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jOVE 1 D? Hpnl s. m un Cm 1 SEE ft 1 I Wc I of | rur . _ I the r*-gj g sh( I Cal 1 BAII ? The Lea Uniun Cotton Exchange J. B RAMSEY, J. R. MATHIS, Prest. Sec. & Mgr. i New York Futures?December 7. Opening High Low :35 p n Dee. 11.89 11.h9 It 81 11.89 . Jan. 12.01 12.(8 11.94 12.06 Meh 12.26 12 87 12.22 12.34 May 12.42 12.52 12.89 12.48 July 12.45 >2 54 13 13 l?5t Government crinnera rcnort due at 1 < p. m. tomorrow. National ginne e estimate crop at 8,435,000. Prices estimate 8.589.000. LOCAL LACONICS. Happenings of Interest Abo vjt Town. Mr. Albert Boyd spent Sundaj in Newberry. Mr. W. P. Thomson was in the city this week. Mr. J. H. Rodger, of Columbia, spent Sunday in the city. Mr. J. H. Wilburn, of Lockhart, was a Union visitor last week. Mrs. Fred Holland, of Atlanta, attended the funeral of her fath? i having been with him for two weeks. There will bo services in tht Episcopal church Sunday at 11 a. m. and afternoon by Rev. Giflith of Kinston, N. C. ^ Mr. Miles Sniith has accepted t position with The Peoples Supplj Co., and will assist Mr. Roberl riillinwi in flirt livn tiirt/tlr rlnnnrt. VJilllilil* 4U v??v i?tv owyvn uv pui v merit and will he glad for his friendi to call and see him. Messrs. VV. D. Arthur, C. E. Lipscomb, J. A. Brown and Arthui E*tea accompanied Mr. R. M Estes to Charleston Wednesday night to be present at his marriag< to Miss Virginia Elizabeth Wilsor Thursday night at 8.30 o'clock. Union ^cottoti market has beer booming *1this week and has kep - right up with the highest figurei j| paid anywhere in the state. Wher f cotton made the big jump in Ne* York upon the publishing of th< government report, cotton went uj m |n Union 11 1-2, 11 3-4 and 1; cents right along with the rise Many farmers who agreed to ho)< for 11 cents held, and some, sold Now some are holding for 15. Tim is the way it goes. n't buy an Overci III IfAII 111 yuu OUR I V i have the best I Overcoats . . . Men and it has ever be ?wn in Uni II and see the FY - fOPFI iding Clothing and Sho i Mien Mary McBrido writes us that she is a great-great-granddaughter of Col. John Thomas. That her great-grand-father, Capt. Josiah Culberteon, married a daughter of Col. John Thomas. That Capt. Josiah Culberteon was the man who killed the notorious Tory Sam Brown. A complete list and history of the marriages of the descendants of this noble old hero would be highly interesting to the t readers of The Union Times, and ' i we would like for some one to take the trouble and time to write it. | That overcoat did cost 3201 but! when the boys to whom the purchaser was bragging about what a! fine coat he hr'1. * . '^1 the figures $8.50 on the tag attached to the coat, when the owner was not looking, and ...'.en his attention was ailed to the mark, he had the drv grins and said, "Well, now, since I have examined the coat, anyliody * can see it is a cheap coat. I will <?nd it back." How often this happens, that the price of an article fixes the value with those who are no judge of goods. Like the Dutch, man who had offered a hat to a man for 83.00, and the man said, "I want a fine hat." "Alright," 1 -laid tho Dutchman, and protended ro make a change of hats, but ' brought tho same hat and sold it . for 86. ; Gents, Get Ready to Elect Your Queen of the Carnival. 1 The following young ladies enter the contest for queen of the carnival which will begin in this city next Monday: Miss Cornelia Stewart, * Miss Mattie Lake, Miss Bessie Gstes, Miss Etta Hame8. The voting stations arc as follows: Rice Drug Co., Palmetto Drug Co., Union Cotton Mills DeDartment 'r Store, Gibbs, Jolly & Co. store. . Votes one cent each, i A diamond ring will bo given to the one chosen queen. The ring to be presented to tho queen is i now on exhibition at the jewelry t *tore of Mrs. F. G. Trefzer. The 5 voting contest will closo Thursday, i the 14th inst., at 2 p. m., and the / announcement of winner made puh^ lie in front of the Merchants and ) Planters bank. The queen will be I crowned on same afternoon. Vote . early, late and often and all the ) time, no time to lose. This will be; . a lively contest as the lady contest-1 I ants are all beautiful and possess most charming personalities. lTS! I oat m kES _INE I ine g pg Boys i :en iS| on. i -m* I AND ?2* I e Store. 11 Death of Nr. P. H. Counts. Mr. F. H. Counts, after a long and painful illness, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Davis Gregory, six miles south of this city, Wednesday morning at 7:10 oclock. The interment was made in the old Presbyterian cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, Rev. L. M. Rice officiating. Mr. Counts is survived by four brothers and one sister, two daughters, Mrs. Davis Gregory of this county and Mrs. Fred Holland of Atlanta, Ga., and four 6ons, William and Jeter, of Atlanta, Ga., Charles and Hammett of this county. Mr. Counts came to Union al>out the year 1865 having been promoted from depot agent at Alston to treasurer ami auditor of the Spartanburg and Union railrnad. He served for a number of years in this capacity and was afterwards given the position of agent at this place which ho hold for alwut twenty years and was succeed**! by C'apt. W. D. Wilkins. He afterwards was employed K\7 f Kn TTnirtM "j ? >> wiiiiiii tuiiiAJii niiiin its t'.oiMMi warehouse agent and bookkeeper. Ho has been in very feoblo health for several years past and consequently was compelled to retire from all business and has since lived with his daughter Mrs. Davis Gregory. Mr. Counts was a most efficient business man, one of the best railroad agents that has ever served at this place and his ability was fully recognized as shown by the length ' of time he was retained in the service. He had many warm friends, although ho was a man who gave but little time to social pleasures. He married Miss Hinnant of Fairfield county a short timo before he came to live here. She was a most estimable and much lieloved woman and predeceased him quite a number of years. The sympathy of the community is with those children and relatives who survive him. By Agreement between counsel in the dispensary cases now In-fore the supreme court from Greenville, Spartanburg, Newberry, Oeonee and Pickens county, all were postponed until January 8, 190G, at which time argument will be* made lHiforo the supreme court upon the constitutionality of the Brice law. The State will be represented by the Attorney General in addition* to the attorneys already employed by the prohibitionists. John Wesley and the Pounder ot the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Editor: The name of John Wesley stands high on the list of great and noble men.* Zeiny, the founder of thw Methodist Episcopal church, his followers as well as others will ever love and cherish his memtfry. I suppose comparatively few, even of his followers, are aware that he was a doctor. Notwithstanding his numerous religious duties as & minister, travelling to and fro warning sinners to flee from the wrath to come, yet, like his Savior, he would turn aside to minister to the wants of sick and | suffering. We have no account of his attending a medical college and, | may have been termed a quack, but being blessed with a large store of common sense he was enabled to | leaui the value of simple vegetable and hygienic remedies. He wrote | a medical work, "Trinitive Physic" or 4'An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases." This , hook passed through thirty-four | editions. The first was published i in *1747. How much his success ! ill the ministry and religious work | was duo to his skill in relieving the suffering in l>ody and mind eternity alone can reveal. Might not all ministers increase their usefulness by following the examples not only of Wesley but of the Savior and Ilis disciples. I wish to make some i extracts from the introduction to I Mr. Wesley's book. He says: 4 "As theories increased, simple remedies were more and more disregarded and disused, till in the course of yo^irs the greater part of them were forgotten, at least in the J politer nations. In the room of those abundance of new ones were i introduced by reasoning, speculative men, and those more and more difficult to be applied, sis lx*ing more remote from common observation. Hence rules for the application of these, and medical books, were immensely multiplied, till at length physic became an abstruse science, quite out of the reach of ordinary men. Physicians now began to be held in admiration, as persons who were something more than human. And profit attended their employ, as well as honor, so .lint tlwiv linil linui tiun ...... ..?.J ...... ...v, fcuvjr reasons for keeping the hulk of mankind at a distance that they might not pry into the mysteries of the profession. To this end they increased those difficulties hy design which began hy accident. They filh-d their writings with an ahund- ? anee of technical terms, utterly unintelligible to plain men. They affected to deliver their rules and to reason upon them in an abstruse and philosophic manner. They introduced into practice abundance of compound medicines, consisting of so many ingredients that it was scarce poss:' le for common people to know which it was that wrought the cure; abundance exotics, neither the names nor nature of which their own countrymen understood; of chemicals, such as they neither had skill, nor time, nor fortune to prepare; yea, and of dangerous ones, such as they could not use without hazarding life, but by the advice of a physician, and thus both their honor and giin were secured, a vast majority of mankind In-ing utterly cut off from either helping themselves or their neighbors, or once daring to attempt it. Is it not needful in the highest degree to rescue men from the jaws of destruction? ^From wasting their fortunes (on drugs) as thousands have done and continue to do dailv? From pining away in sickness and pain, either through the ignorance or dishonesty of physicians? Yen, and many times throwing away their lives, after their health, time and substance. Is it inquired, arcthere not books enough already on " every part of the art of medicine? Yes, too many, ten times over, considering how little to the purposo the far greater part of them speak. But besides this this, they are too dear for poor men to buy, and too hard for plain men to understand. C. B. Bono. Bedalin, S. 0. Advertised Letters Remaining in the Post Office at Union. 3. C<., for the week ending Dec. 8, 1905. | A?Charley Anderson. Tom Abbott. R?Clyde Bullock, Lucy Beaty. P?George Freeman, Sophia Fereter, Anna Fulwood. G?Mrs Silvia Goror, David Green.' U?Arren Hcnson, Annie P. Hill, I Mnrv Ann Hou'lr ino Tomnj TI111 ; j iiiiu tiunnnin) uuuiuo iilll, U Villi Haynea. J?Charlie Jeter. L?Tommie Law. M?J II Mifchell, Elizabeth Murphy, Lila McKisaick. I P?Bob Parker, Tennie Price, Mrs. Annie Pearaon. I K?K. I. Rice, R W. Rice. 8?Lucidale Smith, It. L. Smith, Mr*. Nettie Smith, W. T. Summer. T?Joe Timer, JamesTramler. W?Chas. Waldrop, T. M. Walsh, Jim Wilks. Pernona calling for the above lettem will pleaMeaav if ad vert ined, and will be required to pay one cent for their delivery. J* C. Uvntxb, P. id. |Now We'v< (The Best Cook St( Sold on 55 years r H Sizes and Prices tc i The Char 1 Stoves and jj| There is a difference in th< H Ranges but the Charter gthan the next best. No ? be "just as good" as tl 8 "just as good" a Stoves ALRIGHT. Don't fail tc gig want a cook stove or heat< | BAILEY FURNI ^2 A Handsome Present w amounting to $1C I ...WAG( Ik Strength, [ jj| and Honest || tion are d if features of 1 |p Hickory" Wa | Peoples Su INew Furnitui GET OUR I On Sideboards and E We Have Some jjj [New lot Watting, Art Squz jjj received; prices to suit ev || just received a line of Plat 1 neer Stands in wethercd from 10c to 35c per double |W. M. Bl SSSSSESSSSSHBiji ; Got It! | >ve on Earth, gj ecord. Styles, j| > suit all. m ter Oak | Ranges. jl i price of Stoves and S Oak costs no more || >tove or Range can || le best. None are Bgj for $7.50 THAT IS gg see us when you ITURE CO. J ith every purchase 5^ > and over. aBisfiaisaBraHnSI ^ pi )NS... j durability | Construc= ? listinctive | the "Old I gons* 1 pply Co J re Store! 1 PRICES I ixtension Tables If Beauties! II ires and Rugs just t| erybody. We have II e Racks and Jardi- ? oak. Wall Pa^er roll. Ml. R" ... ^ x l.?^