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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY B\ THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editoi J. B. BOZEMAN Manage! Registered at the Poetoffiee in Union S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year $1.0( Six Months .fit Three Months .2E ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.0C Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1916. A careful reading of our advertisements this week will reveal the facl that the Union merchants are offering some very low-priced merchandise durinp this week and Fair week? next week. We respectfully invite your attention to these advertisements. You may save more than the price of a year's subscription by reading the offerings of the local merchants. THE MORAL BASIS. Morals and business are too often divorced, and never without the ill effects upon business. Most people are quick to see that when business is divorced from morals, morals suffer; they are not so quick to see that when such separation takes place business suffers. Honesty is a rock-ribbed business principle. Honesty is morality in action in one direction. Righteousness is ri'pht-workinp to some definite end. Honesty is, therefore, riphteousness in business and business should be conducted riphteously. The moral basis is the correct basis. The unscrupulous business man is unriphteous, he is immoral, and a careful observation, conducted for any lenpth of time will reveal that such a business is upon insecure foundation. It will not endure. It will develop an expense of operation that will he out of proportion to its earninp capacity. It cannot stand a severe crisis. It is not founded upon solid rock. A few storms?and its place will know it no more. ... .J. ^ SOW WHEAT. We do not know just how well the t farmers of Union county succeeded in their wheat crop the past year. But, we do know that there was more wheat sown than in any one year for a lonp time. It is to be hoped that much more will he sown this year. Tf we do not know how to prow wheat, we should learn how. If the production per acre is too small, we must learn how to increase that production. Wheat, and consequently flour, is poinp to be hiph for the next twelve months. It will pay to raise wheat. Antici'patinp that the many farmers would this season sow wheat, the Union roller mill has ordered a carload of selected seed wheat. This car will arrive here on October 10th. The mill proposes to sell this wheat to the farmers at cost, thus tryinp to en i.1 1 x! 1- ? i mti. luuraKe tne pianiin^ 01 wneai. i ma will help the farmers, and, in the long ran, will help the mill; for if there he raised a large amount of wheat th<? farmers will have solved the bread problem and the mill will have large quantities of wheat, home grown, to grind into flour. DO NOT DELAY. There is an old adage: "Procrasti ration is the thief of time," and it is true. Procrastination is also the father of worrv. Three-fourth of all our worry is the result of procastination. We put off the performange of n duty and each time we delay we go through as much mental worry as would be required to perform the task. The mind, from time to time, remember? the neglected responsibility, and eact time there is a disturbed and annoying condition of mind. Too often we continue to procrastinate, and the result is that the accumulated worrj falls upon us when it is too late t< remedy the neglect. You have in tended writing a letter. Twenty time! you have said, "I just must do it.' Hut you did not; you delayed fron time to time. You never wrote. Yoi are ashamed of your neglect to this day. If it caused you loss, if it re suited in some unpleasant situation you will, as long as you live, feel an noyance by reason of your neglect You intend to fix the latch on you gate. It has worried you for week? You have expended enough mental ef fort to put a' latch on a dozen gate; if the mental effort had been trans lated into action. Some fine day you stock will get out, destroy a consid erable amount of value and you wil then fix the latch. But you wll worry over the neglect and loss loni after the latch haR been fixed. Th best time to do anything that must f> done is the present. "Delay Not: D J Now," should be a motto in our homes . and should hang right along side the r one so often seen: "God Bless Our Home." WILL CHARLESTON SECEDE? Charleston will have to secede from the State, or come under the laws of r the State. We do not know which course that august city will choose. ( But it does seem that she is in that dilemma. Charleston, to be sure, has her side in the story. So has the remaining portion of the State. Char| leston wants local self-government. It I is naturel that she should desire that i boon. Every unit of free people de sires that choice possession. But, inert- ?s yei anotner side to the mat1 ter. Charleston, allowed to have her ' will on the whisky question sees a * golden opportunity to reap a harvest by becoming a centre from which the ! State, dry at largo, is to receive its . supply of "liquid fire." The State at t large has the right to say that Char; leston shall do no such thing. This, . as we see it, is the pro and con of . the whole matter. But is Charleston ; bigger than the State at large? She has so measured herself in the past, ; and has succeeded to the extent that . she has paid no attention to the laws of the State in so far as the sale of whisky is concerned, and the State has surrendered to Charleston. But in the long run, Charleston will not prove l to be bigger than the State, and will have to come under the rule of the majority of the State. Otherwise, we would have the majority of Charleston ruling the majority of the State at large, and that would be a minority ruling a majority. That is undemocratic, and has already been endured quite long enough. The majority o\ the people of Charleston must surren der to a majority of the people of the State?or secede. What course will Charleston pursue? KELTON Kelton, Oct. 11.?We had a pretty heavy frost yesterday morning: and morning: the thermometer registered 33 degrees above zero. Potato vines, cotton and other tender plants were killed in low places. There is more open cotton in the fields to pick now than in several years at this date, hut the farmers are busy gathering: it. There was very little picked last week on account of the rain. Uncle Billy Going died last Thursday evening and was buried at Mt. Joy church Saturday in the presence of a large gathering of sorrowing 1 relatives and friends. The funeral Was conduct ad by the editor of The' Union Times, Rev. L. M. Rice. Uncle Billy was the oldest man in the town- j ship. He was in his 92nd year. He was a gallant Confederate soldier and served in the McKissick Rangers, 7th S. C. Cavalry, Mart Gary's brigade. He was industrious and used great 1 economy. He raised a large family of children and he taught them how to work and they are all doing well and they should be thankful that they had such a father. He was honest as the day is long and in business matters he wanted all that was his and nothing more. His wife preceded h:m to the grave several years ago and his daughter, Miss Eva, lived with him until his death. He was a meml. e . I Hi T T> i!-i -1 * iht ui nit: nit. tj jy napusi. enurcn. Aunt Mary Page, who has been confined to her bed for many months, is worse than she has been in some time. I went to see her today. She is praying for the good Lord to take her home. If she lives until December she will be 89 years old. She has lived a Christian all her life. Mr. J. H. Foster, of Spartanburg, who has been visiting friends and relatives on the Ridge for several days, I returned to his home last week. The health of the Ridge is fairly good. Mad dogs are raging on the Ridge. Henry Eaves had one to go mad last week and it bit several dogs and some pig-s. His son, Mardis, also received a slight tooth scratch on the land. At last account it was still at large. The people should be careful about the schooi children. The fall of the year is here and many of them may go mad. No one knows when their ? dogs have been bitten by one of them. . WAYCROSS FIRE COSTS GUEST'S LIFE. i W. B. Ellincrton Leans to Death on Street From flotel Window on Fourth Floor. ' Waycross, Ga., Oct. 10.?The LaI Grange hotel, covering an entire city triangle, was destroyed by fire early s this morning. So far as known only ' one guest lost his life in the flames, i Two firemen were injured. W. I?, j Ellington, real estate man, was killed by leaping from a fourth floor window. The loss is $170,000. The fire originated in the kitchen '? on the second floor at 2:30 o'clock " this morning. The flames spread rap;. idly and the guests of the hotel had r difficulty making their way from the i. building. When Ellington awoke he found ( that the stairway had been cut off. ' He ran to the window and leaped to the street. r The lower floor of the I>aGrangt t- hotel was occupied by many business II concerns and the right wing had been II used for business offices. The WestK em Union telegraph office was among those burned out. Firemen were still working on the * blaze this evening. Six streets have ? J been blocked by falling walls. BLINI) TIGERS INDICTED IN CITY OF CHARLESTON. One day last week the grand jury in Charleston brought in true bills against 22 blind tigers. Henceforth prosecution of this lawless element has failed at this initial point and these indictments are hailed as the beginning of a new day in our chief city. Presiding Judge Mendel L. Smith warmly congratulated the jury upon its good work. He is quoted as saying: "Mr. Foreman and members of the grand jury, I want to congratulate you on the manly and faithful discharge of your duty. Your action will take place as one of the grandest in the history of South Carolina." Commenting on these true hills The News and Courier says: "It is not simply that 22 persons are to be placed on trial charged with violating the liquor laws wjiich makes what happened yesterday so deeply significant. The significance lies in the fact that last a smashing blow has been dealt to the dangerous view, long sedulously encouraged in this community, that a class of lawbreak ers ought to bo shielded because the law which they defied was not what the community as a whole thought best. We believe that the new attitude of the Charleston county prand jury is fairly representative of the changed attitude of the community toward this class of lawbreakers." Much of the credit for this pood work must be given to Judge Mendel L. Smith, whose charge to the grand jury, we are told, made a profound impression on all who heard it. We quote here on the closing paragraphs t of this noble utterance. They contain t! a message to all grand juries. He s said: g "Mr. Foreman, no people have ever j< yet prospered in the history of the. world who have disregarded the sane- 0 tity of private rights, or ignored the necessity for a uniform public justice, g You may build and equip school houses, you may rear church spires heavenward, you may advance in ma- C( terial growth, but unless there exists in the body politic a profound respect C( for law and a firm belief in the necessity for its enforcement, that civ- c{ ilization is sooner or later doomed tc t Q If lfc nlono urifVv nf Vin?*o t-Uo* w "*vii vnivio mat navt <<j been wrecked in the pursuit of falsi ideas. cc "A citation of criminal statistics i< very interesting and ,at times, brings Qf to us much humiliation in this Stati but unless local conditions are under stood they sometimes do an injustice. The observation of the court. however, is that there is growing upon the people of this State today a respect for the law, and a firm demand < for its enforcement everywhere, which k has scarcely been equalled in our his?^ tory. ; 0 "Administrative measures of a ltftTf cat significance may Y?? r'cjty A rf community may have itn bond issoS "V and its local taxes and enterprises, but the administration of justice and jj the enforcement of law is a matter J of State-wide importance and con- J cern, and the non-enforcement of it is I a reflection not only upon the com- J munity which permits it, but upon the sovereignty of the whole State. "The court appeals to you, gentlemen, to discharge a simple duty; if it leads to the finding of no bill on these indictments, let it be from a sense of duty as becoming the dignity of the grand jury; if your duty leads you to the finding of a true bill have the manhood and courajre to say so. "Earthquake, storms, shot and -hell which have come upon your city have a never vet wrecked vour industries. I paralyzed your energies, impaired ^ your resources, thwarted your ambition or crushed your hopes. Th? accomplishment of your people has added much to the true plory of this State; you have piven jurists, statesmen, soldiers, authors and scholars, and from your midst have emanated hiph ideals, excellent culture and true patriotism; therefore, you cannot at this day and time afford to disrepard the law. "Take these bills, pive them a care, ful consideration and if there is a probable case made out apain-t the defendants, let your findinp be of such character that the petit jury may become the arbiters of the puilt or innocence of the parties charped in the trial of the cases where both sides will have an opportunity to present their case. When you have passed upon two or three make a report to the court. You may retire."?Baptist Courier. You Will Make The Biggest Mistake oi Life if you do not plant all the Onion Sets possible this fall. Onions are higher and scarcer than ever Known. Sets will cost double what we are asking by next spring. And you will have Onions to eat and sell before others get them planted. Turnip Seed, Rape, Vetch, Barley and Clover Seed. If it is worth while get the Best and Cheapest at The* Union Grocery Co. Phone 100 or 80. NOTICE! All persons indebted to the Sinking Fund Commission for Union county,S. C., must pay all past due interest on or before Nov. 15th, next. Sinking Fund Com. for U. Co., S. C. 42-4 f AiMU* ? I THE "THE Fair Weel 36-inch Druid Sea Island, J best 8c quality, 20 yds. for 36-inch #Buffalo Sheeting, (I extra heavy, 25c yds. for Lakeside Chambrays, best (I 10c quality, 12 yds. for *1 8c quality Straw Ticking, dj 20 yds. for 10c quality Canton Flan- dj nel, 12 yds. for ^ ^ Fleece-Lined Shirts or Drawer 50c quality, three garments dj for ft A Full line ol Ladies Cloaks and Sii Come and see us before making THE S. KRASNOFF, Manager AT THE EDISONIA. Remember it costs no more to see be best in motion pictures. No heatre in the State the size of Union hows as expensive and select a proram every day in the week as the !disonia. To prove it? Monday, Paramount feature and ne comedy. Tuesday, six reels selected Vitaraph Selijr Kalem Biograph Essonay, eneral Film Company. Wednesday, Paramount feature, one >medy reel. Thursday, a World feature and one >medy. Friday, J. Rufus Wallinpford in >mplete comedy sketches. Saturday, "Neal of the Navy," rlazards of Helen," one Western, two imedy. Six reels every day. "You can fool all the people part the time; part of the people all e time, but you can't fool all the lople all the time." This program is not intended to ol any of the people any of the ne. SPECIAL ATTENTION called to our line of Oil ook Stoves and Heaters, ireless Cookers, Stoves and angfes. Saves Fuel and Lu3r. jailey Furn. & Lumber Co. FRIDAY AT THE G : LR GRAND ra I Q D ti HEATRE s a. Mro Pictures % Corporation B. A. ROLFE F'resents vily Stevens The irb Emotional Actress and C:' of the Stellar Roles in day," "The Songbird," Etc. IN IONY P. KELLY'S INSPIRALLEGORICAL STUDY "DESTINY" ?OR? Soul of A Woman" woNnP.nK'iti i/wo ?? uli ni/is \tr SUBLIME STORY ] ' FORGET THE DIAMOND se> S SATURDAY SOMETHING i H G TO HAPPEN. yol H nents and Tombstones 11 ble and Granite. Also ? I 'ences, Coping and all 1 1 of Cemetery Acces i We sell only good 1 al and finish. >y Undertaking Ok # . WONDER I STORE THAT SELLS UNDER" i Special $1.00 Sale * "| AA 8c and 10c Window Scrim, Beautiful Flowered Designs, 20 yds. (?-| AA ?<f aa for tpA*"" >? 1)1) Table Oil Cloth, <R-| f\[\ ^ 6 yards for *"| AA White Felt and Black Velvet Ladies' >?*"vr Ready-to-Wear Hats, $1.50 AA '? on ? T7?_i ^ ^ liil ~ V"*v/v' r?ir weeK VA.W 11 s, regular 100 Men's Hats, Odds and Ends, values >'-* /\/\ up to $3.00, to close out (?-| AA ll.UU t^air Week at ?J)JL.UU ii!s, Fine Tailored and Up-to-lhe-Minute in style at moderate prices. I your selection. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your Money Back. WONDER UNION, S. C. fL^<P I $10 and SlSTl For these two prices we can furnish you a man's Suit that will cost you in any store in Union from ?3.00 to $5.00 more. Why ? Because we specialize )n two piece Suits only. Also, we can offer the )est Boy's Suit in town for $2.50 up to $7.50. Our Shoe stock is full of all the latest styles and eathers and we can fit the whole family. Irwin )ress Shoes for Ladies and Howard & Foster Ihoes for Men. We are sole agents for "Stronger Tian the Law" Shoes and unless the name is on he bottom of every pair you are not getting the enuine article. Take no substitute; there is none s good. w^f;' ; I Everything in Men's and Boy's Sweaters or Jer^s, 50c to $5.00. fou are welcome to look over our stock whether i are ready to biiy or not Jnion Clothing Co. D. W. MULLINAX, Mgr.