The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-10-23
Farmers and.
Planters
Of Union County
ONCE MORE WE WANT YOU
TO KNOW THAT IF WE
SINK OR SWIM-WE
SINK OR SWIM
TOGETHER.

TOGETHER.
The paralysis of our money
crop, cotton, has hurt you it is
true, but it has hurt us worse
than it has you. Don't be wor-
ried any more than can be help
ed, for the farmers and planters
will be living here a good while
after the balance of the folks
have starved to death. Plant
Grain and Cover Crops, plant
onions, salads, turnips and othe.
money winter vegetables. Buy
whatever you need in the way of
supplies, seeds and the necessi-
ties of life from The Union
Grocery Company, where every
dollar you spend will do the
work of $1.25, often $1.50.
We have taken and we are
now holding for the farmers of
Union County, thirty-fve bales
of cotton at a loss to us of $40
to $25 per bale. We have done
it without hope of reward other
than your good will, and the de-
sire to stand by at a time when
the citizenship of old Union
needs our help. We believe that
the friends from whom we have
taken cotton will remember us
kindly and other things being
equal will give us an equal show
ing for supplying their needs
for the future, and we want you
to know that we believe in you
and in the future. We believe
the time will come when, by di-
versified crops, by the raising
of hogs, cattle, grain and poul-
try and using cotton as it should
be used, as an independent side
line, you will be in the position
to live at home and prosper, war
or no war. You will be able to
dictate when and at what price,
III will sell your cotton and
i'll not have to say your pray
ers to Wall Street, or any set Of
spectators. We believe when
you prosper, you will at least
see that we who are your
friends do not suffer.
Listen, last Fridays issue of
this paper carried an offer to
AXE ten bales of good middling
unstained, dry cotton from ten
Union County farmers, who
wanted to invest the same in
anything that we sell, which en-
braces everything that is worth
while to eat for man and beast,
also all desirable seeds, poultry
nd stock foods and remedies.
And to pay for the same in mer-
chandise at the prevailing cash
prices, allowing for the cotton
&c per pound or a premium over
the market of So to $40 per
bale. This offer to take ten
bales was taken up by II 100
o'clock Saturday or within
day after it was made, and so
many of our friends applied af-
ter the offer was taken up, that
despite the fact that we see no
improvement in the situation
and see from the press reports
hat cotton is being offered at
interior Texas and Oklahoma
points at SC to &c per pound, we
will take ten bales more from
Union County planters only, on
exactly the same terms as last
Fridays offer-if the same is
accepted at once.
Remember that you can trade
it all at once, or you can trade
it as you want to, you get the
benefit of whatever prices we
have at the time you make your
purchase, just the same as if
you were paying gold instead of
cotton at premium of $40 per
bale over the present market,
which may be less any day. Cot
ton must be first-class and dry,
and offer must be accepted with
in the week.
Don't forget us for Seed Rye,
Seed Oats, Seed Wheat, Vetch,
Rape, Barley, Lettuce, Mustard,
Turnip, Beet Seed, and English
Peas and Onion Sets for fall
planting.
The best flour that comes to
South Carolina.
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