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t*. T * A 8* THETOWN^0?USIOTHA8 jjj ^ ^ - ? tME T OW N~ O F~UK ION HAs'J Thro? Coiton .Mills, one the ' B R ]? S 1 ttjl | $* /S jjf^ I ^ i Tin* largest Knitting Mill and 9 ' w({ largest In the South, lour Fur-,. B._ ? gj ^ fl % ' lB H V 9 ^ tli / H #U l?> < l'l:..u in tin- state. An Oil If I nit-ure nn.i Wo. I Maniifaotur- | g g g| > g 1 | R | v\ & I 'ft/ & ? \ 1,1 nurturing tV>. that B lug Co-vorns. One temuie M | M M 9 X i X F H B W K I J L 7^ "!l u?iox?r.-.l?-a lluano. ? Seminary. Wa'er Moris at ?l j; J| .JBL. ES M_^f X^y X 1 JL ^ 1 9 9. IfJ. .Jl.i b^S % ; Hiv.- t.raTh.l Schools. Arte- ft (({ Lieu trie Lights. U/ ^ i:i11 Wuler. Population (>,&00. j| VOL. LU. .NO 25. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNK 20. 19(12. ttl.OOAiLAR * $ F. .VI. FARh k .~>ident. ; 4t | GEO. MUNR'\ Cashier, J. I q * Merchants' and PSai | OF UNIC X Capital Stock ... J Surplus ? Stockholders' Li ihilities t iotai ds Dirkctors?.1. A. Fant, \V T T. C5 nnnnn.li .T TV l~lr>mrlu ja 1 ? Wm. Coleman. ' I J We Solicit Y? A TRIP T( th NOTES PICKED UP AT DOWN ON O THE RJEUNIOr (Cuntinneil from last week,) A FINK CEMENT. Texas has a slate colored shale for making brick and cement, notice of which was made in mentioning the brick works between Dallas and Fort Worth, The cement made is said to be siipetior, under test, to the famous Portland and the White German which are considered the finest . cements known. Pavements and i bridges are built of this cement and j are apparently indestructible. Gravel! is used in it for bridge and paving : work. When hard it is equivalent to rock. -The Southern Pacific R. ; R. has rccontiv placed un order for ; 12,000 barrels of it for bridge buill- 1 .% ? i ing. * * * Oi'KN OK SUNDAY. We noticed that a large number of' business houses stay open on Sunday in Dallas. It seems to be a free and easy, do as you please place. If your reliorioufl nrir.cinlns :tre ntrninst keen ~ r w? i 1? t> r i ing shop open on Sunday you sitnpiy close up. If you have no scruples you just open upas usual. There is one lino of business, however, that keeps religiously or otherwise the Sabbath. That is the barber fraternity. They agreed among themselves that they would not keep their shops open 011 that day and they stick to it.. I was somewhat surprised at this as 1 thought if anything was kept open it would be the barber shops. If one of the barbers break over to accommodate oven a stranger % he is liable to get in hot water. * * 1J0ISDAKC A HARD WOOD. Whilo riding on the street carat Kort Worth 1 noticed a mammoth pile of wooden blocks ahout 10 inches long near the sidewalk on a side street. The blocks were possibly six inches across and of a reddish color resembling cod jr. Asking what they were for 1 was told they werei^gciing > to lay 'he. street with thejn. This caused in ore talk ad 1 i ] *?.. . v ' ? J ... . i '? pro nouoned II eif d m'c, no I t, it was very lasting a?d ir wt< umd for builiJir?p; the best and stmitefo wigons. for telephone aid re'et.}>h po!-s, street paving, e-e. Tii >r when a street was oe.ee iaid with L?>.- Itro ir was there for age4. Ileing envious to see what it iv%- 1 iU 1 secured a splinter ol it upon fust opportunity. Tt is of a fibrous nature ana does not look like it would he very durable. ** * * ? HA KINO IN THIS NIC'KLKS. We had it from the authorities of he street car lines that the street ''**uars of the city, 70 in number, running over JO miles of track. -averaged $0,000 a day in faros .luring the three-days of the reunion. The cars were run from 0 o'clock a. in. to l! and 8 o'clock a. ui. Ono <5:111 hardly realize what $6,000 in nicklcs means it re; bushels ??f money. TliiuK for a moment the extraordinary job of counting this money daily. Count ^ iug money at tbe hank is not a cir f cumstanco to it. Of course there necessarily were other tize coins got ten by thoconductors making change. fe' " ? * -x> < *> ?> <*# ->;:V. M. FOSTliKi Vice President. ^ p. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. ^ iters' National Bank f $ > IN, **. O. -. $o0,000 a ' 50,000 J 00,000 v $170,000 !t r. H. Wallace, Win. Jeffries, & E. P. MoKissick. A. II. Poster. ?' * m )ur Business. X i 3 TEXAS. RANDOM AND JOTTED UR TRIP TO AT DALLAS. But! tiiink I would be safe in saving ? / O tbat 75 per cent, of the fares collected wore collected in 5 cent pieces. As it takes twenty nickles to make a dollar that means that the daily traffic on the Dallas stieet cars for these three days amounted to 120 thousand fares, to say nothing of the dead head.-, the transfer rides and those holding season tickets. It is a phenominal record and it is hard to realize how it could he done. Some of the motormcn said they were almost broke down. But tin y tnadc 84.00 a day at it. * ^ * * THAT WAXV SOIL. \\r~ i iii o .i i w u uuvu iom yon oi tue macK waxy soil of Texas which is so fertile that guano is unknown to those in that section. We will tell you somethimg else about it. It is so waxy and stick)' that after a rain the soil adheres to the tire;} of vehicles in such a manner that it becomes almost impossible for teams to pull them. The mud becomes so thick that the wheels soon become a solid mass, and it seems like tbev arc going to pick up tho whole road bed. It is like rolling a ball of snow, the farther it goes the larger and heavier it hecomes. and if is absolutely impossible to hitch enough horses to a two hoi>e wagon to pull it. We heard of an instance where a farmer sent four two horse wagon loads of seed to tho mill 18 miles away. Just before reach, ing the mill it began to rain. Tho teams stalled within one fourth of a mile ot the mill. All of the teams wore hitched to the front wagon to take it on but it was no go, and they had to bo left standing where they were, in sight of the oil mill, ami the teams taken 18 miles buck home to wait till the road dried, which it doos in two days. Wagons have to stop wherever caught no matter what they arc loaded with. The mud sticks to your shoes so tenaciously that it becomes necessary to trim it off with your pocket kniic. The farmer's Hours become coated to a depth ('f an inch or more arid it can- ! not be swept off. When it gets dry it i3 easily swept off and leaves the floor as clean as if it had been scoured, * * * IN HARVEST TIME. it is ;m interesting sight in Texas in harvest time to watch the work in the wheat fields. The harvesters are taken to the wheat fields, a temporary cam}) is put up for the hands, cook kitchen, sleeping quarters, etc., and the work begins in a field of possibly several hundred acres of the beautiful waving golden grain. The harvester is pulled by teams. It cuts and binds the wheat and drops three j to four bundles in a pile, tfie shucking hands follow, usually .three hands follow a" harvester. They gather the bundles and stack them. It t ikes very rapid work to keep up with one of these improved machines. When thn harvesting is over the threshing man :akes the contract of freshing the crop. The thresher is pulled by a steam engine A water tank is coupled on behind. Water has to bo hauled from a distance as it is usually a scarce commodity at that tune. It is usually obtained from what is called a pool, made by digging out a hole some ten to twelve feet deep covering half an acre or tuore in a low place in the farm and the rain water is turned into it. There is n hard pan reached by this digging with scrapers and the water that accumulates in these ponds will remain all summer or until used up. This is the water that is used to n great extent for drinking, especially by the operatives of these traveling machines. A barrel of it is put in the ground and a cloth spread over it?there is no such lllinw :ia s\ u1inr1<> Hen i\ >,n? it r> ? - r"1 il under?a tin dipper is hung on the outside of the barrel and it sometimes becomes so hot that it has to he held in the water t> cool it enough to pu' it ro the i ps *o drink. Y*ui can imagine the temper mn of thwater. This outfit is t ik- n to the center of the field, the shocks of grain are hauled t> and run tiir -ugh the thresher, tin* grain n sacked and taken to the farmer's grainery and the job is done. The boys helping with the machines make from ?1 f?0 to ?3.00 a day. according t> tin r speed. The heat is very tryittg and coupled with the hot pond water tnuny of tiiein arc down with the fever. Texas is a gteat country and a great many nice things can be suid of the Empire State, but when vc look at some of its disadvantages as above we .-.tiii believe that old .South Carolina is hard to beat in ail round mi'ural advantages. While standing at the T. P. depot waiting i"V tnc tram i<>v I'ort Worth Saturday morning a young follow ran to catch an outgoing passenger, and as he jumped on the train hi-> pistol, a -11 Colts, fell from hisp' ckei ar.d fir-d. Although there wus a uig crowd at the depot no one was hit. The police was after him in a oocond and nahbed him bv wire when he reached the city depot half a mile further on. * * As an evidence of the fact that Dallas and Fort Wo>th are strictly up to date in addition to what we have heretofore mentioned we might mention the fact that you rarely sec a vehicle, outside of drays and delivery wagons, equipped witii iron tired wheels. The buggies, carriages, etc., are nearly all supplied with rubber tires, while there arc automobiles to burn. When you see a buggy with iron tired wheels you can pretty safely put it down as being in from the country. * A * 1 noticed the following names e f people from South Carolina on the register in the lobby at the Dallas News office during the reunion: O Mrs. J. 1). Leonard, Mi.-s Mattie L. Burnett. N. L. Burnett, Jr.. of Spartanburg; Capt. F. M. Sanders, Chester; C. $. McCall, Bennettsvitlc; Y. C. Heliums, Laurens; W. Iv. Stecdman, Charleston; J. Y. Cuiguard, Columbia, L. L. Claybum and B M. Pearce, Camden; Dr. Jas. it Gibson, Spartanburg; J. T. Taylor and M. P.- Tavloi, (Leers. Camp Hampton dclogi lion from Columbia were <pnr v red at 'U?7 North I larward street;. * * * Upon going to the post olliee iSunday wo ran ngainsta corporal's guard of til" salvation army in front of the office. Tlnro were two women, a sinttM boy and two uien. One of the men held a drum and one of the women was preaching with great fervor to the crowd that was loitering on the porch of the po t olliee. At the conclusion of the sermon tbo drum was set down en the curbstone and the audience invited to see who could hit the head of it with a nieklc, dime or dollar and the fun began, niekles and dime? from every di.tetim begart to thump the head of the drum, many of them bouncing off in the gutter causing a lively scramble j by ih" drummer nd the sntall boy to i capture tlieiu ;u ihey rolled around. * j For fearo' vliausting tbo patience j of our renders on one subject we will hold Ul> on the Texas trio. %l IV\v,. ; endeavored to make the trip and the notes gathered while on the trip intc resting to our readers. We heartily appreciate the many words of commendation and approval of our effort j received personally and by letter. From lilt's-- we lint .:i \v av i not Iieen oMtir"lv n v ii?i :> I many were root I y 1 !> report >f toe tr > t> i.-xo. 1J i there must !?< an on l to ?l! tl::* J_ atul if !' titoi* ; > I'lul'lije I ex.is t.i: sa we will v*uc it ami vn our oorro spon<lents o 1 it;io nore roam. It we have suee(e?l'-?l in unking the stor\ iii'erostinji the object. :it which waimed b.t : L -v-ii t'tainci ami w isliin > that our readers may smmtime Lav-* the opportunity of raking a 'ony hip ami have us big :i time as vc had on our visit t.i the remit >u I will lay <1 > vn my pen m l hid adieu to Tim Trio to Texas. .Jxo. II. M. SAN TUG NEWS NOTES. \i}?ev& Willi the Iiriitor Regit r:ling j the Ciitnjmifiti Demi IScut. ' There is a maxim, ohl and true Let mo whisper it to you: Laggards always come too lute, Time and tide f->r n ? man wait.'' The human race is too prone to he laggard in many ways. What sort of a duck is a viaduct t) ? It must be a highminded one. I'rof. Moore, principal <>f the school here, and Mrg. Moore have gone to their old home to snend vacation. Miss Ktliel Jeter, a teacher in the college at Salem, N. is enjoving her vacation with her father's family here. Miss Stella liohs' ii has gone to Fairfield, near Winnsboro, to visit Dr. 10. C. Jeter's family. Miss Daisy Jeter is attending Commencement at Winthrop College, ltock 11 ill and will visit relatives heforc returning home. Mr. J. F-. Lehby, of Piedmont, and his two daughters, Misses Mattie and Kiz/.ie have been on a short visit to Mr. J. It. Lobby, tlm It. It. Agent here. The Quarterly Conference of this circuit will he hehl at Sardis church the ">th Sunday in June, if 1 understood the announcement aright. The Baptist Sunday School convenI tion is forthcoming and will be held with the Bcnlah church, beginning Friday before bth Sunday in June. Apples show signs of worms and I do not think the peach crop is very promising. The trees'were badly damaged and the fruit will be short this year. I was the recipient of a compliment, not a month of Sundays ago; from a real intelligent lady and one who is not "gushy", and don't you know 1 appreciate it; and now I am more hopeful. It is a pleasure to receive even a small compliment from a lady who has too lofty a mind to stoop to mere llattery, but will give a word of encouragement or praise? strewing flowers, as it were. 1 hoard some men discussing the new road law. "working eight days, if necessary," etc., and I was led to believe they did not have the right conception of the law, and were jumping at conclusions. 1 have heard it explained to some extent, can see it and do not complain. I do not care to discuss it here, as it all depends upon how we see a thing. There is some very good wheat in this section after all, but it is low. That which was in the worst of the hail storm while jointing was seriously hurt. I notice where there was decaying vegetable matter the wheat is a great deal better than on other land ordinarily more fertile, but containing less of this vegetable matter. (>at cutting is getting under way, but there are so few fajl oats that they will he a short horse quickly curried ; while spring oats are not tall. It is too soon to say what sort of heads they will make: The scarcity of oats will surely bring about hardship on many farmer-; who generallv raise oats and who from this time to laying-bv time feed only uats. This year it will bo mostly feedj ing with bought corn, j 1 learn that 15. 15. has ran oit from home, quit quill-driving and has gone to I sherilling, and if Sheriff Sanders sends i him down here much more, I believe I i will arrest him and take him front tho Sherilt for a couple of hours anyway. I 1 would haye enjoyed having him call j to see me when ho was here. We I could have given him hog and hominv. j I have lost my grip in keeping up with himof late. Ho is a fine, jovial fellow and 1 wish him much success for i believe he deserves it. The cannidates may make it lively and interesting this year. I liopo good ! feeling and friendship will prevail j throughout the campaign. There is no ! reason for it hnin<* otln.riwisr. ' I agree with the editor exactly about those cadaverous fellows trying to beat dinners, ">0 cts, and drinks out of the candidates. That is low down on the I ladder,ay, sitting down in the rubbish J at the foot of it. Then loo, the various | benevolent committees are too prone to i try to collect contributions for some j church work from candidates-just be! cause they are candidate-5, and seem to think they dare not refuse. Suppose j every church of all denominations should "jump" on a .candidate for ">0e or Si, and lie should givo it to keep in favor, it would tako considerable, tlint pet haps he could ill'Afford to give. Let us he reasonable, and remember they j art; not all rich men. ( President Roosevelt, in his' speech'at Arlington, talked like tlrtflfe 'netef were such men as the Union soldiCrk j and they won the greatest victory ever I iv*>A, when they "snved-tho Union" by i taking four or tivo men to whip one, i: like the Kvitish fighting tho I'.oers, , J Then he had to step aside to bring in the lynching* in tlio Mouth, done in de ; fense of the virtue of Southern women, as a cushion for the cruelties of tlie adI ministration's policies in tlio Philip1 pines to fall on. Perhaps tho reason I notice this so much is because 1 have i Win. A. N1CH ?5 A FN SOLICIT YO 'Ann |?i .misf* courteous trea tion com; d=2r v '* CDTTv .?3 Write all kinds of Insura MONEY ORDERS tssi Cilice and Express Compan rvTr-rwut'T/VK .*%*. v> rv^ v>- *r> ^vwn fvaxe? ? ) confidence in liim, or liis 1? :u,>.is:i< nr.imuM', aii'l believe lie is b,-t -r litt?"l for rounding up run ire cattle. i 1 r.v Diwru. NOTES F >vOiYI WEST SPRINGS Also Down on t/u hi 'fi' 1'itHhtf < nnip-l'ollowcr. The ruMii ra ii toil *o .. < :u.< fist tlrit tin l iiid u.i.i a ii?-? . v i'us on u. 1'eOj -i. ini.ie-liu^ til-l v\; e;il crop, ui.ieli i-. vny s rr\. iSoinr an i'Ji o.'ig II- W .?? :lT W 111.(.* i> ! rr> avegnng to try :?) n . .t u tlm&iiid and -avo d. Mr. .I X, H'^crs had a |voiuui' -r wheat which ho ?.* tau-i > ! 1 ne says he dunks he <?, M have thicsnrri out ni :e w In* it t: i * year it.t he m ule on lii'^ > iii?<* ijii'I ;:t1 year, t'.ns |?r? thai *mv?\ sou in much the best. I :ni informed ti.u .>?; s ih.-s.-dc Milie is very u k. lies i(t >: i has niso iter.' \<ry low h:r ;u tins writing sue i- inu'M l> t-r. U? ?S:i'.ur lav i. . 7 .h. \ k was a tea g vet; at lite re* id a.a- i Mr. <J. 0. Lancaster for the hrceli of Sulphur Spring church. i'ltei rea'ds^d .?1 1.8'J so I iia !oi lat; i Mr John (J:\? ufo-i na- i . tin. waUr melon p-itcl. at-'?it he)-.'. i in vines ;. r e met in too" tii-Mie >r i <. row sonic time ago. Messrs. Lli iriie 1! ?l?t;.s .) mini Hyatt ami llarihwoll lliirgo.ss n; have new top buggies ami they ai\ not selfish enough to rule alori". tar they generally eariy a girl witi them. Mr. lvhtor i fui-v <g v. it: voi regarding tin* ?r?i <ii?1 to * i i O 7 ers." ii on nave wti ien j t?u v..i;r i was coiiletnpia'i:.willing :; ??I tta so stated my intention i ,vo f f< candidates, if i/civ i- :i ?y tins?. that I dev..ami detect more thai another it is ro see a big .str ipping fellow hankering around and swing ing to a candid no s e >.u t i! f r hi' dinner. 1 hive kn ?v. n -oiue to d< the like, ami 1 have loss respect foi them for ii. I notice that mere nu several candidates out, already ?n?i some of them are new ones too, and it is likely that some of them will make souse mistakes. 1 will caution them not to make fcueh a one as I [heard of an lowi e .m.did.tm making once. He could not .vmemtrnr lace; well In;' "ho ua?? very polite am social. He has! a i .dot of asking every man ho mo1 how ho com to and how his family \\ is and hi. father and lao'lier 11 <? was nt ; gutheiimr one day wh?n to- nut; young ta in iliat -.a hud never in o before. ? of he spoke > if i.e I i< known him sill his !iit?"Howdy do howdy do. how are yon. lhiks?m?v are yuan iath.r and in ithet r ' My folks u'v vcjv we'd tlmni you?mothc. site is get.ing ohms, very well too, lm' father dead." ' Oh, you don't say so?I am s. ftorry?he must have died lately." ' No he h;is been dead two years." The candidate pas id on and me the same man again with the. yaint salutation: "How are your folks, etc." "Well toy folks are just about tin same, and mother, yite is too 1 ho Move, but father lie is still dead." Hut some one will criticise me am sav. what do. v on know about it, wer< / 7 you over a candidate? Yes, and got elected too. but like many other: 1* made many "mistakes an i blunders and 1' am holding office yet, my ofliei dlon't require niucb book keeping .but a great deal of house keeping And my clerk bus been with me eve 'since the day I got elected, and seem to be,very well satisfied. J. M, Whitehead. ; COMNF.NCEMENT SEASON. ! W'li-n the II tnl.s -ire Singing Sweci j ly and the Flowers arc in Itloom. | 1'acolkt, S. 0.?This is th I t iOLSON & SON,' KERS, UR BUSINESS .tnuau ami uvery accomrnodaiistcnt wilh _r:s^ .1.-^*1 JtTiw JL <Ljruice except life. jecl at the same rate as Post y. irsK ^wwaw?% mm inamrmmmmmmmmmammmmmm? month wiio-i U.uuo N iture holds out j her h tml t ? the wi'iiry dwellers in I the eitv whi j.ors "come." i K iitor, \?.ur Texas writcup . ;u -un. i. ami i u?> -o much enjoy i I t ;.:i.. g K. > | .-u- gu .j.mies .v. Warren is ex' t'f. .. ! m- in u i'.-.v <iuyb to spend la-tie 11'. m Mftier is ijuite sick at ; it ,me "u vSuio.de Avenue. He 'id c- :i'r !* I' in us.If, being >1 ;i!i i i to ?| ih* thtee months, j: .Mr -jiiit ii.g^t ' !ims moved his j !,iin . 1U. . >. ih ,! .>1 r. li a.gl. v I iof added one more j i". ? .ii \ ) l is ii-iiise. which improved i it a gr< ul tcai. ii Mrs. IV ri McMan, who has been visit in.', i ci f.-ii.er, lias returned to (h'-r a tit K'.cum/:.<!. /[> iff. Ibnmer has returned iio.-ie aim. .1 I o work's .-tay in Cii.irioiu, N. f . Wo : i- - ! i>. report the ilineas j Mi.ss Maggm tilMV. I >T;. I'om ill i jv, who has been rim i? coi*rv, iias returned ' j t . ? iii'.iii'i.i. The IvKporjltion at Charleston, S. it... has ?; 'S. it. Like most exposiI ti it u s 1 cii i l'. s financially, ; m; d'great armlit commercially and j i s.a e of valuable information and p; 'u:uru. i A good many are going to attend j the e .mtueiiceuient at Woft'ord Col! 1 lege. Tnere is no teature of com; men cement week more interesting to II tlie o indid observer tiiau the return i j to Aima Mater of the alumni, rfweet > gui graduates aro more or less alike i j to tuc average observer?the young i i men u.< all secure in faith of ability j to move the vvoild to their liking. II It is tin* alumni liowever who finally " j dcieriuiue tin; worth of the years f spent in study, 'liny have used the i weapons that education lias placed in : then hands ami years have shown the worth or worth Lcssness of their > preparation, They roturn to their > seh I'd to live over again the joy of youth. They listen with pathetic > attention or lndifl'i renee to the ora1 tions. They know the wide gulf 1 between theory and fact and as they 1 hear the weiguiy problems of politii cut and social economy treated as mere phiy things for bistoricol flourish ;}'hey smile in kindly appreciation of * I -he way of youth. It is like a fleet 1 of weather i>. ate*... storm tossed ships. ;!aiiohotcd near witete some ships gay i j 11n naming an*i glisiitig paint aro -11.0 bo launched. The candid observec i ; turns tVom the unt' icd to scan the i | old. Wl?.it change-; the years write i I on the times of alumni, hut time I I writer, i. wimkhs it: the heart and . ninv a Ihimr <>i mother feels the ; \ear-> i*<? . d up i.l.o a rcroil as they I listen 'o - en el 'laughter speaking j from the -.or. pl.itfonn where years r i l>? ( .)'?? thev mad.! their own trradu.v ?' r O irion ovation. The dune days sing t no hapj-i' r event among their roses than the commencement days. Hurrah. U?r Tub Timks, t Put. i # ? Our New Bishops. L, The report of the committee on Kpise-'pacv, recommending the elec4: . i V \ \ ? 11,<m f i y\n . uisuapw naving'been i adopt*1 \ l-v the (ie?ier:il Conference, r. i t 1 i e oirvti-'it "? was made the I . ;<>cci < ontr <<i 'he Conference for | Thursday. May at 10 a. m. The i minifier < rwifJ c'l^t'Was 2(?0; necessarv to a cV>iee, 1 -?1. On ?he first J ballot' Rev. K. V.. iio,?s, D. 1)., rej eeivcd 10^ votes and was declared r I elcoti Khe.fourth .hallot resulted i ill tl.'p piifOiuli r?f' It?vf A . ( -- .. %' /i. VUM? Smith, 1>. l>.:?Southern (Christian -Vdvoeate, , hr, Mason's <V)ini)lexior? Tablets removes ; implca, freckles*, wrinkles, bhickhenda, redness of face or nose f-' and any skin blemish, giving a clear , and beautiful complexion. $1.00 a box. J. 11. Mason & Co., Hancock, 0 Maryland. 29?ly