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ICIM ic.'v r»Jvoi THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Mjvipips in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 1* SEMI-W^EEKLY—PtTBLISHri) TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. //E GJAflANTEE f he Rel.ability of F.very Adver« tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY. S. C , FRIDAY, DECEMBER *il, 1901. •1.00 A YEAR. HISTORIC CHEROKEE '• AHP HER CUPITM. Organization of the County and Its Present Status. PROLIFIC IN RESOURCES. A <i«M»eritl Outlinelof C'ti«'r<»ke« County. It* Mamifacturliij; ImliiHtand It* Kuptd I’rog oss up to tin* I’r 'Hi nt (lafTney Knt«T|»ris«'*. ^^•Cherokee county was organiz.* ! in IS'.Xi and taken tr im I n >n, Yo p k and Spartanburg counties. Dra*. tonville and Giwdyville t iwn hips we r e taken from Ciiion count j and U bite i’lains. Limestone and .'nngun townsiiipa were taken from Noun anburg county, and Cnerokee township from York county. Morgan tnwriship was first a small slice of Spartanburg’s Cher okee township, but Mion after the county was organized a portion of Limestone township was added to the slip of Spartanhoig’s Oh. rok> e, and was named “Morgan ” in tumor of Gen. Daniel Morgan who commanded the America, in p~ i • ! ne buttle the Cow pens, whit-ti was fougiit on ground in tiiat tinvn*hip. Cherokee county is nil! of R volu- tiobary history. Boi h Ann rican an I British arm e.s re i t z/ons d in ii r territory during to. w ,r. The fiat- tie of Cow pens nd nuiner"us''mail f engagements were fougiit on fiers dl, and tdie battle of King s M mntain, concern. It lias lately increased its capital stock to t.Hk) and has built a new branch mill at Yorkville. The Itiacksfmrg Cotton Oil Mill is, as its name implies located at Blacks burg and has b* en running only this season. YVe are not able to give the amount of stock tint it is a mill of considerable magnitude and is giving satisfaction to its owners. The Blacksburg Spinning and Knit ting Mill is also in Blacksburg. It lias just been started, but is turning out fine goods and is giving promise of a prosperous luture. The GulTney Carpet Mill is in G»,tT- nev. ft has a capital stock of .$80 * 000 and is paying o per cent. aonual dividends; and although the pioneer carpet mill of the South, it i-< making fine goods und^ successfully competing in the market with the older mills of th>* east Wo have one Roller Grain Mill in f-ft i ■ . 1' ' ■, a 1 i ' King’s Cr-ek. Both f the latt» r are locale ! in Cherokee township, the foremost wheat making township in the county. Idle Gaffney Foundry and Machine Shops are located in Gaffney. Thev have large brick buildings and arc doing a large and paying business. trie foundry at Blacksburg is well supplied and is d> in<g good work and a successful husiriHj.s. The fr-rtiliz* r factory is located at Blucks'iurg and is a branch of The of ■ \ irgi nni-Caroiiiia < dn micaj Com pan> , which mak'*s ii g i without saying NEAR THE BANKS OF THE BROAD. Two Flourishing Cities in Upper Carolina. I that it is a j du»try. While a ft w sec? ! have made gooo ''i ! • ,rn on tfle crei k- just a few bu’ ir eas. rn border n i > art; h -y ond Y >, k cu’d' , desc daiits of :n .tr,\ In safe and prosperous tn- ons of t lie coupty , ~ ffiis year. Id,e m d riv rs was ai- most totally destroyed the upiand Corn materially >r j ir,-d and the <• »t- tou crop wdl not exceed six y pet cent, of a full crop Idiese condit ions portend what r «/.• • rally e*il! 1 •‘hard times.” out. f'herokei aos an a resourceful peoole; tin y am de voting large areas to whear n I bv g Hid managerneot an l ec u o ny li e\ GAFFNEY—-BLACKSBURG. ll.-H- riptive O.ita Iteliitlve to the liepiil tirowtli ami Mjiteilrtl I’rojfre** of these two Thriving Towns in the Infant County of the State. L 187- when tire trains of what is now tin KruGiem If i’.vay first en tered •‘G-.ilfuey’s () ! Fi-ld” bringing only prepaid f reigrit and d< livered it among the pines beside the track, what is now idle coy oi Gallney was 1 n'm ist a wilderness. The road how ever soon built a clapboard depot and husmes.- b.iUsi-s a i residences of a similar character sorm began to spring up all around. Since then, tile progress of tin.* city has grown gradually, and without ever having a 1 boom ” Galfe \ h i continued to grow from year to year, until now’ -he In - fully (‘,0'M p <<ple within t,> r iurder- and th-* ohi | rimitive hoi lings have given place fo husi- m-*s • mi* * a d r,< *idu! <• *s of permit- metual de- excitiug a good influence in their flocks and community'. Blacksburg is surrounded by im mense beds of iron ore and other valuable minerals, and with her ac tive business men who are ever ready to utilize opportunities \Ve look for her continued growth and prosperity and i he development of enterprises which her surroundings invite. UNION VOLUNTEERS. Holt of the First Company that Wont from I nion County, A company which left Union, S. C., on January the !):h 18f)l and became Company K. of Gregg’s First Regi ment of South Carolina Volunteers, as published in The Union Times of January 12-h 1861. J is. M. Gad be cry, captain; Jas. F. Gei*d 1 i lie itet ttit; R. B - c**, 2 .d lieutenant; () A. Thomas, Jr.. 3rd MORGAN TOWNSHIP AND ITS PROGRESS. Products of Its Forests. Soil and PURSUITS OF THE PEOPLE Iiit«re»tliiR I>**serlpt1v«* Oata of om- of the chestnut may be considered ex tinct, all others have been followed up with young and most vigorous growths of the same varieties and one of the wonders of this section of the country is the rapidity with which land of this section, which appears to- be worn out, will again cover itself most densely with iliese timbers and the vigor with which they grow; they are almost as inexhaustible as the coal beds of Pennsylvania. The markets that are in reach of the people of Morgan township cover a demand for everything, and are so Cherokee*a Pronporou* Sections amt It* ! convenient that the remotest citizen Thrifty fnimbUant* \ iii*toric Town- | can go and return from market every Mhip Uich in Resources. i day in the year if h** SO desires J The following data descriptive of 1 slire ly no people in the world r eed the people of Morgan Township and j de*ire more advantages alot: ' this , line. Moreover these markets are their religious, educational and agri- j ,,,, numerous that they never can be cultural pursuits, the products of the f over-supplied. soil and "forest* and the eondi- | 1 be highways of travel are all I tion of that section in general, will lieutenant; 0 VV Boyd 1st sergeant; ! be r, “ a(l wi,h interfc8t b ? man ? <,f the \V W. James. 2nd sergeant; J. B I residents of that section of Cherokee Stte Bnari 3rd sergeant; J. .1. Gwii,, ! county. -i h sergeant; \\. S Alston, oth s-r- j Morgan township is bounded on geant ;\Y m. Munro 1st corporal; H F. | the north bv the North Carolina line, on the west by Spartanburg county, to that great thoroughfare the Scair'e. 2-mi corporal; VV. H Jeter, 3rd e -rpor tl; !> F jGlenn, 4t h corporal; S. \V. Porter, ii h corporal; 0 H, Gilev, 6 h c-n’iorui; E 11 Miller, quart- master ami eouunissary. 1'iivate* \Y m. Ai- xander F m hi ri.i!, 1 a11*s? nr - --I mam-noth proportions But in *1 - s -pl'-n i i edifiecs still stan - the original shabby old board depot. G.lTn y bus h-r business streets ti i I v i 111 *-t -r f'-om from the tin- o -hop to the rn-i-'t magnificent *i ,i-. • o*>i< ti -d with a* big stocks j Bat - ! B -at H i . ilit* m-i« . Root. Bet si 1, M biogi!, M Bell, li. B ntly, (j. j B i'I.-* mi J a-> iignen. \\ . II. < ar- i lis'e. J •..tra (’lark C M (Bark. J no. | D.ivis, R M. D > Id, Jus H. Dunlop ! s. Dm away. \ B Eison, \Y m. Kau- I cett. \V J. Fost. r \\’m M (>:sf. j R ibt. Irwin A. R. Gregory, Jno. j alike Gregory, I B Gre.r Jetf <rrei*r \V. t) llart, C A Hodges. J. A Hughi-s, A. Humptiries, Win. I) Humptiries, 11 mipbri s Isaac Ison, B A t r, 8 A. Jeter, J. J. Jones, X. 0. * —, Jn —. Johnson Jno. M John- Southern Railroad, then with it to Tnickety creek, the nee with that creek following its western tributary to it* head, thence in h strai-ght line ( x* ptio. ail,, g-jou ami no danger of them ever being otherwise. This is because of the nature of the country over which these roads are located. And now, to briefly summarize : YVe believe that every citizen woo lives in this township is proud that his home is where it is, for reasons above mentioned; not only for these, but because we have the most historic township it name and locality in the 8?at.e a* well. Xot, a patriotic man who has ever lived or who ever will leaving rhiekety mountain in u* j ''ve. who does not or ha* not, at the territory buck to the X’orth Carolina ; v, ‘ r 5' of Morgan at Cowp. ns, j feel, or * !t, a thrill of patriotic eu- YVe claim that not a higher-toned ' thUNirtsrn y<,ur ^ through evey v-in people with reterence to both m rals ! :n body. Inis makes us proud or our homes here, but prouder stjil wh. - we recall trie fact, ttiat rh- field I and religi-n can be found anywh- j in our South-land. I'nis app indept ' vi- to tioth cius-es—tlie en i farmer, ami lb ri are as tij«in\ of! ' uu -‘ ri on vv Del -i \\\ \ I, 0)1)' heroes who : 1 1 1 still iivt in (’I * . -i * of their nob-le sir. 1 -i vv a v s, i ri p- ace. n - -ii- pie- i"r whien t! -*11 i in J 776 and m iin fougiH f if them in I tlie war bet *. ee - - * - - Cherokee enuri'w ^ o • d- d (>n ttu* north by X r ti Car-.ma or. tin West by Span *Ut. !|-g CoUl.i-y , OO t he soiiti) bv I nion eoL’ity and on i 'h we.irtier the * co.in: v h s ■ i or*ii <i line ctuo- ! .-chools wirii competent pis.i rs at. i ■ |. 1 n-achers who are devoted t.| tip r nt | callings 1 tie churches have g ■ I •f m rclianuise in a jm.r' wh Jesale and re s an • >!r .. n'- r-ai in a y city ('oarbston. I s splendi l the lines, ail houses, sis in th * Statu it t mgregaliofi' ami (Oe >cho -Is nr** t ii of pupils. I'lie Graded sehools a> BlacKsburg ai d G.tffnev are in aj nourishing condition Bo h tiavi | able corps of teaithers; trie form-r has about 100 and the latter m arly ; 11, ( . ! 1(100 pitfriis. east by Y->rk county, and contains j Umestone College is one of the, a lirt;e over 100 bundled *q mr ] leading instituiions for female edu-j miles, it is traversed t'V Broad Riv- (1 1 ll .o * \ n ■ nt s) has ami loan a is > m - -it m od addition to intile iq'lip- l< -- w*. building ns ei)tt<)n mills mills, i r mills ami am! Iii' just completed -permi-m *i mill for the tettir- of (•■•'♦’on mill supplies fui operation zite. a newly this countv ,l( —,, in, M. \ . J, iw**, Rohr. Lamb. E Lamb Jno Ii Lilt - j mn. J-IT Law- Sot . S N. M irony 17 J. M- Kissick, r. J H. Murphy, L. B Mu'grove, ‘ '-\ . M ers, i hotnas Xelsnn, .las \ . X ; hers. Jus. Xorr s 1-'. Xorrnun, it. S. A Pearson, -Xiles Pearson, I'ra ik P ine* II. (’- Poole Jas Part - r, Th- s. Richards. C. C Sartor, c< gii - i-rie*, ami pur in manu \Ve also tiave in suea* a mill for r. lining uu disei'V! red mineral t hem in this township, as their are anywhere in the Sia-e for the same area and the tenants, many of whom also are making c.-tn- pet*-ut livings ami iieaceably remain on the same farms f -r >ears. I ani fully siuistied thu few r disturbai: - ar«se in ibis town 'hit. between i -m lord and tenant ( n-n o* »! y | r-n c of Ifje State. I'lus ari- s irom the high standard reiigious morals that pervade all our pe p e in all 'op a bo v in * ravi-r King s t Ye. k. Buffalo (.r. ea D - il11- tle Creek Bow-ri s Riv* i, S-i lot's Creek, Cherokee ( reek, Pep es Creek, Melvow *ns Creek. London CreeK, Guky Creek, Goncher Creek, Limestone Creek, Thickety Creek, and has Paeolet River for its south ern border. These streams have rapid running currents, in many places furnishing some of the finest water powers in the State, and are bordered by us rich bottom land as the Ntate affords. The climate is as fine as any in the world, while the lands generally are fertile and well suited for all the cereals, as is evidenced by an average yield of corn, wheat, oats, rye and rley, when ordinarily planted on y of lands, and a yield of 40 and bushels of corn, wheat or oats to e acre when planted in well pro- ared and well fertilized fields. Cher- kee is a little too far north to get eat results from cotton, hut she persists in making it her principal rop, much to her detriment. Its ow and uncertain price and the fact hat it can be raised so much cheaper io lower latitudes will bring our peo ple to a proper sense of existing con ditions and develop Cherokee into the granary of the Ntate, and place her home-raised horses, cattle, hogs and sheep on the market, while thousands roam over her hills. We have three cotton mills in the county, two cotton oil mills, three roller grain mills, one spinning and knitting mill, one fertilizer factory and saw and grist mills galore. The Gaffney Manufacturing Company’s plant is located In Gaffney. It has a capital stock of $800 000 on which it pays a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. It consumes 20.000 bales of cotton annually and employs about 1000 people. The Limestone Mills plant is lo cated just a little eu*t of the corpor ate limits of Gaffney. This mill has a capital stock of $200 000; it has been running about one year, is well under way now and is making satis factory progress. It consumes oOOO halos of cotton annually and ‘-mploys 300 people. Cherokee Falls Mill is situated just a little below historic Cherokee Ford ori Brond River. It bus a cap ital stock of $200 (MMI and pays I per Cent, semi-annual dividend. It con sumes 7 oOO hales of cotton annually and gives employment to 100 poo- * pie. The Victor Cotton Oil Mill is lo %cuted in GutTncy. It is a thirty ton mill and runs day and night during the oil-making season, and it is withal a most prosperous money-making cation in the N iuth mid one of ttu* h.-st iqqipped f->r it s hign grade work It ha* fine buildings and an able corps of profeS'ors; it is 'irong in every department with a standard as high as any in the country, and it is full to overflowing with pupils from Maryland to Texas. Cherokee has ample banking facili ties, with the First Xational Bank of Gaffney, the Merchants ami Farm ers Bank of Gaffney and a new private bank recently established at Blacks burg. The first two have $50,000 capital each. YY’e have not been sit e to Uarn the capital of the Blacks burg hank. Cherokee county has more miner als and of greater variety than any county iu the State The immense beds of iron ore from which ore was taken that supplied the iron works in this section before and dur ing the Civil YVar, are all in this coun ty and contain the best magnetic and hermatite ores in quantities to supply mammoth plants for untold years. The Lime Springs Lime Company with its quarries and plant at Lime stone Springs is running six perpet ual kilns of 400 barrels daily capacity each, and uothwithstanding this im mense capacity and constant work always have orders ahead. We give below the assessed value of property, real and personal, in each township for 1901, which has been kindly furnished us by our cour teous county auditor, Col. VV. D. Camp: Cherokee township—real estate, $432 226; personal prooerty, $489,- 053—total, $921,279. Morgan township—real estate, $164 611; personal property, $41,- 760—total, $206 371 YVhite Plains township—real es tate. $118 395; personal property, $122 370—total, $240 765. Dravtonville township—real estate, $140 067; personal property, $51,598 total, $191 665 Gowdyville township—real estate. $183 081; personal property, $ 18,836 —total, $231,917. Limestone township—real estate, $736 778; personal propetry, $1 012,- 291—total, $1 779 069-totai for county, $3 570 093 Say* He Wmh Tortured. “I suffered such pain from corns I could hardly walk,” writes II. Robin son,Hillsborough, III., “hut Bucklen’s Arnica Salve completely cured them.” Acts like magic on sprains, bruises, cuts, sores, scalds, burns, boils, ulcers Perfect healer of skin diseases and piles. Cure guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co., 25o. tli - iiiiiiing of which has devi loped in**) o" f onr principal ami money- making industries. Gitfnev has i.i her I .rders Lime stone Gnllege, one of the best high i B D R S irt or, .loo. Y Suitor Thos. J. Sur:, i, J r liobt. bartor, Lawrence Sir: or. S- -oh en Sh -Idnn, Jack Simp- ! son, T. So ■ i* f>*. Jr., Sain Schwar z C. L. Sims, i'h is. S Si ms, J no. sparks, V. m Steen, Geo. Steen. Jus \V. Stevens, Geo. VY . Stokes, Jonas L. Swn k. Jiio. rhomas, X. II rhomas -v J. To >mbes, G *o. YY’ad kina. J. \V. Weels, Henry YVhitta-n, •a al>ry V* i i ird. Geo. VV. Young Jno. part* of the » rn luded to. Xo part of the St.at« can snow greater itnprovnin-nt in farnn ig. ami a* a consequence more suec s* is at tained along the line of thi' indusirv in ail it* phases, tnan can tie seen in this t unship. Main, hi trv hones, tastefully and ts ifnpon which this undying dis- was won by Gen Mor gan, is a parr of our own fq.vnship, ;>i i lies not fur above the center of ttie township in one of the most t e iiitiful spots tube found in it. V Y e ar * antieipating one day, no great distance in the future, to see the e-Oiiidishnient by the government on >h;i me . -arable spot a national ,ara. n er> long the grand monument viil be erected, as it should t>* ou i n*‘ verv spot where the hero him- s* m i i he services that I; iv so u •'n rttt' zt-d ins name And ow 1 am *Htisfied tout all of our good pei.pie her- join heartily with me j i n ivi "bin *g t he ent ire L- tig- r • st a IT a m st p ea-ant Chris’m*s. and greater | > :,j . -nent and happiness for tne ! <•' t re year (1902) soon to be u^nered UMiul eoun I they ever enjoyed in all of comforts- ; * h,J n** 1 - >- B i>. grioie ir.si notions for the education of women in the country. Dr. Lee j Davis Lodge is its president; it has a full corps of teachers who are devoted to their duties, and a hundred and fifty young lady pupils who are the very r-'ses and pinks of the South, which all the graces, charms and intellectual endowments which have in all time gone to make up the high standard of womanhood of our South land. YVe also have in Gaffney, a splendid system of graded schools. There are four of them, each with a full, competent and industrious corps of teachers, and all of them have about 1000 children. One of these schools is for negro children and has near 300 pupils. But Gaffney is not finished. She is building up now as rapidly as at any time in her existence, and some of the buildings are even larger, more substantial and ornamental than any that have preceded them. Gaffney people work, know a good thing when they see it, and will grab it as quick as a trout will a minnow. Blacksburg, the second city in the county, is in Cherokee township, and has a population of about 2,500 peo ple, and is the crossing point of the Southern and S. C. Si G. E railway’s. She began her existence with the advent of the Southern in this up country and with regular and steady growth has assumed her present pro portions. She has many first-class residences and business houses which are full of goods and are presided over by quick, alert and up-to-date business men of integrity and high moral character. Blacksburg a’so has a bank commensurate with her growing business. A fertilizer fac tory, cotton oil mill, spinning and knitting mill, foundry and machine shops, and several smaller but paying industries. She has a thriving graded school, the first established in the county, installed in one of the hist graded school buildings in the up country. It is in charge of com petent teachers whose long connec tion with the institution is evidence of their and the school’s high char acter and the good work they are do ing. Blacksburg has good churches of all tlie prevailing denominations in this section, which are in charge of pastors of marked pietv and ability, who are devoted to their sacred call ing and are by precept and example Young, J. H YoungJ. K Young. Tne following members joined tne company soon after it arrived in Charleston: Ed. Armstrong, Jack Farr,.l R Jefferies J. I). Jefferies Tom Kendrick, Moses Lipscomb, VVm. Farley and Ehja Lawson Cherokee’* Mineral Spring, Below is an analysis of the water of a spring owned by Mr. YVm. R. Lipscomb which is on one of his farms on Blue Branch in this coun ty, about four miles from Guffuey, a sample of which was sent to th'e State Chemist at Clemson College for ex amination. GRAINS I’KR U. 8. GALLON OF 231 CUBIC INCHES Calcium carl am ate 9 99S Sodium carlMmate 1 9,>4 Magnesium earlxmate 700 Pottassium sulpliate 44!) Sodium sulphate 070 Sodium chloride .c.io ln>iiJsesi|Uio.\l<lf and Alumina 082 Silica 2 210 15 857 PARTS PER MILLION. Actual ammonia.. 004 Aliumitiold ammonia 034 Nitn-tzen as nitrate .. None Nitrogen as nitrite None The results of the analysis of this scrnple indicate that this is quite a pure alkaline corbonated water, free from objectionable organic matter. As shown by the analysis this is a hard water, containing as it is does the equivalent of over ten grains of carbonate of lime per U. S. gallon, Respectfully, R N. Brackett. Actg. Chief Chemist. A Flue Turnip. The largest turnip we have seen this season wai recently sent us by Mr. J. C. Lipscomb, of this city, who purchased it in a lot of a dozen or more of the same kind, from Mr Andrew Byars, of Union county. It weighed 4 3 4 lbs., and was, indeed, an extra line speciman. Nli;ht Wa* Her Terror. “1 would cough nearly all night long,” writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alexandria, Ind., “and could hardly get any sleep. I had con sumption so had that if I walked a block 1 would cough frightfully and spit blood, but, when all other medi cines failed, three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery wholly cured me and 1 gained 58 pounds.” It’s absolutely guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, Grippe, Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c and $1 00 Trial bottles free at Cherokee Drug Co. Ply finiMied, are to lie *■ eu all over tins tuwrship. T’tr houses of wor ship and for public schools are ail in good shape and arc .o r. aoh > i ail. Cotton is no longer the monopoly, while, as a mat tec of course, it is a leading article of agriculture and per haps will always he, jet oihi r more important articles, such as hay, wheat, oats and corn are now claim ing, and receiving by far more of the time and attention of our 1 trm- ers than at any other period through which we have ever passed; and I believe this township has enough of these and some to spare of each for another year All t he lands here are easily improved and lie so as to be made to hold any fertilizers in any quantities that may be applied to them. The price o* - land ranges any where from $8 to $20 per acre, owing to locality and improvements. As to health, no section iu the State can compare with it; purest waters, always cool enough and iu sufficient quantity to meet all wants. .The en tire township may be said to be abso lutely free from any of the known causes which in their natures may be considered productive of diseases. As to minerals, this territory may properly be consider* d the very center oi the base from which nearly all the iron ores in their rough unsmelted state used by the old iron manufac- toriesat the then Hurricane Shoals,but now Clifton, and old Oowpens fur nace, were gotten. These ores were obtained from surface mines, never more than ten or fifteen feet deep at most, and today many farmers are wearing their plows out cultivating over tons of these rich minerals iu many placea in this township. These are not the only kinds of minerals found here. Monazite abounds in most all streams here; gold in some places is also found. Capt. VV. P. Love owns now what several years ago was known as the Palmer Gold Mine; a great deal of surface work has been done here and quite » quantity of gold has been taken from this mine in this way. The opinion has always prevailed that a paying vein is near here if it could be located Forests; once the most magnificent trees of almost endless varieties covered this entire section of coun try. The most important however, was the great pine trees, which once Setrned inexhaustible. These great trees however have nearly all been converted into materials long since used in building up those grand in dustries which now so enrich upper South Carolina and give continued Northern I mins trie* Mo\i’n *ou* 1*.. \Y .il.* agricoii oral i o ere-ts are sril 1 paramount throughout the south the xise a id development of nearly every branch of manufacturing industry has gone on with unparalleled rapidity. In no direction has this growth b'*(*ri more notable than in the realm of cotton. Our readers are already familiar with the phenomenal results achieved in cotton textiles. South Carolina is reputed second only to Massachuetts in the number of its spindles, and the tendency to bring the loom also into closer relation with the source of its raw supplies must steadily increase. The enormous business done in what were once waste products of the cotton industry, later by-products, and now entitled to the dignity of independent industries, is not so well known. Cotton seed is the foundation of as many allied branches of manu facture as the northern beef and pork packing business has given rise to. The oil is a staple article of com merce in all the markets of the world, and forms the basis fora valuable in gredient of numerous articles af food. At first used chiefly in the large northern lard refineries in combina tion with other fats of animal origin, its value is now so universally recog nized. and its use so important, that manufacturers of lard compound are feeling the necessity of yielding to geographical conditions, and erecting their refineries in the South, where they are not only near to the source of supply of cotton seed oil, but also adjacent to a large population accus tomed to the use of their products. Among the first to recognize these conditions The N. K. Fairbank Com pany is conspicuous. The lard com pound produced at its Chicago and St. Louis Refineries has been a house hold staple throughout the south for the last quarter of a century, and our people will not be less appreciative of its merits now that they know it is produced here at home. The establish ment of the Fairbank Company at Gretna is in every respect completely equipped forthe manufacture of lard compound and “Cnttolene” and noth ing is wanting that money or skill can supply to perfect its products. YY’e welcome to our section this new south ern enterprise, which deserves the favor and patronage of onr people, or liciifiit to \ou. D 8. Mitoneli, Fulford, Md : “Dur ing a long illness I was troubled with bed sores, was advised to try DeYY’itt’s Witch Hazel Maive and did so with wonderful results. I was perfect,- employment to so many worthy and 1 ly cured. It is the best salve on the industrious people. )f those great va- ! market.” Sure cure for piles, sores, rlettes of timber only one may he j burns. Beware ot counterfeits. Cher- said to ba\d entirely disappeared, okee Drug Company.