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YOL. L. NO. 40. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER^ 1900. #1.00 A YEAR.
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f F. M. FARh President. /
* GEO. MUNR^, Cashier, J. 1
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a Capital Stock
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JR Stockholders' Liabilities
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a Total
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i, Dihectohs?J. A. Fant, \V
X T. O. Duucan, J. T. Douglass, I
* T Win. Coleman.
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CATAPHORE51S.
DR, H. K.
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Bridge Work.
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UNION COUNTY NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered from
Various Sections by our
Correspondents.
"the PROGRESS^ of union.
BRIEF SKETCH OF THE
ORG WTII OF A N UP- COUNTRY
TOWN.
Wonderful Advance of Union in the
Last Ten Years from a Mere Village
to an Embryo Manufacturing
City, with 7,000 Population,
with Four Cotton Mills, a Knitting
Mill, an Oil Mill and Numerous
Other Industrial Enterprises?Total
Capital of the Mills
Nearly Three Million DollarsAll
the Work of Energetic and
Far-seeing Young Men Who Ha ve
Taken the Reins in Their Own
f Hands and Instead of the Old
Country Town, with the Piovcrbial
Two Hotels, of Which When
You Stopped at Either Yon
Wished You Had Stopped at the
Other, arc Building a Modern
City with Electric Lights, Trolleys,
Water-works and a Sewerage
System.
Charleston News ami Courier.
Union, September 25.--Speui.ii:
Ten years ago Uuiou was numbered
among the dead towns of the State
and a revival was almost an impossibility.
The old fogies and mossbacks
/t predominated; they were satisfied with
the town and several of them were
heard to express themselves to that effect.
At last, however, the young ole
ment determined to take hold oi the
reins, and as a result there was a general
shaking of dry bines and the old
town began to bo awakened from its
Jlip yan Wiukle slumber. The first
industry to spring up in the county
^was the Union Oil and Manufacturing
Company, which made little headway
Tor the first two or three years, but our
people had made a start and they were
not willing to become discouraged,
and soon there was an effort on foot to
'build a cotton mill at the famous
i Lock hart Shoals, some twelve miles
Trpm town. There was enough stock
S'poon subscribed to justify the aolieitation
of outside capital iu llio enterprise.
This was soon secured, and the
.work was begun. Not long thereafter
it was determined to build a mill
in the town of Union. A meeting was
held, books of subscription wero openfed
and a board of directors elected.
I MR. T. C. DUNCAN,
^a young and progressive merchant r.f
the town, who has since become famous
as one oi the leading cotton mill
men of this country, was eio.tul presi j
dent of the company and instructed to
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60,000 y
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$170,000 i
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i. r. MeKlssick, A. II. Foster,
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tur Business. X
?*? ELECTRICS.
SMITH,
1ST.
| Union, S. C.
- ) to work, which ho di 1 \vith*i will
aud a determinati ui that couM 1 ut
load to sueccis. result ho a; Id
the required amount ol'atock, t?o0,<>00,
:;U'I Lagan the buildiog of his m i),
pushing tho work eo rapidly that he
had it liniihod ami was making cloth
bethre tho L>ckhart Mill was completed.
It was a great success a id
before it had been iu operation two
yearn Mr. Duncan had determined to
L . 1 1 . .1 * ? 1 .. l\ . I .
:? .im4i:f uut'i' miviug 1:1
creased 1110 capital Htock of the ii: at
mill to 8150,000. The success of the
first mi!!, under Mr. .Duncan's excell-3.iL
management, lml become so will
uuown that ho bad not tho slightest
trouble in securing all the stock he
v i'iit.l for the building ol a 8850,01)0
mill. This mill was rushed to completion
with tho samo indomitable
push ar.d energy that has characterized
Mr. Duncan's work ever since lie
entered tho mill business, r.ud in
eightceu months from tho time the
dirt was broken lor tho biggest m il
under one reef in the Southern Stati3
the mill was ready to go to wo'k
inanufrcturing cloth. Lrjckhurt Mill
had been completed in the meanlime
and there was a large quantity of cloth
being daily turuod out from the ce tton
mills in Union county as the result,
ol tho enterprise of tho yourg
tutu who had taken hold of the reit s.
OUIt SISTEK TOWN JONE3VILLK,
some ten miles north of Union, realizing
that there was money to be
made in industries, broke tho ice by
the building of an up to dato knitting
mill, which has been in tucce^sful operation
ever ticee. Union, seeing that
.1 <.nf-Oi?i!lo !\o/l cnoK o r?/vAil Win r? I ?
U Vilt.O V ii.u UUU CUV/il C% LUllljj i LI
her knitting mill, doterminod to have
one a!s>, and a stock company was
formed, tho stock was rapidly taktn
up, and soon the Union Knitting Mill
was whining its machines merrily,
It paid, of course, and when Unit u
sscs a good thing these days tho is
ready to push it along, so the next
thing was to extend the knitting mill
plant. More machines were ordered,
h buildii g three times as large as tho
old one was erected, a new engine put
in anu now Union has a Sot).000
knitting ruiil, which is considered 01 e
of the finest in tho South.
Jonesville determined to reach out
further iu tho industrial field ami a
j >int stock company was organized ftr
tho building of a cotton mill iu that
growing town. Tho stock has been
taken and the building is almost completed
and tho machinery is arriving.
In the meantime Jonesville had huiit
a fiue plant fur making flour, which
is receiving largo patronage from all
parts of the county.
But Union did not have enough
cotton mills yet and Mr. Duncan begun
to bestir himself ior another large
mill. As usual all he had to do was
to take hold and capital was waiting
for him. He located this last plant
some four milc3 from town on Buffalo
Creek. To facilitate matters he said
it would be necessary to build a railroad
to that point. He did it and
tho ground was then broken for
TII12 BIO BUFFALO MILL,
which is now above tho second floor.
It will be run by electricity furnished
from a large electric power plant to bj
built near by, which will also supply
the motive power for tho cars on his
railroad and the exlonsion which isti
run through town, giving Union the
advantage of an electric street cat
service in the very near future,
-Fifty operatives' houses for this mill
have already been finished and one
hundred end fifty moro are g?in.]j up
I litown is t > In ma 1-j a modern nsl!
ti.wj, Mipplicd iviih electric Jigii'8
waltr-worha and fewvrag) hy-v ?a.
which will connect iviih every houjo
in the viliuge.
1, iCbharL M.'U.-', Hiding that the
C;ii i'.te.o d'tlu ro ids in winter v? re
j .such a3 to len hr the hauling of !h :r
product lo the r abroad v. jy espon
I nvc, ?!ct rnsiiicd to build a railroad
I from their ruiil to the Sou tier a iti'I
roa-J, wtiioh tho company did, tapping
the Southern at. a paint panic ni les
above Union. Kvorycno aim its that
it v.*ss an oversight ia not tapping the
Sou!him at Union.
While Mr. Daucan was meet: ig
with ho much success its mill lntilJing
Mr. .7 ohn A. Fant, another of our c iplulists
uud solid business men, determined
to do some mill building hhustif.
He organized a Block company,
sold his stock and began building
HIS MONARCH MILL,
jnst outside the incorporate m, 0:1 the
ea;-t side of town. This mill has been
rushed rapidly, the main part of the
building has been completed, the 11) >rj,
of beautiful seasoned imple^ lmvc
been laid aud the machinery is being
set up a:i rapidly ss it ariives. This
mill will be run by steam p)\ver. The
south aide is weather!) oarded preparatory
to the extension which is to tVlow
soon. Jt is upon an eminence*
and commands ;n excdlcnt bird's eye
view of the surrounding country.
Union's latest industrial enterprise
is iho Union Hardwood Mauuf.ictur
: ing Cimpauy, with a capital stock of
?l> (Klrt v.-LiMi l-.n-* inst. hiwr* nrvnni/ !
this wee it, with Mr. S. M. Rice prot-i
lent and treasurer. lie has associated
with him, among other , T. C.
Duncan, A. 11. Foster, John A. Fan',
and \\r. K. Walke', who arc am >ng
the lurg.st capitalists in Uniou. The
success of tho enterprise is assured
with such men a. tho back oi it.
As to projected iuduslries: A moveincur
i.i un loot, but uot yet indefinite
shape, to build
ANOTHER COTTON MILL
on tho Buffalo, or Union and Glenn
Springs Railroad, for the manufacture
of a coarser grade of cloth. It will he
capitalized at about 8150,000, as near
as I cau learn, and 1ms strong men behind
it.
Auother mill is to be built at Whin
mire's. This is pretty well assured
and the work will no doubt be began
in a very short while.
The people of Carlisle are also contemplating
the building of a cotton
mill. There are some very energetic
men at this little city, fourteen miles
below Uniou, the point at which the
Seaboard crosses the Southern Railroad,
aud if they get at it in earnest a
mill will no doubt be the result.
The capitalization of the mills mentioned
above arc: Union, No. 1,
8850,000, 00,000 spindles; 13offal >,
8000,000, do,OOO spindles; Locklur.,
8500,000, 25,000 spindles; Monarch,
8200,000, 10,000 spindles; Alpha, at
Jonesville, 880,000, 5,000 spindle*;
knitting mill, at Jonesville, 812,000;
knitting mill, Union, 850,000; oil
mil!, 821,000; mill, at Whi tome's,
8800,000,15,000 spindles.
Besides th?se incorporated induetries
there are
NUMEROUS INDUSTRIES
in Union of minor importance, and to
cover ihe entire development of the
town in improvements, etc, would
require pages and more tunc than I
huve to devote to the subject. I will,
however, mention a few of them. Ail
ot this progress has taken place in the
last ten years, while our town has
grown from an insiguiticaut village
of some 15,000 inhabitants to the re
6pectable little city of some 7,000
souls. Some of the other improvements
are:
A board of health, a real estate
agency, several new series of building
un<1 Inun a oanr>i a t ? niia a finA trmnArv
I WUVt AvMlt MVJWUV?l?V*V??WJ w ^tuuv* J J
furniture manufacturing plant and
fuixcy wood work, furniture repair and
fanny scroll work, telephone system
and long distanco connections, two
iiue graded sohools, water-works, electric
lights and a sewerage system to
go in at once.
Union has an urgent demand for
houses to rent. Her greatest need
now possibly is another railroad outlet.
We will soon have one to Spartanburg
and possibly to the Seaboard.
It is being worked up. J. R. M.
The following is an editorial comment
by the editor of the News and
1 Courier upon the above article:
, A STORY OF PLUCK AND PROGRESS,
"'Ten years ago,' says our corre
spondent, 'Union was numbered
among the dead towns of the State,
and a revival seemed almost an im
possibility.' Itha.1 a p>}v;!a';oi <
about 1 500, and w.u li'lel v.ii
croaker* and prophets of rvli, v. n
| prelcto 1 all sorts of cahuniry a -d :u
| Aiied to balieva that 111c? 3 w s toI
Irnst chance of roar recti',n. To 'a*
| Union has a ;v>:> iln'i a < f 7.0 ) : : I
j ilia re ia an 'u go.t .v.;jn.J f-r h : $
j to rent.' 'I ho dead t>w>i h^3 c *: '
life r.{; -.it!, l'-.c cr; .Lerj have d;<.:p
pea red, the j topic ur? ,'u'i , j hp?,
and capital c - 1 ba had !' r tho aski ;
iudeul, the c-utsldcrs have hco 1 t;
impressed \vi hike spirit of iho [..) v
pii ihat the/ era huut:ng for Union
chances an I not v/uiior; for the petolo
of Uui >n to hunt them.
How was tho informal! >n wrought
By begging others to do f>r them
wh;t thoy would not try to do for
t li r\ *v%ao 1 tt ^ li ? !? n m?* ?? - k ' ?
bugai jui vo;. . x? j U.I tilUil
'natural a lvautago?,' and l?3?i^ving
that the world could not get along
without them and had to take the n a*
their own value and not at what'hr
world took them to he Werth? No.
In tin iir. t p'aee, Uuiou low no 'natural
adva i luges' thut. arc not enmrnan
to r.ciriy all the towns of the Pieltncmt
region. It baa a good climate,
good water, a Hue back?ountiy and
a thrifty and intelligent population;
but in all theae respects it is exactly
like the rest of the up country, aid
has estj >yed no special opportunities
on account ot' special posav.ion?. It
hua had only one railroad, which gave
tlie town no advantages in rater; i
,uaj not hud lijo benefits of water
transportation, ami 1ms uot halauy
largo number of ria^ men with big
bank balance? and unlimited credit.
118 prejent marvellous progress bis
been the result of well directed elibrt
on tie part of its own people, and
their employment of their O.vn mtvis
Ibr th? promotion oi their own iutcr
csts. A handful of man with faith in
themselves and regard for tin town
have made Uaion, la the ourss of
te.i year?, ouo ot the most progressive
and flourishing commuuitiea ia the
South. T. C. Duucan has led ia the
work of building up the town, aud ho
has had the assistance. ia all that lie
haa undertaken, of Jao. A. Faut, \V.
H. Walker aud others of liko public
spirit and business senso?wo wish we
could give the name3 ol all who have
helped ia tho work of reconstruction
They deserve well not'ouly of thei;
neighbors, but of the* peoplo cf the
State, because in rebuilding Union
they have contributed to the material
welfare and progress of the Stale.
Read the story our correspond out
tells to day, aud think it there is no'
encouragement in it for soma othoi
communities ia the Stato which arc
going at a limping gait, and aro put
ting their trust ia 'natural advau
tages', which are unimproved fronr
year to year. Catch the spirit ol
UaioUj-if you cau. Stand by youi
town; talk against those wh o talk
against i'. and help it with youi
money.
About fen years ago a cotou oi
mill was started in Union aud it had
a hard time to keep going ; it didn'i
pay ; lost money, but the people stuck
toil and made it successful. The oil
mill wa3 ioiioweu ay a col ton mm
and another aud another, until fro a
an unpromising beginning in industrial
development, the town ha^
pushed ahead until tho whole country
has been stirred by the spirit cf pro
grea?, and Lockhurt shoals, Jones
ville, Whitmires, Buffalo Creek ant
Carlisle liavo joiued in tho move
meat, which will result in Uniot
County becoming one of tho most im
portant manufacturing counties in tin
State. With its seven cotton mills
representing an investment of $2,500,
000, and hardwood factories, etc.
etc , and its knitting mills and cotton
oil mill, there can be no doubt of tin
future of the town and couuty.
The splendid recovery of Mobili
aud the revival of Union, when tin
baud of death was strong upon it, ar
full of encouragement to those win
are despondent in other communitic
about what is to become of them
The fittest will survive. Thia is tru<
of towns as well as of individuals
Union helppd itself and the worl<
is helping it, and this is the lessoi
of thb story.
The Department of State has beei
informed that a decree of the empero
and empress orders the degradatio
of four princes and deprives I'rinc
Tuau ot his salary and official sei
vants. He is to bo brought for trin
before the imperial clan court.
Western freight men, not only (
the railroads proper, but of the fat
freight lines, have received iustruc
tions to immediately restore all rati
to tariff and maintain them on tl;
' established basis, or, in other word
general agents who have been oflerin
> bargain sale tariffs must absolute!
' restore rates.
' -wm.
BANKS
,! RESPECTFULLY
'Banking Business and
And promise you the
the best s
rrg-ATrrr^apo* mcnyumj- ciijcyyjc rr "syv-K , i ? tp-x xujq
LOGKIiAHT JUNCTION.
Mr. E lit -r:?AfUr a taw week's
ib.e ici I write aj'i'.u as I h*va oar.i j
hard at work gathering up ih? Utile
whito sluft you ci'.I catt>u, and tiie ]
other en xt crop3, a'ter this wchavej
gathered a few dots from this ,i I-.-, j
I'll 3 cjtt >'i crop ia l!i is seadoi is!
to -ufc one-third *?f a crop. Wo have ;c
i*n?l u good rain at lad, Ir.j too into :
to do the c oltoa and corn any good. j ^
Toe weather has bo 11 sinn c > >'ci 1
sine"1, which has improve 1 the Deli ig 1
of man, as tha past weather has been | v
so hot. | ?
Wo have heard too rioting of him-1 a
ni.ve at .his p'aoc on t'l : building of j?
I a now stor i li vise hero for 31 r. J. It
j Hughe*. Mr. ilagh(8 is a gom c'ti'
!. >:? of Che r do e c r.ui'y, near (J iwdeyu
i ;iii?;ho lias b.mi s.i.i ig goods at;1
! that p!".cj. lit cornea to this place.'
[ to do buaioea) as a merchant. Weiwe'ojins
Mr Mushes here aa l other3
h
; w.i) may co.na. 11
i The lumber una matt rial h.u boon
laid d iWL' hero to build a depot at *>
j this place. '
Mr. Dm While Inn conic horae j
j ironi lira work ii Spartanburg. Ho p1
I lias been working with the Trolley j
Car Company, lie any a it i> doing a i
c.ood bnSiu?33.
Mr. John Pickens lias gouo to *
, | Union to clerk. c
The Four.h Q mrterly Conference
w.ia held at 1) 'thlehem church Sept. 22. '
Mr. L. .). Guilt has completed his
uew dwelling house. Moxv. 51
SEVEN WEEKS OFF. I,
i
. The Confederate Veterans Reunion, ;
Georgia Division in Augusta.
' I
I Tho second annual re-union of -the
Georgia Confederate Veterans will bo ;
t, held at Augusta, Ga., November 3-1, 1
t 15. Id, 1000.
1L is now just seven weeks bof jre the )'
? re union of the.old Confederate veto* 1
. rana of Georgia and South Carolina.
. Xhi3 ;c-uniou should be a memorable
i oceas.-i ;u from the fact that many of
f tho old comrade a'o growing ripo in I
c old age an 1 it may be toe la-t time !
: they will have au opportunity of seeing !
p tho-:o whom they stood shoulder to ]
shoulder with during the trying days (
| of the bO'a. 1
[ Another fact worthy of mention is 1
l that they will have tho opportunity of (
r meeting the comra Is of old South Car|
oli.ia, the state in which secession was '
born, and no doubt there are many
i South Coroliniaas who now leside in
. Georgia aud many Georgians who re- 1
, aide in South Carolina, all of whom wiil 1
j have an oppotuuity of meeting aud 1
. mingling with each othor on the
. banks ot the Savannah river, at Au- 1
1 gusta, during this year's re-uuiou.
Another fact that should lend en- 1
i chautinent to this occasion is, that
. the people of Augusta are noted far
3 aud wide for their unbounded hospitality
to their guests. And they in*
. teud bunding every effort to make
this a long to bo remembered occassiou
I o
t for tluse whom wa love, because it
a may be many cf in will have flic
pleasure of doing their part in makn
ing life pleasant for our old comrads.
0 The railroads of Georgia aud South
q Carolina are detormiud to do their
r) parts manfully and aao to it that a
b very low r.ito is given to all sections
of tho two states that everybody may
3 bo plesaut on this festive occasaiou.
(> The different committees iuteud
1 using overy effort for the eomfort aud
3 pleasure of all who will be here on
the 14th, 15th, 16th of November.
The Chairman of the following com!
mittee will no gial to answer any
1 queries that may bo made by those
" who wish information concerning the
_B different departments,
i Hon Boykin Wright, President.
Jacob I'hinizy, Chairman Finance.
P. H. Kick, Chairman Decoration.
>f Ahram Levy, Chairman Advertis?t
ing.
E. B. Pilc'iier, Chairman Bureau
'8 of Information.
e A. B. Saxon, Chasrraau Camp
8. Fires and Hall.
| ...
Bubacribe for The Time*. '
LSBN & SON,?
:rs.
SOLICIT YOUR
Your Fire Insurance,
best protection and
ervice.
USED TO RUN a hotel
Kiicmv How to Sympathize With a
Landlord.
Washington Post.
41 was up at Niagara Fallf the
ithcr day," said a Washington man.
'The summer rush lias just begun.
iVhilo I was in the cflico a guest enernd
to register. Tho landlord sized
h;: arrival up as a kicker while he
vas writing his name in the register,
,nd b**anything could be said
l?ou , r i rales or conveniences he
b3ervvd:''.
"l'Vr'i.ips you iiava made a mistake
t lh: .ijti.1. Tilia ii the Great View
i h . The Small View House is
'.< < i ?c\s clown the street."
' i ..5 is the p'aie I want," replied
he
4 ii .1 ur rooma are small and the
i.'Is oulhi.ig to brag of."
r.ial will be all right. 1'vo been
; in a hall bed room on a shelf
past"
-mere is no roaring to be heard
tore!"
41 I'm glad of it."
,4And the meals are very plain."
4 Th.at suits no. I've got dyapepia.
and Ll? ^ nliinnr th? mp#la ? >"?
>etter."
"You don't object to haud organs
>y day and eqalliug babies by night?"
"Not the slightest, I've roamed
til over Europe, aud you cannot have
mything hero to compare."
The landlord saw that he had made
i mistake in siziog the man up, but
ie hated to admit it, and therefore
jontiuued:
"My rates aro $3 a day."
"That's cheap enough for a hotel
lere," replied the man.
"Do you "look for the rainbows over
he falls".
"Not a bit of it. If they come
tlo.ig ihl take my share, but any old
)o\v will do for me."
"Arc you afraid of typhoid fever?"
"No, sir."
"There's only oue cataract here."
"I don't want any more. Give me
Llse poorest, smallest room in the
bouse and if you waut to put a man
in with me all right, aud I'll use anything
for a wash basin and furnish
my own soap and towel. Your rates
ire 83 a day. Here is 8100 to start
in."
"Lord, Lord, but what kind of a
man are you?" gasped the landlord as
his head began to swim,
"I? Oh, I used to ruu a hotel here
myseii ana l know now to sympathize!"
smiled the guest. "Just let
things run along the same as if I was
not here. If it is handy give me clean
sheets once in two weeks, but don't go
to putting yourself out or worrying
over me. Here's for thirty-three days
in advance, aud in case you run short
anytime just let me know and I'll lend
you $500 to get along with."
- m?
Possibly tho President may have
to send tho troops hack to China in a
month or two to rescue the legation
guard, hut meanwhile they are so
badly needed at Manila that they have
to he sent there;
It seems pri .'.Ically certain that a
definite break has taken place between
oeciv'ary Ilay and President McKinley.
Tho former, although he has
been absent from his post lor months
on a plea of ill health, is known to be
perfectlv well aud strong. The politicians
arc trying to guess the cause
of tho break but so far have not produced
a plausible explanation.
The Secretary of the National
Glass Company?the glass trust?has
admitted to the Industrial Commission
that the trust is selling flint glass
abroad for 15 per cent, less than at
home, despite the cost ot transports*
tion. It is pleasant news that the
Amorican consumer pays to supply
the foreigner with his glass oheap.
v / I