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THE UNION TIMES c s PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY T THE UNION TIMES COMPANY u TIMES BUILDING. MAIN STREET ?. BELL PHONE NO. I 1 s LEWIS M. RICE. Editor f n Registered at the Postoffice in Union, i) S. C., as second class matter. c SUBSCRIPTION RATES h One Year $1.00 ^ Six Months .50 Three Months .25 Ci ADVERTISEMENTS ' One square, first insertion $1.00 u Every subsequent insertion .50 1 s FRIDAY, DECEMBER K, 1916. u . a Eggs were retailing in Union Wed- j| nesday at 40 cents a dozen. That t leaves us out, sister hen. We just haven't in hand the necessary dough. Will not some one of our delinquent I: subscribers bring us a load of wood? .lust as pood as the money, and comes * in mighty handy for cooking purposes. ^ It is to be devoutly hoped that the reports now being circulated that peace prospects in Kurope are better a than at any time since the beginning A of the war, arc true reports. Congress is taking up the question of investigating tluj high cost of liv- ^ ing. We don't see how congress is ^ going to help; but we welcome the possibility of help from any source. [ We heartily appreciate the large p number of responses we are getting to our "S. O. S." call. We feel sure Ii all who have not renewed their sub- ^ 11 i_ -i .1 ? oti iij>.iuiin win uu so during tnis month. V Where is that old "grouch" who j never has a word to say in praise of y anything or anybody? We would like to know what "kick" he has on the weather. Wonder how he could find anything wrong with it? T A bill has been introduced in con- ^ gress by Representative Campbell of Kansas, to place to two years' em- ^ bargo, on news print paper. Here's hoping! A rise in price from 2,/6 cents a pound to 7 cents a pound in j one year is something fearful. - A Dear Santa Claus: Please send me E lots of renewal subscriptions during C the Xmas holidays. 1 Your friend, The Union Times. ^ P. S.?Please don't forget to send .jthem. I Envoy T. I). McAbee, of the Salvation Army, is planning for a hearty Christmas dinner for many of the Union homes where, without this aid. there will be no feast of good things on the happy occasion. Let everybody help Mr. McAbee in this worthy .. movement., j P Pay the other fellow; that enables f him to pay the other fellow; that en- t ables him to pay the other fellow, s That same money will finally get back c to you. Every time you pay us a dollar we pass it on to the other fellow. Hurry up and pay us the dollar. It. will not be long before the dollar 0 will get back to your own pocket. n That's the way it works. t We welcome the return of our v "boys" from the border. We are grate- ? ful for the patriotic impulse that led '' to their going. We are grateful td the kind Providence that brought them ( safely home. We trust there will be no need for their return to the border, but it is heartening to know that o should the necessity arise we have v hrave men rondu Ia i?a iv ~ T'_??? c Is it the high cost of living or the c cost of high living? What is the real * trouble? If it be the cost of high 1 living, those recent experiments in Chicago, where it was demonstrated by actual test that a man can live and actually thrive on less than 10 cents a day shows a real way to solve our troubles. However, we know many families in Union and Union county whose actual food cost averages less than 40 cents a day per month. Those * Chicago investigators could get some a valuable information if they would ti come this way. C. l _ n In a country such as our Southland 2 it would seem that there would be no suffering from hunger and cold. But our recent investigations have lead to a different conclusion. We fear that f) rifht horn in f Ininn qikI H"'"" ... W.I.V.I M.IVJ WII1UI1 cum icy yJ there are people who suffer for lack <"] of food and raiment. Misfortune, im- f( prudence, dissipation?no matter what d the cause, the facts are apparent that *> some people are suffering for the ne- 4 cessities of life. The present wave of hitfh prices has pinched more people j' than one may readily suppose. ,| * ! 61 The average life, perhaps we should say every life, is made up largely of a series of readjustments. This is p true in our business relations as well as in all other relations. Constantly hanging conditions create the neces- IT ity for constantly changing methods, 'his produces a nervous unrest, a sitation that finally Rains the mastery f a great many business men. But ^ t is just in this situation that preent-day business manifests that one act is brought out in startling boldess: The present, and more espec- ir illy, the future business activities will lc all for trained minds. Education is rj ot the cure for all ills, to be sure, m ut it will cure many ills. It is the ti rained mind that can most easily djust itself to new conditions, that ^ an think clearly and reason correctC( / and lead to quick action without r( sing too much energy in the process. sj 'he untrained mind, naturally of equal p; trength with the trained mind, may, w nder pressure, meet all the changes yi nd meet them wisely, but it requires w lore energy, much more energy for i to do this than is required in the P1 rained mind. cc FRIENDS. ir st sn't it great when we happen to ,ri know, hat friends are true midst trials and woe, . 'or there's nothing better in all the , han to feel the heart heat throuph ( the hand, . ind meet with friends tried and true, .)( ifter many have turned their backs H on you, P' lothiiifr is better when days are dread, " 'han fellowship with friends sincere. f.c tn n sorrow there's joy when we happen to know, 'hat friends arc true when warm '' tears flow, .earn that they are wha tthev profess, ' u" n prosperity or times of distress, lore precious than jrold is one true friend, P] /ith your heart entwined till this life 1! end, oyal to the core in this time of need, jf ea, when the heart is made to bleed. t's a plimpse of heaven when we happen to know, w hat friends are true when fierce jn winds blow, CI /hen clouds settle low in life's dark a hour, lu /hen rains of adversity upon us pour, h, here's joy even then in the darkest w place, hj o catch the smile of a dear friend's w lace, b; ind feel his heart in true harmony, ^j ieat for you in loving sympathy. ai lur joy is eternal when we know, a, hat friends are true wherever we e] r< 'hough thousands of miles and a] oceans apart, r( 'rue for aye, in deed and heart, jr )istance is naught with friends we v. love. tt ?James W. Heatherly. a] tEGIMENT PAID OFF T ANI) MUSTERED OUT ? (Thursday's State) P More than $42,000 was disbursed * esterday in the process of paying off ^ he First South Carolina infantry, SI reliminary to its muster out of the ederal service and the departure of he several companies for their home tations; but not a cent did any of the aptains draw, because the company S ornmanders are liable on their bonds li or every item of government prop- n ry issued to their men and as yet no ccounting has been had in respect fthis liability. Every officer and nan with the exception of the capains was paid for 86 days of service, w he individual payments ranging up- ^ .ard from the $18 allowed a private. ? iome of the men had deductions for w lies. It was 5 o'clock yesterday morning ^ /hen the pay squad left Columbia for 'amp Moore, bearing the currency, nd by 11 o'clock the regiment had een naid off. The strencrth wnc 1 . f>8 officers and men. The paying off w /as done hy a party composed of . laj. Glen, the camp quartermaster; !apt. Seybt, commanding the supply ompany; I.ieut. Watson, U. S. A., of "ort Oglethorpe and Hal Kohn of Co- I] jmhia, first class sergeant, quarterlaster corps. NEW FREIGHT CARS BOUGHT. j American Railroads During Months of November Placed Orders for . , $83,000,000 Worth of Them. (|; ci New York, Dec. 6.?American rail Si oads during November placed order or 56,530 freight cars, representing bout $83,000,000, according to statists published here by the Journal of !ommerce. Never before in a single (! lonth had freight car orders exceeded (. r. nnon M ?i 1 ^ oi ./,VUV1/ lain. iiuvcmucr UIM1 ucioner he orders were about fifty per cent of he entire business for the first eleven a, lonths of 101(5. Cl There is attributed largely to the ,Ci ressing necessity for equipment to j$ .'indie enlarfied traffic to seaports. >ne thousand cars were ordered for oreign interests. Domestic roads or- uf ered 342 locomotives and foreign ct uyers 033. American roads bought 'to 01 passenger cars. These together R 'ith freight cars ordered and 737,000 >ns of rails purchased brought the >tal cost of railroad equipment purhased during November to $155,51,000. FOR SALE. OR SALE?High class buggy horse with good buggy and harness, for sale cheap. E. F. Kelly. KPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE THE SOUTHERN RAILWA1 The Southern News Bulletin, ai *p:an of the Southern Railway, ha le following announcement in it irrent issue which is of interest t le people of this section: "At llayne, S. C., where its Wash igton-Atlanta an?l Knoxville-Chatston lines intersect, the Southen lilway will make important improve lents. New engine terminal facili es will be provided and the capacit; f the yard will be increased fror 31 to 1,8(30 cars. "The eastern end of the present re fiving and classification yard will b mrranged and extended so as to con st of 1(3 tracks with 040 cars ca acity instead of present 14 track ith 527 cars capacity. The storag ard now consisting of three track ith 234 cars capacity will be en ,rged to 11 tracks with 820 cars ca acity. "The engine handling facilities wil >nsist of a modern mechanical coal ig plant of reinforced conrrete con ruction, with apacity of 1,000 ton t its bins and 5,000 tons groum ;orage; frame engine house with fou ash pits; 11 engine standing tracks 10-ft. turntable operated by electric y; tsree c'nder conveyors; franr filed and air compressor house; sam >use and water supply. "The present passenger station wil ; relocated and two underpasses wil ; constructed, eliminating three im irtant grade crossings. "Work will be begun as soon as ne tssary forces and material can be as tmbled and will be rushed to comple on. "Hayne is the terminal point of tb sheville-Spartanburg and Spartan lig-Columhia lines. A large part o le coal moving to the Southern' harloston coal dock is handlei irough this terminal. The improve ents have been undertaken to allov le use of heavier locomotives and b rovide for more prompt and econom al handling of traffic."?-Columbii ecord. IS FIRST RIDE ON TRAIN IN 61 YEARS Edgefield, Dec. 3.?Mr. Joe Corley ho is 66 years old, born and reare< this country and living. 10 mile ist of this place, has just had, to him novel experience, in going to Co mbia. Not that a visit to the Cap al City is so wonderful a feat, bu jcause he went by rail, and tha as absolutely the first time that h is travelled on a railroad since h as four years old. Mr. Corley i / no means a wild man; on the con ary he is a good, sober, prosperou id intelligent citizen, but a staye id sticker at home, and what trav ling he has done has been by dii >ad. A friend visited him a few da]| ofo, himself a traveller of some note ;cited to Mr. Corley the pleasure icident to railroad riding, and pre ailed upon him, ere it was too late > take the trip. So the two wen (id there was delight in the goinp hey took in the fair City on the Con aree from "garret to cellar" and Mi orley has returned a wiser and a hap ier man. He says his love for horn till hums in his heart, yet he now ha little "hankering" to see the thine f the world, and in the future wil firead out some. ENTERTAINMENT AT SARDIS. There will he an entertainment a ardis school house Friday night, Dei r>, beginning at 8 o'clock. Admissio O and 15 cents. ATTENTION, MASONS. Prudence Lodge, No. 139, A ,F. M ill hold regular communication nex aturday evening, the 9th inst., at 'clock. Officers for the ensuing yea ill he elected. G. W. B. Smith, f. H. S. Harris, W. M. Secretary. FIRE AT COUNTY FARM. A tenant house on the county farr as destroyed by fire Thursday morr <g. t:\lNDLKK CARRIES UAT. >emocratic Nominee Elected Mayc of Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 6.-?Asa G. Cane r, Democratic nominee, was electe layor of Atlanta today by a majorit r ab lut 2.000 'zotes. He was oppose y A. M. Corrie, independent cand ate. Democraty candidates for othe ty offices were elected without opp< tion. OVERLAND CAR FOR SALE. Five-passenper Overland tourin ir in good running order for sal leap, or will trade for fjood horse an Liprtty. See E. F. Kelly, Union, S. ( A Sandusky woman wrecked he utomobile in saving a basket of fres JCPfs. It isn't everyone who has sens iouph to choose the lesser evil.llffaln fvnrpcc There are some men so lazy tha they ever reach heaven they wi ill upon their wives every mornin t fasten their wings on.?Wheelin egister. HUPMOBILE FOR SERVICE Atchison & Rasor Whilmirc, S. C. HELD ON CHARGE ( OF KILLING BAB1 i Two Women and Man in Spartanburi s Jail?Arrests Follow Discovery of s Infant's Corpse Near Greer. o Spartanburg, Dec. 5.?Charged witl - murder, Mrs. Lydia Smith, 16 year - of age, her mother, Mrs. Lizzie Pitt a man, 50 years of age, and Fulton Pitt - man, 16 years of age, were placei - in the Spartanbur county jail thi y afternoon. They are charged wit! n having crushed the skull of a ne\ born infant in Appalachia mill village - Greer, following which, it is alleged e they stabbed the baby in the abdo - men several times with a knife am - then flung the corpse in a mill pone s It is alleged that clothing connect e ing the Smith-Pittman family wit! s the crime was found upon the prem - ises of the accused people. It is sail - that the State will show that Ilydi Smith, the girl accused of being th 11 mother, was absent from her employ - ment from November 10 until Novem - ber 20. The body of the child was dis s covered on November 28. 3 It is charged that Fulton Pittmar r the young man arrested with the twi ; women, was intimate with Lydi: - Smith and an effort will be made b e prove that he was the father of th 3 dead child. Pittman is a son of th accused girl's step-father. 1 Mrs. Smith's was married on Sep 1 tcmber 10 of this year to Ed Smith. ADMINISTRATORS' SALE. The undersigned administrators o . the estate of W. G. Going, de ceased, will offer for sale, for cash, t< e the highest bidder, on salesday in Jan . uary, Monday, January 1, at 11 o'clock f before the Courthouse door, the fol s lowing property, to wit: j Two shares Monarch mills of Unioi . common stock, of the par value o v one hundred ($100) dollars each, Cer (j tificate No. 29. Sixteen shares of stock in the Cit a izens National Bank of Union, of tb par value of fifty ($50) dollars pe share, Certificate Nos. 105 and 8. John T. Gonig, 3 E. V. Going. Geo. W. Going, r, 49-4-pd Administrators. i s MEN HELD TO COURT. i, _ Eight Bound Over in Connection Witl Lynching at Abbeville. t t Abbeville, Dec. 5.?Eight of tb e men for whom warrants were issue* e yesterday in connection with the re s cent lynching here of Anthony Craw _ ford, a well to do negro, were heh s for the circuit court on charges o r murder after a preliminary today be fore Magistrate Hammond. Solicito ^ Cooper, who represented the State that all the defendants be held . bub the magistrate bound over onl; s eight of them. Those who were bound over to fac . the court of general sessions are: J t V. Elgin, Sam Adams, Jess Cann, Wil Cann, Sam Cann, Eugene Nance, E _ Grant, R. B. Ferguson. The men re . leased after the hearing are: Leste _ Cann, R. B. Grant, Sing Finlay, Georg e White, Jr., M. R. Casey, Jim Dawsor s John T. Cheatham and -T. S. Banks. s Sam Eakin, for whom one of th II warrants was issued, has not yet bee arrested. A number of witnesses were ex amined in the course of the hearing but mariy of them seemed to know bu t little about the lynching of Crawfon J. Some of those named in the warrant n were not mentioned by any of th witnesses. Sheriff Hurts, Deput Jones and Jailor McCland wer among the witnesses called to th stand by Solicitor Cooper. ' The warrants were issued yesterda ' following an investigation into th ' death of Cra.wford, who was take r from the Abbeville jail and lynch# by a mob. Crawford had struck white man and had been badly beate by a mob before he was taken to th jail. A mob forced its way into th jail and took the prisoner out, put ting him to death immediately. n NEY FARM LOAN LAW WILL NOT HELP THE N EG ROE v,iuti?m>, i>cc. u.?/\ ramer pessi mistic view of the negro farmer prot ,r lem in the South was presented toda at the national conference on market ing and farm credits by Lewis Cec [_ Gray, professor of economics at th j George Peabody College for Teacher y at Nashville, Tenn. The new' farr ^ loan law, he said, was unlikely to hel the negroes or poor whites, and. be ,r cause of its maximum limitation o loans, would prove of little value t the big planters. The plantation system, the spcake said, grew naturally out of the aboli tion of slavery, which was first rc placed by hired negro labor and late ^ vuv i,cnaiiv tai iuci aynieui. "For Rood or for evil," said Profef sor Gray, "the system is firmly roote !T in the soil of the South." ,g NOTICE. _ All members of Maple Camp, Nt 323, are requested to attend W. (). W meeting next Monday nitfht, Dec. 11 it We will elect officers for ensuing yeai 11 G. W. IIollinK-sworth, ft Clerk. P The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Hea Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAX/ TIVK I1ROMO QUININE is better than ordinal r- Quinine and does not cause nervousness nt ringing in head. Remember the full name nil look lor the signature of K. W GROVE 2V In the day time I see but one su and one world, but the nigh shows me many millions.?Viett. The greatest frlory of a free-bor people is to transmit that freedor entire to their children.?Havard. ; 1 Christmas 11 Is Coining! * :i Select HIS Present noA I! | it and deliver at the pi j | will save vou the rus i. | the last hour, and will h | ing our customers bett ? | SOME SUGGE | Bath Robes | Smoking Jackets J p Silk Shirts I | Walking Canes I | Interwoven Sox Altman Neckweai i All the latest creal ! Ladies Shoes in all c< Gotham Silk Hosier} Watch our show win suggest someth Union Clotl THE NEW WA ; FOR S. StockwelFs Young En f I offer for sale the best young: Jer Union County. This bull is by the bes r Prof. Massey to have been the greatesl i, and his dam is by Eminent, the grea |( Jersey breed. Ask Clemson College al Y ing?they know him and will tell you of heifers by this bull and they are all use him any longer. I will make t.hii leave this section and will take 6*?c p some one in Union County (to remain 1 {roes elsewhere. He cost me four time like to see three or four farm.ers clu prove the best preparation for the boll > M. RUSSELL JETER ' e ' 1 "CASCARETS" FOR A pop COLD, BAD BREATH w V OR SICK HEADACHE estir 1. for s Best for Liver and Bowels, for Bil- by t e iousness. Sour Stomach and its < Y Constipation. shov e and e Get a 10-eent box now. as f Furred Tonprue, Bad Colds, Indices- Cc y tion, Sallow Skin and Miserable Head- 300. *e aches come from a torpid liver and A1 n closed bowels, which cause your 666; ,1 stomach to become filled with undi- 975,: a prested food, which sours and ferments wan n like (rarba{re in a swill barrel. That's 365,< e the first step to untold misery?indi- 875,! e {restion, foul prases, bad breath, yellow lf)3,< skin, mental fears, everything that .s 224,' horrible and nauseatinpr. A Cascaret 2.381 toniprht will prive your constipated 774,! bowels a thorouprh cleansinfr and chus S straiprhten you out by morninp*. They 560; work while you sleep?a 10-cent box 1,96i from your drufrprist will keep you feel- tana inpr prood for months. Millions of Nevi y men and women take or Cascaret now 443,< > and then to keep their stomach, liver Mex '1 and bowels repru'ated, and nevar know 778; e a miserable moment. Don't forpret the Daki s children?their little insides need a horn n prood, prentle cleansinpr, too. Peni P 620.1 Sout n SEABOARD OFFERS 2JK,,; o 974; Reduced Fares to Norfolk, Va., Ac- 202,1 r count Southern Commercial Con- Virg i- gresH Dec. 11th to 14th. 758; !- Ol r Through observation sleeping car 873; line and convenient schedules. For Pani specific rate and other information Islai d call on nearest ticket a^ent or write 961; Fred Geisler, Asst. G. P. A., S. A. L., T( Atlanta, Ga. ? NOI r- A KIND LETTER. L Stat r- Sumter, S. C., Dec. 2, 191fi. < The Union Times, Union, S. C. N< 0 Dear Editor: 4th < v. Please find enclosed $1.00 for a a. m * year's subscription to The Times. I Coui ii want to congratulate .you on the U. D. final C. edition. It contains so much his- Esta n tory of Union county; in' fact, I read and t more history of my native county in the that edition than I have ever had, all disci others combined, n With kind personal regards, I am, T1 n Yours very truly. Pi T. R. I.ittlejohn. 30 d 1 ? \ ' v; we will reserve | roper time. This | h and trouble at * assist us in serv- \ er. .if STIONS I Suits | Overcoats g Odd Trousers * Knox Hats Shoes, all styles | I r, 50c to $3.00 ? lions in silks 5 I :>lors and styles | r, $1 and $1.50 ? dows?they will J ing to you | | hing Co. I Y STORE J ALE! linent, 111320 sey bull ever brought into ?t son of Stockwell, said bv i Jersey bull that ever lived test sire of females in the jout my bull and his breedto buy him. I have a lot bred back to him, so I can't i offer: I hate to see him er lb. for him if bought by here) or 12Vfec per lb. if he s this in Virginia. I would b in and buy him; he will weevil. , Santuc, S. C. ULATION OF UNITED STATES ashington, Nov. 27.?Population nates of each of the United States January 1, 1917, as determined he bureau of census, which based calculations upon the increase as km by the federal census of 1900 1910, have just been announced ollows: >ntinental United States, 102,826,labama, 2,248,27.1; Arizona, 259.Arkansas, 1,753,033; Colorado, 190; Connecticut, 1,254,926; Delai, 214.270; District of Columbia, 531; Florida, 904,839; Georgia, 2,953; Idaho, 436,881; Illinois, 6,526; Indiana, 2,826,154; Iowa, 2,771; Kansas, 1,840,707; Kentucky,. 5.866; Ijouisiana, 1,843,042; Maine, >14; Maryland, 1,366,240; Massaetts, 3,747,564; Michigan, 3,074.Minnesota, 2,296,024; Mississippi, 1,122; Missouri, 3,420.143; Mon% 466,214; Nebraska, 1,277,750; qrln II" ?v:_-. 467; New Jersey, 2,981,105; New ico, 416,906; New York, 10,366.North Carolina, 2,418,559; North ota, 752,260; Ohio, 5,191,220; Oklaa, 2,245,968; Oregon, 848,866; isylvan, 8,591,029; Rhode Island, 590; South Carolina, 1,631.340; h Dakota, 707,740; Tennessee, 2,*16; Texas, 4.472,494; Utah, 438,Vermont. 364,322; Virginia. 2,522; Washington, 1,565,810; West inia, 1,399,320; Wisconsin, 2,513,Wyoming( 182,264. jtlying Possessions?Alaska, 64,Ouam, 12,866; Hawaii, 217,660; ima Canal zone, 31,048; Philippineids, 8,879,999; Porto Rico, 1,223,Samoa. >tal United States, 113,309,285. riCE OF FINAL DISCHARGE.. e of South Carolina, 'ounty of Union. Court of Probate. otice is hereby driven, that on the lay of January, 1917, at 11 o'clock. ., in the Coijrt of Probate for said nty, the undersigned will make his settlement as Executrix of the ite of T. J. Betenbaugh, deceased, that thereupon he will apply to Judge of said Court, for his final large as such Executrix. Mrs. Sue F. Betenbaugh. lis 4th day of Dec., 1916. iblished in The Union TimeR for ays. /