The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 23, 1905, Image 4
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UNION, S. C., JUNE 23, 1903.
A COUNTY PAIR.
When the fruit is ripe, is the
? time to pluck it. At 110 time in her
history has Union been in a better
condition to organize and maintain
a county fair. Before the Civil War
there was a county fair association
and since there has been one, l>oth
of which did much credit to the
people of the county.
Since the enactment of what is
known as the fence law, the people
have been taking more interest in
the raising of good stock, for the
simple reason that it does not take I
any more to feed a thorough bred
than a scrub. The introduction of
the Jersey and Holstcin cattle have
shown the people what quality
means in animals, and today there
are not many cattle in the county
that have not some Jersey or Holstein
blood in them, often a little
of l)oth. There are still a few
esittle having the old English,
Devor, Durham and Ay shire
blood, all very good. Now since
the people have improved their
eattlq by the introduction of thoroughbreds,
are raising tine mules
sind horses in the same way, also
sheep, hogs, goats and chickens;
tlicy are 1 letter prepared to make a
most creditable exhibit of real good
stock than ever before. Maj. J.
\\V McLure has a tine herd of Jersey,
Mr. Jack Harris has the best
breed of Jersey cattle on record,
Mr. Davis Gregory raises tine cattle,
hogs, horses and mules, Mr. L. J.
Browning has the short horn Durham
cattle, Southdown sheep, Berkshire
and Poland China hogs and
pure strains of chickens, Mr. 11. W.
Hamilton has tine eattle, horses,
chickens and turkeys, and there are
many others we can not now think
of, living in different sections who
raise and always have very tine
stock. And no county in the State
has better lands upon which the
1 >cst corn, wheat, oats, a great variety
of peas, potatoes and cotton
can he grown. In fact Union
canity is now prepared to compete
with any county in this or other
States. A county fair is a great
encourager and stimulus for the
farmer to do his best. The manufacturing
enterprises throughout the
county has opened a good market
for fruits and vegetables and the
people generally have taken advantage
of it and are growing the finest
fruit, lierrics and vegetables ever
put upon this market. The cotton
mills, knitting mills, grist mills, oil
mills, creamery and furniture factory
can all furnish an excellent
exhibit of their products and out
put. When the crops are laid hy
this summer let us call a mass meeting
and organize a county fair association.
The splendid display of wares and
merchandise on the streets last
Thursday afternoon shows that the
r people will hike an interest in making
a success of a county fair.
Whatever the people of Union undertake,
they do and do it well,
and we lxdieve that they can do
whatever they want.
From a business standpoint there
is nothing that pays a better per
cent, of profit to the entire people
than a county fair. The Moral festival
and trades display has now
almost become an institution rather
thau a frolic for fun, uud the oviI
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dont interest manifested leads us to
conclude that to have this celebration
in connection with a county
fair, the two would create widespead
interest, ambition and lively
rivalry in the contest for the ln'st
in both.
Along the line of the Union and
Glenn Springs railroad licyond the
residence of Mai. John A. Fant, a
put of the property of the John A. j
Fant Real Estate Company, there |
are some ideal grounds for a county i
fair: together with the railroad facilities
and trolley line down Main
street, this location would l>e all
that would l>e needed.
We call upon the progressive
farmers and business men of our
county to think over this matter,
get together and talk about it and
we feel satisfied the wise conclusion
will be reached that Union county
must have an annual county fair.
HURRAH TOR UNION!
(Continued from page 1.)
of the equipages, being a white row
boat artistically decorated with
Japanese pond lillies and had the
appearance of l>eing upon a lake
covered with lillies. Each lady had
a white oar. This deserved at least
| a pink rii?ik>ii 111 recognition ot its
being so picturesque.
Mrs. E. O. Sarratt of CJaffney
with Mrs. L. J. Haines rode in a
single buggy handsomely decorated
with pink and white roses in great
profusion, the rear part of the buggy
lieing completely hid by the roses
and upon these a number of white
butterflies flitted and nestled. They
wore blue dresses and carried a
white silk parasol, exquisite in pink
ribbons and roses.
Miss Sydney Gage, with Mr. John
U. Wardlaw rode in a single buggy
very artistically trimmed with natural
flowers purple and green,
forming a striking and charming
contrast to the bright leafless flowers
that adorned the other vehicles.
Miss Gage wore white gown and a
purple picture hat.
The tennis club had a very attractive
float. At the four corners
a stake was placed and round these
a tennis net, attached to each stake
was a tennis racket, each stake,
racket and net was tied with red
ribbons. The young ladies riding
were Mrs. Royal Shannonhouse,
M iss Lizzie Ta'c Hydrick, Misses!
Marie Clifford and Mamie Oetzcl,
dressed in white with red bow of
ribbon, each carried a tennis racket.
The gentlemen with them were
Dr. J. M. Wallace, Roy Kant,
Clough and Ren Arthur.
Miss Lucilc Crosby with Miss
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r uiiiuo v inriv were in a single nuggy
very tastefully and lieautifully decorated
in green and white.
Misses Iloineau of Columbia with
Mrs. Claude Sartor rode in a phaeton
elaborately decorated with pink
roses and garlands of pink tissue.
Miss Aliee and Nellie I'urcell
were in their pony cart drawn by
their Shetland. The cart was cute
and attractive, trimmed in white,
spangled all over with gold stars.
It was a shining little rig.
As we mentally waded through
this grand bower of beauty, bright
faces, pretty women,handsome men,
gaily and gorgeously decorated equipages,
we became confused, and if
we have omitted or wrongly described
any, we ask that the public
ami the participants not to view us
with a critic's eye, but pass our imperfections
by. Union has immortalized
herself in the magni-tiule
of this glorious display of what she
is and can do.
senator*colel blease
Tells What he Knows of the
Dispensary?His Side Well
Defended.
A movement has lieen started in
Newberry county to vote out the
| dispensaries. htate Senator Uolc L.
Blcasc has contributed to the Newl>erry
papers an article on the subject.
Mr. Blcasc is one of the foremost
champions of the dispensary
in the State at this time, and by
virtue of his relations with the
state Ixmrd of control his article
may be regarded as a sort of official
statement. His article is as follows:
To the voters of Newberry County:
In view of the fact that the effort
is lx:ing made to vote out the dispensary
system in Newberry county,
I take this opportunity of presenting
to you some facts in regard to
said law. It has Ikjcii charged frequently
that at the election in 1892
the prohibition, and that the prohibitionists
asked for fish, and were
given a serjx'iit. This statement is
not true. At the session of the legislature
of 1892 the prohibitionists
made a strong tight for the Childs
prohibition bill, which was pusscd
by a good, safe majority through
the house of representatives. When
it readied the senate 2x-(iovernor
Evans then senator, moved to strike
out the Childs l>ill and insert the
dispensary law as an amendment.
That was passed t?y the senate and
returned to the house of representatives.
The prohibition leaders,
notably S. A. Nettles, who is now a
Methodist minister, and who had
been making a strenuous light for
the Childs bill arose in his seat and
begged the prohibition members
whose leader he was, to vote for the
: senate amendment, which was the
dispensary law. Now, if the prohibitionists
were strong enough in
the house to puss the bill, were they
not strong enough to have defeated
the dispensary amendment? Certainly
they could have done so if
they had combined with the anti*
prohibitionists, who did ask them
to help them kill the dispensary
amendment. You see, therefore,
that the prohibition majority is responsible
for the passage of this
law, and not the anti-prohihitionists.
You all remember the old barroom
system, with all of its evils,
which are so numerous that I need
not mention. You also remember
that when the courts closed the dispensaries
for the time Innng what
the condition of affairs was from
original package houses and blind
tigers. Do you wish to return to
either of these systems? The dispensary
law provides that no whiskey
shall 1)0 sold l>etween sunset and
sunrise; no whiskey shall l>e drunk
on the premises; no whiskey shall
Ikj 'sold to a minor or habitual
drunkard; no person shall be allowed
to purchase whiskey but once
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on credit; no whiskey shall be sold
in less quantity than one-half of
one pint; and no man pays a cent
to keep up the dispensary except
the man who buys the whiskey. A
revenue is received from the sale
and is divided l?etwccn the town and
county. For the year ending No"
vemher 30, 15)04, the net profit of
the state dispensary, placed to the
credit of the school fund, was 8171,377.72.
In our own county, New4>erry,
we received 83,507.18.
From our county dispensaries the
county received last year 86000,
and the town received $6000.
Now. if the dispensary law should
he voted out it would necessitate the
raising of the tax levy from two
and one-half to four and one-half
or live mills. In addition to this,
the schools throughout the entire
county would l>c materially injured.
We all know that schools which
used to run three and four months
are now running six and seven
months; that the teachers are receiving
higher salaries: that the
school houses are hcing improved,
and that new equipment, such as
desks, maps etc., are hcing added;
and a surplus yet remains to the
credit of the schools.
It has l>een said that it was a sin
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iur tne suiu: ui rt-coivc iniH money
from the sale of whiskey. Which
is tlic greater sin, for the state to
sell whiskey and receive the profits
or to sell a license for the sale of
whiskey and to receive the license
money? Is it more evil to sell whiskey
and receive the profit than it is
to license another man to sell whiskey
and you receive the license? Is
it more wrong to sin than it is to
encourage it and license others to
do it? Because, in either ease, it
is money received from the sale of
whiskey. It is liquor money just
the same.
The dispensary system is not responsible
for had manngmcnt, and
should not be voted out liccause
some are violating the law any
more than a city should he condemned
and boycotted because it
has some disreputable parts. For
instance on Sunday I noticed,
while people were going to the opera
house to hear the baccalaureate
sermon to the graduating class of
Newlierry College, that a crowd of
negro Iniys were under tie court
house piazza on the public square,
playing a mouth organ, dancing,
laughing and talking loudly. The
same thing was going on during
the service and during the time
that the people were leaving, returning
home. Should Newlnrry
be shut up and the town charter
taken away from the town lweause
o! this? Yet people say tlie dispensary
must go liecausc sonic Imd
management lias been shown.
What means this combination
among the prohibitionists, the
blind tiger element, the moonshiners
and those who favor open
l>arr<x>ms? ? If the dispensary is
voted out, what are we to have?
Prohibition? No; lieeausc it would
never l>e enforced; the attempt
would l?e a failure, as it always has
been everywhere, and as a result it
would soon become a stench to the
nostrils of the people, and then wc
would hear the other side crying
out. (iive uh the old Iwirnsuns,and
that is why they are today with the
prohibitionists and endeavouring
to kill the dispensary. Do you
want the old barroom system in the
back, <#ud of you,r dru^ stored? II
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vote to kill the dispensary and
to establish so-called prohibition.
These are only a few thoughts
which I wish to call your attention
and ask you to consider. If the
election is asked for, before it is
held 1 hope that there will Ik? arranged
meetings in the county where
the question can be fairly and without
prejudice to the people. I stand |
ready to defend the dispensary sys- *
tern, and at the proper time will!
invito a joint discussion with the
leaders on the other side. Then
the matter can be presented, and
the tight can be made and to the
finish.
In conclusion, let me call your
attention to the meeting of Saturday
and to those who were leading
it. Does it remind you of certain
other conventions held in our
county? Is this another political
movement in disguise to help somebody
get office? Respectfully,
(/OLE I/. BLEASE.
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