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I 1 Hello! Mr. Do Union? Yes. you buy goods *->>4 GO ' BOB Everybody j ...WHY WEAR ( when you ca ones for 20c 01 r? r ? * ' : ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES . ( Of the Doable Dally Passenger Trains, i Union, S. C. 1 , Train going North 9:00 a. m. 44 44 South 11:35 a. m. 44 North 2:35 p. m. 1 44 41 South 8:53 p. m. , u These trains only make a few min- h utes stop at Union, so that the hours Is of arrival are practically the hours of departure. Any change in this sched- ^ ule will be published in The Times for , the benefit of the public generally. ? i :i Local News Notes i / '4 Points Personal and Otherwise , kicked up and Paragraphed j by Our Pencil-Pusher. 1 ] u Dr. Hamcs, of Jonesvillo, waqf ; here last Tuesday. , ] Mrs. C. G. Say re is spending the i week at Mrs. J. K. Young's. .. . .JJ i fr"'. Mr. Macbeth Young returned Tuesday from Winchester, Ky. . -? * : Jesse Hix is book-keeper for j th) Southern Bell Telcphono Co: '] here. Wm, McGowan, Esq., of Spar- 5 tanburg, was a visitor here thirf * week. ' - I Mr. W. H. Reed, of Lancaster, t S. C.# is book-keeper for the Union ] Hardware Co. ] Miss Ann Holcomb, of West J Springs, is visiting her brother, Mr. W. T. Holcomb. 1 Mr. u. li. McDowal, of Fletcher, ' N. C., is visiting his daughter, Mrs. I Jas. Rice, at Carlisle. i < Mr. Thos. McNally and Mr. Farr ( Gilliam dined with Mr. W. T. Hoi- i comb last Sunday. ' { Miss Myrtle Sanders, teacher of | Bethlehem school, visited the family of Mr. W. T. Holcomb last Sunday. ' ' Vf. i / Mr. M. B. Criglcr returned from Spartanburg Tuesday, where lie * spent a few days with his mothor. Mr. T. G. Johnson, of the Jones- ] ville Manufacturing Co., was in->th? j city last week and called in to seo us. 0 ^ Mr. Clough Arthur, who has ! been at college in Baltimore, arrived j home Thursday. Ho left Monday j for Columbia where be entered . South Carolina College. ] *-V ?t DUOU S. Wt j| our entire line 1 TAILOR MAI 120 PER CENT Now is your worth for $4.0< of Bargains ii Come quick! for many peopl | WE ARE UNDI M.W.B | Departmei You live in 111 Where can (jj cheap? |: rOif?.?<-*- I o-s joes there. jj) OLD SKIRTS... Jj n huy new i ff the dollar [ ; are offering L of I ? 1DE SKIRTS I ? 1 I '. DISCOUNT. T :?I time. $5.00 !| ). Thousand 1 n our store, i Many things I le* I , n ERSELLERS. I OBO'Si fit Store. ' I?' ^ ^325yC\!?? I* :,; -l ^ Mr. V. E. DcPass, who has been juito sick with tonsolitis and grippe or three weeks, is improving and iopt'8 to he out the first of next week. Mr. A. G. Garner, an old Confederate soldier 83 years of age, lied at the home of his daughter ifi Faotory Hill Thursday of last week. * i Mr. James Vandcrford and Miss Btta Blackwood, of Union, were married at West End Feb. 21st, T. 1. Vinson, Notary Public, officiating. J Misses Hattle Howard Jones and Julia Baxter Jones, of Cartersvillu, Ha., will visit their step-mother Mrs. B. Jones, on South street, the first of March. ji > Miss Ethel Walker, who is teaching in Joneflville. sncnt Satnvdnv iiul Sunday here with her parents. Miss Duff, of Cedar Spring*, ac^pnipanied her. 1 %.T ' Dam No. 10 Independent Order >f Beavers paid to F. J. Mabcvry ipe twenty-five dollars reward offered by this order for the finding )i the lxxly of Mr. F. G. Trefzer. fi V Mrs. Mamie McManus who lived H West Union, diod Thursday of ast week of heart disease. She left in infant nine days old, besides a tusbnnd and threo small children. Her remains were interred in the Maplo Ridge cemetery. Mr. Ben Foster the chosen electrician for the Union Mfg. & Power 2o. will, the first of next week bejin the installing of motors and ilcctrical apparatus necessary to' 'hanging the power of the Union 'Will- ? * * uaji.w.111 luiuu irora steam to electricity.. -ik) when the power from Ncal Shoals ia ready to be transmitted U> >hc Union and Buffalo Mills tlioy (vill be in such condition as revive it without delay. * ?>\ t I.!', ? r v Honor Roll. j Miss Puckett's Honor R<S11 (11 Music, for January Central Graded School: v v Elizabeth Arthur, Anna Ixicilc B0U1, Louisa Duncan, Kato Dickjrt, Ida Clement, Maud Hunsuckor, May Kclley, Ixmisc McKissick, Lois Tinsley, Sara Rice, Murguerite rownsend, Louise Sexton, May iitein, Thoo Young, Auressic Wilburn, Bernice Waldrup, ?p?fc. fe aMMMMMMOMI BODY OP FRED 0. Tl POUND IN The Mysterious Disappearance Thursday, February 16?S Had Been Missing F< The cold, lifeless form of Fred G. Trcfzer was found last Thursday afternoon at 1.to o'clock, floating in the icy, turbid waters of Fair Forest Creek, about one fourth of a mile below Rice's bridge. Tuesday morning, February 7, 190.r>, 1 H-tween nine ami ten o'clock, Mr. Fred G. Trefzer left his home in this city, presumably by his family, to go to his place of busi*; ness on Main street, llis wife and (laughter Fannie saw him leave, and as he had not eaten breakfas' they asked him if he did not want! breakfast before going to town. He replied tlmt he did not want any. Mrs. Trefzer came to the store, later in the day. Not finding Mr. Trefzer at the store she thought nothing ' of it, until tin' dinner hour arrived when her son Max brought dinner for two. Mrs. Trefzer then inquired of her son if his father was not at home. Max replied that his father was not there, nor bad lxicn since he left in the morning. Mrs. Trefzer still did not feel very uneasy about her husband's whereabouts, as he frequently of late went out and walked about, but as he did not come home that night, she thought it likely that ho had gone to Spartanburg. i Wednesday morning Mrs. Trefzer I began to make inquiries hut failed to get any correct information. After it was known that Mr. Trefzer urn's unaccountably missing, many rumors were afloat as to where he could be. The first information obtained was that he had gone out to Buffalo on the 10.30 train Tuesday morning, and several said that they had seen him at Buffalo that morning. Mrs. Trefzer published and circulated hand bills offering a reward of fifty dollars for information of the whereabouts of her husband. The Beavers also offered in the same manner a reward of twenty-five dollars. A systematic search was inaugurated. Mr. Gilbert Foster, a brother ofj Mrs. Trefzer, came from his home i at Spartanburg ai I he with Mr# Fred J. Maberry built a boat to bo I used in searching the waters of Fair Forest Creek. The searching party led by Mr. Foster was Messrs. \ l? Mm.n.a t *r..i <> J . iiuuiiiid, in.;>? o . iniiuunj , II. G. Bailey, Charles Betsel, Jolm Bishop ancl Clare Bishop. Mr. Betsel and John Bishop launched the boat in Fair Forest just below the Rice bridge and rowed down the stream, while the others went along the banks. They had gone alxmt one-quarter of a mile when Mr. Malxirry discovered a part of the arm and shoulder of a man lloating in the water, caught under a small raft or drift of. brush and willow bushes. lie then called to those in the boat, the boat was brought close t<> the laxly, but could not be made steady enough to get the body into it. Mr. Bailey had a grap* pling hook that he had made and carried for the purpose of dragging the stream. This hook was placed under the body and the lxxly drawn to the shore. Upon investigation a bullet hole was found on left side just below the heart. The pockets of his clothing were searched and his watch and chain, a Beaver card and one dollar and 19 cents in money were found. Later Mr. IT. Green Bailey and Mr. I. Frank Peake found in the overcoat pocket his eye glasses and the last letter that Mr. Trefzer had received from his brother in Germany. The Ixwly was taken by the tinders to Buffalol and brought from there to this city' ou the afternoon train. Coroner I B. F. Gregory was notified and lie I proceeded at once to empanel a jury of inquest. A few witnesses were examined and the inquest adjourned until Friday morning at U.o'clock at which time Mr. Hobt. McDanicl, first witness, said lie Saw Mr. Trefzer at the Union cotton mills walking up and down the platform, asked Mr. Trefzer if he was going out on the Buffalo train, JVJr. Trefzer replied that he thought .h.c would. Mr. James F. Smith, next sworn, said, that he went to Buffalo that morning in the waive car with Mr. Trefzer. Mr. Dickcrt, the conductor, swore that Mr. Trefzer went to Buffalo on Tuesday morning, 7th February, and after getting off the car inquired of him the way to the hotel, and that tho last he saw of Mr. Trefzer he was going in the direction of the hotel, which is west of tho cotton mill. Miss Mabel Crowlc, who is one of the employes in Mr. Trefzer's jewelry store, testified that Mr. j Trefzer came into the store that morning about ten o'clock, as well ^a* she could remember, remained IEFZER FAIR FOREST CREEK. : Solved by the Searchers on hot Through the Heart?He or More Than a Week. there but a short time; before lcav jiug went to the safe; that she saw the slip of paper left in the safe drawer by Mr. ^Trefzer, upon which was written, "I have taken one dollar, all I need." That Mr. Trefzer had for several days past l?ccn suffering intensely with pains in his eyes, and complained of headache; that Mrs. Trefzer came! to the store that morning after Mr. | Trefzer had gone; that Max Trefzer | had brought dinner for two; that J Mi*s. Trefzer seeing dinner for two asked her son if his father was not at home, Max said no, that he and I his sister Fannie thought that their father was at the store. Miss Crowle testified that Mrs. Trefzer and husband were always agreeable towards each other, that Mrs. Tref' zer took a great interest in the business and never made any order for goods or changes in the business x 1 ' witnout consulting her husband. That Mrs. Trefzer seemed devoted to her husband and very solicitous about his health and condition of his eyes; that she had seen the pistol which was generally kept in the store, did not know size or caliber, was usually kept in a box on the shelf, had not seen it the iday Mr. Trefzer left, nor since, j Miss Fannie Trefzer, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. | Trefzer, testified that her father had for somo days previous to his departure been suffering with a' severe headache, and that on the' night before he left he seemed to he suffering more intensely and ate little or no supper, and seemed unusually despondent. The next morning he was giving the children candy, she remonstrated with him about giving them so much, lie said something that she did not understand, hut since she thought it over she thinks lie said it would lxi the last he would ever give them; that he started to town without eating his breakfast, and her mother t urged him to eat, hut he would not. I She said that there were two pistols I gonerally kept by the family, one I-was hers, which was kept at homo and the other was kept at the store: she knew nothing aliout the size or caliber of either; that the. pistol that was usually kept at the store had been missing since the day her father left. Mr. J. G. Long, Jr., testified that he had seen the pistol that Miss Fannie Trefzer said was hers and that it was a 08 caliber and that he had seen the pistol that was kept at the store and carried bV Mr. Trefzer wln-n he went, lwmm from the store at night; that Mrs. Trefzer had told him that morning that this pistol was a o'i caliber. The coroner announced that he knew of no further testimony to he offered. The jury then signified that they did not desire any further testimony and were ready to give a verdict. The jury then rendered the following verdiet: "We lind that F. G. Trofzcr deceased came to hiA death from a gun shot wound or was drowned by means unknown to this jury." The Beavers, of which order he was a respected member, took charge of the lxxly and carried it to the city cemetery. At 4 o'clock it was interred, with Masonic honors, he lu'ing also a Mason of good and regular standing. Mr. Trefzer was well and favorably known in Union having lived hero for many years. He was a good citizen and attended strictly to his own business, was generous and liln-ral in all public matters and charities, and was highly respected, lie married Miss Florence Foster, a daughter of Major and Mrs. Wm. M. Foster of Spartanburg county. He was a member of the County Benefit Association and also carried life insurance in other companies. He leaves a widow and five children and many friends to mourn his untimely demise, and the sympathy of the entire com" munity is with the bereaved. A Card of Thanks. Mrs. F. G. Trefzer with feelings (of Drofound erratitude. l?.v sincere thanks to the many friends who have been kind and helpful to her in her hour of sad bereavement, sorrow and distress. Especially does she feel grateful and appreciates the services rendered by those who recovered the Ixxly of her deceased husband, and to the Beavers and Masons for their prompt and kind attention in her severe trial. Most gratefully yours, Mas. F. G. Trefzer. Bring your job work to The Times. We can please you. (WHEN IP GOME Never take ill! chances if yoi II' to suffer a los I T RADE AT j A store you 1 g; all this comm ! 8 a store that s g| greatest assor ; that is famou Ible qualities, i ways quotes t sible prices, means to do square thing and under al ces. wp cpi i n ITT 1?<f 4JL4L4U VJ AT RIGHT V NOTHING ELSE This has alw I policy of our si 1 tained as inv H as at any tim H tablishment. |W. T. BEA H F. G. AUSTE (flT IS FAF TO DEPOSIT YOLJF At 4 per cent, thar security at double tl lose both principal a ing it yourself. V\ , with us at 4 per cen money is backed by ! enty-Five Thousan interest is payable and November. A1 s1 this Bank and its de || confidential, and r 11 even of the existenc h j- ! given out to any oik \[THE PEOPI || B. P. ARTHU a j] Capital and Surplus II $75,000.OO. W Mr. West to be Congratulated. Manager W. II. West of the Southern Bell Telephone Company is to he congratulated on the way he handled the wreck of the wires caused by the heayy coat of ice of last week. The wires were down all over the streets and the long distance wires also out in the country. Besides doing more than his share of looking after the trouble of the long distance wire to Spartan" I burg (his responsibility only reaches to Jonesville) he sent men clear to the Spartanburg ofliec to straighten matters so as to cause as little delay to users of this line as possible. There were two hundred and; i went v~nrw? 1 ? | j, ?" nuiiawmj I morning and 1 ?y Sunday night they were all in working condition with the. exception of two or three. Mr. West is a hard working man, and if one will report his trouble personally to him he will always find Mr. West more ready to remedy matters than you are to complain. The operators of the boards have become efficient in manipulating the exchange lioards and again we have a good and satisfactory tele* lphon? system. ??tmmmn iiw ? ??^ , t w&mmmmmmmm . y doubt1 TO US. I unnecessary ?<! x do not want SH OUR STORE i cnow==a store r$ unity knowshows you the tment==a store ^ s for dependa= ^ a store that al= g?j he lowest pos= a store that ?| the fair and || at all times |g I circumstan= OOD GOODS | >RICES AND '$! AT ANY PRICE. | ays been the |a .ore and main= 'iolably today ''2 e since its es= $ TY & CO. J ,LL, Manager. I BETTER j) M (. mejiNtl W1IH US I! i to lend it on poor lis rate. You might nd interest by lenddien you deposit it t. the return of your a guarantee of Sevd Dollars?and the semi-annually?May 1 dealings between ?positors are strictly 10 information, not e of an account, is LES BANK,U R, President. 11 I Totul Resources Nearly 11 ? *300,000.oo. IJ Mr. Robert Butts is Getting Better. The ease of Mr. Robert Putts of this city, as reported in several newspapers of thi> State and Georgia is without foundation in fact, except as to the old man being seriously ill. Mr. Putts had some time hefore had a slight stroke of paraly* sis, at this time he had an epileptic tit, and not another stroke of paralysis as reported. The family were very mueh alarmed when he was seized with this epileptic fit, hut made no preparations for his burial, as the man was only in an unconscious condition for a considerable length of time, as is usual in rases <>t tl?is kind. A physician was called in and of course could tell that Mr. Butts was not dead. The old man is pow improving each day and will soon he entirely well" Notice of Election. The County Board of Control will elect dispenser, also heer dispensers for Nos. 1 and 2, the 18th of March. All applications must lx; filed with the undersigned on or lieforc the 28th of February. T. K. Fostek, Chairman County Board of .Control,