The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 27, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1!>14.
More corn, less corn whiskey? the.
i< '.in- need of Union County.
More rye, less rye whiskey?that i
ine neeu 01 union v ouiuy.
More apples and peaches, less apph
and peach brandy?that is the need o
Union County.
More rich lands, less gullies?tha
is a need of Union County.
More grain, even if not less cottoi
?that is the need of Union County.
More hay baled, and less grass kill
ed?that is a need of Union County.
More hogs to eat more corn, mor<
horses, mules and cows to eat mon
hay?these are the needs of Unioi
County.
More home ground wheat flour,
more home ground corn meal?thea
are the needs of Union County.
More Union County canned fruit
and vegetables, less imported canne<
goods?that is a need of Union Coun
ty.
More optimism, more courage, mon
grit more cooperation, more intelle
gent effort?these are needs of Unioi
County.
More information, more acting up
on the knowledge already gained
these are needs of Union County.
When some of our great physica
needs are more fully met our ehurche?
and schools and homes will begin t(
show more signs of life, real life.
Too much booze, too little economy
that is the trouble with Uniot
(bounty.
To many "kickers," to few "pullers'
that is a trouble with Union County
i Too much "hard time" talk, too little
real economy?that is a troubh
with Union County.
Too much cotton, too few full
smokehouses, full barns and cribs
that is a trouble with Union County.
Too many horses eating hay ship
jm'u i i v/mi tin1 ?? fM ; uju many no^s
eating corn shipped from the West;
too many people eating (lour shipped
from the Northwest; too many people
eating canned fruits shipped from
California; to omany folk wearing
wool when cotton would answer the
purpose better -these art troubles
with Union County.
Spend your dollar at home.
"Union suits" me.
C^uit talking hard times and be
thankful for what you have.
Uncle Sam !has withdrawn from
Mexico. Let us hope he will find no
occasion to re-enter.
"Russians report successes," is the
daily news bulletin. They should by
this time have driven the Germans
into the Baltic Sea.
j, There are almost daily reports from
^the capital of Russia telling of (JerJNian
retreats, but somehow the G? r.vaans
manapr1' to i?e on the scene next
day. > y
The Charleston Kveninp? I'ost came
out Wednesday with sixty-six patrov
The regular edition was supplemented
by a most creditable industrial edition.
It is a fine piece of wn?! , rind
is a booster for Charleston.
#
) We have for years been striving to
build up our mail list, and thus Rive
' our advertisers value for their money.
One of last week's advertisers said
to The Times man a day or two ago:
' "That ad. last time certainly brought
results." That's what we have been
striving for, results, and it is with
deep gratification that we hear expressions
like the above.
The Union Grocery company's
Thanksgiving window is a display of
Union county's canned goods. The
1 display is quite attractive, and the
' quality of the goods is all that could
> be desired. Commissioner Watson's
heart would be made glad if he should
look upon this display. As we under1
vt.'111(1 lli .11 hi> im iinrinir t lint himr tlm
' marketing of home-grown products.
II " BUT I I MAY COME TRUE.
t If the dispensaries of Union were
closed out and the $150,000 dollars a
. year thrown away therein were inf
vested in ^rrain elevators it would
build a $10,000 elevator and equip one
1 in 15 counties in the State. Union
; county, together with the considerable
\ contribution made by contiguous
counties, could build a grain elevator
, and equip the plant every month in
the year and then have considerable
I working capital upon which to operate.
It has been reported here that when
the city authorities in Columbia attempted
to arrest the gamblers one
day last week the gamblers said:
\.ll right, if you arrest us, you must
go right over to the hotel over the
. way and arrest those ladies who are
t nbivine" for nriy.es:* von must mil nc
all on the same footing." Wo feel inclined
to side with the Ramblers' poss.
ition. Where is the difference in
I playing for cut glass, silk stockings
or any other article of value and in
\' playing for money? It is as broad as
it is long.
A LOYAL UNION BOOSTER.
1 Ther? is a certain small boy, a very
small boy, now living in another state,
but until recently had lived all his life
1 in Union. Although now living in a
considerable sized city, this little fellow
can find nothing there so good as
that same thing in Union. When
shown some attractive show-window,
e or some valuable article he has invare
iably said: "But mother, that ain't as
! good as they have in Union, is it?"
Recently he saw a Bible in a showwindow,
and said: "Mother, that ain't
, I no jrood here, is it?" We very much
e'disagree with the little fellow's judgment,
but cannot help feeling that his
loyal Union spirit is what this coms,munity
needs above all else. This is
' a question we would like to put to ev"
ery Union citizen: "If you do not
boost your town, who will." We would
like to go vet further and sav: "If
E? * %
you do not trade in Union who will?"
1 HOME KIM) AKKT BETTER.
Some days ago a farmer of this
county otFered for sale to the writer
some canned peaches, home raised,
1 .
1 Union countv ill !!-nnnnil liMts
At lirst tin proffered sale was reject-j
I ed. Upon beinjr urpfed, six cans were
finally purchased. They were packed
by the younp- son of the said farmer,
and were in clean, fresh cans with attractive
labels. The lad who packed
the fruit is one of the Corn Club boys
in this county.
Now, to make the point: All except
one of the half dozen cans have
been used. The peaches from these
cans are simply delicious. They are
not soft and mushy like many of the
canned peaches sold on the market,
but they are firm and taste almost
like :i ft rpnm +? <?** rr!w.
| poach is perhaps of the Chinest Cling
' variety. Surely the people of Union
county have begun to realize their opportunities.
Now we see one great drawback.
The farmer in question was retailing
his products. There should he some
means for pooling the productions of
this sort from the various farms of
the county and of disposing of the
total output to retail merchants. The
net price per can would not be as
much. hut the aggregate income
would show to better advantage, and
the farmer would be saved time,
trouble and expense incurred in selling
from house to house.
We predict that there will be, ere
rany years, a general market right
here in Union in which all varieties of
farm products may be disposed of 10
regular dealers.
WHAT OF NEXT YEAR.
It what Commissioner Watson said
at the trrain growers' meeting here
last Thursday is true, we are up
against a situation that needs to be
given the gravest thought. He says
cotton next year, 101 r>, is bound to go
down; grain and all food supplies are
bound to go soaring. He based his
prediction on the probable scarcity of
food stuffs in Europe and the fact
that the present bijr crop of cotton is
sufficient for the needs of 1915. Mr.
Watson says we have an opportunity
of a life time, if we will sow every
available foot of land in wheat and
oats and plant corn, world without
j end. One listening to hi- arguments
could not help being convinced of the
correctness of his predictions. The
farmers of Union county have the opportunity
of a life time*. Will they
avail themselves of the opportunity?
There will be no fearing that you can
not sell your grain. It is a dead certainty
that you will find a ready market,
and at a very high price. Mr.
Watson said he had no doubt but that
wheat would go to $2.00 a bushel.Corn,
oats, peas, hogs?that is the
safe road for LHiion county farmers
for this next crop. If you wish to
plant cotton in 1916, do so; but unless
you wish to cut your own throat,
plant very little this coming year.
There is one very striking statement
made by Mr. Watson. He said:
"If you will sow grain, worlds of it,
you can get it upon the market ahead
of the Middle West and Northwest. I
and that will mean top prices." Go to
it, farmers of Union county. You
have an opportunity to enter upon a
life of independence, if you will
choose that way; or you may go on in
the way of a cotton slave. What?
Which ?
HELl* YOURSELF, OR SHUT UP.
Let's get clown to brass tacks. Ways
and means for advancing the interests
of Union are constantly being brought
to the front. Most of these plans finally
culminate in one thought, that
of having some one help us. There ls
nothing to such a thought. It is a
fallacy, pure and simple. If Union is
to grow, if real estate is to advance
here, if business is to increase, wo
nvjst 1 ring about such improved condifions
ourselves. A grain elevator
ho en will do more to build up l.usin >ss
in Union than all the "hot air" that
can be spouted from now to the "crack
of doom." There is not a merchant,
I # f
] nor a banker, nor a property owner in
Union that would not feel the improved
conditions from such an enterprise.
IT WOULD PAY THE BUSINESS
MEN OF UNION TO BUILD AND
EQUIP a grain elevator right here in
UNION. IT WOULD PAY THE
FARMERS of Union county to help
| get sucn an enterprise going. It
i would make possible the turning of
^rain into cash at standard values,
and would put money, much money,
into circulation right here in this
town. We respectfully urge the business
men of Union and the farmers
l of Union county to talk right along,
i if they so desire, but we beg that
along with this talk, there be some
real, live, up-to-date action as well.
Talk is valuable or cheap as it ^ad?
to results or to no results. Let us' gAt
busy and bring about one result, at
least, the building of a grain elevator
here. Eleven thousand dollars,
we understand, will do it. Fifty-five
merchants and fifty-five farmers, each
putting up $100 for stock will do the
work. It can be done; it will pay, if
it is done; we will live to regret it if
we do not do it.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, repu!
lican senator, in an address delivered'
in Boston last week, is uuite severe in
his criticism of President Wilson's ad|
ministration. tie would have th >
| money now going to the building of
Southern postofliees put into the
strengthening of our defenses. II
criticizes the administration's attitude
in the matter of Turkey's firing
upon the Tennessee's launch; he criticizes
the Tampico incident, the Mexican
policy, and gives a general exhibition
of his malicious hate towards
the Democratic States. Meanwhile,
the people who would have to bear
me Drunt or battle and who woul l
have the burden of paying the taxe
are well content to follow President
Wilson in his humane, civilized and
enlightened course. We had thought
Senator Lodge a real statesman; hhas
shown himself to be a "jingo."
His mouthings are not only unwise,
they are a disgrace to his reputation.
Hut then, it takes a big man to die
gracefully. The attitude of Senator
Lodge towards the administration
confirms an idea we have had fori
some time. The general depression
felt throughout the country is du< ;
more to Republican leaders and mon I
ey lenders than to the war in Kurope.
It is, we feel sure, a fixed policy of|
the republicans to hamper in every j
way possible the Democratic adminis-j
tration, and thus bring about the defeat
of the latter. Hut, perhaps, we'
are taking a speech made at a supper'
...i- ? ? <- -
n/w mi luusiy. i t i naps senator l.odge,
under the spur of a bit of red wine,
said more than he meant. If that be
not the explanation, we are forced to
the conclusion that h(. is a much smaller
man than the public, including the
South, has been led to suppose.
UNION MUST HAVE ELEVATOR.
Mr. Stratton presented to those
who gathered last week in the
chamber of commerce to hear him, the
practical question of building a grain
elevator here. We must confess he,
together with other speakers, converted
the writer to the belief that Union
not only should, but Union, or rather
Union county, must build a grain elevator.
It appears to us a matter of
uttermost folly not to build. It is a
matter of regret that there were not i
ir.oi'e fanners and business men pres-j
ent to hear the speakers. If we caught
the actual statements correctly it
would cost eight or ten thousand dollars
to equip a plant and about two
thousand dollars to put up the building.
This, we understood to be the
cost of an enterprise capable of handling
100,000 bushels of grain per annum.
Corn, oats and wheat to be
handled and prepared for market. In
addition to the elevator proposition
there would be a corn and flour mill.
We lielieve this movement would solve
our problems. There are many cotton
farmers who would become grain
producers, but the ready market is
lacking, it is hard to turn from cotton
to grain. A farmer some time ago
said to the writer: "I would raise
corn and oats for the market, but I
cannot sell. 1 raise cotton for the
reason that I can always find a market."
It is seemingly an established
fart that the building of a grain elevator
with the corn sheUer, grain
plpnnor ;in<l cai^imr "^1'?"
the problem. In fact, sueh an institution
here would stimulate the planting
of pram as nothing else would do.
The saving in freight as well, corn,
oats and wheat shipped in from the
Middle West would more than pay
handsome dividends on the investment.
Eighty farmers subscribing .
$100 to such an enterprise would
raise the entire capital stock. The
Union Times editor will, if he be allowed,
subscribe the first $100 to this
enterprise. It is the best looking
proposition we have seen in many a
day. Surely there are eighty men in
Union county who, upon thorough investigation,
would launch this enterprise.
And next year promises to be
a golden year for grain growers, especially
the Southern grain growers,
lie can, as one of the speakers pointed
out, get his crop on the market three
months ahead of the Middle West and
Northwest. Europe too poor to buy
our cotton next year, hungry to the
point of starving, will buy our bread
in increasing quantities. It is a chance
of a life time ,and the elevator proposition
makes it a life time opening.
MAMMOTH WAR ORDER TO
RUSH THE STEEL FACTORIES
Schwab Starts to Fill $200,000,000
Contracts With the European
Nations at War.
Chicago, Nov. 25.?Charles M.
Schwab returned from Europe with
s200,000,()00 in orders from the British
and French governments for vaI
rious forms of war equipment. As
Schwab's plant, the Bethlehem Steel
Works corporation, can fill only a
^taction of the orders, the major portion
will be let to other organizations,
including the United States Steel corporation.
Schwab, however, keeps his
commission, which is said to have
been a cool million.
Including the orders brought back
by Schwab, American manufacturers
have on their books not less than
$40,000.(100 in orders for the allies.
This is exclusive of grain and other
provisions.
No detail of the nature of the orders
secured by Schwab was given
but it is known that the Bethlehem
(Steel corporation specializes in armor
plate, armor for submarines,
large cannons and electric motors. A
branch of the corporation, the Fore
River comnanv. a ssmnbli.a unim,....;
and other craft.
Other Large Orders.
Among large orders previously
placed with American firms are:
The Studehaker corporation of Detroit,
wagons, harness, auto trucks
and accessories, $15,000,000.
Harness has heen ordered from
South Bend, Ind., to a value of $<>,700.000.
The Studehaker Wagon company of
South Bend, build wagons for England
worth $(>,500,000.
New York refiners have sold in ten
davs 100,000 barrels of sugar, valued
at $<5,000,000.
St. Louis is to furnish 20,000 horses
of the vmIho <nn on a
.Many Autos Sold.
The Ford, Packard and Federal
automobile companies have sold to the
warring powers 3,500 motor trucks
with a value of $4,260,000. *
The Robinhood Ammunition com- '
pany of Vermont has received an order
for cartridges to a value of $2,500,000.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
has begun building locomotives for
Russia to cost $1,500,000.
The Straus Saddlery company of
St. Louis will make 25,000 saddles,
valued at $750,000.
Pittsburgh will make for France .
shoes valued at $650,000.
Reading, Pa., will furnish 600,000 j
hospital shirts, worth $350,000.
In addition to the automobile con- *
cerns above named nearly all manufacturers
ot motor trucks have con- 1
traded f?r their entire output.
Itlli.r f. -1
? ? are aiso worKinp overtime
to fill orders for the warring
nations.
The Youth's Companion Calendar
for 1915.
The publishers of The Youth's Companion
will, as always at this season, I
present to every subscriber whose a
subscription is paid for 1915, a calendar
for the new year. It is a jrem of
calendar-making. The decorative 0
mounting is rich, but the main pur- n
pose has been to produce a calendar t
that is useful, and that purpose has
been achieved. ^
There will hi> Ji Thanlfemiiin" 1
vice at Tabernacle I.aptist church ii
Thursday nisrht, beginning at 7 oclock. a
The public is cordially invited to attend.
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M rs. Hen peck?Is there any differ- s
itnce, Theodore, do you know, between t
a fort and fortressMr.
II en peck? {should imagine a e
f 'tr ss, mv love would be harder to a
si'ence!?London Opinion. s
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| Boys' Suits! i
We are going to quit handli
Suits and in order to close <
?? offering all Boys' Suits at o
?|# price. All new goods and al
V AH $10.00 BOYS' SUITS
?? All $8.00 BOYS' SUITS
?> All $7.50 BOYS' SUITS
All $0.50 BOYS' SUITS
& All $0.00 BOYS' SUITS
All $5.00 BOYS' SUITS
X All $4.50 BOYS' SUITS
V All 4.00 BOYS' SUITS
All $:5.50 BOYS' SUITS
it All $3.00 BOYS' SUITS
Afl $2.50 BOYS' SUITS
*?V All $2.25 BOYS' SUITS ?
This is a chance to get yc
at a very low
| Union Clot
Y D. W. MULLIN/
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I: What Difference
to you or to me ? Twenty ye;
Y one year hence as to what cc
Y bring today.
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Y your and my moral characte;
Y after, as to whether we me
Y not. The question is: "Art
Y fair? Are we worthy of resp
Y of the price of cotton or an,)
Y as far as in us lies in our eff
Y gations we have made, or to
Y others that have secured to
Y or necessity. If we owe any
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Y you can't pay it all, and gi\
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Y gone. The day that you put
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i machinery of business go, ai
or concern today, the paymei
? more to increase faith in yo\
& the confidence necessary tc
good times, than anything w<
A today.
& Thanksgiving is the greal
?! when kept in the right spiri
& effort to make this year a
time when all will rejoice, be
and honesty can not be fr
& little adversity.
For every meal, for evei\>
V for Thanksgiving, call on
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Etonded Custodian. Cotton
when you get ready to sell
:otton and sell to whom yoi
R. P. HARRY, .
AJKED FROM HIS STORE AND J
IS SHOT BY GOTHAM GANG
Abi
New York Nov. 25.?The murder of the 0
5arnett Raff, which the coroner char- leges
eterizes as the culmination of th < zr<> ^
;reatest conspiracy since the murd. c dcHts,
trie fi
f Herman Rosenthal, placed a real he Ion)
nystery before the police for solution Marti
oday- when
Baff an independent poultry dealer Pv
vas lured from his place of business '|'h,,
ast ni^ht by a decoy letter and killed after
n the street by men who escaped in Tenn.
,n automobile. mated
The record showed that Baff had COver<
>ften been threatened since he testi- ap on
ied at the trinl several years a^o that town,
ent members of the so-called poultry foy {|,\
rust to prison.
The police declared Baff had differ- Mis
nt sets of enemies. Five members of (fomei
sranj; that robbed his home were this v
ent to SinK Sing. W. H,
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ng Boys' Knee Pants <? *
out our stock we are ?*
ne-fourth off regular ??
1 sizes: !
$7.50 T
$6.00 V
$5.70
$4.88
$4.50
$3.75 }+
$3.38 ?
$3.00 %
$2.63 V
$2.25 V
$1.88 ?
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fulfill the promises to ^
us, comfort, luxury
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as far as you can, if f
re satisfaction so far
in't pay. Confidence
hat is worth while is V
in circulation the bill V
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ightened away by a
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1 ta Eat."
VAGNON, Manager.
COTTON
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Warehouse Co.
rprise
fully insured, and
you get your own
i please.
Custodian
ackson Institute Destroyed.
gdon, Va., Nov. 25.?Stonewall
on institute, said to be one of
eldest Presbyterian female colin
the South, was destroyed by
ere early today. All of the stuscantily
clad, and members of
acuity, escaped. Their personal
?ings were lost. Students of
la Washington college nearby
hurried from their dormitories
it appeared that this institution,
youiu ourn.
fire was pul under control soon
the arrival of the Bristol, Va.department.
The loss is estiI
at $125,000 and is partially
sd by insurance. The fire, which
e time threatened the entire
is thought to have been caused
fective wiring.
ses Annie Tinsley, Eileen Montry
and Mary Spears will leave
reek for Whitestone to visit Mrs
Lancaster for the week-end.