Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ IIV ^ vr and Olotliingl c CUT ! 150 Dozen Spool Cotton in white and black, guaranteed 200 yards to the spool, at 2c per spool. The best Laundry Soap on the market, full 12oz cakes, at 3 for 1 Oc. Large line of toilet soap, at one- half price. Five bales of full wide sheeting at 4 1 -2c to 14c per yard. Bolts of dress plaids to go this week at 4c per yard. See our outings at 4c, 5c and 8c per yard. Will unload the last of the week a car of fresh flour from $2.00 per hundred up. Thanking you for past patronage and soliciting a continuance of the same. >oc't fill 1 W. O. Ivipscomfo & 15i'o "We "will not l>o undersold- 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 and Western Textile Excelsior. The iModena mills, Gastonia, N. 0., have just purchased 12,200 twister spindles. B. F. Hicks, overseer of carding at the Union 8. C., cotton mills, is visi ting in Augusta, Ga. The Clifton mill 8. C., No. ft, used just 290 bales of cotton and 12 bales of waste, 302 bales in all last week. W. J. Fortner, loom fixer, changed from the Clinton, 8. C., cot ton mills to Telzer, 8. C,, mill Nov.4. Mr. Clippard, the new spinning room overseer, is hustling things through in mill No. 2. Spartanburg, 8. C. C. E. Falls, Treas., of the Enter prise mills, Kings Mt’n., N. C.. is re covering from his illness and able to be out again. A 5 year old daughter of Superin tendent Shea of Clifton mills No. 1 and 3, and Glendale mills, died Nov. 17 and was buried Nov. 18. The Paterson Mfg. Co., China Grove, N. C., held its semi annual meeting a week ago, The usual 4 per cent, half yearly dividend was de clared, E. J. Gossett, overseer of spinning at;the Cnwpens, 8. C.. cotton mill, has resigned to take charge of a spinning room in the Mills mill, Greenville, S. C. J. P. Leak, Pres, and Treas. of the Midway mills, and H. S. Ledbetter, manager of the Textile Mfg. Co., Rockingham, N. C., were in Charlotte Thursday. F. C. Ferguson, superintendent of the Rocky Mt., N. C., cotton mills desires the undress of 8.11. HulTstick- ler, a machinist formerly at 8partan- burg, S. 0, The Nashville Exposition, just closed, has awarded the Whitney, 8. C., cotton mills the bronze model and a diploma for the best exhibit of bleached goods. J. B Bailey, who has been fixing looms in Clifton, 8. C., mill No. 1 fui- several years has resigned and ac cepted a similar position with the Union, 8. C., Mfg. Co. Second Hand W. A. Wofford had to /nove lively a few days ago at the Pacolet, S. C., cotton mills to extlu- guish a small blaze in the lint room under the cloth room. J. M. Arthur took charge of the cloth room Monday at the Arkwright mills, Spartanburg, S. C. He was cloth room boss at Cowpens, but re cently cloth grader at Clifton No. 2. Walter M. Scranton, who has been in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York mills, is now overseer of the 28,000 spindles and 17 spoolers in the Charleston S. C., cotton mills. Cloth Room Overseer S. F. Sutton, of the D. E. Converse mill, Glendale, 8. C., run a one-horse farm as a side issue this year near the village. He made 1G bales of cotton from 25 acres. J. W. Anderson, overseer of weav ing at the Langley, 8. C., cotton.mills, was elected W. M. of the Albert Pike Lodge No. 174, Langley. 8. C-, at the last regular communication of that lodge. Superintendent M. G. Stone, of the Spartan mills, has been confined to his home sick for a few days. Jesse Jackson, the weaver, has also been home sick a few days, but is able to be out again. A fire in the picker room of the Ft. Mill 8. C., Mfg. Co., Thursday, did $1,000 damage. They sent up to the Charlotte SupplyJCo., fora new lot of belting, and are hustling to get the machinery re-started. A company is organized to build a railroad from Soul hern Pines, N. 0., on the Seaboard Air Line to Hope mills, Hope mills, N. C., on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, a i l W il mington and Weldon railroads. S. H. Howard, late superin!endent of the Cedar Falls, N. C., Mfg. Co., has taken the superintendency of the Harden, N. C., cotton mills, which he writes us is running night and day and is pushed with orders for yarns. One family of 19 arrived at the Clifton 8. C., cotton mills Tuesday. A man with 17 children is many times welcome at our cotton mills these days. Pity that the fathers of large families so often lie around and live on the earnings of their children. The card room of the Spartan mills No. 2 is running at night on acount of one side of the large engine giving away, and the other side has not enough power to run all of the mill tl^ they have been running. They have nearly one thousand looms running. H. K. Messersmith, book keeper of the Roanoke cotton mills. Roanoke Rapids, N. C., died Nov. 15. Ho was a Baltimorean. He tendered hi* resignation to the cotton mills just a few days before his illness and in tended leaving for Baltimore to en gage with his father in the cotton business in that city. H. Creekmore has severed his con nection with the Patterson, N. C., cotton Mfg. Co. Mr. Creekmore has been superintendent with the above company for some time but he thought it advisable, so to better himself, to accept the overseership of the spinning department at the Anchor cotton mill, Huntersville, N. C. D Y. Cooper, Pres, of the Hender son, N. C., cotton mills has achieved great success as a tobacco warehouse man.and his warehouse isselling more tobacco than it ever did before. Al though getting a little bald, he is still the handsome, wide-awake,hustling D. Y. Cooper, and ranks among the most successful business men in the old North State. R. M. Lindsay, who has been boss carder for nine months at the Elm Grove cotton mills, Linolnton, N. C., left there this week to take a similar position in the Buffalo Thread mills, Concord, N. C. J. A. Lybrand. formerly of Ft. Mill, S. C., but who has been running the carding at night at Elm Grove, has now taken the day job, and be is succeeded at night by Win. Rogers. P. S. Baker, Treas. of the Crow der's Mtn., mill, Kings Mtn., N. C., has a brave 14 year old son, Luther. One day a few weeks ago he noticed a quantity of leaves burning on the roof of the house of W. A. Mauney, Pres, of the Kings Mtn. Mfg. Co. He quickly notified Mrs. Mauney her house was on fire, then tgot a ladder, mounted the roof, and with buckets ofwat< rsoon had the flames extin- gui 'ibi d. The Charleston 8. C., Knitting mill.4 were sold at public outcry on November 9 and were bid in at the upset price of $13,000 by Geo. W. Williams, Jr., representing certain stockholders. The plant was built last year and cost $23,000. It has been conducted with negro labor, and was represented to be runffing very successfully and prosperously. To the unitiuted it looks like a freeze- out for the smaller stockholders. The new company has taken out a new state commission, the capital stock being $25,000, the par value per share being $250. W. Gregg Chisholm, Henry P. Williams and T. L. Dodd are the corporators. The Union cotton mills are running nicely. The new mill, built for GO.- 000 spindles is one of the meat im posing cotton mill structures in the 8outh. It is 4 stories high, and its masbive size reflects the progressive of the cotton mill industry in the Southern states. At present the mill c.mt: Ins 40,000 spindles and l,"31 looms. The spacious rooms when filled to their full capacity with machinery will be exceedingly at tractive as one of the weaving rooms Is already having 900 looms present ing to the eye a broad space of active machinery pretty in design and well arranged. No. 1 has 14,848 and 36G looms and everything is running smoothly. Futher particulars have been re ceived as to the terrible death of Geo. Putnam Baker, mentioned in these columns Oct.30,as occurring at Bates- ville Factory, Greenville, S. C. He was standing on the speeder machine endeavoring to slip a belt over a pul ley when, failing to observe his dan gerous position, his shirt was caught by the shaft ai d he was whirled from his feet to be dashed and beaten against tho ceiling. At the first wild shriek for help the operatives sprang to the engines and every effort was made to stop the whirling wheels. Tender hands released the quivering form of tho young man from the death grip of the now motionless shaft, but he lived only fifteen minutes. His neck and one leg was broken and his body was terribly bruised. He died without recovering conscious ness. Thou Shalt not Steal,” But you may keep a good deal of your money that usually goes to other peo- ' pie in your own pocket by coming to | us when you want to buy : Dry Goods, Shoes, Pants, Trunks, Groceries, Confectioneries, The Newberry, S. C., cotton mills have made many improvements in and around the mills since they were erected. When first built they had about 13,000 spindles, and a few years ago their capacity was increased by the extension of the main building to double size and the addition of more machinery, which gave them a plant of 25,000 spindles. They have 874 Whitin looms, all of which are on white goods. The completeness of everything about the mill is very noticeable, and gives to the mill a thoroughly up-to-date appearance. At rh^si? mills there is a Burial Fund Association, the members of which bury all of the operatives over 10years of age. On the death of a member $35 is given to the relatives of the deceased for burial purposes, ahd to replace this amount in the fund each member is assessed 10 cents. All of the help is well contented, as the wages are good, and the management of the mill and rooms are under excellent and efficient men. YELLOW FEYER PREVENTED BY TAKING Tobacco, Crockeryware, Glassware, | Pocket and Table Cutlery. j Our store is headquarters for % Good Flour at the Right Price. All our goods are new and fresh, so | you need not be afraid of getting any- 1 thing old or stale. | The goods we keep are up to date | and stylish too, and the prices are as 8 low as the lowest. Now remember we dont advertise that we give away "Onr Natm Herbs" Great Blood Purifier and Liver Regulator 200 DAYS’ TREATMENT $100 CoutiiliiliiK u ItcKWturod Guarantee. 32 paijo Book and Testimonials, FREE. Seal by mall, postage paid Hold only by Agent* for goods or anything of that kind, for we couldn’t afford to do that, but we do say that if you will call on us we will save you mone. TheALONZO -Tlie Cherokee Barber Sbop.ii H. W. TAtrlvY, Prop. Raxors Keen end Towel* Clean. I respectfully solicit the patronage of my old customers, at my new stand, rear of Clarkson & Smith’s Confectionery, BUDGES G “JOEK 4 BOB.” i