The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 18, 1900, Image 6
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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