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OAKLAND Oakland, Feb. 2.?Very little is t( be said in connection with the preseti' condition of affairs that now con fronts the farmers in making pre>> a rations for planting the new t91f crop, which is unquestionably mus begin at an early date. Every yeai in February the farmers are begin nig to place their orders for guam and some even get it hauled homi in this month, so that when the pret ty spring days come they can stari putting it in the ground, hut now thi; fertilizer proposition is receiving very little attention and occupies bin a very small space in the minds ol some farmers. Now is the time to, every farmer to set apart a larg< acreage to L>e planted in corn ant if this is attended to now I am sun the all-talked-of cotton will not holt such a permanent part considering the amount of land that already i: growing some grain crop. The ad vancing prices on most all eatables and especially flour, is enough t< make a farmer or any professiona man stop and think for a while jusl what the future is sure to bring, il there isn't more food stuff raised or the farm. .lust as long as our fooc supply continues to be shipped to th< warring nations who are giving verj little attention to agriculture, jusl so long will prices advance here. Sc every farmer should take this intc consideration when he begins planting another crop and see that everything that he needs is raised at home and it will not be a bad idea to have a surplus to be placed on the market. I do not believe the people, as a whole, would get mad with the commissioners if they would put forth an effort to have the culverts re. paired that crosses the public roads. Some of them are in a very bad condition, which is very dangerous for the traveling public to drive over. If I give the neighborhood justice T am sure I can't boost it up as far as health is concerned, for at this writing, we have several cases ol sickness around Oakland, though not serious. Perhaps it is due to the continuance of the unfavorable weather. For the benefit of the library, :? lmv ciiitnm* will 1\<* *. ?? *??-? .?< nnM.m.l , ..Mi/f/vi > 111 ?/v. j^n v::i Ut \/UI\l?lHVI school on Friday, February 12th. instead of the customary program ten of the pupils have challenged ten other scholars, (non-attendants of Oakland) to an old fashioned spelling match, the words to he chosen from progressive Speller for first choice and Paynes common words commonly misspelled for second choice. Also to ciphering match in rapid calculations in rules, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Those wishing to accept the challenge will please notify the teacher, Mrs. L. (). Belue, as the first ten applications will he accepted. Girls will bring boxes and the boys are urged to bring their pocket books, not empty though. The next Baptist Sunday School convention will be held with Duck Pond church on May :50th, that being the fifth Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Fincher of the Cedar Bluff section was visiting relatives here for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Callman cams over Sunday to see her father. Mr. \V. A. E. Black, who is verv sick. ' Neb. Time will h al most of the broken places of life; but if they arc to grow " vk s(mi"ht and strong we have to Do careful how the bandages are put on. taaaasMWpt ??gaa? \ BIG VALUE J NOW fSl, jm ; 'v!Xy. ^ I Big Vaiue Foi IT WILL TAKE ONLY A BIG BUNDLES Or TBIN< WHOLE FAMILY FROM US I WHEN WE LOWER 0' ; LOWER OUR QUALITY. KIND OF MERCHANDISE THE TIME. COME IN AND RIG < YOUR HOUSEHOLD RIGH L. S. TO' TOWNSEND BLOCK 0 JONESVILLE ) Jonesville, Feb. 1.?The wind blew t a stiff and cold gale from the north * Sunday up to bed time, but Monday morning it was blowing soft and hot ' from the southwest, which soon ( brought the usual downpour of rain. r There is a report about Jonesville " that the Southern Railway is going > to run their train through from ' Lockhart to Jonesvile. The streets and roads are getting ^ much better, Monday morning one * automobile came in from the country - last week, the only one I have seen t moving for several days. The motor-; 1 f cycles and horsepower vehicles have j 1 a hard time to get about. 2 Our cotton weighed up about 100 1 bales last week, the price being for 2 the best 8 cents. 1 1 Some of the curious say today is ' ground hog day, but I never could ] 5 see any thing in it. I don't suppose - there is a ground hog in the country ' * and if there is he knows nothing 1 > about the weather. 1 1 Mrs. J. II. Templeton and her 1 I father, Mr. J. II. Nelson of Fountain ( Inn, have been visiting Mrs. Elliotv 1 1 Farr. 1 1 M iss Pearl Foster of Newman, Ga., 1 ' after spending a week with relatives J 1 here, left this morning for Durham, ' t N. C., to visit a sister and broth*. 1 ' in that town. i ? Mrs. Sallie Lindsey left this morn- ( * ing for Marion, N. C., to visit her f daughter, Mrs. Hugh Little. Our people are discussing the good 1 roads problem just now, which is no > wonder for the roads are in bad con- 1 flit ion. but they will always be bad ^ in the winter time when we have so ' much rain as we have had this win- * tor. The roads were almost as good * as plank roads last summer and fall, J no trouble to get about then, and they * will be in good condition again in the 1 spring when the rains hold up and ' the winds blow. No amount of mon- ( oy can keep all our roads in goo<\ * condition such winters as we have 1 had. ' Mr. Louis I lames of Lockhart was 1 in our town yesterday. Mr. Jim Belue of Bonham, was in Jonesville a short while this morn- i ' r. 1 1 Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Lawson and | little son Wesley of Columbia, are , the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. ' Bates. 1 Rtv. J. A. Cook of Spartanburg, 1 spent Saturday in our town on bus- * iness. r The Farmers Hardware Co. oi ' Jonesville has been placed in the 1 hands of a receiver by Judge Sease. 1 Mr. C. N. Alexander is the receiver. 1 Miss Kathleen McWhirter leaves ' today for an extended visit to friends ( ! in Newberry. She will also visit a number of other places in the State f before returning home. I Miss Bank Harris of the Browns ' ! Creek neighborhood spent last week ; with relatives in Jonesville. Mr. R. Lee Kelly of Buffalo, spent j : Sunday with his family in .Tonesville. ( Telephone. List of Advertised Letters ! List of advertised letters for week I ending Feb. 5, 1915. | Rufus Gregory, Gilliam Hopkins, < 1 I Dock Jeter, Martha Lawson, Mrs. . i Xora Love, Miss Mary Milium, Dr. 1 | D. II. Montgomery (2), Post Oflfict ] 1 I I?ox J7. Mr. Lucas Robinson, C. E. i 1 ' S la ton, Miss Francis Williams, Miss ; Ethel Williams. L. G. YOUNG, Postmaster, j : The t'ouhle with the man who can ' 1 eat anything is that he does it. I ; ???BE????P IS WHAT WE GIVE |j; i* Little Prices i I LiTTLE MONEY TO BUY ZS YOU NEED FOR THE > MOW. UR PRICES WE DO MOT WE SELL THE SAME RiCHT ! YOU CAN COUNT ON ALL OUT EUERY MEMBER OF T NOW. WNSEND iPPOSITE EXPRESS OFFICE I SANTUC NEWS | Santuc, S. C., Feb. 1.?I am in a I hurry, are you? ' If one sits up and takes a survey j of things, he will note that we have done very little work the past month. j January had a rainfall of 0.57" j but about a normal mean temperature of 42.3. February started with first days rain of 2.19" in about twelve hours and streams were reported to be very high. No doubt land has been badly washed, I have not yet been out. Many of the latter fall sowing of oats was killed by the freezes and that necessitates much to be sowed over if the weather will permit in time, and is so very wet now, that it will take a week at least to dry off sufficient with plenty of sunshine. One of the truest sayings extant, is "idleness is the devil's workshop". This holds good even with mules and horses, if however, Satan ever tempts a dumb brute to do bad things. They ire mighty hard to manage after a few days idleness. But when it :omes to people, especially young oeople, chronic idler or dead heat, he devil has a field rich unto harvest ind he certainly runs his mowing nachine. One can see young negroes dling around and going from plac* ;o place, never trying to get a job ind often hiding form the officers >f the law, that ought to be doing service on the gang. But the worst hing of all is for the young white -~1 - A- I- - - ? ?eui?ie lo uccome trining that they vill not do a lick of work and who try o be too genteel to turn tramps or ,vho wear out their welcome as dead mats, and when one can no longer "urnish money and food to support] I hem, then the devil takes a hand I md leads them into rascality, straight * ;o the chaingang or the penitentiary. " [ guess our own country has some of :hat class and they must be an incubus on any community. I was taught better than to loaf and I find it is an uphill job getting anything lone when one puts in full time, al the time. T have my mind on moiv than one young negro who are can- L lidates because of idleness, but wo! | tave none of these young whites with , is. There is an outbreak of cholera , in this section now and is assuming . tjuite a formidable aspect. Just afer Christmas Mr. Travers Jeter had , x young Berkshire sow to get sick md he tried to get the State veti- ] lary here to diagnose the case but le would not come. A short while after another one was taken sick, no one thought it was cholera. Saturday morning a 500 pounder and a tine specimen of the Berkshire hog lied. And the fact that Mr. Sta>'k ,' Austin had several sick in town, they got busy to get the veterinary here, if 1 :hey had to ask the governor for I him, but the county Demonstration \ Agent, Mr. F. W. Carnell, came down.! The dead hog was cut up and ex-! amir.ed and the case was pronounced , holera. Then it seemed that some- ; thing was providential, for the porter > of the special No. 21, got a passenger off here for Union through some mistake, a Mr. Goodwin, a graduate of Clemson and who had studied vetarnary science and he visited the Austin herd of hogs and pronounced the affection cholera. We can hear of more hogs sick and dying all around i us. Some have been thrown to : he i logs and buzzards and this malady may clean up the hog business in this section. People are preparing to inoculate, but many hogs already lave the germs in them. There are some fine hogs in our countrv. Mv lext door neighbor, Dr. Jeter, lias i fine sow with *ix as pretty three .veeks old pigs as one need wish to see and they are on the adjoining ot to where the other Mr. Jeter's log died and in easy reach by the germ carrier, the english spa:. ?w, in easy medium to spread the disease ,o every pen in the community. Since writing the above, Mr. Davis, Mr. Allan Nicholson's farm manager ame down with Mr. Carnell and is noculating hogs and there may be ;ibout a hundred that will receive lie treatment, but as has been said liany may already have the germs in their systems and will die. Hey Denver. SEDALIA Sedalia, S. C., Feb. 1.?As the weather is so bad and so much rain I'm compelled to say something about it. The farmers are getting out, of iieart about their grain crop, as it is getting so late and no prospects 'soon of the land getting in plowing order. There are some few farmers in this community that have not got their wheat in and also other grains as well. The relatives and friends regiefc very much to hear of Mr. I! rook si Itobo's sickness. Misses Flossie Wilburn and Molli? Firicher are the guests of Missed Lutie and Lizzie Ilollis today. Mr. Claude Sparks and James Bennett, Jr., went "bike riding yesterday! afternoon a little while. The residence of Mr. W. N. Roho came very near getting burned up recently; the house caught fire near the chimney and the fire was thought to have been from it. The house was damaged very little, and nothinir destroyed. Violet. Witticisms How old is a woman born 21 years ago? We shall know each other better when the myths has cleared away. "What are you going to call your stock company?" "Peninsula, because it's almost entirely surrounded by water."?Philadelphia Ledger. Don't be an egotist. No one over did anything so well but someone came along and did it just a little bit better. McCLUl Ten Day "J Date of Sale Wednesday McClur' Feb. 3rd you ar Ti "the pe Through count*. a i an ferenc< Saturday, 13 <u*e. Never before has staple mere Ladies' 50c Muslin Gowns, Sale price 25c Center pieces and Scarfs 25c values 10c each Rain Capes 75c Ladies' Union Suits, Sale price 3Dc Men's 25c Suspenders 10c 25c Ruffling, new 5c yd. Safety Pins lc doz. "Save the I 51 21 61nil "iiwiiitimiHHWiin?M H ihiihiiwiii ? Free Flower Seed. Hastings' Catalogue Tells You About It If you art; engaged in farming, or if you plant only vegetables or flowers, you cannot afford to be without Lhe big catalogue published fresh and new every year by the great Southern seed house, H. G. Hastings & Company, of Atlanta, Ga., and sent absolutely free, postage paid, to all who write for it, mentioning the name of this newspaper. In this catalogue we tell you of a splendid offer of free flower s<>ed to all our customers, five magnificent varieties that mean beauty about your home and a pleasure to wives and daughters that nothing else can give. This catalogue tells you, too, about our big cash prize offer to the Corn Club boys of your state. It tells all about our fine yielding varieties of corn and cotton?the kind we grow on mir own 3.200 acre farm. It tells about the best seeds of all kinds for planting in the South. It should be in every Southern home. Write today and let us send it to you.?H. G. HASTINGS & CO., Atlanta, Ga.?Advt. Grea and Starts Satui Look For Pi [THE RE TEN CE1 Save the Differeri LETTER FROM HOUSE Atlanta, Ga Jan. 23, 19 e Ten-Cent Co. , Union, S. C. e authorized to offer t> ople of Union and adjoi: es a ten day Save The D e Sale on staple mercha Home Office McClure Ten-Cent handise dike we otter here) been sold at suet Pearl Buttons __lc doz. 2 Hooks and Eyes lc doz. 5 Dress Pins lc paper 1 Hair Pins lc pkfc. 1 Tea Spoons lc each I 5c Tablets 3c _J Men's Sox 5c pr. 1 Lamp Chimneys, any si'ze__5c Work Gloves 5c I 5c Toilet Paper, 2 rolls for__5c f Mfference" at ] IE PLACE FOR BARGAINS. SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES 15 VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY From Columbia, S. C. c< ol New Orleans, La. $21.90 ti Account Mardi Gras celebration. Tickets on sale February 9th to 15th lu with final limit February 25th ,1915. A Tickets can be extended until March 15th by depositing and paying fee o> $1.00 S Mobile, Ala. $17.70. Account Mardi Gras celebration. Tickets on sale February 9th to 15th 1! with final limit, February 20th and o' can be extended by depositing anu f< paying fee of $1.00. m Pensecola, Fla. $17.95. d Account Mardi Gras celebration, tc Tickets on sale February 9th to 15tn p with final limit February 20th and can h be extended by depositing and paying d fee of $1.00. Tampa, Fla. $15.40. Account Gasparilla Carnival. Tickets on sale February 9th to 15th with 3i final limit February 20th and can be extended until March 15th by depositing and paying fee of $1.00. ki Charlotte. N. C. $3.50. S Account Laymen's Missionary 0( Movtment Presbyterian church, ai Tickets on sale February 14th and hi juncei t Cleai ciean A L rday Morning, bhbbhbuhbhhi ices in Next Wei BATT NIT CO. I ice" Sale I Big Money I 15 - Saving Sale I 0 Wednesday, Feb. i ning' 3 to Saturday, 13 I n.~ "Save the I Co Difference" I 1 exceptional low prices: 1 !5c House Broom 10c D Oc Wash Tub 25c | 5c Pails 10c H Tumblers, 6 for 10c a Sutter Dish 10c Oc Graters_ _ 5c 9 Vhite Crockery, 6 plates, 6 I mps and saucers, all for__50c H Citchen Ware, big values I or 10c each fl McClure's I 5th with final limit February 22ml. Proportionately low rates on ac>uht of the above occasions from ther points. For detailed informaon apply local agent or address: L. B. Robinson, C. P. & T. A. Coimbio, S. C., or S. H. McLean, D. P. ., Coiumbia, S. C. Notice of Final Discharge tate of South Carolina?County of Union?Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given, that on th? )th day of February, 1915, at 11 clock, a. m., in the Court of Probate >r said county, the undersigned will lake his final settlement as guarian of the estate of Gilliam J. Brat>n, and that thereupon he will aply to the Judge of said Court for is final discharge as such guarian. S. G. BRATTON. This 19th day of January, 1915. Published in The Union Times for 9 days. Somebody with a Roger W. Babson ind of mind dopes out that the U. . A. will have a population of 100,-)0,000 at 4 p. m. April 2. Don't nybody go and spoil the figures by aving twins. i n Up P r| Feb. 13th 3k's Paper I ERY |