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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?BY THE? UNION TIMES COMPANY 8kooni> Flook Times Building. JNO. R. MATUIS, Editor. L. GL Youno, Manager. Registered at the Postofllce in Union, B. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ?ne year ------- $1.00 8ix months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS ?ne sq iare, first insertion - - $1.00. Brery ubsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con", acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at cents a line. Rej??cted manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will'be charged for at half rates. TTVTOTC K r OfTOHF.R 21. 1902. V*? v?. ^ ? ? ? ? r j ?? Monday, 27th, was President Roosevelt's birthday. He was 11 years of age. They had a big birthday dinner at the White House in which the children were allowed to participate, and knowing children as we do we have no doubt they lost little or no time in participating. The President received a number of birthday gifts. We are indebted to the Youth's Companion for a copy of its handsome almanac for 1'.)??:{. It is neatly gotten up. Showing the monthly readings that will be found in that famous Journal for young people. Also naming important events in history opposite every day in the coming year. It is a valuable almanac to preserve fer reference. Mr. E. L. Wilson, of Spartanburg, makes the first report we have seen from the recently appointed agents of the government to get the facts about the cotton crop. He has sent his first report in to Washington, he reports that: "The total number of bales of cotton raised and ginned in Spartanburg county this year up to and including Oct. 18th, is 2d.!>2t). "Therejare ! 12 gins in active operation throughout the county. During the year 10 new ginneries have been established, and an equal number has been discontinued." We would like to hear from Union county. Judging from the reports in the daily papers the people of the State generally are having a (lala week of it at the State Fair in Columbia this week. Well, this is as it should be, there should be at least one week in the year in which the people of every * part of the State can meet together. It draws the citizens of the State nearer together and makes us feel that we all belong to one great family circle. It Is a pleasure to meet thus and compare notes and gain valuable information one from another, and Columbia is the place, on account of its central location, for such an annual gathering. It would be a great pity for the State Fair to ever suspend. We hope it never will. Capt. J. X. King, well-known throughout the State as a bridge contractor, died yesterday afternoon at <"> o'clock at his home near the city after an i lness of several weeks, lie was ."?S years old. The deceased was born in Murray county, Tennessee. During the civil war he served gallantly as a captain of a Tennessee company. He made a true, loyal soldier and was never known to shirk duty. At the end of the war Capt. King moved to South Carolina and settled at Xinety-Six, where he lived until ho moved to Greenville several year3 ago.?Greenville News L'Sth. Capt. King was well known in Union county, having done considerable bridge work for the county some years ago. His friends hero will regret to lehrn of his demise. WMWwewrwsmj mi < On account of the cruol treatment by a step-mother in Xewberry county a child was turned over to another family to bo reared as their own. After a while the father tried to get the child bafck. The parties in chargo refused, and the child did not want to return. The father went to law nnd crnt ftlO Kanlr was this (lone than a warrant was taken ont for the parents charging them with assault and battery with Intent to kill, an:l they were required to givo an $SO0 bond. The outcomo of this case will ho watched with interest. It is astonishing that a stepmother will deliberately resort to cruel treatment of the children of her husband's former wife, but the strangest part of it is that in many Instances the father will hank the I Dew wife up in hor cruelty. THE PISTOL EVIL. j i What can the schools of the State < do towards inculcating a higher sense 8 of the sacredness of human life? The terrible recklossness in the use of ' fire-arms is becoming a serious men- 8 nee to our civilization. It is time ? for teachers and good citizens to 8 raise their voices against the fearful 1 violation of law, both human and Di- I vine. Human life should be regard- 8 ed as the holiest trust that society r has in its charge. How far is the 8 toy pistol responsible for the pistol carrying mania, and the consequent 1 disregard of life? The young lad is 8 given a toy pistol, he learns to han- 8 die it, and to snap his "paper car- 8 tridtre." But soon ho tires of the 8 toy, and wants to own a "sure enough gun" that will kill something. Teachers and parents are familiar with the process of evolution. Let the toy pistol be banished from the school and from the home, if you would keep from developing in that boy the murderous instincts of the savage. Teach the child the sacredness of human life?yes, all life.?Anderson Intelligencer. A good idea. We are in this thing now up to the neck, and the object is to remedy the evil. Let us leave no stone unturned that will tend to bring the result so much desired by every true and law-abiding citizen. Anthracite coal has taken a healthy tumble. It sold in New York City last Saturday for $0.50 a ton for the first time in six months. It is fortuuate that the slump in price came before cold weather otherwise great suffering would have resulted. OENERAL NEWS NOTES. Gathered Here and There and Condensed for Quick Reading, Ban Brown, a 16 year old negro, was lynched neat Tallapoosa, Ga., last week for assaulting Mrs. Ilenry Dees. The negro was b\nged from the iron n-iuge wnicn spans tne lauapoosa river, aud his body was riddled with bullets. * * * The case of Barney B. Evans for kil'ing J. J. Giiffin a year ago, was concluded in Columbia Saturday and resulted in his acquittal after the jury had been out but a few minutes. * * * * St. Petersburg, Oct. 2G-?The police have captured an accomplice in the reported p'ot against Dowager Empress Maxie Dagmar, of Russia, which was recently unearthed at Copenhagen. * * * ' London. Oct. 27.?In a dispatch frbtn Brussols the correspondent of the Standard says it is declared positively there that Gens Botha and Delarey have abandoned their pronosed tour of the United States and will return shortly to South Africa. That's sad. Wonder if we will ever survive this intelligence. * * * An unusual capture of blind tiger liquor was made by Officer Flinn at the Southern depot at Greenwood Friday. lie nabbed a whole trunk full of the stuff, together with a nice i bed quilt, which had been put in as i packing to keep the bottles from breaking and loosing their "precious" contents. To be exact, the trunk contained thirty-six pints, two quarts | and two one gallon demijohns, all ' filled with dispensary. ! That fellow had a level head on 1 him, he had prepared for a snooze as ' well as a booze. - 1 ># , . r The News From Joncsville. < JoxKsvir.i.r., Oct. 27?The ground ] is well soaked today with the rain t that has been falling continuously since yesterday morning. The sad and very unexpected news r of the sudden death of Mr. G. Wal- I ton Whitman was received here early this morning by phono from Union. I Since Mr. Whitman mwnd fpnm Jonesville to Union ho had not visited our town much, he seemed to be very attentive to his business in Union. Mr. Whitman had a good trade when in bnsiness here, and it was not until ho entered politics that his business declined, and he decided to move to Union. Mr. Whitman stood firmly to his first principles in politics and never for once changed his position, although defeated moro than once he st'dl stoo I to his principles. Last Thursday night the dwelling house of Mr. Hawkins Smith was totally destroyed by fire, most of the furnituro was burned with the house. The loss is about one thousand dollars with three hundred dollars insurance in the County Mutual. Mr. Smith is a very industrious farmer who has managed to buy a plantation and build a comfortable dwelling only to live in it ono or two years. Mr. Smith thinks his house was certainly set on fire as the firo started on the outside of the ell in the piazza which really looks very much like it was the w >rk of an incendary. For the last week thoro has been a flying trapeso in our town, which Is the first one that was ever here, and it has had a good patronage and will carry of! a nice littlo sum of money, j When the money scarcn comes round ' i ust so sure will the shows, flying jen- i lies, pick pockets, agents and fakirs some round to scoop up the money ind they always get it. I understand Mr, Tom Gregory, of Helton, was robbed in broad daylight n Union last week. Gregory just rave himself away when he went into i private place and took a drink of nean liquor with a stranger and then lulled out his pocket book to change i ten dollar bill for the stranger. I lever have any change when strang>rs want money changed. , I made a trip over to Augusta, Ga., ast weekand stopped over at several imall towns along the way, beginning it Peaks, Lexington C. H., Leetville ind Batesburg, and while these towns ire all hustling towns I don't think my of them is equal to the hustlincr 1 ;own of Jonesville. Augusta is of course nil life nod busiuess and is a ( ;ity full of manufactories and com- 4 mercial life. Mrs. J. H. Littlejohn has gone od % two month's visit to her daughter, Mrs. W. P. Odam, at Chesterfield, S. < ri \ iJ% Mr. Marion McNVhirter, of Union, and Ernest McWhirter, of WofTord College, visited their parents in our town yesterday. Mrs. John W. McCrary, of Cross Keys, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. D. L. McLaughlin. Mrs. N. B. Eison is visiting Mrs. E. R. Aycock at Clinton. Mr. G. B. Fowler has been doing a lot of surveying in Gowdeysville tbwnship. , Mr. Lee Lancaster and Miss Mary Gallman were married yesterday, Rev. David Hucks officiating. Telephone. JUtii Jane News Notes. Etta Jane, Oct. 27.?Last week wo had fine weather for farm work and people took advantage of it and gathered corn, cotton, etc. The young people had an enjoyable time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Byers last Saturday night. Rev. Sam T. Creech preached an excellent sermon at MeRonnt.nmin ??. terday morning from the text, "For ti e son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10. It was not my good fortune to be present and hear it, but one who is a competent judge pronounced it one of his finest efforts?a gracious invitation to lost sinners to come to Christ or even to let him save them. Mr. Creech will not return to the Kelton circuit for another year, but I am inclined to think he can do as much or more good there than any new man. His records will show what a geat work he has done during | the past two years, fend the class of people it has effected most make his work (in my estimation) the more to be appreciated. His ministerial life, | so far as I have been able to observe, (and I have watched it very closely) complies strictly Jto the teaching of his text yesterday. He make the less fortunate the greater objects of his care?those who have the least disposition to attend church worship ( and take part therein are the ' principal objects of his care. He does not, like somo other minis- 1 ters and church members, think that ' his church is the only way to heaven. < Not long ago I met a man whom a 1 few years ago I knew as a drunken ' rowdy, a social out-cast and a chronic 1 blasphemer, who, when asked what [ had wrought such a change in his j me, 8aia: "it was the effect of Mr. Creech's preaching to me and warn- ' ing me to forsake such a way of living." lie said further: "No man 1 has ever taken such an interest in I my soul's welfare nnd how could I resist giving up the sins I practiced." ( Mrs. J. N. Strain is quite sick. Dr. Leach, of Hickory Grove, is her phy- ( sician. The rain has caught some corn < pulled down and laying on the ground. J The farmer forgot that yesterday was 1 Sunday and he pulled more of it ' lown Saturday than he got hauled. 1 Last week Mr. T. M. Littlejohn had f several wagon loads of roasting ears ( pulled and hauled off his Egypt farm. 1 The corn was planted after the first 1 pf July. 1 The roads in this county will compare favorably with that of any secJon of the State during dry weather. A Few Facts About mone> in The People $5.00 deposited every montl cent, computed eemi-annuull} $10.00 a month will yield $C you would have $1,474.70. We take deposits o Money in the Savings I out at any time. 'Look these financial condition and let ut laying up some inomey for i overtake yju sooner or later. THE PEOPL Capital $60,000. Sto< Si THE C And the on the ou T 14 ^ X 11U SUITS OF CLO AT $2.50, $3.50, $5.00, good 7.00, 8*00, 9.00, better! 10.00, 12.50, 15.00, best, tailoring and fit. BOYS' s u: \ 50c, $1, $1,50, $2.5 strikers in these B OY SPA] 25c, 35C, 50c; strc warm. A DIP 1 IMr n* Mto H DIU LIML Ul TMh 10 Any size and priee we have, w< in stouts, regulars and slims. C pants and price. A A last and gentle rc MUTUAL DB R. P. HARRY. Mg Bat the rainy season setting in will IP change things and wo will have mud Q in great abundance. The Owen's ford bridge was let out for repairs last Friday. I was not there and can't tell who got the contract and the price to be paid for the work. Tne bridge was built before this section was cut off from Union Bounty and it has boon a very expensive one to keep up. It was a poor job of work at first. Rev. W. H. White will preach at Salem next Sabbatn at 11 a. m. Farmers will sow wheat, generally, this fall and they will put it in in ijood condition. j f^uite a quantity of pea vine hay is J iown in the rain today. I hope our next Legislature will i snact a marriage license law that wiil "knock up" the silly habit of chil- j iren running away and marrying, j Its a shame for this much needed re- j form to be neglected arty longer. A j boy wearing knee pants courting a , ;irl with a short dress on is the most sickening sight one ever saw. I have jften thought that to see an old fool nan wanting to marry a young girl 1 vas bad, but it is nothing compared vith the other. Vox. Subscribe for the Times. and Fiiriirfis I Mmunwm m wb w p r deposited 55 Bank. | i for 5 yeirs with 4 per r will yield you $332.27. >04.60, while in ten years ^ Counts up does it not? I f $1.00 upwards. I )epartment can be drawn t figures over, study your i start you on the road to the rainy day, that will ,ES BANK, jkholders worth $800,000. ?b >0G 15 latch string: hi tside at MUTl THES|suits fc Young man we 1 and try it on anc and strong are. Our Suits fi ind up-to-date _ wmm perfect in Va t? EL There is no use Yt-i about it we had j I J JL S. y?u our ma"min?tJ ;o. No B A R SUit5. In Clothing, Hats Notions, etc. NTS. how IN trig and Do you expect us we liave when we papor to tell you for MEN Pull the p have them And walk into t an fit you in , store where you I article bought of GENTLE REMINDER. Jminder is this, w? ai CLOTHING. IY MOBS I r. < BOILED ANI PATENT LI May be all town, but ON A You need so more lasti less expensi have aspeci that beats t They Please You, your pi the boys Small Boys' Big Boys' His Father's hm SI Watching Your S Main Street, * TIED . Vj v V - I C 1 ? ings ' * IJAL. >R YOUNG flEN. > have the Suit for you, come 1 see how well shaped you t. : whiz in going round the stump ust as well be plain and tell i store is chock full of GAINS j, trunks, Shoes, Dry Goods, THE WORLD % to tell you all of the bargains i have not got room in this about our low prices. . Latch String he Mutual Dry Goods Co's can save money on every tliera. \ re the people for | B8MFINT.. Opposite Hotel Union SHIRTS , OTHERS right in FARM ? mething ng and Lve. We ial make hem all. Everybody, irse and $100 to $1.25. $1.25 to $2.O0. .... $1.50 to $3.00. in h hoe Interest. Union, S. 0. - $ . .. -i