Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A. /3P UNDER MjjA?\COVERNMENl j 0*Tvr^ MLj^U PERVISIOh miinnn^ member BANK under jlllHl 11 H|])^ JT><y\ \ J EEDERA L RESERVE ACT Merchants & Planters Nat'l Bank "The Old Reliable" The Oldest and Largest Bank in Union County ' SAFETY FIKST" is a fundamental principle with | his hunk. The safety of your money is the first con sideration in opening a bank account, and we will be I pieased to nave you call and let us show you the many [ "afeguiffds wo place around your money. [ You can teach your DOLLARS to have more Cents ? by depositing them in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, where we pay the highest rate of interest, consistent with safe and sound banking methods. i I.OOK FOR THF BANK Willi THE CHIME CLOCK deposit your money where it will be absolutely sale I ; F. M. FARR, W. F. GILLIAM, J. D. ARTHUR, j President. Vice-President. Cashier. ! i ? < * ? 1 ? 0 . J a MMIMMIkliaMIAIAaAIIMMMIAIIMAIAAAMMMMAMMMMAMM | Bailey Furniture & Lumber Co. BUILDING MATERIAL OF ALL KIND AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ] Special attention to summer necessities; Porch [ Goods, Door and Window Screens, Fireless Cookers, Oil Stoves, Refrigerators, Ice * Cream Freezers Everything for comfort and convenience in the I good old summer time. | T. E. BAILEY, Pres. R. L. McNALLY, Treas. and Mgr. Fur. Dept. and Mgr. Lumber Dept. | New Shipment IParry Buggies! '? ~ f V\VV\VVVV\VVV\\\\\\\\V\\\\\V\\NVV\\S\V\\\\\NV\ | Made in the heart of Indiana | X the great timber country X I: Medium Price | High Quality | X For sale by I I The Peoples Supply Co. :j 2> < BARRON & BARRON successful men. \''vmv ^ ^paW "The most successful men toda; LNMJIN, h. C. says Edward Bok, journalist, "j those who never lift a wineglass Practice in all Courts. Mon- thc;'' hp-'' i *r~i Head What Some of lhem Say. ey to loan on City and r arm I am a total abstainer from al t> +,? * ! hol'e liquors. I always felt that I 1 rropei ty. j H better use for my head. | Thomas Edison t r' C'i ? iL 1 To use linuor is to the nervous s L3WrcilLC *_*. touniitiu item like placing sand in a watch: wears it our rapidly, making it ATTORNEY A.. LAW worthless, useless thing. Luther Burbank i My business depends upon rnv br Will P ractice in all Courts being clear, rny muscles firm, i nerves steady. No one can take al Office Opposite I'ost Office j holic liquor without blunting th ? ? | physical powei s. As a surgeon I m CHICHESTER S PILLS ""I 4 thk imamom) itRAND. X ; ramous Austrian Surgeot 1-n'U' "! A*U y<-iir l?riijtjrl?l f..r ? U ic^.A riii-i Iii-k-uth l>itiinrtiit! Tirunii/A\ i <i m m ni f,]i i hit if>nit in everv sc ?><.' > I'lIU la Ked ami Oold nirnllic^X/ , 1 am a 1 ' . > t " <,,lrl Wlth |:,C of the word. Our success is harp To ^ rtr o^^i.0Ah'rf .r'aTi.?Vi"".TKi{H attributable to prohibition. We h j C J) iuamomi* nil an i> imm.h. for #s learned loop- since that alcohol bre \ "C* m yejfi known fi?j Sufest,/ ?wiys Kelial'lo . , . . , v . ?r SOLD 8Y ORLGfilSTS FVfWWHERt ? uTn'^cntoi L . , for every successful actor and ; j\ young man tan maae any gin resH C.ustave l-Yohman, blush by telling her he is a mind ()ne of ,h(. three Frohman Broth reader. famous as theatrical capitalist; To Drive Out Malaria To the man who is actively cnga And Build Up The System in responsible work, who must h Take the Old Standard GROVE'S at his command the best that is TASTEUESS chill TONIC. You know him at its best?to him I would, v what you are taking, as the formula is all the emphasis I possess, advise printed on every label, showing it is urge, leave drink alone absolutelj ?uinine and Iron in a tasteless form. % William H. Taft. he Quinine drives out malaria, the Former President of the Un Iron builds up the system. 50 cents States. THEY APPLAUD, PRAISE 1m 1 AND BLAME W J Friends of Peace Hear Talk J son?For Freedom of Seas M ference Instructs Officers to I'p Bills Embodying "New De| tion of Independence." Stod Chicago, Sept. 6.?Prolonge<Tv" plause greeted William J. BryaiP1"" ing his address before the nattfy convention of the Friends of P? today when he said: "I want you to be thankful that country's president loves peace an 3 trying, with every means at his posal, to preserve our count 3 peace." Shortly before the delegates 1 ] cheered Congressman Henry Volli '* i of Iowa when he attacked the adn " istration for permitting shipment ! war munitions from Americk to rope. 1 L neiore adjourning the cofou***^ instructed its officers to muke \ to President Wilson and congrei purposes of the Friends of Peyl^ embodied in resolutions adop "^d morning session. 2 The resolutions, styled | declaration of independencejl ] no formal demand for an eniM^^^jj war munitions, but deelareil 1 freedom of the seas to all c<rjr including that with all bellu and it opposed the manuf^t^k * death dealing implements The officers also were ^ draw up bills embodying ciples for presentation & The I The best applause g:559?iJ?^ dent of the convention wfla Bdfcru emiali A. O'Leary of Ne(& UnY"~^ of the speakers, called tlH^^'IB Berkemier, a (iorman-AflSyjSliJ -egate, and the Uev. J. ijhfc vi'lle, an Anglo-AmreicarflHKMr^ the speakers' stand anjSBETl^^ them to clasp hands as a v*JeJi tation of charges that thv^Hl ?_ ? tion was a pro-German gath*.^. * 1' Mr. Berkemier. a Lutheran I m ter, clasped Mr. Somerville, an eVJ' copal rector, in his arms and kiffV" him on both cheeks. The audie?^? burst into frantic applause. I i Mr. Bryan confined his addressP0 a discussion of the ethics of waiful?: the necessity, as he described it.r the United State keeping out of *"? ; present trouble, and of the duticcitizens in doing all in their powernot to endanger the country's peace. . ucrcuiittn u'Leary of New York{?e" nounced the administration for- not placing an embarpro on exportations of war munitions to Europe. "When President Wilson put lf? foot down on the plan of an embarW> he nerformed an act that i'nvolvJ? opprssion and tyranny," he said. it had been a question of placintr ; ^ embarpro on the shipments of nun'1; tions from America to Germany ay? if Enprland had made a protest \PV can be sure that the pro-Enprlish piaS? in this country lonpr apro would ha*4 convinced the president of priety of an embarpro." ^ ^ ies happiness., HO V j. JT Willard. vUniN hop"* Pierce Y. Pole. Will\ Bvilll X->V? < C. J. Parks, Jonesvihe V< * W. C. Tiner, Pacolet t f W. F. Kirby, Union R 5\ 1.''l J. F. Johnson, Union 1- 't Mrs. Pernica Smith. Pauline? 1. >t J. P. West. Pauline 1 K W. F Stokes Snart-finhiiror 1 1>< O. T. Gallman. Spartanburg-- l!lf C. P. Peeler, Spartanburg l.lt W. H. May, Spartanburg lA( J. B. Dickerson, Union ilji J. T. Harris, Union R 4 4jt W. P. Baldwin, Loekhart 3w( S. N. Smith, Loekhart 1.V Mrs. J. M. Sams, High Pt.. 1 N. C. - 21 Simpson L. Sparks, Union lA ,T. H. Wade, Chester lA Both Gregory. Santuc lA > J. M. Whitehead, Buffalo R 1_ lA B. B. Lemaster. Union. l.(H ,L M. Beauty, Robersonville, > N. C. --- 2.fl Miss Fannie Alston Goss, Phila. Id W. C. Wilburn, Kings Creek l.< ? R. J. Greogry, Santuc .! Geo. W. Barnett, Union R 2 1.1 ^ Rev. R. A. Turner. Union J t Miss Mary L. Wofford, Enorce U \ Mrs. Elizabeth Petty, Pacolet t R 2 1J ? J. A. Petty, Union. 1J I John P. Rite, Jacksonville, Fla. 1. ^ H. L. Barnett, Union R 2 1. V John T. Going, Kelton R 2 t. ; W. F. Kirby, Union R 5 1. ^ C. R. Wilburn, Gainesville, Fla. 1. J. C. Crocker, Santuc 1. HH Charlie Thomas. Buffalo 1 R. B. IvVy, Pauline -" I U W. I. Stokes, < Ireenville 1. Mrs. J. 15. Willis, Snnrtanburg 1. V? Mrs. E. C. Eon*, Georgetown-- 1. ii'c J. H. Randolph, I.andrum 2. to I). G. (lallman. Union k -1 1. M. B. Sumner, Union 1.1 Miss A. P. Wilson, Collins, Ark. IJ co- D. W. Williams, Trough 1. lad J- P- Adams. Union R 15 B. C. Smith, Union Miss Kate Miller, Union 1. J. N. Hall, Union 2. y?- Alberta Sullivan, Union ; M. I>. Lester, I.ockhart a Q. A. C'oliins, I.ockhart 1. W. E. Baldwin. Carlisle 1. > k. J. Black, Jonesville Mrs. TO. 1*\ Spears. Union R 1 -_ 1. 'mv K. F. McBridc, Rockingham, * N. C. .... l.i * S. C. Crosby, Union R 3 1. Miss Virginia Rollins. Union kl Dr. W. M. Chambers, Jonesville 1. J. Roy Fant, I.ockhart 1. W. I). Cudd, Mt. Tabor Harry L. White, Welford nse .J. D. Mrphv, Brown's Summit, ely N. C. ? 2. ave Jeter Butler, I.ockhart aks the $6*. iset ^sSJDFO^REKCaUdo^Scular ers I Fashion Plate No. 1, copyrighted I and the Fimoui 90 Day* Treatment and * McKISSICKS METHOD (>'?>d I of treating the Scalp, Hair and SkU* with Nc ' 1, 2 & 3 Preparation* W. T. MrKISSICK & CO. in p. O. Box 102. Wilminttoa, DeL vi th and > V. Unfortunately the scenery alo the straight and narrow path is 1 ited attractive than that bordering or. broad road leading elsewhere. PERUNA . JL A STANDARD FAMILY REMEDY J= J For over forty years it has been used as A TONIC J AND STOMACH REMi EDY. Peruna aids the appetite and gives new life to I digestion. ' Lm I .. POISONS HIMSELF AT DOOR OF NEGRO. Rufus H. Senn Committs Suicide, Leaving Notes Telling of Cause of Despondency. Sumter, Sept. 6.?Rufus H. Senn, tan insurance collector of this city, ^committed suicide Saturday evening "by taking poison. Death came a few minutes after Senn drank the poison. He chose a dramatic setting for his .deed, which was consummated while lout on his rounds collecting. Walk- . inc un to thp hnmp nf n npern on IT k Silver street, Senn knocked at the Pdoor and asked the woman who answered the knock, Sarah Ballard, to 1J~send for the doctor. The woman obeyed, being rather puzzled as to (the request', but before the doctor could reach the scene Senn had swallowed the contents of an ounce phial 'of poison and ended his life. These * facts were Learnd at the coroner's in' quest held this morning. ', Ih one of the premium receipt Iooks of th eCarolina Insurance comany, which Senn carried in his pockt, were found the following disconnected note: "Telegraph J. A. Senn at Newberry at once and then my Jormer wife, Miss Carrie Ivey, at 81<? JMonmouth street, Newport, Ky., and ?ell her ?that she has caused it all. Worying over her?it is all over for , me. Be good. Good-bye to all. | "And tell Mr. Lawrence and family I' that they have been verv nice indeed j to me and wish all well. Tell Frank good-bye and be sure and give Mr. Samuel all my love, for he is a perfect gentleman?and tell him to sena me a bunch of flowers. "I hope mother will not worry over . this, for life is not worth living, be> cause I can only love one and may God bless her from all evil and I am dying broken-hearted for the love I have for her. "I have always intended to come ; back to Kentucky and get Howard i Benton of No. 93 East street and Stevie?one of the proprietors of the ; Luhn, and Stevie Coat, 814 Monmouth > street, and one or two more. i "And the one that has caused it all ' ?may God punish?be sure and see ?v.r.t v?4?l... n?a. i iiictv vino *11 tuc ivcntucivy jrusi/ of Newport, Ky. Good-bye. [ "Ins. Co., 420 Madison Ave., Wilson i Supt. Cov. Ky. i "Notify Commonwealth Ins. Co., > Covington, Ky. Have policy $2t>, 000." It is stated that Senn had been divorced bf/ his wife several months and that he was brooding over W r3kgj?" -l^^^tened in^ several- -- i ( >5ort, F"., and she vhau wi iuni*Ani . through hpr attorneys that she woula . protect herself through the law if he v tried to harm her. . Senn was a native of Newberry , and his former wife was from Union. _ v His brother at Newberry was notified . of his death, as requested in his note, v and the body was sent to that place. . The Mr. Lawrence mentioned in his .. . note is H. J. Lawrence with whom he ,n . boarded and the other two men men. tioned are tobacco buyers who visited Pa here. pi' lei ) JONESVILLE , Jonesville, Sept. 7.?We had plenty wj ) of rain last week and the crops are flQ ) doing fine. " te] ) Fodder is being pulled, cotton picked and much hay saved. ,ja The graded school opened its reg- a. ular fall session Monday with super- erl intendent and teachers all pressent, J. with a large enrollment of scholars. Sh The school at the Wallace mills fin also opened Monday with Miss Vonlea of Morganton, N. C., teacher. Miss Sallie Lybrand of Spartan- .Wf Inurg. after spnding some time with' relatives in Jonesville, returned home s last week. ^ Some of our students are leaving ^ for the different colleges. Messrs. .1. H. and John Alman have 1 bought out the Messrs. Parks meat |J| market and are continuing the busi- IB ness at the same stand. IB Mr. John (iarner, who lives near IB I.ockhart Junction, was 71 years oiu H last Friday and he gave a fine dinner ^ that day to a number ol ht.; relatives IB and friends. Mr. Garner was a good, II bnve soldier in the Macbeth light 19 artllery in the late war. kl lunday evening Mr. John F. Moss pP lane Mr. Buck Garner were riding in |B 51 Hggy 'n Cherokee county <iear Mr. iv I Mos 'home, not far from the Grindall IB llbrige, when the horse ran away and IB I Mr Moss was thrown out of the bug- 19 II gy nd was instantly killed, his neck B^ I beit' broken. Mr. Moss was a farm- B^ I er :>out (50 years old and a quiet, B I indutrious man with a family. He Bh I lived in Mr. J. It. Littlejohn's place. KI I Nfcg reached Jonesville this even- IJ ing tit Mr. David (' Gist had just Hfl I died his home in the Bogansville B9 I neighifhood. Mr. Gist had been B 0 quite nwell for some time and his B 10 death :IS not unexpected. Mr. Gist m p was a ,n 0f Gov. William II (list, WA 50 who wt governor of South Carolina |B just P?Vous to the late war and of IK 00 course Xl made him a son of one of IB 00 South Qolina's distinguished fam- IB -r ilies. T\emains were burled Tues- IS 7;< day ever* at Bogansville church. TM ^ A__ Telephone. IB || The B^Hnt Tn?l? IB IGROVIVSTaC Ksschill TONIC enriches the blood, builds %le whole system and will wonderfully strenC an(f fortify you to withstand M the depressing ; t Qf the hot summer. 50c. IV Two heaaL.e better than one? W especialy if Sther fellow is jruess- IBj injr tails. |P ,i38 If all a mar^^ apots were visthe ible you w?u"mapfine he had the measles. i \ ?ii =ir=ni ii=h -h? X3l)e ~?disonia X3l>eatr<2: will have the thrilling, wonderful photoplay, ON MONDAY, SEPT. 13 { D This play captured thousands in New York and E was presented for $2.00. Spartanburg got 50c, but the Edisonia gives it for 10c and 20c. Some of the greatest scenery ever shown here, r Scens of Mt. Aetna in eruption, the Alps in Switz- f erland and cities in Africa. 1 Don't fail to see Cabiria at.the Edisonia Monday, Sept. 13. , i THURSDAY, SEPT 9. Six reels of selected pictures, drama, love, fiction, comedy. J FRIDAY, SEPT. 10. Lew Field, the inimitable comedian in Old I Dutch, the greatest comedy success ever presented on the screen. Full of tears and laughter. , j SATURDAY, SEPT. 11. Neal of the Navy, Hazards of Helen, one Western, two Comedies. . I I 111 lEdieenia fjliJheatre 1 ^ l^=ii ii?ii ir=? ~ir= I | OF INTEREST HERE. ENDS HIS OWN LIFE ] An elaborate affair of yesterday BY CUTTING THROAT. . shrdl m cmfwy m cm m m m ternoon was the informal sewing E. E. Felder of St. George, NVell rty given by Mrs. Reid Tull in com- Known as Banker, Kills Himself iment to Mrs. H. L. Kennedy, who at Asheville. ives next week for her new home City Point, Va. Asheville, N. C., Sept. <>.?Edward The apartments, where the guests ft Felder, a prominent banker of St. ire received were prettily adorned George, S. C., who was spending the th masses of scarlet sage and sun summer here with his family, ended wers. During the atternoon a hjs jjfe today by cutting his throat mpting menu was served. with a razor. Friends said the bankMrs. lull s guests included Mes- er ^ad been suffering from insomnia. mes Wirron Wilson, Bishop Isom, G. Blotczy, David Margolius. Rnh- ? - - ? ? - i ,, v^.. ,, 'T,rr' ""t"t fcdward E. Felder was well known t Carson Otto Grasse, Bolton H as telkr of the Bank of Dorchester Woell, Sanv Nicholls, Archibald gk George He was about <o years errod, Lucius Jennings, 1" rank Col- Qf ap-e> is. Spatanhurg ^Herald. ^jr Felder married a daughter of Actions usuaiv speak louder than ',)r* M'llard, who, with several cbil>rds. The wasp can't talk, but he dren survive hin?- J4 " aceon,V s a forcible way of expressing him- ?an:v ?1S who had beeji well. If that renders words superuuous. l, * Welder \sent to Asheville. , m Coming from one of the oldest - 'u families of his section of South CaroiWIWiiT(MWI>r^ J lina, Mr. Felder was esteemed as an ^^honorable and upright man. He was 11 a brother of Marvin P. Felder, editor | M of The Dorchester Eagle. VfUl rSI Pointed Paragraphs i Mrs. Jay McGee.o! Steph- |2| Most young people fall in love with enville, Texas, writes: "For ffl utter disregard for the consequences. . ' . ? . ... f^l And the man who has all his Drop nine (9) years, 1 suffered with fAl ei.^y jn kjs wjfe's name can't even call womanly trouble. 1 had ter- 11 his soul his own. rible headaches, and pains in IK] And niany a man in this world exmvhack. etc. UwmmJmIIHI neet? bio - 1, ..... .i.cnu go uu more ior mm that he is willing to do for himself. DON'T GIVE UP I Discouraged Citizens Will Find ComI Tort in the Experience of a Union ! Man. I Experience is the moderate instruc] Profit by the experience of others, j It may save your life. 1 The experience of friends and I neighbors. I The testimony of Union people. 1 Will bring renewal encouragement. f.M. O'Shieids, 8 South Enterprise I street, Union, S. C. says: *'I had in1 formation of the bladder and my kidneys were in awful shape. The pains I in my back were terrific, the doctor j said I had gravel and during one at| tack, four Dhvsicians weaKcneu womaniy organs. PI all night; they thought ) wa3 going to So, if you feel di&couraged, K die. A doctor advised me to try blue, out-of-sorts, unable to K Dean's Kidney Pills ar.d 1 got a box hnncphnM wnrir ah R 'rom t"e Palmetto Drug Co. I was do your household work, on m reiieved after ] hatl uken them a day account of your condition, stop A or go and before long, I passed a worrying and give Cardui a V gravel stone. One box of Doan's trial. It has helped thousands 9 Kidney Pills cured me and that cure of women,?why not you? W has lasted for eight year?." Trv Cardui. E-71 PR Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't j r simply ask for a kidnev remedy? , get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. O'Shields had. Foster-Mil' burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.