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VOL. LVI NO 15. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA*. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1906. $1.00 A YEAR.
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t CONFERENCE AFFECTS COTTON.
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? Meeting of Mill Men and Cotton Association
Representatives.
Probably the jyiost important
cotton conference ever held will
tako place in Washington about
E*' A? ^5?i v*nvf mnnf li Tlin
PtntJ iirsi ui HCAi/ iiivui/u, AIIV/
conference will ha between the'
spinners, representing practical-:
ly every mill in the world, and
the officers of the Southern Cot-1
ton Association, E. D. Smith, j
Eresident of the South Carolina J
ranch of the Association and j
member of the executive comv
v mittee, was in Columbia Saturday.
In regard to the meeting
Mr. Smith said that he believed
that the conference would h.San
more to the farmers of the South
than could be imagined.
"The farmers are now in position
to dictate to the spinner,"
said Mr. Smith. "He is not going
to hold up the mill or the consumer
but he is going to demand
a fair price for his cotton. I am
P satisfied that the mill men who
attend this conference will see
exactly the position of the cotton
onrl will readily agree to
piaiiuvi
^^-a-pricsL.Qr deal with the cotton-plahter
111* 'tr-\vav Umt win
take cotton entirely out of th<
speculative market. I am goinj;
to advocate doing- away, with th<
middle men and commission mei
altogether and selling direct t<
Jflpkg ^ ^ the mills through representative
v of the cotton association. It i
much better to deal direct, an<
when one stops to think how un
businesslike the methods of th
southern farmer have been sine
cotton was first planted it is
wonder that no move like th
was made before."
In spe?1 ng of the general ou
look for che farmer, Mr. Smii
said that the only discouragir
feature of the year was the fa
that too much hay and other sto
(foods were now shipped from t
West instead of being raised
home. The members of the ;
sociation are doing all they c
to urge the farmers to divers
their crops.
. Altogether Mr. Smith thir
V that the coming season is
brightest in the history of
farmer and that if the rules
B the association are (tUIiCltu
B prices wanted will lit' obtair
B ~ Spartanburg Journal.
Rally to The Cause.
I The writer of this-on last i
I day ? April 8, 1906. heard a
I % good Sunday school lecture :
I ' a good man and a forcible sp
I er, and in his talk he spoke a
M some of the leading Su
fl schools of Union county, a
.started a train of thoughts i
] mind. I just Mtfipder if w
brother Sunday^ichool wo
x a]|
W of every aenum
a Unipn county doing our
bestj^are we going out in
I highways and hedges and
ing big little, old and yoi
| walk the heavenly way?
Now let every Sunday
, make a quarterly report f<
: r quarter in the first week
' 1/ and have it published i
11J of our county papers just t
what we, as Sunday
lit army W Union ctSnty arc
-Tl" for our Master. The p
SPl ti' campaign will be warm th
mer I guess, and why n
V Sunday school workers i
g warm for the devil and
lowers. May God bless t
I may it be the means of
jo v; the hearts of many of o
b & ^ess anc* indifferent work<
1 \ X this be done to Hisj^me
? and glory and our good.'
U1 Sincerely your
HBHSSBBB ?nrniB ??BPrJ
NTEREST | i
'EPOSITS. I ;
iLSON & SON, I ;
ERS. i 5
BDHBDD TWnlWfl'r iTTir^T~f g^-vrrTre.-yN *
DEATH OF MRS. BELUE. r
a
Aged Lady of Union County Suffered J
For a Year. ?
f
Mrs. H. H. Belue, the wife of e
a well known citizen of the coup
ty, died Saturday morning:at tneh ,,
home about five miles above 0
Union, and the funeral services
vrcr?-^Wluv.tv,l Q?.?Ja|r of |T, 11
Fair Forest Baptist church, where 7
she held her membership, at 2:30 ^
o'clock by Rev. J. D. Mahon. ,
On Dec. 17. 1904 Mrs. Belue c
was run over by a horse and she j
was an invalid ever afterward.
Before her marriage in 1858 she t
was Miss Hannah Little of this (
county, and all her married life ]
has been spent at the same home. (
She was 79 years old, and leaves |
a husband and one sister. Mrs.
Polly Hawkins. She had no chil- ,
dren. Several nephews in the
county are well known.
Atlanta and Kissing.
Mr. Carnegie seldom goes anywhere
that he does not give away
something. It is usually money,
and in ninety-nine cases out of a
. hundred it is monev that the peoj
a surprise in Atlanta when he
; visited that city several days ago
? by suddenly kissing two ladies
" i ?mnh nn to congratulate him
1 I V>..w
01 after he had finished a speech.)
s It is hard to imagine the diprnig
fied old millionaire doing such a
^ thing, but there may be something
about the Atlanta atmose
phere that gives a tendency to
,e. the osculatory exercise, for
a didn't Iiobson's wild kissing cajs
reeer begin there??Greenville
Daily News.
A Bit oi History.
Mr. W. H.S. Harris,of Jonesvilk
was in Union one day this week
F* Mr. Harris has for years furnish
. ed The Times with news fron
a Jonesville and vicinity. He ii
one of our best correspondents
While here the other day he tol<
y us that he had been a reader o
i , The Times ever since he was
the younff man? said he used to ru
?v I a grocery store in a building 1<
cated on Main street where th
store occupied by the Rice Dru
Company now stands. Ti!
Times was printed in the rear <
the same building at that tim
and Mr. Harris used to help o
casionally in folding and mailii
papers. We are glad to say th
Sun- continue to furnish
with articles signed "Telephon
very
from To The Campaigners.
>oak
ibout The number of candidates
nday fering themselves for election
,nd it the citizens of Union cou
n my promises to be large. We
e are glad to have it thus. In ourd<
rkers ocratic country it is a right t
over every citizen has. Besides
level large number gives the peop
to the chance to select the man of t
invit- choice with more intellige
mg to But there is one phase of the i
ter that needs to be squarely ]
school These candidates should hav<
->r this help of all good people in def
of Ju- ing themselves from the hu
n each wolves that prey upon me
oshow fering for public honors,
ophool i barbecue dinners, the man
} doing sells his vote for liquor,
>olitical brazen seeker for a loan?ir
lis sum- every sort of scheme that
ot the - the office seeker without g
make it' him value received should I
his fol- down. These parasites a
his, and nio.alizing to the public go(
stirring often deter good men from
ur care- ing for election. We hop
3rs, may candidates will come out sq
's honor .against these evil practice!
paper will cooperate with
I to the extent of its power
tlSONt 1 direction.
NEEDLESS LOSS TO FARMERS.
npcrfeGt Packing of Cotton-Deserves Ji
Better Handling.
Eleven cents cotton is a comriodity
worthy of decent garden
ture, as we have heretofore
lore than once emphasized.
'he delegation of English spiners
now or recently in the m
iouth. it is said, have for one of Sl
heir objects, the awakening of ^
he Southern planters and gin- ^
ers to the folly of permitting
American cotton to be the most
lovenly and most wastefully u'
tacked in the world. w
The New Orleans Picayune di- ^
ects attention to these unpleas- _
nt facts in connection with the w
isit of the Englishmen and in- o)
ists that the loss resulting from ^
areless packing must ultimately t]
all, in the main, upon the plantr.
The buyers learn that in our ^
otton the loss is linally rn^ch ^
greater, comparatively, than it ^
light to be and the prices paid
re in infiuencc4 by that considTlyu
Ut'^lluuta "f
ind Egypt, inferior to ours, are '
vrapped with infinitely more :
:are, in a beJLter grade of bag- t
finer and vvith more and strnmrer .
mn or other Danes. 1.
The Southern Got Ion Associa;ion
should not neglect its edu- v
mating- mission in this direction,
[f the farmers can in the course
}f a few years gain one cent in
the pound increase of price by
that one cent will be a perman- |
ent saving. That good handling f
insures better prices will not be !
disputed; the truck grower, the
grain grower and the intelligent J
producer of every article of hu- ;
man consumption, know it and
act upon it. * ,
In this part of the South the '
coming of the local spinner upon
the market has saved the pro- '
tVatfTs llauled but' a Tew mVieVffl
a few hundred miles, and that in
dumped in the cotton mill warehouse
without going through the
compress will suffer little in comparison
with that which is shiplied
to Manchester. In so far as
the local spinner is a factor in
fixing prices, he is less affected
by the condition of the bale when
it it purchased, but even his
"waste" is largely increased
through the careless methods of
"wwJiinor The price of the
me j^i uuuw.. _
crop, however, is fixed by the
composite demand of all spinners,
domestic and foreign; hence the
3 wisdom of improving the original
handling should be manifest to
1 all concerned - of whom the
1 farmer is far and away the most
3 concerned.?News and Courier.
j APPRAISE UNION MILLS,
f
jj Parker, Sirriiie and Brittain say Plan1
" is Worth $1,650,000.
ie
!<r The board of appraisers chose
IE by the United States court to fi
a proper valuation for the Unio
e> Cotton Mills plant as a guide i
~ setting the upset price for tP
bankrupt sale, announced Frida
that at a meeting held in Greei
ville Thursday they decided u
on their nn?i . w
They valued the plant, inclu
ing the mills, the houses and t
of- real estate, at $1,250,000, a
by the bills payable and accounts
nty $400,000, making a total of $
are 650.000.
3in- What date the federal coi
.hat will set for the sale is still i
, a known.
,le a The board is composed of L<
heir is W. Parker and Jos. E. Sirri
nee. of Greenville, and Thos. Britt
mat- superintendent of the Spar
met. Mills of this city.?SpartanL
3 the Journal,
endLm_a"
Full Blooded African Wins.
n 01The
who Pixly Ka Isaaka Seme, of
the tal- South Africa, a full bio
1 fact Zu,u- was declared the winn
taxes the George William Curtis n
;iving which carries with it the hif
)e put oratorical honors of Colu
re de- university, New York. H<
)d and the of his tribe to ent
offer- American college and de<
>e the that he vvi11 KO to Oxford
uarely he gets his Bachelor degree
s. This Columbia. The subject
them which he spoke in the oral
in that contest was: "The Regene
yf Africa,"
JIM SHtRBERT SHOOTS HIMSELF.
m Shcfkrt. a Prosperous Farmer,
Shot Himself to Death Without
Known Reason -Had $2,000
Buried.
Woodruff, April 7.?Jim Sher?rt,
&-respectable farmer, livig
near Ilobbysville, about six
liles from this place, committed
licide last night about midnight
v shooting himself in the heart
ith a shotgun.
Mr. Sherbert, according to his
irpily'statement," was in his
5ual good health and his mind
as perfectly sound so far as 1
ley could detect. During the J
ight Mr. Sherbert got out of bed
ithout disturbing any member ^
f the family, later in the night
n wns niis?r>fl nnd from t ho faot
lat he did not come in at about
le time he should have dcrtie so
ie family went out to look for
im found him dead- n^ -c
rom tnirhmise.
Mr. Shevbert was about 60
pop, and a very thrifty
He had. hid. - an some >
lacercS'-^'3 Pfoce about $2,000, j
/hiVh always kept buried, i
le ^<h in the good banks <
- . >U-^ountry and it isverylike/
that not even his wife knows
jhere his money is hid.
For Confederate Nonument.
The luncheon served in the dis>lay*pi\ylor
of the T. E. Bailey
'\irniture Co., on April 5, by the
adies the Wm. Wallace Chaper
for the benefit of the monunentj
fund was very successful.
The total receipts were $85.34
Expenses 10.14
Net proceeds $75.20
The Chapter has only 34 resident
members. The following
named non-members of the ChapvvW?P?lly
made contributions
eratefully received:1
Wilburn'l R. M. ESte*, -*... .
MeNal 1 y,\Joseph Chambers, the
Union Grocery Co., Norman and
Murphy, Maj. d. W. McLureand
the editor of Progress, Mrs. L.
J. Browning, Mrs. W. M. Cunningham,
Mrs. J. C., Edwards,
Mrs. B. G. Wilbiirn, Mrs. W. D.
Arthur, Mrs. Wardlaw. Mr^.
I Clark of Hotel Union, Mrs. Oliver,
of the Gibbes House and
I wiiaoaa r.ftY nnd Johnson, of \ ir
iTllOO^il
ginia Chapters.
The luncheon was substantial,
palatable and abundant. Even
one seemed pleased, and th<
Chapter hopes at no distant da:
to repeat the entertainment. Thi
will be a good opportunity fo
our country friends to help in th
work and to contribute to th
monument by supplying part c
the provisisions for this entei
1 tainment. Due notice will I
given.
n Moves to Camden.
K Mr. Waltsr Sanders moves wi
n his family to Camden this wee
n Mr. Sanders has lived in Union t
ie past 15 years. He supervis
,y some of the excavating for t
n- first cptton mill foundation. I
p. the phst 8 years he has beei
second hand in the weave ro
d- of the Union Cotton Mills,
he goes to Camden to take chai
nd of the weave shop of the DeK
at Cotton Mill.
1,. Mr. Sanders is a young rnai
sterling character and line b
Lirt ness qualifications. He is a
in- ing mill man and will be lu
I from again. We expect to
?w- him a mill superintendent be
,ne. long. Our best wishes fo
;ain him. .
tan J. ^
urg ; Possibilities Unlimited.
The Sout h Carolina farm si
be made the fountain of pro
; ity. Taking the State fron
north to the south it can pre
o- _u ?. uwv, rv crops suffi
V". "J 11 LlfCtitvvv,^.,, ? .
oded tc purport her present popul
er of and still produce an immens
ledal ton crop. Of course to frro
rhest versified crops successfull
mbia profitably the farmer must
j was what is best adapted to hi
cr an as this State has a diversi
clares s^iiSf which are capable c
after ducin^ all the crops of th
ifrom perate and semi-tropic
upon 'fha climate, with rare
:orical tibfiS, permit^ -year-roiim
ration (ioor labor. Anderson
gencer.
!F. At. FARR, President.
T I-I
IfSerehassis and PJass!
Successfully Doing Busine
Rj WWB J is tin- IIMIKST Hank in 1*1
p 9 lias n rauilal ami surplus n
| is tin? on! v N ATIUNAI. Itn
E 9 . lias pai<l illviili'iuls ?moui
2 i?avs KOI'K p?>r cent. iut
i is tlu> only lla tik in I'niou
t R lias llurirlar Proof vault, i
K cv pays more tavus than A I.I.
| WE EARNESTLY SOLIC
OiXESVILLE WILL HAVE NEW RAILROAD
lew Railroad for Jonesvillc and Other E.\
Points in the County?Masonic Lodge
of Colored Masons Organized?Election
of Officers?Mr. Gault Moves
to Mississippi?Personal Mention.
JonesvTIIe, ~ "ftpm 1^
.veather is fine, and farmers are v
making good use of it, and are s
getting their ground ready for c
planting. A drive through the ?
lAimtpu " 4\ inr lionte that iVte i s
J uv.. V
farmers are much late in the c
preparation of their lands. 1
Surveyors are in town today t
surveying: a route for the South 1
and Western road, which is to 1
come from Johnson City, Tenn., 11;
hy Spartanburg:. Union and to ! f
Carlisle, S. C. The survey runsjc
parrallel with the Southern from f
Spartanburg to Jonesville. Jt
Something: new under the sun ?
in Jonesville. A colored lodge c
of Free Masons was organized
here last night by Theodore I
Shiver, of Chester, assisted by t
another Mason from Spartan- 1
burg. Thirty two men were 1
made Masons; all receiving three
degrees last night. It took all
night to do the work. Six dollars
was charged each member
country'wiW^&bi? ^ i? ofocwcd
with Free Masons of the brother 1
in black. . - ,. I
The regular meeting of the
Lodge of the K. of P. here was
held last night, and delegates
were elected to the dirtrict meeting
at Laurens next month as
follows; E. F. Kelley, H. J.
Ilames and Dr. A. S. Foster;
(alternates; R. W. Scott and H.
W. Porter; representative to the
, 1 grand lodge K. of P.'s at Sumter
j in May next: Dr. A. S. Foster;
i alternate, B. B. Reid.
/ The spring session ot the Inu
fnvnational Sunday School ( on
J : tVy L
r i vention for Jonesville townsnif.
e will be held at Gilead churcV
ie near Jonesville on the first Sun
>f day in May. The community i
r- invited to come and bring wel
ie filled baskets of dinner. A pro
gram will be published later.
Mrs. Sam Vaughan is ver
sick. Drs. Southard and Charr
hers are attending her with th
th assistance of a trained nurse
k.1 Mrs. Vaughan has fever, an
he lung trouble. There is no oth<
ed serious sickness in our town,
he! Mr. L. K. Littlejohn is qui
'\>r unwell over at his father's Hon
a a in Cherokee County where 1
om went to recuperate his health,
lie | Mrs. J. Betsill, of Crc
rge Keys, is visiting her mothi
alb , Mrs. G. B. Fowler.
) Lawrence Southard was hoi
i of from Clemson last Sunday,
usi- j At the municipal election h
ris- here yesterday the followi
lard gentlemen were elected for I
see ensuing year: Mayor, E. F. 1<
fore ley; Wardens: I). B. Free, ?
llovv Theodose, J. Stehle, F. T. V
liams and J. S. Kendrick,
Mrs. N. B. Eison has return
from an extended visit to
daughter, Mrs. E. R. Aycocl
lould Clinton.
sper- i Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Eison
n the at the home of Mr. N. B. Ei
iduce Mr. Alfred A. Gault and fi
icient ly of Spartanburg.vvere in Jo
^ 'UolfJno. rolat
iation ville last wee* vio.t,..to
ecot- and from here they went to
,vv di- ton and on to Georgetown, \
y and ing Mr. Gault's married chile
know Mr Gault has sold his proper
s soil, Spartanburg and will mov
ty of North Mississippi in a short s
>f pro- where he has other chili
e tem- Mr. Gault's health is bad, a
zones, will go to Hot Springs, Ark
excep-. ter he settles his family in
1 out- issippi, and he hopes to be
Intelli-, fitted at Hot Spring as he i
uering dreadfully with c;
- I_r - * " "" ?<
J. D. ARTHUR. Cashier.
E ?
ers National Bank,
ss at the "Old Stand."
n ion.
r $i(? '.mm.
ink in 1'nion,
nti:nr to S.W.400. >y^t.
crest Oil deposits,
inspected liy an ollieer.
ind Safe with Time-Lock,
tlie (tanks in I'tiion com til tied.
:iT YOUR BUSINESS.
A NEW FACTORY.
xelsior KniiMng Mills, of Union. Will
Establish a Branch Factory
at Newberry.
Mr. E. Nicholson, president of
ie Excelsior Knitting Mills, of
is our authority for the
-ill he establisneo ?i. IWtary
. C. The enterprise is practi- _
ally assured. Mr. R. A. Horn,
f Union, will he the resident
uperintendent of the new conern.
with Mr. E. Nicholson,
(resident, and Mr. J. H. Gault
reasurer and manager. This
ranch will devote itself entirely
o the knitting of high grade
losiery. the yarn to be shipped
rom tiie plant here, and the
onipletcd hosiery returned here
or dyeing. Electricity will be
he power used, and the mill will
it first employ from 35 to 50
>peratives.
The Excelsior Mill here has
ieen very successful. It takes
he raw cotton and sends out the
mished product, even to the
manufacturing of its boxes.
Acquittal cf E. S. Blease.
E. S. Blease, charged with the
on April' io!"*The t&TOtSa - . __
but one day. The following is
a short clipping from an extended
accoont of the trial as given
by the Saluda correspondent for
the Columbia State:
"No more dramatic scene has
ever been witnessed in a court
house than when Eugene S.
Blease told in tears and sobs of
his friendship and love for Joe
Ben Coleman, their associations
for many years, his exertions to
secure Coleman a position and
then of the ruin of his home and
the appalling weight of shame
, and dishonor the information of
i ; his wife's infidelity brought him.
.; At the conclusion of this dramatii?
..it-nofiAn wns ren
I 1C SCt311C LI1C sruuhui. ..?
I' dered even more dramatic when
. the defendant swooned as he was
leaving the stand and became
y limp as death, lie had to be
i- carried to the jury room, where
e I he remained during the entire
time of the arguments, attended
id by his physician.''
and rheumatism.
te Mr. J. H. Littlejohn has sold
[}e his home on Main street to Mr.
'ie Robert Mabrey,
The Union Progress of this
)SS morning gave an account of a
2r> big cocking main that took place
five miles north of Union last
11(3 week. I was born just five
miles north of I 'nion and the place
,e'tl feels like holy ground to me, and
I hope the very spot was notdesthe
ecrated by the rooster fight and
^ol" the gambling conducted with it.
'?.e I will now give an account of
Vll~ quite a different occasion. Last
^. Saturday the second quarterly
"efl conference for this charge was
,K>r held at Bogansville. Presiding
< at i Eider, J. W. Kilpo was present
I and preached two fine sermons.
are | The reports were all good and the
^OM.- [occasion was one of much pood,
inn- Rev. i) p# Camak filled his
lies" pulpit here Sunday nipht, and he
J 8 had a larpe conprepat;on.
l^el" Telephone.
risitIren.
Volcanic Vesuvious is subsidty
in
inp in its fury after destoyinp
e .\? twenty million dollars worth of
j'hile property and leavinp fifty kthounr
sanc^ Pe?P'e homeless,
af- It is reported that a man named
Miss-, James Howard, said to be from
bene-! New York, was seized with a lit
s suf- from hydrophobia while on an
itarrh Aiken trolley Wednesday,
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