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rCOL. BACON TELLS ABOUT THE HOSPITALITY OF GAFFNEY Says the Present Meeting of the Press Association ..as "the Best in Thirty-Eight Years" and that Gaffney is "the Biggest and Brightest Spot 011 the Map of South Carolina." Gaffuey, July 2.?Yes, it is an Olympus. The gods are in session, <lall'ney is (ho classic mount. Old Limestone college is Helicon. Tin Pierian spring bubbles at tlie bottom ?>t I Ik: bill. Editor Ed DeCamp is the Jupiter Tonaiis and fount of every blessing. L)r. Lee Davis Lodge, of Limestone college, is a combined Mercury and Minerva. President A nil is obi Saturn, father and friend of all. W. W. Ball, Edward Nor_ men(, James Iloyt ana Charles Galloway are young and graceful A polios among the rougher ciertles. All the gods and their "dependent" goddesses are on the mount. All I lie Ihundcrbolts of Jupiter Thomas are volts of love and mercy. The wand "I Mercury has lost ils serpents. The ??wl of Minerva watclies in constant love. And old Saturn looks down upon his deities and says, il is well Presto, change! We descend from the heights of our allegory. The breakfast bell lings at 8. And with a gleeful and tiunuttnous rush seventy-five South Carolina newspaper men and their "dependent females" and their unconscionable young, pile down into the great and spacious salle a manger There are ten or twelve white-draped, silver-laden, groaning tables. There a dozen beautifully - behaved Afro-Americans, waiters and waitresses. They wear white caps and snowy aprons. ( antaloupe, peaches, apples, plums, bananas, hominy, rolls, turn-overs, bans, heal en-biscuit, fried chicken, broiled ham, breakfast strips, scrambled eggs, mountain butter, milk, eoflee. ieed tea. True, every l>il of il And to this tare do tlie ragged newspaper men sit down thrice a day. Ihrice a <lay, without money and wiihoul price! Gaffuey and her people turnish the money. Thevo is no price! Gallney?(Sod bless her large and chivalrous soul!?scorns the price, now delightful to h<- in immediatcc dinner is no less sumptuous than the contact with a peo|?ie who scorn a price! And IV. Lodge rises between the cantaloupe and the fried chicken, and, with exquisite geniality ami ' inor, tells us thai Limestone, having kissed us, liking it. will long to kiss j'.not her summer, many summers? and to be kissed by us. Ami the Lord do so to us, and more also, when *e forget to kiss old Limestone. The breakfast. The supper?not "tea"' is mless sumptuous than the dinner. And a sweeping St. Bartholomew's Day takes place in the Limestone chicken yard thrice in every twentyfour hours! And .Jupiter Tonans ceases not at any hour to hurl his thunderbolts of love! The Limestone Auditorium. The hills and valleys and slopes, and lawns and trees of Limestone college are unsurpassably beautiful. She towers three and a half stories above the earth. She has more than a hundred rooms. Iler auditorium is an extremely large, beautifully arranged, beautifully equipped theatre! A great pipe organ, with an exquisite front of pale green and gold pipes, forms the background of the spacious st aire. A magnificent ('bickering grand piano sits to the right of the organ. We bow low fo the lovely auditorium of Limestone college. The Placcs and Sights and Things. The great cot (on mill of t he Gaffney Manufacturing Company, the damask mill, with ils lovely and romantic park of Millionaire Wheat; the oil mills, (he ice factories, the Heaven alone what not! We visit them?we, (lie ragged?in dozens and dozens of lordly victorias, and surreys .-?n<I aulo cars, and buggies and runabouts. 10very private home sends ils conveyance (o (lie doors of Limestone college. The Little Negro With the Wheelbarrow. And. il on the streets or in the purlieus, you meet a lit l ie nigger trundling a wheelbarrow, he slops, and, with his ebony palm to his ebony temple .says: "Ross, I here to serve you. El you waul to go out lo do college or de base ball park, jess git, n." We did gel into a lovely barrow and journey from I he graded school to I he college. We offered Pomp our last quarter. He scorned it, saying: "Not a cent, sir, Gaffney is?yon?n." We fell upon his neck and wept, and thanked God that He had mercifully spared us to see this dispensation, ^ho Damask Souvenirs. As we? the great, army of flic ragged? quilled I ho beautiful and unique Irene Mill of Millionaire Wheat, we received each a lovely damask souvenir, folded in a long yellow envelope. These souvenirs (fr are long ;uh1 exquisitely ottilj dl'essei SCtll'L's?mcrcci'i/.od Tliu Irene Mill, named alter a d ! ler of Mr. Wheat, is devoted e ly (it (hese mercerized goods. I)i ' one dreatn there'was sueh an ; lishinent in South Carolina 7 ! the generous hands of Mr. V who we are told is a genuine i i GalTney hoy, every wretched , paper man in South Carolina [ his "deponent female"?lias a s lovely bureau scarf. Good for \\ Golden Wheat! , "Something Good on the Ice, 1 Our surrey, drawn b\ two spa greys, draws up in a little valh fore the lee Factory. We say the three ladies with us, "IJ we are very hot and tired, so w just sit iu the surrey until yo ready to drive to the next pi To which Charlie, the driver, sponds, "Boss, they got somi mighty good on the ice for y< there; something I ha I will hel] ladies from being so tired." lie ice! (inil's and oceans, rivers < And the ladies leap nimbly to ground. Anil we oiler Charlii last (|uarler thai (lie wheclh; boy liinl rejected. And Charlie baek and said proudly, "(Jive (he heathen, hoss; (lalVney is vol Oscar Shanks. Who is Oscar Shanks7 lie i noblest Kentucky gentleman ever came to live and love and in South Carolina. He is suj teudent of the great electric ] plant on Broad river, eight eastward of GalTney?the cast ed bulwark from which flow on currents that move and tm\ all etc.. in GalTney, in Blackslmr Clifton, and many even in Sp:i burg, thirty miles away. And again we might ask the <|iie "How many people in South liua know thai lliis gigantic, st dons work is within her horde After crossing Broad river bridge of the Soutlwrn railw; spur railway runs three miles u river, through a lovely countr lliis woiulerful electrical fort re: is owned, if we mistake not, by I sylvania capital; it was begun two years ago and is not yet lately finished; i( has eos( 111iiilike a million and a ha dollars. Oscar Shanks is its s intemlent. tie is a native of Louisxille section of Kentucky lie is all that such a beginning s for. lie is young, strikingly I some, supremely genial, generous graceful, polished and practical a wife and three little children, earnest Kpiscopalian and has a ty home in Spartanburg. We no apology for saying these s and truthful things. Unaffec! we want all South Carolina to Oscar Shanks. A Power-Plant Dinner and ] Height. By the generous courtesy ol Southern railway the newspaper of South Carolina and their "de| ent females" and hapless ynun: transported by special train GalTney to the great power plant car Shanks receives us with arms and a Kentucky love-light i handsome eyes, lie locks arms .Jupiter DeCainp, and we are as and happy as though we wen? ii rahain's bosom. Oscar Shank? plains the electrical mysteries, leads us through lofty vaulted fearful labyrinths of deadly \ j and along gigantic stone hat I lei; I that imprison the waters of hitherto free Broad. And the j washes and mends and darns us. | then he seats us?one hundred si ?at such a dinner as the visit Barmecide, in the Arabian Ni never dreamed of?while iced and ale flow down like the Missis or the Amazon. And then he companies us back to the "tov city of Cainclot," and we all out our hearts and throw (hem a feel. Not in Thirty-eight Years! Not in ils long mid checkered ty-eight years lias the Press Ass (ion of South Carolina had sit glorious lime?such a happy, | ant. profit able lime. Never in (hirly-eighl years have her opi exercises been so beautiful, so i leHual, so soul-inspiring. Neve her thirly-eighl years has she I an address so supremely beau so eloquent, so soulful as that ol Lee Davis Lodge. Onward Upon Aslieville and 'J way. Tomorrow, Friday morning, shining array, and with Jupiter ans still bearing I ho banner will strange device, wo move on Ash< and Toxaway. And may they ceive the spies with peace." Only Strangers and Pilgrims ] And finally, beloved brethre I he South Carolina Press, from lime henceforth forever, let us s lo meel Edward DeCamp and Davis Lodge and Oscar Shanks, lossed nil Uiy people of Gaft'ney in Ilea1 Minis. Fdward DeCanip and Lee 1); augli- Lodge and Osear Shanks and all litire- people ol (JalVney are only "strain (I any and sojourners here." lleaven I'slab- their home! So at James T. liacoi rheat, native NEWBERRY UNION STATIOl news ?and Arrival and Departure of Passer very Trains?Effective 12.01 A. M, 'heat' Sunday, June 7th, 1908. loss.'' Southern Railway: nki,|K No. 15 for Greenville .. . .8.57i > e- jg for Columbia .. ..1.40 j , and No n f(U. (jrecnvinc # . .3.20 ] u\u , j.Qr (_;0iunii,ia 8.47 . 0 W1" 0., N. & L. Ry. n aie for Laurens 5.10 i aco; No. 22 for Columbia .. ..8.47 i ,10~ No. 52 for Greenville . . 12.50 i ,inlf Xm. 53 for Columbia .. . .3.20 j in up ?"^ju 21 for Laurens . . . .7.25 i I1 ' ,(> *No. 84 for Columbia . . . .8.30 j ei on Does not run on Sunday ' '* ' This time table shows the lime? 11 which trains may bo expected to L part from this station, but their 1,1 oXX parture is not guaranteed and vs time shown is subject to change w out notice. G. L. Robinson. Elation Masie s the that labol. ON SALE BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY. )?wcr ,r>00 Mile Slate Family Tiel miles $1L25?Good over tiie Southern R -iron- wa.V >n South Carolina for Ihe h j ||,(. or dependent members of a fain mills. Limited one year from date of sab [r, in 1000 Miles Interchangeable Ind irtan- dual Tickets $20.00?Good over here Southern railway and thirty ot si ion, roads in the Southeast aggivgal ('siro- 30,000 miles. Limited one year fi upon- date ol sale. rs !'' 2000 Mile I nlerehangeable F on a Ticket $40.00?Good over the S?u iv. a ''I'll I fail way and thirty (itlier road: p the the Southeast aggregating 30, y, to miles for a manager, the head o ss. It firm or employe. Limited to five 1 Vnn- good for only one of such person! only one lime. Limited one year from ? abso- of sale. some- 1000 Mile Interchangeable hid II ol dual I ickel $2. >.00?Good ov< r uper- Southern Railway ami seventy I the other roads in the Southeast aggres and in:'- 41.000 miles. Limited one v lands from date of sale. liand- On and alter April lsl, 1008, * and mileage tickets will no! be hone ; has for passage on I rains nor in clit is an inLr bag-gage except from non-age pret- stations and stations not open for make sale of tickets, but must be presen Irong at ticket ollices and there exchan ledly, for eontinuous ticket. know Money saved in passage fare purchasing tickets from South Dizzy Railway agents. Fares paid on cr: will be at a higher rale. 'be 'Call on Southern Railway Tic men Agents for mileage tickets, pass l?end- tickets and detailed information. ' "re J. C. Lusk, H'oni Division Passenger Agent, - ^s" 1?. W. Hunt, Charleston, S. f open Assistant General Passenger Agi n '''s Atlanta, Ga. with sale 500 Mile State Family Tickets $ i Ab- 25.?Good over the Atlantic. Co ' ('x" Line in each Stale for the bea.l or a,1(* pendent members of a family. Lin bulls C(] j() ono year from date of sale. Mies, JOOO Mile Interchangeable Ind lltn^s dual Ticket $20.00.?Good over I in the Southeast aggregating 30, . ' miles. Limited to one vear from d And ? , of sale. [ "t: 2000 Mile Firm Ticket $-10.OC i?'bts ^on<^ ovor 'u0 Atlantic Coast L and 30 other lines in lire Southe sippi aggregating 30,000 miles; for a m ager or head of firm and employes i-ered ^nos i'1 ",c Southeast aggregating < take lnited '? ^nt good for only < I of such persons at a time. Limited Atlantic Coast Line and 30 oilier li one year from dale of sale. t hir- 1000 Mile Southern Tntorehangea ;ocia- Individual Ticket- $25.00.?Good o a Ihe Atlantic Coast Line and 75 ol dens- 000 miles. Limited to one year ft |,(.f date ;>f sale. ning -Ml mileage tickets sold on and intel- '??r April 1st, 1008, will not be hon ?r in ed for passage on trains, nor icard checking baggage (except from n liful. agency si a lions and stations f Dr. open for the sal rof tickets) but m be presented at ticket offices and th Foxa- exchanged for continuous tickets. 15 cents saved in passage fare in purchasing local ticket from < Ton- agents. i the Atlantic Coast Line. iville T. C. White, rfi" General Passenger Agent W. J. Craig, Flere. Pasenger Traffic Mnnagei, II Wilmington, N. C. Ibis I rive DON'T GET A BRICK MASON I Lee carpenter to repair your plninbi nn(l Jones, be stops the leak. II VIS , ffilfky r |p JjLjjjJlLU i Ibu j i?'? j B '* iger I i ?.m. ?.m. IB Ml 9 ).m. ^__ I ""JpP | H I >.m. Hmm ? I i o ? jg rjb I '' '' ** I Jj MOB am LJ cuts 3^ I On i i^iig u H iSi*1 HM 1 a 10 .;:; CsssJ 1ijj$$r *a (- ^_____ car all fc?^! lins ,k,t \mmm ui, ; (g) xi "" IjJ ~ n.. fW^ Ff ? ?J LL & warai^fiBKWH Ull a LLJ kS ate ^8^^BS'18 Ga Jal = #!! J ... W# BH f!J n,- | L11 one i Ch t0 1 Hil "" # K HHi wi !,Ir | 1 H Ba z ? I I 'rrt ? hhhh |i J ~ t n 11 ::. LL? ..! uBt WmxMW'Mm NQT] AN ;r fcasci proba s r I j 'lav o forcm K?^?&fc3i?will ;i -j IW 11 ^ ^ B4.I M , vv i" ' pq Haw Save Money I on your I COAL BY SEEING US I We handle nothing but I the best Jellico. 1 Summer Bros, So, EXCURSION TO COLUMBIA, S. C? via ?>. NL & Lj fednes^ay, July 15th. Tickets good returning on regar trains up to and including ain 21, due to leave Columbia "lursday, July 16th, Gervais St. 20 P. M. om Round Trip Rate. urens 7.00 a. m. ? $ 1 .25 nton 7.40 " ldville - 8.00 " 1 .OO lards - 8. I O " j ry 8.15 " " \ apa 8.20 " " wberry 8.45 asperity 9.00 " 75 ghs 9 20 " 44 1 tie Mountain 9.30 " apin 9.45 44 50 j ton 9.50 " lite Rock 9.55 " " ! lien tine 10.OO " 10 10.15 " " j ive Columbia 1 0.50 a. m. ,sk Agents, phone or write J. CRAIG, P. T. M., J. F. LIVINGSTON, S. A., | /ilmington, N. C. Columbia, S. C. jj [CE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Hoadacho Helps. D APPLICATION FOR DIS- \\ lion I iVcl a h'oadache coming on, CHARGE. says ;i writer in Ilia April Dcsi^nor. undersigned will make his final [ look around for (Jio cause. Usually 11 ;md settlement o] {lie estate of \ loosen my liair. II. is not generally Atari ha Caroline Caldwell, dc- known lli.it hair done up liirhlly and 1, before Hon. F. M. Schumport, pinned close t.n the head will causa |e .judice for Newberry county, hcw.daciiY?. Try letlini* Ilia hair fall ! t on Friday, the twenty-fourth loose, or braid or pin i(, loos*oly in a f July, 1008, jit 11 o'clock in the a different slylc. Sometimes it is :?on, and immediately thereafter my collar which is too tiyhl, and 'ifl ipply l?? II)'' said probate jud^e whvn I lake il off my hoadacho <1 is~ ^ is discharge as exeeulor of the appears. Ajrain il is caused by li^'lit tf I he said deceased. or uncomfortable shoos, or by hif*rn- SSj J. F. J. Caldwell, hevle-d shoos, which may feel comfort- j? r>t-T Executor. able but which will oauso tlic troublo. Jfl pis