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* the Gaffney ledger. A NEW9PAPBR IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIEt. AND DEVOTED TO THE BEET INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1864. WORKING THE ROADS NEAR WILKINSVILIE. OAFFNEY, s. On FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1908. •ISO A YEAN, SOME NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES. One Road Being Moved and Others Put in Good Shape—Other Local News from Lower Cherokee. Wilkinsville, Sept. 8.—Mary Mc- Culloch, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. McCulloch, died with pneumonia at their home at Wilkinsville last Saturday and was buried at Salem on Sabbath. Rev. T. B. Owens conducted the funeral services. She had been sick but a short time and her death w’as a great shock to the community. A large number of friends and relatives attended the funeral. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the bereaved parents and family in this their great sorrow. The little crib is empty now— The little clothes laid by; A mothers love, a fathers joy, In death’s cold arms doth lie. Rev. C. M. Teal began the pro tracted meeting at Abingdon creek last Sabbath and (D. V.) will con tinue the whole or the greater p^rt of this week. The new church building now go ing up there hasn’t yet been finished, but is sufficiently advanced to be used for the purposes of the meeting. When finished it will be one of the most beautiful country churches In the county and will reflect great credit on the congregation and those who have taken a part in Its com pletion. It’s now nearly thirty-five years since the first building was erected there under the ministration of Rev. John Tolleson, who was Its founder. The spirit of enterprise shown by those taking the matter of having a new and more up-to-date building to take the place of the old one Is truly commendable In that they have done most (if not all) of the work themselves. They employ ed an architect and master carpenter to lake charge of and superintend the work, and we are told the money outlay will not exceed $400, all told. This shows what a community can do when they set their heads and go to work. We would suggest as an additional improvement the opening and maintainace of a public road from the Guyton ford on Abingdon creek to Mr. J. D. Hughes’. Thus placing the church and graveyard on the public road. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. M. Way, general secretary, we have re ceived a copy of the first Issue of the South Carolina Sunday School Pro moter published at Pelzer in the In terest of the Sunday school work in this State. It Is a well gotten up pamphlet. The price of a single annual subscription is 25 cents; in clubs of ten, ten cents each; and with twenty annual subscriptions af 10 cents each, $2.00, one extra copy will be sent free to the one who makes up the club. There is uo good reason why this paper should not be In the hands of every Sunday school scholar In the State, or elsewhere. It will be a great help to them. Another storm of rain and thunder passed over this section last Satur day evening. The river was too high on Sabbath evening to ferry. “Ben Hope” a good many people in this section want to see you and make your acquaintance. They read your letters with great interest. You must come down this way and spend a few days. We don’t suppose you are a married man, and if you will come you will find some pretty girls who would be glad to see you, and they will help to make your trip a pleasant one. Cotton is opening and picking is the work of fbe farmers. One of our neighbors tells a good Joke \>n another who has always been considered very close. Several years ago he and another man went and took dinner with this miserly fellow. It was about this time of year and he had plenty of beans and other vege tables. When they finished their meal the fellow said: / “This makes fifteen meals eat at my house outside of my own family since the first of last January." “Oh,” said the other, “you may make It seventeen for we are going to stay until after supper.” Before this letter i ppears in print the second primary election will have been held and the county will have resumed the tenor of its ways and everything will be going on as usual. We hope so, however. The churches of Salem and Lime stone (Gaffney Presbyterian) we un derstand will be without a preacher after the third Sabbath of this month. Mr. Ratchford, we under stand, is called to another field. There Is no good reason why we can’t have a preacher to remain with us longer than they do. We think our people pay all they can and they do it promptly, and they must be an average people, at least. We fully endorse what The Ledger says of the brutal, cowardly attack on Editor Dave Grist, of the York- ville Enquirer. We know- nothing of the parties who made It and don’t care to. We have been reading the Enquirer for half a century and pro nounce it one of the best and most consistent newspapers In the land. Yesterday was “Labor Day” and the mail riders and other government employees had a rest day. The cotton crop will be an unu sually light one this year, and much of the lint will he cf a poor variety, we thin&. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel and children spent last Sabbath on *hU side of the river. Road overseer H. T. Estes has given the hill this side of the Brown ford on Gilkey the best working it has had since we knew It. Mr. W. C. Sparks has also given the hill between the Jim Burgess bridges and Littlejohn’s cross roads a splendid working. This is a hard section of road to keep up anyway. On their return from the burial of Mr. John McCulloch’s child last Sabbath, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Webber stopped and spent a few hours with us. The Thomson mill hasn’t been run ning since the freshet of two weeks ago. Pitching horse shoes is the lead ing game with the boys nowadays. It seems to be a very exciting past time with them. Prof. R. A. Foster is teaching a singing school at Mesopotamia church. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes visited friends and relatives at Sharon last Saturday and returned yesterday. Messrs. Vaughn and Kelly have bored a well for Mr. T. J. Estes. They made three efforts before they got a good vein and head of water. The county commissioners have located a new and better road from the Owens’ ford bridge on Thlckety to near Mr. G. A. Byers’. The road is now out of reach of the high water in Thlckety. The Messrs. Brewington are going to set up a saw mill on the Douglass place and supply this section with lumber. The next State Sunday School Convention will meet In Orangeburg February 16-17-18, 1909, and we hope Cherokee county will be well repre sented. The North Pacolet Interdenoml national Sunday School Convention will meet at Rehoboth on the 4th Sabbath of this month—September 27th. The programme will appear next week. Unless some untoward event takes place the State election will finish its work today and the political heel ers will be out of a job for two years. J. L. S. THE LATEST NEWS FROM DOINGS OF THE PEOPLE IN OUR SISTER CITY. Brief News Notes and Personal Para graphs Gathered by Our M lron City” Correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Whlsnant visit ed relatives In Rock Hill the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. J. ,M. Verdin, who came here some time ago, have moved back to Greenville, where they will reside in the future. Dr. W. A. White and Mr. R. B. Smith, of Greenville, are the guests of Mr. L. F. Fowler. ' Mr. Oren Moore left Tuesday after noon for Charlotte, N. C., to attend the Medical College. Prof, and Mrs. E. A. Montgomery returned to their home here Monday afternoon after spending some time Blacksburg, Sept. 9—Mrs. S. A. I in Columbia with relatives. Moorehead went over to Gaffney i Miss Sallie Camp, of Gaffney, Is Thursday on business. spending a few days with her cousin. Rev. and Mrs. I. T. Newton and Miss Mamie Blalock, children left Thursday morning for! Master Tally Albert returned to his i Fallston, N. C., where they will re- h°nie in Rock Hill Tuesday night af- j side In the future. Their many; *er spending a week with his grand- friends here regret to give them up mother, Mrs. Martha Moore. ' but hope they will like their new j Mr. Adam Metts left Monday af- home. Mr. Newton is principal of ternoon for Spartanburg where he the school there. has accepted a position MR. COOPER CHARMED ALL. MR. BOLL WEEVIL. He Exemplifies the Secret Work of the Knights of Pythias. One of the best and most interest ing meetings in the history of Lime stone Lodge Knights of Pythias was that which took place last Monday night. The lion of the occasion was Mr. Frank P. Cooper, of Charleston. Besides an exceptionally large num ber of local members present there were guests from Blacksburg, Char lotte, Greenville and Greensboro. Mr. Cooper is chairman of the Thornwell Memorial Commission, and lie is doing a great work. He is one of the brightest constellations of the Pythian heavens. He has learned well the lesson of friendship, charity and benevolence and he practices it in his daily walk. Mr. Cooper came here at. the invitation of Chancellor Commander Gunter. Mr. Gunter met Mr. Cooper in Boston, at the meeting of the Grand Lodge, and he became with the 1 so impressed with the brightness of Miss Connie Baber, of Gastonia, N. Morgan Iron Works at that place, i his intellect and the purity of his C., Is the guest this week of Miss Mr. Jack Roberts left Sunday night j Pythinism that he concluded that Marie Goforth. for Great Falls to resume his work. Limestone Lodge should enjoy an there with the Southern Power Co. I evening with him. Mr. Cooper came, Mrs. S. E. Lucas is in Baltimore, | saw and conquered. From the mo- Md., this week buying her fall stock ment he landed in town until his of millinery, notions, etc. smiling fare was lost to view around Mrs. J. C. Ross is visiting relatives the bend of the Southern railway in Spartanburg this week. track there was nothing too good for Mr. James Lucas, of Baltimore,' llim - His visit will be remembered Md., spent Wednesday here with Mr. b .v all present so long as life may E. K. Belue and left that night for! ,as L He exemplified the secret work Easterday, of Forest San Franc!sc °. Cal., where he will | f o perfection. We don’t assert, it as ,J spend a few days. true but it seemed to us that his soul Mr. J. C. Ross spent Wednesday in must have communed with the soul Rev. and Mrs. J. M. White and i children, of Statesville, N. C., spent i Wednesday night here with Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Douglass, on Mountain avenue, and left Thursday morning for Hickory Grove where they will visit relatives. Mr. White preached to a good congregation at the Baptist church on Wednesday night. Mrs. C. M City, N. C., has returned from Gaff ney where she visited the Misses Hopper ahd is at the home of her j mother, Mrs ; kee street. if at . D. p. I p. Gaston, on Chero- Spartanburg on business. Misses Jennie Mae and Bessie Tur- of Rathbone and that the latter im- . parted to the former its innermost j ner, of Grover, N. C., spent Tuesday t : secrets. Every little detail was THE OFFICIAL COUNT committee of election results in this county Tuesday: thought of and there was rational meaning for every color, sign and signal. Mr. Cooper acted as Chancellor Below we give the tabulated statement of the executive j Commander and he filled the chair as it has never been filled in Lime stone Lodge. He has a splendid bear ing. a smooth, modulated tone, and the ‘words fall from his Ups like wat er flowing down the course of a mountian, now and then as still and smooth as an eddy and then spark ling like spray In the sunshine. His pictures were beautiful, his expe rience rich, and he tells in a most charming style. I As a token of esteem Limestone Lodge presented to Mr. Cooper a pretty watch fob with a K. of P. em blem. Just to give you an insight into the lovable character of this modest man we will append the following note which he left on our desk Just before he left town: "Goodbye Ed, God bless you and all the Gaffney boys who have been so good to me. I shall keep the lit tle souvenier always until “time” shall be no more.” Sincerely, “Frank P. Cooper.” The Bad Little Insect Is Headed Thle Way, Says Mr. Bundy. Mr; Joe Bundy, a former resident of Gaffney, now residing at De Kalb, Texas, in a private letter to Mr. M. L. Ross, of this city, has the follow ing to say concerning the condition of the cotton crop and the boll weevil: “What about the flood in SonUt Carolina? We read in the papers that all the rivers in your State have been on p cr known before. Saw where Broad river had been forty-nine feet high. We are suffering from drouth. The thermometer is standing up in the nineties every day. Five weeks ago cotton all through this couuty loo\- ed as though a bale and a half would be made to the acre. Along about the first of August the boll weevil struck it and today it is thought that it will take from four to twenty acree to make a bale. You see no blooms in the fields now, and there have been none in some fields for five weeks. In some fields they went to work the 15th of July. They becamo general by the first of August It don't take them long to ruin a field. They first work on the tendereet part of the plant and stay right there until they reach the grown holla ready to open. . "We expect to leave here if we can sell out. Lots of people are leaving on account of the weevil. You see they will be here possibly for five years. By that time you all will know what they are. They will sure be with you. They have crossed the Mississippi river. They will be 1 thick in Mississippi next year, and I the followng year no cotton will he made there.” PttKClNCTS Congres Auditor For O. 8. Senator Supt Ed | R R. J Com JU C s ft* ft* 1 Ch > fl u. W u S O s: te g : ^ John E. Jefferies X C > ►> -j JZ . ♦ft c X I i a ! a i J 1 w a i * 1 1 1 55 tf. 1 cC 1 £ 5 X 5 X *4 1 s r; ** W X o ** Ailcns . 41 20 i 45 22 i 4 63 31 30 38 2S Antioch. 35 *30 48 • 20 12 02 39 35 59 n BlHCksburtr. t>7 P7 i 85 07 93 00 88 80 Butler *;o 4 44 20 0 01 44 13 4 Buffalo. . 5 IK 17 4 19 ! to 10 I 7 Cherokee Falls.. 12 *2 1 >4 72 80 70 79 101 87 to Drayton vllle :i« 21 4 13 45 10 48 i 43 15 hr-ells 101 X 101 8 44 01 02 42 41 01 Grassy Bond 23 30 .k; 17 | 5 4* 12 41 11 Goucher . .. V * 1 29 5 ! o :>4 27 ! o ? 1 Gaffney No. 1. . . CO | 133 14 109 31 7* 3* 100 53 92 Gaffney No. 2 15* 38 127 70 71 119 47 143 88 102 Gaffney No. 40 8 32 hi 5 41 17 31 :$8 10 Gaffney No. 4 31* 44 212 148 124 223 211 144 232 117 Kings Creek.. 41 25 1 55 11 28 3 01 31 33 Limestone 131 i 12* 5 98 34 11 122 25 10'i Littlejohns 4* 15 32 31 20 43 26 37 45 1* Macedonia HO 27 00 24 03 74 12 44 4! Maud 33 14 41 40 13 33 8 38 8 38 Pleasant Grove. . J* 8 19 7 19 4 OO 17 9 Ravenna, . 42 5 24 23 24 24 10 8 4) Sarratts 4S 32 < 4ii 34 0 75 73 8 29 52 Timber Ridge 17 11 I 12 10 1 28 7 22 18 11 Ihickety. . . 23 8 21 10 6 21 hi 15 21 10 Wilkinsville. *1) 75 114 14 12 152 18 145 147 17 White Plains 34 i? | 2* 8 17 19 30 0 12 24 Woods... . 11 it 8 5 1 10 4 ft" i 0 5 Total Bi'Jt i 7!<4 809 1519 950 1412 1289 1054 Miss Vic Mlntz, of the Buffalo sec tion, is in town visiting her aunt, Mrs. Vic Gaston. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ross, of this Death of Mr. Richard H. Garrett. King’s Mountain, N. C., Sept. 9.— In the death of Richard H Garrett on Monday evening this community lost one of its best citizens; the Metho dist church here, her leading mem- Mr. F. A. Reinhart went to Earl, N. ber, and the Masonic lodge of our C., Thursday on bulsness. town a most useful member. Miss Julia Solomon, of Charleston, ’Squire Garrett was born and raised here with friends. Mr. Folger Moving. It is a certainty that Gaffney is to lose Mr. and Mrs. A. R. N. Folger as residents, at least for the present. Mrs Folger has been here for several days packing up and Mr Folger ar rived yesterday morning to help. They will move to Seneca, where Mr. Folger has the position of ticket agent for the Southern and Blue Ridge railroads. Gaffney regrets to give up Mr. and Mrs. Folger. They have been with us a long 'Hme and have made friends during their stay in Gaffney. Good luck and prosperity to them is the wish of The ledger. place, and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard arrived here Tuesday and will teach in Edgecomb county and was in his : Ross, of Logan, W. Va., spent Thurs- in the graded school this year. 77th year. j day in Gaffney with relatives. Mr. W. W. Duncan returned from The surviving children are Dr. Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Revier return-1 Rock Hill Thursday morning after John F. Garrett, of Gaffney, S. C.; ed to their home here Wednesday; spending a few days with relatives. Mrs. Walter E. Hall, of Rock Hill, 8. night from Shelby, N. C. f where they 'Mis. Duncan and little Ruth are both C., and Mr. Joseph F. Garrett, who j visited relatives. sick in bed and they will not be able lived with his father. He has one Miss Maud and Mr. Willie Greens- to return for several days. brother living, Mr. John Garrett, of lade left -Monday morning for At- j Mrs. Wm. Borders, of King’s Creek, Concord, N. C. He is also survived ianta, Ga., after spending some time ig here to see Mrs. Tom. Whisnant, by his wife, who, before her mar- here with Mrs. A. Urquhart. who is very sick. riage was a Mfes Mercer. Mr. and Mrs. A. Crquhart spent j^ttie Misses Maud and Ruth and Mr - Garrett had a stroke of paraly- Wednesday afternoon in Gaffney on i Master Frank Hayden have returned sIs about one y ear a So, from which business. ,from Chimney Rock, N. C., where he never ,un ? recovered, but was Mrs. M. E. Shiver, formerly of this spent geverg] ,j a y 8 w jth rel- ab,e t0 be on the streets occassion- ELECTION RESULTS. Smith Elected Senator and Finlay Elected Congressman. Columbia, 8. C., Sept. 9.—Accord ing to the latest ’ tabulation oi turns from Tuesday’s primary the result is as follows: For senator—Evans 36.^94. Smith 63,095. Superintendent of education—Mel- lichamp 43,367, Swearingen 54,106. Railroad commissioner—Cansler 48,- 086, Caughman 48,490. For solicitor the vote is as follows: Fifth circuit, Cobb 3,289, Rembert 3,438. Tenth circuit—Bonham 9.405, Mo- Swain 8,030. Third circuit—McLaughlin 3,098, Stoll 2,-780. Twelfth circuit—Quattlebaum 3,- 749, Wells 6,323. For congress: Fifth district—But ler 6,192, Finley 8,701. Sixth’ district—Ellerhe 8.720, Rags dale 8,468. It will take an official count of the vote of the executive committee to determine who is railroad commie- sioner. Caughman and Cansler are running neck and neck but the for mer is slightly ahead and may break all precedents by being re-elected to that office for a term of six year*. There are no changes In other re sults. place hut now of Rock Hill, came up a ti veg How to Get Strong. P. J. Daly, of 1247 W. Congress St., Chicago, tells of a way to become Hlrong. He says: “My mother, who is old and was very feeble, Is deriving so much benefit from Electric Bitters, that I feel it’s my duty to tell those who need a tonic and strengthening medicine about it. In my mother’s case a marked gain in flesh has re sulted, insomonia has been overcome, and she is steadily growing stronger.” Electric Bitters quickly remedy stom ach, liver and kidney complaints. Sold under guarantee at Cherokee Drug Co. 60c. The Grand Army of the Republic decided to meet at Salt Lake City next year. Wednesday and will spend some time with relatives and friends. Mrs. Essie Ware, of King’s Moun tain, N. C„ spent Thursday here with her sister, Mrs. A. Whlsnant. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Nichols and little daughter, Sue, left Thursday morning for their home at Dillon, af ter spending the summer with Mrs. Nichols’ parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Black. ally.- He had a second stroke last The Ladies Mlsslonarv Society of whlch ’ wIth the ‘“Annity of the Baptist church entertained a old a * e ’ (au8ed h,s death yesterday evening. The funeral services were held this evening at 3 o’clock. The Masonic order buried him. He was a charter member of the Masonic lodge here. Only two of the charter members survive him, Capt. Freno DllUng and Auditor B. F. Dixon. number of their friends at a social meeting on Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. J. B. Ross. The lawn was lighted with Japanese lanterns. Quite a good number of the ladles with their husbands were out and all voted thanks to the hostess for a most delightful evening. Ice cream ! and cake was served. A New Business. Mr. D. A. Young has opened a res taurant and confectionary in the store room next to Mr. T. H. West- rope. "Doug,” as he is familiarly known, Is an old hand at the busi ness and looks familiar at his old stand. He will handle cakes, pies and bread from Fincken's Steam Bakery. He proposes to run an up- to-date establishment and we wish him success. Cherokee’s First Bale. The first bale of the 1908 cotton crop in Cherokee county to.be placed on the market was brought In Wed nesday by Mr. Prater Smith, of the Goucher section. This bale was gin ned by the Victor Cotton Oil Co weighed 580 pounds, and was i-ur- chased by Mr. J. A. Carroll, the price paid being 91-4 cents. It Misses Belle and Willie Blalock are spending this week at Llncolnton, •'^ r - Hardin left Tuesday N. C., with relatives. morning for Clemson College where Miss Mabel Quincy, who has been resumes his studies visiting her sister, Mrs. W. G. Cousins for several weeks, left Thursday morning for her home in Charleston. Mr. Ailie Osborne spent one day last week In Shelby, N. 0 H on busi ness. Mr. R. C. Gettis end daughter, Maud, spent Monday night and Tues day at Rutherfordton, N. C., with rel atives. A Bure-enough Knocker. J. C. Goodwin, of Reldsvllle, N. C., says: "Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is a sure-enough knocker for ulcers. A bad one came on my leg last sum mer, but that wonderful salve knock ed it oat in a few round* Not even a scar remained.” Guaranteed for piles, sores, burns, etc. Me at Cherokee Drug Co. A Peculiar Accident. Mr. R. Clarence Jones, who lives In the western part of the city had the misfortune to lose one of his fine horses on Wodnesday morning. Mr. Jones had hitched up his team to a mowing machine, and the breast chain becoming loose, slipped out. the machine advancing on and the blades cutting one of the horses’ legs entirely off. The horse had to be killed. The animal was a very fine one and was only about seven years old. A Paying Investment. Mr. John White, of 38 Highland Ave., Houlton, Maine, sajfe: "Have been troubled with a cough every win ter and spring. Last winter I triad many advertised remedies, but the cough continued until I bought a 50c. bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery; before that was half gone, the cough was all gone. This winter the same happy result has followed; a few doses once more banished the annual cough. I am now convinced that Dr. King’s New Discovery Is the best at all cough and lung remedies.*’ Bold under guarantee at Cheroksa Drug Co. 60c. and 61.00. 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