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JIMHHi GIT1 W * ssssss*?sznnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzuzzzz A Little Be Wishing al U Rs * ? ' If V -.IN J THE BAILE MEN A j i i 4' ' Looal Laoonios. HAPPENINGS. OF INTKRE81 ABOUT TOWN PERSONAL AND OTHBRWLSE. ^?-?- Mr. David Clark spent Christmas in Gaffney. Mr. S. R. Crawford left Tuesday for A Munfn Mrs. F. J, Williams, of Jonesville, is visiting Mrs. W. J. Haile. Mr. Frank Sanders has resigned his position at J. Cohen's. Mr. John D. Smith, of Carlisle, was in the city Thursday. Mr. R. R. Milam, of Clinton, spent Christmas with relatives in the city. Dr. I. M. Hair left Wednesday to return Friday, for Lockbart on a pleasant trip. Mr. Ben. F. Townsend went to Lookhart Thursday on a business trip. Misses Bernice Going and Maud Goforth visited friends at Kelton Wednesday. Miss May Kitchens, of Winnsboro, is visiting the Misses McDow, at the Gibbs Houso. Misses Maud and Lizzie Whitlock, of Jonesville, spent the holidays with Miss Kate Summer on Church street. The County.Mutual Benefit Association has extended the time of paying annual dues to Jan. 15th. Mrs. Bell Cason, Mrs. M. L. Stephens and Mrs. W. S. Stephens, of Waco, Texas, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. Going. Mr. Charles M. Sitten and Miss Maggie Barnes were married on Christmas eve day, Rev. C. H. Holland officiating. Mr. C. G. B. Counts will move into one of Col. T. C. Duncan's houses on Academy street after the first of Jans uary. Mr. Lem Vaughan and Miss Ilattie Haney were married last Sunday afternoon at the residence of Rev. L. L. Wagnon. The ladles and school girls of Union sent fifty-four "Comfort Bags" to the Sailor's Relief Society in Charleston this Christmas. Mr. J. O. White, of Jonesville. nov With the Southern Railway construe tion department, was in the city Thursday. Mr. John Wix, and Miss Maud Ingli of the Union Cotton Mills were married at the residence of Rev. L. L. Wagnoi fjhristmas day. Mr. Jackson Dupre aud Miss Kllei Gregory were mafiried I}ec. 23rd at Ih bo&?e of Mr. Varborough, Rev. 0. H Holland officiating. Mr. W. D. Sartor has resigned hi position ss oheck clerk at the depot and Mr. R. W. Sartor, Us brother will take his piaoe. mmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmammm us some of | your valued business I during e live up to our mo itter for a I our customers a ery prosperous ye* Host sincerely your Y - COPELAND lND boys outfit Mr. Henry joonsou ana miss Minnie Dunlap were married last Sunday morniug at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. W. Y. Dunlap, of Monarch, liev. L. L. Wagnon officiating. The dispensaries are now selling "Squirrel" whiskey, two drinks of which is warranted to make a man climb a tree, and more will send him to the dogs.?Carolina Citizen. Misses Ethel Foster and Pearl Briggs were at home to a few friends Wednesday night. Delicious refreshments were served and an enjoyable occasion was reported. We begin a new serial story in this issue, "Donald Donaldson, Jr." You Bhould not fail to read it. It is interesting from beginning to end. Don't miss the first chapter. Mr. Perrin says at the next meeting of The l'edples building and L.oan Association, mere will be about $3,000 to loan iu ISeries No. 2. Prospective borlowers should be sure to atteud this ueettng. The Railroad Jack Co. will give a matinee for the beneiit of the ladies and children who can't attend the evening performance on Friday afternoon at 2:80 o'clock sharp. Don't fail to be on hand. Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Hawkins gave a delightful entertainmout at theli home, about four miles from the city, last Tuesday night. About forty young people enjoyed this most delightful occasion. The price of cotton has fallen thh week about one cent a pound, or five dollars a bale. Every effort wae made by the bull clique to keep the price up, but without avail. No cotton has been sold nere since Christmas. Dr. S. S. Linder has gone to New York to attend the lectures for pa-ji (rraduates In medicine. Ibis is not th< doctor's first attendance for he has m:id< it a rule to go there every/' v years s< as fo keep fully abreast jt datest im p ovement iu medical si te will b< gone five or six weeks. L' j Attention Is calledl f/ "double leaded" article on thV > icessity o having all plumbing in connectioi ' with the sewerage system of the olt; ' inspected and approved by one skilled r in such matters. Not only health but life itself is at stake, and prope e precautions should be taken from th I first. The People's Bank, of Union, ha declared a semi-annual dividend c n >i\ per cent, payable op and afte B Jan. 1st, 1004, besides carrying quit ' a snug little sum to surplus aooounl When It is considered that the ban s has been in operation only 23 monthi , this is certainly a remarkably goo t, showing, and speaka wall for th nfflmn and < t Kyjlii j" i (lias' fri i 1904 tto: Little Less. nd friends a ir. * S, I COMPANY, TERS. A WARNING, We wieK'to call the attention c the Town Authorities to a number c bitizens having their homes connect ed with the sewer. Every munic pality that has sewerage has ver strict laws about ;this class of wor and is only allowed after a close it m spection. The plumbing done her< tofore in our town has been done b contract without close inspection an wc have doubts if half a dozen jol will stand even a mild test. Few < those having the work done kno anything about it, and if the work allowed to proceed in the way it hi started we may have an epidemic < typhoid fever or some other troub and wonder where it came from. The insidious sewer gas has i ' smell or color and being one of tl lightest gases ever known, may se< ' through the smallest opening ai find its victim, We do not care to oriticise t Sewerage Commissioners or Tov Council, but one of these bodl ) should take the matter In hand 1 fore it is too late. Pko Bono Publico. Notice to Pensioner*. We have bsen requested by Mr. 1 T. Jeter, pension commissioner, r notify all persons seeking pension i t formation, that he will be In the i J ditor's office, on every Saturday * this month, beginning tomorrc . Applications for pnnslons should > sent in, or delived to him In pers< on these days. ( Union Connty Medical Associate i y The doctors of Union county h i their twlce-a-month meeting Wedn ' day night in Dr. Austell's office. J 3 Torrence read an interesting pa] on Diagnosis by Qbject Sympto I After other important business v transacted the society adjourned ? ir i>?l? wwiflOBru weav uiw<> me opi e house where oysters, turkey, op sum, fruits, nuts, etc. were served J* Dr. J. H. Hamilton, president, p 4 sided, and oalled upon several it | speeches, and a pleasant evening i Ifcpe&fc -i- \ IFIRE AND PANIC I IN A THEATRE.! Hundreds of People Killed and j Their Bodies Mangled. The Electric Wire Breaks and is Grounded?The Scenery Takes Fire?Asbastos Curtain Fails to Work and a Volume of Flame is Blown Across the Orchestra and into the Balconies, Burning the People in their Seats and Causing a Terrible Panic. About five hundred and fifty people were killed In ten minutes Wednesday afternoon during a fire in the Iroquois Theatre, the newest, the largest and, as far as human power coulc^ make it, the safest thoatre in Chicago. Estimates of the dead and Injured vary. The police account of the dead is 58(5. The estimates of the newspapers is 562. Besides this there are 55 people missing at midnight, the majority of whom are probably among the dead in the morgue and various undertaking establishments. Eighty-six of the dead have been positively identified, and 62 others are known to be injured. A few of these people were burned to death by fire, many were suffocated by gas, and scores were trampled to death in the panic that followed the mad plunge of the frightened audience for the exits. It will be many hours before all of them will be identified. Thore are bodies lying by the dozens tonight (Wednesday) in Ithe undertaking rooms, in the police stations and in the hospitals, from which nearly everything that could reveal their identity to those who knew them best is gone. Their cloth lug 18 corn to rags or burned to cinders, and their faces have been crushed into an unrecognizable puip by the heels of the crowd that tramplod them down as they fled for safety. * m . ? A Card of Apprwit**'->ti. IVAUiU '? 0*Ut?% O "70J themselves at all, agree tti^ Christmas trade was the moat ^ >f factory ever enjoyed, both in poinbN )f volume and in the agreeableness ok t the customers with whom they had X . to deal. Wo are among those who believe iu y giving "honor to whom honor is due" k aud who do not believe in waiting uni til a man is dead to heap flowers upe_ on his grave. From conditions that have existed in our town every year before, especially along about the l(* holiday season and the time when g J8 every merchant has the right to ex- p of pect the mc i satisfactory business 3 w of the year, we are sure that at least ^ iH a large measure of the good business, which all the merchants have enjoyed. especially in the fruit and pro- ; duco line, can be attributed to the h I0 fact that our thoughtful and consid- i| erate Mayor and Board of Wardens 1 Q0 have protected the merchants of this he city who aro regular tax payers and ] keep open their places of business l? 0P both through the dull and good sea- ( Q(* sons for the benefit of the town and county, have not allowed a class of he men, who do not pay taxes, at least vn in this county, and who contribute nothing to the citizenship of this count;, from coming in during the )e" best part of the business year and demoralizing trade by making a house to house canvass and offering cheap and inferior fruits etc. to the people. And in this connection we feel that ,y< we can afford to say that we never t0 saw a more bountiful supply of de[D. llcious fruits and in our recollection^ 1 aaIJ ~ Hj. ll? nh9 never ueeu suju ni iunci njjutcn of than during the season now upon us. IW. We believe that every other tnerbe chant in our line of business, must )n, feel as we do about this matter, and we take the privilege of.publicly acknowledging to our Mayor and War)/?t dens our gratitude for endeavoring to give to the merchants of this city, 8l(j this part of the trade, which legitimately belongs to them, by keeping 3a* out of our midst, except for whole^r sale purposes, these foreign dealers, per whose sole outfit consists of a wagon ,Ip. and what stock they can carry and _ who always place their stands where !! they draw nqost largely from some ^4 established business. They have also kept down side os- issues and catoh pennies that heretofore have been placed on all our street oornera, and which are carried ' on by men at this special season of 'or the year, who at other seasons have *MI notning ?o ao witn dubiqbhh. i h. L. Waonon, i [ jot thft Union Qeomij Ot>. | * ,y - A. I TAKING STOCK. I l i n " Too busy to write ads. S i s 1 ; 2 ?) W @1 (?) | i We will have something mighty 1 1 interesting from | 5 i <?i <5) <?) <? g) <9) <?) <?) 8 | Jan. I, to Feb. 1,1904. j 2 <s>) @j ?) (?r ?1 ~<5> - ? (?) j | Look out for us the fir^t day of ? ? February-=Salesuay. ! S 1 ! (?) (5) (5) (5) j?) (g)' (gj_ <?) I Bailey Farniture Company. I MOORE'S CROUP MIXTURE. I would like every mother in Union county to give this famous prescription a trial this winter. It has been used many years by scores of parents and those once using it always depend on it in the croup and coughs of their children. Being free from opiates it is especially suited to infanta and children. Of course it is important to have the genuine prepared by the old original formula. I guarantee mine to be genuine. F. C. DUKE, Druggist. ^ _ ? mm Watches The Finest Stock just received at I Trefzer's Jewelry Store. PonMa'* *?see ? You will find our line off 1 DRUGS and i | DRUGGIST SUNDRIES ft Q complete in uvery respect. w fj Our drugs and chem:oils are k 2 strictly fresh and the purest t C# that can he had, V 3 OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT j 5 is complete in every detail fl n ana an prescriptions are u a v filled with the utmost car? \ D and accuracy. Give us a trial ! M if you want the best. i b Agents Tenney's Celetuated Candies. > f THE RICE DRUG CO. j f * ; - '