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THE l"MOv Ti vi t'-S , PUBLISHED EVERY UUDAl . n ?by the? | UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Building. J NO. R. MAT HIS, Editor. L. Q. Young, Manager. - -- - ? ? Registered at the Poatofflce in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES v One year ------- $1.00 Six month? ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One sq'iare, first insertion - - $1.00. Every obsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8$ conts'a lire. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect willbe charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C., MAY 16, 1902. i ] MEMORIAL DAY. \ i ? We hear of very little preparation t being made for Memorial day in l Union county. It will be remember- 1 ed that at the meeting of Camp Giles [ in the court house a month ago, it g was deoided to set apart June Jlrd, ? JefT Davis' birthday, as an appropri- * ate time for Union county's memo- ^ rial services. A committee for each township was to have been appointed 8 and the ladies were to be earnestly { artll/tifosl 4-V- U_1J i -i - * ^ ""' v..tou iiuiu ?uu neip mak f t a success of tha occasion. If c committee has been appointed we v haye not heard of it. There at least it seems to have been nothing done so V( far. Senator Douglass was appoint- r ed to address the gathering. He hp gone to some pains to prepare an 8 dress appropriate for the oce . i and we earnestly beg th' aft lr d8ion> j to get to work and * ~ , ?terested behind in tb' * let . ,on not be ] as w? - 4tJ re9Pect* It is as little ] % can do in honor of our dead , neroes. Let the ladiep. take hold and 1 let the graves of the soldiers be deco- | rated with flowers on that day, but the ladies cannot be expected to get 1 to work until the committee of men J are appointed, and they are advised , of the general plan. Don't delay I this thing any longer, you have not j much more time. Other counties all < over the State have been and are hold- l ing their memorial services and judg- ( lng from the reports in the papers the ?1?? ?nt??ino fi??rtilir infr* ? e> j *"v" i them and lending every assistance to \ the committees to make a success of , the occasion. Let us have a memo- < rial day that will do credit to Union, t There is no time to lose. J t "We are to have wireles telegraphy ' and wireless telephony. We already have smokeless gunpowder and horseless carriages. And there is a man in New York state selling traceless 1 harness. Perhaps there is a good time coming yet for the moneyless : man."?Newberry Observer. But the trouble is all of these mod- \ ern "less" machines can only be en- i Joyed by the monied man. The old 1 doggerel that "it takes money to make the mare go," still holds good r as to these late inventions. We can ! c see no rosy future yet for the money- j, less man. |p?=-YOlJ J) IT TTI T? jKAllM m ?^ IF YOI IWF DON'T I 1BAI LEY f ; r> . \ ; y ball that had been prepared for intnisb ingthe veterans with free lunch. It wa a dining room of enormous projwrtiona It was 200 yards long by 30 to 50 yard: wide, and had ten rows of tables extend ing from end to end. It looked lik? theie were enough room to feed Sher man's army atone sitting. At the front end I noticed a pile of loaf bread tbc like of which I never saw before. Ii was about 8 to 10 feet thick at the base, the pile was 5 or 0 feet high and 20 oi 30 yards long. I happened to be ueai there about dinner time and watched tho veterans go in for their dinner. They flowed in like the stream of a river. The rush for crrub at the Jonesville re union of veterans, which some of our readers will no doubt remember, was nothing to compare with it. Walking on I passed several eating booths and heard a man calling out "here is the place to get your buffalo meat." Upon iuquiry 1 learned from a gentleman that five buffaloes had been killed to give the veterans a buffalo M.at dinner and I stepi?ed up to the ImoUi and called for dinner. Tliey served rue with buffalo meat.. I a'ea small piece of it and balked. It was not. of a tas*e that suited my palate and I informed the man that I preferred ham which was supplied to me aud all was well, 1 secured a piece of a buffalo rib to hi ing home as a souvenir. Hearing a great shouting and seeiir ihe crowd surgiug to a certain poir 'p, ilso surged and got there iu time 4 -c ] ome cadets toss a negro in the . ^ i blanket, that started the ' - air wlt* lalf an hour the boys * tun aU(' f?] legroes about tlie gro>'- *ere after ih< an them down li^r" Il.(\3. auc* literally hem high in t W . * rabbits and tossed nmniimna VAi? aii, throwing them Ul ,ble siclii W* et)thigh. It was a laughehile in t' ' their contortion? n theb i,e air lo keeP from lighting ? heads when they fell in th< P ^ hri,,unutl8 to Dallas I was not long in -ff1??.,,uP a,t acquaintance, Mr. D- 1 hdlips, of " The Manhattan." The gentleman was a member of the Comnercial Clu^ Gf Dalhis and after our onyersatKjn g;We me a very kindly inltation (^u al the club room. He l^'ja good deal about the city and asiness men and how some of the .y wealthiest men in Dallas came there ax>r men. I met several others from whom I picked up a number of items which 1 will mention a little later. 1 heard on several occasions remarks ?bout Saujacinto Day, ' and asking w hat it meant," 1 was told it was a day that was always celebrated in Texas, aud that the time had just passed, I think the date was April 20th. All the stores in every city in the State usually close up aiul all take a holiday. It is the celebration of the victory for Texas in the iecisive battle at San Jacinto. The bistoiy in brief as I gathered it is: The IVxans were being hard pressed bv tDe Mexicans and were loosing groond. Sen. Houston was holding a body oi rexans in reserve and the Mexicans were pressing his men so hard that they bad fallen back on the restrve. The Mexicans outnumbered the Texiuis two a) one. The Texans were hemmed, ileneial Houston determined, to make a ast light and one to the death. lie irdered the bridge over the Brazos river :o be burned which cut off the Mexican's retreat and giving the battle crv "Re member the child of the Alamo, remember Goliad," the brave Texans dashed nto the opposing ranks. The battle was mrd fought and bloody but the enemy jould not withstand the onslaught of his determined band of men aua they led to the w atei's edge and their general, Santa Ana, was captured and the Mexian? were killed or driven into the water and poished, except thoee who were captured. The victory was won, Texas' independence was gaiued and the people continue to celebrate the victory Lo tiiis day. In regard to the war cry 'Remember the child of the Alamo and joliad," it may be well to explaiu that n 1830 the Mexicansstormed the Alamo, ti mission house, and slaughtered every man, woman and child there except one girl child. It was alterwards known as he child of the Alamo. Every child is amiliar wi'h the history, as the story is )ne among the first they learn, and it is neutiont d in Lee's new school history >n page 232. At Goliad Santa Aua the Mexican general had slaghtered 300 L'exan prisoners. My next move after looking atTthe WILL BE pJ To find! H it will oc T1 T7/M I 1 Ul J WILL FIGURE W MEAN tne mark* ESTIMATES FU1 LUMBE ,::i 01 tin WAi 1 o l*? found W 'lit ? i>i e ',vh I- ih t".i I i > elect tie ??*? tint*. Tl'id Mr;,: i kept i|> until iaLe in the u.rei i- j noon. One of the tripe look me to Out a Cliff, a beautiful suburban town two 01 . three miles out of Dallas. To reach a this town you cross the Trinity river of - Texas. The stream appeared to be 10 a or 15 yards wide and had very little ap. penrance of a river and I undersrand t goes almost dry in summer, but that i it has I* en kDown to be a raging torrent b a mile wide. On our return from Oak Cliff we met Mrs. Stephens as mentioned r in lust week's letter. This was the first r South Carolinian 1 had seen. I did not I during my stay meet any of our Union , county delegation. I spent the night at the home of Mrs. Stephens, and the . next day I went to Fort Worth, but before entering into Fort Worth I will i give some points I picked up regarding the importauce and GROWTH OF DALLAS. , Only thirty years ago Dalle-., waa 8 small village at a ford acr-^g Trinity river. Its population wr about x ^ land was worth from f5 ^ pel acre near the towr T ^ Ola..,us lH..wuen _tjr UDd 70 fa, j i,hUI(e of the meet i?ui L Lt Th ,s ol commerce in the ImSiirA^' * Houston & Texas Central I iim>?' i'exas Pacit.c, two large trunk I .n extending their systems crossed j t vuis point and Dallas began t> build ' .apiuiy. Many of the cow men of a few < yearn ago, who saw civilization possibly [ once a year, came in and settled down 3 to business and are now millionaire and i the owners of palatial homes in the city. r Dallas is in the heart of the great district 3 of the ricii black waxy soil, cousideied the best producing soil in the State, con[ Scqueutly is supported by proepeivu* i agriculturists who have paid for their . lauds from their crope in a few years, i One concern loaned a man $2,000 for r live years with which to pay for hit \ farm. He came to them in one year from that time and offered them the cash, but they refused to accept it as they preferred the interest and knew s they were perfectly safe. Money is IrumAtl f rr m fiun trv fan woovo rvn land at 7 to 8 per cent. It is said there is no better land in the world and the top prices are $70 per acre down to $.'15 per acre. A great deal of cotton is exi ported from Texas. From Sept. 1, 1900. ) to Sept. 1, 190L, Dallas handled, Qnan* cm ally, 1,031,740 bales. There aie noun twenty-live agents there representing cotton mills in England, Germany, i France, Belgum, Holland, Austria Egypt, China, Russia and Japan. The , ootto a market for the world is to a great extent fixed by the reports from Texas. Da'.las is about the most important trade oe ater in the State, her business is saic to aggrigate $54,055,000. Her county court house is about as imposing looking structure as our State capitol, and fron i its dome a inagnitioeut bird's eye vie* can be bad of the entire city. In ih< ( electrical supply line Dallas does a bus! liess of over $1,000,000 a year. Iu pas * eeuger traiic she is way up in the list i There are four depots and a number o: railroads. There are forty-eight train i in and out of the city daily, and there i a freight business accordingly. There are a number of social clubs ii the city, among them The Commercia Club, The Dallas Club, Golf and Countr Club, The Elks Club, The Phoenii Club, The Trinity Road and Gun Club. Fin and Feather Club, Idle-Wild Club, Kidd Springs Club, Bachelor's Germai Club and others. She does a great business in music, tin sales of pianos, organs, music, etc. amounting annually to over one and i half million dollars. Thirty-five year ago Dallas had a single telegraph wire now there is a perfect net work of then i and ten thousand messages a day g< i over them. There are a number of dm hotels, among them we noticed thi "Windsor," the "Oriental," the "St George." One of the largest hotels ii the State is theie, lias 250 room and is i fire proor building, while first class res taurants are to be found all over town where you can get meals from 15c up U $1.50 each. Dallas is a good cattle market bu Fort Worth is a close competitor. Fo machinery, farm implements and sup plies it is said Dullas furnishes the secom largest amount of any city in the world Kansas City occupying the first place The assessed valuation of the city 1 $23,084,900. It has a small indebted ness, the sale of the wat er works plan would pay the entire debt it is said : SURPRI low little Uo >st you to H UR H< rITH US ON YOUR J hat we sell a cheap i i grade goods, but oui her, last longer than'i at today. It has stoo EtNISHED FREE. ? :R &, M'F IWHEI Th ? May Barg I F.C. CORSETS HAKE I American Beauties. ;i m LATEST : models. CM, Kalamazoo Corset Co. OLE MANUFACTURERS. r MUTUAL I?WYPOOOP8 CO. LAC 1 See our beautiful display ! $3.50* Also a lot of odd curl i HERE ARE S i Ladies' Bleached gauze vest, Heavy yard wide bleach, rea Extra heavy 27-inch checks ! Clark's six cord machine cot Good basting cotton, a lot to i Ladies duck skirts in navy a I i A visit through our large d ! MUTUAL 1 [ Opposite Hotel Union. a ~ ? ? Besides the water works the city o wi all the public school buildings an L _ . * ai i i ii _i* ii n : grounds, me cuy uaii, mi me me buuiuu Y the city hospital and the extensii grounds surrounding it. The street U ' is only $1.50 per annum with an add ' tional 1? mill tax to build more school As an evidence of the rapid buildir there were over 900 buildings erecte last year at a cost of $1,200,000 in roue ' numbers. The bonded indebtedness of tl county is a little over $200,000. Tl ? county owns the court house whi( cost $475,000; the county jail, whi< cost about $55,000; the county farm < 320 acres, qf which 200 is in cultivatioi with all necessary buildings, sixty het * of mules, thirty-five head of cattle ai 100 hogs. The county also owns 2,200 miles < public highway, of which 150 miles ' pike road; sixty-five steel bridges ar two cement bridges. These includ . eleven bridges over tbe Trinity river. * There are 105 white schools in tl county and 21 colored schools. The va , uation of the school property owned I the county is $65,105, not including tl ' seven incorporated school precincts ou ' side of Dallas and Oak Cliff, which rui the valuation of school property outsit | of Dallas and Oak Cliff up to $94,602. (To be oontinued.) SED-^Sj i (USE >AINT. I k >aint. We handle | * paint looks better, 'M any other paint on h: d the test for years. $ r'G. CO. | le Mut We are offering a | m m Silks, Woolens diriO White Goods. Gent's Furnishi ? ?? an(j merly boys I ' CENTE c. A < Big ship- p| ment just ^ in. See i them in show window. . Prices J 25c, 50o and $1.00. Best ] New ] shades $1.50 guarai E CURTAIN of lace curtains in notion :ains to go at a socrifice. Ab OMI^: EVERY well made with tape around I value 71c, but we make th nnH nluiH n wnrt.h fiin hinr lr*t r*"?' " ?*v" v,v> ton, warranted, two spools fo close quick, 6 spools for nd black, nicely made, only.. [epartment store will convinc dry good: . 1 I WHY D ire I DEPOSIT H d IE id i SAVINGS I AND LET I ,d MAKE ' 3f is id le While it waits i >e will pay you mo ,y proposition for y< tion. THinlr it owj ir . ? -w w ? jb of your money ant you. THE PEC !b. f. art 11 Corn and | ^ _/? lev I jj ! | .UNION H/ > BUY?. v ?r ual. ; many good values in Wash Goods, , Embroideries, Laces, Applique, Men's and boy's Clothing, Hats, ings, Phoes and Oxfords for ladies and girls and the bahies. ;MERI KID GLOVES. mTEMEfiD'SftT CKIDO kid glove In the worldlot just in. Evening 3 and black. Prices and $1.60. Every pair nteed, ^ CAI C department. Prices 50c a pair to out half price. Come quick. DAY PLYERN." neck, big value, only 5c e price..... 5c to pick your dhoice, only... 5c r T. 5c 5c 60c e you that this is the place to buy. I COMPANY. R. P. HARRY. Mgr. ON'T YOU * OUR ILE FUNDS IN OUR DEPARTMENT T TOU 4 PER CENT. INTEREST or an investment that re. This is a business aur oareful oonsidera9r and let us take oare A 4 41 + 44U uat xuo iuc (iroiilB Willi >PLES BANK, rHUR, President. ? Cotton Hpeslj " They are | grass killers $ rom 25c up. 1 Cheaper by ? the dpzen. jg I * VRDWARE CO., I rs. Union, S. O.