The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 28, 1901, Image 4
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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY,
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Ed. H. DkCamp.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
At last it begins to look like Gaff
ney is again to have a telephone sys
tem and this tune a system worthy
of the name and of the growing impor-
Uoce of the town. The work on the
Huts is of thtf most solid and substan
tial character, and the new ’phones
which are being rapidly put in are
beautiful in finish and no doubt as
effective as science and art can make
them. Curb your patience for only
a few days longer, when the clatter
will begin and we shall all be happy.
The Carolina Spartan suggests that
it will take a bale of cotton to buy
two good hogs, and that the hogs can
be raised far more cheaply and easily
than the cotton. That depends al
together on how a man is situated.
A man with a good sized family can
raise two hogs right cheaply by util
izing the waste products of his
kitchen, but the man who has to go
to his corn crib for all his hogs will
eat, will find them eating their heads
off several times, and bis'own work
thrown in.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
The Greenville News, provoked by
some criticisms of the Spananburg
Journal comes forward with a vigor
ous ^declaration of principles, the
Strong points of which are death to
Tillmauism andBryanism, down with
the dispensary, push your territorial
expansion, give us a ship subsidy and
build the Nicaraguan canal. It
seems to us that the News has out
lined lor itself rather a big work. It
goes ivt it systematically, however,
when it attempts in the first place to
have the Junior Senator again elected.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
The Schley court of enquiry was
interrupted for a day by the sudden
death of Judge Wilson, one of
Schley’s atto.neys, but it will soon
move bravely on again. The mass of
testimony taken would fill volumes
and it would require as great a
courage to read it as to fight over the
battle of Santiago. The result of
it all will be that Schley’s friends
will still believe him to be a htro and
Sampson’s friends will still demand
for him the chief honors—not a very
great improvement on the present
status.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
While we are enjoying the first
cool bracing days of autumn, the
people out west are again sweltering
in summer heat. We hope the hot
wave will not roll this way, as from
oar standpoint we have had heat
enough for one season. Cotton is
opening slowly and needs cool, dry
weather in order to check its growth
and mature the fruit. We believe
the cotton crop in this section will be
above the average after ail. The
bolls are large and plump, and there
are plenty of them. They need only
favorable weather through October to
make them open, when they will
whiten the fields like a snow storm
*nd keep the hands busy until the
middle of December in gathering and
marketing the fleecy treasure.
Capt. W. A. Courtenay writes a
acathing letter to Comptroller Gen
eral Derham on the cotton mill as
sessments. He says in part: “I
ask if the people of South Carolina
are not living under a written con
stitution which declares In the most
imperative manner that there shall be
equality in assessing and taxing the
property of the State? This being
ao, by what legal authority does a
so called Board of Equalization go
out of its way to select certain prop
erties and arbitrarily assess them at
£0 per cent, of their values, when
bulk of the property of the State
is notoriously assessed at 40 per
cent, cut down to 30 per cent, and
an average estimate at 35 per cent.?
Mr. Courtenay further declares that
the ‘'money feature of this startling
revolutionary program shrinks into
insignificance in the presence of such
conspicuous incongruity, inequality
and lawlessness.” We have already
expressed and reiterated our opinion
of this action of ti e State Board and
we have no further comments to
make on it at this time. We do not
believe that public opinion in South
Carolina is yet so warped by preju
dice that it will sustain the board in
this daring and lawless innovation.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Adjutant General Floyd is making
investigations with a view to learn
ing approximately the number of
veterans who would go the soldier’s
home, provided one should lie estab
lished. Col. Crittenden, the chair-
mao of the pension board, thinks
that not more than twenty in the
county of Greenville would avail
themselves of the privileges of the
home, and they would do so mainly
for the medical attention they might
receive. As a general thing the
indigent veteran will prefer to draw
his little pension and remain among
his old friends and comrades- We
are not opposed to any provision that
the State may make for the comfort
of needy veterans, but we doubt the
advisability of establishing at this
late day a soldier’s home. The last
veteran will have gone to his long
home before many more years, and
the institution can hardly be put
into proper working order before the
numbers of those for whom it may
be established will be so diminished,
that the State could provide for them
far more economically and accepta
bly by increasing the amount of their
pensions and letting them remain
among their ^friends.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
The most rabid anarchist ought to
learn from the trial of Czolgosz a
wholesome lesson on the necessity
and benignity of law. Czolgosz has
had as fair and impartial a trial as
the most obscure and petty criminal
ever had. He was furnished with
able counsel; jurors were njected
who said they had formed an opinion ;
and every form of law instituted for
the benefit of the criminal was
strictly adhered to. If there had
been any extenuating circumstances
in the case the prisoner and his coun
sel had ample opportunity to pro
duce them; if tht-re had been the
shadow of provocation for the das
tardly deed, the assassin had the
privilege to make the most of it. If
he offered no defence, it was because
he.had no defence to offer. It was
not so when President Lincoln was
assassinated. The civil law was then
suspended, and the country was sub
ject to military power, which is
anarchy concentrated and intensified.
Booth was shot down and every one
intimately associated with him was
hanged. Even an innocent woman,
at whose house he had boarded, was
hanged, to the lasting disgrace of the
American people. Emma Goldman
and the whole brood of Chicago an
archists may thank their stars that
they live under the reign of law.
They owe their preservation at this
time to the very laws which they
would subvert and destroy.
CROP BULLETIN.
Condition of Carolina Cropi* as Reported
by the Bureau,
Columbia, S: C., Sept. 24 —The
first of the week ending 8 a. m..
Monday, September 23rd, was warm
er, the latter portion decidedly
cooler than usual, with a maximum
temperature of 98 degrees at Black-
ville, and a minimum of 47 degrees
at Greenville. The winds were gen
erally northeasterly, and were high
during a part of the week. The sun
shine was generally deficient during
the first of the week, while the last
three days were almost cloudless.
The rainfall ranged from 0.21 at
Charleston to 8 10 at Anderson, with
excessive amounts over all but the
southeastern portion of the State.
The rains were damaging to open
cotton, and caused floods in all the
• up country” streams, submerging
lowlands to a greater depth than any
previous freshet this season. The
rains were beneficial to growing and
immature crops. A drought of con
siderable severity prevails in the
southeastern counties, along the im
mediate coast, to the injury of fall
truck crops : there also the ground
lacks sufficient moisture to quickly
germinate recently planted seeds.
Cotton picking was delayed, and
open cotton beaten out of the bolls,
by the heavy rains and winds. The
recent cool weather checked the
rapid and premature opening, and
decreased rust and shedding. In
some sections a large portion of the
crop is open, In other places but lit
tle has as yet opened. The crop is
furthest advanced, and poorest over
the eastern half of the State, while
over the western half it is unusually
late, with many young bolls that
will require at least a month longer
to mature. Sea-island continues to
bloom freely and haa improved.
Corn is being gathered, and the
poor yields confirm previous esti
mates. Rice is not so good as it ap
peared to be before harvest; in the
Georgetown district the crop is short;
harvest is nearing completion. The
hay crop is the largest in years, and
much of it has already been secured
in fine condition. Sweet potatoes
are very good. P**as are good. Oats
are being sown, and some have come
up to good atiiiids. Minor crops us a
rule promise excellent yields.
There In mure Catarrh In iIiIn Nectlnn of
tliecounlry thnnnll other OIni-iim-n |itll to-
ifi-i hei ami iiiitll the last fe w ytMtn was sup-
IHweti to h.i im-uralile. l‘or a ur< m niiioy
years doctors iiroiioiinced It u locul iIIm'.ino,
and |iri'Ni'rilH'<l loeal rennsllea, ami liy con
stantly tallliiH to cure with local treatment,
pronounced It liicttrable, Science has proven
catarrh to tat a <‘oii»t llul loual disease, and
t In-ref ore rci| u Ill's con si 11 ul Ion a I treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by I .1,
Cheney A Co., Toledo. Ohio Is the oufy con-
atltutlouiil cure on the market. It Is taken
Internally In dosi-s from In drops to a lea-
s|M>onfiil. 11 net * direct ly on I he IiIihid and
tliltCMUw siirfa* • s of the s)'»1cm I hey otter
one I,midri'd dollars for any case It falls in
cure ‘send fur circular* and ti silmoul.il*.
Address
r .1. C'MKNHV A Co., Toledo, II.
Sold hy druuKlsi*. 75c.
Hall's Family IMIla are the best.
Etta .lane Ktcblinfs.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta Jane, Sept. 23—Heavy dew
falls during these nights so that out
door work is hindered till nine or ten
o’clock.
The camp of the Woodmen of the
World at this place met in the school
house last Saturday afternoon.
The patrons of the Etta Jane school
will meet at one o’clock today to let
the contract for buildfng a new and
commodious academy building. The
Woodmen will also have a hall put
up over the school room.
S. W. Foster, (‘ Doctor.” as he is
dubbed by the boys) went over to
Spartanburg a few days ago. “Doc
tor” knows a good thing when he
sees it.
i Mrs. Sam T. Creech attended
preaching and the convention at Mes-
j sopotamia Sunday with her two little
' daughters.
Kev. and Mrs. Isom also were in
attendance and shaking hands with
their old friends, who were glad to
see them.
Drayton Clary and Miss Ellen
j Kirby represented Corinth Sunday
j school in the convention
j Oliver Byar-i was on this side last
night until after the dew began to
fall.
James Isom will locate and operate
his saw mill at this place.
Cotton picking is now in full blast.
Reporter
Let it
OJfMilAMdj
Opening Display
OF
Fall and Winter
Pattern Hats
AND
Fine Millinery,
Afmaez WidnSSdBy
Scott’s Emulsion is not ?.
:ood medicine for fat folks.
A'e have never tried e;i\ inq;i
oa real fat person. \Ye don’t
iare. You see Scott's Emill
ion builds new flesh. Eat
>eople don’t want it. Strong
>eople don’t need it.
But if you are thin Scott’.-
Emulsion is the medicine for
ou. It doesn't tire you out.
There is no strain. The work
s all natural and easv. You
ust take the medicine and
chat’s all there is to it.
The next thing you know
you feel better—you eat better
—and you weigh more. It is
a quiet worker.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. 4 «) Pearl St., N. Y.
30c and ft 00; all druggists.
AND
1st. The Choicest Fabrics,
Paltercs and Styles
To be found in our stock of
Fall and Winter Clothing.
2d. The most popular patterns worn during the
coming Fall and Winter season will be rather quiet in
effect but noted for good taste and quiet elegance.
3d. The always-popular Sack Suit will, of course,
be the most worn of any style, and we have a beauti
ful showing in warm Cheviots, serviceable Cassimers
and handsome, dressy Worsteds.
4th. We have only such garments as are thor
oughly reliable and they have our reputation behind
each and every one.
We want every man who can to come to our store
and see how the clothes he wears should look.
We have selected carefully ; have a large stock for
you to choose from, and we have some pattern or
style that will suit or please you.
We take special pains to fii the hard-to-fit. No
matter how tall, how short or how hard you are to fi+
we can fit you.
The Company Store.
Thursday, <§£1
Oct, 2d and 3d.
if
FREE*-
Just Received
A shipment of Holmes,
Counts & Larabees fa
mous
Crackers and Biscuits.
These are fine and
crisp. At
EZELL’S.
THLiVAlUE STWagS
Gaffney, S. C\. £ept. 24, 1901.
fc i
We will give that handsome Buck’s
Junior” free to the girl under 14 years
of age who bakes the
Best Batch of Biscuits
at our store on a regular Buck’s Steel
Range. You have from now until Oct.
1 Oth, so
Work Hard Girls.
Learn to cook. The contest is free for all, but girls
| who wish to enter must come in before the 1 Oth and
register their names. A lunch of biscuits and hot
coffee will be served to all who call.
Are you satisfied with the
Tea and Coffee
you are drinking? If not, let
us fix you up a first quality
blend that we are sure will sat
isfy the most fastidious.
Peeler & Lemmond.
Prompt Delivery.
A N. Wood President. R. R. Brown. Vlce-Preslden
IVI ei-clitiii ivncl Planter® Uank:
OF GAFFNEY. S. O.
CAPITA JU #30,000.
State and County Depository.
Doesa venernl Banking and Exchange business, is well fitted up with Fire Proof Vault a
Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Tin'" 1 w " —<—* -
occupations.
ock. We solicit the business of people of a
C. 7VI C!mhier.
French Flannel,
All Wool French Flannel for waists at
39c
Up to Date and " JReliable.
Collars,
A good 4-ply Linen Collar at
5c
Table Linen,
Full bleached extra wide Table Damask,
worth tiOc, at
50c
Taffeta Silk,
A line of colors in the 75c kind, at
50c
Liberty Satins,
12 colors, suitable for the new full waists, at
75c
Petticoats,
A big line In silk, and mercerized, from
GOOOS.
SUITINGS—7 pieces 40 inch faucy suitings, in new fall colors,
the 40c kind to go at 25c
WHIPCORD—9 pieces. 40 inches, all wool whipcords, the latest
I colorings, suitable for waists, skirts and children’s dresses, the
j equal of any 75c goods in town, special at 50c
DRESS GOODS—Assortment—including many pieces of fine all
wool granites, unfinished worsteds, henriettas, etc., ranging in
value from 65 to 85c, a bargain at 50c
s LADIES CLOTH—8 pieces, 54 inch, all wool, new colors, suita-
j ble for children’s dresses and wraps and ladies’ skirts and dresses,
j the dollar kind, at 63c
BROADCLOTHS—11 pieces, 54 inches wide, in black, white and
new colors, a good value for $1.35, to go at $1 .00
PATTERN SUITS—Imported, no two alike, from... $5.00 up
CORDUROYS—7 pieces, narrow welts, suitable for waists, walk
ing skirts and walking suits, value 50c, at 45c
Shirts,
A good 50c negligee shirt at
39c
Shoes,
Mens’ "Storm King,” a good waterproof shoe,
worth $2.50, for
$2.00
Ginghams,
AmosWeag staples, less than the agent’s price
5c
Hosiery,
$ 1.00 up
These are only a few of our many
Corsets,
A full line In plain and fancy. A double
thick boy’s hose that wears like flinL at
\
1 5c
od
Fine laee-trlnin»ed, short straight front, for |
only
50c
Laces and Embroideries,
An Immense line new. up-to-date, and cheap.
Come to see us; we are glad to show you through.
G, G. BYERS.
805 Limestone St., next door io the Postoffice
Underwear,
A full line union aud two-piecesu
women and children, s,-riven's i
75c