Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? THIS 1 ,"RED HOT And we propose to keej hot" stuff ?l r? <1 hot pi competitors. For the next Thirt We are offering special i and Sewing Machines, style and price from the Bargain Prices. In Organs' we have the s Monarch at the lowest Wheeler & Wilson No. I Southland and all other about One Half the Price Asked by others for sai above goods sold for ca=] handle needles, oil and su We will repair yoi Or take it as part pay fc and save money and am we guarantee satisfaction made oyer one hundred ting in them our light ru next, so come right along Y ours foi J. H. S > Main Street, Local Laoonios. HAPPENINGSr OP INTKRE81 ABOUT TOWN PERSONAL AND OTHSRWLSE. Mr. P. C. Whisenant who has been confined to his room with rheumatism several days is able to be out again. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Duncan last Wednesday night. Mother and child are doing well. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Qibbes and brought them a bounolng baby boy Wednesday night. ^ D, O. Flynn is a hustler from wav back. When he gets his store room fixed up you are going to hear from him in clarian tones, Mark what we tell you, Now Is the time to buy up your wood, coal is going to be so high this season till It will make your flesh orawl and your purse tremble to pay for It. ^ Just as wo told you, McLure has grabbed up a big lot of bargains in his trip north and they are piled all over thejstore. Go and make a selection quiok. - Mr. J. B. Porter who has been doing business several years at his store house on the corner of his lot on Main street opposite the jail has moved to the stand Just above T. A. Murrah's tin shop. Mr. L. B. Harris, of Spartanburg, Is relieving Mr. W. 0, Nelson at the W. U. Telegraph office. Mr. Nelson Is suffering with hay fever and has gotten a few days leave. The Southern has built a handsome new depot At Rich Hill, which place has been recently named White Stone, as it 1a where you get off to go to White Stone Lithia Springs two miles away. Mr. W. Lester Davis, of Cross Keys, la now in the clothing department of ?the Union Cotton Mills Department Store where he will be glad to have his friends in search of elothlng and gent's furnishings call on him. The big coal chute built by Mr. W. D. Arthur Just above the wholesale house of Hemes A Lipscomb has been finished. There are three sections or bins in itand it seems to be large|enough to hold sufficient ?coal for a city of 20,000 inhabitants. Wc*would not care to have the job, however, ,of shoveling from tho coal gondolas into it. r :s our " CORNER [> it filled each week with "red "ices, but only red hot to our y Days nducen ents in Pianos, Organs In Pianos we can give you any cheapest <o the finest at weet toneu Estey, Hamilton and prices ever offered in Union. >, New Home, Davis, New Ideal, high grade sewing machines at I t me grade machines. All the h or on installments. We also ippliesfor all makes of machines. ir old riachine I ?r a new one. Give us a trial aoyance by trading with us, as to all our customers We have happy homes this year by putnning machines. Its your time r business, PEARS. Union, S. C. Judging from the white cotton fields and the busy cotton pickers to be seen in every field, cotton is going to come in with a rush soon. It seems that most of it is already open, especially the earlier planting. Mr. Earnest Spears has beem employed by Hames & Lipscomb as assistant book keeper for that concern. Mr. Spears is a recent graduate of the Union Graded School, and has fine business talent and this position will furnish him ample opportunity for developing it. Keep an eye on our special advertisement column on 1st local page, 2nd page of the paper. There is hot stuff appearing [there every week. If you don't keep close tab on it, you may miss some rare bargain. Whenever you want to buy, sell, or make special mention of anything use this column. Mr. Lewis Scales, one of the popular salesmen at the Company store atYiOckhart, has given up his place there and will open up a general merchandise business of his own at Ada ? A?-- ? * amouuigi k>. \j., uu tne ruuroaa D6tween Lookhart and Lookhart Jnnction. We return our thanks to Mr. D. N. Wilburn, our new merchant, for a beautiful silk handkerchief. Mr. Wilburn has made a fine start with his bargain store and we wish him continued success. He says trade is already much better than he expected. He is handling some rare bargains and no mistake a visit to his store will convince you of that. Mr. D. C. Flynn will be opened up for business in about two weeks. He is having the upper store room iu the Dunn building remodeled and arranged to his notion. Mr. Flyna is a hustler and believes in printer's ink. He will! no doubt have some attractive ads in I The Times soon. He has already been j negotiating for space. He knows how | to get before the people. It Didn't Work. A couple of negroes entered Mr. J.' H. Spears' store Wednesday evening l just before he closed and asked for i stove polish. When the olerk's back | was turned one of them slipped be-: hind the oounter and !hid, expecting to be locked up in tne at re. But the olerk happened to go around. where he was and discovered him.' When asked what he was doing there he said he was looking for a hat. He was promptly nabbed and now he is remunerating over his misdeeds behind the prison bars. He plead guilty before the Mayor who sent Elm before Magistrate Hughes, - ' '"V 1: V" r \ A BAD WRECK. Head-on Collision Near Glendale. Two Freight Trains Came Together With a Terrible Crash. On Wednesday morning an extra train oarrylng several cars of merchandise and the remainder of the cars loaded with bananas, passed Union about 5 o'clock. It being a frnit train was running as usual on a fast schedule. After passing Ulendale station one mile, it crashed into the local freight No., 62, coming from Spartanburg With a terrible thud that thoroughly wreoked both engines, threw two cars of the fruit train from ' the track on oue side while the trucks were scattered on both sides, these cars were next the engine aud loaded with general mer chandise, cloth, lard, meat, stoves, tin, machines and a cow, which were scattered promiscuosly over a cotton field to a distance of fifty yards from the track. The banana cars were not wrecked, and were taken to Spartanburg by the wrecking train that was soon upon the scene, after the track had been cleared, which was done about one o'clock. The cow was only slightly injured and got up and began grazing. Only one box car of No, 02 was broken up. And this was one of the most peculiar sights we have ever seen in a wreck. When the engines came together the engine of the extra running about 25 miles an hour struck No. 62's engine with such force as to drive its tender backward, knocking it clear off its trucks and forcing it through the end of the freight box immediately behind it until it was almost concealed, and in this position it was taken to Spartanburg. The car was loaded with furniture and groceries. The furniture being in the front end was broken into hundreds of pieces, while flour sacks, tubs of lard, etc.. were bursted and mingled in a confused mass. The other tender was left on the ground where it fell. One of the engines was a fine passenger engine, wniie me omer was me regulation freight engine. Conductor Acker and Engineer Folk were running No. G2, while Conductor Anderson and Engineer Stevens were running the extra. The engines colliding were Nos. 895 and 51. One was put in the siding at^Glendale, old station, and the other was put in at the 70-mile siding. The acoident occurred about 4 miles this side of Spartanburg. The negro women from the neighborhood were soon busily engaged gathering up the dirty lard that was scattered in every direction. We heard one of them remark: "De white folks can laff at uc if dey want ter, but do good Lord always prepares a way for de po folk a." The wreck of the trucks was almost indescribable. We have never seen heavy irons snapped intwo, bent and twisted in just such manner before. It is said the crash was heard more than a mile away. The singular part of it is that fire did not break out. As near as we could gather it seems the engineer of the frnit train or extra was endeavoring to make Spartanburg before the regular looal train left, being under the impression that it would leave at G o'clock, while in this instance it left on timo, at 5:80, and they came together about 6 o'clock. The engineer of No. 62, the local freight, saw the headlight of the extra and thought it was backing into the siding at Glendale to get out of his way. He soon found it was approaching and he attempted to stop his train and had gotten it almost stopped when the crash came, both engineers and firemen seeing a collision was inevitable, in railroad parlance, "joined the bird gang" and were safely on the ground when the engines hit. One of the engineers had his ankle slightly strained in jumping was about the only injury sustained by the crew. The fact that the fruit train was running very fast and down grade when he saw the headlight, although several hundred yards apart, probably accounts for his inability to get his loaded train stopped. The wrecked cars were offered to anyone who would tear them up and move them, and workers were soon tearing them to pieces. The wreckage on the other side was fired, and as we passed at eleven o'clock at night on the night train from Spartanburg the blaze was rapidly devouring the debris. - m STALLION! STALLION!! me standard Dreu stanon, l'eDbie, will begin the Fall season at our stable Sept. 20th. Insures at $10.00. 38- GREEN & BOYD. Igleheart's m SWANS I Beat for Bakers and Family viae. Thousa viaing it < II a For Sale by ^ R. M. E i Both Ph< I-.. & SEP! OCT Is the time i LOOK < Get a D1 are secu worrv 4 Q.UltOS ^ for$l.4? BAILEY'S Death of Wm. 1J. Ray. Mr. W. E. Ray died at his home near Union on Wednesday morning about three o'clock. Last year Mr. Ray had a severe attack of jaundice and though he sufficiently recovered as to get up and go about a little his health continued to fail and ho became so feeble that he was forced to 1.. L* i 3 mi i tune liio ueu again. ?uougu everything that medical skill could accomplish was done for him he continued to grow worse until all hope was given up for his recovery the first of the week and the end came Wednesday morning. Mr. Ray was the eldest son of the late Samuel Ray. He was about torty years of age. The remains were intered in the old city cemetery after funeral services at the First Baptist church conducted by Rev. L. M. Rice. The body was escorted to the grave by the Masons and was buried with Masonic honors in the presence of an unusually large congregation. Mr. Ray was born and reared in Union county. lie leaves a wife, mother, three sisters, Mrs. W. T. Powell, Mrs. Con. Allen. Mrs. Stewart, one brother, John, und many friends to mourn his departure. ? Cotton Weighers Appointed. The County Board of Commissioners met in the Supervisor's office on last Monday and appointed the following cotton weighers: Carlisle?J. E. Gregory. Santuc?K. F. Johns. Union?W. J. Jolly. Jonesville?G. M. Fowler. Prices for weighing six cents per bale, to be paid equally by buyer and seller. F" DOWN FLOUR. nda are every day. : ha? pleased others nd it will please you STES. >nes 84* ???????pi mmmm wmammmzsz ts?m?mmmi FRon EflBE OB E the Mosquito gets i DUT FOR Lxie Canopy i ire. a: ou oan7t i 3110 TCll&lCLX Wl 7li?n you can 3 at FURNITURI ICE C Each season open a little better thai It is not only delicious and wholesome but it is highly nutritious. One saucer makes a delightful substitute for a light meal. Tryiit served with crushed fruits. sr.r r. r fa DUKE'S SOD -A DUKE'S PR The Cash B Is now opened up and re large stock of Dry Goods always fresh from the ma bought with special care Lowest Ce t*r i - - we nave no odd or seco goods to offer. We have the Lowest Cash Prices, AND THE SAME TER rich or poor high or 1 Please don't ask us to ch do it. But by complyin will make it to your in as we mean to make this Store in name but in pri< all the way through. W give us and look through. We share of the trade of our d. n. w i c. B. SPARK 4 DAY R 15 R 15 i in his work. I THEM I Mid you I ^jjLorcL TO I tli mos- I &&X et net 1 STORE. 1 REAM. s with my Cream 1 the season before. M SODAS Are more popular this season than ever before. I am serving a few new drinks this season, and of course all the old favorites A FOUNTAIN T ;U0 STORE. argain Store ady for business. Our , Notions and Shoes are irket. They have been at the ish Prices. nd hand or second class ! marked them down at which is ONE PRICK MS TO EVERY ONE, low?cosh on delivery, ange our terms, we can't g with these terms we terest to buy from us, i not simply a Bargain 2es and quality of goods e ask that you A CALL hope to have a liberal friends and neighbors. lb u R N. S, Salesman.