the church of (5od.
Mr. J. A. Sawyer, of the I'nion
bar, was in our town on professional
business last week.
1 understand several of the appl'r ?
cants for pensions from this county, |
were turned down by the State <
board in Columbia. It seems there <
is little use for county pension <
hoards, for the state hoard meets in
Columbia and draws the red line :
through such applications as they |
please, and the poor old veteran or
widow as the case may be, gets no
^IV/IIO&V/I ? I 1
Sweet potato plants are very I
scarce in .these parts. I see a i
good many plants shipped here from i
Florida and sell readily at 20 cents
the hundred. <
Dr. A. S. Foster spent Sunday in ]
Spartanburg. |'
The graded school session will
close the latter part of this month. I
The exercises will include three !
nights, ami judging by those who i
have the programme in charge and 1:
the preparations that aw being made j 1
we will see and hear something i
quite entertaining. j 1
Mr. Smith, of Charleston, is the )
guest of Mr. Thus. J. Stehle. 1
TKLKIUIONK. i
"HOMO" GIVESSHORT SKETCH j
Of the Lives of the Three Un- ;
fortunate People hilled in; i
the Wreck Last Week. |(
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Lock hart, May 15.?On hist I
Wednesdnv eveniiwr Miu 1/H1. ...... *'
1 0 '""l) "HI 1 !,
little town was mueh excited over
the news of the wreck on account
of those who lost their lives at the .
time, an account of which appeared '
in the Times.
Perhaps it would not he out of
place to give a passing notice of
them, as all three lived at Ixwk- <1
hart. x
Richard was a son of Mr. and n
Mrs. .1. II. Wilburn. He was x
near 17 years old, and connected t<
himself with the Baptist church last g
year and has given evidence by his ;i
life that he was truly converted. He
was also a member of the Sunday <
school and almost every Sabbath he o
8 -(7(i
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Shoes
$ 1.00.
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They
and 1
Mutua
was with his class. He expected
to attend some high school or college
at the next opening session,
lie was quite a favorite among the
good people of the place. He leaves
a sister some six years old. Hi?
father and mother are prostrated
with grief. They have the heartfelt
sympathy of every person in tin
town.
B. L. Ilolliinan has not heen
with us more thap five months, lit
was 2* years old, and was converted
and baptized about a month ago
giving evidence by his walk am
conversation that he was trulj
changed. He served in Cuba in a
Georgia regiment in the Spanisl
American war. His father and
sister lived at Thompson, near Am
irusta. to which t?iu ......
, , ? - ""V.J ??l.sliippccl.
Mr. Ed McChostney has been
ivith us ftlnmt five months moving
here with liis family, consisting ol
v wife, son and daughter, aged l/i
ind (> respectively. He was alwml
42 years old and was a native of one
>f the northern states. His wife it
prostrated with grief. His bod3
was taken to Dallas, (?a., for burial
Mrs. W. \V. Finley accompanied
liis family 011 their sad mission.
Died on tlx; night of the lit!
11st. Mrs. Thomas Dallas aged
ibout 25 years. She had been confined
to her bed for nearly thm
nonths, and an invalid for possibly
six months. Her death was
lot a surprise as it has been expected
for some time. She leaves
1 husband, child, some six months
>ld. Her remains were taken to
Wt. Pleasant in Chester county for
burial.
Died yesterday morning, Mrs. J.
VI. Brown, aged alwait &"> years.
VIrs. Brown came here from Bunion)
be county, N. C. about the first
>f the year. Her husband and five
-hildren survive, the eldest being 14
md the youngest a few days old.
die will Ikj buried in North Caroli1a.
Homo.
of ton Bags and Bagging Instead
of Jute and Burlap.
The officers of the Houth Carolina
livision of the Southern Cotton asociation
have taken up the move"
acnt to push the use of hags or
ackfl made of cotton. The idea is
i> increase the market for cotton
nods, as well as to reduce the a< rcge
used in production of cotton.
While some want to create a greatr
demand for cotton goods in the
ricnt to supplant the costly silks,
?- . . OBI
.___* re
sole Agent for God man 11
i and Slippers, the best H
i ?*
, $1.25 and $1.50 Ladies ||
made. Every pair sold 1|
* a positive guarantee. I? -*?
are here in White, Black (S|
ran 11
/ a >
I Dry Goods Co., I
R. P. HARRY, Manager. v
1 the practical business men of the! GIT ?"1IT
wholesale grocers' association have | f
Sj'rti an opportunity- t^ declare^ that
every county organization an earnest
appeal to stsmd hy the movement
s for the increased* use of cotton in
i> this plan and signified a hearty co"
i operation.
' loTiceT " She Accepts You
Mr. lulitor?Please publish in rhc day won t be fai distant 4
your paper of this week, for the in- wJ*?n y?u W1^ 'H' confronted
r formation of those who are anxious with the grocery problem.
to know, why their names were left . .n. wager you
! off by the board in Sleeking up the (,.n.<l ll il ,u,?ht>' }?ard Vro??[
petition, asking for an cleetion on nitum, too.
' the dispensary question. 1 beg to Start right -get acquainted
r say that their names were left off . with us?we 11 help smooth
through an oversight either in copy- ^ thorny path of housekeepI
ing from the registration lxxiks in^ newly-wed couple.
(there being 14 sets of tlieni) al- ?*? iii'ii o w
( phahetically, or in checking up by We Will C>erV8 YOU
I the petition. In either case was an
oversight as it is quite a job for four lx>th economically and prompt,
persons to cheek off a thousand ly ?we will keep your wants
names by eighteen hundred. I am supplied at the minimum
sure that I tried to aet fair and cost.
honest and believe can speak same For a young couple, as a
for the Ixxird. rule, must start on a small !
Respectfully, scale?we supply the wants
T. J. Hktkniiai'oii. of the small family as readily ^
- ?? as the dcmuiuls of the largest
Tribute of Respect. hote1,
We Have a Clean Store
Whereas it has pleased Almiirht.v
I God to remove by death our com- III cb,an gnods and a clean repu- ||
I rade, Win. Addis who was a soldier II hition. i|
'in Co. H. 15th regiment S. C. V. Ill t Wo started right and wo II
|during the war between the States. 11| "ftvo kept to the right ever II
And, whereas, it is meet and III 81ncc starting. jj
proper to show our respect to our II Ctaptin/i |)i/iht 11
departed comrades. II dldl Illlf) Kiyill ||
Therefore be it resolved: ||| . u
That we bow in humble submis-III is half the hattle ?we 11 light II
sion to Almighty God knowing that II two-tlnrds of your starting II
I he doetli all things for the host. II hft.lf lf y?u w,1\ buy y?ur 8roc- \
i Resolved 2nd. That we extend II ones hero.
to his family our heartfelt sympa- III May we liavo the pleasure? |j
thy in their great loss, their loss is 1] jjj
The Union firocery ||
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