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0 LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. \TKMS OF INTEREST TO TEX- ' of trade, with Pr. W. B. Houston, president; K. 15. Itedwine, vice-presi- i dent; T. J. Jerome, secretary; K. F- Beasley, treasurer. TILE WORKERS Xoitb and South Carolina Mills, Th ’tnprovements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. The Salisbury, N. C., hosiery mills have purchased twelve more knitting machines, and, beginning next week, will operate its spinning department | day and night to supply the the ad ditional machines and increasing 1 orders for these popular goods. This gives employment so about thirty- five additional hands. vSontUern and Western Textile K.velslnr.l The Newton, N. 0., Hosiery Mill jale is fixed to take place on Monday, May 2, by J. H. Voting, mortagee. John Stott, of Windsor Locks, Conn., has been engaged by the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, as yarn inspector. Dean Sutcliffe, overseer of weaving at Louise Mill. Charlotte, for two veeks, was booked to return March lit. for his old home. Denver, Col. Jas. Tice, formerly boss spinner at £eidavilie. N. has taken a similar jtrsition with Oxford,Ala..Mills,under old superintendent., Tom Jackson. The Hart Mfg. Co., Flat Rock, X. C., have increased their capital stock from .$25,000 to $50,000, and have commenced the erection of a bulling to double their hosiery factory and employ 250 hands. They have in operation at present seventy-five knitting machines. P. W. Hart is treasurer and superintendent. The Lincoln Cotton Mfg. Co., J/n- colton, X. C.. held their annual meet ing on the 8th inst., and all the officers were reelected, and a dividend of 10 per cent, was declared. The shareholders of the Lincoln Mfg Co., are and ought to be perfectly satis- lied with present conditions and fu ture prospects of their business. R. M. Lindsay, has moved from BuJlalo Thread Mills, Concord, X. C., 2r> Millfort Mill, Fort Mill. S. C., where ho has taken charge of the *urd room. John Zimmerman, head bookkeeper *f the Mountain Island, N.C., Cotton Mills, has resigned to become city agent at Charlotte of the Southern Express Co. W. J. White, formerly Southern attperintendent, machinery construc tion for the Draper Co., is now super- ir lendent of the Fuirmount S. C. Colton Mills. We hoar there is a movement on foot to rebuild the Elizabeth City, X. V.. net and twine factory. It was to be a good and profitable busi ness before the building was burned a ieW weeks ago. J. M. Smyly, formerly superinten- tu-ut of the Chester,S. C.,Cotton Mill, bas been engaged to take charge of C.u? Atherton Cottuii Mill, Charlotte, and will enter upon his duties in a week or ten days. C. M. Coble is about to take chaige *>l the weave room of the Charlotte N O., Cotton .Mills, under superinten- lUut Fred. A. Cumnock, lie succeeds Mr. Oates, u nephew of the Treasurer •1 the Charlotte Mill. F. S. Harling is on duty again as overseer of weaving at Cherokee Mills, iilaeksLurp, S. C., after a visit to his ionner home, Graniteville, S. C. He had a daughter, Mary, who.was atten ding school at Graniteville, and she tmue home with him. The Mooresville, X. C., cotton mill project, mentioned last week should have read Mocksville, N. C. J. H. Morris, of Mocksville, writes us that ihere is one man there who will fur- wi.-b tiie land and 2000 cords of wood, laking it all in factory stock. The C. it G. Cooper Co., Stuart W. Cramer, southern agent, are furnish ing the other side of the engine at the Efird Cotton Mills, Albemarle, Ji. C. This engine was originally put in and provision left for adding another cylinder at a later date. K. C. Smith, an employe of the Pacolet S. C. Cotton Mills, was lust week taken to Spartanburg charged with stealing $200 from a manat lionea Path. Smith was promptly diheharged, as it was proven that he was working in the factory when the robbery occurred. The Kitson Machine Co., Stuart ft* Cramer, southern agent, Char lotte, have received a repeat order doubling the picker plant of the Sterling Cotton Mills, Franklintcn, X. C. This order includes the cele brated Kirschner carding beater on She finisher tapper. Salting bales of cotton is the latest jnHhod to make tliem heavier. The Fairfield Mill, Winnsboro, S. C., a i»-w days ago opened up six bales, ihcra being found in the center of ♦ *eh a large quantity of salt. This wifi go on record with stuffing bales • ilh rocks, old iron, picuninnies, etc. The ten new bag looms installed hy the Franklinville, X. C., Mfg. Co., are running. The company also added two new speeders and other Machinery,us well us a new system of automatic sprinklers. They have also put in a roller mill outfit of thirty barrel capacity in their fleur and grist mill. J. 8. McAlister left his position with the Worth Mfg. Co., Worthville, N. C.. this week to iocato perma- •antly at Soray. N. O., where lie will ha secretary and treasuerer of Nan tucket Mill, which lie and his brother •ru) Hal M. Worth are establishing. The buildings for the Nantucket Mills will go up at once. The Haco and Pettee Machine Shops, Newton Upper Falls, Maes., are shipping cards and drawing to th« Victor Cotton Mill, Greers. 8. C., the Manchester Mills, Rock Hill, 8. C.. and the Union, 8. C., Cotton Mills, and have several orders that are sot yet ready to ship. Contractor Brown, of Concord, has ftalahad the stone foundation of the addition to the Efird Cotton Milt, Albemarle. X. 0., and is now on the •nek work. Mr. Brown alao has the aontract to erect the wails of the targe new Wiscasset Mills at Albe marle, to be built at once. A second cotton mill Is being plan- ae^il Monroe, N, C., the prospects h»r fit establishment being regarded very bright. The business men of < S«M)Toe have just organized a board J. T. Knight has resigned us night spinner at the Vance Mill, Salisbury, X. C., where he has been four months, to take charge of the spinning room ut night for the Highland Park Mfg. Co., Charlotte, succeeding Mr. Parker. Mr. Knight was formerly boss spinner ut the Victor Mill, Charlotte. C. C. Tiller succeeds him at the Vance Mill. The Durham, X. C., hosiery mills stopped this week to add to their sixty-one machines 100 machines from the Golden Belt Factory, being the consolidation of the two recently referred to. This makes it the larg est knitting mill in the state and by the time more machinery is added, as proposed, will be the largest in the 8outh. Miss Bertie Hood, a young girl working in a cotton mill in Columbia, 8. G., visited a friend and did not turn up for a couple of days. A bottle was found floating in the reservoir stating that a suicided body could be found therein, when that pool was drained oi! and dragged. While the searchers were at work Miss Hood walked up and said she had r.o idea of killing herself, but had simply visited a friend and remained longer than she intended. The Ashby Cotton Mills, Marion, S. C., are now having added to its capacity Woonsocket speeders con taining seventy-two spindles, 248 Whitin spinning spindles, and 200 twisting spindles, one Denn warper, and one cone winder, a Broadbent. The mill has been enlarged fifty feet to make room for the machinery. The company lias also built a new office and one tenement house. The reports from the above concern are first-class. A. M. Price is proprie tor. The McAllen Mfg. Co.. McAdens- ville, X. 0., has ordered the twelve top flat cards, one lapper, one fin isher, drawing and deliveries, for their new mill from the Howard A Bullougli American Machine Co., Pawtucket, R. I. As heretofore noted these will bo 15 inch cards, and if they give satisfaction the Mc- AdenMfg. Co., will order from the same company forty more of the same cards, with full complementary machinery. Superintendant T. A. Davis, of the Newton. N. C., Cotton Mills, has con tinued to reside ur, Holly, X. C., for many years, hut lias now moved his family to Newton. Mr. Davis helped establish and was the first superintendant of the Tuckaseege Mill ut Mt. Holly, held considerable of its stock and finally sold out at a fire premium. Up until recently lie was superintendant not only of the Newton Mills, but the Manetta Mills, Lando, S. C., all three owned by the Heath Bros. Mr. Davis lias employed J. F. Cinnis, of Mt. Holly, to run his spinning room at night. The machinery for filling up the No. 2 Union, 8. C., cotton mill has been shipped, and will soon be erect ed. The increase is 111,000 spindles ana S2t> looms, which alone would make a big cotton mill. The Union Cotton Mills will have 80,000 spindles and 2.22G looms in operation ere cot ton is in bloom. They will employ (100 more operctives. President T. 0. Duncan has acquired a tine repu tation both South and North as a cotton mill financier and manager. He is sure to erect a No. 2 Mill at Union before another year elapses, which would make it the largest tex tile plant in the South. It is reported that Geo. A. Gray, tiie prominent cotton manufacturer of Gastonia. X. C., is interested with some substantial business men of Yorkville, 8. 0., in a $50,000 cotton mill enterprise for the latter place, because of his fine sagacity. T. B. McClain is the natural leader of the project ut Yorkville. There is a building already standing ut York- villo suitable for a cotton spinning mill, and it is the deairu to secure this building, and lit it up with the most modem machinery in short order, putting It into operation ut once night and day producing yarns for the market. The projectors of the factory are “wise in their day and generation” in arranging to get into the field while yarn manufactur ing is exceedingly profitable. Were they to atop to build a factory they would not probably be In as good a position us to commence now. A very reliable mill man’s estimation is that the proposed factory would clear $2:5.000 the first year. It looks as If the new mill Is to be established at Yorkville and we trust it will. TIIE LEDOEK: GAFFNEY, S. C., MARCH 24, 18H8. THE FARMERS MUTUAL Insurance Association of Cherokee County. In accordance with an act of the legislature approved March 9th, 183(5, the corporators of the Farmers’ Mu tual Insurance Association, of Chero kee county, met at the court house in Gaffney, on March 22nd, and organ ized by electing T. M. Littlejohn, president, and J. Eb. Jefferies, secre tary and treasurer. The president oppointed a commit tee of four to draft by-laws, rules and regulations by which the associ ation is to be governed, and to submit same at the next regular meeting which is called for next Tuesday, 29th inst. A large attendance is desired at the meeting next Tuesday as busi ness of vast importance is to be trans acted. Every policy holder in Cher okee county, as it now stands, should bo here with his policy as the matter of the withdrawal from the old coun ties will come up then. Especially the policy holders in Gowdeyaville and Draytonville townships should be here with their policies or send them by some one coining, and authorize the association to make the with drawal for them, as it has to be done thirty days prior to the collection of the annual assessment May 6rst. If the old policy holders now in Cher okee county do not regularly with draw from old counties by giving the required thirty days notice, they will be required to pay their annual assessment May first, and get no ben efit whatever from it as the old county will not refund any part of these paid in assessments to the association of Cherokee county and it is questiona ble whether or not tiieir policies are valid since the formation of Cherokee county as these associations are con fined strictly in the limits of the county lines. 8o let every old policy holder in Cherokee county meet at the court house next Tuesday, 29th inst., or send their policies by some one com ing. or between now and then f>rward tiieir policies to the secretary and treasurer of the association with tiie authority to make the withdrawal from the old county as it is very nec essary that it should be done ut once. 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 lias been admin istered. 8ate and harmless for chil dren. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. False eyes should be made of look ing-glass. There are three little tilings which do more work than any other three little things created—they are the ant, the bee and DeWitt’s Little Ear ly Risers, the Just being the famous little pills for stomach and liver troubles. Cherokee Drug Company. Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Phar macy, Blacksburg. The tailor is engaged in a fitting occupation. Don’t annoy others by your cough- ng, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and ail throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy. Blacksburg. A cloven breath is equivalent to a plea of guilty. After years of untold suffering frofi! piles, B. VV. Purseil, of Knitnersville, Pa., was cured by using a single box of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Halve. Skin 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. The more we think of some people the Jess we think of them. Whooping cough is the most dis tressing malady; but itsduration can be cut short by the use of One Minute Cough Cure, which is also the be^t known remedy for croup and all lung and bronchial troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. A man seldom gets so full of emo tion that he has no room for dinner We are anxious to do u little good in this world and can think of no pleasanter or better way to do it than by recommending One Minute Cough Cure as a preventative of pneumonia, consumption and other serious lung troubles that follow neglected colds. No man has the courage to tell a woman the things that her mirror does. Children and adults tortured by burns, scalds, injuries, eczma or skin diseases may secure instant relief by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Halve. Hist he gree t Pile remedy. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thorirton’s Pharmacy. Blacksburg. Tiie ardent lover is all ut sea when Ills best girl throws him aboard. What pleasure is there in life with u headache, constipation and bilious ness? Thousands experience them who could become perfectly healthy by using DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton's Pharmacy, Blacksburg SARCASTIC MR. HARDIN He is Perfectly Satisfied With the Original Bond. Bi.AcanuRQ, March 21.—In you ed itorial of March 10th you gave the taxable property of Cherokee county us $2,910,874, and that of Limestone township as $1,432,770, to show that Gaffney, by inference, pajs nearly one-half the taxes of the county, and that any burden that might fall on the whole county would be born nearly one-half by Gaffney. My friend must remember that the cor porate limits of Gaffney only extends one mile in every direction from the centre of said town: that Gaffney is only a small part in the area of Lime stone township; that only seventy of the three thousand people of Gaffney signed the bond to buiid the court house and jail; that of the $1,432,770, of this $100,6(50 belongs to the South ern railroad, $550,400 to the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, leaving only $731,037 belonging to other per sons in the township; that neither the Southern Railway Company, the Gaffney Manufacturing Company or the remaining 2,930 people in Gaff ney, or anyone in Limestone town ship signed the bond for $15,000, or are legally bound to pay any part thereof. This is an individual con tract, personal liability, and has nothing to do with the tax.'s of Gaff ney, Limestone township or Chero kee county, if the contract is carried out us agreed. This is too plain for argument. Those who signed the bond for $15,000 did a noble and commendable thing for Gaffney, and her people should take care of them, because all the inhabitants are im measurably benefitted. Had I re sided in Gaffney ut tiie time, J would unhesitatingly have signed the bond. One of your most reliable citizens pointed out to me last week a piece of property that could have been bought before the new county was established for. $50), that the owner now asks $1,200 for. In your editorial of the 17th you say: “We have been informed that the town of Gaffney will pledge itself by executing a bond to take back tiie property now offered for tiie court house and jail, if at the expiration of eleven years it be not worth $15,000, and to pay the county $15,000, to be expended for these purposes. What will Mr. Hardin and his friends say to such a proposition as that?” Mr. Hardin and his friends say: That they have a good bond, validated by tiie act establishing Cherokee county, for $15,000; that this amount will build us an elegant court house and jail, designed after our own taste and located where we wish them. You state in your editorial of the 10th and we agree with you in this state ment: “We believe, however, it is as good a bond of its kind as could be executed in the world.” We do not want the bond made by the town to take back the property ut the expira tion of eleven years, for the reasons heretofore given by us, and the one assigned by you in your editorial of thelOtb: “But we wish to impress again upon the people the fact that this is not a town bond. It is not, because Gaffney, under its charter, at that time, could not legally exe cute one, at least we suppose that is the reason.” If the town could not then make a good bond of this kind how cun it do so now? Have any new powers been conferred upon the town in this particular? Anu for another xeusoii assigned by you in the same editorial: "If there is one thing in the world thst )* ceil lin to change in the next eleven years, rad ically in sympathy, purposes, charac ter and complexion, it is the munici pal government.” We now have the bond for $15,000 and we believe in holding to that which is good. An other idea, Mr. Editor, do you believe the municipal corporation of Gaffney can legally assume the payment of an individual debt, the debt of the seventy? Can the municipal author ities convey its property to tiie county, that 3,000 people have an irtterest in, to pay the individual debt of seventy of its citizens? We are afraid that before the expiration of eleven years we might have both these questions to answer. It might bo well in this connection for the ed itor to examine Article 9, Section 12, of the Constitution of 1895. But I will say right here that Mr. Hardin and his friends have nothing to do with the internal affairs of the municipality of Gaffney. We have the bond for $15,000; we wera satis fied with it when it was executed; we are satisfied with it now; it was vol untarily given to us, and if we wish, why not let us keep it. It takes two to make h trade. We do not want the hall and have (ftm said so, and what is the use to discuss this issue further? Mr. Hardin and his friends hear tily agree witii you in the sentiment: “Any man, who for selfish purposes, would attempt to prejudice or inflame the country against the town, or the town against the country, is an en emy to both and is unworthy of honor or trust,” and we are sure that vou will agree with us when we say, that any man who will kiss his mas ter (the people) on an immaculate cheek, with flattering promises, and thereby induce him to confide in his honesty, and then, in an hour of sore distress betray him (them) for thirty pieces of silver, deserves the condem nation of all good men. In fact, the devil would hare no room for him even to shovel clinkers in the realms below. But wo are happy to say that we know of no such people In Chero kee county. X. W. H.uidin. Stice Statements. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Stick, March 21.—It is related that on a certain occasion a certain man while out riding left his carriage to walk a short distance, when he stum bled against sometbing in tiie road and fell. He gathered himself up and exclaimed with great dignity, “This comes from walking upon the earth!” If he hadn’t have carried his head so high and had looked down it little, in all probability lie would have seen the impediment. But how many men there are in every com munity whose haughty and proud bearing subject them to tumbles of tins kind. We frequently hear it said of such and such a man, that ho is very dignified, but in analyzing this quality we have most frequently found that this so called dignity was based upon the most intense pride. The dignified man never perpetrates a joke himself. He bears himself towards his fellow men as though it were an unutterable condescension to honor them with a notice. A man who has a fair personal appearance, and so conducts himself, often gets the reputation of being a profound scholar, when in truth he is one of the shallowest fellows in the world, and only profound in igno rance. The man who has claim to learning or to the resoect of Jus compeers needs no starched assumption to maintain his position. It is only the haughty, dignified man who is afraid of the approach of familiarity, and who inscribes on his brow, “Don’t come near me.” We never meet one of these dignified men in the street, with head erect and body us stiff as though lie had swallowed a walking- stick, without thinking of the obser vation of a very tali Irish recruit who was being drilled by a very diminu tive sergeant, who said. “Head up!” “And am I,” said the incipient sol dier. “always to hold me head up this way?” “Of course.” said the sergeant. “Then good by sergeant, for never shall 1 see you any more.” Rev. it. X’. Hawki.is preached a very able sermon at Mt. Hilda !aA Sunday. Miss Minnie and Sallie Ellis, of your city, were welcome visitors at Stice last Sabbath. k. u. Florence Cotton Mil],, at^ 1 >i N. haw recenly T Star Farm Statements. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Star Farm. March 21.—T. M. Lit tlejohn is working with his bees every day. I think he has about fifiy stands. Bees make more money than cotton. Mr. Susong has bought nearly one hundred head of cattle. He is going into the cuttle business. Dr. Douglas is going back to Ten nessee with Mr. Susong. We are having some nice weather. Mr. Boyles is building a school house at Corinth church. I notice nearly everybody is selling cotton. Pink Webber is getting in a stock of jersey co.vs. Peach and plum trees are bloom ing. Hustlkr. The contract for the masonry for the proposed Nantucket Mill, Spray, X. C., has been awarded to Mr. John son, or Worthville, X. C. The Forest ordered a complete tqipment of ma chinery for making fine two-p]y .Minis. The present machinery hag also been thoroughly re-organized and supplemented by wliere necessary, and will S pi n Cl)arS e num bers. i he machinery is now arriving and being set up. The big steam plant has already been started up and the steam turned on. The whole Plant will be thoroughly up-to-date, and the building is new from top to bottom, of modern mill construction, and is three stories high. Now io the time t It a t every one should taka a ^ spring tonic to tip; strengthen tho yd system and pre- pr.re for the extra demauds of Nature. Every spring the system is thoroughly over hauled—there ia a gennral house- cleaning going on within. The impurities that have been accumu lating for a year must be got ten rid of, and the system reno vated and prepared for the siege of summer. Unless Nature is as sisted in this task, the strain on the system is too severe, and a breakdown is the result. Some people neglect to supply this as sistance, and as a result they are overcome by an enervating, de pressed feeling, their energies re lax, appetite fails, and they are totally disabled for a season. Everybody just now needs a tonic, and Swift’s Specific for Thi is logically the best tonic on the market. The general health needs building up, hence a tonic is needed that is entirely harmless. S. S. S. is purely vegetable, and is the only blood remedy that is guaranteed to coutain no potash, mercury, or other harmful mineral ingredient. It is Nature’s remedy, being made from roots and herbs gathered from Nature’s great storehouse. It thoroughly cleanses the blood of all impurities, tones up the gen eral health, renews the appetite and imparts new life and vigor to the entire system. Dangerous typhoid fever and other prevalent summer diseases seldom attack a person whose system is thoroughly cleansed and toned up with S S. S. in the spring. Get S. S. S. and be pre pared. Sold by all druggists. Every Day is Opening Day fit At The Company Store until April 1st, when our grand spring display of dress goods and millinery will take place and last two days, viz: April 1st and 2d. Our goods are coming in daily and we wish to call your attention to the superb line of Wash Goods, Lawns, Dimities, Linen Goods, Percales, Ducks, Organdies, Blenchings, etc., etc. T!iis line is the prettiest ever seen in this city. Be sure to call and see it. We also have just received ti full line of ladies’ UNDERWEAR of every description which is sure to please you. • We have the most complete line Of corsets to he found any where. WE ALWAYS LEAD—NEVER FOLLOW, so be sure to see what we have to show you before you buy. The Company Store. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offors for na!o Itulldluir Lots la thin flourishing town. Gaffney City: Aluo Farms near by and In reach of the School* of I.Irnt-HtotM* Springs and of tills place. In lots of frorr. HP to acres on Hberiil time rule*; al*o AfrrteulturHl Land* to rent for Karin pur- pohCM. i'or full purtleulttrs apply to IVIOSICS WOOD. Accent. N. II. All IreiisukHidiix on laiidsof this company, vuttlnz und removing timber. tUblngor bunting, sre form (bleu under panulty of law.