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p THE UNION TIMES. VOL. LVl NO 44. ?? koii onH ' UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1906. $1.00 A YEAR. '* WE PAY II ON TIME Dl Wm. A. NICHO BANKI % ESCAPED CONVICT [ SHOOTS AT OFFICERS. _r 1 Jean McJunkln, An Escaped Convict Surrounded by Policemen, Opens Fire On Them, and Again Escapes. Jean McJunkin, is an escaped r convict from the county chain s gang, having been sent there J about a month ago for shooting ] n ummon in frVio Ho ' a li^gJLV/ YY V111U11 Ml AVVV. AAV - served only a few days before * ,> he made his escape. On Monday night, Officers Evans, Ward and C. B. Gregory ran upon him near Wallace's lumber yard, on the railroad, a little way above the Southern depot. Officer Ward started toward the negro, who drew his pistol and fired twice, but his aim was wild; then he ran toward the Union Cotton Mills. The officers were in pursuit, firing as they ran, but nothing except the evening atmosphere. Mr. Gregory, a little more fleet of foot than his fellow pursuers, kept well up with the negro until he reached the Union Cotton Mills and disappeared, either above, below, or around the platform. Abopt^ j .. - still at large. .U Concert'Cominajovember 15' , The Garber-Ho^ Company, sen' ^?eau, of Des land Lyceum ^ in Union i tlfe'oper^ bous^on | chapter for the monument t^e ticket vaas was. day one hundret sale, ^served seat ticket and sixteen reset r a| turestxpeJes ??i^nS Company has 1IIC V worthy reputation, ?..v? doubtless give an excellent e m tertainment. Seats are 50 cen< and reserved seats 75 cents. Death of Mrs. W. F. Lawson. Saturday night the remains Mrs. W. F. Lawson were brou - ? Anderson and to Union irom rn.v. ? terred at New Hope churct Sunday. Mrs. Lawson was livinj k Anderson at the time of death last Friday. She wa daughter of Mr. T. P. Mille this city, and has been m? nearly a year. She is quit I remembered here, and er 1 the esteem of many wh I grieved to hear of her deat liM NeVCr ^C6n ^rd,n' Mrs. Rachel West, wi Mr. S. L. West, an ag ' ?~ui? rpsDected citizen < ?i nigiiij Spring neigh bornoou, fl Union last Saturday to fl pension, she being the v fl an old Confederate soldie fl West had never been 1 in her life, nor had she < fl a railroad train, althou fl about sixty-five years < fl a native of Union count Delegates to Convention c * it /At a meeting 01 u Wallace Chapter JJ. D home of Mrs. Davis Monday afternoon, th delegates to the Gene {t Convention of the U. fneets at Gulfport, M \ vember 14th, were V Mrs. F. M. Farr and | DePaai. MTEREST 1 . " I EPOSITS. LSON & SON, ERS. : ?JJ ! )R. FTHAN W. FOSTFR IS DFAD. 1 [he City of Union Stirred by Tragic News of His Death-The End Came on Wednesday. Monday afternoon at 2:30, the < own of Union was stirred by the ! lews that Dr. E. W. ' Foster had ] ihot himself. The tragedy oc- 1 :urred just inside the door of the ? Jnion Hardware Co., where Dr. | ?oster had gone to make a pur- ' :hase. While the clerk, who vaited on Dr. Foster, was back ' it the money drawer, the shot 1 vas fired and the tall form of the j roung man fell to the floor. Many 1 ?riends immediately rushed to ] lim, and all the aid possible was ] endered to his wants. He was 1 amoved at. onee to the home of i lis father, Mr. B. F. Foster, on < south street, where Drs. Linder elieved his suffering, although hey did not at that time probe for the ball. The pistol was a 38 calibre, and he ball entered twp inches above ihe heart, pc netrafred the upper eft lung and lodged just under ;he left shoulder blade. Tuee/-> lay morr^;o Drs , Linder, with h- ?,P?SLf# r- Pryor, of,! id not refrobed for >ue uaii W , ?j?? ll' becW/t was it Foster di( j ^ * vmi , ' I t ously shot. . ^ that n- I? accident be andit went off .f loadins-R<on was such that! His constitution would 1 he believed ^nd reahz-1 recover, but W wou\d have ing the trut , was not con1 to give it up. . previous to scious fo^he jaroe Wednesday the enu, afternoon at 4:30. The remains were laid to rest j in the City cemetery, Thursda: g afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. D M. McLeod, pastor of Grac q Methodist church, conductin 2 the funeral. A great host of D a Foster's friends attended the jjj services, and paid loving tribu n_ to a boon companion. In lit tq~ there was never a more liber ' generous-hearted man. I friend's welfare was his conce Dr. Foster will be missed in town, for there were many > ' matched for him and enjoyed 1 w jovial presence, ignt j)r Foster was 24 years o! 1 in" graduate of Maryland scho 1 on dentistry and a practicing . tist in the city. His parent m Mr. and Mrs. B, F. Fc r among the 'most substantial 3 ilies of the county. B< 'r>.?? these, those who mourn hi irried are; j gen Foster, oi e. welJ Shoals; Mrs. J. L. Calve ijoyed Tabor; Mr$,-' Frank L o are 0f Piedmont, WVVa.; and of friends throughout the 1 A A 1 Illustrated lecture a idow of 1 There wilt ^e^gCpiS ed and urated with moving of west I the Reading was mls\0rKnitting g o'elo get her M0vember&th at o ,idow of rT. Willis Will r. TM.rs-ltricalapp^ato9 in an(j to Union j ating the ^ jeCture. jver seen i B owens wiU iect gh she is ?eds are for thebenev M and is 1 Methodist churcrn^ ^ c \ Garntvat Gomln a II D. G. _? H v. I ie William The city has grant . C., at the sion to the Smith i Jeffries on Company to bring th< ie following here on the first wee! ral Division ber. It comes in the I). C. which the Union Cornet I lias., on No- we people will get t( i appointed: lady, the calculatin i Mrs. V. E. snake eater, the da the reet. BAPTIST PRESS MOVES ERC. GREENWOOD TO U. \nd Will Hereafter be Publisher ' Masters and Rice Instead *f Masters and Brlstow?It's Pehnomenal Growth. The following announcement wa^ made in this week's Baptist Press: "With this issue of The Bap-, tist Press my managementand editorial control of the paper ceases. I have sold 'an interest l. i.?L n t im . lu uit? xvev. xj? m. iwtc, ui uuiviy who will assume joint control with Editor Victor I. Masters next week. w For some time I have suffered from a very severe throat trouble. Recently the disease has become worse and physicians have advised me to retire from the confinement of office work and to, dwell in the open country for a: season. This I will do. I do not relinquish all hold upon The Press nor will I cease to write for its columns. The work is too dear to my heart for me to surrender it entirely. Brethren Masters and Rice will be in direct cortfxol of the paper. The former is well-known among Baptists of the State and South as a versatile ar\4* able newspaper man. Brother^Rice is also & mgewofv marl^^ paper ^Mfi^P^ind prrniounc^d success both as a pa8tcfe**nd an editor. He needs no introduction to the people of South Carolina. He is a graduate of Furman and of the Southern Theological Seminary. For the pas#, ten years he has been pastor of the First ehurch of Union, when bis ministry has been rich#! fruitful of splendid results. ^he paper ^a/rused oW IHWon iat it may u , toWsg>oryLoms ^,0w.tJ Tt will be remembere ^ ^ 1 about two ;9 j. Bris Masters ana rvev. tow purchased the South Caro Una Baptist, owned and edite by Rev. A. McA. Pitmar t and published at Greenwood, f f C. Upon takir possession of t! e Bm ^ paper Mess] g Masters r. Bristow se ed it, chanj te its name to *] fe, Baptist Pr< al, and begai v. I. masters, strong camp,' for new subs( ' -t. ^ rn. ?J*r ers. They have doubled tne v/l? scription list, enlarged the i 11118 and put the paper upon a , financial foundation. It is "?? * of the best religious journals ot lished. It has been a mat "en" wonder to their friends that 8 are should have accomplishe >ster, mUch in so brief a time **' .am" Mr. Bristow has, 'ir jsides on account of the pSxt0S1 state of his healths ' f Neal j3een force(i to rejrtv pi tire from t'jfe man"""QP ?~-v?f>nt edi lOCpv? , g at torial control 01 rm, btate. ^he pregSf and Igg8W his work has been ||&R tna. undertaken by HH Rev. L. M. Rice, e, illus- who with Rev. V. l. j. ;ures, in I. Masters will ase Excel- sume joint management ay night, torial control. It is to ck. Mr. that the splendid reco ?two years will not thG GlCC- pttai/ v.. _ ge. oper- under the new m?. i Rev. T. Rev. Mr. Bristow will The pro- to write for the paper tof Unity tinue to give it the be marked newspaper ta) The Press will be j q. the same building in Times is published, a ed permis- ^e 'n t^ie same b \musement ~ * " * "" *?1 Marriage at Loc sir carnivai k in Novem ; interest of f Married, at Loc *and. Well, residence of Mr. 1 > see the fat on the evening of tl g pony, the Miss Clorene Bent1 nces and all Ridge, and Mr. Wr istrate Barnes offic f 4mtagt for building , jl confederate monument let /' Monument to be Placed in Front of ' i Court House?Faithful Work of * ( William Wallace Chapter ! U. D. C. /The William Wallace Chapter y, D. C., of this city, has labored fong and faithfully to secure a tnbnument for the Confederate dead. Bj a series of luncheons, ii [entertainments and the like, ?ftese good ladies have raised the sum oj $700. They consulted \ with a committee of veterans in the city, Capt. F&rr, Capt. Doug- m lass, Captain Foster, Sheriff ganders and Judge Greer, and| after mature deliberation decid-j pa ed to let the contract for the erection of a $2,000 monument, ahe plans of which have already Bbeen submitted and accepted. Q The McNeel Marble Co., which ' ?aaa branch office in Spartan- Ba [Jjurg, is to furnish the monu- sei jtaent and erect the same. It is m< ta be 9 feet square at the base, L. aftd raised to the height of 32 eh feet, surmounted by a slab with ce four granite cannon balls. The Pa top, however, is to be deft in con- ut dition for the placing of a bronze of figure if this is desired later, bo Tne McNeel Company has made gr \|Bry easy terms for the payment th of'this amount, but the ladies m< ore unwilling for the wor? until lie at least more of the money is he raised, if not all. The citlv has gi granted the >plot, in the street w] just in front of the court mouse, th ^The exact spot has not ye(t been pe chosen. \ sfc The ladies of thejchapter\ have wi appointed a cqmmrbtee of ladies ev to canvass the town f or subs<crip- ar tions to this' mqpument frmd. of This committee is Mesdame^ B. th J* ^eake, An?ue ' ass Minnie Gist_ nt ' be#iri workV ta 3qrtedafaith^Cfn Sfe'f ?' v?hi ?> and ?ie $700 miW * C< WS&W; ,ar/e'y the r1 i:fe u ", U nio!-e't [abors; for not mi 'd u j ing agertois amount was Of:?" u hel Mv.Hu4hG1"m(,ht , i nAl was received Tu?,d?*\ W Ulu ?. ? re(j from Dr. W. N. Uiynip.., r [<}ie with his brother G. C. Glymph, 2Sg> went to their old home at Glymphi a v^'e Sunday, that their older brother, Hugh, died on the above rib namec* afternoon. Mr. Glymph was an invalid ilant kut ^as ^een critically iN f?r sev mSa eral weeks, and his death v/a nrf* n3t unexpected. ' *'t? A funeral director from T. I hir Bailey's went to Glymphvil . fi ? Tuesday night and the body w y huried Wednesday. d so ~~ __ ^v- A Marriage. Q'V it cn? i Mr. W. L. Petty and Miss I tie Bailey were married Thi day evening, Nov. 1,1906, at J home of the bride's father, H. G. Bailey. Rev. L. M. J was the officiating minister. HmhB| ; mediately after the ceren II the young couple left for a South. The bride is a dauf rrtqtow of Mr* G- Bailey, well ki BESTOW in Union, and one of the pi _j j: etors of the Bailey and Cash be honed market- The groom is a f rteftfE Policeman Petty. The ? be broken extends beet wishes. .TonTfnue Horse Walks Trestle. nefitdofhi3 Mitchell Chick, colore ent own a good horse?the r iublished in dead now. For, on last Tuk' mght he undertook to v TT & G. S. trestle near th - ' Ko nfl'iE0in?e Cotton Mills, anu ... ? L breaking his neck. T) " most uncommon occurr ;knart. horses rarely attempt si as walking trestles. I khart at the is a spirit of adventur fason Broom, the air and the I he 27th inst., burden have caught V ley, from the connection may be 1 n. Cudd, Mag- the mulqs that effecte :iating. -up" on the U. & G. S. V 11 / ' ? 4 ^ = F. M. PARR, President. THE MERCHANTS & PLA THE "OLD F After the crop has escaped the have to fight against, and yon still liable to lose the crop, u safe place. We offer to the fan from his crops, and we offer bank can possibly give to its c vesting, is to harvest the mc sound, safe Bank. . Moral: Deposit your crop m RESIGNATION ACCEPTED, stor of First Baptist Church Re signs?Resignation to Take Effect December I. The Conference of the First iptist church held session after rvice last Sunday, at which jeting the resignation of Rev. M. Rice, pastor for nearly jven years, was read and acpted. Before this, however, tstor Rice spoke for some mines to his people, telling them the joy with which he had lared among them, and the atification which was his at e hearty co-operation of his embers. He said that he be;ved the time had come when ! should step down and out, ving place to another shepherd ho could lead them into greater ings; and this he could do with irfect grace. Rev. Mr. Rice ated that he leaves the church ith the best of feeling toward ery one, and with no ill-will to lyone. There was a sweet spirit kindness and good feeling roughout his speech. The motion to accept his resigition was preceded by several ^? b-- nrV^A 1K.S uy . vanuua mciuucio, ? uV i {Pressed thqir regret and feel-1 ig of loss at the pastor's withrawal. Yet hie step was defiite and final, and they were impelled to accept it. The First Baptist church, of fnion, has prospered under the jadership of Rev. Mr. Rice. When e took charge years ago, there 'as a handful of Baptists here, worshipping in i wooden build. two hun" Nea !2 the suggestion 01 mi e,nCA Tant a committee cor lL>eA of Messrs. Davis Jeffn J. A. Sawyer anu ??. -. was appointed to draw up su able resolutions in behalf of t church, wherein were to be < , pressed the regard and high - teem in which the retiring pas s was held. Breeders Association Organ!; le as Messrs. Bauhard Bros., de< Snorted and American hlo Ill llllh ? stallions and other guvu horses, are in the city, an making effort to organi: ^et- Breeder's Stock Company, irs- have brought with them the mahogany bay stallion, six Mr. old, weighing thirteen hu Rice pounds and of Hackney Im- and are endeavoring to s< lony horse to the stock cor , trip The price asked is $3,000 fhter eral men in the city hai nown scribed for stock, and opri- lieved that the company 1 beef organized. aac in YVed son 01 Times iVIr. kitixto ?v ? News has just reachec the approaching mar Miss Julia Karl, daught< id, did and Mrs. J. H. Thor lorse is Fort Mill, to Rev. R. G Friday j of Greenwood, S. C. /alk the The bride to be is Union complished young lad charity 1C fell off, in soc\eiy u..? ... lis is a has a host of friends. ' ence, for elect is evangelist for ich feats Carolina Presbytery 2 Jut there known over the S e in the Hill Herald, leasts of The people of Ui t. In this interested to learn considered they know Mr. McL d a "hold watch with interes through Mfe. J. D. ARTHUR. Cashier NTERS NATIONAL BANK, 1KUIAHLK." grass an<l all other things you get the money for it, you are nlc8s you have the money in a mer a safe place for the money to him every assistance that a ustomers. The last act of liarnicy proceeds of your crop in a ooey in "The Old Reliable." ^ SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY EMPLOYEES AID BLIND TIGERS. They Transport Tigers In Blind and Transport Kegs in Sack?Constables Dean and Wiggins Seize 23 Gallons. Constables Dean and Wiggins unearthed a dastardly coalition Monday night between some blind tigers of our city and elsewhere and the employees of the Southern Express Co. It is unJ li 11.. _ ?i?:_ UUUUUiUiy it JHitUl case. liuu vnijr was the whiskey being hauled without any way-bills or receipts, but the employees had the negroes hid in the car and the blind backs of the car. When the train stopped Constable Wiggins noticed a negro getting off the back of the car and at once he suspected something. The officers immediately entered the express car and found 4 five-gallon kegs and 1 three-gallon keg of whiskey, enclosed in common guano sacks. mi j X Ilt:se WCIC lU ouiumuia, but were separate and apart from the Columbia pile of express, which pile contained other I whiskev Dronerlv consigned. ! Officer Dean then askeu tb see ! the way-bills of this whiskey in the sacks; the express man did not have any, neither would he tell where it was put on. nor ta whom it was going. It was placed just inside the car door, evidently ready to be taken out. Furthermore, some of Union's, notorious tigers were on the train . attd got off, Sloan and Cardoza ^Igoods without tne iwis, for same. ^ Night School at Lockhart. * i_ ex- ? es- Lockhart, Oct. 31.?The nignt jtor school will commence on the first Monday night in November. It is for the benefit of young and fing. middle aged men who wish to acquire a knowledge of the ilers branches taught in the public bred schools without cost either for oded tuition or lights. It will cond are tinue for six or seven months, ze a five nights in the week. The They sessions for each night being two a fine and one-half hours, years The management of the mill indred established this school five years breed, ago and much good has been acill this complished thereby. Let us hope npany. that the present session will be most profitable of its history. ?and the bevje sub- Communion bC I V IVvw it is be- ordination of a deacon will be may be held at the Baptist church next Sabbath. A warp tieing machine from iBarber-Colman Co., of Rockford, 111., has just been installed in 1 here of Mill No. 1. It works like a thing riage of of life and gives satisfaction, er of Dr. ! -?? ? nMci eesf Committee Appointed. 0 rnnst af. Last Sunday at the Baptist 1 nonnlar church, after the resignation of work and Kev* K*ce was accePte(1. a run <TirT^m committee to secure another pasfor was appointed. This comT A Fant, Chair the South v~r,, ind is well- mittee ,s: Mr- ?? ,.nto PnnU man, and Messrs. Davis Jeffries. J. A. Sawyer, E. L. C\3irk, and linn will he w- D- Bewley. This committee of this for '8 to correspond with available eeq ind will ministers and make recomment hin pnnrqe Nation to the church assembled t nis course in conference :-v- \r>r