Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I pgw, ,> PTr 5 ?< r TL'ntc JU Ejuo iow. fDBLISHKD TUEtDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DeCa.mp. The Ledger i» not responsible lor lb« views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All oorrespondence should be ad- iresied to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. SOKE DON’TS. Don’t make it a habit to borrow your neighbor’s pa[fer. 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. A TALE WITH A MORAL. A citizen of the county came into The Ledger office one day last week and began to state his objections to the manner in which the paper was conducted. His principal grievance was that we «ere not publishing the Dceedings of the General Assembly |ow in session in Columbia. He inted a political paper, he said; one F|bat took issue, and he did not like [The Ledger because it did not take a Island in politics. This man does not now take The Ledger, and, although he was a citizen ff this community long before The Jger was established and has been zen ever since its establishment rears ago, we do not believe in time be has patronized it to pt of $2. This is probably | the paper was not a political egoing has been stated for se of taking a text, viz: efits accrue to the layman cular citizen for in- er held office to we aware te for ed at y It did he and thl slleve he and we do not equal exchange f< J-j?Don the m< We are not erial standpoint. WV' do not »an that he has not been paid in )llare and cents for bis-time and loration. What we mean is this: r Has be been justly compensated for his enthusiasm in thd ability and character of the men who hold office? We do not believe he has, and be never will be so long as the present system of selecting officers remains. We believe that the office should seek the man and not the man the office. There is nothing dishonorable in a 'iv man aspiring to be elevated to posi tions of trusty and honor. The man who aspires to such is to be com mended, but simply because a man aspires to office is no argument that be is fitted to bold that office. A man 'may'aspire and yet not be competent. Bo long as the party lash is used t6 make newspapers support incompe tent men for office, just so long will this newspaper remain neutral in POlitiCS. r We believe the industrial, social and literary development of the com- - munity to be paramount to tbe po litical development, and with that end in view we propose to do all we can to help our people along those lines and let politics and politicians take care of themselves as best they can so long as ths present system prevails. A RETROSPECT Eight years ugo last Bunday The Ledger was -tuncbed upon the journ alistic sea It whs a frail hsrq-ie in deed and more than once It has been submerged! by the rolling waves of i troubled wHOere but escb time it has J emerged **rr«iflger. For two years it ^loat money in the effort to secure a potbotd. Then for three years it float- .n the ebb- neither gaining or I. until finally it struck the cur- id It has gene steadily forward until today it may be termed a safe and sure vessel. The Ledger started as a seven col umn four page paper, published once a week at $1.50 a year. When it got to the point where it could be done with safety, the price was reduced to $1 00 a year. Finally the size of the paper was changed to a six column eight page paper. Later it was made a seven column four page paper and published twice a week for $1.00 a year. Believing that tbe paper was too cheap at $1.00 a year, and tbe paper trust having almost doubled the price of white paper last year, the price was advanced to $1 50. All this time the paper was doing a credit subscription business. The subscrip tion list grew at $1 50 a year, but it was not a satisfactory business. While many people kept faith with the paper and paid their subscription, many others did not. At last tbe management became disgusted with having so much money due and such a slight effort to pay, and it was deter mined to reduce the paper to $1.00 a year and require cash in advance. At the same time it was determined to give the people as much for their money as possible, so the paper was changed to its present form, four pages on Tuesday and eight pages on Friday, and the announcement made that beginning January 1st the sub scription would be required in ad vance. Quite a number responded to our denouncement and came in and paid up. About seven hundred did not believe we would do what we an nounced or wilfully neg'ected to re spond. As a consequence the seven hundred were dropped from our list. It took courage to do it, but we had de termined to do it if we only had one hundred left on our list. We are proud to say that four hundred of those seven hundred have returned to the fold and the others are coming back at the rate of twenty to thirty a week. The policy of the paper has beec to do all it can for the welfare of the people at the smallest possible price. It will continue .along that line, en deavoring to serve tl)6 people, to give them full valur- for every dollar they invest with it, and to squire all who taka it to pay for it. AN OPPORTUNITY. While the recent snow was bailed with delight by many, especially tbe dear little ones, it brings with it dis comfort to many poor people who were unprepared for its reception. It will entail much suffering, but the delight it brings will out weigh all the suffering it causes, if those who are able to do so will only grasp the opportunity to help tbe poor and un fortunate. Let those whom God has blessed with plenty and to share don their warm wraps and go out among tbe poor of their neighborhood and see that they do not suffer for any thing. Send a load of wood, a sack of fiour, a few pounds of meat, sugar or coffee, or whatever may be needed to tide them over for a brief period, and you will feel better for having done so. The birds suffer during this spell for something to eat. Save tbe crumbs from the table and throw them out so the birds can feed on them. Avail yourself of tbe oppor tunity to do good to both man and beast and fowl and you tv ill feel bet ter for tbe snow having come. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Senator Sarratt’s action in with drawing his amendment to the bill allowing the Southern to absord tbe 8 O. & G. E., is one that will require explanation from him. We tender him the use of the columns of Tne Ledger. a Agitate the subject of good roads. Talk it to your neighbor and endeavor to explain to him the benefits to be derived therefrom. We mast make a move towards good roads if we ever hope to keep up with the march of progress. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The commotion incident to the commercial rating of some of Gaff ney’s prominent merchants by local agents of the commercial agencies has about passed over and Gaffney merchants will not suffer to any per ceptible extent. • ♦ ♦ V If the State Riilrnad Ccmmisesion would perform its duty the people of this State could secure better railroau accommodation** and more equitable rates. The office might jusr hh well be abolished for ell tbe good that accrues to the public there- from, i.ocaI Co. ton Marked The following prices prevail on the Gaffney marker, t' day : Gyod Middling. 8 15 ng ^8 U0 PERSONAL ‘PARAGRAPHS. People You Know Hint People You Itou’t Know Andrew Martin and Coleman Cash, of Martinsville. Spartanburg county, were business visitors in the city Fri day. R. P. Scruggs, of Ezells, was ir the city yesterday. A. J. Taylor, at one time a Gaffney boy, but now of Sedalia, Union county, spent some days in tbe city last week and was heartily welcomed by his many friends l^re. I. W. Moore, of Blacksburg, came over to the city yesterday on business. B. F. Bonner, a prominent planter and citizen of Goucber, was a city visitor Friday. D. F. L. Turner, of Stevy, spent some time in the city yesterday. D. W. Cooper, a prosperous subur ban farmer, spent some time in the city Saturday. James Harris, a young Algood farmer, called to see The Ledger Fri day and subscribed. W. W. Gaffney came down from his North Carolina monazite mines Saturday to spend Sunday with bis family. Jonas Blanton, one of Cherokee’s good farmers and citizens, came to the city yesterday. Thomas B. Meacham, of the Mur ray Drug Company in Columbia, was in the city Friday. John P. Elliott, of Charlotte, who has been in the city for several days, left yesterday. Misses Edith F)rt and Myrtle Gaff ney, two of Gaffney's most popular young girls, “pent from Friday until Monday with M:s. W. A. Poole at Pacolet. D. W. Cooper, a worthy citizen and farmer, spent some time in the city Friday. J. C. Bonine, manager and sales man of E. C. DeWitt «fe Co , of Chicago, was in the city Saturday and paid The Ledger an appreciated visit. Ri-v. J. B. Wilson was in tha city yesterday He is always a welcome visitor in Gaffney where he has a host of friends. Lem Blanton, one ci the most sue cessfui farmers in county, was in the city Saturday. G. L. Mabry, aj&right young Cher okeeao .of AsbmjL called to see The Ledger Friday and joined The Ledger band. Miss Rjse Huggins, of Laurens, vis ited friends in the city last week. County Commissioner Alfred Har ris. a prominent and successful farmer, came over to the city Friday. O E. Wilkins spent a day in Spar tanburg tbe last of the week. Wm. Watkins, a prominent citizen of Ezells, was visiting in tbe city Fri day and Saturday. He was tbe guest of J. E Watkins on Logan street. D. Baxter Wood, a prominent busi ness man of Pacolet, came over to the ci*y Friday. L U. Campbell came home Satur day from his monazite mines in North Carolina. A. G. Davis of Mercer, spent Fri day in tbe city on business. Albert Bettis, a prominent citizen and planter of Mount Paron. spent some time in tbe city yesterday on business. Junius Sparks, a steady Cherokee farmer of Home, made a business visit to the city Friday. Albert Harrison, one of Cherokee’s most worthy young farmers, called to see ns Friday and subscribed. Howard Littltjibn. a Gaffney boy who is now a popular traveling man, is in tbe city for a few days with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Little john. on Limestone street. Among the visitors from outside the county her« Friday and Saturday, were. Frank M. Martin and W. YV. Hagood, of Spartanburg; 3. M. Faires, of Clover, and J. K Hinton, of Chester. Officer John Spencer returned to the city yesterday from Anderson with Mrs Spencer and children who bad been spending some time In that city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wheat. D. S. Lipscomb, a prominent citi zen of Cowpene, came to tbe city yesterday, called on The Ledger and renewed. While in the city Mr. Lips comb was tbe guest of bis daughter. Mrs. R S. Cook oh Granard street. The Absorption of the S. C. & O. E. Our people are still excited over the proposed absorption of the South Carolina &, Georgia Extension Rail road by the Southern. They have contributed money for the construc tion of the S. C. cfc G. E. road and they are not willing to have that money go to strengthen the Southern in our territory, to have much of the road they have helped to build torn up; to have more than a hundred thousand dollars worth of taxable property now in Cherokee destroyed, and by so doing place Gaffney at the mercy pf the Southern, which cow forces her In many instances to pay higher rates of freight than it does other places on either side of us. A private dispatch to L. Baker from Hon. T. B. Butler at Columbia says: “Amendment to compel the South ern to continue to operate branch lines of the S. C. it G. E. passed bouse by a large majority.” Fort Sumter. Nothing gives the visitor to Charles ton at this season more pleasure than a visit to this warworn old fortress. The little steamer that makes fre quent trips during the day is always well loaded with tourists, who revive their historic memories in situ and go away loaded down with shells and spikes, etc., as mementoes of the ‘ storm-cradled nation that fell.” Away down, in the bowels of tbe old fort, can still be seen the granite casemates, damp, dark, dreary, with in which the devoted defenders lived, moved and had their being during the storms of the most continuous gun fire of the war. A handful of soldiers from the regular army have charge now, two long, frowning rifle-guns of the n* west pattern command the pass for m les away, but it is the most peaceful spot on earth now. The whit i-winged gulls sail about, t ie sun shin *8 brightly on the dancing wave lets the ships go in and out; the past is b it a dream. The Carpet Mill. A Ledger representative learns with regret that the Gaffney Carpet Man ufacturing Company’s affairs are in exceedingly bad shape, and the proba bility is that the stockholders will lose every dollar they have invested If the creditors force the mill into bankruptcy there can be no sa'vation for the men who have put their mon ey in it, as the assets will not begin to cover the liabilities. If the credi tors can be induced to hold off. how ever. and allow the present receiver, Mr. H. D. Wheat, conduct the affairs of the mill for about three years they will in all probability realize tbe face value of their claims, and the mill will be saved to the original stock holders. Crab Kay. The continued exrreme cold weather has caused a heavy demand for forage for livestock While tbe floods of lust summer cut off the supply of fodder the stub ble land and abandoned fields made a large yield of crab grass, and much of it was cut and saved for hay While many people are prejudiced against crab grass bay. we are feed ing it to mules and cattle and find that they eat it readily and are in good condition. By actual test it is as good as the shipped hay. and when bought by weight much cheaper. C. P. Huggin. Lawn. S O F-b. 15 Dr. Bull** Cough Syrup never Disappoints those who use it for obstinate coughs, colds, and irritations of the throat and lungs. It stands unrivaled as a remedy for throat and lufig diseases, roid b all druggists at 25 cts. Tax Notice. I will be in my office from ft o’clock, a. m., until 3 o’clock, p. m., each day until March list, for tlie purpose of collecting city taxes now due. W. H. Ross. (Ity Clerk. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. 0V“OfBce over National Bank. 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, Hats and Shoes at prices that defy competition. Staple and Fancy Groceries at prices that mterve them. When in need of anything usually kept in a General Merchandise stock come to the Spot Cash Store at 818 Limestone Street, Gaffney, S. C. v / & CO. KANSAS CITY BEEF For Sale at THE PEOPLE’S MARKET. We have just received a shipment of Kansas City Beef,'and would be glad to place at least a small amount of it with each one of our customers, and also any one else, as >ve intend to handle it this Summer, and it would he wise in you to remem ber that the People’s Market is headquarters for FRESH MEATS of all kinds. Remember we sell 10-pounds nice steak for $1.00. Yours for business. THE PEOPLE’S MARKET. MADE-TO-WEAR SUITS. - When in need of a suit call on | J. R. TOX^IvISSOIN: and get a made-to-wear made by M. BORN & CO., of Chicago, the world’s best tailors. A. N. Wood President. K. R. Brown. Vice-President. IVloi^eluJin sviicl FMsin ter« lia.nk: • OF GAFFNEY. S. O. CAPITAL #50.000 —SiURPJLTJ9 #4,000. State and County Depository. Doesa generai Banking and Exchange business, Is well fiued up with Fire Proof Vault and Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Time lock. We solicit the business of people of all C\ ivr. occupations 4 F. G. Stacy. President. J. G. Wardlaw, Vice-President. THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. CAPITAD. ------- *50.000, SURPLUS AND PROFITS, - 10.000. estate. County and City Deponitory. Deposits -oiiotred fr>>ro Farmers, Merchants. Manufacturers and others. Every accom modatlon extended to customers that their business and responsibility will warrant. L). C. Canliier J. I. . I My stock of General Merchandise at Go forths, S. C. f is more complete than ever be-h • i, fore and owing to the hard times I will sell at greatly reduced prices. handle almost every 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 cj sh 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 anc Goforths, S. C., and will mee : any honest competition. Syracuse and Southern H plements. Fertilizers of ail arrive soon. See me before Studebaker Wagons at irrows and Farming Im- grades on hand and to uying. NOTE HEADS, 1000 HOR . . . $1.50 ii it 2000 il • • . $2.50 a ii 5000 Al • • . $5.00 ENVELOPES, 1000 ii . $1.75 it 2000 ii . $3.00 ii 5000 ii I . • . $6'2i LETTER HEADS, BILL HI STATEMENTS, AND EVER! KIND OF PlNTING AT LOW PRICES. ORDERS BY |UL PROMPTLI J v THE LEDGER, GAFFNEY, S. C. Here is a Bargain. Two excellent corner buildiig lots within five minutes walk of Carpet M|ll. These lots will be sold on the Easy Payment Plan of only $3 per month. Here is an opportunity peocle. Apply to riju jDeCAIVlF*. of a lifetime for workir/g peode- Apply to J