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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 7, 1898 <» LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS Morth and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. Southern and Western Textile Kxeelslor.l I. Wing has resigned of the AJbion Mills, Mt. Holly, N. C. The Charlotte Cotton Mills have •ohl their American napping machine to the Huguenot Mills, Greenville, S. C.. The D. A. Tomkins Co. js install- mg an electric lighting plant for the Florence Cotton Mill at Forest City, 3i. e. The Sumter, S. C., Cotton Mills are aow running their 3,000 spindles aight and day on 10s to 14s, two and three ply yarns. T. S. Haskell, overseer of spinning in Mill No. 2, Langley. S. C., has engaged J. S. Hemrick of Ft. Mill, S. ©.. as section hand. The Oneide Cotton Mills, L. Banks Holt, proprietor, are having a number of new operat i ves’ cottages built. Con tracts have already been let for ten. The Fort Mill, S. C., Mfg. Co. are improving their water supply service by connecting the big reservoir with the pipe line leading from the wells fcrated in Sprattville. lobn Sullivan and Jim Norris, of ttxi* Piedmont S. C. Cotton Mills. r*ught 800 pounds of fine fish just below the mill dam in three hours one day last week. W. W. Wilfong, formerly with Eno Cotton Mills, Hillsboro, N. C., has accepted charge of the carding and spinning at night for the Florence Cotton Mills, Forest City, N. C. John J. Daggett has taken the position of overseer of weaving at the Louise Mills, Charlotte. He fixed boms there up until Christmas, but kas since been at Langley, S. C. Wm. Jenks, formerly overseer of the carding in the Acushnet Cotton Mill, New Bedford, Mass., has ac cepted the overseership of the carding *ilh the Aiken Mfg. Co., Bath, S. C. E. M. Wade, who was in charge of fettming and slushing at Chester S. C. JUills for three years, has changed to Proximity Mfg. Co., Greensboro, K. C., with whom he has a similar position. The Manchester,N. C..Cotton Mills. «*i»r Fayetteville, which have been shut down for a long time past, will be in operation by the 10th of April, with two young men of fine business rapacity at its head. L. A. Ellen burg, overseer weaving, birs succeeded J. M. Parker us super- Jntendant of the Tocoa Ga., Cotton MiHs. and W. T. Landman, formerly »1 Union, S.C., succeeds A. R. Parker ws carder and spinner. The Granite Mfg. Co., Haw River, N. O., will very soon run a railroad •witch from the main line, through aFe principal street clear up to the “old” factory. This will do away with nearly all the hauling by wagon. The engineers are installing the rteelrio light plant in the new Holt- Williamson Cotton Mill, Fayetteville, N. C., and not many moons v. ill elapse before their 5,000 spindles will be Tunning night and day producing jxnre for the market. John Mitchell, an employe of the Aiken Mfg. Co., Bath, 8.0., was killed itipt .Saturday by a Southern railway train. He was walking over a trestle »V Horse Creek, and could not get to the other end in time. He formerly worked in Augusta, Ga., mills. The Nims Mill, Mt. Holly, N. C., bare received as accessions to their force one family named Bumgardner wuu the parents and 13 children. There are two other Bumgardner iarmlies at Mt. Holly, and the entire ftwilies group makes a grand total of -45Bumgardners, big and little. One of the original stockholders in the Clover,JS.C.,Cotton Mills sujs he has received 95 cents on the dollar in dividends since ti.e mill was organized 7 rears ago, and on July 1st would Teteive 1<) percent, more, making 105 jn all. The stock of the Clover mill is now wortii IK) on the market. W . E. Touchstone, suporintendant •f Grendle Mills, Greenwood, S. C., has changed his rule to u former wtihod for hours of labor at the taclory, in order to give a Saturday bvlf holiday. The hours are 0 a. m. to 6.45 p. in., with 45 minutes for dinner, and stopping at noon at Sat- aniay. |j»st week considerable stock of the York Cotton Mills, Yorkville, S. C., changed hands, and although the fac tory lias been only in operation a year, and not entirely filled with auaebinery at that, the stock brought 1171. pur value being 100, Hincethen one of the stockholders offers to pay 125 for all the stock he cun get. The Union. 8. C., Cotton Mills are ui>.#ut to erect a two-story annex to llw-lr No. 1 Mill, 00x100 feet, In which wi!i he quartered their machine shop, •inlh room and dynamo, which will be rumored from their present quarters lo make room for looms When all the machinery Is in and the Co.’s wuifs running full time they will turn wut .til bales of cloth, that is one car- Ji«d or 95.034 yards per day. It r.«.a seems n*. if 8he!bv is finally U> have a new cotton mill, for the Spindle and Loom says : Within the lust ten days a plan has been de veloped which promises to give Shel by another cotton mill. The ground, which is the prettiest in this section for a mill lying on both sides of the O. R. C. R. R. has been secured and put in as stock and a considerable amount of stock is already in sight. The parties interested mean business. When the Prosperty, 8. C., Cotton Mills Co. get a settlement with the Southern Water Supply Co., for the verdict of $n,7S0 damages awarded to the factory they will bo ready to talk business. They can neither build nor operate a mill without water and must find a con tractor who can bore the well needed before they can proceed with the building. It is hoped the verdict secured will create a fresh impetus and that Prosperity’s cotton mill will soon be a realization. Manager W. 8. Monteith of the Elmwood Mfg. Co., Columbia, 8. C., says that in three weeks’ time all their machinery will be running and operated by negroes. He says that they have received offers for estab lishing a company store, but refuse to consider it, as they are determined not to have one. Their machinery is second hand, being the 10,000 spindle and 250 loom outfit formerly operated at So. Berwick, Maine, by the Port smouth Co., in manufacturing cotton flannels. The Elmwood Co. are not to make any payment on the machin ery until at the end of five years. —- *—■ Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining iu office uncalled for to date: Miss Helen Cain. Miss Lelia M. Gaffney. Mrs. 8. E. Castlebury. Mrs. Rutha Dye. Mrs. Arrelia Gaston. G. W. Lipscomb. C. C. Morgan. R. H. Mathis. O. L. Pyatt, Esq. L. N. Quinn. Mrs. Sarah Scruggs. J, R Strikland. N. B.—Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised in Tm Lkdger. T. H. Littlejohn*, P. M. April 5, 1898. Thirty-five years make a genera tion. That is how long Adolph Fisher, of Zanesville, O.. suffered from piles. He was cured by using three boxes of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. He who pitches too high will not get through his tune.—German. It is a great leap from the old fashioned doses of blue-mass and nauseous physics to the pleasant little pills known as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. They cure constipa tion, sick headache and biliousness. Cherokee Drug Company. Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.—Persian. Children like it, it saves their lives. We mean One Minute Cough Cure, the infallible remedy for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, grippe, and all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. An ounce of mother wit is worth pound of school wit.—German. The farmer, the mechanic and the bicycle rider are liable to unexpected cuts and bruises. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the best thing to keep on hand. It heals quickly, and is a well known cure for piles. Cherok.e Drug Company, Gaffney. Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses.—German. M. L. Yocum, Cameron, Pa., says: ‘I was a sufferer for ten years, try ing most all kinds of pile remedies, hut without success. DeWitt’s Witch Ha<.el Salve was recommended to me. I used one box. It has ef fected a permanent cure.” As a permanent cure for piles DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve lias no equal. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton's Pharmacy Blacksburg. Heaven bears)lie burden ol all trust ing servants.—Bengali. Thousands of sufferers from grippe have been restored to health by One Minute Cough Cure. It quickly cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe, asthma, and all throat and lung diseases. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. One cannot make an omlet without breaking au egg.—Scotch. A little boy asked for u bottle of ‘‘get up in the morning as fast as you < an,” the druggist recognized a household name for ••DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,” and gave him a bottle of those famous little pills for con stipation, sick headache, liver and stom-ich troubles. Cherokee Drug Company. Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. \\ hen it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.—Danish. r Pure lilood, k»<m] dtaentlun ami nwiilur •siwel iiiovciiii'iii* arc I lie rettulU Hun follow 1 In* um* of I'hiokli Ash Hittkim. ft ra- •isjves iHliumy due to a dlNordered liver. feolU by Clittrokuo Drug Co. Ravenna Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ravenna, April 6.—A funeral pro cession passed here Monday. The deceased was Miss Ida Wilkerson, a young lady of Pucolet. She died of consumption. Jeff Norris,an old colored man, died of pneumonia and was buried last Saturday. Dr. and Mrs. J.E. Chalk, of Clifton, spent last week in this community visiting relatives, and on returning home Saturday found that their house hud been broken into and several things stolen. Mrs. C. E. Kitchens and Clarence Chalk returned with them. Mr. Will Thomas from Rutherford Co., N. C., was in this community last week visiting the family of R. W. Spake. J. R. Wilkins has recovered from a spell of sickness and 1 am glad to say the health of this community at present is good. We had quite a crowd out at Sun day school last Sunday and the ser vices were unusually interesting. Several were present who do not attend regularly, and we hope to see them out again. One family in this community has English peas in bloom. Ravenna has one representative in the army. There is not much excitement at Ravenna on account of the war. If the fruit is not killed there will be an abundance of it in this com munity. I have just learned that a colored woman was drowned today in Thick- ety creek on W. Sam Lipscomb's plantation. She fell from the foot log. The body has not been found. a. u. c. He that takes a raven for a guide will light upon a carrion.—Persian. No one knows where the shoo pinches so well as he who wears it.— Roman. The tree overthrown by thej wind had more brandies than roots.—Chi nese. Cotton Market. The following prices prevailed in the local cotton market yesterday. Middling 5.50 Good Middling 5.00 Look! A Stitch in Time Saves nine. Hughes’Tonic (new improved. ♦ sue* pleasant), taken in early Spring and Kali prevents Chills. Dengue and Malarial Cevc»-s, Acts on the liver, tones up the sys tem. Better than (iitinine. Guaranteed. Try It. At Druggists. aOc and Jl.UO bottles. The Time of Renewal. All nature is renewed in the springtime. The sky takes on a fresher color, the trees don their Easter garments, ev erything seems glad and happy. It seems a pity that at sucii a beautiful season so disagreeable a malady as the so-called “spring fe ver” should unfit a great many peo ple to enjoy the unaccustomed sun shine and freshness that prevails. W’hat is spring fever? It is that sluggishness and irritability which everyone takes a spring tonic for. “Bad blood” some people call it. A great deal of “blood medicine” is sold in the spring of the year. The blood, the vigor, the health must be renewed, witii the trees and flowers and grass. The principle difficulty is, which of the numerous spring tonics is the best? Which .will cure permanently and remove quickly all the disagreeable symptoms? Read what Mrs. Aldin Adams, Grafton, Ky., says of Pe-ru-nr.: “I was about to give up all hopes when I con cluded to take Pe-ru-na. I believe it is the best medicine in the world. 1 can’t speak too highly of it.” A book containing several hundred letters similar to the one from which this is an extract, will be sent free to any address by the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus. Ohio. — - Buy what you do not want, and you’ll sell what you cannot spare.— Scotch. YOU MUST have pure blood for ■ good health. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. Take Hood’s Sar saparilla if you would BE WELL. Lime as a Fertilizer. [Southern Farmer hikI Horticulturist.1 j There is enough lime present in 1 nearly all soils to supply the needs j of plants. It is present also in many ; of our commercial fertilizers and in all home manures. It is present ir. the floats as phosphate of lime, in acid phosphate as phosphate and i sulphate. It is found in tankage, fish scrap, bone, cotton seed meal and all animal manures and is abun dant in ashes. It is a constituent of all vegetable matter and of all soils. It is not, therefore, deemed neces sary to apply the ordinary carbonate of lime to soils as a fertilizer. It serves, however, a most valuable purpose in rendering available to plants the store of insoluble plant food in the soil. We use lime gener ally in the form known as “air slack ed.” In burning the lime rock, water and carbonic acid, two constit uents of the most abundant form in which lime occurs as carbonate of lime, are driven off by the heat, leav ing what we call mechanical lime or caustic lime. When this is exposed to moist air it generally takes up water and some carbonic acid in its effort to revert to its original form. This results in the more or less complete pulverization of the rock lime and we get “air slacked” or “agriculturar” lime. When this is applied to the soil it takes carbon from any vegetable matter present and thus hastens the decomposition of vegetable matter. It also acts upon mineral substances in the soil, breaking up existing compounds and forming new ones and thus renders insoluble mineral elements of plant food available. It exerts also a mechanical influence upon the soil. On these accounts lime is said to “enrich the father and impoverish the son.” Lime should be applied on the surface of plowed land in the fall or early winter. IF U WANT BARGENS BUY FOR CASH I SAVE YORE MONEY and cum to the Spot Cash Grocery Store. IT WILL MAKE U LAFF to se the barge ns T hnv for u this week. U’ll be sorry if u dont. Respectfully, J. L. ALEXANDER. Railroad Engineer to Benofita Received From \ Dr* Miles’ Remedies. T HERE Is no more responsible position on earth than that of a railroad engin eer. On his steady nerves, clear brain, bright eye and perfect self command, de pend the safety of the train and the lives of its passengers. Dr. Miles' Nervine and other remedies are especially adapted to keeping the nerves steady, the brain clear and the mental faculties unimpaired. Engineer F. W. McCoy, formerly of 1323 Broadway, Council Bluffs, but now residing at 3411 Humboldt St., Denver, writes that he "suffered for years from constipation, caus ing sick, nervous and bilious headaches and was fully restored to health by Dr. Miles’ Nerve & Liver Pills. I heartily recommend Dr. Miles’ Remedies." Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re funded. Book on dis eases of the heart and nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart, Ind. FIRST CLASS HEARSE —r^oi*— Funeral Occasions. Gentle Horses, Careful Driver. Town or Country Served. Prices Reasonable. Call on M. Q. MONTGOMERY, Corner Montgomery and Petty £t«. Forest King was foaled August 9th, 1889, in Lexington, Ky., bred by Vince Cromwell; sired by Veteran, Veteran sired by Happy Medium, the sire of Nancy Hanks, race record 2.04, and ninety others in the 2.30 list; Happy Medium sired by Hambletonian X, out of old Princess, the mare which won the ten mile trot ting race in Sanfrancisco in 1867. Forest King’s dame is Lady Forest, by Edwin Forest; he by Membrino Champion; he by Membrino Patchen; he by Membrino Chief, and he by old Hambletonian X. Forest King will stand the present season at J. G. Spencer’s livery stables in Gaffney. For terms and particulars apply to J. G. GII»SGO]VIH <’ r J. G. HGXinVGICI*. /• f