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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
The Fire Alarm.

Our town was thrown into excite
ment by the alarm OF fire last Friday
night about S O'Clock. A couple Of
policemen were walking down street
when they noticed smoke issuing from
the ventilators on the pavement in
front OF PUrcel's store They looked
through tho glass and saw that the
rear of the store was Glled with
smoke. They decided that the fire
was in the cellar, and ran around TO
the rear and after repeated Efforts
succeeded in breaking in the cellar
door, which seemed to be held shut
by some ki!l Of IL prop on the inside,
The door had paddock upon the out
side, but tho staple holding this had
been Grnwa and Was found On the
.rraCd Inside the cellar. Bags had
b 'eu placed over he cellar windows
tN hiue the Dioze until it got in it's
fine wp,ii Tie fire bug then prot :
ally set trap prop to slide down
iLto position when he pulled the door
Shut from the outside. The fire was
aI ut the center of-the cellar. Brokn
pieces uf goods boxes had been piled
around one Of The rich wood uprights
supporting the floor, and the match
applied. The flames had already ran
up the column and were eating their
way along the beam and into the
floor when discovered. An hour
later it would have been beyond con-
troll. The fire was put out with little
trouble. The colored firemen were
promptly on hand, but as upon the
occasion Of the fire in poverty fiat,
there was no hydrant wrench to be-
had. This kind Of thing should not
be allowed to occur again.
Mr. Purcell had just closed up his
store and had gone with his clerks
over to the X. Of p. banquet at the
hotel. He had left his safe open
with u hundred or so dollars in it and
all his books, expecting to return
after the banquet and cash up. The
fire, had it succeeded, would have
hat him heavy blow.
Mr. Purcell says he has no enemy
that he is aware Of and cannot i'm
agine who would want to burn him
out.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
YOUNG THE GROCER.

Yaccinnte al once it is your only safety
from Tie ScoUrge.
Special bargains in Millinery at Harry
& Belk's.
Preparatory Service to communion
will lie observed mt the PRESBYTERIAN
Church on Friday evening at D. m.
The session will meet Sabbath morning
10 minutes before preaching. We ex
tend cordial invitation for this service
DIR. "A. Gillespie Nichol, of Nashville.
Tenn, has been visitingssDr. Crown
forrence on Main street. DIR. Nichol is
Associate Professor of Surgery, and
Demonstration of Anatomy in the Medi-
cal Department Of the University of
Nashville. DR.. Michel with Mr. s.
Means Beatty attended the Torrence-
Sloan wedding in Charleston Wednesday
evening.
One of the best resolutions that we
can make to start out with is to ere
solve not toworry'. Let us endeavor
to make life pleasant for those aronud
us as well as for ourselves, let us
take life as il comes and get the best
out Of it we can; but never worry
abou6 something over which we have
no control. To worry over the un-
avoidable, is to weaken your powers
of endurance when the timo Of trouble
arrives.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
Union Boy is Lonesome.
Sp:rtanbarg, Dsc. 81, 1890.

Mr.. Ediio,:
How TO women do any way? Ny
old girl has bees in your county for
week, anu ! an hy myself, &nt i
came hone this evening, q ,ay ey2r-
ipg) you know any time between mid.
Night and sun up wacu tho oll girl
is rot a! h0me NO call ia tie evening
But anyway | found things scattered
all over The house, the mantle Ma
full of-you know what George M
sells. All my clothes, onlythe ones |
had on my back, were on the chairs
aud the doors, The bed not made up,
aud | looked like q cat ready to fight,
and l Slapped aud thought did | have
- stay this way all my life. (No)
A bout that time / though, we'll she
will be homo soon. ! took one o.
what George sold and made my b=d
up and went to sleep and dreamed !
was rich. What makes man dream
thiUgs like that when hs takes what
is only coed for colds and coughs?
Mr.. Dal Mrlliaax. of your city, is
spending the holidays at his father.
Dan is good boy. He was telling
his experience with some chickens his
brother Josh sent him last spring
His brother said, "Dap you have the
liae.t chickens jn South Carolina"
Dan said, "Br3ther [ wish you w)nld
send and get them | would no
Louo ,bop, AZ, cold do ~,
knowleAg ge them chickens have set OF,
the roJst three weeks a. time and
they have not laid nu egg since J
have had them" Dan sail to Josh.
'wbere did ynu get them? Toii tb,
one you got them from | will send
them to him and ray the express. ]
would no. give one Of my old Union
county hens f1r al Of you,s." Broth.
er saiA, 'wha! stock OF goats did you
and your partner raise last year."
Dan said "they were the upland stock
an were halo and hearty, that they
woali eat the barl,s eff the wire fence
aud it would not kill them" Dan is
we'll up in his business. he could an
swer any question you would ask him.
Miss Helen Grimball and Mr.. How
and were happily married last Fri
lay night.
Mr.. Jack Whi;lock of your county,
was with us last week.
| was sorry 10 hear Of Mr.. P. N,
Cohen's death. lie was a good man
and made good citizen, and l know
he will be missed in your city. He
was always ready to help to build up
Union. But we have all got to 60
some time we know not when.
Mr. j. L. Belue came up and found
the stolen ba,o Of cotton ut Glendalo
hope the curt will handle them
we'll. There is too much stealing this
day and time.
A happy New Year is my wishes
to all. UNION Boy.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
New School District Established

The citizens of West Springs have
secured u school district for that
township. The matter was left to a
vote OF the citizens Of the township,
which will take place on the 18th
inst. That the school district is an
assured thing was ascertained by Mr..
l.. f. Stanford, who made careful
CANVASS of the citizens, and found
only two citizens in the township
who offered any opposition. Mr..
Stanford has been earnestly working
for this for some time. The owners
OF the West Springs academy prop
erty, OF which Mr.. Stanford owns the
greater share, propose to deed the
property to the trustees for school
purposes. A two mill tax will be
levied for the schools, and they Will
be run about eight months. It was
mainly through Mr.. G.. T. Hyatt,
and Mr.. III. O. Lawson, members OF
the board, that the citizens secured
the privilege Of an election upon the
question. The school trustees for
the new district will also be chosen
on the 18th.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
Local LaconicS.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST ABOUT TOWN
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
VACCINATE.

VACCINATE.
Mr.. !. TT. Wilhnrn has been appointed
Clelk in Sheriff's office by Mr.. j. w.
Sanders, the new sheriff.
WANTED-3 or Gentlemen
Boarders. Residence Church street.
MRS. E. M. SUBER. 1t
See the mercerized half hose, all col
ors, pretty as silk, wear longer than silk.
CSC pair at Harry & Belk's.
Prof. w. b. Crawford is. our author
lied agent at Lockhart He is authorized
TO receipt for subscriptions, renewals
and to contract for job work and receipt
for collections.
One cheap mule and one fine mule f"r
sale by'M. w. BoBo. 1-tf
If you were vaccinated last year have
your physician try you again, for as long
as the virus causes sore you are liable
to catch small pox.
/ The best bargains in Clothing can al
ways be found at Harry & Belk's
Our old friend, Ed J. Arthur, now of
the firm Of Sanders and Arthur,of Nine
ty.Six, spent Xmas week at home. He
called In to see us Friday. He says hr
is well pleased with his new home, and
is doing good business. Success Sc
you, Ed.
Mr. Harry n. 'Cohfa, formerly oi
Union, now with The New York Braid
CO., of New York City, is in Union
He was called back by telegram Gn,
nouncing the Death Of bis lrother, Alr
T. Nj. Coher. Mr.. Cohen will rem'sii
several days in Union. SE
3 Mayor Young is rendering vaiuaiat
6 assistance in our fight against carryin9
concealed weapons. Every time he runs
across fellow with a concealed weapon
he hits him with a fine that he will re
member and one that is warning e
Z others. .r ~
Mr.. I. G.. Thomson, of Kenrett, Mo-
came to bis old home, Union, to spenf
Z. the Xmas holidays. We were very glae
10 tte Mr.. Thomson once more. H'
locke as if the world went we'll will
him. He is very much pleased will
bis Missouri home. and says 1t Isl fii'
county ort there. lie said he enjoN
the weekly visits of The TINES ever ss
mnoh, as 1t kept him posted Of the cur
rent news at bis old home.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
Christmas Notes from Lockharf

Messrs. j. II. Williams, T. Q, Bar
Der, Joe Meggs, James Gaddy, Sam
uei Farrar, II. G. Little with several
others went on fox hunt Christmas
day. After chasing the fox for some
. hours the dogs caught it near Leeds
Station, in Chester county.
Mr.. w, B. Gilmore died here Mon
day morning ut the house Of his son,
Mr.. w. L. Elmore, in the S5th year
of his age. He was born and lived
the greater part of his life in Edge
field county. He served his country
faithfully in the war between the
States. Dying on the eve of the cen
tury makes one feel sad to think Of
the uncertainty Of life and the GER
tainty Of death. His remains were
buried at the Mt. Tabor church Jan.
lst.
Mr.. S. G. Wctherspoon, who has
been baggage master on the Lockhart
branch Of the Southern Railroad, has
been transferred to the main line and
Mr.. g. L. Huusipger has taken his
place.
Alessrs. j. II. Wilburn and ID. III.
McNeely took flying trip to Char
rotte during the holidays. The for
mar to visit his brother and the lat
ter to visit his parents.
Mr.. w. X. Livingston visited his
parents at Seneca. He returned last
Saturday evening.
Miss Minnie Howe returned to
Uuion Monday to resume her studies
at Clifford Seminary,
Miss Ella Ross left last week for
Jones' Seminary, at All Healing
Springs.
The overseer Of weaving, Mr.. W.
I. Garner and his two section hands,
MeSsrs. John Harris and w. j.
Weathersbee, presented each en-
ployee of the weave room q Christ
mas present consisting Of candies
fruits and nuts. The section hands
made presents Of jewelry to the over
seer Of weaving and the two second
hands. The weavers were not at lib
erty to participate in making up the
present.
Mr.. V. M. Johnson, formerly over
seer of weaving at Lockhart, but
now of Gaffney, made visit to Lock
hart during the holidays. His old
employees were glad to see him.
The following officers have been
elected and were installed Monday
night, Dec. 3lst, to serve for the year
1901, in Hines Lodge, No. 92, X. of
P:
w. j. Weathersbee, @. c.; w. A
Wherry, V. G.; j. n, Philips, Pre-
late; B. l.. Dodd, M. A NJ. w.
Bobo, M. of. W.; B. IL. Howe, NJ. L. !;
w. r. Young, M. of E.; j. A. Big
gers, K. R. & s.; j. T. Baldwin, l.
G.; J. R. Mickle, o. G.; w. w.
Finley, P, O.; H. X, Wilburn, d. G.
c.;
w. w. Finley, and w. A. Wher-
ry, OF Hiner Lodge. X. of p, visited
Union on Dec. 2Sth, to attond the an
nual banquet of Cherokee Lodge, No.
81, K. OF P, st the Union Hotel,
They report having had good time.
They returned the same night, ariv-
ing in Lockhart just us the watch
man at the mill struck the bell for
three o'clock. Judging from their
looks Saturday, they must have eaten
too much or slept too little or pos.
sibly both. HOMO.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
Assignee's S Notice.

Claude G. Gregory, Of Santuc, S. G.,
having this day made an assignment for
the perfect Of bis creditors all persons
In any way Indebted to said Claude G.
Gregory will make payment to me at
once and all persons holding demands
against him will preaent same to me at
Santuc, S. G.
w, T. Stokes Jr.
l-~8t Assignee.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
State Of Ohio, City O. Toledo. ! p.
I,nrnS Cnrntv. -

FRANK !. CHENEY m,tos oath that
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jh" CiHy 0s Tah~ip. C1a,ty Z State
aforesaid, ana thar The SAID f m VIII mY
TIE, sum cf ONE HUNDRED DOI-
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tarIh that cannot BE- cured by HALLS
CATARRN CURE.
FRANK !. CuEEEY.
SIo.n u btf"r" me aGd .ub>cllbed in
my presence, this 9th day If December.
a d. 1886 a. w. GLEASON,
Seal. Notary Pablo,
Halls Catarrh CGrc is taken internal
ly and acts directly oD th- blood and
mucous Surfaces Of the system. Send
for testimonials, FREE.
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Sold by Druggists. 75c
Halls Family Pills are the btst.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04

s. TO RENT-Three elegant rooms in
the Hill House. with kitchen attach
ed, and room for servant In the yard.
Apply to j. CLoUaH WALLACE.
521m.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-01-04
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo QGiniue Tablets
[All druggists refund the money II it
fails to Cure, e. w, Groves signature
is on each box. GOO. 43.1y
The Forrest City times., 1901-02-08

and il is not likely that l shall com mence nowi"
 Do you deny your own handwrit. ing?" flashed out MT. Forester. whe was of a choleric disposition. and 6iG not relish his word being doubted.
 T deny everything.r shouted ths major. "Stop a minute, Forester: here is the respectable female who has just called to see me on business. III just see what she wants before we go on with this discussion. Now. then. Mrs. Pry.''
 But Mrs. Pry was making amazonian efforts to get a letter out of her pocket. and turned very red in the face at thus being directly addressed.
 "rm sixty-odd. major, if you please, ' said Mrs. Pry. ''and a widow woman, with a small pension. as never thought of marrying again. And I never sup posed as you could demean your dig nifty by making jokes at my espense."
 Jokes. woman." Shundered the major What on earth do you mean ? Is all the world gone mad?"
 T call valentines jokes." said Mrs. Pry. And. please, sir, here it is. with your own initials on the outside.
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papers. and shabby cashmere wrap per. trimmed with imitation lace
 Its just like him said Master Julius. No fox SO sly as an old fox. Oh, here it is. I say. mother, can you len! me a postage stamp?' And. aHointinr with his tongue the gummy flap of Maj. Midgefield's brief letter to Mrs. Fry. he addressed it with many fiourishes 10 Miss Adela Forester. No. --- street.
 Wont she be pleased" said Julius. 'I picked out the very prettiest little valentine in the stofe-Cupid hiding under wreath of roses. and I love you in golden letters. coming out of his quiver. | chose it because it was small enough to go into an ordinary envelope. and she'll never suspect un- til she opens it.
 Julius" said his mother. what a goose you are. Miss Forester is old enough 10 be your mother"
 Miss Forester is just 2O.' said Julius. 'and I'm nearly 15, and I've been dead in love with her these three years.r
 And he scampered off with his letter and the goodly, untidy mairon heaved a
The Forrest City times., 1901-02-08

virtue of the right bestowed by good St. Valentine
 take this way Of saying [ h a [ l want to m a k c you mine.
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

There is commando of 2,000 3oers
 cn Portuguese territory. It is sup
 posed that the.r intention is to rescue
 the Boers at Lorenzo Marqucz. The Portuguese authorities have decided 70 remove to Madeira such Boer refu- gees as decline to surrender to the British.
 The announcement that Senator Hill is not a candidate of his party
 in 1904 for the presidency is made by
 the Albany correspondent of Leslie $ Weekly.
 A shipment of hospital apparatus has left Berlin for the Buffalo eXposi- ton.
 Speaker Henderson attended the Victoria, on the 2d, and Mir. Dalzell,
 of Pennsylvania, presided over the de- | Alterations of the house. Mrs. Anna Corbin Borrowe, daugh- | ter of the late Austin Corbin, who is
 contesting his will, makes the sensa- | tional statement that the executors have so administered the estate that | 9l,oOO,UUO ndS ulSdppeaTe0. Mrs. Jacob Yocunl, aged 50, and her | son William, aged 19 years, were found | dead in their bedrooms, at Fostoria, O., on the 3d. They had been missing for three days, and investigation led | to their dead bodies being found, with
 all evidences of suicide by strychnine poisoning.
 The navy department was notified, on the 3d, of the arrival, in Manila
 bay, of the battleship Kentucky. A dispatch of the same date announced
 the surrender of 300 insurgents in | Panay.
 Reports received at Pekin from Sin | gan Flu all agree that the famine in | the provinces of Shansi and Shensi is | one of the worst in the history of | China. All information on the sub- ject is necessarily from Chinese
 sources, ard is fragmentary. An explosion of 700 quarts of nitro glycerin occurred, on the 3d. on the | Washington Painter farm, 15 miles
 west of Muncie, Ind, and only frag- ments of a team of horses and Perry | Fort, the man in charge, can be found Fire from an unknown cause de
 stroyed the large plant of the Ma
 tional Wire Go. at Fair Haven, Conn.,
 early on the morning of the 3d, en- | tailing a property loss estimated al
 S325,0 900.
 | Twelve of the 16 Chinamen recently arrested at North Burke, N. Y., on tho
 charge of unlawfully entering the | United States, were discharged, on the 4th, no government official appear. ing at the hearing.
 | The king of the Belgians left Lon
 don for Belgium on the 4th. At the
 railway station the police removed a
 man who was suspected of having
 some design against the krg.
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Cupids and loves and wings, and not much of anything else, sir. saving your presence." with a contemptuous sniff.
 T never saw the thing before in all my life" said Maj. Midgefield, eying it through his spectacle glasses as one might survey some noxious insect.
 "Ain't this in your writng?" demand ed Mrs. Pry holding up the envelope.
 'Of course it is" answered the ma jor.
 And is not this your writing?" sternly joined in Mir. Forester, hold ing up the letter.
 ''Certainly it is, admitted the ma jor. And that letter and that envelope be- long together. comprising note writ ten by me to Mrs. Fry to engage board at her house once more. If you will observe, Mir Forester, you will per ceiye that the letter and the envelope in your possession are in different hanowritings."
 Then" gasped the bewildered MT. Forester, "how on earth came this letter directed to my daughter?'
 "All I know" said the major, stoutly lis that I never sent it."
 And to the day of their death TO- body solved the mystery. The only person who could have done so was Master Julius Carey, who had listened at the door during the whole colloquy. and who took particularly good care that no one should suspect his share in the confusion of letters and envel- opes.
 But Mrs. Pry got back her boarder, and. to the end of time. Miss Adela For ] rester always insisted that she had re- ceived an offer of marriage from Maj. Midgefield.-Amy Randolph, in \. Y. Ledger
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soft sigh and went back 10 the basket of unmended stockings which was the Nemesis of her life, and Maj. MiGge- field came down stairs to the once more deserted study. quite uncon- scious of the raid which had been made upon it.
 'Parthenia was the name, said Maj dgefield-"what could have induced me to think it was Pa tience or Pauline? Now where the very dickens is that letter? Surely, didn't-oh, here it is, poked away un- der the inkstand. That housemaid has been in here dustin9. as sure as l live. and it's a mercy she hasn't thrown it into the grate. Mrs. Parthenia Pry. No. 16 Green court. Foxsley street. that's it, and I'll just put my initials in the corner. to insure a speedy per usal. NJ. NJ, with a flourish 10 the tail of the last NJ. I suppose my sister will be very plaintive and injured about this decision of mine. but she has only herself and her noisy lout of a boy to thank for it."
 And Maj. Midgefield himself went out to drop his letter into the nearest post box.
 St. Valentines day came. bright and sunshiny. with hard frozen snow crust ing all the streets, and silver fringe of icicles on all the caves and tree boughs. and old Mrs. Pry stared hard at the letter which the morning mail brought her.
 Its from Maj Midgefield. l know it is,'' said she. fumbling in her dress pocket for her spectacles. ''I know them little curly-tailed Ms of his'n as we'll as l know my catechism. I'll bet coolSey he wants to come back, and a good thing for me, too. with my best room standing empty for three weeks. Eh! What? A gilt Cupid with no clothes on 10 signify. and lot of green leaves. and I love you.' It ain't pos sible, unless the major has gone crazy"
 "A letter from Maj. Midgefeld,' said Miss Adela Forester. who was a tall, black -browed beauty. with cherry lips and good high spirit of her own. And he wants to know if l will take him."
 "Nonsense." said Mamma Forester, who was buttering a Vienna roll with the serenest calm.
 Read it for yourself. then. and sec said Miss Forester, with a toss of her head. He calls me dear madam the horrid old bachelor, and dictates as to his room, his dinner and his shirt but tons. My goodness" with lifting of the jetty brows, "does he think the girls are ready to drop. like overripe plums. into his mouth?"
 .Of course. you'll say no," said Nam ma Forester.
 'Of course" said Adela. "Then papa must see the major at once" said the elder lady Though if he were only few years younger, the estate is--"
 Il wouldn't marry that horrid old creature if he were the only man in the world!" cried Adela. with em- phasis. as she remembered the young passed midshipman now pacing the deck of the Silvestra in the Caribbean seas, to whom her young affections weie pledged.
 So it happened that Mir. Forester and old Mrs. Pry both met in Maj Midgefield's room at the parsonage of St. Adolphine, on the afternoon of that radiant 14th of February. ''I am sorry, major" said the former, 'that my daughter declines to enter tain your very complimentary pro posal."
 What proposal?" said the major l T never proposed to anyone in my life,