The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-02-09
UNION COUNTY NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered from
Various Sections by our
Correspondents.
JonesviIIe JoftinGs.

Last Friday evening, just after the
high school here adjourned. the Acad
emy buil6;.,s was discovered to be on
fire; and before the people could ge,
to the place in any force, it was too
late to save the building or any Of
the school furniture except one stove
and about a half dozen patent desks
The Knights of Honor had been
using the second story for several
yesrS, and all their furniture was
lost. The Masons had lately sold
their old hall, and bad also moved
,heir furniture into the cond story
of the Academy, and they lost all
but the lodge seal which the Secretary
had at his home. The fire was ac-
cidantal, and got its start as follows ::
In the forenoon, the stove pipe of one
Of the stoves became detached, and
the teacher had the boys to take the
stove out in the yard and from this
svo"e the fire got started in some
chi's and grass and the wind hleN
tho fire under the house, and it soon
eat its way through the floor at the
front door and ut the stairway, which
cut off the entrance to either floor
The Insurance had been out only a
short while. and had no5 been re-
rewel. The total loss is about
Sl,700. The board Of trustees met
Saturday night and made arrange
ments to get the school started agnn
By ;he frs, of March.
The rain yesterday was welcome
visitor.
Our merchants have Just received
their first fertilizer this season.
Farmers are keeping very quiet on
the guano question ara it would seem
JUST now that :hey will not use it
very extensively.
Mr.. Grant Long and colored man
name Joh. Henry Gregory had a
difficulty near Joncavillc last Satur-
day night, and Mr.. Long shot the
negro with pistol, the bail passing
through the tleshy part of the thigh,
caIsing very painful wouud
The Alpha Cotton Mills site has
beeu locstel ON the same ground oc-
cuplcd by the encampment, on Mr..
B. f. Webher's land a few years ago.
Mr.. Foster Kelley has taken u
position with Mr., j. l.. McWhirter
in his store.
Mr. Henry ]. IIames has opened
up nice family grocery az Mrs.
Cornelia Fowler old stand.
Mr.. B. Free has closed out his
family grocery, and retur-el to his
farm above Jonesville.
The pension board for Jonesvil'e
Township met several days since, and
made up their roll f.r 1900. They
send up foar more pensioners than
they had last year. They lost one,
and gained five.
Mr.. w. e. Alm,n will leave
J"nesville today for Athens. Ga, to
take charge as Super of Knitting
Mil. Mr.. Altman is natural M,
chirist and mechanic, and will bc
missed on lhat account in our town
Mr.. Ira iIarris, of Union. and
Mrs. S. Deaulah Nelson, Of Augusta
are visiting relatives in town.
Miss Etha IIames and Miss Mari.
McWhirter left last week for the Co
lumbia Female College.
Mrs. Anna Williams, Of Spartan
burg, has been visiting the family O
j. L McWhir;er. Lizzie McWhir
ter went home with Mrs. Williams t,
speud few days in Sparianburg.
Mrs. Durbin Littlcjohn, of Asbary
W., in town last week visiting he
daughter. Mrs. j. j. Littlejpbn.
Hiss Eddie Greer, of Ke!ton, Wa
in town yesterday visiting friends.
County School Commissioners, D
3. FAINT, is in town to lay, lookin
aft 'r the interest of the frco schools
Mrs. ID. A. Hames, ono of Jones
vile's former Old land marks, is stay
ing awhile with Mr.. aud Mrs. G.. L
Fowler.
Mr.. G. b. Fowler is very bus
, urveying and making plat of th
factory property.
. Mr.. Glide Whitlock has taken
: position with the J. j. Littlejohn G.