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* "" > ' r ti v , \ |=i THE UNION TIMES HI WEEKLY EDITION VOL. LXVII. NO. 44. UNION, S. C., THUBSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1917 $1.50 * fEAB Homeward Bou Trans] (By Assc * v Washington, Nov. 1.?An home-ward bound, was torp< was able to return to a forei ment did not report the loss o It was under escort when atta est steamers flying United St; Impossible For t Send A (By Associa Pacific Port, Nov. 1.?Baro anese financial commissional ; be impossible for Japan to sei Japan should be foolhardy er effort to send troops to Eur who would protect the Orien defeated?" he asked. Cork Merchants Because oi (By Associa Cork, Nov. 1.?Merchants z because of the loss of about 5 American sailors. After Sinn ican blue jackets the America venting them from appearing not believed to be safe tor tl Means Indicted Murde Concord. N. C.. Nov. 1.?Th dieted Gaston B. Means, cha Maude King of New York. Means' attorneys immedial venue. Court adjourned unt the point will be argued. Strike in Texas Thousc (By Associa Houston, Texas, Nov. 1.?. 10,000 workers in 10 oil prod result of an order which bee Large Credit Es England (Bv Associa Washington, Nov. 1.?Cret est ever made to an ally, was c purchases of this county up Air Raid on London. London, 12:30 A. M? Nov. 1.?Aircraft crossed the southeast coast in relay between and 11:30 o'clock last nit?ht and proceeded toward l.ondon, says an official statement just issued. "The raid is progressing." the statement added. Additional Subscriptions to Liberty Loan Everybody's Hank of Jonesville, which reported subscriptions aRt?revatinjjc $7 7M) to the Liberty Loan bonds, up to last Thursday secured additional subscriptions as follows: Mi s. J. Ik Lindsay _ _ _ $ 100.00' vv w (: ii lilt "?" T. 1?. Kelly - - r.0.00 Mrs. T. II. Kelly _ . _ . . ">0.00 Miss Ora I'ajre 100.00 C. A. l.ittlejohn _ _ _ _ ~>o.0U Wade .li-ter . _ _ _ - 100.00 M. K. Sams, Jr. . _ _ _ _ >0.00 1 W. E. M. Kirby . _ _ _ -">0.00 T. M. l.ittlejohn _ _ _ - #Jioo.oo $ 1 loo ,'(0 This runs the total up to $XKr>iu?0 subscribed through Everybody's Hank. nd r port Torpedoed J "1 Tk w \ tea rress) merican transport, Finland, sdoed by a submarine, but gn port. The navy depart- _ f life or number of injuries. icked. It is one of the largates flag. lapan rmy to Europe ted Press) jn n Megata, head of the Japarriving here, said it would e> ad an army to Europe. "If to tough to make superhuman C; ope and became exhausted ri1 t if Germany remained un- w th ?Protest * ? T ~ ? nr\ i ? th . ijuss 01 i i aue si ia ted Press) is ire protesting to the mayor ri ?2500 in trade weekly from in Feiners attacked the Amer- = n officer sissued orders prein streets of Cork. It was lem in the streets. For jr of Mrs. Ring s< ted Press) h "" ie county grand jury has in- F trged with murdering Mrs. F< cc tely asked for a change of ? il 2:30, when it is expected J. WJL1 1 1C1US, inds Walk Out p; ted Press) L According to strike leaders r< luction fields left work as a ? :ame effective last night. J :tended By Uncle Sam ted Press) jr lit of $435,000,000, the larg- vv extended to England to cover s] to January 1, 1918. 'j Let Them Smoke. cl Previously reported, __ $4.f>0 \\ Dr. 1). II. Montgomery .2~> Our smoking fund is p;rowinjr hut the hoys would l>e so grieved if they F knew how slow. The contributions ? are purely voluntary and those who X have tfiven, have done it so cheerfully. X Twenty-five cents is such a little hit to you, hut it is to carry joy to our laddies in France. Don't you know a hit of home tohacco, smoked :?,000 miles from home, would taste ^ood to you if you were a smoker? 0 Woman (Jets Legion Honor. cl Paris, Oct. JJ1.?The French ttov- ? eminent has conferred the Legion of p-i Honor decoration on Mrs. Edward Doylies, of New York, in recognition of her work for France. DAILY COTTON REPORT | (J'y McNally Cotton Co., Union, S. C.) December cotton opened at 27.20. 1 Spot cotton 28.85. ^ I.ocal cotton, 27V4. Seed, $70.00. T FALUN RETIREI IS NOW SI 4 pposing Armies at < Points?Italy's Cond Desperate As I (By Associated P War Front, Nov. 1.?T&V Italian g and the opposing fortes are at stween Udine and TagliAmento ri :pected to make their fiSst detern n effort to outflank tlfi Tagliam irnic Alps is apparentl^not resul ipidly while Italian ailny on helmed, the reports frdm Cador ie other armies have retired virtu my is moving towards Carso p ins and war material. 'Emperor e Teuton line to within four lould the Teutons break-through ns be forced to Tagliameuto line t being hurried to them, arrives, tl ver on which to stand. There i g on the Aisne front, artillery Southeast Has Ad< Meatless, Wh< Washington, Nov. l^S&venty)uthea?tern district i&WiillirW lairman, for ISjortn ClSSroiria, So i, lorida, Alabama, Louisiana and ] ood Administrator Hoover. Ben ;nt saving already perfected. Airplanes Make R But Do Li (By Associated 1 London, Nov. 1.?About 30 airj anticipated in last night's air aid. ondon but casualties and damage 3port says. ^aid of Invading A T31~ x\n r la (By Associated 1 London, Nov. 1.?One raid of tl lg airplanes was destroyed near 'ere broken up by barrage fire or kirts of the city. The fourth w 'hames. One or more machines penetra s did some machines or the sixt as dispersed before it reached thi A later report gives the follow aid last night: In the raid eight1 rrench Lost Three Ship; '{By Associated ] Paris, Nov. 1.?French shippin nding October 28 was two ships < nd one smaller one. reutons Increased Of Italia (Ry Associated 1 Berlin, Nov. 1.?The Teutons h >er of Italians captured to 180,0 500 puns, the war office annoui ured the position of the Italians oi nento river, cutting off and capt MENT ACKENING' Grips Several itinn Nnf ac >A tlVAl il VI WV t Was. o U 'ress) ri retirement is slackengrips at several points \ ver where Italians are " lined stand. The Teutento position through s ting in gaining ground a Isonzo front is over- n na's headquarters say tl, tally intact. The third t< lateau got away with Charles is advancing i miles of Tagliamento. J Cardone Alps and Ital- 0 >efore assistance which 11 ley still have the Piava n s little infantry fight- t r In /VVl 4-1 V* /v -l n A ^4-iwvrv y 1& clCLlVe. ==^^======^===^=^^= c Dpted 1 eatless Days j t 'ress) t five per cent of the l ith meatless Tuesdays , & Beaton- -hotel district 1 Sth" CaSf - CieofgraM Mississippi reported to 1 ton estimates a 10 per : aid ' ttle Damage I Dress) i ilanes in seven groups Three of them reach?:1. ; were slight, the official | 1 I I i nes is Futile! i I Press) le first group of invad-i the coast. Two more1, 1 the Southeastern out-! as forced back up the ited Southeast London h group. The seventh b outer part of the city ing account of the air were killed and 21 hurt. * / s Past Week5 Press) g losses for the week j of more than 1(500 tons i I Number ns Captured: Press) ave increased the num00, and they also took iced today. They capn the East lower Tagliauring 60,000. Early Histoi - of i listoric and Interesting of Unionville?Graphi the Old Landmar Since Passe (By Mrs. W. Mixson) (Continued from last Thursday) Another house some distance ou ras built by Mr. William Keenan, wh wned a tan yard out beyond Di lawls' fish pond. This house has bee emodeled and is now the palatu lansion of Col. T. C. Duncan, th ither of our newly elected Secretary Irs. Eaves, Keenan Avenue, leadin p to the house is a part of the ol fnion race track. The Methodist parsonage on Sout treet was spoken of as "Cist's Folly' !ov. Gist was a steward of the churc nd a member of the building con littee, and insisted upon using onl wo bricks' thickness, and othei hought that made the walls too thi o keep out the dampness. Occupying the greater portion c he square where Nicholson Bank an 'rust Company now stands, was tl tome of Col. John L. Young, om udge of I'rol\ate, and the father c ur townsman, the Hon. Macbel 'outig. I have been told that wei ie alive he could give a great dei ?f information about old Union ar he people of Union. A lady told n hat Col. Young showed her a windo ?a very small window in the gab i ?c ? ?..t ?< UU UI iX IIUUSC, UUt W1 WUllll (I ady climbed and slid down the ro< md ran away and got married! Nan liuI location omitted). 50 we see that cupid was at h >ranks then as now. It is to be hop( hat the swain proved his apprsci, ion of the young lady's "steeple-jacl 'eat. The large brick building on Mou vas the residence of Mrs. Joiner, fo nerly Mrs. Hix, the mother of E i?-j?ho^aeEatedvft .-^machine afco ft was in tnis sMp that tne neg [Psxton Joiner) who was lynched ,h ; big gully, plied his trade?ha n been a slave owned by Mrs. Joine The Gages were large proper >v ners in Unionville, the progenib >f the family coming from Irelan D< eds are on record showing th Is. nes Gage owned land here in 170 n 1 John Toch deeded a tract of lai ;o John Gage in 180:5. This was ne: :h ? stream now called Toch's Branc ir 1 which was probably so nam fro mthe Tosch family. Shoaly Crei ri 1 Tosch's branch are different nam fo the same stream. Mills speaks 51 oaly creek and in one of the pla sh wing "Bill Pogan's Land" on Tos th stream at the end of the street 40 called. Mr. Christopher C. Ga (c tiled Kit Gage) inherited most th's land which extended from Jud m< nt street at the court house to t Mineral spring (sometimes spoken as Peake's spring) including what :i?y known :is Gage's Grove, up Ga avenue to South street, beyond t First Presbyterian church southwa .o the Excelsior mills. Johnson. An old deed dated 1785 records la mid by Thomas Taylor to Pav Johnson, and there is a plat dat 1S17 showing 402 acres owned by 1) vid Johnson. The description accoi panying the plat says that the land in Union village, at the head of Toscl branch, adjoining land owned by Jo Gage and Alexander Macbeth. l)a\ Johnson was ordinary for Union d trict, an office that corresponds to th of Probate Judge at the present tin and which office is now held by 1 grandson, W. VV. Johnson. Mr. Johns held nearly every office within the g of the people of his county?w judge of the common courts, judge the court of appeals, made chancelh Carolina. He married Miss Bar ha Herndon, and many of their descer ants are living in Union at the pr< cnt time, and several of them a members of the Fairforest chapter A. II. tracing their ancestral 1 ir hack through him to his father, Gi Johnson at one time owned and liv in the old house back of the coi house, afterwards owned by A. Thomson. Abraham Nott also oc< pied this house at one time. Coven Johnson died in 18f>o and is buried the old Presbyterian cemetery by t side of his wife. A handsome marl shaft marks his last resting place, marble bust of Governor Johnson owned by W. W. Johnson, and a hai some oil painting of Mrs. Barbs Herndon Johnson is in the posssossi of Mrs. Julia Thomas, her grai daughter. ry Union County Incidents of the Old Days c Discription of Some of ks That Have Long >d With Time. Clowney. Among the prominent men of Union ^ whose name deserves special mention o is the Hon. Wm. Kennedy Clowney. He was reared in the Fairforest conr. . gregation, received his degree at j South Carolina College and taught a classical school in Union village. He married Miss Jane Beattie of York ^ and settled in Unionville. He repre, sented his district in Congress, was State senator in 1840 and served two n terms of lieutenant governor. He was ? in the legislature with my great grandfather, Elijah Watson. Sr., and I have recently seen an old paper at my aunt's in Ridge Spring, with both 's their names in it. It was at the ren quest of Col. Clowney that a committee was appointed by Presbytery to rc^ organize the church in the village and . he served as elder as long as he was able. 10 >e Eison. ,f Christian Eison, formerly spelled h Isom, was one of the first settlers of e Union; according to an old deed he owned land here in 1808. It extendltj ed from the rock quarry down to where Ottaray mills now stand, and w further out on Tinker's creek, back of j., the present ice factory. The family , , settled in the eastern part of the vil-,f large and their home stood where Mrs. ,e A. II. Foster's residence now is, with a blacksmith shop across the street. Some of his descendants now live in _.fj the edge of town?among them J. J. a_ Eison, a brave Confederate soldier, ;?? descended on his mother's side from Golden Tinslcy of Revolutionary fame, n_ who was with Col. Williams at King's r_ Mountain. Jacob Eison hauled rock ir from his quarry and helped to build v jn skirts of Union is "Htfl Crest Toe v. home of the late Major J. W. McLure, a descendant of the McDure family of Chester, who were loyal or Whigs, and brave followers of Sumter (] in the war of the Revolution. This house was owned and occupied 19 by old Sheriff Johnson, father of Capt. ,uj Dick Johnson. He and Sheriff Macar beth served their county alternately as h sheriff every four years, it being e(] against the law for the sheriff to sue pfc et'uu niiiiM'U iui mure iiicin une it*i in. es So they had an amicable agreement 0f between themselves, and nobody ints terfered. ch Schools, is The Female Academy and the Brick ge Male Academy. ?f The deed conveying the land where these schools stood is on record at ie the court house and shows that, for ?f the consideration of $.'100 paid by the s trustes, Robt. J. Gage, I). Wallace, J. J. Pratt and Dr. Jas. Dogan and he A. W. Thomson, the said property was r'l conveyed by Z. P. Ilerndon to the trustees and their successors forever. Dated Feb. 20, 18r>0. The school build"d ings, however, were older than that, 'hi The female academy was an old ricked etty wooden building on the site of 'a* the presnt Central School. One of 111 - the first teachers in this academy was s Rev. Ij. W. Curtis, who came from h'-s Massachusettes in 18l0, to serve the h'i Presbyterian church. At another time, 'Id the school was taught by the Rev. J. is- I). McCullough, and later by the Rev. iat Colin Murchison of the Methodist ie? church. It seemed to be the custom in 1's those days that the preacher should oa also be the teacher. 'ft Some of the women who taught in as the Female academy were Miss Harof low, Miss Reed. Miss Halttie Young or. Miss Sallie Graham, Miss Mary Poulith ton, who married Col. T. N. Dawkins. ra and Miss Elizabeth Grimball who marid ried William Munro, attorney at law. ?s- In 1804 Judge I). A. Townsend took ire charge of both academies, and his 1 ). wifp I tontrina t!iii<rVit Ci\v ios awhile with him. The Brick Academy [>v. was closed the last of the War Heed tween the States, for teacher and stunt dents volunteered for service in the W Confederate army. iu- In iso!) the school was opened again lor and Mr. Townscnd was assisted by in Capt. F. M. Farr. he In 1871 Dr. IK C. Clifford come to hie serve the Unionville church and he A and Mrs. Clifford taught in both is schools until 1881, when they estabid lished Clifford Seminary, a boarding ira school for girls. The two academies ion were then combined and the first pubid lie schools were opened. The Male i l a. \ J (VUMUIIUCU UM larn, '