The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-12-21
TUT, TUT, COUNT YOUR BLESS
INGS.

When a frog is in a we'll 30 feet
deep and climbs up three feet day
then falls back two feet, it will take
quite a while for him to climb out but
he will get out after a while-f he
does not give up.
II man is in debt $4,000 and pays
on his debts $1,000 year yet goes
into debt $500 it is easy to see that it
will take long time to get out But
he will get out after q time if he
keeps on paying. We look around this
town and say: I'VE have need of many
things here" This town needs this or
that and every word is tiTe. Prog
ress is slow, very slow, to the impa
tient. 1t is we'll sometimes to count
your blessings, take stock, check up.
measure the present by the past
Sometimes a man can sight along the
has made considerable advance He
can find comfort in his presen, lack
of strength by remembering from
whence he came. We are thus often
enabled to see that we have made
considerable progress.
Thirty years ago today--just lit
tie more than quarter of a century,
there was not a foot of pavement on
sidewalk in Union. Gravel-clay was
all we had. We had no modern, con
venient courthouse. We had, as a
rule, very inferior church buildings
now we have many handsome church
buildings. We had one little, cramped
brick school house, since enlarged and
now known as Central school, We
had no high school building. The
school course was confined to eight
grades. We had no water works. no
electric lights, no Union & Glenn
Springs railway, and but one small
mill, now greatly enlarged and known
as Union Mill. We had no knitting
mill. We had no ice plant, no hand
some store rooms. The Southern de-
pot was a small wooden shack, an eye
sore instead of the handsome brick
station now here. Of course we had
no handsome brick depot for the I'm
road had not yet been built. We had
some few real nice homes then, but
not more than a dozen. You can find
on every prominent street in the town
now more handsome homes than you
could then find in the whole place
We had no Carnegie library, no post
office building, no white way on Main
street. Come to think Of it, we have
made some considerable progress
and that's fact. 1t was made in the
face of reactionists, knockers, pessi-
mists and calamity howlers. No town
was ever built that did not stir up
a whole breed of such pests. There
may be some things that we need
need badly. But we have come some
way, when you think of it. And, judg-
ing the future by the past, we can
go on to bigger and better things. A
cannery will help. We are planning
to have one. "The Union Dairy Co"
is a new corporation in the making
and with almost limitless possibilities
This should be the nucleus for a
creamery and an ice cream factory.
Other enterprises will come. Sardis
Farm, not mentioned above, is one of
the recent most excellent enterprises
for Union. Not from the standpoint
of immediate dividends to the stock
holders, but as an asset that will help
Union County to solve it's problems
of today When YOU get out YOUR
hammer to knock this town, suppose
you first find out what you have and
then take note of what you have done
to help it. If, then you decide to
knock, go ahead, knock all you wish.
Possibly the hammer will slip and
knock you in the head. The town
would not miss you, even should that
sad end come to you.