Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I I 11 n •—■■ 4 THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. 0., FEBRUARY 4, 1807. W. $i.oo per Year. rUBMftHKI) KVKHV TIIVB8DAY BY FD. H.DeCAMP, - Editor. i'hk I.kpgkr i» not responsible for the view.H of correrpondents. Correspondents who do not contri- beto regular news letters must fur- Meh their nan.o, not for publication, but for identification. \7ritr short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the ofSce by Tuesday. A.11 correspondence should be ad- irosaed to Ed. M. DoCamp. Manager. Obituaries will be published attire cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will bo published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper arc fire cents each. quite a number of South Carolina people, some of them heavily. You mny rest assured that the slick tonguod solicitor Is working for him self when he tolls the rosy story of big profits and no risks to run. No one is going around the country hunt ing up people in order that they may bestow their charity on them. I.ook at it in a commonsenso view. Do you not wait for the destitute to apply to you before you give aid? We venture you do nine times out of ten. How do you know they are des titute unless they or someone tells youT Don’t throw your money in a rat hole. A foreign building and loan association is often a pretty good rat bole. Into Cherokee county and wo will forgive tlic:n for opposing us after we beat them. Wk (itilTney until the subject lias become a joke. Now let some good, patriotic citizen who really has the good of the community at heart Inaugurate a hotel company that will build a really tirst class structure and thus let the farce end in a stern reality. As Others See Us. A correspondent of the People’s Journal, of Plcken, has the following pleasant words .to say concerning GntTney, none of which, however, are j iiavk heard of hojol projects for | the least exaggerating: Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report A CHANGE. The third annual meeting of the stockholders of the Limestone Print ing and Publishing Company was held in the office of Tiik Lkdgkr Thursday, January 21st, at which time the fol lowing board of directors were elected : H. P. Griffith. J. E. Webster, J. A. Carroll, A. N. N\ood, F. G. Stacy, J. Q. Little, R. O. Same, N. H. Little john and Ed. H. DeDamp. The an nual report showed the business of the company to bo in good condition. The meeting then adjourned. On Friday tho directors met and elected the following officers: President, H.P. Griffith; Secretary and Treas urer, W. H. Ross; Business Manager, Ed. II. DeCamp. When the election of an editor was announced Ed. H. DeCamp submitted a proposition to lease the newspaper and plant from the dirce'ort. After a thorough dis cussion of tho subject the proposi tion was accepted. Lnder the terms of the lease the paper now goes into the exclusive control of Mr. DeCamp. who will carry out all contracts of the company and conduct the busi ness for at least one year. There will be no radical change in the policy of the paper. In the fu ture, as in the past, ft will earnestly strive to serve tho whole people in the capacity of a newspaper and it will bo the organ of no man or set of men. If we can succeed in keeping the paper up to the high moral stand ard it has attained we will he satis- lied. The aim will be to treat all sub- j>cts impartially in so far us our ability lies. We shall endeavor n» t to otTond anyone, but we will defend ourselves against any attack others may make upon us. We will aim to work for the upbuilding and advance ment of GaUncy and Cherokee county, and incidently the state and nation. Our aim will be to act as a sentinel f »r the people wo represent and en deavor to bo true and loyal to them, and if wo can hut succeed our highest ambition will have been attained. '""Now is the time to subscriber THE OFFICIAL IN HIS OFFICE. The Lower House would have every county official in his office six days in every week, unless lie was absent on official business. No distinction made Coroner or School Commis sioner or Clerk of court, it is all the same. To his desk lie must go whether there is any business for him to trans act or not. And yet we are told that anjhonored citizen of Cherokee coun>y has said that he would accept mid perform the duties of the office of School Commissioner for one hundred dollars. A man who accepts an office to which he is cillcd thereby makes himself the servant of the peoplt whom he serves. If our legislators, in their wisdom, deem it to be so necessary for the public good that every official should be at his post, it should he made gen eral over the state by not exempting this county or that from tho require ments of the {reposed statute. If the voters of the county are to regu late the pay of their officials, they can as well say how much of their time is required. If paid for their entire time, their'entire time should in some way l o given to discharge the duties of the office. But when a mere pittance is given, how harmful it would be to place every officer of every county on the same procrus- tian bed and make him fit it. 3e the senate will kill the jiid it as to work no r<^.\*e one hundred dollar ONE WAY TO HELP REMEDY IT. Nearly all tho newspapers are rais ing a big racket over the lynchings that have taken place. It is a sub ject that gets along as well if let alone. Our people have begun to dis trust the courts and as justice is gen erally well administered by Judge Lynch the only policy is to “1c ’or roll.”—lloneu rath Chronicle. It is humiliating to have to admit that tho people have gotten to the point where they distrust tho courts, but our contemporary errs when it advises toleration of lynching. Our fair state can never hope to take the stand among civilised nations she is by right entitled to and at the s-iiuc time condole such barbaric practices. Purify the courts and our people will learn to trust them. There can he no better way to pur- fy our courts than by cutting up our large counties into smaller ones so the court dockets can be cleared at each term of court. Wk notk there is somo talk of can didates for this and that position in the new county. Gentlemen it strikes us very forcibly that it would be a good thing to wait until Governor Elierbe signed the bill creating the new county. Ik there are as many good people in New York ns the sensational re ports of the Journal inticate that tin re are had ones, there must be lots of people there. PRESS OPINION. About two hundred honest men came into The Ledger office last year and asked u« to Isend (hem the paper for a while saying they would pay for it. We took them at their word and sent the paper for a year. They never kept their word. Some have neglected to pay through carelessness. Others are expecting us to dun them personally. We have notified each and every one of them through 'the mail. That is all we expect to do. We want them to pay up. They owe us for our labor. But we serve no tice just hero that if they do not pay they cannot owe us another dollar. That is poor consolation to us but its all we can have. Wo never let tho paper go mor« than a year and we never trust a man who does not pay the first dollar he owes us. The ro.:r,iBiMTiKS of Cherokee county remain yet unheralded, in fact now is hut the genesis of what is is to be, anH no man cun predict the revelation. In order that wo may prosper and grow great every citizen should feel it his bondon duty to work with a determination to make it one of the grandest and best counties in the state. Bo honest and true. Inevloate honesty and truthfulness in those around you. We have no room for the laggard and loafer. \\ e do not need him and wc do not want him. Let every man ho up and doing, striving to do some thing that wilt not only help himself, but those around him. If we but re main true to ourselves we can and will he the most prosperous people in all the world. KEEP YOUR MONEY AT HOME. The recent collapse of tho seven Building and Loan Associations of Tennessee which did a thriving busi ness outside of the state shoufd ho a sufficient warning to people to invest their money at home with • people whom they know instead of sending it abroad to unknown parties. The failure of those institutions caught A two million dollar fire in Phila delphia, and various other fires ia*. different cities which are possessed with excellent water works systems and fire departments, but which have caused great losses to the property holders, brings very forcibly to our mind the fact that Gaffney has neither a water works system nor the slightest kind of an apparatus with which to fight fire, and also that our insurance rates are very high. Some day. unless the warning is heeded, there will not remain a vestage, ex cept the charred and blacken ruins, to mark the spot where once stood the most thriving town in tho Piedmont belt. A member of the state legislature has introduced a hill which practi cally prohibits tho sale of cigarettes in this state. It is not the desire of The Ledger to Injure anybody’s bus iness, hut it seems to us that if any one thing on earth needs a prohibiting law that article is the deadly cigar ette. They have been the ruination of as .miny bright minds us anything else, and all because of the poison used in the paper. Let the paper cigar go. ‘ Be charitaRLE to all men.” \Vc do not know that we quote exactly the Divine injunction, hut we would like all our friends to look with a charitable eye upon our friends of White Plains. We must he friends. They must forgive us for forcing them The Views of Our Exchanges on Live Topics of the Day. Our Legislature will immortalize itself if it can succeeed in preventing the carrying of conceal weapons. Put on such u penalty that the viola tors will feel it.—Horry Herald. * * * Representative Kibler’s Latnr Commission bill lias familar ear marks—something similar has been a hobby with a certain politician in this county before the Factory Dem ocratic Club for tho past three cam paigns.—Newberry Observer. * * ’ The Legislature is taking a hand in the fight against the nuisance of vagrant negroes loafing around de pots. We wish the law makers suc cess in the effort to frame a bill that will abate the nuisance, which is a growing one.—Watchman and South ron. * * * The Columbia State Hunks there is merit in the hill to compel county officials to record the fees they re ceive where the fees are their sal aries, and it is right; they are pub lic servants, and the public has a right to know what they are get ting.—Yorkvillo Yoeman. * * * We understand that Mr. Kibler, the author of tho labor commis sioner hill, has received a hundred letters protesting against it and none in favor of it. Kibler would perform a graceful and appropriate art by moving to indefinitely postpone the Kibler bill.—Columbia State. * * * Daily comes the news of more bank failures, and now the condi tion is getting indeed critical. Be fore the election it was a want of confidence which it was asserted would return on the election of Me- Kinely. He was elected and the thing goes on. Mark our predic tions, that these conditions will con tinue till a financial change comes. —Ling’s Mountain Reformer. —. •— We Wouiden’t Object Ourselves. [Spurtnnlturtf Herald.] Since somo New York preachers and papers are afraid the expendi ture of so much money on the Brad ley Martin fancy bill will stir up discontent, wo state lor their ben efit that Mr. Martin can come down in this section and spend all the money he desires without fear of be ing criticised. No one in these parts would object to $250,000 being put in circulation just now. •— Charleston m Expecting. (.Charleston Sun.] The city is fairly teeming with re ports and rumors as to what Gov ernor Elierbe is going to do. You may not see it in the press, hut you can hear almost anything on the streets and the narrators of abso lutely contradictory reports each affirms that he has it absolutely straight. Worthy Officials. [Itapton Guardian] The Legislature lias shown proper conservatism in re-electing those incumbents—judge, superintendents of the penitentiary and directors of that institution—who desired to re tain their positions. They had all shown themselves worthy and capa ble, and it was hut right and proper that they should receive tho endorse- ment'of a re-election. So Say Wc All. [Cleveland StarJ The best time to pay a debt, es pecially a newspaper subscription, is when you have tho money. -A Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot roach tho seat of the di sease. Catarrh is a blood or consti tutional disease, and !n order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrli Cure is taken inter nally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medecine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the host tonics k iown, combined with the best blood purifi ers, acting directly on tho mucous surfaces. Tho perfect combi nation of (lie two Ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. Just twenty-one miles east of Spar tanburg is one of the most progress ive little cities in the state. Gaffney, with her wide, well planned atreots, which are kept in such order as to insure pleasure walking or driving. Well lighted by electricity. One may venture out the darkest night in perfect safety. Telephonic connection is had with Blacksburg, Spartanburg, Clifton, Pacolck and Greenville. The sanitary condition is well cared for by our city fathers. A garbage cart makes regular rounds removing all offensive matter, or that which may create pestilence. A handsome stately hall, just com pleted, stands ready for the first term of the Cherokee court, and is given free for twelve years as a Temple of Justice. Then Gaffney builds a model court house and jail at her own expense. Our merchants are live, wideawake business men, ever ready to aid in building up tho town. Om of the largest cotton mills in tho smte is here, built and controlled mostly by home capital. Its man agement is in the hands of efficient, upwright men. Many car loads of their cotton goods go to New York and other cities each month. Limestone Lime Works, by Carroll it Co., ship immense quantities of good lime in all directions. Two hanking establishments are here, one of which will soon become a National Bank. Our educational facilities are un surpassed. Near by, is the famed Cooper-Limestone Female Insiitute, where young ladies of this and ad joining states are being educated by able teachers. A largo beautiful brick building is tho Gaffney Male and Female Academy, by Profs. M/- Arthur and Sams. The High Scho/1, by Prof. Sarratt, is in a flourishing condition. The Southern Railway is repre sented by Mr. R. M. Gaffney, who has served as agent faithfully, since the establishment of the station in 187d. The spirit of “push along, keep moving” with whole souled clever ness to one in sickness or trouble is characteristic of these people in Gaff ney. The half is not see for yourself. Absolutely pure told, hut come and Scribbler. Howell’s Ferry Happenings. (Correspondence of The Lcdgrer.) Howell’s Ferry, Feb. 1.—The weather for the last lew days lias been cold and very unpleasant, and the water of Broad River has been laden with much ice. The la Grippe is beginning to sub side in our community. There is a flourishing school at the Etta Jane school house with Miss Mamie Lindsay as preceptor. The renters of this section have been moving around in general this year. J. A. M. Estes is one of our hust ling fanners. He follows the old rule —raises his hog and hominy at home. He has several hundred pounds of meat in Ids smoke house, gallons of lard in tho kitchen and good cooks in the house to cook you shorten bis cuits. llis wife says she don’t enjoy reading no paper like she does The Ledger. Some of the hoys of this neighbor hood get a little miffed at the-girls if they don’t plumb the line right square through. Ah, boys! Before your heads gets as white as Sambo’s you’ll know something about trials and tribulations. S. F. Estes has sold his entire cot ton crop at 7 cts. per pound. Sambo. — - —• -«#► Did You Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has been found to he peculiarly adapted to tho relief and cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a won derful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa- tion, Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medi cine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed by its use. Large bottles only fifty cents at DuPre Drug Co.’s Store. Cov/pens Chronicles. (CorrcfiponJcnco of The Ledger.) Cowpens, Feb. l.—T. M. Phillips and wife, of this vicinity, went to Gaffney last Friday and took their four-year old child to have a surgical operation performed on it. It has en largement of the tonclls and would almost suffocate for breath. Mr. Phillips is one of our best farmers. R. C. Thompson is making some now additions to his already hand some dwelling. We was sorry to learn the untimely death of Fred Waters. He was a res ident of our immediate vicinity and came from a good family. He was brought up from Pacolet and buried here-last Saturday. I). 0. Webber, who moved from this neighborhood to Clifton No. 3 not long since, says ho is well pleased with tho change; that the cotton mill is the place for him. We wish him much success. We are having some severe cold weather now and we anxiously await a warm rain to fall and thaw up things. Flaw Picker and “Boh” was in this settlement Saturday. I believe he is waterproof, as only the “pure in heart” would have l aved the colds of Friday and Saturday. By the help of Patty Pace we hope to he able to keep The Ledger read ers well informed of this vicinity. The infant of Jeter and Mrs. Phil lips died last Saturday night. It is supposed hold hives was the cause. Father and mother have the sympa thy of this entire community. Gil Fetchet. Condensed Testimony. Chas. B. Hood, broker and manu facturer’s agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies that Dr. King’s New Discov ery has no equal as a cough remedy. J. 1). Brown, proprietor St. James Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind., testifies that he was cured of a cough of two years’ standing, caused by La Grippe by Dr. King’s New Discovery. B. F. Merrid, BaldwinsviMe, Mass., says that he has used and recommended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, be cause it always cures. Mrs. Hem ming, 222 E. 25th St., Chicago, al ways keeps it at hand and has no fear of croup, because it instantly relieves. Free Trial Bottles at DuPre’s drug store. For Sale 12splendid Mules. 1 Family Horse. 10 Shares Lockhart i'niton Mill Stock. 10 Shares Tucapau Cotton Mill Stock. 3 Shares Uiehland Cotton Mill Stock. 2 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. 50 Shares Limestone Springs Limo Co, stock. The Dr. Holmes 8 room house with fl no gar den. stahles and out. buildings attached. ."> room cottage on Limestone St. :j room cottage on Gaines St. with splendid garden. 2 vacant lots on Gaines St. 4 vacant lots on Factory Hill. 1 splendid farm containing 104 acres 2‘/4 miles from Gaffney. 1 M-aciv farm one mile from Gaffney, t house and ft acres located at Limestone Springs. F ARMS TO RENT.—Several splendid farms to rent. Apply to F. G. Stacy. Insurance! 1 represent none hut the best of Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Companies. Am prepared to furnish Cyclone and Tornado Insurance at moderate cost. Your patronage will be duly appreciated. G. STACY. EUGLEBERG ' RICE HB11ER. The only machine that in one operation, will CLEAN, HULL and POLISH Rough Rice—putting it in merchantable condi tion, ready for table use. SIMPLE AND EASY TO MANAGE. Write for prices and terms ALSO Corn Mills, Saw Mills, i Planing Machines and all kinds of wood-working machinery. TALBOTT and LIDDELL En gines and Boilers on band at FACTORY PRICES. V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, - - s. 0. I Mean to Lead. I Mean to Sell and I Mean to Please You. Look at my price-list; 8 Cans Tomatoes 25c, 3 “ Corn 25c, 3 “ Pie Peaches... .25c, Heavy Syrup Peaches. 10c, Chalmer’s Gelatine per package.. 10c, Gowdeyville Gossip. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Gowdeyville, Feb. 1.—At present the health of this settlement is im- provingexceptMrs. Mahala Pridmore, who has been very low for somo time. She is about eighty-seven years old and ha? a large offspring, even unto the fourth generation. The farmers are looking after the guano sales and wanting to see who will sell the best guano for tho least money. Tho farmers around Skull Shoals aro very well pleased with Wilkins Bros, store at that place, as it saves going to Gaffney for everything they need. They have a good clerk, W. J. Pridmore. Everything is so quiet in this sec tion that a correspondent can’t find anything to write about. As the new county has come to stay so there is no use writing about it. All we can say is to elect good men to the several offices. I think every town ship should be represented and also Gaffney should have her part, and I think Cherokee township in Spartan burg county should be named Morgan Township. Miss Hattie Kendrick has com menced a private school near Spearcs homestead. She has a good school. Old Chib. 20 lbs of Granulated SugaY for 11.00, 25 lbs Brown Sugar. . 1.00. 5 to 8 lbs Coffee 1.00. Other Groceries at propor tionately low prices. Be sure and order your Cot ton* Seed Hulls and Meal before night. T. Davenport. tired ■ in Hood MOTHERS find help in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which gives them pure blood, a good appctiW and new and needed STRENGTH. W. D. ARCHER, TO:x«oi*iai^ artist. Hair-cutting, in the latest styles Shaving and Shampooing at reason, able prices. j£k3f Shop next to J. D. Goude- lock’s store. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 21th of each month; Final Discharge. N OTICE Is hereby jtiveii toall persons con cerned that I will apply .to J. J. Gentry. Probate ,lu<ltfo of Sparlanhurtf county, state of South Carolina, at hlsofflceat Sparlanhurtf court house on Saturday. the20thday of Feb ruary, 1897, for a linal uischurtfe as adminis trator of tlie estate of ItolK'rt Mcl'rnw, de ceased. K. E. Mct’itAW. Adni'r., Gaffney, 8. ('., January 27.18(17, 4(, -o I Am Still Haklng Cabinets at $3.00 per doz. They aro worth more hut it tfives you a chance to save some money while I am making them at that. Hurry up! Don’t tfet left! W. C. GALLAGHER. O. L. Schompeht. Thos. B. Butlf.ji. Soi. 7th Judicial Circuit. U. 8. Com, Wm. McGowan. SCUUMPERT, t BUTLER i 4 i McGOWAH, ATTOUTtf SYM-A'l'-IvZVW. Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Office days at Gaffney, Friday and Satur day of each week. Very careful and prompt attention tfiven to all tmsincss entrusted to us. |3B r ~l , ractice in all the courts. A. L. HAMMETT, MERCHANDISE BROKER, GAFFNEY, S. C. Correspondence Solicited. Office Over A. J. Settiemyer. If You Wish^* to hold your cotton, store It In my warehouse. No danucr from dam- qtfP and ready for market at any time Chartfes are reasonable. When you havo cotton for sale call at my ofllcc. rear of W. O. Lip- seomb & Bros'. Ultfhcst prices paid. R. S. LIPSCOMB, Fire Insurance Agent. Shingles! • Shingles I DRESSED LUMBER ! Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Mouldings, and AH Kinds of Building Materials, For Sale at Lowest Cash Prices. No charge will ho made*for infor mation as to amonnf required for building. Call on BAKER!