Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Onion andSflburb* -? 1 7 ITT % I Iff HI O ^ ""0f Union ,Bd Subu,bs H#s t*lju TVtftrrh mn?, Qj^KntUtpg I ^*mj I i ? ^ 111 ! * llll * I <wJM*flu Five Graded .c,aho?!n, Water Worhe, Mill with Dye Fh^tk Oil TjW H, In#' B % 9 fl S V^>B m' I K1 . , BeweragrfNjateBa, Electric Lights, Three i >Vr?.rfnre Msnofactinli.g - and I ' I WMi. E 1 B ?-l f ^ K M VI BJ j L /? Danks wltb^regate capital of ?2?O,0<?, / JE_ j .. "^^BL * Blectria Kailway. Population 7.W*. |J QUICKLY Wl JH : People sometimes dree is simply f>ecause they Tthe customs of businei | embarrassment quick [I those who deal at this HI to have It si^^ve want SI easy and at horfte. :1 U Wbi, ft. mCHOLSO HMrs. Mory T. Whitso/i, < W Union, Her Peoi Future P g Merry Christmas!?to the peoBfcle of Union! and may your law^^Bers have clients?your merchr ^Bints customers?and your bankj^Bra prosper?and may you go ^Hnward and upward in your prog^?ess until you rival the wealth of |^Khe Rothschilds! Proclaim it |Hfrom the house tops!--:tell it ^ everywhere! write in letters of V gQld that .Union, Union County, B South Carolina, is the swellest f town in the State. mi Commend me to the people of BlJnion for refinement, intelli feenee, mannerism, morality and ^p'up to dateness." South CaroVlina with the blood of the HugueB nots in her veins, and her young B sons, whose heritage of chivalry never deserted them in the dark days of reconstruction, when her I red shirted citizen-soldiery, with grim faces stood if . solid phalaux I in the main Btr^c, leading to her eWBtoric caftjtol?whera two Bh^ftken were -?ontoiwUnB < supremacy in the house of repre- < sentatives and a carpet bagger ; and a Democrat, notwithstanding all this, South Carol ins still lives up to the traditions of her ancestry?^Noblesse Oblige. ** Uiiion has a population of nearly ten thousand, including surroundings. Assessed value of personal and real estate is $4,842,000. Would easily reach $10,000,000 if assessed at full value. The three banks of Union have - a capital of about $300.00o. Union nfcs a strong bar of a dozen members. It is the professional men I [ everywhere that give tone to any community. Take away from England her poets, her orators, I her scientific and professional fj[ men and that country, over which has passed the repose of Centuries, would be shorn of half . Bier glory. \fl| Union has rapidly become a nianufacturing centre, with half a dozen prosperous cotton mills in and around. The old town awoke from its lethargy a few k vmn ava cirri eri on her armor. |Rand witli energy, ambition and pyBBrsistence, now stands in the HBront ranks of southern cities. P^ I ?m from Atlanta (adopted) f and have seen that wonderful i^ city, that Sherman laid desolate, I grow from 88,000 to 125,000 I?jjouLb, with its over a dozen railroads, ten or twelve, ten and twelve story buildings, now building one nearly twenty# stories. You may go north and say Atlanta" and you will get immediate attention. Knowing how to "boom" one's self is a great gift. No need to point the moral. Atlanta has got everything she ever started out to get/ but she wont get the President, and I am glad of it, for every paper in VIMftlr Ubjf wouubcu auu maiiKiicu the President - for everything mean under the sun. I have been f for Col. Roosevelt, heart, soul E and body ever since he led his n gallant "Rough Riders" at Santi? ago. 1 look on him as the grandM eat and the most loyal man that 9K ever sat ir^he presidential chair. Warn The PreC71s coming to MariSu^/t| to visit senator Steve Clay Wm an#i;h$ old mill town, Roswell, I where his mother was born. K Also I am glad that Col. Albert vm Mills of West Point got his con S firmation in the United Statei ||J Senate as,,.. Brigadier General BsM.-. y a 1 EftfiS ftWftY. 1 id to enter a bank; this | are not familiar with I is. But this 1 :ly wears awy ? WHHM batik; at leatie..w&lJMpV every custonf^^^j^Prl N & SON, Bankers. j ^ ^ <* ' p-v V. '*.V.. M1 of Atlanta, Writes About >le, Growth, and rospects. Pardon this digressicn. i We will now get back to Union. Union is growing faster than any town in the state. The increase in population has been marvelous. Pride and ambition dominate these people. You will T*Q V*4kt tV fln/l ? J 1 ' j lima a uener uressea Dody of gentlemen, or people with more of the ante bellurn kindliness than in Union, S. C. The high sheriff, * Mr. John Wesley Sanders, was the first acquaintance I had the pleasure meeting, one of the most infiuental of Union County's gentlemanly county officials. His efficiency in the office?in which he is now serving his second term?and his popularity has been proven by the faithfulness of Jus constituency, who stood by him and put him in for a second term. Dignified, unassuming and modest, withal as an official could possibly be in his deportment, yet it ^nVto*m^e1i'g35d,'SWfeftr^"leH Sanders combines all these qualifications, besides which he is a Christian gentleman, having been a deacon in the Baptist church twenty-five years. Is of ScotchIrish ancestry, and was bora in Union County, S. C.. July 7th, 1848. He inherited good principles from his parents, his father, Wesley Sanders, a farmer. The Sheriff derived his sustenance from his Mother Earth, and grew up on a farm. In 1900 he defeated Sheriff Long, and beat his opponents JEorty or fifty votes for the second term. Is a Mason, a Beaver, and member of .* nr i / i 1 itr?l J l tne woodmen 01 tne woria. Also, previous to his becoming Sheriff, was Moderator of the Union County Baptist Association After that I hunted up Mr. J. H. Bartles, .County Treasurer. He kindly took the trouble to give me an assessed value of Union County. He is a veteran among the County officers, having been connected with the Auditor's and Treasurer's office since 1886?a period of eighteen years. Was born in Washington County, East Tennessee, and came to South Carolina when three years old and grew up in this State. He took a business course at King's Mountain, N. C., and identified himself with the Auditor's office. In 1894, was elected County Treasurer and continually since, with the exception of one term. He has held the office by handsome majorities. The rapid increase of valuation shows how fast Union is growing. The Treasurer is a Mason, K. of P., and member of the Methodist church. I heard one thing that is much to the credit of several County officers. This is what I heard. The Probate Judge, County Superintendent of Education, Sheriff, Auditor, Treasurer and one or two others had not touched i * i? J (one arop 01 liquor ior very many years. Later I met Judge Jason M. Greer, who had just returned fron Charleston from attending i meeting of the Masons, where h< was kept so busy on committee! that he saw but lLtle of the city Judge Greer is one of the pillar: t of Union and was Dorh in thi - county in 1848 He enlisted intl| i 4th Regiment State Troops wjjfl . lad of sixteen, and was stalON* i eduj 3&ri'Jje -clerked for some year dlwpi'J. T. Hill & Co., the bigges S&Rieral merchandise house i) " union. Was nominated for Pro bate Judge in 1894, and assume< his duties in June, 1895. He hai had no more opposition wortl speaking of sinCe his nomipatioi in 1894, when there were'8om< interesting contests on first an( ^ second^i^aries, wher^h^^^^ Mothndi'Ofi - Union Graded Schools ranli sixth in the State. I was informed by Mr. D. B. Fant, superintendent of County Schools, that the schools are in a highly prosperous Condition and an increassd interest is being shown in the cause of education. The enrollment for 1904 shows six thousand, six hundred. There are one hundred schools in the county, and one hundred and twenty-five teachers, seventy white teachers; average salaries of white teachers $35 per month. Supt. Fant is enthusiastic on the Riihipet nf TT~ VUUVOVIUI1. 11C has s^*ved the coynty eight yearswas elected in 1896 aha re-electi| ed for another term. m DePass & DePass rank with the leading lawyers of South Carolina, a State famous throughout the Union for brilliant men. These young men are natives of Camden. ^ Mr. Victor E. DePass was admitted to the bar in 1897, having taken an academic and law course at the South Carolina College, coming to Union after his graduation. This young man has been brilliantly successful, and is one of the handsomest men in South Carolina. The brother is only twenty-two years Tfie South Carormk" T^OTrege~aiKr was admitted in 1903. DePass &' DePass have a splendid practice. After all it is brains that rule the world. Go into either branch of the Legislature, the halls of Congress, and ^ou will find that the men who lead are almost without exception men trained to the legal profession. iLet me make a prediction. Victor De-J Pass will go to Congress in a i years- "1 I am very sorry not to havj met Judge Townsend and l/SM Gordon Hughes. I know the father of the latter, and he is _r a A- _ A a. rp 4 one ui liiu UL-si men in jlioiiluii, Mr. S. H. Hughes. Hon. R. L.. McNally, the enterprising Mayor of Union, manager of the Bailey Lumber Co., has taken great pride in the natural development of his town. He is a young man of high social standing and is spoken of in the most complimentary terms by everybody. The family is from County Mayo, Ireland, and I believe that the present young Mayor's father was Mayor of Union thirty years ago. Hon. R. L. McNally is Manager and Treasurer of one of the largest lumber companies in South Carolina, the Bailey Lumber & Manufactuaing Co., controlling an immemse business in lumber and house furnishings. In 1890 the population of Union was 1,660; in 1904, about 10,000. Cotton mills, furniture factories, and all kinds of industries tell to the world the story of Union's progress. J. Anderson Brown, the lead ing real estate man, will tell yoi of the high prices being paic now for real estate and how rap idly it is selling. It is on recore that he has sold and caused to b< ' transferred more real estate an< j farm lands than any other man ii i Union (Jounty. Mr. Brown is i ' hustler, and when he tells yon anything there will never be an; . cause for doubt. His prompt ? ness, energy and square dealing i have given him a State i tion. It is well kjxnnyflHPa 3 Anderson . about more othe s man in the town, and he richl Pery good word said c father, J. G. Browr of the most successfi in Union County. . jflB if p^pppHMnBjra^b was born neai d piVen absolutSBttnaction, hav d lng been in gSHRiercantile anci - life insurahfcjgfrffoisiness. He 1. made a good pjBjttaeervant when s assistant pOsJMer to CapL t Hunter. Upicjf Ski hardly gef n along without JBbSl Capt. J. O. Hfiflftr, postmaster, 1 is one of thtf n*ti|bopular post=5 masters UnioriMjr had; has been l appointed und<|P jive administrai tions .beginhffln with Grant, a Was born in was a gallant 1 Confederate ifMwans' brigade of 5 artilkry^m^^fcunia. Not^in ] 8?n.j Grant, Mcffinle^ Mpj*Roosevelt is a : picf^r good rw&rd for one man. . The office is nearly second class. . The revenue fitom the office in ( 1903 was $7,200. Two rural routes. J. E. Hunter, assistant postmaster, is1, tery popular as , well as his father. The volume of business transacted in the ifnvcantile houses is immense aii$ m credit to any town. * I The Peoples Supply Co. occupy a handsome new brick building and fPHwaitalized at $20,000. Officers^K?|*J?Wt, president; occupies the Union's prominsglt young bus^ ness men. Hq was born in 1870 in this county fend had four years experience in cotton mill departnent store. Took charge of the nanagemApt whea the Peoples supply Comply was organized. most attractive and artistically arranged drug stores in the whole ?outh, organized October, 1903. t is a beautiful store, the wood work of carved oak, show cases of bevelled plate glass. Everything elegant the line of Christmas goods^u^lass, silver ft nvtii Y*/>fi rv P f V? A I L uI illiui o auu iiAtuica vi uic Rice Drug Company were purchased in Baltimore. A successful young business man and a charming young fellow is F. A. Rice. Mr. T. E. Baiby is one of the grandest men in Union and prominently identified with almost everything in the town. His magnificent store on Main street where splendid furniture, rugs, carpets, Christmas goods are displayed in front of the spacious plate glass windows will centre the attention of the most fastidious house keeper. Oh, he has everything to tempt you. Just go in there and look around andIfeAst your eyes, and if you are wise you will make i many purchases. The Bailey ; Furniture Company, owned by i T. E. Bailey if and started in 1884, I manufacture* cottage and mei dium grade furniture. Then he has an undertaking establishment and tli e Bailey Lumber and . | Manufactur ng Company, all told i over $100,0C 0 a year. Two floors j 96x60, spa<|e of the furniture. . Ware room 20x120. Mr. Bailey 1 was born in -Chester, S. C., came a here in 1873- Says rabbits used \ to play in the snow where his a house now t tands. Is a K. of P a and mCmb sr r of Presbyteriar a churclw ^ ? y The BaiTey-Copeland Company > hats, caps, shoes, &c., is th< it prop's in there and dresses lit the?. r fashionable outfit from heacTC y foot comes out feeling quit >f swell. The store is the neates h I ever saw. Absolute orde jI reigns supreme. Neatness, clear J. liness and perfect courtesy froi mm- % * - P F. M. FARR, President. J t : ! Merchants and Pla Successfully Doing Bus HUJUUU I* tho OLDEST Rank If y] 9 ha* a capital and atirpli S 0 a Uth-on'T N *TlONA< B 3j ha* paid dividend* n SI W pava FOTTIl |1T cent, g B I* the only Hank In U il n I ha* Hurjclar-> ro<if ran' pays mn-r taxes than A WE EARNESTLY SOL 9 ' the elegant young- manager, J. C. Copeland, to the youngest clerk makes it a rendezvous ftfr the elite of Union's young men. Dimensions of store 25x100 feet. P. S. Bailey, J. C. Copeland and H. A. Copeland. constitute the firm. Mr. Bailey has charge of the Columbia store. J. C. Copeland was born in Laurens County, is a K. of P. and member of the Presbyterian church. Capt. E. L. Clarke, salesman, was a Confederate officer from Anderson. J. F. Norman from Union, W. J. Sexton, Union County, C. W. Goforth from York County. The Palmetto Drug Company, one of the leading drug stores, was organized three years ago. Tho whole store is in a glitter and sbcrvTB ?. bewildering array it Christrrtaa novelties, d not find a prettier store th's travel. Huiett and compose the company, rery pleasant interview Huiett who graduated < one or two years ago in phar- ' Icy. He puts up from 50 to < 75 prescriptions daily and is doing j a most successful business. Dr. i Huiett is a Newberry man, very < polished and companionable and 1 popular with the ladies. ( I have been everywhere and i arrogate to myself that I am a K?od judge of places and people, j ^ M. W. Bobo's big Department ? unHer the SWirriwi to i square feet of space. His busi- > ness runs up to $75,000 annually ] and he is the grand high priest < of the whole store.' He buys 1 furniture from twenty-three ] states and buys, .the best. Di- mansions of store, 50x150 feet. < Trade extends into several ooun- : ties. Has some of the most mag- i jiificent rugs and art squares 11 rever saw, and the handsomest >bed room suits. The fashionable millinery department is conducted by Miss Bowen of Columbus, Ga. You will find the prettiest hats, bonnets, &c., in the town. , The opening was largely attended. Mr. Bobo is a self-made man. Was born 12 miles from Sedalia, began clerking for $7 a month and after awhile commanded $15 a month. Looking around him he has every right to be proud. He started business in Union on a small scale and his efforts have been crowned with success. He is a Masc.1, _Udd Fellow, Woodman of the world and I. O. H., and a Baptist. C. T. Boyd from Newberry is bookkeeper. The phenominal success of the store reflects credit on Mr. Bobo. Major J. A. Fant, president of the big Monarch cotton mill and Retail Grocery Company which does a business of $100,000 yearly, was in a genial mood when I met him sitting in his elegant office. He was the originator of this big mill, two years ago, which has a capital stock of $200,000; organized in 1901 with 1,000 looms and 40;000 spindles, employing 400 hands with a monthly wages account of $7,000. One hundred and fifty cottages, three churches i and handsome school building j tell the story of Major Fant's j public spirit and generosity. He is a splendid gentleman, K. of P. | and Shriner and Baptist. Then I called on the president of the Aetna mill, organized two ' "ooiki q cm ranital stock $200,000. 3 "ft?i ?-r g I found Mr. W. H. Sartor, presie dent, very entertaining and > proud of hie mill's success, ja^apms. 300; spindles, 12.096; em|HMi?Q0 people; goods sold e^lMHpout the union; consume ;t I z/BOO Dales of cotton yearly, 50( r pounds each; n^iufactures 38 1-J [. I inch g)r'n^s 'V mm iiHniiiiMiiiii nHn J. D. ARTHUR, Casblcr. EI IB nters National Bank, iness at the "Old Stand." i Union, is of $1(JO.?00. liank in L'alon. lountin* to $300 400, Intercut on detu'Rlto, on inni*ot?d b.r an ofScor, It, ?nd Pnfn with Tlwe-f/'-ck. LL tho Wank* In Union combtn 4. 1C1T YOUR BUSINESS. 1 one of Union's wealthiest men, was born July 17, 1859. He has I hpjnc very humane and kind to his operatives c,^ ? I much liked. The "beautiful snow" causes me to go back to Atlanta sooner than I expected. 0 Raffia. It is seldom, indeed, that a fad is at once so useful and so fascinating as the fad for raffia weaving. It has many points to recommend it, and X tnink there is little or nothing at which the carping critic may cast his comments. It will not ruin the eyes like fine needlework; it is not merely ornamental, like painting, pyrography, etc. No, it is a useful art, as useful as it is beautiful. In its simplest evolution, raffia is employed in making table mats, whisk holders, and circular *? *V._ -j J " " wioto iui me oiues 01 siik purses. This work is usually done with a :oarse sewing needle, but the 9$tne effect may be produced in much less time by using a large crotchet needle. The work differs in no way from that done in :ord or woolens, and the same patterns may be used. Basket making with raffia is Lascinating employment. Very 'mall children may learn the art, md beautiful specimens care Work and will" keep Tne Tfeavfroo little fingers busy in the indoor weather. Shopping bags, (or baskets) may be crotchet in any pattern desired, by intelligent workers. Manuals giving full instructions for all kinds of basketry, including raffia, maybe easily obtained from any publishing house. The work could be used for profit as well as pleasure. In its highest evolution, raffiia is used for knotted work, for embroidery (it comes in beautiful colors?the richest reds, browns the purest, blues and yellows,) and. last, but not least, for hats, the most beautiful imaginable. I saw one a short time ago, that was a creation worthy of any. milliner. Anyone can make a raffia hat. although few, perhaps, could make such a hat as the one I have referred, and I have never yet seen a raffia hat that was anything but pretty. The material lends itself to the covering of defects, and almost encourages slipshod work by the ease with which faults are disguised. The mother, and there are so many of them, who has more time than money can easily cover the dainty heads of her darlings with fashionable headgear. I know one mother who made beautiful hats for herself and her *twu young daughters. Two were trimmed with lace and ribbons, but the third with only braided raffia and a rosette or two of the same material. Many are the uses to which the material may be put. I used it last year in the making of Christmas gifts, and if your purse is small and your leisure limited, you will do well to follow 1? my cAaiii^iic.?ouuiNciii iiuiuc. ! o Not Versed in fruit Culture. Mexican fruit growers have yet to learn the cultivation of [ grapes, apples, pears, cherries, peaches ana apricots. Consider. ing the soil and climate Mexican [ orchards should yield the same i ratio of profit that orchards do in ) so many sections of the United I States. There is a fortune in fruit in Mexico to the man who \ understands its cultivation. .