The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 14, 1906, Page 3, Image 3
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I'M am so glad 3
for us poor folk
what yours is 1
"1 don't know I
is just one-hal
The above are only a
ness System. We ar
strate that we can ani
I We Can
Can Ge
We are prepared
grocery house,
people and we kn
mas bill, let us t(
stocked, of new s
ii n
Slut
a Don't fail
Bowser as
A n n rah^r'
^ _ i ill V/IUIVI;
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He Tackles a County Fair Adi
? dress and Tries It on His
W Wife as Audience.
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RESENTS HER CRITICISM
Experience at the Jolly Old Boys' Club
Fails to Dampen Enthusiasm
T on This Occasion.
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F Mr. Bowser had discovered a way
*7" ' I ?r a Imllooti against a
I cyclone lie could not have looked
_ more Important tliun be did the
other evening ns he came home from
the oftlce. Mrs. Bowser noticed his
general bearing at once and began to |
wonder what had caused it. but it was
not until they were seated at the dlu- j
?er table that she queried:
. "Has auythiug special happened to- j
day'/"
"Some folks might not call it special,"
replied Mr. Bowser as he swelled i
' out u little. ,
" "You?you haven't been buying a i
-{barrel of rpot beer for a fall tonicV" j
:? "Rfr*/ Bowser,.-when 1 buy :a barrel
! .Qt root beer for a spring or fall tonic
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\j \ HE]:, f't! !
i ?335a]1?
V. I
_fk "liADIRH .VND OKSTLl'-UKS !"
"? the suid barrel will be rolled in at the
* btiseuieut door. No burrel cnine this \
afternoon, did it?"
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^ou have adopted th
:s." "It costs me jt
the best, and really
how it is, but it seer
If what it used to be.
a few volunteer extracts fron
e not prepared to condemn ai
d will save you money over a
and Will
t From
to give you the polite;
Are these things worth
ow that you will apprec
ill you what we will sell
easonable good things t
U N10 P
I to write or ask for ou
_.
" "Sou are not thinking of tradlDg tae |
bouse for a chicken farm?" she per- ; *
slated. ' 1
"Nonsense!" R
e "Then?then"? d
He regarded her for a uilnute In ai- It
lence and then pompously observed: ; v<
"I shall he very busy In the library c<
this eveulug, and if any one cnlla you h
are to say that I am not at home. I
ha ve a little address to write." h
"O-h! What sort of an address? I
hope it is not one for some club. You
remember how tl?e Jolly Old Boys j t*
made a fool of you last spring. They :
pretended they wanted an address, aud m
tlieu"? fi
Reseat* Wife'* Remark*. SI
"Stop right there, Mrs. Bowser! Stop t(
right there!" he exclaimed as he point-1 R
ed his knife at her across the table. "I H
know nothing about the Jolly Old Boys. w
I never wrote an address for the Jolly ; ai
Old Boys. The Jolly Old Boys can go bi
to grass for all of me. What do you
menu wlieu you say that they made a. d
fool of me?" f<
"Why. they got you to write au ad-1 b
dress and then stiouted and laughed II
and guyed you so that you could not D
deliver it. Don't you remember how d<
they stood you on your bead, made you
climb a ladder and rolled you on a C
barrelV" , tj
"By thunder, woman, are you talk
lug such talk to nieV Are you out pi
of your bead? Have you gone plumb! Y
crazy since 1 left the Jiouse this morn F
ing? Bowser laughed at! Bowser ou a
ladder! Bowser rolled on a barrel!" ni
-"But you tokl me so when you came w
home that nlg??t." > , hi
"Never! Never iu all this world!! Is
However, we hahad enough of this, w
Don't usk me any moro questions, for Y
I shan't answer them. I bare no, time
to throw away on lunuties." ai
Mrs. Bowser subsided, and a few it
mluiites later Mr. Bowser finished'hie p<
dinner and went upstairs aud locked si
himself in the library. .
"Is it that he's going to practice on o\
the water pipesV" asked the cook In a re
whisper. _ C'<
"Oh. no." ii?
"Will lie blow up the rauge or the |e
furnace, ma'am?" dl
"He is going to do some-writing." tl,
"But if he's going to put dynamite In 8e
the chimneys to clean tliein out you'
should let me know, Mrs. Bowser. I'm
the sole support of a widowed mother, id
and I don't want to lie found luing 8(.
Ing across the clothesline a mangled
corpse."
airs, nowser sat uown in tup sitting
room to read. and It was a full hour a,
before slip licartl from Mr. Ilowser. He w!
finally runio out of tin? library with jM
some sheets of paper in his lium'J ami ^
a i>er|>lexed look on his face, niul after
pacing up niul down the room for two to
or three minutes he said:
Perhaps I spoke too harshly at din- ?i
iter, hut I had a great thing on hand j
and was somewhat worrleil about It." : _
"If I can help you ut all I shall be ' ,
glad to.." she replied.
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TEER
e Cash System."
ist one third less
the onlv rio-ht wj
J - TT ?
ns to me that we
?
1 the many gook things tl
iy other man's method or
tny system in existence w
Give Y(
Any Cor
>t, promptest attent
anything to you?
iate them once you ;
I you your next mon
o eat, and the pretti
t GR(
THE MON
r specials for Decemt
"Ifs Just this way. I received a call
oday from one of the executive com
nittee of the Branch county fair. H?
'anted me to write and deliver an adress.
There's no money in it, but
its of fame. 1 want to get up the
ery best address delivered at any
junt.v fair this fall, and if you help
le a little 1 can do it."
"Certainly I'll help you. How much
live you got writtenV"
Kendo N|iert'h to Her.
"Not so very much, but It's good. I
'ill read It to you:
" 'Ladies and Oeutlemeu?It goes
ithout saying that I stand here beire
you today with all the emotions
jrging up in my breast that Washlnglu
felt when he crossed the Iielti-ure.
After Lexington, after Bunker
[ill, after years of patriotic suffering,
e finally achieved our Independence,
ml we stand here today under the
miner of freedom.' "
"But I don't like the beginning,
ear." said Mrs. Bowser as he paused
>r breath. "Now, dou't get angry,
lit VAI1 una Hint f ovlr? "? ** 1
... j ...... ... anitiuiiniivi l>uutktT
[ill und Washington crossing the
>elaware have nothing whatever to
o with the Branch county fair."
"I'd like to know why they haven't?
ould Branch county have hud a conn,*
fuir except for those things?"
"That's too indefinite. I should
lunge right into my subject at ouce.
on sectn to have mapped out a
ourth of July oration instead."
"Nothiug of the ktud, woman!"
ngrily exclaimed Mr. Bowser. "I
as a fool to appeal to you. I might
?ve known that your Jealousy would
nd you to find fault with whatever I
rote. l?on't agitate yourself further,
our opinion Is nothiug to ipe."
Ho therefore retired to the library
id slammed the door after him. and
was fifteen minutes before he reapiared.
He had tried ngali), and after
ixivnuiH mi* |inuif ue reuu:
"Follow citizens, as I east my eyes
or tills smiling landscape today ami
calf the 'tart that when Christopher
dutnbus landed. here 4<)0 years ago
' found nothing hut u vast and sint
forest tilled with whooping Inuus
und raging wild beasts-I sny
at when I look around me and see?
e"?
niioil In Ilia History.
"Hut Columbus landed down in l'lora.
you know." interrupted Mrs. ltowr.
"And what of that? Can't 1 speak in
general way'.'"
"You have a vast and silent truest,
id then jmi say it was tilled with
hooping Indians and raging wild
'.'.- t i. You must be consistent, Mr.
IWMT."
"Hut ilo you think any one is going
cavil about such trittea?" ho denuded
as lie flushed white and red.
iosides, 1 am sure that Columbus
tided on the very spot where they
e g?lng to hold the fair."
"Thou all histories are wrong."
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"It certainly is th
to feed than it die
ly to do business."
live just as well a
hat our hundreds of well p
' system, but we are prepa
here you have goods charg
iu Better
icern Th;
ion in all your visits
They are to thousau
give us a trial. See
L7
th's groceries for.
est, cleanest grocery
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EY-SAVERS.
ier 15th and 17th. T
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"Then they are, and l can prove
In fact, the man who engaged me ?a
' that he did and thut they had a stoi
there to mark the spot."
"Well, let that go," aald Mrs. Bo^
ser. "What were yon going ou to si
about the whooping Indiana and tl
raging wild beasts?"
"Not a blamed word! You have knoc
ed out the whole thing, just as I mig!
have known you would. The chnm
comes to me to make a great name i
a literary matt ami an orator, and yc
Immediately proceed to jump ou
with both feet. If 1 had your dispo*
tlon, I'd go hang myself."
"If you will only be reasonable"?
But Mr. Bowser wouldn't. lie stror
' dowu the hull, clapped his hat ou li
i head and banged the door behiud hit
Arriving at the eoruer drug store. 1
asked of his family druggist:
"Say, White, where did Coluuibi
| laud in America?"
"On the coast of Florida, of course
"I'm! I)o you know anythiug aboi
the Branch county fair?"
I "It was held two weeks ago."
Mr. Bowser walked out of the stoi
seeiug red. There was a man waitii:
on the corner to strike him for a dim
lie was a poor man and a weary uii
discouraged man, having lost li
wholesale dry goods business In tl
California earthquake.
Will I' Will I'" ?i.\??
ser in glee as tlie man made his r
quest. '"You bet I will!"
And then two meu struggled for
naoineut, went down and rolled ove
got lip and fled, and it was the hlooi
thirsty Mr. Bowser who pursued wit
demouiao yells. M, QUAD.
Tno Kind*.
| "I have perfected u new kind of al
< ship," said the.enthusiastic inventor.
"Which kind".'" asked the sardou
friend. , "Something to fly or sotm
thing to write about?" ? Washingto
j Star.
Just That.
"Wlnit )m vr-ir flam n s lm silltK< V*
"I don't know, tint when we're ami
ried yon bet he'll llntl out pretty qule
that lii-< business is to hustle for ine!"New
York World.
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I before." "There's
And one enthusia
is we ever did, and
leased patrons tell us about
red, if you will give us youi
;ed. we are prepared to sho
Service T
it Charges
to our store that you
ids of Union County's t
us today, figure with
Visit our store, the best
mart in Upper Carolina
roMi
V V iff 1
he greatest bargains of
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;'d SUMMONS FOR RELIEF.
ie Complaint Served.
v- ' State of South Carolina,
ty Union County.
! Court of Common Pleas.
_ R. Melvin Estes, Ida Ellen Dickcrson,
lit Fannie McHugh, Willie J. Estcs, Ar
ce tnur A. Kstes, Iola Tliaycr, Ellen
is McQuown, Tine}- Moore, Azilee Es>u
tes, Massic Lee Kstes, Sarah Fran^
' cis Keller, Johnnie Stcverson, Ella
May Steverson and Alice Summerall
Plaintiffs,
le against
Is Mary A. Kstes. A. J. Hill, W. B. Hill,
u. Sarah Minnie Graham, I.oula Sanderson,
Bessie Estes, Duncan Kstes,
lielton Estes, Robert Lee Stev118
erson, McDuftie S. Steverson and
Lillian Steverson, Defendants,
lit T b tlio Defendants above named:
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the Complaint in this
action, of which a copy is herewith
served upon vou. the original oi which
o ? * ,,
said Complaint and Summons were duly
filed in the office of the Clerk oi
Court of Common Picas for Union
county. South Carolina, at Union court
r-1 house, S. C., on the 15th day of Xoe"
vcmber, A. 1). iqo6. and to set re a
,copv oi your answer to said CoinHI.
,
r plaint on the subscriber at his of_l'
I tices at Union, South Carolina, within
b twenty days after the service hereof,
jexclusive oi the day of such service;
and if you fail to answer the Complaint
within the time aforesaid, the
plaintiffs in this action will apply to the
Court for for the relici demanded in
p. the Complaint.
>tl Dated at Union, South Carolina. No
vember 151 li. 1906.
J. A. Sawyer, 1
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
I. Frank Peake.
Clerk r?t Court. (Seal.)
T.? the Defendants Robert I.ee Steverson.
McDllftie S. Stevnrson. I 011
la Sanderson and Lillian Stcvorson:
Take Notice: That tin- Complaint in
thi> action, together with the Summon*.
<.i" which the foregoing is n
copy, was duly tiled in the office of the
Clerk . Court of Common I'leas for
I'nion C"ttntv. South Carolina, at l*nion
court house. S. C.. on the 15th day
>of November, A. P. ux*'.
T % C
I). \. r>;i\vyi,r.
PlaintirtV Attorney.
Uni<?n. S. C., Nov. 15. toon.
r- To tlu- Pet'endant- Bessie Este*. Pnnk
van Estes, Bolton Este*. Kohort I.eo
Stoverson. McPutVie S Stovorson
and Lillian Stcvorson:
' I
it ever happened *
no question but X
istic friend says: X
my grocery bill X
our strictly Cash Bush O
r business, to demon= y>
w you that 6
han You |
; Goods. I
ever got from any O
nost discriminating x
us on your Christ^ X
equipped, the fullest O
'ANY J
the year. X
, Take Notice: That unless you province
the appointment of a guardian
ad litem to appear and defend this action
in your behalf, I will, after twenty
days from the date of the service of
the Summons, Complaint and this Notice.
in this action, upon you, apply to
C. 11. Peake, Esq., Master for Union
county, at his office, at Union court
house, for an order appointing some
suitable person as guardian ad litem
for you. and authorizing and requiring
him to appear and defend this action
in your behalf.
J. A. Sawyer.
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
1 Union, S. C., N'or 15th. 1006.
40-bt
LAST NOTICE.
All parties owing the Oetzel Hardware
Co. will have ten more days iit
which to pay. This will be the last notice
from me. I will place all ac1
counts in the hands of an officer.
Jason M. Greer,
Receiver.
Dec. 5th. T<)0?>.
WHEN YOU WANT
Your Prescriptions filled,
take them to
THE PALMETTO DRUG CO.
Where you get quick and
accurate work.
We carry everything in the Drug
tine: Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles,
Soaps. Perfumes, Stationery, Ete.
Remember. That we fill
all Doctor's Prescriptions
at any and all times.
PALMETTO DRUG CO.
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Boy milder rha.stlsenientt?When pa
asked tna's hand lie uiii;lit have made
it a condition that it should be reserved
for hitn exclusively.?Pelo Mele.