{"id":11479,"date":"2016-06-28T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/union-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T18:56:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:56:39","slug":"union-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/union-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An evening newspaper, daily except Sunday, published in the city of Union. The <em>Union Daily Times <\/em>claims to be Union County\u2019s oldest enterprise. Its ancestor was the <em>Unionville Journal, <\/em>a weekly founded on May 3, 1850, with B. F. Arthur as editor and Robert McKnight as publisher. The name was changed to the <em>Unionville Times <\/em>in 1859 and carried the states\u2019 rights banner: \u201cThe Constitution as our fathers gave it, or separate independence.\u201d After the Civil War the name was changed to the <em>Weekly Union Times <\/em>in 1869 and to the <em>Union Times <\/em>in 1894. The Reverend Lewis Malone Rice purchased the <em>Union Times <\/em>in 1906, converting it to a daily in 1917 and renaming it the <em>Union Daily Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rice died in 1946, and his grandson William R. Feaster served as editor and publisher until his death in 1967. Feaster\u2019s widow, Dorothy, succeeded him as editor and publisher. In 1974 Mid-South Management Company bought the newspaper. When Dorothy Feaster retired, Donald E. Wilder served as publisher until 1995, when he was succeeded by David M. \u201cMike\u201d Pippin. In 2002 Anthony Summerlin was the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper occupied various buildings, dating from the first site when it had offices in a structure known as the \u201cold police station,\u201d but was printed in a livery stable. The daily survived a fire in 1912 and eventually moved into a fourteen-thousand-square-foot building in the county\u2019s industrial park in 1992. In 1996 the <em>Times <\/em>began complete pagination, integrating editorial and classified advertising layouts.<\/p>\n<p>McNeely, Patricia G. <em>The Palmetto Press: The History of South Carolina\u2019s newspapers and the Press Association. <\/em>Columbia: South Carolina Press Association, 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evening newspaper, daily except Sunday, published in the city of Union. The Union Daily Times claims to be Union County\u2019s oldest enterprise. Its ancestor was the Unionville Journal, a weekly founded on May 3, 1850, with B. F. 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