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SMILES j Just Like Him. "My husband is just like our furnace," sighed Mrs. Blinks. "All day he smokes and at night he goes out." >. The Corn Feds. The skirts grow fuller every day, We miss the dimpled hobble; But don't be downcast, men, for they Are still there with the wobble. Both of Ono Mind. Polly?"Mr. and Mrs. Flubdud get along splendidly together." Dolly?"Yes, he thinks he has the best wife in the world, and she quite agrees with him." Almost a Blunder. Ailecn?"Did you lose your presence of mind when he attempted to kiss you?" Maude?"Yes, for a moment. Why 1 came near telling him to stop!" Always Working (St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) "That lawyer of mine has a nerve." "Why so?" "Listen to this item in his bill: 'ror waking up in the night and thinking over your ease, $25.'" Auto Supplies. A handbook of 5,000 assorted cuss words. An insurance policy. A rubber spine. An iron skull. Bail money. ?Cincinnati Enquirer. Sbort Way to Union. It's a long way to prohibition, It's a long way to go; It's a short way to Union courthouse To the best old whiskey I know. So, it's good-bye to ye Tetotalers Farewell to all that's square? It's a short way to Union courthouse And I'm bound right there. Contributor. ?Spartanburg Herald. lie Knew. One day in the livelv old time of cowboy activities, a timid tenderfoot at T?:tter Creek asked tremblingly if that bad man. Bill Busher, was hang ing arounu mere yet, says i.rowning's Magazine. "No," replied the native who was asked. "But ho was last week." "Are you sure?" said the tenderfoot. "Positive. I had hold of the rope." His Choice. An old Scotchman was threatened with blindness if he did not give up drinking. "Now, McTavish,' said the doctor, "its like this: You've either to stop the whiskey or lose your eyesight? and you must choose." "Ah, weel, doctor," said McTavish. "I'm an auld man noo, an' I was thinkin' I lia'e seen aboot everything worth seein'." He Was Neutral. An Irishman went into a wellknown Boston restaurant a short time ago to get his lunch. Among other things, he ordered some cold meat; and the waiter?when he served the meal?inquired: "Will you have the French or German mustard, sir?" "Neither," was the Irishman's prompt reply. "I'm neutral. Bring me horseradish." Life's Little Bitterness. (Boston Transcriot.) Arthur sat on the front doorsteps crying softly. "What's the matter little W" asked a kind hearted woman who was passing. "Ma's gone an* drowned all (ho kittens," he sobbed. "What a pity. I'm awful sorry." "An' s-she promised?boo-boo?V.I I ou'd do it." Prevent iny Seasickness. "here is a Batimore divine who (mo administer a rebuke delicately, hut, on occasion, he sees to it that (lie no?.p( is plain. Once a rich member of his cony re 'ration, who is ven* close to the .nir.isSer. snoke of his i: * cut ion to go abroad. "I have never been on the ocean " aid he to the clergyman, "and I would like to learn of something Ilia! will prevent me from becomine- seasick." "You might swallow a dime." said the divine. "You'll never give that up." Full Panel. The iurors fdled into the jury ho:: an;! after ah the 12 peats wre fill ! there still remained one juror standing outside. "II" the court please," said the clerk, "they have made a mistake an-' " out us 1*1 jurors inst ead of 12. What do veil v/nnt to do with this extra one?" "What is your name?" asked the judge of the extra man. ".Tosenh A. Braines." he renin '!. "Mr. Clerk," said the judge. "take this man hack to the iury commissioners and tell them that we don't need him, as we already h*n a h^?12 men without Braines."?Tifl Bits Finding A Verdict A trial took place recentIv in Tex*>r, before a colored jury. The twelve gentlemen of color were told by the jud^e to retire and "find a verdict' They departed for . the jurvroom Then be^an the oocning and shut ting of drawers, the slamming of doors, and other sounds of unusual commotion. Every one wondered what the trouble was. At last the jury came hack into the court and the foreman arose and said: "We hab looked cberywhar,' in the drawers and behind the do,' an' can't find no verdict. It warn't in de room." FAVORS BOND ISSUE FOR GOOD ROADS (Continued from page two) and no one can know in advance, exactly which of the roads the commission will deem most important), but as a matter of fact, it is proposed and intended to build from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five miles of good roads, in addition to the main thouroughfures and to budd them as quickly as possible, and to select them as in the judgment of the commission, the travel over the roads and the condition of the roads would indicate which was the most important and necessary to be improved. I, for one, have implicit faith in the honesty, patriotism, aiid purpose of the proposed commission, and feel ' ure that they will build every mile good roads possible to be built; they will build them without fear or favor and where needed most, and good judgment and economy would dictate that they should be built first; and no matter where tho> build, it is proposed that the entire bond issue will be expended for good roads in three years so, no matter what road you live on, when the main roads are built, and the hundred or more miles of cross county roads are added, no man could travel very far in any direction without striking the good roads. Again, twhen you have built one hundred or two hundred miles of good roads, and while you are building them, every miie the commission builds is a mile less for the regular county commissioners to keep up, I and every mile you take off them, | means more time, more work, move money for them to .spend on the roads that are left, and as a matter of fact, with the good supervisor Union county now has, and with the able township commissioners thai j are now in office, I believe that if you will vote the bond issue, and let the permanent roads commission pet busy and build this two hundred miles of roads, that the supervisor and township commissioners, with all the time of the chaining, with more money and time to devote to the three hundred miles that this will approximately leave them to take care of, that they can so greatly improve the other roads that nobody will have any cause to complain. Further, I am satisfied that if the bonds are voted, ds 1 am glad to sa> that increasing numbers from every part of the county seem to feel sure they will be, and this commission with a Highway Engineer from the United States Government, get the results that I have the fullest confidence they will get; it will be no trouble to get a bond issue to complete all the roads in Union county, so that nobody need be left out, no road need go unimproved and nobody need to vote against the bond issue on that account. Again, if the results are not all that we hope and expect them to be, nobody is hurt, we will certainly have from one hundred to two hundred and twentyflVA mi Ins nf hpffor rnn/lo llinn have ever had, we will have them in the shape and condition where $8 to $12 per mile will keep them up, with a commission who are giving their services free to Union county, doing all that men can do to make good on this estimate from the United States government where heretofore they have cost much more and we have gotten no permanent results at all. Since ''Nob" and 4,G. T. G." did not see or would not admit my argument that it would not cost any more to have the $200,000 bond issue than it has been costing I'll try to make it plainer. Union county has pursued for years the same policy of road working that many other counties have pursued, with about the same results. The trade and trafiic uul wear and tear of the roads constantly gets heavier and heavier, and t'ne policy is and has been just to make the absolutely necessity repairs, when things get so bad that something has to he done, there is and never lias been any definite n-nn or system and whil" we may bo doing as well as any other county, that pursues the same plan. It constantly s more and more to repair the >;uls and we never get through and e no nearer to good roads under this plan than we were twenty yens i ,-o. According to the experience n ' the United states government in building and keeping up good road they su,r if you will build the permanent roads properly (and don't get the idea that permanent roads means macadam roads), that you can keep them up for an average of I^ss than $10.00 per mile (and mind you. you can keep them up for 810.00 per mile, not because you do ii wn> will winy/, nut necuusc you have built tht?m with proper width, grade and drainage, and that is why it is necessary to build by bond issue, and to build permanent roads, and to build by contract.^ i If you spent last year $65.00 p r mile, and that is what you snout if the figures of what was spent as given to me by the county officers i-correct, and you have 500 miles of road as I estimate in my argument, that b*' could not see. 1 said ii we continued to spend in the future as in the past (and "Neb" says we always spend more, never less), it would not cost any more to have the bond issue and 200 miles of iroed roads than it now costs to have at, 1 i?14 cost, assuming that it would continue at the same rate, would he $13,000 and you have nothing when it is spent, but to go ahead and spend it again. $200,000 worth of bonds at 4 per cent, with the sinking funu as provided by the bond measure would cost exactly $13,000 and you would have 200 or more miles of good roads, which could be kept up at $10.00 a mile instead of $65.00, (because they have been built and made good roads), and besides you would have $5,000 every year going into the haNds of the sinking fund commission of Union county to be loaned to the farmers of Union county (for that is what I understana our sinking fund commission are doing, loaning the money at home, on Union county dirt, for which th y are to be commended). Which is the best? Which is the cheapest in the long run? Which will pay every tax payer in Union county best? To spend the $200,000 in the next three years, and get something that we can all use, and enjoy, and wnicn we have 30 to 40 years to pay back, or go on spending like we have been and spend .$200,000 in (5 or 7 years and have what you have had all this winter for roads, and nothing else to show for it, just multiply $32,500 by G or 7 and see what you get and that is about your figures for 1914. Now, I don't enjoy the idea of paying taxes any more than any good citizen who opposes the good roads for this reason, but I have long since found out that anything worth having has to be paid for, 1 have also found out that they have to pay taxes anyhow, whether you get anything for it or not, so 1 am in favor of at least trying to get something in the way of good roads for our taxes, rather than keep on paying taxes and getting nothing; and 1 will compare taxes that I pay directly and indirectly with any citizen of :hi county, whom so far as 1 have seen or heard of opposing the good > onds bond issue. Now there are just one or two more points and I will quit, '.o man need vote against the good i tad because of our past experie". a h the old macadam road, we are not preparing to build macadam roads, and we have guarded against thmistake that was made in ouihiing that road. Everybody seemed to think that because that road \v s built out of rock that you had noth ing to bo but to build it and leuv it alone, we propose to build goo;! roads this time, to build tl: :in . o they can be kept up, and .ih 5/ to keep them up, and if this had neen done with the macadam road it would be as good today as the day it was finished. You would not build a fine house and then let it rot down for the need of a new roof, because you spent a lot of money in building the house, would you ? Well that is what you did with your macadam road, and because a mistake was made one time, should a man quit and never try any more? Not a farmer in Union county but has made a complete failure at some time 011 some kind of crop, but he is a nvghty sorry farmer if he just quit trying ever to raise that crop because he made one failure, or one mistake. If he is worth his salt he made that failure of an object lesson to do better by next time, and never got caught the same way twice. So, I am satisfied will this good roads commission profit by any mistake in the macadam proposition and we will get j all the better roads for any mistake I that was made in failing to ke.aq, up. mat roaa alter we spent so much to build it. There may be and doubtless will dc some business men, corporation owners and citizens, living in the cities and towns who will vote against the bond issue; so far, I have not heard of one; I can see how some of these might vote against the good roads since they get less benefit than our friends living in the county, hut since they all seem to be willing, for the sake of progress, prosperity and the general welfare of the county and all the people, to vote the bonds, I fail to see how any man living in the county can vote against it, for this reason if no other, taking out Buffalo Mills, Lockhart Mills, and Ncal Shoals, and assuming for the sake of argument that Monarch and Ottaray are in the corporate limit; I think it will he conceded that 85 per cent of the taxable property of | the county is in the corpora oO limitof the cities and towns. If then the I cities, towns, corporations and bu i| ness concerns of the county are will| ing to pay 85 per cent of the tax s I to furnish good roads to the county j and the county will be called on t<> ! pay 15 per cent, while the county : has all the good roads and the cities and towns only have such in linvt : benefits as come from maki \g all I the county more prosperous . j the | addition of good roads, how can any | citizen of the county who needs and 1 uses the roads consistently objects to them ? Roads are like shoes, they cost : money, hut you can't get along withI out them, you have to have them j sooner or later. If some man woul i come along and tell you to buy you a supply of shoes now and he would pay 85 cents every time you paid 15 cents until you got a supply and paid for them, you would hardly refuse the ofTer. Well that is about the proposition up to the people of Union county nnvu if xr/%?? ? 1 ? 1 I j wv? ?anc guou roacis, Alio j you have f>ot to have roads of some ! kind, and will ^ct behind the bond issue with the ri^ht kind of enthusiasm, you can have 200 miles or more to start with in the next tluee years and the business interests the towns, cities and corporations of Union county will pay about 85 to ! 00 cents to every 10 or 1 ?> cents the balance of the county will have to pay. 1 arn triad to snv tlmt ? wr*,-.-* more of good, substantial citizens from the county have given nie the assurance, that whereas they had not fully realized what the bond issue meant and had intended to vote against it, that since reading my last article they are convinced that it is the best move we could possibly make and will vote for it and work for it, which I have evidence that they are doing with good results, and I feel sure that if the good work is continued, we will roll up a good majority for good roads, for progress and prosperity in old Union county, at a time when it is needed, r| perhaps more than ever before, ami j at a time when we can pet better I results and more for our money than we will ever be likely to tret again. In conclusion, let me say that not the least among the reasons why I I will be glad to sMe Union county , build good roads now is. that South Carolina is waking up, and when you get thern going in the right direction there are no better neople on earth than our people here at home, and not only is South Carolina waking up, but good roads, better schools ] and compulsory education and nrohibition are coming. If 'he father's vote down good roads in less than 10 iyears the sons of these very father's j will do what we failed to do. Other counties will already have done what j we are trying to do. and we wu. | come along a tail-ender, I am not | ! willing that Union county should I follow the procession. T crave for h? r that she may set the nacc, load the way and not follow after. I hope you will, and believe vot. will, but if you don't good people, just remember my pronhesy. 1 can stand it if you can and in the moantime I'll serve you as always to the best of mv ability. Very trulv. L. L. Wagnon, | for good roads, progress and prosj perity. NO REASON FOR IT When Union Citizens Show a Way. j T' can bo no reason why any . ! reader of this who sutlers the 'o'] ture; of an aching bank, the n'-nov- ' I iiin-i- "i urinarv Misorcws. the n*isn,> j I and hngcxs of kidney ills will fail to j 1 heed the wo it's of a neighbor who i has found roli f. Bead what a Union | fiti it savs: I Mrs. II. N. Sm-ovse. tW" W. M-.ie ! St., Union, says: "I was in a had I way with kidnev trouble: 1 f??l? n?rjvo'i md my health was shattered; j The pains in the small of mv back ] j were terrible and they seemed to | bother me more at night. ' always j f It thirsty and never seemed able to "ot enough water. The kidney secretions passed too often and T hn l such bad di'/./y snells that often if I did not catch bold of something, I v/otdd have fallen. I doctored for six months and finallv a friend told me to try Doan's Kidivv 1'ills. f trot some from the Palmetto Drug Co. and after I had taken one box I felt relieved. 1 kent on until I hid used six boxes and by that time all signs of kidney eomnlaint h-ft ?no. Since then, when I haw noticed the : slightest sign of the trouble, Doan's i Kidney Pills have fixed me up in fine I shape." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't ' simply ask for a kidney remedy?j yet Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Sprouse had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. The housewife was preparing supper, when a man knocked at :he door. '4'm collecting for the Drunkard's "Ro"rhe," 'he anrounced. "Come around in an hour and I'll give you my husband," answered the woman--The Segment Block. You'll not get anywhere unless you start. You're Constipated, Bilious?Cascarets Sick Headache. Sour Stomach, Gas, Bad Breath, Mean Liver and Bowels need Cleansing. Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stom| ach or bowels; how much your head | aches, how miserable and uncomfort; able you are from constipation, indij gestion, biliousness and sluggish bowels?you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets tonight; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nervousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of all bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health, hapj nincss and a clear head for month-'. X'o more days of gloom and distress if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All druggists sell Cascai els. "on't forget the children -their little insides need a gentle cleansing, i too, ITHF RF5T PFQ1HTQ b lift. yi-VJ HL.VjUL a o j ;are always obtained from the Lest drugs, you get only the best |at The Palmetto 'Drug Co. Have your prescriptions filled where you always get the best PALMETTO DRUG COMPANY THE MONEY SAVERS UNION, S, C. ; vr^^THE GiiiztHS i^nok BANK KESOUttCES ' < '-;r . .y Loans and Discounts $434,529.27 ' '*} * /' U. S. Bonds (at par) 25,000.00 ' A'/ fXjjTl y Federal Reserve Stock 2,000.00 * tiO'Jrfi'" Banking House Furniture and (Jl* / _.i> Fixtures 14,(500.00 L<j ^ Cash 65,021.74 | HAVE S5= jvoua \(t' h li a liii rriEs i lU ' _-/> Capital $100,000.00 - dj\t Surplus and Profits. 37,130.72 'Q, Vi'}. - Circulation 75.000.00 :.'((* ID'-dl: -ount. .. - 4K/.V1.S? _ '/ 35 Deposits - 270.* 7 E&M . Tata!. ...... *531..!.-,1.01 |J H| . ' V' R. V. MORGAN C. C. SA\;>Vfi;; y*B President Cashier [ ? ?> ? . < --vrr *-j--*. ? ....... .... ... ,. . - v ?r-v or.- . ^ I 8ili^ S&ii j!i Ro.l i ? ii gitl lit ^ "W.? p \ 1 f ill his I jj|!j| 7i.c ; Ijijl lllil 'V",u Ford is lighter than ar.y other tar o! its Ijljj lllll size and power. Yet stronger, sturdier, ion ".or y y Sjijjj lasting. Vanadium steel, that's why. V anadium j ; jjj!|l Is the hardest, strongest, toughest steel made. kjiji \\ a It is the only steel that is hard and tough at the jjijid jj ] same time. It is the highest priced steel that Nig * | is used in automobile construction. Yet lite 'i Ford is very low in price. Its quality, terms, ti'.-jj | price and small cost of operation and upkeep, SJjjs I | less than two cents a mile, have made it the g j! a 3 universal necessity in town and country. 8 {!? Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail 300,000 g 1 | new Ford cars between August 1914 and August 1915. j g Runabout, $440; Touring Car $100; Town Car $G90; 1 | Coupelet $750; Sedan $975, f. o. b. Detroit with all J : equipment. On display and sale at j UNION GARAGE "HOME AT LAST." GADBERRY ST. | g 2 ' ! | j [?? * &. m ? Ml iip mill iii ihwii ! ! i l ? lll i || i | iii ! !?1mb j U.'iihh ?im?iireiMiMMi ? i'Miiihi ?? 11 imn?iMigi i > in imihiim ih i ' Wake up business! 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