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THE UNION TIMES a - a PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By The UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1. LEWIS M. RICE Kdfter. Registered at the Postofflce in Un Ion, S. C., as second-class mall matter. < , SUBSCRIPTION RATB8: 1 One Year 91*00 i Months 50 ] Three Months 50 \ ADVERTISEMENTS J One square, first Insertion $1.00 Every subsequent Insertion 60 , Contracts for three months or longer , will be made at reduced rates. LEGAL NOTICES. The regular legal rates are charged for all not'c&s published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set In 8 point, brevier olid type?first Insertion, per inch $1.00: each subsequent Insertion, per inch, 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors. 3 Inches, 2 times, $4.BO. Final Discharge, 13-4 Inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1% Inches. 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRIDAY, APRIL 2C, 1.112. Signs of Spring. Money for the cleaners, ca.nh for garden $eed, Shell out to the landlord?It's very tough Indeed! $pouse must have now outfit, so must all the kiddles; Got to buy $ome fodder to feed the chickabiddies. Poor old dad must $h~'0der the cost of everything! To him the dollar $lgn's the most $tiggestlve $ign of $prlng! ?Judge. i ii:iiinn, <mr, ahu all. We expect to get back In our building before another week passes, and we feel sure our friends will rejoice with us. We hope to get out the next issue of the Times on our own plant. Mr. Nicholson, the editor of Progress, has stood to us and each issue of the paper since the fire and including this issue, has been gotten out in his shop."- We feel sure he who appreciate it; We feel sure of another thing: If our contemporary ever gets in a like fix and we have any available resources at our hand, he shall have the free use of it. We beg our readers to- remember that for the past two months we have had little chance to make a newsy paper, in fact, the editor has literally turned over the whole thing to the stenographer and foreman while he has been engaged in the work of rebuilding. We beg to assure our patrons that we will try to make "P in future for any lapse In news service during the two months of reconstruction. That word, "reconstruction" has an ugly sound, and following a tire it is just as ugly as following a war, though on a smaller scale. But we feel the work to be accomplished. We have put in that wonderful machine we have been working for so long, also a new outfit from top to bottom. We expect to have all wheels turning in a few more days. We have a better house, a better plant and more room than ever before and we can put out the work to "beat the band." We have covered building and plant fully by insurance. We have added somewhat to our fire protection In the way of construction in building. We puri>ose standing in future as In the past for the material and moral wel- i fare of the people of Union and Union county. We are Just as far front being afraid now as ever, and when lawlessness and corruption show , themselves we expect to speak in no , uncertain tones. We feel profoundly thankful to the many friends who have written us f expressing words of sympahty. We ( thank each one who has sent in a ^ renewal of subscription in response | to our call. We feel especially grate- ] ful when we note that ever since the ^ $1,000 was reached there has been ( no slowlng-up of the steady stream of renewals. Here's our heart and , hand, kind friends, we will do our j best, our dead level best, to Rive you ( a paper worthy of your abiding faith ^ In us. I < Some one in Jonesville paid us c unite a shabby trick last week. It was some practical joker, doubtless, I but was never-tho-less a very un- c kind thing. A news Item. In fact an , t announcement, was sent us which F was a trumped up affair, even the li names being fictitious. We feel sure t' the perpetrators of the mean act s hould be ashamed of themselves or it least have the honor to own up to orglng the names of citizens. We lave the same sort of feeling for the vriter that we have for a man who writes another an anonymous letter, rbat's one mean thing the editor of his paper never did. He has never, it any time, in any place written to inybody, dead or alive, without stgnng his name to the communication, ^n anonymous letter writer is a cowird at heart, and our oontempt for llm is unbounded. We feel somewhat the same way about the rumped up announcement sent us last week. We sincerely hope the writer or yriters will have the manhood to do the only manly thing left to bo done?own up. We received a communication this week from Pacolet; no name was signed and the article makes a personal attack upon an Individual?both reason a sufficient to compel us to send the article to the waste basket. WOMAN ACCUSES FOUR OF ASSAULT; THREE ARRESTED Ruffians Invaded Home of Henry Rollins Near Greer, In His Absence and Outwitted Defenders. ?______ Caught In a dragnet which was thrown far and wide around Greer three of four white men aocused of an atrocious attack on a white woman of near that place were lodged In the county jail by Sheriff W. J. White last night. The prisoners are: Ben Littlefleld, Boyce Littlefleld and Claude Wright, mere boys. The fourth man, Robert McCarter, escaped after being pursued to Taylors, Greenville county. The chase will be renewed today. With unparallelled boldness the four stormed the home of Henry Rollins on Saturday night, it 1b charged, during his absence, tore a shotgun from the grasp of Ernest Rollins and drove him away, wrecked the house and subjected the alleged woman victim to umentionable abuse. | Three of them attacked her In the house, she says, and the fourth, Claude Wright, after his companions had fallen over in a drunken stupor, compelled her to accompany him Into the nearby woods, where he detained her the rest of the night. Mrs. Collins, pursued part of the way by one of the boys, fled to the home of her brotherin-law, Robert Rollins, father of Ernest. Robert and Ernset say they were afraid to attempt the rescue of the other woman. The tut. uavenport's place; about 200 yards from the Greenville county line. He came to Spartanburg on Saturday to visit an 111 brother, leaving his wife with another woman for company. The other woman is about 25 years old and is married, but is said to be separated from her husband. Window fs Broken. The women say that about 9 o'clock they heard a noise outside which was ionowea Dy tne nreamng or a window pane. Mrs. Rollins went over to the home of Robert Rollins and asked him to come and protect them. Robert came over with his son. Ernest. The latter carried a shotgun with him. All was quiet, and after they had nailed planks over the broken window, Robert returned home, leaving Ernest to protect the women. After a while the crowd returned and demanded to be admitted. Ernest ordered them to go away. He told them he held a loaded and cocked guu in his hand and would kill the first one who entered. "Why, Ernest, we don't mean any harm?" said one of those outside, according to young Rollins. "We wouldn't hurt you. Let us In." The young woman opened the door and the four came In Th?v xuara evidently drunk, but said nothing at first to which offense could be taken. They dispelled the suspicions of Rollins and the women by talking of the weather and generalities. Ernest was thrown off his guard and after a while, it is charged, Claude Wright matched the gun from him. House fs Wrecked. Pandemonium followed. The ruffians smashed the remaining winlows, broke down a partition, shattered the dishes and wrecked the rurniture. Ernest Rollins fled. A lantern, it is said, was broken over Vfrs. Rollins' head and her waist was torn off. After completing their work of deitructlon the Invaders took a respite >y drinking whiskey, of which each jeemen 10 nave several Domes. ai:er passing a bottle around and drainng It, the women say, they would lash it to the floor and begin an>ther. While they were thus engaged Mr*, toilins seized an opportunity to esiape. She was followed by one of the toys, who pursued her until he saw lobert and Ernest Rollins approachng with an axe, when he returned to he house. With their kinswoman afe, the Ro]liases returned home. The young woman who wan left in < the house says that the four youths concluded their orgy by assaulting her. McCarter and the Iittlefleld boys became drowsy from the liquor and lay down. When they were asleep she sayB, Wright compelled her to aocompany him to the woods, where he repeatedly assaulted her . Towards morning he left her, returned to the house and aroused his companions and they left More dead than alive, she made her way to the home of Robert Rollins. Henry Rollins returned Sunday and the alarm was given. Alarm Is Given. A telegram was sent to Qroenville Sunday night The local telegraph offices were closed, bat Sheriff White was communicated with by long distance telephone from Greenville and took the first train for Greer. In the torrential downpour yesterday morning the chase was started. The alleged crime had stirred the community and Sheriff White had many offers of assistance. The posse was divided into groupB of two and three and the country was scoured as with a fine tooth comb. Wright and the Littlefleld boys were found in a patch of woods by J. B. Stansell and Russell DeSblelds, to whom they surrendered without ado. McCarter was started up in a cotton mill village. He took to his heels and outdistanced his pursuers. Sheriff White followed him onfoot as far as Taylors, where the trail was lost. Tlic three prisoners took their commitment to Jail as a lark. Instead of showing concern over their predicament, they laughed and joked. Conviction of the crime of which penalty unless the jury recommends they arc accused entails the death penalty unless the Jury recommends mercy, in which event the Judge has no alternative but to impose life Imprisonment.?Tuesday's Spartanburg Herald. HARYEY STAGGS IS FATALLY WOUNDED. George Odom Shoots Spartanburg Man Near Motion's Church on Slight Provocation, It is Said. On wbat Is said to have been alight provocation George Odom, a well known man of the Motlow's Cr^ek section, shot and mortally wounded Harvey Btaggs, of this city, near Motlow's church on Sunday this Is one of the remotest has not yet been apprehended. \ He is a cousin of Polk Odom, who was shot to death by Bury B. Casey at Kilgore In February In February. 8taggs was shot by a 38-callbre revolver In the Intestines, and no hope Is entertained for his recovery. Staggs Is employed by the Andrews Reed. Loom and Harness Works, of Spartanburg. His home Is near Motlow's creep and he has been In the custom of going home over Sunday. He was with a brother when h? encountered Odom and one of two other men. There was an old grudge between the two and some taunting words were said. Odom, It Is said, whipped out a revolver without notice and shot Staggs. Staggs was a dispensary constable under Governor Ansel until July 4, 1909. He is 40 years old, married and has a number of children. Odom is a young man and until last year lived on O. M. Moore's place at Duncan. Stagg's brother, Rex, was killed by a negro ten years ago in a raid on a m Ann oVtlna r>la4l11 a?*v na<v?/v UIWUOUIU^ 11 IDU UDI J , AUV UUft 1 U W CM9 acquitted.?Spartanburg Herald. To the Cotton Grows of the Sooth. I fell it proper and advisable In me as tlie one who Should be beat informed as to probable results to be expected under the "Rock Hill Plan" movement for reduction of cotton acreage, to sound a final warning to everyone who has signed the "Rock Hill Plan" pledge to adhere strictly to ft not only as a matter of personal honor, but for the sake of his own direct gain and protection. With equal emphasis I would urge all, in their own Interest, who have not been reached by Rock Hill Dlan canvassers, or who have declined to sign the pledge, to cut the acreage and cut It deep. My opinion of the judgment of the man who will Increase his acreage this year is not flattering. Planting time is about on through oui uie den, ana tne kock mim pian work Is being closed up in the several states, with an unusually late spring prevailing generally over the belt.' The movement of fertiliser has gotten a tardy start, but has put on a mighty gait recently. Those who look to a late spring, the noise of fertilizer reduction, or to the other fellow doing the reducing?to any combination of these? to protect them against low prices? are apt to be the ones to suffer. \ > Wfi"( I Wo] f are here in all | Tan t < 4 M 1441 X ? ? | Just Received a Sh | the Best 25c SOX J | them in pure Silk i X J.ust Re | Silver T The new lining Card Bi | Come in. a I MIITIIAI * 1TAV M. I Un CTffis Is to cut iii' acreage and ^ut It deep. The spring of 1897 la said to be the latest on record. The lumber of acres planted that year Exceeded 1896 by 1,046,376, and the dumber of bales produced exceeded 1896 by 2,400,00 with the result that prices were low during the fall of 1897. If we are to take 1897 as an example, It will not do to depend on the bad weather doing the work. We have a four million bale surplus hanging over our heads. Important foreign spinners who bought at last fall's low prices for three years ahead, will not be in the market at living prices this fall. Mill labor unrest and world-wide coal troubles further militate against us. To play the game properly we should not make more than 12,000,000 bales this year. Tha courage of those who flirt with this condition is wonderful, but their Judgment would not do to describe for publication. Let the cry be, "cut the acreage and cut it deep." Corn can be planted as late as July 1st, and the farmer will be a great deal better off, if he raises lese cotton and more corn, for in the end he will get as much for a small crop as he would if he raised a" large one, AND HAVE ALL HIS CORN CLEAR. J. Q. ANDERSON, Originator "Rock Hill Plan." For Sale. On May 4th, 1912, at noon, in f.nni nf - *V.~ T? *.i wuv vi iuc viiivc 171 iuc juuuDviun Oil Mill, I will sell to the highest bidder, for cash or approved papers, all machinery and attachments of the Cherokee Ginnery, also the building In which said machinery Is Installed. All the above property being in Cherokee county. 16-4t T. M. Littlejohn. Good Positions. DRAUGHON'S courses of instruction and afcillties for securing positions are more strongly Indorsed by business men than those of any other business college. For prices on lessons BY MAIL address jptQ. F. DRAUOHON, President, Nashville, Tenn. For catalogue giving rates of tuition AT COLLEGE, address Draughon's Practical Business College, Columbia or Greenville, S. C., or Nashville, Tenn. t/rvHBtm ui nvnvr* All persons wishing crosses of honor through the John Hames chapter U. D. C., must apply at once to Mrs. J. T. Scott. This will be the last chance to obtain crosses. Miss Anna C. 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