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THE UNION TIMES p ============================ Ci PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY w BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY , b TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STB SET it BELL PHONE NO. i. 11 LEWIS M. BICE Editor t] Registered at the Postoffice in Un- f( Ion, S. C.. as second-class mail matter f( SUBSCRIPTION RATES: fi One year $1.00 d Six months 5? it Three mouths 25 C( ADVERTISEMENTS: n One square, first insertion $1.00 S( Every subsequent insertion 5? Contracts for three months or longer rill be made at reduced rates. LEGAL NOTICES. t1 The regular legal rates are charged for all notices published according c' fo law, which rates are as follows: a Matter to be set in 8 point, brcvlor eolld type?first insertion, per inch 11.00; each subsequent Insertion, per 1 Inch, 50 cents. ? Citation to Kindred and Creditors. 3 inches, 2 times, $4.50. P Final Discharge, 13-4 inches, 4 c times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's no- K tices. 1V4 inches. 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of restect, resolutions and cards of thanks a'.rictljr one cent a word. t UNION. 8. C., JAN. 2H, 1912. ? What a fine time for our county i commissioners to put into une the split-log drag. The use of these drags on our road6 throughout the county would now work wonders, j It is an inexpensive way to put the j roads in fairly good shape. These .1 mighty spurs standing six to twelve 1 Inches high all along the way are al- a most impassable. The drag would make short work of them. c | . ============ j Union might take lessons from a Jonesville in the matter of roads, i While the roads, those not macad- t ami zed here are almost impassable, ? the roads in Jonesville are in good shape. The Jonesville roads are be f ing cared for with split-log drags, n These drags are very inexpensive ^ and very effective. One used on 0 Powell hill and on Jail hill here ^ would at least make it possible for a h wagon hauled by four mules to get r Indeed, theee two hills, ea<jh I one a main thoroughfare leading 8 Into Union, are a disgrace to our t city. Go out and view them, don't y take our word. In fact, every road I leading into Union has about the 8 worst place on it after coming into Ij the incorporate limits. j ' We respectfully suggest to our n county commissioners the. advisabil- C ity of contracting with the farmers a living along the public highways in ^ the county to co-operate in using p the split-log drag on the roads of the n county. It would be a benefit to ^ J the farmers and would be the less ? expensive way in which to put the ^ roads in good shape. Why could j. not this be dpne and that quickly? N It would put money in the farmers' e pocket and would give him a chance ^ to make money when he could find ^ little outlet for his energies on the lS) farm. When it is too wet to plow a he could hitch his team to the split- ^ log drag and be earning money for * himself, at the same time the roads p would be put in good condition and (] everybody reap the benefit. c< The Act providing for the investi- P gatioti of the former wind-up dis- " pensary commission and the Attor- y uey General, also the Act distributing the dispensary fund, also the h Act relating to the Industrial School ^ at Florence, also the Act establishing rural police for ("herokee County, j, also the Act providing for those ji cities between four and twenty thou- tl sand inhabitants the opportunity to ^ vote on the commission plan of gov- f| ernment were this week passed by ^ the House overwhelmingly over the tc (rovomor's veto. The Senate had al- f< ready passed on the dispensary wind- ^ ttp commission, and that becomes ^ a law. The other measures were p txjnt up by the House and now bo ei lore the Senate, and there seemH lit- gi tlo doubt of the Senate passing fa- ( n vcrablv Upon them, thus having them become laws. It thus will be seen that the ;!ov- ^ ernor's veto measures fare badly. The Senate killed the bill which ,] u nought to take out of the hands of c< ike Supreme Court the ' appointing, b special judges, placing this ap ointing power in the hands of the / overnor. The Senate honored it- M >lf in killing this hill. \ On Thursday, Jan. 25th, was cole- 1 rated at Key West, Kla., the open g of the "over-sea" extension of ? 1 :ie Florida East Coast Railway. c 'he building of this road is one of lie greatest railroad engineering ;ats over performed. It required mr years to construet the road j om Knight Keys to Key West, a li istance of but forty-six miles, and ^ ; is this part of the road that is so ^ Dnspieuous a triumph of man over ? ature. The road is really an "over- ^ fa" railway. Henry M. Flagler, now 82 years Id, is the great mind that eonpived the scheme and it happened I bat he had millions to carry out his * onception. Ho is said to l?o alert t nd robust, although he has82 years \ f human life piled up to his record, v 'his wonderful old man and the f reat task which ho set himself competed will long stand out as an inentive to the aspiring youth of this reat country of ours. I This road and the construction of r ho Panama canal are two events s hat predict great things for the iouth. It seems that in the near 1 uture our Southern country is com- ^ ng into its own. I - 1 Jonesville News Letter. J Jonesville, Jan. 22.?The dwellng house of Mr. Zach Reeves and lis son, I^ester, southwest from j Jonesville, was destroyed by fire hist ^ rhursduy night. The fire started g ihout the fireplace and had gained uch headway when discovered that j t was impossible with the help that j ould be obtained to save the house. Jr. Reeves and his eon had bought . farm and had built the house, a ^ lice modern cottage, into which hey moved last fall, which cost over e 2,000, upon which they had $1^500 " nsurance. Only a part of the furlit.nre wns mdvp^ \Tru F nu?u> teeves and the children had Home a oney in the house which was c urnt. They had a gold ring about ^ ne hundred years old that they alued very much which was also iurnt. Mr. Reeves and the family lave the sympathy of all this comnunity in their misfortune. t Mr. D. P. Holder is still seriously t ick. t The first quarterly conference of 1 he Jonusville charge for the current c ear was held here last Saturday, t lev. A. J. Cauthen, the new pre- i iding elder, presided. Reports to ( ho conference were fairly good. 1 "he presiding elder preached in the i iethodist church yestor4*y mornng to a large congregation and he d nade a good impression on this, his 1 rst appearance at Jonesville, both I s a presiding officer and preacher, t Miss Frances Smith, of Laurens, c as lately been secured to take the t lace as teacher in the graded school s tiade vacant by the resignation of t Irs. Wert*. Miss Smith is a grand- o aughter of the late Rev. James F. mith, of the South Carolina convenes, who was well and favorably noun all over this community, e liss Hannah Barton, another teachr in the graded school, is a grand- a aughter of tho late Rev. Thomas tftVMnr of Ihli Snillli " ?J , W4 V. 1*7 M4VII V/lVIUI llt? WH- g jrence. Miss Margaret William- y c>n, anothor one of our teachers, is w granddaughter of the late Ilev. A. j, l James, a Presbyterian minister n 'ell known all over the country, mother one of our teachers, Miss l )va Kllerlie, is a sister of the late lov. W. If. Kllerhc and our present ^ imgres.-man, J. Ed Kllerl>e. I don't think it will take any ledge to get our farmers to cut the ^ se of guano this year for they are >re over the excessive use of it last , '':,r . U Butter is plentiful in the stores ere hut eggs are very scarce. ^ Mr. Charley Wood has left the J. ^ . Inttlejohn Co. store and has gone u n the road with his grip. Messrs. l rank Austell and Charles Little- _ )hn, who wore with the J. J. Litejohn Co., have also resigned. ^ I was glad to see the editor of The h imes ill Jonesvillo last Friday, who y tin up here for a short while on e ueiufhtf. cmccese 10 you, i>ir. JS<li>r, in your management of the old .-liable, The Times, our first paper 1 the county, which ha* passed irough war reconstruction fire and w re dispensary and still stands for p rohibition, justice and good- gov- p rnment and will not l>ow or.apolo- a ize at the criticisms the governors, c< layore or the powers of evil doers, li Telephone. it Messrs. W. S. McLura, R. I*. [organ and B. G. Wilburn, tho p ^mmittee appointed to solicit con ibutions to organize Union County tj ndpr the "Rock Hill Plan" for j;tUm acreage reduction, has beerf p itsy and a good subscription list has cj een socurcd. - ^ ^ I (WHAT OTHERS THINK 'he Governor and the Lawmakern The mom be re of the I legislature ught to bo glad that the Governor oesn't have to sign their ^ay hecks.?Greenville Piedmont. ? Glad He Didn't. Thore is a Bleaso man at Glenale who says that if Cole L. Blease iad lived in the time of George V'ashington, Washington would lever have been heard of, and Mease would now be known as the 'father of his country."?Spartanburg Journal. Too Sad! We have never seen a copy of the Mease newspaper?tno iMews-Scimiar?published in Greonwood, hut re were informed the other day hat this week's issue would pro>ahly be its last. The statement ras that the paper has not been reviving very liberal support.? t'orkville Enquirer. /V "Pick-up." "Col." L. M. Green, whom Mease paid SI,000 to "inspect" the :otton mills of the state and get up tatistics, made a report of his 'work," in which he lifted bodily, ising them as his own, the figures nd language from a previous reM>rt made by Commissioner Wgtson. )id Blease teach Green this little abor-snving trick? ? Spartanburg ournal. Anti-Cigarette Law. The indications are that the legisature will pass an anti-cigarette aw for South Carolina. Several tates of the union have such laws nd in the main they are enforced, n Tennesseo there is a lpw prolibiting the sale of cigarettes and it ^ regarded as a good law, having educed cigaretto smoking among he bovs. The man who is nddint. d to the habit orders his cigarettes s ho does his liquor. In some of ho larger towns of Tennessee igarettes are sold in violation of the aw, hut in tho rural districts and mailer towns a "ready made" igarettfo is hard to find.?Spartanair g Herald. Felder's Book. People are wondering what has ecome of Felder's book, or whetHe$ he promised volume is going nake its appearance. Theeditdr of The Enquirer was in Columbia one f< lay last week, and asked the ques- * Ion of some people who are in a g, >osition to know if anybody knows. & )no gentleman particularly, who h las been associated more or less jf ntimately vith Mr. Felder, said: c 'No, I have nqt,heard a word. T p lo not know a thing except what ^ ias been said in the papers. If Mr.- n "elder has any more light to give b is I suppose he will give it to us in. ? onnection with the legislative ihves-. p igation which is now going on in * pite of the governor's veto; but if p hero is any book, I am not aware 8i I the tact." ? Yorkville Enquirer. fi ?r?: d oouin c.arouaa'9 Uxecutive. n Political peoplo coming from ? iouth Carolina do not seem eager to P iscuss Gov. Cole Blease, who has ? uddenly arisen as the apostle of ? conomy, and with promise of ohieving more notoriety than rardaman and all the other onsational governors of the south, g Mease embittered the wiser yeonanry by demanding a wiping out f the state ag icultural bureau, and ie also assaulted the insurance corunission as a useless expense. Nor oes he want a bank examiner or a ? ume warden. On coming into office Blease found '' he state paying a modest yearly ? ubscription to every important tate newspaper. He cut that reckons extravagance, and then shriek ^ d against the annual pension paid i? the tribe of Catawba Indiana, rhose ancestors owned the whole Late two centuries ago. Not only as the governor brought about a r< enny-wise, pound-foolish sort of I conomy, l>ut he boasts of it, and ^ ionce the silence when an enlightend South Carolina statesman in " Vashington in hsked about his chief ^ xecutive.?Washington Herald. d ? C*>v. Bleiue's Mesuge. In the South Carolina legislature, < < rhere all kinds of queor things Imp- si en, is pending a proposition to ex- ii ungo from the records of the State f( message from Governor HI ease onveying his veto of a newspaper d bel law. Unfortunately, nothing ii i being done toward expunging lease. si Tho message is crowded with ex- ? letiva and denunciation directed tl gainst newspapers generally and l?o?e of 8outh Carolina especially, 'he legislature is told that the local w ress has become so vile and rnali- h ious and so given to lying and n laddering that the only prob-ction r< You Have a Special Invitation m to attend the P GRAND DISPLAY | ^ Spring and Summer Woolens ^ S to be held at the S? f Mutual Dry Goods Co. \\ ^ on Jan. 30 and 31 g Mr. W. A. McSherry 0 ^ Special Representative of M. Moses & Sons 5? 0 w S of Baltimore, Md. w ? will give a grand opening !jjf JJ on the above dates jj (!l ^ VJV/U1C 111 ^ 0 and let us take your measure ^ JJ for a suit or a pair of pants g J* Everything Guaranteed 1! | MUTUAL DRY GOODS CO. I fa ^ 3r the citizen is through juries or T? ' ) 'with powder and call." This V ISlt 1713.116 S Olfif Sll06 StOfP eema to bo a clear suggestion that & t^Jllvl^ tJlUlC ditor hunting will be a safe sport - - C .r , n the Palmetto State while Blease % / / ' % V* 1 governor and that if anybody A 1 J I (i i 'MilllitMfl lflB I nrpR fit trill A fit* . or) i tnru thora Jh fM rlHfflffiliMm: I.mA 1 I I SmtWfXBS?SSU I ingestion from the governor to a _ - ^ ttle loose manslaughter and mur- . er han, however, the flavor of ? * 1 *' *\ SS-S THE CONCENSUS OF OPINION oanoko Timee. w ? EER A COWMOdTTY tc% ,i . t Ait . . . MUST BE SHIPPED IS, that whether it is a stout, npreme Court Says the Railroads strong, serviceable work Must Haul It?May Be Had in DrTCoun,ics- shoe, or something of natty Washington, Jan. 22.?Beer is a ^ a amiiioditv and railrondw miiHt. p^?rrv n+-*rl/\ ? ^ " A ..^urter* toriwwr^iou ^ui store is me .place om one state into "dry" counties . . |~>x tt^t^ *t ty-p> f another state, regardless of the tO 2fCt it. Il/V ll/lv Y SHl) P> iws of the latter state. The United States supreme court \X7"I7 CT?T T 13 17 M\TT? C? T*U"T? )day made this ruling regarding W Ml/ l3Hyl^JL/ 1\ H/V jTvI V H/l3 A l~l P> ie proposed shipments from Mliana into -dry" Kentucky ? $ A M E AMOUNT OF The Iouisville & Nashville Rail >ad refused to carry beer offered g* A 13 T7 A "IJ T7 A "t>. I A y the Cook Brewing Company at V^xVAvHy xVUN MJ AvJQAx/YIAJLJ AlN .vansville. The railroad declined trr>1 - ? :;Hf:,7ar^u^'nginKgeno"ty FITTING. That's another mealing liquors into local option 1 + t ^olind^.^^Th.^u reason why it is safe to trade )ad from refusing to transport > , | eer on the ground that beer was a TO. US* ' '* jmmodity and that the Kentucky iatute, if it attempted to regulate # . * / 11 orofo In ^Arvi moo STORE OP SATISFACTION eciaion as "valid as a regulation of , Uerstate commerce." 1 , It never wan effective as to inter- W__W A W IT ate shipments to "dry" counties, I /m I I 7 iid Justice Lurton, in sustaining I A^k I ^ ; ie lower court. m Jk JL Mk- Jk JIm4 Ldf' Mr. W. H. Bhanklin and family ' * ? oi ww; ill leave next week 'or their new 1 ^ Leading StiOe House ome in Woodruff. They have * i> <? ; , . , ; ?ado many friends in Union, who . _ ? : it - . ^ *'J'' > . v . j ? sgret to see them leave. 12 E. Mam Street utLJlUOn, S* C* I -i lyM K