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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Y THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIM Hi BUILDING* MAIN STREE' BELL PHONE NO. i. LEWIS M. HICK B4IU Registered at the Postoffice in Ui Ion* S/C., as second-class mail matte SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year $L< Six months [ Three months 5 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first insertion Every subsequent insertion J Contracts for three months or long* will he made at reduced rates. LEGAL NOTICES. The regular legal rates are charge for all notice published accordin to law, which rates are as follow : Matter to be set In 8 point, br<-v!t solid type?first insertion, per i c $1.00; each subsequent Insertion, Inch, 50 cants. Citation to Kindred and Creditor 8 inches, 2 times, $4.50. Final Discharge, 1 3-4 Inches, times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's ni tices. 1% Inches. 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of r I.eot, resolutions and cards of thanl wrictly one cent a word. UNION, 8. O.. FEB. 23, 1912. COURTESY AS A BUSINESS ASSE Few people realize how necessar ?n asset to a business is the possei of at least ordinary courtesy o the part of the employees of an ei tablishment. There are more cor cerns which fail for the lack of th possession than fail from dishonest or mismanagement. This is pr marily applicable to the retail mei chant. He is, of all men, at tti mercy of his clerks. If they fa P^klic courteous treat "rneht? his sales will fall off and.h business decline. ' The clerk that stand around lik . a wooden dummy and waits for tit . public to pull out of him the servic [fbe is paid to render, is a curse t any concern. The sour, morbic sluggish fellow often thinks he : greatly abused because of the raeagi Salary he is paid, when in Tealit his salary is not the highest tax in posed upon the business by hiir His attitude towards the public i a far heavier tax. Nowhere does this unsatisfaetor service show itself more cleurly tha in the way such a clerk answers tli telephone. One can almost hea the click of his teeth as he snaps u the inquirer at the other end of tli line. Most of this poor service i the result of thoughtlessness. It i seldom vicious. It could be ren edied in a day. but it is nevertht less a very grievous drain on the ei tablislunent that employs such clerk. The public does not openl show its repugnance to such servict but does show it by going elsewhert SORRY WORKMANSHIP. The inefficient workman is a poc substitute. He is at a discount anj where. But there is no realizin how poor a makeshift his productio; in until a crisis conies. An inferic carpenter builds a house; the con Btruction is faulty. It passes ver well for a house during good weatl: er. I>et a storm come and the in mates are in terror, for it is in jut Huch a crisis that the worthless con Btruction shows up. A man build ... .,11- 1 ? u iuuvr iiuiucuiji atui uureietssiy un will got good returnH for a timt But a strong wind or a vicious ani nial knocks it down. It will nr stand in a day of testing. A man hurriedly and carelessl plows his field. The crop plunte upon land so prepared starts o: well. When the heavy rains or th continued drought of summer come there is a rapid decline. A hoy starts his course of study i school. The careless, indifferen attitude seems to pioduce good r< suits for a time. He has more tim for play and his repqrts are not bad IJut a little later on the defects tx gin to show up. Even under th tpost pronounced effort it is diflicul to redeem the situation. The pro! ability is that such a boy will neve reach any high degree of gcholui ship. You may take all c&llingiall enterprises, and this same lai runs throughout each one. Th ) shoddy work, the indifferent effort, - the careless activity finally exacts toll. When the crisis comes the worthlcssness of such action shows f itself. . r Messrs. J. A.. Orr and Lewis - Scales; '; both of Adatnsburg, in speaking to a Times man, advocate r that all canvassers sent out to se~ euro pledges for cotton acreage be men who have themselves planted _ five acres of grain to the plow. We fear the canvassers would in that n case be few in number. But it will JQ be a good thing for Union county _ when there will be many farmers in the county who measure up to that 30 standard. tp ======= r Jonesville News Letter. Jonesville, Feb. 20.?We have had more cyclones in this country id in February than any other month. g One occurred on the 18th, one on sr the 19th and one on the 20th ol h February somewhere back in the r eighties. It is not too late for om to come in February yet, today, however, is far from stormy weathei 4 about Jonesville. We have no regular prophet at Jonesville since Una cle Mike Sellers moved away, so we have to take cur chances and we B" have been caught napping several times. The 14th, when everybody - and the birds, too went, a r?rt?tiu day, was one of the worst this win~ ter. The sun is shining bright to,T day but something seems to say it'f not going to last long, y I was glad to see in last week't 3. Times a communication from mj n old friend. Vox. Would like to set more of his writings. J. O. Harris, of Keiton, hit tht ?- nail square on the head head to raj is way of thinking in his letter to Tht y Times last week on the much agitated cotton question as to acreage. l" It isjuBtas he says: what suits oqt r* part of the country will not suit anic other part and for this reason it1 if il hard to solve the problem. t Mr. J. K. Rush, of Midway, Tenn., had a bunch of drove hogt 18 here and several days since tht cholera got among them and he lost :e thirty-five fine hogs in a short time. ie Mr. Rush had a doctor to come from Clemson College and ho treated tht X mull * *U ?*v?? *iv>gu nuu liw UiUlC UI bllCUJ WtK sick but the doctor said he could 1, not save the sick ones, is Mr. and Mrs. Osberne Barber and >e children, of Fort Mill, who attended the Nims-Hamilton wedding last y week, remained over at Hon. R. W, l" Hamilton's, father of Mrs. Barber, I. until yesterday, whon they left foi is their home. Mr- and Mrs. J. H. Herring and children, of Columbia, spent Suny day in Jonesville. n Mr. and Mrs. J. \V. Bates and ie little son are visiting relatives in ir Columbia this week. A colored woman, William Means' wife, who lives near Jonesville, went Je to a hospital in Spartanburg and is had one of her legs amputated beis low the knee. She had been suffering with a sore on her foot for sev> eral years and the doctors decided that amputation was necessary tc 3" save her leg. a Mrs. John 1). Jeffries, Jr., of Asy bury, is quite sick and has been for , some days. Mrs. Jeffries is a Jonesville lady and has many friends here who are sorry to hear of her sick ness. Telephone. News From Adamsburg. >r r- Adamsburg, Feb. 20.?We have g been having some snowy and rainy n weather, but it is clear and pleasant today and I hope that it will stay r that way for a while. Farmers have not done any work y yet except get wood and make fires. There is not very much sickness around here at present except the measles. It has been plentiful but * h<is died down. It has been making l" some people very sick. Is There is not very much visiting d around on account of muddy roads. Mr. J. W. Parr spent Tuesday at .* the home of Mr. Charley Vaughn, of Mt. Tabor. Messrs. L>. G. Hrown and Hoyle Charles, of Union, spent Sunday y afternoon at the home of Mr. N. C. j Palmer. ? Mr. W. A. Palmer and this writer HDent Sundav afternoon at thn home e | of Mr. A. Vanderford. 6 1 Mr. \V. I). Palmer and Miss Minnie Vanderford visited the Misses Moorhead Sunday afternoon. Adamshurg' school has been stopped for a while on account of measles but will start again soon, e Wesley's Chapel school is prol greening nicely under the work of its , efficient teachers, Miss Belle Moorhead . e Rev. J. L. Hodges, of Kelton, It did not fill his appointment at Phil> ippi Sunday morning on account of ir ruin. I have not got much news to write this time, but if this escapes the ' editor's waste basket I will try to N write more next time, e Happy Heart. Letter From Wilkinsville. ^ Wilkinsville, Feb. 19.?Rev. W. ^ B. Arrowood preached at Salem yes- JL terday. Owing to the bad weather and muddy roads only a small congrcgation was present. His text was 2nd Peter, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Kk verses. The speaker emphasised ithe urgent need of an intelligent Chris* Jk 1 tianity?one that is based upon a Cip true knowledge of God as taught by ^ 1 the Scriptures and only through the g j , Scriptures. "It's impossible,7, he d' [ said, "for a man to love God who M\ doesn't know Him." Hoii. C. W. Whisonant, who has 0\ 1 been attending the legislature, re' turned home last Friday. The people of this section have J been greatly cor.venienced by the ?' building of an iron bridge across g* Broad river about a mile above > Howell's ferry. The counties of g\ r Cherokee and York built it about two years ago at a cost of approxii mately S10.000 and we are npw on ^ ' the national highway leading from > Rock Hill to Spartanburg via Gaff1 ney- m The Thomson mill, which is one *X ' of the oldest land marks in this Ki\ community, has gone down and not a wheel has been turned there since * ? the 1st of January. The history of ff\ ' this old mill reaches back to, even I ante-dates the Revolutionary war. 0} ' Old people have told us that during JL ' that struggle Tarleton's cavalry camped there several days on their gx march to Cowpens. Gun Hints, JSfa J pieces of gun locks and other para- g\ phernalia of army equipments have ^1* ' been picked up on the premises. d\ ' This property was for fully three-, ! quarters of a century held and owned by the Thomson family, . Jj ! hence its name, Thomson's mill. ' Our older readers will remember g > the notable lawsuit in 1878 in'which' K > - the landowners on Thickety and itri A \ . tributaries above the dam, better known as corporators, tried to have * ft\ the daai removed on account of thd ' | ? damage it was doing their lands. 1 e ' This was one of the greatest legal A j ? battles ever fought within our knowl-, i ! edge at the Union bar. Messrs. ? gt Munro & Shand represented the; K,) - corporators while Messrs. Rion & j fl \ McKissick stood by the defense^ ; i Every inch of ground was hotly < J01 ' contested and tb? firn?. ? ?. ' ? ** ! suited in a mistrial. A few yearql' 1 later it was fought over and resulted i jt in a verdict for the defendants. /jj 1 The property since then has passed ~ ?ae I through several different hands and ? ' is now owned by thip estate of Hon. ' A. A. Sarratt. . In the formation of this (Chero' kee) county the Union "cut off" . has had its full share of the office1 holders. Messrs. Jeffries, Butler, qu<|( Otts and Whieonant have been sent , to the general assembly. Tho first I three named have represented it in ??ui both branches of the legislature. joye< Messrs. J. Eb Jeffries and J. E. m Webster have held thjp office of en^f clerk of court and judge of probate, respectively, since the fdTmation of fr ' the county until last year. W. W. H"* Thomas, formerly of Santuc, has Vale been sheriff all the time except the quia first year, when that office was held the I > by Jake Ross. Mr. Thomas still pins holds the office with no probability refr* of his being displaced soon. All of girls ' the aforesaid (old Union county) nam men, we are glad to say, came out theii with good records, and this is not roon saying that any of the others didn't play do so too, for they did so far as we M know. her Mr. J. C. Otts, who came to this Wee COUntv about the time of its fnrmn- was s tion and began the practice of law the i at Gaffney, has made quite a success F< in his profession, so much so that of ti he has been promoted to the office M of solicitor of this, the seventh cir- in J cuit, and wo see no reason why he thin should not be retained in that posi- Han ' tion should he stand for it in the with ? coming primary. Mr. Otts was a Mrs poor boy and by his own efforts son has worked himself up to the ex- him alted position he now fills. . muc Mr. S. F. Estes, one of our oldest M neighbors, is at this time in a very Mer ' critical state of health. It's a gen- and eral breakdown of the whole system M with him. Vox. is st To Republican Party of Union County wit^ of 8 A call is herooy made for a coun- ^ ty convention to be beltf in Union, P*88 Feb. 27th, for pn.po?$rtof electing *l?g ( two delegates and two alternate de- ber legates to the State convention which M 1 is to be held in the Citjf' of Colum- 1?" bia, 8. C., Feb, 29tft', and three delegates and three alternate delegates to the district convention which is to be held in Union win March ljilh. ^ J. P. Sartor, mot! ' luu IW wl/inu ^ wtv>n t hlS *x?*Tuiun, ' vuauaiau. Sec'y. X- 7-2 M ? * ? Nell Mrs. W.,11. Greyer, wife of a Eliz Lutheran cfergyman fit Columbia, M S. C., disappeared Friday evening is vi from the home of friends whom she Tab* 1 had been visiting in Washington M 1 and they have not seen her since, hie 1 She had been in ill health for some with time. It is believed she will return even to her home in Columbia. M ?. ?* . - v .' "r ' r?sT ?-i ! A lot of $1.50 Shirts going at $1.00. I? \ Come in and look at them. All the X | J latest colors. Sizes 14 to 17. * | i A great reduction in men's and 2! | H boys' Clothing. If you need any-; J J | j thing in men's and boys' Clothing | j ; & we can save you money. W X 9| i We have on display all the latJ est woolens for men's suits. If you jjj;;" & are thinking of . buying a suit for J spring and summer come in and let SJ j us figure with you. Satisfaction xV & guaranteed. ji \ Mutual Dry Goods Co., | j UNION, - - S. C. pj """ !- 1 SAa* fiiDnpiJ cppliv t. Tabor, Feb 21.-Mi88 !x)uie W^r^u?* Qwne^wi in Tabor ^ ' 1 gave a birthday dinner.Sun- gunjay. Strawberry. V , Feb. 4th. . The table was *" , , itifuliy spread and everyone en- Advertised Letters. Onion Setts, Seed Irish Potai the day immensely. Advertised letters remaining in Union toes, Cabbage, Peas, Radish, iss Alice Brennecke gave a Val- poetoffice for week ending Fob. 23. g?tt. Beets, Mustard, Turnip Seed. . ^ , Henry Agnew, Reuben Brigs, R Butler, ,. , . , i, ie party Feb. 13th, which was j c C CUymen, Lillian M Cavettin. Mrs *Ull lines package and bulk thirteenth birthday. Miss Min- Tina Hawkins, MissMill DoorIm, Charlie seed. _ ... Fowler, Clarke Gray, Arthur Gist, It M . Bowie won the first prize in thi Giles. Mrs Pemetter Hunter, Mre I.illie We guarantee every seed in intine contest, which was an ex- JackHon, Mrs 11 attic Jeter, CharlieJcter, our stock to be New Crop 1911 ....... , .j., R M Jones, Theron kacnren, Minnie ~ , r ite Valentine, and Ed Menir won .. - - - - - ivcmse, Mrs until UiWHon, Fannie Biggins, Oeea StOCK. ? booby, which was a paper of Glanseny Meker, Richard Owens. J 11 \ye are ofFerini? the bifiTtrest . After the contest delicious Pelmer, James Petty. Lee Price', Hannah . , B 11.1 .ahiripnts were served The Kice> Lelar Rice, F A Roe, James Stacy, variety and most complete 8elec, drew heart*, on which the '^rs3\vl ,Ee"?v?!!l?V tions we have ever had If given ie of a boy was written to ?et L. G. Young, Postmaster, the chance we believe that we r partners to go to the dining ?~?-o> can come as near filling your ' n with. After refreshments we BANK STOCK SALE seed orders as any store in the tredTyDnjohnrngcT.rbrated State of South Carolina. birthday by giving a dinner Eighteen Shares Of Everybody's Ferry's, Crossman's, Leonard's . loadelf'with kli the luxuries of Bank of Jonesville. and Wood's High Grade Seed. eliruary seems to bo the month ,iay!'l?rcl''<Othf fits" at"(11!" eleven IJN10N GROCERY CO. nany birthdays around here. o'clock a. m., beiore the door of Kveiyr. Walter Hamee spent Sunday bmly'HBank in JonoHville SC., I will n _ , rvrtouuillp tvlth l.ia mnihfr W? at public auction to the highest Reliable Seed, onesyille with his mother, we bMder f<r cagh Eighteen Shares of Stock k it is very ^ thoughtful in Mr. | in Everybody's Rank of Joacsville. S. C.. ? rx and 'congratulate Citation t. Kindred and Creditors. . Hameeon having such a noble S^?jytfMSteC! "-^SSgftvSST I ' . although wo would like to have <>,? ^ t\w payment of a debt evi- _ _ w T . _ _. . . A with us and he is missed very denced by his note dated June 11th, By W. w. Johnson, Esq., I rebate Judge ll indeed when he leaves. 1907, P*8* due and which remains un- Whereas, J. D. Arthur has made r Uelflill n r lerk for the Tabor l>aid. " D. J. Gaolt, Pledgee, suit to ine to grant him I,ettern'of Ad!? X * ?C t A ? by ministration on the Estate of and effects cantile Co-, spent Saturday night Wallace A Barron, Attorneys. of J. Miller Moore, deceased. Sunday in Union with his wife. Feb. 21st, 1912. 8-21 / These are, therefore, to cite and adr. I. K. Brennecke, of Tabor, m monish all and singular the kindred end ill oh the sick list. Excursion Rates via Southern Railway r. R. B. Byrd spent lastSunday pRVMT..p pApDipp of thf south *ore me? in the Court of Probnft, 'to bo i his brother, Mr. Avery Byrd, PREMIER CARRIER of the south ^ at 'uuion c h 8outh he lion, B.C. *;? 8T. LOUIS, Mo. Account Department the 8th day of March, 1912 ae*tr7after T.S. AverV Bvrd. ftf ftholtnrt <tf Rniy.fint?nH.m?. Nwlinn-I I ? uumv- (luunuitiuu uoreui,?v 11 ii i'ioo? in 'tne <wl tkrnnah Tabor ftnndaw ?vpn- tionaf AHHociation. Tickets will be forenoon, to show cause, if any they eu through labor ?unaay even on Ha)c FeblUMry 24th, 2T,th aiid have, why theBaidAdmiuiHtral^uebwrid on her way to Locku&rt to Vl?lt l^?th, limited to reach original start- not be granted. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Broome. ine point retnrning not later than Given under my hand and seal, thin rs. Sam Askew and children muluight of March 4th, 1912. 20th day of February, Anno Domini, 1912. Tnlmr for her home in Union For iinformation as to rates, ticket, W. W. Johnson, > Jl etc. call on Southern Railway agents or , !. l'robate Judge, r a three weeks visit among address: Published on the 28rd day of February, ids and relatives of this place. W. E. McGee, and 1st day of March, 1912, in the Union ins Maude and Mr. Paul Bald- Division Passenger Agent, Times. spent the week-end with their .? Mee.ki, 8* C* _? , her. Mre. m. f. Baldwin, ot ^auSJTu, oT * ^ Final Discharge. ; place. . . - * ' " " ! Notice is herebv given that I,, (?. isses Bowie, Cleo Baldwin and NotlCC. Young, Macbeth Young and Susan Jane ie Cudd spent Sunday with Miss ... ? ti ...m-wb ? Weber, Administrators O. T. A., of the a Byrd. I have cut out two sections of Look Boom E(itaU, of John Jw Young, deceasivi, have itw Nanev Ooudeloeke of Union 361 10 30(1 applied to W.?W. Johnson, Judge of iss lNancy uoucieiocice, oi union, 496 ^ m Probate, in and for the County of Union siting the Misses Moorehead, of The ho,(,Rr of keyB to 8amR herfby i f()r a final discharge as such Adminiatra>r'?.r .. TT , .w. ... notified that thev must surrender thk?m I tors G. T. A. r. waiter Xiamen ana M.188 Min- by March 15 next or their depoeit of It is ordered, That the 18th day of Howie spent a few pleasant hours twenty cants each will be forfeited The March A. D. 1912/ be fixed for hearing i the M18868 Moorehead Sunday saire rule applies to any holder of keys Petition, and a final settlement of aaia ,in2 * in other spcuons, who has given hp their Estate. W. W. Johnaon, ru * T r?otoo?* a.,?,i Lock Boxen. L. Cf. Young, JaAre of Probatstar Union Countf. rs. J. L. Calvert spent Sunday PoetmaSer. In The Union Xttnee^-R.