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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 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 f<>? ;ill nntiees nublished nornrdimr to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set in 8 point, solid type?first insertion per inch i?1.00; each subsequent insertion per inch 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors, | 3 inches, 2 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. I-'HI PAY. OCTOP.KK 0. 1014. Fair ladies! Please prepare your exhibits for the fair. Come to the Union County Fair. October 21-22-23. It is intended that this fair shall excell all its predecessors. Solicitor Hill is making a good solicitor. He is faithfully and conscientiously representing the State in his circuit. Quit your grumbling. Quit luikine | na.d times. Quit making reso'- aliento do without. Quit knocking?or '|ttit the town and county. Judge Ernest Moore, who recently presided over three weeks of civil court and one of criminal court here, impressed those who attended the court of his impartiality, capability and wisdom. He is a man seriously impressed with a sense of his responsibility ami is unfailing in the dis- I charge of his duty. He is, moreover, unfailing in his courtesy and respect for others. It has been a long time since we have seen a judge on the I ench that impressed us more favorably than did Judge Moore. The improvement of the schools in Union county is an investment that will pay in intelligent citizenship. There is no one line of human endeavor that will bring forth good fruit more surely. The boy of sixteen will be a sovereign citizen in five years. He will be your juryman, your witness, your voter. Unon his shoal ders will gradually fall the cares and ? responsibilities of the farm, the shop, the mill, the mercantile establishment. Union county does well to invest in her schools. It will pay enormous dividends in the very near futu re. THIS KIHTION OF THE TI.MKS. We feel some decree of pride in this issue of The Times. The educational feature, both as to substance and mechanical workmanship we feel sure will appeal to all those citizen^ who are interested in the welfare of this county. We do not regret the extra money n<?r the extra work it has brought us. We feel that a newspaper should not only be interested in the present, but should treasure the traditions and history of the community in which it lives. It should contribute whatever it can to the educational and moral advancement of lie community as well as give the happenings of the daily life of the community. The past, the presej. 1 ? L. I I ? inn wie iiiiuru snouiu eacn occupy a place in the pajres of the worthy newspaper. The moral and mental as well as the commercial advancement of the community should be emphasized in its pa^es. We gladly end out the present issue in the belief that we are contributing in some decree to each phase of our well bein jr. LIST'S DO BUSINESS. Bejrinniny Friday morning and continuing through Saturday of the next week, a period of nine days, the merchants of Union are advertising for bi>; business. We venture the assertion that the people of Union county never had offered them such attractive prices as this nine-day sale of fers. As a matter of fact, the merchants are loaded with seasonable merchandise. The farmer is holding cotton. This has a tendency to make business slack. The merchants are determined to meet the situation by low prices. We venture the assertion that you will find the (foods advertised in this week's Ti nes to be lower in A. price in many instances than the J? present wholesale price. In fact, you \1 need not journey to some neighboring .! city in search for better bargains. You will find the best of bargains right here in Union. It will prove } beneficial all around if the farmers, mill people, mechanics and working ^ people throughout Union county will ^ fall in line and buy needed articles of clothing and food stuffs. Mr. Farmer comes to Union and buys :> i bill of dry goods, shoes, groceries or 1 whatever he needs from Mr. Mer- ' chant, and Mr. Merchant in turn buys J whatever Mr. Farmer brings to town in the way of country produce; the j whole thing goes round in a circle. < ?ne dollar put in circulation goes to pay part of many debts in a brief time. When business is dull the farmer has a hard time getting value for his commodities offered the mar ket. When business is brisk he feels the good effect as quickly as anyone else. We particularly urge farmers and everyone else to lay in a supply of any sort of cotton goods needed. Buy a bolt of bleaching, a bolt of yellow homespun, a half dozen pairs of socks?bu> a suit of -clothes. Buy shoes for the winter. You will have to buy these things a little .later. A tine opportunity is here to make a dollar go a long way. (lead the offerings in 4his issue of The Times and come on and do some trading. Things are not as bad as the fearful and excited would have you believe. The war in fcurope is responsible for some of the depression. Most of it is fear and oppression. Lets move forward. We must sell goods. We must grow our crops another year. We must go steadily about our daily tasks. After all we are peculiarly blessed. We are at war with no nation. We do not propose going to war with any nation. When the clouds of war clear away we believe this country will awake to the biggest, safest, most far reaching prosperity ever known in the history of any nation. We believe there need be no undue pressure upon creditors; no merciless grasping for personal gain. There is upon us the beginning of a prosperity that will reach the lowest as well as the highest. There is coming enough for all. No man need be all for self. JONESVILLE .lonesville. Oct. li.?Friday night and Satu;day were rainy times in Jonesville. The superstition that the sun is sure to be seen on Saturday failed last Saturday for it was one dark, cloudy, rainy day from morning till night. I am going to give the readers of this paper in this communication, some things to think about. I had a talk with a very intelligent man the other day, who has pellagra and has had it for two years or more; he has been taking treatment all the time but he still has the disease and he doesn't expect to ever be cured. This same man has a son that has pellagra and is in the hospital in Spartanburg. Now here is the part I want to give , for thought. This man believes from ! experience and observation that peli lagra is communicated by dog fleas, i He thinks the Shepherd with his fleas is the generator of that dreadful dis.ease. Well, if the mosquito communicates the typhoid fever germ, and the rat the bubonic geim, why is it not reasonable to suppose that the Shepherd dog lying around in the church, scratching and rubbing his fleas off or wallowing in the laps of the family I or upon the hearth, with his many ' fleas, might cause the microbe that I would cause pellagra. I give this for wnat 11 is worm, i nave no Shepherd dogs in my home, but I have to associate with them in church more than I want to. The protracted meeting that commenced at the Methodist church here last Tuesday continued through the week. Rev. J. L. Harley, who represents the anti-saloon league in this State, did the preaching for this meeting which was enjoyed. He preached a number of strong sermons which it seems should have had a telling effect on the congregation, hut the visible signs were wanting. I don't know but three of the jurors that sat upon the Nicholson cast* neither did I hear the evidence, but several men from Jonesville did hear the case and it is pretty well understood by all the people what the evidence was and it is a fact that a large per cent of the people are criticizing the verdict and in no soft words. Men that say they hated Jack McKissick, but they think he was brutally murdered. 1 go today with my wife to Woodstock, (?a., and will write my next communication from there or Atlanta. Mrs. M. M. I.awson and little son of Columbia will accompany us. Telephone. BUFFALO Buffalo, Oct. 4, 1014.?"Peace" services were held here today at both the Methodist and Baptist churches. Rev. I.. S. Shealey conducted the services at the Baptist and Rev. Mr. Fulton for the Presbyterian at the Methodist church. The bad weather caused a lot of people to stay away. Mrs. H. H. Malone who has been quite sick is able to be up again. Mr. Walter Haney will leave Tuesday for Clyde, N. C. to attend the North Carolina Fair. Mr. Tom Smith passed through here last week for a short visit to Tennessee. The Buffalo cotton gin under the management of Mr. J. H. Riley is run night and day. Judge Quinn, our magistrate gave jrders here Saturday for all stores to L'lose on Sundays, except the drug store, where only drugs were to be sold. The orders were well observed. Mr. Woodruff of Enoree now holds a position with the company mill store. Mr. W. V. Carter has moved back from Union where he held a position is life insurance agent and will hold the same position here and Mr. Ilamp Hall will return to Union. The Storm theatre is doing well? a good business and they are giving us pood shows. Every Tuesday nipht f'2.00 are piven away. The pictures are the "Perils of Pauline" which they show every two weeks. Mr. J. L. Woodward will be the agent for the Sunday American. J. L. Woodward. CROSS* KEYS Cross Keys, Oct. 0.?We are having rather ploomy weather for harvesting peavine hay, though there has been a considerable amount of them cut this season. Early cotton is about gathered where it has been picked, at least 90 ?i,., intn pci tent l?"> uj;en, i nv mic v-uvivii u it all opens will make anywhere from one-fourth to three-fourths of a crop am! with the present price farmers will not make expenses. It looks to me like we need to change our plans of operation altogether, plant less cotton and more grain. I notice along the macadam road to Union that Timothy grass grows three feet high and other grasses in proportion. It seems to me that if these grasses grow so well along the road t' ?t we might grow them successfully on our farms. Lets give them a fair trial, Brother Farmer. Mr. W. W. Edwards had the misfortune to lose his horse while on his way to Greenville a few weeks ago but your correspondent failed to mention it in his last article. This is a very heavy burden on a man who is trying to get a second start in life. He had spent all his earnings in trying to educate himself. Messrs John H. Graham, James L. Murphy and Robert C. Fincher announce the birth of a fine daughter, each; and Mr. and Mrs. Will Stewart have a fine boy. Rev. W. A. Lamar conducted a series of meetings at Cross Keys school house last week and as a result there were sixteen conversions, several reclaimed and others under deen conviction. Mr. Walter Prince and family started to visit relatives in Laurens county and the mule he was driving became frightened and the buggy was upset and Mrs. Prii%ce and baby were thrown out. The baby is considerably hurt just above and a little behind the right ear, but it is doing nicely. KELTON Kelton, Oct. 5.?We are having plenty of rain now which is retarding the picking of cotton. The fields are white with the fleecy staple. ^ News is scarce on the Ridge. A great many farmers are having their cotton ginned as fast as picked and a good many are selling some of it; some of them are getting 10c on guano accounts while the most of it is sold straight at 7 l-2c which pay debts mighty slow. If we are to get any help from the government or other sources, it should be forthcoming at once, or it will be too late. Mrs. James F. Fowler died at Jonesville last Thursday morning at six o'clock. She was sick only a few days hut had been in poor health for many months. Her remains were carried to Flat Rock church burying ground and laid to rest where many of her relatives are buried, .sne was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Fowler, who had nine children, eight daughters and one son. She was tinsixth daughter and the sixth one t<> nass away; she was twice married, her first marriage was to Dr. W. T. Dalton, who died many years ago, her second marriage was to James F. Fowler who survives her. She was never blessed with any children. Mrs. Fowler joined the Methodist church about 45 years ago at Flat Hock while a young girl and remained a consistent member of this church until her death. She leaves to moufn her death: a husband, two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Page of Pacolet, Mrs. Ellen E. Gault of Kelton, and one brother, Charles Fowler of Spartanburg, who is in poor health and was not able to attend the funeral, and many relatives all who have the sympathy of the community in this sorrow. "The services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. T. F. Gibson, of the Kelton circuit. G. T. G. PROGRAM The Pinckncy Township Reunion, (Colored). Held in Bethany A. M. E. Church, Kelton, S. C., September 28-29-30th, 1914. rirsi .>igni. 8:00 p. m.?Order was called l?y President .J. S. Kelly. Song: "Nearer My Cod to Thee," was sung by congregation. Prayer by Bro. Allen Foster. Music by Kelton bross band. Introductory remarks of welcome by Prof. Wm. M. Bogan of Pinckney, 0:00 p. m.?Lecture by Rev. T. C. Phillips of Union, S. C., one among the leading negro Baptist preachers in the State. "Past, Present and Future Progress of the Negro Race," was his subject, which was most richly discussed. A collection was taken amounting to $9.50. Rev. T. C. Phillips and J. S. Kelly were the only ones that gave 25 cents in the collection. Benediction by Rev. T. C. Phillips. Second Night?Tuesday 8:00 p. m.?Order was called by President. Song by Bethany A. M. K. choir. Prayer by Bro. Knight Foster. Wise remarks and intellectual thoughts on business principles were given by Mr. Knight Foster of Jonesville, S. C., the leading negro in the County, on the account of a misun Men of Ui ! | Our stock of Sh ard and Foster ' celebrated Irvin I Than the Law" Your call Unior |READ' X f TANGO FLARE Y Collar Supporters. X New Novelty X NECKWEAR J VELVET RIBBON X Roman Stripe X RIBBON Y TOYS and DOLLS t A The War will have n X tracted for | McCIui Y C. P. MAXWELl Y AVA ATA. ATA ATA AT4 ATA JTA ^4. derstandinf; we had to use one of our home boys, Rev. Charley Noland, who gave us good points on the raising of our children, and also gave us some spirtual food to feed upon. Then a collection of $2.01 was raised to be given to some old man that attended the meeting regular. Benediction by Rev. E. B. Brown. Third Night?Wednesday. 8:00 p. m.?Order was called by President. Music was furnished by the Bethany A. M. E. choir, Kelton S. C. Pray by Bro. J. W. Eison Prof. Wm. M. Bogan spoke of some things of great interest for the race benefit. Then Rev. S. R. Walker, D I)., of Union, S. C., was introduced by President. He spoke on "Temporal Moral, Financial and Spiritual Conditions of the Negro in the South." he used in connection with his subjeel 4th,chapter of Exodus and 2nd verst of which he used with eloquence, and was doctrinal straightout from start to finish. Benediction by I)r. Walker. Good order was observed durine the entire meeting- We did not have any white man to see that good order was preserved. The meeting was tc get the wagon on wheels, so that by the first day in January, 1915, we can celebrate our freedom in full. We hope on the next meeting Bethel, Manuel, Jerusalem, Union Branch, Mt. Rowel 1 and Bethany will fully represent. C. G. McKissiek J. C. Harris Foster Bias Prof Wm. M. Bogan J. S. Kelly, Pr sident. It pd Committee. Europe's bottling works are running overtime. First to he bottled were American tourists, then the German fleet and finally the war news. nion and Unio You all know us? ways work to win ^ basis of "money's wor back"?but, we know, we must keep ahead oj service and style? , so here's "value right to your cloi we bought thes< necessities befor Europe started?; prices and we sel \ at these unbeatab ! ing you the bt 1 "Warsight." ^ Men's Fall Unck Fall Shirts, Neck Men's Fall Alco equal those offered "a try-on is p ioes is complete and c and Knox Shoes for g Drew Shoes for lad work shoes for the wl will prove a revelatioi and a pleasure to us. i Clothii D. W. MULLINAX, Manager. A A A A A A A A! ^ ^ y t^T f^f T^f f^T T^T^ PIJI^I Have You S I nl9i At the 5< Call and inspect thes?* New Goods whether you intend to buy or not. Obligations to buy never comes with a look. Come in for a look then buy at your , pleasure. 0 effect on our prices as v our goods before war was *e 5c and : L, Mgr. . jA 4^4 iA A^A 4^4 A^4 i^A A^A ^ ^ a^A jA AA A^A A^A A^A A^A A^4. | Reduce the High 1 ??> And Yet Live High *1 PI JRF IV/III ? Y Cleanliness and P\ A Ariel We Llv Try Us Once and Yoi I HILLCRES I ?J. F. McLURE V ? ; To Machine , We are now prepared to chinery repairs on short n( We have installed an ( ? i apparatus which success!u steel, brass. We Solicit Yc Model ( I n County! know that we alrOUR trade on a th or your money to keep your trade f all in values, in proof" of our t-U ^ ? -A- J mes iraue:- E e Fall men's I e the War in I at before-war | 1 them to you 1 >le prices, giv- 1 mefit of our I jrwear, Men's I fixings. I Suits at $15 I by most at $20? I roof" I onsist of How- S men, and the I lies. "Stronger i hole family. 1 i to you I I II I een the New Arrivals % c and 10c Store? A y Handkerchiefs Y Hosiery Y Embroidery A Under Garments A Veiling A Malines V Rufllings Y China and V Crockery. Y ' Y we had already con- A declared. A lOe Co. | Union, S. C. T V V^tf^?f^yf^y 4^ Cost ot Living f er by Using Our ?& IND CREAM X urity Our Motto |4 re Up to It 11 Will Come Back. T DAIRY i Proprietor Operators make all kinds of ma>tice. )xy-Acetylene welding lly welds cast iron, >ur Patronage. rarage