Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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pWilb Mond Not with, chandi j. imj ro 1 For saving mor too you ha\ I /%>-> I men Remembei MON V ANNUAL ADDRESS OF MRS. 7. L McWHIRTER 5 (Continued from Page 1) - ^ cessiui. mucn interest Deing snown at each. Now we wonder how we ever managed without them, for the meetings seem to have inspired every chapter to put forth their best effort. "We have not forgotten to give to our boys and girls of Confederate . descent the great advantage of a college education, we are now giving to them twenty-five free scholarships, at a total cost of $2,546.75. Every year we are adding more to this line of endeavor. Each District is now maintaining a scholarship of its own, which means that some one's son or daughter in that District will be fitted for a better and more useful life. "Our Children of Confederacy is a growing organization, now numbering twenty-seven chapters and over 600 members, many of them greatly interested in writing essays on Confederate subjects. To encourage the writing of these papers, there has been offered and awarded 56 nrizes and medals by the different U. D. C. chapters at a cost of $185.25. Two hundred and eighty original manuscripts have been recorded, with Division Historian, for which South Carolina was awarded the Raines Banner at the Dallas Convention. "South Carolina is also reaching ? high standard in historical work, and is preserving all records of truthful history, in order that we may plant the germs of truth in the young hearts and minds of future generations, so that they may be proud of the bravery of their forefathers and honor the cause for which they fought and died. "We have given to our Confederate Veterans in all over 8,900 bronze crosses of honor, which are prized so highly. Practically all of our Confederate graves have been marked with a large niacK iron cross, so that even a passerby will know that "some one" who wore the "grey" is sleeping , there. "South Carolina has taken great pride in honoring her Veterans by collecting and completing over 11,800 trolls of honor with their almost forgotten "War Record." Even then this important work is only cne-sixth complete. The Palmetto State gave to the Confederacy 65,000 men, and it is our desire that each shall have his "honor roll" filed in the S. C. Room of the Confederate Museum at Richmond. "It is the delight of every chapter in the Division to entertain their Veterans with an annual dinner and assist them in every way. "We have erected memorials of some kind, monuments, drinking fountains or tablets to commemorate Southerh valor, as well as contributing largely to our great cooperative monuments at, Arlington and Shiloh. We now stand second in the list of States in contributing to Arlington and fourth in giving to Shiloh, to the latter we have contributed $459.75 to Arlington urn's ay-Tuesdaystanding the ise we have [iksgiving Sale nndp nnrl wp with the greai THREE DAY, ley, a time wften yc e the pleasure of ch UTWE SATIS! No Goods Sent < DAY VILI we have given $313.70. I am sure that every U. D. C. will be delighted to know that the debts on both of these monuments have been pledged at the Dallas Convention. "We are a remarkable organization, both in scope and accomplishments, so wonderfully unique in origin and purpose^for they were founded among blood and tears, in poverty and among desolation in a cause that met defeat, yet today we equal if not surpass any other organization of women/in the world. "All this great work that we a/e doing is truly a labor of love, to keep fresh the heroic deeds of the past, and you, our honored Veterens, have inspired the U. D. C. to see to it, that the sacrifice of your lives to the devotion of the Confederacy shall live as long as memory lasts, in the hearts of every United Daughter of the Confederac. "And now we most sincerely thank the William Wallace chapter and the City of Union for giving us the pleasure and opportunity of being their guests during this # convention. I thank each of you for your'cooperation and support, and I assure you, , it is a joy to work for, and With such ' a splendid body of women." NOTICE OF SUFFRAGE MEETING. All the ladies interested in suffrage are requested to meet in the parlors of the Union Chamber of Commerce Friday. The State president, Mrs. Harriett Powe Lynch, will be present and will deliver an address. IN FIVE MINUTES! NO INDIGESTION, GAS OR SOUR, ACID STOMACH The Moment "Pape's Diapepsin" Reaches the Stomach All Distress Goes. "Really does" put bad stomach in order?"really does" overcome indigestion, dyspepsia, pas, heartburn and sourness in five minutes-?that ?just that?makes Pape's Diapepsin the largest selling stomaoh regulator in the world. If what you eat ferments into stubborn lumps, you belch gas dtul nrnpffltn uaiip nn/li rroofn^ f I at}d acid; head is dizzy and aches; [breath foul; tongue coated; your insides filled with bile and indigestible waste, remember the moment "Pape's Diapepsin" comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. It's truly astonishing?almot marvellou, and the joy is its harmlessness. A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin will give you a hundred dollars' worth of satisfaction or your druggist hands you your money back. It's worth its weight in gold to men and women who can't get their stomachs regulated. It belongs in your home?should always be kept handy in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach Uuring the day or night. It's the quickest, surest and most harmless stomach regulator in the world. ? 20% 1 -Wednesday, advancing m decided to We feel mc are going t :est 20 % discc S OF EXCEP kll /?fin flATfA /\*\ /% ** tu K^dii save niuncy loosing from one o FACTIONAL Out on Approval. TUESD JUR rHE LADIl ? SANTUC Santuc, "^ov. 21.?Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jeter, Jr., of Union, spent Sunday in this place, visiting parents and brothers. Magistrate B. W. Gregory went this week to Winder, Ga., to visit his brother, Mr. C. C. Gregory. There is very likely to be some sort of services of a Thanksgiving nature at one of the churches here on the 30th. It is not well defined yet. "The cat came back." Several negroes who "picked themselves up" and went to "furren" parts, or "Up North," where they were told they could get as much a week as they get here a month, are coming back, just as they left, with their hats about as badly "caved in," instead of a pocket full of "tin." There was a box supper here last week, for the benefit of the school, and quite a handsome sum was realized. This, I believe, was really for the purchase of a piano. The building is nearing completion, and is a very substantial building. The trustees, with Mr. M. R. Jeter, chairman, are certainly seeing there is no weakness about it, so there is no possibility, from a human view, of a collapse, and a packed house in the auditorium can feel safe. The main road leading from here to Union is being considerably widened, and that greatly improves it. Mr. Gary Jeter has been here for sometime with a portion of the chaingang, with the scrapes. Trees are being taken up to cut out zigzags. But all this work, fresh work, makes it so very dusty until it rains. Then I suspect we will have mud. It seems quite natural. The cold wave which struck us last week was about the coldest November weather we have ever had, 20 degrees one morning. While there was not much of the white frost to be seen, it being so dry, it was in the freeze. Many turnips and cabbages were killed dead. There was not a genera! killing before this, though in some places all summer crops had been killed. Oats were badly damaged, too. s Farmers are not through sowing oats even, to say nothing of wheat. The land is so dry that it cannot be prepared. Many oats that are up are making practically np growth. Some small grain was "scratched" in, not ploughed. I saw one field put in wheat, and the pea stubble was not Dloucrhed un. I am cninc to watrh that held aYid if it makes good ((rain, I am going to put mine in that way next year, and make time. There will he considerable amount of moving this year, for next, among hands, account short crops. Despite 18 to Id cent cotton many will not pay out. Most negroes never know when to stop getting things if a man will let them have it on time. (I believe some would buy the Southern railroad if it was offered them on long time). When payday comes it is quite [hanks* ( , November arket and scai have our an: >st grateful for o celebrate T j_ o _ 1 l juiil oaie we r TIONAL OPP by spending it, as go f the best selected sb WAYS AT Wl Strictly Cash to i >AY JNI B ES' STORE different. I know several who have \ practically quit their crops, or have gone off, because the landlord takes i out his pay when cotton is sold, say- f ing, "There is nothing in the crop for me," when they have already eaten it ( up, or wore out their in "low-quarter" s shoes, fine shoes. They try to avoid t paying, and the only way a man can o get his pay is to have some grip on g something. They are, or many are, coming out away ahead of the white 1 man. I am losing money, but I had v this year the most trifling negro in I Southr'Carolina, I reckon. I do not know that many have t paid for a hunter's license, but sev- h fcral have said they are going to. Some p who do not hunt much, and only hunt on their own premises at that. By n that they will keep within the law, o and can the most consistently watch out ior violators, for the protection v, of game. This law will strike the t' negroes about like the prohibition law. I have heard some complaining al- v ready. There are some who want to o hunt anywhere, at any time, and nothing but hunt. Just a few days ago a C gentleman heard one negro telling another about one going and staying all ci night and catching eight 'possums. The time is coming, if not restrained, c< a crowd will get together and catch e; nearly every rabbit in a certain area. We have not many men who will hunt partridges now, much as they like the sport. Hey Denver. . THE DAUGHTERS GENERAL. S( c: Mrs. Caroline Merriwether Goodlett P was the founder of a society in Nash- a ville, Tenn., called "The Ladies 'Aux- ^ iliary of the Confederate Soldiers' a Home," May, 1893. . c< In the meantime a chanter of w Daughters of the Confederacy had w been organized by Mrs. Cassidy at n St. I.touis, Mo., and there fere other S organizations of a similar nature in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. ^ But to Mrs. Goodlet rightly belongs the honor of organizing Chapter of ? Daughers of the Confederacy, for she a first attracted public attention in 1894 to this matter when through the o press she referred to the Nashville lf Chapter. t< Mrs. L. H. Raines of Georgia was' w the first to charter a Chapter. w She first suggested one name and ci one badge and to her must be given nr the credit for suggesting that all the t< Chapters of all the States be united * in one body. h The first name used was the Na- P tional Daughters of the Confederacy, tl but at the Nashville Convention in -A 1896, it was changed to the United a uaugnters ox tne Confederacy upon c< the motion bj^ Mrs. A. T. Smythe of F Charleston, S. C. t* c< South Carolina Division U. D. C. tl Organized in- the Senate Chamber it at Columbia, S. C., May 28, 1896, by a Mrs. Augustine T. Smythe of Charleston, who was the President of the d Charleston Chapter, and who became C the first President of the S. C. Di- G giving 27th, 28th, ^ 4 rity of desirt nual 20% d your libera HANKSGIVI lave ever ha< ORTUNITIE ods of all kind are ocks in this sectioi LBURN'S Si 411. Positively 1 WEDNE! IRO! A / ision. The second Chapter to be organize* n South Carolina was the Wad< lampton of Columbia. ^First' State Convention held ir Charleston Dec. 9, 18Q6. Followed bj imilar ^meeting annually in various owns throughout the State; presidec ver by some of South Carolina's mosl ifted women. Prominent amon gthem is Mrs 'homas Taylor of Columbia, who nth Mrs. Smythe, have been mad* lonorary Presidents for life. The constitution of this organization, composed of noble, patriotic ome-loving and Godfearing women, rovides for five departments of work: 1st. Memorial?to perpetuate the oble deeds and sacred memories ol ur grand heroes. 2nd. Historical?to give to the rnrlH a tmo r - ? V* MV uioivij Vil bliC Tf ttl i>eween the States. 3rd. Benevolent?to care and proide for the Veterans and survivors f the struggle. 4th. Go assist the descendants of Confederates in securing an education, 5th. To cultivate friendship and soial intercourse among its members. Surely no more noble incentives auld be named to call forth our best fforts. KELTON Kelton, Nov. 19.?We are still havlg fall weather and the farmers will oon be through gathering their short rops. Everything is bringing-fancy rices, cotton bringing over 20 cents pound, cotton seed $1.00 a bushel. Ir. S. K. Aycock sold 3,000 bushels t $1.00 per bushel and 150 bales of otton at 20c per pound. Twenty cents rould seem a small price if the staDle 'as to go to 25 cents per pound; It lipfht bring that price before next eptember. I haven't any news to report this 'eek. We would be glad to have a shoyer f rain as it is so dusty and disagreeble to travel I attended the Union county fair n Thursday and Friday and found irge crowds both days and all seemed > enjoy themselves very much. There ras not many exhibits but what there 'as was good. I hope the Fair Assoiation will be able next year to offer iore prizes and you will see more injrest taken by the farmers and you all see many more and greater exibits next year. It is good for the eople to come together and enjoy lemselves in a social way. Our Fair association has done the best it could nd deserve great credit for the suc888 of the recent Fair. The past 'airs have been rained out and the atmdance was small and of course resipts were light. I am glad to hear lat the last Fair was a success and . will enable the managers to make it better one next year. Rev. J. R. Copeland left last Tuesay for the Upper South Carolina onference, which met in the city of Ireenville. It will adjourn today and Sale . 29th ible mer- I iscount I 1 pat- I NG I 1. I S "W I advancing, then I 1 of the state. I ALES | I $ Days Only I SDAY I s. all the preachers will go to thpir api pointments assigned by the bishop. i Yes, some of them will be disappointed. i Messrs. Bentlav and Croo-ftru ' have been sawing for this community, > will move their saw mill within the i next day or two. These gentlemen t do good work and turn out good lumber. I am going to predict $2.00 to $2.50 , a bushel for wheat and $15 to $18 bars rel for flour in 1918 if the European war continues another year unless conditions are most favorable for the , crops of the world you may look for . 20,000,000 bales of cotton next year, : if it be a favorable year. Mrs. Sumter Sanders gave birth to two boys recently. Preparedness is the talk these days 1 and the Ridge is preparing for war within thfe next 18 or 20 years. G. T. G. t AN OYSTER SUPPER. ? The School Improvement associa. tion*of West Springs will serve an oyster supper on Thanksgiving night at the school building. The proceeds ! will go towards paying for the piano. The public is cordially invited to attend. A SAD TRAGEDY. On Tuesday afternoon about 4 o'clock, the 3-year-old daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Jolly was shot and probably fatally injured by the 1 7-year-old son of a neighbor, while the children were playing. The la 1 ; was toying with the pistol, a .38 calibre, when it was accidentally dis1 charged, the ball penetrating the fore! head over the left eye and passing out ' through the back of the head. The little child, up to 10 o'clock Wednes-' day, was still living, but there is little hope of her recovery. LAST ORDER SIGNED BY GENERAL R. E. I.EE Judge J. H. Williams of Glendale arrived in Union Tuesday for a few days' visit to Union. Judge Williams has 1 the original order of Gen. LJee, and 1 signed by him at Appomattox. This oruer uuuge wiuiams nas Drougnt to Union and it may be seen in the hall where the U. D. C. convention is now . meeting:. Judge Williams prizes this treasure very highly. FAREWELL SERVICES AT GRACE CHURCH Rev. E. S. Jones will preach for Grace Methodist church Sunday morning and evening. These will be the two last services held by Rev. Mr. Jones as pastor of Grace church. He will immediately after Sunday move, with'his family, to Rock Hill, where he will be presiding elder of the Rock Hill district. Rev. Jno. W. Speake, the new pastor of Grace church, will ar' rive in Union in time for the servicea the following Sunday.