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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL RHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editor Registered at the Postoffice in Union, I S. C\, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year $1.00 Six Months .50 , Three Months .25 1 \ DVERTISEMENT8 One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or lonirer will he made at reduced rates. I LEGAL NOTICES The regular letral rates are char*; eu foi all notice published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to he set ii 8 point, solid type?first insertion per inch $1.00; earn 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 no- | tires, 1 1-4 inches, 3 times, $2.50. Obituary notices, tributes of re- | sped, resolutions and cards of thanks | strictly one cent a word. FRIDAY. MARCH 5. 1015. IT'S L I* TO YOU. MR. VOTER! Th" question of the good roads' bond issue, is squarely up to the voters of Union county. On April <?, 1915, just about six weeks from now, the question will be decided at the ballot box. I am sincerely, honestly and selfishly in favor of the bond issue. There are many others equally as honest and just as selfish as am I. who are opposed to the issue. Let's he honest about it; is it not more or less a puestion of self-interest? With most of us, at , any rate, it is. 1 "just naturally" want pood roads because I believe | it will help my business more than j it will hurt my pocket, and it will afford me a comfortable ioui*ney instead of an uncomfortable one. Does any man blame me for this? What is more sensible than to "po after" what you think will help you? That's iny ticket. If a thinp is morally ripht (and no one has said the bond issue was morally wronp) why may not one seek to possess what he desires? Now, human nature is very human. Don't you find it so, brother? And are we not all very much alike? I believe so. Let us pet down to brass tacks. Let's take thinps as they arc. Will this bond issue hurt the poor ! man? I am poinp to put myself in the shoes of the poor man (Stranpe to say the shoes fit very well, too.) l.ets say I am a very very poor man, right down at the bottom. (Truth is, I am mighty nigh right there.) Well, Rice, very poor man, what objection to the bond issue? Why, none; I ant selfish enough to be willing to let 'he property owners build the roads. I am glad to have them build them. 1 want good roads even for walking purposes, to say nothing of the occasional use I may have for them for riding purposes. I will have little of the taxes to pay. I will have as much right to use the road as will the ten thousand dollar automobile man have to use it. In fact more right. for if the automobile gives me any "sass," 1 wdl go to the courts and I will stand a better chance to win, for I am in the majority. More than that, I'll get some of the $'200,000 of the money that will be turned loose for labor; for. bfiiiir a verv noor man. I must ho a laboring man. Ye>, llice, ticver\ poor man will. ho u cs shrewd judgment, vote for hoods for goo.I road--. Ho would art w h poor judgment if ho di i not, fo> so!li-n i irisons. Again, lot'.- put on the shoe- of the groat middle class, not vory poor; not very rich just in reasonably good circumstances. (Whether the shoes fit or not, let's suppose they do.) vV'i li, Rice, the moderately circumstanced man, owns a -tie. : laim; or, a .-.mall merchandise . tahlishmont or a "one-horse" new pap' r (in dcht or out); or, a small dairy; or, .-mall truck farm; or, a heel' market; or, a chicken farm nov r mind which -whatever it is o: ?. a finno vituwjn, ii: ai (Iimhii and worth two or throe times that. Now, from a selfish standpoint: Hoes Rice, the moderately circumstanced man have any kick against the bond issue? Not on your life! He would be kicking against good fortune. In the first place it will not cost me over $2 per year. I've got no "kick coming," for it will put more than that in my pocket every year. How? Why, when I hauled the products from my farm to mar ket, when I get more people to com to my store, when I get more $ subscriptions, when I find bette roads to drive my dairy wagon ovei when I bring my vegetables to tow in a buggy with one mule (instea of using a wagon and two mules when I go out after cattle to furnis beef in my market, when 1 fete eggs to town?why no matter wh I am, or what my activities, be in a moderately well-off individual, will get more than it will cost m< You can just put it in your pipe an smoke it, 1 am for good roads. 1 will cost me mighty little. Ye! sir! I am for good roads. Well, 1 will now put on anothe pair of shoes: I, Rice, am a rich mat (alas! the shoe does not fit, but I* wear it for argument's sake, an> way). Rice the rich man, what ha\ you to say? l>o you find any selfis reason for voting for bonds fo good roads? Let's see, 1 will not liv very long. If 1 leave a fortuni leave it I must, or I must spen some, if I am to get any persotu pleasure out of it. Yes, I am willin to be taxed to g? t the roads. I g< more real pleasure out of a goo auto spin than anything 1 think o ( Kxcuso me, the auto is sort of ne to me- 1 am rich only in imagin: tion.) I like to hear the hum of tli engine. I like the sensation of tl drive up hill and down hill?it's fin (I did not know how good it wi until I got on the rich shoes). Fir it is?yes, I Rice the rich man, wi vote for bonds. I am selfish enoug to want some benefit from the mono I have accumulated. I am also se fish enough to feel that if I lea\ my children all my wealth the should heln nnv fru- irnnd mud Yes, I feel that to he about righ I am middle-acred; soon will not nee good roads. If I were going to li\ always, I'd be willing, for selfis reasons, to pay the whole thinj I'd hate to think I had always to liv and yet had no way to get deliveranc from the mud. Yes, I will for se tish reasons, vote for bonds. Mor< over, I often have business trips t neighboring towns and cities. I fin it will pay me and be a great cor venience to me, as well, to have goo roads for quick automobile trips. Yes sir. Rice the poor man, Ric the comfortably fixed man, Rice th rich man?no matter which he beis for bonds. For selfish reason: to say nothing about any higher mi tivos, Rice is for the bonds. Rut M Blank, rich, poor or whatnot, com on with your argument against th bonds. This old Union Times i open to you for your opinions, 11 matter what Rice thinks or desire This is my last word on the nor issue. OAKLAND Oakland, March 2.?A great des of farm work is now being dom which indicates that the farmers at so badly discouraged after makin such a failure to get what his colto was worth last fall, but are tryin the harder to make a success out < his toiling efforts to try agaii Although I do not believe the energ will be put forth in making this coi ton crop as was exercised in niakin last year's crop. There certainly i not any inducements being offers the farmers that would encoura^ him to plant an ordinary crop of co ton again this year. This, I thin is so much for the better, because there is no trap set he will eertainl not be caught in a snare blindfolde< In the Hon. I.. L. Wagnon's articl of the last week's Times was soir excellent points which was defined i not a brief sketch, but was arrange so as to disclose to the public th true facts concerning the .$200,01 bond issue, as he views it, also revealed the fact that nothing bi a very sensible man was author r it, and I do admire the way in whic he so emphatically shows where h stands on the subject, but it. is n< hard to see that most of the point in which he discusses have bee ironed very smoothly and all tli bright sides shining. Not that I ai a critic in this instance whateve nor am F trying to point out an defective part or parts of hi articl which probably will have escaped U scrunity of tie- public, had I not met tinned it, hut not so, I am morel seeking information, not trying t show my ignorance. Kv< r since can rcmcmlier there has been no d< crease in taxes, no, they <lo not <1 minish one cent, instead, it is a gra< ual increase every yar. This is r guess work, taxes are double no\ compared with twelve or fifteen yeai ago. It is this officer demandin that his salary he raised and th; officer wanting another hundred < two added to what he calls a meagi sum to support him and his famil; and appropriations for this and fr that and new officers to he addc which is to be paid a nice salary an other miscellaneous expenditure which it takes about two or thrc extra mills to dispose of them. An now, in the face of all this we ar told that by adding a $200,000 ir dobtedness to what the county a ready owes, will not raise taxes an: if this is true, I fail to catch th point. If the value of land will be li creased by the construction of the.good roads, then what is to hind< the taxes from being raised also, fc it is a sure fact that a man pa> taxes on his land just according ? 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Another point I do not s-e i'ntf3! ? and that is how are eight tc twelvJj dollars per mile going to ke-p tliesF ^ roads in good repair whn jt ij,d claimed that there was neu* sixtl'1 V dollars per mile used last year o? ' our roads. We are sure to have ir'1 the future, as we have hai in thj l(" past, and that is severe st rms an l( n floods that causes so mucl damag 1 '' to our roads washing away the roa*'A| ,e beds and scooping out ho's in th 1(1 roads, that if it costs as mu h to hav ; IX a wheelbarrow full of sand hauled t make the repair on the new road 1,1 as it takes to do the sarre job nov ^ '' then I guess it will take the sam " 10 old "sixty." ff reports are tru ' ' '' about the rascality tricks that ar l'* being exercised over tin- county i . 1 n the way of road repair work, tlvn am not surprised at the enormon ' 1! sum, that was spent on the road last year. >' Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Fincher ha 11 as their guests last Saturday nigh ' Rev. I). W. Garvin of C.iion. As pc announcement. Rev. Garvin preache ' at Oakland school house last Satin ' " day night, and also filled his annoin ' ' inent at Duck Pond church Sunda 11 at 11 o'clock. Both sermons wets' i- .... ?,,, ,.n v>;< i,.,.,v unjuycu ".V all ui ? ?.-< m;aici Miss Iva Relue of Union, was vi< 10 itin^r her cousin, Mis? Angella Belui ?j v* for tin- week-end. ' , Mr. and Mrs. Kenan Cunninffhai ^ of Buffalo, was visiting Mr. and Mr -< lt J. Fincher last Sunday. m Mr. Lewis Gault of the Sparta! "e Academy returned to his studies t<1,1 V' day, after spending a few days wit ni "" his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ,T. F. Gaul 01 Messrs Jessie Newel and Due Gallman, from near Kelly's statin I'1 s' were visitors here Sunday, the truesU" !e of Mr. Victor Smith. Neb. r <1 ? * n, e Notice. ei )- Ire 1- I wish the public to know th^il v, I have severed mv connection wity, ic the Union Steain Laundry and havj t taken the agency for a first-clasw 1- laundry. f ' a; My headquarters will be at N<jlo r land's Market, office phone 100. Word ?r will be called for every Monda(o 's morning and satisfaction pruarantee<ei o 9 4t. pd. Charlie llame EA Cu Palm To Yo Vali 5 FF up With eacl from oui ire _ Selection Cheviots, Cas: YS, Browns, E )esigns : Will Please You ? Hnlnm .1 WVIUIII W. No. 4 Main 5 I JONESVILLE .Jonesville, March 2.?Snow was jported to have fallen here SuViday jpht but it was very little, and .vas len by only a few colored peoo that were up late in the night, te ground is yet very cold and irly garden stuff don't grow much. The Wallace mills has for the last w days, been filling their vacant uses with operatives for the purse of putting on a night force and nning day and night, and last night ?y commenced running at night, ire than a hundred inhabitants ve been added to our town in the t few days and as many more will added in the# next few days or perps more. Vot a single sack of fertilizer has . been shipped to our town this son. I have talked with a good ny farmers from diflVrert parts the county and I learn from them t there will not be more than half much guano used this year as < re was last year, and the acerage , lt-'d in cotton will he much less n last year. 4 n error of one word occurred in i communication to The Times last i k, 1 vpoke of a telephone line g talked of from Jonesvill to * H. (laults, over near l'acolet mill, 4 translators made it telegrapn ^ >ad of telephone. Its a telephone ' a name sake of mine. < W. (). Southard has been ailing complaining for some time and ? yet a very sick man. good many bales of cotton were < on the market here last week. < 1 the price went down the farrushed in their cotton, which ually the case. J friend and fellow correspondent from across the Paoolet, had a J touching correspondence in t'n> JJ! ins of The Times last we-k, as J ioke of his good companion in /ho had lately gone to a bettor and left him sad and lonely. X ikes one of my age think that ? I not be long until th> y will be ?< i':e brother Vox, all alone, and ?, < tad the thought. Brother Vox t y sympathy in his sad bereave j and the best and most comit words I can convey or express & i, is 10 irusi in a kind Heavenly ^ i1, whose (trace alone can sup- V nc! sustain him. t. Charles Petty, one of the ards, for many years a news editor and correspondent, polchurchman, and a pood man y way, has (rone to his reward. JL ral men have requested me te more about the (rood roads hut for want of time, I will o postpone that matter till X eek. 'Hce-llaw" ministrel of Tones- ?? cal talent will play in !h" school building Friday cv>n- ^ r the benefit of John flames *5^ , u. n. r. Telephone. stom Made I Beach Suit LIf LL I ur Measure I 111 I I ue $10 I I ILL I ^ 1 R.75 I i Suit Order ip | \J AND UP I I * Wonderful _ I To Your Measure 9 of Serges, ^? I simere and Cloths in Blues, I ]tc., Stripes, Plaids, C*iecks I E | or Refund Your Money | bia Tailoring Co. P. BOBO, Manager it Union, S. C. |New Spring Arrivals!! r t Y All the latest Shapes and Shades in John B. V X T *$ Stetson and No Name Hats. Y % x j Howard & Foster low cut Shoes for men?all V X X styles?all leathers, and the celebrated Drew *<? & Ol * * onoe ior ladies. X V t We especially invite the ladies to call and see X T ? this beautiful line of low cut Shoes. Y | Union Clothing Co. | ? D. W. Mullinax, Manager Y ?. >. * * ? " * - - > The Best Yet | : For 23c f y ; I am serving the best regular % Dinner that you can get in the j city ot Union. Our Farmer !*! r?:??1 - ? menus win lind a hearty *\* welcome here. Courteous X treatment, prompt service ??> and the greatest variety in X good things to eat, at 4m Spencer's Cafe | Free Music on a Victrola While You Eat. ^