Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J I =============== . 'Notice of Stockholders' - fi?ff~TnE UNION TIMES i#a? Graded Schools, Water Works and M J I H Jk V I ^ H ^ W I ^ W J k 1* Ti.-,. JkitMluc in and out ofim* prreent to Electric Lights, Population 7,000. XT -1- W _M_ * r^S V $5,Cv/o,ooo. 11. S. Harris, _ ... . ?' :* ^i'rt'T and J. " "" '0113 were yOL.LIH.NO.il. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1903. #1.00 A YEArT ^ ????^? - . ? ? A.-^ Im * i * ? ~ IIONITES AT THE REUNION. I Denver, Colo., Correspondent t the Reunion at Dallas?Met iany People Who Formerly ,ived in Union County?Light inowfl in the tppst. Denver, Colo., March 1, 1003. t. Editor: Ve still have the raost lovely ither imaginable with the sun ning as clear as a crystal, not u ad to be deecrned as far as the eye i behold. The past month has in the coldest of the season, with reat many light snows and most he.thne tho thermometer has been r zero and sometimes below, but days are getting^ much longer i the sun warms up the earth so t there is considerable thawing at j Idaj, while the nights still linger ** -Wm*"-' ftluuuu ljliu 2<oru iuuin. I was very glad to hear once more I front our old friend, T. II. Gore. (Hope tbat he will write more next time and more often as well. Glad to eee the new correspondent from Sedalia, hope he will give all the news everj week from that interesting locality. I would suggest that he or she had better adopt a different nom de plume unless they are par| Bh ticularly fond of a nick name, for f A, they will sure get the nick-name of ' F8heney very quick out here, but 1A HBon *here is very little in a name 4 4 way, so please give us the news IHfl^Hlrery week and we will not be parHyHkular absut the name. P I must acknowledge my apprcciNation of the stand taken by the Spartanburg Herald and The Times in the matter of enforcing the laws and making more stringent laws to pre^ rent the increase of crime and especially murder, for which South Carolina has a very unsavorv record, and which the State will always retain until there are more stringent laws and until men are puc in .office who will at all times and under all conditions strictly enforce each wad efsty^lkw and thereby protect the inft$cenf tad ^punish toe guilty. I am very thankful for the letter of Rev. J. i). Mahon and will admit there may hare been errors both by the memory of the lady and by transmutation of the writer, however, I am sure it was unintentional on the part of either, and when the deaf reader will stop and consider how difficult it would be to catch every sentence and word spoken by a woman, especially by one who is not accustomed to talking to or listening to the gentle voice of the fair sex, and when (to use the vulgar phrase) she can talk like a blue streak of greased lightning descending to the earth through a metalic conductor, why then you may grasp a faint idea of the cause of errors on the part of your humble scribe. Besides, your humble scribe could not. get possession of the floor, as it were, not oven for a moment, therefore he did not have the advantages the Reverend fentleman could have commanded, owever, I am very thankful for his information as well as criticism. Well, I will try to finish telling of the dear old soldiers and others tnat I had the great pleasure of meeting at the reunion. ? hope the readers will not come to the erroneous idea that there was nobody at the reunion except South Carolina people, though I I shall not speak of any other, not be| cause there wero none or because of f any ^.difference towards others, but simply I did not have lime to get acquainted with any others and not half I met who were from Carolina, therefore I tried to see all who wore jrom old Union county and other fnfljitm adjoining and even in that .attMapt failed to see many who were ,thcre. Well when I got to the fair ^grounds it Was about 1 p. in., and ithe sun was coming down like the fury of cotton day in July or August, though there was a very gentle breeze blowing but that was of very little benefit to any one in the great crowd everywhere and on every side, and the dust was terrible around the front of the greunds and the whole earth eeemcd alive with p:oplo. After 1 t iriCinAiile I made inquiry for the headquarters of South Carolina, I I vh told bf nome one to go on straight ahead, I passed great rows ? of small buildings on the right where R * ?U kinds of refreshments and advertismg booths were so thick you could h^ly tell when one stopped and the P Other began, and on the left was Ik 1 beautiful lawn grass all parked and set with small shade trees, though the trees were small and the leaves so thin that their shadow looked more like moonshine than it did like a South Carolina shade, yet every available space was thoroughly Dacked with people. Still farther to the left stood the auditorium or as they called it music hall. It was a massive building with one part like a theater and another for exhibitions of the products of the State. It was the largest wooden building that I had ever seen and was so tall that it looked very dangerous in the heavy winds they often have out there. I 1 -II ? I owu pusaew un mese imngs, :iISO a minature railroad which ran around the race track, then I went through another fence, there was no gate but simply a few panels of the fence had been taken out to make room for everybody; after getting inside this fence we were on the race track and from there could be seen the hundreds ef tents all over the fair ground, they had all of the State tents that could be spared and a great many had been borrowed from the United States army. Each State of the Confederacy had a row or more of tents, though some that were not very well represented would have two headquarters in one. There were large signs at each headquarters announcing what State or States were there represented. After passing many of them, weaving my way to the center of the grounds, I beheld the old Palmetto headquarters, which were near the center of the grounds I made my way there as fust as I could through the surging crowd, when I got there I asked to see the rfl?ristf?r. hut. wa<j infnrmnil ?l,of register was not ready for inspetion as all names had to be copied by the clerk in charge of headquarters before they would be given to the public and that the probabilities wore the register would not be ready until noon the next day, so I was at a loss to know what course to pursue to find any one an-i- while I wee thds pandering over iny disappointment there appeared a genial face that somehow seemed familiar, and a quiet though determined expression which seemed to arouse a now thought iu my mind, though I had never seen the man betore, yet he very quitly approached saying, "arc you from South Carolina?" I said yes, from Union county. lie then remarked he was from the same county, and his name was Felker. What? I said, this is not Sam Felker? Yea, he says, this is me. And to my delight as well as surprise it was Sam Felker, of Cross Anchor, S. C., an old friend of my father. After that I felt like I was at home and we proceeded to take in the differ3nt tonts, and as he had already found many from Union and adjoining counties, we were not long finding all the Union people who were on the grounds. Mr. Felker was very anxious to find out all he i.i c .u ri i." l 1.? count irotu uiu oiuoa ayujj*, sum uc had been away 18 years; ho now lives in the Choctaw Nation. lie likes his present location fine and is doing very well; sa}T3 he has a lot of land leased at much better terms than owning it in the States. lie insisted very much that I should visit him, which I regret I could not do, he said it would be a pleasure to him to entertiin Carolina people. I also met Mr. Perry Floyd, from Cross Keys. His family once owned what was known as Floyd's Mill, on Tyger river. He is very tall and lean, with hair very noar white. He has been away from South Carolina 37 years; he now lives in Arkansas. Some oi his old friends remarked that it was not Mr., or as they all called him Perry's, intention to live in Arkansas, but he got water hound there 37 years ago and has not been able to get away with his family sinc<% though they were sure he would yet come to Texas. There were two of the Sinclair brothers from Union; they have been away from Sou'h Carolina about 20 years; they now live in Texas. Mr. Clark from Union, who has been away from South Carolina 2"> years. lie also lives in Texas and is doing well and - * ? /? % _ seems to take me very easy; nc is a bij; fat fellow and very jolly. Mr. Presley and Dr. Oarlhle, both of CJoshcn Ilil"; the former has been away for 36 years, the latter for 2( years; both live in Texas. Will and John Taylor, brothers ? from West Springs; tho former has been away 30 years, the latter 20 i years; though John has been back i on a visit several times. Both live in or near Dallas. Will is reported to be very wealthy, owning several of the best farms near Dallas, besides city property. John does a real estate business in Dallas. Bathwell Williams, from West Springs, has been away 9 years, lie married Miss Ilodges, of Lott, | Texas, and now has charge of a flour mill at said place. Mr. Gault, of Jonesville, S. C., a j relative of the manager of the cxcolsior knitting mill, was only visiting , at Dallas, though being a visitor he , was very interesting com nan v. John Henry \Vdliams, once of West Springs, though now of Con- ? verse, S. C., was another visitor, i He only remained to the second day i and then went to visit his son at i Lott, Texas. < Miss Jane Kay, of Cross Keys, who moved to Mississippi with her < parents when quite small. She is ^ now Mrs. Jack Horton and lives at 1 Dallas. Her father was Caswell ' Ray, who went to Mississippi 37 1 years ago, where most of the family still reside. Mr. and Mrs. Ilorton 1 are of the very best families find ^ know how to entertain any one from j South Carolina with the truest of t Southern hospitality. Though Mr. Horton is a native of Mississippi, yet [ he is always glad to entertain anyone r from South Carolina, because of the 1 devotion ot his wife to the people of r her old 'childhood home. They i now live at 231 Wall street, Dallas, 1 and say they aro always glad to see J any one from old South Carolina. g Mr. Jeff Powell, of Cross Keys, v has been away from South Carolina * for 27 years and now lives at Jones- 11 boro, Miss. He ia one T)f the best of 1 citizens and is doing very well in his ? adopted home, though the nai \ bf J Carolina has a charm for him/ Mich knows no equal. n.y . f Jqtni TvSaeff^ of BogansvtlTe, f .3ua? *oil "acquainted with tho Rev. ^ John Gibbs family, having worked t for him, also well acquainted around t Cross Key8 and Padgett Creek, lie t has been away 30 years and now lives t in Texas. a Mr. Goudlock, of Union, is a fine old gentleman. lie has been away c ever since the war; he now lives near c Pontetac, Miss. He has a son who t is a Methodist preacher, whom I had t the pleasure of meeting while at t Jonesboro. There is an old place t near Union once owned by Mr. 8 Goudlock's father*which still bears * the name. J Mr. John J. Laurens, a descend- ^ ant of Gen'l Laurens, for whom 1 Laurens county was named, and of ^ the best families of the country, and , a brother of the wife of W. F. Duke, ( of Scdalia, S. C. Mr. Laurens came ( from Spartanburg county and has 6 been in Texas about 15 years. lie j says he can make more than twice as , much as in South Carolina, but the j cost is also very great, though he thinks Texas is far ahead of South j Carolina and more so especially on < the negro question. He now lives at ' Mcrrett. Hunt countv. Texas, one of 1 the most fertile counties in the State. < I also met a great many visitors 1 from Anderson county, S. C. Mr. ' Anderson and Mr. Johnson wore cs- J pecially pleasant to meet with, also 1 Mr. Leonard, of Spartanburg Co., ' he also being a visitor, also Mr. Mulligan, from Marlboro county, S. C. He now resides at Overton, Toxas, has been there 13 years and ( is a friend of my relatives of Eastern Texas. I should like to tell more of tho , reunion, also of my trip to Fort , Worth if I could do so. Will close , wishing to each and all health and happiness, and that all will givo us the news from every part of the county. W. G. Bailey. EVERY CHURCH or institution supE?ortc?l by voluntary contribution will >e given a liberal quantity of the Longm.in .( Mnrl'moi Pnrn Paints whm.Av??r tliey paint. Notb: Have done so for twenty-seven years. Sale*: Tens of millions of gab Ions; painted nearly two million houses 1 under guarantee to repaint if not satis1. facing: The paint wears for periods up to*elfchtecn yenrs. Linseed Oil must k he added to the paint, (done in two minutes.) Actual cost then about $1.25 i a gallon. Samples free. Sold by our , Agents. J. L. McNyhirtcr, Joncsville, ^ C-2mo. TO!'' Early Risers ) Th? famous little piHs? Letter to President Roosevelt. A San Angclo Man Takes Up the Attitude of Mr. Roosevelt on the Negro Question in the South?Some Hot Shot. San Aogelo, Tex.,?To the Dallas XewJ. This ia an open letter, to the President of the United Spates: At by tho permission of the omnipotent yon happen to hoM si position in which you have the power to ho of benefit to I3,OCXM)Oo people of Afri can decent, I write you in their behalf, I address you as President, not as a man. As an individual you have sin unquestionable right to pursue any jourse you mav s?e fit. But, sir, as President of the United states you have no moral right to ?l > my of these things because you ar3 n a most high place; being there it s your <luty to corsjrve the welfare )f all the people. Your course in the whitehouae indicates what you cju?ider the proper ine of conduct for all citizens to purme. N\w, if auy citizen is denied he opportunity to follow your lead he nay think himself grieved. Thereore, in setting an example for the aogrocs to follow, you should, in the lame of humanity, consider well your vays, and not encourage them to get u a path that will most certainJv lead hem to destruction. Thirteen million people of African ilocd aro now s irrouuded and domilated by 65 000,000 white people. These 13,000,000 being in a hopeless uinority as to numbers, and vastly nferior as to intelligence and wealth, ive here by sufferance. It is possible rcu may theoretically add to the ne-* ;roes a large number of Northern whites. I call your attention to the act that Northern tradesunions do tot admit negroes; they constitute he masses of the people. As the legroeaare not even allowed to work or a living in the North, it certainly ollowa that in the final count of the lADrnM >frutr I ni unit Jni-nKaa'' iimi . my WMM W1 vuvo J VW v?< J I inC % ~u.r\/i \ I1C1II" mirc^w rooi the trade), mines an J factories. ?hia being true, it seems logical that hey should, and any friend of their in he dominant race should counsel hem to cultivate gocd will between he l\v) races, aud to accept co.iideration with true appreciation. As the power does not exist which an prevent the exterminatoin of the legroea on this contiuent, if it comes o the attempt to force the white people ly "guns and torches" to yield auyhiug which they may wish to retain, he friends of humanity and the ucgro hould seek other means to secure real >eneiit, aud not be led ia their ignortuce to seek for chimerical benefit vhich will result in bitter d'sippoiutnent and disaster to them. Itisfar better that 13,000,000 negroes >e allowed to earn focd and raiment iy industry than that some few hunIrods shall have the equivocal honor )f dining with the kind of w hite p.-rlon who ma/ have some uuteior in > ive which causes him to sit at table with the uegro, to the negro's uJo mg. I beg'/or you to prevent the useless ind inexpedient agitation of these question?, as your predecessor did This onlv reoaires that, ns T'rraM >nf. iron consider the White House as the dlicial residence of our Chief Mtgistrate, and that you rasped the reasonible wishes of a lu?go section of ci:i seus, who desire that our negr> popalaton be not lured to their d(sanction with your bauble of social equality which in thoir iguorauca they value It is said that you have a persona! aid to reach through the nogrrci. It this be true, and you are willing to alienate the negro's neighbors and friends from him in order tnat you may gratify a personal ambition, then an appear to yon will fall on d ?af ears, and they are lost, indeed. Presumably, this motive has actuated you, es previous to the time when you became a candidate for election to tbip high office, in none of your public acts or writings did you make it man ifest that you thought it nece?siry for the negroes to he mixed with the whites socially, or that they would he benefitted by such mixing. The only hopi for tho negroes i* that they be taught to foster g >od will on the part of their white neighbors. Th's has been the he/note to the ucceBafiil theory and former practice of that Btalesman ivd gr>- d clean mao, B ioht r T. Waa'iingto.i. JI? has labored for yea s to teach the uegro to livo decently, to create a society of their own ami to cultivate good will between themselves aud their neighbors. This negro had thousands of warm friends oy reason of his self-respecting and rational life: you, sir, seduce him with your familiar hospitality into an act, which cost him more friends, whom he ha 1 acquired with mauy years of patient living and work, than you can ever restore to him. lie did not need your dinner and be d >es need the priceless good will of the people of the Ssuth to u*e for the benefit of his race. He had our entire confilence and friendship; now he has not. We fear some enemy of his may Bhow him some glittering bauble and entice him from the right path he followed. I name him as an ins inco of the wanton wasto you make with your attempts toconvineo tli? npormoa that you aro really with them. If you ask yoursolf, and answer houeatly, whether the negrjea were hurt hy Booker Washington dining with you, you must answer "Yes." Do you wish to contiuue hurting these poor ignorant millions? If by any chance there remain auywhero men who wish them well in fact, aud not fur political ends, for God's take teach thorn to prizs such a statement aa tine gold, for I tell you they need it now, and the time is swiftly coming when they will need it more. Tell theib to cut out their tongues before beginning to talk about "guns and toiches." Point out to them that the orgauizcjl masses in th^ North will ha7e none of them." Say that the teeming millions drifting West and South will not even allow them to live uor labor in the new couutriec; admit that all your "strenuous" power can not compel the Governor of Illinois to allow them evgn to get off the cars to labor in the 4nine& Let Vniem know you cau appoiut them to office?say one in ten thousand? but that your armies and navies can not make the people take a letter out of tbe postoliice when a black postmaster offers it. All this you know, but have you given it ..ihecoosidsra. tion your oath as President, your ob hgatiou As a citizan and yofflfduty to humanity demand*? C. B. Metcalfe. The annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of Padgett's Creek church was detained on account of bad weather in holding their annual meeting until late in the month, (February.) An interesting program was prepared, and in part carried out. Some gocd pieces suited to the occasion were read by Misses Josic and Agnes Murphy and Bessie Humphries. "Why should Christians be interested in Foreign Missionery Work?" was the subject of a paper prepared by each Mrs. M. P. Hollls and Mrs. Anna Johnson. Mrs. Hollis said: "One of the main reasons I tlunk why we should be interested in Foreign Mission work is because it is Cod's work. We are God's children, lie is our Father and we ought to be interested in our Father's business. If our souls arc in harmony with God we will want to carry on llis work. There is no mistake about this being God's work, for it was the last command of Jesus. lie said: 4Go yc and teach all nations, and lo! I am with vou always, even unto the end of / the world,' Christ must have had this work very much at heart, and surely no wwrk can he more important. ?omc use llotne Missions as an excuse against Foreign Missions; this requires our attention and must not be neglected, for 110 land is as dear as our own home land, but where is the person in our country who cannot hear the gospel preaoked whenever he ohooses? Bibles are plentiful, and religious literature that makes the plan of salvation so simple no one can mistake it. The heathen grasp it as a new idea and when converted make faithful christians. They arc hungry for a hope beyond the grave, and when their darkness and gloom is penetrated with the gospel light they wonder why we have been so slow to send them the grape'. Another reason why christi.il sthou'd be interested in foreign work is brcauso it is a debt we owe to other nations, forbad it not been for Foreign Missions we would never have heard of the gospel. Picture our country in the darkness and ylooin of heathenism. Look at other cointries and see what we might have been. What could have been a greater blessing to us than Christianity has been? Now what has been such a blessing to us, received too at tho hands of others, surely wo ought to bo willing to send to the dying millions around us. The crimes and vices of heathen countries cannot be pictured. They have no conception of right and wrong. Wo cannot all be missionaries, but we can all help to sand those who go." Johnson, in the same snbject, viz:- rt,Why should Christians be interested in Foreign Missionary work" in substance said: "The last com-mand of our Savior was 4Go ye therefore and teach all nations.' We can not be true to God and be indifferent to Foreign Missions, 'Righteous iiwoo cAuimiu a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.' Then should not every christian be interested in the benighted heathen? They are ready and anxious to bo taught, thev believe and accept the Lord Jesus moro readily in proportion than do our own people. It is true they are ignorant and superstitious, but what has elevated us above that ' same sphere? Was it not the com'* ing of missionaries to our forefathers and teaching them about Jesus? Ilow miserable and depraved would be our lives today but for this blessed fact. Should we not interest ourselves in sending this same glorious message to those who are daily sinking into Christless graves by the hundred* and thousands? Is this not enough to interest every christian in Foreign Missionary work?" Another paper, "Our duty as Christians," by Miss Agnes Wilburn, was listened to. AmoDg other things she aaid: "In as much as our society is one of the instruments in God's hands of redeeming the lost I think we should heartily enlist ourselves in full sympathy with the work and willingly do our part. The field is Utge?it not only covers our own borne land, but the world; and the demands for work are imnerativ? It is our duty as christians *fco earnestly and willingly try to spread the gospel in all the world. Let us see ilifftfierence and spiritual from casting its gloom in any ? ^ trar*community. A grave duty rests upon each one of our society, so let us bravely, persistently and piously seek to discharge this duty." ' W&sibenefit is there in being a member of the W. M. Society?" was the subject of a paper by Mrs. W. C. Davis, listened to with much interest. I wish I could give them all as written, but space will not allow. Already I fear we arc overgoing the limit. However, I must mention one other begging the kind forbearance of our editor. Miss Ida Bobo writing of the privilege of being a "Co-laborer with Cod" said: "No true work since the world began was ever wasted. No true life has ever failed. In view of these facts we rejoico to see the good our society nas already accomplished. We are unable to say to what extent its influence reaches or the lasting good it may do through the coming years. Christian life is action, not a speculation, not a debating, but doing. It follows then that we must take our stand for God and let the woild know we are on _ D. . T 1 on uie uoru s siue. the work that is to tell in heaven is that which is done in earnestness of spirit here. Hence in this, our annual meeting, let us resolve to make this our best year. No investment of money is better than that invested in God's treasury, and no better expenditure of time than in Ilis service." Our pastor, Rev. E. C. Watson, was present and expressed a desire to become an honorary member of our society. Our Treasurer made a report which was gratifying; near $70 being raised for benevolent and Missionary purposes during year ending February 1003. Sedalia, S. C. R. M. Lkk. Tragedy A verted. ".lust in the niek of time our little boy was saved," writes Mrs, \V. Watkins, of Pleasant City, Ohio. "Pneumonia had played sad havoc with liim and a terrible cough set it besides. Hoctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried l)r. King's New Discovery for Consumption Viul our darling was saved. He's now sound and well." Everybody ought to know, it's the only sure cure for Coughs, Colds and alt bung diseases. Guaranteed by K, C. Duke; Druggist. Price f>Oe and $1,00. Trial bottles free. To Cure a Cold In One Day Tske laxative P.romo (Juinino Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. 2oC. 0 1)