Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|| REV. W. D. WAI mmmmmmmm^mma^mmmmammamamm^mmmmmmm Our Semi-/ Mantis SHIRT Starts 1 I January 9th and 1 ' Till Saturday, Jan Regular Price ? $ 1.75 Shirt! 2.00 2.50 > - 3.00 3.50 4.00 5.00 While and Dress Shirts One Lot Manhattan $1.75 Shirt 2.00 After Jan. 2< Price Will 1.1 rw CgJP The House of Let Me Do You I have bought out the Wallace Williams, at Ft prepared to do Fir^t Cte able Prices. ! WORK OIL* Bring me your sick Cas and let me dodtor them. J. Herma Phone < Barber Shops to Close Early The barber shops in the city have agreed to open at 7:30 o'clock each c< morning and close at 7:30 o'clock it each evening, except Saturday, when e< the hour for closing will be 11 o'clock. All the barber shops have signed the agreement and the step was taken to a " p conserve fuel as much as possible, and c the public will please take note of the f hours they are on duty. 2-Zt. 6 ? . V KEFIELDI V ? Misi ' ... AT ... \ dvesi 5 Mrs (BaptistChurch \ trom > Mr iy Morning 11 O'clock > itor t( Subjccl; 5 Mis ins ot the Times" ? ,s^ ie Present War in the j chase ol Prophecy. jj Mr >u are urged to hear j was' Serman. ? Cai j was i ubject Sunday 8 H. ning 7:30 O*clock \ ville "The Itiv: Unpardonable | '^;h Sin" \ Mi / ville iccial Music \ *Z Eth( pinp Annual * & son. ittan h Eav SALE 5 Ma May s Will Continue ?f1 sp( uary the 26th d" re1 Sale Price * s $1.35 p1' 1.65 ju i.95 :: 2.25 * 2.85 * 3.15 bl sc til are Not Included. m d( Plaited Shirts: s $1.00 1-25 s . Y 5, Regular Prevail. * HEN Economy ' t o ir Vulcanizing! Vulcanizing Shop of jj ister's Shop, and am iss Work at Reasonlranteed /. ings and Inner Tubes I Will Cure Them. n Smith )3 A Family Cough Remedy The almost universal use of nar>tic drugs in cou^h remedies makes , worth while to know of a safe remfly that is free from these habit irming drugs. K-W Brand Cough Syrup is such remedy. It relieves promptly and ermanently. We call it the family ough remedy because it is as safe or children as adults. Price 25c, Oc and $1.00. Peoples Drug Co. ?:? , fl) Coming and Going:. ] 3 Clara Burton is visiting relain the city. Tan! i W. T. Powell is improving a recent illness. J M. V. Goin of Kelton was a vis- 'UGjj 0 the city on Monday. 1 s Elizabeth Cobb, of Greenwood "?r^ guest of friends in the city. r ! Standard Oil Company has pur- in]a.; d a new up-to-date oil wagon. eroe,, . G. H. L. Robinson of Buffalo, d nj? 1 visitor to Union on Monday. decl PifhnrH O'Neill, nf Columbia ,n the city this week on business. . ,n i w E. Brewinpton, of Simpson- run is spending sometime with rela- est in the city. baa s. R. L. Sexton left for Colum- n< Wednesday to spend a few days 1 * tier parents. iea iss Virginia Benton, of Carters- 3e , Ga., is spending some time with ^ iives in the city. ;a< iss Louise Faucett and Miss ;1 Wallinp of Shelton were shop- rec in the city Tuesday. ig f rs. W. F. Gault has returned to home in Gaflfney after a visit to?. parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Col-^j jc [iss Edith Willing ham returned^Jj ier school in Columbia after spend-' the holidays with friends in Union.Tjl [rs. T. C. Duncan and Mrs. Donald | 'es are in Columbia this week to I "Everywoman" at the Columbia I atrp ? | liss Anna L. Sinkler of Eutaw-'f C e will arrive next week to visit** sister, Mrs. Elias Prioleau on E?| in street. J Catherin Gray, the little daughtee# . and Mrs. Charlie Hames is quitA c at the home of her parents, on Sj. 0 arch street. I p Ion. hnd Mrs. Lowndes Browning Sedalia have returned home aftelr t( mding the holidays with their chil- e ?n, Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Adams i\i ishington. f 8 Mr. L. V. Porter of Havana, Gfa., jj turned to his home Saturday after n visit to relatives in this county. He t in the mercharvdise business at that ice. * a Mr. M. F. Bailey of Sedalia, has t< st returned from a visit to hia son, jt Camp Sevier, in Greenville.j He v ys people should go to see \floar * autifully the streets rap of paper, not any sign of nefe- e, ct anywhere to be seen. Mr. M. W. Bailey, of Sedalia R. 1 K ought us a sample of sorghum, and n >me of the molasses from his crop ^ lis year. Both are of fine quality, a r. Bailey says the sugar question tl >es not trouble him, he will eat mosses. B II At Hotel Union. c Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1918. ('has. Moore, Baltimore; W. M. g cott, Virginia; C. Werner, New t ork City; D. G. Dillard and brother, I ity; L. Trompetter, Philadelphia, 1 a.; J. Stephoney, N. C.; C. Seairott, * f C.; W Bearden, Greenville, S C,; lyde Boy, Greenville, S. C.; R. 0. ficle, Columbia, S. C.; F. H. Hyatt, c olumbia, S. C. c ' ** ' e flany Registrants Classified < i One thousand, six hundred and c eventy-nine (l,f>79) registrants have * eon classified, which is sixty-six pet J ent of those that registered. ; Five hundred and eigthy-sevei a 587) registrants, which is thirty* 1 hree and one-haif per cent of those ? hat have been classified are in clasa J ne (1). EDISONIA 4 tjl TODAY THOMAS A. EDISON < Presents i i Shirley Mason 1 ... IN ... i Cy Whittaker's Ward ; Admission: , 5, 10 and 15c / Don't Fall to See the Last Episode of "FATAL RING" Saturday. v vxj ,4' rToRDEAL OF GRAMMAR. How It Came to Be Inflicted Upon an Unoffending Public. ! The world reached its highest known tage of intelligence before grammar [was even invented, much less studied. ! I have had some curiosity to tiiul out Where and how so great a blight upon young life first came into being and thy it ever beci. no a school study. j id I And that the tlreeks knew it t hot; that their triumphant literature ? knd their matchless oratory came to f" Bower before grammar was dreamed f of; that it was not in any sense one E of the great arts which they wrought m out and with which they armed the human race. ^ I find that after Greece had declined m a barbarous Macedonian made himself the owner of all Egypt, and in order to urround himself with the most spec- t! tacular form of ostentation of which his vain mind could conceive lie set to ^ collecting not only all the rare and %g| precious objects and books and ninnu p icripts there were in the world, but lie 1 capped it all by making a collection of \ the living men of the world who had mv r#nn?.iHnii r.? 1 ? ?j ...... .. uuiu lur iwiuvk lllg ind thinking. Taking them from their tomes whore thoy had some relation lo the daily necessities of human bongs and had really been of some use. to shut them up lor life in one of his )alaces at Alexandria, which tlie folks :here were In tlie liahit of calling "the lencoop of the muses," and out of iheer desperation, since they could do lotbiug better to amuse themselves. ___ hey counted the words in the books Krhich real men had written and pre>ared tables of the forms and endings vhich the users of words employed. The lifeless dregs of books which g^ heir distilling left we now call gramnar and study instead of books and >ven speech Itself. In 'heir lowest lepth of indifference to the moving. Dun tulsing life of man not even the Alex- ti indrlans sank so low as that.?Ernest 3. Moore in Yale Review. CaT( ARMY DOCTORS. T?h Y "heir Great 8ervices to the World and qUjr to Medicine. .... acta War has always had a great influence gerv n medicine, iirst developing the priest hysiciun, then the barber surgeon and ?* ^ iter the army medical olilcer. In war- on * Lme 1'ere devised the ligature for ar- ion, erles, although he was not the first to days mploy it. Clus Napoleon, who was often at a loss to an(j nnnln fit " iii.-? uimjf wini iooa, mauo . . wards, which, from an empiric and p " ractical standpoint, developed caning and the preservation of food ho the ore bacteria were known. the < The American medical profession Di fill ever be under obligation to our 1916 rmy medical officers for their services > the world In the discoveries of nil- p ^ lerous diseases, their causes and pre ention, said Dr, Charles II. Mayo in n address reported In the New York (Set ledical Journal. T< Our army medical officers stand pre Hug mlnent In science. To Beaumont we or t re Indebted for the first report on di- hur cation, digestive lluids and gastric nQw lovement from direct observation of a atlent with gastric fistula. To Sur- ' eon General Williaip Hammond we this re Indebted for the development of mon lie army medical museum. copy ^Surgeon J. R. Billings fostered the the econd largest and the best medical for brary In the world. Surgeon General jJnic Iternberg discovered the pneumoeocus and founded the army medical 0 eliool and the government laboratories ant' f bacteriology and hygiene. Under iternberg^H administration Major Waler Reed, with James Carroll, Jesse W. U .azear and Arlstlde Agramonte, proved he mosquito to be the agent transmit Ing yellow fever. jrt / < f A Typewriting Tip. > Having occasion to measure a cirumference that figured out to tenths I)R. ?f an Inch and not having a rule mark- n( d to these divisions, says J. Claude p Jrews In the Popular Science Monthly, tried the following means of overoming the difficulty: Going to a typevrlter, I made a row of periods, with n1 iach tenth one a comma to show full e: nches. This gave me a rule marked ft n tenths, also one that could be bent irouml shafting, collars, etc. As near- a] y all typewriters make ten spaces to in Inch, It Is an easy matter to accow>llsh what seems to be a difficult Job n is Blissful Occupation. N The little boy had told a little girl ? hat he loved her, and the teacher or- 10 i lered him to write "I love liessie" on 3. he blackboard 100 times. j, "But that was no punishment," said p hp teacher later. "He would cheerfully have written it 1,000 times."? * touisville Courier-Journal. n ? ai Tactless. a "Is Mr. Flubdub busy?" asked the a llffldent customer. 4 "Mr. Flubdub is always busy," re- p died the pompous attendant. "Well, let him stay busy." And that's bow Mr. Flubdub lost a big order.? ^ uouisvHio courier-Journal. i< a Hard Ones Too. d Little Willie?Wlmt's the name of }l Lbe feller what calls on yer sister? (>i Little Johnny?I don't know yet. Pop tils him something different every - tine he comes.?Exchange. FOl , He Explains. I "How did you get rid of all your F tttney?" , "Some of It I was touched for and lq* *<*ae of It I was tagged for."?Ixmls- ^ wk Courier-Journal. tt If * ~ r Cosmopolitan. 8ead Barber?Have you any partlcn- S It* choice in shaving mugs? First As- -? slstant?Not a bit. I shave them all. YO if C f/ YOU Wi I when you pay bills w | record of your finajici I receipts. 1 Why not adopt a sy ? ?a Checking Account m Vou will know exact money is spent and y< Hi receipts for every do! Nicholson, "rcKident. Summons For Relief. (Complaint Served), ie of South Carolina, County of Union. Court of Common Pleas, ican Sams, as Trustee, etc., Plainff, against olina Hill Hughes, Defendant. the Defendant, Caroline Hill ughes: ou are hereby summoned and reed to answer the complaint in this on, of which a copy is herewit ed upon you, and to serve a copy our answer to the said complaint he subscriber at his office at Un South Carolina, within twenty ? after the service hereof, ex- < ive of the day of such service; J if you fail to answer the com- ( it within the time aforesaid, th" i itiff in this action will apply t Court for the relief demanded in complaint. ited Union, S. C., Dec. 19, A. D. I. J. Ashby Sawyer, Plaintiff's Attorney. J. Williams, Clerk of Court, il) By J. W. G., D. C. > the Defendant, Caroline Hill hes, and to any child or children he husband of said Caroline Hill hes, if any such living and she be dead. ike Notice: That the complaint in action, together with the Sums, of which the foregoing is a r, were duly filed in the office of Clerk of Court of Common Pleas Union County, South Carolina, at >n Court House, South Carolina, on 19th day of December, A. D. 1917. are now on file in said office. J. Ashby Sawyer,* Plaintiff's Attorney, nion, S. C.., Dec. 19. 1917. 51-6 iPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS i k\\\\VVVV\\\V\\NV\\V\Wi HUIET'S Cough Syrup will ever fail on that cold. Sold at aimetto nrug l o . U GET THE BEST work duo at ly shops, because I employ only ?pert pressors and cleaners, there>re the very best work is turned ut of my shop that you can pel nywhere. I guarantee satisfacon. Phone 1G7 for your wants in ly line?your work will he apprecited. C. C. Hames' Pressing Club, iicholson Bank Building. SMALL FARMS FOR SALE? -4' Mile from Monarch. No. 1?9 -4 Acres, $50 per acre. Sold to G. . Godshall. No. 3?10 1-5 acres 37.50 per acre. No. 5?12 8-10 cres $37.00 per acre. No. 7?15 cres $37.50 per acre. No. 9?11 cres $47.50 per acre. No. 10?23 cres $47.50 per acre. No. 8?19 -10 acres $47.50 per acre. No. 0? 7 acres $37.50 per acre. No. 4? 5 acres $37.50 per acre. No. 2? 1-4 acres $40.00 per acre. Sold > G. P. Godshall. The above farms re nicely located for truck and airy farms. Terms 1-3 cash, balnce in one and two years at X per ent per annum. Citizens Real Es;\te & Loan Co. R GRIPPE and colds, take Dr. luiet's Grippe Capsules, sold at 'almctto Drug Co. ST?One Gold Link Wrist Watch. 'rirrrovft/1 An irtoi/ln orn Inftnra Will to Effie." Liberal reward if eturned to W. II. Sartor, Union, !. C. at. U CAN pet it at Palmetto I)rup Jo., if it is drups you want. WCHOLSON 1ANK&TRUSTO? UNrON. J-.C.1E \STE TIME ith currency, you have no al transactions and often no ^ stematic, time-savinpr method | , with this bank? R ly how. when and where your !S >u will also have indisputable | liar paid out. M J Itoy Fant. M. A. Moore, I Vice President Cnshier J YOU WILL always find the best of service in all departments, at the Palmetto Drug Co. MONEY on real estate on long and easy terms. J. E. Minter, Financial Cor. Union County. YOU WILL always find the best of service in all departments, at the Palmetto Drug Co. FOR SALE?Sanitary Iron Folding Beds, with mattress to fit, only $20.00 .worth $.'10.00. Cooper Furniture Exchange, 27 Main St., Union, S. C. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's. The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 60 cents. | Croup is Dangerou^ You should be prepared to drive it away when the first symptoms appear. Thousands of mothers have learned that a safe and sure remedy to keep on ^ hand is MOTHER'S JOY CROUP AND C ll| VF PNEUMONIA kjil LV L Applied externally to the I throat and chest, it quickly penetrates to the seat of the trouble, brinpinp prompt relief and eliminating dan per of congestion or pneumonia. Soothinp, warminp and harmless to Doctors recommend it; pood B druppists sell it. 2oc and fiOc B jars. Keep a jar on hand for I emerpency. (loose Grease Co., B Take A Bottle of Dr. M. D. Huiet's Cough Syrup For Sore Throat and you will rejoice at the results. For Sale at the PALMETTO DRUG CO. ? . . . _ ? i NOTICE TO COLORED PEOPLE! Use Noah's Hair Dressing. ?? Noah's is a most superb hair dressing and intended to preserve, beautify and restore the Hair and keep it in a smooth, prlossy condition; elegantly perfumed; at all drupe stores. If your dealer cannot supply you send 25c in stamps to Noah's Products Corporation, Richmond, Va., and we will send you liberal sized can. m m \ False friends are mure to he drend ed than open enemies. A dog who bark is more than his bite is not much of a dog.