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, ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
Of the Double Daily Passenger Trains,
Union, S. C. I
Train going North 9:00 a. m.
\ " " South 11:35 a. m. I
\ " " Nortli 2:35 p. m.
" " South 8:53 p. m.
^ Those trains only make a few min/utes
stop at Union, so that the hours
l of arrival are practically the hours of
j departure. Any change in this schedule
will be published in The Times for
the benefit of the public generally.
Local News Notes
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v^iDts Personal and Otherwise
& . f Picked .up and Paragraphed
j I .by Our Pencil-Pusher.
Mr. G Jenn Foster has resumed
Fant Bros. & Co.
^ Lillie and Ora Fant went
Jponverse college Wednesday.
E'^MHjC^Fant and Jno. B. Wardlaw
to the South Carolina Ool^^BKicsdny.
t&illfflBBr8' ^Pencor Ferrin and Sid^^^^ oss
returned to Clemson ColgSgfcesday.
' Osborne returned to the
i after a pleasant Christmas
*lMfh his parents.
I w Miss Beatrice Wilburn and Miss
^Hernicc Going returned to Grcen^Cnm^?
Wednesday^"^Emancipation
day was not ob.
served in Union by any demonstra?
tion on the part of the emancipated.
Miss Bess Tiong will leave Saturday
for Cross Keys. She will teach
the Cross Keys school and board
with Mr. B. G. Wilburn.
Miss Marie Harris, ol bpartanburg,
came to the city Monday to
attend tho New Year dance. She
was the guest of Mrs. Macbeth
. Young.
Miss Aurelia Gallmon left Sunday
for Sumter where she has accepted
a position as seamstress in
one of the largest sewing cstablishments
of that city.
Married at tho residence of VV.
m J. Gore at Cross Keys, on Dec. 25,
- 1005, Mr. Charley Prince and Miss
^" \ Lolia Brcwington. Only a few of
their relatives and friends witnessed
\ y\f the ceremony which was performed
J \ by Magistrate John \V? Goro.
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Monday, January 1st, 1906, was
the day for good resolutions, hut
resolutions generally are casily
madc and as easily broken as pic
crusts.
Miss Louise Young, after spending
the holidays with her parents
and Misses Bess and Louise Long,
has returned to her school at Edgemore,
Chester county.
All the banks, mercantile artd industrial
corporations in Union
County paid dividends on January
1st, ranging from 3 to 6 per cent.,
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uiiiiii.ii hi hi suim-aiiuuai.
When you talk shop, talk to a
purpose, the best way is to lot Tin:
Union Timrs have the first say, so
as to let the people know what you
have in your shop, then when they
come you can do your part.
Miss Lizzie Lee Hydrick, of Spartanburg,
a charming and most
popular young lady, was the
guest of Miss Sydney Gage a
few days this week. She attended
the New Year dance Monday night.
Mr. Arthur Estes who has been
with the M. W. Bobo Department
Store for several years has accepted
a position as clerk for the Hailc
Shoe Company and will he glad tc
serve his many friends at his new
place of business.
The best time to judge of how
well the streets have l)ecn worked it
during and just after a rain like
that which fell Wednesday morning.
Bachelor street and pavemenl
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I1UII1 vuiwh tj WIUOI MJ II. u. J>illle^'s
beef market is a succession oi
holes. On this street and pavemenl
five or six months work was dow
and there is not a smooth, levc
surface anywhere. The phvemen
is one hole after another all the way
If this l>e the case with Bncheloi
street, what must tho condition o
other streets bo that have not beer
worked at all?
New Firms and Changes of Old Ones
The Hailo Shoo Company, nov
ready for customers in the Town
send block next to T. E. Bailey
Lumber Co.
The Octzel Hardware Co. now ii
their new quarters in Townscm
block, East Union.
The law firm of DcPass anc
Do Pass havo moved their ollico U
the Peoples bank building.
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IMPORTANT MEETING CF THE
SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION.
The Union i nty Division of the Southern
Cotton Association Met Monday.
The Largest Number, Present Since
E. D. Smith Addressed the Association.
As an evidence of an increased
interest in the County Cotton Association
there were a great many
more in attendance Monday when
Pres't. F. M. Farr called the meeting
to order than there had been
before since Pres. E. I). Smith addressed
the Association last summer.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and adopted. The
president then called for reports
from the township organizations as
to the reorganizations on Dec. 15,
and the names of officers elected
for 11)06, and delegates elected to
attend this meeting of the County
Association. As the townships
were called the "names of officers
and delecrates wore orivon in the see
rotary. Then reports from the collectors
of the 3 cents per bale was
called for, and the money collected
was paid to the treasurer oj the
County organization. A report of
. the executive committee was called
i for and handed in to the secretary.
The secretary then read a call made
by President Harvie Jordan for a
mammoth convention to be held
in New Orleans, January 11, 12,
and 13. President Jordan urged
the sending of delegates to this
convention from every cotton state.
President Jordan insists that
the farmers plant no more cotton
acreage in 190(1 than in 1905, and
further that each farmer grow
everything needed on the farm in
the shape of food products for home
consumption and for the market.
A paper was read from a business
house in Germany, in which an
appeal to the cotton growers was
made to ship their cotton direct to
Germany, and thus cut out the
middle man, who is invariably the
speculator. Many of the southern
ports arc now open for direct shipment
of cotton and other products
to all of the foreign ports. In addition
to our railroads leading into
Southern ports, inland water ways
are * being developed which will
greatly facilitate transportation and
lessen freight rates, all of which affords
the opportunity that farmers
never before enjoyed, of sending,
their cotton direct to the foreign
markets and dealing direct with the
consumers of the raw material, j
President Farr then called on a '
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ferent townships to give their views
and expressions of the status of the :
Association in their respective townships.
Mr. Wm. II. Gist, a successful
business man and hanker of
Carlisle, said that his bank was giv- ,
i ing the farmers all the financial as- J
sistancc they needed. That one
thousand hales of cotton had been
stored in the ware house at Carlisle
and the farmers showed no disposition
to sell; in faet, he believes
they would hold for 20 cents.
That he thought it the prevailing
sentiment, and it was pretty well
agreed in his section, to plant only
10 acres to the mule, and he
I thought that if this policy could be I
| carried out, there would he no fears
of a big cotton crop for 1900, that
is over-production, which means
low price cotton. ,
Mr. I). J. Farr then said for
Pinekney township, they were very
. well organized and all worked in
harmony, that the Association was
, daily increasing in strength and
1 popularity, that there were yet a
Jew progressive and influential
farmers who were in full sympathy
1 but had not connected themselves
with the Association, but he thought
that they would. Mr. J. V. Askew
! and Mr. Adams confirmed what
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' Air. i<arr naci saui. it. hi. ? .
r Culp responded to a call in his
usual happy and versatile way.
He said ho felt that it waapresuniptious
in him to talk to farmers, as
i he had never been a farmer, and
' now owned 2 bales of cotton the
first time in his life. He joined
the Association with an abiding
faith in the farmers ability to stick
together and accomplish their purpose,
and dc what iic could to
l further this object, and lie had fully
f realized his every hope and confidence.
That at the beginning
' much was said against the organiza
tion by a great many who doubted
the farmers, but all that had passed
1 and he recognized in the present
meeting a chango of feeling and
sentiment by there being no disposition
to antagonize, but a quiet determination
to pull together; that
f he realized with pleasure that all
former opposition lmd been to no
r purpose, and given way to the fact
that the farmers were organized.
As an evidence of the general recog1
nition of this faot, he quoted from
1 a New York financier, who gave as
two reasons for the scarcity of mon.
cy in tho money market, one the
lock of cars to transport farm prodJ
nets, and the other, that the farmers
wore holding their cotton, thus
showing tho power now in the
hands of the farmers. That it is
unqestionubly true, the prosperity
of the farmers is also the prosperity
of every othor business. He felt
that right now was a critical time
in the history of the Association,
right now is the time to be cautious,
that the leaders should map out the
course for the farmers to follow in
the future. That tho Association
was not an organization for a year
but for all time, and an unwise
step might prove disastrous. Dr.
Culp suggested, and it seemed to
meet with the approval of the Association,
that a journal be nublished
as an organ of the Asociation, that
each farmer subscribe for it, and be
assured that whatever cotton news
or Association news would be reliable,
and lie could depend upon
whatever was contained in this paper
as correct and thus cut out all
false reports seen in other papers,
lie suggested the Southern! Cultivator
as the best for this purpose. As
an encouragement to the farmers to
raise corn, etc., lie quoted from a
paper in which one Mr. Wood ley,
living in one of the lower counties
of this Stale, who reduced his cotton
acreage 25 per cent., and planted
corn on the land. His eiop
yielded 4,000 bushels and about
10,000 bundles of fodder.
Judge J. M. Greer then spoke
most enthusiastically of the great
work the Association had done.
Congratulating the farmers upon being
the happy recipients of 11 and
12 cents for cotton, instead of G?all
the work of the Cotton Association.
That a farmer was entitled to every
cent he could get for his cotton; if
it was 50 cents a pound he ought to
have it. The farmer has suiTered
long enough?ho was now able to
get hack some of his hard earned
losses, lie urged the raising of
home supplies and be independent,
lie urged every member to come
forward and pay up all duos and do
all in power to promote the interest
of the Association because the Asso
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eiuuuu whs uie inrniers menu una
benefactor and every one should feci
grateful and do all in his power to
keep up the Association. It can't
run without some money, nothing
can.
Mr. Jno. \V. Gregory spoke along
the same line, and spoke of results.
That it did not look possible to
market a 14,000,000 bale crop at
10 cents, but the Association made
it possible, and only the combined
PoWorts could make it possible to
further control prices. That the
till! secret was organization. That
another result was* the increased
value of farm lands. As the result
of high prices for farm products,
the price of farm land increases, so
I wo are benefitted in two material
ways so we should all the more
closely stick to the Association and
never pull hack, but move forward.
Mr. A. G. Bentley also spoke cneonraginly
of the Pinckney Towhship
Association, said that there
were a number of good men, farmers
and business men who were in
full sympathy yet had not joined.
He advocated the planting of a
small cotton crop, but plant plenty
of corn and sow peas for pea vine
hay and improve the land at the
same time.
I Rev. Jno. G. Fair then spoke in
his usual eloquent and appealing
style, lie reviewed the organization
from its first meeting in New
Orleans; was proud that he was
among the first to issue a call for
the organization of the Association
in Union County; that he had been
honored by being sent as a delegate
to the New Orleans Convention;
that at the time the Convention met
in New Orleans cotton was outselling
for (> 1-2 cents; in less than
three months after cotton was sold
for 10 cents. This was an unprecedented
rise, and showed clearly the
jnmiu ui suuu u i IMIN t i11 it>11 cuia;
this the Association has steadily
grown, and the world now recognizes
the. Association as the most
potent power to control and fix the
price of cotton; that he had felt a i
little shaky and uneasy all the year
about the Association, as though it
were hanging by a mere thread,
when contemplating the inaction of
so many farmers. What have you
done to further the caush? I mean
individually. What sacrifices have
you made? lias it not been left to
a few moving and enthusiastic citizens
who have done all that has
been done, and you have reaped
the benefit. Too many stand back
for others to go forward. Every individual
should feel a personal interest
and responsibility. The
present meeting *hows a decided increase
in interest, strength and
growth of the Association, but all
are not doing their full duty. , The
Association is undoubtedly growing,
but not as it should, with the material
Union County lias in it. We
need the support of every farmer
large and small, white and black.
Have never asked a colored farmer
to contribute that refused. We
should be willing to contribute to
the expense of winding d legates to
New Orleans; it is for our benefit.
Wo should pay our dues promptly.
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Let the world see that wo are worthy
members of the grandest Association
ever organized in any country
and able to stand against tin4
money power of the world.
I Dr. M. Culp moved, and the motion
carried, that the Association
pledge? or guarantee one hundred
dollars to pay the expenses of the
three or five delegates to the New
Orleans Convention, which meets
11th, 12th and 13th of January.
The following gentlemen were nominated
and elected delegates to the
New Orleans Convention: Mr. E.
F. Kate!>ford, of Carlisle; Kev. Jno.
G. Farr nominated Capt. F. M.
Farr, but Capt. Farr was compelled
on account of business connected
with his bank, to decline the honor;
Dr. M. W. Culp, Judge J. M.
Greer, D. J. Gregory and Kev. Jno.
G. Farr were then elected. The
Association then moved as one man
forward to the treasurer's desk and
paid their duos. Meeting adjourned
to meet first Monday in February.
Forced to Starve.
B. F. Leek, of Concord, Ky., sny>:
"For 20 years I suffered agonies, with
a sore on my upper lip, so painful,
sometimes, that I could not eat. After
vainly trying everything else, 1 cured
it. with Bucklen's Arnica Salve." It's
great for burns, cuts and wounds. At
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