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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING. MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE... Editor Registered at the Postoflice in Union, S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.00 [ Six Months .50 i Three Months .25 | ., i ADVERTISEMENTS O.w. cnoova Ovot Incn.tinn C 1 OO iMflCl WW.. ?? ?>' I Every subsequent insertion .50 ! FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1910. " Jas. L. Strain, whose death oe- j curred last Sunday night at his home near Wilkinsville, was a man of intellectual and moral attainment far in advance of most men. He was a man of faith and was possessed of a . personality that won him a warm place in the hearts of all. The Times feels a distinct loss in the departure of this pood man, for he was a frequent contributor to the paper. Thirty years ago, and for many years thereafter, he was a regular correspondent. His letters were read every week by hundreds of admiring friends. His death is a distinct loss to the State of South Carolina. It. is to be hoped that every progressive and worthy citizen will turn out to the mass meeting to be held in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock. The meeting is to discuss the matter of the proposed electric railway connecting Union with Spartanburg, Laurens, Clinton and several other smaller towns by trolley. The proposed "belt line" would open up a considerable territory not now in touch with a railway of any sort, and would mean much to Union. The road is not coming to Union unless Union will do her part in the matter of taking stock in the proposed enterprise. If Union does not come into the movement it will be ' a serious handicap to her future. Come to the meeting Friday afternoon and hear the situation discussed. To talk after the opportunity has passed will avail nothing. From what quite a number of citizens have said to the editor, it appears that there will be an effort made to have the county delegation introduce a bill in the next legislature to allow Union township to vote upon the question of good roads bonds for the township. There is no doubt but that such a movement would result in the bonds being issued. Roth this year and last Union township voted for the bonds. We see no serious objection to such a movement. Indeed, there are many ; reasons why it should be done in that way. Each township would thus build i its own roads. If a township did not want roads it could let roads go. If a township wanted roads it could build them. If the movement proved to be ; beneficial in any one township it would be but a matter of a short time be fore other townships would get busy 1 and build the roads. There is no j doubt of the fact that good roads are a certainty before any great length of time goes by. Whether by bonds or 1 b., direct taxation, good roads are ' coming. In fact, in many sections of < the country the good roads movement "has arrived." LOCKHART JUNCTION Lockhart Junction, April 17.?After a cordial welcome by the editor I will, in my feeble way, come back to join the numerous correspondents of The Union Times. This is a beautiful spring morning. aii nature seems to be awakening j from its long winter nap. Young ( men, old bachelors and widowers feel the truthfulness of the lines of Tennyson when he said: 'In the spring, a lovely Irish changes on the burnish dove; in the spring all men's fancy (those mentioned above) lightly turns to thoughts of love. ' We are on the eve of Raster tide and as this season of the year has so often , passed over this writers head he can ^ feel ringing in his ears as if it were but yesterday that his parents enjoyed ] the spirit of my youth in telling me ' about the celebrations of green Thurs- ] p 9a?w. . VVr, 1 ./JiL day, good Friday, whistling Saturday, i Easter Sunday and dancing Monday. This writer may talk a great deal. I We think a great deal, who is it that is without fault or who is the perfect man? As one of our great writers, < the Apostle Paul, said in one of his ' letters, "Let us go on to Jerusalem." and it may be at that last - hour of death when none but the dying can see as they look through that veil of | death will know he is perfect. Like my good old aunt said when she was dying, "Don't you hear the 1 singing?" No one heard them sing* ing but her. They were angels singing. She had come to perfection and has gone to join that happy band of singers she heard in the great beyond. Well, since my last letter I can't tell you where all we have been. I have visited many homes. I went into a home not long ago where there had been a good mother to pass away. I found in that home several motherless children and also some adopted ones. The oldest one was about 11 years old, a bright little girl. She told me of her mother's death and how she died. She said her mother knew the hour when she was going to die; told them at what hour by the clock, gave them her message she had to tell them many things-. It would take too much space for me to tell you in this letter, but she told them to meet her in heaven. There was something peculiar about that. At the hour she said she would die the clock stonned runninc. I met the husband and father of the chil- i dren and he told me his wife had come to him in a vision. It seems he had met her in a way he couldn't hardly tell but, dear readers, there is reality in these things and there is an inspiration, some moving spirit such as we don't understand. The farmers are getting on fine with their work. There will be a great deal of cotton planted this week. Small grain is looking fine in some section. Gardens are generally late on account of the cold weather. Some early planting of beans was killed by the frost. .The rural schools in many places are closing their sessions by giving their entertainments and picnics. This writer is invited to two on Saturday, the 22nd. You see these conflict with each other. I would like to attend both. Miss Sallie Cunningham, who is teaching at the Mabry school, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Gault. Miss Tena Wise, who is teaching at the Kelly school, visited Mrs. W. H. Page the latter part of the week. Rev. W. B. Justus filled his regular appointment at New Hope Sunday, preaching a very forcible and impressive sermon. Miss Amanda Little has returned to her home after several weeks' visit to Greenville, S. C., to see her daughter, Mrs. W. Newell Smith. Mrs. J. M. Little of Kelton was a visitor in Jonesville township last Friday. stopping at the home of Miss W. H. Page and from there in company with Mrs. Page and Miss Wise spent Saturday in Spartanburg. Moxy. JONESVILLE i Jonesville, April 18.?Mr. and Mrs. 8 R. F. Webber have returned from a * motor trip to Georgia, where they spent several days with relatives. Messrs. C. M. McWhirter, P. J. ' Free, N. S. Fowler and Dr. H. T. e Hames spent Sunday in Charlotte, * They having gone over to see Mr. C. * N. Alexander, who has been quite ill c in a hospital at that place. 5 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Littlejohn, c Misses Kathleen Littlejohn and Leila v Smith spent the week-end with Prof. t and Mrs. Ernest Littlejohn at Santuc. y There will he a special Easter ser- 1 vice at the Baptist church next Sun- ^ day morning. 8 In the election for officers of the 1 town held last Tuesday Mayor H. T. Hames had no opponent. The fol- 1 lowing were elected: Wardens, 1 M essrs. J. W. Lipscomb, C. N. Alex- c ander, R. V. Mabry and A. II. Foster. * Mayor Hames has given general sat- 1 fsfaction and there is little criticism 8 that can be made of his Dast term of ^ Dffice The town has been peaceable, e several streets paved and electric ? liprhts installed. News has been received of the mar- * riatre of Miss Marpraret Williamson " and Mr. Frank Shirley of Westmins- I ter, which took place at Walhalla some t days ago. The bride was a teacher in the Jonesville Hiph school for sev- t eral years, leaving at the end of the ? past session to accept a similar one at c the Westminster school. Mr. Shirley 8 is a prominent business man of Westminster and is also a representative * from his county to the South Carolina legislature. Palmetto. ANNNUAL MEETING FARMERS , MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO. , The annual meeting of the Farmers 1 Mutual Fire Insurance Company of * Union County will be held in the court 1 house at Union, S. C., on May 6, Sat urday, at 2 o'clock p. m. All policy * holders are earnestly requested to at- , tend, as business of great importance 1 will be transacted. By order of the president. J. W. Scott. J. M. fleer, Secy, and Treas. 16-3 8 * * i l*o Drive Out Malaria t And Solid Up The SyitMB ( rake the Old Standard GROVE'S , rA8TSLBS8 chill TONIC. Yon know ] a hat yotj are taking, as the formula is 1 printed on every label, showing it is boinine sad Iron in a tasteless form, rhe Quinine drives out malaria, the I Iron bnilds u\ the system. SO cents MAGIC OFA LIQUID Sulphuric Acid Plays a Big Part In Our Daily Life. ITS LOSS WOULD BE TRAGIC. We Could Hardly Live Without the Help of This Wonderful Agent of Science That Makes Possible Many of Our Arts and Industries. When you get up in the morning and urn on the water for your bath you ise a nickel plated faucet which repiired sulphuric acid in its manufac:ure. Your tub, if it be enameled, ins met sulphuric acid before it became what it Is. and if it is an old 'nshioncd one of tin. plated on sheet ;opper. it needed even more sulphuric icid before it took its place in civilization as a bathtub. The water in which you bathe has irolmbly been treated with sulphate of ropper to clear it of algae. The towel (vith which you dry yourself lias met sulphuric acid before you bought it, ind the soaptnaker possibly found it lecessary to use some in the prepara:ion of your soap. The bristles of your hairbrush have jeen treated with it. The back of rour hairbrush as well as your comb, f both lie of celluloid, could not be ) rod need without it. Your razor be'ore it reached it? present high estate las very likely i>een pickled in sul)huric acid after it was annealed. As you put on your underwear, says i writer in Commerce and Finance, rou may recall that the bleacher and he dyer used sulphuric acid on the thread before it was knit or woven >r upon the fabric afterward. As you button up your outer garnents you may be reminded also that lulphurlc acid was needed in scouring ;he wool, in making the dye and in he process of dyeing the cloth. The button maker needed some be'ore your buttons were complete. The nnner needed some in makbig the eather for your shoes, and it is also ised to produce shoe polish. The cush011 upon which you may rest your )ious knees in your devotions has met mlpburlc acid in one way or another uore than once before it reached its >resent dignity. At breakfast your cup and saucer nay have come into being without the lid of sulplurlc acid, but only provided they are plain white without decorative gilt. To produce the constituents of aqua regia, which dissolved he gold, sulphuric acid is used. The illver of which your spoon, knife and ork are made may come from a sulfuric acid works which has first burned the ore, while if they are silver dated they were plated in a sulphuric [ icid bath. I The farmer who raised the wheat of rhlnh II- J I tuivu joui tuns are maue prooaDiy lsed acid phosphate on his land to ncourage the wheat to grow. Acid ibosphate is phosphate rock and stil)burlc acid. "The paper maker needed some su! >honated aniline blue to tint your norning paper even if he used no ulphite pulp, and it would be a rare nk that is Innocent of the touch of lulphuric acid at some point in its dstory. If you eat buckwheat cakes with limp the sirup needed it. and as for our artificial light, if you get up early uougli to need it. you would be driven >ack to candles if it were not for this >roduct. It is needed in the refining if kerosene and gasoline, and as for -our electric light, brought to you by urrents of electricity through copper vires, where would the. electric indusry be without copper? And where vould the copper industry be without he electrolytic process of refining, vhich requires enormous quantities of lulphuric acid? It would be parayzed. We have heard of the embarrassnent of industry by the lack of Getnan dyes, but this is a mere bagatelle ompared with the general breakup bat would follow a dearth of sulphurc acid. We can neither go to war tnd have smokeless powder, nor can ve live in peace without it Wher(ver yon go in civilization you cannot jet out of its path. You may never see it you may not mow its qualities and its very remarkible chemical personality, and you had >etter not touch it, but almost invaria>ly it has been around before you. All of this will explain but a fraeion of the ail pervasive usefulness of tulphuric acid in the arts of what we all civilization. And its use is conitantly growing along with the develipment of chemical industry and the icience of agriculture. Origin of "Gentleman/' It is quite commonly held that the vord gentleman is mude from the two vords "gentle" and "man," but this Is lot the case. Originally the word was ipelled "gentileman" and signified lit;rally a Christian convert Lady comes from the o^l Anglo-Sax* >n and signifies "to serve a loaf." It was applied to the mistress* of the louse as the one who served the bread. -Irish World. Hard Lusk. Bacon?This paper says according to i French investigator the chance of nlstake In identification by means of inger prints is a boot one In 17,000,(00,000, Egbert-Weil, I'll bet uy vlfe's the person who wookl make hat one.?Tonkera Statesman. Great mlnda have pnrpoees; others lave wishes. V iJk. 1 M TO] s i a n en c II HI ciety Drs TUES1 STARTING ....AGAIN.... >,'> * This is to notify my friends and patrons that I have begun business again in the store room next door to W. D. Arthur & Co., in the stor^ room formerly occupied by E. D. Humphries. I have lost everything I possessed by fire and appeal to my friends to help me out by giving me all the work they can. With every 25c spent with me I give a ticket to the Moving Picture Show. Mr. 11. T. Foster holds a position with me. H. Goldstein Shoe Shop Next to W. D. Arthur Co. EASTER CROWD AT ^^^TiecnY^ That man has truly reached the limit of perfection who folly deserves the good opinion he has of himself. DAY--THURSD > Girl and the Ga ish Through the Flames," thrills that v et yourself. Sc -"ething to remember, lullette in a sw? 3 act Drama, "In the " Also "Ham and Eggs" something to tIDAY?TRIANGLE SERVK ri'ne Kaelred and House Peters in "The 5 acts. Kathrin Kaelred plays the role r hantress and House Peters plays the p erelict. Miss Kaelred is the Vampire st ?"ine Arts Plays, 5c and 10c today. IRDAY?TRIANGLE KEYS! ;ed to the End" in 2 Acts. Fred Mace 1 escapes in this Farce Comedy. He i PnilO'Vif in nuinb-oon/le 1-1? w ... vju.v.xouii vao uiiu livcll 1 y UIUWII Lauph, shout, cry. It's a Keystone. R ken Coin". There is action in this sei finish. Brinp your friends alonp. We p pet more than you pay for Saturday at ti Oc. VDAY?"MARRYING MONI Kimhall Younp in "Marryinp Money," j ima in 5 Acts. "World's Special." DAY?A TRIANGLE PHOTO n S. Hart with House Peters in "Betwe> a. Also Trianple Keystone "Dizzy Hei learts," a Mack Sennate production wit! in two Acts. This? is the only day in t are 15c and just look what you pet. I | ^ J | Our Buyer has just ret I Markets and our stock of and Furnishings are com latest styles and creation just around the corner, sc Easter offerings. We fea Merchandise and can alw | novelties in Suits, Shoes, SViirfs WatnVi ah?? ^ VW. T ? UVV11 VUI KJIIV you wise to the latest an< 1 we will be glad to show yo | to buy or not. UNION CLO | D. W. MULL WANTED?You to try our bread and rolls. Made in Union. Made of best material; clean, wholesome and palatable. Ask your grocer for t Unique Bread. Unique Bakery, i Union, S. C. 11-4-pd i 1 The average man would rather * compromise than light. We "lave Name of />/ laugh at. yo ><j ^ //^ Winged '//% ,/SS >f a Rus- Wj jjj^^ has some I emember yirjf yy -ial from ^fy'X^jF iV ;uarantee T(TM ^Y'V>flOy| le Grand. (^1 > ~K' f^r i PLAY ll urned from the Western ' Spring Clothing, Shoes | plete, and consist of the . - i- ~ T 3 171 i. 1 is u> in.: iictu. roaster is > come and look over our ? iture only the up-to-date | ays show you the latest Neckwear, Collars and >w Windows. They put d best. Come and look; j* u whether you are ready THING CO. I INAX, Mgr. CARD OF THANKS. . We desire to express our deep gratiude to each of the kind friends and leighbors who ministered to our dear nother, Mrs. N. E. Alexander, in her , ast illness and death. May God bless ?ach one of you. Mrs. E. L. Johnson.