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SPARTANBURG STREET "THE VE1 "DRINK H<JLES, UNWORTHY OF BY REV. MR. McAULAYBERS TO BLAM1 rri i 1 . mat wnen a young man goes out upon the streets of Spartanburg, he goes out in the fumes of hell, was one of the statements made last night by < Rev. W. A. McAulay, pdstor of the i Associate Reformed Presbyterian i Church, in his sermon, which dwelt i upon local conditions. It was a vivid presentation of what is said to 1 he the real condition of the city from' ' a moral standpoint. * The two great vices which cause ' all the sorrow in the world were de- < clared to exist in this city and the I blame for the prevalence of these im- 1 i i -.1 i , iiiuittiiuca in opunanuur^ was placet! at the door of the church/ members 1 by Mr. McAulay. i The minister said that a part of the church members were asleep; that ( some of tbem were typical Rip Van Winkles when it catne to the moral , welfare of the city. Others, he. said, were dead, and j as much enthusiasm and fighting , blood could be aroused in one of the , corpses in Oakwood cemetery as ] rniilri hp arniisprl in t'r.p ii-art r>f mnnv of the church members when it came 1 to the matter of having a cleaner j Spartanburg. A third class of church members , who are to blame for the existing ] evils are the selfish church members, | who turn up their noses and sneer at the serpent just so long as it keeps , way from their own front doors, 1 just so long as one of their sons or ] daughters is not poisoned by the snake. t The last class of church members, 1 he said are to blarne for the vice in ( the city, are the criminally careless, . who make no concerted effort to \ put the ban on all evil and who go about their own business day by day, forgetful of the temptations that lie \ in the paths of their neighbor's chil- 1 dren and their own children Oftimes , he said, they suddenly reali^er their \ carelessness when one of their loved ones suffer. This class was illustrat- , ed by an example cited by Mr. Mc- \ Aulay which came under his obser- ( vation in another city. i "When a young man goes out into ] the streets, he goes out into the very j jaws of hell," he said. Desecration of the Sabbath day is the primary cause for these evils, \ according to the theories advanced , by Mr' McAiilay, and he "scored the Sunday newspapers, drug stores and "the good, pious Christian folks" who ( demand their nuiwrs ntiH their onft drinks on Sundays. ( "The good, pious amen corner church members demand their neces- , sities on Sunday and hence prevent . the clerks from worshipping as they ] would were it not for the fact that they have to work. They insist on having the necessities, such as kodak films, gasoline, cold drinks and cigars. "We get up a Seventh Day Adven- ] tist before the courts and convict him ( for working on Sunday, iVhen, if the Sabbath is desecrated, it is not by , the poor, laboring Seventh Day Adventist, but rather by the leading TYiom hove nf enmo nf fVio nhnroKoc in V...V.O ... J the city of Spartanburg. The Drink Holes. s "I am told that there are six 'drink holes' in the city o. Spartanburg," he continued. "They are not worthy of the name 'club.' We don't need a dictagraph, we don't need Burn's detectives to know that they are kept open on Sundays. I am told that on a certain Sunday no less than 157 Spartanburg men entered one of these drink holes, took a drink and came down. (IT ! a. . .1 .1 ' i was coining up street tne utner j night about 10:30 o'clock, having just ( gotten in the city on a late train when I saw an officer of one of Spartanburg's churches strolling along in front of me. I watched him, as he j did ont seem to be out in order to make weather observations, and sud- j denly he darted up a stairway leading to one of these drink holes. Such men as these ought to get out of the church. They ought to let those who are working for the moral advancement of the citv know where thev ' stand; they ought to get off the 1 fence; they ought not to disgrace the 1 church rolls. , "In Spartanburg, I am told we j have the gambling hells where mon- , ey is won, where money is lost every night by the leading business men of , the city. And occasionally one of j them goes far wrong." Mr. McAulay said he had been told this and he believeed it. "A gambling craze has come 6Ver ( the city, and there is no doubt but j that it exists. It is not the gamb- , ling hells that do so much wrong, however, as the kindergartens f6r 1 the youthful persons, who soon grad- , uate into skilled gamblers. He then told of an incident which happened to him when he first came i to the city. i $ ' J / S LIKE RY FUMES OF HELL." THE NAME 'CLUB" SCORED -PIOUS CHURCH MEME, HE SAID. "I was standing at a soda fountain when a little girl, not as tall as the counter, came up to me and asked if I wouldn't put her nickel in the slot. I, out of curiosity, did so, and she won three drinks. She then cordially offered to 'set me up.' "Some good", pious church members teach their children to play cards very early in life, and then, after they learn to use a gambler's tool, we are horrified, surprised, to discover that they have become gamblers." He was particularly harsh in the terms in which he denounced card playing. He said the only surprising thing about it was that there were not. more gamblers. The next question, he said, was one hard for him to discuss. He advised his congregation to read the seventh chapter of Proverbs. He lacked words to talk of this matter and stated that when a young man went on Spartanburg's streets at night he was in "the very fumes of hell." Mr. McAulay took his text from the 17th chapter of Acts, the 16th and 17th verses: "Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his Spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. "Therefore, disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the r-.ar...uu ai . ivci nun mem ,mai met witn mm." He closed with a plea for united and concerted action in abolishing the evils that lie within the city and called upon all church members to array themselves in the line of battle to wage the crusade. He said that when the, ministers were called upon to select a committee of five from their congregations to appear before the city council to ask for a more rigid enforcement of the laws that some of the ministers were at a loss as to which members of the congregation to appoint, as the pastor did not know which side of the fence they stood. He said that he was glad that Spartanburg bad papers unafraid to speak out against vice and to tell the truth. He said that if the drug stores were to blame, to put them out; if the hotels were to blame, to put them out, or if the drink holes are to klamA utaiiiCy tU put LIItMIl UUl. There were only a handful of persons present to hear these revelations made by Mr. McAulay, but he dealt with the subject in a broadminded manner and spoke out against vice. It is to be regretted that there were not ten times as many persons in the congregation.? Monday's Spartanburg Journal. More From Felder. Atlanta. Ga., July 20.?Thomas B. Felder ,the Atlanta attorney, who made sensational charges of official corruption against Governor Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina, before the special investigating committee of the Legislature of that State, tonight made the following reply to a statement made by the Governor today: "He (Blease) substantiates his statement Dy. tne attidavits of men who have been convicted of felonies and pardoned by him and by men who are under indictment for grafting in South Carolina. Further than that the reply that will be made to him will be as soon as he is relieved of his Gubernatorial robes. "It is just as certaih that he will be landed in the penitentiary as it is that the Ohio grafters, the Atlantic City grafters, the McNamaras, Abe Ruef, of Snn ^Pr?nci?i>? or/1 lonJ bers of Oregon were placed behind the bars. "We have better and more conclusive proof against Blease and his associates than Detective William J. Burns ba dagainst any of those people who are now serving terms in various penitentiaries of the United States." Monarch 8; Lockhart 0. i Monarch Mills defeated Lockhart last Saturday afternoon by the score of 8 to 0. Nabors was in the box for Monarch and his pitching was the feature of the game. Besides pitching a splendid game he secured four bits. Gilmore, for Monarch ,*did good work on short. , x Monarch started things off with/a rush, scoring four runs in the first inning. At no time did Lockhart threaten to score after the first in ing. The game was fast and snappy along towards the last. The Monarch boys hitting the first ball pitched to them. Lockhart secured two hits during the ninth inning of the play, and at no time did they have a chance to win, being completely out classed. Batteries: Monarch, Nabors and Sparks; Lockhart, Alston, Thompson and Farmer. Umpire, Johnson. V LOCAL NEWS Mr. Jervey Bewley of Chester spent the week-end with friends in Union. Miss Altahlee Bewley, of Chester, arrived Sunday to visit Miss Etta McDow. Mr. Lester Sims of Warrenville, S. C., is visiting relatives in Union and the county. Miss Lottie Gregory of Santuc spent last week, the guest 0f Mrs. I. Frank Peake. Mrs. J. H. Wilburn and Miss Marie Wilburn are spending several weeks at Earle, N. C. Mts. Eva Harris of Spencer, N. C., will arrive this week to visit Mr. and Mrs.' R. Haynes Harris. Mr. L. P. Dashiel of Spartanburg, spent the week-end in Union with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Alston, Jr. Miss Pauline Gilbert of Union, S. C., is visiting her brother, Mr. W. W. Gilbert?Ashville Medium. Messrs. Thos. J. West and J. Boyd Lancaster of West Springs were in Union Monday on business. Mrs. Haynes Harris 'and little son returned Monday from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanders at Cross Keys. Mr. Charlie Sparks ,of Anderson, is spending his vacation in Union with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Sparks. Mrs. Arthur Cottingham and little I cnn A l't V>1H? T ? 4- * ?-wwl f?./%?%% a visit to her brother, Mr. T. M. Marehant, at Greenville. Miss Lois Gregory is visiting her brother, Mr. Norman Gregory, in Columbia. Before returning to Union, she will spend some time in Charleston. Ice Cream and Box Supper. There will be an ice cream and box supper at Brown's Creek church on August 3rd. afternoon and night. The public is cordially invited to attend. The proceeds will go to the benefit of the church. The Pointer Worked. "Is your daughter taking singing lessons?" "Yes, how did you know?" "Your neighbor, Jinx, is trying to organize a club for the suppression of unnecessary noises."?Houston Post. "How did he succeed so long in fooling his creditors into believing that he was wealthy?" ' f? ne naa every memDer 01 nis lamny operated on for appendicitis." . "If she told you her age you can surely figure out when she was born." "Judging from what she told me her age was, I should say she was born on her fourteenth birthday." mi tin r mia is U who ten years "People come mill real ' New Orleai heard so much oi | peculiar goodness HI it to them?plac< 55q everybody, no mat | The result was I Now the most ] called-for brand Many imitators ha the scene, but af Iuizunnt you ceived by the ** ji ment of its imitati SOLD E V I The ReOy-Taylor Co., \ v Notice to the Public. The Health Officer, Mr. T. B. Strange, has requested us to give publicity to the following rules, which we glally do. RULE XXI. I shall not be lawful for any person to lermit a dead horse or any other ani nal that may die within the limits of he city of Union in the posses? sio .ownership or custody of such pei ion, to remain within the city limits for a longer period than is necessai' to remove the same, and for each am every violation of the provisions of his rule the person offending shall be ined Five Dollars ($5.00 )or im-' pri oned in the city prison five days. * RTTT V YYI ] shall not be lawful for any person to hrow or place in any street or up 1 any sidewalk, or in any open lot in the City of Union, any dead fo> or dead animal, or to deposit any wa if melon rinds or rubbish from ya Is or Jots on the street or sidewa unless the same be put in boxes or >arr?ls convenient to be handled by he city cart drivers. It shall n6t be awful to deposit any liquid slops or refuse in any shape upon the sti sts .sidewalks or open lots within th< jmits of the city. Dead fowls, anim s, rubbish ,etc., found upon sidewa :s ,open lots, etc., in opposition to th rule, shall be deemed as havinjr be there deposited by the occupants of ie nearest house or lot thereto unles otherwise shown, and for each and ev y violation of the provisions of thi rule the person offending shall be ned Five Dollars ($5.00) or impr: >ned in the city prison live days. RULE XXXVI. . ction 1. That any person who in an manner hinders or obstructs the Ha th Officer of this Board in the insp ;ion of any premises within the lir?Is of thp Pitv of Iloioti J .11 U1C ab; iment or removal of any nuisance, or 1 the discharge of any of the du s prescribed, or hereafter to be pr sribed by the Board, for the corre< ons and preservations of the sanita condition of the city or any of th< duties of the General Assembly cr< ;irg this Board, shall, on convictio b? punished not exceeding thirty da; f?r every such offense. RULE XXXVII. ! c. 2. That any person who refui 5 <r neglects to abate a nuisance or ny matter or thing which, in the opi ioi of the Board of Health, endai ea the public health, after having >en directed to do so by any persoi icing under the authority of the Bo; d shall be punished by a fine of not Its than One Dollar nor more tha orty Dollars, or by imprisonmei t >r not less than one day nor moiji ^jtn thirty days for every such offens< | 4 Receivers Sale. By xue of an order of the Court of CoMon I'leas for Union County, the unrsigned Receivers will, on the 30th rl of .Tulv 1919 at 19 J "V *- V WJUCIV, noon, 1 to the highest bidder, at public itcry, in the store room of the H phries-Perrin Co., in Union, = S. C.. the fixtures, and all the re- ? malnir stock of merchandise of the SSffWfiffVhi ies-PerrinCo.4 Ti is of sale, Spot Cash. C. Allen. W. W. Johnson, J. F. Walker, Jr. I jivers of Humphries-Perrin Co. D t forget July the'30th, the Hos il Rally Day. 18m KM Bfp] }lz/i III i r 1/WUS/ K/l jj ne/orleans ra FIRM I ; as reasoned: jj es to la taste of m ns Co|?they've its refkable and l Wfciot send j u wa reach ot teratv distance ?** =2! | ! 1 | I; ! ?3 pop ur, the ihost J I or he market. 1 s= ve sine xne upon ^ ? ter yoace know I'" 1 i will rr be de- fe ut as d" argu- |j= ERYHERE .. s NImuIIm*. I I Q A M \ .. i , rfc 4^4 4^4 4^4 4^4 a^A J^A 4^4 , nyi^r^r^r^ny ^ri^ri^ny Three Good t T * Why This Bank Should X V First?A good influential bant V solutely essential to th ^ any business or enterpr ! Second?We have ample res< * the SAFETY of all d Our methods are progr ? ly conservative; we ta ?|> risk. Third?We are a NATI0NA1 the supervision of UNO DALL TODAY AND GET | Citizens Nafio V . UNION, SOUTH C, i Capital and Surplus _ _ ATA ATA. ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA J 4? rl? Hj? 4? fl? rj? rf? fl? 4? Hi? * | Get Our t ?ON-I* .ft BBHanHmHun ! FLO * * * * * We Can Save Yc * I PEOPLES SUF + at ?$? <$? $? ?4* 4# ?$ ?g* ?g? ?$? $. $? $. ?4? 4 The Bradley-Wagnfl UNDERTAKERS and FUNE1 Evct^ thing New and Parlors on Main Street, Bo Service every hour of R. M. ESTES, Dir PHONE 104. L. L. WAGNON, J. Pres. and Treas. SICKNESS nANT rUIIM vnvm ^ TO BE HAPPY KEEP WELL USE ONLY DR. KING'S. NEW DISCOVERY^ 1 TO CURE I COUGHS AND COLDS\ WHOOPING COUGH \ AND OTHER DISEASES OF THROAT AND LUNGS SOLO AND GUARANTEED THE RICE DRUG C MONUMENTS AND TO There are seven different gra the Sixth Grade is just half the p How many who buy monuments knov they are getting. Just take a look throug the condition of a majority of the monume ed only a few. years, of cheap marble tht first quality?what are you going: to do al more for inferior material and workmansl at home with a reliable and responsible fir cent on the job. Try us ahd be convincet BAILEY UNDERTAKIN( ReasWts I X be Your Bank. ;ing connection is ab- J^ e proper conduct of ise, public or private, ources to guarantee eposits at all times. essive but thorough ike no unnecessary' y j ba'nk, and under V :le sam. acquainted. nal Bank | \rolina. 'x ... $60,000.00. ? *!* Prices | * + * jl U R ! * + * >u Money. % + TLY CO. | * i? ?i|i? lijji* ?i|i? ?!|* ti|i? lijjlt in Company &AL DIRECTORS Modern, bo's Old Stand, the Year. ector. T. BRADLEY, _ Secretary. __________ HAPPY IOME J REACH gFVAlAr^ f/xf ^iiac \ irought\ inv I TO / 1 V Millions / I Price 50c and $1.00 9 BY mmmmmamamaMi >!*!PANY MBSTONES t des of Marble, rice of the First. r what grade of marble h the cemeteries and see nts that have been erectit was no doubt sold for )out it?send off and pay lip, or spend your money m, that saves you 25 per i. 5 COMPANY.