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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

and general purposes of the said City
of Union, be as follows: 11% mills
for general purposes, and a special
levy of Az mills for maintenance of
Carnegie Free Library and to pay the
interest on outstanding coupon bonds
from the first of May, 1917, to the
first of May, 1918, shall be levied and
collected in manner and form as fol-
lows:
Section 1. A tax of sixteen (16)
mills upon every dollar of the value
of all taxable real estate, personal
property and stock in trade, in the
corporate limits of the City of Union,
S. C.
Sec. 2. That the taxes herein levied
and assessed shall be due and col
lected by the City Treasurer during
the month of May, 1917. The City
Treasurer shall proceed to collect the
said taxes herein levied, and he shall
keep his books open from the 1st day
of May, 1917, to the 1st day of June,
1917, for this purpose; after which
time he shall proceed by distress or
otherwise as prescribed by law, to col
lect such taxes as remain unpaid, with
penalty of twenty (2O) per cent in
addition thereto for such non-payment.
Sec. 3. That the basis of value for
taxation of real estate, personal prop
erty and stock in trade within the City
OF Union, S. c., shall be taken from
the books of the Auditor of Union
County, and such assessment shall be
the same as levied by the County
Auditor in 1916 and 1917.
Sec. a. The sum of Two Dollars
(S2.OO) is hereby fixed as commuta-
tion tax for the street or road duty,
the said sum to be paid by all able
bodied mail persons able to perform
or cause to be performed the labor
herein required, between the ages of
twenty-one (2D and fifty (5O) years
who reside within the corporate limits
of the said City, except ordained min
listers and those exempt by Jaw, and
any person liable to this tax who shall
fail to pay the same within the time
speclhed, shall be required to work on
the streets of Union four (4) days
under the direction of the Street Over
seer, whenever required by said over
oSSi uulihS Vic pcTlOQ nGrCln
before mentioned; and any person fail
ing either to pay said communication
or perform said labor, when SO re-
quired as before said, shall be brought
before the Mayors court and upon
conviction thereof. shall be fined
sum not exceeding Ter Dollars
($lo.O0) or sentenced to Imprisonment
not exceeding twenty coy days with
or without hard labor.
Sec.: S. That all Ordinances or
parts of Ordinances conflicting with
this Ordinance are hereby declared re-
pealed.
Done and ratified in Council assem-
bled under the hand of the Mayor and
Seal of the said City of Union, this
9Th day of March, 1917.
l.. c. Wharton,
Attest: Mavor.
w. D. Arthur, (L. S.)
Clerk and Treasurer. 1873
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

An inclosed car that is heated by
electricity is used as an ambulance in
a large Wyoming coal mine.
From mines in Japan and South
Manchuria the Japanese are mining
20,000,000 tons of coal annually.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

After the United States, Germany
and France are the largest producers
of iron ore among the nations.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

To protect babies from drafts when
being carried in automobiles a minia-
ture folding top has been invented.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

A California inventor has patented
a pan that can be attached to any
broom to catch it's sweepings.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20
AN ORDINANCE
TO Raise Supplies for the Fiscal Year
Beginning May 1, 1917, for the
City of Union, S. C..

Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Union, S. c.,
in Council assembled, and by author
ity of the same:
That tax to cover the expenses
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

The manufacture of artificial pearls
at Barcelona, Spain, has developed
into a great industry.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20
ect The Head

A tool operated by compressed air
has been designed for roughing side
walks or other stone work.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

A recently patented baggage carrier
for automobiles is intended to be
fastened over the hood of a car.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

oil companies, or other person reN
ceiving illuminating or lubricating
oils, either in carloads or less than
carloads, and selling and re-shipping
the same in quantities of SO gallons
and upwards, shall pay license fee
of, per annum - 10000
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

Drays, each dray, cart, or
wagon with two horses, per
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

Express companies, transacting
and doing business in this
City and other points within
this State for corporations
other than the Government
of the United States, it's Off
GERS and agents, per annum 100.
Employment Bureaus, each
person or firm, per annum 25.
Exhibition fairs, concerts, festi-
walls or parties on street, per
day or night in the discretion
of City Council, not to exceed $50.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

Dance halls when run for gain 100!
Drays, each dray, cart or
wagon, with one horse, per
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

HUCIIOHetTTH RlH HOUSE OF on
street, not less than, per
day ---------------- 100
Automobiles or other power
vehicles kept for public hire
or transportation Of passen-
gers, each ---------------- $500
Or per day not less than
$500, or more than $1,000 at
discretion of City Council.
Automobile dealers -- ---- 1000
Automobile repair shop -~-. 1900
Agents, or agency, persons,
firms or corporations using
trading stamps ----------- 10000
Agents soliciting employees or
laborers for manufacturing
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20

Dealers in secondhand mer-
chandise of whatever kind,
per annum
Dealers in pianos and organs
Gtinerant) per day $500; per
1nnIno
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-27

Are you enjoying the pleas
ure of a we'll furnished
home? If not now is good
time to begin. Every mem
Der of the family will en-
JOY nice furniture. The
children will take more in
tereSt in the home. Life
if you have a nice place to
live. And it is not going to
cost much. A piece here
and there to fill up what is
missing---a new rug posi-
bly---an easy rocker or two
and the room is transform
ed. You can do it economi-
cally during this sale.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-27

This sale will afford the
opportunity to get that
piece of furniture. you
have been needing SO long
at a substantial saving.
Don't get along without
it" any longer. This is the
time to get it. The long
winter evenings will soon
be here. Make the home
coy and comfortable---a
good place to be. We are
doing our part. Remem-
Der this sale lasts during
October. Sellers special
only one week. Take adj
vantage of both events and
save money.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-27
10 TO 20 Per Cent Discount On
NH Furniture, Rugs and
- LiMOZ1Mm
LII u o ! q u m


hrganeve eBc o he
and
dmhgh sale a sbAan
Wemu ecmou Hook
ssofH and dc doh obuyn
utcomea VIVA ar how we we arr prepared o needs
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS - OTHER HAPPENINGS

Columbus.-(SpeciaD -o1lcial war
department orders from Washington
covering the disposition of the Ohio
national guard has Just been re-
ceived by Gov. Cox.
These orders provide that the ma
tional guard of Ohio and West Vir-
ginia forming a division shall go into
camp July Is for a long period of in
tensive training. The cantonment to
which the Ohio-West Virginia division
will be attached is in the southeastern
army department, with headquarters
at Charleston, s. c., under Maj. Gen.
Leonard A. Wood.
Nine national guard divisions are
to be trained in the southeastern de-
partment, FIVE in the southern and
two in the western. The entire guard
of the country is to be assembled in
the cantonments in three installments,
the first to go July Is, the next July
25 and the last Aug. S.
The state units in the various mill
tia divisions are not to be split into
ietachments as originally cOntem-
plated, but will go into training as
whole. This means that the entire
guard strength of Ohio and West Viz
ginia will move at one time to the
| cantonment site in the southeastern
department..
The Ohio and West Virginia divi-
sion is designated among the first to
be called to the colors.
The camp site where the Ohio guard
will spend the better part Of the next
wear will be selected by Maj Gen.
Wood. Under orders from the war de-
partment, Gen. Wood already is at
work on the selecting of the nine
great camps to be in his division.
The southeastern department COM
prises Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas; and while the Ohio-West Vir-
ginia division may be assigned to a
camp in any one of these states 1t is
understood here, it will be located at
Chickamauga Park, Tennessee.
Under the official orders, finally ap'
proved after months of consideration,
the Ohio guard will be recruited to a
total strength of 16,S00 Out of this
| quota is taken 2400 for the naval mill.
tia. The West Virginia guard will be
recruited to 6,400.
The combined Ohio-West Virginia
force will total a little over $4,000
The Ohio-West Virginia division
along with the other national guard
troops, is to be given the most Wig
orous course of training in the his
tory of American arms.
Calling this division in the first de
tachment means, it was officially
stated, that these troops, other con
ditions being even, will be among the
first to be considered for any service
on the battle fields of France. They
are to be trained with that objective
Ohloans to Be Drafted.
Official estimates just made by the
census bureau at Washington as tt
the number of men, on July 1, who
will be between the ages of Il and 30
inclusive, and therefore subject to en-
: rollment under the new seleCtive serv
ice law, shows that the leading OhiC
CitinS will Sunnlv theSn numbers,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

wot. All there is of America, past,
present and future, blazons In that
button. At it's talismanic touch the
gates of the past fly open and the
old days come back, with all their holy
memories. No knight of chivalry, no
soldier of Tancred, Richard the Lion
Hearted, Godfrey, or any hero of the
Crusades, or the Wars of the Roses,
ever had emblazOned on his shield. or
wore later on, on coats of arms, or
later still, transmitted with heraldrv
a prouder badge of honor and knight
hood than this little bronze button,
That button no man can wear who was
coward or laggard when his country
called. 1t rolls back the curtain of
time until you can see the transcend
ent vision Of hosts of men In blue
fighting to save the life of the nation,
And they saved it. All it is or can
be you owe to these men who wear
the insignia of American royalty-the
only arlstocracy of America.
You cannot buy it any more than
you could buy seat in heaven. Its
value is above gold, silver or precious
stones. 1t was bought with blood, the
best blood that ever flowed In human
heart or vein. Young man, take of
your hat when and wherever you see
that button until the last Boy in Blue
| is in his grave.-Private Dalzell.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
Cox Appeals to Mayors.

COX Appeals TO mayors.
Mayors of Ohio Municipalities, trade
bodies and other organizations are
asked by Gov. Cox to begin prelimi-
nary plans for making the day of the
call to the colors one of general ex-
preston of patriotism.
The governor will issue proclama-
tion setting registration day aside as
a holiday. His statement will follow
the presidents proclamation. The
governor is eager to have the proce-
dure, as the youth of Ohio moves to
the polls to register for military serv-
ice, surrounded with the spirit con-
templated by the president"
Students Do Farm Work.
Six state-supported educational in
stitutions have just dismissed approx
mately 1000 men students and sent
them out to Ohio farms and other
places of productive employment.
They are dismissed for the next two
weeks, the wind-up of the planting
seassn. Those not needed longer than
that period will return to school June
to complete the term and take their
examinations. Those needed longer in
the statewide wartime effort to in
crease Ohio's food supply may be ex.
cused the remainder of the year at
the discretion Of institutions heads.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

encampment in Indianapolis, Novem-
Der 20, 1856, carefully preserved In
the venerable general order book in
the Hall of Records at Philadelphia,
was Maj. Benjamin Franklin Stephen
son, provisional commander in chief
in 1866 and the founder of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Major Stephenson was native of
Wayne county, Illinois, where he was
born in 1922. Reared in poverty, but
managing to wrest an education from
difficult conditions, he entered the
medical profession, graduating from
Rush Medical college, Chicago, in 1851,
and practicing in Petersburg, Ill. He
enlisted and served three years as sur
geon of the Fourteenth Illinois in
fantry and Immediately after the war
he resumed the practice of his profess
sion, locating at Springfield, Ill. Major
Stephenson during the war was close
ly associated with Chaplain William
Rutledge, Virginian by birth, resi-
dent of Illinois and Methodist preach
er, who was his terminate and bosom
companion.
TT WAS while upon the campaign
! of Sherman's expedition to Meridian,
Fla, in 1864, that Chaplain Rutledge
is said to have made the fruitful sug-
gestlOn to Major Stephenson that
SOLDIERS so closely allied in fellow
ship of suffering would when mustered
out desire some form of association to
preserve the friendship and the memo
ries of their common trials and dan
gers"
The two friends agreed that If spared
they would work out together some
plan of allegiance to meet the need.
This suggestion and agreement proved
to be the germ of the Grand Army of
the Republic, the greatest and most
influential body Of veterans in the
world. 1t was not until nearly year
after the grand muster out that Major
Stephenson and Chaplain Rutledge
met in Springfield and laid the fOunda-
ton plans for the new national order.
The work of Missouri organization
called the Grand Army of Progress
suggested the form of ritual which was
adopted and which was printed in
great secrecy.
FOURTEEN charter members of the
! Grand Army participated in the
| first conference. and united Is from
the first historic pioneer G. A. r.
post at Decatur, Ill.,, April 6, 1866.
These men were Col. John NJ. Snyder,
DIR. James Hamilton. Maj. r. NJ.
Woods and II Others
The makers of the G. A. r., it ap-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

THE idea Of the organization Of the
: Grand Army Of the Republic was
really conceived, however, before the
close Of the war. y The signer Of the
drst general order, calling the first
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
Cuba Promises Aid.

New York.-Banks in Cuba are aid
ing tile United States Government lib
erty loan to degree which has. proved
a pleasant surprise to officials of the
Federal Reserve Bank here in and in
Washington. Cabled advices received
here by the Republic of Cuba News
Bureau told of the offer, which has
been published widely in Cuba, by the
Banco Naciohal de Cuba, to receive
liberty loan subscriptions and forward
them to the United States Treasury
without charge to the subscribers.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
E,4ure Of Poland Discussed.

Copenhagen.-The discussion in vi
emma between DR.. Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg, Imperial German Chancellor, and
Count Czernin, Austro-H Hungarian For
eign Minister, which were resumed at
German headquarters, and in which
Count Czernin, the King of Bavaria,
Emperor William, DR.. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, DR.. Alfred Zimmerman, the
German Foreign Minister, and DIR. Karl
Helfferich, the German vice chancellor,
are taking part, have to do, among
other things, with the future Of the
kingdom of Poland.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
Railroad In Iowa Sold.

Council Bluffs, Iowa.-Joseph Jo-
seph Brothers Company, Cincinnati,
purchased the Iowa and Omaha Short
Line Railroad, extending II miles out
of Council Bluffs, and will wreck the
property and sell it as junk. Last fall
the railroad, which has been in the
hands of a receiver, was sold for
$4,000, to be operated as an electric
line, It's owners found it was worth
double that money as junk and sold 1t
to the Josephs. The road was built
eight years ago, at cost. of $3OO, 900,
and all was subscribed by farmers.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
RinteIen Found GUILTY.

New YOrk.-Captain Franz Rintelen,
Of the German navy; David Lamar and
Henry B. Martin were found guilty by
jury in the Federal Court on charges
of having conspired in 1915 to disrupt
the munitions traffic between this
country and the Entente allies. The
jury disagreed as to four other defend
ants. The verdict, was accepted by
Judge Cushman less than an hour after
he had sent the Jury back to its delib
erations in the hope that all the cases
might be cleared .np.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

pref fully the significance of the
button--that modest little badge of
patriotic service? Perhaps you do.
Perhaps you don't. If you do not, ask
him. lie knows what it means now.
Fraternity, charity, loyalty, and
wherever he sees it he recognizes in
its wearer a brother. 1t symbolizes
all he knows or feels of a comrade-
ship born in the fires of battle, weld
ed, cement9d by fraternal devotion
no pen ey7r yet defined.
It means q lot more to him than you
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

THE wind was cold. the hill>wp 34re:
! We marched and took our stand
Smith was the army we had there,
With Hawkins in command
WE placed flag above the mound
w And from book read,
The Lord God bless this hallowed ground
Where lies the nations dead"
THEN to the road we turned again
] Hawkins and Smith and |.
The same as though a thousand men
Were in our company
FOR not alone we three had come
l To that one soldiers grave;
The wide land rife with tramp and drum
Its immanent presence gave.
ITS voice. which filled the wayside pine,
Chanted Of martial days:
lis great soul through our slender line,
Rendered memorial praise.
Stephen Tracy Livingston. in Harpsfs Wsskly.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

pears, adopted, in part, the "title Of
officers" and the general organization
of the Loyal Legion Of the United
States, the essential difference In
herring in the terms of eligibility to
office, the Loyal Legion restricting
membership of the first class to Off.
GERS.
The plan of organization embraced,
first, the formation of precincts, called
posts; second, county unions, called
districts; third, state associations,
known rs departments, and the ma
tional organization formed originally
of two delegates from each depart
ment.
The declaration of principles, a clear
statement of the fraternal, patriotic
and charitable purpose Of the new or
ganization, was introduced by para
graph in high-SOunding and rounded
phraseOlOgy after the style Of the
times, as follows:
sGT HE soldiers of the Volunteer
Army of the United States dur
ing the war of 1S61-1865 actuated by
the impulse and convictions of pa
triOtism and eternal right; combined
in the strong bonds of fellowship and
unity by the tolls, the dangers and
the victories of long and vigorously
waged war, feel themselves called on
to declare in definite form of words
and in determined cooperative ac-
ton, those principles and rules which
| should guide the earnest patriot, the
enlightened freeman and the Chris
tian citizen In his course of action
and to agree upon those plans and
laws which should govern them In a
united and systematic working meth
cd with which In some measure shall
be effected the preservation of the
grand results Of the war, the fruits
of their labor and toll, so as to bene
fit the deserving and worthy"
The Grand Army organization, II
appears, at first made little headws J
in the various states. In two years bL'
thirteen states were permanently or
ganized, the order being Illinois, Wis
consin, Pennsylvania. Ohio, New York
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jer
sey, Maine, California, Nevada, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire and Vermont
The chief cause of the slow progress
seemed to be that the soldiers had be
come weary of organization In the in
effective clubs already referred to
which had grown into popular dlsfavOr
and almost total disruption was threat
ened by the Indifference and opposition
of those who at first conceived the g
A. r. to be some sort of secret sS
clety of partisan proclivities.
RRANY wise heads, however, recog
kvx nized the power for good in the or
ganiZatiOn, and it's future prOsperit
was happily assured by the adoption
of resolution of the national en-
campment of 1858 that the purpose o
the G. A. r. is ito secure the right
of these defenders Of their country, b.
all moral, social and political means II
our control"
Emphasis was appropriately place
on the primary objects of the organl
zation to maintain and strengthen tn
fraternal feelings which bind tOgethe
the soldiers and marines of the Civi
war, to perpetuate the memory an,
history Of those who have died, and t,
lend assistance to the needy and t
their widows and orphans, and all dis
tinctiOns of party, creed, rank or colo
were eliminated.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24

haired veterans,
growing fe W er
and fewer every
day. You see the
old men totter
along on cane or
crutch, quietly,
modestly, but with
the air Of a prince
of the loyal honor
of America. Are
you sure you
know and inter-