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. under 1 5 /fio\ ?\COVERNMENT ! ^^SUPERVISION iilF!nnrfw m*mbbr BANK under. ? 111 M Hi 11 H l||j>4 r- - \ ^ FEDERAL RESERVE ACT . THE ! 1 Merchants & Planters Nat'l Bank | "The Old Reliable" The Oldest and Largest Bank in Union County .i.ir r<i i nnni is a iunuumeniai principle wim ? ; this bank. The safety of your money is the first con- ? ui ; sideration in opening a bank account, and we will be C( ; pleased to have you call and let us show you the many J ^ | safeguards we place around your money. J c< | 0( J You can teach your DOLLARS to have more Cents ? 8, ; by depositing them in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, ? oi where we pay the highest rate of interest, consistent i _ with safe and sound banking methods. ' e] ; ' I e: LOOK FOR THE BANK WITH THE CHIME CLOCK ! " : ! S ; And deposit your money where it will be absolutely sale cj i F. M. FARR, W. F. GILLIAM, J. D. ARTHUR. j Q] President. Vice-President. Cashier. 1 n ! ? P MMMIMMAIAMIMMAIfeMMAMMAAiAMMAMMMAiiMMMMAJ CM V. Bailey Furniture & Lumber Co. BUILDING MATERIAL OF ALL KIND AND y HOUSE FURNISHINGS OF EVERY < DESCRIPTION ? Si Special attention to summer necessities; Porch ft \ Goods, Door and Window Screens, Fireless e Cookers, Oil Stoves, Refrigerators, Ice 3 Cream Freezers i< y Everything for comfort and convenience in the c< good old summer time. ? T. E. BAILEY, Pres. R. L. McNALLY, Treas. o I and Mgr. Fur. Dept. and Mgr. Lumber Dept. 0 ti a A^A G] | New Shipment | ? I Parry Buggies 11 & ?* is | Made in the heart of Indiana % ? 'jr 2 t< ? Xl X M. - A * !& ine greai iimoer country X * ^ ^ | Medium Price i'J | High Quality f ? % ? X For sale by X y ? tl i The Peoples Supply Co. 1 * s ^ g* n - - t BARRON & BARRON ice cream supper. v Attorneys at Law ~ 0 irvmv ? c 'I here will he an ice cream supper s * ' at Kelly school Friday, September 18, 1 ! Riven by the School Improvement as- c Practice in all Courts. Mon- sociation, for the benefit of the do- c i i civ,*, v- mestie science room. I ey to loan on City and * arm c Property. i>ovt ve up v . . t Discouraged Citizens Will F'nd Com- ^ Lawrence G. Southard fort in lht' Experience of a Union Man. g ATTORNEY AT LAW Exp,, ie.,oe is"u^o<l?ratn instruc f, tor. xi Profit l?v the experience of others. Will Practice in all Courts It may save your life. 2 The experience of friends and . Office Opposite Post Office neighbors. The testimony of Union people. 11 ? ?... a x*. Will bring renewal encouragement. . PH CHESTER S PILLS "*" ? =?m 1 'irwinm'm x J.M. O'Shields, x South Enterprise o /iTwhk A?k j..iir f '/?\ street. Union, S. C. says: "'I liad inC U 4 !ii-fhf?*torfflMuinoi)(l ItrRnd/AX . - V, ? i . i i i i 51 I'llU lu IC.'d nn I i,,i.?:.iiiA%#7 fnrmsit inn fh.. .... 1 l-.? a Ta moolhZ,h I?y.r JwV neys were in awful shape. The pains ? Fl" J in my back were te.-nHc. The doctor ? Y*** fit yr us known?'. lie .1. Sife.I. / Iways keliat.l* Said I hild gravel Ulll (lUCIHg Oile at- L SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE tack, four physicians sat up with rne 11 m T all night; they thought was going to Ti . . . . ... die. A doctor advised me to try _ It takes longer to rani a t. >1 ar [)oan?s Kidney Pills ar. l 1 trot a box f ^iin '' (*<>os to lorget a .ivor. from the Palmetto Drnir Co. I was t' 1 * 1 relieved after I had taken them a day To Drive Out Malaria or so and before long, J passed a tl And Build U|> The System gravel stone. One box of Doan's & Take the Old Standard GROVE'S Kidney Pills cured me and that, cure TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know has lasted for eight veai*." g what you are taking, as the formula m Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't i? printed on every label, showing it is simply ask for a kidjgpv remedy? t< ?uiniue and Iron in a tasteless form, get Doan's Kidney PilTs?the same I he Quinine drives out malaria, the that Mr. O'Shi elds had. Foster-MilIron builds up the system. 50 cents burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. ? r U FOR ENT COTTON md Bankers Should Campaign to Save to Southern Growers. ? j < -i Progressive Farmer.) lias just been meeting in Seattle, Washington, and what was the message that the president of this greatsst organization of financiers brought the country? He predicted, says a press dispatch, th^t "an almost unbelievable prosperity is rushing on the nation." or tn mmt? v.;? -??* i_. MOULD FIGH armers, Merchants a < .> \'' Co-operate in the i $250,000,000 Cotton ( ? (By Clarence Poe, in The * I bejr space in your columns, Mr. 1 ditor, to present a subject of the 5 tmost importance to all our Southern i juntry. There is no doubt in most < lou^htful minds but that the Souch's 1 >tton crop is tfoint: to he worth $750,- ] 30,000 to the men who own it next 1 [jrinp, but it is worth only $500,000,- i 30 to the producers at present prices -and it is to save to Southern grdw- j rs and to our Southern country th?a> i stra quarter of a billion dollars that ( le united energies of press and peo- \ le should now be directed. The fup- < amental facts seem to me to be < ear: i 1. Cotton, even though the new crop 1 f 1915 has started coming on the i larket, is still selling on the basis of i rices fixed by last year's 17,000,000 ale crop. 1 2. These prices must soon be ad- 1 jsted, however, to fit the conditions ] f a 12,000,000-bale crop (or prob- t bly only a 10,000,000 or 11,000,000- i ale crop), and this adjusted price ] ught at the very least to reach 12 i 2nts a pound for middling. 1 As briefly now, as clear argument ( 'ill permit, I wish to point out and > mphasize the truth of these state- ; tents. , > I. The World's Demands Justify Twelve Cents. J Assuming even a 12,000,000-bale ] ield of Southern cotton this year and it will probably be less), this ear's world production will be 8,- ] 00,000 bales short of the world's con- j ervatively estimated consumption 1 uring the coming 12 months. That i to say, the world will consume very pound of this year's crop and ,000,000 bales of the present surplus. Secretary Raster of the New Orjans cotton exchange estimates last ear's Southern production (not the ommercial crop) at 17,004,930 bales, 'he United States government estilate (16,134,930 plus 791,464 lintrs) is 16,926,349?practically 17,00,000 bales. This was over 2,000,AA 1. _ 1 i- ?* 1 1 uu uaies in excess 01 me lyiii crop, i Now what happened with this i umper 17,000,000-crop in spite of all tie demoralized conditions of trade < nd finance?the crop of which it was r aid last fall we should not export g ,000,000 bales? The facts are that r le world used so much of it that the j ital world's visible supply of all cot- ? in in midsummer this year was only ,453,169 bales against 3,522,276 bales \ year before. In other words, with a f n AAA AAA U-l. fl At ^ * - i,uuu,uuu uaie ooutnern crop to fOBnle, the world's visitV'* sudpLyII r reased only 1,900,000 bales. vPfcft* i going to happen this year then, dth the South offering 5,000,000. or ,000,000 bales less?and the produci<fn of other countries also dereased? And this query brings me j another point: [. The World's Crop Prospects Justify Twelve Cents. Mr. W. P. G. Harding of the federal eserve board early in the summer ecured reports from consular officials' 11 over the world indicating a total ut in the world's cotton crop this ear of 5,000,000 bales, Egypt tnd ndia reporting "radical reduction* ir. creage." Since that time the pros* ects have further declined. Hut even if we accept this early ver-estimate of the crop we see that : last year's crop, being 5,000,000 igger than this year's, yet increased he surplus only 2,000,000 bales, ihen his year's crop will leave a 3,000,00 bale deficit?to be drawn from he surplus. The facts are, however, that even 12,000,000 bale estimate for the iouth now seems too high. This is ot simply my view, but the view of lany experts, including so eonnervaive and competent an authority 'a* he New York Journal of Copimerce, /hich has just declared that in view f present conditions, "the yield eetns likely to be nearer 10,000,000 han 1:1.000.000 bales." And now omes the Wall Street Journal, itself [uoting William S. Halliburton of )aniel O'Dell & Co., as saying: "The urrent season's crop may be as low s 10,500,000 bales. It is entirely mnin tne reacn or present condi- 1 ions that we shall see 12 Vi cent cot- 1 on before the end of the season." These two authorities base their i stimates chiefly on condition reports ] rom all over the South, but might J ive add. (I the further testimony that ?3 he South cut its fertilizer consump- 3 ion this year from 4,431,000 tons to 1 ,630,000 tons?almost in half?and 3 he effect of this cut will probably i lake itself most evident from now 1 n as closer scrutiny is given the 1 ruiting of the crop. 1 The reader can easily see for him- . elf, therefore, that if we have oniy i 10,000,000 bale crop, the factories f the world would utterly drain the larket dry, leaving it subject to such i onditions as occurred a few years 1 go when speculators carried prices 3 ) 17 and 20 cents a pound. i And now having pointed out that ' 2 cent prices are justified because .< he 1915 crop is certainly 3,000,000 < id possibly 5,000,000 bales short of i he world's demands, meaning that ] actories and munition factories will onsume all the present yield with the 1 reater part if not all the world's vi's- i )le surplus, I also wish to call at-' J mtion to the fact that? ? 1 II. American Prosperity Justifies i Twelve Cents. 1 The American Backers' association f ? ?j ?- xjuvvv UIO CAUV. t WUI US. "When bank reserves, which are greater now than .they have ever been in the history of the county, are distributed, the nation will enjoy almost jnbelievable prosperity. The volume -)i money on hand is so great that it ;an not find a natural outlet. The movement of the tremendous crops, A-ith the attendant financial activity, will still further increase the bank -eserves." And manufacturers are no less opimistic than bankers. The Factory Magazine of Chicago recently took a )oll of 163 Eastern and Middle West;rn manufacturers as to the prospects 'or business in the fall. Forty, or practically one-fourth of the total >umber, declared condition "exceptional," 23 "fine," or "above normal," JO "good." 18 "fair" and "faii-N, rood," only seven "dull and poor," ;nd only one "much below normal and *ery poor." Another points not to be overooked is? IV. The New Federal Reserve Act ' Insures Better Prices. President Hirsch of the Texas Bankers' association told the big Cotton States conference of Southern jankers in,Galveston: "For the first time in the history of the South, gentlemen, the Southern bankers have the financial ability to market gradlally this crop. It would almost appear as if the federal reserve act had jeen drafted for the benefit of South;rn producers." Just because the reserve act doesn't give the farmers all he help they need?just because it loesn't take the place, nor profess to ake the place, of the much-needed -ural credits legislation?is no reason 'or denying or minimizing the great idvantages it does offer. "The federal reserve system does mable the banks in the South where noney is needed,- to draw upon the jreat reserves in other sections for naking loans on the cotton crop; or in Mr w r> n u?J-"? ^ ' 1 ? ,v, a. . u. naiuiug ui ine iea:ral reserve board officially says: "Banks have now ample facilities vhich they have never before enjoyed or rediscounting the notes taken igainst such loans, and it is for them for any other . agency, to letprmine the policy of the South in egard to the marketing of the presint cotton crop." And President Woodrow Wilson in i letter to Mr. Harding writes: "It is evident from what you tell me, that he country banks with whom the 'armor and other producers directly leal can get money at from 4 to >er cent. * * * I think that we can jonfuiently expect that the banks in ;he cotton States and in the agricultural regions generally will content themselves with a rate not more than L or 2 per cent above the rate which thfy themselves pay." It is up to the janks to justify this faith expressed i>y the head of the nation. And the crop can be warehoused. Mr. Harding points out that even last Tall the South had facilities for storing 11,577,466 bales, and these facilities have been greatly increased since ;hen. The next thing I probably ought, to jay is? V. Twelve-Cent Prices Are Justified, Contraband or No Contraband,' Of the 8,543,000 bale's of American lotton shipped to Europe in the fiscal year ending July 31, 1915, only 242, JUU baii'.s went to German ports. Of course, there was more that went iniireetly to Germany, but we must remernbc that a considerable part of Germany's normal demand for cotton was extorted to Germany's foreign trade and that this trade will now be supplied by other countries. The contraband order may almost be termed fnfamo i; if England does nothing to compensate us for trying to make Southern : aimers bear our burdens, but in a ,y case to offset the contraband ordir we have (1) the greatly increases demand for cotton for war purposes. .2) the increased demand for Amen, an, English and continental factories that must supply the trade formerly pplied by German mills. together v.:;h the fact (3) that Germany is almost sure to buy and store up cotton light here in America to hold until ?-a trade is reopened. Even with the contraband order in effect, therefore, IL-cent prices are amply justified, whereas with open seas to nil Europe, i-oltoii would likely bring 14 or 15 cents. An able and eminent committee on arbitration ought to be named at once by England and America, to make a fair and just estimate of the damage in,price per pound resulting from the 'order in council" and contraband order, and England should then be required to pay this amount per pound as a bonus to evury American cotton producer this fall. 1 confidently believe that if England should change her contraband rules so as to inflict corresponding injury upon any strong American manufacturing interest, some such settlement would be required; anl Southern farmerd should rise up and demand :hat the same recognition be given an agricultural industry as would be given a manufacturing industry. VI. Farmers Should Hold for Twelve Cents and Bankers Should Help Them Hold. Of course we must be reasonable. Don't expect bankers to lend on cotton no tstored or insured, nor expect them to lend the full market value. Land-owning farmers of good character who have been depositors in banks, however, .will frequently be 1 able to borrow without such restrictions. The thing to do is for farmers in every neighborhood to organize .formally or informally, for standing together in holding and marketing the crop, and find out just what the local banks will do. Last year it was repeatedly stated by the minority of bankers whn uroro 1 1 ....w ????v mini 4^ W ienu money on cotton, thaV few farmers applied fcr such loans. Let not that be said this year. We must keep the crop from being rushed to market at present prices, and that means that farmers must avail themselves of all the cooperation afforded by banks? for many owners must have advances in order to meet pressing obligations. And let every farmer remember this: It hurts prices just as much for your neighbor's crop to be rushed to market as for your own crop to be. Consequently we should have neighborhood action everywhere, with the stronger farmers and plantation owners joining to help the weaker ones to hold, grade, warehouse and sell together. Only by the most thoroughgoing cooperation of all forces can we save to the South the full quarter of a billion dollars of hard-earned wealth that will otherwise go into the hands of speculators and foreign interests. Nor must we fail to realize that the worst and most dangerous "bear" of all, the man we have the most to dread right now, is not the Wall street speculator-devil who have been so often cursed and denounced, but the "bear" farmer right here in the South who is willing: to prove traitor to the cause by offering: to give away the crop at present prices?or the "bear" merchant or "bear" banker who forces him to d?ll. Yesterday morning's report of the New York cotton exchange, for example, announced that prices would have gone i higher the day before but for the fact that-*? "Some of the reports received from Georgia and Alabama predicted that farmers would sell freely at eight cents." And again in the earlier reports of ' the New York cotton exchange just two days ago we also read that prices would have gone higher but "there , was more Southern sealing." Four Final Suggestions. Let me conclude this argument for 12-cent prices with four specific sug1 ge^ions: 1. Let press and people spread the news that the crop is really short? certainly 3,000,000 and possible 5,000,000 bales short of the world's needs. . 2. Hold for 12 cents without borrowing if you can. But remember l*jt is committing" business suicide to refuse to borrow if. you can thereby hold your crop. 3. Not only should cotton bring 12 cents, but cotton seed prices should break all records. Our export trade in cotton seed oil has jumped over 60 per cent in one year?from 192,000,000 to 318,000,000 pounds. And if good prices were paid for seed a 17,000,000 crop, what sort of prices should we not demand for seed from a crop of only 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 bales? 4. With $500,000,000 for her new cotton crop, the South will, barely "pay out." With $750,000,000 the whole section will have a jubilant and abounding prosperity. Bankers, merchants and all classes, therefore, should join our farmers in the fight for 12-cent prices now and for a State warehouse system in every State to help insure fair prices in future years. ENVOY McABEE APPEALS TO PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY To the Times: My Dear Si: Will you allow m< space in your paper to speak to my friends at your city?or I feel more like saying our city, for we call Unior our home as it is more like home than any place we know in sever States in which we haVe lived. We are only hoping how soon we will get back to Union. I have many things which I woul< ' lilrn 4" rv qKa?4- Hma wKink 1 think is very important just at this time is the. uppermost question ir South Carolina today?prohibition? as I See it from observation not only in South Carolina but in other places, It is very necessity to weign th? question not from a selfish standpoint, but from a moral and religious , point of view. You know when we want to view a landscape we want to get on the best elevation, so let's get i on the mountain peak of moral and religious liberty, not personal liberty for a few men who want to make merchandise of the souls of your wives and children just for the dolls". that vou make by hard work, which belongs in your home, and to your family. Our little city of Un, ion, whose people I love as my very own, I say our city, is known even e this place, for those two places No. 1 and No. 2. I am not condemning the men in them, they are my friends, good-hearted men if it was not for the places where they are at work. They, some of them at least, would be Christians and some day, if you as a professing Christian, vote to keep those men there to deal out death and poison for both the souls and bodies of your sons and your neighbors' sons, you will stand in the presence of the Great Judge of the Universe, and when your name is called you will hear Him say, "In as much as ye did' it unto one of the I % ?? f Nervous? j? Mrs. Walter Vincent, - /?t of Pleasant Hill, N. C., Q| i j^| writes: "For three sum- Qg \ 1 rners, I suffered .from rj/ ,<?)] nervousness, dreadful 1^ W pains in my back and Wa zs\| sides, and weak sinking spells. Three bottles of 1 Cardui, the woman's I??* L tonic, relieved me entire- !W^ ; ly. I feel like another ^ @1 person, now." I?. ^ TAKE 4$ 1 Cardui I M The Woman's Tonic ft ; For over 50 years, y)fi Cardui has been helping rVl @1 to relieve women's un- |(8> I necessary pains and 'f(<? | *^1 building weak wnmsn tm to health and strength. It will do the same for W <?)| you, if given a fair trial. 1^: So, don't wait, but begin m taking Cardui today, for wg its use cannot harm you, wJTi and should surely do you P* ^good. E-72 least of these little one, ye did it unto me." In that light, and in the light of eternity, not alone for your own selves, but for your noble sons i and fair daughters, and in the light of the all-seeing eye of our Great God, and his Son, our loving merci, ful Savior, can you vote for whiskey? , I, as a South Carolinian and knowing the noble men that you are, say, no, you will not, but willj. -with your ballot, say: Forever away with it. See what it has done, and what it is doing i now, not alone in your own county ; and State, but in other places where it goes; not alone for the sons of our land, but for the daughters everywhere. I suppose I see more of that than almost any of you. I remember just a few weeks ago a young , man came to meeting drunk and acted in a way that he would not have ; acted if he had been at himself. Not > only that one, but others that you \ anr? T 1/WAW 1 J ' . _..v ? nuvn ui wiiu nave uone initios that have been a black spot on themselves and their family, not because . they wanted to do it, but because of what they had taken. You may say. Paul says, "It's not what goes in a man that defiles him but what comes 1 out." He was speaking: of eating:, and not drinking; for the same Paul said, "Touch not, taste not, handle not the i unclean thing," and again, "Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit." And . you and I both know from observa ,tfon, if not from personal experience that the spirit of God and the spirits of the grog shops dont stay together. ; "'? I saw a picture the other day of I three men standing outside a rum shop, who said in their drunken stu! por, "We won't go home till morni i'ng," and many a poor wife and her children can say that is true of dad. Many a dear mother is saying, "That is true of mv#boy." It may not be you, but you know who it is. 1 Another picture that I saw today, and this is the picture that we of the Salvation Army come in contact with ii most c?ily It was this?I ,vish ' I could reproduce it so you could see it?three young men standing cut, side a drunk shop in the night, (of course you don't have these kind in South Carolina, hut thev ar? inct bad). They were ragged and dirty, ' and could not stand straight. One ; was able to hold a dirty little ciga rette in his lips. The snow was falli ing; the light from a street lamp ! was shining upon them. Under the picture were these words: "And Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." You and I have , seen the same sight all because soiia. body voted for whiskey. And one more thing before I close. > Ask your lawmakers to block the ' near-beer business. It is as rotten s as hell itself. Since I came to Geori via I find it is as bad as open bars, i Their signs read like this: "Near i Beer, Etc., leaving a man to guess i at the "Etc." Don't ever let those ; beer shops come in vour State. I would rather have No. 1 and No. 2. I Lot's get the whole business out of [ the way of our boys, i Say, do you church members know i that most every man who drinks the . stuff will vote against whiskey? And > if you will vote against it, it will go . out by a very large majority. Believing you will do it, and prav ing God's "blessing on vou as you do i your duty, I am, > Yours for the needv, i Envoy D. T. McA'oee. Savannah. Ga.. Auir. 24. 191 I ? (Since the above article was writ tpn Envoy McAbee has been trans! ferred back to Union.) LOST HIS RECKONING. i One of this world's unfortunates was in the Covington jail for loiter' ing. and when taken before the judge i to be dealt with was asked by that . official, "My good fellow, do you live in this town?" "Nope," said the prisoner, i "Where are you going?" inquired . the judge. , . "To heaven." came the answer. , "Take him below," commanded the iudge. "Hes crazy or he never would . have come to Covington on the trip he says he is taking."?Philadelphia ' Ledger. Cm Old Sorts, Other Remedies Won't Cert. fhe worst esses, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and Heala at the same time. 25c, 50c. $1 00 ' I