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v THE UNION TIMESI PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editor J. B. BOZEMAN Manager Registered at tlie Postoflice in Union, S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1015. One block on Main street was lighted by the "White Way" Wednesday evening for the first time. The effect is very attractive. Work on the other portions of Main street that are to be thus lighted will soon be carried to completion. Join the Chamber of Commerce and thus help Union forward. The Cham-* ber of Commerce has done much; it will do more, provided it gets the sup. port of the progressive, public spirited citizens of the community to take hold and help. Let us ajl unite in an effort to advance our city. All friends of prohibition, all advocates of law observance and all who are interested in the moral welfare of the community should make a special effort to attend the meeting Sunday morning at the First Baptist church. Both Dr. Morrow and Dr. Woolley are speakers of national reputation. They are men of note and their addresses will be of a high order. They will, besides speaking in the First Baptist church Sunday evening, deliver addresses at Buffalo that afternoon. The friends of prohibition are just now face to face with the real crisis. When the dispensary goes out, blind upers wm oepm to multiply. inore is a sure way to compass their defeat; the pood citizens must stand together for the enforcement of the law. The speakers who are cominp to Union will point the way to meet our difficulties sanely and successfully. Come out Sunday; you will hear something worth while. STAND BY YOUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. "What pood is a chamber of commerce?" What has the Union Chamber of Commerce ever done?" "Who pets any benefit from the Chamber of Commerce?" These, and many other questions of like purport may be heard in the land. Generally, the man askinp the question has never risen hipher than the purely selfish basis of action. He is, moreover, penerally a man who has never invested any money in a chamber of commerce nor in any other movement embodyinp public spirit and public welfare. He is a man of narrow vision and of parsimonious spirit. All such characters are beyond the reach of any effort that mipht be put forth to enliphten them. They are banaeles on the bottom of the ship of commerce; they are like the mis tletoe that prows and fattens on the dyinp body that pives it life. No word could penetrAe, no lopic convince, no tears persuade such nippardly souls to open up and pive reipn to a liberal impulse that looked *<> the peneral pood. We pass them up as hopeless. But there are other men, men of earnest purpose and of broad vision, who are not enthusiastic upon the subject. They question the value of a chamber of commerce. They honestly desire to help, to cooperate, in every movement that will promote the interest of the community. They#desire to have their town a pood town in which to liven They have, time and time again, contributed to and worked for whatever they thoupht would prove of real advancement to the community. But the past year was a tryinp year. They found that with almost superhuman effort they were able to make "buckle and tonpue meet." Expense of operation went straipht on; income dropped to half, even lower in many cases. To do business was to endure severe strain. Such men, keyed up to the last pitch, bravely strivinp day after day, finally developed "raw nerves." Competition, carried to the extreme, broupht nuuui uissenuons, Mistrust, a morula, sullen state of mind. And let it he said that the writer is speaking out of the fullness of his own experience. The iron may he heated so hot that it is destroyed. It is hard to cheerfully subscribe twelve dollars, twenty-fou. dollars or one hundred dollars to any public organization when the weekly payroll is bigger than the weekly income. It is difficult to have faith when disaster stares one in the face. Yet, a sane view of the matter leads to the conclusion that it is at just such a moment that one gets the best returns from the exercise of such faith. To the men who are struggling, to the men who honestly desire to make ( our city a pood place in which to liv>., we say: Come to the support of your Chamber of Commerce. Let all pull together and pull upward. Let us j enter into an agreement one with an- ? other to give money, time, energy and , good will to our Chamber of Com- i merce. It is the one public institution ' that may with benefit accept the in- 1 fluence and help of every good citizen. ' Subscribe to the support of the in- j stitution. Speak a good word for it. | If it has not measured up to your ideal in the past, come in and help it i to reach your ideal. Do not kill one i of the best agencies Union has for advancing the common good. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 1 Geo. P. White, Pastor. Services for Sunday, Dec. 5. 1 11:00 a. m.?Preaching by the pastor. Subject, "Balaam and His Sue- ' cessors." 1 7 ::10 p. m.?Speeches by two of 1 America's most noted speakers. Geo. 1 W. Morrow, D. 1)., "The Doom of the ' Liquor Traffic." Jno. G. Woolley, LL. P., "The Secret of Democracy." Your presence is requested. ? FIRE SUNDAY NIGHT. I Fire almost totally destroyed the store and adjoining residence of Mr. i W. G. Gregory, near Excelsior Knit- : ting mills Sunday night about mid- < ni^ht. The building was owned by ' Mr. J. A. Brown. Little was saved from the house and practically nothing from the store. The building and stock were partially covered by insur- , ance. I)R. R. L. McCRAE HAS RESIGNED. Dr. R. L. McCrae, who has been with the Milhous Drug Co., holding a position in the branch store at Monarch for the past several months, has resgined the position. Dr. Lewis Perrin is temporarily in charge of the business. FIRE WEDNESDAY EVENING. The residence of Mr. tVank Gossett on Church street, known as the Randolph Peake house, was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock. The origin of the fire is un known, but is supposed to have been caused by rats. The building and most of its contents were destroyed. BRIDGE LUNCHEON. M rs. J. Clough Wallace entertaineo Wednesday morning at a bridge luncheon honoring Mrs. W. B. Moore and Miss Rose Lindsay of York; Mrs. M. V. Patterson of Chester and Mrs. Oliver Sarratt of New York. After a spirited game an elegant course luncheon was served from a beautifully appointed table. DEATH OF MISS AMMIE GARNER M ss Ammie Garner died at the hospital in Columbia Sunday, 28th inst., and was buried at Gilead church Monday, 29th, Rev. L. M. Rice conducting the funeral services. She leaves a father, one brother and sister and many relatives and friends to mourn her loss. She died with pellagra. She was 37 yearsysf age, and before her death she gave testimony that she was trusting in the Lord for salvation and did not fear to die. Her family have many friends who will mourn with them in their affliction. M. C. G. , NOTICE MASONS! at A special communication of Union Lodge No. 75 A. > '. .\I. v.ill he hold Thursday evening. Ore. 2, at ' 7 :.'!0 o'clock. The M. M. ' r" *v; 11 l>*% conferred. Hon. R. A. Cooper, Deputy Grand Master, will preside. E. W. Stone, W. M. J. V. Walker, Sec'y. Mr. Horsey, of Blackville, has been triven the position as operator for the Western Union, while Mr. R. E. Willis has been transferred to Salisbury, N. C. EXCELSIOR TEAM THERE FIRST. Union, S. C., Dec. 1, 1915.5 Rev. L. M. Rice, Editor Union Times: Dear Sir: I notice in the last issue of Progress where the Union fire department made 41 miles per hour on last Sunday night in going to the fire at W. G. Gregory's store in South Union. I wish to call to the attention of the author of this article that the Excelsior fire department had a stream of water playing on the fire five minutes before the Union department got nn 1 hp inh f enn nncn ho u'ill kot/n something to say about their time on Dec. 1 when Mr. F. (J. Gossett's residence was destroyed by fire. I wish to state that we met the Union fire department on about half way ground with a hose reel propelled by hano and had a stream playing on the Are long before the Union fire department with their 44 miles per hour and their $5,000 fire truck. Mr. Editor, if the Excelsior fire department had an equipment like those boys there would not be so many buildings totally destroyed by fire. I am just giving this out that honor may be given where honor is due. It. W. Strange. SPECIAL ELECTION. There will be an election held at Santuc school house in Santuc special district No. 3 on Dec. 11th, 1915, for the purpose of voting an additional 2 mills levy for school purposes. Countv Hoard Education, J. II. Hope, Chairman. ' OMMENDS UNION COUNTY SCHOOLS. (Continued from page 1) ng State aid under the Rural Graded School Law. The Rural Graded School \et provides $200 or $.'>00 to a school, according to enrollment and teaching force. This appropriation is contingent upon the voting of a 4-mill :ax. Instead of one rural gradev. school the past year Union might have lad 15 or 20. The result would have aeen a considerable lengthening of the average school term and a decided increase in the per capita expenditure in the county. Your acquaintance with the conditions in Union county because of your long residence and teaching experi ence in the county made it possible Cor you to assume readily the duties of county superintendent of education. It was gratifying in the extreme to observe the recent marked improvements in the county, especially the new buildings. Your efforts to secure for the people of the county the benefits of State appropriations under the Rural Graded School Act and the Term Extension Act can not be too highly commended. The increase in the number of applications for State ;iid this year is evidence of your ac* hvily. In this day of school progress practically all of the time of the county superintendent of education is consumed with these business details. Trustees and patrons must be informed of the benefits to be derived from State appropriations. The county superintendent is the person in the county to give Jthem this information. Besides, these details bring to the office an immense amount of correspondence and clerical routine. The time has come, therefore, when nearly all of the time, of a conscientious county superintendent in a county like Union is consumed with the businesr side of the office. During my visits to the several schools I was impressed with the need of county school supervision. There are some young inexperienced teachers that need the advice and assistance of a supervising teacher. Theri is great need in the county of unifying all the teaching forces of the county for educational progress. This can come only by close supervision of the class room instruction and by thorough organization of the teaching forces of the county through the County Teachers' Association and otherwise. It is impossible for one person as county superintendent to attend to the business side of the office and at the same time to give the supervision of the teachers that is needed. It is my conviction, therefore, that no step could be taken in Union county that would more greatly further the school interests of the coimty than the employment of a county ervising teacher. --.There ave^aa4(MI| in the county who, by training nrd experience, are well qualified for this work. It is an investment that would yield large returns in manhood and womanhood in future years. I wish to express my appreciation of the many kindnesses shown me during my visit over the county and I assure you that it will be a great pleasure to make a return visit with the earliest opportunity. Lueco Gunter, State Supervisor of Rural Schools. CITATION TO KINDRED AN I CREDITORS. state ox soutn uarolina, County of Union. By Hon. W. W. Johnson, Judge ol Probate. Whereas J. M. Gault has made sui' to me to grant him Letters of Ad ministration on the Estate and effect: of W. II. Gault, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite ant admonish all and singular the kindret and creditors of the said W. H. Gault deceased, that they be and appear be fore me, in the Court of Probate, t< be held at Union C. H., South Caro lina, 011 the 21st day of December next, after publication hereof, at 1' o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause if any they have, why the said Admin istration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal thi: 3d day of November, Anno Domin 1915. W. W. Johnson, Probate Judge. Published on the 3rd day of Dec. 1915, in the Union Times. 49-: notice" To Undertakers and Others Notice is hereby given that in fu ture no one, whether owners of lot: or not, will be allowed burial in th< Methodist cemetery without specia permit from trustees of church prop erty. S. M. Rice. J. D. Arthur^ J. Wesley Greer, L. J. Hames, M. B. Sumner, 49-tf Trustees Grace Church. Rev. L. L. Wagnon, of Union, i: the only clerical member of the con ference who is a member of the legis lature, although several of the la} members are of that body. Rev. Mi Wagnon was elected from Unioi county last summer and has takei high rank in the house of represents tives, being looked upon as one of thi leaders of that body. He is a man o marked ability and of most pleasing address.? From Christian Advocate Hon. R. A. Cooper, of Laurens, canv to Union Thursday to assist that even ing in conferring the Master's degre in the Masonic lodge. Mrs. W. B. Moore and Miss Rosi Lindsay of York are the gu?^ts o 1 Mrs. F. H. Garner. DR-fTHRASftER'S GREAT HEAL- |~ I ING FLUID. T TWasher's Great Healing Fluid heltA this man; it might help you. ReaMwhat is said: oresville, S. C., Nov. 29, 1915. Mr.fi. S. Thrasher, P Jonesville, S. C., Route 1. ( ^ Tuesday, the 22nd day of this mo?h, Ed Smith had a stroke of parflysis and a thorough rubbing with Thmsher's Great Healing* Fluid his feefclg has returned. He has been rubEd twice a day up to 29th of Nojplwber, seven days, and he is aboit normal. We think the fluid basfno equal, and will do what you cfegn for it. J. E. Vincent. J mice 50 cents a bottle. 1 wpr sale by I. M. Sumner, Union, St fc.; H. M." Toney, Union, S. C.; J. El Cheek, Union, S. C.; J. K. Bailey, (tiislc, S. C.; H. J. Hames, JonesWit S. C.; W. C. West, Jonesville, S. (jJj-J. L. Hames, Loekhart, S. C. -fldv. 49-tf "w. L. B. Sandiford, who holds a poition with Glymph's Pharmacy, has returned from a trip to Atlanta, ^C're he went to visit his sisters. LI|T OF ADVERTISED LETTERS. fist of advertised letters in the postoflfCe at Union, S. C., for the week eniing Detf. 3, 1915: , R -George Butler. C?Miss Bessie Comer. D? Mrs. Chaney Dawkins. E?Rob Eubanks. ! '?Ollie Fi'ncher, James Fowler. G?Clark Glenn. H?Dr. M. L. Hardy, Nattlea Hughes. R?W. R. Railey, Perry Rice. . S?Miss Leila Smith. T?(Mara Thompson, Dr. Wilson C. Torrance. , W?E. R. Wardlaw. B. B. James, Postmaster. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our thanks and gratitude to our friends who were so !_ ? J li- 1 1 l-i1-! A. - kiiiu, ay iiipuiiieiic aim imipiui to us during the sickness and death of our husband and father, J. W. Bates. Wife and Children. Catarrh and Colds / T^BeJRiTTj I J Relieved cat??Lh ! a great achievement. ' j^rMost people would be well i and happy were it not for ca| tarrh. It is worth ten years of any one's life to learn how to r , get rid of catarrh. will show you, much quicker j than any one could tell you, how to .get rid of catarrh. THE PERUN A CO., Columbia, Ohio Mrs. imma Gannon, 107 E. South St., Kewanee, Ills., writes: "For flftceri years I had catarrh of the head nnd stomach. I could hardly walk. My attention was called to 'The Ills of Life.' I read It through. Then bought a bottle of Peruna. I am entirely well now " t FOR WORK OR REST ' | visitors will find our furniture ideal in design and full of comfort promise. Our , desks, rockers, chairs, beds, etc., are all built on the plan | of comfort, durability and i beauty. It is furniture I that soon becomes like an old - friend. And like old friends s they wear well. See the exi hibit and note the valuer. | For High Grade P'urniturc see W. H. BURRIS j UNION, S. C. ; I One 36-Pound Feather Bed " And Two j Feather Pillows 6-Ponnd e all for $10.00 Cash _ r L. B. GODSHALL La* Stronger Than the Law V We are the sole agents for this Shoe and can fit the whole family; none genuine without the name on the bottom. * * The best All-Wool Suit in town for $8.00 and $10.00. Our Blue Serge, 6,121, for Men at $15.00 can't be duplicated for less than $20.00. We feature $10.00 and $15.00 Suits and can save you from $3.50 to $5.00 on every Suit. Make us prove it. We have everything in Underwear, Sweaters, Overcoats and can supply your wants for the cold weather. Give us a trial. Union Gothing Co. D. W. MULLINAX, Mgr. I Christmas Every Day Before and Every Day After, We Are Prepared to Supply Every Reasonable Need for Table Pantry and Kitchen. This Week We Invite Every Housekeeper in Union to Buy a Supply of the Finest Syrup Ever Put nn Ymir Just received a big shipment of the Famous Log Cabin Maple Syrup. And we want you to try it. It sells always for $1.50 per gallon, 90c per half , gallon, 50c per quart, but that you may know just how much cheaper it is than Common Syrup we have forgotten the coSt and for One Week we offer you Log Cabin for $1.19 per gallon, half gallons for 69c per tin, quarts for 41c per tin, pints for 25c per tin. With this we offer Fresh Buckwheat Flour, Graham Flour and Our Famous Pansy Flour. Unsurpassed with Cakes, Muffins or Biscuit. When you want something real good in Cheese or Macaroni don't forget us. Finest Cream Cheese made, 5c pound, five pounds for $1.00. Wholesome, Cheap and Delightful to all the family. The finest Macaroni made in America for 8 l-3c package, when you take as much as three packages at one purchase. Mezzani, Spaghetti and Elbows. You never had the chance to supply your table with finer Celery, Cranberries, Nuts, Figs, Dates, Prunes, Raisins and Fruits. The prices are lower than usual for fine goods. This week we are offeriner a treat, fine Whole Fish Roe, in light brine, a very little soaking will' give you a delightful, large, delicious dish of Unbroken Fish Roe. Only 10c each. Nothing like it. For Good Eating See Us. We will give you more for your money every day in the year than you can buy in any other Grocery Store. The Union Grocery Co. Phone 100 or 80. 'rof. R. C. Lake, who is principal courteous manner and his busi'nesstho Gault -school this year, was in like methods, he is fast winning the ion Wednesday on business. Mr. esteem of pupils and patrons of his ;e is from Prosperity. By his school. / ' ?. v - >' . V. *"fS