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0 THE LEPGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMBER II, 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. Southern iind Western Textile Excelsior. The people of Hampton, S. C., are again talking cotton mill schemes. W. J. Winn, boss dyer, has changed from the Newport, Tenn., cotton mills to the Leaksville mills, Spray, N. C. W. B. Lovelace, loom fixer, has changed from the Whitney S. C., cot ton mills to the Victor Mfg. Co., GVeers, S. C. Jesse Her. engineer at the Eno cot ton mills, Henderson, N. C., has re signed and returned to his home at Greenwood, S. C. The Eno cotton mills, Hillsboro, N. C., are putting in 6 Whitin twister frames. Their new electric light plant is in operation. The Anchor cotton mills. Hunters ville. N. C., have most of their ma chinery placed and expect to be run ning by December 1. 0. Vincent, a loom fixer, has changed from Pelzer, 8. C., to the Abbeville, 8. C., cotton mill, where lie has a similar position. The Charleston S. C., cotton mills have a new electric light plant in stalled by the Electric Supply & Con struction Co., of Savannah, Ga. C. E. Falls, secretary of the Enter prise mills, Kings Mountain, X. C., lias been ill of late, having had sev eral hemorraghes from his lungs. The waste house of the Mt. Holly N. C., cotton mills, was destroyed by the flames Monday; spontaneous combustion is assigned as the cause. Henry E. Knox, Jr., the water en gineer of Charlotte, has suffered a severe loss by the death of his dear mother, which occured on the second inst. W. M. Arndt and Thomas \V. Webb have finished the electric light plant at the Eno mills, Hillsboro, N. C., and retured to Charlotte, N. C., their home. A colored man by the name of Henry Stafford was killed at the Ada cotton mill, Charlotte, on the 5th inst., by the falling of a wall which was being undermined. The Alpha Yarn mill, Charlotte, has all its machinery fully employed, excepting one D. «fc T. machine and two cards, which are undergoing the operation of grinding. J. N. Smith, who has been overseer of weavingat the Victor mills, Greers, 8. C.. has gone to Anderson where he will be second hand in the weav ing room at the new mill. A. P. Rhyne, Mt. Holly, N. C., has refitted the frames of his 2.000 spin dle Mt Holly mills with the improved Draper No. 2 spindles, and in run ning tliem nearly 9,000 turns to the minute. The Spencer Mtn. mill. Lowell. N. C., we hear is about to add some 2,- 000 spindles to fill the space recently made by selling about six old frames to the Magnolia Webbing mills, of Charlotte. The Clifton S. C., Mfg. Co., at present operating 86,000 spindles and 2,700 looms, may soon have the larg est cotton mill plant South. It is reported that they will shortly erect a large No. 4 mill. The main shafting of the Stanley Creek, N. C.. cotton mills broke this week, necessitating a shut down of a •lay ana a quarter, while it was brought to Charlotte for repairs. Superintendent W.P. Shealy has the mill running again now night and day. By a decision from Judge Simon- tou, filed in the United States Circuit Court. O. H. Sampson A: Co., Boston, are awarded the full amount of a mort gage made to them by the Camper- down cotton mill, of Greenville, S. C.. to secure past and future ad vances in cotton. There was a fire in the picker room at Langley S. C., cotton mills Mon day morning, and some sixty bales <*f cotton were more or less damaged. It was discovered about 6 o’clock and the company water works were used "it.* great effect. In about an hour after the fire was completely ex tinguished by the good work of the men. W. H. Williamson. Pres. Tress., and Agent of the Pilot cotton mills, Raleigh, X. C., has been elected a director in the Citizen's National Bank at Raleigh. As already noted in these columns Nov. 17 will be his wedding day, when he will marry Miss Sadie Tucker. He has an at tack of fever, but expects to be fully ready for matrimony by that time. Brooks Mfg. Co., Greers, 8. C., write that their new cotton batting mill will soon he in full blast, with a capacity of 4.*U to .VM) lbs. per day. James McClearly, of Philadelphia, Pa., is setting up the machinery, with R. W. Hastings as foreman. Thu Brooks Mfg. Co., add that they now have a corn mill in full running order and grinding 60 bushels per day. Tne Highland Park Mfg. Co., Char lotte, are running their carding and spinning night and d»y to keep their 460 looms going. The 50 mason looms that are within the company's weave room, says Mr. Branson, are giving great satisfaction. Thus Mr. Branson is enabled to run off first- class ginghams. The above mill ’s about to put in a new boiler, the same manufactured by Casey & Hed ges, Chattanooga, Tenn. The Oneida mill , Graham, N. C., who recently placed their entire or der with the Howard & Bullough American Machine Co., of Pawtuck et, art now receiving large shipments, and will soon have their complete warp plant in operation. The order consists, as already stated in these columns, of picking machinery, re volving fiat cards, electric stop mo tion drawing frames, slubbing, inter mediate, roving frames, and warp spinning frames. At the Fairfield cotton mills. Winnsboro, 8. U., carpenters are still busy working on the operatives’ houses. A great many of the cot tages have been entirely finished and painted, and are very neat and sub stantial buildings. The grounds around the factory look clean and well kept, and pretty vines have been planted around the building, which in a comparatively short time will cover the factory, and will not only' look beautiful but will preserve the brick, by absorbing all of the moist ure, adds the Winnsboro paper. Anton Miller has resigned as boss dyer with the Cleveland cotton mills, Lawndale, N. C., and a young man who assisted him, James Ellis, will do the dyeing. Mr. Miller speaks in high terms of th« splendid treatment the Cleveland mills accord all their employes. When he signified his in tention of leaving at tho expiration of his contract last Saturday, he re ceived his salary in full, and in ad dition to being warmly thanked for his export services, was presented with the best suit of clothes and hat in the company’s store. Not satis fied with that they presented him with $30 in cash. The Laurens. S. C., cotton mills are making some very nice goods. They have 148 looms on sateens, 5 harnesses, with 76 picks to the inch ; 50 more looms will be placed on 5 harness goods with 104 picks to the inch. All the goods they are making have tape selvages. This mill is now in excellent rnnningorder. The mill has 37,480 spindles and 1,100 and some odd looms. The two weaving rooms are nice ones and the work is running to perfection. R. L. Walker is superintendent. The overseers of the several departments are: Weav ing, J. E. Crosby; carding, J. T. Brown ; spinning. J. A. Norris. The Clinton S. C., cotton mills are now receiving their additional ma chinery. They have 5,000 spindles now running and 5,000 on the floor ready to be put up. The new carding machinery has arrived. The spin ning and carding departments are run day and night in order to keep up with their 286 looms, all of which are running, making 3 leaf twill, tape selvages, T. G. Johnson was prior to his acceptance of the position of carding and spinning here, overseer of carding at the Asheville N. C., cotton mills. F. C* Graddick is over seer of the weaving, and W. F. Paris of the cloth room. J. M. Splawn is superintendent. In the United States circuit court Judge Simonton handed down his de cision in the case of the D. A. Tomp kins & Co., against the Catawba mills of Chester, S. 0. The judge decided to continue the recent temporary in junction and the receivership. The decree appoints J. C. Hardin of Ches ter,the permanent receiver of the mills. The decree provides for two sureties of $25,000 for Hardin’s pro per and faithful performace of the duties, and the transfer of the prop erty and plant from the temporary receiver to Hardin. An inventory of the stock is to be taken and filed with the court within twenty days and all litigation which may arise shall take place in the United States circuit court. To Add Dyehouses. The Double Shoals N. C. Cotton Mills, manufacturing—mainly carpet warps, have changed over their meth od of putting up the product from skeins to wound on tubes. They sell all their carpet chains at present un- colored. but we learn that they con template adding a dye-house and dyeing equipment to dye these goods. W. II. Corkran is President and Agent of the above company, and E. A. Morgan is Treasurer and Superin tendent. They operate 1,884 spin dles by water power. the Cherryville N. C. Mfg. Co. al so contemplate changing their 6,000 spindle mill over to the manufacture of carpet chain, and in that event will establish a dyehouse, with other necessary equipments. It will be decided at the next annual meeting of the company. J. M. Rhodes is Treasurer Agent and Superintendent. Botli of the foregoing mills are in cited to tills action by the fine suc cess attained by the Cleveland cot ton mills, nearby at Lawndale, X. C., whose product is carpet chains, on tubes, two-thirds of which is sold in all colors, the balance being sold in the white. However they are also commencing to make a fine line of bleached knitting cottons, having just installed a stnulljbleachery for this purpose. * ♦— - — Vou can’t afford to risk your life bv allowing a cold to develop into pneumonia or consumption. Instant relief and a certain cure afforded by One Minute Cough Cure. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg. Gone To Rest. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ezku.’h, Nov. 8.—It is with much grief and sorrow that I announce the death of little Swytnpy Martin. She passed away on the 24th of Octo ber, with that dreadful disease, dip- theria, and was buried in the Ezell family grave-yard. She was the lit tle six year old daughter of Mr. G. J. and Minty Martin. If any thing could have caused us special pain it was this sad bereavement—bow I re member the dear child—lovely, lively, intelligent and affectionate, ever dis playing a thoughtfulness beyond her years, and to lose such a promising child brings a deep and heavy shadow, but remember that light sometimes will break through and there will be a glad and happy re-union in the great beyond. It has been a heavy blow, and I scarcely know how to talk of consolation under so bitter an affliction, but we must think of one who careth for us all, and who loves little children—he has prepared a bright and beautiful home beyond the grave, and the spirit of this dear child will only wait a brief period, when in sweetness and in love she will meet her mother and father to depart no more. May God bless the parents in this the hour of sorrow, is the wish of their friend. rLUMEK SCKL'CGS. — • —• •*•*- •— — Ezell Dots. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ezell, Nov. 9.—Farmers are nearly done gathering in this section. Air. W. H. Champion has a sick child at this writing. D. H. Sprinkle’s dog has run mad and has done some damage through this section. He is a large black shepherd dog. W. H. Martin and J. A. Hicks, who swapped horses lust spring, re-swup- ped yesterday or, rather changed back. John Potter and James A Scruggs carried a load of staves to Limestone yesterday from Price it Scruggs saw mill. J. M. Hayes went to Spartanburg yesterday on business. Mrs. Daisy Martin has been on the sick list for several days but is improving now. A. B. Martin, of this place, has gone to Gaffney City to engage in the cotton mill business. J. W. Berry and family are going to Clifton to work in the cotton mill. Blue Hark. There is no need of little children being torturned by scald head, eczema and skin eruptions. De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve gives in stant relief and cures permanently. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg. To bo good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. —Hannah Moore. Warning:—Persons who suffer from coughs and colds should heed the warning of danger and save themselves suffering and fatal results hy using One Minute Cough Cure. It is an infallible remedy for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.—Steele. J. M. Thirswend, of Grosbeck. Tex., says that when he has a spell of in digestion, and feels bad and sluggish, he takes two of DeWitt’s Little Ear ly Risers at night, and be is all right the next morning. Many thousands of others do the same thing. Do you? Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and AIucou Thornton, Blacksburg. The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.—Bruyere. J. C. Berry, one of the best known citizens of Spencer, AIo., testifies t hat he cured himself of the worst kind of piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. He had been troubled with pile; for over thirty years and had used many dif ferent kinds .f so-called cures; but DeWitt’s was the one that did the work and be will verify this state ment if any one wishes to write him. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg. Men are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have as for those they affect to Imre.—Chanon. Disfigurement for life by burns or scalds may be avoided by using De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the great remedy for piles and for all kinds of sores and skin troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg. No man ever offended his own con science but first or last it was revenged upon him for it.—South. Small pill, safe pill, best pill. De Witt’s Little Earl) Risers cure bil iousness, constipation, sick headache. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg. A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which cost*: us nothing.—Til- lotaon. You can’t cure consumption but you can avoid it and cure every other form of throat or lung trouble by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. Cherokee Drug % Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg. w*mmmmmmm*m*M***mm**m**mw YOU DON’T FEEL RIGHT,. Yet do nothing to make yourself well again because you hatb to think you are sick. This is unwise, ft is more, it is dangerous, for the reason that kidney diseases begin with just such uncertain symptoms. Are you dull and despondent, bilious, constipated, with headaches, foul breath, weak digestion and no energy ? These symptoms mean a torpid liver and unless promptly regulated will surely affect the kidneys (if they are not already involved). The course of wisdom is to begin at once to use _ . ab^^PRICKLY ASH BITTERS.. It is a kidney remedy and system regulator combined. If the disorder is confined to the liver and boweis, it will cleanse, strengthen and invigorate those organs and quickly restore a feeling of health and vigor, and if the trouble baa reached the kidneys it brings to bear a powerful healing influence that may be depended on to control the disease. Prepared by Prickly Ash Bitters Co., St. Louis. Price $1.00 per Bottle. 8oM by ^ DrUKzlst3 * Cherokee Drug Co. Special Agents. THE ROAD TO RUIN. It Is Paved With Smiling and Innocent Looking Little Sins. Nobody expects to go to ruin at ouo step. No man over thought to wall: so fast that ho could not turn. Ho would go a few paces down tho road to rum just to eco what the road is like, hut ■would come back at once, and no harm would be done to anybody. But another curious thing about sin and its slaves is that it does not take big sins to kidnap the slaves. As a matter of fact, tho big sins would be usually the least lucky. They arc ugly, truculent, coarse, and they frighten the victims. Few m»u could be found to travel down tho road any distance in company with one of these. There are little, entiling, innocent, harmless looking sins in hundreds. It is with one of these the journey is always begun. “They are so weak looking, or I no importance anyway, one can jnst J turn his back upon them and walk away. It is not worth while being alarmed.” It is jnst these harmless lit tle sins that do all the capturing. Their slaves are writhing in the lowest depths in thousands. They get hold of tho soul gently. They do not frighten it. Step by step they lead it by the hand, till all at once there starts up ou the road beside it or before it the strong, coarse, hid eous, outspoken sin that bus l)een wait ing for its coming and demands it fui its own. Tho soul starts back in horror, often to retreat, and discovers the other horror that it caunot retreat, that it has lost the way, that there is, as it thinks at least, no return, and beaten down and despairing it yields. A man is iod by promising ventures which just tremble on the edge of strict integrity; by little transactions which if not exactly according to the rule arc at least not in intention dishonest; by small stretches of permitted manage ment he is led to take at last the step which makes him a forger or a thief. A woman is led by vanity, by love of admiration, by things small and harm less in themselves—concealed where, however, they should be known by things apparently trifling and not worth mentioning or considering—till one day she finds the meshes tangled about her and she is helpless and lost, shuddering at the hideous thing whose slave she henceforth is and vowing she never dreamed of expecting it. In cither case there was no intention and no belief that there was the slight est danger of an ending which was so shocking that it was supposed impossi ble ; that if ever looked for was on the instant scouted as a thing preposterous. And yet in each case the end is reached by a logic as strong as an iron chain. There was no point in the progres* where return was easier than at anoth er, and if we follow up tho links we find that the first link determines the whole. From the first small, trifling aberration to this end, wretched and vile as it may be, there was one straight, unswerving path. — Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson. Is a remedy of sterling value. It positively cures all Bronchial Affections, Cough, Cold, Croup, Bronchitis and Grippe. You can always rely on it. DR. BULL’S COUGH SYRUP is indispensable to every family. Price 25 cts. Shun all substitutes. Cittw LANGE'S PLUGS.The GreatTobacco Antidote.tOc. Dealers or mailA.C.Meyer A Co.. BaKo..M<L CANDY CATHARTIC LA a riAK 1IL CURE CONSTIPATION ALL DRUGGISTS «s. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, O A IT IT IN: E: Y CIYY. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs and of this place in lots of from 30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Agent. N.B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting ami removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. > JT'or Hale- Bayer or Seller, Four and lialf acres of land on Victoria Avenue frouting \V. H. Richardson. One lot on Victoria Avenue, near K M. Littlejohn's. , One lot In rear of above named lot HOxSto feet. . > One lot fronting Victoria Avenue opposite K. O. Sams’j \ £5x210. Good dwelling on same. One lot fronting Victoria Avenue 85x210 feel; Dwelling , of four rooms, opposite 1). A. Thomas’. Lipscomb Hotel and lot. fronting Logan street ‘i-l feet, and Depot street 200 feet. House and lot fronting Logan street LI2 feet and Depot ( street 200 feet. ( Lot Logan street 151 '■jx200 feet. 1 Lot on I>ej»ot street 2^.)xl52 feet, opposite .1. I. Sarralf ■ CONSULT WITH 40 acres on Horton’s Ferry road. 107 acres near Ninct v-Nine Islands on Broad Rive- ( 52 acres fronting Mill's Gup road. Just out of town t Two lots. Johnson street. 170x210 feet, fronting vion. ( One farm. 70 acres. 2!/» miles from Gaffney on I’acoU-i ( 0-room dwelling, new. fronting 200 feet on Depot -.t: ' to acre lot above Goforth's mill. ( Goforth’s mill and fixtures and 50 acres of land. / 44 acres below Goforth's uiill. 50acres known as the Huskey tract. . a'.'.i ,'U- et. 4 ( *4 acres near Beulah church. ) 15 residence lots fronting Falrvlew Avenue \ 4 “ “ " Johnson Street. Kdilrwt* Your ItowoU With (asraretn. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, 2m. If C. C- C. fail, druggists refund money. Escaped a Dreadful Death. William H. Hill of Osawatomie, Kan., bad an adventure in the Grand canyon of the Yellowstone which do- serves to take high rank in the unnaB of narrow escapes. He had descended the canyon to Red rock, below Point Lookout. He was still I,.’500 feet above the bottom of the great chasm. Below him an almost precipitous slope ran down hundreds of feet to the top of an absolutely perpendicular wall of great height. Mr. Hill lost his footing and plunged downward along thp steep slope. He knew what was below’ him. The speed with which ho approached destruction was rapidly accelerating and a growing avalanche was accompanying him. With a desperate effort he flung himself upon his back and dug his heels and elbows into the earth. It seemed to him that ho slid for miles, but he was not going ns fast as at the beginning. Stones that ho hud started raced on ahead of him. Ho dug his heels and his elbows in hard er, and at last he stopped with some thing that felt like solid rock under his feet. For some minutes he lay perfectly still, not daring to move. Then slowly ho raised his head. He was on tho brink of the precipice (100 feet high. The little lodge under his feet was actually projecting over the edge. A rescue party almost an hour later found him sitting there. H<* was prac tically unhurt.—Chicago News. Spider Crab Salad. “Spider crabs are not eaten hero,” said Dr. Beau of tho New York aquari um, “but I have eaten them often in Alaska. They grow there to a great size, with claws that would stretch over a bushel measure. Only *he meat found in the claws is eaten, but that make* a delicious salad.”—New York Sun. 4 , 10 “ ( o » , J •* < House and S'.x?19 80x200 105x100 itiox too IttOxlGO R. 0. SAMS’ Real Estate Agency ‘ “ “ Rutledge “ " Race *• “ Limestone “ lot “ Montgomery “ ( *‘ *' '• 2 7-10 acres. Mills Gap road. < •* “ “ 3 acres near Mills Gap road H mile from ( corporate limits. ( W/t acres near Mills Gap road 'i mile from corporate limit ( Two lots 2 7-10 acres, excellent for residence, Mills Gup road ( 10 05-100 acres, well watered, just Is-yond town limits ( Three store lots fronting Limestone street, in xt below ( Brown's store (70 acres divided into 140 lots, fronting continuation of Limestone street and less than Yt mile from town limits 315 acres on Broad river, splendid water power. 7 miles ( from Gaffney and crossed by Kills’ Ferry road ( 80 shares Gaffney Gity Land and Improvement Co. stock / V) lots on Smith. Meadow, Buford and Frederick Sts. ) 70 8-10 acres '2% miles from Gaffney on Pacolet road. Line churi.'li.!) miles from Gaffney, lots near Mills Gap road fronting city. ItW acres on Snead branch and Thiekety creek. 3 tracts from 80 to 100 acres of the Big urvey near the C'owpens battle ground. JETor Cottage on Victoria Avenue. Inaurance—Fire and life—the best companies. Hard Times will be a thing of the past if you do your trading with me. Everything is marked down tit ROCK BOTTOM PRICES to suit the times and you can surely save money il you will give me vour business. Yours truly, J. I. SARRATT. ' When Lonz and the Short of It. According to au old French saying, “A man's character in like his shadow, which sometimes follow a and sometimes precedes him, anil which is occasionally longer, oocasiotmlly shorter thau he is.” —Kansas City Star. To Caro Constipation Fnrsvsr, Take C iM uretc Cantlv Cathartic^ 10c^>r 28c. you are in need of Don't fail to to the I>l*T O OO., And you’ll always get them fresh, pure and unadulterated, and invariably at the _ 4