The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 03, 1901, Image 2
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FUBLiBHEl) TUESDAY AND FRIDAY.
RY
Ed. H. DeCaMP.
This paper is orly sect to persons
when paid for, so do not ask us to
credit you. The price is too low to
illow us to do a credit bnsiness.
kducation and the mills.
Believing that few of our people
know and appreciate what the cotton
mills are doing for the cause of edu
cation, we have recently taker the
pains to look into the matter and to
obtain from two prominent mills
Pacolet and Spartan, some detailed
information. Here are the facts:
Pacolet under the 3 mill school tax
pays yearly $2,020 into the free
school fund and$550 poll tax, making
$3,170 contributed by tuxes
In addition to this the mill has
voluntarily expended the following
amounts for the special benefit of its
own people:
On school buildinj? and lecture hall. 000
ttehool furniture
Teachers’salaries yearly . loon
pedal lectures 800
$7 550
The school is open for ten calendar
months of the year and tuition is ab
solutely free to all who will attend.
Further there is a system of free
lectures provided at stated periods by
ttje company and all are urged to at
tend.
There are three churches in the
mill town which cost about $10,000
of which amount the company con
tributed $S OoO. In addition to this
the company contributes about $300
annually to the support of these
churches and bunday Schools.
The Spartan mill is located within
the corporate limits of Spartanburg
and its educational interests are
covered by the city graded school
system. Yet the mill donated a
house and lot to the trustees for the
establishment of a graded school for
the operatives, and contributes yearly
by taxes and otherwise $4 702 50 to
the school fund, while its own school
costs the trustees of the graded sys
tem only $1,200, leaving $3,502 50
■contributed by this mill to the edu
cational interests of the country at
large.
We mention what these two mills
are doing only because we have had
opportunity to learn the facts. We
have no doubt but that most of our
great mills are doing about as much.
The figures here given are well
worthy of consideration at this time
by our law-makers and by all who
have been accustomed to think that
the mills are grinding the poor and
oppressing the needy.
Do such facts as we have given in
dicate a spirit of oppression and ex
tortion? Do they not really indicate
that the mill authorities are doing
•II that they can do for the moral
•od intellectual welfare of their em
ployees? Do they not prove clearly
that the children here are provided
for in these respects far better than
they are on the farms—nay far bet
ter than the State can or will provide
lor them? Is it reasonable to sup
pose that meu who voluntarily and
generously provide for the moral and
intellectual growth of the children,
will at the same time dwarf all physi
cal growth, or permit it to be done
by others, by unreasonable demands
on bodily strength and endurance?
And finally is it not better to let such
-^aen alone and leave them to pursue
4helr own plans, than to be hamper
ing and restraining them in their
•perations, by useless and ill-con
sidered laws, especially when the
operatives themselves are well satis-
afied and never utter a complaint?
These are legitimate questions that
-oriee out of the facte. Consider them
•rail before you begin to ciy oat for
•gainst heartless and soulless
rporations.
on whisky and tobacco, while the
tariff in laid on almost every article
that a man buys or uses. Octavus
pays a tariff tax on every suit of
clothes that he buys for himself or
his family, on every hat that he
wears, on every pocket knife that he
carries in his pocket, on every table
knife and fork that he uses at his
meals, on his ax at his wood-pile, on
the plow that turns his soil, on the
spoon with which he’stirs his coffee—
in fact it would be hard to mention
many things that he uses on whieh
he does not pay a tax levied on him
by the tariff.
Yet Octavus says that, * Tillman
ism caused the common people to be
gin to think for themselves, and in
thinking for themselves they dis
covered that the tariff was the muiu-
tainer of prosperity.” He says fur
ther: ‘‘We have learned to know
that we are contributing all along,
every day, to the internal revenue
taxes, but rarely, very rarely, to the
tariff taxes.”
We are sorry to hear this. We as
serted at the beginning of this article
that Octavus is a muu of temp, rate
habits, and now he says that he is
contributing ‘‘all along every day”
to the internal revenue. We know
not what else to make of this than
that he and his friends are buying
and using whisky and tobacco pretty
freely, as these are the two main
articles subject to the internal rev
enue tax. We admit that a man
may use these in moderation and still
maintain bis reputation as a mao of
temperate habits, but when it comes
to using them ‘‘all along every day,”
there is a strong probability that the
danger line will be over-stepped.
IfTillmanism has led our valued
correspondent and his friends into
such a course of living as here indi
cated, it is surely one of the most
unkind things that Tilimanistn has
accomolished
Dr. Itull'H CoukIi syrup nil! ••lire throat
I und lung trouble without fail. For grippe.
influenza uij(1 a deep seated cough or cold, it
I is the best ren edy offered to the public. The
! doses are stuitll and a bottle costs only :75c.
Local Cotton Marker,
The following prices prevail on the
Gaffney market today:
Good Middling 7 50
Middling 7 37^
! WATCH
Your label and the date,
And pay before Tis too late.
| Or. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Office over R. A. lone* & Co.'a Store
Jan De found at office six davs In the weet
G. W. SPEER,
AT'roi* IN ICY-AT-L,AW,
GAFFNEY, S. C.
| Office in Auditor’s office at Court House.
J. I. SARRATT “THE COAT DOES
In order to close out my entire stock of
WAGONS I will offer them away below regu
lar prices for the next Thirty Days.
Nice line Top and Open Buggies which I am
now offering very cheap. See them before
buying as I can save you money.
If in need of Bagging and Ties see me. I will
make it to your interest to do so.
Disc Harrows and Boy Dixie Plows cheap.
Winter White Seed Oats.
Shoes for everybody at prices in keeping
with the times.
Ladies Coats, Jackets and Cloaks and Misses
Jackets to go at Slaughter Prices.
Up to-date lineof Trunks, Valises and Trav
eling Bags which were not bought to keep--
and that means that they must be sold at some
price.
Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Clothing, and in
fact everything in my varied line to go at
greatly reduced prices.
Now is your time to buy if you want to save
money. Yours for business,
J. I. sSA.I*I*;VTT.
OCTAVUS AND THE KKVKNUB.
Our esteemed friend und corres-
’fiondent, Octavus, let his gun go off
Islaf cocked last week, when be leveled
<44 at our editorial paragraph ou the
•Mirplus in the United States treasury.
What is worse, the gun being a regu
lar blunderbuss and loaded with
-squirrel shot, the bull’s eye was left
Intact while the woods all around rat
tled with the falling shot and by
standers were subjected to momen-
tary alarm. If we did not have every
•aeurance that Octavus is a man of
4«mperate habits, we should suspect
4hat he was at the time put into a
buoyant and highly conciliatory
mood by the stimulating effects of
revenue products. But such we
4oow was not the case, and hence
we are at a loss to account for his
partiality for the tariff and his hos
tility to Internal revenue.
internal revenue is collected mainly
WALLACE & CITS,
LAWYERS.
Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and
Javenport.
Phone 87.
J. E. WEBSTER,
11 or*ne v- A. t>
dice In Court House. (Probate'Judife s office
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all the oourts. Oollec-
tons a snecialtv
JAMES A. WILLIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
O A. I-rtr tsi tc V. a. cs.
Notary Public In office. Prompt attention
driven to ah business.
Office over R. A. Jones A Oo.'s store.
D. K,Duncan O. P. Handers. W.8. Hall. Jr
DCKCil, SAIDERS ft HAIL,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office — *. W ■'’•'O'-a--,.-•( A •V* •• Qa/W*
Building and Plastering Lime,
Goal, and Plaster Hair.
Plaster Paris.
Rosendale Cement,
Portland Cement,
Dynamite,
Blasting Powder. Pose
and Dynamite Caps, call on
limestone Springs Lime Works
CARROLL ft CO., Lessees.
Telephone R7.
Do You Want Money?
Save it by buying your Gro
ceries, Fruits, etc., from me.
I will save you money for the
next thirty days. Come to see
me and be convinced.
J. E. EZELL,
’Phone 1 32.
Prompt Delivery.
for one of those handsome, new
Bedroom sets we are showing.
Why not
rpiM
Her.
Don't say you can’t afford it,
but come in and let us convince
you that you can.
Come and see ihe Handsome
Bed Boom Suites we have just
received. They are Beauties.
ACME
FURNITURE
CO.
it*
Everybody, who has tried one, will tell you that
Leader Stoves and Ranges are Hie Best.
You can profit by others’ experience. We sell and guar
antee them.
And it will pay you to call and see our complete line of
FURNITURE
which consists of too many articles to mention, all of which we
will sell you at live-and-let-live prices.
SHUFORD & LEMASTER.
Store Phone 53. Residence Phones 94 and 95.
rbe Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company
Offer* for sale BulldlutrLrfna In tbla flourishing town. Gaffney City; Alao Fam a t to
by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of froir
80 to 100 aorea on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur
poses. For full particulars apply to
J. V. iV^ent.
fl.B.—All tresspassing on lands of this company, outtin and amoving timber, gshlngot
Long Guns, Short Guns, Big Guns, Little Guns,
Double Guns, Single Guns. And don’t you buy a Gun
until you see our New Line of Guns.
Wood!
Is worth money in this section, and the way to
save wood and money is to buy you a Little Dany-
Apex or Special Cook Stove, and it will prove a wood
and money saver.
We have just received the prettiest lineof Win
ter Lap Robes ever brought to this market. From
$3.00 to $10.00 each.
R. M. WILKINS & CO.
1 1 2, 1 1 4, 1 1 6 Frederick St.
NOT MAKE THE MAN."
Your' \Y 1 fo
I^onirinxr
But a suit of our clothes will make a man
look better and feel better than anything else
will, and our prices will leave more money
in his pocket than any one else’s.
We have no cheap or shoddy goods to offei
you at absurdly low prices, but we give you
more good, honest value for every dollar than
you can squeeze into one hundred cents any
where else.
We have the biggest, best, cleanest, cheap
est and most up-to-date line of Dress Goods,
Notions and Fancy Goods to be found in
Gaffney.
We have no old stock. We don’t allow it
to accumulate, and onlv offer von fresh, new
stuff.
Wlien it comes to Groceries, “We feed the
people.”
The Company Store.
“Ihe Biggest and Cheapest Store in Cherokee County.”
The World’s Best
By Every Test.
Just received, a good line Children’s
and Misses’ Shoes made by The Queen
City Shoe Co., which they claim are the
World’s best by every test. Light and
heavy bottom, Lace and Button. Prices,
60c. 75c. $ 1.00 and $ 1.25. Cold weath
er is here and the children
Must Have Shoes.
Don’t forget we carrry a big line Men’s,
Boy’s and Women’s Shoes, which we are
selling as low as good solid leather Shoes
can be sold.
Yours for good Shoes at low prices,
J. R. TOLLESON & CO.
THE WEST END STORE.
We are almost out of town, but that doesn’t cut any ice. We
are selling the stuff and sell it fast and close. We keep it fresh,
too, not to look at but to sell. We want to tell you in this ad
what we have to sell you for vour
J J
Tliaiiksgfi’V'iiig; IMimer.
We have Seeded Riiisins, Layer Raisins, Currants, Shred Co-
coanut, M ixed Nuts, New Prunes, Almonds, Cocoanuts, Citron
Gelatine, Breakfast Cocoa, Grape Nuts, Postum Cereal, Cranber
ries, Dates. Please remember us on the above and 'phone us
your order,and it will be delivered to your door. We keep our
wagon running from sun-up to sun-set.
We can also supply you in anything in tho fancy and heavy
grocery line at close prices. Please remember this.
Country Produce is coming in and we get it, so be quick to
send in your orders. Special attention given ’Phone orders.
Remember the West End Store, and save money on your pur
chases.
We guarantee our stuff to he Fresh.
Very respectfully,
W. THOMAS Ac CO.
P. S. We also keep on hand a complete line of Drugs and
Patent Medicines. Phone 28.
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TO THE MERITS OF THIS FAMOUS WATER.
Spartanbdko. S. 0., July 37,1901.
WHITE STONE LITHIA WATER CO.,
White Stone SprlnpH, S. C.
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acid solvent, and have l>een well pleased with its results in each Instance.
FRED L. POTTS. M. D.
SPARTANBfRU, a C., Aug. 16, 1901.
WHITE STONE LITHIA WATER CO.,
White Stone Springs. 8. C.
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REV. JOHN T. McBRYDE.
WHITE STONE LITHIA WATER CO;,
WHITE STONE ^SPRINGS. S. C.
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