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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE .Editor Registered at the Postoffice In Union, S. C. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Three Months .40 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. \ THURSDAY, DKCKMliKR <5, HUT. A man who stops a gully is as worthy of remembrance as is the man who builds a tunnel or constructs a railway. Doth will receive the commendation of posterity. Get your orchard in order, Mr. Fruit Grower. Trim up, clean up, get at the worms now. Next summer you will reap the reward. Fruit, plenty of fruit, next season, will help wonderfully. It did help and is now helping from last year's bountiful crop. If you could go over your life, what are some of the changes you would make? Maybe it is not too late to change now. The devil always leads a man to think it does not matter; then after it does matter, he hastens to impress upon you the idea that it * is now too late. Some men have a habit of becoming angry when asked to pay a just debt. Others pay, hut pay grudgingly. Thic So ti'VAnir ?lnn/l contracted have a way of coming to payday. If it hurts so severely to pay, better not make any debts. If you can't pay, do the next best thing, pay a part, and keep trying. Don't blame the other fellow for calling fo:' his own. You were light of heart when the debt was made. Be light of heart while the debt is being paid. The farmer who raises an extra hog the coming year will be just as much a protector of his country as will a man who fires a cannon. The farmer who raises an extra bushel of wheat this year may, in so doing, be as valuable in winning the war as is the soldier on the battle front. Every man must do his part. It is not so spectcular a part, this part that the farmer plays in the game; but it is conceded to be an essential part, and if that means anvthintr it menne his part, if neglected will cause the loss of all.. The war will end soon, or it will end late?it will have to end sometime. In the mean time go on with your work! Do not slacken your pace; do not surrender; do not give up. Af-! ter all, the real issue of success liesj not in attaining hut attempting. This | is a great day for men to attempt something; something big, something really worth while. There are more ideas floating around loose today than ever before in the world's his. tory. It does seem that all the thought of all the ages is being churned up, distributed, measured. A man now with an empty head should be locked up as being an idiot. Someone has said: "(Icnius is an immense capacity for taking pains," and under this definition there is hope for all. A man's potential self nnd his actual experimental self, are, we know, often far apart. There is Tiardly one of us that would claim to have done our best, our dead level best, i If we did make the claim we would be but common ordinary liars, for in i our heart we know full well that we i have done no such thing. We are < ready to make excuse for ourselves, to be sure. We had such poor oppor- I tunities, we were not gifted as some ' other individual was; we inherited this 1 or that or the other, and hence our 1 way to success was barred. All of i which is mere nonsense. We know ' full well who is really to blame for ( our failures, our lack of measuring: ' up to a high standard. We know that the blame lies upon our own heads. We were not willing to pay the price in effort; we loved the easy way; we failed to use the presented openings; we just did not keep steadl- J ly, doggedly, unflinchingly on the job. That's the true reason for our fall- j ing short. And when we face the : question squarely we come to feel ' the sense of guilt and shame that is justly our portion for our failures. ( EXPERIENCE ENLARGES ONE'S HORIZON. When you were a little boy you played in a deep hole down in the cow pasture and you thought it a very big hole. You journeyed further over towards the outer rim of the big fenced in tract of land and climbed upon a very big rock. Dig as a house, you adjudged bdth the hole and the rock. You finally, through the process of years you grew to manhood, you moved away from the old home and the hole and the rock were forgotten?almost. But when you did think of them, both remained in your memory as big things. It was a big hole; it was a big rock that the pas- j turn contained. After many years you came back to the old haunts. Changes you see all about you. yet things have a familiar appearance, too. Finally you think of the boyhood play places, the big hole and the big rock. Wending your way to these childhood delights you look upon the "deep hole" ; and, behold! it has shrunk to a mere skeleton of its former self. You pass on to the "big rock" and, behold, it has diminished to so great an extent that you stand in amazement at its base. You feel that it is so small that you could leap over it, thus showing your contempt for it. Yet, in your heart you realize that the hole is just as big as it ever was; that the rock is just as large as it was twenty years before. Then you make the startling discovery that it is in yourself that the change has taken place. You realize that your horizon has widened your vision broadened during the twenty years of journeying to and fro and up and down in the earth. Perhaps you have looked over the precipice at Caesar's Head or down into the Grand Canon of the West. Perhaps you have looked into the face of more than one towering mountain peak or seen rocks that covered acres and acres of ground. Your experience has given you a different standard of measurement. You have been familiar with big things in a more vital more experimental way ( *than you ever experienced in the days of boyhood. Experience broadens a ' man, gives him a bigger outlook, breaks down many of his cherished , memories, builds something bigger, better than the thing destroyed. One of the results of this process ' is the increasing ability to form a ' clearer judgment upon vital questions. A man can see more than one side of a question .sometimes a multiplicity of sides to it, with the piling up of the years. The cocksure spirit of youth gives place to a more cautious spirit. The measurements need to be readjusted. A road appears to be far . shorter to a man of mature mind than ' it does to the child mind. Experience ' has wrought the change. Hut while the distance has grown shorter, the j way may appear far more dangerous I to the mature mind, for the steep prec- f ipice and the dangerous bog are morti 1 fully grasped by the mature mind. 1 Some times one wonders what the f experiences of eternity will be. Space, a distance, relative size?surely one will pet an enlarged and an onlarpcinfr vision. The very vastness of the preat c deep! It fills one with awe, and upon * realization, it will probably make t many earthly objects and experiences t shrink up to a very great degree. Many of the earthly objects of pursuit will, no doubt, likewise assume a very different degree of importance, or will fade to utter insignificance, How big, suppose you, will appear the hoardings of a lifetime to a man who looks back to the earthly experiences from an infinite environment? The little, petty spites and ambitions; the 3harp practices, the shrewd manipulations carried on while upon the earth, will they not look small indeed from that viewpoint? , New Hope Dots. New Hope, Dec. 5??We are having I what we call beautiful weather, as n Sunday was such a fine day for the fl time of the year. S Guess everybody had a fine Thanks- n giving, though t*iefrain in the morn- K ing spoiled some of the day. It passed K off very quietly in our community, ? very little hunting was done. . ? We were glad to know that the ladies of the Baptist church made a good sum for their new church. Everybody reported a fine dinner and we wish them much success with the new church. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Whitlock and family of Spartanburg spent Thanksgiving with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Whitlock. Miss Madge Free of Jonosville takes up her duties of assistant teacher at j 1 Bishop school this morning, which i we are all glad to hear. Mr. T. J. Bishop took Thanksgiving dinner with Mr. and Mrs. I.ester Beeves of Cedar Grove community and reported a fine dinner. Mr. R. W. Scott and Mr. Allan McWhirter of Jonesville were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bishop Sunday afternoon. We are sorry to learn that Telephone is sick. We miss his letters and we hope he will soon be well agaTii. Mr. Dewitt Whitlock of Spartanburg visited in this community Sunday and he brought with him four soldier boys from Spartanburg to Jonesville. where thev snont. the d:iv. We are glad to know the people invited them out. to their homes as they seem to enjoy all the hospitality shown them. Mrs. Carrie Brown of GafTney visited relatives 111 this community last week. Vero. NEW HOPE Kelton, Dec. 4.?The weather has moderated considerably in the last 21 ~ hours, and looks now as if we might j have a good rain. Forrest Wood of Woflford Fitting School spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Bessie Wood. He had with him as his guest Mr. Will McIvowan. Rev. "J. D. Croft, his two children v< and tK7s writer motored to Cedar Springs Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Eva Garner, who is saleslady i f at J. J. I.ittljeohn & Co., in Jones- j ville, spent Sunday with her mother, q Mrs. Winnie Sanders. 1 Mr .Thornton of I.ockhart has been j secured to fill the position as principal at the Kelly school to take the M place of Prof. Langford, resigned. jt Measles is again raging in our com- ^ munity. It seems as if some contagious disease gets into the schools every year to prevent the children from attending regularly. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Sumpter Garner is very ill. The Sp child fell, injuring itself, so that they fear it will prove fatal but we surely hope not. P{ John M. Little, his son and daughter motored to Spartanburg Sunday ^ to attend nrenchinc services Richard Fowler is having his house, bte 'tore and gin installed with electric ^1 lights. I heard that several more in air community are going to have ls lights in their homes. "Wild Rose." Li Married Men Accepted. r I Savannah, (la., Dec. .r>, 1017. ^ \rniy Recruiting Oflieer, Vli Spartanburg, S. C. Accept for .'58 engineers National no Army eligible applicants who present ^a hemselves with written or telegranhie mthority from an engineer ollicer. "'end accepted applicants to depot for ro Milistments for this reginvfnt. Mar- ^a ied men may be accepted for all ^ ranches of the army on same basis ?'( >f single men during the period of en mergency. . Resume recruiting for Stevedore 18 ogiment for colored quartermaster orps and for cavalry white regular v" irniy until further instructions. ^ (live wide publicity to acceptance of n. narried men. Cheever. The Actor?And how do you think clr Itormington-Barnes played the king? us rhc Critic?Oh, rather as if he tel hought some one was going to play coi he ace!?Passing Show. CHRISTMAS You will find everyth suitable for even ITWIsmeT SANTA CLAUShas Con TVT--1 TT * C rsecKwear, xaosiery, c and hundreds of othe Do Your Christmas McClure raooDs I I j y . . JJOT. v ffiSfi J OT. I.I.- T.-: .-anairiira^l S j A tp* c -l iif y I ae btore p >*i h:* iji.j that is wcii H-htcvl i> iff? fs,Ji invariably the mosl vj* prosperous. i'H k-*Y-*V r*tT7^',,t,n if &/, jL> \yo'-Lf-LUV.*, y,j will li-'lu your store, ? : - t?i ;;i r'y P?wcr I * l he r ,1 grinder, electa ic fans and ij;1 . . i.ia. r store ctr..i >mcnt. It fit l\ Is the nui-i rellaU- heme fe ) {( cI <Mric plant made. A jtfcl i -| child can operate it. Runs W' i,,i on gasoline, kerosene or 11? ! *J ?>as- V'illpay for it i. in a Li A short lime, Let us den on- j^3 lh] strain its wonderful value. J|jl Ij /'J HOME LIGHT AND M , POWER CO. M Q f Charlotte N. C . ^ ^ lonor Roll of the i Jonesville School. The honor roll of the Joneville raded schools for the month of No;mber is as follows: Tenth grade?Everett Williams. Ninth grade?Eva I lames, Eva weed, Eighth grade?Mary Black, Mary ault, Veta Ilughes. Alice Sams, jrah Scott, .Tulia P(/ter. Seventh grade?Mary Wilks Brown, 'ary Chambers, Catherine Calvert, llian Calvert, Helen Gault,, Annie ay Hughes, Ethel Long, Herbert cLaughlin, iJouise Page. Sixth grade?Loye Johnson', Joseline Roger, Lena Kerr, Guy Mason, jdman Porter, Leila Smith, ""Florence >rouse. Fifth grade?John Scott. Fourth grade?Crystal Littlejohn, _ :arl McKinney, Blanche McKinney, jlen Porter, Josephine Scott, Horace illiams. * Third grade?Mary Emma Mc- 1 lughlin, Byrd Austell, Willie Hames, p. irrie Belle Davis. jf Second grade?Virginia Wood, Dor- re West, Dorothy Scott, Earl Gore, Ci ith Hames. Emma O'Shields, Tom ttlejohn. First grade?Helen Bates, Forest irgess, Lula Fowler, Ruth Haile, ora Lee Kelly, Dorcus Sams, John illiams, Eugenia Smith, Leora Be?, George Smith, Lena Gault. ^ The attendance for the entire school su twithstanding the fact that we la ve hull some lm/1 U'nn li ny wno CI limit li per cent of the entire enrollment, |J' (1 4,r> per cent of the pupils en- j>, lied have been neither absent or rdy. The enrollment is constantly n owinp, and a new teacher has been ?cted to take care of the increased rollment. This will brinpr the far- so t.v up to nine teaches. The school d doinpr pood work. New equ*T>Tnent er s heeen added, and with a view to- th ird makinp the school more efficient- 1(>; serve the real needs of the people, new department is under considersm by the Board. The officials urpje that we keep in so touch with our school. Let make it a vital force of moral, inlectual and physical uplift in the mmunity. C. D. Guess, Supt. ? i WILL soon ting you need for a PRE! r member of the family down to the baby. OF USEFUL ARTICLES, AND AT LIVE 1 made his Union Headqi le and Let Us Show Yc Stationery, Candies, Bo r useful articles. Shopping at Our Store i Ton font 1U1 vein \j\ BnawaaaHnaDHHiH Satisfy Once Inside a Pa You Fdel Go< If you are hard to difficult to fit; if you < and satisfied only wit become acquainted ^ Our Painstaking Our Shoes are selec Manufacturers of i We are in position to Shoe that is just sui need. Just A GREY BOOTS 9 inches high with Lcmis Heels A COMPLETE ... KINDS O Flynn-A Shoe Where You'll E Your Jo. 666 rhil ia a prescription prepared especially r MALARIA or CHILLS 6. FEVER. ive or six doses will break any case, and taken then as a tonic the Fever will not J turn. It acta on the liver better than I ilomel and doea cot gripe or aicken. 25c There's one thing about the phono aph?it's put the old-fashioned enrtainer out of business. 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