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THE UNION TIMES ; PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By The UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO 1. LEWIS M. RICE - - - Editor. Registered at the Postoffice in Union, S.| C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS: One square, first insertion $1 00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Legal Notices. The regular legal rates are charged for all notices published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set in 8 point, brevier solid type?first insertion, per inch $1.00; each subsequent insertion, per inch, 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors, 3 inches. ?. times. $4.50. Final Discharge, 1 3-4 inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1 1-4 inches, 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1, 1912. DISPENSARY OR NO DISPENSARY This question will come up for consideration by the voters of Union county on next Tuesday. It is an important question, and the voters of this county should ponder well the is sue. it is not prooaoie tnat many voters will cast a ballot for the dispensary upon the ground that it will help pay our taxes. That contention is so selfish and so unworthy of a noble minded people that we do not believe it will appeal to the voters of the county. We have always contended that while the legal sale of whiskey reduced taxes by putting money into! the treasury, it also increased the si., iSaajfes by producing *^jaft-and criibe: It adds some dollars to the income but necessitates a larger outgo of money in that it adds to the cost of government. Then, too, there is this to be considered: The money brought in by revenue from the liquor traffic is gathered largely from the weakest and poorest element of society. It is a shame for a well-to-do man seeking to have his taxes paid by the weak and the depraved portion of humanity. Many say: "People will have whiskey, let's get a revenue from it; better get the revenue than nothing." We cannot agree to this contention. If the sale of whiskey works ill to the nfnnlp VAll cIlAnlrl Anflom onl" , 1 f j wv. u.tvunu vuvia vr I.I1C daiC UI whiskey. People are often misled by the appearance of things. A superficial view of this question causes the voter to believe that the revenue will save him some in taxes. He loses sight of the fact that an indirect tax is just as burdensome as is a direct tax. The latter is sugar-coated, but just as real, just as burdensome, in the end as is the former. Every drunken brawl, every murder, every crime committed in a community levy a heavy tax upon some one, and too often it falls upon the shoulders of the weak and helpless, the women and children of the State. The argument that "blind timers" flourish under prohibition gets a mighty hold upon some voters. But the argument is fallacious. It won't hold good. The jug trade, via the express route, operates under the dispensary rule, as it does under the rule of prohibition. It mav not be nuite so extensive, but it is real and everpresent. Moreover, the most irresponsible of blind timers, the "pocket tiger", flourishes under the reign of the dispensary; indeed, the dispensary becomes an accessible source of supply. But all these propositions are not basic. The whole thing resolves itself into a question as to right and wrong. Ts the legalized liquor traffic good or bad? We believe it is an accursed thing. It pulls down, but does not build up. It destroys, it kills, it breeds crime, and is to be fought by all good men. But do not stop at that. Fight the "blind tigers," stop patronizing them, stop renting them places in which to do business. Let them feel that having trampled .the law under their feet they are outlawed by good people. We believe the day is rapidly approaching when this vile traffic will be' outlawed, both as to its legalized sale and its sale by "blind tigers." On Tuesday, November 5th, you will have an opportunity to cast your vote for or against the legalized sale of ( whiskey. Let it be "against sale", I and so, for God, women and little children. O Jonesville News Letter. Jonesville, Oct. 28.?Mrs. Mary Fowler died at the home of Mr. Banks Fowler, where she was living, yesterday, and the remains were buried at Foster's Chapel today. Mrs. Fowler was the widow of the late Mr. John Fowler, a brother of Mr. Wallace Fowler. Her husband died last year down near Kelton. Mrs. Fowler was a member of the Methodist church and was a {food christian woman. Lieut. McGowan Littlejohn left here last Saturday for the Philipine Islands where he {joes to enter the cavalry service of the United States army as second lieutenant. He goes by way of New Orleans, ElPaso to San Francisco and from there by water. It will take about four weeks to make the trip. Mrs. Susan West of West Springs visited relatives in Jonesville Sunday. Mr. J. C. Spears got thrown out of his buggy last wegk and his shoulder was considerably bruised and hurt. The horse stepped into a hole in the road and fell and jerked the buggy so hard that it threw Mr. Spears out and he fell on his shoulder. Mr. John B. Foster and his son, Fuller, were driving ar^ organ wagoN last week over in ChernWeo cnnntu where they claim to have the best of roads, and they drove across a bad place in the road, Fuller was thrown out, the wagon ran over him and he was for a time without life or breath but he soon revived. So these two circumstances are both good arguments in favor of good roads.. Now, while I have offered two good points in favor of good roads, I might offer scores of instances in favor of no dispensary, but I am inclined to believe that the voters of Union county will not vote back the dispensary on the 5th of November. If the dispensary carries and is put back in, the county it will be a church dispensary, am the church will be doing the business* i for there is a majority of the voter1 . .in the county whose^ names are on tHr church books and they will be responsible for the crimes that result froik the sale of dispensary liquor. So it is to be hoped that the church will not go into the liquor business. If the blind tigers sell liquor that causes crime and bloodshed, he is responsible. A man asked me the nthpr H?u to stop the blind tigers and I told him they could all be put out of business right now, and he wanted to know how that could be. I told htm for him and everybody else to quit patronizing them and they would all be out of the business right r.ow. Mr. John W. Blakely and Miss Annie Lipsey were married on the mill hill yesterday, Rev. R. W. Spigner performing the solemn ceremony. Mr. Grady Fowler and Miss Ruth Lawson, another Jonesville couple, were married recently. They drove down to Union where they were made man and wife. Mrs. D. B. Fant of Santuc visited her sister, Mrs. S. A. Porter, Satur day and Sunday. Mrs. Porter is quite sick. Rev. L. M. Rice filled his pulpit here Sunday morning and Rev. W. H. Ariail filled his pulpit Sunday night. Lockhart Junction News Notes. Lockhart Junction, Oct. 29.?Every one speaks of this beautiful weather, and it is such as we need for gathering crops and sowing small grain. We see the farmers are fixing and some are sowing, and this is right. Sow all you can in grain, plant less cotton and we will always realize a good price for it. , This writer visited Mr. C. C. Fowler on the 20th inst. hv invitoH- + j ~ j ... vmvivii vv? taac dinner and help eat 4 large 40-pound water melon, and we certainly enjoyed a good dinner. Mr. Fowler is one of our progressive farmers. He showed me some fine seed corn, wheat, oats and peas, which he has plenty of. His barns are filled with plenty for man and beast. He showed me some fine hogs to kill, that will make enough meat to do him next year. While in that section myself and Mr. Fowler went over to see Mr. Marion Becknell, one of his nearest neighbors, who is a bee raiser as Well as a farmer. He showed us and told us a great manv thinrre nhnni i>??? He showed us his honey extractor, which separates the honey from the comb and he then puts the same comb back for the bees to fill up again. Mr. Becknell has a good sale for his honey. He sold $125 worth this year. Mr. B. F. Gregory made 76 gallons of molasses on half an acre this year. He has ground and made up 100 gallons for the public. MUTU mmHpp ^Q ipW*^ y y. aui*uj FARMS F Just the right size for Subu Lot No. 1 25 Acres Lot No. 2 23 Acres Lot No. 3 16 Acres ' Lot No. 4 19Vo Acres The J. L J To Be Sold at NOVEMB Just V/i miles from Coui which will soon be develope( utes drive to Union. I ACT rUAVfP TA CCTTT You can educate your ch Union. Two splendid farm housei out-buildings; good wood ai suburban property to have joins the city park, just no town is building up will incr TO BE SOLD IN LOTS * Notice. All persons are warned not to hunt or otherwise trespass upon my land lying between the public road leading from Union to Spartanburg, and the Meansville road, and bounded by lands of Foster, Miller, McNeal, Flynn and others, containing six hundred and fifty acres, more or less, and formerly belonging to the estate of Miss Ann Rice. 44-3t-pd. C. P. Sanders. TVEM&f be^l w ml dm % RBAN OR SALE! rban Home or Truck Farm. Lot. No. 5 18 Acres Lot No. 6 18 Acres Lot No. 7 14i/i Acres Lot. No. 8 11% Acres licks Estate Court House ER 4tl"i rt House; joins City Park, 1 1? ?1.. a? ? i, uicii win ue uin;y live 111111RE SUBURBAN TRACTS. lildren at public schools of ] s, each with wells, barn and nd fruit trees. Will be first street car connection for it rth of Union. The way the ease in value every day. . , THEN AS A WHOLE. ' Notice. I wish to announoe that I have taken out license as a public auctioneer, and will attend to all calls given mo in Union or anywhere in the county. 1 It. J. M. Greer. Mrs. W. W. Moore returned to her home in Columbia on Tuesday after ] a short visit to her sister, Mrs. Mabry S. Rice. omiu to the Mutual f( :ry, Fancy Good Clothing, Shoes, ' can buy. Oi )y the be^t mar :a. Men's fine to $6.00. W( 1.50 to $4.50. ork shoes made. i GOOD! HAILE'S SHOES A VF.U /]ft/MHf YOUR FALL S Shnoc fvnm fVia Vior-?/~lo 4 ^/A?v/vu ax Viii tuv liailUO VJJL I await you here. Set your shoe price at an we'll furnish you the best s can buy. 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LASS iineral Directors r Undertakers and the City. mywhere in town or coun ender first class service at tesidence Phone 88. T. E. BAILEY, Pres. and *?reas.