The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-03-12
KELTON
(Left over from last week)

AANiSoh, Nhai I'll l.-A1lcT llRnC
rain last night the sun sshining
this morning and we hope for an
other fair week. The farmers ar,
getting busy now and if We have
two or three weeks of good weather
we will hardly know that we had
wet winter.
Mr.. Editor, l agree with you in
thinking the best way out OF the
war tangle would be for all neutral
nations to stop trading with and Of
those beligerent countries, and the
president of the United States issue
proclamation to all shippers and
travellers doing business in those
warning countries to cease business
and travel unless they do it at their
own risk. There is no good, sound
reasoning for our country to be in
volved in great war simply for
few money loving people or few
pleasure seekers, who know the dan
gers that they have to encounter and
then if they lose some money or a
few lives to call on Uncle Sam to
protect them, and if we should get
involved we might lose hundreds and
thousands of lives of our best men
and millions and billions of dollars,
not counting the suffering of women
and children-all simply to crafty
mammon and seekers of pleasure.
No, the cost would be too great
We are out Of it and lets stay out.
Let those warning nations fight it
to a finish as we did in the COS;
either by killing out or perishing
out. We OF the South know what
war means; we are the heaviest
| losers from the effect OF the great
war, but we had rather lose dollars
than precious lives.
From what I can hear and learn
it will be useless to order an election
to vote on a bond issue for good
roads in Union county According
to Mr. Wagnon's statement in The
Union Times last week, we had better
work our roads bv contract than tn
way we are working them and have
no bond issue. Read his fgures
closely and you will agree with me
He saws that the roads and bridges
cost the county in 1914, $50 or 20
dollars per mile, while the commits
sion is to get only $40 or $12 dollars
a mile. How can they do it for that
and it cost $50 dollars last year?
| need light on the system. 1 have
/ long been convinced That we would
have better roads at a less cost IL
the contract system was in operation.
Let the commission let out small or
short contracts under bond and keep
his road, and you bet your dollar
that they would soon stop this trim
ming off the sides of the roads,
letting the brush fall over in the
side bitches and the first rain that
falls chokes them up and the water
thrown out in the middle of tine
road and washing great gullies. And
too, if the contract system was PIKE.
ticed, after big rains, the contra
would get his shovel and 60.
on and clean out all obstruction Id-
the bitches. You know if the
bitches are kept onen the roads will
be in a fair condition. except tha
winter season, when all know 1t Is
impossible to have good roads I'M
less we had rock foundation.
G. T. Gault was in Spartanburg
| last week.
The health of the Ridge is fairly
| GOOD, but my health does not i'm
| prove much.
The bulk of the cotton on the
Ridge is sold and the money applied
| to debts.
Comrade Isaac Gregory is in poor
health. He and w. II. Gault are the
only Confederate soldiers of the old
Pea Ridge Co. II. S. G. w., who
went from Pinckney township-out of
| sixty, only two are living. In 1913,
June 1st there were 729,437 Union
soldiers and widows of the civil war
drawing pensions to the amount of
$163,377 What will it be if we get
in the European war? c.. T. G.