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0 THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 2C, 181>7. LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ! 1 * £* a* OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. North r.ni South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements anti their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. [' •• 1 :m 1 AYnI'.tii Textile Exeelslor l A ‘■ V Bu zht e has been promoted to - ’l l hut <1 iu carding at Colum i»: :| M ns. r * ^ Ti< - o 1 :a> gone from Felzer. S. (’.._ '■ 1 ’ l :k*c epted a position in Mill V, 1- , < iiftoi . S. C. yCiemcnt s bus left Newberry, S . 1 > UCI •ept a job of loom fixing ! at ; M.i-im :is Mills, Xew Orleans. j; F. J. Murdock, the well- i kilo A 11 Epist opal minister and cot* ton n:. .! man of .Salisbury, X. C. lias j af'- : J *• V i. M* : t* Spur! i nourg (S. C.) Knitling ; Mi , .n tii. i r proDosvd enlargement, 1 :tiv a; king of adding a dye house | (qu • V, \ Red i bus been assistant j ►. . f the L-. xtng'on (!$. C.) Mfg. Ou. ) / ! in; pas t five years and lias been vi r. -.1 .'•cc*r!*f il. v » t . Fio\( , over.-vor of spinning at .1 ::i i.'Ki Mills. Columbia, S. C., j* t ii did: ite for mayor of Xew Brook! ir. i, S. C. ) * i -it I! ids 11 iinilton has gone from c:.< -1 ** r, S. C. , to take a position as 1 • V V* l -i- of spinning for the Foe Mfg. Co. HI ioven % ilie, S. C. 8 apt . /,. T. McKinney, of Trion F.iv l of y, Ga., has returned to his du- t o*- !>f er >;;e nding a few days at the ln*u !th resort. Aiken, S. C. r j • IH* \..wherry (S. C.) Cotton Mill Mill r. anvil on Nth inst. to repair en- Bti*o i e-s seems to he booming w.Ih lliis mill, plenty of orders ahead. .!.<•. dole. formerly with the IJrookside Mills at Knoxville, Tenn., lias accepted a position as slasher ’• ndor Aitn tiie 1'ucolet (rt. C.) Mfy. Co. • M. < Mildl" - nndson, formerly loom hxv*r in tiie IJrookside Mills at Knox- \ i.i,*, has accepted a similar I ••iiion in the Asheville (X. C.) Cot- !*»•* Mills. (larwood has severed his con- t fetion as carder with the Uatnhcr^ (S ('.) Cotton Mill and has accepted a like position with tiie Cordele Mf^. Co., Cordele (Ja. The Chatham Mf^. Co., Elkin, X. < have designed and woven their patterns and sent them oil for inspec tion and selection. It is reported that tlie styles were pretty. The Charleston (S. C.) Bagging Factory caught lire Tuesday morning, tut the blaze was soon extinguished ty the cily tire department. Only a soi-U amount of jute stock was de stroyed. Supt. I’. II. Phillips, of the Wades- boro Cotton Mill, W’udesboro, X. C., i*e| orts that tne machinery in his :i pi j s u || engaged, and that things all along this line is going smoothy and satisfactory. Supt. Chus. Iceman of the McColl (S. C.) Mig. Co. writes us that he has . mployed .Ino. 1>. Arnold as spinner, am] 0. K. James and J. V'. JJridgers, as second hands in spinning. All three are from Charlotte. The Roanoke Rapids Power Co., Weldon, N.C.. having gottou the Itoanuke Mill Co. and the United In dustrial Co. well started with their luctories on theircanal there, are now airranging for another knitting mill. The 1). A. TompkinsCo., Charlotte, is installing an electric plant for the C mton Mfg. Co., Cherryville, X. C. Tin* plant will be a duplicate of the one installed In the Cherryville Co.’s mill about two years ago by the same company. II. IJ. Setzler, formerly of the Reau- nnint Mills, has built a beautiful home on the heights of Xew IJrook- lur.d, S. C., bv Columbia, but it is believed that liis manufacturing in terests will he at Charleston, S. C., in the near future. S. IJ. Tanner. Kec. and Treas. of the Henrietta (X. C.) Cotton Mills has bought some of the famous Geor gia cotton seed described a few months ago in the Textile Excelsior, nod will plant them near the mill. He paid ij*- for 2‘Mj of the seed. The cotton factory of Morgan <fc Cochran, at Double Shoals, Cleve land county. X.C.. shut down for three days this week to put in 18 new cards. This will increase the capacity of the mill and make it even more protitable than it has been heretofore. They manufacture car pet warps. The Dallas Cotton Mfg. Co.. Dallas. X. C., has added 50 additional Lowell looms, that will bring up that com pany’s weaving capacity to 110 looms, whereon will be woven 41x14 sheet ings «0 inches wide. The company alio ordered 140 reeds from the Southern Card Clothing (Jo.. Char lotte. E. L. Wilson is Sec. and Treas. J{. E. Rates has changed from Clif ton. K. C., to Spartanburg; J. L. Rodgers from Laurens, S. C., to Pel- zer S. C., ; D N. Kirby from Pucolet, S. C., to Newberry, S. C. ; J. B. Meat-hum from Pucolet, S. C.. to Union, S. C.. ; L. J. Curlee from (Jrowiboro, X. C., to Concord. James Cunningham, formerly over* teat it the carding department at Lockhart Shoals Cotton Mills, Lock- hurt. S. C.. but is now at Millfort Cot ton Mill learning all the nice points of the cotton manufacturing business, sous to prepare bimseifjto the tak ing a superiutendey of a cotton mill when the opportunity to do so comes bis way. A strange and melodious sound chimed in the noise of the evening | whistles Wednesday. It was that of the new cotton factory, blown for tiie lir.-t time. It lias a tone not ah its own, but much like the sonorous music of the steamboat whistle as it makes its way through the fog on j some of our western rivers. May it prove a j leasant procusor of prosper ity and progress for our town, says tiie Kings Mt. (X. C.) Reformer. John (Jilligan. .Supt. of the Mill- fort Cotton Mills. Fort Mill, 8. C., has been troubled lately with blood poisoning in one of his hands, caused by a scratch lie received by a copper rivet while fixing one of the bron 1 belts in the mill. Mr. Gilligan paid i a visit to Charlotte this week for the i purpose of getting a 1-inch main ' shaft, straightened. Thus his mil! | has been stopped one day on account of the accident. Mr. Gilligan re ports that all his machinery is run ning night and day, and his looms | driving away upon domestigs and ducking. The Cordage Co.’s mill at Xew Lon don, X. C., has been sold to W. A. Tucker of Brooklyn, X. V. The p_ jerty was sold by the directors to ! satisfy the claims against it. amount- ; itig to ifN.OOO. By this transaction. ; the stockholders lose every dollar that was paid in the concern. Sever al of the directors of the defunct | mill, at Salisbury and elsewhere, | have lately made assignments to cover the losses entailed upon them. And it is also reported that Mr. Tucker will immediately put in his new plant a goodly supply of new machinery, and thereafter start up the concern in full blast. —• -»•»- . Points from Willie. (Correspondence cf The Ledger.) Wiu.ie, S. C., April 19.—I want to say in regard to the Wilkinsville Cor respondent’s suggestion of abandon ing die narrow tire and adopting the broad tire for wagons, that I don’t think the plan altogether practica ble. In the first place I think that it would be about as cheap, if not cheaper, to macadamise the roads than it would ho to change to 1 the broad tin*. While it would be a pretty good thing for wheel-wrights, it would be a very heavy tax upon those who own wagons to make the change—in fact it would be so heavy that there would be a great many who own wagons that could not make the change, and then, a law or regu lation requiring the use of the broad tire would not tie binding only upon the citizens of our own State or coun ty, consequently, we could not pre vent the North Carolina wagons from traveling and cutting up our roads. However, were such a thing as the adoption of the broad tire, as “B” suggest, possible, it would certainly insure for us good roads, because when the roads got very soft and muddy like they have been for the past few months, we could not travel them at all with the broad-tired wa gons. We would simply have to hold up until they dried out a little. While the broad tire is admirably adapted for travel in sand or still mud, it would. I think, be almost impossible for a team to draw a loud on a broad tired wagon through soft mud. But the enactment of any law or regulation in regard to what kind of wagons people shall use, is entire ly unnecessary. Let “B” or any one else, try ..the broad tire, and if it proves a success, his neighbors will very readily take it up. But wouldn’t a buggy with a six inch tire bu a daisy? No, we have|plenty of road laws. What we.need^most now are men of competency to superintend the work ing of cur roads. It would cost from eight to ten dollars per wagon to change to the broad tire, and that amount of money put on the roads in the proper manner, would make it entirely unnecessary to change the width of the tires. Wo havn’t got any potatoes of this years’ raising, but we have plenty of “poke salad.” By the way. we would be glad to have a few of “Deter Row land’s” very early potatoes to plant another year. Mr. William Keller, of Clarence, and Miss Mattie Jenkins, were joined in wedlock last Sunday. This being Mr. Keller’s second venture upon the matrimorial sea, who says that mar riage is a failure? The United States Deputy Mar shals captured three men and two stills just above here last week. Some of our farmers began to plant cotton seed the iOth instant, and they are now getting well underway in planting. They certainly got in a full week’s ploughing last week. The March planting of corn in this section is almost a complete failure, and will have to be planted over. It germanated, but owing to the heavy rains the soil is run together so close ly that it could not, or did not come up. JA/Kt'S. Two years ago R. J. Warren, a druggist at 1‘leasant Brook, X. Y., bought a small supply of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. He sums up the result as follows: “At that time the goods were unknown in this sec tion ; to-day Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is a household word.” It is the same in hundreds of communities Whercever the good qualities of Chamberlain’s Cough remedy become known the people will have nothing else. For sale by Dul’re Drug Com pany. An Appeal. Mr. Editor:—I want so cull atten tion to the Library and Literary Club organized litre some m< nths since for the purpose of stimulating a desire for reading and for the promotion of literary, musical and social inclina tions of our citizens. Such an or ganization is conducive of the great est good to those who will use a litth* perseverance and industry in an en deavor to reap some benefit from the opportunity alTorded by use of well selected books and participation in the interesting programmes arranged lor slated meeting. Suivly such an association will tend to broaden, ele vate and improve ail who avail them selves of tiie advantages to be obtained here by the expenditure of the slight est energy and *1 nominal sum of mon ey. only a few cents per month. Oar citizens generally do not manifest suliicient interest in tiie club, and tb*- objeet of this article is to appeal to our friends to become more concerned in its growth and to work for its suc cess. We need more members. There are many in our enterprising city wliocan largely aid us in making the meetings very attractive, exceed ingly pleasant and profitable, and a cordial welcome awaits all who wisli to attend and will subscribe to the few regulations in vogue. The principal of the Gallney Mule mid Female Seminary has generously placed at our disposal a suitable room in the school building and the same lias been neatly furnished and admir ably serves the purposes of tin* dub. A meeting has been called for Thurs day night, the 22nd inst. Let the merchants allow their clerks to come, f ir in order to promote the symmet rical development of our towii we must combine business, literature and social intercourse. Citizkn. Kind Words. Would our rulers know work is the watchword. Work is the compass that we must look to if we are guided to success. Our own personal work that duty demands of us should be performed without delay, both public and private. Idleness and frivolity should be ruled out. No place should be found for it gin the life of any man. Know that opportunity is a swift horse that runs abreast with time and tide. He lias a long and powerful mane by which you can lay hold and mount as he comes, hut his tail is cut short so there is no possi ble chance to mount if you let him pass. Would we find in Tmk Lkdgkk a county paper as hold and fearless, as true and patriotic, as faithful and untireing, as equitable and selfsacri- liciry as when it mounted the oppor- tunity and gu;e us the unity and co operation that held up our hand un til the great seal of the State had made indellible the words “Cherokee county.” Then dear ollicers and brother citizens let us not in return hut in continuation of that sumo up lifting spirit lay hold of the opportu nity and do for ourselves that which Tun Lkdgkk will ever strive to do. Make Tub Lkdgkk the medium of success and may it soon have the hon or of recording Cherokee the banner county of the State. Now fellow- citizens let us hold up Tub Lkdgkk’s hand until it writes for Cherokee county, “success on the top round.” We have the financial ability and we have unity enough among us to jus tify such an ellort. We cannot sur render the hope of keeping abreast with our sister counties. We cannot dare to see our children seek advan tages elsewhere that are in our power for them te enjoy at home. GLEANOB. ETTA'JANE ETCHINGS. Limestone Township I. S. S. Convention The Limestone Township Interde nominational Sunday School Conven tion will be held at the First Baptist church, Gaffney. 8. C., Sunday, May 2:{rd, 1897, commencing at 10 A. M. Pkogkammk. Song Services. Organization und Election of officers Appointment of Committees. Reports from Sunday Sehoois. Song. 1. The best method of Bible Study? Rev. A. 1). Davidson. Beaver Dam. Cupt. It. O Sams, Gaffney. 2. The duties of a Christian citizen, Rev. J. D. Crout, Gaffney, Rev. H. C. Hickson, Providence. U. How can we train the young peo ple to Le most helpful in the Church? Prof. W. F. McArthur, Gaffney. J. S. Harris, Grassy Pond. Intermission two hours. Akteknoo.v Session*. Opening Exercises. 1. The best method to infuse the spirit of Mission in the Sunday School ? W. T. Horton, Maud. Rev. B. P. Robertson, Gaffney. Song. 5. The duty of parents in connection with the Sunday School? J. Y. L. McCraw, Gaffney. II. P. Griffith. Gaffney. Song. (Question Bor. Report of Committees. Closing Exercises. All Sunday Schools in Townships are requested to send delegates. W. T. Thompson, Sec’ry. W. F. M< Ahtiiuk, Pres’fc. Mrs. A. Inven, residing at 720 Henry St., Alton, 111., suffered with sciatic rheumatism for over eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using various remedies recommended by friends, and was treated by the physicians, but received no relief. She then used one and a half bottles of Cham berlain’s Pain Balm, which affected a complete care. This is published at her request, us she wants others similarly afflicted to know what cured her. Tiie 25 and 50 cents sizes for sale by DuPro Drug Company. Items of Interest from Lower Cherokee. Terssly Told. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, April 19.—“Personne” deserves our thunks for his letter lust week. Let us hear from you again, brother. Rev. Mr. Thomason preached an excellent sermon at Abingdon Creek, yesterday. His text \v is the last six verses of the 15;h chapter of 1st Corinthians. The Lord’s supp r was celebrated at the conclusion of the service. Mrs. Polly Clary had u severe chill at the church yesterday. M iss Ji nnie Kerr is qu’te sick, and has been for several days. .Some of our neighbors went to the comity scat last Saturday. They re port the roads in an awful rough con dition. The township pension board met at T. M. Littlejohn’s store iu?t Sat urday, P. S. Webber was elected Chairman. The communion meeting comes off at Salem, May 2nd. Euaiiiei'ft are planting corn and cot ton seed tiiis week. If a halter rein is five feet long what length of rope must be attached to it to permit a horse to graze over 2.1 acres of land? Our people made use of Good Fri day in ploughing garden vegetables and field crops. Mrs. J. L. S. is u successful hand at raising red pep per—something which only high- tempered people can work with suc cessfully. Mike Sellers was down to see us one day last week. He says that land, especially old-field pines, when cleared, ought not to be worked the first year. “The roots” he says, “will rot in that time, and that adds wonderfully to its productions when cultivated.” The Thomson mills only runs three days in the week now. J. G. Garner is miller. It grinds Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. I received some friendly letters from the west in which The Lkdgkk gets all the praise for giving home news to that far off section. There is hardly a person in that section but has some dear relative far, far away, who would be glad to see a paper from home. For giving the home news none but The Lkdgkk and Head light. Hardly a section in their re spective counties but has u corres pondent. Miss Lottie Inman and Jesse Strain took a turn at visiting last week. Next week J. L. Strain will open a school one night in the week to give lessons in arithmetic to the men and boys who wish to study it. We will soon need rain for the wheat, oats and hard land. The rains of two weeks ago com pletely destroyed the terracing in some places and virtually ruined the lands, hut it didn’t effect those of the Fowler Brothers. The terraces on their lands remind me of the breast works around Richmond—both in size and engineering skill. Our new county government, it seems, is in a bad condition just now. We have no where to send our chain- gang recruits unless it be to the old county. A great many papers have been waiting for the Clerk to record, and every thing is topsy-turvy for the time being at least—we will get started oil soon. Our public roads are wonderfully in need of work, and the Supervisor needs to begin at once, if ho lias any thing to begin with. With pleasure I note that Gaffney has a new acquisition to its legal fra ternity in the persons of new Attor neys at Law, who have east their lot amongst us. Gentlemen, we wel come, but like the Doctors, hope we will have no need of your services. You will find however, lire-side law yers in this county, whose opinions on legal matters are much more en titled to consideration (in their own estimation,) than yours, or even that of the Supreme Court. We are glad that the corps of “legal bigots” are in a woeful minority. And now let me give you a little bit of “plougb- Imndie” advice, for which I make no charge—“when you find that your client is really in the wrong, advise him to compromise his case on the very best terms lie can got.” If you ScrofulaSores Health Was Greatly Impaired, But Hood's Sarsaparilla Built It Up- Sores Have All Disappeared. “I \vn» troubled with eruptions on my face, which appeared like scrofula. My health was so much Impaired that I was advised to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla' to build me up, and I bought six bottles. Before I had taken half of this amount I found that I was improving. I could rest better at night, and felt refreshed in the morning. I gained in flesh and when I had finished the six bottles the sores on my face had all disappeared.’* J. B. Bod- DIB, Postmaster, Nashville, No. Carolina. “ After suffering from a sore leg for 25 years, four bottles of Hood’a Sarsaparilla made a complete cure. It is several years since I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, but I have not Buffered with any sore or erysip elas in that tline." Mus. M. J. Habtlky, Lovett, Georgia. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Hest — the One True Hlood Purifier. Bo sure to get Hood'* and only HimmI’n. Hood's Pills esay to operate. 1 afte. ^ conform to this practice you will find in the closing years of u long and u»<- ful life, that the secret of your suc cess lay in this course rather than in fighting a hopeless case on manufac tured testimony, or cither competing influences. I arn well aware that there is an undying prejudice on the* ^ part of some people, againct lawyers, I and 1 expect to raise shkol with'that ! class of our good citizens, when I sny I that there is not to he found a truer l.set of men to their oaths and their i clients than the lawyers. I have even known tuem to sacrifice the j personal friendship of life-long friends in .otucT 1 o defend their i;!i“nts and i professional honor. This is saying for them what I dare say not one in | a hundred of them will say for him- ! self. But I rely upon the sen-e of justice und truth among the ma se- . of our people to bear me out in this assertion. 1 do not mean to include |in this count any hut those in the profession who stood upon that high I plane* of professional honor and per sonal dignity which distinguishes gentlemen from other folk 4 !. Taken as a whole you will find fewer cases of “misplaced confidence” charged up to them than any other profession in the land. I am no lawyer, nor “lawyer’s man,” but these are my ; sentiments, my private opinion pub- j tidy und honestly expressed. J. L. s. Alfjood Dots. (Correspondence of The Lodger.) Algood. April 20.—Rev. It. J. Tate filled his last regular appointment at Macedonia. X. A. Gardner, xf Martinsville, was in our section a few' days ago, on bu- I siness. Joseph Richards went to Cowpens i last Wednesday, on business. Robert IJ. Rowell went to Cowpens j Saturday on business, i W. L. and Ed. Gardner went to i Cowpens Saturday, on business. Our fanners are quite busy now-a- days planting their crops. Wheat and oats are looking fine, | and promise good yield. But the farmers made a mistake in sowing so little of each even if they get a small yield. ' The peach crop will be small but if no disaster happens there will be an abundance of apples. X. Moore, of Thiekety. visited friends and relatives here .Saturday and Sunday. E. C. Moore and family visited J. R. Moore and family Sunday. Win. Gardner visited John W. Linder and family Sunday. John S. Garder who has been in Greenville for sometime has returned Cherokee county. COBXCKAl KEK. P ERFECT permanent are the cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, be cause it makes pure, rich, healthy, life and health-giving BLOOD. The use of the Burgeon’s knife is be coming so general, resulting fatally in bucli a large number of cases, as to occasion general alarm. Mr. William Walpole, of Walshtown, South Dakota, v/rites; “About thn c years ago, there came under my left eye a little blotch about the size of a email pea. It grew rapidly,and shooting pains ran in every direction. I became alarmed and consulted a good doctor, who pronounced it can cer, and said that it V- y/i t at-ana j ~ must be cut out. * 3% j This I would not consent to, having - little faith in the indiscriminateof theknife. head ing of the many cur*** made by H. S., I determined to give th-l d. ..*■..«* a trial, and after J hadtc/* '. a w days, the cancer becarn* it. *«. vr < rA began to discharge. This af'er «.» '*.ile ceased, leaving a small m * • *j finally dropped off, and os'y i h* .i’hy little scar remained to mark the place where the destroyer had held f . sway. A Red Blood Remedy. Cancer is in the blood and it is folly toespect an operation tocure it. S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) is a real remedy for every disease of the blood. Books mailed free; 1 address Swift Spe cific Co., Atlanta, | Ga. Becoming Warm. The coupon contest now being car ried on in the Piedmont Headlight is exciting much interest here and es pecially is enthusiasm running high among those working in the bigGftff- ney mills. The winner of this contest will not only have the distinction of being de cided the roost popular cotton mill overseer in South Carolina, but he will receive as a murk of his popular ity, the handsome gold watch offered by the Headlight. The mill people of Gaffney have put forward, as their candidate Mr. E. R. Cash, overseer of spinning in both mills. Mr. Cash is a thoroughly up-to-date mill man and should he be successful in the contest he will bear the honor becomingly. Those of Mr. Cash’s friends who live out of town and wish to vote for him can leave their coupons at The Ledger office where they Will be turned over to the proper persons. Just Received, an elegant line of the Celebra d DOVER MT’G. 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