The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 31, 1907, Image 2

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y v * 1 ' ' *- y j| Ever: I The importance Ml as an article of d si) can hardly be o\ m| other wheat foe I nutritive values M portions. This m I Uneeda vjl) the ideal soda ci \Sft on your table a; III Crisp, clean and In) In moisture proc L NATIONAL BIS , j Ila'wn" ^ OF STEEL i 8 iH II a Over 100 Varieties of most Modern 0 Fe ice Structures to choose from. 1 ^ requirements. Nothing so mars | ^ unsightly yard fences of a by-gone IMPROVE! Call, Write or Phone us Today. is g UNION HARDW/ ^ HARDWARE LEADER, "see our |H AMM EJF -,T vrpj I WE CAN SAVE |w. H E | M A I K & i 3 dent: I J Crown, Bridgework and ] J Office over Mutual Dry G THE BOBO UNDERT J * FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND f ==========^^ *FULL LINE OF COFFII X ALWAYS 0 m 'X We own two Hearses e ? Wagons. Calls answered X Attention, Good Service am ; 'X Feed to all. T: \ I' /"-day. | of soda crackers II aily consumption M rerestbnated. No ? >d contains such | in correct pro- I is only true of U| Biscuit I acker. As fresh \B' s from the oven. j? L appetizing. 11 / packages. CUIT COMPANY. [ ] FEIMCEf RND IRON | A M ; (HH14I14M *> fcfctira <i? ill and Artistic designs of Lawn ra We thus meet ail tastes and 0 the beauty of our city as the Si age. BEAUTIFY! |jj Estimates Promptly Furnished. ra kir?j VRE COMPANY. | UNION, S. C. S > C>COCCCC<;-Ci?P ^?1?-- ? LINK OF I OCKS Iff!^ I YOU MONEY Q surrisB a* HAIR, I ists. : Regulating a Specialty. J oods Co., Union, S. C. J AKING COMPANY, LICENSED EMBALMERS. * MS AND CASKETS N HAND. ^ ind three Undertakers J at all hours. Prompt T I Fair Dealing Guaran- J f . ; UNION S CONFEDERATE MONUMENT UNVEILED i ] (Continued from page I.) there will it stand forever-an earnest. i that your history will be written in | truth and, your deeds be remember| ed so long as, red corpuscles are. | found in Southern blood!! i It is not necessary for ine to tell you that you are welcome in your home?your own city?your own1 county?and in your own country 1! Oh! Welcome Heroes!! in our city in our hearts and in our homes!!! White Woman! What shall I 1 say to thee? Welcome too! Yea, Welcome 'too!! (irandmothers! Mothers! Sisters, Wives and Daughters! that i shaft of granite also commemorates your virtues! the vacant chair?the j I empty home?the desolate heart the i Orphan and the Widow! Oh! how ; VOll Vlll VP and in oil-.n^. 1 ing from the earth and nature was everywhere putting on new life. These streets were thronged. But what a contrast between the eause that moved your people then and now! Then, sturdy pioneers who had subdued these hills and valleys and had wrung from the subdued earth the treasures locked in its bosom, gathered here with the stern resolve i to defend the sacred rights granted j them by the constitution. They I came to vii dicate those rights granted them in the constitution. The : foundation principles of justice and | freedom, imbedded in the sacred document, they swore to vindicate, and how they did it you see today. I'm n<?t expected to fight over our i battles. But the Confederate sol- J dier today knows that he fought to i maintain the constitution given him , by the fathers and fought bravely till ruin fell on this thinning ranks. ! The Confederate soldiers came hack and determined, by Cod's help, to , 1 fight the additional battles. Appomattox is hut a single plm.se of tinawful battles that now fell swiftly 11 1 aim ncuvuy upon mm. War's din was over; it had passed I away; I ait there were diflicultics; that tested all the manhood. There i was in our soldier, worn, crushed, a high resolve, we came to the soil from which he sprung to begin anew life's battles. To reclaim what was left of the broken constitution; to protect ! those that, relied upon justice, you began your new struggles. This you did in response to the command, i onward! Onward! was the command. Did we respond? l<et the days of '7(> speak. Mortification, the vilest known in history, you had to face. More awful it was than I any battle during the war. Sorrows i accumulating, shadows darker and darker; yet in presence of the dear i women and children you could not falter. An<l you did not falter. With the true instinct of citizens you know when to surrender arms, and you knew when the opportune I moment came for you to go *>n with i vietory of '7r>, under Hampton. Here ; was a revolution within ten years of, ! the close of the war. Was the com- i Iniand, "Halt! lay down arms; rest," at this point. No! all your hills and valleys had to l>e re-established. See your cultivated fields and your numberless factories. Victory is ours 1 It would seem that: this victory would causeyou to stop, i But no! "March on! "is the coin-1 . ^ XV .v*? Win* *11 CllUlltr . Hut be of good cheer! Your tears and prayers hath saved the civilization of your beautiful Southland! i >h! Welcome ? thrice Welcome!! Sweet-faced, sad-eyed, Southern Woman!! The band played "The Bonnie! Blue Flag," also "The Sunny South," and "Tenting." Now the Old - Veterans were marched from the monument to j seats reserved for them immediately in front of the speaker's stand. , Rev. A. A. James was called upon by the Mayor to introduce Col. i Coward. This he did in a short ! speech, spoken so that it could lie distinctly heard. He is a young man, vigorous of mind and body and keen in intellect, although he has for more than half a century preached the gospel. Col. Coward spoke extemporaneously. That made it all the more enjoyable. It was a practical speech, ; full of spirit and with a message i that went home to the hearts of the i hearers. In part, he spoke as folI lows: Ladies and gentlemen, fclj low citizens, my old Confederate Comrades, all hail! Rev. Mr. i James spoke of a man standing l>e1 fore brigades. I'd rather stand 1k;fore 40 brigades than attempt to fulfill the expectations of this vast host of hearers, and that without a speech in my pocket! I must thus face ! the most magnificient audience it was ever my duty to address. I thus contradict the oft-repeated pun' made upon my name, for I thus show myself a brave man. As I look down your Main street from this vantage a scene 5? years ago rises to view. Spring was here, as it is today; then, as now the sky was blue, tender shoots were snrine Y ' , mand of an inborn manhood? I "March on!" We have attacked! the problems that met us and | brought them to do our-bidding. ! I?ut let us look to it that the! sacred thing, the State, has devoted j to it ill the energies to teaching that ] tin- i..\v is a thing to be reverenced, j 1 rejoice that your good wisdom and j self-control recently allowed the law i to have its course. Civic conquest, I my friends, is the next victory that is before us. Let no specious promptings loose the reins and make us say we will take the law into our j own band. Let's select men to of-j lice who, with courage~aiul the lieBt! interest of country at heart, will I dare to do their duty. Sirs! you saw your comrade dropj at your side; others came home, weak and siek, and they werej buried. You were left. Why? That up to the very last you might use your influence to teach reverence for law and thus help to make our Southland great as it once was. I cannot forget that I see here in Union county men who fought with me. 1 remember that you were asso-1 ; ciated with me in the war. As I meet them today and shake their hands, I remember their faithful J stand at the front. I "You did not halt in your march} till the command was given, 'Halt!' In a desperate charge in i the Wildernesss one color bearer after another was shot dead. 1 . took the colors as they fell from a soldier's hand and carried them be-1 hind the breastworks. Ike Gregory, a son of Union county,- seized them and jumped to the parapet and was! cheering. I said, 'Come down,: you will be killed.' He asked toj be allowed to give yet another. [ Just as he gave the cheer, 'zip,' a ball passed through his body and | he fell dead. "Tom Comer, another Union county man was caught under a falling tree that was being felled by the soldiers. He had his ribs} broken in. We thought he was in a fair way to die and we sent him : home. He was back and reported I for duty l>efore we thought he had had time to get home. He after- j wards had his leg shot off at the knee. He did not come home to pine for that one leg. No, sirs! i He made him some crutches and hobbled behind a mule on the farm. Comrades! You know nothing but to go forward when the command is given, 'Charge'!" The Confederate soldier, dead or living, need3 no shaft to makq His 1 memory live. His noble deeds will i renc^r hmi immortal. He lives in the hearts of the present generation. mi ? _ * i * . i ins snail uoes snow that. Rev. A. A. James was culled upon to dismiss the assembly. He tirst told several incidents of the war. He then called upon the old soldiers. to adopt a resolution of thanks to the women of Union county. This was done bv giving the "rebel yell" three times over, i The veterans were then taken in hand and carried to the grove surrounding the Central school building where a barbecue dinner j awaited them. The ladies of William Wallace! chapter served refreshments to the! visiting ladies. They had prepared for them at the vacant store room) next door to the Rice Drug Co. | Thus ended a day that will long bej cherished in the memory of thousands as a day that marks an upward march in the history of our people. Mrs. Belue Has Fine Fruit. J. 1*. Belue has returned from! Union county, where he visited his J mother, Mrs. J. T. Belue, at their ol?I home at Bonhan} station. Mr. ; Belue was nmeh surprised and j pleased to find that his mother has! on her large place a full and fine crop of fruit, which is entirely un damaged. This is very remarkable, as all the fruit in this vicinity was killed in the April freezes. On Mrs.' Belue's place, lu>wover, large trees j are weighed down with fine fruit and a hig yield is promised. Mr. Belue does not know how to account for the escape of his mother's fruit except that her place is pretty high above the surrounding country.? Spartanburg Journal. Mine. I'atti, who is a marvelous specimen of well-preserved powers, | attributes her exceptional health to plenty of sleep?nine hours. Nankin, China, is to have an electric light system of the most modern kind; also new waterworks. In Belgium, all cows over three months old arc to be seen wearing ear-rings. Breeders are obliged to keep a record of all the cattle raised by them and each animal has a a registered trade number which is engraved on the ring fastened to its car. DR. T. F. LITTLEJOHN DENTIST OfTICE: NICHOLSON BANK]; BUILDING OrriCE HOURS 5:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. PHONE 117. ** % __'' e'afcly5.:? - il'r** ^ i We Will Serve You We Can Serve Yoi TRY (J Interest Paid on Tii THE NICHOLSON BANK A1 CAPITAL $71 I MSI IE NICHOLSON, Pn sidmt JOHN A. FAMf, Vke-Prfsident | A CAR LC | ORQ^ If *J" The finest ever shipped to Ui 1 f few days. See them and get v" ing. There is a great saving Car-load lots and our custom T1 efit of it. We will also have ft { UPRIGHT I |( |l At one half the re J: Let Us Figure I UNION SUPPLY |J J. H. SPEARS, A f PREPARE E( i IN TIME Of ? ? Buy now what Beds am ? likely to need next winter. ? season of the year to bu f sweeter and in better coi a ' f other time of the year. 3 ? $5.00 cash, balance in fall. ? pair, $2.50; 6 lbs to pair, 3 ml % % . GIVE US A ml I TURNER & M ft p> Office Just Opposite f Branch Offices: Anderson, Lau [-Growing Growing girls need care, especially on reaching the mother's tender care and w often accomplish wonders, gentle, safe and reliable st Wine of Cardui, It will prevent and relie functions, clear the comple the constitution. It is a valuable medicine 1 has tided thousands over a saved them from years of sul do harm and is sure to do go A relief or cure for all ferr j and women. S At every druggist's in #1. I- 7 CAI Jg DR. JNO. S. ? 8 OFFICK OVER PF.OFI.KH HAN Got your favorite girl, boy or fl[ teacher in the contest f<>r the free H trip to the Jamestown Exposition. Ig With every $1.00 you get 100 votes. . \o _ 1 ? * . i ffirrSfthftVfi Jhi i in iMti" ii' 11 -iff' -j* . .. " ^,.. .. , \ ' \ \ ? i Faithfully, and [ f u Satisfactorily S! me Deposits. SD TRUST COMPANY 3,000 OfORGf C. PtRRIN, Cashier M. A. MOORE. Asst. Cashier . r JADOFl INS I nion, will be here in a "r : our prices before buy- " h by buying Organs in ers shall have the ben- 1 five fine MANOS >\ 'gular price ^ T With You J COMPANY, I Manager. If )R WAR *{ i OFAfF * r unv,L * i Pillows yon are ?. This is the best j* y Feathers; they are # idition than at any * 6=lb Bed $10.00; pay $ Pillows, 10 lbs to ? il.50/ i CALL J AVFIELD, j Post Office. ^ * irens, Chester, Landrum. J# Girls?a advice and medicine, 9 age of puberty. A I 'ords of ctution will I As for medicine, a H rengthening tonic is B vc pain, regulate tne xion and strengthen H for growing girls. It critical period, and H ffering. It can never H ?d. mle disorders in girls H 00 bottles. Try it. B EDI1M MORGAN J K, - - UNION, H. C. P PAt^fcft'8 HAIR BAL8AM ClNtiar, ?n<t hraullfU* th? bib. PimuM t luxuriant growth. Vnvrr Poll* to Britcrt Orty Hotr to ito Toothful Color. Cora* aeaip fli?nw * mv UBagi ~.-k v. If '