The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 22, 1912, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES 1
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UNION TIMES COMPANY \
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LEWIS M. RICE Editor.
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UNION, S. C., MARCH, 22, 1912.
A THING. *
Coolly, deliberately and upon reflection
we draw for the people of
Union county a picture. It 1s a picture
of A THING. It Is not good to
look upon; it gives one the creeps to
stand by and view it; it speaks not,
hoars not, breaths not, sees not, moves
not, nor will until the Great Resurrection.
Some man, in heat and passion,
or with malice and premeditation,
has struck and struck to kill.
A THING is the wreckage of what is
left after the blow or shot or stab or
blight has fallen upon what was once
A MAN. A man he was, could see,
feel, hear, speak, move. Was loved
and loving by and towards some human
soul. In the dust of the street,
unable to brush away the fly that hovers
over the sightless orbs lies this
THING. Gaped at by curious eyes,
this THING lies helpless, inert, in the
dust of the street. Bl^od oozes from
gaping wounds, from
r*T5rowlIn*vdOK strays
that way and draws near to sniff the
bloody THING. The sunlight falls
aslant the face of tne THING, and lo!
reveals the purpling, blotching marks
of death clearly and yet more clearly.
liye and bye come friendly hands
to lift this THING and carry it away
to what was its earthly abiding place.
Tenderly, silently, with here and there
a falling tear the burden bearers en^
ter the home desolate. The THTNfJ in
placed upon its cooling board. It has
now found Its way to the stricken
wife and fatherless babes. A faithful
WOMAN looks upon the helpless
THING and through her heart goes the
points of many arrows, red-tipped and
dipped in fire. Around the THING
cluster little Willie and Jim, little
Susan and Polly?each one gazing in
wonder upon the THING. It hears
not, feels not, knows not anything. It
is dead. It was a MAN. It walked
out in the morning leaving a warm
kiss upon the lips of wife and
children It was throbbing with life,
living, breathing, moving. It is now
dead. The hand of a Man struck this
MAN that was, and lo! A GASTLY
THING is all that remains of the Man
that was. An open grave, the falling
clods.the fervent utterances of priest,
the silent gathering pass before the
mind's eye?then vanish. Old Mother
Earth lias swallowed 11 p the GHASTLY.
BLOODY THING. It could not
resist.; it could not help itself. It
lias to go, because some angry MAN,
some drunken MAN. some demon- i
ruled MAN struck, and lo! A THING, 1
a Ghastly THING. Roll on, golden
days, hours, minutes?a year?two 1
years?three years, and lo! a MAN i
sits in the prisoner's dock?sits at the t
bar of Justice, indicted for MURDER.
Indicted for making of a MAN a s
THING. Time has helped to blot the t
THING from the memory of all. He 1
has few to step out and say: A MAN t
has been made into a THING, and t
there is the GUILTY ONE. The same
f*VC*a Ml a fr 1 t vr?lr o/l 11 r?nn TrrTVn
.? V**wv . vwiwu upwu tuo X milVI 1
and lips that said: "Poor thing," now t
look upon the Prisoner and say, 1
"Poor Man"; "He Is to be pitied"; t
"He should not be punished"; "He 1
has a wife and babes"; "His family
will have no bread-winner"?and a c
thousand things besides. Alas! and c
yet alas! 'tis true. The THING c
has but little show. It has "been too 1
long dead?too long swallowed up of f
MOTHER EARTH. True, the THING d
that was a MAN paid taxes for pro- n
tection before the ruthless hand of s
another struck; true, he refused to u
become a Law Into himself and
strike back; true he staked his all? p
Life?upon Law, and now that he
stands before the Law a Bleeding o
THINO as a consequence, the LAW t
l*% mhUV. A?-A. M % ?? *
iu nuau no u uoiBu neniaieB, ium-io
I)1cb, stumbles, Is diverted, misdirected, I a
perverted, cheated, brow-beaten, and s
the Man who struck and In striking
made a THING, goes forth "jiot gull- t
ty." It is a sight to turn honor into
Infamy and arouse the fires of hell in 1
the heart of an honest man! I
i
In the unsettled condition of our '
office, owing to the fire's destruction,
we overlooked making mention of the
departure of two good fellows from
our composing room. The fire left
them out of a Job and their going
brings us sadness. A. L. Adams, one '
of the best "straight type" setters, >
and an all round worthy fellow, and '
Elliott Rhodes, a mute, but one of the 1
best workmen that ever tarried in a '
printing shop, are the fellows. Rhodes i
has secured a position with the I
Keeowee Courier, Walhalla. At lastac- <
cuuiiiBAaams naa 1101 yet secured a '
position. It ought not be a hard thing '
for him to get a good place. We 1
know that if there is an opening any- <
where for a straight-type Better, <
Adams is the man to fill It. We have
had three galleys of proof from type 1
set by him without a turned letter I
or a mistake of any kind. He is a
rapid workman, as we|l. He can I
set all the straight type for an ordl- <
nary weekly newspaper. If there Is (
a newspaper in the State In need of a <
man in this line it would be well If 1
Adams be secured. Address him, A. !
Li. Adams, Altavista, Va. He 1b able
to deliver the goods.
We regret to part with these good 1
o.w1 - I --.1-1 ?-'! I
>viivno, nuu UUI UVOl WiallBH 1U1IOW
them. They are loyal and true, wor- 1
thy and well qualified.
We earnestly plead with our county
authorities who have in charge the
rebuilding of the bridges, that they
try the experiment of building of
some of these bridges with re-enforced
concrete. Such structures
would be able to withstand the floods
and would last 500 years. They would
not cost much more in the building
than the wooden bridges.
FROM THE It ROTH E R1I GOD.
It is pretty generally believer that
the burning of the plant of the Union
Times in Union last week was the result
on an incendiary. So dastardly
a crime should be puniBhed and that
most severely. It is hoped that there
is enough public sentiment back of
law and order-fiYfiJLJtbere^i 9*4*1 .
| efWTT Snort is made "to bring about
'the detection and arrest of the man
who did it.?Greenwood Index.
Editor Rice, of the Union Times,
who has recently had his plant destroyed
by fire, has learned the truth
nf tho R.avinof "Tf inx
...... ...0. n ?nnOT me UlgUl lO
bring out the stars." His misfortune
has brought to him many words
of sympathy and encouragement. This
is a pretty good old world after all.
?Spartanburg Herald.
I.ockhart .1 unction Letter.
Lockhart Junction. March 12.?It Is
raining today and everyone is saying,
"My, My, what a winter we are having."
Old people say we haven't had
such in many years.
Mr. J. G. Gault has improved In
his sickness. He can sit up some and
talk so that he can be understood.
Mr. J. L. McKinnov has the eham- (
pion laying hens for this section. He
got sixtv-seven dr?7on PIrata riiirtme.
? -nn" ?u6 *-uo
month of February. He has thlrty-flve
hens, pure-bred white Leghorns. If
any one wants eggs for setting, they j
can get them from him.
Mr. C. 0. Allen of Greenville, was
down on his plantation and visited
Mr. McKinney last week. Mr. Charlie
Allen came with him. ,
Miss Delphia Fowler of the New
Hope section visited relatives here the
later part of last week.
It was Mr. W. M. Sparks who sold
the hams in Union that I spoke about
In my last letter. I got It mixed up.
I had him and Mr. Wllburn in mind,
but I met him again In Union since,
ind he was peddling again, and I
thought I would correct.
The fnrmera coflro Sia
'?? they can not get to plowing; and
ihere Is some wanting to bow oats. 1
When the land gets so they can plow, j
:hey will be In a rush, and will have fl
.heir hands full. e
I heard one man say he believed he fi
vouldn't use any guano. He would
ake the money he would have to pay ^
or It, and buy his flour, and other
hlhgs to do him. Well, thla sounds
Ike a Joke.
But our fathers made cotton and <
orn without fertilizer, and I know at tl
ine time when my father got 17 to 20 E
ents per pound for his cotton, and
its crib was full of corn and the pen p
ull of hogs. Now why cant wc all
lo that again? One bale bringing
early twice what It does now, we can
ee they did better than the most of
s now.
Mr. A. D. Plexloo has a twelvetound
baby boy at bis home.
This writer was very sorry to
1 The Times loss by fire, but wtlope .
here will be a way for the 4$*?* <
>f this paper to get his building ready 1
tgain soon, and the loss wtQ^nqt 1
lecm bo great after all. 3 [ f. i
I hereby announce myself a oandl- *
late for a good crop this year.':; ^ ,
This correspondent sent in a'letteil g
ast week, but I guess it wont in the j
Ire, as the other letters did, aajtherapi
vas only a few letters in ThewHLjl
ast week. MoX^^^Ht|
Our .lonesillle T.etteiH M
Jone8vi11o, March 19.?The
Thursday night and Friday wa^^^H
leaviest and moBt dlstructive
rain since the June flood of
road and fields are badly washet^^^B
bridges more or less damaged.
Fairforcst bridge on the Glenn
road is bent down stream and
proach on this side gone. The-J^Hu
aver Pacolet at Grlndall Is somi^^B|
lamaged. The approach on tlilij^^^H
being undermined and sunk dow|^HH
been stopped.
Jther )>ridges in this and Chdj^^Bj
jounty are damaged or washed
Farm work is still practlcal^^HH
up; with fair weather the plows
liardly start this week. mK
Capt. It. W. Scott has two
paper currency that are somewhat out
?f the regular circulating currency In
theBe parts. One is a two-dollar, and
the other a three-dollar bill, on the
Corn Exchange Bank, of Desota, Nebraska.
dated in 1860.
A tenant house on Mr. T. A. Ltttlelohn's
place near Jonesville was destroyed
by fire last night. The house
whs occupied by Quay Simrel, a col
ored man, who lost all his stuff.
Mr. J. C. Murphy, who lives in our
mill town, has a little son six years
old who has been lately admitted to
the Cedar Springs Institute for the
deaf, dumb and blind. Mr. T. H. Gore,
our county superintendent of education
worked the application for Mr.
Murphy. The Cedar Springs Institute
is doing a great work for the unfortunates
in this country. A little
h'lnd girl of our town, who has been
educated there, played a selection on
the organ at the Methodist hcuroh
here Sunday.
Capt. It. W. Scott and his milliner,
Mrs. Boyd Webber, went over to
Knoxville a few days since and bought
a stock of spring millinery goods for
the R. W. Scott company.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crosby and Miss
Bettle George of SDartanburg, week
the guests of Mrs. Tda Lone In UonsJ
iiin
The Southern Railway's dairy inspection
car which is touring the State, Is I
scheduled to be at Jonesvllle the 26th
inst., at 10 a. m., and 2 p. m.
Mr. Harper Porter of Peakes, 8. C.,
is spending a few days with his mother,
Mrs. S. A. Porter.
The Southern Railway has paid the
estate of George Ed. Gaffney, who was
killed in January by passanger train
No. 13. in Jonesville, three hundred
dollars. This action on the part of
the Railway is very kind, as there
seemed to be no grounds whatever
for damages.
Mr. J. G. Long, Sr., of Union, was
in Jonesville a short while yesterday.
Mr. N. 11. Elson has been summoned
to serve as a juror at the April Term
of the United States court in Greenville.
Telephone.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given, that the
Grand Jury of Union county in Its
report to the Court at the February
term last, called social attention to
the violation of the law as to barbed
and edged wire fences along the public
highways in Union county. The
law is as follows:
"All " " *
^.1. |ici sung ur ouriMjruilOIlB DUliaing
or using a barbed or edged wire
rcnce within fifty feet of any public
highway, shall nail or place a plank
>r pol<> on or near the top of said
renco; Provided, That the said plank
>r pele be not required when there
s such an embankment at the side of
die road as shall. In the Judgement
>f the road overseer of such road, renler
It safe from Injury to stock traveling
said road without such plank
ti jjuic iiemg on saia ience.
All persons violating the provisions
)f this Section shall be deemed guilty
>f a misdemeanor, and on conviction
hereof shall he punished by a fine of
lot exceeding ono hundred dollars, or
mprisonment not exceeding thirty
lays."
All Htizens of the county are specally
requested to report to the Mngstrate
of any township where this
aw is being violated any violation,
ind all Magistrates are requested to
itrictly enforce the law In this repect.
County Board of Commissioners
by J. H. Spears, Supervisor.
Jnlon, S. C. Mch, 16, 1912 12-3t
Special Election.
An election for five trustees for
onesville special school district No.
2, will be held on April 23, 1912, in
he town hall. Rules governing the
lomocratic primary will be observed.
J. C. Mobley, R. J. Klrby and J. F.
lean are appointed managers of the i
lection.
(Signed) F. M. Ellerbe,
D. B. Free, Jr.
M. R". Rams. i
J. T. Spears.
J. M. Oault,
Trustees. <
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I Get Under a
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1 Sat i si
I Mutua
I If someone were to I
9 mn Ira ?I/m1 n
?*"jruu (l |/i t^tll L UI
a suit of clothes and
#ive you choice between
a ready-made an.', a tailored?to-order
suit, which
one would you accept?
The
Tailored-made,
of Course,
because it's better in
style, workmanship and
especially if made by
Ed V. Price & Co.
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OF CHICAGO,
and won't cost you any
more. Let us measure
you for your Spring and
Summer outfit.
uumpui icy renin
Company,
THE STAG SHOP,
13 Main St., Union, S. C.
R. G. Collins, Postmaster, Barngat,
KT T 1.1 _ J ?l?l- - ?
it, ?J?, vr?o iiuuijiuu wiiu a uijvere in
grippe cough. H? flays: "I would be
completely exhausted after each fit of
violent coughing. I bought a bottle
of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
and before I had taken It all the
coughing spells had entirely ecased.
It can't be beat." Jonesvllle Drug Co.
Qlymph's Pharmacy.
ring Roelofs
display and Read
our Insnectinn
Roelof and Smile!
Also a shipi
Oxfords in al
ers and Toes.
Oxfords in 1
jL Black, also
iD and Colonial
? $3.00 to
1 u r*t * i
a i>ew snipmenx (
We have on display all
WOOLENS for making I
Come In And
action Guarant<
il Dry Goods
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CONSULT
There is not mediation
selection of your shoe
! you give it a thought, 1
this your consideration:
i i ? * * *
ing but the best. We
more on the fact of beii
' than good sellers; and
well we don't have to fc
the selling end. Goo
are already half sold.
i 1 '
to look out tor is the pre
| - value; and all YOU he
t
for is that you get into
i
von need shoes.
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| The Place to Bi
12 Main St
?rag
Hats |
y for *
U. to $5. :
m
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tt
ment of *
1 eath- |
Button I
'an and jjj
Pumps S
Pumps %
$3.50 |
)f Ties 50c f
L the LATEST a
SPRING SUITS |
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Haite's 11
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employed in the
dealer, even If
but please give
. We buy nothpride
ourselves
ig good buyers,
when we buy
>e so strong on
%
ds well bought
So, all we have
>per fit and good
we to look out
our store when
t > "'
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uy Shoes.
Union. S. C.
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