The weekly ledger. (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1894-1896, December 03, 1896, Image 7
• •:5f'TW3
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 3, 1890.
M nw
§
9
Here are a few prices that will give you an idea
of how cheap we are selling them:
I ^ * oocle*.
Wo have all the newest and prettiest styles at lOe^ .tl .2.">.
Calicos 3ic.
Outings ;,c -
7e Ginghams ,,c -
Yard Wide Sheetings 5c.
1'ini Sea Island he.
Ku’il line of Broad Cloths for making Capes.
lil ilf mevry.
Our stock is being constai tly replenished every week.
Otvi>o&s iiiid ^f tielcets
in all the latest patterns. Don’t think of buying until
you see our line. The prices range from 88c to $12.50.
"Warner* Corsets.
A full line of these magnificent, easy wearing Corsets just
received. They arc beauties, giving aid to weak, tired
frames without adding pain.
Clotliing';
A full stock. These prices range from the cheapest to the
best.
O ver 04 Kits.
We have the largest stock of Overcoats in the city. They
are things of beauty when prices arc considered.
See our line of samples for Suits and Overcoats made to
order. They cannot he excelled by anyone.
SITUATION.
HE IS STUMPED BY AN ANTI’S
QUESTION.
>
But He Soon Recovers and Concludes
the Argument Advanced Will
Not Hold Good.—Other
Objections Overcome.
In most every instiinco that I
strike ;ui unti-new county man ho
advances some new argument in op
position. Some are intelligent while
others are easily handled.
Mr. J. R. Wanton advanced an idea
which stumped ole Flaw at the time
but after a thorough study I am
satisfied that his argument wont
stand. It is in regard to jmblio
schools and. their taxes, lie says
that thu free schools will be lowered
owing to the new county not being
-as wealthy as Spartanburg, that the
new county .vont pay us much school
tux as Spartanburg. Since I have
thought of this, the new county
won’t be as largo as Spartanburg;
not more than half as many children
in the new county as in Spartanburg,
consequently it won't take more than
half us much tax to give them the
same schooling. Mr. Wanton said
that he lelieved tiie new county
would be a good thing in regards to
convenience but he wtss afraM it
would raise taxes. 1 then showed
him Mr. Norton's report where 23
counties out of the 3(5 in South Caro
lina paid less than 13 mills on the
dollar, lie furtiier said that he be
lieved if they got the new county
that the court house and jail ought
to be built in Clattuey, ami he further
said that he believed that the Gaff
ney people would do everything that
they have promised.
1 had an interview with Mr. Sam
Lipscomb Friday, and one of Ids ob
jections to the new county is that
the new county seat, if put in Gaff
ney, will be in one side of the county
—'J miles from the North Carolina
line. Yet he offers to give $2,000
and f>0 acres of land if they will put
the court house and jail on his 50
acres—about 1 miles from the line. I
can see as far into a hole as most
anybody else, but I can’t see a
patriotic motive for this. Some few
will probably be inllueneed by him
to vote against the new county.
Now, Ole Flaw has got too much sense
to write anything along this line that
he can’t prove. If the new county
will lie ;Pgood thing to the majority
of the people with the seat on Mr.
Lipscomb’s fit> acres of land about 4
miles from the line, then why, I ask,
will he not vote fur it to be at Gaff
ney, >s miles from} the line? Some
thing must be rotten somewhere.
Some good authority have told
me that a liner—one who owns
property on both sides of a county
line—can pay taxes in either county
they choose. Naturally, t tho 1'ucolet
Manufacturing Company would have
paid its taxes in Spartanburg where
most of its property lies, even if the
new county had run the line
up the river instead of
Brown's branch, and the new
county would have bud to keep up
those rough roads and hills between
the branch and river and help repair
the bridge when it was needed. Hon
estly I believe ds a good thing that
that ii was left out.
in regards to public schools. Some
wants to argue with me that our
public schools will bo reduced. They
suy that the immense number of
cotton mills in Spartanburg pays so
much school tax that it is impossible
for the new county to compete with
t her. Most all largo families have
|in >vi d from t l.i farms to the cotton
'ijhIIh and I doubi like thunder if the
cotton mill pays ‘enough school tax
to school its children. If the new
county is small and aint got many
children in it then it won’t take
much to school them as good as they
are now. I believe there is as much
property to the square mile in the
new county as there is in Spartan
burg.
One man said that a man at Gaff
ney called him a d fool and ho
was going to vote against the new
county to kill his vote. Another
said that he wouldn’t vote to build
up Gaffney—just like it wouldn’t be
building up the county in which he
lived, thereby building himself also.
Anotaer says that he’s a “1-e-e-t-l-e
’fraid it will raise taxes,” when 23
counties out of 30 are paying less
than 13 mills on the dollar now.
No, gentlemen, the proposed
new county will he of untold
worth to the rising generation if we
get it, and no man dare to lay aside
his prejudice and dispute it.
Flaw Pickek.
Have both your reg
istration ticket and
your 1895 tax receipt
when you go to vote
next Tuesday for the
New County.
— • - —
PERSONA LS.
OUR LAST APPEAL.
People You Know and People You
Don’t Know.
Mr. J. W. Jones, Miss Fannie
and Master Norman, made a flying
visit to Lattimore, N. C., last Thurs
day.
Dr. J. Roddy Miller returned from
New York Sunday after an absence
of six weeks, whore he has been
taking a special course in his pro
fession. Dr. Miller's many fri/nds
were pleased to greet him on his re
turn to the city.
G. W. Jones of. Christie, Tenn.,
is in the city. Mr. Jones is a stock
dealer and brings to the city a drove
of fine horses and mules.
R. F. Gibson, of Cherokee Falls,
was in the city‘last Friday. M^,
Gibson brought us two subscriptions
to The Lklukr, for which we are
much obliged to him. He is also a
new county man.
Misses Hollis, of Cross Keys, 8.
C., visited Mrs. J. D. Jones last
Saturday. They left Monday for
Blacksburg to attend tho marriage
of Miss Whisonant of that city.
Dr. J. F. Garrett went to Kings
Mountain last Monday or. profes
sional business.
R. A. Jones and S. F. Martin re
turned to tho city yesterday from
Tennessee, where they have been for
several days purchasing mules for
this market.
-• -*•*■ •-
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salvo in tho world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Suit
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
Skin Kruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction or
muney refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Tho DuPro Drug
Co.
— . - -• ■*##• •- " —
Only ioo Tickets to Be Given Away.
One dollar asm spent in tho milli
nery and dress goods departments at
Carroll it Carpenter’s Dry Goods
Store will entitle tho purchaser to a
ticket, bearing a number. The per
son holding tho lucky .number will
get tho pretty $5 dressed doll that
cun now bo seen in the show window
at Carroll it Carpenter’s Dry Goods
Store.
Mrs. Gray and Miss McKnight
have the tickets in charge.
Give Your Attention to these Truth
ful Figures.
This will be the hist regular issue
of The Ledger before the election
for new county. \Ye want to make
one more appeal to the intelligence,
the patriotism and the manhood of
the people of tho sections it is pro
posed to cut-off into this proposed
new county. We want to appeal 'o
their reason, their common sense and
not to their prejudice. Wo may re
peat wiiat we have said before, but
that will make no difference, for we
know we have never printed a false
hood in regard to this question ; we
know that if we hud, our opponents
would have taken it up long ago and
made capital out of it. We also be
lieve that a cause that can withstand
the onslaught that our friends have
made on it for six weeks, and
yet they cannot point to a single as
sertion made that is not strictly true,
must of necessity be a just, even a
holy one. The fact that the friends
of new county have made such tre
mendous claims, and tho fact that
no man has dared dispute the truth
fulness of them, should be sufficient
guarantee to every man not blinded
by prejudice that the cause we repre
sent is a just one.
Just here let us sny one word to
our friends who have not fully made
up their minds in this matter. You
may look out for all kinds of asser
tions to be made this week against
the new county. Some men have
just been waiting until the very last
in order to make assertions which
they know are not true, because
they know the friends of the new
county will not have time to correct
them. Now do not misunderstand
us. We have not said that‘‘all the
opposition would make false state
ments,” and we have not even said a
majority would do so, we simply said
” some men.” There aro a number
of men who oppose this new county
because they honestly believe it will
not benefit the people. These are
very few. There aro some who op
pose it because they do not believe it
will benefit them. They are more
numerous than the first named.
We arc proud to number among our
friends two or three gentlemen who
oppose this new county. We sincerely
wish they could look at it the same
way we do, but as they cannot, we
think none tho less of them. We
sincerely believe that a f iw gentle
men oppose this movement now sim
ply because they have taken a stand
against it, and they do not want to
give over because they are afraid
1 some one will say they are weak-
kneed. We have a great deal of ad
miration for a man who holds on to
his opinion, but our admiration for
the man who has the manhood to
change when he sees a thing in a
different light from that in which he
once saw it and has tho manhood to
turn over on the side of right, has no
bounds. Whether or not tins new
county carries (we firmly believe it
will by a vote of from 75 to 90 per
cent.) it will have served one good
purpose. It has brought us nearer
together already. It has made us
more friendly and better acquainted
with each other, and that within it
self will accomplish some good.
You gentlemen who oppose this
new county on the ground of higher
taxes should study these figures.
They are correct. There is in the
proposed new county close on to
$4,000,000 taxable property. This
includes about 393,920 acres of land,
which, assessed at $5 per acre,
means $1,909,500. In Gaffney tho
taxable property is about $l,5(X),0o0.
In Blacksburg it is close to $800,000.
This does not include any of tho
railroad property at all. A tax of 3,i
mills on $1,000,(MK) means $14,000 u
year. Say wo pay our three salaried
officers $500, $i»<H) and $7<K) each (and
wo can get good men for that money),
there is a total of $!,N00. Deduct
$1,K(H) from $14,(HK) and you have
left $12,200 for your courts, your
juries and your public roads. Isn’t
that a pretty good sum for that pur
pose ? We lli ink so.
Vote for the new county, for when
you do you vote to reduce vour
taxes, you vote to bring your legal
business closer and you vote to
elevate and educate your section.
Have both your reg
istration ticket and
your 1895 tax receipt
when you go to vote
next Tuesday for the
New County.
The Light Has Gone Out. .
I f 1 here's any!Iiinir 1 lint will make reformers
eurso outright.
'Tis to read that foolish |i:ij»er called the
I’iedmo'it llcndlij'ht.
Wit Ii its trashy editorials tins farmer to
deceive.
Containing foolisli arguments which no man
would hclicvo.
Reformers nrcpiod people ami very much
too proud
j To receive dietalIons longer from "Larry"
and his crowd.
j For v. !:t*tt they know winds to their interest
and to hltii 1 hoy'll surely prove
j That unless he chankes powerful, the llead-
; ^ li)fht will have to move.
1 The ileadlitrlit is a Unlit no more to k'ji'I*'
"portr ft .•mors" on their way.
j For the lamp is surely broken and the lljfht
none out to slay.
j He’s "ripped Ren Tillman up the hack” with
all his minht and main.
And this the "poor farmer” doesn't like, for
it n'»es ayainst his nrain.
Tillman is the farmers friend and never nets
so funny
As to do as Larry (Jantl has done befriend
them for their money.
ADVICE.
Now Larry take this advice and your Pied
mont fleadlinht sell.
And then you’ll see and surely helieve that
a New County man has advised you well.
FlIKNANDUrt.
rv * ■ *
%
lio REACH PEOPLE
object o( our adverti.inr VM
Is the«
are makers of
fea ormimental Woodwork .
fc'S ,„ a ,o«,r.r.VO»d
«—'»•' ■” t "°*' a
k i.. Can t we send I
about our yroduit'.
!W Price l ist? J"* WT,tc 1
b« glad to send ]
vou our nev
we vv
Webster’s
’International!
Di<5lionary
The One Great Standard Authority,
So writes Hon. D. J. brewer,
JiiKtii-e U. S. Supreme Court.
1 lla?'' Send a Postal for Specimen Pages, etc. 1
Successor of the
" Unabridged."
Standard
of tbe P. S. (lov’t Print- (
ins ortice, the l'. S. Sn- (
preme Court, all the
suite Siipieme Court., 1
en<t of nearly nil the i
School boolLd.
WprmJy
Coniiltmde#-
by Stnte Superintend- i
ent. ot s. limit*, ii ml i
other tdiH-Htor* nlmimt,
without number.
TKE BEST FOR EVERYBODY
accausc
, It la easy to find the word wanted.
It la euiy to ascertain the pronunciation.
It Is easy to trace the growth of a word,
it Is easy to learn what a word means.
The Raleigh News & Observer says:
Our tinltvMual preferences were formerly for
nnuther iltrtionnry.biila 1*-tier ii cipinitibiiu-e with
tho Inter edition of Webster (Hie Internutloiiid)
Ins led us to reyard it as tho most valuable, and
to consider it as the standard as lar i.Sauy one
dictionary should tie so in-repU-ii.
G. it- C. MERRTAM CO., Publishers,
Springfield, Mass., U.S.A.
► OOCHXKyooooooOOOC OOC-CrOOOT <
(302}
Happenings Around Mt. View.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Mountain View, S. C., Dee. 1.—
This country is progressing with the
times as the wheel of progress rolls
around.
B. K. Wilkins, of Cowpens lias
erected a handsome brick building
on the corner fronting inaiu street.
Ho intends to fill the house with
general merchandise in a short time.
Ed Waters has a fine brick mansion
newly completed, within a half mile
of Cowpens. Ed will hardly know
which one of the boys he is when he
find himself reposing in his fine
dwelling of rest.
Thomas Sellers has erected a large
two story house on tho old Mettle
road three miles North of Cowpens,
and will move into it next week.
Capt. John Dev. berry has erected a
good tenant house on his plantation.
Dr. Jerry Marlin had built the ell
part of his house in Cowpens and
moved to town.
William Waters has just completed
the largest and best barn in this
community.
Wedon Humphries has also com
pleted a good barn.
Jas. Oglesby is moving to tho old
homo place of A. S. Waters.
The wood haulers of the Northern
section are giving their mules and
wagons plenty of work hauling wood
to’the.Clifton Mills.
Miss Edith Webber had a quilting
last Wednesday, and a sociable Wed
nesday night. The young folks
seemed to enjoy it very much as it
was the first one this reason. Miss •
Edith is anticipating on making Spar-;
tanburg her home after Christmas. '
Her presence will be missed if she I
goes.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin are liv- j
house 1 PStUirS ,n Chn3t 1Ulrnett S , ^ cst suited for applying paint as it does not dry too
c. ' B. Martin, principle and tast > therefore not likely to scale or peel, and again, there are no
Miss Addio Littlejohn, assistant, lias gnats, Hies or other insects to stick to the paint and present a
got a good school in Cowpens. | bad appearance. We have on hand all kinds of painting materi-
... We „ ha ™ a lar K e f c ! 1001 ul Mt ' hIs for house, wagon or buggy and beg to say to those who intend
jili'TomYluier» l> uml Tlioinan | P aintin K’ Hiat »c ivill give them* written guarantee on all of
Sellars are attending court fbis week , <)U1 ’ paints, namely; 1 bat after being put on three (3) years,
as jurymen. j if our paint is not as ffood as any manufactured, we will paint
John Spence and wife of Gastonia, ! your house free of charge for paint or cost of applying you se-
N. C., are visiting friends and rela- ] ec ting the paint of vour choice. All of our colors are lirst-class
lives around and about Cowpens this l 5 1 . . / . wivis me msi, iaas»,
AUGUSTA LUMBER CO.,
AUGUSTA. GA-
, r <,/ th-
and „ ..
I- Sterling /Irena-
Farms to Rent.
F ARMS to KENT.—Sovoral splendid farms
to rent. Apply to F. G. Stacy.
For Sale.
F OR SALE—lean sellynufinebullding lots
in all parts of tiie city from fifty to five
hundred dollars. James J. Gaffney.
F OR SALE. -Good farm. 232 acres, J miles
from Gaffney, with jrood
dwelling. K. S. Lipscomb.
orchard and
J. E. WEBSTER,
-Attorney Ajt-
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all the courts. Collec
tions a soecialtv.
If You Wish—
to hold your rotton. store it in my
warehouse. No danger from dam
age and ready for^ market at any
time. Chartres are reasonable.
When you have rotton for sale
rail at my ollire. rear of W. <). Llp-
si'omb &• tiros’. Hi):hcst prices pal'd.
I. S. LIPSCOMB,
Fire Insurance Agent.
IVoav is-s tiie Time
A'penc
week.
The Methodists had a reception
last Friday night, 15c admittance in
order to raise money to pay for seats 1
to go in the church.
Mrs. Tommy Waters visited her
mother-in-law Mrs. R. A. Waters
last Saturday night and Sunday.
John Hook, of Clemson College,
has commenced teaching school at
Fair View.
Old Dan.
as we buy only the best.
Who is it Ou this beautiful earth of ours who, sometime dur
ing the year does not need seed of some kind? We have on
hand, in season, garden, field and lawn seed, clovers, wheat,
oats, barley, rye, and in fact yon can obtain any kind of seeds
you may need. Our seed business this year has more than
doubled itself. Those in need of seeds, fruit trees, strawberry
plants or anything in that line call on us. We will take pleasure
i v'Ki.Komo.i^TvorTi’i.KiMt, i ss in showing you our stock. We have just received a lot of cah-
iimM.nior p urt m-Mff Tho'firm nf f'.l 'hk- j hil Z Q seed to he planted now and sot out in open garden in about
h^io.^i’i^uii'/y'ilnR's^Hto^rfiirl'Hliui.'unit'^i'hat weeks, coming in very early next spring—long before our
sitw firm win pay th*« sum of one ni'N- common spring plant ing.
Those needing window glass and putty will find any size
glass here from 8x10x36x44. Odd sizes cut to suit without extra
charge. Wo extend an invitation to all to examine our goods
and prices, and especially do we wish those suffering from head
ache or toothache to come in and get cured free of charge. Our
prescription department is furnished with the purest drugs and
ohemieals and is in charge of a pharmacest often years practical
experience.
DKKD DOLLARS forrm-h mid cwry <•«*<■ of
('aturrh that cimiiot hi'curcil by th<‘ use 1 of
11 AU.’H (' AT A 1(1(11 ('HHK.
FRANK J. niENEV.
Sworn to before me ami suhserlheil In my
presenee, this (ith ilny of December, A. I). ''.•(I.
ska7.. A. W. GLEASON,
f —\ Notary Public.
fVSohl by DniKKlstH, 7.V.
- ——
—Dr. Orr, of Trough, cured I). F.
Winton of an ubcess which two other
physicians had been treating four,
weeks for muscular rheumatism and
pronounced him incurable.
S. B. CRAWLEY & CO.
jfl