Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f r % V JVHtTowNoV'uwioi.HAY""! __ *-T m i T i~\. m t ra^ & ~m m' a ^ a^?""rowlfl?"J^o,1 H?<*C Thrae Cotton Mills, one the ffl f I I I I I I 1 I ^ 111 ^ i i f\ /& 1 ] * L i S The largest Knitting Mill aad I (j largest in the South. Four Fur- i H? J | % I 1% B g& ?\ IN Dye Plant in the Slate. An Oil | ? nitaro and Wood Manufactnr- Sj m m H g M/ K |gl . and Manufacturing Co. that | J ing Concerns, One Female j M I b I B F I B B I f 1 I U L L 1)1 makes aM """celled Guano. R ffl Seminary.'- Water Works and ? M JLJL M X B , V-F X 1 -BL JL Xf J. * B r^/# tt Three Graded Schools. Arte- tt / Jr Bleetric Lights, jf/ ' jjjj 8ian Water. PopulaUcm^GOO^^ VOL. 111. NO ' UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY '>1, 1902. #u7n A VPAR. 4.J + A ?/-. ^ ^ ^ ^ in HI . J P. M. FARk President. 7 QEO. MUNP^, Cashier. J. * Merchants' and Pla | OF UNI A Capital St-ock J Surplus S Stockholders' Liabilities ^ Total A Directors?J. A. Fant, > a T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, Wm. Coleman. J ' We Solicit \ mmmmmmmm mm m Santuc Sittings. "The linen she now has penned to you, She us*d to write to ine; Alas, those quiet talks r,h\t di e f, Haro changed decidodly. It wonld bo a decided change owing to how we viewed it. It is altogether according & which way anything goes that we view the change. "According to a certain kind of ?. ~r ? Cuuv3j|/ujr ?ujr o'iri< ui a uiuu umi 0 a "good fellow" as long as he has the money to parade before us. If I had the money and wanted a she-Root (cheroot) I would go and try hard t > get the daughter of Secretary Root. A valentine party was booked to take place last Friday night, 14th, at the residence of Mr. J. W. Gregory, but the snow storm came and I have not been able to learn what bename of it. In thii cjua "mun nrn. posed and God disposed." My thanks are due Hon. A. C. L,l? for a copy of the House Bill, setting forth the appropriations by < the legislature for .salaries of all the State officers, helps, etc. I consider tuoh things as valuable additions to "library?" and appreciate Mr. Lyles' kindness in sending them to me. Miss Eliza A. Garner thinks I am right when I say go around hills instead of over them, and everybody else would say I am right if they look at it. There is little excuse for running roads over big and long hills. I thank her for her favorable comments on my articles. There have been a large number of free-seeds sent to this post office for the people around here. These re nearly all the same kind, very little variety, and I am of the opinion they are the cheapest kind ana often old, and I have changed my opinion bout these. 01 course our Representatives are not responsible for the kind; it is all they ctn get. That was a big snow lost Friday evening and night. In the evening it dashed upon us like a summer ? storm and fell thick and fast and the ground was soon covered. No one was surprised, they were expecting it It fell to jLucro i?iw auujeuiiug aiausiug here one cold day last week. The down local freight train shifting here. | sidetracked an empty car and went ' on to Columbia. Nearly an hour nfrerwards two nearly grown boys were seen crawling out, then they Went ahirering up to a gentleman and asked: "How long has that engine been gone?" If you want anything that ought to hold a horse or mule try a wire belter. I saw a mule last week with s halter made of a single wire. This did not hurt the mule hut if it was continued it mi^ht. Now who will make one of a hickory pole. Those who were prepared on the wood line did not "feel tko snow" so much. What is better than being a farmer, if yon had a little farm of yonr own, and on such days as these snowy and rainy day bad nothing to do bat attend to your stock, which is not long, then sit in the house by a warm fire, for the making, and read. ^ But alas, the hardness of times prevents so many from having that farm of their own. Several boys were out snow-balling during the snow. This is rough on their fingers but boys scarcely ever feel cold while playing. There is a ^ great deal of fun in snow-balling if a bigger and stronger one does not v rush on a smaller one and roll them in the snow or eram it down thsir backs. I have had my fingers nearly > . - v.V/ . , . A. H. F05TER, Vice President. "f D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. ? inters' National Bank J ON, 8. O. J $60,000 A 50,000 J 60,000 W -..$170,000 ? V. H. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, ? TS r* ae ^ r*. r. Juc&.t0BioK, A- Foster, ^ 'our Business. | ....... M M H M .r* mmmm?m?mmmmmmmmm????? | frost bitten bj snow-balling. There is a great demand for pigs here now. Almost everybody is ] wanting one or more pigs but it is a 1 hard matter to iret thorn *r><l man* 1 0 - ? ?? "*"'V will have to do without. Almost any family can raise a good hog on ( the water about the kitchen, gardens, ( and truck patches and not bavo to c use much grain at any time. Pine cord wood is being shipped 8 from hero by rail Mr. J. Mobley 1 Jeter had a car loaded last week bu? 1 I do not know where it if to go. If 1 anything can ho made at it it may 8 prove a good thing. There have been 8 thousands of cords of both pino and 8 hardwoods absolutely thrown away in the past dozen years because, one tiling, the people were two far from market ana ^ne wood was in the way. Oh no, B. B.. don't tell that. Don't tell we want to be "cotchod" ^ worssen sin, for they might point the j finger at as and giggle, and make us ( wiggle. They would play with us? our affections?like a cat with a mouso. Put on a bold front and affect independence, but don't let fl them know we are ever so anxious, but if need be we could say "Barkis is willing." We are not "bad off" are we? Now say no. You know ^ the census returns say there is more , nf til Am than tKoM * ? ' ? ?" ? -?? '* via\?a\? 10 Ui U3y dUU bUU editor referred me to that. Let as ^ sing "While there is life there is hope." J Whew! Did you ever hear of such i a conglomeration of remedies the } Editor has for sore throat? But 4t is all right if the sore throat gave ] away under such pressure. "But I a am not reconciled to say whether he must have gotten scared and con- \ eluded that soreness must be routed g at any hazzard, and resorted to such dqwtic measures, or was so worried f he thought to commit souixeyesighed ] in self defense but got well. I hare a better remedy for.sore throat. It j has been discovered that the arm of t a pretty girl wound tightly around , the neck of a man is an infallible t remedy for sore throat. But under t such a prescription who would want \ to get well, but would continue she treatment at the risk of being choked \ to death. , The Editor says that "Spain seems 1 to have gotten over her recent drubbing by Unole Sam's boys, etg." t Ana now I guess Spain is smiling i over the drubbing Unele Sam's boys 1 is now getting. Uncle Sam is a y powerful nation, but he has hitten off more than he can ahew, and is 1 slobbering and choking over his big c mouthful, while Spain with 20,000,- 1 000 of Uncle Sam's dollars in her \ pocket and the expensive Islands ] and unconquerable and irreconcil- t able Philipinos off her hands, she is i beginning to prosper. Uncle Sam, a boasted liberty-loving nation, is in \ the toils trying to rob a people of i their liberty, and Congress is in war for and against. I wish McKinley j had lived to see where the robbing policy would go. Oh! I wish our old Uncle would put on a longer pair of pants and come home and not try to be England 2nd. [Undue Sam seems to be chewing the cud he has bit off all right enough. The trouble is he has not been able to swallow it. Yes we see where Spain has the ha! ha! on us in shifting the tronblesome burden from her shoulders to ours while she drops the little $20,000,000 in her jeans.?Ed.] I am glad the "chicken bill" was knocked off. I do not think we were ready for it. I believe it would have been a hardship to many living close together, in suburbs or on small farms, because ohiokens will ramble some, the very best breeds especially notwithstanding, I am patting knowledge against the great wisdon of the Editor of The State, on suet matters. And then, as that papei says we are not as densely populated as to keep chickens confined to prevent destruction to gardens and fields. It would have put a stop to the turkey raising, for they will ramble, but there is no telling what amount ol crickets, bugs, grasshoppers, worms, moths, etc., a flock of turkeys will destroy. Have you ever thought ol it? Of course they will eat some corn on dwarf stalks, peas, etc., but do little damage to wheat and oats. The destruction of injurious insects more than offset all of these. Geese are the most destructive of any fowls that can be thought of. I wish the Legislature would pass a good, substantial, plain and impartial road law. One that is firm, and for the greatest good for the greatest number. One in which a county or State can feel that it is bigger than iny individual or set of individuals, md can have officials with backbones snough to show no impartiality. Out >n the roads thore is evidence to lead me to believe that the county road >fficials, from lowest to the greatest, ire dancing to the '"authoritative," nshes or commands of men with eputed wealth and influence, without egard to age. sex. coler. or financial tanding, or else the law is a lopided thing, provides no lines of duty, ind when g>ing through Rome they lave to do as the Roman wishes. Hey Denver. ? News Notes from Blacksburg. The mountain has been on fire, fhere have been three fires here since : wrote last. Two were buildings ind the last one an oil tank. There ire no water works here. The post office here was robbed ome time back. There is no clue is to who the robbers were. We have electric lights in the mill tow and are working eleven hours. Two families from Gnffney moved lero last week. They were a Mr. Jobb and a Mrs. Pool. Mr. Frank Turner received a letter rom Mr. Chas. Powell, formerly of his place, now of Newton, N. C., vherein he stated that he had got his land badlv hurt. Charlev didn't ike Blacksburg uauch. Mr. Robt. Whisomant and son and Hi. Qaskel Whiaonant are quite tick with pneumonia. Mrs. Dover who got her 'arm >roken during Christmas week is still lufTering greatly. Rev. Davis Bailey, of Cowpens, illed his regular appointment at the Saptist church here Sunday night. I noticed an article in last week's ssue of Thb Times wherein it stated tmong other things that ('the woman vith the needle was fast beoouing a king of the past." The writer of hat article surely never lived at a cnitting mill. Some time ago Hey Denver stated n one of his letters that he liked to ead my letters. Thank you, Hey, [ like to read youra too. The vestibule became disabled he ;ween here and Broad river Sunday norning and was compelled to stop 'or sometime. It finally moved on vith but one arm working. A snow storm visited our town Friday about one o'clock and the mow continued to fall for seventeen lours, at the termination of that ,irwe it measured seventeen inches. It continued to snow at intervals all iay Sunday, but today the sun is shining. News came in on the four o'clock train Sunday evening that it was raining in Atlanta. Miss Era I. Wood, of Asbury, paid a flying visit to Blacksburg Wednesday. Mr. Scott Keiser went to Shelby, N. C., Friday on business. Another bold robbery was comu? \v~,i J? -:_L? 1?. niiivuu iiciu ii uuiiuouajr ui?uv ictov* Tbe dispensary was broken into and robbed of sixty dollars in cash, a fifty dollar cheok and one half pint of liauor. No trace\ of the robbers can be found. We have been feeding the little birds during this snow, and some of them have become so tame that they will oome into the back porch and pick up crumbs. I am glad to report Mr. Haskel Whisonant much better, but Mr, Robt. Whisonant is dangerously ill with typhoid pneumonia. , The knitting mill is shippln g r right along now. i With best wishes for Tin; Timi i correspondents and readers. I rt tin; r Annie Lauiuk. Jonesville News Notes. Jonksville, Feb. 17.?The sri( " is here and it eecow it is he?v ' stay. It measured 14 inches on level Saturday morning. This 1 hard weather on people that live o p of paper sacks, and this is 'he way great many people live. Farmers will not get to start ' for a crop before March, mid by th time most all the corn in the count will bo rrono nml fhon fli/> ? ?.!. ? come for food to make a crop o The cottou has been about all so in this country and the cotton set has also been sold, and now cute and seed are still going up. It doing the country no good, hut barn bo it seems the times arc against u A tnan among my actpmintuin over in Georgia died not long sine he was an old tunn with a wife In no children, he and bis wile lived hard life, thev never had a coo Itove, buggy or carriage, nor a lam in thoir house. In the ol<l man illness his wife told him the needed a lamp and ho finally agree for her to get ouc buf cautioned h< '1 ?0t to pay more than fifteen ren for it, he also needed a rocking eh a and was told one would cost aboi cO, he said no he, could not a tan that much and would do without i a neighbor loaned bim a chair. Afti his death his wife looked up his as sets and she found seventeen hut dred dollars hid about in the horn in old shoes and behind the clod She also found six thousand doll n on deposit in the bank and six thou and dollars of good notes besides t\v grod plantations. The widow bougt a .phaeton and other things of c m tow, but the poor woman didn't liv long to enjoy her comforts. Mr. Durben Littlejolm. of Asbun has an orange tree with about d oranges on it that are now ripe, th oranges are small. Mr. Littlojoh planted the seed -eight years ago i a hot house flower pot, the tree i kept protected from c ?ld in winter. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs S. Ij. Bftfwett died lnat Fridsiv nirrli Two or three colored people hav died in the country in the last fe1 days. There arc much colds an gripp in the country and also pnei monia. Rev. L. T. Carroll did not get t hid appointment here yesterday n the Baptist church. ll?r. D. Uuck did not go out to his appointment in the country but attended Sunda School and talked to the school o the lesson text. Mr. C. H. Foster came up froi Union yesterday and spent the da in Jonesviile. I notice in the tax levy by th legislature that Union county ha the highest levy of any county i: the State. The stockholders of the kuittin mill held their annual meeting Tue* day 11th. Mr. J. J. Littlejohr president and treasurer, had a goo< report, one that shows some prosperit in the mill for the last year, altlioug eircumstances were all unfavorabl in the textile business. Mr. G. B. Fowler while surreyin the other day on Pacolet river jm above the bridge at Grindall foun part of a human skeleton. The riv< nad washed the bones up and the were very easily identified as thos of a human, but as to whoso skeleto it i? will probably never be known i it has been tin rc so long Mr, Fowl< has rha bones in bis possesion. Mr. J. W. Bates hns parrot thi is entertaining more people than an one thing in our town. Pollv is voi entertaing when she feels so dispose Dr. W. O. Southard and Mr. 1 A. Whitlock went to Charleston la week to visit the exposition. Telephone. r\ -1 _ rauuici uui5. Dear Editor:?Mm. Harry Shell is visiting l?tr sis*cr, Mm. Am Yates in Union. Prof. Mechan was in our to1 ' recently with his dogs. lie v greeted with a well filled house. Mr. Joe Hitch. Mr. David Cr< and Mr. Ed McOook went to Spi [ tenburg last week on businrssg. ,) Mr. Joe Davis, Mr. David Cr< I and Mr. Ed McUook left Mond of last week for Rion to work in 1 Wm. A NICHC BANK SOLICIT YOU nv Ani promise courteous treati t(, tion consij ODOD if lit Write all kinds of Insuran a MONEY ORDERS Issue Office and Express Company, ? | |, , | ^ I I II ! at ry quarry. jij Mr. (f. Jk Amos is soon to go to {J hi* native State and the rumor is while there lie will claim one of Viri ginia's lair daughters for hie bride. m Mr. and Mrs. Mack in gave a dej., lightful dance at their hotne on Sui<* (1 eide Avenue. Those that attended neve Miss Lillian Warren with Mr. J J. Rich, from Atlanta; Miss Bessie p Bhek wither. J. A. Varou, from Richmond; Miss Anna Black with Mr. W. 10. Wood, from Kelton; Mrs. k Creiffwith Mr. Byon Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell, Mr.*and >g Mrs. Ji>o Brock well, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Bob Ploraer, Mr. (j Grey Antos. Mr. Jeff Scott, Mr. . I Hnrv Schell, Mr. Kate James, Mr ts T.J. ilennigan. It proved a success I :r and was k?pt tip until midnight and lt ail went home to remember the hap(j pv aftornoon spent with Mr. and t Mrs. Makitt. It was the most en>r .j?Jal,'c 'df tir of the season. ' I am sorry to report the illness of Mi-=s Sarah Brown. ,e Our school is in a flourishing condition now. Mr. Rodgers will soon v. P .s he able to return to teaching. Miss } Kstelle O'Ruite is teachiug in his G place while. Miss Anna Black has charge of Miss O'Ruite's room. I think Anuio Laurie has forsaken | e your paper. I only hope not. With vcrv best wishes for the many j | rentiers of your paper. 01 Put. c The Pistol Law. n n Should it he enforced? If it i3 is not repealed we should abide by the \ law. Ihit fellow citizens it should i. be repealed. It i3 true that wise t. nicti made the law; but wise men e make mistakes sometimes. Now w fellow citizens let's weigh both sides, d Suppose a market iaan in the eity i- goes into the country to buy cattle, be doubtless has money with him, he o needs a pistol in case any one should it attempt to rob him. The farmer that 8 goes u long distance from home to :s sell his cotton, and lie has to come y home in the night, does he not need n a pistol? During the fall we can constantly see in the papers where n somebody was held up and robbed y If a gentlemen walking along the street with a lady and a man (white c or Idack) carelessly runs against her, .s is it not his duty to protect herjf n the laws of etiquette demand that he protect her; the gentleman knocks ? .1. - 1 -- J me ruuiHu uowii an'i iae minute ne i- does it the ruffian has a pistol in his i, face; where ia the law-abiding citL el zen? lie is at th? mercy of the y heartless desperado, as there is never h a policeman around when such a e thing happens; therefore ought not th6 law-abiding citizen be allowed to g carry his pistol? Fellow citizens we st must, consider that the desperadoes d j and the ruffians are going to carry * [ their pistols any way; so we must y not expect the Pistol Law to keep ic taein iron carrying pistols, n Tip. ?s [ Wo also know that murder, rape, >r thieving and arson is going to be committed, yet we have a law against at all of them. Would you have iheso iy laws repealed on account of the y knowledge that desperadoes, etc, d. fail to obey them.?Ed.l it. &t Letter from Missouri. Dear Editor:?Enclosed please find P. 0. order for one year's subscription. I have often thought of* my promise to wiite you occasionally I ly, and will toll you a little of this beautiful couatry. Farming is the chief industry, and the farmers in wn some respects are exactly like those of mo6t other countries, political farmers instead of intense farmers, s'g and chronic kickers too; they kick w- what would ticklo a poor Union county farmer to death. Last year fig was a poor crop year for this counay try, but it would havo been called a die bountiful harvest on tko poor old V JL U1&.A.I* )LSON& SON, :erS, R BUSINESS rient and every accommoda* stent with a^r<rsLiiMC3t. ce except life. ;d at the same rate as Post I ph.v Kill* a??- i-i. - ? - ? vi ccuui v^arouna. Uotton mad# from 1,000 to 1,200 lbi. per acre and no guano note to eotne out of it. Corn averaged about ^0 bnshcis per acres, and hogs were worth from /> to <> cents grogs, and still they kick. God in hift alwise and infinite goodness could hava made a berter country than this, bnt if He did your humble servant did not have the good fortune in his little rainble3 to cross it. Our climate is fine, no extreme cold, no extreme heat, the finest fishing in the world, deer, bear, wolves, turkeys, ducks,* geese, and in fact all small game one's heart Could d*?.?irf? Wnlt T '* 1'1"* v. > v,ii A null t l?KtJ more of your valuable space. I am very respectfully, I. G. Thomson. Kenne'.t, Mo, Feb 10, 1902. [Our fanners cor ainly would rejoice at such a harvest. You must have reached the famous Eldorado. Ike, come agaiD, our readers would like to hear from yen often.?Ed.] Dots from Mt Tabor. Wo are having some sickness in our community. Miss Harriett Farr is suffering with neuralgia. Mr*. Felix Whitlock is very sick with pneumonia. Edward, youngest son of 0. II. Merg. is also very sick, bat thought to be some better at this writing. Mrs. M. F. Baldwin is also on the sick list. Mr. N. C. P?l -:~i. T uivi uno a v ci jr BjUN <jmm. mr. j. V. Askew is having chills. Mrs. W. A. Moorhead it visiting her mother, Mrs. Whitloek. Miss Edna Baldwin spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother. She now has charge of the McGowan school. Mise Bernicc Baldwin from Clifford Seminary also spent Sunday at home. Miss Bernisc Mcng has accepted a position in Spartanburg. Wc can't afford to give up our young people as they arc getting scarce. Miss Helen Farr, of Jonesville, haa been visiting her aunts, Mrs. Aakew and Miss Farr. Mr. Grovcr Vanderford spent Sunday at home. He is now with Farr & Thomson of your town. Mr. and Mrs. (J. II. Meng are the happiest people in our midst, its a girl. A Sl'BSCRIBlR. m ?? Tinklings from Tinker. I will give a few dots from oor n : A t 11 * cv/liuii. vur uuiguuurs are an Kept close by the cold weather, therefore no visiting is being done. Little Ethel Crosby has been quite sick but glad to report she is much better. Mr. W. C. Wiskert, of Chester, is visiting Mr. Sam Crosby. Mr. William W. Edge, of Round Mountain, Alabama, was visiting his couein, Miss Fannie Edge, last week. Mr. Ben Gregory, of Santuc, spent the day with Mr. D. Gregory last Sunday. Miss Fannie Edge will give an entertainment at her school house the 28th of February. The ladies are expected to bring well filled baskets as it will have to be a picnic if it is winter. llev. L. M* Rice, of Union, will doliver an address. Mr. Editor, you have a special invitation Ho be present on this occasion. [Thanks, hope we can arrange to come.?Ed.] The following was on the roll of honor last two weeks: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grades?John* son and Ellis Crosby. Norman and Lois Gregory, Henry Footer. 5th, Gth and 7th Grades?Willie Wright, isfiamie Gregory, Lonto Foster, Mamie Harris, Fannie Gregory, Furman Gregory, Leitha Greg* I ory, Belle Gregory, Janie Foster. SlOVX.