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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?iiv thk UNION TIMES COMPAN Y Second Flook Times Buiedinu. tkt/i v uitjm. Kriit.is. J iV V/. IX. f L. Young, Manager Registered at the J'>svtflce in Union, ft C., us s oond-class man matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 8ix months ------ 50 cents Three mouths ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every .ibsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be mule at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8J cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., AUGUST 8, 1902. Wonder if Chicago isn't the place where the Johnsons and Smiths came from. An Inquisitive party has looked up the matter and reports that there ur.> 9,000 Johnsons, some spelling it Johnstone, and -1,000 Smiths. Obhviffo certainly seems to be headqunrt- -- at. least. It is with sadness that we note in The State the announcement of the ^/UI/I>V. -* ??Vy UUHCl l/IUM l/I U'lr citizens will stand by Representative Cooper and the law.?Clinton Gazette. True it is very easy to understand what element is in opposition to the law. Let every true, law abiding citizen stand by Cooper and hold up his hands. He should be returned by an overwhelming majority, /* death of Mr. 10. H. Aull, Jr., the 10year-old son of the editor of the Newberry Herald and News, and President of the S. C. State Press Association. Mr. Aull, Jr., was a most exemplary and promising young man, and our heartfelt sympathies go out to the bereaved family in this hour of sadness. As an evidence that the law against the pistol toting habit is going to be enforced, in Union at least, we call attention to the ordinance against the carrying of tlie ordinary pistol passed by the city council at their last meeting. Let other towns pass similar ordinances, and thus evidence a disposition to enforce the law and the obeying of the same will follow naturally. Hurrah for Union, she is a pace maker. It now develops that the 75 per cent, basis of assessment adopted some weeks ago by the State Board has been abandoned and the 60 per cent, basis is to remain as to cotton mills, oil mills and fertilizer factories. The 75 per cent, basis would work a hardship on several sections where the assessment would have to be raised. It was finally decided to accept the returns of the county board. The initial number or The Atlanta News, the new evenitfg Daily of Atlanta, hus roached our sanctum. It starts out with fair promises and we hope its lifo will be of much longer duration than the paper whose name it adopts. It seems to have very bright prospects judging from the expressions of the prominent citizens of Atlanta, and the extraordinary subscription list with which it starts oat and the very liberal advertising patronage. It is to be an S-puge paper, but its tirst issue is a 12-page edition to accommodate its 10 columns of advertising. It has one of the (inest equipped plants in the South. Its big perfecting three deck press is a marvel for speed. Its capacity being 25,000 per hour. John Tomple Graves is its editor-in-chief, one of the 'strongest editors in the South. Wo wish the News much success. COOPER AND THE PISTOL. There is at work an undercurrent composed of the lawless element exclusively, to defeat and relegate Representative Cooper of this ounty for his having introduced and carried through the legislature the now pistol law. Now, this law. be it understood is obnoxious to the lawless classes only, and represontative Cooper should by all means be upheld and sustained and returned to the legislature on his merits. This antipopgun law is one of the best regulations that ever graced the pages of South Carolina's statuo books and is already working out a problem which for many years has puzzled the lawabiding, peaceloving rm K1 w? Tim ' C PROTECT THE YOUNG MEN. We would like to see a place of recreation nnd amusement established in town where the young men could go and spend an hour or so aft'-r business hours. Thero is a reeling room here nov, it is true,' wl* re they c.-:- ** ? ind -.,vn I .t i hour rending good literature, but something more is needed. The youthful mind needs other diversion besides reading. It seeks entertainment and exercise. It strikes us that it would bo an excellent idea to establish a gymnasium room In connection with the reading room, in which could he found harmless games, and various means of exercise and developing the muscles, such as vaulting bars, hanging ladder trapese, dumb bellB and boxing gloves. If such a place were established the young mon would naturally turn to the place for a pleasant evening, and the inclination to loiter uround billiard and pool tables and often much worse places, spending their evonings would in a measure bo removed. It is aH natural for the young people to have some kind of recreation and amusement as it is for a duck to seek water, it thorefore behooves the parents and business mon of the city to see to it that a place is furnishod that will meet this demand. It strikes us that it would be money well spent if the business men and capitalists of our' city would get together and deter mine to establish ana equip sucn a place. The majority of young men are not naturally Inclined to voluntarily go astray, but very few of them can withstand the temptation of evil associations. Shall we virtually force them into these associations simply by our failure to furnish them something better? It must be remembered that these same young men are destined to take our places in the future, that every position of honor and trust is to be filled by them. This being true, should we not make an effort to throw around this rising generation some barriers against the encroaohment of the evil one? We may be sure the devil is not idle if we are negligent and careless. He will use every means to trip the young man, who, without any help from the older ones, must meet the temptations face to face and struggle as best ho may, alone and unaided, agains the machinations of the enemy aud the tempter. And how often is the struggle a weak one of short duration, and the young man falls, another easy victim. When once fallen the task of reform is ten times moro herculean than was the resistance ?of the temptations of evil in the beginning. How many of our young men and boys are falling easy victims? IT OUT mnnv n f Alir Iinoinoaa men and capitalists would willingly entrust young men with importaut places of trust, with the handling of their money, etc., if they knew the young man was a habitual drinker, or was constantly to be found in the evening around a gaining table? It may not be assuming too much to say that very few business men of experioneo would trust him if he knew this. Still all of our business men know there is no place of harmless amusement and recreation furnished these young men, and that when business is over and the young "men are through with their duties for the day they are naturalj prey and too often easy prey to the temptor. Young men have often been heard to remark in the evening after getting oil from the duties of the day: "I wish I had somewhere to go to enjoy myself. I don't know what to do with myself in the evening." Aro wo not doing a dangerous thing to allow this state of affairs to exist in Union? Tho devil wants no easier task than to capture just such a young man pure in heart and noble in principle," it may be, with high ambitions, hut longing for some pleasant place to spend a pleasant hour socially. Many young men board and have no home in the true sense with us. Is it natural or reasonable to suppose he is going from his place of business to his room and stay there idling until bedtime? Anyone with ordinary sense knows that this can- 1 not be the case, and when it is the | case there are possibly others present, maybe the bottle, the cards and the dice nro ready to hand and the devil has his grip firmly on his victims. We are making no charges of this ; against any one, but mention it aim- ! ply to show how easy such could be ^ the case. We hope our business men and j men of means will think over this matter and we trust they will see 1 I their way clear to do somet J the young men. Wo cannc . t to ignore the moral interest | young men. They aro witl ) ." ir< o! of us; they aro to follow us f our places in every associatio ; 1 wo owe it to them to throw I. efnre OI1CU1 OfCI J HJIIUriiUV ai V>Ul Vyl j ? V ? in moulding them into true, upright men, of unsullied <*' aud worthy of every confidei ^ trust. 1 ' " ^ \ Joucsville News Nott\ ??? Jomesvillk, Aug. 5.?The t v > light at Jonesville yesterdi above Jonesville there was l> but all the wav to Union tli i a,'Jl l! a fine rain and about Duck T otticei wind was strong and there w ?r \r hail. There is dome dry sti iri leii the country but the signs a; 1 Se( for more rain. i . , . , , tliJ> |l About a ni%r ?h since a | of tin gent came to Joinsville as a; lease tho Virginia Coal Mines hui] less v hands to go to the mines. H j tlmn ed about a half dozen colored | Set go with him, aud they went , viola certain day all in high glee j vlclii coal mines. Shortly afterwar j one 1 came back that one of the m I ov n fayett Johnson, was killed ; I'ubh mine by a cur. A few days sii ! 1 of the men came back and r< '.9C1 a bad state of affairs at tho Se This fellow, Jim Craig by nam 1 Qr'(Jj they wore put under gunr^ n.,|ic worked just like they were " j), chain gang, their fare and tre: un,i( is about the same as convicts of tl says ho beat his way most of tl Aug homo on the trains. He sayli Atte Epps, another one of the Jor ! boys, made his escape but he 1 | ^ got into his haven of rest ye j soliciting agent for the coal j need come this way any more. , Mr. J. A. Chapman is mak . other shipment of his largo logs to Germany. I The Broad River Baptist J j ^ ation for this year will meet wi 1 Aid Gilead church near our tow 1 m ( week after the third Sunday ' s*rc month. Rev. David Hucks is holdimjjLL special meeting at Bethlehem ofjurch this week. Hon. John C. Sheppartl, of Edgefield, and James H. Maxwell, of Greenvillo, were in our town yesterday; they met Messrs. Boyd and Charles Hames, of GafTney, here on business concerning Judge Wallace's estate. Miss Carrie Southard returned last Saturday from the summer school at Knoxville. . Mr. Sam Littlejohn, who f travt 1ing for the Jonesville Knitting Mitls, came in last Saturday from a two months trip on the road. He reports business good in his line. There is some sickness in the country and a few cases in town, but the general health of the people Ts good. Professor E. R. Aycock has returned from the summer school at Rock Hill and is visiting relatives in Jonesville and Kelton. Mr. C. E. Johnson, the new Super at the Alpha Mills, is hero in charge and is getting well adjusted to the workings of the mill. Mr. Tice, the retiring Super, haa gono to his new situation in Texas. Afr TVTo*?*t 1 v* f a/ ?i? A'iniTiu rov/V^cc, U1 U UIUU, WIIU lias been in our town for some time recuperating from a spell of fever, returned to Union today for business. Several veterans and somo others will go to Greenville tomorrow to attend the veteran's reunion. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hames, of Union, spent Sunday in our town with Mrs. T. L. Hames. Telephone. Etta Jane Etchings. Etta Jane, August 4.?A very large crowd attended the children's day exeicises at Salem last Thursday. The speakers were Itev. C. A. 11. .Jennings, Prof. W. F. McArthur, Senator It. (J. Sarratt and s. M. nice, Jr., ?. U. The children acquitted themselves very creditably during the forenoon and the day was a very enjoyable one save for the oppressive heat. The receipts of the lemonade stand amounted to about $20 which goes to the improvement the church building. The crowd was estimated al 700 to 1,000 people It was not | as large, however, as we have had on some previous occasions. The protracted meeting began at Salem 1 yesterday. Uev. Win. It. Potter, of GafTney, is doing the preaching. A largo congregation was present' yesterday aud last night. The county campaign opens at Wilkiusville today. The Congressional candidates wil* 1m: present too. They will meet (he voters at the Cowpens Battleground toumriow, August f>th. The county campaign bids fair to be a lively i Olio. i The meeting closed at Mesopotamia j last Saturday with live accessions to the 1 church and a general temodeling of the I old members. < Our section is needing rain just now. Crops are lieginnitig to fail. Cotton is < now in the fruiting stage and in a very 1 short time a material change can take I place in the crop. i Several of our Union county people < were present at children's day last Thurs- i day. i Mr. Joe Kstes and Miss Lula Hill, of Armenia, Chester county, and also Miss 1 Sallie Lee and Al>e Brown, of the same < place, were at Salen on children's day. These are some of Chester county's beat 1 people. ' 1 I regret to say that Mrs. Hon. C. W. i Whisonant, ot Wilkinsville, had a slight ? stroke of paralysis last Saturday was a week ago. t Vox. I Subscribe for The Tioiee. j Enrollment Books Open, f Uooks for enrollment of tlie e F the Union township Dt-moa re now o|ten at the office of-E , the secretary. All perron** w MM heir names on the roil live tiie election in order to voH B imary. H B AN ORDlNANCr. k I ltuinst Carrying Pistols oi^k B I ltevolrere. B B I t erd-ii:fd by the Mkyor W ? ( vhe Town of U ' > i ' ^BBfll ii. ril e<*M*iuhled nod l'v The null . 1 The >t ehali lxi unliwful^^ Piwn or persous, exception a iff ""T"1 Awfully appointed or elected pti H r, to carry on their persons a pir cvolver, of less than three pou iuriit or less than twenty ono iuc" ' igth. , 2. That it shall be unlawful -Tig ?J erso.i lirin or corporation, rrsida^ .f. a Town of Union to sell, bur""^^5^ * or rent any pistol or revolver tools weight than three pounds and 1_ twenty one inches in length. ;. 3. That any one found guilt y ^ "FY** Ling this ordinance shall, upon cC* ^ mi, be lind in any sum not exceedfri ?, lundied dollars or to I e imprison nice to work on the streets a _ c places of the Town of Union 1 E nore than thirty days and at t fl etion of the Mayer or Town Cot4 Lib c. 4. That all Ordinances or p**rf nances conilicting with this or e ore hereby declared repealed.3 mitta ol Mie and ratified in LJouncii assembL >r the hand of the Mayer and silts, the * le Council, this the fourth day, Collars ust, 11)02, ,, . , ' >st: the idea maoheth Youno, solid case r. d. autiiuu. mayi-ol.;?? ? Clerk & Treasurer. 32ieetin?> ? ? ns, 3 to : AN ORDINANCE. ie price . liust the Operation of Cer/a.lIltl insei Slot Machines. >e it ordained by the Mayor ai erman of the Town of Union, S. C , , Council assembled and by authority SllCh lar{ ie? other at c. 1. That it shall be unlawful for an ,i , 3on firm or ? *' ? v4- -? tile Dei 111 oil*- Buffalo mtoi ? ? ? : ? ^ _? ? vvroetcei Shoes, Trunks, Clot BEST (xOOD In '4COME TO T MUTUAL DU R. P. HARRY, Mgi Santuc Notes. Many of us are in sadness over the death of Mr. T, L. Haraes, of Jonesville, and Mr. Wm. Smith, of West Springs. 1 was surpsised and grieved to hear of the demise of these staunch men. While living at a distance, being of no relation, I feel it a personal loss, for when I was in their communities, a CI guest at their homes, I was shown the greatest consideration, was treated so wc kindly that I learned to love them as men and regard them as among my best on friends. Their families have my sympa- 1 thy for I know how to sympathize and aL1 can feel keeuly such a loss. Mrs. Mary Ilerndon, of Yorkville, is visiting her brother, Mr. J. McJ. Fant. We are now getting very nice showers and it is hoped will continue until the ? land is well wet. Some small areas have already had rain to wet land. ??1 It is the beginning of dog days and D"J it rained. Is it possible we are to have rain forty days and make us say, "I wish it would quit raining." ha I saw a negro some days ago devouring a musk melon almost as an* large as a nail key, and let me tell you, when he left that place there rT was only a pile of seed and rinds. J. That was a case of going the "whole hog." Gambling is getting to be the all mmi important thing about now, and a ^ crowd of negroes, specked with some \j whites, can be seen constantly flow- V ing into the place of rendezvous, not caring for the ladies who pass along the street, nor preachers who see them, nor having any regards for the susceptible boy. Hey Denvek. FINE DENTAL PARLORS. Dr. F. S. ..Robinson Noyt Nicely Quartered in the DyalUpchurch Building. The new Dyal-Upclnuch building lias J Already many of Jacksonville's prominent business people stationed in it *ud it will not be long before this large' business block is entirely filled. Among Lhe new business men to occupy quarters there is the well known dentist, Dr. F. S. Robinson, who has fitted up a most J ilegant reception room and dental est&b- \ lishment in rooms 301 and 302, third loor. The furniture is all of line, solid i mahogany, and is the best that money | ?au buy. Being situated on the corner t makes it very cool and pleasant in the ! maimer. I Dr. Uobinson is a young man, and mis acquired a thorough knowledege of ' lenistry. By courteous and kind tr^at ment of his patients, he is building up a ' Ine practic. If you are having trouble 1 with your teeth, call and see Dr. liobin- I ion, Dyal-Upchurch building ?The 1 Jacksonville Metropolis. I^(J Mr. Uobinson is originally from Union | ind it will give his many friends here at j i liis old borne much pleasure to note the I V J ibove evidence of Frank's prosperity aud , iliccess in his adopted home. The |. Union boys usually get tberet YARD \A EACH u c- nm iti i a i n C- IVIKJ I UML Lse in Slimmer Str ire surely trade v l in August, tnerc . up all sliort lex: >ve> liave marlied r it about F PR I C } 1 the rage, get a pair before they are all gc Ping Pong" ai?d other pretty styles 25c an all sizes and heights, only 1 summer collar, all sizes, price s just in, value 7?c, our "flyer" at .. ard wide, value 61c at 20 yard lengths, real value 5 to 7 ic "to cl 'tions to match, prices 4c, 5c, 61c, 8c, 10c *e quantities as we do for our two large st ; Buffalo, we are able to make the lowest p< st lines of goods to be found. will be found a f till line *y, Tinware, Dry Dood hiiig*, Hats, Furiiiture, E ^ AND I.OWFST PR every department. HE BAROAIN CEN' IT ROODS COM Opposite UNHAPPY IS THE CONDIT : the young man who has no desire to ] >rld. Still his case is not altogether hopele a little more nerve and a little more spu f out of the "M A If MACHINE" d go in business for himself- Ttv rlenAi Lary or wages regularly in our Savings iek or month where it draws interest, in t ve accumulated a snug little starter. \V< d we will be glad to help you. 'HE PEOPLES B. F. ARTHUR, Presit VALK-OVER S Tlie W orltl's Sta: INION SHOE COI m .TO,f.tohl"? *??' ??<> In / 9 n d e 5c A YARD *? 1 l it solng dinners, jfor? In Lgtns in aany ol F Wmm >ne, price 60c id 50c 10c 20c 6c 6c J ean up the lot 4c and 16c ores, one at Union )ssible pricesand to i of tlie best s, Notions, !tc. ICES i rER," [PANY. ^ 9 Hotel Union. ION rise in the business ',88. If he will take nk he can lift himRUT siting a part of his I Dftnftrtmflnf ovpnr ?r ~. ?J i abort time he will i* ; are helping others BANK, lent HOES. ? } $3.50 and $4.00 I adard. . VIPANY, iterait. UNION, o. o. "> I i J&H