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? . > i / ' V 11 i * * / L , 4 > - 4 ITHE TOWN OF UNION ~W~ ^ - -_- _ -_ ? _ m "T " * ?- __ | TME^TOW^OF^UNl OH HAS^| I Two Cotton Mills, one the || I I I I I | I I A ^ T [ I ] I /I I M Li ?( The larg ust Knitting Mill and iff largest in the South. Two Fur- )| I 1 J I I fl I Y .ml fl I |M /I fl J I Dye Plant in the State. An Oil j niture nnd Wood Manufactur- ))) H flI Fl I I I I j ^fll L- I fl I fl Fl , |(] and Manufacturing Co. that )r. ing Concerns. One Female ... I fl I fl I J I Bl I V W I AT I I 1 fl* I fl I J L ) ... makes an unexcelled Guano, * Seminary. Water Works and 'Jl _fl B B ..fl^fl J ^ B J. Jw B j(l ' ^ Ejfldfll'* JLJI % (( Three Graded Schools. Arte- iff Electric Lights. ||| # ^ , " . '. << fll sian Water. Population G.frtJO. ||J ? ????? i i , ?? i ???ii??? , , VOL li. NO. 24. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FR1J)AY, JUNE 15, 1900. . #l.nn A YRAR. f*1+4+? *??#*> m-**>?#?* J F. M. FARk President. | GEO. MUNRP, Cashier, J - * Merchants' and PU IP ! OF UNI a Capital Stock J Surplus Stockholders' Liabilities i ' Total & Directors?J. A v.?nt 1 I T. CL Duncan, J. T. Douglass, J Win. Coleman. f We Solicit ^ -una-**-?? ? **"?*> <**> try # i C ATAPHO R ES15. DR, H. K DEN1 Crown and ^ Bridge Work. yj 'f 1900 JUNE 1900 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. fri. Sat. 1 2 in -M 10 lO ^ A ITT a n J.U J.JL A(J J.O l^b iu ID 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24|W 26 27 28 29 30 UNION COUNTY NEWS. Items of Interest Gathered from* Various Sections by our Corrcspunden ts. JOXESVILLE JOTTINGS. Telephone Gives nn Interesting Account of His Trip to Louisville, Jonesville, .June \ 1.?The weather ja a lite warm al| that qqvjld hi qesirec} f>r the *d**tKOment of tho grq^ing props. Wo had fine rains latt week and now plenty of w>rk is in "order. Wheat is being harvested and it is fi le. The threjher will start out toon and then the wheat mills will Iin anil kaarin In unil nut (tin ..... -r ??o? ? ? ? new sweet fl ?ur. The fruit, which is Abundant, will soon be ripe and uo one need suffer lor the breal th it sue* tains life. I wish to give a short account ot my trip to tho Louisville reunjon. The trip from Jouesyille waq made bj tqe .Jonesvjlle qelpgatpn on (he reguUt train over the Southern, whioh arrived in Louisville on lime. The city of Louisville had made ample at . rangimenta to handle the large crowd of visitors and the/ oarried out their fdaus to the satisfaction of all the vis tors and made for themselves a record that will last in the hearts of the veterans till they "crow over the river to rest under the shade of the trees." Tae oity of Louisville with its tw? hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants, witb its many plauts, institutions, manufactories auJ the great 9iio river, one mile wide, fj iwiug . oog by the oity with the towns of New Albany and Jeffiraonville just across the O lio river in la lima swells the pspuU'im to mire than two'hundred and tir'ty thouiand. Some of the important places visited were the masonic home for px>r children who are taken and cared f ?r by the institution. The reformatory prison where the bid biys aua git is a.*e taken and oared for in the sami way and are taught different kinds of tralea,such as making clothes, brooms |hog?, hruqhe , saddles, etc. Bal lards & Halliard's big roller mill, the Loui.~ ville Packing Hotie and the Candy Manufacturing establishment were al places of much interest to a South )r ner. G>t. Bockham of Kentucky visited the South Carolina headquarters and shook hands with the Veterans. He isqiito young in appearance and would past very well lor one not over twenty-f}ve years oldj^fier the reunion was over J went ' over to Indianapolis, Ind., to visit a nephew and spent two diys in that beaut'ful Yankee city. I visited several of the publio buildings and # * IK"**'**>4# <# A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. J I. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. T inters' National Bank * $ :orv, s. c. ? $00,000 J 50,000 J 00,000 $ i $170,000 J IV. II. Wallace, Wm. Joflries, t E. P. McKlsslck, A. II. Foster, ? (ouf Business. x *_ ELECTRICS. SMITH, nsT..^> fj| Union, S. C. institutims and I must say I was never more kindly an! hospi'ably received and enterlained than iu that c ty, I was invite 1 to dine in the reformat >ry prison which I visited aud accepted the iuvitation and was served with a firs'class dinner which was ' the first meal I ovor eat in a prison. One of my host at the table was an ( old Yankee soldier who fought in ( front of the crator at Petersburg, and , we had quite a pleasant chat about , the battle of the crator and the siege ot Petersburg, and no doubt we were , in front of each other in many of the ( engagements around Petersburg in '64 aud '05. The country between Lnuis- j ville and Indianapolis, 115 miles, is , perfectly level and veiy rich. Corn, j wheat, clover, oats and grass being ] the prii cipal crops. The crops are all plowed .with two horae ? ttua mo3t ol fnera naif canopy tops s> that * former can ride in rhe shade, smoke his ; ipe and read his paper while he is plowing. The wheat is cut with reapers aad bindirs and so is the grass and clover, which makes farming a luxury rather than a burden. The ruu was mac^e frqm Jndiai , apo\";s home hundred miles in 27 . hoqrq by the Big four and the South- { era Railway; Mrs. J. G. Long and daughter, Miss Bessie, are visiting frieads iu town. Mrs. J. F. Betsill and Miss Lillian Hollip, of Cross Keys, have been visiting the family of G. B. Fowler. Mr. C. A. Betsill, of Buffalo, was in our town yesterday and attended services at the Presbyterian church. It ;v. E. H. Beckham went up to Spartauburg yesterday to hear Bishop Wilsou preach at Wofford commence* ment. The Southerq I^-ulvyay is talking of building u nety depot at this place in the near future, they will also put iu another siding hero soon long enough to hold forty cars. Miss Etha Haraes, Marie McVNThirter and Willie Southard have re. tum?d home irom college. The high school here closed its ses sion lost Thursday night and a nice ice cream ftstival marked the closing hours. Mit8 Ran Archer has returned tolurhome at Keenouville, N. C.t and Miss Thoops Sartor has returned to her home in Union. Last Wednesday u\ght Mrs. R, poster gave f^n entertainment in honor of Missos Archer and tflartor. Ico cream and other refreshments were served to the deiight of all the guests. Music was a prominent feature of the occasion. The Alpha Cotton Mills had a plank kiln burned last week with nearly twenty thousand feet of lum bar, partly insured. Telephone. HIS FATHER IS Wc ExJLcntl) {o Qqr- Correspondent Qqr Host Sincere Sympathy in His Sad Bereavement. Dsar Readers:?I cannot now write the seneral news. I have re coived the greatest blow the Lord-has sjen fit to lay upon me. Father is dead, and oh, it ia s> hard to realize i Si sadden, s> uaoxpected, while ho i was in general good health, without any sickness. He died June 4th not three hours after being strioken ifith, it ii , though', appoplexy, while he was stand l iug by his work bench in the shop, , aud in the short space of time, lay a I oorpie on bis bonch. Died before he I could be removed, and before he could give a forever gocd-bye. It is t hand of fate, but it poems a > har I. O I wish he hadn't died. We miss hi so much. It seems, to our weakne< it was n >t his time, for little did think that when we parted that mor ing, he to go to his work, I to min that I would nover hear his voii again, or see him alive. No tno will we see him in his accustom* place. No rftore can I receivo 1 advice. No more will he walk ovi my little crop, and give s iggestion I cannot work just as I di.l btlor T - i am saa ana lonely. 1 cannot choc tho rising sigh, nor stay the eilei tear. I may not have boen appreci tivo enough, grateful enough f?r n he had ever done f>r me, but I moar to be. I loved him so much, I nev< knew how much, nor how reuch ctuld misj him utitil he was g>n forever. There is no rec tiling. II was a christian. He ia happier no* There ia hope. We will try, that w may in?et he and sister, in thi brighter better world. Hey Denver Santuc, Juno 11. 19 jo. CROSS KEYS NEWS. Defends Mr. Whitman Against th Sneers of Certain Newspapers. Editor Union Time : Miss L:zzie Gregory's condition i some better. Good rains, aomo gras*, and th farmers are hopetui. Mr. R>bert Fincher and hisbrothe '*Cal" pissed through this section no long since, they are sons of the lab Jessie Fincher, one of the land mark of Union county, I think the great fftt legacy that can be left a young man is to be able to say that he is the nn of a good man. I am surprised to see the comment 31 tne various papers in reference t? jjr fellow ciiizeu, G. \V. Whitman [ think in was the intention of th* [oundera of this great government ol )ura that every man should stand on bis own merit, and that special privi leges should not be accorded to n< aspire to the highest office in the gift of th? people, and that it is undemocratic tc issail any one. We all have faults liable to err, but I believe Mr. Whit man is sincere and I kuow that hif politics in leferenoe to',higher educalior ire rig'nt, and that he helped in t great measure to start on fo>t th greatest move the farmers ever di make, the farmers movement, and respect him for his candor, and I wis! him to have equal rights admiuistere< to him, realiziug that this governmen ia of the people, by the people and fo the people. Thomas H. Gobe. Cross Keys, 8. C. ? ? ? Pacolet Paragraphs. Paoolet. June 11.?la consequenc of the copious showers of rain whic have fallen iu this section recently our streets have been rather que sino3 our farmers are "making ha a . a* ?? nrl i l wmie toe sun auioea. ? neai narvea ing ha) been going on at a rapid rat< and the crop is said to be excellen Cad eta Gregg, Black and Fore: Brown returned last night from (Jlen s>u. Miss Lucy Lidahaw is alio hona from Couverse. Mrs. 8. W-T. Lanharo, of Weathe ford, Texas, accompanied by *hi daughter, Miss Grace, slopped nvi last week on reti^rn from "Wasl ington Mfithi her sister. Mrs. 8. i Wool. Mrs. W. R. Lipscomb, of GaflTne has been visiting relatives here. A. goodly number of our tnwnspe pie are in attendance at Woffoi commencement this *72 ek. Mignonette. In his three years of tfllce, M Kinley has appointed 22 commtssio to investigate various things and ih have cost over $3,3oo,ooo And wb have th&y accomplised beyond pi vidlntr fat nlacea for executive fav( , ' W * ites. Rath bone announced that he inter ed to leave Cuba at once and threat* ed to give away Republican secret! he were arrested. But he hasn't lc we confess we should like to km whether bis bluff has been called not? The administration seems to be 4 bad way. what with rogues Cubs, incompetents at Parts and sp? men as judges at Buffalo, the sooi the President decides to stick to ci service principles, instead of boss n in selecting bis appointee*, the bet' the ?owntry will lis? it. ho 'advertising the h, 1 SHOE BUSINESS ni H ir< Bill Ny6 Knew the Value of SprrMd I in? f sinter's Ink*. Shows wha u the Advertiser May Expect. c > Tho manuscript of this article w?i re given to a friend of the author shorll] mI befor j the-latter'* death. The recipe i i ient m'sliUd it ani gave it up aa lost sr until a fjMr days i&o, Jrhfcn it turned is. up unexptetedly.; It is one of Mr e. Nye'.'* best and most characteristu :k production*. r?t ? a" I have received the following letter "DaaHSfJe: I am abiut to start ir II the bootrJid ahoe buisuefB. My friendi 'r say I am cut out for it, have genius in that direction. Can you suggest some 0 way to get going and stay gdng with^ out uaing the newspapers? An early reply will greatly oblige, Reginald." *' To begin with?day where you art! * Don't raovt! Allont? "About to start," is better than starting without the aid of the press, Reggie. I am glad to hear that you hive a -i * gGuius?-JVu ii ueuii ii, Jtxigg'.e 10 cue. coed in any direction unles3 you are c bound "up salt Crook," withou'- the genial and necessary assistance ol printer's ink. I can suggest a way-I will suggst a 8 way-x road as plaiu as is the nose on your face, Reggie. I take it for grante ed you have a face and that the nose ornamenting it is a Riman one, and r not a mere dent in your physinguomy. A road that has been travelled by s more unadulterated failures h >th in 3 the shoe trade aud other branches ol '* business ondeavor than that charmiug ? country ramble which Shakespeare ' says "is paved with gaod intentions" It will b?ar careful consideration and 8 is as follows: 1 SOME HINTS ON SELF ADVERTISING The first thing on waking in the | morning, turn over and go to sleep again; this will rest you and keep you 1 from getting up. No self-reipecting shoe dealer should., crock Arine morn i -J ? . ??,?. u Ik UilgUI, auj w n,a <HgrnitT ; not to get there till 10 p. ra, W hen ytm t?v<> ?p??> > j L^ ? 1 brining in the hose and wet down nfe ? stock to make sure it does not leak. If it's a cold morning, wet down the 1 walk in front of the store, s> it'll ] 1 free/-; and the first man that attempts 1 1 to go by will fall, like Lucifer, and | drive his spinal column up through his ! brains. This is an efficient way to see 1 if the man who attempted to go by has ? any. Drpg him into the store and ' send for V doctor This will draw a 1 crowd, some of whom might need shoes r and steal a pair. While the doctor pushing the man's spine back to place and sewing up the hole, tell tV 'ojurei wretch a funny story, and sell him a pair of shoes that won't slip. You might turn e the hoso on the crowd, at the same time h making some faceticious remark about r, the weather. By this time lots of folks t, will have slipped down on your imy provised rink to their great merriment, t- This little stroke of business can be 3, dealt by you any lime when it is not t. freezing by spreading a lew banana a: skins on the walk. Folks'll sue you? if tbey don't kill you outright?and a law suit will keep your name before io the public. Whcu the excitement is over, take r. the best pair ot s'loes in the store, ii er you've ( aid for them, aud get a bij 5r hammer and a long spike and spike h- them down to the sidewnll in front o g. the door. This will attract attentiot and aff>rd you infinite amusemen y, when any one trios to ctrry them off When a lady calls, don't jump a 0 "business" the first thing by aakin rd her if she wants to buy a pair of shoe she always goes to the drug store fj them. Ask her bow old she is; if he teeth are false and if she lives happil [o with her buibaud. Then introduc ns the subject ol shoes carefully, but firral ey with a slight innuendo, as: ' Ah! I se at you've goi your feet with you!" c o< " Wl en small feet were given out i >r- Maine you were in Texas!" Try a lin of Ella Wheeler on her; women lik poetry. id- "Laugh and the world laughs wit sn- you. 1 if Weep and we all repine. >?t. An extra size shoe is the thing f< ow you, or When jour foot is a number nine When she flounces out, ask her , that's her own hair or a switch. The J,, when her husband or big broth iD comes around, laugh yourself as 1 tils j*ms your measly head through ash< ]cr case. "Laugh and ho will laugh wi vil you." This keeps the town talkii u)e about you and ia much cheaper th< |er anvertisiog in papers. *| The late P. T. Barnum, when bu 1 -*-Wm. A. NICHO ; BANKI ^RESPECTFULLY '/Banking Business and iknd promise you the the best a 3 '1' r nces was dull at the old "Museum, . New York," had a man with a very solemn face walk out and lay a brick down in the middle ol the street, leave ' it there, walk back in and through the niu cum without saying a word or cracking a smile, take up another brick and lay that down by the first; pirk up the tir.tand back through the museum ngaiu. This he repeated till |; A. PfnWlt !, #! rra 1 - : J *- r ' -- -.? ..X. ...U goiucuu nuu [I!I1U to IOI* I low him in to seo what he was doing. L! I wouldn't advise you to do that, they'd call 70U a imitator. That you do.A wan'. Bi original. IViy a load of bricks?have them dumped in the ; ( yard back ol the storo, a:i 1, when all , the town is trying to sleep after the | excitement you havo already caused, j carry the whole load np on the roof, , one brick at n time, you can c Hint ( theni ami it will perfect vou in figure*. | Next day, about 1') or 11 a. m , get up , on the roof and begin to dance and yell | "Fin!* This will ''ring the town to | your store. Tnen holler "April foo1!"' f on tho 10 h of Oe'ober, if you like, it -| will add to your eccentricity, incro.iss j 1 your pipularity and perhaps land you a iu tin cooler. Keep cveryb nly talk- j ing about yon?that'* tho keyuote ol suco< at lr you see a little girl going by w?th f, a bundle, take it away from her and |, coll'her ears s > she'll run homo crying ^ Wncn her father is trying a different t brand ol shoes on your pusillanimous t ca'Ciss, suggest to him that the aHne> .T : --?-? eauoiaction. it no Kic vs yoo into insensibility, pay j no more attention to him | 0 8hut up your store three days each ! 'J week, leaving a big placard in the : a most any {un6.* " lhiw ?mr.u i>? . u broken window pane which you havojp j knocked out back of the shutters, you a can enj ?y the c>mmeats ot your fellow f, townsmen. \ ou might close up alio- t gether, and thus play a joke oa the t sheriff, who was just going tosiveyou , the trouble. Finally, when you are too financially dead to tan and make iutoj a pair 01 to ceiu Drugnus, yuu | jhave a big monument with 0 "Adam Failure" 0 cut into it in the last ecru pattern. 1 Yours for health. Bill Nye. ' The Season Opens. , Tho first games of the seasjn were played on the Union diamond Friday , and 8aturday between York and Union. Theie beiog the first games our people have had an opportunity of witnessing, thero was a vory go>J crowd out at each game, and the games while not up to the standard . that we would liko to see, were suffit ciently interesting to entertain the , crowd, and offered an opportunity for the rooters on tho bleachers to exer, cise their lun^s. There were some f very good plays on both sides and , some bad errors also. ! McMakin and Shaw was the battery j for York the first evening while Mc , In tyro and Bradley did the battery I act for Union. We took tho record of tho game, runs, hits, errors, etc., I but we have not aufiicieut space for it, g so we will defer this kind of write-up R. until our team gets in shapo to play ,r soma hot ball. They rjuit evon in ,r this meeting with York, however, and y there is plenty of lima to build up a A ren. ret. y The score Friday was York 10, ,e Union 5. ,r The score Saturday was Uivonll, n "York 9, e Harry and Belk, the famous New e York Racket, has a bulletin board on the opposite side of the diamond from I, the grand stand upon which the record is kept, and while th9 audience I is contemplating the score it can also )r notice that the New York Racket is the place to buy goods cheap. The " bulletin board is a great convenience, if but we would suggest that the squares Ka inal twin-* flfi lurra mi nO. nrAinnt so LI, > j"" is ? r Br that the figures may be made large ie onough to be easily read by all. >e The Union Cotton Mills Silver lb C>rnet band furnish sd dc ightful Vg music for the occasion Saturday aftereu noon. They jday very well now. i\ Subscribe for The Times. ? A?v V 1 1 A JL4 All' Ilson & SON.' ERS. SOLICIT YOUR Your Fire Insurance, best protection and lervice. ? is STATE NEWS. \ _ Gathered Front our Exchanges and Condensed for Quiek Reading. A bold thief broke tho front. glass of Bailey Bros, store rarly Friday morning, but made too much noi*e t> enter with BAt ty ar Mr, Lyles Irby and Mr. Crisp, night operator at the S. A. L. depot hearing the glare fall ran ui> and th*> 4 - -wx. ?uv fuiu a tt a j, Laurens Co. News. CORSET STEEL. SAVED HER LIFE. A corset steel did a Newberry ;olored woman a service out of the irdinary line la?t Friday. It saved ler life. Will K?.H', her husband, living o.i Bei.j. H&lfdcre's place, got itigry with her became she di 1 not consult him about a purchoe of a uew ist aud some other articles which she nado with her own money in town ast Thursday, ilis fit of anger led lim to. commit the articha limes, and the ashes only remained. L'he wife remonstrated with him, and le tired his pistol at h/r. The ball truck a steel in'her corset and no lonbl eaved her life. Hull is nOW oa the chainor inw f.i? hirty (lays, Coustablo Tid well having nund him wilh a pistol conceale<l on lis person when he went to arrest liin. At the Jaly c?urt he will be ried for assault aud bittery -with ineut to W"'1 -itewberry Observer. A I'VTAL ACCIDENT. Ihe death of L?owia Kinard, a c ?1red man living near Saluda Old .own, was caused Saturday by an ccident in handling a shot gun. He >aui>iiVYl when ccountable way. The load took efact in his left arm and he died from he shock aad loss of blood in a short ime. KILI.F.I) IIIS L'.U'I.K. John McTindall, a young white nan liviug in the B.*ushy Creek lection of Anderson county, about even miles from the city, shot and ilmost instantly killed his uncle, Tames W. Ropir, Friday night at lo o'clock. The killing occurred in the road near McTind all's store, and the weapon U3ed wa3 a double barreled shot gun, the entire conteu's of the left han I barrel having been emptied into Roper's chest. ELECTION CF OFFICERS. Clomton Cor. to News and Courier sayg:?At their recent meeting the board of trustees decided todoublo the capacity of Lho toztilo school and to erect a plan for the use of the botanist. Dr. A. 1'. Anderson was elected entomologist and Mr. C. C. Newman horticulturist. Dr. Hart/, tg has appoiuted Mr. 8. E. Liles, of tin graduating class, to be a major of the military department. The Alumni ^>s>ciation met yesterday and elected Mr. B. R. Tillman, Jr., as the alumni orator, for 19ol, with Mr. II. B. I)jdd, of the graduating class, as alternate. The folbwing ollicers werj olected : President, W. W. Klugh ; vice presidents, R. E. Lee and D. II. Henry, secretary, B. F. It >bcrtson; corresponding secretary, A. B. Bryau ; treasurer, II. G. Smith. KILLED HI3 MOTnER. A white boy, whose name cannot be learner] just now, killed his mother a few days ag) f ?r the sake of her pension, which she had just drawn. At best he did not get more than twelve dollars f?r his bloody work. If caught in <ime he will probably be among those who will be trie I ior their lives at this term of Court.? Dirlington Cor. News and Courier. DEATH OK CONDUCTOR JENKINS. Beaufort, Juno 10.?Special: News was received by telegram to day of 1 the sudden death in Augusta last night 1 of Capt. John Jenkin3, Into cond.ictor on the Charleston and Western Rail' roal. He retired last night apparently in good health and this morning was found dead in bed, presumably h sart failure. He was a brother of the I sheriff of this county. I T. G, W,