Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fSPECIAI jj J rTri A I BOB n Do not delay. Wc B want room and i ? All Straw Hats P A lot of Ladies f at half price. y Men's 50c Shirti ^ Men's 75c Shirts Men's $1.00 Shi All Men's Fine H< At 20 Pi ILadics' 75c Oxfords for Ladies' $1.00 Oxfords f Ladies' $1.25 Oxfords f All 5c Calicoes for 3Je, All 6c Calicoes for 4c, t All 10c Gingham for 7c Arm & Hammer and pound packages, 3c ] One Thmiannd Hnllnrii Q a bargain, fl Come right ahead. ' A genuine sale for cash. { approval and no goods _ ? Yours for jjM. w. Local Schedule for Passenger Trains. . Tlinil FROM COLUMBIA. Arrive 9:00 a. m. Depart 9:00 a. m " 1:50p.m. " 2:10p. m TKAIKS FROM SPALTANBURQ. | Arrive 11:85 a. m. Depart 11:85 a. m M 9:10p.m. " 9:80p.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 Asheville, etc. Nos. 9 and 10 carry through sleepen between Jacksonville and Cincinnati. SKA BOARD 8CHBDULK. No. 27?South bound passenger arrives at Carllale at 2 a. m. No. 31?Arrives at Carlisle at 10:25 a. m. No. 38?North bound passenger arrives > at Carlisle 3:37 a. in. No. 34?Arrives at Carlisle 0:48 p. m. Local News Notes Points Personal and Otherwise i Picked up and Paragraphed by Our Pencil-Pusher. Mr. Preston Bobo, of Sedalia, was in Union Satnrday. t The Misses Counts are visiting relatives at Bis ire. Miss Ida C. Clement spent Saturday and Sunday in Spartanburg. f Miss Blanche Morris left Saturday for a visit to friends in Chester. * Prof. C. A. Edwards, of the Business College, went to Spartanburg on the 4 th. |__Mr. Hampton Wilburn, of Cross t Keys, was in U QIOll on uuaiuwa x ucc <*ay. ^ Mr. O. B. Bobo, of SedaliA, was in Union Saturday and paid Tub Times a 1 visit. 4 Mrs. Charles Hart has been quite sick 'with fever but is now on the road to reoovery. | Miss Ethel Jeter and Miss Edith Little, !of Georgia, visited Mrs. Kemp Thomas |bwt week. : Mias Lillian Williams left Friday for .a few weeks visit to friends and relatives gat Converse, 8. C. > J Mr. J E. Lipscomb of Cherokee has been oo a few days visit to his brother, tMr. E. C. Lipscomb. A \ Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cooper and little ^ [nieces left Friday for a weeks visit to ire!atives in Spartanburg. ) Mr. D. C. Clarke left for Atlanta I Wednesday where he goes to attend the t meeting or the B. Y. F. U. II For headache?sick headache?a '"splitting" nervous headache?in fact., any old kind of a headache, use llamon's ^ kl'ills. They clear the system of the (cat ae of headaches. 25 doses 25c. For sale by Union Drug Co. A t. % . i&y.-: t ^ . mEs] O' S. I 5 want money', we M nust have both. 3 ========== * ?. If " an uau C I ' Shoes, sizes 2, 3, and 4, p E 3 for 25c. u 3 for 50c. ' rts for 75c. 3tS sr Cent. Discount. 50c. 12 or 75c. H 'or $1.00. n ten yards limit. W en yards limit. W , ten yards limit. " M Silver Leaf Soda in P In >er package. H i worth of Tobocco at M Tins is no fake but a H No goods sent out on W taken back. U business, u g O B O. j Mr. Ja?. Keller brought in the first cotton bloom we have seen this year. He brought it in Friday, July 3rd. Hulh, the six year old daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. S. S. Waldrop, entertained a number of her little fritnds Monday afternoon. Misses Lillian, Maud aud Pc-arl Goforth aud Messrs. Ilaynes Harris, Frank S&ndeis aud Charlie Counts went to Sbelon on the 4th. The crowd that visits the new mineral Bpring grows larger and larger every day. Mr. Peake has sent on some of the water to Clemson and will get the analysis in a few days. Th^Methodist and Baptist churches will bwclosed Sunday evenings through th6 hot summer times, perhaps to September or October first. The morning exercises will be held as usual. This will probably constitute the vacation for tho pastors of these churches. The Editor speut Friday in Spartanburg, aud in company with Rev. W. A. Masse beau visited the wrecked mills at Clifton. It is a sight worth seeing, even at this late day. On the way to Clifton Mills you pass right by Glendale Mills and get a full view of the whole place. Mr. F. 1'. O'Shields of Joneaville was in Union Monday. Mr. O'Shields has had great success this year with his truck farm, lie showed a photograph of some dew berries that measured 115-10 inches iu length and 15-10 of an inch iu diameter. His strawberries have loug been noted for size aud flivor. "Rev. W. A. Massebeau stopped over in Union Friday night and left next morning with his little daughter Maude, for his home in Greenwood. Bro. Massebeau appears to be in flne health, and is the same genial, big-hearted spirit he has always beeD. He says he is greatly in love with his work in Greenwood, and has found Greenwood to be a capital town. I Mr. W. S. Lipscomb of Asbury, called in Tuesday and paid us a pleasant visit. Mr. Lipscomb is one of the largest fanners in this part of the country. He has seven hundred acres in cotton this yea". * He says that he lost a good many acres of growing crops on account of the recent floods, but he said that where the land was worth twenty Ave dollars pei acre before it is now worth fifty. The rich deposit of mud is the causi'of this. Mr. Lipscomb is the father of Mr. E. C. Lipscomb, one of our progrefsive business ninn Mr. Ii. V. Porter, formerly of Kellon, now of Mackintosh, Florida, called iu Monday to see us. Mr. Porter is on a visit to friends and relatives at Kelton. lie is merchandising at Mackintosh and says it is a great country. He la iu the midst of the orangd and vegetable belt, and has been there twelve years; in fact went tiiere a boy, for be is yet a young man. He has married since going to Mackintosh and said he would stay some time on his visit to Union county if he did not get too homesick, and have to go hack to tee iha wife and little boy?"the 11 nest boy on earth." VI e hope be will call again to see us tefore going lack. Death of u Child. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. McKee, of Buffalo, lost their little <-ightcen mouths old pirl, Geunette, July 4.h. A few days before the child's r'ea'h she was carried to her grandfather's home in the country, Mr. Wm. MorrK But the change failed to help the sick child. She was buried in the city cemetery. Denth of a Good Woman. Mrs. II. S. Porter, of Kelt on, died after a three week's illness July 1st, and was buried at the Galliran grave yard July 2nd. She was bo years old and a raembe* of Foster's Chapel. She had 1 been in poor health for some time, but the immediate cause of her death was a , severe attack of dysentery. She was a good woman and leaves a largo number 1 of frieuds and relatives to mourn her ' death. , Summer School, 1 The summer school for teachers opeued up Monday morning with an en- | roll men t of tweuty two names, young i ladies, all of them. Misses Susie Tins- ! l?y, Edna Foster, Forest Bailey, Boriha Humphries, Fannie A. Anderson, Kate j Summer, Bessie Edwards, Eugenia < Meng, Carrie McBride, Mamie Smith, Mary McBride, Bessie Summer, Eloise Foster, Carrie Hawkins, Bernioe Going, 1 Gertrude Matliis, Carrie Robertson, Louise Gage, Anna Hamilton, Addie Sanders, Fannie Wilb'jrn and Bess Gwynn Long. Dr. Farr and Prof. Moore were on hand to take charge of the school and a most prosperous school is anticipated. Death of a Young Man. Mr. Lawrence D. Scott died Sunday at his mother's home in South Union. Mr. Scott was just in the prime of young manhood. He held a good position in the laickhart Mills, and was the main dependence of his widowed mother. He was devoted to his mother, careful of his company and gave promise of a long and useful life. He had many friends here and at Ia>ckhart, and will be sadly missed j by friends aud loved ones. j Spartanburg Girl Weds In Wnterbury. At the residence of Pastor Oscar Iluygood, of tire First Baptist church of Waterbury, Mr. Harry M. Brennan, an employee of the C. I. & L railway, and Miss Da sy M. Glass, of Spartanburg, were united in marriage, the ceremony being pronounced by the Rev. Mr. Haygool. Waterburv. ?.sn u. urennau. The bride is a daughter of Mr. Glass ' who is employed at the C. & W. C. depot. She is a young woman of decidely attrac.ive personality and many accomplishments. She has been engaged in tbo millinery business in Waterbury for some time past. Her Spartanburg friends extend heartiest congratulations and best wishes.?The Spartanburg Journal. A Chance for a Young Man. A scholarship of $40 in money besides exemptio 1 from tuition and other fees is provided by the Legislature for one J young man from each county to pursue a one year normal course in the South Carolina College. Examinations will be held on the 10th inst. before the County Board of Education. Applicants should be at least 19 years of age, and preferably teachers. Write to President Benjamin Sloan, South Caroliua College, Columbia, S. C. for blank on which to apgly before the 10th. Besides this valuable scholarship, the College also offers to young men in each county two normal Bcuuiuiauips goou 101 four years and exempting the holder from tuition and other fees. Moreover, t teachers, women as well as men, may 1 take the one year normal course without \ fee of any kind. j Just a Word. Mr. Editor: Wo have had some very ! hot weather, such as growing crops ( need. The farmers have had a hard , time getting the crops clean, and the j prospect has improved durmg the past 1 week, although everything is very small in this section. We had a line rain the fifth. Mr. J. E. Vinson who has leen sick i is improving. The neighbors did a good deed by going in and helping him work up his crop. Mrs. I. N. White has been on the sick list and Mrs. F. F. Gault is in very feeble health at this time. Ti e Sunday School Convention held at New Hope church, July 5th, was a success in every respect. A large attendance; and every one seemed to enjoy the day. Too much cannot be raid about this work, as this is encouraging to every Sunday school worker aud it seem* that every one puts on more zeal. They will go back to their oa n Sunday schools to do more woik and better work than has been done before. This eeeros to be a reunion and revival in Sunday 10100I work We will not say any mo-e, athe secretary or some one e'se will giv it as 11 e program was carried out. Succt fs to Tint Th*ks and its correspondents an 1 n any leaded*. \ Moxy. I SANTUC SIFTIXGS. Hey Denver Kills Gmss on the Glorious Fourth, ?Talks of the Foutth. f"^erpnc, I fold my hands and waif . Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst tiuie nor fate. a For lo! my own shall come to me." I stay my heart, I make del ay s, For what avails this eager pae- ? t I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine, shall know my face." Two many of us fold our hands and wait and stay haste, make de'ay>; hut what avails too much eager p ice, i h it it Bven comes to work on Sunday. beautiful weather we have b en hav- k ing for "star gazing" and while the E moth is a raver. | We like songs of the birds, but when E the "skeeter" comes with its subtle song, B a whispering in our ear, "oh! get out " 1 Mr. I). J. Fant. an engineer on a fast B mail train on the Air Line railroad spent Ij two days with his brother, Mr. J. Mel. Ej Fant last week. ? Mr. Will E. Cromwell who has been g in Alabama two or three years, has so I E cure! a position with Mr. Geo. O. Ten- I ney and is lieie at Neal's Shoals as assistant timekeeper. Fleas aro a plague around our preiu- ^ isas it seems just now. They are e >11- ; stantly sitting around on somebody surveying the landscape. We have been having steady lint weather, away up in the 90's. but the aights have been comparatively pleasant. 1.09 inches of rain fell Sunday evening. Hard for a few minuter, but mostly steady and _,with no damaging wind. It W8S very timely. Crop* will De benefitted if no more follows immediately. Peaches and apples this year are mostly imall and generally veiy wormy. 1 oelieve worms in fruitare getting worse, ind 1 see plainly diseases of the tievs ire, and people will have to b?gin spraying like they do in the fruit, growing regions to save the trees and fruit. J Garden truck and watermelon patches E lave not been doing very well, but gar- w lens of late have been improving. The market bean patches seem to have been tuashed aud the large watermelon Ileitis ire about run into t lie ground, bugs h ivr >een bad, stands irregular and they are fery late. They arc disappointing, mrely. 1 thought I heard a negro knocking a >low on a plowstock on the 4th and 1 ooked earnestly for some time to see if [ could find him, and to see who he was, out I was mistaken, it must Iuvh Imaii shildren playing. There were acres and acres and iicres )( grass left unmolested last Saturday because it was the fourth of July, (an deal day for killing gras?) but yesterday it got a good rain aud today, Monday, is too wet to work in crops and that gi ass is just flourishing. I do not wish to blow my old horn too loud, but I believe l am the only one in our seel ion who 'e^t4^amon ror* Vro$ing/on$ ertlfeW Hunches of grass to chop our, aud I am feeling pretty good over the result th.s ?| t. m. Thank you, but I am not to ing 0 arraign any one for taking holiday. >ut am only bragging over my "doius." " Ar'n't you getting tired of seeing so nuch about the change of venur? All J if the "says" concerning it do not imount to much, each expressing Ins >ersonal feelings aud others following, a ? vholelotof "metoo's" and really knows io more about the case than you or 1. i 2 im just weak enough to belie vo all of his saying and copying is more because if men than the crime, and 1 hope we a :an now have a rest. ? Negro Dear, I see, has been punching " it lloossvelt and Capers and Jenkins, Republicans. Well, I recond the people if Charleston and others of South Caro ina who frothed aud foamtd because hey feared Micah Jenkins would not 2 jet a sword are all O. K. on that. I Aire little about' that, but 1 do wish J lenkins, who is "a son of his father"? 1 noble man I am told?hal remained rue to his father in politics, true to S " J. Democracy, and hud not prostituted limself to Roosevelt's politics for the 2 noney he could get out of it. 1 would iav? had more conlidence iu him, "fame" >r no fame at Santiago, sword or no 2 iword. 1 hate to eee a man go ujc i on lis "good raising" 1 do not care how J liuoh the people hrag on him. The Fourth of July came and went ind was taken in many ways. 1 do not ? iuow how many ways, Hut if I weie a jlerk, or an otlice employee, i would 2 'take" every one. But iu tanning, it grass is gnawing at the vitals of theciop, . .he fourth is no more to me than the :enth, when rest from my labor is just _ is sweet. 1 observed the fourth iu many ways. I was thankful our foietaiheis taw tit to lid themselves ot king rule ai.d then 1 tiuished doing a lot of grass in a potato patch like they did the Hritish, sigued a declaration of ludepend me when I left it, then in the great heat oi the day I acted like a log by la;, iug up in the shade, and on the turn of the evenlog, 1 tiaished a pastures, put a few touches to the mules, turned ilieui in atid spent more time iu watching Hem giaz j in great satisfaction. Then gave them to understand that as rtgaided dial all was, iu a sense similar to Uncle 6am and the Monroe Doctriue, that they unght rest in peace and no forei gn something was going to interfere, or f would feel like sending a warship around to protect them. Hut 1 didn't have on a uigli hit, stripe! breeches, and a speckled shirt. JL'uat was the glorious Fourth. 11KY DKNVKK, Brutally Tortured. A case came to light that for persistent and unmerciful torture nan perhaps never been equaled. Joe Uobobick of Colusa, Cal., writes, "For 15 years I endured insufferable pain from Rheumatism and nothing relieved me, though I tried everything known. 1 came across Eloctric Hitters ar<d its the greatest medicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved apd cured me." Just as good for Liver and Kidney troubles and general debility. Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by F. 0. Duke, druggist, ^ J I HH9EB* SCO"! L A \A ....i r Beautiful ....AT Ol 3'AC ' --A 1 W.T.BEA In* hit iiiii'irr * T?- - YOU WOULD B1 TO KNOWHow a dollar deposited eve Savings Department will gro posited here "work while yoi cent, iuteret on time deposits Since our bank opened v of dollars interest to deposito ment. We offer this opportui and child to start an accoi DOLLAR. The habit of sa other habit. Try it by depo lar with us. THE PBOPI B. F. ARTHUR t"Car J The man v properly done i afford NOT to j How often y< ent upon the pa: s I outlast others. They are the most eco they cover most and wear longest. Ac you have perfect paints?The Sherwin-l They are made for many differeni you want to paint?a house, or anythinj right paint for that particular purpose? UNION HARI ? BLardware Leaders, ? ni nw II I . Mk_ MIMMI* r 4 rcH / NS J.... Patterns MLY.... I Y A R D r? TY&CO. ?" >"*> E SURPRISED I 5 m ry now and then in our w. Your idle dollars de- 5 a sleep." We pay 4 per ? ve have paid out hundreds rs iu the Savings Depart- 5 lity to every man, woman Lint with us with ONE ving grows on you like auy 5 siting your first spare dol- ? _e;s bank, | , President. ? m m * i't Afford Paint." vho says that, forgets that painting Is economy, and the fact it he can^ jaint. on require to paint is largely dependint you use. The irwin- Williams Paints nomical paint* you can use, because id to this their good appearance, and Williams Paints. t kinds of painting. Whatever it it ; in or out of the house?we make the -not one slap-dash mixture for all. 1 > BY ill ninil ????I^ 3WARE CO., Union, 8.0