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Bright Bits ot Neighborhood Gossip
Prepared for Ledger Readers
The Sage of Etta Jane
in Good Style.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta J axe, June 2<>.—The ground
is too wet to plow this a. m. We
have had no rain - worth speaking of
since the 23rd of April.
The C. E. Society met at S. F.
Estes’ yesterday.
The Messopotamin Sunday school
elected R. A. Foster, Walker Goforth.
Walter Horn and Sain Foster as del
egates to attend the township con
vention at Sardis next Sabbath. The
Salem Sunday school elected W. C.
Blackwell, Sam Strain, X. J. Black-
well, John Foster and S. F. Estes as
‘its delegates.
Last Saturday H. T. Estes killed a
snake that measured six feet and five
inches in length. It was a chicken
snake.
Somebody is expected to send the
Ledger a cotton bloom this week.
Who will it be?
Messrs. Tom and Gibbs Wilkins
and Misses Virgie Wilkins, Violet
and Agnes Gardner and Bessie Scott
came over yesterday to the C. E.
Society.
Mrs. Joe Estes is quite sick.
If the boys in the Ledger office
don’t quit misquoting and making
me out the Annanias of the 19th
century, I will send my fighting
Lieutenant, Jim Proctor, up there
with instructions to whip out the
whole business. Last week they
made me say that Jim Smarr’s 238
rats weighed 540 pounds instead of
forty pounds. That’s awful!
I have received No. 1, Yol. 1, of
“The Lost Cause,” an illustrated
journal of history, devoted to the
collection and preservation of the
records of the late confederacy, and
to the recording of humorous anec
dotes, reminiscences, deeds of hero
ism, terrible hardships endured,
battles on sea and land and the noble
deeds accomplished by the faithful
-^and loyal southern women. It is
beautifully and properly illustrated
and, with the Confederate Veteran,
forms one of the best war histories
cow published.
It is published monthly by the
Courier-Journal Job Printing Com
pany, Louisville, Ky.. Ben LaBree
is the editor. Ben knows what it
takes to make a paper. In addition
to this it will record the prinsiple
events of the Spanish-Cuban-Atneri-
can war.
Our watermelons have not come up
well this year. Many of the seed are
still lying in the ground.
We hope our people from both
town and county will turn out en
masse on the Fourth of July and
give Senator McLaurin and other
distinguished speakers a generous
welcome to our celebration. Let
everybody go and keep sober, too.
We have had a few blackberry pies.
Mrs. “J. L. S.” complains because so
many of the briars were cut this
spring to make room for cotton. She
says the briars are worth more than
the cotton.
Mrs. John Henry Fowler and chil
dren visited Mrs. J. L. S. last Wednes
day and spent the day.
Now is a good time to sow peas
and plant stubble lands.
J. T. Estes, \V. T. Osment «fc Co.,
began threshing wheat on the York
side last Tuesday. They will finish
up in a day or two I suppose.
Mr. Henry W. Thomas wants the
location of the free ferry (if we get
one) decided by a vote of the people.
We don’t see any use in that. We
believe if those people who have
claims to the different locations will
meet the propound committees and
lay their claims before them they
will act in such a manner as to give
satisfaction to the greatest number.
We are willing to risk any three men
that either the boards of York or
Cherokee counties will appoint to lo
cate the ferry.
Our old friend, Mr. James Raines, of
Manchester, Va., kindly remembers
us and family by sending a batch of
Richmond, Va., papers. Anything
from the “Old Dominion” is read
with avidity. He is comfortably sit
uated with his children and is enjoy
ing life as well as he could do. He
is the true type of an ante helium
Virginian, born andteared in the his
toric town of Fredericksburg on the
banks of the Rsppshannab.
Until the rain come last Thursday
•verything was suffering. For sev
eral days It slmost seemed that the
“heavens were brass and the earth
Iron.” The gentle shower come,
and as the poet Fsalmist expresses
It:
“Tbe bunuxi and parcbod wilderness
“To water pool* He brings;
•The ground that was dried up before,
“He turns to water-springs.
We have plenty of rain now.
lose were beautiful lines publish-
(o the last week's Lkikikk andded-
id to the metnory of J. Tuck
McCraw by a pupil. They fully ex
press the relationship that should
exist between pupil and teacher.
Mr. McCraw was an upright, hon
orable Christian gentleman so far as
our acquaintance with him was con
cerned, and we sympathize with his
family in their loss.
Our days begin with trouble here.
Our life Is but it span :
Tbe monster death is always near—
So friti 1 a thing Is man.
The rain last Thursday having put
the ground in good plowing season wc
could not get off to attend the enter
tainment at the Hickory Grove High
School iast Friday and Friday night.
One of the great drawbacks to our
c unty is we have but few mills fit to
grind wheat. This, in a large meas
ure, accounts for why so little inter
est is taken in trying to raise wheat.
The Ledger has raised a good
point in reference to adulterated
flour sold in our market. We hope
that the matter will be so agitated as
to drive fraudulent millers out of
business or force them to deal hon
estly with their patrons.
As a pleasant past time at the
I’iney Grove picnic on Saturday of
week before last we learn that Mason
Pridmore tested his knuckles on the
pate of a drunken, disorderly tough.
We ought to remember that the
pulpit is the chair of heavenly ethics
and not the chair of earthly econo
mics. A tower of strength in the
day of battle is, “Fear thou not, for
I am with thee.”
The cant of pity for sufferers in
other lands should never blind our
eyes to rum’s victims at our doors.
Life is a complete failure to the
man who lives with a self he don’t
respect.
Those who love the services of sin
must be content with its wages—
death.
The seasons in Cuba are three, to-
wit: November, December, January,
and February, cool; March April,
May and June, hot; July, August,
September and October, wet.
Mr. Giles Hill is now going about
on his wooden leg.
Messrs. Jack Kendrick, J. E. Fos
ter and Fowler Brothers have thresh
ed most of the wheat in this section.
A genuine case of small pox has
developed in the neighborhood of
Bullock’s creek church in York
county. The patient escaped from
the pest house at Rock Hill, so we
learn.
Our sugar cane hasn’t come up
well this year and we are planting it
over again.
The Cherokee park seems to be a
great resort for pleasure seekers.
We hope, however, that the authori
ties will make it as attractive as pos
sible. Come up Charleston and Co
lumbia and see our new county.
We have a few boys and bachelors
in this section who would marry if
they had a chance.
The colored band, of Hopewell, is
practicing occasionally. They play
right well, too. We commend them
to the government as a regiment
band.
Camp Jefferies U. C. Veterans will
meet at Elhethel on Saturday July
2nd, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the pur
pose of of electing their delegates to
the Confederate reunion at Atlanta,
July 20th, 21st, and 22nd. A full
turn out is earnestly desired. Rail
road rates will be cheap and lodging
free during the reunion, to those who
desire it.
Louisville, Ky., Baltimore, Md.,
and perhaps Charleston, 8. C., will
each contend for the reunion next
year. Either place is abundantly
able to take care of it.
We have had the crab grass to
contend with this year.
The rabbits are about to take the
country. They have eaten up the
potato slips when they could get at
them.
A very intelligent lady teacher in
Fairiield county who reads the Ledger
asks this question:
How does the novelist create such
an interest among his readers? We
answer: The novelists strong
point is the curiosity of his readers.
The incidents being of the writer’s
own creation, he manages to arrange
them as to conceal from his readers
the issue of the affair until the very
end of the story. If he were to begin
his story by acquainting his readers
at the outset with the issue of the
whole, so that they should know
from the first who is to be married or
killed, and how things, generally, are
to turn out, which is in the main our
condition in reading history or biog
raphy, an opic, or a play, it is safe to
say that not one novel in a hundred
would ever be read.
I understand that R. L. Scroggins,
of Hickory Grove, has been appointed
a State constable. “Bob” is a good
one and will do his duty as an officer
and a gentleman. The state can’t
had a better one than he is. He
was odcs deputy sheriff of York
county. J. l. s.
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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.!
Frankiinville, N.C., Mfg, Co., have
just purchased and put in a new lap-
per.
The Dover Yarn Mills, Pinevillo,
N. C., are erecting an addition to
their boiler house in which will be
installed a 100 h. p. boiler.
W. H. Woods, formerly Supt. Al
pha Mills, Charlotte, but now Supt.
Bamberg S. C.. Cotton Mills, was in
Charlotte on business last week.
E. T. Barnes, boss spinner at
Granby Cotton Mills, Columbia. S.
C., has resigned to take a similar
position with the Union, S. C., Cot
ton Mills.
Six Hopedale twisters have arrived
for the Gaston Cotton Mills, Cherry-
ville, N. C. They will be setup at
once to twist the yarn now being
woven on ninety-six looms.
J. C. Foster, second hand in card
ing at Mill No. 2, Clifton, S. C., who
has been in bad health for sometime,
has resigned and moved to his farm
near Cherokee Springs, S. 0.
The Avon Cotton Mills, Gastonia,
X. C., have installed machinery for
manufacturing ice, which will he
running in a few days, and then every
Gastoniun will be able to keep cool.
S. B. Tanner, Sec. and Treas. of
Henrietta N. C., Cotton Mills, is
having pipes laid connecting his
house with the mill reservoir. He
will then have plenty of water for his
garden and lawn.
The Fort Mill S. C., Mfg. Co., have
under consideration the question of
building a company store. The
stockholders have been asked to vote
on the matter as it will be necessary
to change the charter.
J. M. Gaston has left Concord, N.
C., to become master mechanic at
Rocky Mt. N. C., Cotton Mills. Mr.
Gaston was formerly engineer at the
Atherton Mills, Charlotte, and the
Dover Yarn Mills, Pinevillo, N. C.
We arwreliaby informed that J. A.
Smith of Bessemer City, N. C., is no
longer connected with the Richmond
Va., Cotton Mills, as stated last
week. The President of the mill is
J. J. Vause, of New York City, and
the Treasurer is C. M. Woodford.
J. B. Liles of Spartanburg, 8. O..
who is President and Treasurer of
the Fingerville Mfg. Co., operating a
2,800 spindle factory on 2-ply yarns
in that county, writes us that they
contemplate adding at an early date
as much more machinery to spin line
numbers.
J. F. Gainer is boss weaver and
Supt. of E. M. Holt Plaid Mills, Bur
lington, N. C. Mr. Gainer has had
a wide experience, having been over
seer of weaving in a number of states,
his last position having been wfth
the Kearney Cotton Mills, Kearney,
Nebraska.
The building of the new Nantucket
Mills, Spray, N. C., having been fin
ished, reveals the solidity and well
planned character of the factory.
It was designed by the Charlotte
Machine Co., who have been the
architects of so many successful!
cotton mills in the Carolinas.
The IIolt-Morgan Mills, Fayette
ville, N. C., have stopped nearly all
of their looms, and are now paying
attention to the manufacture of
market warps and yarns. They have
been making drills, and no doubt
will resume full operation in weaving
as soon as prices will justify it.
B. F. Thompkins (formerly of Pied
mont Mills) has been promoted from
second hand to overseer of the spin
ning at the Granby Cotton Mills,
Columbia, 8 C. Our correspondent
there adds “We wish Mr. Thompkins
success in his undertaking. He is
only 25 years old, but is a hustler.”
W. A. West has changed from
Durham. N. C., to Clifton, 8. C.; T.
B. Farmer from Fairmont, 8. C., to
Greers, 8. C.; J. P. Turner from
Greenville, 8. C., to Atlanta, Ga.; W.
B. Lovelace from Spartan Mills, Spar
tanburg, 8. C., to Anderson, 8. C.;
Rufus Burris from Gastonia, N. C.,
to Long Shoals, N. C.
The Excelsior Knitting Mill, Union,
8. 0., is still enjoying the marked
prosperity which has been its lot
from its Inception, and is already
regarded as one of the most success
ful mills of its kind In the South
under its present efficient manage
ment, says the New Era. Improve
ments and additions are being con
stantly added to it, and new ma
chinery is now being placed.
A. C. Lineberger, Treas. and Supt.
of the Tuckaseege Mills, Mt. Holly,
N. C., was married on June II? at
Charlotte, N. C., to Miss Mattie Hlpp
in the Lutheran church. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. C. B.
King, president of the Elizabeth Col
lege, of Charlotte, in which Miss
Mipp has been a student for the past
year. The newly wedded couple are
making a Northern tour, including
Washington and New York.
On Thursday, June 9, Oscar Bland
McGowan died at Spartanburg, S. 0.,
after an illness of some duration, and
was buried in Oakwood cemetery
there on Friday. His father is Supt.
K. McGowan of the Arkwright Mills,
at whose home he died. He was 20
years old. and recently married Miss
Anna Kellorg, of Abingdon, Va.
Young Mr. McGowan gave promisa of
a successful life, and had he not been
thus cut off in his eary manhood would
no doubt have become a successful
businessman like his father.
The E. M. Holt Plaid Mills, Bur
lington, N. C., are building a new
boiler and engine room two stories
high. The upper story is to be used
as a dry room. They are going to
put in a new steam plant, with engine
and boiler of the most improved and
up-to-date patterns. They will then
have one of the finest steam plants
ipNortJi Carolina. Other improve
ments will also be made. The com
pany’s 140 looms are running from
(> a. m. to 6 p. m without losing a
moment, manufacturing a nice line
of ginghams, crashes, etc., in many
colors.
Holly Grove Happenings.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Holly Grove, June 20.—Rev. G.
1*. Hamrick filled his appointment
Saturday and Sunday at Mt. Paron.
On Sunday he preached from the
second chapter and fifteenth verse of
Solomon. The county Auditor and
Clerk of Court were in the congrega
tion.
Charley Turner, Lula Turner and
Ara Turner are visiting friends and
relatives in this section.
J. L. Strain’s rat story reminds me
of a man who said his eon had three
hundred fits in the run of a night
and each fit lasted over an hour.
G. H. Martin is trying a new ex
periment in plowing in his peas. He
is using a disc harrow. It is a much
faster way.
Judging from the demand there is
for peas, there will be more planted
this year than usual.
In my last letter I stated that we
hadn’t had any rain in seven weeks.
It has rained every day for about a
week since then. We had a heavy
rain and a hard wind Sunday.
Wheat that was in the field was dam
aged considerably. The wind broke
some of the corn off and the ground
is badly washed in some places.
Lou Miller’s dog treed a snake in a
hollow log one day last week, Mr.
Miller’s little son put his hand in the
log thinking it was a rabbit and was
bit by the snake. The Indian reme
dy—tobacco, union and salt—was ap
plied. He is recovering fast.
The threshers are getting along
nicely while it is ruining.
School Bov.
SUMMER IN THE SOU IHLAND
Ezell Notes.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Ezell, June 20.—Farm work has
been checked for the past few days
on account of rain.
We have had fine seasons all over
the Battle ground ridges which will
add a large percentage to field cops.
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Scruggs’ infant
child was buried at Newpleasant
yesterday in the presence of a large
concourse of relative and friends. Mr.
Calvin Moore conducted the services.
May the lord who giveth and taketh
away comfort the bereaved ones.
The President of the democratic
club at Ezell has called a meeting of
Cherokee Township and the upper
part of Limestone Township to meet
July 2nd at 3 o’clock p. m. The
object of toe meeting is to nominate
a candidate for the House. We hope
to have a full turnout.
The threshing machines are running
on full time in this section. They
are having a good run as wheat is
very good and more of it sown than
common.
Mr. L. Taylor and J. Frank Quinn,
who were badly hurt a few days ago
in a runaway, are improving very
fast. Bute Hawk.
Estimating tbe amount of blood
in the human body at 24 pounds, 12
pounds pass through the heart every
mmute.
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to tbe
public to know of one concern in the
land who are not afraid to be gener
ous to the needy and suffering. The
proprietors of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs snd
Colds, have given away over ten
million trial bottles of this great
medicine; and have tbe satisfaction
of knowing it has absolutely cured
thousands of hopelsss eases. Asth
ma. Bronchitis. Hoarseness and all
diseasss of tbs Throat, Cheat and
Lungs are surely cared by It. Call
on DuPre, Druggist, and get a trial
bottle free. Regular size 60o. and $1.
Every bottle guaranteed or pries re*
funded.
ITSMOUNTAIN RESORTS ARE IN
GREATER DEMAND.
The Resorts Along the Coast Must
Share With the Health-Giving
Resorts of the Appala
chian Mountains.
[Manufacturers’ Record.]
The coming summer is likely to be
marked by a decided increase in the
patronage of the mountain resorts of
the South. For more than half a
century the people of the South who
have had the means and the leisure
have been accustomed to divide their
summers between the resorts of the
North and some of the older ones of
the South. In former years there
was a regular migration with the on
coming of warm weather from the
lowlands to the mountains. The
plantation families or the dwellers in
cities of the plains made the pilgrim
age, enlivened with the change to
out-of-door life on the route and
at least a month in some retreat like
that of the old Greenbrier White or
some of the lesser resorts whose name
is now only a memory. Wealthy
families from New Orleans or Mobile
traveled by steamboat and in their
private equipages overland to the
heights of the Appalachian range,
and there remained until the on-com
ing of cooler weather or continued
their happy journey to Saratoga or
one of the seasides resorts just in
their beginnings. That was in the
days before the railroads had made
accessible and had aided in the de
velopment of many resorts which
now rank with the best that the North
has or ever had.
There are many distinct advantages
possessed by these summer refuges.
Though many of them have all the
conveniences of table and appoint
ments, they are still close to the
wildness of the woods. Within the
walk of a well-arranged hotel are
magnilicent stretchers of scenery,
opportunities for sportsmen and temp
tations to the invalid to woo health
in close communion with nature.
The winter migration from the North
to Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas,
Alabama and Louisanu has become a
permanent fact in American life; hut
the South is not only an immense
sanitarium for the winter, but also
for the whole year. From Mason
and Dixon’s line clear into Alabama
and to Georgia the Appalachian range
forms unending lines of beauty. Not
as bold as the Rockies, nor as sharply
defined, perhaps as the New England
Mount Washington, the ranges of the
Blue Ridge are yet most pleasing in
their changing color under different
skies, their weeping forms, and, as
they rise to North Carolina, their
commanding elevations. Compara
tively few persons realize that in
Western North Carolina there are
forty-three mountains more than 0,-
000 feet high, towering above others
ranging from 4,000 feet down, and
one of the chief attractions about
these mountains is that they have
nothing of the worn appearance of
the better-known peaks of the East,
but are full of pleasant surprises and
give opportunity for ever-changing
vistas to him who idles among them.
Moreover, the Appalachian range
is really an immense mineral foun
tain. Medicinal waters, soothing to
sufferers from minor ills and curative
of long standing diseases, either in
the shape of a beverage or «s a bath,
gush from among the rocks at many
points. The White Sulphur Springs
in West Virginia, the Hot Springs,
the Warm Springs, the Healing
Springs in Bath county, the Old
Sweet Springs, Rockbridge Alum in
Virginia, the Hot Springs of North
Carolina and others at Lincolnton
and Shelby, N. C., Cross Hill, 8. C.,
Sweet Water and Bowden, near At
lanta, are a few of the iron, chaly
beate or sulphur springs belonging to
tbe Virginias, the Carolinas. Ten
nessee and Georgia, situated in
healthy places and surrounded by
picturesque views which are attract
ing every year a greater number of
visitors than before. To most of
these springs direct railroad connec
tion is had with the cities of the
North, West and farther South, and
each year finds improvements snd
additional attractions, none of which,
however, mar tbe beauties which
have been created by nature.
Typical of them all, perhaps, are
those in tbe vicinity of Asheville, X.
C. Tbe development of that section
as a hsaltb resort for both the sum
mer and winter Is largely due to the
enterprise of the railroads and tbe
delight of wealthy persons who have
once visited it. Tbe city of Ashe
ville itself la a monument of the ap
preciation of the South as a sanita
rium. Its population consists largely
of touriete or of those persons who,
once seeing it, have determined to
make it their home for life. Nearby
is tbe magnificent BUtmore estate,
an attraction which casual visitors
are permitted to enjoy. Then there
Is tbe Cloudlaod Hotel, on tbe top of
Roan mountsin, a* an elevation of
0,40u feet, and commanding a view of
50.0U0 miles of territory in seven
States—the two Carolinas, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Georgia. From this
place there is an easy access by an
excellent mountain turnpike to other
resorts, such as Eseola Inn, atLinn-
ville, and the accommodations at
Blowing Rock, where spring atmos
phere seems to abide eternally. By
another route one reaches Waynes-
ville, filled with the healing odors
of the fir and presenting points of ad
vantage for observing magnificent
views of cliff, Valley and mountain
stream, ami the whole topped by
Mount Mitchell, Grand-father, Roan
and Cliugman’s Peak. Across the
border lies the Lookout mountain,
overhanging Chattanooga. Not far
away is Cbickamauga, which seems
aestined to be Lbe place of attraction
for thousands of hearts, if not of feet,
during the coming summer. The
very fact which has made Chicka-
mauga a mobilization center for
armies of the United States is that
which will induce a large patronage
of the Southern mountain resorts
this year. No one can doubt that
timidity on the part of many per
sons will lead them to select the
mountains for their summer outing,
instead of the seashore. The resorts
along the coast will probably have a
good business, but they must share
to a greater extent than ever that
business with the secure, health-giv
ing, comfortable and picturesque
resorts of the Appalachians.
Powell Pencilings.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Powell, June 21.—Wo have had
good rains and crops are looking fine.
Wheat threshing is progressing
rapidly and the yield is above the
average.
The answer to J. L. S.’s problem
submitted to Ledger readers week
before last regarding A and B’s money
is A .|7 and B $5.
We had war nearer home than Cuba
last Saturday morning. While we
do not consider it proper to personate
would say that the combatants used
those cannons that throw rocks but
“daddy” failed to get the range, con
sequently his projectiles did not find
the murk.
We have one man up here that
ought to be a war correspondent or
commander of Spain’s spook fleet.
He claims to have distinctly heard
the connonading while Samson was
bombarding Santiago. For fear some
one will think he might live in hear
ing. distance we will state that he
was plowing near the county line
between Spartanburg and Cherokee
counties.
Tne health of this section is good.
Farmers have begun to layby corn.
Robt. B. Powell, our popular post
master. went to Spartanburg last
Saturday on business.
Col. T. B. Butler was here last week
on business.
V. G. Price and F. M. Gardner went
to Cowpens and Clifton last Saturday
on business.
Alonzo Cash and Ed. Gardner, of
Martinsville, S.^C., were in|this section
last Saturday on business.
Your correspondent visited relatives
in the Martinsville neighborhood
Sunday.
A man has a circular garden 10 rods
in diameter in which he wishes to set
fruit trees lO.feet a part each way
allowing a margin of 24 feet around
the garden. How many trees will be
required? Corncbackeh.
Tbickety Locals.
(Correspondence of The Ledger )
Thickety, June 21.—Crops are
looking line and the farmers are
saving their grain very well.
Miss A. M. Daniel, of Moore, 8.
C., is visiting friends in this place.
We are always glad to see our friends.
Mrs. Rhodes, of Greenwood, is visi
ting her friends here at this place.
We will soon have a telephone
line up from Thickety to Gaffney.
I am quite sure it will be a great
benefit to the people here to talk to
the business men of Gaffney. We
had some trouble at first but will go
into Gaffney in spite of Spain. We
thank the people for their kindness
and will treat them O. K. in every
respect. Bug.
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