The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 19, 1915, Page 7, Image 7
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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.*
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. ' V' R. V. MORGAN C. C. SA\;>Vfi;;
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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
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The Bcli Telephone is the Big Ben cf Business.
Ring up on the Bell.
You may talk about dull tames 'till you lose
your breath but it won't help matters, save your
breath to talk into your Bell Telephone.
Ring up old customers, then start on a fresh list
of prospects, there is no quicker way ? none that
saves more time or expense.
If you haven't a Bell Telephone, get one now.
Call the Business office for rates.
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