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THE UN ION TIMES ' PUBLISHED EVERY ER1DAY t ?by the.? t] UNION TIMES COMPANY c Seoo5d Floor Times Building. * ? t JNO. R. MATHIS, Editor. * L. G. Younq, Managor. i Registered at the Postofllce in Union, 1 8. C., as second-class mail matter. ' ( SUBSCRIPTION RATES Jae year ------- $1.00 x months ------ 50 cents hiee months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One st-.arc, 11 rst insertion - - $1.00. Brery absequeut insertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer Will b* nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8$ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be retimed. Obituaries and tributes of resect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C. JANUARY 9, 1903. The appointment of a negro woman postmaster at Indianola, Miss., was the occasion of a big kick resulting in the closing of the post office at that place this we?k, and the citizens , have established an independent messenger service, and opened a private post office, expenses being paid by 1 the citizens. It is said the excite- 1 meat extends to surrounding towns. 1 Mr. August Kohn, the Columbia ( * <m*. correspondent of the News and Cou- ] rier, is giving a very comprehensive i and interc sting writeup of the child | labor question from a personal inves- j tigation inside the mills throughout , the State. It is a plain, unvarnished ( statoment of the conditions as he | found them. The articles began in , Monday's issue this week, and they i are worth a careful reading. i The annual report of the State Dispensary shows the business for the year 1?>??i> to have made a net profit of as follcws: State's profit for year pused to school fund. . $l'Jii,()0i).o7 Net profits of towns and counties from whiskey dispensuries ;{s2,f>S;{.;}<> < Net profits from beer dispensaries Cm, 515.40 Total $5(?(J,8i)8.83 < if this amount Union contributes , 12,1 as follows: Total sales $?>3,^38.80 ' ' i aai oa \ M^^/vucvoj ?)1 |UC5I?i5U Prolits ?1*2,1.77. "><>. I Which is equally divided between I county and town. 1 Senator Tillman announces that i he will oppose the negro Cruin'a up- ( pointment just made by Roosevelt, 1 ns collector of the port of Charleston. Xoj only in behalf of Charleston, but in behalf of the whole State, because of the universal abhorence of office holding negroes. The senator says ' he cannot expect to accomplish his 1 object of holding up the appointment unless evidence against Crum is sent him. A dark horse has been appointo 1 U. S. Marshal for the district of South Carolina, whose name is J. 1 Duncan Adams, of Laurens, S. C., a ( Republican. This knocks out Dr. * Clayton, who was so sure of t he plum. Th's is a pretty poor return to Charleston for the unbounded hospitality , extended Roosevelt upon the occasion of his visit to Charleston. The l ist issue of the Jackson Argus, Jackson, G i., is in mourning. The cause is the death' of its able editor and proprietor, Mr. Addison H. ( Khaver, who died at his homo Wed ni-iuH) morning, J-iec. *51 St, about (> o'clock of heart failure. To say that we were shocked when onr eyes ft-11 upon this announcement is but to ' feebly express our feelings. We 4 could hardly realize that this could be true. We have known A. H. , Shaver for a number of yoars, having been with him on the same paper in New berry, during our apprenticeship, andwehavsno hesitancy In saying r that ho was the best all-round news- . paper man we havo ever met, and as a spicy local and forceful editorial " writer, lie had few equals in hii State. v Tho Jack on Argus is one of the fewpapers wo take home and proserve. j It is with a heart full of sadness that ? wo chronicle this notice cf the de Hu.iui. m our irieua. w o extend to ti the bereaved wife and the two little h ones left behind our most sincere and p heartfelt sympathy. While memory holds a seat. In this distracted globe?remember * thee? r' Yea, from the tahle of my memory May fade fond recollections. - I tit.Ul I'll remember thee. n .ETUSHAVE a WARD PRECINCTS. 81 Some time Rgo we called attention , o the fact that tho present arrange- t nent in this town for balloting for >\ andidates was very unsatisfactory, fj n that it forced the people to come ft o one place to vote, the result h his is that when a representative v jallot is cast it puts in the ballot box c jlose on to one thousand votes, and e vhen each of these votes contain the 0 names of from a dozen to 2"> candliates, the counting of them and recording usually takes the entire time of the managers from the time of the closing of the polls all night and until about fl o'clock in the morning before the result can be annbunced. We suggested that ward voting precincts be established, as a method of faciliating matters and relieving the managers of a great strain, and the trying ordeal of counting and checking names all night. The more we think over the matter the more firmly convinced we are that the time has come to establish ward voting precincts for the town of Union. All cities vote by wards, Union is growing daily and this will have to come, and we may as well do it at once as , later. We could then know (lelinite- 1 ly the result of each election by'nine 1 o'clock p. in. of election day, the \ result would be published to the 1 world in the early morning following, 1 and hundreds of people could go awny to their homes and enjoy a good ^ night's rest instead of sitting up all night, or lying around on the court j square, anxious to hear the nfiws, long after the* news of the result from the majority of the county boxes bave been given out. As the result always hangs on the Union box no one can draw an idea until it is countad. As soon as Union's vote could be ascertained a pretty correct conclusion could always be reached. Let us have the ward voting precincts established. The Legislature is soon to meet, and we, in behalf of the citzens, both of Union and Union county, urge our representatives to give us a voting precinct for each ward in Union. If the place in each ward for the establishment of a box is necessary to be known, before wo can get them, we will go to the trouble to ascertain where the most suitable places can be found. Gearge \V. Williams, of Charleston, one of the wealthiest men in the State, is dead. He died at his home :>n Tuesday morning at the ripe old 1 ige of S2. He had been living in c Charleston since 1852, and has since ( been closely identified with Charles- 0 ton's interests. In his death Char- (] eston loses ono of her best citizens, a i self-made" man, an honest citizen t md ono of Charleston's wealthiest r ntizens. George VV. Williams began 6 ife with a capital of $1<>. With its first issue in the new year t -he Greenville Mountaineer has en- i arged and changed its form to an 8 ( oage 5 column paper, which makes it 1 nuch neater in appearance, easier to ' landle and gives more ' choice loca- ^ /ions for its advertisers. The Mounaineer is one of the oldest papers in j ;he State, having carried the news to B ts readers for three quarters of a i jentury. We wish it continued sue- i ;css and prosperity. I OUR SANTUC LETTER. < * 'Old Time has turned another page 1 Of eternity and truth; 1 lie reads with a warning voice to age, t A .1 l mm n lesson U) yoUUl. , A. year lias fLd o'er heart and head I Since last the yule log burned; , And we have a task to closely ask, , What the bosom and brain have learned ( Jh! let us hope that our sands have run | With wisdom's precious grains; Jh! may welind that our hands have done borne works of glorious gains." If not as to the la&t^lot us bope j hat they may in 1903. J Then welcome tnd cheer to the merry i New Year i While the holly gleams above us; iVith a paidon for the foes who hate. And a prayer for those who love us." Greetings. 1903. I got that three. , Oh! how many new resolutions, in ~c nme only. v . I fee a light in the W est, do you? f Wnoofus will prove the worst g breakers" the new resolutions will | /reck ou. j Leaving the Tide out, Time is not ? raiting for any of the human race, j t will havo to be a "race" if we keep j, PLet us ask a question on a diff.-rent \ #ck: H >w many ?re going to spe ^ ||W milch irp?linMi tliiB ? >" ? ...vwuuvoj in* jr vmu nuv/ Jill lish this year. M I offer a new year's "ria?lution" ? bat ie, we wish Ivy Green would g 'rite ofteaer thia year, I like (o c Bad her articles and suppose others c] c. I have never mat her, though ^ have staid at her hons* on re. She h, raa not at home, but thro ve her p rticles I am very well acquainted. A short while ago I reeeivi d imole copy of ihe Times-M ;s-enj! f Florence, S C? with complimei f \Y. Euguene C >ok city editor. ms glad to her through tbut, fr riecd C>ok. I think he is a f dlow and u good editor, at d w im much success thir new year in rork, and ever after wai dr. I outemplating taking his papor t re may keep our acquaiutauco brig ned, and, you know "variety is pice of life." If the new year is to he judged he first twelve days, if that det nines the fate of the year, then ire to have at least several monthi ain, slush, and miry fields. We laving rain twice a day now, t rery few without it. But I don't ieve in that. The negro women and children lauling up wood on their backi miles aud wagons aro idle,# woe < ust for the cutting aud hauling on arm', but the Lord Mayors of t -aco haven't got the run about ou heir bones yet, and the Lord o snows when they will quit it, let p ouiiuie sleep, stop trying to bori i little change "to do a little busin vith" and sjttledown towork.^ X ire nervous now. ^ Up to the present this Las bee etmirkably mild season. "We h md several big frosts, but no v lard freezing weather until the c vave of 26-28 wheu we had temj dure dowu to 18, 14 and 15 respt vely. We can't say what it will "or in the period covering from .T 15th to Feb. 15th, on a ten year as ige, we have our coldest weatLe-, A white man limping from a el i negro's head tied up trom a cut, i 1 hear of another negro bsdly cut i result of halo-fellowship in gambl it a negro frolic. "Oh! tut, tut, t s bad," but 1 know it is not the 1 i white man can do, but it is certs y ae good as some seem to wish to The tirat day of New Year I e >083 may hold to tho old saw, t vbatever you do tho first day of lew year you will be doing all rear, i. e., as to work, idleness, gos ng, ruuning about, etc., but that jears uot to be depending on fait! ibilitiis, but veritable fortune telli md I do not believe in it; for hoi lew year's day to decido a man's lersms fate. Unless I have b *.ited by that day, for on the fire lauuary torn number of years I h vorked, but received no money t lay, nud censequeutly," fated" wor ill the year and received but li lioney. Is that what is the ma' vilh "urn." On the lss\ new ye lay I was some under the weatl nit made siuie axe handles, now < be indisposed and be making taudles all of 1903. I am not aft if it. A roller on a printing press is ml/ thing that has got a more tb nigh inking lately than I did a la)sago. I lifted a full ink bo md without warning the whole 1 om dropped out, the ink falling ny lap, on the table and fljor, a u eh a met a ih??rr? ?> > q u 1 ~ ? v iidQ A\JL a>T 111 i C* uSt the iuk go through my clot ike raiu, and I went for a rag, try o sop it oil'. It was a violet iuk, t did not make me look like a bu1 ?f tweet violets, but I had a mig >retty pair of violet speckled pai mt I do not like calico look slothes on myself. I reckon I am I ooedsimenow. That Lai cold I La-l C iristmas i ato a worse cold, aud it terribly rt ihackl?d nie. It got into my ej iote, ears, and for two days i lights I suffered with a throbb oaiu in one ear that would seem sp ing into the inner part of m^ head ;very puleation of the heart, and ( r-zhole side of my iaca aud heed \ lUmhed, but for that, and 1 co :iear nothing in that ear much hoals, push cars, sleigh bells, crick end a whole congregation of sti oeetles singing every song they 1 in the chart. It got to be a bad th with me, and I s iffercd more tha iver remembered from a cold. I out little of anything for a week, t L do hate to have to "lay up" sick. Oar road8 arc very bod it sc places. They are badly cut, i nuddy from tha water running ah hern. And it is bad w len ttie la a frozia. Daring tho cdd s ia ode through an incxci s .bio mi io!e, soft mud and \v iter, with twn cr * o lemen/aud our animals broke ihrji he nearly two inches of ice au 1 cr ;oiag clown nearly knee deep, a :ould scarcely get their feet out. vaa almost as bad as getting th ee hung in a floor. There was di ;er iu them filling and iij iring th eg?, crippling thtin. Wneu the I i thickly frozou, it is a veriti trap." I verily believe that for eve ollar itwiuM have tAken to work ast summer, it will take ton now. Negroes have been migrating to t Vest of late, priucipilly to Arkaus y the car loads. '1 w ? car loa ls 1< rotn the station at Carlisle about t reeks ago, and I hear I some v, icked up at Stntuc and Uoif ome men went oil leaving wife a hiidren?(but what is a wifj ai li'ldreu to s >mo negroes) and I hea ) me were to go on'tho 3d, but ave no information that they di reparations ware being made for M Soli hi* am tat But you can't ca' th? j tel1 everybody y CO. ATA t.VlO rtTl 1 TT v w W VMV VA11 jr ? Sell Clot are ind 5 Spring Clothir bat we have decided to mt 1 tof ing price oil our FALL . nly ow 5 For the r n a ave $5.0 ) Men's Suits foi "Z $6.60 $7.50 ." act" OVERGO* aot, 2 BOY'S PA hat duz Mackintosh the the : aP HATS! HATS! 50c he i or ug. BOY'S OVERCOATS. and gei 1 MUTUAL D Iter E R. P. HARRY, M will i axe ^ aid though. A grtnv. many of that cirgo was from Chestor eounty, around tj,e station. Those have been 10t. hauling produce to Union nearly all few l'ie They are making themtile s?lve8 scarce in gome plaoes. );)t. A party of men were on Neil's ;0 Saoala recently surveying them and j t ,j making calculations, and I am told,, j whether reliably or not, that to build! he8 a factory there would require the cut*; ing ti?g of a canal five or six times asj but ('eoP a!J river aud 100 feet wide. ich ^ey may be trying to scare sirac hty body, I do not know about such things nta but it does look to me that Broad ing rlver at this place is too big a branch , to be laughing at. I do not know how big p, volume of water it takes to ran turn a factory water wheel, but it l(11 secrrs to me that a dam sufficient to ^e8 turn oue third of the water of these lu(j shin's from the upper jBud to the jng lower end, between one of the is'aida ,jjt. even and the hills, it would take a I at monstrous big wheel to dan it up or stall the current. It would be a life vA9 time job for the meu folks of Union uj j county to dip it out with their hvs to but keep the passa'ge low. It looks to my et8 inexpariencad eye, that a darn half sjj,-! way down the shoals ten feet high [jttq oven, to fjree #hat volume through a jng narrow passage, with the fall below, ? | it would go tlirojM^w with a ^remeuddid 0118 velocity and^weight, and it would lluj take something very strong, brocause it is no little baby stream here. 1 imo never saw the shoals at C dumbia unj 111 tllA /??inr? ujoo ??rv ? - '1 k 1 tu(1 ... ?- .... .. ,tc*3 wj/, auu uavo not seen such a rush of water there, as at Neil lQ(j Skoals. S >me folks may he putting , j a bad construction 01 Neils to make [,,1. them appear m email potatoes and en few in a hill, that they m iy get a good h thing cheap some day. Then I hear u>lt laid ownera wants big prices paid ,|(] them to insure against damages, and jt yet they can't trust Broad for a crop e;r on the bottoms any year. ln. Hey Hkkver. eir lop Joncsyille Jottings. hie 5i7 Jonksvillr, Jan. 5.?The most ' 11 plentiful thing in the country just now is mud. K very where you go the he mud is there- Th? . ... nvuvucl oncma IO as, be paying ua back for all those good 9ft days we had last fall. ,y0 Mr. Jonathan Moss, a young man ras l^at worked afc the knitting mills, died of pneumonia last week out nt uthe homo of his father-iu-law, Mr. J. C*J VV. Elson. Mr. Moss was a line U(* young mun and had many friends in rd this community. I According to the reports in the d, dally papers it seems that the people it all over the countrj'have returned to 1 ? # ' i' . ; '"Jy.- 'Jt ' **- 'j:* * V - ,4 Griia tch em with chaff. Do ou see that the MUTUA] people in the world whc hing Abe / Will soon be comii in As our cellar is full 15 somewhat puzzled ike room in our clothing A.ND WINTER CLOTHIfl Jext Thirty Days We * $4.00 H $8.00 $5.00 H SIO.OC $6.00 H $12.5C I TQ Only a lew I I r. duotion in i MTC 19o. 25, 3 IN I Pants wil Coats at Must have room. its for 25o. $1.00 hats : $3.50 and $5.0O. They are small and i t them, boys, they are nv haiihg Ml UUUII0 % gr. the holiday practice of dancing. Most every town1 and community has had its dance and are proud of it; but Jonesville rejoices that we haven't hnd any dance. Of course every one to their liking. Misses Carrie and Willie Southard, i Belle Littlejohn aDd Belle Whitlock j have all returned to their work teaching school. The boys and girls have all returned to college. There has been but little moving or chaDge j with the clerks. The boys at the knitting mill preIsentedSupt. Albert L. Bassett with | with a nice rolling top writing desk ' as a Christmas present in token of I their appreciation of Mr. Bassett's i kindness to the mill operatives. I Miss Ran Archer, of N. C., and | Miss Ina McNally, of Union, visited friends in Jonesville last week. Prof. Ackerman and Miss'Fannie McCrarj have returned from their Christmas outing, end thd\graded school has opened again for the year. Mr. W. Capers Scott, of Ada, I. T., was in our town last Saturday visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Soott's father, who lives in Spartdnburg, was with him. Mr. Sjott tells many things that are very interesting about his far off country,,which is certainly a rich country, but what about those Indians? I don't see how I could sleep soundly among the red men. Messrs. Webber and Whitlock started out today with their force of hands to commence work on the Harris and Gist bridges over the Forest and Tyger rivers. | Mr. 8. 8 Furrar, of Pinckney, was in town toduy on business. Mrs. Judge Townsend, of Union, is visiting her brother, I)r. W. J. Douglass. Miss Douglass, of Glenn Springs, is visiting her father, Dr. Douglass. Mr. George wood, of Pacolet, was in town yesterday. Rev. David llucks preached at the Metodist church last Sunday morning, but the day was so unfavorable he did not go to his appointments in the country. Telephone. Pointj From P.idg.t* Creek. Tho Cross Keys and Padgett's Creek schools closed for the holidays and their teachers, Miss Turner and Miss Sartor, left for their respective homes. There was a Christmas tree at Cross Keys Xmis night. It was a lovely sight and was loaded with presents which were distributed ameng the crowd. There was also a Xmas tree at Padget t's Creek scho>l house Saturday afternoon, Deo. 27. A very large , crowd was present and seemed to enjoy the occasion very much. , Mr. W. M. Ferguson who has spent j the past year with Ills cousin, Mr. j L. J. Browning, has returned Vo his ? home at Kenuo, k). 0. Mia many 1 ^ f*S Will lo~ us the favor to L DRY GOODS * ^VP rncf ig in and in large lots* of goods we have been to know what to do, so department by reducfG. Give You Men's Suits for $6.5G ) 44 '4 44 $7.50 > 44 44 44 $10.50 left to go at big re>rioe. 5c and 50o. These 1 hold^the boys. Halt Prica. for 50o. Stetson Hats so is the prioe. Come yours. HMfiHT,, Opposite Hotel Union friends in this secblon are sorry to see him leave. Miss Nan Wilburn accompanied by her friend, Miss Leila Edwards, of your city, spent the holidays with her parents. Miss Louise Browning who returned Deo. 2Urd from a visit to relatives and friends in yoar city, entertained a number of her friends on Saturday. Miss Minnie Stewart, of Sedalla, is visiting friends in Flngervllle, S. 0. There was a party last Friday night at the resldenoe of Mr. K. O. Whir mire. It was eojojed by all present. Mr. Will Whituilre spent the holidays with his parents. Mr. Lester Davis paid Gross Keys allying, visit recently. Mr. Jlmmie Murphy who has bean spending the past year at Welford has returned horn?. We are glad to welcome him back. Miss Lou Smith, of Dutchman, S. C., is visiting her cousin, Miss Brattle Stewart. Misses Orrie Hames and Mary Langford are visitiDg Miss Rosa Whltmlre. Mr. Guy Wllburn, of Union, la visiting his uncle, Mr. B. G. Wllburn. / ' Wishing The Times and Its many readers much success, we will close. Jack and Jill. The Editor's Wish. "My poor friend, you have but a few minutes longer to live," said the kind old doctor at the bedside of the editor of the Kuralvllle Bazoo. "It there any last request you wish to have carried out after you arlgonef" 'Tell the foreman," aaid the dying soribo feebly, "to do by us he we have always done by others, and give us as flattering obituary notice as his j conscience will permit him to. Bequest him, too, to run it at the top of the editorial column, next to and loiiowea by pare reading matter and also to call attention to It In a local paragraph. This la a luxury we hat* . j never felt able to afford ouraelvea an- I til now, but we feel that under these j circumstances it is a pardonable ex* hibition of vanity oa our part?a man ? never dies but once, you know. And i fl by the way, kindly request tne mar- % uie cutter to carve on our tombstone* d beneath the customary statement oC the facts in the case, the legend. We are Here to Stay.' "?Ex. # Croup. The peculiar cough which indicate* croup, is usually well-known to the mothers of croupy children. No timem} should be lost in the treatment of it, and for this purpose no medicine ha* received more universal approval than, Chamberlaift's Cough Remedy. Do not * waste valuable time in experimenting ** with untried remedies, no matter how highly they may be recommended, but _ live this medicine as directed and all4 *> in atoms of croup will quickly disap-* Ar SSL fear. For sale by F. C. Duke, Druggbt^ jlB