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THE UNION TIMES t PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY ! THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING. MAIN STRECT i BELL PHONE NO. 1 , LEWIS M. RICE_ Editor 1 ? Registered at the Postoffice in Union, j S. C. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' One Year $1.50 s Six Months .75 \ Three Months _ 40 ADVERTISEMENTS ] One square, first insertion $1.00 j Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. ] 1 The schools throughout the county ] have opened with an unusually large 1 enrollment this year. This is a splen- | <]id showing, and we feel sure that our schools have made very rapid progress in recent years. We do not believe i there is a county in the State that I can show any greater progress. We respectfully call to the attention 1 I of the county authorities the coiulition of the macadam road leading out of Union to Tiger river. This road is; a monumental disgrace to our county. |. It is almost impassable and daily gets j worse. It has become so bad that the i whole western section of the county is j gradually being drawn into other j towns to trade and transact business. Tt will be hard to win back this trade once it becomes fixed in its flow to other towns. Union merchants, and, in fact, Union property holders in general, are the ones who suffer the greatest misfortune. But the whole county suffers. If Union progresses, it will tend to help the whole county. We believe the macadam road should be plowed up and thrown out and the road bed surfaced with top soil. That's the only remedy for the bad situation. And it should be done at once, before the fall business sets in. SHALL I'MON HAVE A DAILY j PAPER? We have been considering the question of issuing a daily paper, and if v/e can meet with the necessary backing we purpose doing so. There are many reasons why Union should have such an enterprise. The city needs it, for this is intensive rather than extensive activity. We are prepared to furnish it, provided we can secure the necessary cooperation of the public. Quite a number of business men have expressed themselves as being favorable to the movement, going so far as to say that they would double their advertising space. Two business men, when spoken to about the matter, expressed doubt of the wisdom of coming out with a daily, but these admitted it would be a good thing for Union. Their fear was that it would I not succeed financially. Of course that i would be for us to consider. It must pay, oinerwise it wouia not long endure. We believe we have worked out a basis that will give a reasonable margin of profit, and at the same time, furnish a creditable paper, say ! eight pages. In other words, the paper would be the size of the present Times, and would come out every day in the week. One of the big items of expense, of course, will be the cost of telegraphic news. But we could not think of undertaking the issuing of a daily with- 1 out a good news service. People are awakinir to the fact that it nave tn keep in touch with all the fjreat moments of the day. They want the news, and they want it fresh and upto-the-minute. For such n paper, particularly a home paper, they are will- j inpf to pay, and pay well. We can furnish such a paper off our plant without the investment of another dollar in machinery. Indeed, it has all ( alonp: been our aim to undertake such a move, but until the present, we have rot felt that the time had come. Now, here are three people reading newsmpers where there was one before, rhe habit is becoming fixed, and it will ontinue to grip the people more and norc. In the past our people have iot read as widely as they should lave done. The great war and other svents have transpired to make the leople read more than ever before. A live daily paper would help to inify our people, develop in them the spirit of team work and would be used :o aid in every forward movement. It would be our idea to continue the present weekly issue of The Times Jut in addition put out an issue every lay in the week except Friday, the present day upon which the weekly is issued. FORI) (JIVES $.->00,0(10 TO RED CROSS FUNE The gift of $500,000 from the Fore Motor company, of Detroit, Mich., tc the American Red Cross was an nounced today by the Red Cross Wai Council. The gift is in the form of ; credit on the Ford factories for half n million dollars worth of automobiles ambulances, parts, etc., as the Rei Cross may designate. With the responsibilities assumed by the Red Cross for the support ol the American Ambulance in France the Ford gift is particularly valuable Despite the large number of ambulances in service on the Western front many more are needed. Reports thai no more machines were beincr accepted for this theater of war are withoul foundation. In addition, ambulance* may be sent as a part of Red Cross aid to be extended to Russia and Serbia. Experiments on a new type of a nbalance body are now being made under the direction of the New Yorli County Chapter of the American Iter Cross. The New York Transportat' 1 company, operating the motor-bin lines on Fifth Avenue and othei streets, has contributed the services o| its chief engineer to supervise this work. A kitchen trailler designed by engi neers of the New York County Chap ter is now being furnished in large numbers to ambulances companies ii training a tthe camp at. Allentown Pa. Experts of the War Departmeni are also trying out the trailler with i view to its adoption by the army. Contributions for the Ambulance service of the Red Cross or for kitch en traillers shoulel be made througl the local chapters or direct to th? Assistant Treasurer, American Rec Cross, Washington, I). C. It is pre ferred that such gifts be undesignatec and in cash as far as possible. Th< Red Cro?M tben aMe to place order: to take advantage of quantity prices and distribute them where needs an most urgent. HIGHEST WOMAN OFFICER IN BRITISH ARMY A DOCTOE London, Sept. IS.?The highest wo man officer in the British army is Mrs A. M. Chalmers Watson, M. I)., wh< has just been appointed Chief Con troller of the Women's Army Auxil iary Corps, which has over 4,000 mem hers on duty behind the lines ii France. Mrs. Watson is a sister of Sir Erii (Jeddes, First Lord of the Admiraltv She was the first woman physiciai graduated from Edinburgh University CHARTER NO. 9742. REPORT OF CO CITIZENS NA' AT UNION. IN THE STATE OF i OF BUSINESS ON RESO Loans and discounts Notes and bills rediscounted (otl acceptances sold) (see Item Overdrafts, unsecured U. S. bonds deposited to secure circuh Liberty loan Bonds, unpledged Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50% Value of banking house Furniture and fixtures Lawful reserve with Federal Reserv< Cash in vault and net amounts due fi Checks on other banks in the same bank (other than Item 17) . Total of Items 14, 15, 16, 17 and Redemption fund with U. S. Treas. i Total LIAB Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Unidivided profits I.ess current expenses, interest an Circulating notes outstanding Net amounts due to National banks Total of Items 28, 29 and 80 Individual deposits subject to check Cashier's checks outstanding Dividends unpaid Total demand deposits subject to 31, 32, 38, 34, 85, 86, 37 and Certificates of deposit (other than foi Total of time deposits subject to 30, 40, 41 and 42 Dills payable, other than with Federa all obligations representing than rediscounts Total Liabilities for rediscounts, including t Hank (see Item Id) State of South Carolina, County of L I, C. C. Sanders, Cashier of the abo the above statement is true to the be! Subscribed and sworn to before me Correct Attest: R. P. MORGAN, J. S. MORGAN, J. I). JONES, Directors. . , , GO-TO-SUNDAY-SCHOOL DAY. To Be Observed Sunday, November 4th, 1917. Spartanburg, Sept. 5.?Sunday, November 4, 1917, has been adopted by the South Carolina Sunday School As sociation as State-wide Go-to-Sunday, School Day for South Carolina. This particular date, it has been announced, will be observed throughout North i America as International Go-to, Sunday School Day. In the official call for mobilization, ' Marion Lawrance, general secretary of the International Sunday School Association, states as some of the obectives of the day: 1. To enlist recruits for the Sunday School. 2. To stimulate all Sunday Schools to greater activity. 3. To advertise to the community that the Sunday School is for persons of all ages. 4. To impress upon the church a l larger sense of its responsibility and opportunity in the Sunday School. I 5. To impress upon all the import> ance of lining up the Sunday Schools - to help our government in such niat ters as Bible study among the soli diers, Red Cross promotion, and food t conservation through the joint com, mittee of the Sunday School Council I iii 111 uur na^utiauun. C>. To inaugurate plans whereby I each local church and Sunday school may be kept in helpful, sympathetic , touch with its members who go to the front in this world war. 7. To impress the great truth upon , the young that, while this war is changing the map of the earth and . overturning customs and institutions, ; God and His Word, Jesus Christ and i His saving power, man's individual re; sponsibility for Christian living, abide . and ever will abide unchanged. Go-to-Sunday School Day was ob. served for the first time in South . Carolina last February. In order to : \mite with the other states, the South | Carolina Sunday School Association, , according to announcement by R. D. s Webb, genral secretary, has moved up - the annual/flate a few months. Last f February the day was observed by ; hundreds of schools throughout South Carolina, and was a great success. A . large number of schools more than . doubled their regular attendance and ; hundreds of people were retained as 3 permanent members. According to a most conservative estimate .there was t an increas of 75,000 in the attendance 3 on that day. It is expected that the observance of Go-to-Sunday School. ; Day in November will be more gen-' . eral throughout the State than it was 3 in February. j NOTICE. j State of South Carolina, j Union County. a Notice 19 hprehy , Leila Sprouse ^^flVfcanaer, widow of j the late Ed Sprouse, has filed with me a petition praying that a homestead be set off to her and her minor children in the lands owned by the j said Ed Sprouse at the time of his death. R. C. WILLIAMS, Clerk of Court, j Sept. 4, 1917. * 36-4 : What is LAX-FOS , LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA A Digestive Liquid Laxative, Cathartic and Liver Tonic. Contains Cascara Bark, Blue Flag Root, Rhubarb Root, Black Root, May Apple Root, Senna Leaves and 1 Pepsin. Combines strength with pala. table aromatic taste. Does not gripe. 50c NDITION OF THE TIONAL BANK SOUTH CAROLINA, AT THE CLOSE SEPTEMBER 11, 1917. URCES. $565,206 94 ier than bank 53a) 99,495 56 $465,711 38 ? 150 69 ation (par value) 25,000 00 1,000 00 cf subscription) 3,600 00 13,781 49 ? 3,162 70 s Bank 17,495 61 rom national banks 19,788 09 city or town as reporting 673 50 I 18 $20,461 59 ind due from U. S. Treas. * 1,250 00 - $551,613 46 ILITIES. $100,00< 00 30,0(H) 00 .$38,076 13 d taxes paid __ 6,090 39 31,985 74 36,000 00 790 71 .$790 71 196,348 44 868 10 - 17 75 Rp?orvp Tfpma 38 17-1 !$ 196,234 29 r money borrowed) 97,602 72 Rt^erve, Items $97,602 72 il Reserve Rank, including money borrowed, other 10,000 00 $511,013 46 hose with Federal Reserve - J 9,495 56 Fnion, ss: ive-named bank, do solemnly si ear that ?t of my knowledge and* belief, C. C. SANDERS, < ashier. this 17th day of September, 1 d7. J, M. GREER, Notary Public. y Shoe ?FX The P ?If vou have not he* MY OWN HYMN TO GREATE1 AMERICA. (Composed and copyrighted 1917 b Chas. J. North. All rights reserved) From the crests of Thy frozen moui tains, * To the sands of Thy tropic sea; In our many tongues and voices, We are raising our hymn to Thee. The stars with their glory, immortal, Shine out from the measureless blu< To gild Thy Flag with the story, Of all that is brave and true. The golden rod blooms in Thy valley: And the sage brush roots in Th plains, The pine looks out from Thy mour tains, In the sunshine, and snows an rains. In wisdom, Thy men grow braver, In beauty, Thy women grow stronj Thy children are learning, ever. The battle of right with wrong. As the springs run down to the river And the rivers flow down to the sej So the lives of Thy sons and daughtei Flow down in their strength to The When the clouds of danger gather. They will rally to guard Thy path, L/ike the rushing of mighty waters, And the storm in its whirling wratl We can see in Thy waving Emblem, The symbol of all that is free. And we lift it high in the heavens, Where all in the world can see. We pray that in mercy and goodnes Its colors shall stay unfurled, 'Till Thy radiant dream of justice, Is the vision of all the world. Buffalo, N. Y., August 9, 1917. EVERYTHING FROM NEUTRALf (Manufacturers Record) Every bushel of food, every poun of cotton, every ton of iron that w sell to neutrals in Europe helps t lengthen the war and to bring deat to American soldiers. It is not or place to be concerned as to the suffei ing of these neutrals. Most of thei have contributed liberally to Gei many's success by selling to Gei many the stuff that has been bougl from us, or using the stuff bougl from us and selling their own stu to Germany?simply another way < "beating the devil around the stump Southern cottonseed-oil cake h? been used to fatten the livestock < Holland in order that the livestot might be . shipped by thousands inl Germany. It is true that the Hollar buyers did not ship the cottonseed inl Germany, but they shipped the catt fattened on this cottonseed cake. If we are to realize the full mapn tude of the war in which we are ei ga^ed, we must rigorously, regardle: of the individual losses of shippe: in this country, cut out all supplies i the neutrals which can by any manm of means he shipped through them 1 nv.^>sb???.made to take the pla< in these neutral countries or local stu which they ship to Germany. W have not enough food for ourselve and our allies are in danger of sta vation. In the meantime there are or more Dutch ships in New York ar Baltimore harbors loaded to the gui wales with grain nominally intend< for the neutrals, but the evident de tination of which would be German either directly or indirectly. It is well that these ships have bee temporarily held uo by the goveri ment. They should be held up pe manently and not a bushel of th stuff be allowed to go to these neutr countries. Every bushel that we ser to them is robbing ourselves and tl Allies. Every bushel that we send 1 them is helping to bring death to moi of our soldiers than would otherwii be necessary. We trust that President Wilson wi wisely insist upon entirely cutting 01 of our exports to neutral countrh everything which by any manner < means can be utilized for the bene! of Germany, whether it be food, co ton or iron and steel. The most rigo ous embargo on all of these product regardless of the effect upon indivi< uals in this country, must be enforce NOTICE TO TEACHERS. All teachers, both white and colore^ are requested to call at the office ( the County Superintendent of Educj tion at the County Court House i Union to secure a list of latest adop ed books and course of study, so ths they may govern themselves aceor< ingly as books that have heretofoi been used cannot in many instann be used the coming school term. By order of the County Board < Education. J. H. Hope, 35-5 Superintendent. A CASH PRIZE $5.00 in Gold will be given the chil that brings the greatest number < our Yellow Kid advertisements, eith< cards or newspaper cuts to our stoi on Dec. 24, 1917. 36-4nr BAILEY BUILDERS SUPPLY CO The man who wants bells hung o cats to warn the birds of their aj proacn, should suggest that German hang froghorns on her submarines. Crude oil in its tanks limited th amount of water which could ent* a steamship when it struck rocks nea Ceylon and punctured large holes i its hull and enabled it to reach poi five days later. ALFALFA GROWN Just as profitably In Ceorpla, the Carolines an Alabama, as III the West if you lime your Ian Will) LADCO GROUND LIMESTONE. Cosis a trifle. Insuri a vood stand and vlporot growth of alfalfa, vetch clovers and grail Write for delivered price, valuable booklet an reports. Attractive proposition to tnercban and farmer streets. 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