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THE UNION TIMES t] PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By The 11 UNION TIMES COMPANY a TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET j, BELL PHONE NO 1. a 8 LEWIS M. RICE - - - Editor, ii n Registered at the Postoffice in Un- r ion, S. C., as second-class mail matter. 6 SUBSCRIPTION KATES: r One Year $1.00 v Si Y Mnnf he * Three Months .25 ^ ADVERTISEMENTS: a One square, first insertion $1 00 t Every subsequent insertion .50 j, Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. a l.egal Notices. t The regular legal rates are charged j for all notices published according ^ to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set in 8 point, brevier e solid type?first insertion, per inch f $1.00; each subsequent insertion, per ^ inch, 50 cents. , Citation to Kindred and Creditors, 3 inches, 2 times, $4.50. ^ Final 1 innkoo A f times, $4.50. c Administrator's or Executor's no- ^ tices, 1 1-4 inches, 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of re- 1 spect, resolutions and cards of thanks 1 strictly one cent a word. s FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913. ' ( A GOOD MOVE. 1 The efforts of the city authorities 1 to regulate the speed of automobiles < within the city limits is a step in ( the right direction. Now let all au- j ' tomobile and motorcycle drivers lend < their co-operation to this pood law. * It is a law that prohibits the many from the thoughtlessness of the few. 1 If there should be some hardheaded 1 travelers among the gasoline riders, < let the city authorities compel such 1 individuals to obey the law. We ' trust the law will be rigidly enforced < and that not for a day, but for all i , ^' time. * ? > "*i O 1 GOOD WORK- < success in his fight on hootworm in j in this county. There b*ve been hun- j dreds treated and many more exam- . inations. The work will tell in the \ future. Many who came to scoff , were convinced and got treatment 1 ] that healed. We feel save each child t cured will become a living testimony, j and many others will be pursuaded 1 to take the treatment. We can only ] feel pity for those parents who allow-' ( ed their prejudice or their unbelief to keep them from giving their child-1 } ren a square deal. There are some 1 j people who are like the man who' ] went to the circus, and, for the first i i time looked upon the long-necked j. giraffe. He looked, then looked 1 again, and turning to his wife said, "Sarah, there aint no such a animal." And there are many people who, even at this late day, are pursuading them- j 1 selves that there is no such thing I j as hookworm. There are others who,' i while admitting the existence of the 1 disease, are of the opinion that it is jf a matter of verv small importance, j Meanwhile, many children who have i? the disease will go without theatment, < and will be life-time loosers. Its \5 a pity, but it just cannot be helped. [ Free examination and free treatment 11 right at hand, yet indifference and i 1 even hostility have been met with! Now that Dr. Riser's work in this'v . . if county is drawing to a close, it is to I t be hoped that the good work done will, ( pave the way for a fuller work in the ( same direction. Many will be led to , consult the family physician, and will I t thus secure treatment for their child- j ren. It would be an easy matter to < practically eradicate the disease in s Union county in a year or two. We ^ sincerely trust it may be so. Dr. Riser will spend one more week t in Union county; he will then go to c Newberry county for six weeks. rv w V COUNTRY LIFE. > > t Much has been written upon the j joy of country living; and it frequent- d 4 . ly transpires that one uses the word c "healthful" as an adjective in con- j nection with "country life". It comes a bout that the word is misleading in hat connection; if recent investigaions are to be given credence. As matter of fact, life in the country hould be freer from disease than life i the town and cities. But is it, as rule, found to be so? Let us take ay, Union, with a population of 6.000 ihabitants compared with an equal umber of inhabitants living in the ural sections of the county?which ,000 souls would show best health ecord ? Perhaps the population dthin the city limits of Union. And or the obvious reasons: there is n oard of health and we are under uthority of police law. Moreover, he water supplied the inhabitants s examined at stated intervals and he observance of sanitary conditions re enforced. It would be the easiest hing in the world to have Rood santary conditions in the rural sections, >ut the very fact that it would be asy is cause for many being neglectul. Nature has done so much for he man who lives in the country that le is often slow to do anything for limself. This does not mean that he man on the farm is any more :areless than his town neighbor. If hey were to be reversed in position t would be the same thing. Where >eople are thickly settled it would be suicide for thom to noclopt to onu rreat extent, matters of sanitation Conditions force the man in town to lave some regard to these matters, .vhile the man on the farm is not so horoughly confronted with like conlitions. But the fact that health conlitions are so easily obtained on the 'arm should make our country people letermine to po still further towards ;ecurinp the very best surroundinps. \nd we believe such is poinp to be ,rue in the near future. Many of the conditions that formerly drove ;he country people to the towns have llreadv been altered. The telephone, letter roads, better schools, more :omfortable churches and better louses are among these improvenents. And the end is not yet. The time is soon coming when the average :ountry home wil^lje eouipn^ and draw water; there will be hot and cold bath ready to hand?in fact all modern conveniences will be in the average country home. Such comforts, with the low price of good reading matter, will put the man in he country in a most enviable pos tion. snade trees, screen doors, jeautiful flowers, an abdndance of uscious fruits and fresh vegetables, chickens, eggs, ham, bacon?the whole earth is offering the intelijent farmer the best it has. And he s gradually coming into his own. Before many years he will have gone 'ar to possess these privileges which ire already his for the taking. () Letter From Wilkinsville. Wilkinsville, S. C., April 21, 1913. dr. Editor: It has been a long time since I lave written anything for the Times, dthough its bright newsy columns lave long been a welcome visitor to >ur home. Our first attempt at journalism vas with it under the management of he Hon. Itohert M. Stokes, who to ncourage us to write for it, said that i dog fight would be read with a jreat deal of interest away from the scene where it took place. This we soon found from long experience to ?e more or less true. Since we got out of Union county, vithout moving, simply by being cut >ff in Cherokee, our business relaions with the town and county have eased but still we feel much interest in Union and the county affairs, ir'ou have many good people in Union ind it is one of our progressive counies. With what we consider the best wrtions of York and Spartanburg :ounties, we have formed a union and ;et up housekeeping for ourselves and ve find them congenial companions? irst rate people. In the formation of Cherokee, sixeen years ago, Union county has ontributed largely to its best citienship and in the matter of office inlHinor it hoc Uo T' > > 'ta iuii nnnru. 11 ve are not mistaken we have given 'our readers a list of these several 'ears ago. Time and again we have hought we would renew our corres>ondence with the Times but simply lid not get at it. We have two first lass and first rate papers published n Gaffney?The Ledger and The Jews. For this former we have been .cting as correspondent since its es tablishment nearly twenty years ago I and still on the job. Messrs DeCamp and '/rank Parrott are both clever fellows and we like them. "Telephone," "Hey Denver," and "Moxy" we see are still on their jobs with the Times and there are others we are not acquainted with who are helping you to get out a good, newsy paper. To all of these (yourself included) we extend this salutation, "May your shadows never grow less." In his letter to the Times last week "Telephone" struck the key note in speaking of the effects of the cotton mills on farm labor. The average laborer is willing to be governed by the mill whistle in the measure of a day's work, especially at this season of the year and later on, during the making and gathering of the crops. Hut in winter time when the days are J short and the nights long, the mill' fl whistle may blow early and late as j much as it wants but the farm hand I there is nothing doing. Our farmers are very much behind j with their work on account of the I wet weather we had during the last two months. But with the present spell they are trying to catch up with their lost time. Today our Interdenominational singing convention meets at Rehoboth church. This is a new method adoptod to improve our church music and our people have gone into it heartily. We have some veteran singers who are giving their time and attention to this great work and much improvement is being made along this line. Since being cut off in Cherokee county this section has been greatly eonvenienced by building an iron bridge across Broad river which gives us access to the nearest railroad station at Hickory Grove, only six miles distant. This bridge cost the counties of York and Cherokee $10,000 and it has been worth every dollar of it to our section. With best wishes, "Vox." 9WA1. I Swat! Swat! Swat! B Though the weather be cold or hot, : in the nun or the rain H You must hit 'lm again. 1 H So Swat! Swat! Swat! IB. A whack for each germ lie's got. B Though he's only a fly. B You must help him to die. i I So Swat! cwat! Swat! |H Swat! Swat! Swat! IH Till you've I tied the whole bloomin' lot II Be they . ~>uae or horse, . . IB They havt^germs. of course. ^7? * H(Jllf ir^lflvat! Sw^... Jlrig ' "t About an tlit?'pOWTilIngi ' You must Swat! Swat! Swat! Swat! Swat! Swat! Rejoice at each one that you've got. For each fly that you kill Makes some bacillus nil. So Swat! Swat! Swat! Some Fly Don'ts DON'T allow flies in your house. DON'T permit them near your food, especially milk. DOII'T buy foodstuff whe*e flies are tolerated. DON'T have feeding places where flies can load themselves with dejections from ty phoid or dysenteric patients. DON'T allow your fruits and a confections to be exposed to the l] swarms of flies. i DON'T let flies-crawl over the baby's mouth and swarm upon the nipple of its nursing bottle. SWAT THE FLY! ? QLEANLINESS is next to godliness, and self preservation is the first law of nature. Therefore swat the fly! O] Swat the Fly!d! It Is the Most Danger- W A * '? 1 uus Hiiimai on La.nn i SS When bacteriologists inform ub that tho average fly earrie? on its body ^ 1,250,000 gerjos. save Farm Dairying, surely we should feel a just cause for grave alarm. ? ol HOUSEFLIES AS CARRIERS OF DISEASE. JM Flies spread tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, summer complaint and fevers of babies by carrying disease from one to another. 1/ ? ' r\o?p overyxmng clean and there will be no flies. ? Don't let flies have a place to lay their eggs. Keep covered all places where young flies may be hatched. Put eoreena at windows and doors. Where is dirt there are flies. .'.as Pleased. "Maude has had some new pictures taken; did you know?" "Do they flatter her?" "1 suppose so. She sent one to .lack.'' Contrary. "I have Mary iu my black book.** "Why?" "Recanae I have caught her In eo many white lies.' Don't The BIG REi To ask attend f be a fo< "coiv SEE1NC Mutual i ? \ f ( ANNOUNCEMENT! The Union Ice and Fuel ompany wishes to announi that they have begun the aeration of their plant, an(3 re Drenared to fill nil' nr. 2rs for ice, retail anci holesale. Coupon books or ile by drivers and at fac>ry. All business will b< ansacted at the factor} lice, 20 Mill Street. I. P. DOBBS, Managei Phone 103 * . Fail to Mutu ISDN WW iivv wm v v ii I why you this Sale )lish quest ie and: : ic dfi n I 1J ULL1 9 Dry Goo n I _ Ourpr/ce | upon the nra nf ihi Ml V VI I 1 1 \ T Wh you Shoes, t[ 1| "Hail Mm J.UJ.J SHOES AND Main Street Visit al's f SflLt should would Hon. SEE EVING ds Co. \ s insist * depart? Shoes think of link of ; I le's HOSIERY Union, S. C 1 4 I