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THE LKJHjEK, < i A FVN E X, S. C , DECEMHEK 1H, 1UOO. J. W. TOLLESON’S CLEARANCE SALE. Everybody knows that I sell goods cheap, but in order to reduce my stock of winter goods as low ^ as possible by January I st, I have marked my stock lower than ever. A few pieces of Venetian Cloth left, the $ 1 grade at 75c. The 75c grade of Camel’s Hair Dress Goods at 60c. 52-inch Homespun, for rainy-day skirts, at 48c. One piece all wool blue storm serge, worth 60c, reduced to 45c. 40-inch all wool serge, cheap at 50c, to go at 39c. Light colored flannels for shirt-waists at 1 2>3c. Fleece-lined goods for dresses reduced to 8c per yard. A few capes left to go at almost your own price. Men’s Laundried colored shirts, worth from 50 to 75c, to go at 44c w K. (». Stacey, President. J. G. Wakih.aw, Vice-President. THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. CAPITAL, •AO.OOO. 8CKPLC8 AND PKOFTTS, - 10,000. State. County and City Depository. Deposits solicited from Farmers, Merchants. Manufacturers and others. Every accom I nac Jation extended to customers that their business and responsibility will warrant. D- C. Cashier, j Don't You Forget that Wo Keep Tbe Gaffney City Land and improvement Company Offers for sale Bulldlntf Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney City; Also Farina near by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lota of front »0 to 100 acres on liberal tin)? Agricultural Lancia to rent for Farm pur- poaea. Fur full particulars apply to J. V. SAM 1<A.TT\ A Kent. N. B.—All tresspassing on landsof thl8 company, outtln and emorlng timber. Ashing tr banting are forbidden under uena'ty of '\w Are You Contemplating Building ? Guns Cook Stoves Hollow Ware Shells Heating Stoves Rock Hill Buggies Shot Stove Pipe Piedmont Wa+ons Powder Tinware Buggy and Wagon Harness Caps Grates Saddles and Bridles , . Wads Wire Rugs Turn Plows and Hardware can save you money. .. . x ^ x , I also carry an excellent line of Paints of all We keep a full line of Staple GROCERIES at rock; . . bottom prices shades and can suit you in every respect. If so you cannot do better than consult with me about the material you wish to put in your house. I handle everything in the Lumber line R. M. WILKINS & CO. T. I. \V A I^Iv i;i«. THE NEW LIMESTONE COTTON MILLS. Is Finished and the Machin ery all in Place. BUILT IN EIGHT MONTHS. Dirt Itroken In May and On Flrut Day of December Cotton \Va« Started Through the Mtic-liIuery--Description of Mill and 11h Officer*,. Just beyond the northern boundary of the eity limits on the spot where twelve short months ago stood the / % k s r/ f J. A. f’AKKol.i. «.ident of I.itin -t* ic Mill. pen in w l.’ch I ti • m.irr idly revolving pulleys and shafting has replaced the buzz of the bee. The bark of the squirrel gives place to the barque of industry, and tbe lowing of the ox as he is led to the slaughten pen gives place to the high er achievements of man. The accomp- nying illustration gives but a faint idea of the magnitude of the new en terprise. Friday afternoon a Ledger reporter visited the new mill, in company with Dr. W. C. Hamrick, the courteous secretary and treasurer of the com pany. .Superintendent E. R. Cash ' was found at his desk and greeted j the pencil pusher. Mr. Cash and his associates are justly proud of their new enterprise and he courteously , conducted the reporter through the j new mill and described in detail the new machinery. The company was organized last February, the dirt broken in May. and on the lirst day of December the lirst cotton was started through the machinery. This is said to be the quickest work on record for building builders have planned wisely, leaving space in the boiler room for three 100 ; horse power boilers in addition to the four already in place, and also having buift a foundation in the engine room for another oOO horse power low pressure cylinder, which will make the engine a cross compound of 1,000 horse power. They have planned also for as much additional door space as they now have by erecting an addition to the mill as soon as practicable, thus giving them a mill of 20,000 spindles. The window panes in the building are of ribbed opaque glass, thus affording ample light but excluding the intense rays of the sun. Come and go with us through the mill and inspect the machinery. Beginning at the picker room in the basement where the hales of cotton are lirst loosened you will find four of the latest improved picking machines made by the Kitson Ma chine Company, of Lowell, Mass. These perform their work quietly and unostentatiously. Ascending the stair-case we enter the main building. Pawtucket, R. I., and is also of the latest and most improved pattern. The entire building is lighted by electricity, the electric plant being the very best afforded by the General Electric Company. The dynamo en gine was furnished by the Ridgway Dynamo and Engine Co., of Ridgewajf, Pa. The building is protected from tire by a complete fire protection plant furnished by the General Extin guishing Co. The tire pump was fur nished by the Bair Pump and Engine Co. A freight elevator is also provided, that being supplied by the Salem Foundry and Machine Works. The shafting and pulleys were purchased of the Dodge Manufacturing Co., of Mishiwaka. Ind.. while the sheet steel water tanks for sprinklers and water closets were furnished by R D. Cole. The belting, reed and harness and other supplies came from the ; Charlotte Supply Co The entire building is heaterl by a plant put in • by the Ceneral Fire Extinguishing Co. The four 100 horse power boilers were j built by R. D. Cole A Co., o: Xew- ^uantity of young trees were left and these will make excellent shade in a few years. Tbe principal stockholders in this new enterprise are Gaffney men. Many of them also own stock in the Gaffney Manufacturing Company. Tbe officers of the Limestone Mill are: President, J. A. Carroll; Vice- President, R. A. Jones; Secretary and Treasurer. W. C. Hamrick ; Su perintendent, E. R. Cash. Mr. C. 8. Elam is tbe bookkeeper. The fol lowing are the directors: W. C. Hamrick. J. A. Carroll, A. N. Wood, C. A. Turner, R. A. Jones, j F. G. Stacy, E. R. Cash and W. C. | Thomson. The company propose to erect a company store early next year. They already have a commissary, hut the building is a rough board building. The new store building will be of ‘ brick. The company have the ad vantage of both the Southern and S. 1 C. «fc (J. E. railroads, lying directly between them and both roads have side tracks to the mill. Messrs. Cary, Bayn* A Smith, of The Flrct Girl Mill Worker. The Daily Mail, of Anderson, states that Mrs. Mary P. Picksell, aged 94, died at Broyles, in that county, last Friday. She was born on Nantucket island, coast of Massachusetts, and and fell in with the Methodists when the great tidal wave of the new re ligion swept over New England. Her father, Mr.Coffin, persuaded by his friend, Weaver, then in Spartanburg county, left his island home for the red hills ofTyger, where Mr. Weaver was operating the first cotton mill ever erected in the State. This was in 1810. The location of the cotton mill was probably at ‘'Burnt Facto ry.” Mrs. Picksell was probably one of the first girls that ever worked in a cotton mill in this state. Mr. Coffin went from this county to Greenville B I 1 " : 4. : .:X Ml s/3B »• 'mmm .. if wm mmssmSk : a a am .11 rn i vn i it 111 Ill'll UH.li _ . A TV J ' -V \\ wxmIa ' |r K. A. .Links, \Tce-President l.im< 'tone Mill. UHf V and t In ii t< rhborhoo wt.en iw stands. Philip L., fufk Tin: Xku Iii ooo mmndi.i Mil l, ok rm. Limi smsi; Miu * w V Y' VW;* A * -a ** ■ Mr. Pu'h has hud The first thing that attracts your at w *rk since the c >m- . tention is I wenty rcvol vng Hat cards ' > thorough has h-en then forty-five deliveries of drawing it tin-sliizhiest M spinning frames, fourteen 1G ,, f r frames -in tratne IP man, Ga., and are made to carry lo*i pounds of steam pressure. The en gine was furnished by A. ii. \\ a-h- burne, of Charlotte. When the in.II is increased from loiMKl to ■Jhoihi spindles it will not he nece>s..rv to put in a larger driving wheel as the imuienv- wtieel n i\v at work .va- i o' war Wi , *, ireit y ai if t he operat ive» an I fort \ id neat four and six-roi o co' luges have hi *-n erected no i In wide streets. Nearly ail of th<** hnijM s ar> now full and the eompoin r. il M B i t more ui 1 N ■ tig IS dl I X I'M) feet, I W< a basement on tin- eas- (ieo. Draper A S te engiiu room is on the Mass The next >f the mill, while the attention is the boilers are adjoining. An immense Derm Warping Madiine mad'- bv th< reservoir filled witl jwater stands on Glohe Machine W orks, i f Frankfort an elevation of ground jusl above the Penn. Then come the slasher and is daily in receipt of apnlicat iori-i for boiler room. drawing-in frames. The weave room positions in the mill. These houses The brick work was done by Cecil contains 1100 of the latest improved have been primed and will hi painted .V Curry and the wood work by L Northrop Draper looms, made by in the spring. The idea is to paint I i ! iv ! pre- j IP,ker. 11 is the boast of the piomo- Geo. Draper A Sons. All the ma- thern of ditfi-rent colors so a- to re In- ti-rs of the i nterprise that it it the chinery, except a few of t he looms is lieve the monotony usual t » mill vi 1 - ... cheapest and, at the saint time, !*• st in place ami in operation and it is • x- luges The '•ornpany owns ovei , built and most convenjently arrai g d pected that the looms will he started seventy five acres of Ian 1 around the ^ | mill in the State. It is not the this week. The cloth room muchm- mill. The old timber has been cut he buzz of hundreds of rap- largest mill by any means, hut the ) ery was made by Curtis A Marble, of from the woodland, hut a large A r* \ oil I I . rn Bruisi box. < ur guarai (.’hi rokec I >rug < o. ,1. 'd. l\ ■101 0 • , \ Ipi-ri <1 lied af IM.ti ii by passed duro g t h 1 amount to about w >f Limestone Mill diort service in the that tIn- number of iminateil from the v a iditionul laws na-t four years will ilD< i i ii m i