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S Don't I That Mi KWMTIHI HlWtfc^JJU. ???? III Get on Iuroau fabrics If you here a Clothii mer, ; that it g Our Prices ? I ciotr atfiOtn?Ml 11"? BAIL * L^fcAL -LACONICS. s& Happenings of Interest p About Town. Dr. IT. I*. Tliiir Knmit. Rimiln.v in ! [Spartanburg. Miss DcPass, of Camden, is visiting in the city. Miss Cornelia Greer spent Friday in Spartanburg. I)r. J. M. Wallace visited Spartanburg Sunday. ( Mr. Perry Sartor is with the Wallace Lumber Co. Mr. Harry Dashields visited Spartanburg Sunday. Mr. W. E. Colton left Monday for Jacksonville, Fla. ; Mr. Preston Ilicks, formerly of Union, was here Monday. I Have you seen the new fire wagon and street sprinkler? Miss Addio Hughes, of Trenton, is visiting Mrs. Claud Sartor. Mr. Jno. Smith, of Carlisle, wab in the city Sunday and Monday. J. Helton Lyles, Jr., of Spartanburg, visited Union last Sunday. Capt. J. T. Douglass left Tuesday for Columbia on official business. air. Vj. r. iNorman, 01 uoiumoia, | spent Sunday and Monday in the " city. Miss Beulali Edge, of Jonesville, was on a visit to friends in Union Friday. Miss Daisy Neal, of Spartanburg, visited at ltev. D. M. McLeod's last week. Misses Kate and Bess Summer and Mary Murrah spent Sunday at Jonesville. Miss Bessie Humphries and Mr. Taylor, of Cross Keys, spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Roland Scaife and sister,Miss Mildred, visited relatives in Spartanburg Sunday. Mrs. Geo. II. Burbage, of Columbia, visited her sister, Mrs. Davis Jeffries this week. Messrs. II. B. Carlisle, of Spartanburg, and A. F. McKissick, of Greenwood, were in the city Satur? day. a Put Off flBBUanilRSBB aaaoBaaaMimwrHi ew Sprits; HanoMBnBnnnnnDiana e now whilfe ther c variety of styles ; to choose from : will take time to nd examine our Si ng for Spring and you will be conv s the sort you wan are as Low as ling can be Sold EY - COPEI UNION, S. C. Mrs. J. L. Calvert and children, of Mt. Tabor, visited at Mr. B. F. Foster's this week. Mr. W. S. Glenn, the real estate man of Spartanburg, was in Union Thursday of last week. Mr. II. G. Bailey has closed out his market business for the season, and will not reopen till fall. Mr. Clough Steele, who has bSbn J visiting in the city, left Monday fu>r j Columbia and other Southern points. | Mrs. Louis Crawford returned to Chester this week after several days visit to relatives and friends in Union. Mr. Allen I). Price, of this place j went to Columbia Tuesday to stand the examinations for admission to the bar. T > f 1/ TT... 1!-. f .i 1 P i iui. i\t. i\. nuruin, c?i me \> 01ford Fitting School Faculty, was in the city Friday and Saturday of last week. Misses Armstrong and Blair, who have been visiting at Mr. Henry Holmes', left for their rcspec ive homes Monday. Mr. and Mrs. D'Oize left Friday for Columbia, where they will assist , in a play to be given during the j Confederate reunion. Mr. F. M. Smith, of Laurens, 1 arrived in the city Thursday, and J began his duties as manager of the j Union Mills company store. Hon. A. L. Gaston, of the Chester bar and also a member of the State Legislature, was in the city for a few hours Friday. The nine-months old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tr Byors, died in South Union Thursday afternoon and the 1 body was taken to I'acolet for burial. Mr. G. C. Glymph, assistant superintendent of the Virginia Life ' Insurance Co., spent the past week in Jonesville where he established a | branch office. Miss Anna Clement, who 1ms been visiting her sisters, Mrs. R. E. Bruce and Mrs. R. E. White, returned Tuesday to her home in Spartanburg. The Security Trust Co., of Spartanburg, has bought the S25,(X)0 bond issue. Scasongood <fc Mayer, of Cincinnati, was also a bidder. The bonds sold at par and bear per cent, interest. ^ j . stira .? oik j. ^ Buying I g_ Suit! I e ls a El arid || come Ip tvlish if Sum= j| inced 1| t gPjjJa ReaBBy Good B for. H AWB co. i IH I \3 SU' BQBRXB Mr. Kliphas Bcardcn left Union CI _ A . 1 < .... . .. naiumay ior a visit to relatives and friends in the Glenn Springs neighborhood. Ho expects to stay a week. Capt. E. \Y\ Foster and Lieutenants J. Frost Walker and Thos. 1. Swygert went to Columbia Tuesday to attend the meeting of State militia ofliccrs. Mr. 0. Barber and wife, of Fort Mill, after a few days visit at the home of Mrs. Barbers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. It. W. Hamilton, left Monday morning for their home. Rev. J. B. Wilson, of Gaffncy, preached a sermon during the Conference that was greatly enjoyed by the audience. His text was Col. 1:21, "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Mr. T. I). Neland, formerly with the Bailey Beef Market, has gone to work with the Mutual Dry Goods Coinnnnv. of UiifY-do ATv V/Un ? ?/ ! is an up-to-date market man, and will have charge of the market for the Mutual. The total receipts from the Damon and Pythias entertainment were $2~>7.00. , After all expenses were paid there was a neat fund of $112.00 half of which was forwarded immediately to the San Francisco sufferers. Mr. Pen Kennedy, of upper Union county, was carried to the hospital in Columbia for an operation. The operation was successful, but ten days after, Mr. Kennedy took a relapse and is reported to be a very sick man. Several of his brothers have been in attendance at his bedside in the hospital. Will Moorhead, wanted in Joncsville for breaking in a restaurant, was captured by Chief of Police, K. L. Broom. Will lied to Virginia after he made the raid on the restaurant, but came back to Jones ville and fell into the hands of the oflicer. lie paid out and left for parts unknown. "Some of the greatest problems of the preacher are met in dealing with the child mind in a mature body. To meet a spirit of childishness in a mind dominated by full grown passions and appetites may well fill the preacher's heart with discouragement." Rev. W. A. Massebau in District Conference sormon. L > " 1 ~T~~ Invitation to Cin.ircli Choirs of Union, j j The members of the various j r church choirs arc invited and earn-! I cstly requested to unite in a chorus j * choir at the First Baptist church . L j during Dr. 10. O. Taylor's course of | lectures. The Gospel Hymns is tho j Jf hook that will he used, and it is | hoped that this invitation will he a accepted hy the members of the va- M rious choirs. All the pastors unite | ; in making the request. Dr. Taylor j will lecture May 17-20, S: 150 o'clock jt land on Sunday at I p. nr. * A Biy Hail Storm. * One of Fnion county's young men I spent Sunday in Greenville, ?S. C. He came hack reporting a hail, | storm in that city on Sunday. Says; % I he measured some of the hail stones : 1 and found (1km- iyinociii-.nl ...... .....1 E three quarters of an inch in diamc-j I iter. The ones he measured, lie says, I I j were by no means the largest speci- Rj I mens. It is said that love is blind, | I perhaps it is also a magnifying glass. ' I i However, the young man in ques- U j tion is considered one of our best I I boys, and as being above "story Jj j telling." ! Work Begun on New Mill at Jonesville, ~ 1 it Mr. Munro W hitloek.a prominent ' citizen iif Jonesville, called upon us b | Monday. lie informs us tbatgrad- j f| : ing for the foundation of the new i l> j mill at Jonesville is under way, and Vj | that the making of brick will begin 1] soon. This new mill is to be annex- ; K od to the old mill. The old mill! 1 i had machinery put in capable of ' I running double the size. Mr. Whit-j ' lock says the mill is in fine shape i 1 financially and in every way. He j ; says they have a wide-awake presi-! dent, who is an all-round hustler. ; We congratulate Jonesville upon her i f j enterprising spirit. She is a grow-1 I ing town with a bright future. j v Death of Mrs. Martha A. Gregory. , t ' , . . . [ I 'I bis good woman died in the Bo- j JI gansville neighborhood Wednesday, ' ' j May 2nd, and was buried next day | < at Putman Baptist church. She; ; was the widow of the late B. A. : Gregory and the daughter of Church- ; well and Sarah Gibbes. She was in \ 1 her Tilth year and had been for 501 I; years a member of the Putman i ! church. She was a faithful church I j and Sunday school worker, and has h left a name for good works that will ; f long endure. She was a mother in [i Israel and a daughter of the Kinul ! of kings. May her good influence I loiTg live to work in the good cause! 5 of Jesus Christ. j From Scotland. : -i j ? Mr. Thomas Whitelaw arrived in ? Union last Friday. lie conies from j , Scotland and was directed to our \ j .State by Commissioner Watson.) Mr. Whitelaw is a young man seek-j 1 ing his fortune in our great America. lie has begun work in the Excelsior Knitting Mill, and expresses himself well pleased with ; his new home. The class of immigrants to which this young man belongs will help any community. He is strong physically, industrious 1 and intelligent. It is to be hoped I ; that he will he so well pleased with j j ! our county that he will be led to | induce others to follow him to Union. 1 * What the Fight Really is. : The approaching light against the , State dispensary is not one to project a warfare against individuals or j to found a new political ring as * as some are so industriously and so i . vigorously trying to make believe, j Hut it is a fight of principle against an institution which has been productive of more debauchery and corruption than has arisen from any! . 1 other source since the days of cor- j i motive carpetbag rule. The cry of i ' "reform it" has come down to us j * J from year to year since its establish-. 1 i ment, and almost year after year i ? lias the effort been made to reform I ^ it, but each effort has met with dis- j mal failure and each year has wit-1 I nessed a growth of its corruptive * power and influence until the peo-1 1 pie of the State have come to real- ize that it lias reached the point when it must he destroyed or it will destroy the State. If the dispensary is to he maintained they prefer that it shall be done by the county dispensary system, when those in authority will ho brought nearer i the people. The State dispensary method masses too large a volume of a very corruptive business and puts it in the hands of inexperienced business men who have scarcely ever before > . I conducted business aggregating even a few thousands of dollars to conn 1 \ii ai r* nea it 4/\ i \ >11 j null/ it UUOlliLDO tllllUUII l/I I \AJ Illli! lions. j No, sir, it is the people who want to be rid of the State dispensary and . . it is the politicians who want to retain it, for the reason that it forms the nucleus for- the only political ring we hay?.?Kershaw Era. i ; \ 1 \ .. ... ... " ..is, i ??? I I I I ??I? ?Iw (BlBlTiPS ' ' IT*"* TlWf ^"t.pi'i- 3" iUkje Z | r^^lTURE lj Refrigerators, Ice Boxes. Whi 3 Best on the market. Con a Glass and Opal lined. Pric From $5.00 to $40.00. wan I GIVE US A 3 "W ^ T WW W-^ w iw. n. t>L iib Li E|W| L?n''!r'=^Hirr'^"p?f!rE3WI,'fe'ZJiTi||fm=3iii71(rS :J3fe "IlllitolimiUuiiE ElUilLfe ?JUUlE 3oMiE|!\ If you break a tr | part of your wag \ gy harness, brin us, and we will f good as new at ? sonable price. The Peoples S 1 D. FANT GILLIAM, Tr r|! MEET HE AT HAILE'S S - ? I o u n I FHMOI 1 SKRAP ft K If ^ A 1*8^ M; / Bl -Kf' /J r$. n\ - TTt? 7!T .. m ? 7TT... x/C I AN IMPROVED : ? '? FOR CHILDREN'S J | WEAR. 4* g, Made witliout nails, wili c'x ^ floor. Ask to se I SATISFACTION OITYOUI 1HAILE SH( 1 The Leading Slv ?I 49 East Main St. r jjB WMir ?? a???< 3S irSTSSEPdiU STORE| _,r<^ _ ^ H ^r St" n>\i li -WI E mv LI a !p4a a|* s j~-; i; ? I tc Mountain Freezer. jl le and see us and get j| es. Any size you || TRIAL.. i JRRIS. TiW Y JWIIH1 fcJlHHnll : -^UilllliE giliilllit-. RT^auiJli: pTtil/iuliiiiUj SxSS ^^1 ace or any fj on or bug= j|) g* them to || ix them as f| i very rea= j| upplv Co., I eas. and Mgr. ^ -------->HOE STORE. J? ' f us PER 1 ,5/i # # I# t I?- 1 & ?. ? M. > >N? .5/? ??5I | VM ^V? ? ?? W< g SANDAL | SUMMER # I* not scratch the e them. ?? "money back. I )E C0|| oe House. g Union, S. C. S M \ j asfciM