The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-12-20

a number of others that might b
mentioned and among them the Ba
kerry and the grocery attached, ant
Scott and Gallman's market witt
restaurant and grocery store, ant
some others that lend their mite t,
swell the volume of business of tn,
town. AS we pass down the stree
and see all the store rooms full o
goods and the fruits and grocerie
displayed along the sidewalks, anl
busy people buyning and selling, i
seems strange to think that. it wa
not alwaysthatg way. Count if 20,
will as you walk, the stores that wer,
empty last year but are now full O
Egoods. We haven't time to inquir,
into the reason now, we are just run
ming over the facts.
There are good many new firms
as you will see and count for your
sell, but that isn't near ali, the ad.
ditions and improvements that have
been made and are being made now
almost or quite equal the new enter.
prises among the merchants. Some
OF our merchants have made additions
which would be pretty good sized
stores if they fronted on main street.
a. IL. Foster & Co. WHO already had
about the largest store and most
varied stock in town increased there
floor about third last fall by the
addition ola room for their millinery
nepartnaent, another for their cloth
ing department and another much
larger than both of those for their
crockery and tinware. They com.
pute that they now have about
quarter efan acre of floor. About
the same time Mess Graham 4 Sparks
large dealers in dry goods and mil
llnery made u considerable addition
to their store, forming their present
room.
1t was last fall also that VIM. A.
Nicholson & Son, Bankers ma de a
considerable addition to their Office
and renewed the inside furnishings
it one of the handscmest Of
ilces In this section, and the Union
Drug Go. increased its front room
giving more room for counters and
medicine cases by moving the par
.l,len IN 5lai: Their building same eisstHNseas
National Bank officials were also
turned out of their Office for several
days by the carpenter and plasterer
who after several days work turned
it back over to its former occupants
in ship shape and business like neat
ness. Last fall will be remembered
20 as the time when so many dispen.
sary censtables were here for several
weeks together. They gave some of
the blind tigers q hard time too.
Later in the winter the Common Co.
came and opened for some time in
the erlittle store now occupied by Scott
& Gallman, but soon afterwards went
into their present more commodious
quarters, next to Farr & Thomson.
Union may almost date from this
year because it marks beginning of
the second cotton fact Dry. Besides
that however there are many other
things which mark our progress and
which cannot be omitted in review.
Last spring the State commenced
work in earnest to run the blind
tigers out, and sent Newbold here.
The result of his work here need not
be reported as very few will forget
the elimination of it in raid, which
resulted in a desperate fight, and the
arrests that followed. Since that
time, however. ifthe blind tigers have
been running at all, they have been
very careful, and the police have
been able to manage them without
the aid of constable. Among the
more considerable mercantile enter
prises started this year may be men
toned the furniture store of Mr.. j.
F. Floyd, managed by Mr.. j. Q.
Wray, on the corner of Main and
Virgin street. That was started
late in the spring. Just across
Virgin street where Mclaughlin &
Brown used okeep is The new gents
furnishing store, The Smith Clothing
Co. 1t seems commonplace to locate
such places as these, they are so we'll
Gnown to us about town, but three
mcnths ago it was news to us, and