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AT C ft ^3^<ACT ' On account < my business ^ the next 30 d to the tra< bargains . Goods Going c ?Unt Come along a able Goods I broken ^ Organdies, L Muslin ]Unde Etc., must g( Now is your ti stuff STRICTL Your< W. T, local Schedule for Passenger Trains TRAIN'S FROM COLUMBIA. Arrive 10:20a. m. Depart 10:20 a. m M 1:40p.m. 41 2:00p. m TRAINS FROM SPARTANBURG. Arrive 12:45 p. m. Depart 1:05 p. m 44 7:10p.m. 44 7:80p. in Local News Notes Put Together For Ready Reference Gathered Here and There bj % * Our Man About Town. Little Oliver, youngest son of S. >1 Bice, Jr., lias diphtheria. There was quite a large crowd on oui streets Saturday afternoon. The red flag (diphtheria) has been re moved from Mr. Williamson's home. Mr. J. Fred McLare announce him ?1( in this issue for Magistrate of Union Mr. D. N. Wilburn's announcement for the Legislature will be found ii another column. Mrs. L. L. Wagnon, wo are sorry t< 1 mm is conflned to her room with at attack of the mumps. Rev. D. C. Freeman, of Kelton, ai stated ltev. L. M. Hice in tlie protracte . , irtoiing at the- Second Baptist church. > ' The operatives' houses ou factory liil an, jeceiring a new coat of paiut whic s*kts n?U'jh to the appearance of the hit! Five new cases of diphtheria have bee reported this week. The cases repot te last week are convalescent we ate gh. t) learn. Little Kiit id William* in a draw in card with the Will'aim Comedy Couip.m row playing in Union. She sing* like nightingale. The farmers say they have been pul ting in licks that count during the p.u wtek and have about got the upper ban of Gen. Green. The Base Ball Club of Unk has been disbanded and the players ha> returned to their various homes. It d not pay this season. There is considerable travel on tl railroad both ways. The people fro: the low country are flocking to tl t mountains, while the teachers from tl north have been passing daily on Ibt way to the National Convention Charleston this week. The Gibbes IIou is doing u thriving business as all trail hew stop for meals. O S T. TO- D A Df a change in affairs, within ays I will offer le some rare it P.nQt ^ II VUUl il August 1st. ,nd get season>efore stock is awns, Ladies' irwear, Shirts, 3 now . . . ime if you want 0 -Y CASH. z trulv ' f BEATY. 51 Mr. J. M. McWhlrter, of Jonesville. | is now in the dress goods department of Nf. W. Bobo's store where be will be . pleased to see his friends. The alarm of fire was sounded late Tuesday night. It was caused by the burning of Elias Beaty's house hear Capt. McLure's. Origin of the fire not known. The slate h?.s arrived and is on on the I ground to be used to cover the First Methodist church. The contractor who is building Mr. W. D. Arthur's residence , has the contract for covering the church. A very refreshing shower fell here f Sunday afternoon. It was very much heavier in the Santuc section accompanied by hard wind which blowed crcpe pretty badly. Xo other material damage reporttd. The rock wall on the south side of Mr. Jake Smith's place just below the . post office gave way during the leceut wet spell. It is being rebuilt in a more i substantial manner. Watermelon season has opened, t Several wagon loads from the countr) i have been sold on the streets, and thei are being shipped from the low country ) by the car loads and now the sable pica u ninny is happy. Mr. Ben Keasler, who is tendini - Foster & Tinsley's place near the Forest d while plowing in the bottoms was over come by the heat and fainted in Ids lieh II a few days ago. lie was taken to tlx h house by the hands. No serious lesult I followed the prostration we are glad t< i, hear. 0 The State campaign started off Satur day after a several day's rest. It i pretty warm weather for camiKtiguing ? es|>ecially if llie candidates engage ii y heated discussions. Mud slingiug an< * (tersonal abuse have been pretty well kep out of the program so far and we lav L- it Will continue so during the rtmainini t days of the campaign. (l Mr. T. C. Duncan sold 1,700 bales c cotton last week to Mr. Geo. Walton, c ktl ? - - - Augusta, ior uio a. uuus Aianurat 'e turing Co., of Savannah, and the ootto id is being shipped. Mr. Duncan had long head on his shoulders wlren he mad *e those heavy cotton purcliases the first < m the season before cotton went up. ie WANTED.?Live, hustling Agent 16 and inen of ability can secure tirst-cla rir contracts with tlte largest stipulate in premium Life Insurance Company in tl 8tJ world by addressing, Manager, Box 008. 08 Greenville, S. C. Reference required. 30?it. p nn DR-S0FF1 , CScS'l'EETH RMTjJJJJ fl (Teething Pm fHfalr Costs onlj 25 cents Or Mali iiwali to C. J. Ice Cream Festival. Tlte ladies of Mount Jo)' Baptist church will give an icc cream festival at Kelton Thursday night., July l'Jth. A ooidial invitation is given to all. Picnic Near Hebron. A picnic will lie given by the good people of the Sard is and Hebron neighliorhood on Thursday, July 2lith. Kvery- | body is invitedand a gool time is await- , ing foi all who come. Correction. 1 In our report of the county Prohibition meeting hist wet k the types made us say Mr. II. L. Scaife instead of Mr. II. F. Scaife. Mr. II. L. Scaife called our attention to the matter and asked us to call attention to the error which we do. It is the father noil not the son that v e intended to quote. ? m Onr Darling Has l^cft Us. Mat tie Lunette, infant daughter of It. A. and Lilzie Simms, departed this life i July .'1, I'.KX). Although the little darl- | ing lingered with its parents a shoit while, eleven month? and '23 days, it. re- , ' mained long enough to entwine affectionately atound their hcaits, thus making it. so hard to part from her. Dear parents, weep not, the parting i won't lie long. Little Lunette is only < gone before to await that day, and to j welcome you when Jesus shall say,4'Come ( home, come home." Little Lunette died at Sedulia and was ( brought to Sardis, where her remains < were interred. The burial sertdces were conducted by Rev. L. M. Rice. i ' Another little lamb has gone To dwellwith him who gave; i Another little darling babe Is sheltered in the grave. 1 God i eeded one more angel child \ Amidst his angel band; i And so he bent with loving smile, And clasped our darling's hand. ; Aunt Tkllir. Summer School Closed. < The Summer School at Union which I lias been conducted by 1'rofs. Dick and ? Jeffries the past four weeks closed last. , Friday. While the attendance was not . as large sis last year, the teacher? in attendance manifested considerable interest and did good work. i Tlie following resolutions were unan- ( iraously adopted by the teachers sit the ' close of the school: Whereas, Mr. D. B. Fant, county ' Superintendent of Education, has at alt J times manifested a great interest iu the teachers and schools of Union county, t and by applying himself closely to the JulSii ^4-Uim ? mtmrn ho hm ft |W?m.U - fr? J regard to the conditions of the schools, and _ Whereas He has been very courteous ' and helpful to us during the session of ! the Summer School, therefore bo it I Resolved, That we, the teacher-pupils c of the Summer School, tender to him our sincere thanks for the interest manifested and assistence rendered. c Weekly Crop Bullcton. \ Columbia. S. C., July 10, 1000. ! The week ending 8 a.m. July 9th. war J , extemely hot, with the average tempera- v , ture between 5 and 0 degees higher tha*. t usual, and for the tlrst time this s^a i ?n ( ! the maximum rose to 100, or above. wliHe the lowest minimum was 07 degrees. 1 Farm work made rapid progress and { was in the main devoted to cleaning 1 nwijiic i/iujjo ui nnu wcuin ouuic- I ( wliat to the neglect of the less important ; crops. i ' "J'he general condition of corn improved, but it is scalding on wet bottom lands c . to a considerable extent. The maturing ' portion of the crop needs rain. ' (Jotton fields that have been cleaned of ( , grass are doing well, but many remain ( , grassy on which cotton is turning yellow. The hot, dry weather wsis favorable to ( cotton, and in general th a crop is decid- ' edly better tnau it was la^t week. A few localities report cotton every promising, i Wheat threshing is now U i ig hurried, t r with continued heavy yields, but some . . grain is slightly damaged by rain-usually ' only the top bundle of the shock. ' Union.?Jon?vle. Farm work pro- < greasing well, and croin are being rapidly cleaned; bottom corn destroyed by high E weather; all crops growing nicely; wheat . ? crop threshed with a large yield; weather ' - too hot for farm work.?F. I*. O'ahields. I - * Sarah Pacolet Rice'a Work. t h It will be rememhtred that The J Times made an appeal for the sufferers in famine.stricken India a few weeks ago, the rtsult of which was the collections and remitting by the aevera! churches of the town and private lubscriptions of several liberal amounts " to tie committee in charge in New 1 York. 1 A flow ikia Karl koon Jana . m 4*.*wi ?ui? un? u u<;uc ui<i ;am i * Pacolet Rice, an energetic little Sun K day 8ohool worker, an i a daughter of our townsman Mr. 8. M. R:c, bejan lf to solicit subscriptions for the sufferers, |f and she was very successful and at Sunday School last Sunday she astonished teachers and scholars by turning D over to the superintendent, Rev. L H L. Wagnon, $5 00 as the result of her le efforts. They did not know that she was at work. What a glorious work for a child, what a happy feeling it must cause this little christian worker ss to know that her work of a few days xl will probably be the means of sustain ,M ing for one day the lives of one hundred of these starving human beiogs. She has done her part noblv, and it will not go without its reward. ETT'S A Allays Irritation, Aids Digestion, I I || A Regulates the Bowels, a |\l I A Strengthens the Child, | I II r-A Makes Teething Easy, ivcltrr) * TEETHINA Relieves the Bowel . _ , . Troubles of Children of ?t CrOgglStS, ANY AGE. MOFFrrr, M. P., ST. LOUIS. MO. FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ' i Ait Interesting Report of the re- ^ ecnt Meeting in Greenville by One of its Delegates. ^ The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of ihe South Carolina Confer- ( snce M. E. Church South, met in the Buncomb St. Methodist Church at ' Greenville, S. C., on June 21st ultimo. About one hundred delegates were present. ? The address of welcome to Greenville was delivered by the Rjv. Dr. 1 G. E. Harmon, who also welcome.d all . the delegates in behalf of his chi r;h and congregation. Miss McDavid j welomed the delegates in behalf of the local Missionary Society. Mrs. ] W. M. Wightman, president of the meeting, in a beautiful and appropiate talk responded in behalf of tne dele- i gates. Two young lady missionaries, Miss Glenn, of Atlanta,Ga ,who has been for five )ears missionary to Braz'J; and 1 Miss Gary, of Elberton, Ga., a mission try to China, were introduced to the convention by the president. Miss Del- ) la Wright, wh) has recently finished a course in the Scarrit Traiuiog School :f Kansas City preparatory to being a nissionary, was also introduced. Thursday morning the 28;b, the y meeting was railed to order by the President, and Mrs. Stokes was elected secretary. The Union delegates were pleased, | when Mrs. Wightman introduced two young minister*, who proved to be (Juicn boys. They proved to be the Kev. Melville Kelley, uow pastor of S\ I'aui's Church, and the Ujv. B. G. Murphy, pastor ol one of Grtenville's Mill Cnurches, aud who is from our ^ jity. Both of these ministers have Ihe love aud ntpect of thjir corgreg-tti-ju, and both are doiDg a iiob'e work through their two churches iu jreenville. Our treasurer Mrs. J. W. Green reported $7,4 ">0.38 bad been collec eJ luring the ..year for all purposes, rhis sum being more than the church n this State raises and expends on its foreign Mission work. Iu our conference there are 285 tocieties with a membership of 5852. Tbo subject of education and Chris Tan work among our mm popmanon . vas opened, and ably discussed by I iev. B. G. Murbhy, Mrs. Wightman, * lira. Rogers, Miss Leitner, Mrs. Wait, diss Msj >rs, Rev. J. C. Roper and the rs. It was developed that there are -heathen" at our doorr; little chillren, young men and women, who are vithout ciucation, who should be aught in night schools if day schools ira not available, and in the Sunday Schools by those seeking to do somehing for humanity in the name of >!" the Lord. ^ The Century movement among the i:cieti63 was tbea taken up, and die5 Hied by Mr#. Wiffhtman, Mrs. Hum>ort, Mrs. Wait, Rev. J. C. Roper ind others. The ladies of Southern Vfethodism proposed to raise aside ro'ii their contributions to the general |j :hurch movement ?75,000 to ?stabisli tour girl schools in foreign fislds. The conference was at different times leeply touched, and highly enterained by cl< qoent and beautiful talks lelivered by the missionaries, Miss Grlenu and Miss Gary. After some discussion, Newberry was selected as the place for the next mnual meeting of the society. All the old officers were unanimously re~ sleeted to their oflico for another year and are as folio wt: i Preei lent, Mrs. W. M. Wightraac; 1st Vice President Mrs. E. 8. Herbert; ' 2i'd Vice.Ppesident, Mrs W. L. Wait; Or. 8ec., Mrs. J. W. Humbert; Rec. . 3ec, Miss I D. Martin: Treas, Mrs. J. W. Greer. A memorial service was h. Id iu honor of MI ts Laura Hag >od, and was l>ea itiful, tender o d touching. Reao'utioos ot thanks adopted by a , r.sing viite, were teudere 1 to In citi | * ki.o <tt f '.mntttPo t Ita <1 lljr.mt A<tm . i A 'I'D "I ' * vu ? J ' oI 1iiuiritiii, vuur luitt-es, t'10 new.?j?aj>ers and tho railroad*. Tfir u.'hout the entire meeting the Spirit (it t? id was manifested by the d a*, gun I women, wh> have ta'ceu upm ih? iiijelw*-n thi burden <1 labor iog lor t'?e enlightenment of benighted humankind. It would be greatly beneficial to all concerned if as many more of thos 3 who love the causo of the Mae ter, ccu'd attend these annual meetings, because no one, who attends, can fail t > be influenced for good by tho women of pious soul to bo n e'. then. It was a privilege and an hon?r to attend this annual meeting as a delegate from our Union Foreign Missionary Society. Delegate. Union, 8. C., July 10, 1900 LOST?A pocket book and note on road between Frank Vaugl.an's and Finckney. Liberal reward offered. k It 11. F. FoSTKll, R AILRO A ?CUTS AND FI Biggest cut this season in rhe following prices are ma it a 00 MILE AN HOUR gait mr cash boxes. Read these p ;vonder how we sell goods so < iood Crash, solid and plaid, worth 10c,< Mne Madras, 30 inches wide, would 1 cut price standard Calicoes, good wash colors, a 5 ^ice Figured Lawns, 5c goods, big cut Plain White P. K., cheap at 10c, now... Pine Corded 1*. K's., value 20c, a humni Mi iicy I*. K's., good wash colors, worth itcd quantity at ?ine French Ginghams, splendid colors, to figured Lawns, Dimities, Organdies, e 121c, dumped in a stack at very Fine Batiste, mercerized goods, strip etc., wortli 1.5c to 2oc, to go quick at.. \NOTHER SHIRT V\ Friday and Saturday, Jul} 3UR ENTIRE LINE OF WAIST! See our large assorti window. Come early so ught size. YOURS FOR GOOD AND LOW PRIC New York [ HARRY & B1 ? ggem? wc?ag?i?? thickens, Eggs Vnd all Country Pro and sold. Iverylhing in the Grocery lin price in towr W. H. W GLENN SPRING GLENN SPRINGS, STI There is but < it has no; eqiui the Stomach, J Hotel open ft Cusme and Fse^ It is up-to-date and everyl WRITE FOR F CIRTIFICATES OF CURES. SlTTlpSl ^DR. I. M. P ^ PENTIS1 Crown and Bridge Offic Work a Specialty. DIN Q LLS all summer stuff, king things HUM and is fast filling rices and you will 3heap. nit price 5c. be cheap at 10c, 5o. center at 4c. price 3?/io. 7&c. ier at 12'/,c. 10c, only a lim 754c. worth 10c, cut 8c. tc., worth 10 to 8c. pcd linen tissue, 10c. /AIST SALE j 6th and 7th. * ^ 5 AT COST. nent in show as to get your VALUES 1ES. f jacket, ELK. Butter duce bought I ie at the lowest i. test. S HOTEL, s. c.??? UMMER RESORTS ILL LEADS. one Glenn Springs and II on the continent for ,iver, Kidneys, lJowels i ~ i i~ n~i i Ulll JUIIC I IU UUl. I. ice Excellent. (V. Wagener's Delivery. 3ody goes there. or board apply to on & Simpson. e Bank Building Union, 8. C.