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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
EXECUTIVE BOARD TO MEET.

The executive board of the w. M. S.
will meet at Union Saturday, Sept.
1st, in the parlors of the First Bap-
tist church, at 2 o'clock p. m. All
division presidents are requested to
be present, as this is an important
meeting.
Mrs. H. o. Holcombe,
Superintendent.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
POPULAR SONG THESE DAYS

The time I've spent on these here
socks
seems as a thousand years to me.
Dear lad, how do they look to thee.
thy hosiery, thy hosiery!
On, maddening stitches, plain and
purl,
How they have made me poor head
whirl
Men must fight, but Pm a girl
And so I'm knitting socks for theei
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
NOTICE.

The regular monthly meeting of the
executive board of the Union County
Red Cross chapter will be held at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms on Fri
day afternoon, August 81, at o'clock
Mrs. ]. w. Mixson,
Secretary.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31

Rev. w. M. Whiteside, who has for
several years been in the employ of
the Baptist State Mission Board as
evangelist in the State at large, has
accepted work in the city of Charles
ton, where he will do enlistment work
under the direction of the board
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
RETURNS TO THE CITY.

Rev. j. F. Matheson, who has been
visiting his mother, Mrs. Matheson,
in Cheraw, will return to the city this
week and resume services at the First
Presbyterian church on Sunday morn
ing and at Mt. Vernon in the after
noon
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
ATTENTION, VETERANS.

You are hereby notified to meet at
Union, in the courthouse, Monday,
Sept. 3, for the purpose of electing
new pension board.
l. S. Ivev, Commissioner.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31

Mr.. E. S. Bennett left Tuesday for
Rowland, N. c., where he will have
charge as superintendent of the city
schools. Mr.. Bennett is one of our
hnest young men, and he has forged to
the front as an educator.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
TERRELL'S STOCK

The bankrupt stock of w. B. Ter
rell Co. was bid in by L. ]. Hames
and M. w. Brown for $4,000. This
price did not include the fixtures,
which brought several hundred dol
lars more
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
CHANGE IN BUSINESS.

Mr.. d Norman Jones has severed
his connection with the Stone-J Jones
Hardware company and has accepted
position with Ottaray cotton mills.
Mr.. Stone has purchased the interest
of Mr.. Jones and will continue the bus
mess.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31

Mrs. Susan Tinsley spent several
days last week with her daughter,
Mrs. Fred Whitney, at Blair.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31

Mrs. ]. J. Colson has returned home
after visit to her children at Gaff.
ney, Spartanburg and Greenville.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31
ATTENTION, FARMERS.

We will be ready to gin your cot
ton on Saturday, Sept. 1. Union Oil
Mill. 35-tf
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31

Mrs. Burbage is a sister of Mrs
Davis Jeffries of this city and fre.
,quently visits here.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-31

This song to be sung to the tune
of "My Rosary"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
FATE PURSUED THIS TOMMY
Nearly Spent Bullet Goes Through
Hole Made in His Helmet by
German Sniper.

James Dickinson, a convalescent
Canadian soldier, in a letter to a
friend, tells this story of the great
war:
During a lull in the battle of the
Marine one of the Canadian troopers
took off his steel helmet, and, placing
1T on the end of his rifle, held 1t so
that about half of it protruded above
the top of the trench. A German
sniper, observing it, at once shot at 1t.
and the ball. striking it squarely.
pierced the steel, going out the other
side. The Tommy laughingly showed
it to his comrades and placed it back
on his head.
Fifteen minutes later the order came
to "go over the top" and this same
'Tom" was among the first. He was
also among the first to fall, MORALLY
wounded.
1t was discovered at the dressing
station that he had been struck by a
nearly spent bullet that had gone
through one of the holes that he had
SO recently shown his fellow soldiers
In laughter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

giving dinner Most of the boys be taken
to church services before the dinner. Automobile
rides and other forms of entertainment constitute
the afternoon program Probably every boy Will
feel impulse to write message to mother.
What is being done at Great Lakes, where the
largest naval training station of the world is To-
Gated, is typical of the programs at the other
training stations.
On every battleship guarding coast lines, In
every submarine craft which bears American
sailors, every other ship manned by the blue
jackets at least portion of Thanksgiving day will
be devoted to meditation. Religious services will
be held many of the ships
Turkey dinners with several courses, topped off
with ice cream other delicacies to be
served to all of the navy men. And as they eat
the boys will appreciate never before the sig
nificance of Thanksgiving and the turkey dinner.
They will better understand the hardships which
the Pilgrims endured in order that they might
establish a people who should be at liberty to
worship they fit.
And as they think of the fortitude of the
who fought hunger, and cold, and disease, and
death in order that somewhere there should be
country where people could be assured of liberty,
the jackies sincerely offer up their gratitude to
the power which has made it possible for them
to aid in preserving this nation from the loss Of
that priceless liberty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as medicine for
durable ailments of the kidneys, liver
and bladder.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thou
sands upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp Root, physicians prescription for
special diseases, makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases. 1t Is gen.
tie, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
msntion this paper.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
An Odd Fish--The Sea Horse

If mermaids bigger than some fairies
they might have horses to ride. The horses
creatures familiar enough, though most people
have never seen alive. Summer visitors at
the seashore find them for sale-very dead, and
dried-at shops that specialize in marine curios
The horse (naturalists say) is of the
most ancient of fishes 1t is of natures
oldest imitations-a "camouf1age" so to speak.
1t has horseke head, and it's body is so
shaped to resemble the neck of that quadru-
ped. But really, when to examine it.
the thing it counterfeits is the Knight piece of
the chessboard.
The horse has tubelike snout, at the end
of which the mouth and jaws. Its head is
topped by a sort of coronet. Clad in a complete
suit of plates. it fex its body like
other fishes and its fnless tail is of use for
locomotion
1t feeds small shrimps and other crusta-
supporting plant, it swims slowly not like other
fin vibrating rapidly.
Like other fishes, the horse possesses an
air-bladder. which is always distended by guam
uty of gas exactly adjusted for equilibrium
that If a single bubble larger than the head
of small pin be extracted, the creature falls to
the bottom and must crawl about until the wound
is healed and fresh supply of gas has been
secreted.
But the most remarkable point about the sea
ternal stomach-pouch, in which, the mating sea-
son. the female deposits her eggs The lining
membrane of the pouch secretes nutritious fluid
which the young, when Matched are fed When
they are big enough to take care of themselves
the father sea horse rubs his stomach against a
Wrinkle shell or some other convenient object and
BY this means forces them out into the water.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

know that this country is aiding the allied nations
in eXterminating so-calIed "kultur" and in estab
fishing peace earth for centuries at least. The
boys will give thanks because they have been
privileged to give their services, their money for
Liberty bonds and their lives, if necessary, to
bring to close this worst struggle of all the
AT the naval stations elaborate programs have
been prepared. Mrs. William A Moffett, wife of
the commandant of Great Lakes naval training
station, early conceived the idea of giving a big
Thanksgiving dinner to the 10000 boys train
ing there. Actuated by her splendid mother spirit
Mrs. Moffett confided her wish to of her
friends.
Cant do something to bring home little
closer to the boys for just day?" Mrs. Moffett
asked "NIany of the young boys actually need to
pass Thanksgiving in real home-they have been
separated from their own people so long that their
hearts calling out for a glimpse into home
where there is mother, father, noisy
children and home-cooked food"
Mrs Moffett's idea quickly became popular. A
committee formed to secure the boys who
to accept the scores of invitations from Chi
cagoans and other hospitable people along the
north shore of Lake Michigan who showed de-
sire to entertain the jackies on Thanksgiving cay.
Chaplain Charles w. Moore lent his aid in select
ing the boys for the invitations. More than 1000
young granted liberty to visit the homes
where they guests of honor for real Thanks
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
WHAT WAR DID TO ROME

in the days of Augustus city of
than 1000 900 persons. and it did not have
single hospital.
The city was built mainly of brick, with narrow.
tortuous streets But it had broad and
well-paved thoroughfares, the fashionable avenue
being the famous Appian way, which the
metropolitan terminus, to speak, of one of the
great military roads that radiated from Rome
a center to all parts of the empire.
The houses of the rich, and even those of the
fairly well-to-do, supplied with running
ter. No modern system of aqueducts surpassed
that of ancient Rome, and the water dis
tributed to dwellings by underground pipes that
furnished the fluid through lead pipe connections
tanks elevated pillars at regular intervals
along the street. From these tanks lead pipes
carried the water to the houses on either side,
which were provided with faucets and basins like
houses of today.
This itself is very interesting fact, because
two centuries ago there was such ade-
quate system of water supply for cities anywhere
in the civilized world In respect of this import
ant item of civilization. the destruction of Rome
by war put the world back about 1S00 years.
When Julius Caesar first visited Alexandria in
Egypt the occasion which he captured by
the Greek charms of Cleopatra, he found there so
complete underground water-supply system
that the city seemed sshollow underneath"
The aqueducts of ancient Rome, substantial
mains of which still exist, supplied numerous
street fountains, at which the people drank, and,
much important, the enormous bath build
ings erected and maintained at fabulous expense
by various emperorS-
There were no street lamps Soldiers employed
as policemen carried torches through the streets.
1t a method corresponding nearly to that in
use in European cities couple of centuries ago.
Stoves were unknown and dwellings heat
ed with braziers of charcoal Olive oil lamps and
candles of tallow and wax furnished domestic IL
Elimination House furniture-sofas, chairs bead
steads and what not-much resembled in pattern
what have today, and for the rich less
luxurious
Grain ground by watermils and windmills.
Boats the Tfber carried mill wheels that
driven by the current of the river. Chickens were
Matched by incubators great scale for market.
Ice obtained from mountain heights stored
In summer time for winter use.
big book might be written about the modern
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

conveniences' enjoyed by the ancient Romans.
They were wiped out, together with nearly every
thing that worth while in the way of civiliza-
ton, by barbarous tribes whose notion of war
fare "frightfulness' carried to the ultimate
extent. These tribes were largely the ancestors
of the present-day Germans What they to-
day they were then. And what they did to Rome
and to the civilization of which Rome the
dominant center put back the progress of the
world Just about eighteen centuries.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
| FSS0lY
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER e
a PSALM OF THANKSGIVING

LESSON TExT-Psalms 1o3.
GOLDEN TExT-Bless the Lord, o !
soul. and forget not all his benefits-1
1872
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
All There.

"Good heavensI The star has for
gotten his lines"
"Oh, well, the leading lady hasn't
forgotten her lines. That gown she's
wearing sets off her figure to perfec-
ton"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

AR from their homes, perhaps for
the first time in their young lives,
many thousands of young American
sailors Will forget on Thanksgiving
day all of the serious business of
war. Thoughts will be of home.
1t will be a day of meditation for
the men of the great fleets which
are aiding the allied nations in ex-
terminating PruSSianism from the
earth. 1t will be Americas first
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
Very Bad Taste, We Say.

We have always thought him witty,
but now we have discovered that he is
merely offensive.
The other day we told him that we
were intending to bring out our poems
In book form
"All of emp" he asked.
"Well, practically all of Them"
"Goodi" he grunted. That's putting
'em where they won't bother anybody"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

The true conquerors are often those
shom the world calls the vanquished.
Max Muller.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

800 John Alden and his little
of Purftan m England passed
of famine nearly wiped
the pendulum Health
imp enlarged. The
crops raised. A bountiful
against the winter. And then the
Pilgrims Thoughts God Their hearts
welled in gratefuness. They appointed day for
public Thanksgiving. Every since, when the
harvest has bee gathered people of the United
States observed Thanksgiving day-since 1865
Thursday N November. The following
article concerning the day In the
navy this year prepared by a direct descendant
of John
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

It's only a tough world to the fell
low who wants to run it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22

ELORIDA-Get Special oRsr spae.dsd Ls.d Hear ssx
Especially adapted to trucking, fruit and poultry
oolture Wrsts sa.Ass.vl1s Heghts
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
With the Fingers!
Says CornS Lift Out
Without Any Pain

Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind Of a corn can shortly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
will apply on the corn few drops Of
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
AT little cost one can get a small bot
tie of freezone at any drug store, which
will positively rid ones feet of every
corn or callus without pain or sore
ness or the danger of infection.
This new drug is an ether compound.
and dries the moment it is applied and
does not infiame or even irritate the
surrounding skin. Just think! You
can lift off your corns and calluses
now without bit of pain or soreness.
If your druggist hasn't freezone he can
easily get a small bottle for you from
his wholesale drug house.-adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
One "On" the Teacher.

The school term was drawing toward
it's close in Normal City, Muncie sub
urb, when the pupils of one room were
asked to write compositions on any
subject they might choose, according
to Lee Baird, the principal.
One little boy turned in his compost
ton with the sheet entirely blank ex-
cept for the title, "The Home Life of
the Fiji Islanders"
''Roscoe, why did you choose so pecu-
liar a subject, but choosing it, why
didn't you write a composition on the
home life of the Fiji islanders as you
announce in the title?" asked Baird.
Because they amt any," was the
boys reply, while the other children
who ha been let in on the joke, roared
at getting one ION" the teacher.-In-
dianapolis News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

And with the perfection of the
Creeping barrage," troops cannot
move faster than the curtain of fire
which precedes them. This creeping
barrage moves forward very slowly,
as fast as the average man walks
when he is not in a hurry. The first
wave Of attacking troops follows
about 40 yards in the rear Of the row
of bursting shells.
Grab for Gas Masks.
Cropping forward beside the French
officers, the Americans staggered for
ward until one of their guides shifted
suspiciously, and hauled his gas mask
out of its tin box, strapped around
his waist. The Americans followed,
and none too soon, as already the Ger
ban batteries were lobbing over
gas shells to try to break up the at
tack.
Two hundred yards forward and
the Americans with the first attack
ing wave reached the former first
line of German trenches. Little was
left to differentiate the strip Of con-
vulsed earth from the rest of the ter
rain except that the litter of wood
and accoutrements was deeper and a
long, uncertain struggled line of dis
torted corpses marked where the
Germans on duty in the trenches had
been destroyed by the bombardment.
Even as the Americans reached the
trench q handful of German sur
vivors crawled from the mouth of a
caved-in dugout, their arms extended,
screaming "Mercy, Kamerad." The
men were taken prisoner and directed
toward the rear, as the attacking
wave continued it's advance, a GER
tain number of the troops being told
off to handle the underground shell
tiers and take prisoner such Ger
mans as might come up.
Between the first and second line
of German trenches it was even hard
er going than crossing No Mans Land.
Here the work of the French ar
tillery had been concentrated, and
boyaus and communication trenches
had been plowed to pieces by the gi-
ant high explosive French shells.
In the second line German trench,
the number of corpses was greater,
but there were few Germans only
wounded, who cried out for help.
None of the survivors in the dugouts
came up while the attacking wave
halted moment, and additional
French poilus were told off to mount
guard over the entrances to the abris.
Americans Under Fire.
1t was a longer stretch between
the second and third line German
trenches and it was in this part of
the attack that the Americans came
under direct machine gun fire for the
first time. Flooding along, and keep
ing the advancing line as nearly even
as possible, they suddenly heard the
rattle of a machine gun to the right,
and everyone dropped in his tracks.
From the bottom of q shell hole
into which one American had tum-
bled with a French captain he helped
the officer set up and discharge q
rocket in the air, summoning an air
plane to help spot the hidden machine
gun which had escaped destruction by
the preliminary bombardment. Mean
while the French troops had been
busy. From neighboring shell holes
their machine guns, which they had
dragged with them and set up, began
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

there was no chance to get job with
the railroad that passes through her
home town and the munitions factories
employing women We're far away. But
Flossie was determined to wear pants
and to take her place with the work
men of the nation.
Cropping her hair and dressing in
overalls, the girl left her home and
sought employment on a plantation.
She knew how to pick cotton. She
went to work and made good. Her
employer thought she was boy.
But the folks back home instituted
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
DESTROYED ORCHARDS
WITH INSECTICIDES"

Meridian, Miss.-In France,
when the Germans retreated,
they cut down fruit trees. In
Mississippi, it is charged, Ger
man sympathizers have found an
easier means of blasting the
fruit producers. Two men were
arrested near here charged with
selling to fruit growers and farm
ers insecticide, which, when ap-
piled to the trees, killed them.
One orchard of 500 peach trees
is a total loss. One of 400 trees,
three of 100 and two of 500 trees
have been badly damaged. The
farmers believe German sympa-
thizers are responsible.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
Out Of the Mouths of Babes.

Little Nettie asked her teacher what
was meant by "Mrs. Grundy." She was
told that it meant the "world!"
Some days after the teacher Of the
class to which Nettie belong asked,
"what is the equator?" After some
hesitation Nettie said: .'T know;;; it's
the belt around Mrs. Grundy's waist"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
DRESSES AS BOY TO DO BIT
Arkansas Girl Gets Job on Plantation,
but Arrest of Suitors Causes
Her to Give Up.

Paragould, Ark.-Flossie Smith, fif-
,een years old, heard about the wom-
en- of Russia taking their places in the
trenches. She read that women were
being employed in munitions factories
and on the railroads. She heard they
wore overalls, just like men.
She couldn't get TO the trenches,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
BUYS GLASSES TO GET IN WAR
Southern Youth Corrects Defect In
Vision and Passes Army
Examination.

Cincinnati. = There was nothing
about the appearance of Robert T. Aoi-
lingsworth, eighteen years old. Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to indicate that ne
possessed coin of the realm. but ne
willingly spent 50 in order to join the
regular army.
Hollingsworth, registered as Ia
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

a search for Flossie. Two of her
sweethearts were arrested, because it
was believed they might have abducted
Ser. They protested their innocence,
but still they were held in Jail pending
developments. The girl heard about
the arrests. She liked the boys. She
confessed. Now she is again wearing
dresses.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

borer, called at the army recruiting
station and sought to join any branch
of the service Because of defect
in his vision he was told he could not
be accepted unless he obtained spec
tacles.
The youth returned to the station
later in the day and was examined
with the glasses on, passing the test.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

"a modest minimum wage" is the
latest contribution to social science,
now being used in arbitration courts
in the commonwealth Of South Aus
tralia.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

The bricks Of Babylon were cement
ed with hot bitumen and at every thir-
tieth row crates of reeds were stuffed
in.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18

New York.-Hark We, men and maid
ens-over fortyi
Dowagers and young bucks too old
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
Don't Listen Too Much.

If you expect to believe everything
that you hear, better not listen much
Of the time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-18
a Suggestive Slap.

''You are my silvery-toned BELLE" said
Sentimental Sammie.
"Huh!' rejoined Practical Pauline:
"What is the use of having a bell if
you don't ring it?"