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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ....BY THE ... UNION TIMES COMPANY SECOND FLOOR TIMES BUILDING BELL PHONE NO. 1. j L. G. YOUNG, - - MANAGER Registered at the Post office in Union S. C. as second class mail matter. senselurnoN ratbm One year .... $|.ur Six months - .51 Three months ... .26 ABVEKTI8KMKM h : One square, lirsl insertion - $1.0^ Kvory subsequent insertion - .*r0 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. boeals inserted at ? 1-15 rents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged t'or at half rates. UNION. H. C.f JANUARY U?i'> OUR PROSPERITY. Owing to peculiar conditions tin growth of the prosperity of the south has I teen slow. In lSlio ju.-t after the close of hostilities between the north and the south cotton c mnnnnded the highest prices on record selling for front 2"> to 15 cents per pound. This was owing to the ho t that the mills of the north (New England) and England had nractieallv stormed running for want of cotton. The government of England had tried to grow cotton in several places during the war hut to no effect, therefore when the war was over a rush was made for the cotton of the south, and lor s vend years money was plentiful. The southern fanners forgot to make anything to eat. in their wild, mail rush to grow large crops of cotton, consequently the northwest supplied southern cribs and meat' houses with high price corn anil bacon. Soon an over production of trot ton the south put the price >lo'\vn and the speculation took hold "*? to make money out of our cotton and our farmers became poorer and poorer each year, some years barely getting enough for their cotton to pay the cost of production. Howis it today? .lust as it should have been thirty years ago. The farmers have awakened to the full knowledge <>f their true importance as the producers of a staple the world needs, must and will have, cotton, a staple that has no rival in the fibres of the world, southern cotton that has no equal or competitor in the world of textile manufacture. Cotton is the true basis of the wealth of the south, added to which are her many minerals. The. mills have at last come to the cotton. Today the cotton grower is the monarch who sways his sccptor over the world of commerce and makes it possible to turn or stop the wheels of every cotton mill in the world. What a gigantic power, now recognized by the world and upon winch the eyes of the world of trade are turned. This is our prosperity, this is why the new south ha* come again to her own, as of yore when the south had colossal fortunes, with mansions like the palaces of kings, when nabobs | and monarchs moved in no grander style :i it? i luxury man mu nir southern planter. SMALL INDUSTRIES. The .Manufacturers' Record lias done a wonderful work for the Eolith and in its issue of I treem her jsth it lias letters from almost every important ]>oint in every state giving its correspondents: views of the benefit that particular section has received from the efforts of the Manufacturers' Record. The Record is simply buried in houtjucts with only a single exception and that from the late Mr. Kdward Atkinson. It is such good advice A 1 A !l P..I1 .1 .1. A I 4 mat we give it, hi uiu aim iron, cadi of our readers study it. It. >eonis to have been written directly at our town. Without much trouble over #500,000 has been raised here to build cotton mills, while our fellow townsman, Mr. T. K. Bailey, whom all know to bo one of our safest business men lias difficulty to raise one per cent yT>' ;yt amount r^ 7'f for ;i furniture factory that is in tine running condition and shipping its manufactures to all jx>ints of the South and West. This with Mr. Mois-'s foundry which has hern of (incalculable assistance to the building trade and cotton mills is all the small industries we have. The Neals Shoals Power Co. is now ready to deliver electric power to manufacturers at a low rate and we hope that ere another year rolls round that we. may he able to chronicle quite a number of small industries. What is the mutter with a small factory to make either of the foli : . __ . 11 Hitting articles: minis, overalls, pants, handkerchiefs, knit underwear, brooms, spokes and handles, and a canning factory. A few machines would not cost such a large amount hut the beginning would he tlu: event of perhaps as prosperous a business as our cotton mill industries. I'liion has pulled together in the past, why not in the future? Let us hope that the first man who studs a new venture will he welcomed when present ng his subscription list and that each one will put his shoulder to the w heel and subscribe as he is able. 1 have watched the course of the Manufacturers' Record from the beginning, and at times j have put into your columns views on many subjects that were at variance with your own. First, in respect to your course in promoting the cotton manufacture, as if in that lay the key to the progress of the cotton states. Twenty years ago 1 cautioned my southern friends to move slowly and surely, pointing out to them that the progress and welfare of a state would lie vnstlv more nro- I muted 1 ?y developing the small in-dustries that require little capital, that call for mechanical aptitude. and intelligence, than hy establish-1 ing great factories of any kind. It, was then apparent that there was a field open for the development- of the cotton manufacture, provided j it was followed up in a very con-1 servative method; hut there was a profound error in the minds of southern people on the general subject?the same error which had misled them in earlier times? namely, that the cotton manufacture had heon a chief source of wealth, occupation and wages in the New Kngland States. The next error in your course has been an elTort to set it up in the southern states. The inducements held out were long hours, low wages, to a certain extent child labor, proximity to the cotton field and a warm climate?all in some measure a disadvantage rather than an advantage. In the course of time all this has become apparent. It has been proved that long hours, ' especially night work, are unprofitable on modern high-speed machinery. The most intelligent and pr*>-1 grcssive cotton manufacturers are" now keeping children out of their i mills and providing them with edu. A ! 1 V. ' . - I A .. i . l I 11 canon. rro.xnnuy n> Tin- couon field, where the cotton mills exist, has proved to he- a delusion after the coarse work had been passed by to fine work, requiring strong cotton. The supply is drawn from | the same sources supplying New |Kngland: there is no advantage in I proximity. The mills have been j I constructed so rapidly that the I source of labor is exhausted, and I there is no French Canada or vol1 unie of immigration to fall back upon. Wages are rising and help is very scarce. Again, the mountain people, previously uninformed rather than ignorant, but capable of a rapid ad\aneement when opportunity is giv-j en to them, arc passing through the cotton factory, or will pass through the cotton factory, as the farmer's1 daughters of New Kngland did, up j into the lesser industries of a more individual kind, where the work is less arduous, the hours shorter, the pay much better and the conditions of life far better. The town or city of small industries in New Knidand is a far more prosperous place than the factory town, as it will he in the South. There was room for cotton spinning in the South without the . delusion of drawing from New England or 01<1 England. There was and is room for all, each keeping its suitable place. Tin; warm climate, hot in summer, is another disadvantage. Cotton-spinning is an indoor art for a cold climate. It is one of, the less important branches of in- [ dustry that has l?een maintained, 1 and is increasing on the lines of fine and fancy work as rapidly as it is wholesome for it to increase, but the cotton industry might have vanished 20 years ago from New England, and if it had, it would not today Ihj missed. Other arts, more profitable, requiring less canii till mid paying better wages, would have taken its place. I While you have poured capital, IK>tli Southern and Northern, into J great factories and iron works, ha^ you nut neglected the very foundation of your prosperity, that js, agriculture? Have you yet surmounted the evil methods of the old system? What part even of your cotton land has hcon subjected to deep and thorough* tillage, to renovation, to intelligent and intensive cultivation? To what extent J have you increased the old meagre i crop per acre of an average of 2<MJ , to 224 pounds, and on the uplands' even h .-s, when in point of fact, if intelligent and intensive methods are applied, with right tillage and ! renovation of the soil, double that ; crop can he made on every acre, 1 with less lahor and under 1 >etter i conditions? Is not that work being done hy a small number of intelli- ! gent white farmers, and a yet smaller number of intelligent colored i farmers, yet sufficient in number .to prove the general shiftlcssncss uf ! all the rest? Again, witness tin- accounts that i have been given to truck-farming in Tidewater, V irginia. What would ; it have profited for all these Tide | water countes tn put up a great ! factory, compared to what it has ! profited tliem to improve the conditions of agriculture? Again, witness the wonderful accounts that have heen given* to the raising of lettuce in Fayetteville in North Carolina and at Newborn a small capital, a large measure of intelligence and industry and exceedingly large profits. I Again, witness the account of the j saving of the waste of the old pine forests, from which the turpentine pines have been all removed. How | many have discovered' the value of the stumps and light wood? How much lias it profited to save this waste, as compared to pulling up any kind of a factory? Such profits are diffused; there may be no 'get-rich-quick' in them, hut they lead more to the common welfare and common wealth than any great factory or workshop of any kind. There are "dill titles to the manufactures of the nation. How many of these are listed in the old cotton States, or rather, I should ask how few? You can pick out certain cities in the South that have developed from within on their muscles that are thriving on small industries. How soon will this come to be the rule and how soon will the deposits in your savings banks, belonging to the intelligent mechanics and artisans who work your small industries, begin to equal the dedositsof the small class in the New England States, in New York and in Pennsylvania? My own reply would be, when your common schools and your common educa- ! tion have been brought nearer to i the true standard and the illiteracy of white and black alike lias been overcome. WRECK ON SOUTHERN NEAR JONESViLLE K. 01 P.'s Give Banquet and Addresses Were Made?Jonesville Guards Have Banquet. Jonesville, .Jan. I, I'JUth?The holidays all passed off very quiet in Jonesville and the new year comes in bright and lovely overhead but rather sloppy under foot. The snow | came down yesterday morning quite lively for awhile. Something like two inches fell but it soon faded away. The Southern railway was greeted early this new years morning with a hail wreck about three hundred yards below the depot. It was a through freight that met with the disaster, caused, it seems, by the breaking of a rail, which ditched seven cars, one empty box car and six gondolas all loaded with coal. Four cars and the caboose on the rear end of the train never left the track and several cars in front of the wrecked ones also remained on tin* track; no one was hurt. Last Thursday night at the Knterprise Motel the K. of 1'. lodge here give a banquet which was quite a social function for Jonesville. One hundred and forty plates were prepared for the occasion and they were all occupied and a few extra ones. From X.dO till lO.IM) the banqueters were entertained with sweet music by a string band from Spartanburg,' punch being served by Misses Lilla llerndon and Lucile Crawford. At 10. o() the dining room doors'were thrown open and the crowd marched to the tables where the following i.w?.i, ..-..J u.,1 . O... I I iivbmi m?oov/i u:u. wjr^unn, llll l\t^ } ham, chicken salad, saltincs, pickles, olives, celery, ambrosia, cuke, nuts, coffee. Supper being over ('apt. It. \V. Scott, toast master, introduced Dr. \V. J. Douglass who made an address, subject, "Our bodge," which was followed by J. J. Littlojohn, suject, "Past, present and future of Juncsvillc," C. 11. Foster, subject, "Woman," and Hon. J. A. Hummcrsctof Columbia, - ~jLh iiffiffiH | CO I Sh I Su I 8 subject, "I'ythianisui," which closed the program. The speeches were all good and quite entertaining and everything was done by the proprietors of the hotel, assisted by Prof. 11. A. Wise and the committee to make their guests comfortable and happy. When the exercises closed the clock had struck low twelve or midnight and it was high time for the crowd to I he getting to their homes. On Saturday night at the ICnterprise Hotel the Jonesvillc (luards with a few invited guests banqueted and a line oyster stew and fine cigars were served. Addresses were made by W. II. S. Harris, C. II. Foster and Prof. H. A. Wise. This was anotht r enjoyable occasion and after supper the crowd was treated to fine music by Miss Lilla Herndon on the piano and Mr. Dan White on the violin. Dr. W. O. Southard and family have returned from Jersy City and New York where they have been for the last four weeks. Dr. Southard took a new course in the hospital at Now York where he got much information in late medical science and is now better prepared than ever for the skilful practice of his profession. Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Chandlers an?l their little daughter Mary are spending awhile in Atlanta. Mr. Mike Gregory, of Greenville, is visiting his sister Mrs. Alonzo Quito. Mrs. Dorcas Matthews and daughter, of North Carolina, visited her brother J. W. Scott and other relatives about Jonesvillc last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, of GafTncy, visited Mrs. Brown's mother, Mrs. Sallie Whitloek, last week. Mrs. A. Ij. Bassett and children have returned from a months visit to relatives in Durham, X. C. Mr. Havnes Harris of Union .spent Sunday with Dr. A. S. Foster. Mr. Funt Porter, of Greenville, visited his mother Mrs. S. A. Porter last week. Mr. Emory Pome field, of Doaz, Ala., is visiting his uncle, R. A. Whitlock and other relatives at Jonesville. Misses Amy Nicholson, Minie Scoficld and Mamie Oet/el with Messrs. J. C. Copeland, C. M. McWhirtcr and Dr. Hair, of Union, spent today with Mr. J. L. McWhirtcr. Telephone. 0 ME TO I FOR oes, Trunk it Cases ai gs ual Dry Go Company. 1 mj&j&jgrj&j&j&jarj&L 5 REWK ?| We have moved ^ Hardware, Croc 2 Furnishings, etc. some new Towi where we occupy store. Our aim i wr one of the finesi 2 city, and "Fair D Prices" is our mo ?j| see us whether y ^ or not. | OETZEL HAP teisrtir&r&gr&rersr, i Statement of th( The Peoples Ban! AX the Close of Business, S (BEGAN BUSINESS F UKSOUI Ixians and Investments..., Overdrafts IC'ash and Exchange LIAB1LI Capital Stock Surplus and Net Profits... I Hills Payable lie-discounts Deposits R Personally comes Thos. I. ! the above named Hank and in; @8 statement is true. nn*l m Mi Sworn to before me this HOtl i w. Attest: ^ B. F. Arthur, ) W. D. Arthur, > Directo J, H. Hamilton, ) nwrnummmmmmi r - jl ??Will mm I ? B 1 i n U5 1 ,*| i ^ 1 I ^ ?ds I m DVAL1 I our stock of kery, Kitchen 1^ , to the Hand- [ ' ':MS nsend Building, K a large double l^ j is to make this t stores in Hie H| 1 ealings and Fair flH I tto. Come and JR ' ou want to buy P iDWARE CO. I mmmmmm i iwL a Condition of -||gg i, of Union, S. C. fji December 30th, 1905. 'EBRUARY, 1902.) oo Hwygert, Assistant Cashier of hm iikes oath that the foregoing Tiios. I. Swyoert, jj|0 Assistant Cashier. l day of Deceniher, 1905. i W. UroiiKs, Notary Public. ,v iJHif