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.. ? ? * "^HTTOwTorrmOpTHA^I rn m ^ * Y '"' " /^V m T r?^ m A ti ^ ?J I ~TH1 T O WrTo F "V k rOt^ HAS | Three Gotten Mills one the | I ] I I I | I 1 V I m/I ! li,rS?Knitting Mill and 1 I I H 111 I \ I I I i I I VI US iis^::r:^ronA,;^f ^mlDa?ry0e^iLr Worked | J[ i JL A VJ -.1 JL \/ 11 JL 1 _i_ JL^J k^l R Three" Owdi'Thwta. ? Ar^ |j it J j Electric Hi elan Water. Population G.JiOO. jjf VOL 1,11% SI. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MAY '2? 190'2. *i no A A. % P.M. PARK PrKnt. J QEO. MUNK'LCashier, * Merchants9 and PI | | OF UI> x Capital Stock J 3urplus S Stockholders' Liabilities... k Total i Dirbotohb?J. A. Fant, X T. C. Duncan, J. T. Donplat J Win. Coleman. ? We Solicit ... T.. ^ A TRIP 1 A long and Tedious Ride of Ove t Trains Miss Connection State. The Bigges THE REUNK K (Continued from last week,) The city d?)e8 a large insurance bu ness, possibly as large ;w any Southe city. The business last year in premit and losses amounted to about $8,000,0* As an evidence of the enormous tra of the city it is only necessary to reme ber the. fact that 1,500 drummers tra out of Dallas over Texas and adjoini States, many of them never crossing I border line of this great State. The newspaper business there is son thing astonishing, embracing every ki of publication from the daily paper the monthly magazine and they nurnl fifty-two. In 1901 there were mailed Dallas post office 2,4*21,219 pounds newspapers and periodicals. There is a small army of e ployees in the post office. Of t] great business. To give some idea of this great i dustry and tl&4Mg^datemachin< used. I so extensive fHMtffrarangemeni8 c to bo made to sack, weigh and m its isaue from its cwn office to &v< congestion. To give some idea this newspaper enterprise and I business it does, tho concern ov two of tho largest newspapers in I west, The Dallas News and The G veston News. They own and run t regular mail trains to distribute th mail in the State. It will be remc bered by our readers that when T Timks was making its fight to hi the concealed weapon law passed the 1900 session of the legislati this same paper, The Dallas Ne copied one of our editorials on I subject and followed it with a 1 column editorial comment favora to our position. I had a desire see this plant and called around wl in Dallas. They have a fine pla a/mnIrv*\n/1 ir* nvnrn roar lliUlUU^KiJf ClJUjpj/WW lit wivij 1VU|; for the printing business. I foun register in the entrance hall or lol in which some thousand or more 1 itors had registered, among whoi found a number of names from So Carolina. From here I went into i composing room where I found sc 12 or 15 Meganthaler typesett machines clicking away which k the galley boy busy taking pro From here I went to the casti routing and mattiix making ro< which work was very interesting me. I them stepped into one of artists rooms, and watched I making pictures which were toapp in thn mnrnincr issue. From tb to the press room where the gi press was turning out papers prir and folded at the rate of 25,00C hour. The papers were flj 1 through the press so fast that could not tell whether it was a p? poming through or a shadow ftasl along. I have never seen anytt heretofore to equal that for rapid The paper goes in from a large in the rear of the press. It tra up and down and around through great three deck press with its g number of rollers and cylin printing two pages at every I until twenty-four pages are prin It then darts into tho outter - folder which outs the sheets folds tho paper Jonce, twice, tb | *ud out it comes, seemingly kit M H Q. i .v I A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. J.'D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier, f lanters' National Bank * riOTN. ?. C. | $00,000 I 50,000 J 60,000 $ $170,000 J W. H. Wallaco, VVm. Jeffries, & is, E P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, ^ ; Your Business. | mmm m<m>m mmm***# ro TEXAS. ir Eleven Hundred Miles. Delayed s at Last Arrived in Lone Star t Reunion in History was )N AT DALLAS. out by another right behind it so ^ rapidly as to make an Editor of a m8 country weekly, printed on a power 00. press, gasp with astonishment. It *,e took me about an hour to get enough of that sight. There is a balcony nf? arranged for visitors to stand and the look down at this great machine work. From here 1 stepped into ind balcony overlooking the mailto ing department. Here was another jer revelation, there wore long tables at and a dozen men and boys working of like the house was on fire. I thought _ I could run a mailer, but I could not hold a torch for one of those boys even for the first quarter. There I were six of thorn and they were run,r ning those mailing machines at such 0f a rate of speed that 1 looked for them to develop a hot journal or wear out the machine a few minutes. The ,a^ six of them were in a row and they ,ad were stamping the names on the papers at the rate of about 3,000 an ?id hour each. There was not a slip or a hitch or a miss cut or a wrinkled the name, they all went on and stuck rn8 there. I wanted to get down where 'ho J could ask them what kind of paste and paper they used to make that kind of speed, but I saw they were eir like the boy who had hold of the tail !m" of the run-away bull, they didn't 11E have time to chat. I certainly enlve j?yed that visit. Yes, The Dallas at News printing plant is a big thing are and if you ever get in a bunded w8> miles of Dallas, just get a ticket and the g0 on Dallas and see this thing at work. You can tell them I sent yon. hie I will not stop to mention the > t0 many fine buildings to be found in the business and residential por* tion of the city. Suffice it to *Ct ooy thev are there in larce numbers. j j r,' l a strictly up-to date in every particular >py and are too numerous to mention, ns- You are all familiar with portland 11 I cement; well, Dallas is the home of the largest plant to be found anythe where in the south. Its output be>me jn? valued at $700,000 per annum. ng The drug business has also gotten ePfc to be something enormous. The three wholesale establishments doing ng? an annual business of $3,5000,000. Dallas knew nothing of the wholet0 sale drug business twenty years ago. tae One of the attraciions of the city is its recently completed Carnegie tear public library.- The citizens are lere nrniwl nf fliAir liKrarv and dn ?V?j ft/* VM\* V * ?|?v** a*t/*u? j ^ miiv* V%v reat not foil to show it to visitors to the ited cjty, Audrew Carnegie gave the > an city }50,000 towards its construction, 'ing That means that it was built and furyou nished at a cost of not less than tper $100,000. It contaius 11,000 volling umes which may be taken out and ling read by securing a permit. What is lity. the matter with Union having one roll of these handsome libraries? Uncle vels Andy would, no doubt oome down the handsomely if our people would evreat idence a desire to have one. ders Another extensive industry is th< turn concerns for turning out- the various ited. products of the cotton seed. It is and said they do an annual business of and one million dollars, irice The output of the flouring mills is jked 2,600 barrels a day the grain elevator capacity being 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. There are ten churches, a dozen schools and colleges and a number < f ai charitable institutions in the city, ir And thus I might continue indefi y, nitely ab >nt. this erstwhile village which has developed, in twenty-five a* years to a ci'y whose wholesale bnsi- T ness reached the almost incredible ol amount of forty-five million eight |H hunnrcd thousand dollars annually, at Fort Worth. j8 While waiting at the depot for the train to Fort Worth Satu;day I made se the acquaintance of Dr. J. W. ltus- si scy, who said.he was an Irish rebel, and turning he introduced me to cc Capt. John Roach, an Irish Yankee, past department commander of the S G. A. it. of Texas. These Irishmen. SI full of wit, were good naturedly firing ot at each other of their war experience. They were both going to Fort p; Worth, and I was selected as one of to !L nnrt.v tn ait. tnorplKor nri tlio train VI |- r?-J% ? ? ?h? ? ,,w J and enjoy the s; ort. When the train w: started 1 had gotten on another coach in behind these men. Soon Dr. Russey ar came through looking for me and said he had a man holding a seat for Si me. So we went forward and these Ti two men soon had the aisle near our tr scats filled with people laughing at I the jokes they got off on each other. C Dr. Iiussey pausing occasionally in bi the midst of a joke or yarn to call my wi attention to something of interest fo along the line. G In leaving Dallas we leave Trinity wi river to the right. I learn that an I earnest effort is being made to have kt Congress make an appropriation to w< assist in making Trinity river navi- M gable to Dallas, and that the pros- ?li pects were very favorable. To the M left of the road in the distance is to la be seen the mountain range of Texas, ch The range is about eight miles wide, wl and while they are called mountains wi there we would call them hills in this pa coiltatry. The range is hundreds of N miles long, reaching across the State, wi We noticed what we thought was a th fine orchard of many acres of peach W trees, but were informed that these da were "musquetc" bushes and that the di beans from these bushes were very ci fine for cattle to feed on. The bean of is similar in appearance to the honey so locust. There is only one musquete b< thicket betwoen Dallas and Fort w< Worth, a distance of some 28 miles, of Next came a large plantation which th had thousands of trees standing ki while the land was in cultivatoin. I to was informed that this was a natural S< Texas pecan grove, that all these 8t: trees were left standing when the si< land was cleared up because the nt pecans from the trees much more be than paid for the ground they shaded, se There are thousands of bushels fo gathered yearly from this section, sn They are shipped away by the car- la load and are worth anywhere from it 25c to $1.00 a bushel, according to 4( the quality. These are the nuts we fo pay 20c a pound for in Union and cu then we do not get what are consid- ju ered the choice ones. This shows nc how the cost of an article increases th with every broker who handles it. bj Our attention was called to great ap turfts of Johnson grass, of luxurant sti growth, with the remark that this is the curse of any section where it gets sn a foot hold and its presenca on a tract is of land will reduce the price 33J per w' cent, at least. In reply to my cjues- g< tion, "isjt not excellent feed for cat- to tie and stock," the reply was, "yes, wi it is very fine indeed but we do not need it because it takes absolute po- re sessession where it gets a start and ro there is no getting ridof or doing any- la thing with it, and it is a great hindrance to other crops." They al would like to make us a present of sb their Johnson grass. G We noticed, near the railroad a la very large brick making plant, and w nearby we could see wfyere the dirt to am nhnl a V* a /I Kaa?\ /J?t a* Iam a yi ouaig uau upcu uu^ tui tuc yiaMU^ of the b^ick. The shale was pf a aI deep slato color, it is a kind of rotten 89 rock. One of tho peculiarities of this ju shale ia that whon the brick made u from it are burned they turn a dieep red color. U is said that the brick made from this shale is the very best la that are to be had anywhere. This 1} was disoovered by a poor farmer on w his plantation some years ago, *nd al in finding it he found his fortune. The electric car lino which has just S been finished from Dallas to Fort d Worth runs parallel with the rail- a1 road and crosses once from left to f< (Continued on lib page.) T Another Letter on Texas. Mr. Editor:?As I have not seen nything from this part of the county i a grr.it, while I decided to give du a few lines. Farmers arc ahout don" planting ive nome of their bottom land, hey have only tolerably good stands f cotton. Late planting and red inds arc poor stand*. Not much nail grain planted and what there is not promising. We are needing a good rain in tlrs c'ion, have only had some little mwaK) ill aAnoo i rv> a ivn vio nuuiv iiuiu* There is not much sickness in this immunity. Miss Mamie Kelly has the fever, he has been sick five or six weeks, he is somewhat better now. No hf-r serious sickness that I know of. If you will give me space in jour iper I will tell something of my trirDallas, Texas. I hope you and >ur readers will bear with me as I ill try to give some scattering rearks of my trip as I did not take ly notes. 1 boarded the train at Union on iturday, April 19th, for Dallas, here was not a Union man on the ain that was going to Texas. When arrived at Spartanburg I met some hcrokeo men on their way to Dallas it soon found that none of them ent the route that my ticket called T J 1 - 1 * r, bo i ueciueu to stop over at ainesville, Ga., Saturday night and iit for the Sunday train and see if could get with some one that I lew, but when the train came there are only two on board that I knew, r. James Graham and son. They so were going a different route, r. Graham said when he got to Atnta he would try to get their tickets langed so we could go together, but ben we arrived in Atlanta my train is ready to move out so we had to irt. My train moved on toward ew Orleans, a long drive. This is about 7 p. m., so I passed through at country mostly in the night, e arrived in New Orleans the next ly sometime in the evening. We d not stop in the old cresent ty long so 1 did not get to see much the city. We changed cars here, i our train was soon on the large >at across the Mississippi. We ent now for a long drive to Dallas ' nearly six hundred miles. This is e Texas & Pacific R. R. I do not low the population of any of the wns on this line as I did not inquire, son after we left New Orleans we ruck the sugar plantations for a conierable distance. The railroad runs ?r the Mississippi river. On ?th sides of the railroad you can e one sugnr plantation after another r many miles. They look like lall cotton mill buildings. The nd is as level as a yard and rich as i_ _ \7 e c\ p ? _ can m*. xuu can fee irom zo 10 ) mules on the plantations, two to ur hitched to the plow, harrow or iltivator as it may be. The corn was st coming up to half leg high. I did >t see many rice plantations. All e sugar plantations were drained r ditches about thirty or forty yards art. The rows are perfectly raight. Now and then we crossed a creek or lall river, and for some distance it swampy and large cape brakes liere there are plenty of bears. One mtleman told me that they killed rty in one season. There are also alf and panthers in those swamps. We made poor time until we ached Marshall as it is not a good ad bed, but from Marshall to Dals we made fairly good time. We passed Long View Junction, >out 90 miles, after leaving Martall as well as I can remember. rand Saline i8 65 miles from pials. Here i$ the Texas big salt orks right on the railroad. They Id me that they bored 160 feet and ruck a salt bed, bored on 000 feel id never got through the bed. They y it is 06 per oent. salt. They ist merely dry it and it is ready foi IVt We palled into Dallas Tuesday reninglthe 22nd, several hourt ,te. We passed a wreched train ring on her back- Ho passengert ere seriously hart, It happenec bout two-dayebefbre, /V# When we first entered the Loni tar State the country looked a goo< eal like oar country, scrub pines vreet gum, poet oak and origins irest land, large pines among th< ak timbers just like ours. Th? Wm. A. NICH< BANF SOLICIT YOl An-! prom S" courteous trc.it lion c?.'iisi ??* V---* J Write all kixls of Itisnrai MONEY ORDERS Issu Olfice and Express Company B*nI looked l.ktr out> l?ur n?,t oui o so lihty, 1 thought it tlis w;t t a f *ir sample of Texas it would he n<. use for one to lci\c old .^outh (Jirnlina for Texas, '-tit I did not have to triv?l a great di?r}n <?? un* t there was a big chaugc. I d d ti travel through much <>f il?- black iatid* td Texas. When I got t" Dallas I soon found my home, ;;ot din ?r and s'ruck out fu he fm gr uii 1-. regi-tt red. g-t m\ hndge and began to look I O'smne old Unionitcs, but f.?uti 1 i:< no that evening. S > I went back next morning and found I'M Sinclair, John Sinclair and John Gosaett and had a good talk with them. Then L began to look for sonic of my old company. I soon found Sheriff Buford, of Newberry, and then M. B. Garrison and R. G. Goree whom I had not seen since the war. They were looking wtll. Garison lives in Arkansas and Goree in Texas. I spent the d?y in the fair grounds and then I began to try to get on a street cur to go to my home but they were so crowded I could not get on, and after waiting some time I took it a foot. Dallas was crowded, everv one had all rh?>v could care for. Where 1 stayed sonic I of the gentlemen slept on the dining room roof. I had a good time. My hoai'h was fine while out there and 1 had many invitations to vi-it the c uintrv but I decided to turn my face hoim ward. So about 8 o'clock p. m Thursday I bid Dallas good bye. I stopped on the way and did not reach home until Monday evening, i I might say a great deal of what 1 heard of the oil fields but I must close for fear this will reach the waste basket. G. Cross Keys Chronicles. Mr. Editor:?I have not written you a line since March 14th. I wish | to 'say that I am satisfied that the I readers of your valuable paper will all rejoice when I say that I have h parr! from ?a?.1 ?*1 : * - 1 ???< ? vui guuu autuuriiy IQ&t Roosevelt's boy has got well, and that Mr. Henry (Prince) has gone home to stay. I hope that boy will continute to improve and grow and make a good man, but I hear that several of his college mates died but they were sons of men that don't amount to much, I honor the high position that Roosovelt has been put in as much as any citizen in the United States. 'Tis a great place but I am not called on to bow to the figure head that happens te he put there by that abomanablc radical party. Radicalism means simply negro equality, and it was demonstrated by this man when he invited a negro to his table, and when he insuits every true man of t.ho Srm?v. k.. _ ...v k/uuvu *j y i his rile epithet* on one whose shoes he is or was unworthy to unlatch (Jefferson Davis.) That book he has written ought to be printed in large type and sent out among all of his relations in the South. I think his folks would enjoy reading it. I mean the colored population and it would bring along missionary work among the sons of Ham. And if that boy should chance to bo a preacher he would hate aq introduction down South that few boys would or oould \ ever have. I make this oomment from the faot that some did not approve of the letter of March 14th re ferred to above. This is ? whit? man's country, a free man's country, > not the country of derfs or slaves or i servants. ? \ There la another way or channel i through which poor humanity seeks I to worship a man and that is his ?wealfh. . If a man has money some e smile and look at him if he was more 1 than a man, that surely he is not , mortal with all that credit or bank 1 stock, and they are shocked and s alarmed when they hoar he is dead, e I have seen a few and so have you . .v.- r? i i.nM. OLSON & SON, CKRS, ;h business ment and cv< ry accommodastent with A.TSTK.I1VO. ice except life. ed at the same rate as Fust that ought to be in tie- chain gang, no eharac'er. Their ir.fluenco as pe?tifftmi* :?s 'ho grave and as loathsome as the breath of the 1-iwer I *.vor 11 ill it is lo deed up to, e?rii jjoric | to ami th- ir advice s dieitcd simply I because they have g >t. 1 oneolv or dis hontslly. a few p-ti iy dollars?some one says that fellow won't do. Other* will wag their heads and say that don't tnak" any difference "he's got the look". W'l.iie to? holiest tu?n may 'od on and is hardly spoken t", set aside b-cau-e he is poor. Why don't the preachers preach it more and chow thai (jewels) chaiacter, virtue, temperance, that the c lining generation will bow less to poor mortal uian ami oftener to him who owns the cattle upon a ihousat d hills. Miss Nan Wilburn is on a visit to the Keys. The house of Mr. Deedy Hobo caught on frc Saturday nigtit but the fire was put out by the Masons as it happened just as they were assembling. Mr. Charley Hetsill and wife came over Saturday afrernnon. Mrs J. F He's It has returned from Char ? I he tr that Mr. David N. Wilburn and family have moved into your city. It looks like there is no place i lik IJniju, hut still we fhink Cross Keys is a big place, i " Tiionas H. Cork. i Lockhart News Notes. The "Reminiscences of the War" is quite interesting, especially to an old veteran. We congratulate The Times in being so fortunate in having so versatile a writer and one whose mind is stocked with so manv I rich recollections as J. L. S. "Iley Denver's" writings is not to be grinned at by those who have no teeth. They are quito readable i and add much to the general makeup 'of The Times. Some people hare a happy way of getting up news and Euttin&r it in readable shape. Other* ave a way of tqrning their letters so the printey oannot tell what letter they have made in order that they may shield their bad orthography. Such is not Homo's way as he never reviews his epistles, for if he did he would find thorn so imperfect he would strike out thf? -...vviujj clause and throw them ii\ the store and be sure they were converted to 1 ashes. Married^ on the evening of the 14th inst., at the Baptist Church by Rev. L. T. Carroll, Mr. J. M. Riggins and Miss Bessie Douglass. The attendants were Mr. Bob Brawley and Miss Alice ltiggins, Mr. Ernest Scoggins and Miss Lillie Wools. Mr. Jeff llannan and Miss Kate Douglass. Mr. and Mrs. Riggins are deservedly popular and wc trust that they will have a prosperous joarney through life. 1 */?- T iur. Ltoy uarj has returned from DttUaa where he took in the reunion. Mr. and Mrs. Robi Griffin have returned from a visit to the latter's parents at rselton. Mr. J. It. Byars ha# been taking in the Exposition at Charleston. Mr. W.K. Livingston has returned from a pleasure trip to different parts of the State. Mrs. Alice Kitchens, of Buffalo, has been on a week's visit to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homo. Finds Way to hive lon&. The startling announcement of a Discovery that will surely lengthen life is mode by editor O. H. Downey, of Churubusco, Ind. "I wish to- state," he writes, "that Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption is the most infallible re> medy that I have ever known for Coughs, Colds and Grip. It's invaluable to people with weak lungs. Having this wonderful modicino no one need dread Pneumonia or Consumption. Its relief is instant and cure certain." F. C. Duke will guarantee evory 50c and $1,00 bot1 tie and give trial bottles free*