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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 Post office ill Union, i o. c,., as second class matter. SmSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Three Months .40 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, .TUNE 8, 1917. ?v> <?v inanuig tx very attractive offer in our clubbing rate with the Progressive Farmer. It will interest the farmers of Union county. Better investigate! For new yearly subscriptions and for yearly renewals the offer is on. See us about this; it will save you money and give you one of the best county weeklies in the State and one of the best farm papers in the world. Incidentally, it will save you money. The plan contemplated by our government to insure the life of each soldier, seems to us a wise one. It will be less a tax to pay for $4,000 insurance than to pay pensions, and will' help more than the pension plan. It is a good business move for the gov- I ernment and a good business proposisition for the soldier. We do not know just the details of the plan, but the principle is sound, we think. We notice that nine millions of women are now working in France, many of them doing work that was thought suitable for men only before the war. Bad as it is, it has its compensations. People at work are kept out of a deal of wickedness bred by idleness. It is a most probable fact that there is considerably less gossip in France today than there formerly was. Busy people are better peeple. The constant din of war is calculated to dull our ears to some of the very foundation principles of life. Love? Mow often have we emphasized the thought that love was the very foundation of life, the real life. We even went further and preached love for our enemies. Kindness, a spirit of kinship, finds it hard to survive in the atmo^here of war. With the coming of the heavy burdens incident to war there comes a less pronounced spirit of syrepathy among neighbors. With the harassment of the heavy burdens we are often led t? lose sight of the debt we owe others fhnf nrn van/lai. "11 ^ y v..?v .?v, a vuuvi an oci v ict'i uuiufort and help that we can to those in need of our aid. The old truths stand, for they arc eternal. The clouds are hut obscuring theni, that is all. The cry has gone forth, Raise more foodstuffs! From the President down to the mon in the hunahle walks of life the cry has gone out. Every newspaper worthy the name has urged and urged again and again the planting of something to use for human food and for the feeding of cattle. But the try needs to he oonfcinually raised. We face a condition that makes it imperative that .something to eat be raised. If our farmers fail to plant feed and foodstuffs, then are bad days ahead. People wtie had eggs, chickens, beefsteak, butter and other delectable articles ef food will see no more of these same good thinirs to oat if the farmers do not produce something to eat. The future material welfare of this country is now in the hands of the producers. The producer has come iwto his kingdom.; I*t us hope that he wiil measure up to kingly qualities hy playing his part well. If he fail, the calamity will fall upon nil, himself included. For some time the great war has so filled our horizon that we have had little time for thinking of some very important problems. One of these is the very old and very sick liquor problem. We are wondering what has become of the man who so frequently exclaimed: "Prohibition does not prohibit"? It appears to us that it is prohibiting right now, and that with a vengeance. Union is dryer in the matter of strong drink today than ever in her history, and with the coming of July 1, there will be a very desert for dryness, if we are not very much mistaken. At that time the federal law, applicable to dry territory, will come into full effect. All of which is a very considerable cause of satisfaction to those of us who have worked unceasingly for a life time to help bring about just this condition. True economy is a very different thing from miserly meanness, and is a virtue that even in times of peace one does well to practice. But real economy does not necessarily mean the cutting off of necessaries. Good food and comfortable clothes are necessary if one is to do best service. The trouble with most of us is that when we begin to economize we cut down our necessities. Luxuries we are slow to cut down. Many follies are revealed just here. One might find it a real saving to cut down the Sunday consumption of gasoline before cutting out the necessary portion of meat for the table. Some of the fine trips for the summer might also be eliminated before we skimp the milk supply. Cigars, soda water and coca-cola logically go before we put the family down to hard, rock bottom. There are ways and ways of economizing, many of them simple nonsense. If the mission of America is to carry the gospel of democracy to the world, or at least, give the world a clearer conception of that great principle, our mission is truly a great one. Slowly, painfully, and with many a tear, mankind has been struggling towards freedom. Often the advance was lost in some backward step. But a new era is in the making, if we mistake not. Our Southern country before the war between the sections developed the highest culture yet attaind by mankind. The trouble with that civilization was that it was a civilizaton that blessed the few and not the many. Its foundation and its dimensions were restricted. It served ?its day, and it had a glorious day. We are not ashamed of it. It is our glory. But today a broader, bigger, more enduring oivilization is in the making. Democracy, world-wide and deep as the very feundations is in the making. If this be so, there is no need to lament the ordeal, however heavy the price may be. It was just what one would expect of Unioa county's loyal sons, but is, nevertheless, something to be prorud of. The recent enrolling called for the services of <iuite a number of men and some few women. So far as we know this woak, from Chairman Macbeth Young to the last registrar and helper, was performed without charge. It was rendered as a patriotic duty. Many of the men are busy business men and farmers, and it was a real hardship for them to serve. It was a patriotic thir>g that they server! without pay. Germany cannot whip this country. Nobody can. It is a great country and its greatness is nowhere more manifest than in the unselfish service which her faithful s?ns are willing to render. If we mistake not, the chief reason we are in this war is the determination that the whole world shall be free; that the weak shall have the protection of the strong; that every mnrt mnef thinlr nf no 1 ?? ...mwv v*i?ii*? vr?. whivi o ao wni <tr> of himself ;that one nation shall remember its obligations to help all nations. If these be the Imsic reasons and if right triumphs, we will win! BONDS FOR SALE. The Highway Commission of Unien Township, Union County, Stuth Carolina, ofTers for sale $125,0(10.00 Union Township Bonds not more than W/> semi-annual interest. Sealed bids June 9th, 12 o'clock noon, 1917. Information furnished. Send bid to the undersigned at Union, S. C. A. G. Kennedy, Chairman, E. W. Stene, Secretary. June ftth, 1917. 23-1 PAYMASTER PAUL CLARK. Paymaster Paul Clark, U. S. N., has been located for many months in the port of New York, stationed on the battleship Kentucky. While there Paymaster Clark made many friends, and before the Kentucky was sent to i.sea duty, Mr. Clark and some of the other officers, were shown| a great courtesy by the Fifth Avenue Baptist church holding a special service in their honor. These young men had identified themselves with this church while in port, and the people wished to give them their prayers and good wishes on this voyage, which is likely to be the most perilous in the history of the Kentucky. Each of the officers was presented with a "comfort" bag.?Exchange. Mr. Clark is a nephiw of Capt. E. L. Clark of Union, and has several times visited here. CROSS* KEYS Cross Keys, June 6.?Crops have improved considerably since the last writing. We are now having some real summer weather, the kind that it takes for cotton. Gardens and other truck patches are looking fine. Farmers are beginning to wear the smile that we all trust will not come off. Although a good rain would do much good. The writer not long ago had the pleasure of meeting our Dockhart Junction writer, Moxy. Very likely, Moxy, you will recall our meeting, it being at the closing exercises of the Cross Keys high school, where the party 01 youngsters entertained you while you were waiting for Prof. Hope to come and take you home. Brother Moxy, if you will stay in these diggings awhile you will be standing on , your head instead of dancing around on one foot, as you seem to be very much struck on the fair sex. Miss Kathleen Betsill and Miss Ada Betsill of West Springs visited friends here last week. Miss Annie Stevens visited friends in Cross Anchor last week. Mr .and Mrs. H. B. Taylor of Cross Anchor was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Gore Sunday. Mrs. Lenna Calicutt of Langley is visiting Mrs. J. R. Watkins. Mr. George Bailey went to Cross Anchor Saturday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lamb of Cross Anchor were visiting friends here Sunday. Miss Lelia Craig and Miss Alma Stevens visited friends near Cross Anchor Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben B. Franklin were guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. fear- ' rett Sunday. v \ Miss Kate Watakins is visiting tier aunt, Mrs. T. R. Weodruff^atjwah grove this week. - /MV' Mr. Ben B. Betsill, our commissioner, is having some excellent work done on our roads. Kit X. DEATH OF MRS. MILWOOD. Whitmire, S. C., June 5, 1917. Miss Annie Mahalie, daughter of Rfchard and Sallie Dee, was born in Spartanburg County, S. C., January o, lo.io. un March 10, 1857, she was married to Richard Millwood of Union County, S. C. To them were born four boys and one girl. Her husband served four years in the Confederate army, while she remained at home with her parents. After the war she continued living in Spartanburg county until seven years after the death of her husband, which occurred March 7, 1001, when she breke up and came to Union and made her home with her < son, James M. Millwood, until her ' death, which occurred at Whitmire, 1 S. C., May 20, 1017; aged 81 years, i four months and 24 days. She is survived by one brother, . Richard Iiee, of White Plains, S. C., < one sister, Mrs. Susan Kirby, of Un- ] ion, and three sons, as follows: John j of Buffalo, James of Whitmire, and W. C. of Clinton, and 23 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Two of her brothers were Baptist ministers. Though she never joined 1 any church yet she told the writer 1 she had felt for many years that she was all right and was ready to go. , In the enrlv snrincr vtirt ho/1 ? ..?* Kiv-iiiiajr and we all feared then she would never recover, although she got up, she was never herself any more. A few days before her death she received a slight wound on the eye hut it did not injure the sight and the doctor said had nothing to do with her death, which was due to uremia or kidney poison. Sister Millwood was truly an example of industry, economy and patience. Her grown grandchildren say they never saw her mad. The writer has been about her a great deal forthe past four years and always enjoyed talking and praying with her. The writer conducted her funeral services in the Baptist church of Pac- ,1 olet and her body was laid to rest ' beside that of her husband. D. W. Garvin. 1 i Mrs. Fred Willard and little daughters, Mary and Hazel, have returned to Union after a pleasant visit to AVhens, Ga. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days , Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMRNT fails to cure any cam of Itching. IlHnO, IMoedinworProtruding Pilealn 6tol4days. The first application givca Kaae and Rest. 90c. Miss Leila Mae Fears of Athens, Ga., is the gu<*?t of her sister, Mrs. Fred Willard, at her home on South street. To Cure a Cold In One Dty TaVp LAXA-TIVK BKOSIO Qutnine. ItiUpa the Cftigh and Headache and worka oM Dve Cqld. nruwisd refund money if it fwli to cure. If. w. OROTK'S signature M each box. 26c. i ^ I .. 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