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- )7} J~"BEESL~1 rrvimi^ vT \T IA V T I'll I?O !~3SSZi BBcafc in the South. Four Fur- j)) I . -^L-.B U I IBB wk! IB B/B B 4 \\[ D?e in the State. An Oil flj niture and Wood Manufnctur- B] B .. ^B^B lj , I BIB ^k B B B 11 i . (II a,1(1 Manufacturing Co. that g iiig Concerns. One Female B B I B ' A B B IBB B B H YIfl ikT* 1/1 inukos H" unexcelled Guano. I oo.niuary. >Vuter Works and tu _B. jB.JB? -1. B _B_ V--^ -?t. B _B_ fi_ W _B_ _B *AI r^y k (? Three Graded Schools. Arte- ffl Electric Lights. ((/ (fl ?ia? Water. Fopulat|mMkgWJ^ UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, KKIl'AV. IMT Ml Hi -in. 190L #1.00 A YEAR. c-w i wmm **??*.< ?+ &idl ft?-.*- park. President. T QBO. MUNkO, Cashier, # jherchants' and pi <T.< O F UIV *t i I. Capital Stock //7X Surplus I Stockholders' Liabilities.... i^cfaxr.. i Tptal Cjt Dikkotors?J. A. Fant, x T. 0. Duncan, J. T. Douglas* ^ jr Wm. Coleman. . JU w??? t _ hey denver ruminates. A Good Letter well Worth Pertisinfi "In winter-time we sii'li because We h;tv. In shove) hiiow, And linjki for uprinst when flowets bloom Alid plea?lmt breezes blow." Ah yes, the unattainable, we would that we couhl attain. Bleak December is upon us, but no bleaker as yet than is usual. The cold wave came in Sunday on time but it was not as cold as we were made to expect. There were two days of very warui weather last week and thousands of hitherto comatose wasp taking outings, covering windows, etc. The clooli stopped and depending on it for time it made mo too late to go for services at] the Presbyterian church last Sunday. Mr. J. M. Gee met with a serious ?cci?enr last Friday in which he was seriounly hurt. While coining to this place with a load of cotton he at tempted to get on ihe wagon while -"'moving by stepping on the doubletree, when his foot slipped and he fell. ( (This scared ine earn which started to run aud the wagon, heavily loaded, passed over his bo ly, I heard, breaking some of his ribs and otherwise seriously injuring him. The wagon and loid weighed 25,000 p >utids. I learn that Mr. D. ft. McCrackin lost a bale of cotton from the gin at this place. It has been ginned about a month, and last week he came here to sell yfhen tirat he misled it. Thero is uo Mlirg wbe.her it was taken and sold uy 6-mj oho through mistake and how long ago, or stolen. As it it was marked it is very likely it was sto on and his mark eran-d, there is so mmy marks on old bagging. One ^ wou.d hardly take it through misrake. Hands are moving around as usual this time of year. It seems to be necessary for good to everybody concerned that such is the case, for few does well after two or three years at one place, jmd when there is n change all around both employer and emplayed does better. But it is strange thai some men wants to get mad and tries to give a hand a WAroa nntna flisn Ka wauIiu rlajnruou n V*OV UWUIV VUUU "V IWIHJ ?to whan that hand wishes to change. Tote fair anyway and if voucan't keep a mau by kjfediiess don't try to by meanness. Therr-are not eiicnigh hogs raised in this ^country. Ttiore are some men who raise about all that they can feed well under the preneut cir cuinstances, but if my eyes do rim deceive me there are hundreds of acres of waste land that m'ghr bo made into pastures that migot 'essm the expense of raising hogs and more could be imised. Soma of the cotron laud might be converted into pastures. Many poor men can't do it because the land is not their* and rh?y can'r afford to mike permanent pastures. Saturday and Saturday mgln, tue 14th, Was very windy and especially was ths late afternoon and nigiit of that day exceedingly stormy. Rain All fast and ibe wind approaching a fierce gale drove it with force finding V about every piace to 'liter a home. 1.74 inches of rain fell and 1.19 of j ** this fell in about four tours. Snud iy wr *a e'ik?i> inrtfrK a U7ii>/I l Ka n a* \J cni rfiuil O n IIIM I1UI1I ' uc uui tu weal and a falling temperature all d?y. * We hare had a moer beantiftd falt^ clear moat all (be tune and but iitcie rain, in fact a great deficiency, not enough for nanfi (Train, and now wc B?4j n#ve some o?d we.?ttier. It ii nn likely we will hare all aunabine, T? e uorcaai precipitation for Novem betif 8.86 inchea, thia year we had r' * *' . T. ' **' * i V er . * A. H. FOSTER, View President. T I. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cuhtor. T aiders' National Bank j ION, s, c. | $R0,000 J 60,000 T tto.ooo S $170,000 I W. H. Wallace, Win. Jeffries, Jf i, E. P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, X Your Business. | only..85. The normal meMt temperature is 51 5 decrees, this year it [ was 44 8. In both below the normal. October was below the normal and we will see how this month will be I have just received a full report of the Secretarv of Ajrrinnltnr? and - - ^ o ~ """" it. ?s real interesting reading and shows much that the Oepartraent of Agriculture is doing. It is my onin > ion that the Secretary is the beet man in the cabinet, and is doing more f<?r the means of the people than all the rest put together. Recently I rceived a report of the Inter State Commerce commission. These two litrio hooks are good ones for references. I prize them very much I am about to hope that no more Presidents will ever die while hold iug office. It is very expensive on the oountry. There are generally so uiany big pensions to pay and gratui tious annuties to give their widov-p Because men have been elected the Presidency then dies is no excuse tor us to go into the fin of man worship and never tire of chocking tie pipers full for months and give < the widows so much who can well af j lord to do without it, for there are i thousands of poor widows who gef t nothing only what they work for. I i cm bo as sorry as anybody when a < public man dies but there is no need t > make myself a fool about it. i People needn't keep up such a fu?s 1 ahou; President Roosevelt eating with a negro?Booker Washington. 1 Why we have white men here?in the South?who stay with niggers. practically live with them, galavam around with tbe dusky dames and damsels, don't caro if t ie ladies see them, fight with them and shout them, kick up rows, spend Sundays ?verily, social equality?and Booker Washington is I tielieve bettei th?n the who e cargo of those here, mentally, morally and religiously. But President Roosevelt is the Cuief Executive of the land and those others arc no saining marks, only, ( regarded by many as no better than rhe negroes they associate with. , I do not believe that half the negroes believe what is said about j high price provisions, farm scarcity, < .-to., but it seems that they think it is A sort of trick to *4gouge" them < some on the one hand, and to kind of scare tnem into not renting laud j . r "cropping ' but to get them for i wages on the other, and it will be ail r ght n?xt year, that they will I get liens, etc. Well now, I do not suppose many are trying to scare i them to the wage contract, for I believe the less of that next year, with nigh price food stuff to be bought, (on credit) 1 guess the farmer would be much better off, making some other plan. U:i the cropper plan, many may get liens to koep the meat-traps running tnrough August, n < matter it' corn and meat ia double the price it is now, if they can't pay out, they're that much ahead. They can go over to another place, and start in fresh for another year's eating. One can very often hear of faim era "coming out behind" being un; able to meet obligations from various c*u*ee ?bad management, exrrava?;ance in aomo cases and from crop ai lures. because of weather condi- ! t tions. From the la< tjDJCrr-atid that j I may be Coupled with the furmsr? ; * r j vyiM??T there is much complaint. Many ! ^ 1 ckiivt an/f 'fih t*5a ? HIV wuiiv^ CM' '* -U I \M /I* Pin m (KIU i thin^, doc ouly for individual farm- > ; ero, hut does itu??t affect the country? i la not the mud-sill about to tumble? { i Hut if land owners ar.- getting to "come out behind," etc., when they hare the land, then borrow money 1 to run ou; (they muet not bw aaccees fui farmers, much as one may brag) what about the poor men who have to pay rents, for "coming ou? beh od" a hen so many owners of land are doing the same. I lately heard of a man who has many ace? all bis own who cou'd not pay small accounts, because he was behind. Better cut down and work the rest better. I am glad that Telephone wrote "8 be did in his last article when he said if theie wore any farmers, or class of people who had a bright prospect for tho future etc., he want ed to see him, for it would he a pleasure to look upon prosperity, etc. That is just what I have been thinking. i read in the President's mes? ge where he Baid farmers and laborers are moro prosperous and re-? wived hotter wages than ever before, or in any other country. I stopped to tnink. Was i blind or myself a pessimist, calamity howler or what, or was the President ignorant of the A I* .1 * state 01 tnings. or wintully raisreproseniug things or judging the country by :? few rich men or corporations for a purpose. I can't help who said better wages, etc.,are paid than ever, it is a lie, for we ourselves have paid much as 3100 a year for a form hand ai d made more money than we can now at paying '$"75. You see wages here have gone down. Where is ttfe farmer who can make money by paying as good wages as a few years ago by the year, day or job, by the acre hoeing or 100 pounds picking cotton. Now 1 can say a word of praise before it is too late. Mr. Editor, 1 bink the editorial you wrote. "Are We Appreciative," is the very best you have ever wrote. If that is read thoughtfully one would see so much n it arid with a glad heart resolve to be more appreciative during the remainder of our earthly pilgrimage. When you snid it is cold comfort to -ay nice things about one after the corpse is beueath the cold sod is especially forceful. When one looses some dear one of the family one of the greatest pangs to bear is the thought that you were not appre. dative enough to let them know. Oh yes. I have experienced it with near neighbors. I have tried to and have shown friendship, covered fault, kept ?L -1 I -1 1 1 luuuiu puui. aiiu sueaineu mv pen on scandals and sought the good things to say and I have evidence it was not appreciated. However, I will try to be appreciative. ' If you have a friend worth loving. Love hiui, yes, and tell hiin so." We could tell them ourselves and not delegate it 10 others. Hey Denver. ? Etta Jane Etchings. Etta Jane, Dec. 16.?This is the coldest ?pell we have had this winter >ud people can only make fires and nit by them. The school at this place we learn is expected to begin the first Monday in January, 6th prox. Yesterday Mr. John A. M. Estes came near getting his house burned. Fortunately the fire was discovered in time to p. event any serious consequences Mr. W. David Douglass, of Wfinnsboro* was in this section last Wednesday looking after his farming interest. He is the grandson of the late Mr. James M. llyers and law norfl r\f hia tuffmr A I lnn??l.?-a I Esti, of Win nab ro. They own a plantation between Tbiekety and Gilky's Creeka in this county. J. Ebb .Jeffries, clerk of the court, as admiirn rator of the eawte of Leiti Brown rented the Brown place ar public outery last week. It brought I />00 lbs. but, aud the lands of WjI liam Marsh went for 100 lbs. rent for next year. This shows that land is cheap here. The nae in the price of cotton will cause a general rush of it to j market this week if the weather per- j mita. Broad river whs up about 19 feet Sunday -and the ferryumn had to keep a watch over bia boat all day yesterday and last nighr. Mr .Willie Buiee will attend at the Thoflason 'mills and grind on Tuesdays and Satiirdnys of each week fof the remainder of this year. A terrific rain and wmd storin passed over this section last Saturday night. Broad river rose five feet ta a very short time and continued to rise till it reached a height, * t V I of nineteen feet hy daylight yesterday morning. Rumor pays that this section is to have somo weddings soon. There was a sociable at Mr. Willie Buice's one night last week. He -j has tnovoito Mr R. W. Davis', near Sarratt's. I congratulate Union county on I the graud display it wilTmake at the ^ South Carolina and West Indian Dxposition and feel satisfied thai ^ iwno of her sifter counties will boat *i it. Bully for Union. She's always I in the front rank of progress. ? Vesterdav yntir correspondent spent. . . 1 > ?--- Xf -L 1M ... . - ?l ueuav ?m me 1 oik sine ann atienneil sie A K 1'iesbyterian chinch at ,u Hickory (trove, and heard H -v I L al Gates preach from the text: "I will take vengeance and I will not meet tine > as a man " Uainh X CI 1:3. u The free ferry is a great convenience Tr to our church goiug i>eople of all denotn- tr inatior.s. A few hi>me raised porkers have Ireen . killed this season and more are in the pen. For a long time it Ins b"en ad- at mittt>t1 tha' almost auy family can raise th one or two good hogs with no excuse at. j0 all and with hut little trouble except gathering up and feeding (hem the waste and the theorv is abundantly verified. rc Several of our neighbors arc kill- ot mg hogs today. '1 hose who killed co last week narrowly escaped losing fa their meat during the warm, damp wi spell. gr Our farmers generally have their wheat dc sown and some aie sowing oats. The / \ land is in fiie lix. ^ I regret to learn that Mr. "Bub" Addis had a child badly burned yesterday auo it died last nignt Mr Addis lives pa on Mr. J L Walker's farm near Suu- frj ivside. He and his family have our 1 heartfelt sympathies iu their great tiouhle. w< Christmas will soon be here and the fe< children will expect Santa Clans to come ca with his budget. It is feared he will not t?e able to make as many of the humble homes happy this year as heretofore 8" I fear not however. he Mr. Jefferson Blackwtll offers a lot of tri his p-iHonal propeity for Sale tod. y. II- ^r| expects to go to the Union Knitting f mill where he and his children will woik. *C( There will he much farniimr land to ch lie out next year, beyond a doubt. Labor at is scarcer low than it lias been since lh?* ?u war. I hear uothi 117 more of the small pox. f?1' A report was received here that John CO <'ato, until rider froua Union to this be plat*, was bitten by a uiad dog several U1 weeks ago and that lie is suffering grea-lv from it. 1 hope the report is not true Wl A good deal of scattering cotton te- or mains to be picked yet. Last, week the be weather was too cold to pick it. Last week Mrs. Avis Comer, who has been spending some t ime among relat ives 81 in this section, returned to her home on VV the Ridge. She has been in deliea e 01 health for a long time and is not much jj improved. , From present ind entions it. seems that many of the people will bepra<WMl to j?ay ca out their dues this year Short crops and rij low prices are the cause. Always some- 8I] thing for trouble. Solomon says: "The wicked borrow- W1 etb and pnveth not, but the righteous 01 skoweth mercy and lendeih. re Wishing our Times readers a in merry Christinas and happy New an Year. Vox. ar A LETTER FROM SEDALIA. * JJt ? To the Hoys and Girls. 11 ' in We should all have our aim in life, \ we^ehould set our ideal high and not all fail of it. The adage, "Where them b? is a will there is a way" is as true as pe steel. Now hoys, pride yourselves j,j on the respectability of the family, gl| keep good company or none at all, let your associates be your equal in pa, every respect, onward and upward jn be your aim, read good books such as wiil enlarge your minus ana hi nc y..u fur a higher 'ife. You should never <1-ink. When offered whiskey r(. or c>gar*"tea \ou should have the courage to nay no and stick to it, you wi'l d" yourself good and the out) that offers it to you perhaps will laugh at you and c?dl you a onward tor re- h fusing. Never mind, persevere and you wtil C"iue one ail right. Your friends will see that you are for right si and will follow sun sooner or later, v You can have an influence over them v< ami how delighted your tuntuuia V wou'd '?e to kiiuw ?hat her boy had hi stood up for the righu iStarr. now tl while y? u are young, you will never tl regret it and in utter years it will bo al muchtasier to oveieotue tempta'ions. cl I "E.icu vio oiy will help you some al I o her to win." The wav you behave, b< whether good or evi!, is a reflection li on four ia.her alid mother. 1 know d< that jou hoys who have good, w sw ot mothers would not like for any one to say that you hadn't been d< taught right when you know your ft mother has tri<*l so hard to teach r< you in sach a way that you will be a si smart man and make a success in life, b , and now bojS, don't do or say any-> b< Win. A. NICHt BANK Oansact a Regular Ban Branches and Insure / Boiler, Liability and Acc ?f Indemnity for Officia ndividuals as Administr OUR BUSINESS IS RES ling that you would not like for your other or sister to hear, and I aui j mo?t sure if you do not you wilt i j a true gentleman. 1 have always I tard it said "the way a young man i eats his sister is the way he will < eat his wife," and I guess there is i uth in it. And buys you should t ive some chosen profession in life i id try to reach the highest mark of j at nrofession. if it is onlv ? ~ r ~ "? ?- i an nlov?l home. Wealth alone can-1 > make a peaceful happy home. i r( Wishing th** Edior and t>-e uianv aders ? merry Xuia.?. I mn A (JonNTIIY (ill:L. BLACKSBURG~IME WOJKS. !i i Her eating Letter From Annie Fan r it'. I Although the lime works is only a ' iort distance from my homo 1 only I i-dted it recently and found things < ory tliff.-rent f?*ntn what I exp <*ted. >rben a child 1 often helped 'ather ] urn coal kiin-tand 1 always ;u: igined ' lai lime was burned somewhat after j lis fashion. Imagine my surprise i i finding a shed with u great round limney protruding some distance i jovo ami below and having ut the * ?Uoin a furnace that looks very much ke a steam engine furnace, having ?ors with which to open and put m ood. The place where the fire is put oes not extend clear across the irnuce. It is built so us to leave a >uud opening in the center the exact ze of the chimney. This furnace is uilt in the aide of a hill, it having sen dug down several feet and walled )LSON & SON, ERS, king Business in all its ^gamst Fire, Tornado, idents, and Issue Bonds Is of ^Corporations, and ators, Etc., Etc. )PECTFULLY SOLICITED. and cemented. It is in this wall the furnace is built. The shed extends from the wail hack several feet. The tloor of ibis shed looks like it was cemented but there was so muoh ilebris scattered around on it 1 could not be ceitain. At the bottom of the chimney is a hole where the lime is raked out on this floor where I juess it stays until it gets cool. Alter exploring the lower portion [ went up on top of the hill and cached the top of the chimney by neana of a pole road. It is at the op where the lnne atones are dropped nto the furnace until it is full, them i (ire is built on each side and kept turning until they crumble. Just iow the dross is separated from the itue I utu unable to say, but saw large leaps of it lying around. After looking around for some necimens of this oar I went to the [uarry. The quarry is just below he inns spring and was almost fall T water. The walls of this quarry .re solid rock. It is a picturesque eene and if I was lieh I would hate t photographed for The Times with Vnnie seated on a rock near the rater's edge. The lime works, like sost all industries, are owned by lorthern capi'alista. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Powell, Mr. ,nd Mrs. Frank Turner and Mr. 'ohti Langs ton, of Union, are now esideuts of this place. Christmas will soon be here once nnre and 1 wonder who will remem>er Annie. Mr. Editor, 1 send you a lime oet-. [ Thank you, Annie, we have ievcr seen a lime kiln and had ?o doa about the process of making lime.?Ed ] Annie Laurie. m Everything Lovely. Mr. Editor:?It has been quite iwhile since I sent you a few dots )ut I think I ought to he excused as k?..? i ? - urm ?pr^ uusy Trying to itiish up the conference year 1901. L'he iiuuuciul report (lud report on aim y ami .30 p??r cent. on conference olieeOi>n*) i? m.ii veh'Us mr this year, li<aiif?i I t >i*tk the average crop up ieiu is much better than some other ections of the State I am glad that Bishop Galloway ppointed me to this charge for 1002. I'ho people that will pay a man in uli for services rendered during the >ast misfortunes will do to trust. Vnd then there are so many profile icre who have learned to trust G >d hat it is indeed pleasant to work for. )espite the stringency of the times trungements have been made to aise thj pastor's salaiv $100 for 902. Surely the go*.d Lord will etuembev such kimlue.-s. The Whitley and Fingerville Manufacturing 3 mipany deserve much credit f.-r heir unstinted kindness to this eud. L'he direct- rs ol these worthy eirer>rises deserve much credit for the cindly feeling they have shown ;ow?rd tlie people at these mills. .Well it looked like Xtnas at the parsonage yesterday when our neghhors began to come in with smiles <?n their faces, and especially when Mr. J. W. Waters, of Gsffhey. and Mi>? (da Owens, of Lime, N. C., appeared before the altar for matrimonial services at my hands. 'J hose gay crowds add a gr?at deal of life md social pleasure to pat sonage lif*. Wo would be glad to welcome some of the IJnionites under circumstances like these. The only remedy that I know of for hard times is to get married and trust in God. 1 hiu glad to report Mis. lsom in tin improving condition. Happy Xmaa to all. J. N. Uom. l)r. Mason's Depilatory removo superfluous hairs permanently from any part of the body. $4.00 a box. John H. Mason &Co., Hancock Maryland 2Tly I J -- -- ? J ? ? | be a good one. You should cul- ] rate the love and kindness and ever 1 t member as you esteem yourself t hers will esteem you. I would t nsidcr It an honor to work on the i rm and never try to be a dude. I ? 3uld remember that some of our I eatest men were farmer's sons No 1 >ubt that our lamented President | lcKinley) once handled the plough I id hoe. And again, keep some girl's com- s my that is worthy to be your c end. I would beware of the girl t at is always wanting presents. I c >uld never try to win a girl's af- a ction with silk handkerchiefs and ? ndy hearts, (If I ma le such i esents it would be through frietyi- / ip.) If I loved a giri I would tell v r so, but I would never act the n litor and tell her so if it was not n le. I would try to win her afition by noble deeds. I would a ooae for my wife (if 1 chose any .J all) a woman of unblemished r aracter with a sound mind and od judgment, and one that would r ntrol her temper. I would never 1 i so weak as to let a pretty fict charm e. I would remember that beauty r is nof the only charm of Iile. hut- i ily a gift to adorn and could never I i i a true guide or compiinon, ' ] Now girls you know we hive a eat responsibility resting upon us. re mu>t have a good influence over ir brothers by doing right ami bei? g rid and good toti.cui. also hv d-n. ^ ings ior them in the borne ui.it diey innot do themselves. If we do 8 ght and are cheerful and war n aile upon our faces our brothers |! ill 8 ,on learn that way. On ;h- * her hand if we are cross and ijuar- ' lsorae and don't take any iuterest s theoi they will soon think "well 1 iter don't care anything for me," f id you set thev will loose all conlence in us. Perhaps they will do 8 me bad deed tbey would never have ought of had you been kind and * ude home pleasant to them nother thing I do think it so nice id sweet in brothers arid sisters to i polite to each other as well as other f lople. If brother ai?ks sister to do 1 m a favor she should do it if po?- * :de and if sister asks a favor ol other he should do it. Where!'1 ther, mother, brother and sister | "j n id ncnn.i> ?nd biirnnmv tlmro *nr*? I