The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 27, 1905, Image 5
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
Of tlM Double Daily Passenger Trains,
Union, S. C.
Train going North 9:00 a. m.
44 44 South 11:85 a. m.
44 44 North 2:85 p. m.
" 44 South 8:53 p. m.
Those trains only make a few minutes
stop at Union, so that the hours
of arrival are practically the hours of
departure. Any change in this schedule
will be published in Tub Times for
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. Local News Notes
Points Personal and Otherwise
Picked up and Paragraphed
6 by Our Pencil-Pusher.
Capt. J. C. Hunter attended the
fair.
Mr. Geo. Perrin spent Sunday in
the city.
Mr. J. Rion McKissiek was a
state fair visitor.
? Hon. J. T. Douglass attended the
State fair this week.
Mr. H. P. McKissiek, of Kelton,
wtjS ip tbo city ^atprday.
Mrs. Aubry Rico is visiting Mrs.
W. A. Barber in New York city.
Mr. \V. A. Beaty, of Carlisle,
was in Union Saturday on business.
Dr. K. W. Foster will visit the
capital city this week on the Fair.
Mr. J. W. Crawford has accepted
a position at the |*alpictto DrugOo.
Mr. C. Bo bo Sparks has accepted a
position as salesman at the Battery.
Mrs. L. G. Young went to Columbia
Wednesday to attend the
fair.
Hon. L. J. Browning went to
Columbia Monday to attend the
State Fair.
Dr. Hugh L. Fellers left last week
for a short visit to his home al
Greenwood.
Mrs. W. D. Arthur is visiting
If Mrs. Walker in New York city.
Mrs. Walker was Miss StringfeUow.
Mr. Cad Coles, manager of the
Clomson football team, came through
Thursday night on his way to Columbia
to arrange for the Clemson
Alabama football game.
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Mr. Field Ward law is in Colum
bia tbis week, visiting his brother
Mr. J. B. Wardlaw, during th<
Fair.
Rev. Royal Shannon house sen
some very fine wjiite Wyandot
chickens to be exhibited at tin
State fair.
Oconee County broke the recort
Tuesday when she voted on tho dis
pensary question. A total of li
precincts out of 21 precincts gave ft
for and 540 against the institution
Messrs. Jno. W. Crawford and 1
i Frank Peake attended the Stat
Fair this week. They have severa
very fine horses entered for exhibi
tion?saddle, harness and conibina
tion horses.
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Mr. R. W. Simpson, Jr., who fo
the past two years has been edito
of the Greenville Daily News, ha
rasiffruvb nnrl npponlod ?*?"?*!/?.
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of editor of the Raleigh (N. C.,
Evening News.
The many friends of Mr. J. C
Sartor throughout the county'"will b
glad to know he is getting alon{
nicely after haying a x&ry gerioir
operfftiori performed at' a hospita
in Chester last week.
Tho Bingham Bchool foothal
team, which was defeated by th<
South Carolina College team las
Friday, passed through on its returi
the following day and the boy
seemed to be badly shattered up.
Mr. R. S. Welch, attorney rcpjrc
senting Mr, J, G. Howell in th
suit involving tho legality of tlv
Brice bill, brought in tho Fodcra
court in Ashevillo before Judg
, Pritchard, passed through Union 01
his way to Coumbia last Friday.
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i Rev. Charles T. Scaife, who hn
s been a citizen of Woodruff for sev
eral years, and pastor of the Wood
ruff and Padgett's Creek Baptif
: churches, has l?een called by Bcula
' church in this County, and has a(
cepted the call for the year 1006.
' Mr. Harp Floyd, a deputy Unite
States marshal, was here Tuesda;
serving summons on the mcmbci
of the county board of control t
5 appear before Judge Pritchard ?
1 Asheville, N. C., on October IJOtli
on which day the question of th
constitutionality of the Brico law j
to be argued.
| IN THE MAYOR'S COURT.
Strange Proceedings Causec
Indignation Among the
Citizens and Jurors.
Quite a number of cases befor<
the Mayor's court for the past weel
have been for violations of the ordinances
prohibiting trallic in whiskey
and in every case convictions have
been the result, and nearly all have
been tried by a jury; several cases
of gambling have also been tried.
But the most notable case was that
of the incorrigible Bum Thomas for
selling whiskey, tried by a jury of
his own selection and sentenced to
pay a tine of twenty dollars or
twenty days on the city chaingang.
A history of this trial and the fact*:
and circumstances leading to it is
peculiarly interesting.
Monday morning there were three
cases on the calandcr of the mayor's
court, the case against Tom Farr
and Frank Brown charged with
gambling and the one against Bum
Thomas for selling whiskey. Early
Monday morning Mayor McNally
phoned to Joseph M. Austell, chief
of police, that he was sick, and to
get Councilman Frank G. Austell
to try the cases before the mayor's
court. Accordingly Mr. F. G.
Austell was so notified and at the
regular hour went to the council
chamber and opened court. V. E.
DcPass,' Esq., having been employed
by the law and order league to
prosecute such cases as we above
refer to, appeared to prosecute the
cases against Tom Farr and Frank
Brown for gambling and Bum
Thomas for selling whiskey. When
the case against Farr and Brown
was called, B. F. Townsend, Esq.,
announced that he was counsel for
Farr and Brown and bad arranged
with the mayor to have the case
postponed until the following Monday.
Bum Thomas was in court and
was asked if he was ready for trial,
lie replied that he wanted a jury;
said he had 110 lawyer. A jury was
accordingly drawn, Bum making
his objections to the number allowed
by law until the panel was e^hausfr
ed. The jury was composed of si*
good men, and the case was set for
trial at 8 o'clock that afternoon,
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me nour uien oemg nearly twelve.
At 3 o'clock when the case was
called, Bum was present and the
jurors who had been drawn, F. G.
Austell, mayor pro tern, presiding.
B. F. Townscnd, Esq., came in and
' said he represented Bum Thomas
and wanted the case postponed,
, that he had arranged with Mayor
3 McNally to continue the ease. Mr.
DePass then said, "Why did you
not say that this morning?" Mr.
1 Townsend replied that ho did not
t then represent Bum. Upon that
3 reply Mr. DePass called up Mayor
McNally over the phone and asked
him if he had promised Mr. Town1
send to continuo the Bum Thomas
- ease. The Mayor replied no, did
> not know Bum was before the court
> for trial. Then Mayor pro tern F.
G. Austell said we will go on with
the trial of Bum Thomas. Mr.
Townsend said, "You can try him
? if you want to, but he won't stay
1 in jail five minutes," and imme
diatoly left the court room. The
- case against Bum Thomas then proceeded.
They found him guilty
and lie was sentenced to pay a fine
r of twenty dollars or twenty days
r on the chaingang. The twenty dolb
lars not being forthcoming, a policc3
man took Bum to jail and was met
) with a discharge for Bum signed by
Mayor McNally. This was a stunner,
and it was afterwards said that
at the time Mr. Townsend remarked
e that the court could try Bum, buj
5 Bum woulcj not'' '$|ay" !>jn 'jAil,'' his.
3 Mr',' Towhwmcl, had'the said dis.
1 charge in his pocket. Mr, V, E.
DePass told this to Mayor McNally
and ho did not dony it. This pro1
cecding created a great deal of in3
dignation among the jury and
t several citizens who heard of the
3 case, and Mr. DePass said that he
8 had been asked to join in a petition
requesting Mayor McNally to resign.
Bum Thomas is $t large, qqderpc
- bond for his appcftr&noo before any
c court, although ho is a oonvicted,
3 sentencod criminal. Ben Joter wa*
1 also arrosted some weeks ago charged
o with selling whiskey. A good case
a was made out against him by reliable
witnesses, and when Bon was
brought up, a certain reliable gentle8
man said let Ben go, I will be responsible
for his appearance. Nc
bond was signed, but on this verbal
^ bond Bon was sot free and is still
" free and, no bond to onforce, cerD
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Minu^ win uuv vuiuiiuirny appear
for trial, This is the talo thai
. was told to us,* and wo thought ii
c* nothing but right that the publi<
y generally should know it. We ar<
^ free to say that no such proceeding
** have ever before beon enaatea
Without authority of law, unpro
'? cedented, high handed usurpatioi
te cf authority all of which calls fo
18 an explanation and which wo lcav<
the public to pass judgment.
Dispensary forces
Renew the fight.
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tics, in which no dispensary has
ever been established, which is in
) conflict with article 11, section 12,
. of the constitution of South Carolina,
which provides, inter alia, that
such surplus funds "shall be devoted
to public schools and ap!
portioned as the general assembly
, may determine," there being in the
hands of the state a large amount of
such surplus funds and which was
there'before the voting out of the
said dispensaries in said county, in
which said surplus funds the citizens
and taxpayers of said county
.had a vested interest and property
right before the amendment was
made under the guise of .law to deny
to them the proper proportion
of said fund, and to still give it to
Marlboro and Greenwood counties
not voting out the dispensary, said
Marlboro and Greenwood counties
being in the same circumstances
and ,hnder like conditions as to the
dispensary law and the enforcement
as ;the said county of Union and
the other counties voting out the
dispensary law.
Sec. 13. That in the counties of
Cherokee, Pickens, Newberry, York
and Lancaster, Darlington and
Marion, elections have already been
held under said act of 1904, commonly
willed the Briee lull,'wherein
was submitted to the qualified voters
thereof the question of dispensary
or 110 dispensary, and at said elections
in said counties the majority
of the ballots cast in each were
found and declared to be against
the dispensary. Whereupon the
dispensaries already established and
existing in said counties were closed
in accordance with the provisions
of said act.
Sec. 14. That reason of the elosing
of said dispensary located in
town of Union, Union county, to
the oflicc of dispenser of which the
relator had been, as alleged hereinbefore,
duly elected and commissioned
for a term of one year, which
term had not. expired when said
dispensary was so closed, and has
pot now expired, and being dispossessed
of his said oflice, and the
emoluments theroof, ever since said
dosing of said dispensary, the relator
has been and is now being deprived
of the emoluments of said
oflice and his property rights therein
Without due process of law, contrary
to article 14, section 1, of the
amendment to the constitution of
the United States of America, which
provides that no state shall' 'deprive
any person of life, liberty or property
without due process of law."
Whereas, the relator prays that
this Honorable court will issue its
writ of mandamus to the said respondents,
It. M. Fincher, W. U.
Wilkinsand Elzie Kelly, commanding
them to open the said dispensary
located in the town of Union,
South Carolina, and to reinstate
the said relator in his oflico and
give him possession of the same,
and for such othor and further relief
as may be proper.
Signed, Bellinger Sc Welch, John
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vr. vapors, attorneys ior relator.
Minutes of the Baptist Association
Ready for Distribution.
All of the Baptist churches of
this county will please take notice
that the minutes of the late county
association are ready for distribution.
After publication of this the
clerks of the various churches com1
posing the association will please
call at the ^ai^-po'petftHd Co.'a
fektyp in Union and request them of
Mr. E. E. Clark who will kindly
and \wiUi pleasure pass thorn around.
If thilf'doog not catch the eye of a
clork any member can be authorized
to get them and take them to the
clerk and memvn ir?v tlionVo t *
same, as I am very anxious that
1 the churches entitled to same get
! their portion immediately.
Thanking you {or iho honor
$ho>vn rpe, and hiking pleasure in
1 serving you In my small capacity,
I am, very fraternally,
i E. W. Jeter,
| Clerk.
New Organization Here.
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A local branch of the National
Association of Retail Druggists was
> organised hero last week by Travel1
ing Secretary Dunlop of that organl
ization. Its purpose is to maintain
a steady rate of prices for medicinos
- and drugs for tho manufacturers
t and it is a thorougly protective ast
sociation in character.
> TllP n(fi<<oru o rn V I*
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3 President; A. L. Ellerl)00, Secretary
s and Treaauror; G. F. Kellar, Vice
. President. The meinl?ers of the as
sociation arc: The Itice Drug Co.,
1 the Duke Drug Co., the Palmetto
r Drug Co., the Buffalo Pharmrcy.
o The organization was effected at
a meeting held at the Union Hotel.
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