Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fl 1‘J THE LEDGER: GAFFXEY, S. Cm DECEMBER 22, 18?)8. Southern Made Carpets and Art Squares. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ Tirrys and Terry Art Squares, Fancy Borders, Piedmont [Aira Supers, / Beaufort Extra Supers, Florence Extra Supers, Greenville Extra Supers, Ocll"l>ot O' ; V r-c liillfHl > r ! ;S ■•'*5 a 4i_- /A M mj;, Art Stjuares and Halls and Stairs in Each Grade, Cotton Chain in Each Grade. Columbia One-tial! Woo! Unions. Chester Cotton Uoiooc, Laurens Cotton Unions, Marion Cotton Unions. 5 Jnio r Art Squares. Direct all correspondence to main office mill, Gaffney, S. C- New York Office.—McIntyre (building, 18th and Broaway. Merchants who buy these southern made goods are the medium through which our goods are sold and the mi!l keot running. Our mill is one of the best equipped in the country and each manufacturin gdepartment is managed in the most thorough manner. The materials used are the best, prepared, scoured and dyed in our own dye houses by a system which makes the yarns so bright and clear that the lustre and fastness of the colors when woven into carpets and art squares will give our patrons goods if not superior to all, yet unexcelled by any and at the lowest market prices, delivered direct from a near by mill, with consequent saving of freight charges. We keep the quality above the standard, and our object is to make each merchant a co-partner in our business. GAFFNEY CARPET MANUFACTURING CO. THE GAFFNEY; A SKETCH OF ITS SUCCESSFUL CAREER. The Pioneer Enterprise of the South of Its Kind—The President a Thorough Carpet Mill Man—Notes. The (rafTney Carpet Manufacturing Company is the pioneer enterprise of the South of its kind, and is con stantly running full on orders ahead. Letters are being received daily from all parts of the South complimenting the company on the beauty and quality of their goods and enclosing orders for additional goods to be shipped at once. The company has thirty-two acres of land, finely situ ated upon which to build and extend its plant. From its conception until its completion the length of time consumed in construction was so re markably short that it showed the evidence of expert management. The work of construction was com menced about .June 1st and com pleted in less than three months and machinery in operation. The main building is two stories, 12:2x71 feet. There is an annex three stories, 7 IxL! feet. The office building is 11x22 feet: engine room 12x2<> feet: boiler room 12x10 feet; dyehouse <10x42 feet. Besides these buildings the company has erected all necessary outhouses and tenements for the op eratives. The company has a fine water sup ply and have erected and are operat ing its own private water works and run their own electric light plant— with the most modern and eco nomical steam plant. A water tank of 10,000 gulloiis capacity is con structed for sprinkler purposes, with a s nail tank for general purposes. Both male ami female operatives are employed, but the male element pre dominates. The machinery is of the latest pat tern. A- eoon as the weather permits the company purposes laying o!T the grounds in walks and otherwise beau tifying them. .Mr. Bierck, the manager, is a thor ough carpet mill man, having been in the business since ho was thirteen years of age, and has hud experience in all departments; for twentj-one years designer uml colorist for several of the leading mills of the country. The successful management of a car pet mill depends not only upon the ca pacity of the executive but also upon the ability shown to produce pattern color and styles which will make the goods popular and of a ready sell ing character. This requires years of experience with all classes of trade in every section, as the demand em braces the most tasty to the most glaring elfccts in design and coloring. The company is equipped to make at short notice all manner of specialties in weave and patterns with trained I overseers in each department. Its i dyehouse is a model of modern con struction and produces dyed material of the finest order. The following are the goods manu factured : 1’iedmont wool and worsted extra supers; Beaufort wool and worsted extra supers; Florence wool and worsted extra supers; Greenville wooi and worsted extra supers; Piedmont cotton chain extra supers; Beaufort cotton chain extra supers; Florence cotton chain extra supers; Greenville cotton chain extra supers; Columbia union extra supers; Chester union extra supers; wool and worsted terries with borders to match; borders for all other grades; terry wool and worsted art squares; Piedmont wool and worsted art squares; Beaufort wool and worsted art squares; Flor ence wool and worsted art squares; Greenville wool and worsted art squares; Piedmont cotton chain art squares: Beaufort cotton chain art squares; Florence cotton chain art squares; Greenville cotton chain art. squares ; Columbia union art squares ; Chester union art squares and all cotton unions called Laurens in one grade and Marion in another. The situation, equipment and man agement of the mill has received com plimentary admiration of visitors from many sections of the country. • —— Overcome evil with good. Over come your coughs and colds with One Minute Cough Cure. It is so good children cry for it. It cures croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe and all throat and lung diseases. Chero kee Drug Company, Guilt,ey. R S. Withers A Co.. Blacksburg. ~ Bernhardt will make a farewell tour of America next year. It will be her last but three or four. — If you feel Dull, Languid. Broken- Down, Debilitated, have Weak Stom ach or Indigestion, use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. - - Mr. Scliurz is so disgusted with the policy of expansion that he may puck up and leave the country. But there is no use in being too hopeful. W. T. Yeoumun, Lu«ay, 8. C., writes: Have used Dr. M. A. Sim mons Liver Medicine D> years. It has cured Knlargetm nt of the Liver and Insomnia. Think it as fur ahead of Zeilin’s and Black Draught as day is ahead of night. LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. eir North and South Carolina Mills, Th I mprovements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. I SuntImtii and WVslcrn Textile Exindsioi'.! A 2,OtK> bale cotton warehouse is being erected bv the Tuckaseige Cot ton Mills. Mt. Holly, X. C. T. C. Newby, of Dresden, Ohio, says he has u woolen mill plant for which he desires a Southern locution. J. R. Webb has resigned as doth room foreman in the Edgefield, S. C., Cotton Mills, and is succeeded by S. P. Coon, cf Bath, S. C. A large repeat order for speeders and spinning frames has recently J been placed by the Piedmont manu facturing Co., Piedmont. S. C. 8. J. Durham, secretary and treas urer rq Southern Cotton Mills, Bes semer City, X. C.. is quite sick. It is feared that he has typhoid fever. '1 he Piedmont Club is a new or ganization at Lincolnton, X. C., for business and for pleasure. Its presi dent is R. S. Kheinhardt. the secre tary and Treasurer of Kim Grove Cot ton Mills. The Manetta Mills. Lando. 8. C., will soon be ready to receive their new equipment of machinery. The order for the cards, drawing, speed ers, and part of the spinning has been placed. W. C. McAbee. cloth room over seer at the Whitney Cotton Mills. Spartanburg, S. C., will resign about .Ian. 1st. His postoflice address will remain the same until further notice in these columns. J. I. Gain has resigned the super- intency of the Eureka Cotton Mills, Chester, 8. C., and will be succeeded by J. E. 8eott. who has been flight i superintendent of the Gaffney, S. <’., Manufacturing Co. The Greenwood, 8. C., Cotton Mills last week shipped three cur loads of cloth to .Shanghai, China. This is only one of a number of large shipments they have made to Asia, and they expect to ship a great deal more thither. W. E. Gope. who has been running the slashing at the Cornelius Cotton Mills, Davidson, X. C., now lias charge of the weaving also. T. H White is the carder and spinner. P. A. Stough is general superintendent us well as treasurer. The new cotton mill at Fountain Inn. S. C.. have now received their charter with the title Fountain City Manufacturing Co., capital stock $7)1 >.000. .1. W. Shell is president, A. 8. Peden, Vice president, P. C. Poug secretary and treasurer. The new spinning mill at Gastonia, X. C., will be managed by Geo. A. Gray, president and R. P. Rankin, secretary and treasurer. The capi tal stock, we are reliably informed, may reach $100,000. The company or mill has not yet been name. A news item from Wilmington, X. C., says that two prominent cotton mill men—one a manufacturer and the other a manufacturer of cotton mill machinery—were there several days last week prospecting with the view of locating a mill in Wilming ton. A picker room lire occurred at the Fairfield Cotton Mills, Winnsboro, 8. C., on Tuesday afternoon doing sev eral hundred dollars damage, and causing the mill to shut down for a couple of days. The quick hose ser vice prevented the lire from being serious. D. R. Julian has given his position as manager of the KeslerCotton Mill. Salisbury, X. C., temporarily at least, and goes to represent his county in the Legislature. X. B McCunless will manage the Kesler Mill, also continuing as president of the Vance Cotton Mill. The Tryon Hosiery Co., L. X. Wil cox A Son proprietors, at Tryon. X. C. . have added a complete dyeing outfit to their hosiery mill. They make a specialty of ladies' hose, and have been thinking for some time of enlarging Jjitlieir 2<) knitting machine factory or building a new one nearer the depot. J. R. London, president of Victoria Cotton Mill, Rock Hill. 8. C., i* building a handsome mercantile building uptown there costing $7) (100, to take the place of the one burned several months ago. In fact there are over half a dozen such store buildings going’uput Rock Hill in the burned district. A cotton mill was talked of at In man, 8. C., last year, as noted in this paper. The people of that town which is in the noted cotton manu facturing county of .Spartanburg, still hope to build a mill. They ex pect Capt. J. B. Liles, I’res. of the Fingerville, 8. C. Cotto.. Mills to take a hand in the proposed factory. It is said that the .Sumter, 8. C., Cotton Mills will soon add considera ble more spinning machinery to till up their building. They earned 12A per cent, last year, and are said to have earned much more this year. R. M. Wallace is president, Altamont Moses secretary and treasurer, and D. J. Winn, superintendent. U. II. Taylor, a well known wood dealer of Clifton, says lie has lost | more than a hundred dollars by peo- j pie moving off owing him for wood, \ and that T. J. Smart is tftie only man who ever moved oil owing him and sent what he owed back. Mr. Taylor ; says he would be glad to be able to j say as much for others who owe him. I The Reedy River, 8. C.. Manufac-! luring Co., has surrendered its char ter, taken out in 1S74, and in its stead taken out a commission under ^ the act of 18fKJ as passed by the South Carolina legislature. The corporators under the new applica tion are J. A. Finlay end W. E. Beattie of Greenville, and Mrs. C. Ida Charles of Reedy River. The New Providence Trading Co., is a newly incorporated concern at Cheraw, 8. C. Their charter not only allows them to merchandise and deal in real estate but to manufac ture as well. Their capital stock as set down is $250,000, and the in corporators are K. A. Palmer, Rich ard F. Duncan. W. V. Smith, and W. E. Price, all of Providence. R. I , and W. P. Pollock of Cheraw. Why Eat Dirt ? That is the question, when you can eat pure wheat flour at the same price. Tiik Poxi» Lilly brand of flour is made by Stroup Bros., at < 'berryvilli 1 . N.< ’..of pure wheat. It contains no chalk, kaolin, mineraline or corn meal, as it is as pure as it is possible for Hour to he. If you want the best call for Pond Lilly at J. N. LIPSCOMB’S. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best 8 >.lve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer Salt Rheum, Fever Si. ^s, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures Piles or no pay required. It is gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by The DuPre Drug Co. The Pearl Steam Laundry Is oporut intr on full t inn' ami t urn lug out tirst-class work. Kvim-mlicr us when you want work done. We will eall for your paekage. We also have In operation A First-Glass Grist Mill. We respei-tfill|y solicit your pationai'e and ask the people out of town to brintr t heir eorn along w hen t hey eorne in to dt» their shopping. Will make your meal while you are busy here and yon will lose no t line. Richardson Bros. Itretts with y«n whrlhcr yon continue the. m rve-UlllliK tolia. < o hal.it. MO-TO-UAC remove* iliv ile.ir*' for tobac o, with^ oulnervou-uiairo*. ezoelinico^ tine, puri(le» the blood, tv. .tore, lo.t manbood^^grfwa ’ ■ ■ M boxei nuke, vou MronK^^V IBl 400 ntt) in In-ultn. nerve^gj^Vii (.cured buy *n,l pockeb-^T«(^ Um^SO TOltAC from book. _^^TAY r^WJ^your own druggist, who .ill vouch for ui. Take it with „ v Will,patiently, penit.trntly One boi.tl, u.naily cure.; S hole*.klM, minranlerd to cure, or we refund money. Sterile. lUiar.j Co., (kir.fo, koaln.l, k.w I«4. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney-iVt - I Office In Court House. (I’robate Judge's office) Gaffney City, S. C. 1 Practices in nil the courts. Collec- • tions a specialty. Money to Loan. The Citizens Building and Loan Association of (taHney h;is money on hand to loan and can meet any demand. The rate of interest is 8 ]>er cent, per annum. For further information apply to N. H. LITTLEJOHN, * Secretary and Treasurer.