Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ / i»OEI< AND FRIDAY. IeOaMP. not responsible for .espondents. Obi. /ll be pubinlised at five cents a llti. / Correspondents who do not contri- bate regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. SOME UON’TS. Don’t make it a habit to borrow your neighbor’s paper. The paper is too cheap to do that. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t make it a habit to lend your paper. You might want it some time when it’s away from home. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t ask us to credit you. We don’t want to hurt your feelings by refusing. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t be a clam, but take your county paper like a good, industrious citizen and keep posted on the hap penings of your section. NOTAND COMMENTS. The Gastonia Gazette promises to come out sem.-weekly. Editor Mar shall is one of North Carolina’s most brilliant writers and we predict a greater success for the semi-weekly Gazette than has characterized the weekly. Yorkville is disturbed over the question of a dispensary. It is none of our business, out unless they can arrange it. so they cun get the rebates we think tney had better let it alone. Its a good thing to let alone anyway, with or without rebates. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ What Cherokee county needs above all else is good roads. We should have macadem roads from one end of the county to the other. It would be a blessed thing ii we could have at least two hundred miles of good roads. We could well afford to pay the inter est on enough bonds to literally cov er this county from one end to the other with macadem roads. The sav ing in wear and tear on vehicles and harness that would accrue to the farmers would pay a large part of this tax, the increased amount of produce that could be hauled with the pres ent outlay of energy and cost would pay another large part of the tax, while the increased valuation of land, in the county Incident to good roods would more than pay the remainder, and then there is to be added the comfort to be derived therefrom. By all means let Cherokee county take a step in the direction of good roads. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The jnry law has been passed by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor. It contains pro visions to adopt it to the deranged conditions of the courts which will enable the judges to hold courts this year and provides specific rules for drawing and empanneling Grand and Petty jurys for the future which ap plies alike to all the counties in the State. The great trouble ana ex pense that the foolish rule hitherto prevailing has caused in the State, should caution our people against political upheavals which are always Intended from the start, to benefit the agitators. It is hoped now that the courts of justice will not be held up again on account of foolish legisla tion and that they can proceed with that regularity, decorum, wisdom and justice that characterized them when Carolina’s purest manhood and highest intellect ruled. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The municipal election is drawing near and the political pot is passing from the simmering to the boiling point. As is customary with this newspaper it will take no part In the election, believing that the people should be allowed to make their choice without dictation from any quarter. We pledge ourselves to give the successful candidates all the support at our command so long as they conduct the affairs of govern ment in the proper channel, but if, after the badge of office has been con ferred we should khow of corruption in office or the mismanagement of the people’s affairs we shall not be slow to cnticise und condtTmn the sane. Gaffney h*8 been very fortu nate heretofore in the selectiou of her officers and we have little douh. that thie time her uff.urs will be entrusted to men who will be zealous of liet good name and will do all in their power to advance her material and social interests » ♦ * ♦ The followim; is fr >m the Free Lance, of Spartanburg: ‘ The Free Lance has received more new sub scribers in the past month than at any time in its history. It is the only weekly paper in South Carolina that recquires cash in advance and stops subscriptions when the time expires. It goes to people who have mouey to spend and is therefore the best ad vertising medium. It has the largest paid in advance circulation of any newspaper in the State and the small est in-arrears circulation—none It sells more copies than most newspa pers can give away.” There is at least one misstatement in the above. The Free Lance is not the only paper in the State that requires cash in ad vance and stops subscriptions when the time expires. The Yorkville En quirer and The Ledger adhere to that rule. But we note that the Free Lance savs “weekly” and we remem ber that both the Enquirer and The Ledger are semi-weeklies, therefore we predict that the Free Lance does not refer to either of these papers. THE PRODUCT OF COWS. Some of the CoiidUIona for the MakiiiK of Good Hotter and Cheeite. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) There are about 17,100 (HID milch cows in the United States. O. u is number the n.ilk of 11 000 000 is made into butte", the r maininirg (5 000 000 furnish milk and cream ai d cheese. About one-fourth of all the butter produced is creamery-made and retails at an average of about 2o cents. Certainly not less than three- fourths is farm made and is consumed on the farm or sold at about 10 cents per pound in trade Briefly, some of the conditions for making butter is good healthy cow- food of the right kind for the cows, handling the uiilK from the cow to the churn, churning, washing salt ing and working the butter, and above ail, and including each of these items, is cleanliness. Good flavor sells milk, butter and cheese; poor fl ;vor condemns. Then H xvor is that inde scribable something which in good dairy products appeals pleasantly to our sense, but often passes unnoticed because so familiar In poor product it is equally indescribaoie but more often characterized. As winter approaches preparations made to care for the cows should be in the best manner. Profit will de pend as much on the comfort of the cow as on the food. Of course it is not meant that comfort can take the place of food and the latter be dis* pensed with, but it is beyond ques tion to expect that a cow can do her best work when not protected from cold and rain. A calf knocked in the bead with a churn dasher will never make a good cow. The best form in which to market butter is in brick shaped pound prints wrapped in a good quality of parchment paper. A good hand print can be bought for $1 50; parchment paper costs about $1 00 per thousand sheets in small quantities with about 50 cents added if they are to be printed. To get paying prices the butter must be uniform in quality and appearance, every pound should be exactly alike and should be kept so all the time. When butter goes to market in all shapes, sizes and col ors and all degrees of saltiness, etc., it cannot be sold for remunerative prices. Buyers are very critical, as they have a right to be when paying high prices, and the butter-makers should aim to make an article that will be above criticism. When you have made such an article there will be no trouble to find a market. For the farm dairy where only a small amount is turned out, possibly pri vate customers can be found who will pay retail prices, but for larger pro ducers a good plan is to find a gro- ceryman in the city who will handle all you make, and when you have found him stick to him. Good butter nan be made if the whole milk is ripened and churned, but a better plan is to raise the cream by setting in a cool spring or a cellar and skim, or best of all, is to buy a small separator. Separators are now sold as low as $50 for the small sizes and where three or four cows are milked enough will be saved in better work to pay for the separa tor in a short time. But whatever plan is adopted the cream if separ ated. or milk if churned whole, should be cooled as soon as possible to as low a temperature as you can get it If it is aired by pouring from one pail to another all the better. A good way to cool cream is to set in cold water and stir constantly until the temperature is the same as the water. The encouraging feature about the ! cow education is that, it is the kind l that any farmer can give his cows at i homo on the farm. Unlike the young i meu ami women at the colleges tne 1 cow cannot get her training directly j from bunks, but she does get it by her owner having sufficient knowle.me | of books to apply scientific princip.es | to practical feeding and the man that ignores b'Oks, bulletins and papers as a potent factor in increasir.g the oon'ents of his pocket hook is ignor ant of one of the prime elements of j success There Is no a .ubr but that i experience is the best teacher, but the ! txp‘-rience of two men is better than one and likewise the experience of a larg-- number of the most successful men in any industry is worth a thous andfold more than one s«df-conceit--(l man who thinks he knows it all First educate the man. then it will be pos sible to educate the cow E'.'genb Bj.a< k. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People You Know amt People %'ou Don’t Know Mrs. Jabez Hamrick and Mrs. Mary Bridges, of Boiling Springs. N. 0., were the guests of Mrs. R. E. McCraw last week. John Gibbons, of Mount Paron, one of Cherokee’s bright young men. was a city visitor Friday. J. C. Robbs, of Grassy Pond, a good citizen and honored veteran of “the lost cause,” spent Saturday in the city. John Service, a prosperous young farmer of Mercer, was selling cotton in the city yesterday. H. D. Mathis, of Ravenna, one of Cherokee’s most worthy citizens and prosperous farmers, spent Friday in the city. Mrs. Dr. Crawley, returned from a trip north Sunday night. Preyer Humphries, one of Chero- okee’s most extensive planters, called on The Ledger Fri lay. County Commissioner “Bud” Wil son, of Draytouville, came up to the city Saturday. Hon. C. W. Whisonant came up to the city yesterday. Lut her Surratt, of Grassy Pond, was a city visitor Friday. Miss V;ula Bridges, of Limestone College, spent Friday and Saturday with Mr. R E. McCraw and family. Mr. C K. Gould, of Spartanburg, was in the city Sunday. C 0 Weathers, of Shelby, N. C., will urr.ve in the city to-day and spend a few days with friends. Charles Reynolds, a good Gnucher creek farmer, was a city visitor Fri- uay. .Mr () H Sarratt, and daughter, Mi^s Lydia, were the guests ot R. E. McCraw and family last week. John K-unedy, a worthy Broad river farmer, was in the city Friday. Mr Torn Lockhart, of Blacksburg, came over to see his mother Sunday. Mr. John Moss came up Saturday from Union to see his family. C. \V. Moore, of Maud, was an ap preciated caller of The Ledger yestcr day Mlack Scruggs, of Ezells, came down to the city Saturday on busi ness. J. J. Gibbons, of Mount Paron. was an uppreiatea Ledger visitor Friday. Mr?. F. H. Harris, who has been spending some time with her friends, the Mioses H"pp e r, oj Logan street, hue gone to Union and will make that city her future home. Mr. Pollock, a popular young busi ness man of Blacksburg, visited friends in the city Sunday, Charles E Smith, merchant and farmer of Goucher, made a business trip to the city Friday. VV. Wallace Thompson, a thrifty Thlckety creek farmer, spent yester day in the city and paid The Ledger a pleasant visit. J. B. Foster, of Asbury, one of Cheroaee’s hard working farmers, came to see The Ledger Friday and subscribed. L. C. Lemmons. Esq., of Byers- ville, N. 0.. was amonc his friends in the city Saturday. E-quire Lem mons of right belongs to Cherokee and we all wish he would come in. Magistrate R W. Lee, of White Plains, was in the city yesterday on official business. Miss Alice Gaston, a charming young lady of Blacksburg, was in the city Suuoay the guest of the Misses Hopper on Logan street. Magistrate John W. Alexander, of Lawn, was in the city Friday on official business. James R. Littlejohn, a merchant and farmer of Asbury, was in the city Saturday on business. M. M. Tate, a prominent citizen of Webs er, spent yest-rduy in the city. E A. Ellis, of Grassy Pond, came in to see The Ledger Friday and sub scribed. Miss Emma Warlick, a charming young lady of Landrum, is in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. D-Camp on Victoria avenue. Kance R. Goforth, of Ravenna, came to the city Friday on business. E. H. Gaines, a leading traveling man, is in the city spending a few days with his family. A. 8. Smith, of Algood. spent a short time In the city Saturday. Wright Jolly, of Grassy Pond, a prosperous young farmer, favored The Ledger with a call Friday and subscribed. A. N. Wood and sons. Eugene, Dm per and Hazel left the city yesterday for Charleston to take in the Exposi tion. Ralph Turner, one of Sharon’s ’ popular young men, spent Sunday night with his uncle, Sarn Turner. Oliver Harnes the efficient post master at State Line, made a business visit to the city yesterday. Mrs Carrie Westmoreland, of Cher okee Falls, visited her sister, Mrs. M. F. Wilkerson at her home on North Limestone street Sunday. Oscar Sarratt and daughter, of Cherokee Falls, visited Mrs. M. F. Wilkerson, Sunday. R T. Nance, of Algood came to the city yesterday on business. W. Scott Hill, of Stevy, came in to see us yesterday and renewed. Mr. Hill is one of the most successful farmers in the county. He always has his garners overflowing and says farms are managed too loosely; that if the farms were conducted with the same p ecision and exactness that banks are managed, the farmers would not have room for their pro ducts; that the country would soon become r'ch at d the popple happy. Mr. Hill is goed autho:ity on farm work. D L Vassey. a thrifty Thicaety farmer, made a business trip to the city Saturday. P W. Vk-s y, of Ezells came in to see us yesterday and j lined The Ledger band. Mr. Robert Fortenberry, who has been in the Western Stat-s for twenty years, is visiting his native home in the Old North State and his brother, Mr A. L. Fortenberry, on Logan street, in this city Mr Fortenberry says when he left Kentucky last Fri day everything was covered with sleet. County Commissioner A spent some time in the city day. Harris I yester- j 1). H. Roberson, J. R. McCraw and F. E Ellis three bright Grassy Pond farmer boys were welcome Ledger visitors Saturday J. C. Jefferies, Esq , spent yester day in Spartanburg on professional business. James A. Willis, E q . went to Greenville yesterday on profession al business. Lewis Henderson, a Thickety Moun tain farmer, made a business trip to the ci y Saturday. John Bentley, a farmer who makes all his supplies on his farm, came up from his Gowdysville home yesterday. Mrs. Carrie Westmoreland, of Cher okee, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Wilkerson. Sunday. A. W. Smith, of Algood, was a bus iness visitor in the city yesterday. Mr. Jim McSwain, of Boiling Springs. N. C., was a city visitor Fri day. Mr. McSwain owns valuable property in Gaffney and we think he could do mighty well if be would come and live with us. Try it Jim. G. Thomas Wood, of Asburv, a good man. true patriot and gallant Confederate soldier, called to see us yesterday. A. G Davis, of Mercer, came up to the city on business yesterday. Barret Turner, an ex‘ensive planter of near Ears. N. C., recently visited bit brother, Sam Turn?- in tl. g -ity. John Ware, of King’s Mountain, N. C , is visiting his father on Lime stone street. The Tom Thumb Mr editing. The Torn Thumb wedding at the court house Friday night was a spier- did success Each little actor and actress performed his or her part perfectly and praise of one without all would be an Injustice. 'lo Misses Lillian Hopper and Eva Ross belongs the credit for the con ception and ex*>( u ion of idea. She was assisted Dy Mrs George Garrett Byers. Nearly $50 was realized. A Correction. In our transfers of real estate in Tuesday’s issue. Smith Hardware Co. to Greoard Improvement Go. should have been $7,000 for two lots instead of $2,000 for one lot. Dr. Bull’* Congh .Syrup, the people’ll friend. h;ts been in use over fifty years. It cures the severest affections of the throat and lunirs; such »s bronchitis grippe, laryn gitis and incipient consumption. Price only 25 cents a bottle. NEW FIRM. We sell only for Cash,.so if it’s bargains you are after we’ve got ’em for you in all our var ious lines. A few Overcoats to go regardless of price. Ladies Jackets and Capes at and below cost. Men’s suits from $3.00 to $5.00 less than you pay clothing houses for same quality. Nice line Dry Goods, Notions, Hatsand Shoes at prices that defy competition. Staple and Fancy Groceries at prices that nr^A/e them. When in need of anything usually kept in a General Merchandise stock come to the Spot Cash Store at 8 1 8 Limestone Street, Gaffney, S. C. MADE-TO-WEAR SUITS. When in need of a suit call on J. I*. TOX^I^KSOISt and get a made-to-wear made by M. BORN & CO., of Chicago, the world’s best tailors. THE PEOPLE'S MAMET Now offers for sale BEEF and PORK cut in all styles at prices that have eloquent speech for economical housewives. We keep on hand at all times the best assortment and best quality of fresh Meats, Fish and Vegetables, of any Market House in the city. Remember our “up-to-date” market Sausage. Taste, quality and price recommend our meats. Orders filled and de livered in five minutes any where in the city. Thanking you for all past patronage and trusting that the balance of you* will be wise as a great majority have and come or ’phone the People’s Market for anything in the line of Fresh* Meats or Fish. Come one come all to tin 1 People s Market and save vourself money. Yours for businesss. THE PEOPLE'S MARKET At Brown’s (>ld Staml Phone 1 7 A. N. Wood Pn-sliicnt, k. Drown. Vice-President. .Vlt'rohiin ^ lianlc Or GAFFNEY. S. O. OAl^II'A 1*30.000PLUS S*^.,ooo. State and County Depository. a-en'-rul IDinklng ami Ex -baasm business, is ve! lilted up with Fire Pruof Vault and ’ur.’ ur T roo f •-ufe. wal >\'itoTrctk - rime lock We solicit the business of ueoule of all nMtions O XI OMhier. Ttu* :'rmrTjarir*r wn . Lr. STAC y■ fVusHj^nt. .| t (■} Wardlaw, VTr*p-PrPSidCQV THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. CAPITAL. bsimmmi. SCKPLl> AND PROFITS. - 10.000. tSttitc. CTounty tiiicl C'it.v Depository. IieposDs solicited from Fiirroers, Merchants, Manufacturers and others. Every accom- tnodatiou extended to custom* rs that their business and responsibility will warrant. !>■ P. OftHhir- J. I. SAJK.K A.TT'XL My stock of General Merchandise at Go forths, S. C. § is more complete than ever be fore and owing to the hard times ! will sell at greatly reduced prices. 1 handle almost ayery- thing in Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Hardware, Etc. I also have about 30 head of Horses and Mules which I will sell cheap for cash or good paper payable next fall. Also three good Milch Cows with young calves on same terms. Don’t forget that I am still handling Tyson & Jones, Corbitt, Cincinnati and Studebaker Buggies, and Taylor, White Hickory and Studebaker Wagons at Goforths, S. C., and wiil meet any honest competition. Syracuse and Southern Harrows and Farming Im plements. Fertilizers of all grades on hand and to arrive soon. See me before buying. J. I. Sarratt. NOTE HEADS, 1000 FOR . . . $(.50 1 “ “ 2000 "... $2.50 " “ 5000 "... $5.00 ENVELOPES, 1000 “ . . . $175 " 2000 "... $3 00 " 5000 "... $6.25 ' i / 1 / / LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS, AND EVERY KIND OF PRINTING AT LOW' PRICES. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY FILLED. THE LEDGER, - GAFFNEY, S. 0. Here is a Bargain. Two excellent corner building lots within five minutes walk of Carpet Mill. These lotSAwill be sold on the Easy Payment Plan J. I. SARRATT & GO. of only $3 per mont’r. Here is an opportunity of a lifetime for working people. Apply to ICO. II. OeCiYiVlF*.