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.wmpl J ? a - H ml lmk-' -r i mi J^h r^~0^ ~0~~B~ ~B-~"0 *0" "T ~^k T M '^iS^l^'T r B ^ __ _ /04 | 'T^'TQ^o^SSofllBB W Two Cotton Mills, one the (' > 0 ! 0 B B M M TOs 8 i W^iSKM ' I ' 1 ? /I 8 M L "1 ' jf The largest KnittingMiltJ^^H| //s largest in the South. Two Fur- 1(1 0 M B B J ul Y'A Eg 0 j|0t 0 H 0/1 BJ- III Dye Jflant tn the State. )), niture and Wood Manufaetur- fj) 0 0 0 0^ fa 0 Hi 0 0 0 0 ?&/ I 0 1 , "^0 ({ and Manufacturing Co, in ing Concerns. One Female 0 0 0 H I J 0 0 0 0 'BH0P0' *" 0 ' 0- V 0 '0 ' J i 1 ,n makes an unexcelled Quav^^^^l {(( Seminary. Water Works and t( _0 '.J0:-J0- 0__y ^ ^ ^ 0 v 0 0 0 ^ ^ J B B A % ((/ Three Graded Schools. | Electric Lights. ))) }(} sian Water. PopulaUon^t^BM VOL XHX. KO. 40. UNION', SOUTH CAROL[NA^0P^ OCTOBEll"c. 1899. #1.00 A YKAlTj^M jlfi Mi tr H0, MA HL lit m Hj lY ** I"" ? ?? "V VIV *?V rlv ri? ?lv r*V Vl\ TTT WV F. M. FARR, President. / J QEO. MUNRO, Cashier, J. 1 | Merchants^and Plar J OK UNIC ? Oupital Stock jK Surplus X Stockholders' Liabilities V Total i Directors?J. A. Fant, W I T. C. Duncun, J. T. Douglass, I T Win. Coleman. I' We Solicit Yo Local Market Report. Union market changed e ery two | wee'xS hy the Union Cottoi Mills Department Store. i Itaenu 0*t ' llama I'-H Shoulders Breakfast Strips 10 Klour 4 AOS 4 75 Meal 0<1 I Orist - *4 Klee 8S I 8ur*r 0 V , Cofrae 10i,40 Lard m < ... AVnfU IVbttOeo 85 a,7B j KenHene Oil 15 Chicken# ll'<?17 t Sup j UNION COUNTY NEWS. j Items of Interest Gathered from 1 Various Sections by our Correspondents. 1 i i Santuc Sittings. { < "In and sweet da) a when l.rctic flushes ( Burn ml on maple and sumac l*vn, j When sorrowful winds wail through ihe rushes. i And a'l things whisper of loss and j grief, I When rln?.pr and closer bold frost, no proachea To snatch the b'ossoms from nature's breast, "Vyiieu night forever on day encroa- hrs? 'ph? then I thiuk X love you oeit." Pjtl yop ever gee a rabbit plant ? JJqw work while the weather is plt?sant. Has any one seen the "last rose of summer ?'* Rejoice, all men rejoloe cotton has gone up?in price. When the cold winds come?what will we do for great coat*?poor thing*. Mr. Green J. Lee, of Black Rvck, was in town yesterd iy and attended services at the Baptist church. This month was one of excellent weather for gathering crops, but foddpr pulling and cotton picl.ing contiioted and held one necessarily back: ' dodder was generally well saved, but then it was not of the be>t quality, the tips were burned Since our unprecedented hot weather we have bad quite a while of cool weather that lingers much ' _ 1 .v.: .i .. longer limn usu;?? mis sumuh 01 iucm year. The temperature dropped to < 30 degrees with slight frost on diy substances, and this morning, the 2nd, since jotting down some other notes it was 36 degrees and in places white frost that kdled late corn, eotton and completely "wiped out" the the pea crop, and in those place* seed is lost. Fortunately it was not general. Miss Essie Zealy, of Sparta ?burg, is visiting her many friends in !*antuc. Mr. J Leon Butler, of L* ckhart. visited bis pareioH, Dr. and Mrb. F P. Butlier, below town, last week. Mr. W. O. Jeter went by private conveyance to Jerikinsville last week to see his brother. Dr. E. 0. Jetor. Mr. Joe II. Jeter has gone to Charleston to attend the lecture at the Charleston Medical college. About all of the college girls Mho havo been enjoying their vacation at home havo returned to their respective schools. The academy here opened under favorablo circumf-tancos, and prospects good, wilh Miss Cowan, a highly recommended teacher, in charge. Cotton picking is progressing and w^hn't^e crop is put to the "crucial f teat" of picking and weighing, it is found to be still short, or rather shorter. * ' Mt* **"?? -i&m m *** ?*i. H. FOSTER, Vice President, f >. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. ? iter i' Hational Bank*! ! >;v, w. c. % $00,000 r?o,c.Hx> jfe oo;ooo ^ j $170,000 I . H. Wallace, Win. Jeffries, jfc I. P. A.cKissiek,"A. II. Foster, I I ur Business. m>4* m> * The pek'crop, even where there is 1 some suggestion of vines, is shout to ' prove a complete fhiluiv. 'J here is very little fruit Mini that is too late to ' mature fully. Seed is likely to be ! very scarce next year. Sow oats. This is iuy sn.-gcMion ' The coin crop is poor, the ; ca ?rop, the sideline, is about a Uilure. There is no peavine hay, and fetoek will >ave to be fed ou corn through the winter nr.:! cm'* will he hadly needed' aext summer. Feed is croinc tr. nu. ihort rure. It is a ro;gbty tough ob serimagiug around to ma'ce both v jnds of horse feed meet. b 1 am more and more opposed to t the roundlap or cylinderiea! cotton b press. For awhile, I thought it a might be a little possible, but read- ?i itig all the praises of the method, I have about concluded that they are >nly advertisements written by the s :ouipuny or the.ir agent, at. the com- 1 pany'o dictation. The whole thing { is the tnost gigantic trust that can be t jonceived of foisted upon cotton pro [ lurt-r*. If it could he adopted and o arrie?l to the extent that tho trust t , < striving f >r, it wdl close out all a imall gioners that is the "traveliug" pinners, and stop every firmer from t leing his own man as to ginning his r >wn cotton. That would have to be t ione by the trust. If a round bale T press was put in this ginnery he e. 1 wiih the amount of ginning it tines 1 when the twenty year lease wis out. u thp trust WAIllil tuiffl rniioiui"! it 1.1 300 as rent. Very generous man t who would give that fir the use of a t JoOO pre?a. I say let ua have none :>f them, for sure some farmer w??uM a liave to help to pay that en<*nuou? li rent. I am a reformer and a vevo- i iutionist iu a sense, but not ho mu ;h t jobs to try to ai?l iu reforming or I revolutionizing things until we are s ander the thumb screws of a [ am willing to reform and adopt i s iniform bale?it can not co-t mm; i ' d to alter presses?and more to wrap ( u them up better and neater where i ? there will not be so much waVo, ;i i 1 ( those who own small engines, gi i j md presses can do their own wov'i r ind other ginners cau be owrit*?> of v pre ses and not renters. I am g il j t that a round bale press w> s not put . . in at the new ginnery at Caih'le m ; < was once reported, but a Mpure i> tie ! f one. for this U something I am j t deeply interested in, being a vottoi I producer, if but a small one. Pow 1 i t with the trust. 11 ky !)I:NV:,K ? Santuc, S. C., Oct. 9, '90. Millions of dome*, js the value placed i by Mm. >iury lliril, Ilanisbnrg, l'? . <>.i ! c the life of her child, which j from croup by too use of One Minute , Cough Cure. 11 cures all coughs, colds . ar.d throat and liuig troubles. K. (). 1 Duke. I Keitoit Dots. The weather in delightful nov, and we are enjoying ir. in i s fulles'.. Cotton picking is the order of the < day. i Miss Ida Wood who has been visiting relatives in Union, h?s returned home. 1 Mrs. John M. Little and chihlreu < left la*t week to visit her paren s iu i iMl?BI8S?ppi. Miss ShII'io Chambers. Swllie Q.tr-11 iter and Edith Fowler passed through Kclton last week on their wuy to Clifford's seminary. Rev. D. C. Freeman, wife and children, after spending several wet ks with relatives in Greenville, have returned home. Rrof. Thomas M. Jones 'eft Ktdton Friday for Callisin. Mr. Jones has many staunch friends here and -? 1 we wish him success. Mr*. Dr. F'-al and ihildren, of l'icdm-'nt Spiingj. are \i?itiag the tunf.ly of Uev. J. N. Isom. Mi-s Sibbie and Maud Kelly left List Saturday for Charles'on. where hry expect to attctil school at the Confederate Home.' Miss ^usie Craw fold, of Jonesvillo. fias been visiing frieuds in K el ton. Kid ton is improving. We have i phono nowr, which is vrry con'in. ... A- i ? .... cut tu uui mcaiuuifc?. ;?ir. I?. It. Going, of our ci?v, <i.-i?o-: Gieeiiville lust week. .Nil Conway Posey visited Kelton nst ! I ur-?day. Mrs. M. W. Chambers has been v'ery sick for the past few. day p. Mirs Mary Leo Hardin spent last Saturday ?t Santuc. Mr. J. Necly Ilardin and daughter, Miss Posey, of Chester, spent Sun J iy i.ight at the h"iile of Mr. John i. Spears. Ilonoi Poll. Mavy Lee Hardin, I'eacher. Bertha Gault, Gletin Isom, lessie Isom, Willie Isoai, Bu'.lcr veiley, Annie Smith, Edgar KHley. lath Spears, Ernest Spears, Madge Vood. Mary Wood, Melvimt Porter, dittie Wood. "Olivia," Jj'i&AYillp Jottings. Joaesvi'ile, S. C.. Oct. 2.?Thefts ras considerable frost this morning > it t :,ire is nothing killed by it on he high lands, but in the hot oins it las (lone much (lanugo to the pea ,tnl hay crops. The cool weather d'oo.rse holds up the maturing of if ti e lite cotton vnd stops tlx ;rowth of vegetation and is a hack ot t? many things these hard times. L'he poor crops at one time was very >romisiug but now it is very plain hat it wi 1 be a failure; peas will he >eas in this country next year. Some me has alt cady advanced the idea hat p as will be worth two dollars . bushel next spring. Last Saturday was a lively d ?y in own, Two line gins running and l'ing out tin e ? or four bales of coton e-*ery hour and cotton celling at i cento and cotton seed bringing G cents mule farmers step round ively arid merchants were looking nore 11 ;asaut than usual. The doctors are smiling too, a? here is a great deal of sickness in he country. Today tlio rollor mill is unloading loud of Tonnassve wheat which they lave bought an.l will manufacture nto good sweet patent Hour and here will be nothing mixed with i% iut it will be all fiour, pure and imple. Hie cotton mill acems to be an rsured fact. Forty seven thousand Lollars hive been subscribe I which iseures that much Northern papital md '-no-hundred-thousand will bring he mill without any d<>ubt. The grading on the Loci hart rail oad is progressing nicely. The v<ht'ici is fi;ie f>r the business and ho guides arc light and so the work roes steadily on. The young people if our town are thinne l out CQtyftid rahU by the many boys and girls bat have gone oil* to college. l>> aliace ftinitu icic a lew nays lavs ago for Ft mm University. M Alex Foster left last Saturday or iliv. ilcLtiil eo-l^ge in Atlanta. O :r high school is moving on nice y wit). Mi<s Arohor ?*t the helm. Mr. < Jiull'iCT 1?. F.-vrler has been ?ver in Cross Keys township survevi ? lands. II" Pays he found soini ?ery old surreys and old d>tes datng back into the colonial days, their :i?rin?. be'ng (juite different frotp the pros-nt forms. Telephone. Dots From Cro3S Keys. Mr. Editor: The rise iu the price }f cotton has stimulated our farmers 90UU what. I was ii your city a few days last week and met many old friends taat J had not seen in a lon^ time. \ wont down and spent u pleiWnr night with Capt. Gilliam Jeter. lie has more hogs, more old corn and from what I saw a sin ike-house nearer the type of tho good old day* before the war than any place 1 have seen in cur county. The crop9 ia that sec/ion (Santnc) will compare very fyvo^hly with ours. I met Mr. 8. J. Davi -, a good oitiaen of that section, who gave mo a rather bad report from my neighbor, lie said bo was surprised at being charged on the Sabbadi day for a little feed for a tired horse. I that Cros? Keys was neted hospitality, but moat all <p]*e&? had its hog or its regulator iu it; therefore he bhould not judge the $??auce of us by the one referred to. -w? ho will pay Cross Keys another wisit sometime with the hope of being able to make a better report. "Man's inhumanity to man maki-8 countless intUions mourn." The idea of one neighbor charging anothtr for Settle fetd for a tired horse, and thej^jpopdemn trusts and combines, aU^ceftdoa;n the wealth of Gould and Vap^|J>iit. whan he at the same time ts holding to the little heh-s got'in Lis grasp with such tcuaci y that the word eharitv is aa souiidfoir I , ~ * o i brass or a tinkling symbol. I am thinking of the school I taught twenty years ng?. I can seethe class. ?f little boys there. There were two I well remember that if either wers fortunate enough to procurs a red apple for the coming day tha^thev wou'd exhibit it to the en tire school sin?l when they g t lealy to eat it they would go around the sdhool house, got out.of eight of the other children going in different direction, and enjoy it alone. I predicted then that they would make anything else but good citizen*. It has turned out that way?you can buy those fallows now three (3) for a quarter. Ilespectfu'ly, Titos. II. Goes. CHtSS Kev? Oct. 2. PLANT WHEAT. " I It's More Profitable than Cotton j and Helps to Make Farmers Independent. Marion Star. Below wo publish a circular on the cultivation of wheat, gotten up by Mr. E. T. Wiilcox. It contains some valuable information on the wheat growing question. ami will be reail with interest by out* farmer friends who contemplate planting j^heat. This industry should be encouraged, aud Mr. Wiilcox has *et the ball in motion by assming us that we will have a roller mill in operation for the next crop. No', having to ship the grain for manufacture it will be of the greatest advantage, and there is no reason why every farmer should not plant several acres of wheat and have his Hour uude right at home. Farmers cannot grow wheat to advantage unless they can get it ground without hauling it too far and find a homo market for their surplus pro duct. To meet this need the under signed obligates himself to have a roller mill of ample capacity in operation at Marion for the nexc crop. This information is given, yow ia that farmers pmyy tjot lWitate to ptyqt wheat. The- best season to plant is October and November, the earlier the better. One to one and a half bu-thels of seed wheat per acre should be used if sown broadcast, the poorer the land the more seed should u#ed, _:~i u? i i -..,1 .v.? "ii riuuer but? i ta i iwu earner juauicu la?s teed. Haw c :>tton seed U a staple manure for wheat; thirty bushels to the acre and 200 pounds Acid Phosphate should produce twenty f* twenty-five bushels per i\cre on*'fair land. , The land should be thoroughly prepared and well drained. Plow deep and aub?>il if you can, harrow seed in two inehet deep and roll the land if practicable. To auoeeed best hare the land pi line condition. Qi^r farmers c never be independent uutil they r-dss their home simplie?. One advantige in planting wheat is that it'you fail to make u croi it j is not ro> late t> plant n cr.>p of t o a, peas, pota;oo3 or sugar canc on t i> same land anl it leaved the I t ml in fine tillage. Let every farmer in >J*i\iun oounty plant at least from one to fire a.' es and bo independent of the Northw .91 for his flour. You can g<d your .seed from any of the merchants. Make- arrangements with them at once, let them know how much you wi-h. hi, T. Wivncox. There i$ food fur thought for our farmers in Union county, in the above letter. Heed the advico and plant uioro wheat, tho mills will be forthooraiug.?[Ed. Subscribe ubw and read In 11 is Steps. m 0 g Wm. A. Nicholson < a S RESrPCTFULLY" fc< 1 BANKING BUSINESS AND Yl m And romisc you the best protcc a?*a?ioB?0?????s>Ba??ne?3O2c ca a OUR FALL LINE Is the attractio PRICES?Right,? LI N ES?U p=to=< SATISFACTK UNION SIUNION, ! ^^TH] Prudential Insi ~^OF AMH I HOME OFFICE - . Newark, N. J. Assetts, Jan. i 1899, - - Surplus, Jan. 1,1899, - - STRONG AS THE Insurance written in 1* Insurance in force 189 Income I898 ov The Prudential has forged i stands in the front rank of the grc of the world. It offers all that is under the best conditions. JAMES 0. WYjNN. Manacrcr Sot CATAPHORESIS. -?i DR. H. K. : ^.DENTU Crown and I Bridge Work, '*v . ... -. & Son, Bankers, DLIOIT YOU It g^Hj 3UR FIRE INSURANCE, | S tion and the best service. Wi CQS 9B9E9B ? 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