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OAKLAND Oakland, Feb. 2.?Very little is to be said in connection with the present condition of affairs that now confronts the farmers in making preu a rations for planting the new 1915 crop, which is unquestionably must begin at an early date. Every yeat in February the farmers are beginnig to place their orders for guanc and some even get it hauled honv in this month, so that when the pretty spring days come they can start putting it in the ground, but now this fertilizer proposition is receiving very little attention and occupies but a very small space in the minds ol some farmers. Now is the time lu. every farmer to set apart a large acreage to be planted in corn and if this is attended to now I am sure the all-talked-of cotton will not hold such a permanent part considering the amount of land that already if growing some grain crop. The advancing prices on most all eatables and especially flour, is enough tc make a farmer or any professiona man stop and think for a while just what the future is sure to bring, if there isn't more food stuff raised or the farm. Just as long as our food supply continues to be shipped to the warring nations who are giving very little attention to agriculture, jusf so long will prices advance here. Se every farmer should take this into 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 1 am sure I can't boost it up as far as health is concerned, for at this writing, we have several cases ot sickness around Oakland, though not serious. Perhaps it is due to the continuance of the unfavorable weather. For the benefit of the library, a box supper will be given at Oakland school on Friday, February 12th. Instead of the customary program fen of the pupils have challenged ten other scholars, (non-attendants of Oakland) to an old fashioned spelling match, the words to be 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 urgeo to bi ing their pocket books, not empty though. The next Baptist Sunday School convention will he held with Duck Pond church on May 30th, 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. Gallmnn cam? over ounuay to see her father. Mr. \V. A. E. Black, who is vorv sick. Neb. Time will h al most of the broken places of life; but if they are to grow f>nck s'l-ii^ht and strong we have to lie careful how the bandages arc put on. >CBHB >JTyiTTrwiTrfT7Tin ** OMDHBEZSC^nnMHi BIG VALUE NOW / I ; ''V ^ Bag Value Fog IT WILL TAKE ONLY A BIG BUNDLES OF THINC WHOLE FAMILY FROM US WHEN WE LOWER 01 LOWER OUR QUALITY. \ KIND OF MERCHANDISE ' THE TIME. COME IN AND RIG < VOUR HOUSEHOLD RIGH1 L. S. TO) TOWNSEND BLOCK Ol JONESVILLE i Jonesville, Feb. 1.?The wind blew a stiff and cold gale from the north ' Sunday up to bed time, but Monday morning it was blowing soft and hot 1 ' from the southwest, which soon * brought the usual downpour of rain. 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 1 automobile came in from the country 1 ' last week, the only one I have seen moving for several days. The motorr ( cycles and horsepower vehicles have a hard time to get about. 1 ( Our cotton weighed up about 100 1 I bales last week, the price being for ! the best 8 cents. ' I Some of the curious say today is ' ground hog day, but I never could ' ! see any thing in it. I don't suppose there is a ground hog in the country ' 1 and if there is he knows nothing > 1 about the weather. ' ' Mrs. J. II. Templeton and her ^ t father, Mr. J. II. Nelson of Fountain 1 Inn, have been visiting Mrs. EllioU I 1 Farr. 1 I Miss Pearl Foster of Newman, Ga., 1 ' after spending a week with relatives | r here, left this morning for Durham, i ' N. C., to visit a sister and brothw. 1 Ill null/ tu W II. ' Mrs. Sallie Lindsey left this morn- ' ing for Marion, N. C., to visit her ! 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- ' dition, but they will always be bad in the winter time when we have so ' much rain as we have had this win- J tor. The roads were almost as good 1 as plank roads last summer and fall, ' no trouble to get about then, and they will be in good condition again in the spring when the rains hold up and the winds blow. No amount of mon- i ' oy can keep all our roads in goot\ i condition such winters as we have j had. Mi-. Louis Hames of Lockhart was in our town yesterday. Mr. Jim Belue of Bonham, was in ( Jonesville a short while this morn- ' r. ! 1 Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Lawson and little son Wesley of Columbia, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W-. Bates. i I j Rtv. J. A. Cook of Spartanburg, ! | spent Saturday in our town on bus- i ; iness. 1 The Farmers Hardware Co. ol ' Jonesville has been placed in the hands of a receiver by Judge Sease. 1 Mr. C. N. Alexander is the receiver. M iss Kathleen McWhi'rter leaves j today for an extended visit to friends 1 in Newberry. She will also visit a number of other places in the State * : before returning home. Miss Bank Harris of the Browns ' ! Creek neighborhood spent last week i with relatives in Jonesville. Mr. It. Lee Kelly of Buffalo, spent ; Sunday with his family in Jonesville. 1 Telephone. 1 ? - ( List of Advertised Letters j ? List of advertised letters for week j ' j ending Feb. 5, 1015. i ' I RllfUS (IreCTOrv. CiiHinm ITrtnlrinc 1 ! Dock Jeter, Martha Lawson, Mrs. ' | Nora Love, Miss Mary Milium, Dr. 1 I P. II. Montgomery (2), Post Office 1 : Box 17, Mr. I.ucas Robinson, ('. TO. ' 1 Slaton, Miss Francis Williams, Miss ( ; Ethel \\ lliams. > 1 Ij. G. YOUNG, Postmaster. ! i The t' ouhle with the man who can 1 1 | cat anything is that lie does it. i r i i??? iiiiii iiiiii i ? ! iBiimiif j r Little Prices | 1 little money to buv i is you need for the ; now. ; jr prices we do not ] ,ve sell the same right you can count on all >ut euery member of r now. NNSEND PPOSITE EXPRESS OFFICE < V SANTUC NEWS Santuc, S. C., Feb. 1.?I am in a hurry, are you? If one sits up and takes a survey of things, he will note that we have done very little work the past month. January had a rainfall of 0.57" 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 are mighty hard to manage after a few days idleness. But when it comes to people, especially young people, chronic idler or dead beat, the devil has a field rich unto harvest and he certainly runs his mowing machine. One can see young negroes idling around and going from plac>. to place, never trying to get a job and often hiding form the officers of the law, that ought to be doing service on the gang. But the worst thing of all is for the young white people to become trifling that they will not do a lick of work and who try to be too genteel to turn tramps or U'Vlrv 1 ' * ....v. vjlii, men wcicume as aeao beats, and when one can no longer Furnish money and food to support' them, then the devil takes a hand and leads them into rascality, straight to the chaingang or the penitentiary. ' I guess our own country has some of that class and they must he an incubus on any community. I was taught better than to loaf and I find it is an uphill job getting anything done when one puts in full time, al the time. I have my mind on more than one young negro who are candidates because of idleness, but we have none of these young whites with us. There is an outbreak of cholera in this section now and is assuminquite a formidable aspect. Just af:er Christmas Mr. Travers Jeter had a young Berkshire sow to get siof and he tried to get the State vetilary here to diagnose the case but j he would not come. A short while i after another one was taken sick, no one thought it was cholera. Saturday morning a 500 pounder and a fine specimen of the Berkshire hog died. And the fact that Mr. Stark Austin had several sick in town, they rot busy to get the veterinary here, if they had to ask the governor for him, but the county Demonstration Agent, Mr. F. W. Carnell, came down, j The dead hog was cut up and examined and the case was pronounced holera. Then it seemed that something was providential, for the porter )f the special No. 27, got a passenger aff here for Union through some mistake, a Mr. Goodwin, a graduate of iMemson and who had studied veterlary science and he visited the Austin herd of hogs and pronounced the affection cholera. We can hear of note hogs sick and dying all around is. Some have been thrown to the logs and buzzards and this malady i nay clean up the hog business in mis ji section. People are prenai imr to : noculate, but many hogs already I lave the germs in them. There are :ome fine hogs in our country. My iext door neighbor, Dr. Jeter, has i fine sow with Six as pretty three veeks old pigs as one need wish to toe and they are on the adjoining ot to where the other Mr. Jeter's log died and in easy reach by the rerm carrier, the english spar, >w, ,n easy medium to spread the disease o every pen in the community. Since writing the above, Mr. Davis, dr. Allan Nicholson's farm manager ame down with Mr. Carnell and is noculating hogs and there may be ibout a hundred that will receive he treatment, but as has been said nany may already have the germs n their systems and will die. Hey Denver. ~SEDALIA" Sedalia, S. C., Feb. 1.?As the veather is so bad and so much rain 'm compelled to say something about t. The farmers are getting out of leart about their grain crop, a it s getting so late and no prospects oon of the land getting in plowing irder. There are some few farmers n this community that have not got heir wheat in and also other grains is well. The relatives and friends regret ,'ery much to hear of Mr. Brooks [iobo's sickness. Misses Flossie Wilburn and Mollie Pineher are the guests of Missed I.utie and Lizzie Ilollis today. I Mr. Claude Sparks and James Ben-i lett, Jr., went "bike riding yesterday' j ifternoon a little while. The residence of Mr. W. N. Bobo ;ame very near getting burned up eceiiuy; me nouse caugnt lire near ,he chimney and the fire was thought to have been from it. The house was lamaged very little, and nothinir destroyed. Violet. Witticisms How old is a woman born 21 years IgO? 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 ever lid anything so well but someone rame along and did it just a little bit better. IlVfcCLLJI Ten Day "i Date of Sale 1 Wednesday McClure Feb. 3rd You are tl l the pec Through countie i m ference Saturday, 13 Never before has staple merch Ladies' 50c Muslin Gowns, Sale price 25c Center pieces and Scarfs 25c values 10c each Rain Capes 75c Ladies' Union Suits, Sale . price Men's 25c Suspenders 10c ?1 25c Ruffling, new 5c yd. lc doz. ire the E "TH Free Flower Geed. Hastings' Catalogue Tells You About It If you are engaged In farming, or if you plant only vegetables or flow- ^ ers, you cannot afford to be without v the big catalogue published fresh and i new every year by the great South- j ern seed house, H. G. Hustings & ? Company, of Atlanta. Ca., and sent absolutely free, nostacn naid t? all ?lm write for it, mentioning the name of T this newspaper. v In this catalogue we tell you of a c splendid effer of free flower seed to p all our customers, five magnificent varieties that mean beauty about your home and a pleasure to wives and 1 daughters that nothing else can give, v This catalogue tells you, too, about b our big cash prize offer to the Corn f Club boys of your state. It tells all about our fine yielding varieties of corn and cotton?the kind we grow on c our own .1.200 acre farm. It tells about the best seeds of all kinds for ? planting in the South. It should be 11 in every Southern home. Write today and let us send it to you.?H. G. HASTINGS & CO., Atlanta, Ga.?Advt. * Grea j and * 1 a"IHI 5^ , Starts Satur J Look For Pri [THE *E TEN CE Save the Differei LETTER FROM HOUSE Atlanta, Gc Jan. 23, ) Ten-Cent Co., Union, S. C. > authorized to offer >ple of Union and adjo 's a ten day Save The : } Sale on staple merch Home Office M^Clure Ten-Cen andise (like we offer here) been sold af su Pearl Buttons __lc doz. Hooks and Eyes lc doz. Dress Pins lc paper Hair Pins lc pkg. Tea Spoons lc each 5c Tablets 3c Men's Sox 5c pr. Lamp Chimneys, any si'ze__5c Work Gloves 5c 5c Toilet Paper, 2 rolls for 5c difference" at E PLACE FOR BARGAINS SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY From Columbia, S. C. New Orleans, La. $21.90 Account Mardi Gras celebration: 'ickets on sale February 9th to 15th dth final limit February 25th ,1915. 'ickets can be extended until March 5th by depositing and paying fee o> 1.00 Mobile, Ala. $17.70. Account Mardi Gras ce.ebration. 'ickets on sale February 9th to 15th rith final limit, February 2(>th and an be extended by depositing anu aying fee of $1.00. Pensecola. Fla. SI 7.95. Account Mardi Gras celebration, "ickets on sale February 9th to 15tTi /ith final limit February 2Gth and can e extended by depositing and paying ee of $1.00. Tampa, Fla. $15.40. Account Gasparilla Carnival. Tickts on sale February 9th to 15th with inal limit February 26th and can be xlended until March 15th by depositrig and paying fee of $1.00. Charlotte, N. C. $3.50. Account Laymen's Missionary lovtment Presbyterian church, "ickets on sale February 14th and nincei BATTI t Cleai Clean 1" -1 J day Morning, nHBBHinnHBBHi ices in Next We bah :nt co. i nee" Sale I Big Money I 315 Saving Sale I t0 Wednesday, Feb. I ining' 13 to Saturday, 13 I an-" "Save the I t Co, Difference" I ch exceptional low prices: I 25c House Broom 10c I 50c Wash Tub 25c 9 15c Pails 10c 9 Tumblers, 6 for 10c I Butter Dish 10c I 10c Graters-- 5c 9 White Crockery, 6 plates, 6 I cups and saucers, all for__50c 9 Kitchen Ware, big values I for 10c each I McClure's I , ft 15th with final limit February 22r?d. Proportionately low rates on accouht of the above occasions from other points. For detailed information apply local agent or address: L. B. Robinson, C. P. & T. A. Columbio, S. C., or S. 11. McLean, D. P. A., Columbia, S. C. Notice of Final Discharge State of South Carolina?County of Union?Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given, that on th*? 19th day of February, 1915. at 11 o'clock, a. m.f in the Court of Probate for said county, the undersigned will make his final settlement as guardian of the estate of Gilliam J. Bratton, and that thereupon he will apply to the Judge of said Court for his final discharge as such guardian. S. G. BRATTON. This 19th day of January, 1915. Published in The Union Times for 30 days. _ Somebody with a Roger W. Babson kind of mind dopes out that the U. S. A. will have a population of 100,-000,000 at 4 p. m. April 2. Don't anybody go and spoil the figures by having twins. KY'S | Out | E ? [oh IQth | I UUl I U III ek's Paper I 'ERY Y I