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I THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JULY JO, 1896. LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. [The Ledger invites correspon dence concerning mills and mill em ployes. etc. We reserve the right to reject any manuscripts sent us and in no case will any article that may be construed as an attack on em ployee or employer be published.] [Southern and Western Textile Excelxlor*] The Raleigh (N. C.) Hosiery Yarn Mills are on two-thirds time. W. E. Redd, formerly of King’s Mtn., X. 0., has gone to Rock Hill, fl. C. The Salisbury (N. C.) Cotton Mill, this week declared their usual 2 per cent, quartily dividend. K. T. Trammell, who has been carding for some time in Lando, S. C., has gone to Anderson, S. O. W. 1*. Young of Providence, R. I., is starting up the machinery in the new Bamberg (S. C.) Knitting Mill. The Wadesboro (X. C.) Cotton Mills resume work on July 27, after a two weeks shutdown for r; pairs. Thos. M. Ashworth has given up his position at Burlington, X. C., to take charge of the spinning at the new Henderson (X. C.) Cotton Mills. Frank Kale is overseer of the card ing and spinning at Buffalo Cotton Mills, Concord, X.JC., in daytime. He is from Pineviile, X. C. Ed. His- lop has the same place at night. Work was resumed at all the Odell Mills, Concord, N. C., Monday morn ing except No. 3. The engine at this mill was being overhauled and did not start til! Wednesday morn ing. A. M. Crowder, Supt. of the Ada Cotton Mill, Charlotte, will sever his connection with said company on the loth of August to take charge of the Henderson (X. C.) Cotton Mill. The Manchester Cotton Mill, near Fayetteville, X. C., was put up at auction Monday and sold to W. H. Britton, agent, on a bid of $1U over incumbrances. The incumbrances amount to The Langley Mfg., Co., Langley, 8 C., put through their machinery 310,000 lbs, of stock in two weeks which produced 1,000,000 yards of goods for export, and still the goods are woven well. A cur load of bag machinery has been received by the Odell Mfg., Co., Concord, X. C., where it will be put in operation at once. This is the machinery formerly used by the Golden Mfg., Co., of Durham. The Davis Foundry and Machine Works, Rome, Ga., has received the contract to put water wheels in both the Monbo (X. C.) Cotton Mill and the Xational Mfg., Co., mill, Hall’s Mills, Montgomery county, N. C. It is reported that the following textile mills will add some machin ery : Springfield Cotton Mill, Laurel Hill, X. C.; Bowen, Jewell A Co., Jewell A Co., Jewells, Ga.; South Carolina Braiding Co., of Cheraw, 8. C., is to add 1,500 spindles to spin yam is for their braid making ma chinery. Hon. Samuel Dibble, who is pres ident of the new Enterprise Cotton Mills, Orangeburg. 8. C., has gone on North after making a tour inspect ing cotton mills in North Carolina. He wishes to inspect machinery and get all the whys and wherefores in cotton manufacturing for the mill they are building, in which it is proposed to make fine goods. The Aiken Mfg., Co., Bath, 8. C., has furnisl ed their mill with the American Machine Company’s cards and drawings throughout, 12,000 spindles and 412 Mason looms, through which are woven 64x04 sheeting. The mill is three stories high and built in modern style. Mr. Lockie, carder; W. R. Coggins, spin ner; John Timmerman, weaver; and Joel Smith, Supt. J. M. Beaty, Sec.-Treas. of the Fairfield Cotton mills. Winnsboro, 8. C., now building, is reported to be investigating machinery for con verting drill goods Into shoe linings. The newsra, or report goes on to say that he w. * 1 * * ' b did a special factory for this purpose, all of which makes a pretty newspaper story indeed. We imagine all that there is in it is that t^e Fairfield Cotton Mills will probably weave drills, etc., that are adapted for use as shoe linings. The Langley Mfg., Co., Langley, 8. C., have recently added to their capacity 84 cards and 12,000 49 D spindles, so that now that mill contains 43,000 spindles, and 1294 looms, 800 of which are weaving goods for export. They have yet to fill their 5,000 bale order for China, 1,200 bales to pack. L. CL Eubanks is carder, J. T. Moreland, spinner; S. W. Anderson, weaver; O. K. Gull- f'oyle, cloth room, J.C. Fowler, M. M., and W. H. Hubert, engineer. A. T. Hmith is 8upt.. and is the son |of Joel 8mith, the well-known sup- ferintendent of the John 1*. King cot- >n mill, Augusta, Ga. —— - - Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy cures colds, croup and whoopirg cough. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For tale by Dul’re Drug Co. CURLY BILL ON FLAW PICKER. Tells What a Dreadful End is in Store for Him. (Correspondence of The Lidser.) Allgood, 8. C., July 27.—R. M. Jolly was in this community last week bunting dilinquent road bands. Ho is a strong advocate of our new county. Ixx k out Flaw Bicker, here 1 come with my gilt-edge sap-head and plenty of medicine. I have likewise played with the eels, eat fresh oysters and drank doodle soup, consequently I am slick enough to tackle anything that ever marked the surface of the coaling ground. I am glad to know that you are neither scared nor ashamed to turn your breech-loading double-back-action fowl piece loose on me, for 1 always did love to listen at katydids and crickets. Go it Bro. Flaw ! You have got a tongue equal to old aunt Agg Brice. She out talked the Witch of Endor and sat a snare to catch the devil. I have often beard people ask, “Who is old Flaw?” “Where did he come from?” Is’nt be a honey?” He aggravates the good women about how they make up their little calico, percal and apron stuff, then be tries to baffle the skill and ability of all the correspondents of The Ledger. He quotes scripture, preaches ser mons, and from first impulse one would think that be was a divine writer inspired with the knowledge of God, but if you will watch him right closely you will find that he started his wild career while the wind was coming from the East, which always indicates bad luck. Then again, he tries to compare himself to a nice lit- j tie quaint chameleon flower, hut this 1 he can never do, for while the chame leon has many rich, rare and racy colors, old Flaw has only one—a greenish tint, and will remain with him until the last rising and sitting of the sun ; but I don’t think any less of him for that for he is just as much prone to his weak judgement and coaling ground instinct us a cony is to lurk in the mountains. If he had waited till the wind shifted and came from the north-west, then he would have been considered the Father of his country' and a ruler over all na tions, but as it is, he is happy any way, for his sole object in life is to get something to eat and a chance to i go to sleep. His favorite amusement i is to get his banjo and go to u church festival and brandish his pewter razor : or u two dollar pistol and make him self known as Rabbi, Rubbi, Abbi Father—King of the Coaling Ground Medea and Bersians. He has a great estimation of him self and wants to be highly exalted. Of course that is all right as far as it goes, but God Almighty says in his Divine Word, “be not wise in your own conceit lest you stand In the way of publicans and sinners.” He also says that we should watch as well as pray and beware of false prophets, hypocrits and flaw pickers. The ways of the righteous remain- eth forever, but the reign of a false pretender is black and ot short dura tion; consequently, old Flaw’s latest sun is sinking fast, his race is nearly run, his best days all have nearly passed, his triumphs have begun and he is doomed to die the ignominious death of a poor sinstrickeu ungodly little fidget. May God comedown in His infinite mercy and snatch his sin-poluted feet out of the miring clay and place them on the rock of eternal ages and show him the slip pery ground upon which he stands before it is finally and eternally too late; but oh! I imagine that I can see the death messenger come to The Ledger office and seize upon the vitals of this coaling ground monster and find him wholly unprepared to meet the summons; he asks permis sion to go by home and bid farewell to his d^ar wife and sweet little Bick ers, but his eyes are set in their clouded sockets and he dies upon the spot, his soul is carried to the judge ment bar of God, rejected and drag ged down to Dives by a pair of hell hounds; old Satan hears them com ing and reaches up and gets his tom- walkers and tambourine and plays a tune for the pups to drag him over into the gulf of hot lead and lava and lot him take a temporary bath and prepare for the furnace; then old Flaw says, “great God! hallucina tion! prediction of the Seventh Sis ter; surely, surely, this is awful.” Now Cousin Flaw, knowing full- well that there are a goodly number of young ladies who would be glad for the above story to come to pass, but I am a boy who never holds hatred nor malice against anyone, so if you are ever so lucky as to escape the firy furnace and get hack home to Mrs. Bicker I will extend to you a welcome hand and kindly invite you to come up into the Algood section and take a view of the second Christ and see the great American gorilla nip coaling ground boys in the bud. You can also let your milk set next time until the cream rises for I am just as fond of butter as I am of milk. Yours in Christ, Curly Bill. The Ideal Panacea. James L. Francis, Alderman, Chi cago, says: “I regard Dr. King’s New Discovery as an Ideal Bunacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Com plaints. having used it in my family I for the last five years, to the exclus ion of physician’s prescriptions or other preparations.” Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk. Iowa, wiites : “I have been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for •t0 years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial, or that gave me such sneedy relief as Dr. King’s New Discovery,” Try this Ideal Cough Remedy now. Trial bottles free at store of, Dul’re Drug Co. Clifton Chronicles. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Clifton, July 27.—Rev. C. E. Rob ertson, of Gaffney City, has been con ducting a very Interesting meeting here. Mr. Robertson is an able preacher and possesses an effective delivery. His sermons are always logical, forceful and impressive. He is doing a good work at this place. On yesterday the No. 1 Sunday school met for the purpose of elect ing a superintendent, their action resulting in the selection of Dr. O. G. Falls. This is a wise selection, as Dr. Falls has several times in the past filled the position with crediffto him self and the school. He is an inde fatigable worker and possesses in a rare degree the peculiar tact and ability necessary to manage and at tract the little folks. We sincerely regret the departure of Mr. Henry Cash and family for .Spartanburg. They will he very much missed in this community. Mention has previously been made in The Ledger of the death of our young friend, Henry Bates. He was of a loving and gentle disposition, and everyone was his friend. Claud M. Tolleson, formerly of Gaffney, and recently of Clifton, has accepted a responsible position with the Hill & Morgan Co., of Spartan burg. Claud is a very efficient sales man and a corttous, pleasant gentle man. T. L. Shippy has recently returned from a visit to Greenville. Mrs..!. H. Sloan and little daugh ter, Nannie Boe, have returned from a pleasant stay at Cherokee Springs. Miss Carrie Ott. of St. Matthews, is visiting the family of W. T. Brown, of this place. Maj. O. T. Lipscomb has recently placed a beautiful boat on the lake here. We cannot recall the names of the craft just now, hut it is so ne ttling rather unusual and quite ap propriate. The many friends of the gallant major often avail themselves of his kind invitations to glide over the glassy bosom of the beautiful waters of Clifton lake, and these bright moonlight nights are vividly suggestive of Byron’s lines— "’TIs sweet to hear at inhlniKhl on the blue and moonlit <|eei> The souk and oar or Adrian's gondolier, ly distance mellowed, o’er the waters sweep.” Messrs. J. Wallace Carroll and Mil- son C. Lancaster were elected assist ant superintemlant and secretary of the Sunday school. Both are emi nently qualified for the position. Seaton. Howells Happenings. (Correspondence ot Tne Ledger.) Howells Ferry. July 20.—The corn crop was much damaged by the recent storm, hut the cotton crop is not. The county chaingang have taken I the bridge out of the ertek that fell in about two weeks ago. The bridge will be rebuilt shortly by Messrs. King and Webber, I am told. Squire J. L. Strain sent the chain- gang team another hand last week, and more will he sent if Bncle Jeff gets hold of them. Mrs. Laura Estes is one of the first I of this neighborhood to have sweet potatoes. She has a fine orchard wit h all the toothsome fruit that man could desire. We wish The Ledger would visit this good woman and her family and we assure you a good time. With profound regret the news reached here that Johnnie Estes, of Bolts Station, Ark., was dead. He has been an invalid for many years, but we hope he has gone where sick ness is never known. Chas. Roberts, col., has lost two fine milch cows in (he last two weeks. He thinks it is from the cows eating the grass that was overflown by the creek. I told him to try Flaw’s remedy for hollow horn, hut he said one had no horns. Samko. Meeting at Draytonville. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Draytonville, July 27.—Our pas tor, Bro. White began a meeting at this place Saturday July 18th, which continued until Friday following. It is the best meeting, to my opinion, in the history of the church. The members are revived, backsliders re claimed and sinners converted to God. We are not sure of just the number convt rted, but there were about fifteen convertions beside the backsliders. Our pastor was aided by Rev. Mr. Felment. of Pacolet Mills, and Rev. B. G. Hopper, of Gaffney. Both these brethren showed themselves approved of God. They did some as good preaching us it has been my pleasure to listen to. We were sorry to part with them, and we hope God’s blessings will be theirs wherever they go. A Listener. — • — What’s In the Sack? Cross Road Chronicles. (Correspondence of The ledger.) Cross Roads. July 22.—The Ledger need not blush at the following com pliment in recognition of its excel lency. It comes from u gentleman of Texas, who is abundantly qualified to judge. In a communication just received he says: “In answer to your last letter I will say I receive The Ledger regularly and I want it in my house so long as I stay in Texas if it continues to he so useful and valuable a paper. I can hear from the most of my relatives and old comrades around about Gaffney when 1 get The Ledger.” Rev. It. J. Tate tilled his appoint ment at Grassy pond Saturday and Sunday, (^uite a large congregation assembled on Sunday to hear him ex pound the gospel. The meeting will continue several days if the peoplt turu out and help carry on the meet ing. Several young boys gave their hands on Sunday, asking the prayers of the Christians to he in their be half. Every able bodied man pays $1 poll tax for the purpose of maintain ing the public schools, and every body should take the advantage of the school and get the good of their money. They should send their children to school every day possible while free school is going on. They should not get the idea in their heads t hat the school is short and the children wouldn’t learn much and that it wouldn’t pay them for go ing. Barents must recollect that the best educated man in the world got his education by littles, at.d if a child goes to school one day and learns to spell six words or learns to rend one paragraph he will not have that to learn next day. If a child goes to school four and five months in the year, from six to twenty-one years, that person will have a good common school education. I have a school of forty-one scholars ami there are other children t hat ought to he come- ing to school every day No man should keep his children at home because he can’t dress them as fine ns some of his neighbors’ children. Fine clothes will not strengthen the mind. “One man is as good as an other if not a little better,” as the Irishman says. St one child is ns good as another if it will act as well as the other. Acutn Stacy arrived from Clemson College last Friday and is now leach ing school at Macedonia. Miss Antoinette Blanton com menced teaching school at the Robbs school house last Monday. a. —— — -«•«- •— • • —— Clifton Chat. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Algood, S. O., July 21.—Rev. R. J. Tutu filled his last regular appoint ment at Macedonia with his usual punctuality. Married on July 12th at the resi dence of the bride’s father, by Rev. R. J. Tate, Mr. William J. Cox, of Spartanburg, and Miss Roxana Gard ner, of this place. After the cere mony was performed the happy couple, followed by their many friends, repaired to the dining room where a most bountiful repast had been prepared entirely regardless of expense, and did eat and all were filled to running over. The frag ments I hut remained after all had eaten were many. Well, it knocked the hind sights completely off of that 4th of July picnic. Champ Cooper killed a blue crane a few pays ago which measured 5 feet G4 inches from tip to tip of its wings and five feet seven inches from its toes to the end of its hill. Crops are as fine as mortal man could wish them to he. Colton is as large as it usually gets. J. J. C. Ezell, candidate for school commissioner, was in this part of the moral vineyard recently seeking whom he might deceive, lie wants an office and therefore must have your votes in order to get it. Miss Anna Fowler, of Greenville, S. C., is visiting relatives hero. Miss Monia Chapman, of Clifton, who has been visiting friends here for some time, has returned home. Wonder if any of the boys cried. Mrs. Cordelia Huskey, of Spartan burg, is visiting relatives here this week. J. Gardner entered the pedagogic fraternity at Mountain View Monday COHNCHACKER. P ECULIAR in combination, pro portion and preparation of ingredi ents, Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses great cuBativo value. 4 You should TRY IT» DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new 8toro , In office from 1st to 24th of each mouth; An exchange tells a story of a boy who went to market with a sack of rabbits and lingered around town all day. When asked by his mother j why he had not sold the rabbits, he I said no one had asked what was in 1 the sack. How many merchants are i like this boy? They have plenty of goods for sale, but fail to tell the people “what is in the sack.” If you expect to sell goods in this day and age of the world you must open your sack and keep shouting the merits of your stock in trade.—Exchange. “A stich in time.”—A dose of Ayer’s Bills has saved many a lit of sickness; but when a remedy does not happen to be at hand slight ail ments are liable to be neglected, and the result, frequently, is serious ill ness: therefore always bo supplied with Ayer’s Bills, f carry a full line of Shoes, Hats, Dry Hoods, Notions, Shelf Hardware and Grocer ies, all at rock bottom prices. Shoes and Hats especially '•heap. See my prices before buying. Respect fully yours, I. M. PEELER, GANGER CURED -AND A- LIFE SAVED By the Persistent Use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla “I was troubled for years with a sore on my knee, which several physicians, who treated me, eallrd a eaneer, assuring me that nothing could Ite done to save my life. As a last resort, I was induced to try Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and, after tak ing a number of bottles, the sore Cotton Gins! COMBLETE GINNING SYSTEMS CONTRACTED FOR WITH Thomas Elevator. Lint Flue, Cotton, Condenser, Self-Backing Revolving Box, Steam Cylinder Bresses and all improvements for an up-to- date 1896 ginnery. Buy no other system until you Get Prices on the “Thomas." ICn^inew, I Joilei'ts, IVI ills?*, Csaiio IVlillts. Kieo Xlille*, Oi'iwL IVI illt-». WRITE FOR PRICES V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. began to disappear and my general health improve. I persisted in this treatment, until the sore was en tirely healed. 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