The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 13, 1903, Page 5, Image 5
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Lecal Schedule tor Passenger Trains.
< TKAIVS FKOK COLUMBIA.
Arrive 9:00 a. m. Depart 9:00 a. m
" 1:60 p.m. " 2:10p.m
TBAtae VMM SFABtAWBUKO.
Arrive 11 :S6 a. m. Depart 11:8E a. m
" 9:19 p.m. " 9:t0p.m.
Close connections at Spartanburg with
trains for Atlanta and Charlotte and
Intermediate stations, and at Columbia
for Charleston. Savannah, Jacksonville
and points south. Through trains for
Aeheville, etc.
Nos. 9 and 10 carry through sleepers
between Jacksonville and Cincinnati.
EABOABD SCHEDULE.
No. 17?South bound passenger arrives
at Carliale at 2 a. m.
No. II?Arrives at Carlisle at 10:25 a. m.
No. 88?North bound passenger arrives
at Carlisle 3:37 a. m.
No. 84?Arrives at Carlisle 6:48 p. m.
Local News Notes
Points Personal and Otherwise
Picked up and Paragraphed
by Our Pencil-Pusher.
' Father Gwynn came down from Greenville
this week to visit Mr. Larkin who
k quite tick.
' Mr. X. P. Norman, of C. r. Brown
ACo.. of 8partanburg, spent a few days
In Union this week.
I Rev. L. M. Rice and family have
.given up nouaeeeeping ana are no*
I hoarding at Mr. Jacob Rice's on Main
^ street.
?, Mr. P. W. Wtllard and bis two
r daughters, Yinnlo and Raymoutb, wlio
1 have been sick for two weeks witb grippe
'we an glad to report an up again.
I Wilt Fuller, tbe young white man
Iwho was shot last Saturday night in
Greenville by Earl Floyd, has since disd
of the wound. They wen playing cards
> R. If. Eetes, that hustling family
fgrooery man, speaks a parable in the
Ifirst line of his advertisement and follows
gtt ap with the proof of the pudding. See
'Mead.
1 Two hundred and seventy volumes
shave just been ordered for the Union
fGi-aded School library. Most of tbe funds
flfpr then hooks wen given by the teachJgts
and fthflhrt,
V Mrs. MeCubbias was called to Low.erysville
a few days ago by a telegram
laanoanciag the death of her first cousin,
Mr. Paul Steel. Mr. 8teel was a brother
Mtf Mr. Gleagb Steal, formerly with Farr
> lit Themes*, also a first cousin to Mrs.
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business,
30B0We
are glad to learh that Mrs. Theo
Eison who has been critically ill with
grippe, is now convalescent, and hope
for her a speedy recovery to perfect
health.
Mrs. W. P. Ford, of Roanoke, Va.,
who has been on a month's visit at the
home of her brother, Mr. Theo Eison,
is now visiting the family of Mr. X. L
Bo bo, at Sedalia.
Air. xj, a; Townsen* is Having tne
blacksmith shop and carriage house he
recently purchased and now occupied by
the Union Carriage Works recovered,
also a lumber shed and office added to
the building,
A member of a theatrical troupe got
hard up a few days a few days ago and
pawned a $3,000 diamond ring to a business
man in Spartanburg for a loan of
$700. The stone is about eight carets
weight.
The peach trees are blooming, the
grass is beginning to put up, the violets
are in bloom and the birds are beginning
to sing, evidencing the fact that spring
is upon us, and it is welcomed by one
and all. , '
Mr. W. S. McLure and his milliner
left last week for the northern markets
to select his spring stock of goods. They
will lay in a fine stock of millinery and
Mc. is noted for grabbing bargains when
be goes noith. Watch out for his announcements
when his goods arrive.
Mr. W. Newell Smith joins the ranks
of The Times advertisers. By close
application to his business, courteous
treatment to customers, quick sales and
close profits, he is building himself an
enviable reputation a* a merchant and is
making many staunoh friends. You
can most always get it a little cheaper
at Newell Smith's. Watch his announcements
every week in The Times.
The Peoples Bank has met with phenominal
success since its first day's business.
And there is an explanation for
it ItJl nrpftidtnt Vnn?? vain* a'
printer's ink and he has been telling the
people about a feature of hie beak so
persistently that there is possible few
people in Union county able to read but
knows all about the sayings department,
and there is now nearly 945,000 on
deposit in this department alone. The
Peoples Bank is a very popular institution
in Union. Watch their ad. in
Tub Times.
Stops Cough and] Werki off tbo Cold.
I.axati?* Bromo-Qulniae Tablets cure
a ccld in one day. No p ir<% no pay
price 95 cents. (My
A FORTUNE OF $143,000.
Mrs. John Hopkin'a Former
Husband Once Saved a Man's
hife and the Man Both
Deeded and Willed Him all Hie
Property?The Man has Just Died
and His Estate Amounts to $143
000 ? Information of Hill's
Death Eearned by Merest Accident?Other
Wills had Been
Made.
LATEST WILL SO FAR FOUND.
Quite a sensation was created in Union
this week upon receipt of the intelligence
that a lady of Union is in a fair way to
become richer by $143,000. The circumstances
are about as follows:
Some twenty-five years ago one Robert
Alexander, of Union, who had patented
a couple of horse grazers or stock
tethers went with his invention to Texas
to sell territorial rights. While there he
met with one Chas. Hill, alias Salem
Charley, and the two traveled together,
Alexander having disposed of some territory
to Hill. It happened that in some
way he saved Hill's life. As an evidence
of bis appreciation of this service
Hill, while on a visit to Union, S. C.,
in 1878, made a deed of gift to Robert
Alexander of all the property he then
possessed or might later possess. This
paper was witnessed by Fbilip Dunn and
James Wall and was sworn to before
Jasper Gibbes, Trial Justice at Union at
that time.
In 1892 Hill, while in Galveston,
Texas, made a will in favor of Alexander
to clinch the deed of gift, in which
be stated that the gift was in consideration
of Alexander having saved bis life and
sent it to Alexander at his home at West
Springs in Union county. Alexander
was dead and the wife received the will.
The provision of the will was that the
property was to remain in bis (Hill's)
possession until his death, after which it
was to go to Alexander, his heirs or assigns.
Robert Alexander died about
fifteen years ago, and his widow, Mrs.
M. ?. Alexander, married a Mr. John
Hopkins, an Englishman, and still lives
in the Bogansville section of Union
county, at Ophir Gold Mine. She has
held on to the papers, and by the merest
accident she has j ust read in a piece of old
newspaper that she happened to pick up,
an account of the death of Charles Hill
at Los Angleles, Cal., where he bad ac
cumulated a fortune estimated at $143,000,
and a contest that was being made
by claimants (or bis fortune. Mrs.
Hopkins looked up ber papers and
found it was the name Hill who
willed her former husband all of bis
property for saving his life. She at once
employed Messrs. Sawyer and DePass,
Attorneys, and sent them the papers.
These gentlemen left, Mr. DePass goirg
Monday, Mr. Sawyer going Tuesday,
for Galveston, Texas, to find the witnesses
to the will. They will probably
go on to Los Angeles from Galveston.
It seems that there had been other
wills made by RiU but that this is the
last one made. There will no doubt be
some trouble and contests before Mrs.
Hopkins gets her money if at all. Mrs.
Hopkins was Miss Dolly Bogan, and
a daughter of Isaac Bogan of the old
Bogan family for whom the township
was named. She has one son by
Alexander, and according to the
deed and will which has every evidence
of authenticity these two are entitled to
the handsome fortune above named.
Robert Alexander was born in the
Cross Keys section of Union County and
was a son of Ross Alexander.
While the family were in affluent circumstances
in ante-bellum times, they
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and this fortune would be quite a windfall.
We sincerely hope their attorneys
will succeed.
Jonesville Jottings.
Jonksville, March 9.?The mud
still holds the roads down and travel is
burdensome and hauling is like cruelty
to animals, but the guano wagons are
running all the same.
But little land has been turned yet.
Theee last few warm days has started
the sap to flowing and the buds are
swelling and the blooms on some trees
will soon be out. Some garden seeds
have been planted and potatoes
put in between showers. Some of the
fall oats were killed by the last cold
spell. Wheat is looking well but the
acreage is small.
A negro, Jim Hamilton, who stole a
cow from Mrs. J. B. Free last year and
was sent to the chain gang for it has
lately been discharged from the gang and
k. />o?. 1...? U.,. 4 ? 1
iiu ttiuin nu UUUV9VIUO iinw oavuiui?j aui|
stajed all night with a colored family
and Sunday morning while the family
were all 'out of the house he stole a razor
and several other articles and made good
his .escape. He seems to have a mania
for stealing.
Dr. W. J. Douglass and Dr. H. T.
Hames are both building offices. Dr.
M. W. Chambers has lately finished a
neat offloe building.
Mr. F. P. O'Shields is building a new
and convenient wheelwright shop near
the Methodist phurph.
l Mr. D. L. McLaughlin is i reparian to i
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build a neat cottage on Avenue street.
The Knitting Mills are building a
home near the main building 30 bj 80
feet fcr their box plant.
Mr. S. G. Gault is gettiDg in material
for building a dwelling on Forest street.
A military company was organized
here last Friday night with about fifty
members with the following officers:
R. W. Scott, Captain; Munro Whitlock,
1st Lieutenant; Perrin Kennedy, 2nd
Lieutenant; George Perrin, 1st Sargent.
The company was named the Joneeville
Guards.
Miss Anna C. Hames, of Home, is
visiting relatives in town.
Mr. George Perrin spent Sunday in
Union.
Mr. J. M. Whitehead, of Bogansville,
was in town today on business.
Mr. Charlie Littlejohn, of Asbury,
was in town today.
Messrs. J. E. Mabrey and J. G.
Bishop were in town last Saturday equalizing
the property returns of the township.
Mr. Ezra Holcomb who has been for
the last year in the State of Washington,
came home a few weeks since to see his
sick brother, Robt. A. Holcomb, has
concluded to remain at his native home.
Revs. David Hucks and A. A. James
filled their respective pulpits here yesterday
morning and evening.
Mr. J. L. McWhirter had a fine cow
to die a few days since.
Mr. D. A. T. Farr went to Spartanburg
last Saturday on business.
Mr. C. M. McNeace, of Union, is in
our town today.
TsLKrnoMK.
Some Big Figurea.
During the year ending December
81, 1002, The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York paid to its
polioy-holders in the United States
and foreign countries, for death
claims and matured endowments exclusive
of salaries to its employees
working in those States, medical examiners'
fees, legal expenses, taxes,
etc., the enormous sum of $22,825,089,84.
This exceeds the payment
made last year for corresponding
olaims by $541,626.87.
In the distribution of this fund
South Carolina received for death
olaims $240,918; for matured endowments
$86,077.25; total 266,905.25.
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Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Union Building
A IiOan Association, Her leg No. 6 and
7 will b? held at tl;e of^ce of Farr A
Thomson at 8 o'clock p. m. on April 7th,
HM*. w. W. Hughes,
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Attention Fai
We want you to visit our 1
ware store and inspect the
largest assortments
Plows 4Y*
and
Plow Sto<
In the State. We by the:
car load and can save yo
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