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r> THIS LEDGEll: GAFFNEY, 8. C., MARCH 10, 1808. 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 ;ind Western Textile Excelsior.] The Clifton S. C. Cotton Mills pay $18,000 a year in tuxes, and $1,200 to the road fund. Wiley H. Bolen has left the Central Falls, N. C.. cotton mills and is new in Columbus, Ga. There is some talk at Mt. Pleasant, X. C., of building a second cotton mill there in the near future. J. F. McKinnis has resigned as boss spinner at night with the Xims Cotton Mill, Mt. Holly, X. C. A. EnnK for some time overseer of the carding for the Victor Manu facturing,Co.,Cliarlotte. has resigned. John (^uinn lias accepted the pos tion of boss carder for the Victor Cotton ManufacturingCo., Charlotte, N. C. The Caraleigh Cotton Mills, Ra leigh, X. C., started up their spin- j ning on night work the first of this j week. The Highland Park Mfg. Co., Char lotte, is now running part of weave room at night us well as day, on col ored goods. J. A. Pinchback. of Bessemer City, \. C., is acting as superintendent and general manager of the Red Bluff Cotton Mill, Clio, 8. C. James Ward has left the Cowpens, 8. C., cotton mills tu become second hand in the spinning room of the Hugenot Mills, Greenville, S. C. The Patterson Mill, Concord, X. C., are daily expecting six Mason twist ing frames, purchased through the 1). A. Tompkins Co., of Charlotte. T. B. Farmer has resigned at the American Spinning Mills, Greenville, 8. C., to take etarge of the spinning at the Fairmont, S. C., cotton mill. E. L. Pegram, Jr., has resigned as secretary and treusurerof the Stanley Creek, X. C.. cotton mills, and was succeeded this week by Mr. Rankin. Owing to the supply of water being short, a portion of the machinery in Oneidu Cotton Mills, Graham, X. C., has been standing since last Satur day. John C. Linder, formerly with the Victor Mill, Charlotte, last week took charge of the spinning, warping and spooling at the Cliarlotte Cotton Mills. R. S. Reinhardt, secretary and treasurer of the Kim Grove Cotton Manufacturing Co., Lincolnton, N. O. , visited Cliarlotte. N. C., on the 3rd inst. Jos. Ellington, late card grinder at the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, this week went to the Patterson Mill, Concord. X. C., to take charge of the curding. Ben Nuttall, formerly superinten dent of the Fork Shoals, S. C., cotton mill, has accepted the superinten dency of the Alpha Cotton Mill, Charlotte. G. 8. Coffin, president of the Enoree, 8. C., cotton mills, andCapt. F. Dilling, treasurer of the Hilling Mills, Kings Mountain, N. C., went to Charlotte Thursday. The Long Shoals Cotton Mills, Lincolnton, X. C., will improve their dam this spring, and increase their water power. Additional machinery w>ll then he purchased. John R. Ashe, treasurer for the Yorkville, 8. C.. Cotton Manufactur ingCo., and P. M. Grimes, superin- intendent for said company, visited Charlotte on business this week. Crawford James has resigned as second hand spinner at McColl, 8. C., cotton mills, where he has been one year, to become night carder and spinner at the W. R. Kindley Mill, Mt. Pleasant, X. C. Messrs. Crossland & Everett, men of means and large planters with fine lands and available water power near Cheraw, on the Marlboro side of the Pee Dee River, contemplate building a cotton mill over there. W. E. Redd, who has run the weaving at 8axe-Gotha Mills, Irene, 8. C,. for seven months, is now also overseer of carding and spinning us well, since J. R. Young left for Put- terson Mills, Concord, N. C. i There's plenty of mischief in boys. Two of them commenced fighting in the 0. E. Converse Mill, Glendale, H. C.. a few days ago, their parents loiued in. The re»-ult was nine looms stuoped half a day for the trial before a magistrate. C. W. Baldwin is planning to move his Piedmont Bobbin Works from Athens, Ga., to .Spartanburg, H. C. He desires to raise a $ir>,(KJ(). compa ny at Spartanburg, taking half the stock himself. He says he would keep 200 hands employed. Rowland Tate, second hand in *be weave room at Crowder’s Moun tain Mill, Kings Mountain, N. C., was shot and killed by Perry WIN barns, a constable, the latter being also badly cut by Tate. William* Is In jail, bond being refused. H. M. Moreland, second hind at Henrietta Mill. No. 2. X. C., has been transferred to mill Xo. 1 to act as second hand in spinning. All the machinery at both mills is running full time, and the carding and spin ning at Xo. 2 at night also. The Abbeville Cotton Mills have placed an order for<|the complete equipment of their mill with Humid ifiers. adopting the American 4 Vor tex” Humidifier, the equipment to be installed by the U. 8. Aeropher Air Moistening Co., of Providence, R. I. The 110 looms of the Dallas, X. C.. Cotton Mills are now standing still, | while the 2,080 spindles are produc ing every week for the market about 10,000 lbs. per week of 20s and 22s. It is being arranged to set the looms aside and put spinning frames in their plucej J. A. Green of Rock Hill, 8. C., goes to Columbus, Ga., to become boss dyer at the Muscogee Mills. He went to Rock Hill ten years ago to take charge of the dyehouse of the Standard Mill, and acted as its super intendent after the departure of Jas. Lord for Tennessee. The Fayetteville X. C. citizens are still hopeful of their bleachery pro jected, which has been announced in these columns several times. The preferable site there, they say, is the old Mims pond property, lying be tween the Atlantic Coast Line and C. F. <k Y. V. railroads. The new cotton mill at McColl, 8. C., is now to be built. It will be re membered that it was planned just two years ago under the name of the Beaver Dam Cotton Mills, and the machinery even bargained for. Then it was given up, for a time, but now it is to be built at once. Edwin Flemming, of Spartanburg, S. C., is spending a few weeks at home. He has been taking a course of work and study in a Xew England cotton mill for two years In order that he might become familiar with all the details of cotton spinning and weaving. He will graduate this summer. W. A. Watson, president of the Milllort Mills, Ft. Mills, 8. C., met with a painful accident last week in his barn, lie jumped on a pile of hay, and a hidden pitchfork pierced him in the hips, causing ugly and very painful wounds, Mr. Watson has been laid up since, but is re- cov< ring. D. E. Rhyne, proprietor of the Laboratory Mills, Lincolnton, X. 0., found that the Lutherans of Lincoln ton still lacked several hundred dol lars of having sufficient money to complete the new church, and gave the carpenters.painters and plasterers orders to go ahead and present their bills to him. The Wadesboro, X. C., Cotton mills have given a contract to Henry E. Knox, Jr., of Charlotte, for boring a well or wells that will furnish ample water supply, of which hereto fore there has been a lack. Like nearly all other Carolina spinning mills they want to run steadily 24 hours a day. Work of enlargement has com menced on the Tccnix Cotton Mill building, Fayetteville, X. C., recently purchased by the Holt-Williamson Mfg Co. The end walls facing west have been pulled down and the build ing will be extended one-third the present length. When completed it will bo a huge one-story factory. The proposed 3,000 spindle mill at Fountain Inn, 8. C., mentioned last week, is to be entirely managed by P. C. Poag, a textile man of Rock Hill, 8. C., who takes a large block of stock, and is working up the bal ance. John Keliet and Messrs. Giv ens and Cannon are some of the lead ing stockholders at Fountain Inn. A. G. James has given up his po sition as night carder and spinner at the W. R. Kindley Cotton Mills, Mt. Pleasant, X. C., and has taken the spinning, spooling and twisting at Patterson Mill, Concord. His broth er, A. M. James, continues to super intend the mill, which has been run ning on 30s 2ply, day and night for twelve months, having stopped in that time only two days. The new McColl mill is to be built adjoining the McColl Cotton Mill, from which company they will get the power. The building will be filled with 5.000spindles, with all the latest equipment, and with which they will spin 2fls to 40s fine twist and warp yarns. Superintendant Charles Ice man is spinning (is to 2fis hosiery yarns in the present McColl Mill that have a high reputation in the market. He will make the new mill equally successful. The Hmithermnn Cotton Mills, now starting up their 2.080 spindle and 80 loom factory at Troy, X. C., have been incorporated by 8. J. HroitHer man, Mrs. T. J. Smithermun, Miss Minnie M. 8mitherinan. Miss Inu L. Hmitherman and A. W. E. Cupel. The capital stock is $50.(MX), with the right to increase to $75,000; charter ed for thirty yearr. Mr. Cupel, an experienced cotton mill man, is sec retary and treasurer; Frank Page is Superintendent. Miss Minnie Kmith- erman is the principal bookkeeper. I). Drayton Perry, proprietor of the Richland Woolen Mills, Wuynesvillf, X. C., visited Ccdartown, Ga.. last week, and was the guest of his friend Superintendent Wm. Parker, of the Cedartown Mfg., Co. Mr. Perry was in\estiguting the advantages of that place for the location of a factory for the manufacture of jeans, cottonades. overalls and punts. It is said that he will probably recommend Cedar- town to his associates as ths location for the factory- Mr. Perry took the first prize at the North Carolina State Fair for the best woolen manufactur ed goods on exhibition. E. A. Thompson, who we noted last week,as having taken the superin tendency of the Abbeville. 8. C.. cotton mills, will leave his family at Rock Hill, 8. C. until June. Mr. Thompson has been superintendent of the Rock Hill Cotton Mill since leaving Vaucluse. His salary at Abbeville is $2,000 a year and a nice house. Mr. Thompson is very much pleased with the Abbeville mill, and says it is one of the finest that he has ever seen. He also says that if this mill doesn’t make money none will. « — Hickory Grove News. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Hickory Grove, March 5th.—We are having plenty of rain now. Old Aunt Margaret Bratton, an aged lady, is very low with dropsy. The blood hounds passed through this section last Saturday night. It is not known who they were alter. W. I. Howell took unto himself a help meet last Wednesday. We have a great deal more plow ing done now than we had at this time last year. There are plenty of oats sown in this section. Hickory Grove is a nice little town. It has some good people. It has three churches, and will soon have another. The Presbyterians are go ing .to build. Rev. Mr. Russell worked up this church. He is a good man. P. B. Love is doing mucli to further the progress of Hickory Grove. Mr. T. B. Whitesides is building a new house. We have a good school at this place There are about seventy-nine pupils. Prof. Slaughter is our teacher, assist ed by Miss Wilson. Dr. D. T. Teal will locate in our town in a few days. He is from Ches terfield Court House. Rev. J. P. Knox and J. K. Allison visited H. B. McDaniel and family one day last week. Cow Bov. Defends General M:les. Col. T. Stobo Farrow, of Gaffney, late auditor lor the war department during President Cleveland's admin istration, who is personally acquaint ed with General Miles, the command ing general of the army of the United States, says that the criticisms of General Miles are unjust and result frnn unfounded prejudices. That G-jnera 1 Miles is a gallant officer and ftirly won the high position he holds by his distinguished services, and the newspaper criticisms are caused prin cipally from the envy and jealousy of some of the officers of the regular army, West Point graduates who are prejudiced against him. ——— -«• —— A thrill of terror is experienced when a brassy cough of croup sounds through the house at night. But the terror soon changes to relief after One Minute Cough Cure has been admin istered. Safe and harmless for chil dren. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton's Pharmacy, Blacksburg. Asbuvy Assertions. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) AsRURY, March, 8.—We have had a nice season, which we were glad to see. The roads are in bad condition in places. Captain Thaxton and his force could improve them consider ably. The war is all the talk now. It seems our farmers are using as much guano as ever. Guess they will raise some more five cents cotton. Miss Ellen Kirby spent Saturday night with Misses Cora and Clrrissa Haines. Miss Rammoth Baines spent last Saturday night with Miss Della Har mon. Thomas Mabrey spent Saturday and Sunday at Pacolet Mills. The subject of the Anbury Deba ting Society, for next Saturday night is, ‘‘Prohibition or no Prohibi tion.” J. R. Littlejohn went to the county seat Monday on business. J. D. Jefferies, Jr., has bought him a cotton seed crusher and is making his own fertilizer. Mr. Jefferies is one of Cherokee’s up-to-date farmers. J. W. Sparks, of Asbury, is attend ing Greenville court. Collice Kirby spent Saturday night with Morgan Haines. Blue Hawk. . » Ofr Want The Ledger Twice a Week. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Grover. March 7.—If you can give me space I would like to talk a little while to the readers of your valuable paper. We have a new county and we want its resources de veloped and pushed well to the front. There is no better help along this line than a good newspaper, like The Ledger. It is the best paper published any where for the money. What we want is more of if. In these days of steam, electricity and 'war clouds we want the newsoftener than once a week and we believe with a small additional expense we can get it twice a week. There are few. if any, post offices in our county that do not get mail twice a week, and nearly all the Ledger readers, I pre sume, live near enough to get their mail twice a week. If a weekly pa per will do a great deal towards build ing up a town and county then, it stands to reason a semi-weekly will do more. I want every reader to express him self personally or by postal card to the editor on this subject as soon us possible and let us make our new county hum for all It’s worth. F. II. Dover. Somewhat Improved. Joe Estes, who had the misfortune to cut himself very severely with an uxe several weeks ago while chopping wood, developed acute rheumatism or blood poison. Dr. Smith has been attending him and we are glad that he is nov somewhat improved. Joe is a hustling young funner of Etta Jane. Pull out Joe and come up and see The Ledger. Unbidden guests give pleasure— when they go. There are three little things which do more work than any other three little things created—they are the ant, the bee and DcWitt’s Little Ear ly Risers, the last being the famous little pills for stomach and liver troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Phar macy, Blacksburg. When a sinner turns saint, he is apt to overdo it. Don't annoy others by your cough- rig, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. Ready for the Fray. Rev. T. J. Campbell, was in to see The Ledger on Saturday. Mr. Camp bell is a Confederate veteran with a good fighting record. He is quit® an old man now but says if he was a few years younger he would be one of the first to tackle Spain, in case of war. He says he has had an unsettled bill against Spain, ever since she shot Critenden. Attention Correspondent. Wo have received several commu nications this week, in which the writers neglected to sign their full name. How often must we inform our correspondents to sign their names if they wish their communi cations to receive our attention? Again, write on one side of the pa per only and sign your name. A little man’s happiness consists in magnifying himself. After years of untold suffering from piles, B. W. Pursell, of Knitnersville, Pa., was cured by using a single box of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Halve. Hkin diseases such as eczema, rash, pim ples and obstinate sores are readily cured by this famous remedy. Cherokee Drug Company. Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. It takes both grace and grit to bear disappointment well. Whooping cough is the most dis tressing malady; but its duration can be cut short by the use of One Minute Cough Cure, which is also the best known remedy for croup and all lung and bronchial troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. To profess Christ is a challenge to the world, not a defense. We are anxious to do a little good in this world and can think of no pleasanter or better way to do it than by recommending One Minute Cough Cure us a preventative of pneumonia, consumption and other serious lung troubles that follow neglected colds. From the ruins of Babylon have been recovered over 400 diamonds. • - » What pleasure is there in life with a headache, constipation and bilious ness? Thousands experience them who could become perfectly healthy by usinp DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. Cherokee Drug Company Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s 1'narmucy, Blacksburg. Cotton Market. The following prices prevailed in the local cotton market yesterday. Middling 6.00 Good Middling 6.16 —- • • - —- PUBLISH MY LETTER 8o That Women May Know Where to Find Relief. Such is the request of Mrs. L. M. Haynes, Springfield, Mo., (G.neral Delivery). A part of Mrs. Haynes’ letter reads as follows: I wrote to you in May, 1807; I was about to give It up, for I had the best four doctors in the city and they could not cure me. My disease was fe male weakness. I had been trou bled with It for ^ five years. Four ' / jL, _ and a half bot tles of Pc-ru na cured me. I hope all suffering women will take Pe»ru»na. I know it will cure others also. I cannot praise Pe-ru-na enough. M Bear in mind that female weakness Is pelvic catarrh, to which women are peculiarly liable, and from which few are entirely exempt. Pe-ru-na cures catarrh wherever located. “Health and Beauty,” a book devoted to the phase of catarrh peculiar to women, wilt he aent free to any woman by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manu facturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. ¥• Alar* Vm.fttlpatlon Formrmr. T*ks <!u»c»i«u Ci odr Ottiertt*. Uto or tte. It C. U. C. lull to cure. drussieU refund mooer- Rlce’a Doom Oroasa Li*ament, cures all sciies aud palus. Sold and guaranteed i, y ^ Daio CO. MARRIED MEN MINGLE. R. S. Lipscomb Entertains a Number of His Friends. Tuesday evening Mr. R. 8. Lip scomb entertained about thirty of his friends at his home on Frederick street. Mr. Lipscomb was pleased to term the affair the “Married Men’s Party,” only married men, or those who had been married, being pres ent. It was a most delightful affair, and for two hours the guests in dulged in a sumptuous repast and apt repartee. The festive board was prepared under the direction of Mrs. Lipscomb, and was in every respect charming. The host was in the hap piest frame of mind possible, and all whp know “Steady,” know what that means. Col. J. G. Wurdlaw made an efficient'toast master. Col. Farrow, Capt. Bell, Capt. Griffith, Mayor Littlejohn, Alderman Baker, J. C. Jefferies, Esq., H. I). Wheat, Ex-Mayor Wood, and others, re sponded to toasts. All left with lighter hearts and a kinder fellow- feeling. each voting Mr. and Mrs. Lipscomb among the most charming entertainers in the city. The Skating Rink. Joe McArthur has opened a skat ing rink in the new store-room of j XV. O. Lipscomb & Bro., on Grenard i street. There is no more healthful I exercise than skating, and it is the i most delightful of sports. The young folks will doubtless spend many pleasant evenings at the rink. La dies attend and receive the best of attention. Manager McArthur is I ever on the lookout to keep perfect order. Ground Broken for the Laundry. Capt. William II. Richardson com menced work on Monday digging out the foundation for the steam laun dry. It will be built on his lot on Limestone street, and operated by James and Isom Richardson. A steam laundry has been long needed in Gaffney, and we predict for the young men a lucrative business. A NEW TRIUMPH. tar 0! the Breast Mr. A. H. Crausby, of 158 Kerr St., Memphis, Tenn., says that his wife paid no attention to a small lamp which appeared in her breast, but it soon de veloped into a cancer of the worst type, and notwithstanding the treatment of the best physicians, it continued to spread and grow rapidly, eating two holes in her breast. The doctors soon pronounced her incurab-^ celebrated specieMst thca fiftf. > ed bar, but stec&r- tinoeil to gwwigg and when ififtgKf. that both h<3? HOSt and grandmuthatfap i died from caneer gave the case np as hopeless. Someone then re commended S.S.S. and though little hope remained, she begun it, and an improvement was no ticed. The cancer commenced to heal and when she had taken several bottles it disappeared entirely, and although sev eral years have elapsed, not a sign of the disease has ever returned. A Real Blood Remedy. S.S.S. {guarantied purely vegetable') is a real blood remedy, and never fails to cure Cancer, Eczema, Rheumatism Scrofula, or any other blood disease. Our books will be mailed free to any ad dress. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta Ga. SSS Wm. Muhro. Jas. Mitxro, J. B. Rem.. □ ('iiion. S. C. Union, 8. I*. Gaffney. S.C. :vii :vi*o <s; iY'rxou reevH-ax-Law. GAF'F'IVtOY, S. O. Will practice In all tin* courts of the Sia ami I n itoil States. All business entrusted us will receive prompt attention. C. JEFFERIES,4- ite to The Dreaded Consumption Can be Cured. T. A Slocum, the Crest Chemist and Scientist, Will Send to Sufferers, Three Free Bottles of His Newly Discovered Remedies to Cure Consumption and sll Lung Troubles. Nothing could be fairer, more phil anthropic or carry more joy to the afflicted, than the generous offer of the honored and distinguished chem ist, T. A. Slocum. M. C., of') New York City. He has discovered a reliable and absolute cure for consumption, and all bronchial, throat, lung and chest diseases, catarrhal affections, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh and all conditions of wasting away; and to make its great merits known, will send three free bottles of his newly discovered remedies to any af flicted reader of the Ledger. Already his “new scientific system of medicine” has permanently cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it not only his professional, but his religious duty—a duty which he owes to suffer ing humanity—to donate his infallible cure. He has proved the ‘vdreaded con sumption” to be a curable disease beyond a doubt, in any cHinate. and bason file in his American and Euro pean laboratories thousand of “heart felt testimonials of gratitude” from those benefitted and cured, in all parts of the world. Catarrhal and pulmonary troubles lead to consumption, and consump tion, uninterrupted, means speedy and certain death. Don’t delay until it is too late. Simply write T. A. Slocum. M. C., ( J8 Pine street, Xew York, giving express and postoffice address, and the free medicine will be promptly sent. Please tell the Doc- tor you saw his offer in The Ledger. Notice. I HAVE the airency for Cherokee county of the celebrated KI riffs Improved Cotton Seed, the kind used hy E. 1). Thompson, l>y which he raised four tuilcs to the Hereby special cultivation. Tbe seed sell for per bushel In lots less than 10 bushels: special prices for larfrer lots. Address Ai.bkut Hettis. 2-10-41 Blacksburg, S, C. 1 GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practices i All the Courts. Collections a Specialty. dr. chas. a. jefferies! Physician and Surgeon. SPECIALTIES:—BURGERV. EVE. EAR and THROAT. ry Office. Cherokee Drug Co’s Store Telephone No. 40. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones ft Co.’s Stcre Can be found at office six days in the week. J. E. WEBSTER. Attorney-iVt> 1^oa.v • Office In Court House. (Probate Judge'soffiect Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soecialtv. IV. W. HAKOITN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ISlackHlMirc; mid Oiiffney, 6. C. ILL practice In all the Courts. I can ire reached over the ’phone from Car- roll ft Stacy’s Bank, at my office in Blacks burg. at any moment. O. L. SCHl'MPKRT. TH08. B. BUTLKK. Wm. McGowan. SCHUMPERT, * BUTLER * & i McGOWAN, ATTOItJWKVW-AT-I.AW. Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted t<: PS. {^"Practice In all the courts. DR. J. F. GARRETT. Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday morning each week, returning to office at 2:30 •r YOU WANT—* FIRST-CLASS JEWELRY ^^At Moderate Prices £ 9 Then you can’t <lo better than to buy it from me. Is your watch or clock out of order? If so, no one can repair it better, quicker or cheaper than I can. Call on me. All work guaranteed. S. A. DANIELS, The