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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Ni.v3pip2 in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. LEDGER SEMI-WEEKLY--PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Rel-ahility of Every Adver. tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB 16, 1804. GAFFNEY, S. C., TLESDW, XOVEMBEg W>, 1901 S1.00 A YEAH. TMKGiiT THE. PALMETTO STiTt, Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Kv«»t« that Have Taken IMaee from One End of the State t« the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Busy People. The bank of Jonesville, Union county, has been chartered, with $25 000 capital stock. The officers are Emslie Nicholson, president, and J. H. McKissick, cashier. Governor McSweeney wrote to Et^rie tSiuRu, state geologist iur ftoutn Carolina, and to J. A. Holmes, state geologist for North Carolina, asking them to attend the good roads meet ing at. Greenville. The Yorkville town council, board of health and cotton mills president have taken cognizance of the small pox situation, and are urging the people of tiie town and community to immediately submit to vaccina tion ns the only safeguared against a general spread of the disease. Police Linut. Swearingen picked up a Clarendon county murderer oh the streets of Columbia The officer was satisfied that he had the right man. but" he wirt-d to Sheriil S. J’Lbert Davis, who answered at once, asking that the man be held until he could arrive, 'ihe negro is named Waiter W ells. » The governor has received a pitiful letter from a woman in Pickens county asking him to close a govern ment still operated by a man named Wiley Moody. She says that In r husband buys liquor there, b comes frenzied and tries to take her life. Other neighbors buy it at the still on Sundays us well as week days, and it is a menace as well as a nuisance. The governor has sent a man to look after the distillery The wood exhibit of Spartanburg county for the Charleston exhibit is being loaded at Moore’s. It has been prepared strictly in accord with regulations and will make an impres sion. The exhibit comprises 150 varieties of woods and shrubs. Some of the specimens are very large. Fifty blocks are particularly large and fine. Spartanburg county is not a neck of woods by any means but bar got wood to burn and to dispose of in almost any other way. The governo- has offered a reward of $300 for the arrest of the guilty parties who have been setting fire to property in and around the city of Florence. He did so upon a petition signed by a number of the leading citizens and county officials. In their petition they allege that there is apparently a “system of incendiarism in and around the city of Florence which it seems impossible ,10 reach by local detectives.” The governor’s attention was called to the case of Henry S. Rose, resident of the city of Florence. Friday a mud-bespattered party of officers arrived in Greenville with a prisoner from the Dark Corner. They went out Thursday, toiled all night and caught one man and broke up a moonshine outfit. Deputy Mar shal Aia.en, Special Agent Garrison, Marshal McKinney and State Con stable G. L Cooley composed the party that made a raid on the Dark Corner Thursday night. They had a fierce time beating over the hills and through the ravines. About day light the officers found a still and Henry E Howard was in charge. Howard was captured before he had time to to make a resistance, which no one doubts his ability to make, a small quantity of whiskey was cap tured and the outfit destroyed. Another costly fire visited Rock Hill Thursday night. The armory building on West Main street was gutted and ruined by fire and water. In the second floor of the building was the armory of the Catawba Rifles and the uniforms and guns and other equipment in the armory were de stroyed. The postoffice was on the first floor of (the building All the mail in the office and other valuable matter were carried to a place of safety across the street. The goods in the undertaking establishment of F. Frew and the contents of the safe of E. badler, which were on the first floor, were also saved. It is supposed that the fire originated in the kiteken of the restaurant. The loss will be great, though it could not be exactly estimated Thursday night. Will Clayton, the 17-year-old son of Mr. W. P. Clayton, of Columbia, and a nephew of Dr. V. P. Clayton, stabbed and killed Ed. Younginer in his father’s store in Columbia Tues day. The story told by Clayton to Officer Marsh was to the effect that Younginer was in the store when he heard the cash drawer ring So Clay- | ton accused Younginer of trying to 1 break into the drawer The latter is said to have cursed at Clayton with very foul language. Then a scullle ensued. Clayton stated that Youngi ner struck him on the head with a bottle and he showed a luitip on his j head. He said that he fell when I struck by the bottle and when he got up he had a knife in his hand. There was one lunge made, which caught Younginer just above the heart, and the stab made a gash about an inch long. The wounded boy died that night. Clayton is in jail. ENTERTAINING JOTS FROM ETTA JANE. Farmers Not Talking Muck But Studying More. SELECTING SEED JWHEAT. Frost lias Hern Ueuentl—PrepstratloiiH in I’roerefw for Storting Ferry nt Howeir»— A very mysterious murder occur red near Van Wyck, in Lancaster county, at an early hour Thursday morning. Polly McKenna, colored, was the wife of Pelham McKenna, colored, but on account of the woman’s dissolute character Pelham has not been living with her. Pollv s^onl '.he nigh' b.f ;r o at the horn*- of her sister at Van Wyck, leaving the next morning before day light. About an hour afterwards the woman’s dead body was found in a deep cut on the Seaboard Airline railroad about one mile north of Van Wyck. Examina tion of the body disclosed the fact that the woman had been killed by licks on her head, evidently with a stick, and later it developed that the murder had been committed while the woman was walking on the em bankment above the track and that her body had been rolled into the cut. Sheriff Hunter, of Lancaster, was notified of the murder and be went to the scene with bloodhounds but owing to the dryness and the lapse of time they failed to follow tiie murderer's track with certainty Some sort of a clue was obtained Fri day morning, however, and it was expected that an arrest would follow in the afternoon. . The Colored Faniirr^ Organize. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Tuot cn, Nov. 23.—Please allow me to make known the plans that we are going to adopt to better our con dition. \\ e have been expecting larger crops and higher prices for the same for several years. We have been making large debts, in expecta tion of times getting b Iter, yet. in stead of getting better they seem to get worse. So, as we cannot change the seasons, nor do much towards changing prices, we concluded to meet and organize a society to see if we could not make a change in our own way of doing. We met on the IGth inst, at Green Bethel church, in western Cherokee county, and organized a society to be known as “The Farmers Economical Self-Aid Society.” The object of the society is to teach our people to live more economical and industrious lives, and to quit making debts, so that they may not have any to pay. Wo only meet once a month, on church conference day, at 4 o'clock p. m; so when a member, goes to his church he goes to society also, which saves time. We pay 25 cents to join and 25 cents monthly. W. P. Patterson, is president and treasurer; S Robinson, vice-president; M. C. Paterson, secretary. W. G. Patterson. I)e«th of Mrn. Kinniit I’lyl«>r. It is with deep regret that we are called upon to chronicle the death of Mrs. Emma PJyler, which occurred at her home in the suburbs of this city on Wednesday last, after a brief ill ness. Mrs. Plyler was born on 8ept 2nd, 18'*5, and therefore was foriy- seven years of age at the time of her death. 8he was born and raised near this place, where her life was quietly, peaceably and unostentatiouslyjspen^ she seemingly having no earthly aspirations beyond the discharging of her simple duty as she saw it, and administering to the comfort and happiness of her household and of ali others in her community whom she felt were in need of such. She was a devout Christian woman, faithful and true to the last, and no higher tribute can be paid to her memory. The remains were laid to rest Thursday in the church-yard at Providence, Rev. Father Hughes, of Greenville, conducting the funeral services. The pall-bearers were, J. P. Shuford, John Y Metze, John Geddis and Robert Etterp. Mrs. Plyler left a husband and five children to lament their irreparable loss, and numerous relatives and friends are sad because she is gone from their midst. The Ledger joins these In tendering sympathy to the family. An Knilor»«iiient. Mrs. Mary A. Clary, of Algood, an esteemed patron of The Ledger, and one of Cherokee’s most worthy old ladies, called to see The Ledger Fri day, and renewed her subscription. Hhe has always been a “cash-in-ad- vance” subscriber and said The Ledger was right in adopting this plan. Cotton Nearly Out—The Saloon and It* Kertulta- Other IteniH. (Correspondent:* of The Le<i|?er.) Etta Jane, Nov. 23—Ho* does spelling Alexander with an “E” sound for a first grade teacher—so- called? Fnssi he.s !: ■ 0 gi,aural and every thing green and growing shows is presence. There seems to be a dearth of news just now. Farmers are not talking much, but we think they are study ing more—a healthy sign for the future. Mr. Vsney 0. Coiner has been cleaning oil the banks of the river, getting ready to U-gin his ferry con tract as soon us tiie vessel is rigged up and everything put in readiness. Mr. F. A Goforth lias ordered a se'Vt for selecting his wheat That’s a good idea. For many people sow ju*t, any kind of grain good, bad and ind'ffereot, and the result is a genera! delerou'Htion of the fuiur< crops K v. Van Moss, of Kings Cr^ek, ha* an excellent plan that lie has f 1- low d for > ears and he hardly ever fails to get a good crop bf wheat if there is any made in his section at all. He puts his wheat in a pile in one end of a long room and taking it up by hand fulls gives it a toss toward file oHier end This he continues to do until he has moved a considerable quantity of it. Then he takes his seed from the wheat that went farth est from the fcthrow he gave it. He argues that the light chaffy wheat falls nearest to him while the well developed and fully matured fails at a greater distance. It’s not the size of the grain that he is after so much as its plumpm ss and weight combined. The throw he gives it separates the two qualities and he never fails get ting good seed. \\ e are well pleased at the interest Cherokee county people are taking in the county’s exhibit at the South Carolina Inter-State »nd West Indian Exposition and trust that they will not relax their efforts till success is assured. The world is not so much in need of better philosophy as it is better philanthropy. We can have all the heaven we make room for. To the hero the thought of duty comes be fore that of danger. In a few more days the cotton will all be open and most of it picked out. The Buthlehemic Star of Temper ance stands over the home and the school bouse. The objection which good people urge against the saloon is not only because it dispenses a hurtful beverage, but because it has become a kind of social institution that harbors almost every evil with which modern society is afflicted. When a great crime is committed or an accident happened the instinctive impulse of every one who tries to find a reason for it is to ask: “Had the man been drinking?” When a criminal flees from justice where does search for him begin but among the hordes that frequent the dram shop, the gambling hell and the places of evil resort? Your correspondent is very unwell at tiiis time. Dr Black was called in this morning to see him. J. L. s. (iooil Far ml iik. Mr. James W. Hparks, of Asbury, about the usual time last fall sowed a lot of two and one-half acres in wheat, and this summer harvested from said lot 50 bushels of good clean wheat. He then planted the same lot In corn and peas and has this fall gathered 90 bushels of good corn, 25 bushels of peas and 640 bundles of good fodder. This is farming that pays, and the methods used by Mr. Sparks in the preparation of soil, in planting the crops and cultivating them, the quality of seed wheat used, and the quantity of fertilizer used, as well as the kind of corn planted, and how fertilized and cultivated, would have furnished The Ledger much in teresting reading. We will be pleased if Mr. Sparks will furnish The Ledger with same, so we can lay the informa tion before our readers, for we feel that his methods if known would be beni- fical to many. WATCH Your label and the date, And pay before Tis too late. THE TRAGEDY COMPLETE. After:! Week of SuIY-tIiik Mi*!!. Stuart Ware Die* of Her lujurle*. Last Tuesday’s issue of this paper contained an article headed “Almost a Tragedy. ” in which was given an account of the terrible burning of Mrs. Stuart Ware, of this city, on the morning of the 15th inst. Could we have foreseen the final result of the awful accident we should have headed that article with “A Tragedy,” for such it proved to be. Details of the burning are already known to most of our readers. On Friday morning, the 15th inst., as Mrs. Ware was cleaning off her man telpiece. in the course of straightening up her room for the day, her clothing caught fire and was entirely burned off of her before tiie flames were ex- ♦ ; i pn'F.hed leaving h* r body e <oHd mass of charred flesh from head to foot. Medical attention was at once given and Mrs. Ware seemed to im prove so much that strong hopes were entertained for her recovery. But on last Friday morning, just one week from the day she was burned, she be gan to grow worse; her suffering was more than mortal could b-:ar, and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon death came to tier relief. How the unfortunate woman must have suf fered during that long terrible week, can better be imagined than des cribed, when it is considered what excruciating pain is caused by even a slight burn. The sufferer was kept under f he influence of opiates, but they only afforded short intervals of relief. A short time before she expired, Mrs. Ware realized that her end was near at hand and stated that, sue felt prepared to die, though she would iike to live to raise tier only child, an infant of nineteen months. She was not a member of any church, but in clined to ilie Baptist faith, and lior life had been such that she had no doubt that “all would be well” with her in the life beyond the grave. Mrs. Ware was only twenty years of ag^—just blossomed into glorious womanhood—and the circumstances surrounding her death are extremely sad and pathetic. She had been married just two years, and two children had blessed her union with Mr. Ware. One of these—her first born—was taken from her three weeks ago, and she$ was ail too soon forced to give up the other, though the parting was of a different order. The fond husband survives to mourn for his young wife and to live over in retrospection the happy days of his short wedded life; while the little babe, too young to understand its great loss, will never remember a mother’s love. Rev. A O. Cree ad ministered spiritual comfort to the dying woman, and she passed from the scenes of this life surrounded by weeping relatives and loving, sorrow ing friends. The remains were taken to King’s Mountain Saturday morning and in terred in the burying-ground at Long Creek church near that place, where other members of Mr. Ware’s family are sleeping and where their first born was laid to rest. The numerous friends of the be reaved husband and his dead wife’s family deeply sympathize with them in their great sorrow. ThankHKivliiK Service of Souk. The choir of the First Baptist church assisted by other local talent, will render the following musical pro gram on Thursday night at 7:15 in the First Baptist church. The public is cordially invited. A collection will be taken for the Greenwood Orphanage. The following is the program : "My Soul LoiiKeth” G. W. Mansion. CHOKUB. “Hide Me, O My Saviour, Hide Me".. ..Martin MALIC yUAKTBTTR. Solo • ■ • Miss M. E. Williams. “Jesus. My Lord” Smith. MALE QUARTETTE. "The KitiKof Love, My Shepherd Is" ll.lt. Shelby. CHORUS. Address L. M. Rice, Union, S. V. "Nearer to Thee” Tenuy. MALE QUAKTETTS. Soloists: Mr. G. G. llyersand Miss Mary E. Williams. Male Quartette: Messrs. DuPre, Osborne, Lipscomb and Richardson. Organist and Director: Mr. George Pratt Maxim. Mayor's Coart. The usual interest io the Mayor’s Monday morning court was mani fested yesterday. Only a few offend ers were before His Honor however, but they contested their causes stren uously, seemingly with not much ef fect, for everything went the mayor’s way and $32 00 were added to the city treasury. One or two nofcici s of ap peal were filed with His Honor which if persisted in, will cause the full board of aldermen to have to pass on them. We were glad to see so few yesterday and trust that His Honor will draw a blank when he convenes court next Monday (Quebec is hoping to become the greatest wheat exporting point in America. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. — From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove ICntertaln'nK Heading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. Mr. L. B Bristol a popular travel ing man of Statesville, had the mis fortune to have his arm broken while out hunting last week. Two young gentlemen of Limestone recently w'-nt nut to the country in an attempt to gel scrap iron, also got trouble and are to-day being tried for the larceny of a steel shaft from Mr. John Tuttle. The grand jruy of Wade county. Friday brought hi a true biil of mur der against Sandy Hearne. of Gold Hill charged with killing bis brother Charles Hearne, also of Gold Hill Another man who had been detained, suspected of being either the pnnei pal or an accomplice, was reiea-< u on a lack of testimony. The State Auditor a' Raleigh Wed nesday received a letter from u man in Asheville ir quiring about the si'e of Dare county. He wanted to know how many acres it contained, the amount of limber on it and ihe vu un of the county Of course the man made a mistake. I) ire county is not for sale as a county, hut under an order of the Federal court a very large tract in the county wiil be so'd ant the inquirer was referred lo a Mr A B. Ai drews, who has been employe • in the case. A mad by the narn- of We-l \ Watts came to grief Mond. 1 v evening on the Chicago and X •rUiw^aL'l'r •rack m ar the water tank in Lenoir Fresh from Wilkes, with a quart of A’llkas product in his pm-.ket omi more inside himself, im tried conclu sions with a locomotive. As the en gine backed away from the tank In* stepped upon the track and was run over, being horribly mangled. An arm was cut off and oe sustained other serious if not fatal injuries He seemed to regret the lose of his bottle of whisky which was broken, more than the loss of his arm. He was taken to the Sanitarium. Sheriff Julian, of Charlotte, has af- fached a carat Spencer belonging to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and unless some adjustment is made of an account due by the aggregation headed by Col. Cody the car will be sold according to thie due process of law. It will b** remembered that the sheriff went to Spencer last week to attach the horses that had not been discharged as cured when he was no tified that they were not the property of the show but the Southern Rail way. He afterwards ascertained that the car was there and proceeded to attach it. The attachment papers were issued by Mr. Wadsworth, the liveryman of Charlotte. A telegram was received in Raleigh at midnight Friday stating that Ma jor F. K Hugar, of Knoxville, Tenn., has been appointed superintendent of the secona division of the Seaboard Air Line in that city, and would reach there Saturday. Capt J. M. Turner was former superintendent. This was a great surprise in railroad cir cles in Raleigh. Capt. Turner is one of the road's most popular officials. He was seen by a Times reporter Sat urday ami said that he could make no public statement at present. Gapt. Turner has made Raleigh his headquarters for nearly four years and has hosts of friends. He was re garded as one of the 8. A. L’s best officials. Again Wilmingtonians have been "taken in” by the cleaver devised speech of a sharp. This time not by a man, but by a boy not exceeding fifteen years in ag®. About a month ago a young fellow went to Wilming ton and began an active canvass for subscriptions to the Ladies’ Home Companion. He gave his name as Kllgo. and said he was a son of Dr. J. C. Kilgo, president of Trinity College. This helped him very mneb, as the people believed him sincere. He of fered a fine atlas in connection with the Companion and for the two be col lected $1 50. He promised each sub scriber that the atlas and paper would be sent in about a week. But they have waited in vain. One party wrote to Durham and found out that Dr. Kilgo has no such son. This brands the young fellow a fake. He has started out early in life. Henry Myers, of Washington, who shot and dangerously wounded a wo man thought then to have been his wife, was arraigned in the police court Thursday and held for the higher court under a bond of $150 which he failed to give and was com- mitted t<> j-iij? M..rs shot the wo man in tfi*- in id on R>*<| Uros* r ret-,c near Niestiie s drugstore in Wilming ton. and then fled to a swamp n^ar the county home where he was sur rounded and captured by a squad of policemen which gave pursuit. Tie woman was taken to the hospital aod almost miraculously recovered. The bullet is still in her head and yester day she appeared in police court and although not his wife, but a woman with whom he lived for some time, she would not prosecute him. The evidence, however, was fully sufficienfc to admit of probable cause and he was bound over. The woman said the shouting was accidental. Lucinda Smith, a well knowm col“ ored woman residing at Haymount, near Fayetteville, was in good health Thursday. Friday she was dead— the result of fright. This fact is cer tified to by her physician, Dr. John i I- jai /v.-a. nu.iiri time ago her hus band. VY illiam Smith, was arrested, charged with robbing the barns of certain residents of Haymount, tried and bound over to court. Lucinda, his wife, was summond as a witness,, but was so frightend she became ill and was unable to attend the magis trate’s court. .She toid Dr McRae that if she had to at Lend as a witness, in thi Superior court she knew it would kill her. Thursday she was io her usual good health, performing her duties as nurse at Dr. Lily’s, when a deputy sheriff appeared with a sub mmaforher attendance as a witness at court, her husband’s case coming up that afternoon Thak nigh she died of par.ihsis caused by .hegr at fright. Her husband was ;ried and found not guilty, and when *et free and went it me his wife was already dying A DAY IN GSOVER. A Mintlay Selmol Convention Is the-Crown- ing Event in tlte City's Annals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Grover N >v. 25 —*iunday Nov. 21 was a memorable day in the r f:m-diis v- f Gn^er for on thnt day was htdii the convention of the three sing ing schools of Antioch, Bethlehem and Grover, in the Grover Baptist church. Ihtse schools have all been trained recently by Prof. Gardner, and their performance at this conven tion speaks volumes for his skill, fidelity and thoroughness. The exercises began about 10:30 a m., and consisted of the rendering of pieces by each school seperately, some times by a wh^le schopl, inter spersed at times with pieces by two or more members of a class; nofc duets, trios or quartetts, but the air rendered by so many voices, tho school coming in as a full chorus. Mr Rush Dover, of Antioch, with his cornet gave most effective assistance. At 12 in., the convention musical took recess of one hour, and had pleasant convention gastronomic, to which everybody wa* invited. Reassembling shortly after 1 p. m.^ the exercises were resumed with en thusiasm by the participants. Shortly after 2 p m., Mr. Clyde Hoey. editor of the (Cleveland Star, was introduced, and in a short but eloquent address interspersed with both humor and pathos, entertained the crowded housed in such an agreeable manner that, despite the attraction of the really good music, the audience re gretted that his discourse was so brief. Among the more noticeable features of the occasion, was the fact that Gro ver furnished there organists for her class, Miss Lena Turner, Miss Oviedo Keeter, and Miss Jennie May Turner, (hs pretty to look at as to listen toj Grover has four more organists to furnish—Miss Edith Ilamoright, and the three Misses Price. Bethlehem furnished no organist for her class, the teacher playing for them. Anti och furnished one organist, Miss May Westbrook, who played like a Liszt, looked as beautiful (as a St. Cecilia, and sang a solo with a per fectly cultivated voice that was soft as a zephyr and sweet as a seraph’s. Antioch has long been noted as hav ing the best choir within a radius of many miles. Dramatic (evening. The above is the caption of a pro gram which will be rendered by tha Cooper Literary Society in Limestone College'auditorium Wednesday eve ning at 8 o’clock. The actors and the place conspire to assure an ele gant entertainment which will in spire and delight the audience. The public are cordially invited to attend. Geiicroini Itlut-kntiiirg. The city authorities of Blacksburg have contributed $150 00 to the fund to get up Cherokee’s exhibit at the Charleston exposition. This is nice of our sister city. It shows her love for her country and her patriotic spirit which always crops out when the welfare of herself or her county it involved.