The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-08-26
UNION, S. c., AUGUST 26, 1904,
POSTOFFICE LOCATION
MISREPRESENTED

"The new postoffice building is be-
ing erected. This is good step but
it is thought by some in the wrong
location. The site is in the rear Of
the store of Farr & Thomson, on
Bachelor street. This is the street
on which several livery stables are
situated-in fact the office to one OF
the stables was moved in order to
make room for the postoffice, thus
placing the office directly in front of
livery stable and facing two bowl
ing alleys and beef market"
The above is copied from The State
OF August goth, and is published to
show the citizens of this city, who
do not read The State very closely,
how the city is made to appear to
an outsider who forms his opinion
from the leading daily paper. There
is none, nor can there be any reflec-
tion upon the paper publishing such
q communication, especially The
State, which is always fair to our
growing and thriving city, but the
penny liner vino tries to cast a slur
on the community in which he makes
his bread.
We venture the suggestion that
the Chamber Of Commerce while
they are exercising themselves to
secure a cotton buyer to hold up cot
ton to fair price, should induce The
State to put a correspondent here
who will make a fair and unpreju
diced statement of facts without be-
ing influenced by "some" who are so
constituted that they cap see thi !, nns
his statement:
''This is u good step but is thought
by some in the wrong locality"
Vox populi Vox Die is good Demo
cratic doctrine. Before the location
was decided upon a petition was cir
culated and signed by officers of the
two largest banks, all Of the large
business establishments, nearly every
large taxpayer and with two or three
exceptions every voter who was ap-
preached, and after a free ADVERTISE
ment of the locality to which it was
intended to move the Office no coun-
ter petition or protest was received
so far as we have heard-then who
are the "some?" Gin the sense that
their opinion amounts to much in OPP
position to the big majority Of those
who signed the petition.) =. !
"rhe site is in the rear Of the store
of Farr & Thomson on Bachelor
street. This is the street on which
several livery stables are situated-in
fact the office to one of the stables
was moved in order to make room for
the postoffice, this places the office
directly in front of livery sta lie
and facing two bowling alleys and a
beef market"
Now how is that for description? {?
II you read it Of any other town
what would you say Of the locality
for Government Postoffice? 1t
strikes us as malicious or vindictive.
Why should correspondent state
that the office was directly in front Of
livery stable and facing two bowling
alley and beef market, when he
knows that the statement produces a
false impression upon the reader?
He knows there is no beef market
there and that facing the postoffic e
is the office Of j. A. Brown, Real Es-
tate Stock and Bond Dealer, and Of
flee Of DR.. r. r. Berry, one OF the
leading physicians of the city, next
to them is the neatly fitted office Of
the Western Union Telegraph Co
and next the two new store rooms,
one occupied by a we'll kept ten pen
alley for whites only and the other
by q box ball alley that is run by
essrs- Duke, Copeland and Swygert.
This Is new athletic game and is
patronized by the young men a1d
ladies and box ball parties are fre-
quently given here at night. The
next building is vacant at present
but we understand that Mr., II. G.
Bailey will occupy it as a beef par-
ket assisted by Mr.. N. p. Dunbar,
who has cut beef in front OF present