The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 14, 1905, Image 4

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THE UNION TIMESjti PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY I ti ... BY THE.... j 1> UNION TIMES COMPANY * SECOND FLOOR TIMES BUILDING t( BELL PIIONE NO. 1. , L. G. YOUNG, - - MANAGER t Registered at tin* Pos toll ice in Union j S. G. as second class mail matter. Bf'BSCKt I'TiON I5ATK8*' r One year .... $1.00 <J Six months .... .50 . Three months ... .25 1 ADVKKTISKMKNIS : t One square, Hrst insertion - $1.00 t Every subsequent insertion - .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at K 1-3 cents a line. "^Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of * resneet will be ehareed for at half rates. ONION, S. C., JULY 14, 19C5. ' 'The Vidctte,"a newspaper young and exceedingly fresh, published by \V. T. Crews and \V. C. Irby, Jr., in Columbia, made its third appearance Monday, July 10. It is evidently a Ben Tillman and dispensary organ, as there is little j else in the paper of local interest, i Much of it is a rehash of the Reform 1 sentiment of IMM), criticising and abusing the anti-dispensary followers and prohibitionists, in fact all who oppose the dispensary in any form or manner. It reminds us very much of Larry (iantt in the "Headlight," and if we did not look at the name of the paper and those of the editors and publishers, we would he sure we were away back in the past, reading the rot ii? ??i .......... Ill lUO I UUUHBI'V. i III'I he a revival of the old fed in those days. FARMERS' COTTON WAREHOUSE. The struggles of the farmer, the martyr and victim of peculiar eircuinstances and conditions, to gain recognition in the world of business and trade commodities have been pathetic. At no time, until now, has any plan or scheme designed for tin; benefit and betterment of the fsrmers been of sufficient strength and duration to fully organize the farmers, by which they as a class have derived any material or lasting benefit, for the reason that the promoters have had self a^randizement as a motive. The organizations heretofore having been 1 but stepping stones for political rrirnoses. Toihiv nil # ! ???? p.'oplu arc in full sympathy and arc cooperating with the farmers, recognizing the fact that the pros- 1 p ;rity of the fanner is the pros- i parity of the entire people, hankers, 1 merchants, tradesmen and artisans I of every class and condition. In < view of the past experience in suf- ? ferings and burdens borne by the ' farmers, it is little wonder that the i farmers have a lurking suspicion, t when the cotton warehouse prop)- i sition is presented to them; but we J are glad to say that this feeling 1 among the farmers is fast vanish- ' ing away. Tin; average farmer is a < person of average intelligence and ' when properly informed and his t confidence gained he becomes a v power in a scheme like the ware- f house project. The fact that the ^ t ....? i i x i?iiuu ui coiiHii iiits uavaiicca to a point unprecedented at this time of I< the year is an evidence of the ad- ' visahility of warehousing the cot- ? ton. The fsiet that the farmers n placed iit least (50 per cent of their ft crop in a warehouse, and thus put d a limited numher of hales on the s< market sit different times since the f< crop was harvested lias done as si much towards advancing the price o: as the reduction of acreage. The k idea of a warehouse is to give the h farmer the opportunity to market o ,}iis crop all during the year and f> mot lie compelled to put it all on h tlie iiiarket in the fal and winter, h .as we know that when the cotton p is all sold in three or four months at the receipts are heavy and cotton drops in price. Cotton in a ware- tl house, the farmer holding a ware- c< house receipt, is just as good as at that much money to him. At no (vi > nic in the past thirty years have lie fanners lieen in a liettcr condi1011 to hold their cotton than they ave lieen tliis post year. It is adisable for the farmers to have a *a rehouse and as many as possible [i I hi stockholders; in sonic places here are more than one warehouse, it the August meeting of the Union utility Cotton Growers Association his warehouse question will be ully discussed and the farmers rill bo asked to take stock. We egard it a safe investment and a lividend small or large is certain, t is safe to place your cotton in a varehouse, instead of taking all the isk yourself on your own plantaion. MILLS VS FARMERS. Alleged Association of Cotton Mills, in the Greenville Section of the Piedmont, to Keep Down the Price of Cotton, Which the Cotton Growers' Association is Trying to Keep Up. (ireenville, July S.?Facts have just been brought to light uncovering an association composed of nearly every cotton mill in this section, through which the local cotton market is handled. This association is fully ofliccred and each morning the price to he paid for the staple locally is fixed. Its buyers are given instructions and there is absolutely no competition and cotton is bought without grading. By a system of boycott, commission houses which have been selling brokers here, arc forbidden to buy cotton in the local Held, and so far export buyers seem to have been seared off in a similar way. ? While the association has for its aim the steadiness of prices on the loom market, it is a notorious iact Uuvt competitive buying has not that the thing y?nr* and it is claimed that the farmers are losing money. The Cotton Association here is threatening to bring a buyer into the territory whose duty it shall be simply to keep prices uu. Ro??i.?tl?r the local market has been only 10 cents, when cotton has been 11.10 in New York. This is said to be far below its true value here under such conditions, and the mill association is being blamed. It is said that the association extends beyond the borders of this county into many large manufacturing towns, and that it is just as relentless elsewhere as it has been here. 1). J. The al ove we clip from the News and Courier. In the face of the fact that the southern cotton growers association is organized to prevent tin; cotton buyers from buying the cotton of the farmers for less than it costs to make it and to prevent speculators from imposing upon the cotton growers. It seems From the ahove that we have as jreat and effective enemies to the r :~i-? i ... i<11 huts* mk"i ihtu among us, in tlic iotton mills. It is claimed l>y the I issociation that the organization is lot nor can he antagonistic to the ' nterest of the mills. It is claimed ( hat all is identical and of mutual j nterest. Yet it would seem that i it least some of the mills do not so '< Teat it. It is possible that such an issociation as is above described is onlined to the Greenville and near >y mills. This may account for he tight or rather deprecatory vritings which have at sundry times ppeared in the Greenville Daily sews. The effort of the Greenville s'ews and the Greenville mills to :ccp down the price of cotton is eprehcnsible to say the least in a outhcrn paper and southern cotton lills. It would be well for the irmers, and they are in shape to o so, to lx>ycot all such mills and ill only to shippers, this would >rce the mills to huy from the [uppers. The association spoken f above has not only put down and 1 ept down the price of cotton but as actually driven other buyers lit of the market. The price paid >r cotton in I'nion since the rise as not been as high as it should ave l>cen according to the price ( aid in New York, and not as high ( < other towns in this state have j Ben paying. We cannot think lat the mills of Union are in the 1 >mhination, meml>crs of the same ( isociation that exists in CJrcen- ' .no. b Rest, Warrior, Rest! Rest, warrior, rent! The trees art* ever green, Prepare for the noted last; Your evening sun is setting fast. Rest, warrior, rest! The hills and mountains bid you come ; Your laurels are ready won Ere long since your morning sun. Rest, warrior, rest! The muflled drum is heard no more Peace, sweet peace; The bugle's calling on the other shore. Rest, warrior, rest! No hostile camp 'tis true. Charm of beauty for the Cray. Dreams of plensure for the blue. Rest, warrior, rest! No faee of foes to dread. All malice lies silent In the bivouac of the dead. Rest, warrior, rest! The swortl and irlit.terinir steel All beaten into plowshares; Where once was woe, now is weal. Rest, warrior, rest! The waterfall drones its ceaseless song, While the birds in the tree-tops Make merry all the day long. Rest, warrior, rest! The knight of Manassas plains. The martyrs of Gettysburg's lofty heights; The valiants of Chickamauga's rolling hills. Rest, warrior, rest! The hero of long ago, The enchantment of today, Are emblems of years before. Rest, warrior, rest! Out of the carnage and aching pain ; Out of the strife where shot and shell did rain ; Out of the furor and battle slain ; Out of the scenes where comrades lain. Rest, warrior, rest! The name of our honored dead Will be the watch word Of those who fought and bled. Rest, warrior, rest! In the valley the birds proudly sing. Where smiles bade the dnyiigkt king; There all nature in grand array Gently kiss the king of day. Rest, warrior, rest! On fames' eternal camping ground ; God is watching. Angels guard the sentry round. ?G. G. RrciiANAN, Co. A. Palmetto Sharpshooters, Jenkins' Brigade, Longstreet's Corps. | Chickasha, I. T. I j JONESVILLE wepoT turned. Negro Used Shot (iun With Deadly Effect at Jerusalem Cliuivlt. Jonesville, July 10?Yesterday morning at '>::>() o'clock the alarm of fire was sounded in our town which soon brought the people to the streets and it was found that the Southern depot was ablaze and by the time help arrived it was too late to enter the building in safety. So nothing could be saved inside the depot. Three 1h>x cars stood on j the siding opposite the depot one of which was loaded with flour which had been left there Saturday and the other two cars had household furniture and some other freight in , them. The car loaded with Hour was pushed down the track and H'lVi'il niwl (lm 1 ...... IUMIUIIIV nunniovcu ' out of the other cars and saved, but ; the cars were burned, as these two cars were coupled together and , the brakes were op them and no pinch bars could l>e found about the yard in time or they might have Ixien saved. The lire eat its way through the depot in a few minutes and the two ears on the track were soon ablaze and as most of the material they were built of was rich pine they made a dreadful hot tire. There was hut little wind Mowing, and only one building being very near, the fire did not spread and was confined only to the railway property. The new brick store of Williams hros. is only about oO feet from the depot, hut men were on top of the store with buckets of water and then water was used on the front and the buildinc wn.w There was a good deal of freight in the depot, some of it having been put in Saturday evening. As to the cause of the fire no one knows. It seemed to have started in the freight department. Mr. W. D. Oliver the agent says he was in the depot until two o'clock and he left everything in good order, so far as he knew, and in aUmt two hours the fire was discovered. The household furniture that was in tin; cars that was burnt belonged to Mrs. Olliver, the mother of the agent, who was just moving from Aiken to Jonesville to keep house j and live with her son. Capt. J. H. Morgan, Supt. of bridges and buildings, and Mr. j John (ieldson, supervisor, were here today cleaning up the debris, and 1 Capt. Morgan rented the ware house , of Mr. J. F. Alman just 1m;1ow the ^ ilofx ?t, for a temporary depot until a new one could l>c built. Of course s the railway carries insurance oil all property destroyed. Yesterday at Jerusalem colored j diurch about four miles from Jones- ^ ville, the negroes had a big shooting Iwic and four of them got shot, one ; I. In order to cleai of Low Shoes, prices low enoug I MUTUAL DRV P R. P. MARRY, = Of them it is thought mortally. Ar- jffiiJtfjA thur Jeter was on one side and he &l used a double luirrel hrecch loader a /r^/T> a and (ireen Woodson, Obe Woodson, Bfl I and Jim Glenn were on the other x. side and they used pistols. Green \k Woodson is dangerously wounded. 1 Arthur Jeter made Ids escape. The Township convention was u, held at the Malay school house four 75 II I^llCS miles north of Joncsville yesterday. > 411. W, Whitloek was elected town- 7a EclSy V ship superintendent and T. 11.Gore &k ntirl wri was elected secretary. The attend- ^ WI ance was good and good addresses ? ? were made and a sumptuous dinner spread. I cannot give further par- ? titulars of the convention as 1 was |k not present. ? -* - - * i vibim <ji uur society people ?in<l J 8|l some visitors from Texas went up u to White Stone this evening to at- & tend the hall there tonight. ^ Mr. W. C. Gray, of Laurens, was ?J( in our town today on business. I? C!\\\ on Mr. T. M. Little job 11, of Star \|l wcl11 UI1 Farm, was in Joncsvillc today. Mr. J. Ed. Kohn, of Union, was here today. ik Mrs. W. Smith Lipscomb and daughter, of Bon ham, Tex., Mrs. &L ||C^j J. 11. L. Wood, of Gaffney, Mr. 11HH I w_ Clark and daughter and Miss Cole, of Bonhaip, Tex., are visiting rcla- Maijmjmji tives and friends at Jojiesville and fSd^F ^F ^F Gaffney. Mrs. Carrie Odam and two childrcn, of Chesterfield, are visiting ,<k her father's family, Mr. J.' II. Lit- ilia tlejohn. ,A Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Whitloek, of jjM .M. m.V# Spartanburg, visited his father's if/ bhbbhi family, Mr. Munro Whitloek yes- \K terday. >|W c . Most of the cotton that was bcintr ffl rOT * held in this ncighlxirhood for ten || OUT \ cents was put upon tlie market last 'j/ft Proir week at 10 to 10 1-1 cents. There |jM was about 500 bales of it. J. L. lfe McWhirter ginned several bales of m? Rpci" cotton last Saturday. ijM Mr. Boyd L. Hamcs, of Gaffney, m /isitod his mother last Saturday. $4 jp Qp Mr. B. F. Webber was over from \vfi ~ ns forest home last Saturday. \K Ul!f f Rev. I). E. Camak filled his pul- ?|W every lit here yesterday morning and \Ul piti p, lev. A. A. James filled his appointnent in the evening. jrfl Some Dr. A. S. Foster was running to l'cfr S he tire ycS'.erday morning along ,h?* road and ho slipped and fell and KK vas right Iwidly hurt, hut he got up Yu3 rpi ind kept running all the same and [ft/ I W\ O lever had time to consult his fJM | vounds till after the tire and lie illVt blind several bad sears on his per- f The nlac mn. flra Whone. | ?1?? ILL- liLL" ?- Srt i iUAL I iRCAINS I nHRHnn S2Kj mSj ^ ^ Women, I d Girls. I n up our stock H we have the HI ^ * PI ii for evervorie la ' GOODS CO. I - - MANAGER. jg! ij&j&j&jefjsrj&jerjsrjtpjtrjtrjmQ ream Freezers t THE "WONDER" ^ t Grade, but low priced. $ o operate, uses least ice, * in tv/ %J IlllllUlCdt H 7 * 1 Quart $1.50 2 Quarts 1.75 ? 3 44 2.25 $ . 4 44 2.50 J 6 44 3.25 ? 8 44 4.50 ' Q ^ us for other hot weather jjj necessities. ^ EL HARDWARE CO. | grjerararansrarareranqram ol Komfort I ? Varm Weather can be found at \k Soda Water Fountain and Ice &8 n rarior. We see to it that only 8l Ingredients Are Used | ir cold drinks and ice creams. Si personal supervision is given to 0 ' detail. PURITY, HEALTH- ffi siESS and PALATABILITY are j| of the things that belong to our ;hment products. || I Rice Drug Co., I e to ^et Pure Drugs and Low Prices.) i ; . >*, VliiftMi