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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 Postoflice in Union, SJ 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. ^iLuuon io ivinurea ana ^realtors, 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 FEBRUARY 7, 1913. Read our advertisements in this issue. You will find our merchants offering some startlingly good values at remarkably low prices. Some folks think advertisements are nol in a paper to be read. Evidently many people find it pays to reac them. Try it, and you will be convinced. -?1?O Hear, all ye people! Last call foi the Corn Show. This week will mark the close of one of the greatest events this State has ever wit nessed. Saturday is the last day If you have not attended, go ever yet. It is conceded that this shov is one of the best yet. Rates an cheap. Come and go down to Co lumbia today?Friday. Many wil go today. Leave here at 9 o'clocV today; get back about 9 the sam? night. That's better than not tc go. Last call! Last call! O We have been looking over oui mail list, particularly that portior which is made up of subscribers liv ir.g outside of Union county, and al the way from Texas to New York ,?.wl XI f- L!.. * cum Hum vv asiunfrion vo r lorula, ant we find there are some two hundrec names of subscribers, each one ol whom should send us a dollar foi renewal. Kind reader, will you 1101 look at your little yellow label am see if you are one of these? Yoi will find the date to which you have paid just after your name. If yoi are in arrears, will you not send u: a dollar? Two hundred f*ood shin inj; dollars would look bie as a mul< to us just now. O We desire to express our commendation of the attitude of the citizen.' of Jonesville in the self-control ant absence of mob violence shown bj them Saturday when it becamt known that one of her citizens hat been foully murdered. There wa; some talk of mob violence, in cast the guilty party should be found. Bui the sober-minded, self-controlled citizens were against anything of tht kind. The Jonesville people are a law-abiding people. That this fear ful tragedy occurred near there is a misfortune that may come to any community: and the Jonesville n* . munity deserves sympathy in such a case. But there are few communities that would have shown more self-control, and for that they de serve high commendation. O THE ASSASSINATION We publish in this issue an account of one of the most shocking crimes recorded in the annals of the history of Union county. We refer to the assassination of Mr. Robert D. Coleman, a highly respected citizen of Jonesville township. It is a terrible picture. This aged man, a brave Confederate Veteran, a man of high ideals and of strict integrity is sitting before the fire in his own home and is peacefully reading the paper. The gentle murmur of the near-by brook is the only sound that breaks the silence. Suddenly, without warning, and with fearful destruction, the assassin's gun thunders forth, slugloaded and deadly, and this good man falls to arise no more. His face, head, neck and right hand are riddled with shot and slugs. From the darkness without and through the glass window came the missils of death. Of all men to be held in scorn by high-minded and true people, two ugly characters stand out most prominently?the slanderer and the assassin. Both strike from the dark, both strike below the belt, both are dastardly cowards and both should be held in lasting condemnation. Added to the horror of the tragedy near Jonesville is the charge that the act was committed by the son of the dead man. So say the jury that held the Coroner's inquest. So seems to say many facts revealed in , the investigation. What the criminal court will say yet remains to be ' seen. The prisoner has said nothing, we to deny his guilt. Let us hope, for the honor of parenthood, the dig. nity and good name of the county i and for humanity's sake, that there may be some other explanation of the fearful crime. Yet, if it is true that the death-dealing stroke came from the hand of the dead man's own flesh and blood, he should receive the full punishment, for the revolting 1 crime. O AN UGLY PICTURE. I A few evening- ago the writer was a passenger on the railway car. In the seat was an aged man, a man apparently of wealth. His conversation showed him to be a gentleman and a ^ man of culture. He was a Northerner journeying South for the winter. In the course of the conversation he spoke of the "white slave traffic, which he said was a most fearful reality in the large cities known to him, and he seemed to have a i ; travelled extensively. He said in his ^ home city, with a population of more than a million inhabitants there recently transpired the following incident: A woman of high character and of prominence journeyed to the city and was to have met her husband at the station. By some misr han. nerhans a misunderstanding of 1 the hour of the train's arrival, the husband did not meet her. But a ' well-dressed, handsome man, and one ' who had every appearance of being ' i gentleman, stepped up and, upon ' earning her plight, said: Your hus>and is detained at , and has sent 1 me to escort you. The woman, suspecting nothing, ' was carried in a conveyance to a ' building that, from outward appearances, was quite respectable, indeed, 1 rather imposing. She was conduct5 jd by a well-dressed maid to a room, well furnished and in perfectly good 2 taste. Upon her entering the room the door was shut and the key turned in the lock and the woman left alone. 5 The story of her struggle and her 1 final escape is too revolting to put ' in print. This much needs to be said, i however. It was the woman's moral i i . i , > ' courage* aye: ana pnysicai courage as well, that won the victory over the brute who turned the key in the door and entered. It is indeed a fearful picture. And the grey-bearded man who related the story 'did so with tears in his eyes. When one hears of such cases, and is told that they are daily taking place in many of our cities, it is with hearty endorsement that we read of the work that Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is doing through "The Bureau of Social Hygiene," an organization of which he is the originator and in which he is one of the principal workers. Mr. Rockefeller has sent out personal letters to the editors throughout the country, asking their cooperation in the great work the organization is undertaking to do. We publish elsewhere the statement given out for publication by Mr. Rockefeller. It is a great work and should receive the cooperation of every honest and true man and woman in the country. We shall certainly endeavor to do whatever we can, even if our effort is but a feeble thing, to help in this much needed reform. From time to time we purpose giving whatever encouragement and help we can. 0 News From Rocky Creek Section. We fint^ the people of our section busy with their respective duties. Farmers are already planning and preparing their crops. We trust that each one will be rewarded in harvest time for all this preparing they are doing now. Farmers are beginning to realize that their crops yield much more by this preparatory work. We notice that a few of our farmers will have cotton for market. That speaks well for our community. The new store room of Mr. R. C. Little is very nearly completed. This no doubt will prove very beneficial to this section. Mr. Charlie Gossett of Spartanburg visited his mother last Sunday, who is very ill at this writing. Mrs. Robt. Scott spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. W. Newell Smith, of Union. Our school is progressing rapidly this year. We are glad to see so many interested. The honor roll of last month is as follows: Second grade?Mable Gault. Third grade?Marie Gault. Fifth grade?Annie Gault. Sixth grade?Roy Sprouse. The following composition was written by a student of our school, Marie Burgess: "OUR COUNTRY." Our country or the United States, which now reaches from ocean to ocean, was first a very narrow strip of land stretching along the Atlantic Ocean. The people of that time suffered many trials and hardships, but the more trials the braver they fought until they finally reached the Pacific. Now the United States is one of the greatest powers of the world, ranks first in agriculture and manufac-i tures Her mineral wealth exceeds! that of any other nation of the world. When we stop to think that justi four hundred years ago people knew nothing of our country, we see how wonderfully this country has grown. Before the cotton gin was invented people had very few advantages^ But now, it is very different. Wefind cotton factories flourishing throughout the Northern and So' , ] era States. This work employs mil* 12 1-1 jiuiis ox laoorers. We also find agriculture growing more and more interesting to the people of our country. Great sums of money has been given by the government for the extension of agriculture, and we find farmers grasping every new idea possible that will be helpful to them. Two hundred years.^ ago we had very few schools not more than a month or so each year. Now we lave schools in every part of our country, for not only the healthy children, but schools have been provided for the deaf, blind and helpless. We should all remember that we have a responsibility toward our whole nation and especially to the section to which we belong and if we use our opportunities'and privileges at home and school in years to come, you will still find our country flourishing. Honor Koll of Mt. Tabor School. The following is the honor roll of Mt. Tabor school for the month of January. First grade? Jesse Calvert, Evans Byrd. Advanced first grade? Harold Askew, Lunette Tracy, Zera Tracy Catherine Calvert, Theodore Brennecke. Second grade?Capers and Mary i Inman, Jesse Bailey. Third grade?Askew Shands,! Pinckney Calvert, Henry Fowler, Preston Addis. Fifth I'rftHp Fnrio iolfflui T ? ? ?"> ; Byrd. Sixth grade?Benj. Calvert, Whitney Cudd. Seventh grade?J. V. Askew, Jr., May Calvert, Alice Brenneck, Elizabeth Askew, Jesse Byrd, Lillie Fowler, Nellie Cudd. Tenth grade?Eliza Byrd, Foster Calvert, Will Askew, James Oates. The banner spellers for this month are: Tenth grade, Eliza Byrd. Advertised Letters. For the week ending? Feb. 7, 1913: Elizabeth Allman, Bergin Bradley, J. W. Beaty, Clance Cnick, E. H. Slidham, Deley Emland, P. E. Farris, Mahala Farr, Lee Gregory, Carrie Dawkins, Lillie Jacks, Daniel Jeter, L. W. Jennings, Bill Jones, J. J. Danner, Nell Darden Lawrence, L. E. Lawson, Richard Lyles, Wm. Monfer. Case Norris, Sam Salter, Paul Trammel, Lillian Thomas, Emma '1 nompson, Bertha Walker, Henriet Vaug'nan. Florence Wilks, John Willson, Pearlie Wamack. L. G. Young, Postmaster. It is usually safe to judge a man by his manners. Only the office without a salary has to seek a man. % / AFEV AtT \ We H For Men and and if you nt boy it will pE we can save Sh For Men, Wo in ai Silve Brand : Buttonholes; MUTUAL V ' , New? From Jonesville. Jonesville, Feb. 3.?There is an old saying that is very true, and it is still in evidence yet, "that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do," and he furnished mat J tci iui iiiv ncwspupuis una nieir correspondents. Up to last Friday evening I thought I was going to have little to write about in my correspondence to The Times this week, but by Saturday morning Satan had furnished plenty of news to write and that of a horrible kind, for he had put it into the heart of some to assassinate Mr. Robert I). Coleman, one of our honorable citizens, at his home three miles north of Jonesville, a full notice of which will be found in another column in this issue. The large stock of goods of the J. L. McWhirter Sons Company has been bought by Mr. Henry J. Hames and the large store rooms occupied by the McWhirter Sons Company has been rented'to Mr. Hames, who already had a large stock of goods, | which he will move into the McWhirter store rooms. Rev. J. E. Coker filled his pulpit here Sunday morning. Rev. W. H. Ariail filled his pulpit at New Hope Sunday morning and here Sunday night. , More than fifty tickets were sold here last week for the Corn Show in Columbia and there will be perhaps as many more sold for the same purpose this week. Mrs. L. J. Fowler is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Betsill, at Cross Keys, who is sick. Mr. J. K. Rush of Midway, Tenn., is in Jonesville for a few days on business. Since writing the above another tragedy has occurred, prompted by the devil as usual. Two mill men, working side by side, in the Wallace Mill, had a falling out about -their Sunday School. They were John Campbell and Otto Kirby and Kirby whipped out a knife and cut Campbell in the body severely, from which he will hardly recover, but he is still living this morning, the 4th. Kirby was arrested by Jack McKiSsick, chief of police, and carried to Union jail. Telephone. In the January sales in real estate reported in the Columbia State, the following news item occurs: "Davfa Jeffries has purchased a lot from the Shandon Anex Company in Shandon Annex at the cornor of Moore street and Fourth Avenue. Love levels all things?when it is on the level. V SPEC! he Mut ave a Few Boys we want t jed a suit for yours ly you to come t< you money on Su: oes! Shoe! men, Boys and Gi ad let us show yoi Collars, the new they don't tear out DRY G00I Hail DICt ol sto: x Slaught Prices U11UC SPECL 300 Pairs of Ladies Small Sizes, ?at? 0*1 r the paj Printer's Ink Tells Come and See t TT.?1 nan The Leading Shoe House IMSl 4 llStl Suits o close out * ;elf or your ) see us as its. s! rls Clomp a. r Linocord 2 for 25c js co. t 1 1 *.' 1 'i iw 11ji i n i ii . - = . e's 30E RE ering vrii \h s ITinn QK/\ao J M. A11V U11UUO 2 to 4 >0 ir the Price ;he Shoes es Union, S. C.