The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 24, 1905, Image 5

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. . -V- . - X I M. W. I rum M. W. I I \ . _ ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES Of the Double Dally Passenger Trains, Union, S. C. Train going North 9:00 a. m. 44 South 11:36 a. m. " 44 North 2:36 p. in. 44 44 South 8:63 p. m. Tliesc trains only mako 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 nublished in Tub Timm fr?* the benefit of the public generally. Local News Notes Points Personal and Otherwise Picked up and Paragraphed by Our Pencil-Pusher. . Mr. Charles P. Pclhum, of Newberry, is in town. Mr. Macbeth Young was in Lockhart this week. Mr. T. J, Alvcreon was in the city Wednesday. Miss Maud Garner returned Tuesday from a short visit to Joncsvillc. Mrs. W. W. Duncan, ofSpartanhurg, is visiting her son, Col. T. C. Duncan. Mr. Jos. E. Leach, a member of the Columbia bar, was in the city last Friday. Judge D. A.Townsend is holding court this week in Yorkville. There will be a three wecks's term. Mrs. Fred Holland, (nee Minnie Counts) of Atlanta, Ga., is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. J. Gregory. )t Rev. A. G. Wardlaw has returned from Clcmson College where he preached last Sunday to the corps. Mr. B. F. Alston, Jr., attended the meeting of the managers of the Southern Cotton Oil Company at Columbia last week. Capt. J. T. Douglass went to Columbia Thursday to meet with the board of investigation of the books of the State officers. Drs. E. W. Foster and J. M. Wallace have returned from an extensive hlintincr trin. hrinenner hnet pleasant memories and no birds. Messrs. J. Gordon Hughes and J. Kion McKissick and Dr. Etharn VV. Foster represented Union at the Junior-Benior reception-at Converse college at Spartanburg on Monday night. & - - BOBO ' n BOBO / ). Dr. Jobn L. Weber and daughtc Miss Annie Conway, have returne to tbeir homo in Kentucky after short visit to Mr. and Mrs. T.. ( Young. Miss Sarah Watson, a teacher i Central graded school has bee quite sick this week, and Miss Ixji: Holmes has been teaching lit classes. | Miss Ruth Foster entertained hi music class at her home last weel ! The occasion was a most delightfi one and was enjoyed by about fifi young people. Refreshments wei served and games were the featui of the evening. | Harriet Miles, colored, mothe ! in-law of Rev. Tobin, dropped den Sunday morning between 11 an 12 o'clock. She had cooked breal fast, eaten heartily and appearc to be in her usul health, and at tl time of death she was preparing 1 cook dinner. Mr. J. E. torment did hipisel the city and the people of Orang burg much credit, praise and prk in tho write up of that city in tl Sunday issue of The State. T1 illustrations are creditable featuri of the narrative and leave a goc impression of the progress and pro perity and enterprise of this thri ing city. 1 'It pays to advertise.'' A petitition is being circulate for signatures asking the presidei of the United States to rgappoii Capt. J. C. Hunter postmaster i this place. We learn that there another applicant in the person < Mr. E. L? Henry, who recent! moved here from Asheville, N. ( The longest pole gets the Rooseve plum. And the chances are Cap J. C. Hunter has that pole. Suit Against Union Mills In the United States Circu Court yesterday W. M. Marl and W. A. Gayle, cotton dealei of Montgomery, Ala., throug tneir attorneys, instituted su against the Union Cotton Mill; alleging that they held a contrai for the future delivery of cottc to the Union Mills, and whc the cotton was delivered tl mills refused to receive it. T1 plaintiff's demanded judgmei m the sum of $20,617.80 ar costs. This suit is based upc contracts outstanding at the tin of the reorganization and cai celled by the reorganization con mittee. V ' ' BMt,DEMANDS 13 CENTS ORGANIZATION WAGING WAR ON SPECULATORS. 71 \flilAPA?0 r ? ?."? B?* r? ? lyui uuj v^auipaiyii un root. I Secretary Weston Talks of the right Now Being Made by Southern Cotton Association. That tho Southern Cotton Asso- 1 eiation is in earnest in the fight to \ resist and put aside the speculator 1 to the welfare and benefit of tne s producer, no one who yesterday 1 visited the office of Mr. F. H. ] Weston, the secretary of the South i Carolina division, can doubt. His : office force was busily engaged ( sending out literature to the various < counties and there were other evi- 1 deuces that the work is being t pushed in no uncertain way. i Asked for an interview concerning 1 this recent activity on the part of t the Association, Mr. Weston said; i "Today, 1 am in receipt of in- t structions from headquarters in ( Atlanta to institute a movement 1 toward securing pledges from the v farmers for the cotton which they i now have on hand for 15 cents. j. We know that there is u most t active demand for dry goods and t that the mills have not the cotton c necessary to run them to fill these 1 contracts. The association consid- 1 cred 11 cents a fair but not unreasonable price for cotton, but in 1 view of the very aggressive cam- t paign that has been instituted 1 against cotton in the last few days t by Theodore Price snd his allies, it g would be absurd for the Southern I Cotton Association to stand by and i sec the producers of cotton throughout the South despoiled of millions J of dollars. Wc must convince the spinners of the world that the price of cotton is . to liP fivorl la* K/v MAVVk UJ VUV [U\;uiivui (ILHI ^ not by the speculator. Mr. Smith is absent from the state, in Texas, speaking in the interest of the association, but 1 propose to organize a most vigorous campaign in behalf of securing pledges from farmers for 15 cents for cotton now on hand. I am now placing these pledges in the hands of county presidents, with instructions to employ canvassers in every school district in South Carolina. We have the money on hand and propose to pay these canvassers for their work. The auditor's books will be used to furnish us the names of every cotton grower in each = county. The names will be placed r in the hands of the party canvassl(j ing the school districts and thus a every farmer will be approached, j No southern man should stand idly by and see his section robbed of millions of dollars which docs not 11 inure to the benefit of the spinner !n but to the benefit of Wall street ze speculators. Br 'A similar campaign is being waged in every cotton producing! er state in the south. This is a fight j of producer against speculator and ] ul we must and will win. , ly Concerning the cotton crop of re Richland county and of tho state 1 re generally, Mr. Weston continued: j You have asked me for an expla- | nation of my opinion of the cotton , crop of this county. I am largely interested in farming and I am | probably the largest owner of agricultural lands in this county, and I am also connected with one of tho ,IC largest banks of the city, which | gives me an excellent opportunity ^ of being brought in contact with f, the farmer. " e- This year's cotton crop has been j lo one of the most disastrous to tho J ic farmer of the county in this rcspoct. | ic We hud abundant moisture and our , -S people fertilized very heavily, there d by giving us a very large wood. Rut ] ?- realize now that our cotton crop v- will not reach two-thirds of what it | was last year. ( This time last year it was really I ( ^ a favor to get a bale of cotton gin- | , ;lt nod, but it now requires only one , (lt or twy days in the week to meet . j9 tho present demands. 0f We have practically completed ly the harvest of our cotton crop and ( 3 thero is only left in the field to be ( gathered that which is commonly , t known ns *Sv rap' cottop, vyhipl> jy , ' vc!7 an^ This shortage is practically ex* ] ^ plained by the fact that freezing ' weather caught a large number of I*, bolls in a very unmaturod state and j t3 full of moisture, and of course those ^ bolls will not open. ( ^ One of my plantations last year It on 120 acres I made 130 ' ales of g cotton. On this plantation 1 had ct planted this year 90 acres but ferir, tilized it well and worked it well. fjl i* j 1 i t 1 1 /?0 1 1 rp to ciate i navo ginned t>u Dales | of cottoi\, an(l hope to get five more. I would consider my experience ^ as that of every other large planter {j in the county. m I have had occasion to travel over nearly all of the counties of the state and havo talked with merch- i ants and business men, and in most I , i on poge 7.) TWO ACCIDENTS ON SAME DAY Mr. Clws. Humphries, His Horse and Wagon fall IS Eee9 . Into Railroad Cut?Mr. ITed Barfield Breaks His Collar Bone. Mr. Charles Humphries, one of Union's grocery merchants, last Monday evening about sundown while driving his delivery wagon beyond Monarch Mills attempted to turn his wagon and in backing to do so the horse became unmanageable and continued to run the wagon backwards to the deep railroad cut of the Union and Glenn Springs railroad, the wagon, horse ind all fell into the cut, a distance >f 15 feet. Mr. Humphries was .aught under horse and wagon and lis right arm was badly broken bewecn the wrist and elbow and he ,vas otherwise painfully bruised and 'or a while it was feared he had UBiained internal injuries, lie is I low doing very well under the cir-! umstances. This was the narrowest escape from a horrible death we uivc ever heard of. The horse lay ipon Mr. Humphries several minitea before making any attempt to ;et up. It is a groat wonder that he horse was not killed and a miricle that Mr. Humphries was not rushed to death, and had his head lit where his arm did lie would1 lave been killed instantly. On the afternoon of the same day VIr. Fred Barfield fell from the rear iiul of his wagon and broke his colar bone. lie was standing up in he wagon and the horse started suddenly and Mr. Barfield lost his >alance and fell to the ground. He s up and improving. lonesville, the Coming City. Jonesville Is on the boom. It i.s i progressive, growing, prospering lity, and it is thoroughly up-to-date. The change in the past ten, no, five rears, has been something remarkajlc. There is a city now where nice there were only a few plain juildings. The mills are excellent >nes, the school-houses are buildings ,o be proud of, and tlicre is everywhere the growing spirit of the :ity. The new hotel at Jonesville is a pride to its citi7ens and a credit to die enterprising gentlemen who caused its erection. It is a very japable and roomy building, of late md admirable architecture, and its management is without and beyond criticism. There is a crying need at Jonesrille. It's for a depot. Since the jurning of the old one, there has icon nothing but the great blue anopy of heaven overhead. And row if the rain starts up, you have :o take it philosophically, and bear t. The ticket office is a hundred raids or more down the railroad ruek and is an inconvenient place ;o got to. The railroad commission should immediately take the matter ip with tho Southern and try ' o mvc a now depot erected right iway. Jonesville is on the boom. The people are hustlers. And it's a town you're going to hear great .lungs from some day. Watch and see. Prof. Clinkscale's Lecture. Those in Union who love to hear i good lecture by a good man will t>c glad to know that Prof. Jo|m 21inksca}ea whq occupies the chair j( mathematics at Wofford college ivill lecture at tho school-house at Monarch mills on Saturday night icxt at 8 o'clock, llis subject will >c "Scraps." This is a very in;ercsting and helpful lecture, and mingles humor with pathos and the ridiculous with tho sublime. The proceeds of the lecture will >e devoted to the building fund of lto Vaw \fnfUa/^1 I'd -A 1 fiiv AiVff ATJ.UVUUVUOV CIIUIUU 211/ 1*1011" irch. This is a worthy cause and me in which every good citizen of the entire city should be very ready to help. The admission feo will be 25 ;cnts for adults and 15 cents for children. Professor Clinkscales is one of very finest jcptufors in fckHith Curo|in(\ and a largo audience should jreet him bore. He is a man of broad culture, deep scholarship and wido sympathy, and his lectures ire little masterpieces of public speaking. Carnival Coming to Union. The Barkoot Carnival Company will lie here the week of December 11th and the carnival will last the entire week; it being given for the benefit of the Union firemen. This past month the carnival company has showed at Beaufort for benefit of the firemen there, at Manning for the schools, and next week at Florence for the benefit of the I .adieu Civic Leaguo. ? ? ?? Thk UnIon Times and Metropolitan Maoaxlnk for $l.?bG a year. I ...WE 14 PER CENT ? On money dej I SAVINGS Dl ?jg compounded se u November 1st j | I HE PEOPI 9g Capital and Surpl 8Bgattia8aaanBgigBRaBiiM5g^a?sia BnjBBsnMBa9WSB?wwSB?aws ? YES, n I TURNER & ? ? that you will find a pretty g and sizes, also Roll Foot S money on the market. \ TRUNKS! \ ft ALL SIZES AND ft * PRICES. ? JJ Have you bought oneJB Jj of our 36 pound featherw Jj beds for $10? They can't 1 J be beat. * * 0 GIVE US A CALL BEI f THING IN C tTURNER & f NEXT TO f ^1 2a u ?? ?? - - ? ? ? - jf Thanksgivinj ? and Plum ? j? All the ingredients and 5 will find elsewhere 5 Thanksgiving and Chi 5 and Plum Puddings. 5 and receiving every c 5 of new crop Seeded 5 Currants, New Crop C Z> Extracts and nuts suite r in the preparation o 2 necessary dishes. G 5 It is a pleasure to ser 5 criminating housekeep 5 we have the class of B to please the rpost fast 5 and the price of the sa B other kind elsewhere. J The Union Grot ji (Thanksgiving and Ch ? ??????????a IIP YOU WANT FINEST TROU ASK FO Celebrate* IThey are the Ti properly. Once; of Crown Trou always wear th< ....Sold 0 Mutual Dry R. P. HARRY ?mmmmmmmmm?? mmm?J? PAY... I INTEREST I )osited in our S BPARTMRNT S ani-annually, p and May 1st. ? -ES BANK,! us over $80,000. 'ffiMmmmmmssMi rs at 5 mayfield's * line of Rockers, all kinds 2 Beds the best for the 2 7* -ORE BUYING ANY- ?# >UR LINE. * MAYFIELD J -LYNN'S. 4 ? Fruit Cake * * Pudding. ? more of it than you 5 for making your 2 ristmas Fruit Cakes 5 We have in stock 2 lay large shipments 2 Raisins, New Crop 2 atron, all the Spices, 2 ible for and needed 2 f these dainty and 2 ive us your order, 2 ve dainty and dis- 2 ers, especially when 2 goods that are sure 2 idious and exacting 2 me is as low as the 2 * * :ery Company, * ristmas Specialties.) ??. "to buy the i SERS MADE I R THE I 1 Crown I *ousers that fit I you wear a pair | isers you will I jm. I nly by.... Goods Co., , Managkr.