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. f ""* / ^l3Fr \ ' V -T N J f r A . / n ^ i , * - A ' *w- ^ I-' ' -* '' ' / " -A I / ipTHE TOWN OF UNION HAS U| a TN?TOJUyuAVoA'*.;?'! ------ *-1 -r T IT T A \T rp "I 11" 17 t 1,^ll^hfs\??.MAnOU ? I Two Cotton Mills, ono the II [ I I I I I I ' I 111 ^ S B m/B Hi , 1(1 nnd. ManufttCl"""?, > Co\ J**k ffl )| I H Hi H .l l AII A -I- 1?A Ali k^? 1 <5:1 !| , S^cmii i n jir^ . ^ \\ a t <_-r Works ami , _M. JL H- ^ .i ^ ^ - ' T P. M. PARK President, f GEO. MUNh<\ Cashier, J | Marchanis' and Pit I I OF ONI ? Capital Stock J Surplus s Stockholders' Liabilities Total A Tliop/w*?" T _ .....oviuas?J, A. i< ant, 1 4 T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, 1 Wm, Coleman. $ J We Solicit V CAJAPHORESIS. DR. H. K -a* DENT Crown and Bridge Work. ^ r , v in TUB COTfSTRY. . -jfe. "" Cross Keys and its Jelly Fellows. JHp?r Maj. llctsill, tie Confe erate Hero, and his plucky I.ittlc Wife. I ! Arriving at Cro33 Koyv, we opened ' up for biz at Mr. Charles Graham's ] stora. We f>und a largo crowd of i the jolly good D'onlo in the .< cracking joke* with each other while c they enjoyed the warmth of a great 1 fire that was a welcome fight to J. I G. and myself after our drive in the ? cold wind from Mr. Bobj's. The c crowd nagged us a little for our tardi- c ness, in a good Matured way; wo told a them they could t?lk mighty hig r Standing indo ?rs aro md a big fire? v while we were making our way there v |hroug i the howling wi.idi of that r fay coM m >rning. The peoplo of o C|"j-8 Keys must bo a hippy lot; \vn I have boon over there t?rn?s, f< and we have nover yet seen them s *ogcthor that thoy were not lively s and full of cheer, always roady t > get p olf a god j >ko on sons one present, v this samoone takos it good naturo lit, t and is seldom alow in returning the ii oomplimeat. By the way, I learned t in tne general conversation, that soma h one of the crowd hau recently been fi hunting, and while out he saw a i rabbit approaching. lie raised his s gun while his ra mth began to water t for the fine rabbit pie that loomed up t in his mind's eye, when he sud lenly < observed that this rabbit carried hitn- c f in a ttafliAt* ti nnanall r? /I fi v 1 , i kVlft *11 a &?(/uvi uuuouciiijr uig<iiuu'l i and consequential manner, ho l.?w 1 .? pred his gun, and shading his eyei * fqr a closer look, he made a die i gqyery. The rabbit was wearing a 1 gorge>qs necktie, and seon^el p.*r- a ^jctly unconcerned about the stranger c and b-8 g*H? mere'y omdoicending a i casual glance over nia shoulder while 1 he winked the other eye. The as- I tonished huater ejaouluted "Tom i Gore's rabbit, by thunder," and he 1 dropped his gun on the ground, raised his hat and said "goo 1 in ami ng i Tom, old fellow, you had a close cill that time, but I will bo m >re careful hereafter, you are safe so long as you wear friend Tom's colors." i>ut that isn't as bad as the "rat" tail, oh, I mean tale, or sending the , """ n ?a mill .ii> oli.if.?irifr Mi.) <lf. nk.1 W" ?* ?, VM ? B?"6 V..? - | or sending tho ca'f to the other fel low, and so it goo*. It is almost ! equal to attending a roaring farco c<-medy to visit the Key3 and meet those jolly fellows together. We recommend any one suffering with low spirits and the complaint known as the blues to pay a visit to the Keys and mingle with the people over there, and we thiuk we can safely gusntee a cure. We did very well at the Keys adding a number of new names t> our list, end had the pleasure of in iking .many neyf acquaintances. We wer.* ?ecorted to dinner by our fiiend Tom Uollis, who is ns full of wit and humor as an egg is full of ment, and always holds a full hand when it nnmpd to iokes. although the b>\s sometimes combine ngtinst him and severely test his powors of reparfc ;e. We took our glasses up to Mr. Ilollis' house which is situated up>n an elevation with a commanding view. 4 All of us were anxious to look at Union through the glasses, Mr. Ilollis especially. Now, to look at Union from the front of Mr. Ilollis' f is j v; * *< p- M Mi in nt Mfi nr iii m -4ft Tlv rl* III ? ? ?? A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. jr I. D. ABTHHO. A.mmMmw* cmBier. | inters' National Bank | COIV, ?. c. J $00,000 I r>o,ooo f 00,000 * $170,000 | >V. II. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, & E. P. McKissick/A. H. Foster, jl 'our Business. X 1 ***** ELECTRICS. . SMITH, IST._^o ^ UnionrSvCr h..u<? one ?n?'8t louk to the lefr, no one knew this better than Mr. llollis. but f>tr<tnge to say that he had the ' glasses in his hand only a few minutes ' before ho was g?zing through tht m m jut ear.os'ly toward the right iu the direction of Euoree. When j pressed for an explanation, he rc- i narked he was looking for tho smoke ! itrck at Enoroe, some of the known g ; >nos remarked that he would not like- | y sea heron the smoke -stack. 1 don't ( mow what they meant by so strange 1 i remark, but it seemed to tickle the i :r.?wd. However, hlr. Ilollis secn ed letermined to locate that smoke tack(V) if possible and took us to the ear of the house for another look after re had looked at Union sufficiently, re found the stack, "only this and lOihing more," at least this is all I ould inako out of_ it._ T /ill ' or he kept hi* secret. Mr. Ilollis liowetl us where a battery w as once Rationed near his house and exilaincd how the c mnoc was loaded rith powder and turnips (I suppose here had been a trust termed on ron which had thrown it up so high I hat it could not be u-ed f.;r cannon lalls) and that the turnips were sent lying from the cannon toward Union; c may have been that Union was omewhat short on vegetables and ho roads too bad even to haul turnips o town, and ihey used this me'hod f quick aerial transportation f r tonvenience, but wo never thought to nqulre. Mr. Ilollis has a pretty iome, one of the prettiest sites aroun^ ^r^ss Keys and it is wl Upered that ?i the not distant future tlp.e will >e a Mrs. Ilollis in chargo de affairs it the pretty honjo. NVpll we can songratulate the lady ^vhotver sho nay be, hut Mr. Torn is a sly one *e wou'c give anything away. lie tries to throw those of an inquiring oin 1 off by telling them the ever_t will occur on the 29th of February. Those who hive not noticed the calender take it for granted ?hat this is leap year, as it is the fourth year since j last leap year, and they are looking 1 for the event Thursday after the j 4th Sunday, but they loose fight 1 of the fact that this arrangement changes and leap year is lost once in every hundred years, so these t*o leap years will be eight instead of fmr years apart, llad you thought of that? Torn has, and there is where he has the horse laugh on you. But we will wait and see. While at Mr. Ilollis' home he showed tue a family re'ic in the shape of a clock of beautiful design. I have never seen anything like it. It is ! supported betweon the tops of four I beautiful white marble columns, resting upon a marble base. The face is some six inches in diameter and is bronze, between the four column* hangs the pendulum, wh:ch is also bronze. The clock is altogether gomo eighteen inches high and has a four side glass case protector. The olook is a goo 1 tiino keeper, It waf ordered from Engl $nd by old General Botnar, of Spartanburg, formerly Sheriff of Spartanburg county. Th< cl>ck is nearly three fourths of 11 century old It is a beauty and ti valuable souvenir. We accopted the kind invitatior of Msj. It. J. Betsill to spend th? , night at his home. We arrived then (Continued on fourth page.) Items oftlnterest Gathered from e Various Sections by our J Correspondents. d - If C )lil well Items. * P a Cold weather again, w i ll rain in j1 abundance, but we have escaped snow, jl so far, but we can't tell how long it tl will be before wc have to stand the ei test. I tell you wc would be very P glad to hare the weather moderate, tr and be so avc could move along r? smoothly and riot be imposed upon f*i like our friends Auditor and his com- b'1 panion. They, having their mustache's frozen to their lips, and having to leave the t>lpn?nnr ---1 -l? ~ r? ?? wiuvp, ?uu men ^ the roads len^ rocky and rough, bi? getting !o>t in a pasture, itc.. we can cr? surely sympathize with them, but of, brother correspond Mi t, 1 believe if you had been down here, and helped If" *ocno uf us In a ltule Jon we CStHTTlir4 ' ^ c con'nct with last wt ck, I expect you N! ! would lurve taken frozen mustachrg ! in preference. Now 1 will try una dy Id.M. nbr the occupation to the best dy of my ?:b lity. lc was removing n i?rc iurgwire f nee around about two bun- *'h ' v ' dred actes of "world" I might term b11' .t, and we would grab u handful ot CJ<-' wire and shut our eyes and in a euily we would go, and then it would be ^ over rocks next uud in thorn bushes w'l h ough brier patches, and I believe Prft .'t is utterly impossible to describe bow ,s 1 we were situated a good deal of the bee iiine; but WC have it about rnmr.lrti/. son now, and I tell y<.u it is a good one, put Jt it doosn t look quite so well. ^ Ocorge Hunter a c dorcd fellow sa> h tkr< the fence looks "all sorts o'ways," heii hut nevertheless any one wishing to dru t-eeuro pasturage f.^r their dry cattle t!i"' can find refuge down this way. due Had roads. Our friends are <**.? "*ell ^fttitto*"r'oVl8 at p. esent, and also tt?e UCi*way they liave been pretended to be ^ worked last year, why we have a por- c,?i tion of road leading oat to Santuc th'3 that is utterly impassible with a load, dye ar>d how is it to be helped? I think w'll if we had a load of dynamite and the blow ti.o whole hill up, may be it * could be traveled when it w as sjmooth- yeai ed over. t Per< Deputies Fowler and Johns, have each visited our section this last week i hey must be kept pretty busy with contract breakers etc. ^ Mr. Editor vou will really have to be i w tr excuse our news, for we uon't have mur any thing of much interest to happen go*n in our coiner, we have kindly fallen bur. in line with the thought that you abs' ivqeu last weeV, and that is this, cate When )Ton do seek ufcer fashion, and ing obtain it, it has changed to something the else, and we are great home stayers, atte for there i?Rnr*? uAuio* nha and you see we don t have the chance me to gather nows, like brother J. It. M. We 1 wonder if some body else will not the agree with us in that. 4 Fashion Tor changing?' , tha Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Davis and tha their son Mr. W. Lester Davis, of the Cross Keys, have been visiting rela- woi lives near hero. pla We are glad to state that Mrs. W. tell 11. Smith who has been quite sick, Cu is recover ing. to Wo had a negro killing not far dis- ma iant from us not long since and it cla i was rtated in the last issue. They to I believe in killing. pla Mrs. llobt. Sartor was the guest sa^ j of Mrs. Mollie Smith not many days wo past. oc< | Little Lila Smith is visiting at her hii grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. T. 1 ( Davis in Cross Keys. hii Mr. Charlie Miller from Oakland, se paid our community a business call, wl h few days back cattle hunting. n? weli* wisiier. 13 Co!dwell, S. C., Feb. 12th, 1900. a ? as IT Hi /">I r>l 1# UJ4 Mill wiuuiiii^.Ii I I ! b( . . Mr. E litor:?It has been some ^ ! time since our part of the county ^ ? j has been hoard from and I will try c' 1 and tell your readers bow wo arc W ' I moving along down hero. We have > bad a tine Janmry for farm work, ^ k 1 and our people have made good u?e r( k | of the time. There has been more work done than I have known ft?r c k several years in same time. v i There is a good deal of wheat sown r 5 and generally looks well. The oat 1 crop is somewhat damaged by the c jjxtremely cold weather. r^jjLast year was a very hard one tar people. We had the drj rammdr I have ever known, and c lequently all crops woro short, mr people have started out with tewed hopes for another crop, lon't think there will bo aa tni ertiljzdr used this year as in i ast. The farmers ought not to i Back ami (!"?? ?* ?L: *' ?~ iuoj van wnip me teri ;er trust as easily as they did t it? bagging trust. They have it ieir own hands. Your correspor it was in the meeting held at Uni c^ruary 5ib, to discuss the fertiliz u?t, and while the meeting was ,tfccr small one in numbers, tl rdiers seemed determined not ty guano at a further advance thr i- per cent over last year s price Mevery farmer in Union resolv <w this and stick to it and plant ^ provision crop and a small cotto jj and we will hear 110 more er K ird times next fall. \ jc have lost several good famihe s| our community. Mrs. S. M ll)Vr and family have moved t hvtierry, and Mr. It. M. Auglrr Jdft?r??ily, Mr. S. It. Sims and f.iuj 8Uid Mr. Itubert Yfitsuu uiol ruiu have moved to Union. We rc it very much :o see s > in my goo re people leaving the country ion seems to < fl'-r good induce nts to people to come to town. We arc glad to know that Dr. Geo ugl it-sand family ol Peakc a, S. C I move to Union. The Dr. wii dice medicine at Union and hi 10 Stranger to licr people having n roared in our midst. We he ale for liim a liberal share- of tlx ron age. Ve hud the pleasure of looking ?ugh the stock of vehicles now g opened up by that enterprising i, Mess. Green & lioyd, of Sparburg, and they certainly have ti line of vehicles, and propose to at iMriLtiiuanrio^ji A[|>_ \| Jj i at Union. Veil, I guess there w ill be a full ) of candidates f>r all the offices summer, and vro may look for ly times. Goshen 1Lill township have a candidate in the held for Auditor's office. loping we will have a g ol crop r and wishing every one a proama outcome, I am Scribo. Betcnbaugh's Reply to Mr. J. TV. Cunningham. Ir. Editor:?X feel that it would iselesa for mo to notice the cotnlication, of my ardent friend ol d roads, Mr. J. \V. Cunningham, f If tltM I'l tllU f K 1 Cl * '* V1IV ??vw iuuu xiio V>Llai^vs aic )lately false, lie claims that he ie to me several times complainabout the roads in his section of county, and that I paid him no ntion. I deny the charge emtically^ if my memory serves bber, who is coritTil&o^' roads in that section of Jonesville unship, to work well his roads t complaint had been made to m< t his roads wero not worked a; y should be. When Mr. Webbe aid enquire of me who was com ining about his roads, I would no i him, f*r the reason that Mr nningham would insist on me no tell Air. Webber that he was th n who was doing the talking. II itaed to bo doing this as a frien i \ /\ 1 mo so ne saiu. uiners were cou lining more especially lie woul j, and not so much himself as uld appear. lie asked me on or vision if Mr. Webber had receive i pay on contract for roads, an told him that he had not receive i last payment. He advised me e his road before paying hit lich I did. His statement, that iver went over Mr. Webber's ro; entirely unfounded. I went ov part of Mr. Webber's road alot 1 can prove by good men, and irt of it I went over with Mr. Wc ?r, as I can piovo also. While ie road with Mr. Webber, Mr. Cunningham came upon us a a;i ted with us as we roie along r ether. In fact wo passed bv umo, stopped and drank water fr< :s spring, near by one of i )uds which he complains of, and t* way it is the road which he L barge of as overseer the year p ii?u?, I pronounce that particu osd in about as good condition rlien J. W. Cunningham hud cha f it, yet they hare just merely hi - ^ Wm. A. NICHl K bank rcf RESPECTFULLY J Banking Business and he And promise you the the best s id own !! l?CTPg HI I ! I I. IW ! Ill . on ;er gone over and not worked so ho says, a I would have the public bear in mind lie that ho once hid the road, 1 did re? to ceive the road and paid Mr. W ebber m for it and 1 am not ashamed of it. h. According to specifications which 1 a 'e have in my oilioe and am better pre- a a pared to know of than is .1- W. ^ n liingham. 1 felt that 1 could con- o y sistently receive and pay fn* the n above mentioned road, shameful u 's waste of public funds to the contrary u t. notwithstanding, as Mr. (J. would li 0 have the public to believe. 1 wish '1 y to say, that why 1 wrote Mr, Cun i- Liingham at all, wai (".?? ,u~ i?r~ * i- < ! ?.v, if V?o di I not have in si !- hi? possession a set of the county d road too's. I merely penned a few ; ,j hues to him persona.ly, wi h refer? ? !- caec to Irs action before the g-and js jury. I did say that I >v;is guol that ;l| . L had lViends on the grand [t , j uy that were disposed to t ike ,,[ 1 care of me, in fact I believe they .,( i w?mc all disposed to d> so, but it was |j] ; after I had satisfied them that I had - ac:el conscientious in this matter, i 1 certainly did not tucan to boast or in- ,'|J sinuate that tlu-y were disposed to take 1,1 ; care of m? unle.-s I deserved it. They Vl catue to uic about this whole matter, ar] ; seating to me what Mr. Cunningham w? bad said, but did not tell me who vy< i tueir informant was, and I made si vl i c.ean cut and honest statement of the - wujle matter to them, as 1 under- be that. jJiojp- u'oijJ/1 sap in justice to me, as if. eo 1 bad acted honest ami conscientious in the whole thing, but not until they had probed to the bottom of tin-. ;t trouble, did ihey reach the above ' mentioned decision. As t > the management of road* last year, being a shameful waste of public funds, as he lavery forcibly expresses it* 1 wish J. to say, that it is passing strange that 13i no others have found this out, but ab rny enthusiastic friend, who seems to wi allude to the county at large and not of Jonesville especially. In conclusion, c?; will say, that ray friend was so anx- ru ious to have me paraded before th? public, through the grand jury, and no failing to accouipli-h this, that he jumps at the few lines I wrote him, ^ ai being bis opportunity to get me pr > before the public through the pre*s. y, ailll lin h nrpsmifmonf I io _ ?~T" ~~r ~ r;?-??? - nij ) own. i regret this very mucli, but t am forced to take this course in jus- n( > iiirr. ,,u } T. J. Betenbangh, ; Supervisor. in s ? r J ( The answer of Mr. Bryan to Bourke Cochran, of New York, shows that those gentlemen who are propos- t * ing their own t.rrns for returning to w the Democratic party, will not meet t! with any encouragement from him. S( ^ Mr. Bryan will not trim his sails to 0 t suit every favorable wind. 7 l SPnn8 Line to ?i| ? NEWEST STYLEf If LARGER S i ... or uvt b 0? J h?, When you think of s UNIONS as ; E| UNION .t j . \r\j ;\ I DA l\. 1LS0N & SON,? IER, SOLICIT YOUR Your Fire insurance, best protection and ;ervice. NEWS ABOUT TIIE STATE. Clipped from Our Exchanges. Tlio 1W IV? T- l j-'cv; xooacco Ware House, ^ vcrv largo wo)dcn building ,t Florence, was de troyed >y fire le-t week. Tie fire riginated in a small wooden building text door to the ware house in some nexplainel manner. The bulding 'as owned by \V. K Dargun, of J)arngton, and was insured far SI,700. 'he value of tho building was $3,000. T. J. Abbott, t ?bleeo bu.ve.r, Wt COO ><Ok A% vt llfUr lOD lCCO? iN 0 1(1 j ranee. Ilsprcsentative MoCrawhn introuce I a bill which has received a ivor.tb'o rep >rt, which prohibits tho sue by cotton mills < f non negotide instruments of indebtedness. ; is a direct attempt to upset the i.-ck system now in vogue in most 'the mills of this State, and will icly pass. At tho annual meeting of the Agriu tltural and Mechanical Society held Columbia the premium list was resed. It was a long and tedious j ib. l I it was after 1 o'clock before th % Dik was completed. The premiums rM-e increased ?1,000, there beiri" 1.000 ollcred lor county exhibits, tie race purses were made ?2,o00, sing an incrensn ?f ?1,000. 'i'h? exposition at Charleston was 'dully endorsed. The text fair T. F. Walker aud I). C. Phillips 11 build a flour mill of daily capsy fur sixty live barrels; at G i fluey ntnet awarded for machinery. The down train from Greenville it Friday night ran over and killed 1*. Shocklcy near his home above irksdule station. The decease ! war out 40 years of age, and leaves a fe and three children. The verdict the coroner's jury was that deased came trliis dea lt by being n over by a train on the Charleston d Western Carolina railroad, and blame could be attached. Last Saturday morning a negro by was found in a well on the causes recently occupied by Ariana sung, wrapped in n quilt. The ilice aud sheriff went to woik on e case, and have lodgt d L'earl Pinck y and [subfile Ulantm in jail to rait trial fur infanticide.?Laurens Tiicre are three very happy men i Columbia. They are Col. Willie )i?cs, W. S. Pope, and I\ IT. Ilalwanger. As bond-men for Col. W. .. Neal. they pai 1 the state ^2,800,1, the amount of his shortage for hich they were responsible. Today !tev were paid iti f ill by Col. Neal, o they arc not out a cent by reason f his shortage.?Columbia liccord, tli. :s Arriving r TOCK and PULAR PRICES. shoes think of the HOE CO., , s. c.