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Railroads are < rates to the In monies at Wa: BO A 49 ? is onenng tree a hearty welooi all who will visi Department St< weloome to tak< best selection of Furniture, Dry I n i ai boois ana i>m Caps, Clothing, Hardware and I and anything that 1 free to spend as mi wish. The more the for our big shipme this week. Good Plow Stool 3&c. Good Floi lbs. Sugar $6 Good Coffee, 10 COME TO Remember we ha\ wo wauu y u ui uiau and fair treatinen WE FEAR NO YOURS FOR M. W. I ~ iimua?| ; ; ?. TRAINS FROM COLUMBIA. Arrive 10:15 a. m. Depart 10:15 a. m. ] " 1:40p.m. " 2:00p.m.h TRAINS FROM SPARTANBURG. Arrive 12:45 p. m. Depart 1:05 p.m. " 7:10p.m. " 7:80p. m - :.=i: I Local News Notes < i Put Together For Ready Reference j Gathered Here and There by , Aiip Man AKautTawn. 1 ( The Enterprise Steam Laundry is in f full operation. ' It. 1 t Mr. B. F. Arthur is confined to his ? room with the grippe. Watch out for the Enterprise Steam pmndiy wagon. Runs every day. It | Married at the Excelsior Reading ' Room on Wednesday, the Gth inst., Rev. C. A. B. Jennings, Mr. Vernon ' Gault and Miss Eva Betenbaugb, all of < Union. Mabribd on Wednesday, February Gth, . at the home of the bride's parents, in I Union county, Mr. Charles Tucker to Misa Cora Cooper. Rev. C. A. B. Jennings officiating. Patronize home industry. The En terprise Steam Laundry is looking for your business. It. Z It Is reported that a negro at Lockhart broke out with small pox this week. Mr. Scrogglns' family who have been afflicted with the disease are up and at work In the mill. While two negroes, Wallace Porter and Wallace Jeter, were tinkering with a gt?c near Ijockhart Sb^ls Saturday, the gun was accidentally discharged, the load entered the body of Porter and killed him. Porter was about 17 years of 230. We ere in receipt of the Converse College souvenir for 1901. It is a neatly gotten up catalogue showing several handsome and well executed engravings of the college and the beautiful ground* surrounding it. Also a good cut of the president's borne. The catalogue was printed by the W. P. Barnes Press, of Spurtanbury, and reflects credit upon the printer as well as upon the city and I its famous oollege. Packages l*ft at J. H. Spears' store will he laondried at the Enterprise Ateam Laundry. It, .> offering cheap augural cereshington. ... BO admission and i me to one and ! t his Mammoth J jre. i ou are t 3 a look at the * 3oods, Notions, oes, Hats and Farming Tools, ; Groceries.... > r a t fou want. You are n v ich money as you i i better. Look out c nt of DRY GOODS J a .... h n f] ks 75c. Plows J jp $2 per 10O ? per 1O0 lbs. IbS. n > SEE US re the goods and si e. Honest Goods si t to one and ail. I h COMPETITION. I U BUSINESS, a a a _ tl 30BQ. 1 - jsu -jay ana 5501 Meador were arretted a for gambling in the section of town y, known as Smoky Hollow last Sunday u riiey each put up $5.00 for their aj>- e< peirance before the Mayor Tupsdav u morning. They failed to appear and ai die city smiles as it drops $10.00 iuto the pi treasury. tc In Mrs. Jane Ruffins died at her home jj lear West Springs Wednesday of last ^ Week. She was one of the oldest reei- fl lents of that section, being 85 years of n ige. She came from Virginia in 18*25 ? 3he leaves a sister, Matilda, who Uvea Ui it Monroe, N. C., and is 95 years of age. hi Capt. T. II. Francis is in town r?pro- c anting the ?*ud Annuity Insurance Company. Mr. Francis is a gendeman who makes friends wherever he it joes by his kind and sociable disposition F ind courteous manners. He is repre- J tenting a good company and we wish him o success. S Mr. W. J. Roby, of Carlisle, paid us a pleasant call while in town Monday. ' Mr. Roby says he has got things hum- D ming in the hotel business at Carlisle. D Mr. Roby is a veteran in the printing D business and says the inside of a printing " oflice looks very familiar. Call agaip "Uncle Joe." ? Among the acts ratified by the senate t we notice the following : "To provide j for the preservation of the record of the Palmetto regiment and also the Jackson c vase." The bill "to require owners of t rAnl r\i<Ai\Ari?r olf notn r*n 1 >r mif Kin i\n/1 A irai piupri vjr onuaic ptii njf niuiiu miu \ partly without incorporate towns to list j the same separately," and the bill 4<to validate drawing of all Jurors for the year 1901. Mulford's man has been in Union and says that the city of Union has used more vaccine virus than any three cities in the State during the last six months. This means that Union is the most thoroughly immune city in the State. We think that we can safely say that 90 ( per cent, of our citizens have been suenfco2f'?i.iu van>lnat?l. iiUfnnl factures the vacoine virus. i A great deal has been said and written ( of the Elixer of Life, but up to the pres- . ent time how many of us have solved that problem. Life is short and sweet, 1 as the old adage goes*--it is more < especially God's greatest gifts, health, (strength and happiness. Would we not, all of us give our all, oould we bat ' prolong our life, in many cases, for a few 1 noun*? In solving this great problem < and to accomplish this seeming impossibility it becomes neoessary for science to . lend its aid. the resit of this long scion- ' tide research and experiment is "Longs? vita." (see ad. in another oolumn) a t scientifically prepared vegetable compound hitherto unknown, and coming as it does from the natural element, its curative properties can never be est!* ' mated as a prolongerof Ufe, Both sexes alike are benlfittea. dM La Grippe Raging. Two weeks ago New York city r* ported *200,000 cases of trrip under trail rnent. In the United States at Mitt <iat two million people were said to be uwle the weather with that disease. whil 100,000 were laid up with small pox Df the latter less than 300 died, whil Lbe grip sent 30,000 to the graveyards PREVALENT IN SI'AKTANllUllO. The Journal says in Friday's issue 'In going the rounds today the Jourua man failed to And any place of businea wncre grippe bad not kept at home sour iwner or employee, either witl lis or her own grippe or that of some o he family. It is Spartanburg's time t lave the grippe, and the city takes link >f it unanimously, as it does everythini ilse." Hicks, over two months ago, pre licU-tl that theie would be a great prev ilence of grippe throughout the country lud sjtent two thoustnd dollars in send ng his warning to the doctors through >ut the country to look out for it When Hicks sends out a warniug it l test to preparo tor trouble. m A Corrcction-'Thanks to Vor. Etta Jano, S. C., Feb. 11, 1901. Mr. E litor:?In last week's paperyoi late that it was Mr. Wash McKowi hat was killed by the train on the rail oau last luewiay nignt. it was Mr . Wesley McKown. He was also a ember of the "McKissick Hangers" nd whose name lias already been menioned, and will further appear, in collection with "The Reminiscences of the Var" now being written for Tnr ?1MES. Mr. "Wash'? McKown was a gallant Confederate soldier too. lie was orderly ergeant in Captain Boyd's Company F. 5 S. C. Volunteers, and took put in 11 the great battles of the war in which is command was engaged. He has ow in his possession an ounce ball taken rom his arm which he received at the attle of Spottsylvania C. II., Va., in lav, 1BG1 He is still alive and is one f i he best citizens in Cherokee county. This note is only to correct the erroi ihich was accidental on your part. Bot 1 he McKowns aie well known to a largt umber of your readers. Respectfully. J. L. Strain. The I&undry in Full Blast. As The Times related some time ince air. j. 11. &pears was to nave a team laundry in Union, it gives us leasure to now stato tli it the lain Iry i an accomplished fact. Mr. Spears has is two brick store buildings on Enterrise street veiy nicely arranged for the Jnterprise Steam Laundry. A very eatly arranged place it is to), the waihig, staicbing, drying and ironing are 11 carried on in one side of the building nd in the other is situated the otllce, ssorting and marking departments All be machinery and works are arranged i a systematic way. At th)back of the uilding is loc ite 1 the boiler and engine a practical laundrytai with an experience of nearly fifteen ears and it will be his constant purpoie > gratify the pitrons of the laundry in very possible m inner. Aneatwigon ill call Cor and deliver your pack age at ny time in the week. It being the urpose of both proprietor and manager > give all services of an up-to-date steam mndry. The patrons will h ive their nen treated in the best m inner, the mndry giving either gloss or domestic nisli. The Uniou citizens and the surounding towns should give the Kntorrise Steam Laundry a l?-**rfcy support, s it will prove a benefit to both town d county by keeping the money at ome. _ ' . m ross Keys looses a Good Citizen. Mr. Editor:?The death of a good man i a great loss to any community. On 'riday morning last, Feb. 8th, Maj. R . Betaill passed away. When the tocsin f war was sounded across our peaceful outbland be, quite young, responded to be first tap of the drum; and for galintry be was promoted to the rank of lajor, and a short time before the imlortal Lee surrendered he was comniaairineH a mlnnol nnH liiq men wprf mong the last to surrender that day at Lppomatox C. H., Va. Therefore it an be trutlifully asserted that the old 8th Ilegiment, S. C. Volunteers flrec he last guns of the war. in the de irium that proceeds the crossing of tha sold river, he wanted to he carried bad o the tents of the battletleld, and w< rust was carried to peaoeful region jeyoud, where pain i id suffering is u? nore. MaJ. Betslll was a good husband nason, father, soq, citizen and neighbor He leaves a devoted wife, six children leveral grand children and a host o relatives and friends to mourn his loss l am lQiormea tuai uuuiner guuu uiti sen will move in a short time froc imong us to your city, Mr. G. T. Hollii and family. It looks as if your towr intends to break us up. I received a long letter a 'ew days a?1 From one of Cross Keys' noble youn{ men, Mr. W. C. Whitrpire, who ac septed a position sotpe time ago with th Well fixture Co,, of Spartanburg ^Bud," as we are woqt to call him, wi succeed at anything be undertakes. Pr. W. G, FIke has east his lot will Lhe people of the young oity Buffalo, know of no young man more worthy o >ne with a finer record. We welcom Pr. Fike not only in the city qf Buffalo hut in the county of yn}on. The flrtq qf Wilbqrn Bros, is phange< to B. G. Wilbqrn and hQ?Vaccination Is the order of the day tome one says a man vaccinates aooord ing to the intelligence be has. Titcftus H. Gobs, proas Keys, 8. CM Feb. U, 1M1. DEATH OF MA J. ROBT. /. BFTSILL, , A Soblc Hero Gone to His Rswaud. * Major K. J. lletsill, one of Union county'8 most universally tieloved and highly reni**ctfil citi/, *us. died ut his ' home in Cross Keys on Friday mori ing, hist week, at four o'clock. He was some sixty-five years of age. Ho had been suffering several years with : dropsy but had recovered last year so ,1 much as to be able to get about again, s the swelling had entirely disappeared and e he aud his host of friends throughout h the county rn need in the hope that his f recovery would lie permanent, and tint 0 his wonderful constitution to as-ist 1 in overcoming the terrible disease, would y iiiaiirt> 1<im mu?u mn-n ...... 9 ...1" WJHUJ IUUIc jwiia VII Ixrace I and happiness. Hut recently the disease - again developed and his decline was - rapid. While his death was not wholly , uuexpected, the announcement caused a ptll of siidness in his community, and - a general wave of sorrow throughout the couuty. Because Major Hob Betsill s was uuivereally beloved aud recognized by all who knew him as the 4 noblest Horn in of them all." lie was one of the most gallant aud daring soldiers in the Confederate service and served his country faithfully and well throught out tt.e war. He served with Col. Win. ( II. Wallace, of Union, aud was upon more than oue occasion the recipient of personal commendation for his bravery t and gallant service by the officers high > in command. Maj. Hetsill enlisted in the Confederate amiy .win inu ior service witn me lirst , troops to leave from Union. By his re. markablo bravery and gallantry he soon won glory and climbed rapidly up the . ladder of promotion. lie stepped from , priva'e in ranks to Lieutenant, then to Capta.n, and at the bittle of Jackson, ] J Misi., for his extraordinary gallantry, | he wits promoted over three senior j ! Captains to Major. Upon one occasion, au oilijer was instructed to make a charge, the danger was so apparent, and the odds so overwhelming that the oilioer ' flunked and backed down. Maj. B *i si11 was sent for and asked if he would un- . dertike it. He replied that he would do ( it or die in the attempt. He took com, maud HLd led iiis men .o v.ctory. No ( ' braver man ever wore a Confederate uniform. Maj Betsi'.l leaves a wife and '< six children. Miss Lilly, Mrs. W. Bdton ] Hill, Mrs A J. Hill, both of Cross Keys: Mr. W. J. Qetsill, of West Springs; " Mr. W. N. Betsill, of Cross Keys, and Miss Annie. 1 The remains were intered at Padgett's Creek church Saturday in the presence of a host of sorrowing relatives and friends. In his death Union county lias lost one of its very best citizens. i la the Arms of Jesus. In loving remembrance of Nettie I. Meng. the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Meng. Born November 5tb, 1892, and died January Uth, 1901. She was eight years, two months and four days of age. Nettie was the pet of the family as she was the bibv and had always been, vorv , .. ?nui iot sucn is tne kingdom of Heaven," we had to give up our darling little Nettie and no v we are a sa 1 1 and heart-broken family, and when we hxik around an I see her little play thints and her little rocking chair that she always Silt in, it almost breaks our hearts, and to see her vacant place at the table and to know that our darling will never be here on earth with us again. And oh, how sad it is for us to go in the louse and mis.' her sweet and bright little face, and miss hearing that loving and welcome little laugh, and hear her sing her sweet little Sunday school songs, but? !i Our Dieciouaoiiefrom us has gone; A voice we IOVi.> A place is vacant in our home Which never can be tilled. But God took her from us for some cause, we know not why He should take that dear little one from us so young and so fair. This lovely bud, so young, so fair. Called hence by early doom, Just come to show how sweeta flower, [ In Paradise would bloom. > Ere sin could harm or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care, . > The opening bud to heaven conveyed, < And bade it blossom there. Jxiving sister, ( Euoenia. , f;iCoId Paragraphs. ' The small pox excitement has some- , i what abated, there now being only two 1 c.r^es and they are convalescing. It has been conflned entirely to the negroes, ' and unless it is brought here by outside parties we feel confldout the malady t will soon be stamped out The majority b of our town people, however, nave been B vaccinated, from which some of them have been quite sick. Grippe is also prevalent Just now. Mr. ? S. F. Miller and family have been quite sick, as has also Mrs. W. F. Bryant. The flrst quarterly oonference of the ? Pacolet Circuit was held In the Methodist church Saturday and Sunday. Rev. ' W. P. Meadows, of Spartanburg, presid ing. Q Prof. Bryan and pupils are preparing to give an entertainment in the Academy on the evening of the 22ud, which pram1 ines to be an enjoyable affair. In the pipit vteek one or two families t> from the country have moved into town to avaii iqemseives of our schooi facilities. 8 Mr. F P. Yates and family, of Union, 'r spent Sunday with relatives here, e Miee Barnes, of GJdgefield, has been , the guest of Mrs. lijrnest Uiitlej ?hq j Mra- West, of Montgomery, Alabama, is visiting her sisters, Meadames Wright and Cunningham. It Mr. Frank Anderson, of Tennessee, I visited friends here last week. r C. A. Wood, a knight of the grip, onunf. Siatnnlav anH Snndnv ivir.li thA "J'VMV ^ ^ ? # ''"I "1V home folks. ', Mr. J- S#M has opeqed up a general merchandise husiqeaa hero. The i stove room foirqerly occupied by Harnett and Hrown has boon recently vacated. This is a splendid opening for some live ? and active party to conduct a first class mercantile establishment. Cards are out announcing the m&r? ringe of k$r. Hrpcfcwpll to Miss Feu J Dyo^n the 12th inst, MiooHamt 12,000 THINK < Enough to supply our body getting two X-L-C-R Knit Hose tor ladies, ( spliced heels and toes, fast blacl 011 the market, our price only... Extra Heavy Ribbed Hose for 1 1- -- ? - ? ' ' wvsit uit iv iiCVy lclSL UlcU'i only Boy's Bicycle Hose, very heavy, excellent wear, equal to any 25t We carry the best line of Ladie 25c, 35c and $8,000.00 Wo Gee! Wliiz! (Bi OITD <1DF v V/ * "V * A"The Bion Shoe" for men al new shipment just received this Leathers, Oxfords, Patent Vicis, Spring. The "American Shoe" for m< :oes, splendid quality Vici. fully g "Jay B. Reynolds" Shoe for Calfs, Vici, Russet, etc., all shapes The "H. C. Godman" Shoe children. It is needless to say mo ti reputation that is envied by ma fully guaranteed, priooe zo to Qi.r NEW SPRIN We have just received a ship Dimities, Suitings, Coverts, Zepl Very pretty for waists, dresses, e last already. North Carolina Pure Wool B1 blanket on the market. Only a ft harry * Headqu* A ^>ixty D At the prices mer Come Q hlere we] come with a !ai 3 lb. standard weight, 3 < 3 f>tugs ?fiin fiariy Uird"!1 3 Plugs thin U wan to Chei 3 Plugs thin Apple Jack 1 3 Plugs thin Harvey's Nati 2 Plugs thick Schnapps T< 2 Plugs thidR Early Bird 2 Plugs thick U wan to Ch Flour, Mtal, Meat, Sugar, Coflfe Digare, Cheroots, Smoking Toba [rish Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Ct Uorn, Peas, Beans, Bottled Goodi white and red, at prices that wil Yours for goods at w. H. WES Bank Building, Union, COME TO ff. I. C For the Best Barga Will not be under a Try ray Sugar 1 they are fine. 1 convinced. ...GREEN GF I keep a fresh line on BUTTER, nice am oountry every week, fear no competition. YOURS FOR W. I. G I ,mm , . " HOSE. OF IT! ' entire city, everystockings apiece. louhle .sole, two thread c, equal to any 15c liose 10c. misses and children, 1 v, in;uie 111 union, price 10c. triple knee, will give : hose ever shown, only 15c. s' Hose to be found at 50e. rth of Shoes. it it's a fact.) iCIALS: t $3.50, $4.00 and $1.75. A ; week. Vici Kids, Patent etc., made in the new toes for 511 at $3.50 and $3.08. New ;uaranteed. men, at $1.98. Made in Box , a very strong line, for ladies, misses, boys and re of this shoe, for they have uy competitors. Ever" G GOODS ment of some lovely Madras, livrs, Ginghams, Percals, etc. liirts, etc., and they are going ankets, the equal of any $5.00 ?w pair left, only $2.98. RELK, irters. ay's Sale itioned below. >uick! ge stock of Tomatoes^ :ans for 25c. biraccu O5o. w Tobacco 25c. ^obacco 25c. iral Leaf Tobacco 25c. obacco 25o. Tobacco 25o. iw Tobacoo 25c. e, Rioe, Grits, Lard, ,Fm? oco ot all kinds, Cabbage, mned Blackberries, Cherries, 3, Tinware, Onion Sets, both 11 knock out all competition, a close margin, ?T &. CO., Bachelor Street, iOING'S STORE ins in Groceries. t sold by any one. louse Molasses, Yy them and be tOCERIES... hand all the time. i fresh from the Call and see me, I >r v ... J BUSINESS, M OIN Q. A