The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 01, 1907, Page 4, Image 4

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4 THE UNION TIMES tiona ==========- rolijfi PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY K?<jd BY THE tablis UNION TIMES COMPANY, Cn i'p5.4?f BELL PHONE NO. I. jneude by St L. M. RICE, - - - Editor, ooo f< ' ' : mont' Registered at tin- Postoffice in Un- after ion, S. C., as second-class mail matter, able . tricts SI*BSCRIPT10N RATES: I schoi One year $i.00|l'1e ? Six months 5o,"n.1 Three months 25 . largt ADVERTISEM EXTS: j shou One square, lirst insertion $1.00 ty ii Eviv subsequent insertion 501 than Contracts for three months or longer'aid will he made at reduced rates. nam Locals inserted at 81-3 cents a line, "-too Rejected manuscripts will not he re- l>nv turned. Obituaries and tributes of | respect will be charged for at half J rates. . / ' " TT-T7~T! F, UN* I OX. S. L\. .MAKLii i. iyo/. ( i sent Engineer Stephens has given up the MrPanama canal undertaking. That big Sta ditch seems to put a damper on the this energy of the most ardent contractors. * * * a 1 Tax levy in the county of Union? ,7a Ordinary ,t!/> mills, road tax i mill, |al>( railroad bonds i mill, debt i mill, per- 1,0 nianent road improvement I mill, aid Sej Confederate veterans 1-4 mill. Sc1 * * * hit One hundred and fifty prominent cit- M izens of Greenville have signed a peti- j tion to have constables reappointed in 1 sc that county. That's about the thing t?vm' do, and Union countv tin " * * * I to Although one condemns the baseness <>f the stealing of bonds from the scl State treasurer's office by Daniel Zim- vc merman, it is yet a matter to arouse rc' the pity of hearts that are sympathetic. 'thi I he age of the man and his high stand- jtl,: iiiK combine to make one sad to sec ^ his downfall. * * * We feel sure that there will have to n" be an appeal to Governor Ansel to ^ appoint special constables to enforce the law airainst blind timers in Union. i i . niv It is a notorious fact that whtSKcy is . . . , . - . . nta bcunr bronuht into__liUPl\ at w 1 1?*" rrp rrnrrnl Kej; atter Kept of w^'key has been dumped from the nipjhtJ'^' * ' )[ sender train after it pulls out ofV, j'',c ion. Some of this whiskey has been i,c<' captured by our policemen. I'.nt, as a)1( one of the policemen says, there are' 1 vastly larger numbers of "dents in the!'"'1" Ki-otrnd titan packages captured." Let a sliarp !< ..k.?ut be kept by the officers :n'| of t!ie law. If they are unable to cope wit it the situation, then let n> have the ('c0' special constables appointed. The good citizens o! Union do not propose to sit idly hy and he run over rou^h shod byian!' the despicable lawbreakers. cv'(' inie ENORMOUS EIRE tOSS. I,,"', 1? ?1 > The statisticians i?i the lire insur-1 ^ ance companies tell us that the losses wjtj, in the United States by lire last year moil reached the enormous total of more |lmv than live hundred million dollars. How t|iat much of this was protected by insur- t],.. ance against loss by fire we are not ],nn, told, but the figures given are sufii- an<j cient to cause interest, and to provoke wjvt. serious investigation of the cause of 1 frion so many conflagrations. It is true'j10|y the immense total reached last year, man which, by the way, was never before chus equaled in any single twelve months, at, was greatly augmented by the San -fit Francisco earthquake fires; but after ;itrcc deducting that, the losses were heavy, gwcc Another fact which is pointed out is J that the International Society of Build-1 -rue ing Inspectors declare nine-tenths of the national lire losses are prevent- j nh1.? Th.. r ? 1 . N_.ii <Min.i legislature '11 several years ago made it incumbent usual on tlie comptroller general to investi- (Audi gate all fires where there was suffi- i valid cient evidence of incendiarism to war- railw rant such investigation, but we do not land recall a single instance where any such lts s case resulted in detection of a critni- Beltc nal. For several years there has bcen'?f nt a demand for a law in this State pro- miles hihiting the manufacture or sale of any ! row 1 but safety matches, to the end that liams Vnany accidental tires might be pre- Gossi vented; but so far the legislature hasj'n,t not taken favorable action on the prop- pany osition. The time is not far distant, j case, however, when the general assembly1 this si will enact such legislation. joccup .? . ; the fit STATE AID FOR HIGH SCHOOLS.' ft*'", " |tenns This paper has always stood for | which State aid for high schools, and the condei last legislature passed a law appropri- bed at ating $50,000 for that purpose. Years jcharte ago the churches saw the hiatus be ! that it tween the common, or public, school | pany and the college, and several denomina- , was a yv f T* I liigl' sch" >ols *? ^I .- ?u* i?* bodies. Tfcesfnave/ done ?f * . . . / the cs* I occup work and have endouraflf , hment of others." Fu/.the. of the case the dei/"unatl?na . . School has not heca/"le lCf *US S.'' * he. demand, and jfatc was < tn and proiter. 13<u too many ? lw*\ me e*t>rm?rtx.,o ... tt^L oj?^L2??i d. However, the bill introdue'eef cbni nator Raysor, appropriating $50,- the :?r high schools was enacted last thai h by the general assembly, and but next July the fund will be avail- cha to such counties or school dis- rail as care to establish such high ter >ls. We.nrir,sorry the law limits occ ipproprijitiotT to towns of less than if thousand inhabitants; but we trust no opportunity is but a beginning of vet rr things for the future, for there lav Id be a high school in every conn- die 11 the State; and if larger towns M: those referred to in the act will tin in the establishment and inainte- I :c of such school we can sec no is rl reason for denying them the jwi ilege. _ pe I \?( ? iakirvi/s 1 Trr\ if** .vn that he was a criminal, and the lest court i'i the land had so lared. Yet there was no hysterical nor t?>r hi- expulsion. The inve-ti-; oil oi the Stuoot case really c? tinted to persecution, yet when the 111 letice was all in Mr. Smoot's ene-1 A s as well as his friends had given n a record tor chastity and morality (_ perhaps many of his fellow sena- n could not secure. at 'e, of course, have no sympathy j the corrupt teachings of the Mor-'er i church, nor can we understand in self-respecting men can endorse* ;h faith, hut neither have we sympa-1 lie with the crowd who wink at the 1) oral lives of their own senators vi< who themselves have divorced co s or husbands fir confidential ds, and who hold up their hands in ' to horror because, forsooth, a Mor-, Sc , who is a gentleman, has been lui en to he a senator of the United i A: s. I in< ere is a story that a certain city's j At its were kept clean by every man j ping before his own door. I !*.% SOUTHERN'S RIGHT OF WAY.1 _ e daily papers tell of a case of unI interest that was tried in the rson court last week, to test the ity of a claim of the Southern ay that it owns a 200-foot strip of from its station in Columbia to tation in Greenville, and from >11 to Anderson, a total distance ore than one hundred and fifty The suit really was for a narstrip of land in the town of Wilton, owned by Mr. James P. ett. and worth only $25 or $30. te attorneys tor the railway com told the jury that it was a "test implying that if the road won lit it would then demand from the ants of the land along its line! It M .1 .. -ww . i. .in ip <tn iiic way ironi i ibia to Greenville and Anderson. 1 ailway company relied upon the of its charter, granted in 1845.1 stipulated that the road couh! inn a 200-foot strip for the road nd other railroad purposes. This r was a little later so amended was permitted the railway comto secure only so much land as j dually needed for its purposes ^ SENATOR SMiMIi vlmiwc.*/^ ( | li" i?ur years ago the State of Utah C( t to the United States senate a ,? Reed Smoot, to represent that tj te in the highest legislative body in t;, ; country. Mr. Sn\oot was a ntcin- ,, of the Mornian church, and held ligh official position in that organ- j, tion,?being one of the "twelve j istles." Immediately upon his elec- i n, and before his term in the senate . 1 L s^an, petitions were liled with the i \ tale praying that body not to scat |, n, on the ground that he was a j ormon, and the Mormon chcurchl, rmitted the practice, openlv h cretly, of polygamy.,,",7,*''t,^'f; ; tted -M"a "committee to investigate charges against him, with a view expelling him if he was found to be I' aiualitied or niornllv unfit ?<> l?. n'. iator. Now, after four years' in- | stigation, the senate lias voted to ( ceive the report of its committee ^ it Senator Smoot has done nothing ( it unfits or disqualifies him. , I'liere can he no doubt that the urman church is very "rank" in ( irals. but there seems to have been | evidence that Mr. Smoot was nil- | aste in speech or conduct. The ( ormoti church advocated polygamy 1 til the national law put the practice j. dcr the ban. Hut the national law ikes no attempt to check the di^o^ce, loot never was married but once, her senators have been corrupt in and practice and have been permit- , to retain their seats unmolested. I there is now one.?Burton, of iisas,?who is serving a term in on, and lie was permitted to re- < i alter his conviction, when it was i M. F. Ansel. ' 1 ' the Governor: * , ( K. M.--Mc?>wn, ,h Secretary of State. Q-tt of course I understand all a do not care who knows I usi Cure because it saved my lil ways in the house and one ir gets a little cold we head off that it will cure Pneumonia, lie down and die when a r cents for trial size. I don't believe in tlieen is external and does the wor letter to anybody you want, try the remedy?kp?p it on h Y< > . :.t RICE DRl } f I Wtply a* IE UNION TIME^V-a-JiX ** ^ecins^o^havebeci^^lcste^ S^lj^s B continued peaceful, unmc^rjJJ idWl't: ,ancy of the land in question^* j^iod asc by Mr. Gosiett and his pre- ?*o ;sors for a period of more that* n years,-indeed there was no cv*velo c offered in the trial that the ra? of hafe **** secured or attempted**! of ih*rHj^? ^.,vahk oth#r' py|tig Wit jqttC5tion. ipany's atofciieys V^cd solHrhpoSTf original charter, l?d did not claim/ ? t the company evel bought the larf/. i JS that it was giveiV to them by (tV frK rter, and that it belonged to tj jE* way company by virtue of that chs raT whensoever the company desired 3k :upy it. Mr. Gossctt claimed tf the land had been so given he t i CW! w entitled t<> it by reason of ; iG rse possession under the coinin! 55 v. But the jury brought in a vi Jg t in favor of the railway compar. g r. Gossett has appealed the case * g j supreme court. I P If the verdict of the Anderson .j^c' W sustained by the supreme courtjht fc 11 work great hardship upon iqkiyV. ioole whose property rights are|?jp? ? jived by the decision. Wc ""'5. c United States ^id of this Stjl '? ovide that no person's propcrfl 5 mid be taken away from him witr | it just compensation therefor, kl 9 ie railway company is attempting!o S ike and convert to its own uses thi. j operty withoit even claiming eve ? have renderel any compensation for J t. Along the lines,-** the Southern 1 letween Greeuilk and Columbia and Anderson, pa ticulady in the towns. 3 here have b-en builmarty substantial X ntsincss houses and Vesideiyes, cotton 9 nills. etc.. upon the W ' H7'J by the railroad com^nY- . kta/ / jj cision in the Gossett g [he railway company m t;?,.on^ncss any or all of the occupat^i md alleged owners of this property ind even convert such houses and lands :o railway purposes. Along the line of the Southern the and now claimed by the railway has been occupied by present owners and their predecessors undisturbed for a period antedating the charter of the old Columbia and Greenville railroad, the forerunner of the Southern, ailu "or the courts to give this property :n the corporation now claiming it, unless there has been some price paid lor it, will be a great hardship upon the present holders. It may he right in i aw, but it is wrong in ethics and nn)r lis. { 1 ,ms* V: g State < >f South Carolina, I a Executive Chamber. ^ Whereas information has been re-h p ivcd at this department that on the,, lorninx of the 25th day of January." . I). 1907, the barn of Mr. J. E. Al- js% lan, near Jonesvilb, in the county of ^ nion, was burned, and there bein^! ason to believe that the burning was it"' 1 act of incendiarism, **V Now. therefore. I, .M. F. Ansel, fjov-j nor of t/ie State of Sontlt Carolina, v< order that justice may be done and.'" e majesty of the law rdicated, do J reby offer a reward of Fifty ($50.00) "I ollars tor the apprehension and con- J ;tion of the person or persons who j. nnuitted saisl Yet of incendiarism. j In testimony whereof, 1 have hereun- T1 set my hand and caused the Great IT al of the State to be affixed, at Co- vj mbia, this 25th day of February IT I). 1907, and in the i.tist year of their lependence ot* the United States oi'I v m rim daiiionai lacmucs <mu ukiui 'vj^es, nothing is more ini- u* ifi that the truth of this should be realized by men of business. When once ; of interests is thoroughly the railroads of the South iple will be brought together irmouious co-operation for lament of the natural rethe South and for the ex- Y] all lipes of industry. The "CAS irTAHE 1 X sho new "Que The forep the shan higher. ( feet of a a where adi They ar? genuinei ^ln Kid. I , "Queen Lhz I ? y _ flany Organs and Little Bread. I There are in the Thornwcll orphan-! ge, located at Clinton. S. C., J40 or-; han hoys and girl<, in process of se- | uring an edncat ' >n. 'Ihesc boys and iris are of all ages from -is years of, ge np to I" or tS. The older pupils y their zealous labors help to sup- ] ort and care i<?r the young, putting, I each day four to si\ hours of steady ork in the shops and farms and kitchII and about the same time daily on leir books. In this way the cost of] tring for the whole family is lessen d by many tlmusans of dollars. P..it! ic great majority of the children ari | ry small, only a care instead of a lp and must be aided in every way. te support of these c hi <lr!n rests 'on good men and women who hue 1 orphans and freely aid (hem. Just present there is special need of asstance and every gift, be it oft^iroisioiis or of money, will be promptly! :knowledged. Every denomination i 1 the State is represented among the lildren, but the institution is under j resbytcrian control. All giits slu?u: 1 ; sent to Rev. Wm. I*. Jacobs, Clin- \ m, S. C. Provisions, simply to hornwell Orphanage, Clinton, S. C. is suggested that in each communitythe State some <mtt undertake" to! ise for the aid of these children. . V* bout ethics, etc., but I ed Gowan's Pneumonia ie. I keep a bottle al1 my grip. If the baby the croup and 1 know There is no use to emedy is in reach?25 nt dopes, but Gowan's k. You can show tins I'll back it up. Better and. ours, Jim. t tr JG COr <. 0 * * 4 *> # , \ " Y J * i * f ? v> I ' T H EY DaJ>*r Without , , better fittoff ^ \ duties of Exec ^ HE NIC*" ?1 .j* g| . J ?. TILIAN BOOTS" i I llf 11 trend of fashion in women's I / I r SSg es is best expressed by our I I / J KO f en Quality" C&stili&n?Boots. ||1 I / [\ I '1 otS ? I arts and vamps are shorter; W I / II III \ yg*Q ks more arched?the heels jj \ J I J j I \ Dn the foot thisfcives the ef- f tt/ / / III | > Kg i mailer size. Women every- Jf 1/ Dl /j II ftSR ' mire these pretty styles. JJ /, 'Mil 0 fog j now "all the rage." The \W \ , ire to be had only at this store, . AO / \ 1 $3.50; Patents, $4.00: other Li ?Z$J \ f&ffl \ Quality" styles $3.00. ^ gjHjjj r DRY flOODS CO.J ^ MEET ME AT HAILE'S SHOE STORE. ICAN'T BEATUSf, 1 I I WE ARE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADERS !| ~ a ?* Jj In up-to-the-minute Footwear, g I! and propose to hold fast to !| | j this position J| IJ Our styles are right, our shoes |j are fresh and clean, and the ^ ? nnroc ****. ?.x? ? ? * - - g * |/i iw?3 tviii ^uiiuiiue 10 og rignt i^ f SATISFACTION OR VOIIR MONEY BACK I -' ]:Hnila CIiaa ri t uuiiv JUU^ V/UM| i? 7 'iI? I The Leading Shoe House. |" 49 East Main Street : Union, South Carolina ||