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An Interesting Letter From Idaho. Ho. Idaho, March SS, 1911. Mr. Li. M. Rice. Editor Union Time*. / Dear Sir: I have thought ever since I came out in the far Northwest, I would write you a little sketch of my trip and country In which I Am visiting, but every thing Is so new and so different from what I have seen before that my mind and'tlme has been taken up in surveying the wonders of this place, that I have not spent ranoU time in writing. But when The Times came last week and I read of your disaster, ray mind has been turned d&ck tnat way ever sinoe. So I write this to extend to yon and your faithful wife my sincere sympathy In yonr loss, and hope ere long you will be better equipped to fight the lawlessness of Union than ever before. I left Union for Tlo, Idaho, March third. I went to Ashville, N. C., there I joined a party from-Idaho who had been visiting their relatives back In Ashville and Buncombe county. We left Ashville, six in the party, Monday evening, Maroh 4th, on the Carolina Special over the Southern R. R. Arrived in Cincinnati Tuesday morning, 9:65. There we changed cars and took the Burlington Route out through Indiana to Indianapolis, up to Chicago, and the most beautiful country and thriving towns I saw anywhere was In Indiana and Illinois. As far as my eyes oonld r**eb I could see nothing bat the beautiful fields of corn and grain and It seemed that most of the corn was still In the fields. T could see great droves of hogs running at large, and the beautiful country homes showed prosperity. We arrived In Chicago Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock, too late to see much of the city or the lake either. There we changed cars for St. Paul, Minn. Next morning when I awoke and looked out everything was covered with snow. I noticed the mountains on one side, and the valley, I thought, on the other, when some one came to me ?? aw. ? ? - nuu octiu, mere wan lue miSSIBSippi river. I was so anxious to see the Mississippi river. I saw the little boats and ships frozen along the banks and soon I saw heavy loaded wagons crossing over on the ice. I never saw a running stream of water after we crossed the Ohio river until v we reached Washington. The ground was covered with snow all the way, hut not very deep. We left St Paul, Minn., Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, over the Northern Pacific rail way, and I never changed cars any more till we reached Spokane, Wash., Friday morning at 7 o'clock. I passed through thirteen states hut Montana was the most desolate. I never saw hut two towns of any note, that was Billing*' and Livingston, Mont. At Livingston was the iunctlon of the famous Yellowstone park and there was where we started across the Rocky Mountains, about 4 o'clock Thursday , evening. I did not get to see very much but what I did was beautiful. T could see a miner's hut every now and then In the side of the mountain. We passed through the longest tunnel on the way coming up the mountain, the train was five minutes passing through. We traveled nearly all night through the Rockies. I was so sorry that I had that part of the trip at night. We arrived at Spokane, Wash., Friday morning at 7 o'clock. There we changed care for Idaho, and then the Bcene changed. Spokane is a beautiful city. T don't know the population, but quite a large city and coming down through Washington and Idaho there was the beautiful farming and fruit growing country. I have seen the peach orchards of Georgia and the apple orchards of Virginia and Western North Carolina, but I never saw anv tn with tho orchards out here. No one would believe It unless they could see them. We traveled through that beautiful country till two p. m., then we changed cars at a little Indian town called T,apwat. there we took the Camas Prairie Line for Ilo, and the scenery up that road surpassing any that T ever saw. Tlo 1b situated on top of a mountain called (fralg Mountain, an 4 to climb this mountain the train haa to ascend a grade 3,700 feet above the sea. And when you reach the top of the mountain you will find a beautiful prairie country and the most productive noil T ever heard of. Fifty bushels of wheat to an acre aa an average crop. They raise wheat, oats, barley and timothy. I am visiting an old Union family, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Austell; that are living on a ranch four rtlles from Tlo, and like this country fine. This ip iup iiint'c; ivr .tuiihr puupip WlMl want to engage In farming. Tbi ground has boon covered with mow cvor since I have been bejre. I have not been able to see much ot the country. , , Wishing you much success, Ida Merrill. Fourth Grade Honor Bell. Sarratt Hemes, Rupert James, Everett Jeffries, George Sawyer, Macbeth Wagnon. 1 - ' i Mr. W. W. Colton left today for a 1 Death of Mrs. N. Shapiro. ??? Mrs. Orrle Cbawford Shapiro, wife of Mr. N. Shapiro, died Monday morning, after a lingering Illness, and her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Hebron chureh four miles South of Union. She was the daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. J. N. Crawford, W<hn with h.. \ *v? ??"v ??vi y. uuaimuu guiu vurw brothers, survive hen Mrs. Shapiro had been In falling health for some time, and although all that skill and loving attention oould do was done In her behalf, all was unavailing and death came to release her from her suffering. She made a brave fight for life and bore her Bufferings with great fortitude. She was possessed of a gentle heart and beautiful character and there are many friends who sympathise with the bereaved husband and family. Accidentally Killed. Mr. John D. McLure. a former resident of Union, and a grandson of Ma], J. W. McLure, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun at Nogales, Arizona on last Saturday. Toung MoLure was In the U. S. Army, 4th cavalry, and was stationed at Nogales, Ariz. He was nineteen years of age. The body will be brought to Union for burial In the cemetery at the Episcopal church. The burial will be on Saturday or Sunday. The full nfirll/tlllflra a# f>?n frflflro<)w Viava wsvf been learned, the news received in Union coming by wire and merely stating that the young man's death was caused by the accidental discharge of a gun. Want Treasurer Nominated. Editor Times: We understand that the new charter of the City, under which we aye now working, glvee the right and authority to the City Council to choose and elect the City Treasurer. Last year when the executive committee ordered a primary to elect a Treasurer, this provision was shown them and they had to recede from their contention. But why can't It be accomplished now Indirectly? Wthy can't the different candidates for Mayor and wardens be questioned on the stump and be required to pledge themselves to VOTE FOR ANt> ELECT the person whom the voters NOMINATE In the primary? Let the c dldates for Treasurer come before the people at the same time the Council is elected next month and the one who gets the majority of the votes for that office be declared the nominee of the people and be confirmed by the new council at the proper time. Citizens. Will Speak la Union County. Judge Ira B. Jones, candidate for Governor of South Carolina, will speak in Jonesville Friday, April 6th, an A Ovxt-ll- TTI V 1 > " uuu ucunuo 11 x5u buiiuui Dftiuraay morning, April 6th, and on the same day at 3 o'clock in the afternoon he will speak before the hotel here. Saturday night he will apeak at Ix>ckhart. < Urged to Pay Saaday School Pledges As the State Sunday School Con* ventlon is so near at hand and many of the Sabbath Schools of Union county have not paid their pledges. 1 earnestly request that they do so immediately and send the tmount of their pledges to Mr. B. F. Kennedy, treasurer, Jonesville, R. F. D., S. C. This is very essential and it is hoped that prompt attention will be given the matter, as the county is considerably behind in their pledgee. F. M. Ellerbe, Pres. Mary Garden. The famous nrlms rintins. M*f? Garden, who is to be the star of the eighteenth South Atlantic States Music Festival, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; but she is Almost an American, for, when she was six years old, her parents came to Azherlca and settled in Brooklyn, afterwards going to Chicopee, Mass. Mies Garden's father and mother were anxious for her to become a violinist, and she began studying the violin; but she instinctively took to singing the beautiful songs of Scotland and in time abandoned her instrumental studies for vocal work. When she was fourteen years old, her parents moved to Chi uiftBu, ana in ine WMiern metropoira Miss Garden's desire to go on the stage wan realised. She studied first under a well known teacher and then went to Paris. For twe yars -she was a pupil of Trabodella, and then she stud lid under the masters OhavaliSr and Fugere. v It was through a meeting with Bfme. Sibyl Sanderson, the famous singer, that she got an opportunity to sing at the Opera Comiqne tn 1100. In this same year Miss Garden came suddenly face to faoa with the opportunity of her li/e, and she grasped tt. She studied the title role of CCbarpentler's "Louise'' the operatic fuooees , -y'Z 1 I , (II .gg of the season. One night Mme. Riof.on, who was singing th* same pgr! was ill, and and M. Carre, the manager, begged her to go on and finish the performance. She did so and completely won her audtaaQe. Charpentler, the composer, was so Im pressed with her singing that ha declared that lima Rloton should sing the' part no lopger, but that Miss Garden should have it 80 tor a hundred nights the young American was Louise, and she captured Paris. Then she went to London and then came back to America. Her debut in this ooontry was made in November, 1907, In Massenet's beautiful work, "Thais*', and New York opera goers were as enthusiastic ae those in Paris. Mellsande in Debussy's "Pelleas and tTMssnde" followed but even those triumphs were eclipsed by Miss Garden's performance of Salome. A few years ago Adeline Patti was the pride of the press and pnblio photographer; years before Pstti was Jenny Llnd. Today M is Mary Gar Ik. ? Ul ? ubu, iiuw luti uiuhum vnun iuw special story writers have "Oar Mary" as their one subject above all others, and her name Is sung In praise at all times and In all plaoee. Columns upon columns are written about her bewitching face and form as well as her voice. The New York Sun declares she is glorious and Immortal; the New York Herald crowns her the queen of song; the Chicago American affirms she Is . worshipped by spellbound audiences and the New York Evening World credits her With being the Sarah Bernhardt of opera; the Chicago Journal sees her with heavenly beauty and Immortal voloe. Santuck Letter. What about our next season? By months, the first thr^e months of 1913 Is as follows: January, 851 tanhes rain; February 7.48 Inches; March, 10.73 incheB. Total 21,72. Much rain don't you think? Well, I went down on the creek? our creek?and made an estimate of what size creek It would take to hold* that Bix inch rainfall in one day. Some say a creek ought to be dug big enough to hold all of the water, etc. Well, it would have taken one 840 feet wide and three and one-halt feet deep, in fact it would have taken the wbole bottom. April 1st nearly all of the children ran away from school?1 understand big and Uttle-^Uttder the delusion they were playing and "April fOO^.JH" the teacher, but I would look at'ft, that ~ m ?AUU l.kll k 1 uuai i UUUU1& uu WM vuo Ayiu *wi part of tu add without any mincing, It fo a bad precedent Noi If I were those who played such a jokey "April Fool" on th e teacher, I would go further and run off from my parents whenever 1 felt the whim taking me. When It was told around that there was going to be h hiii-otf, I fa bard A tttah teil his children, "Now dont you leave that school, or you will be punished." They did not "Arpil fool** the teachers. s v Very little ploWtftg fads bSW dohb around here to date, April 2nd. None, you might say, except by those who will plow wet land^ and that Is almost as bad on land as the recent hard rains. I heard a negro renter say, "Yes, the ground Is too wet to plow, but that makes no difference, t am plowing," Then I felt It was time to say a word, and I told him that it it was my land he would find it would make a difference, for he would not get another year's chance. That land was too valuable for any man to - allow a renter or anybody else to ruin it. It is really nothing out of the renter. That the average "negro renter did not care, and could rent a farm, plow wet, stop no gullies. ruin it, then pull op from It and rent another place to ruin, and eo on. I think from the way he looked he thought he bad not made suoh a smart saying after all. But at beet, for a man living In Union?as that owner le ?buy land away off, and rent It to a careless Tom, Dick and Harry, Is doing but little more than the negro for the future good of that particular section. i Hey Denver. Te Leave Clinton. Mr. W. E. Bramlett. popular salesman of The Dee Hive, baa resigned hie position and will leavs tomorrow for Chat tan oops, Tenn., where he goes to aocept i* traveling position with Miller Bros. Co., a large dry goods house. His territory will be Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. His many friends are glad to learn that'.he will still make this otty hts hegdqtMttera. traveling In and out from her*.-Clinton Chronicle. , , ROBBBT I* TAYLOR PA SOBS TO THB (IBSAT SBYOJTO. Washington, March 81.?Robert Love Taylor, senior United State* Senator from Tenneesee??"Fiddling Bob" to all the South, died here to day, uneoi* to wnnouna tne ohock of mi operation tor gallstones perton* Mat n****. k ... \ ? | ..MIL f ATI yll 1 Ne rE~ ?i r a 1 x I have 17H aci T cottages, one i mile of Lock X Barnes now li X cantile busine X considerable n y a large estate ; to say that thi< X where in this ! I -PRIC E. F I THE LAND MA Kelton New# Letter. Kelton,, April 1.?News Is acarce on the Ridge. Parmer# are badly behind in preparation ot their lands for a crop. A great many of them hare mo plowing that is worth mentioning to* ward# firing their land# for planting their crone. If the rainv weather con* tinues many more days the cotton Acreage will be considerably cut. The sad death of Dr. M. W. Culp was a shock to his friends on the Ridge. He was a hlgt-toned gentleman, one who was ready always to do what he could for the toiling people of our country. He was a man of much thought and one who studied the conditions of the laboring classes of,our country; one of oar best citizens is gone to his reward. Mr. Editor, I have read a great deal in the newspapers about what is the best plan for the Southern farmers to persue this year in regard to the cotton question and it is generally conceded that the plan known as the Rock Hill plan is the most feasible one and I believe it is if the farmers would carry it out to the letter, but will they do it? I fear not. A great many predict that there will be the largest cotton crop this year that ever has been If conditions are favorable. Some man suggested the best and only plan that will materially reduce the acreage planted in cotton, namely let each state pass a law that all farmers plant as much land In cotton as he pleases, but let the law opacify that for every horse or mule actually engaged in farming be allowed to raise so many bales of cotton, standard weight, 500 pounds each; to each plow free, and all over that amount taroA uv i2 Ko D?r hundred. or $12.60 per bale, all this tax money go In the treasury fo? the improvement of good roads, save the amount to pay for the expenses of collecting this tax. If every state in the South would pass such an act and let H. J. Watson, who is at the head of the Cotton Congiess, or <who ever is at the head of the Cotton Congress, take the matter in hand and work it up. the South would bloom In a few years as never before. Such a law would In my opinion stand in the courts in any of the ?t*te or Federal constitutions, because it gives no special privilege to any one and would be a blessing to the small farmer who needs the most protection. It Is not the ltttls farmer who only makes 5 to 8 bales to the plow that is causing an over-produo' >'v V " V ^ 'V * .LINE the Pr< w Styl "BATT 30NAIN res of land with 2 ni large frame storeroom hart Mills store, wi ves and conducts a su ss. Mr. Barnes has loney right here and h and wants to move to i 3 is the best opening yf section of the country. E $2,500. TERMS E/ ^ in w ALL >N - - JONI tion of cotton, thereby financially ruining the South, but it is the farmer i who is making 15 to 25 bales to the plow. Let us have another such cot- 1 ton crop as last year and it is not I impossible, because last year there t was much cotton planted over and that never came up until the last of i June or first of July, that made good cotton. So it will have to rain much i longer to keep us from making a good crop with good conditions. Later on 1 then you will hear the cry of hard < times, in coarse tms pian couiu not < be carried oat this year, but coald another year. < iir. Editor, I want to give you my idea of one of the causes of the big I cotton crop of 1911, although It seems unseasonable, but If you will think < and reason a little you might agree with me. It is this corn club business. The farmers are advancing in i the methods of farming.. They have been buying much fertilisers at a very ] high price and that too a great deal 1 of It on time, for both corn and cotton, the cotton to pay for It all in 1 the fall, Thly have Increased the pro- 1 ductton of corn from 8 to 16 bushels ' per acre to from 40 to 100, at a cost of from $26 to $60 per acre, and that 1 Is not half told, for while they plant- 1 ed seven to twelve acres to the mule, i they are planting only two to three, 1 and are making as much on that small amount as they formerly did on < their seven to twelve acres, and plant- i lng the balance of their land In cotton. There to where the trouble i come* In. i Mrs. J. E. Keliy of Kelton, Route i No. 1, to visiting relatives and friends < in Jonesvllle. I Mrs. J. C. Fowler and little' daughter < of Jonesvllle are visiting the family i of Mr. Wallace Gault. Mrs. L. E. Garner was shoplng in < Jonesvllle last Saturday. The second quarterly conference of the Kelton circuit was held at Bethlehem church the 30 and 31st of March, i The presiding elder. Rev. A. J. Cau ? mnA InafraotlVA i lOim, |JI OU BU BW.B BBB . I termon on Saturday, from Luke. eleventh chapter and a part of the flret eree. Mt Taber Dote. Mt Tabor, April 1.?As Strawberry did not sire any newa from Tabor laat week the wind will take It up this week. Mrs. Louis Garner left Thursday ' morning to visit her father and friends In Hartsville. ' Tt . S \A v-ol 1 i : 1 -tty | les ' | E-RS> | )ZA 1 ce thre room X within one lere W. H# ccessful mer- X accumulated X as purchased X it. 1 venture T its kind any KV Y 3SVILLE, S. C. X . W????i Miss Edith Murphy spent last week vith friends In Santuc. Mr. R. C. Shands spent Monday In Jnlon on business. Mr. Bhands' new )hone line is completed and la In food working order. Mr. Walter Palmer spent Saturday ind Saturday night in Tabor. Mr. Walter Hames spent Sunday vith his mother in Jonesvllle. Mr. Charley Meng from Lookhart, md little daughter, spent Monlay night with his brotherin-law, Mr. J. V. Askew. Mt. Tabor church had their chllIren's Day Sunday; collection good. Mrs. Jim Simpson went to Spartan>urg this week shopping. Misses Violet and Belle Moorhead < , ipent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. r. L. Calvert. I Mrs. Calvert spent Sunday evening \ with Mrs. Tom Cudd. 1 'Mrs. Alma Meng and sister. Miss ' ^ Mary Hamm, spent last week with \ Mrs. W. C. Johnson. Mrs. Fannie Black and children, after a week's stay with her aunt, Mrs. J Fannie Baldwin, returned home last J week. r * We understand that Miss Edna Baldwin, the teacher of the Mt Joy school will give an entertainment at her school house Saturday night We know it will be a success, as she has done faithful work. Any school should pride itself on securing such ' a teacher. The second flag of Tabor has been tampered with twice, the first time a square piece was taken out of each ? corner, this being patched with a J double piece of cloth. The following r night these patches were removed. All I Ikl.bi. _ _h. K, /> In? dAVH I arc IUIUR1115 wuv v?u uv w ivw uv*>M as to tamper with their country's flag, a? something we should all honor. I i think Strawberry pnt the raacal who j did this work low enough when she E compared him to a horse thief. ! Messrs. Lewis Barnett, Thorn John* E son, and Miss LlUle Askew enjoyed the balmy air of Sunday morning j J, horseback riding. The Wind. II Cdri of Thanks. fji I desire to exprena my siqnnvn. |j|t thanks to tho friends who so faltjtyftil- ' ] ly ministered to my wife during bmt ;j last illness and death. Bach one f who thus rendered us their symUnthf' | will be held in lasting remesship ,1 May ths blessing of hearsa r*n(gpti?:":; J