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Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. * ? .* ??;?> < FRIDAY, JULY 1S> *012..., ?-?:?!,;.y ?1 HELP THE HOSPITAL. Strong efforts are being put forth to erect a building for the hospital here, and a campaign for subscriptions to the building fund will be made at once. The whole county will L? 1 1 * ' uc cttiivasseu uy me committees in charge of this campaign and the work will be pressed to a finish in a short time. Such an institution appeals to all those who are interested in worthy charities. The need is great and the aim is commendable. The committees appointed to carry on the campaign to raise funds are called to meet in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock for the purpose i of making final arrangements as to 1 plans for carrying on the work. 1 The need for good roads increases day by day. People now will move to < and fro in the earth as never before. 1 Time is one of the great essentials in these days, and time is the one thing i that is gained by having good roads. It is not a matter of comfort alone, although that is of jrreat importance, A Rood road, no matter how one is journeying, by foot, vehicle, automo- 1 bile or any othei: way save by avia- < tion, is of prime importance both as i to comfort and speed. All over the world the people of civilized nations are turning their attention to the < building of trood roads. We have sand and clay rifrht here in 1 Union county ,and it has been demonstrated that there are no better materials out of which roads can be built uiuuuiiiiiiciiiy. we are just Depinninjif to make a move in the direction of | putting these good elements together 1 properly. Let the (rood work go on ] in our county. ] ( THINGS ARE HAPPENING. c The State campaign waxes warmer 1 and yet warmer, if one may judge by t the newspaper accounts. The investi- J (ration as to (rraft reveals a condition that is serious, to say the least. There t are many people, honest, sincere men, ( who are wondering where all this up- \ heaval will end. Most likely in blood- s shed. The low plane upon which the e state campaign is being cofiducted is t an index to the depths to which we have fallen. The revelations of the 1 investigating committee do but show r the same unfortunate condition. i We withhold our judgment as to the ? charges of grafting made against S Governor Blease. We have published I the aeeounts of the work of the com- c mittee of investigation and every s reader may judge for himself. We ' await further developments for we do e not feel that the charge is proven, i The business looks suspicious, but the s case is not yet made out. We prefer waiting for developments. The dictagraph, already famous, may loom yet larger as matters Droceed. We trust the investigating committee will do their full duty, no matter how s much they may be criticized and a threatened. Thev are men of cood t standing. When they are through, and give out the results of their findings, s we feel sure that the honest people of ?this state will be satisfied. We trust they will go to the bottom of the . Blaaae-Felder-Burns-Grace matter. No f half way measure will do. v We do not blame detective Reed, the Burns man, for refusing to go to Columbia to testify. When the Governor of the state is the one under changes and has himself clearly shown * that he will stand by his friends, no matter what they do, it is not a far a mpporwr of tfre Governor*would, under the influence of whiskey and passion, kill the detective. It is a reasonable supposition, that. ?. yi .<* STATEftySN^ THE' WALLACE TVf&mrifi HOSPITAL ' 4 The orfctnfpfcion'~& Hie Union hospital AssooHUjon is as follows: It consists of'a board of managers composed of seventeen members,- who are tXpU A! H. Foster, C*pt. F. M. Farr, Capt. G. C. Perrin, Mr, W. E. Thomson, Mr. Allan Nicholson, Mr. R. L. Mc Nally, Mr. L. M. Rice, Mr. W. J. Haile, Mr.- L. J. Hames, Drs. J. H. Hamilton, J. G. Going, D. H. Montgomery,. S. G. Sarratt, Theodore Maddox, O. L. P. Jackson, T. P. Kennedy and R. R. Berry. The death or removal of any manager renders his office vacant. With this board of managers an executive committee consisting of five members, to be elected annually, will have entire control of the property and management of the hospital. Last year a committee to name the hospital was elected by the board of managers and this committee asked the public to submit names and Offered a prize for the name chosen. From a large number of names suggested that of The Wallace Thomson Hospital was selected. The board heartily endorse dtheir actio nbn account of Dr. Thomson's devotion to his parents, his untarnished record as guardian of the sacred trust and confidence reposed by the state in a practitioner of medicine, and of his noble service as a surgeon in the Confederate army. - ...It. is hoped that the abdvfe name will K A ft A /11. i 1 ucr w tuo mcuivai pi vxcasmir a ovimalus to greater effort towards more efficient service and to a higher plane for daily work. The object of the managers in urging the erection of a hospital for Union county is the great need for such an institution. The cry for a hospital is heard from almost every one. Men and women of Union county, will this great need go unsupplied? L. J. Hames, R. R. Berry, T. P. Kennedy, Building Committee. ANNUAL MEETING S. C. STATE FARMERS' UNION. The program for the annual meeting of the State Union is now in the hands of the printer. The meeting will begin at 3:00 p. m., Wednesday, July 24th and continue through the 25th. i ne reports 01 me various standing committees at the opening session will be interesting. The night session of the 24th will be an educational one and will be open to the public. Except for some routine business, the entire day Thursday will be devoted to a study of "marketing." At the morning session we expect to have Editor Hunnicutt of the "Southern Cultivator" discuss "Marketing, especially as applied to farm produce." At noon there will be an address by Hon. Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Union. At 3:00 p .m., Hon. J. L. McLaurin will discuss "Cotton Warehousing, Marketing and Banking" from the standpoint of the State Warehouse system. At 5:00 p. m., Hon. T. W .Carter, president of the Mississippi Farmers' Union, also president of the proposed National Warehouse Company, will iresent their plan of marketing the :otton crop. At 8:30 p. m., another plan of cooperative financing and marketing will >e presented by a representative of he S. S. Trust Company which is iroposed to be organized. Among these three plans, and others hat rm\y be advanced, we confidently :xpect to be able to select one that vill be effective. It is possible that iome two of these plans may be workid out together more satisfactorily han any one by itself. With all the preliminary work that las been done by the officers and comnittees of the State and County Un ons, this bids fair to he the most prorressive meeting ever held by the State Farmers Union of South Caroina. In behalf of the officers and ommittees, and the great practical ind increasingly important cause of 'Marketing," we do cordially invite very County Union to be represented ind all members in good standing to ittend. The State Executive Com. W. E. Dabbs, Pres. * The Ready Answer. "You will always find," said the oap box orator, "that one thing baltnces another. -For instance, the pres>nt stiff prices in food .stuffs ?" '.Take, the starch out of the conumer," put in a man in the crowd. ?Boston Transcript. m . Master Aubrey Rice has returned Irom Barnwell where he has been 'isiting relatives. Mrs. W. W. Moore of Barnwell, who las been visiting her sister, Mrs. Au>n?y Rice, left Thursday to spend ometime at Glenn Springs . Mrs. C. H. Humphries has returned ifter a visit to relatives at Walhalla. BLEASB'^^Bri.'lI^DlCTriB *' j by atjlanta grand jur|y v. > ' (Continued from.page }) . , [ more than he deserves. "When Blease came to Atlanta ffr that commercial oongress," continued Mr. Felder, "I had him shadowed every moment .of his stay. And. my detectives saw the felony he committed. That can be proved and if I live i'm going to prove it, and if I don't live there still will be witnesses who will be able to convict him of that crime;" JReed Not Through Yet.. ; As Felder talked Detective (teed, the Burns sleuth of the dictagraph, capte into the interview. Reed looks for all the world the double of the late Paul Morton, secretary of the navy under Roosevelt .railroad magnate, and insurance chief. Reed opened the dictagraph which had received the conversation binding the alleged pardon sale in Washington. . x ' , "That's the same little machine that trapped the McNamaras in the dynamite plot," he said. "It's the same one I used to convict the grafting councilmen at Atlantic City and the legislators at Columbus. It's been a a pretty loyal machine to the Burns detective agency and it may do somje more work to undo Blease. . I'm not ' ? through with the case yet." . | Blease Makes Short Statement. ; Cole L. Blease today said that, ih the near future he would answer this and other charges made against him by Felder in written statements. ' But the governor did dictate a brier statement today in which he characterized Felder as a "cowardly character thief and debauchee," and called William J. Burns, the detective employed by Mr. Felder, a cheap hire^ lig unworthy of belief." Blease denied that Nichols ha{l sought the pardon for Gus Deford, as indicated in distagraph testimony presented the dispensary investigating committee at Augusta late Saturday afternoon by Detective E. S. Reed, of the Burns agency. The governor's dictated statement follows: , "The entire transactions as brought out in Augusta have been done at thifc time in the campaign for the purpoat of injuring me, thinking, as we had passed over half of the state, that it would be impossible for me to reach the people again. That whole thing is a tussie of misrepresentations and wilful lies, which I will show the people of the state at the proper time with the proofs. I have received numr bers of telegrams, letters and telev phone messages from my friends throughout the state and from partiei who have heretofore never been friends, in which they denounce thi committee for the action it has takei| I ouu oaouiui(^ flic U1 U1CI1 uiiuiviufi^ support. I am satisfied they hav* done me no injury, but have material^ ly strengthened me with my,friend? and all other South Carolinians, who love their state and who will resent the manner in which this cowardly character thief and debauchee has attempted to injure the chief magistrate of this state with the assistance of this committee. Referring to W. J. Burns, the detective, the governor said: "In my opinion Burns proved himself unworthy of belief and a cheap hireling, as he has in other of his transactions." The governor said he did not care to make any mention of the incident of yesterday when he ordered J. N. King and O. W. Watson out of his resirence. He quoted one of these men as using in his home words 6f very, "ungentlemanly character." Attorney Nichols, who g was connected with the alleged pardon bribery schceme as related by Detective Reed, left yesterday afternoon for his home in Spartanburg. Governor Blease said today: v "Nichols never mentioned anything to me about a pardon for Gus Deford, and no such pardon has been issued." Nichols and other friends of Governor Blease were in conference at the executive mansion several hours yesterday. The Vanishing Months. Six months have slipped away. How time does fly! Vamoosed have June and May And here's July. Six months behind us lie The year half gone, And here it is July With little done. We do not mean to shirk, But time goes by. Now it's too hot to work For here's July. t : :n - t*.. 1 ?lAiuiHviut; v>ouricr?uuurimi. Notice to Farmers. The Farmers Institute will be held in Union on July 23rd at the Central schcool grounds. V U7 A ~ jk-f, tt. v/aii iiVM| nielli.. One on Father.. Father?Tom; f?o and fetch the old horse. . y. Tom?Why the old one, father? Father?Wear out the old one first, that's my motto. Tom?Well, father, then you fetch the horse.?Punch. Jm 11 V ow ? 3.50 P ? 3.00 \ * - /? Men's S A lot of Eclipse A lot of $1.00 S ' j a Big Kcaucuor Chili Come in a / MUTUAL Jonesville News Letter. Jonesville, July 16.?Saying that history repeats itself is very true for we see it in this political year. The years preceeding 1876 and again the years in the early nineties are being repeated this year in the political arena, and it is to the shame and disgrace of this great country of ours. One can hear but little now any where he may go but politics. It's Wilson and Taft, and Blease and Jones, from morning till night and Sunday is a big day to talk politics. Mr. C. A. Hodgse, financial agent of Columbia College, made an address at the Methodist church here yesterday in the interest of his college. The Interdenominational Sunday Schro! convention for Jonesville township will be held at the Baptist church here next Sunday. Dr. W. 0.| Southard is our champion Irish potato raiser, he made 80 bushels this year Dr. F. M. Ellerbe attended .the meeting of the State Pharmacists in' Charleston last week. Capt. R. W. Scott attended the meeting of the South Carolina Postmasters at the Isle of Palms last week Mr. P. P. Williams, who left here last January for Arizona for his health, didn't find much relief in that country and he went to Texas where he has a brother and remained there for a while ,and then he went to Capeton. New Mexico. He was a week on t- ' road and he has found a place 6,0^ feet above the sea level and he expects, or hopes at least, to be benefitted by the dry pure atmosphere of that country. Mr. J. C. Littlejohn of Clemson, spent last week with his parents in Jonesville. Mrs. George Wood spent last week with relatives at Carlisle. According to the coming of the catydid s we will have frost about the first of October. Farmers have been getting in some good work, but there is plenty of grass in the country yet and laying by time will certainly be later this year than usual on that account. Important Notice. ?. All committees and every body in ithe town and county interested in the [Wallace Thomson Hosoital are re quested to meet at the Chamber' of Commerce rooms on Saturday, July 20th, at 11 o'clock. ! Matters of interest are to be dis tuH.scd and each one'who wishes the puccess of the Hospital is urged to be present. Mrs. C. H. Peake, President. I Mrs. R. P. Morgan, Sec'y. B ft ,no>K*l bau'Yit* ' id-Summei fS.? " . . . ,;T,v> . n* . t > . ; i ' '. ; den's and Boys' also Odd Pan L Stetson. Hats, now I <1 ? 'it ?? i Roelofs " " I << << u Ira w Hats < "S . : $1.50 Shirts, now hiits, now / " ; * V -? 1 I In Men's and Won dren's Oxfords at Cost ind Let Us Sh( nnv nnni uni nuui HAHE'S, THE BIG " >V '?~ ? *** 1 c.r.x ************ *? j\**\ \ ^"_~ "1"1 AT NO TIME OF THE DAY UP TO BETTER ADVA] -""'IN EVENING I Whether it he man or woman v A neat, well made shoe give: pearance in evening attire. 1 qusetion andean guide you in and most fashionable to weai new pair. Prices to suit all po< U A IT n il A Li *v* 4' ' / ,. , The Leading Shoe MAIN STREET - - I iiill ? . ? 11^ aaie , - > .i. J-.a\ Clothing, Its, : - $2.50 2^5 - 3.00 - 2.35 h , 1 it Cost $1.00 ' 75c ? .. .<? ) f vtoil r.o\i . itAit AYTIAM LICH VJUVim > L )w You. IS CO. | =i SHOE STORE VK u i Jv \\ , ? v v ].m i DO SHOES SHOW NTAGE THAN )RESS. yho is wearing then?, 3 a finish to your apWe have studied this what is best to buy r. Come in for that jkets. . jfi 1?9C p"-? , I "I i House. 1 41 ,UNION,, S, C. >'