The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 30, 1897, Image 1
J. C. JEFFERIES,4-
GAFFNEY, S. C.
-Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practices in
All the Courts. Collections a Specialty.
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Part I. Pages 1 to 8.
VOL. IV, NO. 'M-
A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County.
GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER :J0, 1897.
$1.00 A YE ATI.
OHIO RIVER & CHARLESTON.
IT GOT TO GAFFNEY ON GOOD
TIME.
Incidents of the Work, a Brief History
of the Koad and Biographical
Sketches of Its Offi
cials, Etc.
With a mighty shout from the
throats of hundreds of laborers and
interested spectators and the shrill
whistle of the locomotive the Ohio
River and Charleston Railway made
its way into the corporate limits of
the city of GafTney on Monday morn
ing at 8 o’clock. For several months
the constructors have been laboring
on the ten mile branch that was to
doubly connect the two hustling
towns of the now county of Cherokee.
Much interest has been manifest in
the work and as the time drew near
and the work came closer to the city
that interest has grown until on the
last day of grace it was watched with
a deeper interest than ever before.
The company had to reach Gaffney
by the 28th—Tuesday—in order to
claim the subscription made by the
people of Gaffney to the road. To
TRAIN DISPATCHER E. K. DOUGHERTY.
those unacquainted with railroad
building it looked us if it was an im
possible feat. But one only had to
go out and glance at the systematic
manner in which the work was being
done to easily arrive at the conclusion
that the men in charge knew’ their
business.
All day Saturday, Sunday and
Monday streams of people went out to
the point where the gang was at
work and lingered about watching
with an eager eye the progress of the
work. More than a hundred happy-
golucky descendants from (he jungles
of Africa worked with un entenseness
which was wonderful to behold. A
Ledger representative was on the
scene of action as the gang were par
taking of the noon day meal. It
consisted principally of bread, boiled
cow peas and bacon, hut the relish
with which it was devoured was
enough to make the heart of a dys
peptic wish he was one of them.
During the course cf the meal the
following amusing yet logical colloquy
ensued between two darkeys:
First darkey—“I nwar, day feeds
better in jail dan dis.”
Second Darkey—“Dat may he so,
hut I’de rudder have dis grub and
my liberty dan to he in jail and have
pound-cake.”
The first darkey agreed and in a
short while both were ‘‘making a deal
wid a steel rail.
The company having reached the
goal — the corporation limit — on
Monday afternoon they have been
taking their time ever since and get
ting things in proper shape. Work
is now progressing on the yard and
in a few days work will be commenced
on the depot building. Monday after
noon President Hunt issued the fol
lowing invitation to the business men
of Gaffney:
You are respectfully Invited
to
ride on the ilrsl passenger train running be
tween
GulTuey and lilueksburg
on
September ‘JHth, |Nfl;.
to eotiiineniinorule the opening
of the
GalTney liraneh
of the
Ohio River A Charleston
Railway
SAMI. Hr NT. President.
Train will leave Galtney at Ip in
THE EXCURSION.
As is usual on such occasions the
train did not leave on time hut was
about twenty minute* late. When it
did start, however, it had a large
crowd on board. In fact it was nec
essary to add unotiier coach at Blacks
burg!. The train remained in Shelby
about an hour and then returned to
Guffi*ey, the trip being made without
the enghtatt accident. Joseph Crow
was the man at the throttle, while
Capt. J. W. Tripp manipulated the
punch. The train reached Gaffney
about 6 dll) on the return trip. Every
body reported a good time and voted
the O. R. tfc C. a success.
THE RAXqCET.
At {) o’clock the officials and a
number of the employees of the (). R.
J: C. were banqueted at Lipscomb’s
Hotel. The spread was excellent and
Mr. Lumpkin thought it was a good
place to be. Capt. Jus. Bell was
toast-master and he made a good one.
Col. Stobo Farrow responded to the
toast of ‘‘Our Guest” in a happy
manner. President Hunt responded
on behalf of the (). It. it C. He gave
due praise to Gaffney, Mayor Wood
and Alderman Carroll. He said
among other things that he believed
the new railroad would he a factor
towards building up Gaffney and
Cherokee county.
“The glorious future of Gaffney
and Blacksburg” was responded to
by Col. T. B. Butler in his usual
happy style.
Ex-Mayor Gardner, of Shelby, re
sponded to the “Old North State.”
Ed. H. DeCamp to “The Press,”
and S. B. Lumpkin to “Transporta
tion.”
The banquet then came to an end.
After spending a short while in social
conversation the (). R. it C., officials
and attachees boarded their train
and returned to the Iron City.
A BRIEF HISTORY OK THE ROAD.
The Three C’s Railroad Company
was organized in 1878. It was con
ducted with more or less success un
til 18!)0, when it found its way into the
hands of a receiver, Ex-Governor D.
H. Chatnberla'n b<?irg appointed re
ceiver. On May 12, 18951, the roud
was sold under order of the United
States court. The bondholders be
came the purchasers. The same
year the company was reorganized
under the name of the Ohio River
and Charleston Railway Company.
Since that time the business has
been conducted with signal ability
by its efficient corps of officers. The
branch to Gaffney was surved in 1890
and in December of the same year it
was determined to build the road.
Bids were received for the grading
and the contract awarded to J. B.
Ross. Work was commenced in
April 10th lust at Blacksburg and
1ms been continuously pushed up to
the present. It is now practically
finished, but a few finishing touches
remain.
THE OFFICERS.
Samuel Hunt is the president of
the road. His headquarters are in
Cincinnati.
J. J. ColMer is treasurer. His
headquarters are in Philadelphia.
A. Tripp is the superintendent and
has headquarters at Blacksburg.
S. B. Lumpkins is general freight
and passenger agent with head
quarters at Blacksburg.
The other officers are : H. J. Bruce,
auditor; E. F. Dougherty, chief train
dispatcher; P. H. Freeman, car ac
countant; W. J. Wilcox, master me
chanic; A. N. Molesworth. chief en
gineer; J. A. Maxwell, road master;
G. C. Nutting, superintendent of
bridges and builcTTng; ;Don Lumpkin,
chief clerk of general freight and
passenger agent; A. F. McLure, man
ager claims department.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Samuel Hunt, president and gen
eral manager, is also president and
general manager of the Cincinnati,
Portsmouth and Virginia Railroad.
He was formerly general superinten
dent of the Ohio and Northwestern
Railroad, which was recognized as
the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Vir
ginia Auilroad. He was, previous to
February, 1888, division superinten
dent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
at Winfield, Kan, Besides being
president of the 0. R. it C., and the
P. it V. R. R., he is general manager
of the Northern Alabama.
Alonzo Tripp, the superintendent,
is from the State of Main, having
been born in the town of Kennebeck,
September 24th, 1839. Mr. Tripp
entered railway service in 18(17, since
which time he lias been from 1807 to
SUIT. ALONZO TRIPP.
1883 freight and ticket agent and
yard matter of the Alleghany Valley
railroad, and from 1883 to 1890 gen
eral yard master of the Baltimore and
Ohio. Jn 1890 he was chosen for his
present position and has held it ever
since. Mr. Tripp is a most genial
gentleman, posossing a pleasant ad
dress and having the happy faculty
of making friends of every one with
whom he comes in contact.
E. F. Doughtery, the eheif train'dis-
patcher is a native of Maryland. Ho
was reared in Pennsylvania and came
to the (). R. A C. road from the S. G.
<fc C., where he also held the respon
sible position of train dispatcher.
He is a young man and possesses the
confidence of his associates. He has
recently taken into himself a wife,
who no doubt will add much to his
happiness in life.
Don Lumpkin, chief clerk of the
general freight and passenger agent,
is a native Houth Carolinian. He has
been connected with the O. R. it C.
since 1893. Mr. Lumpkin is one of
the brightest young railroad men in
the state and we predict for him un
bounded success.
A. P. McLure, manager of the
claim department, is not only a South
Carolinian hut a native of Cherokee
county. Ho came to the O. R. it C.
from the Seaboard Air Line, where he
worked in the capacity of engineer.
A. N. Molesworth, the chief engi
neer, makes his headquarters at
Johnson City, Tenn. He is one of the
best engineers in the Sout h and is a
gentleman full of sunshiny nature.
Herbert A. Tripp, is manager of
the lumber and tie business of Brokie
it Welsh, and has headquarters in
Philadelphia.
This, in brief, is a review of the en
terprise which has just linked its for
tunes with the capital of Cherokee
county, together with the men who
have the business in charge. The
Ledger wishes for them all long life
and prosperity.
THE jCIRCUS.
The Great John Robinsoh A Frankin'.
Bros. Shows, Combined.
Never in the histo’y of tented
amusements has the world known so
vast an enterprise as the one made by
the combining of these two great in-
slitutions. It has brought the circus
field into a new era, and placed circus
exhibitions upon a basis that has
never before even b?en attempted.
Two separate and distinct representa
tive circus companies, culled from
the best that the world affords, have
been joined together. Two massive
menageries have been blended into
one and the two magnificent parades
have been so arranged that a double
parade is given daily in the cities
where these combined shows are to
exhibit.
It requires the largest tents that
have ever been constructed to ac
commodate this big amusement in
stitution, and so enormous have been
the crowds attending, that it has
been necessary to augment the seat
ing capacity, for it is not the policy
of these shows to so limit their seat
ing capacity as to make those who
desire to see and enjoy the wonder
ful performances procure reserved
seats, and while there have been
reserved opera chairs placed around
the arena for the accommodation of
those desiring them fully eight-tenths
of the seats are free to the patrons.
Their day in Gaffney is Thursday Oct.
7 and it will surely be a gala day.
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Col. Farrow’s Associates.
Col. T. Stobo Farrow, late Auditor
for the War Depaatment, Washing
ton. D. C., has opened his law office
in this city in the Settlemeyer
building, post office block, opposite
depot of the Southern railroad.
Gaffney being the county site of
Cherokee county, recently formed
from portions of the counties of
Spartanburg, Union and York, the
records of which old counties have to
be frequently consulted in the busi
ness of |the new county, Col. Far
row has associated with him Messrs.
Botnar & Simpson at Spartanburg,
Messrs. Munro it Munro at Union and
Messrs. Hart it Hart at Yorkvilie,
affording excellent facilities for
prompt attention to business requir
ing reference to the records qf said
counties.
A WOMAN’S LETTER
Concerning Dr. Hartman’s Free Treat*
ment for Women.
I received your book on Gyna?col-
ogy and commenced the use of your
medicine at once. I took five bottles
of Fo-ru-nu and two of Man-a-lin. I
feel like a new woman. When I
commenced taking l’e-ru-na I could
li;tr<i:y walk across my room; now I
am doing my own work, can walk a
mue and a half to church. I shall
never cease tothank you for proscrib
ing for me. 1 hud been under the
lieai ment of two doctors, hut never
received any benefit until I com
menced taking your medicine. I am
now well and able to do my own
work. I wish every woman who was
suffering as 1 was would send for one
of your books on Gynaecology. It is
a God-send to suffering women.
May God bless you and spare you
many years to relieve women who
are suffering as I was. 1 am anxious
for every woman who is suffering as I
was to know what your medicine did
for me.
Mrs. H. D. Amobh,
Oreenesboro, Ga.
A free book, written expressly for
women by Dr. Hartman, will be sent
to any address by the Pe-ru-na Drug
Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Ohio.
SUPT. WILLIAM F. M’ARTHUR
CHEROKEE’S FIRST SUPERIN
TENDENT OF EDUCATION.
Born in a Log Cabin and Reared on
a Farm—A soldier as Well as
an Educator of Youth
ful Minds.
William Franklin McArthur, the
first Superintendent of Education of
Cherokee county, first saw the light
day in a log cabin on a farm two
miles Soutli of Gaffney City on May
17th 18-14, and is therefore fifty-three
years of age. His parents were O. P-
McArthur, who hailed from near
King’s Mountain, and Nancy A.
Camp, a native of the section of old
Spartanburg county that now goes
to form a portion of Cherokee county.
His father was Scotch-Irish and his
mother Irish. Mr. Me Arthur's early
boyhood days were spent upon the
farm. In the winter season he at
tended the common schools of his
neighborhood. At the age of fifteen
he was sent by his parents to Lime
stone, where he attended the Lime
stone High school, of which Capt. J.
B. Lyle was the principal. He at
tended this school until the com
mencement of the war between the
WILLIAM FRANKLIN M’ARTHUR.
States, when he went to Union coun
ty to teach. The patriotic spirit of
young McArther was so great that
he did not long remain with the ped
agogic fraternity at that time, but
much against the wishes of his par
ents he donned the gray uniform of
the Confederate army and proceeded
to the seat of war, arriving there in
time to witness some of the blood
curdling incidents of First Battle of
Manassas. He was in Capt. W. I).
Camp’s company—the Limestone
Guards—in which company lie served
the first year. The command was
then reorganized and he joined Co. K.
Palmetto Sharp Shooters, under
command of Col. Joe Walker, in
which company he served until the
end of the war, receiving an honora
ble discharge. At the battle of Wil
liamsburg, hth of May 18»i2, he was
severely wounded, receiving a wound
through the body. The wounded sol
dier was carried to the Confederate
hospital—William and Mary College.
On the same night the Confederates
left Williamsburg and young McAr
thur was left in the hospital. The
next morning the hospital was cap
tured by General McClellan. The
Confederate soldiers v.ere made pris
oners and transferred to Washington
by order of Secretary of War Stanton.
Just litre it might not be out of place
to say that Mr. McArthur has a very
warm spot in his heart for Gen. Mc-
Ciennan, that general having treated
him very kindly and promised to
have him paroled, hut the Secretary
of War would not submit to it. How
ever, the young Confederate was
treated very kindly and did not re
gret the fact that he was not paroled
In about three months young McAr
thur was well enough to he exchan
ged and got buck into the Confeder
ate army just in time to engage in
the second battle of Manasses, where
lie was again wounded, this time be
ing shot through the left arm. After
this he went with Longstreet to the
west and was successively engaged in
the Wills Valley, Campbell Station,
undtheSeige of Knoxville battles.
In the spring of ’04 iiis command was
ordered back to Virginia where he
engaged in the battles of the Wilder
ness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold
Harbor and all the battles around
Richmond and Petersburg in which
his command was engaged. He sur
rendered at Spotsylvania Court
House and walked all the way back
to his Carolina home, arriving there
footsore and weary to take up the no
bler battle of civilization and educa
tion. After attending school and
teaching altornately four years he
took up the regular work of teaching,
opening his school at Macedonia.
After teaching there one year he
opened a school at Blue Branch
which he conducted two years.
In (lie fall of '71 he married Miss
Julia Ellen Lipscomb, a daughter of
Wyatt Lipscomb, a prominent man
in ins day and time. The young cou
ple decided to cast their lot in Mississ
ippi and went to that state, travel
ling all the way in a one horse buggy.
Mr. McArthur resided in Mississippi
five years, after which time he moved
back to this section being solicited
to do so by a large number of the peo
ple around here.
He immediately started a school in
the building known as Cary Hall, af
terwards moving to what is known
as tiie Shuck house, the house now-
occupied by Mrs. Hamilton. He af
terwards taught in his own dwelling
t wo years then purchased the old
Methodist church and used it five
years. He then built the present
commodious building known us the
Gaffney Seminary. Prof. McArthur
has been successively engaged in
teaching for the past twenty-nine
years and is regarded as one of the
best educators in the land, having
had for pupils some of the brightest
business men in GafTney. In ids
work he has had associated with him
at different times Prof. I. M. Tank-
ersley and R. O. Sams.
In his home life he enjoys the priv
ilege of a large family of bright and
interesting children, having had the
misfortune to loose his wife about
two years ago. His mother resides
with him and is still hale and hearty
at the age of seventy-four.
As a superintendent of education
he ranks among the best. Ho was a
new county man from the beginning
and did all in his power for its suc
cess, making a number of speeches
iu fttVCT it and doing other ’tforit.
lie is one Of thfl most Agreeable gen
tlemen in the county Uhd in the race
for the position he HOW holds beat
two of Cherokee county’s best citi
zens. Any county in the State
might be proud to have as its super
intendent of education such a mao
as William Franklin McArthur.
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Ravenna Reading.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Ravenna, Sept, 28.—I am sorry to
say that Mrs. Wade Thomas is at
home sick with typhoid fever. She
was brought home from Pacoletlast
Saturday evening, Dr. H. B. Tate is
her physician. So far as I know the
other sick in this community have
recovered.
Misses Pauline aud Olive Pettit
spent Sunday at Draytonville.
Miss Genie Burgess went to Jones-
ville last Friday to visit relatives but
on account of the illness of her sister,
Mrs. Thomas, she hastily returned
home without having finished her
stay.
Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, of your
city, spent Sunday and Sunday night
at Ravenna, visiting relatives.
Dr. J. E. Chalk, of Clifton, Miss
Beulah Goforth, of Pacolet, and Mr.
John T. Wilkins, ofCowpens, were vis
itors at our Sunday School last Sun
day. Visitors are always welcome at
our school.
M. W. Brown <fc Co., are improving
the front of their store. Messrs.
Spake and Pettit are the contractors.
A number of our charming young
ladies were absent from Sunday
School last Sabbath and I fear some
of the young gentlemen did not enjoy
the services us much as usual.
Eford Griffin has recently returned
from Fla in a very feeble condition,
owing to having had a severe attack
of fever. He has about recovered
and we were glad to see him able to
be out last Sunday. a. b. c.
What Talmage Says.
(.Keystone.)
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage sagely ob
serves that a “newspaper whose col
umns overflow with advertisements of
business men has more influence in
attracting attention to and building
up a city or town than any other
agency that can be employed. Peo
ple go where there is business. Cap
ital and labor will locate where there
is an enterprising community. No
power on earth is so strong to build
up a town as a newspaper well pat
ronized, and its power should he ap
preciated.”
Catarrh Cured.
No remedy is as effectual in eradi
cating and curing Catarrh as Bott.ri-
ic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It puri
fies and enriches the blood, elimi
nates microbes, bacteria, etc., and
builds up the system from the first
dose. Thousand^ of cases of catarrh
have been cured by its magic power.
For all blood and skin diseases, it
has no equal. Buy the old reliable
and long tested remedy, and don’t
throw your money away on substitu
tes, palmed off as “just us good.”
Buy the old reliable Botanic Blood
Balm. Price .$1.00 per large bottle.
SAYS IT IS GLORIOUS.
I cam ot refrain from telling you
what a glorious medicine you have.
For two years my mother had suf
fered with severe catarrh of the head
and ulcerated sore throat. Hhe re
sorted to various remedies without
effect, until she used Botanic Blood
Balm (B. B. B.) which cured her
catarrh, and healed her sore throat.
W. A. Peppe,
Fredoniu, Ala.,
For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.
KILLED BY A FREIGHT TRAIN
WILLIAM FORBES LOSES HIS
LIFE WHILE DRUNK.
In Attempting to Cross the Railroad
He Loses His Footing and is
Mangled—Other Gro
ver Gossip.
Grover, Sept. 28.—The equinox
was upon us on last Wednesday and
Thursday in the shape of a northern
gale of wind and rain, which resulted
in a first rate season which will be of
great benefit to turnip patches and
other vegetation that is still green.
The rain last week has somewhat re
tarded cotton picking, but with fa
vorable weather from now on it will
not be long before it will all he gath
ered, hut on account of the present
lo.v price our farmers are not selling
but very little. They are holding for
better prices, which we sincerely
hope they will be able to obtain, as
the prosperity of the farmers means
general prosperty.
t^uite a number of our people, both
old and young, attended the Kings
Mountain Baptist Association atNew-
hope on Sunday, which made the at
tendance at Sunday school at home
quite small.
Dame rumor has it, that ere this
roaches Ledger readers, cupid will
loud two of Grovers popular young
peoplo to the hymeulal alter,
A very g tt( l accident occured at
{Irover on last Thursd’'" which je-
sultedln the death of William Voibin,
The particulars as learned by your
corresponded rtre as foLows : For
bes had been at Grover all day on
a drunken spree and, as is generalljr
the consequence, had got into several
drunken rows with one Tom Dilliner
and in consequence had been before
the mayor a couple of times and been
lined for fighting and disorderly ^on-
duct generally. While attending one
of his trials Forbes had left a package,
(containing some article he had pur-<
chased during the day) at the coun
cil chamber and in the evening he
started across the railroad to the
court room to get the same, just as a
Southbound Southern freight train
was coming through at full speed.
He ran across the side track and
stopped on the main line just in front
of the moving train. When he discov
ered be was on the track that the
train was on he started to make a
leap to get off, but his foot slipped
and he staggered, and before he
could study himself the train struck
him. knocking him off and mutilating
Iiis body considerably. Death was
instantaneous. The Corner was no
tified, but refused to hold an inquest,
as there was several eye witnesses to
the accident. The cause of his death
was his Satanic Majasty Alcohol, the
same as comes into South Carolina
us original package, and 1 would warn
my South Carolina brethren that it
loses none of its Satanic element in
crossing the line. Deceased was a
resident of North Carolina. He was
unmarried.
Molasses making has been in prog
ress iu this section for the last two
weeks. The cane is turning out a
very fine grade of syrup.
1 am sorry to note the small inter
est that is being taken iu our country
schools by the patrons in the selec
tion of teachers that are to mould the
elastic minds of their children. Pa
rent, take an interest in and strive to
know something of the moral charac
ter us well us tiie educational quali
fications of the ones that are to teach
your children. Going to school is nofc
only to obtain a knowledge of books
but it is character building. Teach
ers should study originality. The
teacher that confines his teaching
strictly to the text laid down in the
book is not fit to teach. Many of our
college graduates are nothing more
than machine scholars. Disarm them
of their books or change hooks from
what they have studied and they are
lost. They are not practical and
they cun never teach their pupils to be
practical. Practical men and women is
what is needed now in the Imtllo of life
Such are the onca who succeed.
I will answer the balance of J.L.S.’s
problem, as he wants the cubical con
tents. The log would contain II
cubic feet and 1272 cubic inches.
Your correspondent paid Gaffney,
Cherokee’s thriving com ty teat, his
first visit on lust Friday, hut as Prof.
McArthur kept him confined all day
wrestling witii his problems he had
very little opportunity to see much
<>/ Gaffney or her people. Gaffney
has one very growing need and that
is better fire protection. As many
of the buildings are closely built, out
of imfiHmable materials, and filled
with combustibles, it makes her
always in eminent danger of a confla
gration.
Thu time is now here to sow oats
and it soon will soon be time to sow
wheat. Our farmers should see to it
that they sow enough to make plenty
for home consumption, if the crop ia
shuit aud some to sell if it is good.
A. U.