Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?* OUR ANSWER -Why is Bobo's store always crowded? Why do you see so many pink bundles on the streets? Bobo< sells Why is Bobo's wagons always ?- ^qj- ? running? jegs Why is it that you can-see so many wagons loading at Bobo's? Why is it that so yiany ?J? thousands of people make their Because headquarters at Bobo's when [3 Ej) /S in town? a n * Sells for Less Why is it that so many peo- ?????? pie do all of their trading at Bobo's Why will some people look Bobo all around and then buy their - <? ^ n i , o sells goods at Bobo 8? ? for ? Why is Bobo's business in- less creasing every year? ??? Why is this year a record breaker with Bobo? BOBO'S DEPARTMENT STORE Local Schedule for Passenger Trains LKSwffl? - < ~~ ? ??=: friends and relatives. ?X -TKXTmr*BOM OOLOMBli. Mr Edwln Morrl9 of Wofford G. Arrive 9:00 a. m. Depart 9:00 a. m lege arrived Tuesday 22nd to sper " 2:28 p.m. " 2:28 p. m Car:stmas with his parents. trains from Spartanburg. Mr. John F. ltose, of Birmingbar ii .qk a _ t\. ii op Ala., ariived in the oity, Tuesday. 22n ? 9:08p m. " Zp!m. He 8pent Cb toM "Ub bi? *?* Close connections at Spartapburg with Mr. and Mis. Jason Norman we ) trains for Atlanta and Ch&notte and to Gaffuey on a short visit to M I intermediate stations, and at Columbia and Mis. J. Dudley Jones last week, for Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville Mr. Will Kirby and Miss Mamie Ku tt'8 ??utli- Though trains for sey were quietly married at the home . A8heville, etc* Mr. Odell last week Rev. T. E. Mo ' ? ris officiated.; # I OCfll Married?Mr. W. C. Nix and Mr Ltv/val ilCWo 1 vUlCJ AliceJGreer were quietly mar i ltd at P- dq , Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 22nd 8 Points Personal and Otherwise I th? Parsona*ePickad un and ParAffranhed L. * Frank Peake has moved ini . iCKou up ana raragrapneu I new house on a?a tkiq by Our Pencil-Pushor. I the handsomest and most conveniet co tage ever built in Union. Mr. Marvin Scott spent Christmas in Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Eison gav JonesvUle. a delightful entertainment la9t Monda . " .. . .. ? . night at their home in the country, j There was no meeting of the Bronte pleasant occasion is reported. Club last week.J . Q . . There is laughter plenty, some tear Mr.-A. p Wilson, of Spartanburg, and sensation, and plenty of vii spent Xmas in the city. aod g0 jn ??Raiiroad Jack at the Oper 1 Mias Fannie Edge will return Sunday House, Fiiday night, the 1st. j to her school near Pacolet. Rev. D. M. McLeod, the new paste Mr. 8. C. DePass ia. visiting relatives of Grace M. E. church, will fill his pul in Camden his former home. pit next Sunday, and Rev. T, E. Morr Mr. Theodore Tioeley, of Oberter, "111 Oil hi. Id Henoett.vllle on that da; spent Christmas with bis parents. Miss Aurelia Gallman, after spendir ~ ,, ... . ., . . . ? . Christmas with her mother, returned I ^ her dut,ie8 in Timmonaville Sunda; night (fr rlday) at the opera hou^e . ja a seamstress in the Ladies Empo I Cadets Jammie Rodger apd Spencer iuin of that city. Perrin, of Clemson College, are in the Mrg Minoie Moore and children> , I ' Easley, after spending the Cbiist.au Mr. Gary Whitlock, of Norfolk, Va , holidays with her mother, Mrs. M. / is in the city, visiting friends and rela- Goforth, returned to her home in Greer Itlves. ville, where she moved recently. Mian Sibbie Spears, of Gaff ney, spent " M re. Emma Davis, of ClarksvilU Christmas with the family of Mr. R. S. Arkansas, a daughter of the late Joh Foster. P- McKissick, is visiting relatives i Mr. John B. WardUw left l?t work ^0^^ mMdtaof ES? monfi for Charleston, where be will spend maln t?n the middle of next montl Christmas. Misses Ruth Foster, Medora Dunce and Lily Fant, students at Conven Miss Vivian Gregory, of Cheater, is College, ?Te spending Christmas at the visiting friends and relatives in the city homes. Miss Julia Mclver, of Cbarle aid county. ton, accompanied Miss Lily Fant as 1m Mr. William English spent several 8ueflt* days last week with his brotlier, Mr. J. A postal card, reoeived from Rev. I Richard English. M. Merritt, who moved from tiantuc 1 Judge Gage was in the city for a few Rives, the gratifying nev days last week on a visit to bis sister, ' Jjat w very 00^ Miss Mattie Gage ^re We have no douM but that tt tine mountain air will prove quite ben< Mis* Annabel Johnson, principal of flcial to his health. West End school in Greenville, is at _ v u ,, home for the holidays. ?< J- F?be?, a 1?m?r livin about thrse miles west of Clover, i Misers Pearl Briggs and Ethel Foster York county, is the owner of a fin spent Christmas day with Miss Margaret brood sow. He claims that durln Spears, of Jone^ville. _ the present year the animal has give Miss Sarah Morgan, art instructor in birth to three broods of pigs, nun Greenville Female College, is at home bering in all fifty-one. The fin In this city for the holidays She Is ac- brood was sixteen, the second aevei compxtiled by Miss Lizzie Howie, of teen and the lent eighteen: He sa] Darlington, who will be her gueAt for that he sold all the piga to a nelgi eveial days. bor at the uniform prioa of $2 sac I A Union County Boy Wede In Greenville. The marriage of Mr. S O. Inman, of Uaion Cour.ty, to M ins Ida Cureton, took place on the eveniug of the 23rd at the home of the bride ou East Coffee street, Greenville, Rev. J. T Going ofik-iating. They will make their home iu Uuion County, where Mr. Inman is a successful farmer. I^a wson?Israel. At the Second Baptiti church on Christmas evening an unusual interesting and fashionable wedding took place. The contracting parties were Miss Gertie Israel, daughter of Union's popular chief of police, and Mr. Aithur Lawson, a section boss in the Union Cotton Mills. The church was profusely decorated and filled with friends of the youiig couple, who joined in wishing them a happy life. New Bridge at Sbelton. The Southern Railway is finishing a splendid new steel truss bridge across the Broad river at Sbelton at a cost of about $60,000 to take the place of the nld wnnHun Hniro trnao KrlHnra nliinh is now considered perfectly safe, but with which the company does not desire to run any risk any great leoth of time. The new bridge will be of five spans about 050 feet long, and will be one of the finest and most substantial in the State. Barber-Hamilton. Mr. Osmond Barber and Miss Jennie Hamilton were married in Grace M. E. church at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning by Rev. A. G. Wardlaw, immediately after which they boarded the 11:37 a. m. train for their future home in Fort Mill. On Monday evening, an entertainment was given the friends and companious of the bride, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. W. Hamilton, the rooms being decorated in holly, mistletoe and red ribbon. Elegant refreshments were served, and the beautiful bridal presents were displayed. Christmas Trade. An immense crowd was in town Christmas eve and trade was unusually good. The negroes especially had plenty of money, and bought higher priced articles than ever before. No cannon craokers or toy pistols were sold but giant caps poped by detonating sticks made noise euough to interfere considerably with the comfort and business of merchants dealing in other lines than Chiistmks goods.; The dispensary did a big business, the Sales amounting to $2,075:45 aod rpany jugs came in by express too. The large amount of money worse than wasted in I the purchase of liquors would have added considerably to the home comforts of our people. * Pythian Banquet. Tho K. of P gave a grand supper on - Tuesday evening at which the accompanying "feast of reason and flow of soul" was of an unusual high order, 'h Among those responding to the toasts were Rev. Croewell McBee to Frater>1 nalism. Mr. B. E. Brown to Pythianid ism, Mr. A. W. Lowry to Woman, and W. W. Johnson to Union. n The entertainment was held at the Gibbes House, and the feast for the inner man was furnished by that prince of Union caterers, W. M. Gibbes. nt Turkey, ham, oysters and everything r< else that would be agreeable to said man constituted the elaborate menu. South Carolina Victotious. rThe writer has just read a thrilling account published in a Pennsylvania 2 paper of a bloody, fleroe, oruel fight between two bull dogs in Browntown, near Pittston, Pa. One of the dogs in the contest, the winner, was bred o by Mr. Lynn Edney, of this city. It J8 is said that over 500 people witnessed the fight and that about $2,00C | cnangea nanas. rne winning dog e I brought his master $200, the receipts y of the purse offered for the scrap. This dog, a fawn colored bull terrier, was the aggressor throughout. He is well remembered here by many m who frequently viewed him as a a strong, lusty young pup following Mr. Edney to and from Booker's conir feotionery.?Spartanburg Herald. Berry?Pm lm er. Dr. Robert R. Berry and Miss Sarah Palmer were quietly married ** at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. r' J. A. Brown, at 8:80 o'olook last Wednesday morning by Rev. D. M. McLeod rf Only relatives and a few nearby 18 neighbors were present at the cereL mony, but on the preoedlng evening l" Mrs. Brown entertained a large number of the young friends of the oons, traotlng parties, at which the nuraern ous handsome bridal gifts were disn played. The rooms were deoorated 9* with white ribbon, holly and mlstle1 toe, all emblematlo of the youthful n couple's betrothal. Delioious rose freshments were served, and the ir guests departed with slnoere wishes s- for the future happiness of the young h couple. Dr. and Mrs. Berry took the 9 a. 5, m. tjaln going on a visit to the Dooto tor's relatives in Reidville. They ta will return to Union today and will id be at home to their friends at Mrs. ie Brown's, where they will reside for 3* the present. g B. and L. Meeting. e TDO annual meeting or The Union !g Building k Loan A&sooi&tion, Series 4 and 6, will be held in the office of ?- F?rr & Thomson at 8 o'clock p. m. ,fc on Tuesday, January 6th, 1904, >- W. W. Hughes, '* Sm't h Tr?u. so, Negroes Leaving the Piedmont, More than forty negroes, men, women and children, passed through town on the No. 39 passenger train last Monday. They took the cars at Carlisle and were gathered there by a labor agent fiom Little Kock, Arkansas, to which place they were bound. Before the advent of cotton mills in this State the surplus population, both white and colored, had to seek homes abroad, most of them goiDg to the Southwestern States where they could continue the growing of cotton, about the only thing they knew how to do. Now the mills absorb the surplus whites, over and above what the land will support, but there is not sufficient work to employ the increase in the negro population. It is believed by many that the negroes will eventually pretty much all drift down to the alluvial lands where farming on a large scale pays beet. To Protect Birds and Trees. Among the bills to be introduced at the coming session of the Legislature none will interest lovers of true sport as muoh as Representative L. W. Haskell's act to protect non-game birds. Mr. Haskell contemplates asking the general assembly to make it a misdemeanor to kill or injure the hundreds of harmless birds which, while not edible, are still ruthlessly slain every day. In this category are included the doves, hawks, mocking birds, red birds, thrushes, sparrows, etc. Many of these birds are songsters and all are active in ridding the country of the insect pests so destructive to the crops. It is said that the blight of Texas?the boll weevil?thrives in a country where the birds have been indiscriminately trapped and killed. A 4 4 ft** rinnro Mntion The famous side-splitting comedy, "Railroad Jack," which is to be at the Opera House Friday night, Jan. 1st, comes well recommended and no doubt will be the funniest show to visit Union this season. Aside from the highly amusing situations, in the play and the hilarioud antics of Weary Jack Raggles the tramp, scenlo effects have been added with unstinted liberality and the mark of painstaking drilling and the severest discipline are apparent in every scene, and in the work of every participant in the performance. The characters of the play have been I changed, the scenic equipment has been greatly enlarged and the specialties are said to be wonderfully clever -tbU.season' Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c. Smaiipox~hr Giiffaey* 4 Gafkney, Dec 20.?Special. TW smallpox situation here is getting serious. There are over 100 cases in town and nothing is being done toward stopping the spread of the disease On Thursday there were a Lumber of cases walking abroad on the streets. One could hardly go into a crowd without seeing one with the evidences of the disease, and those with the scabs not yet off would go into the stores to buy clothing. A few weeks ago a man with smallpax was sent out of the Court House by the Judge. With all this the city authorities are doing nothing to relieve the situation. The State board of health should take the matter up and enforce sanitary measures to prevent the further spread of the disease. It is nothing short of criminalthe way the authorities have neglected their duty in preventing the spread of the disease.?Cor. News and Courier. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Remaining in the Post Office at Union S. C., for the week ending Jan 1, 1904. Bailey, Mary Ann Miles, Mrs Annie Brown, Sarah H Mobley, Mrs Ilayuie Beck man, Mary Phillips, Ollie f Friday, Frtme Strong, John Flonar, O H Shelton, Ilobt Foster, Wm Storen, Ed Gondes, T Y Thomas, Mary S He 1 fat, Manuel Thompson. Marry Hough, E D Washington, Mark Jones. Miss Mamie Williams, Charlie McJenkin, S S Woodson, Lizzie McDufffe, Wm Wood, James Mabry, Andy [2] Persons oaliiog for the above letters will please say if advertised, and will be required to pay one cent for their delivery. J. C. Huntbr. P. M Notice of Meeting of Subscribers of Stock. Whereas more than 60 per cent of the proposed capital stock of the McLura Mercantile Company has been subsciibed by bona fide subscribers, the undersigned, appointed a Board of Corporators for the aforesaid proposed corporation by the Secretary of the State of South Carolina, hereby oall a meeting of the subscribers to said stock for the purpose Of organizing the said corporation, the_said meeting to be held in the office or The a&cLiiire Mercantile Co., in the city of Union, 8. CM at 9 o'clock, a, m , on Friday, January 1st. 1904. J. f. McLukr, W, 8. McLukr, Corpora tore Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that W. E. Thomson, Guardian of the Estate of Tlios A. Savage, Minor, has applied to 'asyn M Greer, Judge of Probate, in and for the County of Union, for a final discharge as such guardian. It is ordered, That the 24th day of January, A. D., 1004, be fixed for hearing of Petition, and a final settlement of said Estate, Jason M. Grrrr, Probate Jndge, Union County, 8. C. Pub ished in the Union Timrs. December 26tli, 1903. Don't fall to read ou^"***?% story, !' ' * ' '/* \ f~A Busy Season, j l On account of the pretty styles 8 ^ and good values we have had a | J| very busy season up to this || 4 time, but for the next few weeks jj we intend to make the old mare J |j trot faster. We have filled all 8} J gaps in our stock with a second J | shipment of 1 j Q New Goods ) I ^ And put the prices within the nj reach of everybody. We are ui || not like the fellow who wanted B | to get rich quick selling goods J T 3 1 1 1. i i .? ) ana people woman t traae witn m (() him because he wanted too 15 J much for his stuff. Our motto J ?j is and always has been quick Hi \ (I) sales and short profits. If you ffl \ | are not already a customer of T hi ours, follow the crowd to our : store, and as some people say, 51 f look around, it wont cost you T ))) anything, and that is the way M (II some of our best customers 51 T started with us. J jw.TKBeaty & Co. j ? I^Begin The New Year! j by opening an account in our Savings rl Department where^your money earns you 0: 4 per cent, interest per annum payable S't semi-annually. The most progressive, en- Z , terprising, farsighted and successful peo- || pie hnd our methods most inviting, and Mr !each day makes us new friends. Fall in g| line and start with us this new year. A m single dollar starts you here. Ik THE PEOPLES BAN K, | B. F. ARTHUR, Prest. J I Fnr RarcrainQ In I wmr ot | HARNESS! I 61 . 1 ?1 | |SADDLES| Union Hardware Co. I V- "-J-*--* iftlilMiVif W ' tfn V ?