The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 29, 1905, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES
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ONION, S. C., SKPT. ?, 19C5.
TRIBUTE TO WHOM
TRIBUTE IS DUE.
For the past three weeks, possibly
longer, the eity of I'nion and some
of her sister eities have Urn rife with
speculative gossip,and madam rumor
has danced upon her head, hands
and heels in grotesque contortions
as though suffering from some hideous
nightmare. The madam has
spun small threads of truth with
ropes of untruth so intricately in
her wild speculations that the fabric
woven from this combination
presents a tangled web of uncertainty,
as a result of which her devotees
arc still puzzling over future (level
opments. Characteristic of i?n ungrateful
people who are so easily
imbued with the spirit and sentiments
of the world's cold charities as
to forget the l?cnefaetion when misfortune
overtakes the benefactor and
are more ready to blame for failure
than to praise for past success.
It has been our purpose and poltempt
on the part of any one, be he
high or low, rich or poor, to manipulate
a tratlic or do anything detrimental
to the general interest and
welfare of the entire people and for
the same reason we endeavor to pay
tribute, honor and praise for the
performance of what we think has
been for the general good of that
same people and deserving praise
and commendation.
Prior to the organization of the
I'nion Cotton Mills several unsuccessful
attempts were made to get
up sufficient stock with which to
organize and begin the erection of a
cotton mill. This situation was
only relieved and an organization
perfected when the present president
came in with his liberal subsubscription
and was elected president
and treasurer. For the past
eight or ten years this mill has been
in successful operation and has paid
semi-annual dividends since the
second year of its existence. So
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it has under the same management
hililt, equipped and operated fi?r
the past tive years one of the handsomest
and most substantial cotton
mills in the South?the Buffalo? 1
and in addition to this an oil and |
grist mill and ice plant at the same 1
place. A railroad was built from 1
I'nion to Buffalo. In this connection
we say that for several years
unsuccessful efforts had boon made I
to build a competing. railroad from
some point on the Scalx>ard railroad.
The situation in which
I'nion has been so long placed by
the lack of railroad facilities has
been relieved by the building and
operating of the I nion and (denn
Springs railroad. The railroad was
built by the enterprising and energetic
president of the Union and
Buffalo cotton mills. Now is all
this to be forgotten and remain unappreciated
by our people? (Do not
understand us to mean that all this
was accomplished by one unaided
by others.)
The lands upon which the Union
and Buffalo cotton mills and operatives
houses now stand were old
worn out lands barely lit for a goat
pasture, but these lands were sold
to the mill company for a good
far in excess of what they j
cost the original owners, and sine
the mills were built the adjoinin
lands have been enhanced and com
mand good prices. >
As to the cotton mill manage
inent we copy the following editoi
ial from the News and Courier e
the 2ttrd inst., all of which we full
endorse:
"ol'KSTIoSS As TO COTTON MILL MA?
AOEVIKNT.
The question is sometimes asket
Why is it, in view of the splendi
prosperity the textile industry 1
tiie South has enjoyed upon tl
wliole during the last twenty year
that so many mills are not no
prosperous, as is indicated by the
shares being quoted at tigures belo
par value?
A number of reasons might 1
given, but perhaps the best ar
chief is that the industry is yet i
its youth. It should be remcmbe
ed that the mills of the South ha'
been built and managed, as a rul
not by spinners, but by lawyer
doctors, bankers and other mt
from every calling who have learni
the manufacturing business aft
their entrance into it. That in tl
establishment of the industry ni
mcrous mistakes should occur, fc
gCther with individual failures, wj
to lie expected, and the marvel
that these have been comparab
few.
Numbers of men to whom tl
manufacture of cloth was whol
unknown have demonstrated a r
markablc facility in learnig it, ar
though the community of maste
spinners in this part of the eounti
is still only aliout a quarter of
century old, it has contributed
the business numbers of men wl
rank with the most expert in Amc
ica and Europe. If the men wl
have been attracted to cotton ma
ufacturing had not as a rule posses
ed uncommon cleverness and encrj
it is likely that the l>eginnings
the industry in the South wou
have been attended with a mu<
larger number of failures than h
been the actual case.
However, the period has arrivi
when those who control the indust
should halt and examine, so that
there be any radical defects in tl
conduct of the mills generally, th
may be corrected. For exampl
we have heard it suggested fr
quently of late that the combinatk
advisable. It is held that fiscal ai
administrative functions have i
necessary connection, and th
there is danger of clothing one m;
with so much power that the inti
ests of the shareholders are 11
properly safeguarded. In disbui
ing the funds of a corporation, tl
argument is not necessarily con fin<
to cotton mills, it is said that tl
treasurer and president should
two men, and, the signature of bo
being required for the cxpenditu
of company funds, they would
checks upon each other. Undoul
cdly the power of a mill preside
and treasurer is extraordinary
South Carolina. In Massachusetl
we are informed, not only arc the
oflices not combined, but no lar
pecuniary transactions are perinitt
by the corporation unless with tl
express consent in writing [in t
form of a resolution of the director
The habit of one mill preside
becoming the head of a number
manufacturing companies is anotb
I thing sometimes criticised. A thi
policy that has been unfavoral
commented upon is the under caj
talization of the new mills, that
to say, the building of a half milli<
dollar plant upon a quarter of
I million dollar capital, the rcmai
der being borrowed money.
Much is to be said in favor of i
these policies as well as again
i them. Perhaps there are no inflc
j iblc principles that apply. Ea<
case is to be judged and ordered 1
its own environment and upon i
own merits. We only go so f
now as to say that the industry h
reached that stage of dcvelopmei
to permit careful and eomprehci
sive study upon the broadest lin
of all that enters into its conduc
Twenty-five years hence the mills
the South will lie managed hy m<
who have heen brought up in tl
business, the sons and pupils i
those who have securely establish*
it in the South, and it is not t<
soon to begin to study the under!;
ing laws that shall guide it for tl
future."
It has been the practice of eottc
mill presidents and treasurers
buy cotton for speculation, buy
at as low a price as possible, bi
more than their mills need ai
then sell at a good advance an
profit. The past year, ho wove
has not Ihjcii one in which tlx
could reali/e, owing to the action <
the Southern Cotton Associatior
therefore a loss was the natural an
necessary consequence. Yc Chrii
tian stockholders and directors, i
long as money was made by buyin
/
e | and selling it was all right, but
g when the title turned and the little
i- bargue returned freighted with
losses it was all wrong. Again, the
output of the mills have not been
r- such ready sales, and taking into
>f consideration these fluctuations in
y prices of cotton and cloth accounts
in a great measure for losses. The
losses were not confined to the mills
ef the South or the h'orth, but
lf some of the mills of England had to
d close and the owners actually had a
11 meeting, and were considering the
advisability of moving'thoir mills to
^ America, and further these English
ir capitalists wore contemplating going
w into cotton growing in the United
States. Tt was a crisis that entailed
^ great loss to buyers and nianufac[n
turers, and today the stock of very
r- few mills is at or above par, but on
vc the contrary below. It has also
been the practice of cotton mill
" j companies in electing a president to
elect him treasurer also, thus com!.!..!>.
11 a. /i!
i>r uining wie nvo oinccrs in one peric
son; this we presume was done
Ll~ from an economical point of view;
but they have in more instances
js than one found it to be unwise, and
ly changes have and will be made in
this respect.
ic ?:
ly In another column we reproduce
e- from the .News and Courier an aecount
written by Mr. August Kohn
ry. in reference to the recent excitc\
mcnt about the Union and Buffalo
to Cotton Mills, which we think is as
10 near correct as can be written at
'r~ this time.
Iio _
Columbia has lately developed a
gy new enterprise in a get rich quick
of scheme. In the short space of one
Id week three citizens have been held
^ up by a highway robber on the
streets of that city, one a lout 8
cd o'clock at night and the others bery
twecn 10 and 11 oclock. The plan
if followed by the roblor in each case
would seem to identify him as one
and the same man in all three cases.
e. Mr. Nagle lost a gold watch and ten
m dollars, Judge Ernest Gary a gold
^Ll. ~ J - -' U
, dollars, and a young man Prince
f -1 ..11 11 1 1 1 mi
[U) luur uonurs, an nc nan. inese
at l)old hold-ups in a city like Columm
l>ia calls for greater vigilance on the
r" part of police and detective force,
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*- News Prom Jonesville.
lie
Jonksvillk, September 25.?The
.1C weather is all that could be desired,
.1? and the short crops are being gathcred
in a hurry.
I Last Saturday the two ginneries
!(' here in town ginned 80 bales of
} " cotton and it nearly all went on the
" market at 10 cents. Today the
Y market is 10 1-8 cents.
s'( Mr. James Black is drilling a
sc well for the new hotel. The well is
now alniut one hundred feet deep
and will be drilled several feet
.1 more.
11 Mr. J. S. Kendrick has Ixiught
Mr. Munro Horn's dwelling on
11. Harris street and will move into it
(] soon. Mr. John Johnson has rent101
ed Prof. Ackeinion's new dwelling
V and will move to our town.
V Mrs. J. L. McWhirtcr started
n.~ this morning for San Francisco,
1S Cal., to attend the meeting of the
311 Daughters of the Confederacy.
51 Miss I/ola Asmett, of Pacolet,
n" who has been with the Bee Hive, in
.. Spartanburg for'some time has taken
a position with the J. J. Littlcjohn
1 Co.'s store. (
V Mrs. J. 11. Foster and three chil1
dren, who have been visiting in
>y Augusta have returned.
s Mrs. J. F. Betsill, of Cross Keys,
iU is visiting her mother, Mr. G. B.
'Y Fowler.
Many people of our town are sorY
ry to hear that the Union Cotton
Y Mills arc in financial trouble.
. * There is but very little of the stock
m owned in this town.
>n air t (l ?
a v? . vviuicnni! OUpUl UltUU"
UJ dent of the yarn mill, has* resigned,
l\ and is succeeded by Mr. G. H.
H Fairbanks, of Columbus, (Ja. Mr. ,
>u Johnson has many friends in Jones*"
who will regret to see him leave our
ie * i
our town.
Mr. Willie Alman and Ins sister,
,n Miss Kittie, have returned from
^() Westminster, where they have
. been working in a knitting mill.
Mr. T. A. Littlcjohn hiul a tenant
y house burned not long since, which !
id was insured in the Farmer's Mutual 1
,d of this county and in less than two \
r weeks Mr. Littlejohn received a J
' check for his loss. Our County
Mutual is on a solid Inisis and is '
growing stronger every month,
l, The Methodist Sunday school ]
,] here, oliserved Work Day for the J
s Epworth Orphanage last Saturday, '
and yesterday morning the contri- j
butions of the days work were '
B brought in and it amounted to 1
I^Tincst
S/jc
I Are handsom
and more vat
ied than eve
shown befon
SThey are Sho
Perfection.
|| Fashionable it
II and excellent i
H| these shoes ha
ll shoes have ev<
??j Their populari
||s dressed wome
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thirty dollars.
Hca. 1). K. Camak filled his pulpit
here last night and his church
was filled with attentive hearers,
and the preacher gave a fine sermon
from the text, "Peace, he still,"
the words of our Savior to the disciples
on the ship during a storm.
l hc fourth quarterly conference
for the charge will be held here next
Monday morning. Telkphone.
Notes from Pinckney.
September 24th, 1904.?We are
having fine weather now for gathering
cotton, and the people aro taking
advantage of it. Misses Edna
Baldwin and Blanche Fowler have
closed their schools after two
months successful teaching.
Miss Bess Long, who is teaching
the line Grove School <*>sed here
rnday the twenty secqnd. All of
the colleges, graded and hign
schools will soon open and all of
those going to attend or teach in
either will soon have to leave their
homes. Miss Khcllcr L. Fowler
has gone to attend Clifford Seminary.
Mr. Essie Inman left last
\V ednesdny to resume his studies at
I mversify of Virginia. Kcv. Thos
Going leaves soon to take charge of
his school aljove Spartanburg. Miss
Blanche O. Fowler leaves in a few
days for Iticliburg where she has
oeen elected principol of the Richburg
High School.
Miss Mae Inman, who has been
ifuite unwell for some time is much
better.
Mr and Mrs. C. E. Bailey
visited Mrs. Bailey's sister, Mrs
Maggie Moore, at Sharon a few days
last week.
Mrs. S. O. Inman has returned
from Greenville where she has l?ccn
visiting her parents for some time.
Master Herbert Fowler leaves
soon to resume his studies at Cedar
Spring. Pfavek.
Birds of a Feather.
A little story is going the
rounds about a local newspaper
n a nearby town which published
i paragraph stating that a certain
business man was in the habit of
lugging his lady typewriter, and
that if he didn't quit it his name
would be published. Before the
lext paper appeared, twenty-six
lu sin ess men called, paid up
heir subscriptions, left orders
for twenty-six columns of advertising
and told the editor to "pay
10 attention to foolish stories." I
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sr equalled them in t
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give you prices on Furniture,
interest to get our prices befor<
We have a good manj
Summer Goods. Call
Let us do your Repair Work ar
will try and please you in eve
have a nice line of Picture* Moi
our prices on Picture Frames.
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