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fpoi I The I CLOTHIN " m d KM 9 I BIC YEL I lt\ I Until S H Fa II 1 BAILE Ci LOCAL LACONICS. Happenings of Interest About Town. Mr. W. W. Johnson is visiting in Florida. Mr. Thos. Aughtry is salesman at Kates grocery store. i I Mr. C. R. Long, o! Jonesville, was a visitor to Union this week. Misses Wilhclmina Pucket and Maude Goforth were in Atlanta last . week. Mrs. R. A. Hopkins, of Spartan* ^>urg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. Trefzcr. Wo regret that the communication essays and.compositions from the Mt. Tabor school arrived too lato for this issuo of The Times, will appear next issue. County Commissioners Bent-ley and Wilburn, notwithstanding the condition of the roads and weather, met Monday and Wednesday in the office of County Supervisor Botonbaugh. Rev. B, F. Wilson has rcceivod a call to tho Presbyterian church at Harrisburg, Va. This is a very | flattering call and Dr. Wilson will j/tuuuuiy Rocvpi. nu in iiuw ?v John Hopkins, Baltimore. He ?;nt part of last summer at Har^urg and preached several times this congregation. Wo call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of T. W. Wood and Sons, seedsmen, of Richmond, Va. This is a well established and most popular seed house, and the seed sold by them are guaranteed, well selected, and adapted to the soils of the South. When you order from T. W. Wood and Sons you get what you want, ? and cannot fail to be pleased with results. Gorton's Big Minstrels will appear , at Opera House, Wednesday, February 15. The management promI ises everything new this season with ^pthis favorite company. There will l?e fasg novelty features, great dancing specialties, sweet singing, amusI ing comedy, etc., all of a first-class I { character. The company will give r.? a street parade at noon, which is said to be one of the finest and most complete minstrel parades ever witnessed. Mr 4'T n Big Bargain G, SHOES AIs ...R T 0 U It... LOW TICKI \ will contin Saturday ;bruary lltl ...TH E... Y-COPEI DM PAN' Meeting of the stockholders of the Union and Glenn Springs Railroad Co. was held in the office of Presi" J * m n T\ i i r> aent 1. u. uuncan on wcanesaay, > the 8th in8t., at 10 o'clock a. m.: as per the notice published in The Times. The purposes of the meeting were fully carried out at this meeting. There were other matters of importance and interest to the Baid company and to the public discussed and agreed upon which we are not now at liberty to make public, but will do so at the proper time. The approaching engagement of Gorton's Minstrels at the Opera House, Wednesday, February 15th, is looked forward to with pleasure by all lovers of this popular form of amusement. Gorton's Minstrels have long been regarded as one of the standard attractions which may always bo depended upon to more than fulfill all promises, and the addition this season of many new and important features insures a performance of unusual excellence. A street parade, unrivalled in its magnificence and costly equipment, will will bo given at noon. Seats on sale at Union Drug Co., Monday 13th, 9 a. m. Mr. P. 0. Trefzer Missing. Last Tuesday morning Mr. F. G. Trefzcr left his homo about ten j o'clock going towards the city? , supposedly to go to his store. On ( the afternoon of the same day Mr. ( Jim Malone saw Mr. Trefzer beyond ( Bulfalo Mills going towards Fair Forest creek. Search has been , made ever since and nothing has ] been heard or seen of him. Union Boy Wins Medal. ' At the South Carolina College J. 1 Rion McKissick, youngest son of; ; the late Col. I. O. McKissick of this city won the gold medal offered annually by tho Wade Hampton i Chapter U. D. C. for the best essay submitted on an assigned subject. The presentation was made by Hon. R. W. Shand who is well known in Union and who was once a partner in the practice of law with the father of the young man to whom it was presented. Rion has always been a student and devoted to his books, and has always stood high in* his classes wherever he attended school. Greenwood need now claim Rion because his mother now lives there. Union is his birth place and will ever claim the laurels he wears as a part of her honors. Tssl s In I JD HATS I' ET SALE I i lie 1!: Night 1; HI * LAND J ' News From Wllklnsvllle, \ Wilkinsville, Pel). 3, 190?? ( This is ground hog day and if the | raditional story may l>c relied upm the winter is broken. Don't' ( :now what Mr. Mike Sellers will ] lave to say about it, as Mike is a ;reat believer in the old signs and ( raditions. ( Dr. John G. Black 1 understand | vas called in consultation with Dr. Forrest McKowan in some fever A ;ases in Mrs. Mary George's family , ] ,vho have been greatly afflicted since ] ast fall, and two of her daughters | lave (lied with typhoid fever' ( Mr. Jefferson Black well, of Jones- | rillc, has moved to the Douglass alace near this place where he will 'arm this year, I am told. The farmers of this county, or at east a majority of them have re-. ( solved to hold their cotton for bet- ^ or prices, even if tlicy have to wait intil next summer. They have ( concluded that it is time they were , beginning to take care of themselves, ind if they don't get the cost of raising their cotton now, to hold it , until they can. Tiie Times reaches us promptly rvery Saturday, and we arc always ;lad to get it. The bridge at Skull Shoals is' much needed. We understand that Union county is ready and has been or a long time to build its part and ,vo hope Cherokee will soon condude to build its part. Several of >ur people have business interests >n lnith sides of the river and it would be a great advantage to them is well as the traveling public to have the bridge repaired at once. j Mr. Jimmie Strain is hauling lumber to build him a new house. Camp Jeffries, N. C. Veterans met at El bethel church last Friday, and enrolled some of its members, but the election of officers was de- ( fery6d until another time, as but onjy a few of its' members were piri?'ui/| *_myiii|j wi tiiu cuiu (viuu1c1. Rev. \V. II. White, of Locklmrt, will preach at Salem next Sabbath. He wan to deliver a lecttfre ilt the Hopewell school house fcibrioiVow night, but owing to measles ip. the neighborhood he will...postpone it until a later day. . , . Vox. Mr. W. F, Hughes has purchased the back half of the McBeth Young lot on Bachelor street and will erect thereon carriage works and black* smith shop to take the place of his shops which wore burned in the recent firm. FARMERS WANT 10 CENTS. Not Willing' to Sell Cotton Under That Price. "I want to buy your cotton," said a purchasing agent to a farmer living several miles above the city yesterday. "What will you take for it?" "Ten cents," said the farmer. "But," said the agent, "that is far nlx)ve tho market price. I am prepared to give you the best the market is offering but 1 can't afford anything like 10 cent." "Can't help it, sir. It goes for 10 cents and nothing less," said the farmer. "My friend, see that wooden leg? Well, I have fought through tho Civil war and I have seen lots worse times in Greenville county than these of today. Those; sixty bales of cotton piled up there belong to me. You hear that axe in the piece of wood down yonder don't you? Well, that man is cutting timber right now and I am going to have it sawed into lioards to c ?ver that same cotton. I expect to keep it awhile yet., and I will not have to starve to do it either. When your house feels like offering 10 jents for it, come around and we'll talk it over. Until then good day." "That is a fair example of the ,vay the farmers are all talking." arid the cotton man who told the it/^rv nn 1 ' v.j v.. iMuiovii n m;n nu ruilimUQ :o the city yesterday afternoon. 'There is a great deal of cotton hong held by the farmers and they ire waiting for 10 cents, like my >ld friend, the soldier. The ginners report was only a martial one this time, dating from loth Dec. 1004 to Jany. 10, 1005 is many of the ginners refused to eport, but it is significant that coton did not drop lower in price, and is it had been doing at every re" >ort made by the census bureau. The significance is in the fact that he farmers are organizing?holding heir cotton and preparing to plant 15 per cent less acreage and to use 15 per cent less fertilizer.?[Ed.] TEN CIRCUIT BILL. low the House Purposes to Divide the Circuits. The following is the text of the en circuit bill as it passed the Section 1. Ifiiat the state be, ind is hereby, divided into ten ludicial circuits, eomposee as folows: The 1st circuit shall be composed )f the counties of Charleston, Colic" ;on and Beaufort. The 2d circuit shall be composed >f the counties of Berkeley, Georgeown, Dorchester and Orangeburg. The 3d circuit shall l>e composed ^f the counties of Hampton, Aiken, bambcrg, Barnwell and Edgefield. The 4th circuit shall be composed 5f the counties of Clarendon, Flor" cnce. Lee. Sumter and W'illinma burg. The 5th circuit shall be composed ! jf the counties of Chesterfield, Dar-' lington, Horry, Marion and Marl-' boro:' The Gth circuit shall Ik; composed | :>f the counties of Kershaw, Lexing-1 ton, Richland and Saluda. T be 7 th circuit shall Ik; composed of the counties ol Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster and York. The 8th circuit shall he composed of the counties of Cherokee, Spartanburg and Union. ?TKc Dth circuit shall be composed of .thc'jcounties of Abbeville, GreenWood, Laurens and Newberry. The 10th circuit shall be composed of the counties of Anderson, Greenville, Pickens and Oconee. Section '2. That in no case shall any special courts be held, but the governor may commission some one learned in the law to hold a regular term of court when a circuit judge is disabled by sickness, South or North, the Superior Race Will Retain Control. No man is born free, and no two men are born equal. Men and races must still survive or perish by their own merits or lack of them. It is supposable that if the white population of the North were transported to the South and the white i i* f .i n - ?i 11 < population 01 uio oouin an transferred to the North, the negro would find his condition bettered?but 1 do not believe it. 1 hold to the great ideal of an ultimate day when 'all men shall be equals and brothers?but I recognize that as yet we are not far on the road toward that day. Meantime, it is right and ,proper and inevitable that the suvperior race should retain control of the government of communities composed of both races. Admirable theorists can readily supply a wiser plan than this, but nature knows none better, else she would have put it forward. White men will cbritin\io to rule in the South, and should fcbntinue to rule there without regard to numerical majorities, until the day comes when the? -> ; intellectually and,* *?\pra!W fr~ I We are showin; ALL WOOL LAMINATED I DOWN COM1 \ I As light as a feather a MERCERIZE! AND HALL in Green, Red and Old ] and Figured I Nottingham, Bobbinei and Irish Point in ne> Prices. Bailey Fur A T TEJS We wish to thank our man ness in the nast. and esr disaster by fire, and hope for Though our building was NOW READY P IN THE LIPSCO Here we will carry a full lin< and Farming Implements, can be found at the Brick St A Carload each of Buggies opened up at the Nicholson railroad. We will rebuild at as possible. We ask for yo all we can to merit vour oati THE PEOPLES D. PANT GILLI/5 J ...When | WANT 1 n A Wagon, Bu \<t r* * a, rarm supplies, g ceries, see us, as ? g WE CAN SAVE Y( 3 ? COME ANI |Eant Bi riors of their former slaves. Do we expect that day ever to come? Is there anything in the contrasted histories of the two races to suggest it? . J llero is the nub ot the discussion: White men South have disfranchised * tlw masses of the black men South. ' The North has uttered no protest : ?has accepted the situation. The ' I houtli is doing what it can do to i solve the race problem rationally by giving the negro education that will 1 lit him to do well such work as na- 1 jture has fitted him to do at all. In all this, the white men of the * South have done and are doing precisely what the white men of the 1 North would do if in their place? no more and no less. The negroes have nothing further to hope from a sentimental appeal to the North in regard either to social or political privileges. They have gained their freedom from slavery, and with it they have gained the right to "make good or get out"?just the same as all the rest of us. They, must now hoe their own rowe, or yield the tools to better men. Booker Washingtop is working on the right line. There ^ Nitbera More power to them. f ????i ii? ? HHMiiair n g a nice line of BLANKETS, COTTON PORTS : : : : nd as warm as wool. ) PORTIERS CURTAINS, Rose. Bagdad Stripes I Tapestry. t, Arabian, Fish-net v designs at Popular niture Co. v m.0 N! y friends for their kind >ecially during our recent their continued patronage, destrosed by fire, we are OR BUSINESS MB BUILDING. ? of Groceries, Harness, Our Mules and Horses able near the post office, and Wagons will soon be Iron Warehouse near the : our old stand as quickly ur business and will do ronn^e. SUPPLY CO., IM, Manager. i You... t ro BUY ? y ft ggy, Harness, >, Guano or Gro= % g ? )l! SOME MONEY g a > SEE US. 5 ft ros. Co. Secretary of State's Office In a Tangle. A committee composed of two members from house of representalives ami one senator was appoint* id at the session of HMH, of the egislature to investigate the hooks ind papers of the several state oftiees. This committee made its report to the general assembly this week, and in it was found a good many serious errors and omissions in the hooks and papers in the of* liee of the Secretary of State. The committee found the luwtlra twwlhr kept, some of the important.hooka such ns show receipts of money and disbursements of State funds were missing and have not been found. Upon the whole, the ofliee is in quite a serious tangle. This is the most important ofliee in the State And unless properly kept, t he State might be the loser of millions and some individuals also grt-atly enr ? barrassed. * ? Th^t Beautiful Gloss. Comes from the varnish in Devoc's Varnish Floor I'aint; costs 5 cents more a quart though. Sold by Bailey Lumber & Mfg. Co.