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ITo Gur Thou Throughoi We take this i for the best year's b duct an up-to-date in the eating line, \* are the only conden intelligent public, line have been rewa ever experienced, ari the year 1905 the be ous pride and witho our best to supply y 22 that was good, who 2g with impartial and gf We feel that 1 {?2 ation for such genei !S|| hands is the assura S|i what we have alwa: 2g which we are capab gO we always have "th gig and to assure you tl gO s and, shall find us gO Again bespeak gO and the most prospe gjg we may have the pk ggjj to the same, by cont j|Q careful attention, wi | The Ur ^ Union's I ? ? HOW THE CHURCH WAS BUILT <* ? (Original.] j The people of I'ireawny t'ity were emerging from barbarism. Some of them were already getting ashamed of the city's name, though this w is by no means outspoken. At any rate, the frequent shootings which "gave rise to i the appellation had somewhat fallen off. Some of the older, more settled of the population advocated a church. They called a meeting of the citizens. aiul Deacon Snell?called deacon because lie was the only man in the place who had never had a "scrap" with any one?made a speech announcing that lite meeting had been called for the purpose of taking measures to lmild u church. "A church," ho said, "would be useful in a number of ways. In die lirst place. It would benetit our immortal souls. In the second, it would tend to the respectability of the place by reducing the number of shooting affairs." The citizens were unanimous that they wanted a church. There was no doubt about that. A subscription was * about to he opened when a man called Slippery Sam. from the fact that be had managed to kill every movement for reform that had thus far taken place, called the attention of the meeting to the fact that the raising of funds for the church might he used to stop the shooting that was si ill nourishing, lie proposed that the first man who killed another be obliged to build the church. The proposition took the assembly like a sudden change of wind. There whs no opposition, hut the idea was so novel that it. required thought. Pole Hawkins, who had many notches in his gun, asked if the man who might lose in the game would he allowed 1o put I up the money to build the church or must buiUI It himself. The proposer nf the scheme said that lie Intended that the loser should do the work himself. This would make the penalty all the tuore effective. The building r,f n log church big enough to hold. say. fifty )M>o|de was no easy task. Slippery Sam's proposition, with the amendincut, was adopted, and the meeting adjourned with a vote of thanks to the author of the scheme, who had for once appeared on the side of reform. rireaway City suddenly became a highly Christian town. At. least so it appeared. The day after the meet lug I?lck Evans called Hank Williams a Ileal o\ er a game of cards. Hank got Ids gun out before Hick, whose bolder bad got twisted, and was alaait to shoot when be remembered the church building. "Forgive mo, brother," ho said. "I was wrong." 'J'hcn, as the game proceeded, he remarked casual ly: "I v.ish some galoot ' ' git plugged. 'ih< u a teller could do his sliootiu' with I J' i . MMMI isands of friends jt Union and Uni GREETING: method of extending to you usiness since our efforts in and reliable place for suppl dth honest merit and earm tials with which a concern We are glad to say that 01 rded by the most liberal pai id even better than we ha st in our business history, . ut egotism that we are glac ou in season and out of sea Iptnmp nnrl dp?ii*nhlt? in thp undivided attention, he best evidence that we ca 'ous treatment as we ha nee that for the future, 1 ys given in the past, the le, and that we intend to li e best goods at the lowest lat 1906, upon the thresholi your most grateful and wil ;ing for you that K06 ma> rous year of your existence jasure of contributing in j inuing to give to you our b< b are, Vours most grateful lion Grocei Headquarters for Reliable G <?ut beiti' interrupted." Inning tin* next lew weeks there wort* livo eases tif apology tluit, without tho penalty, would have boon shoutings and tiny number of small makeups. til" issue of which would have been uncertain. Then it began to be remarked that Slippery Sam had killed 1b" church after nil, for it was evident thai no one was going to shoot any one. thus I'ringing on himself the penalty of building it. j Slippery Sam began to grow unpopular. It. was not that he opposed reform, hut that he had proposed a scheme which was found to he irksome. At the Alhambra saloon one morning the matter of forcing the author of the annoying plan to end the embargo by shooting some one himself was disra-sed. The difficulty in the way was that any one inducing him to shoot must get shot. The party was ready to do most anything to put an end (.? the situation, but no one was willing to be the victim. I I Oi,., II.* * - --- i m liii.i ii \ urv;mni iKt uni>v tui^ ilN to who should insult Slippery Sam and gel kilh'd for iln> benefit of the wholo. Polo Hawkins drow the red poker chip lliai Ind boon put into a hat with a do/on or more white ones, lie asked If il was optional with him to ho killed or t > kill Sam and suffer the penally of building the church. A conference followed, at the end of which he was informed that when the Jots were | drawn II was understood that the loser j was t i ha shot. It would not be fair to I those whose lives had been risked in j the drawing to now permit the loser to j save his life by building the church, i Hawkins turned a trifle pale at this I decision and hade farewell to them all, taking each by the hand. Then lie | went out io lind Slippery Sam. In ten | minutes a succession of pistol shots i were heard, and the citizens congregated about Ihe bodies of Slippery Sam and Pete Hawkins, who had killed each other, tints leaving the continualty in the same tlx as before, for neither i had been left to build the church. I A meeting was railed to settle the question whether the conditions still held good. The resolution read that the Ilrst person to kill a man must put up the building. The llrst man to kill was dead. Should it now he understood that the next man to kill should build the ehtireh. When the question was put, there was a shout of "No!" from those who had affairs to settle. The ! peace party voted "Yes." Deacou Snell arose and said: | "This yore penalty has got rid o' the , two men in Fireaway f'ity that always lone tlio most damage. Slippery Sam. who was ngin reform, and Pete Hawkins. who did the most kililn*. Now. I've a double proposition to make- that wp hung the next tuan that shoots and all take hold and bulkl the church." The proposition was received enthusiast!.ally by the peace men. and, as for the shooters, they.were overawed. and Patrons g on County, ff our sincere gratitude i your midst to conying all your needs est endeavor, which @0 can come before an j|g ur efforts along this gg tronage that we have j?|5 d hoped for, making ^ ana it is witn consciI to say we have done fig son with everything gg eating line, together Eg in give of cur apprecive received at your we stand pledge for, |||| very best service, of E3| ive up to the motto jpg legitimate margin,'' Eg d of which we now Eg ling servants. (gQ r piove tfe happiest y5g s, and trusting that ?cme small measure ||| ^st services and most ^ ry Co., | T.iceries. gpjj .?_? Thoy loft Firenwny City for more congenial grounds, and those who remainof! built the church. F. A. MITCIIETj. ('IcaillllR Mch'n (lollies. A tailor of fifty years' experience gives the following information: All men's clothing to be cleaned should be thoroughly beaten and brushed. Some things are so dirty it is absolutely necessary to wash them as any other woolen goods. Iron on the ! wrong side. To remove spots, use the following: Two ounces of hartshorn, an ounce of eastile soap, a quarter of an ounce of saltpeter. Dissolve in a quart of rain water. He has used many cleaning mixtures. bill considers tliix the Put j a wad of soft cloth (like au old towel) utalcr the siiot, saturate well ami rub hard. The secret of success lies in hard rubbing, which will drive the grouse through into the wad of cloth. Uub dark goods with dark woolcu aud light goods with light. I'ress on right side with dntnji dotli between iron and garment.? Ihift'alo News. I ml ia ii Summer. Indian sununer is the short spell of warm days in October or November accentuated by the ilrst chill of autumn which hits preceded it. Sometimes it lasts as long its it fortnight, aud it has been observed to recur twice or thrice in a season, though this is quite rare. An atmospheric phenomenon of the same nature has received the name of "St. I.tike's summer" in Germany, "St. Martin's summer" in Kuglund, the feasts of these saints being Oct. IS and Nov. il respectively. The name Indian summer is of an unidentified orierin. It has Hmii nstiilillalimt thni ii dors not appear on any record earlier than IT'.M. but when first recorded it was as a term in general use. The use of the expression in 177N by Horace Walpole clearly referred to the torrid summer of the West Indies and not to this pleasant period of the northern autumn. Tlie Snlnit of the (ireekv. The Creek conception of the evil one, whom they call Yama, makes that personage one of the most satanie of the whole evil tribe. According to their ideas of him, he is 240 miles high and the hairs on his body stand out like palm trees on a mountain side. He punishe-: the doomed being submitted to bis charge by putting tliem in beds of boiling oil. sawing their bodies in two. pouring molten lead in their ears and such other little pranks its pulling out their tongues, toe and linger nails and gouging out their eyes. He is a heartless old fiend of the most fiendish kind ami has many other exquisite lit tlo tortures laid up for the helpless wretch consigned to Ids "chamber of horrors." A Itnnk !*? .ImUI. 'fl A l*ndy Bountiful living in u su'nur- I inn village met an o'd man on thc? ro.nl one day anil asked after his family, his Lealtli, etc. The old man gave a rather gloomy account of things. Ho laid to work nil day and every day, and he it was growing old nuil felt the cold and V was always tired, lie wished ho could p rest a hit after his ldng life of labor. U lie was weary, very weary. j. I Liuly Bountiful, reminded hhn 11 thut every oue had his chare of a p to do in this world, uud that it was nil T only n preparation of the world to p come, where there will be no tears or labor. ~ Tlie old man shook his head and smll- C. od cynically. IL "That may lie for the likes of you," * * lie said. "But there'll ho work for the |_ likes of inc. It will be the same thing "J there: Molm. clean the sun.' 'John, ~ liang out the moon.' 'Joliu. light the stars.' 'John, stop the wind.' They will tind srmietuiug tor me to uo, nia am? v you'll see." q \ Wonilcrft:! lIMc. ^ The uiost wonderful straightaway I rlilo ever made by man was the gallop |_ of Francis Xuvler Aubrey. ct-dnvant Canadian voyugeur awl st famous pony express rider, from Santa IV, N. M., T& to Independence, Mo., in 1853 ? 800 1 miles in five days nnd thirteen hours. 1 In 1H.VJ he bad covered the same distance in a little over eight days, and his record was on the wager <>f 81.two that ho "could do it in an even e'gld ? In the whole distance Lie ilid noi stop to rest, and he changed horses only with every 100 or 200 miles, lie was a stocky French Canadian, light hearted, genial, adventurous and absolutely fearless. For some time lie was an overland freighter, and he also made the enormously difficult nud dangerous drive of a flock of sheep from New Mexico lo California across the deserts of the Colorado, lie was killed in Banta Fe.?MeClnre's Magazine. Stockholders Meeting. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Merchants and Planters National Bank will be held in the directors room of said bank 10 o'clock a. in. Tuesday, January Otb, 190(1. J. I>. Arthur, Cashier. 51-31 Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that States U It. Aycock, Guardian of the estate of f roster uentiy, minor, has applied to H Jason M. (ireer. Judge of Probate, | in and for the County of Union, for a ; final discharge as such guardian. fl It is ordered, That the 22 day of U January A. D. 1000, be fixed for hear- f ing of petition, and a final settlement 1 of said estate. ij Jason M. Grkkh, f Probate Judge Union County, S. C. I Published in Tiik Union Times De cember 23, 19C5. ? 51 -41 Tax Assessment Notice. The time for taking tax returns begins on the 1st day of Jar.ua-y. WOO, and expires on the 20th day of February. All real, as well as personal property, must be returned this time, it is the instruction from the Comptroller-General to positively charge the f>0 per cent, penalty to any and all persons who neglect to make their tax returns as required by law. My advice would be, that every person who has tenants, see that they make their returns, as I will have to comply with the requirements of the Comptroller General, and add fiO per cent, penalty to all who do not make their returns. I am giving due notice and you have ample time. Therefore, when the penalty is chargsd to you, do not blame me, but yourself. All returns not made directly to the auditor or his clerk, must bo sworn to before some one f.nmnottMlt. t.r? n/lminictn, on nod. Want everybody to put a value on their lands and remember land is worth more now than it was four years ago. Will be in the office at Union from the 1st day of January to the 13th, inelusive, after which time I will go to the following places; Buffalo January In West Springs...' " Id | Bennett's Store, forenoon *>' 17 Harrison's store, afternoon " 17 William's Store " 18 Sedulia, forenoon " 19 Black Kock. forenoon... " 31 Adamsburg, forenoon... '* 22 hockhart " 23 Kelton " 24 Jonesville " 25 Santuc " 26 Carlisle " 27 Monarch Mills, forenoon " 28 Aetna Mills, afternoon.. " 29 From the 29th of January to the 20th day of February in office. J. (T. Pahw. Auditor. 51-* D. A. TOWNSEND BEN E. TOWNSEND TOWNSEND & TOWNSEND, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. = Union, S. 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