Newspaper Page Text
! m THE UNION TIMES (Ml WEEKLY EDITION VOL.LJCVII.NO. 43. UNION, S. C., Til UlJSbAY, OCTOBKK 25, 1917 Si 50 A YEAH * LARGE NUMBER ( RUSHED T Italians Show Steady N< ports German Retrea Line?British C Their Po: (By Associat War Front, Oct. 25.?Cadori resulted in brilliant achieves are being put to the test agains who were rushed to that theati trians. While Teutons report ward positions in first thrust t 6,000 prisoners. Cadorna rep prepared" for Teuton offensivi mans retreating from Northe Saturday and continues, also i ing all roads, bridges and buit guard of the Russians has lost The French have pushed fon front, but seemingly on nar great success of Tuesday. Ps ators forced out of action. Th their position under more fav (By Associat London, Oct. 25.?The Lon Daily Mail studying the Irish s is on the verge of rebellion ar ? - ? - - lieved to be operating in par] the government is afraid of tl (By Associat Petrograd, Oct. 25.?The evs of naval base of Krostadt beg ?????? (By Associat Jassi, Rumania, Oct. 25.?R end for the restoration of th Queen Marie told the Associa the great aid being rendered realized and fully appreciated, (By Associat Washington, Oct. 25.?Cottc 18th is 5,571,000 bales?count 43,000. South Carolina ginnet (By Associat Washington, Oct. 25.?It is ii that Liberty Loan sales have Diiiion dollar mark, If not mo the country said the various co with applications and it is beli yesterday will not be known closes. (By Associat Petrograd, Oct. 25.?A pri ment, newspapers say, soon v Romanoff family. Particular i question of eventual banishmt (By Associat Washington, Oct. 25.?The e commissions to brokers, comn tioneers of food has been prov going into effect November 1 signed to protect the consume market on consignment. SECOND LIBERTY LOAN S MORE THAN THREE AN (By Associat Washington, Oct. 25.?The vinced that the second Libert} three billion mark and well on mark. Cheered by the stimuli workers throughout the coun forts. The big celebration in account of the bad weather w: marine and British tank aided York and the Liberty Bell he delphia parade. iERMANS 0 AID AUSTRIA irve?Petrograd Re; it at Northern End ? Consolidating ! iitions. i ed Press) ( t O cl/lll o nrl of vof Arvir iirUi^U ila. oiviii aim onavcgj winuil j tents on the Italian front >t a large force of Germans -e to bolster the losing Austhey took only three forhey claim to have captured orted Italians "steady and e. Petrograd reports Gerrn end of line was begun that Germans are destroydings in their wake. Van; touch with them at times, yard again on the Aisne rower front than marked iris reports 25 Teutoji aviie British are consolidating orable weather conditions. ed Precs) don correspondent of the ituation, says West Ireland orlrl tv?i IV* auuo uiciill X' 1C1U1C1S ue- s liament, which shows that > lem. c ed Press) c icuation by civil population J an today. -- * _____ < ed Press) 1 umania will fight to bitter j e rights of small nations, 1 ted Press today. She said t by the United States was j < . ) ed Press) 1 >n ginned prior to October s ;ing running as half bale, f I 580,000. r ed Press) ? idicated at 11 o'clock today t reached three and one-half 1 re. Reports from all over r mmittees have been flooded ieved the total obtained on r until after the campaign y 1 t ed Press) i eliminary Russian parlia- j /ill discuss the fate of the ittention will be given the j from tVio nnnnffu V V1AA V11V vutllltx J . ed Press) elimination of the excessive lission merchants and aucided by special regulations 1st. The movement is der and producer shipping to WEEPS COUNTRY; D HALF BILLION MARK ed Press) treasury officials are coni Loan Bonds will pass the 1 l the way to the five billion i is given campaign day, the 1 try are renewing their ef- i the East was postponed on ? ill be held today. The subl in the celebration in New \ Id first place in the Phila- 1 POOD PLEDGE WEEK BEGINS SUNDAY Nation-Wide Movement in Which Everybody Can Help?Not to Eat Less But More Wisely. (By Associated Press) Washington, Oct. 25.?With Nationd Food Pledge Week only a few days >fl\ the Food Administration today mnounced that its army of half a mil-i ion men and women volunteer canvas-f ;ers is mobilized and ready for the^ ampaign under the various State ?ood Administrators. Food Pledge Week begins Sunday, October 28 and ends November 4. The 500,000 canvassers reported on i piciiiuiiiuiy survey several uays ago hat they were sure to get the signaures of approximately 1:1,000,000 tousewives to the Food Pledge. A riillion and a quarter of the country's 12,000,000 housewives already have signed the card promising to conserve 'ood. This leaves between seven and sight million unaccounted for, and the ?ood Administration today expressed .he conviction that all of them will >e pledged before the campaign ends. Reports show that school children ire organized in many places as volmteer assistant units to help in thf campaign to enlist all the country's wenty-two million housewives in the vork of conserving "war foods" of vhich there is a world shortage. Among the 500,000 workers who vill visit every home in the country s a large number of "war mothers", vomen whose sons or other male relitives have gone to the front or ar? n training in this country. Sunday, the opening day of the cam>aign, will be marked by war-food :onservation sermons by the country's .00,000 ministers in churches all ovsr he land. The Food Administration itates that the response of the minsters has been extraordinarily gener us in this respect. State, city, county and local organisations constitute the working ma ihinery of the campaign. Begin ni* ind continuing until Saturday, thojt workers will make a house to hniy canvass -oi the country,. inquiring'^ >ach housewife of the 22,000,000 ffrtilies in the United States whether she las enrolled as a member of the Food Administration by signing the Food ?ledge Card. The workers will carry cards for hose housewives who have not yet snrolled. To each housewife who lasn't a "Home Card," telling what bods the government would like to lave them conserve and why, they will iresent one. The workers will explain briefly ind clearly what the government's ood conservation idea is and what is isked ot each housewife. The Food Pledge is not, Food Adninistration officials pointed out tolay, an effort to get people to eat less. >ut to substitute those foods of which he country has an abundance for hose that are urgently needed by the >eoples of the Allied Countries in Euope and their armies and ours. President Wilson, in a letter to the Food Administrator, has said: "In ?o other way can they (American wonen) so greatly assist as by enlisting n the service of the Food Adminisration and cheerfully accenting its direction and advice. P.y so doing, they vill increase the surplus of food availible for our own army and for ex>ort to our allies. "To provide adequate supplies for he coming year is of absolutely vital mportance to the conduct of the war, ind without a very conscientious elimnation of waste and very strict econ>my in our food consumption, we canlot hope to fulfill this primary duty. [ trust, therefore, that the women of the country will not only respond to four appeal and accept the pledge to the Food Administration which you ire proposing, but that all rnen also who are engaged in the personal distribution of foods will cooperate with the same earnestness and in the same ipirit." The obligation assumed in enroling as a member of the Food Adminstration is simple. It involves no dues >r other fees. Following is the briefly worded iledge each housewife is asked to jign: "I am glad to join you in the service of food conservation for our nation and I hereby accept membership n the United States Food Adminisration, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the Food ^ministration in my home, in so far is my circumstances permit." "A 'Membership Window Card' will >e delivered to each enrolling mem>er upon receipt of the signed pledge, ind from time to time suggestions rill be sent out, these suggestions, aken as a whole, constituting a se LIBERTY BONDS AT JONESVILLE List of subscribers to the second Liberty Loan through the Everybodys Bank, up to and including the 21th: William Monroe (Jeer $ 50.00 Mrs. Mary S. Cleer 100.00 T. A. Littlejohn 50.00 Mrs. T. A. Littlejohn 50.00 W. L. Littlejohn 100.00 Miss Alice Littlejohn 1200.00 L. K. Littlejohn 100.00 Thos. F. Littlejohn 50.00 (J. W. B. Smith 50.00 Everybodys Bank 5000 00 Jas. II. Harmon 50.00 J no. T. Scott 50.00 Mrs. Jno. T. Scott -50.00 Miss Sarah Scott 50.00 John Thomas Scott 50.00 Josephine Scott 50.00 | Dorothy Scott 50.00 I William Scott 50.00 James Albert Scott _ 50.00 | J. H. Alman 50.00 1 T * * <). w. L,ipscomo 50.00 Mrs. J. W. Lipscomb 50.00 E. L. Littlejohn 200.00 Reuben Lindsay 200.00 Total $7750.00 List of sibscriptions to second Liberty Loan through Bank of Jonesville: Mrs. S. C. Southard $1000.00 Henry Tinsley 1000.00 Rev. W. S. Porter 100.00 Union Coca-Cola Co. 100.00 Miss Anna Hames 50.00 Mrs. H. T. Hames 50.00 Mrs. C. M. McWhirter 500.0u C. N. Ijawson 50.00 Bank of Jonesville 5000.00 Mrs. J. R. McWhirter 1000.00 Mrs. W. A. McWhirter 1000.00 Dr. H. T. Hames 50.00 C. N. Alexander 100.00 W. P. Leister 50.00 Total 10,050.00 Grand total reported to date through Union county banks: M. & P. National Bank 20,200.00 Nicholson B. ft T. Co. ... 55,950.00 [Citizens National Bank __ 20,250.00 ^^erybodys Bank 7,750.00 BVnk of Jonesville 10,050.00 Grand Total $114,200.00 Bank of Carlisle report not yet received. Let the Boys Smoke. Previously reported $1.50 Mrs. C. G. Humphries .25 Total $1.75 The money for smokers comes in very slowly, and the boys in France are crazy for American tobacco. Won't you help send some to them? ries of lessons in home economics. "There is no threat of privation," said the Food Administrator in a statement formally announcing "Food Pledge Week." "We wish only that our people should eat plenty, but wisely and without waste. Wisdom in eating is to make possible such adjustments in our food consumption, shipping and war necessities as will allow us to fulfill our duty in exports to our allies. By elimination of waste we serve ourselves economically and morally. "This is a dutv of necessitv. human | ity and honor. As a free people we ! have elected to discharge this duty, not under autocratic decree, but without other restraint than the guidance of individual conscience. Upon the success of this unprecedented adventure in democracy will largely stake the issue of the war." The problem of America, as the Food Administrator sees it, is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as much food as we can of the most concentrated nutritive value in the least shipping space. These foods are wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar. This is to be accomplished, the housewives will be told, by eating less of these and more of other foods of which we have an abundance, and by wasting less of all foods. There is a superabundance of vegetables, especially of potatoes but they cannot be shipped to our allies because they require from four to ten times the tonnage of more concentrated foods, and the saving of ocean tonage is one of the vital problems of the war. The Food Administration, therefore, urges the liberal use of vegetables, and of fruit, poultry, fish, and other sea fods, with a larger use of corn meal for the purpose of saving wheat. As these foods are healthful and relatively low in price( it points out, the American people are not asked to endure privation, but merely to change their eating habits, and to avoid waste. Early His tor o/J Historic and Interesting j of Unionville?Graphic the Old Landmark Since Passei (By Mrs. .1. W. Mixson) This flourishing little city of the Piedmont district, the county seat and metropolis of Union county, is situated on the Southern railway, and is the only important stop between Columbia and Spartanburg. It has an elevation of (100 feet above sea level, and a salubrious climate. The last census (1010) pave a population of 5,623, but a city census in 101(5 showed that there are 1 .'1,000 persons living within a radious of 11 1-2 miles of the court house. Union fs a manufacturing centre, having four large cotton mills and two hosiery mills. Other industries include an ice factory, oil mill and fertilizer plant, cotton ginneries and flour and trrlst mills. The city owns its own electric light and water works, with filter and sewerage system. Public Buildings. The Court House is a handsome structure, costing $75,0000, erected in 1911, on the most improved modern plan. The United States government put up a postoffice building in 1912 valued at $00,000. The Union Carnegie Library, the first one established in the Stjate, cost $15,000 and was erected in 1905. The City Hall, including armory and fire department, was put up at a cost of $1,000. During the administration of Col. T. C. Duncan as mayor, the City purchased eight acres of land to be used as a public park?this includes a ball ground, and a concrete swimming pool, the latter a source of infinite enjoyment to the members of both sexes, living as they do in an inland town. Union's 'White Way" bears the mark "Made in Union" and is a source of pride to the citirens, and a matter of comment to visitors and the trrveling public. Union boasts of three banks, a daily newspaper, The Union Times, and two weekly newspapers, The Union Times, and Progress. And yet, little more than a century and a half ago, the town and the surrounding district was a wild, unsettled country. MRS. J. W. MIXSON. The land was secured by a treaty with the Cherokee Indians, by Governor Glen. The settlement of the country did not take place until about 17">f). The first settlers were Scotch Presbyterians from Pennsylvania, who settled toward the North, and Episcopalians from Virginia, settling a little farther South. Ijandrum and Lopan have written of the early settlement of the district, and Howe published a comprehensive history of the Presbyterian church which contains much valuable information, but little has been written that pertains to the town itself. From the oldest inhabitants some facts handed down by tradition, have been gleaned and it is our purpose to preserve these memories, not only for our own information, but from a sense of pride, and for the benefit of future generations. The first settlers were in constant dread of the Indians and often had to take refuge in block-houses or forts built for their protection. On one such occasion, they had retired to Otterson's Fort which was defended by John Peter Sartor and his brother, and tradition tells us that the birth of the first white child in the settlement took place within the fort, which was on land later owned by Wm. Cole Lyles and now called Bole's Hill ot Red Point. In 1765, the first meeting-house was built near Brown's Creek; later the site was changed and the name Union given to the house y l n\on Ubrarr Jtiion County Incidents of the Old Days Discription of Some of is That Have Long i With Time. of worship because it was intended to be used alike by Presbyterians and Episcopalians. It was a noted place and the name i r..... < r ? i ' * V ...VJ1I v?,i> llilllMl'ITl'd m I MO WIIOIC district. The town was tirst called Unionville, but gradually the sutlix was dropped. Little is known of the appearance of the place before 1800 when the seat of government was moved from Pinckneyville. At that time there were about 200 people in the village and a score or more buildings. In Mill's Statistice, published 1820, we are told that Unionville is pleasantly situated at the head spring of Shoaly Creek, a branch of Fairforest, nine miles from Broad River. Mills also speaks of a "respectable Academy" and a Presbyterian church, and tells us that "literature had made some progress but was mostly confined to professional men. In the Statutes of S. C., Vol. 8 p. 203, we find mention of the Union Library Association, chartered by the Legislature A. I). 1811. and Mills records a "respectable library at the village." There is no account of articles manufactured for sale in the town except the tanning of raw hides. Coarse cloth for home use was made in nearly all the homes; every household having its own spinning wheel and hand-run loom. The oldest part of the town is around the court house. The business portion extended to where Farr & Thomson now stands. The records at the court house go as far back at 1782, the first year that Union is spoken of as a county. However even after that, the district continued to be used down to Reconstruction times. The first court in Unionville was held in an old wooden building, across the street fro mthe coyrt hQuae. behind J. B. PorterV oTastore. Some of the oldest deeds on record at the court house are as follows: William White to Henry Long, 1787 Robert White to John Layton, 1787. Robt. Bullington to Henry Davis, 1791. John Herndon to John Thompson and wifo, 1794. Joseph Hughes to James Gage. 1799. John Goch to John Gage. 1799. Jesse Lyles to James Clowney, 1813. The land for the court house and jail was given by Col. Thomas Brandon as shown by an old deed which reads partly as follows: "Thos. Brandon to Union County. "In consideration of the love and affection which he hath and beareth to the said county of Union * * *bequeaths twenty (20) acres of land to be used as a site for a jail and a court house * * henceforth, forever, and hereatfter. Signed, sealed and delivered Dec. 26, 1787. John McCooll, C. of C. Witnesses, John Ewart, John Haile." Wooden buildings were first put up, but in the course of time these were replaced by stone structures. The date on the jail is 1823. The walls were commenced in brick, but fine building rock being discovered within a mile of the village, it was substituted and both jail and court house were built of granite, quarried in Union county. The old court house, which is discribed by Mills as a "handsome building on the most approved plan" was torn down a few years ago and replaced by the present structure, of Doric Architecture, at a cost of $75,000. The old building had a double flight of circular stairs on the outside and above the balcony where these met, there was a stone arch bearing the date 1822. The top stone of the arch (the one with the date on it) is now in the yard of Sheriff J. G. Ix>ng, Sr., highly prized by him, because his grandfather, Womack Fowler was a mason and helped to put the stone in place. There is a story about how the 1 name Wormack came into the family. Mr. Fowler, the great-great grand1 father of Sheriff Long, was a staunch Whig, and in common with the other inhabitants of the district, suffered much from the depredations of the I Tories. On one occasion, hearing of i an impending out-break, he took his i famiiy to Virginia for protection and spent one night on the road with the ' family of General Womack. When I Mr. Fowler asked for his bill, the gen tieman told him that the only charge ; he would make, was that he should i name his next son Womack, and this s was done. No records were found in the corner . stone of the old building except a i broken quart bottle, and it was under 1 the S. E. corner and not the N. E. as > (Continued on last page)