The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 29, 1912, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES
PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY
By The
UNION TIMES COMPANY
TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET
BELL PHONE NO. 1.
LEWIS M. RICE .- Editor.
Registered at the PoetofBce In Union,
S. C., as second-claee mail matter.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1912.
The Winter Suit.
Tt weighs a ton, this suit of mine,
And yet I thought that it was fine!
I wonder now how I could miss
To buy a suit as thick as this!
My breath comes hard, I sneeze and
cough,
It's hot, it's cold! The weather's c.ru'l;
And T perspire like any mule!
O gentle spring, withhold thy toot
Till I can get a summer suit!
?April Llpplncott's.
We trust it will not be many days
before we can get back Into our building.
The Times office has been in
the building opposite the W. D. Arthur
Co.'s store, hut many have found
it hard to locate us. Indeed, we
moved twice since the Are, and It Is
little wonder that our friends have
nan aimcuity m flnaing ub. Through
thf courtesy or Progierrtr, wy?
been getting out the Times from their
office. and being located on the nearby
corner from Progress office has
made it very convenient for us. Two
more issues will have to be gotten
out in the establishment of our contemporary.
We hope by that time to
go back into our own place. We can
never express adequately our appreciation
of what Mr. Allan Nicholson
has done for us in this matter, but
we will most certainly do any good
turn in our power, should oppc-ttvnlty
present itself.
It now looks as if we will fall a
little short of reaching the $1,000 this
week. We have had no time to go
out of the office to hunt up s inscriptions.
What is shown this
week is that which was brought
in or sent in during the past
week.. The one day between the
time we write these words and the
h nn 1* frw M nroao
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nearer to the mark than it now seems
likely. When you read these words,
will you not Immediately turn to the
front page and see just how we came
out? "One thousand dollars on subscriptions
in thirteen weeks" was the
Idea that got hold of the editor on
January 1st, and this week closes out
the thirteen. You can see for yourself
Just how near to It we came. Tt
Is always a pood plan to put 1n '"one
for pood measure", and so we are going
to ask that those who have not
helped us In our movement to buy a
linotype, and yet see that the subscription
has expired or is about to
expire, will you not Join those who
have responded hy sending in your
renewal during this next, the fourteenth
week? Tho little yellow label
tells the story.
We received a communication this
week signed hy several farmers correcting
the list of acreage reduction
ns numifinen in iaBT weeK'B Timea
The Hat puhllnhed was furnished by
the eanvaaaerB for publication and
we were but pafwln* on the Information.
Here follows the letter:
".Tonesvllle, fl. C.. March 2B, 1912.
"Mr. Editor: Will you allow ua
space In your paper to correct anr errnr
mo/In htr Iha mnn
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this township to get pledges to reduce
In cotton acreage, as wo have not
soon any of the men and have not
made any pledges whatever, and
thoy have pot our acreage twice the
amount that wo planted laat year.
(s1gned> Dailey Txmg
Jim Harvey.
B. R. S. Long.
T. M. Miller.
Albart Hyatt Y
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FROM THE BROTHERHOOD.
The Work of Aa Incendiary.
Last week we referred to the destruction
of the building of The Union
Times by fire. It is now thought that
the fire was the work of an incendiary.
Editor Rice has waged a war
for righteousness and this Is the answer
whloh is made. The Yorkville
Enquirer says: "There is reason to
believe that the fire which destroyed
the handsome new home of the Union
Times the other day was incendiary.
That Is the talk in Union, and the
proprietor of the Times, as well aa
t h A riAAnlfi r%f fhn fAWn iranAnellw ?
morally certain as to the Identity of
the guilty parties. They think the
crime was committed by Illicit liquor
dealers that the Times bas been lighting.
There Is no proof, no legal
proof, and there will probably be
none. Incendiaries don't generally
leave a trail that can be followed by
law. but the fact remains, that a horrible
crime has been committed, and
such a stigma as there Is rests not
upon the Times so much as upon the
city of Union."
People do not realize what is meant
but such a Are as that which destroyed
The Times building. The
public has suffered more In it than in
an ordinary incendiary act. The man
who burns the house of another usually
does it In revenge for some fancied
or real personal injury; and
there was doubtless revenge in this
instance, but it was revenge because.
Mr. Rice had been standing between
the lawless and the welfare of 1Mb
community. Had he been silent and
allowed those evil men unmolested to
prey upon his people he himself would
not have incurred their malice. Such
men also have design as well as revenge
ill their acts. They propose
to make it dangerous to any man who
would lift his voice to prevent them
from despoiling the sons of the city
of Union. They shoot the picket sim
,/.j iu get at me Bleeping array. They
kill the watch dog that they might attack
the flock. That torch which
burned The Times building was really
set to every house and home in
Union.
A fire like this comes because officials
have been lax in the discharge
of their duty. We do not have first
hand information as to the state of
law enforcement in Union. But evidently
vice has become profitable
there. We urge this because It la only
profitable vkfe that seeks to Intimidate
communities. And vice oould
not possibly have become profitable I
In Union except by the virtual consent
and connivance of law officers.
Had those officers done their duty
against "blind tigers" and such like,
there would have been no occasion for
this fire. Every policeman and officer
in Union who have winked at
crime helped to light the torch which
destroyed The Times building.
Almost every one condemns the act
of such an incendiary; but what is
needed is a condemnation of those
acts of lawlessness which are the real
causes of such a tine. A citizen is
very inconsistent who is now outraged
by this crime, but who has
done nothing heretofore to put himself,
heart and soul, against the lawless
elements o fhis city. By his fear
of evil men or by hiB Indifference to
the conditions of his town, he has
contributed powerfully to the boldness
of this revenge. Many a man is
horrified at what he himself has
helped to make possible. If such a
firs as this would produce repentance
for indifference to civic righteousness
it would do a world of good. But if
we allow lawlessness to fatten under
our very eyes we need not be over
much surprised at the fruits of our
own criminal tolerance.
union is not worse than other South
Carolina towns. It haB as good people
as you can And In the state. This
Are 1b perhaps not due so much to
the presence In Union of a worse element
than can be found in her sister
cities as to the fact that Union has a
man who has spoken with unAinching
faithfulness. Evil here Aared Into
crime because K was hit and hit hard.
In many other of our cities it is not
linnrd f rnm oaIoIw WansA l* i?
v% V*M BViV?/ MWVaUDO IV IS uamolested.?Baptist
Courier.
Annua! Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Union
County Fair association will be held
Saturday, March 30th, at 12 o'clock,
noon. In the rooms of the Union
chamber of commerce. All stockholders
are urged to be present, as many
matters of importance will be disc.ueed.
Mr. R. W. Vincent, for a number of
V ... - -
yearn managing editor or the Charlotte
Observer, has been elected managing
editor of The Atlanta Georgian
and will go to Atlanta early In April
to enter upon his new position.
An express messenger In the west
has refused a reward for killing a
couple of bandits who wanted to rob
his car. He had too muoh fun doing
It to get paid for It.
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Ifewa From Kelton. i
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Kelton, Iflaroh 26.?Mr. Bdltor: At- {
ter eight or ten days without any rain \
the farmer* had started their plow* <
but Saturday ai_d Sunday it cam* <
again and It will be two or three day* I
before the ground will be In order 1
to plow again on the Rldae land. *
The heavy rains of the 14th and 15th '
lnat did great damage by washing the <
lands, etc The creeks In my oommn- (
nlty I think were the highest I ever <
knew them to he during my memory <
of 50 years. On rolling lands ter- '
races -were no more than mole hills '
In ordinary rains. If our lands had '
been broken like they were last year '
the damage would have been muoh
greater. Where small grain had been
sown the land was washed In gulllos
as deep as It had been broken. I
mean the hilly land. There is no use
for men to tell us how deep to break
our hilly lands to keep them from
washing, when six or seven Inches of
rain falls In a day, because we know |
that the land will be washed in gullies
as deep as It Is broken. I am
not much of a believer In fall breaking
land, unless we have a winter
cover crop on it Lands which were
sown In peas last year or corn or ,
peas and crab grass, stood the heavy ,
rain all right Uncle Si Poster, doceased,
always said he did not want
his stubble land broken until just before
he got ready to plant It in the
spring, and he was a successful planter.
He began farming when a
young man, and never followed anything
else, and when he died his property
*ras valued at forty or fifty thouaf
and dollars, besides many slaves set
free at the close of the Civil war, and
he made the most of his money selling
corn and pork He was never a
big cotton planter. I have heard him
laugh and tell of how he moved his
wife and her goods after his marriage
They were simply tied in a
bundle and carried in her arms, as
she rode behind him on his horse
The untimely death of Jim Sprouse
was a severe shock to his many relatives
and friends He was raised on
the Ridsre and iwm n 0>
but had moved to the cotton mills i
several years ego with his family. He (
was hurled beside his wife at Foster's J
chapel church, who only preceded him I
to the spirit world a few years ago. I
The funeral services were conducted <
by Rev. Mr. Hodges In the presence of <
many relatives and friends who have '
the sympathy of this community. . j
News From Adamslmrg. A jj
Adamsburg, March 2ft?We have
been having some more rain. We had
some very nice weather for several
days last week, and farmers got
started to plowing but another ratn
came Saturday and Sunday and etop->
ped them again.
Oats and wheat are h?rlnnln? to
look fine after a few days of sunshine.
Mrs. E. W. Palmer spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Hancock.
Messrs. E. W. Palmer, Lewis
Scales and Sewell Scales, spent Sunday
with Mr. J. D. Hancock.
Miss Nola Soales spent 8unday with
Mr. and^fra. J. D. Hancock.
Messrs. W. D. Palmer, W. A. Palmer,
and B. T. Vaughan visited at the
home of Mr. Ashmore Vanderford
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Eflle Vaughan spent Sunday
afternoon with the Misses Vanderford's.
Messrs J. P Vanghan and Thomas
Nance visited at the home of Mr. W.
M. Vaughan Sunday afternoon.
There Is not very much sickness
around In this community.
Mr. J. W. Parr spent Sunday afternoon
at the home of Mr. J. T. Scales.
Trees are In full bloom and It Is
beginning to look like spring. People
are beginning to garden. Some have
got cabbage plants set out and English
peas and ebans planted.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given, that the
Grand Jury of Union county In lta
report to the Court at the February
term last, called special attention to
the violation of the law as to barbed
and edged wire fences along the publie
highways in Union county. The
law Is as follows:
"All persons or corporations building
or using a barbed or edged wire
fence wltnin fifty feet of any public
highway, shall nail or place a plank I
or pole on or near the top of Mid
fence; Provided, That the said plank
or pole he not required when there
Is such an embankment at the side of
the road as shall, in the judgement
of the road overseer of snch road, render
it safe from injury to stock travelling
said road without such plank
or nole being on said fence.
All persons violating the provisions
of this Section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall he punished by a fine of
not exceeding one hundred dollars, of
Imprisonment not exceeding thirty
days."
All citizens of the county are specially
requested to report to the Mag- 1
Istra+e of any township where this I
law Is being violated any violation, <
and all Magistrates are requested to 1
strictly enforce the law in this re- <
spect. i
County Board of Commissioners <
by J. H. Spears. Supervisor. ]
Union, 9. C. Mch, 16, 1912 12-St <
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give you choice between
a ready-made anu 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 H
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OF CHICAGO, I
and won't cost von any
more. Let us measure
you for your Spring and
Summer outfit.
Humphries-Perrin
Company,
THE STAG SHOP,
13 Main St., Union, S. C.
R. O. Collins, Postmaster, Bamgat,
M, J., was troubled with a severe la
crlppe cough. He says: "I would be
sompletely exhausted after each lit of
violent coughing. I bought a bottle
jf Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
fcnd before I had taken it all the
soughing spells had entirely ecased.
It cant be beat" Jonesvllle Drug Co.
GMymph's Pharmacy. * I
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display and Reac
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Oxfords in al
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3 and Colonial
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WOOLENS for making
Come In Am
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