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' > \ rl' % '* t . / v '' THE UNION TIMES. _ _ _ ' VOL. LVLNO. 49. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1906. $1.00 A YEAR. - - j - , ? ? - * ^ * . * | , j TAI lir A liuiuir rn /YI%/? " WE' PAY ' k> ON TIME I ^>V.. ' " ? 4 Wm. fA. NICH( K BANt DR. H. B. HAIR MARRIED. Dr. H. B. Hair and Miss Marie Milhouse United in Marriage. In the First Baptist church of Blackville. S. C\, on last Sunday morning at 11 130 o'clock. Dr. H. B. Hair, of Unioo^and Miss Marfc Milhouse were touted in marriagfc, Rev. C. M. Billings performing the ceremony immediately after tfie } .preaching service. No public announcement of the marriage was made, so the news came as cpiite a surprise to the many friends of Dr. Hair here in Union. After the cere.nony ])j. TIair and hi^J hi ide left at once for Augusta 'atjd! other potntJr^tTtrrtr. before their re- j thru to Union on Tuesday. They, are now at home in their cottage , on East Main street. Dr. H. I?. Hair came to I'nionj in January, 1905. to practice dentistry. In this short while he has j firmly established himself with the people of Union and won scores! of friends by his sober habits and f sterling character. As a dentist he has a reputation that only a few enjoy, and as a citizen he is among the best. Miss Mi.rie Milhouse, | daughter of Dr. J. H. E. Milhouse.I is ,a most accomplished young lady. having graduated at 1 trenail college, of (iainesville. ( ia.. in both the literary and art courses. She is almost a stranger here in Union, but not for long. A warm welcome is extended to the happy couple and the best wishes of all Union people are theirs. Mr. J. N. Reeder Resigns. Mr. J. X. Reeder, who for three years has been agent of the .17 G. S. railroad, has resigned nis position an<l Kniic to Spartanburg, where he is now cashier of the Southern. Mr. Reeder occupied this position for some time before his coming to Union. He is a native of Y Newberry, but'has been in Union V- long enough for us to claim him. Mrs. Reeder's health has been noor for some-time and she is in c^artanburg *for treatment. This is one of the' causes for Mr. Reeder's move. Mr. 13. E. iWoldrop. formerly nshier of the Southern here at Union, now has the position of agent at the U. & G. S. Monument to Glenn Smith. The facnltv of Furmm tinivcr sitv, the Philosophian literar/ so ciety, and Mrs. Smith, of Utiioi county, have perfected arrange ments to erect a handsome 11101111 ment in the Sprinpwood cemeter of Greenville, to Jie memory o Mr. Glenn Smith, who died in hi junior year at Furman. Mr. Snutl vas well known here in I'nion and in Greenville, all who kne\ him loved and respected him. II was a Christian. 1 he erection ( a monument is fit token of the et teem in which he was held hv hot his fellow-students and the fac ulty. Queen of the Carnival. The voting for the queen of tl carnival has not been as lively ; was expected, vet some interest a tends. (>n Wednesday night tl vote stood: Miss Martha Goodman ! \ Miss Blanche Miller gjl Miss Mamie McDaniel Miss Sallie Stewart The succcssfufl one is to crowned in front of the court hou Thursday night at 10:30. Senat B. f\ Townsend will make the j dress and conduct the ceremoni 9 v f * . ; JLf. He INTEREST 1 DEPOSITS. )LSON & SON^ CERS. J The Carnival! ' " \, The Smith f.r??a?^r ? v-. auvnva nave , possession of the town thip week. Like all carnivals, there are many good things and others ,>not so good. The many tents where walking canes and knives xire "rung" aml<^he various wheels^of fortune a^-" among the.'^atter^ass. l?ut the ferrip wheel,' the "merrvgo-roun<l," and some <$ the ' strength-testing macliines*Are very jgood. The*vferry-go-r0und seems I to be the most popular of all .the' i attractions, especially with fhcj darker element of our citizenship. ' I he ferrifc wheel is small+> mal peiformance is very ?oud. T n j1 this a man enters the cage of ap huge lion and there tights with / him. (lee! There is a good collection of animals under this tent. ' Zora also is good. With the electric effects the whirling of about a thousand vards of dress is indeed j beautiful. . The greatest attraction of this carnival is Hoop, the frog-bov. It 1 is a man. with normal head, hut limbs and bodv shaped very much like a frog. This freak is worthlj seeing. The high-diver is another winner. He dives backwards from | a height of 92 feet into a pool of, water, whil" the hand nlays mer-l^ rilv. Nobody in I'nion has yet applied for this man's iob. Taken all in all. this carnival is ' a good one. having no dirty shows, ami if von want to have a iollv,' ,j?ln <r..t ~ 1 ~ ? tiniv i-\ I .1 It(| I <I||, w,lining cane and a whistle; then get husv. ' Insulted Ladies at Show. 1 . ' At one >n. the < >? " wK1)v : ,'i-uesiiay night a negro man wedg- ] ed his way int<j a. seat between two 1 white ladies, &nd made himself oh- ' noxious by disorderlv and boisterous conduct. A white citizen, respectable and gentlemanly, .was seated near, and warned the negro | about his conduct. The warning ! was not heeded, so the black was knocked down and out. Oyster Supper at Jonesvilte. Toncsville. Dec. 5.?On Friday night Prof. H. A. Wise, principal j of the graded schools here, gave 1 a concert with his graphophone and served oysters^tfterwards. The proceeds, a neat sum, were given for the improvement of the Jonesville school. " ^ .<** Harrison Hayes Released. . | A preliminary hearing in the please of Harrison Hayes, charged f with .the killing of his own daughs ter. was held Wednesday after? ? . . H' \\r I, noon belorc Magistrate \\. >v. ; Johnson. There was no evidence v submitted upon which the priso, el tier could he held, so he was acif quitted of the charge. Sever"! i-1 witnesses w< re examined, but al1 h [declared that the shooting was accidmtal. Hayes was released bv ("oronei Haines on Monday after the hear inir. but re-arr >sted later on tin charge of murder. It was alleeci ie that he shot at a negro ntan witl ts whom he was rrambbng and kille* t- his daughter instead. The tesi \n mony did not hear out this allega tion. 4(c} Notice to Pythlans. 5 he A full attendance is earnestly v se oue?ted at the meeting of tl1 or Pythian lodtje next Tuesday nit;h td- ns this is the time for the nomin; es. tion of officers. iuluua iTiinirnu cv. UKbANIZtU. i Mayor Macfcelh Young, Mr. H. L. Scaife and Capt. A. H. Foster Interested. ;j Mr. H. L. Scaife, who has re- I icentlv returned from an extended trip through the mining districts!' of Mexico, gave the following ac- 1 count of the mining industry of 5 that country to a Times jjjporter: i "To tell all about**the mining 1 camps of Mexico would consume 5 J a good'many more columns than t you would care to publish. Mexico 1 .is a great country in many ways, t but its greatest wealth lies in its inexhaustible mineral resources. Mr. 1 Macbeth Young accompanied me $ on my trip and from the time we s left Union until we returned we 5 travelled together almost eight 1 thousand miles. Mexico is divided r into states, the same as our coun- c try. and the first stop we made af- r ter we had crossed the border was ii in the State of Chihuahua, about T 250^ miles south of El I'aso, Tex as.V'-..- ii; In Chihuahua we visited the fa-! tl nmus Santa luilalia district, injh which arc situated tile >an lov|i> mines, of which Mr. VY. K. liellis. n >f Indianapolis, is one of the prin-.k x'.tfl i afifin vnlYT-.Y\ v'^fii \hi" r tent\- Anrf otic', call walk under- r< iround for miles, entering one tl ;hamher after another from which o >re has .been extracted, leaving a niniense caverns in which the1 argest buildings in I'nion could (le placed without touching the w reilings or walls. The Santa Eu- xv alia district has a record of seven xv hundred million of dollars, more u dian one hundred millions of which " liave heen produced since i&>4. when American capital began to,xv enter th" camp. In the city of Chi- a buahua we attended services in the xv famous cathedral which cost nearlvi" \ million dollars and which was Y built in the time of the Spaniards u bv a tax levied on the out-put of " the (ialdiana mine.. of the San Toy y group. The Mexicans are verv re- " ligious and all through the mines a ;ire little shrines and crosses which " the miners have erected. The Ax Spaniards were three hundred vears in working the Santa Eulalia 11 mines down to a depth of fron?Ja .1 i i \ - - ? . "ttndred o three h'irVV,Tft<Sd>rn machi*. C rp .? \ TIIO ' ' >>an Toy 1111110 witnm a vearf? (j has been developed and the ore ' ! blocked out to a depth of fifteen n hundred feet. [' One of the oldest minintr camps, ' in Mexico is Zacatecas, which hast'1 oroduced over one thousand mil ' ^ lions of dollars. The owner of onej ' these mines, until the time of his 1 death, had his servants rintr ajrreat bell inviting all who cared to * dine at his tables. It was one of: the mines of Zacatecas which fur-<( nished the monev which led to the j ^ discovery of New Mexico and th ? j1 founding of the second oldest town ! I in the United States. When Tames A4-' ? J - ? \.l r? v i ^ town was semcu m nw_y m x.^w, was then. comparatively speaking, a developed country, with its schools and colleges and public ho?nitals. Todav. one of the most famous mines of Mexico is that of Pedro Alvrrado. a peon who had been s working for twentv-five cents per dav before he made his luckvj strike. Todav he has a palatial' r-sidenee and he travels in a pri-i jvate train, accompanied by a body-' jguard of twentv men. together with bis personal attorney and his; Inhv.sicrn. The Mexican mine owners are verv generous when their mines are in bonanza, and Al' vara do has patriotically offered ' his government to pay the national " deht. There am many magnificent cathedrals, bridges, aonednets and r |rm'dic works throughout Mexico "jwhirh h*v h#?en built as gifts to 'Itheir rosnectivc communities bv ' hiekv miners. 1| It must not '<e imagined that all 11 he mines in Mexico a-e bonanza. for the*' ore "ot. 'n Mexico. a? " everywhere else, there are hundreds of wild-cat schemes and doubtful ventures. Mv advice tr nnvone is not to invest monev ir ?uiifti men r> Mil'- IIIIIIIIIV rill' Iiruai n IIM ...... unknown character. As a whol*? ~ statistics wiil show that there is ; t ^renter nmout of failure in manu a- factoring, hankincr and in commer cial pursuits than in mining. In good mine, with able and honest management, the risk is less than in any of the pursuits mentioned, and the profits are infinitely greater. For illustration, the following are quotations of some of the more prominent mining stocks, taken from the last copy of the Mexican Herald: Minera de Penoles. par. Bioo, asked $2,600. bid $2,000: Prov. S. J. de Luz, par $30, asked ?1,880, bid $1,850: San Rafeal, par ?50, askdd $3,500, bid $3,425 i So" eckd^iJ^r $40, asked $1,640, bid! ?1,600";~J^PtMMntia, par $100. .-skid -Jpid $q,ooo; Niaca, of ChiinahuaPpar $300, asked $30,000, A f l tears ago stock in the Dos EsirdUas mine, par value Sioo, coiild be bought at $25 per ihare. Today it is setting for over >8.ono ner share. Such statements 00k like fiction, but when the vast,' niner?! resources of Mexico are onsidered it will be seen that the 1 mniug ii lnstrv in Mexico is still ^ 11 its '/ancy. The last Mining and j 'ngineering Journal, about which ' here is no trace of vellow journalsm. states in an editorial column I hat it is reliable informed that aj* ike of quicksilver has recently , ecu discovered in the mountains! ' ear Vera Cruz, the area of 'he ' ike being 12= r?rt?s and its depth' ' metres. While 1 must doubt ' I'nutatifey'U. even f^ni a highlv iin*r is vossibYV st'" almost anv-| f Mexico, wift, u '* ! mountains ' its 1 .... . f, crcs vet to |)c nr_ . ulbons 01 1 Continuii p Iron,,* bihuahua ^thousand miles south. e reached Mexico City, from hich point 1 e* rried Mr. Young ith me to tie district to which li1' ill*soon ret 11*11 to open up some (* ew properties in which Mr. 1 lei- * s and myself la r interested. I lei*" ~* e camped with the Indians, ^ mong whom I have some very ^ arm menus, we were <>11 noise ack .with Indian guides for almost ,v<> weeks, the Indians keeping us ell supplied with all kinds of nits and provisions. We visited ' lie mines of Taseo. famous in minlg history and in romance. We lso spent several days at the Cornas mine and si; ; t in the room c /here the former owner was niurered about fiv-* years ago. The (' uirderers. eight in number and, i??ong them the trusted servant j f the victim, were soon captured, larched to the scene of the mur-j er. shot and breaded. The ban-' len'Stre cap^//rcd by a scpiad of;, riends, !iv -.^ie of mv Indian |s 'his min- is now being ^S'-uHlo. ,n iv Mr. H. L. Kisenliardt. a well-V mown and successful mining man.;, fhe Coronas mine lias produced , - ,i /li dlorc onrl lit* 4 nam niiiiiun> < ?i?m?? .- ...... .? Vlacran. a neighboring mine, has i record of twentv-seven millions. The smoke could be seen curling'' >ver manv mountains where there ,vas no sign of life when I first visted this region. Among the mines ^ which have ben opened up since, 1 first visited that nart of the country is the C.'.rboneillo, whose stock with a par value of $25. is now sell- i ing at $160. All of these mines 1 are in the same mineral belt as the fsmniu Dos Kstrellas. which is, about foftv miles awav. While in Mexico Mr. Younj? and mvself obtained possession of an old Spanish silver mine in the jjronpabov* mentioned rtid adjoining the Coronas and Carbonrillo. and a short distance from the Alacran. A company has been or" ani^ed to work this pronertv and it will soon be in operation. The officers ar s \V. K. Rellis, president: IT. I.. Scaife, \ ice-president * i Macbeth Young. secretarv and i'rpisurer : W. K. P"11is. \Y. P Z"1'ch. and Guilford A. Deitcb. all of Indianapolis <*'?pt. A. H. Fosi ter and Macbeth Yonnjr, of Union. nr(? the directors. T^e compativ has been incorporated under the Tr,1iiro Mi.-?iflcr P cillll in 11 V v-ith ?i canital st ick of S250.000.no ^'rom this m?r?o can he seen the fnnr ereat volcanoes of Mevico Popocater*?tle, Yztacchuiate. Ore jrnha and Toluca. all of which ar< |! crowned with oeroettial snow. Th< , cnmm'nv is named for the la?1 , mentioned mountain, from th< f crest of which can he seen hotl th?> Pacific ocean and the Gulf o i Mexico. I have employed as superintcn - dent for all the works which a shall do in that section, Captai jf F. M. PARR, President. THE MERCHANTS & PL THK "OUU After the crop has escaped tlx have to fight against, and yoi still liable to lose the crop, safe place. We offer to the fa from his crops, and wo offe hank can possibly give to its vesting, is to harvest the m sound, safe Bank. ^ Moral: Deposit yoar crop i # ????? Real Estate Transfers. Monday was salesday in Union ind the following salt^. were made : (1) Garner home place in Pineklev township sold to Miss Eliza \. Garner for $1,515. (2) Culp home place, in the city >f Union, sold to Dr. M. W. Culp or ^fs.ooo. (3) Holcomb lands: Tract 1 lold to C. M. Holcomb for $125: I ract 2 to A. (1. Bcntlcy for $400; rract 3 to I. F. Peake for $7: I ract 4 to J. A. Brown for $27: I ract 5 to C . M. Holcomb for $40: Iract () to A. < I. Bcntlcy for $110; ract 7 to A. (i. Bcntlcy for $4(10. (4) The (ilonn place of 7301 cres sold to Capt. A. H ' ar $2,810 wind known as tbe oung place, in I'nion township, >ld to \V. \V. Ball for $1450. ; (b) Building and Loan sale of 1 te Meek," property. Lot NO. 8 > J. K. Matbis for $&). Lot No. < to Titos. McNallv for $(>0. Lot o. 10 to Thos. McXally for $75. , ,ot No. 11 to Thos. McNallv for ; 45. Lot No. 12 to J. A. Brown j >r $100. Lot No. 13 to J. A.i irown tor $102. Lot No. 14 to t , A. Brown for $100 Lot No 20 > Dr. ( ). L. P. Jackson for $</;. (7) Half interest in the Tucker mds. in Fish Dam township, sold :> Thos. McXally for $1,250. In addition to these land trans;rs. many minor sales of mules,! attic, etc.. amounting to $400. ;ere made. I lie total sales of the ay were nearly $16,000. Teachers' Association. " I As was announced in The Times wo weeks ago, the Teacher's as-1 ociation will hold a meeting on ext Saturday. December 8th, at ,'ieetm$S.in .5.h.e t,'eJ,'ral sch?o1 ts organization last sinffti/".c.? I i full attendance is earnestly dcdred. The officers. Mrs. Cora N. Murphy and Miss Mary Gregory, have made elaborate preparation for an interesting and attractive program. State Superintendent of Education (). B. Martin. Mi?s Mary T. Nance and Mrs. B. G. Clifford will make addresses. The social feature of the meeting will he mrde pleasant by several selections of music and the serving of refreshments. A Lecture. Dr. C. C. Brown, of Sumter, wjl lecture at Mon-Aetna Baptis church, Monday night. Decembe: 17. Admission fee will be charge( and the proceeds will go to tin benefit of the aged ministers. William < Ulgers, who has been su perintendent of the Coronas mill ! for many years. The followin: notice of Cant. ( )dgers recently aj peared in The Record, of Mexic City: "Capt. (hirers, the present si perintendent, came to the Core Inas nine years ago when the min .'was producing plenty of ore, pa} ling dividends and making good t I Aumpfc in F.nrdand. Tt was hi l,,v --- ^ n ? y 0 . ing worked with satisfaction whe ; the tragedy occurred that mat ? Coronas a solitary abandonmei t on account of its associations wii ? the death of eleven men. Capta i 'Odgers is a mining man of matu j experience, having been in tl I mines of Pachuca for eighte< ' years in the Real del Monte ai San Rafeal. He is perhaps one 1 the ablest and most conservati n mining experts in the Republic. J. O. ARTHUR. Cashier, yjl'', ANTERS NATIONAL BANK, 1 A RKLIABLE." C' i* grass ami all other thine- \ i get the money for it, y<<u :n> unless you have the money in : rmer a safe place for the money r to him every nssistunee tiialji. customers. The last act / ioney proceeds of your er-'j. m a [.. : f I noney in "The Old Reliable.'' ????? ?? 1 RUMMAGE SALE. Ladies Aid Society of Grace Methodist Church to Conduct Sato. The LadiejT Aid society ol j Grace Methodist church will ?on1 duct a rummage sale in the Dunbar market stand at 10 o'clock Friday morning and lasting throttgft both Friday and Saturday. I1?e proceeds will he for the benefit ol the church. At this sale may he bought anything from a tooth-pick to a suit of clothes: and anything from a pair of second-hand -bors to a barrel of flour. In other words, it is to he a rumovup' ?;;?lc of the " ?.. ' niture, cooking supplies, gioc r IV. *"?? VI willing I 11^1 till \ (111 II It" looking for and more beside- . In addition, coffee, tea. crea: and cake and other "things" ll he served. The "grab" cand. hag sale will he an amusing h-atmc. The ladies mean to make a success of this sale, both for ilmniselves and the purchasers, s,, , , ?,ie get your share. The prime movers of the onlorl>ris" are Mesdames C. II. IVakc, T. C". Duncan. L. J. Maine:., |. D. Arthur, and Leroy Townsend Convictions at Jonesvillc. Jonesville, Dec. 5.?At the mayor's court yesterday morning, Richard and John Roster, both colored. were convicted of violating the dispensary law and sentenced to a fine of Sik or 20 dnv. tliev took the days. A. F. M. Officers Elected. At the regular communication of the Union lodge A. F. M. last Friday night the following officers were elected: I 11. HamiliburnVi'iMwi^'. W. Going. (\V.; These officers ~wftl' *#?.!no VVi!on December 27th. ' , ' ? Everybody's Bank. ; i. Jonesville, Dec. f>.?The neW bank at Jonesville by the noting df ^ Everybody's Hank, was organized this week by the election of T. Littlejohn president, and John M? Ganlt cashier. Hoard of direetofs conists of T. M. Littlejohn, J. j Littlejohn. J. F. Alman, |. I Ganlt, J. D. Jefferies. Jr... I.. 1?. Littlejohn. J. W. Lipscomb, J <7. | kiaulU and W. W. Wood. I he 'bank will open for business tlic first of January, and as soon as ?l r site can be secured a brick office * j will be erected Convict Stole Mule. West Springs. Dec. 3.? Allen e I tell escaped Saturday fr >111 the Kj convict c:,inp near here, and after "'doing' so stole a mule ironi Mell Robinson, a ivgro planter who also lives near here. Hell was seen '".riding at a swift rate toward Spar^jtanburg. lie has not yet been IC caught. 0 Rev. D. M. McLeod Retnrns. e11 le The appointments among the at (Methodist ministers for the year th 1907 have been made. It is a matin ter of genuine joy that Rev. I). M. relMcLeod is to return to the pastolie rate of Grace Methodist church, en This will be Mr. McLeod's fourth rid year here, and that in itself means of general satisfaction. The ineinve bers of Grace Methodist church " are to be congratulated. < r jT' jf ' v-i ' . ~ / '