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Ia&H?H )B|i _ Even r m gB? Is Hbb co? 1 Hot |BB L? OUR STOF fr^ JgEB we i Rifl' i8? The Bi Hi J ggBBIL = ^ it> iti LOCAL LACONICS. Happenings of Interest % About Town. Mrs. S. M. Rice, Jr., has gone to spend the summer in the mountain resorts of North Carolina. Miss Sue Carter, of Asheville, is visiting Masses Blanche and Catherine Thomson, Herndon Terrace. Mr. P. E. Fant, after quite a ---'Severe illness is, we are glad to say able to Ik; at his place of business. Miss Marie Clifford entertained a number of friends last Friday cvenk ing in honor of her two friends, r Misses Josic Minter and Lona Posey. Miss Corry Binder and her friend %r: if - r\ ii i .1 mish muiiue fuucan awenuea inc Cedar Springs institute commencement exercises Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Sarah Townsend, Dr. I. M. Hair and Mr. Thos. McNally attended the Townsend-MoGhee marriage at Greenwood Wednesday, 28th inst. Misses Blanche and Catherine Thomson gave pleasure to a few of their friends Wednesday evening at a social dance in the spacious halls of Herndon Terrace. Mr. Leroy Townsend will soon commence the erection of three nice store rooms on his lot between T. E. Bailey and the Peoples Supply Co. new store on Main street. Mrs. Ida Gist Quarles, of Helena, Ark., is visiting Capt. and Mrs. F. M. Farr. Mrs. Quarles was Miss Ida Gist, oldest daughter of Mr. Thos. Gist, native of this county. Stewart Smith gave to his young friends a most delightful lawn party at his home on South street Wednesday evening. The lawn was beautifully and brilliantly illumined with Japanese lanterns, and delicious refreshments were served. If the vacant lots on Main street were built up with nice storo houses ) they could be rented. The Union k Grocery Co. has bought the store room now occupied by Mr. Samuel Bellowitz their business has so increased that they need more room. There is no store house for Mr. Samuel Bellowitz to go to. He carties a large stock of dry goods and notioqs, and it will take a good size room for his stock. / Man Am / ? - wanting sometl ler to wear tt days : : IE IS THE PLACE (thing You v have it at it Price : : liley - Copelai /ien's and Boy's Outfitters isJLJL # Wc acknowledge with pleasure an invitation to attend the 8th annual 4th of July picnic at Shclton Picnic Park. We have a great desire to be present, as we know that the ladies and gentlemen of this community will spare no pains to make the occasion most enjoyable, possessing as they do, the most charming hospitality. The moving of Dr. Rawls dwelling house and that of Mr. J. B. Porter, both on Main street across the street from the court house and jail to Enterprise street, makes a wonderful change in the topography of that part of the city. These two houses are about the oldest in the city, and were the land marks of nearly three fourths of a century. Had the law against vagrants been properly enforced in all the towns, that old man would not have been assaulted by a roving negro in Greenville, and the passions of the people would not have been aroused almost to the point of doing murder. When there is demand for labor at remunerative wages in every city and when there is a place for a working man on every farm, the able-bodied man who was whipped in Greenville was roving the county, hungry and ready to pillage or commit more serious crimes. There is no place for vagrants?white or black?in this country except on the chaingang. The State has said in a few words what we have been trying to say to the city fathers of Union for the pant two years.?En. The route of which The Times spoke some weeks ago, that is the line of railroad to be built from Union cotton mill No. 2 to the Sxcelsior knitting mill is now being surveyed by Civil Engineer L. G. Young assisted by Mr. Lafar Lipscomb. As soon as this line is completed the output of the knitting mill will be shipped over the Union and Glenn Springs railroad. We learn that in the near future a million dollar cotton mill will be built on the property purchased from Capt. J. T. Douglass by Mr. Emslie Nicholson, for which the above mentioned railroad is principally to be built. We have no definite information regarding this new cotton mill but are told it is an assured fact, since there is no absolute necessity for a railroad along the route above indicated, over which to ship only the output of the knitting mill. TIT i Boy IT Fling leSC i f?H| ro BET If. J /ant the ggi ; : 1 nd Co., {J j _J?J i & -ft J: Died Prom His Wounds. 1 Sam Hughes, the colored lx>y who was shot by Boger Prisock ' June 11th, inst., died the 19th and 1 an inquest was held hy Coroner B. ( * F. Gregory on the 20th. The testimony taken before the coroner and ; jury of inquest was in substance as follows: On the day of the shoot- 1 ing, Charlie Prisock, Boger Prisock. Sam Jeter, Casper Pool and Sam ! Hughes all met or came to a certain part of the road near Red Hill school house, Piny drove, Pinckncy township, on plantation of Mr. j Smith Wood, Sunday, June 11, Charley Prisock said to Sam Jeter, "Are you the man that threw the . rock at me?" naming day and ( place. Sam Jeter said, "Yes." 1 Then Boger Prisock pulled out his j pistol and began to shoot, saying 1 as he did so to Casper Pool to "Get j out of the way." Sam Jeter just 1 1 at this time caught Sam Hughes by both arms and held him in front of ; him (Sam Jeter) while Boger J Prisock shot five times. One ball entered the shoulder of Sam Hughes { and the ball ranged downward, from | which wound Sam Hughes died on , 1 the evening of the lbth of Juno. ^ Now the question arises, who is the r most responsible for the death of 1 Sam Hughes, Boger Prisock who did the shooting or Sam Jeter who 1 held Sam Hughes in front of himself to keep the bullets from Prii sock's pistol from hitting him, thus , making a human breastwork out of , a human being by an inhuman j being. Boger Prisock is now in ( jail but Sam Jeter is at large, hid- . ing in all probability. ; ?? - -M rrarritQ. : Ben F. Townsend, Esq., and Miss Julia McGhee were married in the Methodist church at Greenwood Wednesday at high noon. The ! ceremony was performed by Rev. I W. A. Masscbeau. Sooi^ after the , marriage the bride and groom went to Waynesvillc, N. C., where they . , will spend the summer. The friends of this happy couple offer sincere congratulations and best i , wishes for a long, happy and prosperous wedded life. NOTICE. ^ Anyone interested in purchasing a good farm, something over 250 acres, ! located about three miles from Union, > known as the Union Creamery Farm, r will do well to see Geo. H. Oetzel or ' L. L. Wagnon, Agents, Union, S. O. The Average Price of Cotton This Year. Theodore H. Price in a circular letter of date June 23, 1905, shows the average condition of the crop to be 77.2, at same timo last year it was 88. That for a 10,000,000 bale crop the average price would be 15.52, for a 11,000,000 bale crop 11.97, 12,000,000 bale crop 9. It seems probable that a lasting peace ociween itussia and Japan and the increase in the world's gold production arc conjointly likely to work the most extraordinary expansion ever witnessed in the cotton trade. In regard to the Russo-Japanese peace, I wrote on August 13, 1901, is follows: "Just as the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Japan proved the death knell of a wild 'peculation, so I l>elieve the end of this struggle will l>c an epoch-making event in the world's commercial md industrial history. The triumph of Japan, in my opinion, means more to the world's industrial progress than any event since the rcsnmption of specie payment n the United States in 1879. It means the Americanization of 2hina and the opening up to west;m commerce of a territory hithcrx> industrially unexplored, the purchasing power of whoso dense population Will be almost illimitable when educated by western methods." I have in a previous circular lealt quite fully with the relation between the world's gold production md the price of cotton, and I canlot now do better than to enclose vith this a partial report of an adIrcss recently delivered by Dean Johnson, of the University of New jfork, before the Pennsylvania Hankers' Association upon the same subject. From it I quote a few paragraphs is follows: "When we consider that during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century, the total output of both ?old and silver was less than 82,J00,000,000, while the output of gold alone in that period was only 8800,000,000, or about 816,000,000 per annum, whereas in the last Fourteen years the output of gold has amounted to nearly three and one-half billion dollars, it is not surprising that very grave questions arise in th^' minds of thoughtful men with'regard to the effect upon human welfare which changes in the amount of gold will exert. Let us suppose that the banking reserves of the country are increased 850,000,000 by the deposits of miners. This 850,000,000 may be made the basis for an expansion of bank credit to the amount of 8200,000,000 or even $300,000,(XX), and the Injrrowers of this credit will buy goods and labour. Thus, this new gold in the form of currency or credit will sooner or later increase the demand for various goods and so cause their prices to rise. The uneven uplift of prices has a remarkable psychological effect. As a result of a steady upward tendency of prices and of the consequent increase of what may be called the money wealth and the money profits of business and industry, men are eager to extend Lt_ a' uiuir operations. iSewcomers rush into industry aDd business from the professional and other fields. How long the industrial body can stand the effect of this money intoxicant gradually administered, experience done can decide. Both reason and experience unite in leaving us to expect that the end of the Japanese xnd Russian War will lie followed by a release of credit, another upward shoot of prices, and a demand 'or capital that will bring large lividends to hankers all over the gold-using world." There is today no weight of spot eotton anywhere in the world, and *s' the supply is decreasing at tho rate of 100,000 hales a wock, there can lie none until September. Meantime, a feeble cotton plant insufficiently fertilized and poorly Cultivated has to contend with probable drought, flood and boll weevil from now until its maturity. Theodore II. Price. Advertised Letters Remaining in the Post Office at Union, 9. 0., for the week ending Jane 80, 1905. F?-Miss Janie Foster. Q?Mr. Frank Greer. J?Mr. William Jonas, Mrs. Carrie Teter. K?Miss Anna King. L?J. 0. Lovings. M?Mr. G. w7 McCormick, Mrs. Emma Moorman, Ixxiia Miller, Mr. Belton Millwood, Mr. Coap Millwood, Annie Miller, Mr. A. Jamea Moore. N?Mr. William Nelson. O?Mr. Carl Ownby. R?Rev. J. H. Kendall, Mra. Lnlaa Rice. 8?B. F. Siak. T?Mra. J. 8. Tillman. Peraona calling for the above letters will please say if advertised, and will be required to pay one cent for their delivery. O. Hunter, P. M. | Getting Pix I Will ft with our line of Su p We are shnwinw a < " 1 Jffl Porch Rockers an [J and Vudor Shades , I IF YOU W. ri get a White Mount II a Leonard Dry Ai ?1 just opened up a nt II Curtains, Portiers H estry, Bag-Dad Str jj $2.75 to $9.00 the | H A lot of new cr< H just opened up. H Special prices f H our store. 1 BAILEY F [HScCORMK I Hove le< I for se^ 1 years 2 I far ahe< I The Peopl 1 D. FANT Q {Straw Ha ft ^ A few left ar $ fc ? i All $2.50 Stra ? " 2.00 ' ? " 1.50 44 ? 44 1.25 44 ? ? Jj Don't wait a % lii |J. C HflBifiasaiifiieas 1 New Fun U If you wai HI come and s n just receive p erators, Ice U Hammocks [1 Porch Rock H to Nets. S( windows it rj Give us a be apprecia I Burris ed Eor Summer | I be Easy 1 mmer goods to select from. 11 nice string of Lawn Swings, jg d Settees, Piazza Blinds, Q and awnings. gy ANT THE BESTl :ain Ice Cream Freezer and II r Refrigerator. We have Q ;w lot of Nottingham Lace H anrI H n 11 C**? *: ? ^ ?. .un wmi taiiia ill K # ipes and Mercerized, from M op China and Jap Matting H or Cash jor any article in H URNITURE CO. 1 frMOWERsTI 3d all others I /enty - three | ind *"* JL * 11 inu arc miii H id. Sold by | es Supply Co. 1 ILLIAM, Manager. H ts Must Go!* * it id rhev will go as t t* >IIOWS: * t iws to go at $1.50 * 1.25 * 1.00 .75 4 4 4 is the number is j{ mited. i OHEN.I niture Store! | rit to kPPn rnnl DD ee us. We have d a lot of Refrig= M Cream Freezers, y , Porch Shades, R ers and Mosqui= creen doors and U lade to order. 1 i call and it will ted. I & Milling. I IONE 163.