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r» THE LETiGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. 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. SouthiTii ami Wcslrni Tojttlle Excelsior. John Uillipan. superintendent of Ft. Mill (8. C.) Mfg. Co., is very ill. C. K. Nelsler, superintendent of tiie Kin<;s Mtu. (X. C.) Mfg. Co., was in Charlotte lust week. G. P. Barlow has returned to his old position as boss spinner with the MeColl (8. C.) Mfg. Co. On account of low water the Pee IV. ap'I Roberdel mills, Rockingham, N. C., have been stopped for several days. The Alpine Cotton Mills, Morgan- ton. X. C., will start up theft 4,000 spindles mill Monday on warp yarns 8s to 10s. Mr. Xeal. overseer of spinning at the .1. M. Odell Cotton Mill. Bynum, N. C.. is at Spray, N. 0., ou a visit to bis father. . Plutt Hurt and J.Pss Bertha Mul- Knax, both employed in the Spartan Mills, Spartanburg, S. C., were mar ried Sunday. C. H. McCall, who ran a section of looms at Pelzer, S. C., cotton mills, has removed to Clfton, S. C., to fix looms in mill Xo. 3. Overseers Joseph Bates and Jas. E. Tice of the Piedmont, S. C., Cotton Mills, are touring the cotton mills of of upper South Carolina. C. A. Moore, has resigned as loom fixer with theJClifton, S. C f ., Mfg.Co., to take a similar position with Ander son, S. C., cotton mills, The Charlotte, N. C., Cotton Mills are now running all their 104 narrow looms on drilling, and all the 144 wide looms continue on sheeting. The Fort Mill, S. C., Mfg. Co., had their plant closed down Tuesday for repairs, mainly to the power plant, but will resume Monday morning. J. A. Waldrop- loom-fixer, who has had a section of looms at the Enoree, S. C., cotton mills for 44 years, has changed to, |the Union S. C. cotton mills. John Cain, of the Bamberg, S. C., cotton mills, has] been engaged as superintendent of the Monroe, N. C., cotton mills, and will take charge next week, W. P. Wingate, formerly at Mt. Holly, X’’. C., has gone with the Ada Mfg. Co., Charlotte, where he has charge of the spinning, spooling, twisting and warping. J. S. Smith, superintendent of the Maxtou, N. C.,mills is now]getting his hands together ko he can start the mill Monday. This mill has been atopped nearly all summer. In starting their mill night and day, the Dover Yarn Mills, Pineville, X. C., will place their present day overseer of carding and spinning, W. 1*. Bennett, in charge at night. W. K. Sanborn, recently superin tendent of the Clinton, S. 0., cotton mills, has accepted a similar position with the Cedar Falls, N. C., Mfg. Co., which will resume running Oct. 1. J. Uetlochi, of Raleigh, N.C., cot ton mills has accepted the position of overseer of mules at Mayo cotton mills, Mayodan, X. C. J. O. Will is Uow second hand at the Raleigh cot ton mills. The Kesier Cotton Mill, Salisbury, N. C., resumed work Wednesday, af ter a shut down since the previous Friday night, occasioned by the breaking of u pulley. Xo other dam age was done. President D. El Converse, of the Clifton Mfg. Co., and the D. E. Con verse Co., Glendale, S. C., with a party of tourists from Spartanburg and neighboring towns has returned irom an extensive tour in Europe. TheCherokeejFulls Mfg. Co., Blacks burg, S. C., have been compelled to close down their factory on account of the water famine. The Broad river is lower than it ever has been in the memory of “the oldest inhabi tant.” We are told that 48 more Lowell looms have been ordered by the Clif ton, S. C., Mfg. Co., for mill No. 3, These will replace the old ones that were brought over from Xo. 1 mill during the stop down there for re pairs. The semi-annual meeting of the J. M. (‘dell Mfg. Co., of Bynum, Chath am county, N. C., was held at Con cord, N. (’.. last Monday. For the first time since the mill was started it “passed by” a dividend to stock holders. The Charleston S. C. Knitting Mills, with mulatto labor, are said to ho now running 0!) hosiery machines successfully on seamless half.hose, In dus’hose, and children's ribs. The socks and hose are mixed colors and fust black. W. E. Tisdale has given up his po sition as overseer of carding and spin ning at the Ft. Mill, 8. 0., Mfg. Co., to become superintendent of the Al pine cotton mills, Morgunton, N. C. lie is succeeded at Fort^Millby Jus. F. Cunningham. The Walhalla 8. C. Cotton Mills started up on Monday morning, Sept. 7th, after being idle three weeks on account of being out of cotton. They are now behind with their orders, and it is probable that they will resume night work very soon. The Arkwright mills, of Spartan burg, S. C., have placed their order for humidifiers with the U.' 8. Aero- phor Air Moistening Co., of Provi dence, R. I., who now have under way the installation of their Ameri can “Vortex” Humidifier. X. W. Garner, lately a setter-up of Northrop Draper looms, but now fix ing in the GalTney S. C. mill Xo. 1, wheeled to Spartanburg last Satur day in two hours. The distance 22 miles. That was pretty good scorch ing for such torrid weather. D. J. Skidmore, night overseer of carding andjspinning at thejFort Mill, S. C., Mfg. Co., lias resigned to take charge of the carding and spinning in day time at the Dover Yarn Mill, Pineville, X. C. It is reported that W. A. Hope of Pelzer, S. C., will suc ceed Mr. Skidmore. A. J. Whitmore sold out his roller covering business at Salisbury, N. C.. last week to Robt. Cook £ Bro. The Cooks are both Concord men, but Robt. Cook has lately been a beamer at the Asheville, X. C., cotton mills, while Sylvester Cook has been in the cloth room of the Cabarrus mill, Concord. Since the Salisbury N. C. Cotton Mills were established about 10 years ago, they have made many improve ments. They now have 16,000 spin dles. nearly all of which are Whitin. This mill is on colored work. F. M. Ward is superintendent. The cloth room is under the care of Charles A. McKethan. The Odell Mfg. Co., Concord, N. C., have purchased from the Char lotte Supply Co., a complete and modern equipment of machines and tools made by Henry E. Kay, Fall River, Mass., for a roller covering shop. The Odell Mills will employ competent workmen and do outside work as well. The now Spartan Mill No. 2, Spar tanburg, S. C., has now 679 Draper looms running—just one-half the number already in place; 38 of the 72 cards are running regularly, and 94 of the 180 spinning frames are run ning. All the help arriving are ex perienced mill people—only one lit tle girl in the spinning room is a learner. The Warren Cotton Mfg. Co., Aik- on Junction, S. C., will require to build no smoke stack for their estab lishment, but will substitute instead the B. F. Sturtevant, of Boston, Mass., induced draft system, which is the first system of its kind used in the Southern states. The system re ferred to will save the company two or three thousand dollars. The new machinery for the Flor ence Cotton Mills. Forest City, N. C.. is being looked for daily, and will be placed at once, says the Kings Mtn. Reformer. The Textile Excelsior is glad to hear it, and yet can’t quite reconcile this to the letter we pub lished last week from the manager saying that no definite decision has been made about starting the mill. Lawyer Verdery. of Augusta, Ga., is now president of the Warren Mfg. Co., Aiken Junction, S. C., viceChas. A. Robbe, of the same city. Mr. Robbe only consented to fill the no- sition temporarily after the resigka- tion of Chas. W. Davis until a per manent president could be secured. The Warren Mill is now up to the second story, but the work is going slowly. Work has begun at Bessemer City, N. C.,on a beautiful residence for Sec’y. and Treas. S. J. Durham, of the Southern' cotton mills. Mrs. Durham is the daughter of Capt. J. M. Odell, of Concord, N. C., one of the principal owners of these mills. The home is to be built on the colo nial style, aad to have all the modern conveniences. It will be a ten room brick mansion. The Etird Mfg. Co., Albemarle. N. C., are running their mill day and night. They have 2,096 spindles, Lowell frames, and have also 3 Borad- bent cone winders. This mill makes excellent yarns, equal in quality to any on the market. The olTlcers are J. W. Cannon, Pres.; J. 8. Etird, Sec y. and Treas.; J. F. Kersey is superintendent; and J. T. Kersey is superintendent at night. Fred Dickinson, of the American Machine Company, Pawtucket, R. I., is in Rockingham, N. 0., settingup the machinery recently purchased by the Pee Dee Mfg. Co., for their mill here. This order was mentioned be fore by the Excelsior, and consists of the following Howard and Bul- lough machines: 8 revolving fiat cards, 6 deliveries, 1 slubber and 2 speeders. The Eldorado Falls Mfg. Co., will start their mill at Milledgeville. N. C., about the 1st of Oct. This is a 4,000 spindle mill which has been in the hands of a receiver and recently purchased by the above named com pany. Before starting it is being overhauled and put hi good running condition. W. A. Smith, is president and Theo. F. Kluttz, of Salisbury, N. C., is Sec’y. and Treas. The new boss weaver at the Yau* cluse, 8. C., cotton mills Is Edward Coburn, who came from the Laconia inilla, Bideford, Maine, where he was second hand. He took the place at Vaucluse of K. A. Thompson, who went to Rock Hill, 8. C., to succeed J. R. Neisler as superintendent of the Rock Hill cotton factory. The boss spinner at Vaucluse, Scott Max well, was also formerly of Biddeford, and his brother Archibald Maxwell is still boss weaver in the Laconia mills. The meeting of the stockholders of the Enterprise Cotton Mills, Orange burg, S. C., was held Sept. 11 at their factory building. A resolution was adopted increasing the capital stock to $100,000. President Sam uel Dibble said that it would bo nec essary to sell some more stock to equip the mill with machinery, and that he had a portion of the stock in sight. W. B. Smith Whaley, of Col umbia, S. C., a stockholder and the architect of the mill, was present and made an address. The Victor Mfg. Co., Greers, S. C.. has authorized an issue of $60,000 preferred stock, which will be used to pay the debts of the company, and it is expected that a further issue of $40,000 will be made next month, the proceeds to be used in buying 5,- (XX) spindles, so as to complete the equalization of the machinery now in the mill, and run the business to greater advantage. The directors also elected Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, S. C., as Pres, and Treas. to succeed W. W. Burgess, resigned. All the spindles of the Spray Cot ton Mills have been started up, and everything is running in first-class shape. W. D, Neal is now in charge, having succeeded R. L. Tate, resigned. Z. N. Eppes oversees the spinning, with Lawrence McRae as second. Night work will begin in a very short while. Bricks are now being made, for the addition to the Leaksville Cotton Mill. Her capacity will be about doubled. The Spray dam has recently been raised three feet, now giving ample power to run the four mills located here. The Patterson Mfg. Co., China Grove, N. C., have ordered four more Whitin spinning frames in the new mill which begun operation the 1st of last Slay. This mill has 3,900 spindles and its product is hosiery yarns. The company will build at once a warehouse 20x30 ft. which will be used as a packing room, etc. This company has also another mill at this place which has 142 looms making plain white sheetings, and they have started this one on double work. Many improvements are be ing made around the two nulls. The mill yard has been cut down about 4 or 5 ft. and they are now having the finishing touches put on it; 15 new houses, double and single stories, have just been completed, and 6 more will be built at once. T. L. Ross is superintendent. “I crave but one minute.” said the public speaker in a huskey voice; and then he took a dose of One Min ute Cough Cure, and proceeded with his oratory. One Minute Cough Cure is unequalled for throat and lung trubles. Cherokee Drug Com pany. There are some people who will condemn a person for doing that which they themselves know to be right. Vim vigor and victory :-these are the characteristics of De Witt’s Lit tle Early Risers, the famous little pills for constipation, biliousness and all stomach and liver troubles. Cher okee Drug Company. You seldom get credit for trying to do that which you believe to be right but you are sure always to receive condemnation for it if it happens to prove wrong. John Griffin, of Zanesville, O., says : “I never lived a day for thir ty years without suffering agony, until a box of De Witt’s Witch Ha zel Salve cured my piles.” For piles and rectal troubles, cuts, bruises, sprains, eczema and all skin troubles De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve is une qualled. (Aemkee Drug Co. It don’t pay to express your opin ion too freely of others for the reason that people may regard you pretty much in the light of the opinion you most generally express. It heals everything except a broken heart, may be said of De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Files and rec tal diseases, cuts, burns, bruises, tet ter eczema and all skin troubles may be cured by it quickly and perman ently. Cherokee Drug Company. The person who swerves from doing his duty simply because his actions do not please everyone is not the right kind of a person to be given a public position. There is u time for everything; and the time to attend to a cold is when Restarts. Don’t wait till you have consumption but prevent it by using'One Minute Cough Cure, the great remedy for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Com pany. Practice may not make the lawyer perfect, but enough of it will make him rich. Don’t nauseate your stomach with teas and bitter herbs, but regulate your liver and sick headache by us ing those famous little pills known as De Witt’s Little Early Risers. Cherokee Drug Company. Pres!stent industry U the best antidote for temptation. 0' “They don’t make much fuss about it.” We are speaking of De Witt’s Early Risers, the fnmous lit tle pills for constipation, hilousness, and all stomach and liver troubles. They never gripe. Cherokee Drug Company. Gaucher Gleanings. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ravknma, Sept. 22.—“All is well, that ends well.” The sick are better, thq weather cooler but your correspondent is trou bled because he is accused of being the author of the two Goucher “back- woods,” letters. After reading this letter any com mon sense reader ought to bo fully convinced that I am not the author of the Goucher letter. Goucher vi cinity is noted for its lean but intel ligent wives and several of them are students and graduates of Limestone and Gaffney schools. Some of your bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, county officials and citizens are of Goucher parentage. Then halt, Mr. Goucher correspondent, unless there is a mysterious goodness behind your writing. Mr. Editor please inform “Jairus” that the highways of White Plains, have been recently put in splindid repair with the exception of the main road from Ravenna to Trough which is probably the hardest roid in the countj to keep up. It will soon be in a bad state. Ask the mail carrier. I like Jairus letters but tell him you rarely find in this section white girls working in the field with colored boys. Some will improperly pick cot ton side by side and ride along the roads with unsuitable sexes. But such sights are not common. Goucher had a very large audience last Sunday. Six new converts were baptized in the newly built granite pool, then the pastor delivered a very able doctrinal sermon from the text found in 1 Peter 3:21. It is said bachelors and maids are great’fault finders, but they had it their own way Sunday. A maid com plained that deacons, as is command ed, “should be the husband of one wife.” A bachelor remarked that ugly people should not stand near clear water at a gathering as they exposed their smiles in the water to the company surrounding them. If the pastor had opened his eyes Sunday during his devout prayer ho would have been astonished to ob serve how many non church members were bowed in humble submission while many of the young members, imitating scribes, were surveying things generally and whispering were audible. The Bible says “the righteous are as bold as lions” but it does not mean that bold riders and drivers should monopolize the public high way to the terror of women and child ren, that they must ride their steeds up to the church doors, in yards and other places without some regard. Some are thoughtless while others de sire to show off. Tell all your cor respondents that if they cannot write to elevate to “stop right thar now,” as Judge Claud of North Caro lina would remark, but remember one cannot lose a friend in a better way thau by seeking by good will to pre serve. The music last Sunday on the or gan, which was guided by the delicate cultivated touch of a Gaffney lady, was soothing to the soul, but the sing ing of the choir mixed with several uncultivated voices detracted some what from the usual melody. The Goucher and Ravenna communica tion hare some excellent voices which are sometimes led off into harshness in the ungarded moments. Without fear of contradiction I can sign my name truthfully. No Husbakd Nok Papa. Don't Tobacro Spit and Smoke Tour Mfe Anajr. To Quit tobacco easily and forever, be ina? netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Uac. the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. Ail druggists, 50c or 11. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Uemedy Co., Chicago or New York. Rice’s Goose Grease Llnament, cures all aches and pains. Sold and guaranteed by ClIEUOKKK Guru Co. Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining in office uncalled for to date: E. W. Blake. Miner Brown. G. V. Olouuinger, T. L. Caudle. John Gill. Miss Nannie Howell. 11. H. Hayden. W. M. Johnson. Mrs. Durcus Leonard. D. E. Lemmons. L. W. Litton. Mrs. Nancy Rollins. Miss Ellie Ramsey. Miss Mary J. Smith. W. Author Stack. Miss Allice Turner. N. B.—Persons catling for these letters will please say advertised in Thk Lkdukr. T. H. Littlejohn, P. M. September, 13, 1897. Tis© second Hand. “I was showing my watch to my nephew, who was about 6 years old, ” says a celebrated writer, “when he poiuted to the face of the dial and said: “ 'Why, there is another little watch 1’ “ ‘It is called the second hand,’ I said. “He tossed his head contemptuously and walked off, saying: “ ‘I wouldn’t own a secondhand watch.’ ”—Loudon Tit-Bits. State Namca. When Lincoln’s turn comes to have a new state named after him, by all means let our scholars insist upon Lin- colnia. If the bad liuguistic taste which dictated the naming of tho state of Washington had prevailed among our forbears, wo should now have a Virgin, a George and a North and South Caro line instead of a Virginia, a Georgia and two (Jarolinus.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Cotton Market. The cotton market was off yester day and the receipts light, owing, no doubt, to tho inclement weather. The following prices prevailed : Middling 64 Good Middling 6^ ■ W» ■i-i’ ■■■ Something to Depend On. Mr. James Jones, of the Drug firm of Jones «fcSon, Cowden, 111., in speaking of Dr. King’s New Discov ery, says that last winter his wife was attacked with the La Grippe, and her case grew so serious that physi cians at Cowden and Pana could do nothing for her. It seemed to de velop into Hasty Consumption. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in the store, and selling lots of it, he took a bottle home, and to the surprise of all she begun to get better from first dose, and half dozen dollar bottles cured her sound a^d well. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this good work. Try 4t. Free trial bottles at DuPre Drug Co’s. If Rice Goose Grease don'tcure your aches and pains, htirns, bruises and sprains, we pay you money hack. DuPke Dbco Co. Dissolution. The copartnership heretofore known as J. P. Kennedy «V Co., of Blacksburg. Is hereby dissolved by mutual consent. All parties Indebted to them will please come forward and settle at once. The business will here after he known under the firm name of I). L. Browu. All accounts will he paid at the olQce of their successors. It FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Make up your mind to do your trading this fall where you can buy good goods the cheapest; then come and price my Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions and Groceries and I’m sure you’ll trade with me. A fresh car load of Guano and Acid Phosphate for grain. Also a large lot of new Bagging and Ties at lowest prices. Yours Truly, J. X. tsteirratt. N. B.—I will do your ginning and milling at the very lowest prices and guarantee satisfaction. Save Your Money by Trading at Walter Baker & Co.'s Store, Where you will he treated kindly and courteously Arbuckle Coffee 2 lbs for 25c. W. H. PALMER, ( LIMESTONE * SPRINGS * LIME * WORKS, CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of—— BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * j * LIME, —And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Lathes and Platser Hair. Dvmamite. Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps. WATERLOO, IOWA. . "Saved From the Horrors of Nervous Pros tration” by Dr. Milet’ Nervine. \ 4. [\v w ¥ op* COUGH does not always Indicate consumption. Mr. W. II. I’almer. of Waterloo, Iowa, writes: “I was taken with a nervous stricture of the bronchial tubes, which developed Into nervous pros tration, I was so weak I could notF.it up. I got uo sleep for days except when under tho influence of ophites. For four months I suf fered agonies and prayed that I might die and be at rest. One physician said I had consumption, for I had a cough that gave mo no rest. But a good old physician whose ! medicine had failed, | advised me to use Dr. Miles’ lies t or a t i ve Nervine and I thank God that it has bright ened my days, lengthened my life and saved me from the horrors of nervous prostration.” Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, 3rst bottle benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart and Nerves sent free to all apolicants. DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. Dr. ■ Mliee* Nervine Restores '-"Health p I—* . F— No Lad call. a o H- W o CD ^ O c 3 r) £ o ft" c rt- o O Hi p 5 e*- CD O cT m No c cT 1—* o c* ca ct- ' -i Jl -J - o r^- o CO yj c r-f- «— • CD ft • ^ <Th 5 o o C/3 o o >-*• —5 < p o fr*- 1- - 07 P 3 ** << 3 CO O ft e+- o 3; 0-> < £ era rt- O era o o Q- ft ft • c. o CO c** ft CO 02 o CD ;°2. S. 3 o Musical Card. M Y FALL SESSION for Instruction In Pl ano. Organ and Violin will commence Wednesday. September 1st. Price, $£> for ses sion of 2U weeks W. L. JOHNSON. N B—Pianos or organs tuned or repaired; satisfaction guaranteed 7 Q You will bo astonished at the low prices you can buy goods at from Bird’s Racket Store. Everything is brand new in my store. All bought witli the spot casli right in the summer— before prices advanced. Ladies will find the largest and pret tiest line of Dress Goods in town at the Racket Store. Hats. Don’t forget to come around when vou want to buva hat. It will pay any man to soo my stock before buying. Shoes for Everybody. Ladies’ fine shoes 88c, 98c, $1.19, $1.24 to $2.49. Men’s tine shoes 99c, $1.19, $1.24 to $4.00. Great variety in prices and style. Big stock trunks and valises. Clothing and gents’ furnishing goods of best makes and lowest prices. Now don’t let somebody fool you up by claiming to sell goods as cheap as tho Racket Store. They just simply can’t do it, a trial will convince you. Yours for trade. Bird’s Racket.