Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TTru© >oick. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AM) FRIDAY. HV Ed. H. DeCamp. The Ledger ie not responsible for lb« views of correspondents. Correspondents w’ho do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Obituaries will be pubinlised at five cents a line. Cards of thanks wi) 1 be published ftt one cent a word. Reading notices will D*. published bt ten cents a line each insertion. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication ; also endeavor to got tneui to tne office by Monday ano Thursday mornings. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. SOMK DON’TS. Don't make it a habit to borrow your neighbor’s paper. The paper is too cheap to do that. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Don’j 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 The manner in which the people of Gaffney conducted themselves on last Tuesdiy is worthy of the highest commendation. Notwithstanding the great interest that centered in the municipal election, and the ardor with which th* various candidates and their friends worked to attain their end, there was no quarreling, no drinking to any perceptible extent, and no hard feeling. By live o’clock the result was known and the victors began to celebrate in a mild manner, and in their celebration the defeated joined. In fact it was a fitting cli max to the campaign Mr. Jones, the defeated candidate for mayor seemed to regret the result less than anyone else, and no one could have told but that be was the victor, if they had been obliged to reply upon his conduct to reach a conclusion. Mr. Little took his election without boasting and Mr Jones accepted his defeat gracefully. WOMEN AND SOCIETY. LAI! communications to this column should be addressed to P. O.'Box 1SI.J • Society is still on the move and the- many social events of the week keep one from becoming stagnant during the dull and trying weather. Society and fashion go hand in hand and are always changing and making the world feel better as they h i!d the r sway. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. E. A. Bridges and Miss Sadie Gallagher, of Blacksburg, were shop ping in our city Wednesday. Miss Alice Mercer and her grand mother, Mrs Mary Fall, are visiting relatives in Camden. Miss Fannie Littlejohn is visiting Mrs. R. A. Jones. A Shoe to Hlye Away. I have a No. 8 shoe for the right foot of any one-legged soldier that can wear the same. If no soldier, any one-legged man that has his left leg off that wears a No 8 shoe. Call on me at my office for particulars Also a few papers of fine imported to bacco seed« that enyone thinking of raising tobacco may hnve bv calling on W. D. Camp, Auditor’s office. THE CAUSES OF FOVEKTY. The following very thoughtful ar tide on the causes of poverty is taken from North Carolina’s brightest and best newspaper, the Charlotte Ob server : “The final report of the industrial commission, recently issued, con tains a great deal of valuable infor mation. It is a general summing up of the work done by the commission during its term of service, which covered a period of three and a half years. During that time nearly 700 of the most competent men in various lines of business and experts who have given the subjects abopt which they were auked tu testify extiaustive study, were examined, and this final report is what might be termed the composite result of the whole labor of the commission. “finder the head of 1 Unemploy ment” some interesting figures ar> given as to the cause of poverty. “Ir is always a difficult problem in individual cases to assign the true cause of their unemployment,” says the report, speaking of personal causes of unemployment. “In some cases their personal deficiencies are plainly the re«ul r d tbdf iudu^trial occupation; in others they are the result of heredity, evil associations and defective education 1 ” Statistics regarding this classs of people have been comoiled by the leading charity societies of this and other countries, and a table printed shows for cert ain cities the estimate which the charity agents place upon individual cases with reference to the causes of their poverty. According to this table 2d y per cent of the cases handled in Boston in 18!)9 were attributed to in temperance, In New York only 10 7 to 13 8 per cent, to this cause, while the returns from Baltimore showed 9 per cent, due to intemperance. These personal causes, combined with dishonesty, licentiousness, disregard of family ties, together in icating misconduct, bring a total of 55 3 per cent, in Boston, 41 5 oer cent, in Baltimore and 16 9 to 35 5 in New York. Lack of employment due to the employe is credited with 9 per cent, of the causes in Boston and Baltimore in 1899, and 19 5 per cent, at the same period of oro«perity in New York, while in 1890 97, the low est point o' industrial depression, the figures for New York rise to 47 per cent “In general.” says the report from which these figures are taken, “it might be asserted that the ap plicants for charity are the inefficient and that their lack of employment is * largely the lack of demand for inef ficient workers.” “These figures furnish argument for the temperance lecturer and the euucator. From a sectional stand point temperance people down this way can get some satisfaction from thr fact that of the causes of poverty in three cities—Boston. N)w York and Baltimore—the latter snowed the lowest percentage, 9 while Boston ascribed over 20 per cent, of her poverty to intemperance. “It is interesting to learn that even A friend of The Ledger, who resides in North Carolina, sent us word the other day that it was evident that we did not think him good for his debts, else we would not have discontinued his paper. This man has been taking The Ledger ever since its establish ment and we know him to be as good as a bank. We did not stop his pa per because we were in doubt about his paying for it. We knew he would pay for it aud we would have gladly continued the paper to his address but we can have but one rule and we must treat everybody exactly alike; so we discontinue the paper at expi ration, to rich or poor, friend or foe Watch your label and your date and pay before ’tis too late. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We make our obeisance to Mayor Little and his council, promising to do our best towards making their term pleasant and profitable, and at the same time keep in the straight oath of duty so they may not have the opportunity of sending us to the phaingang , Carroll, Carpenter Beg to announce to their patrons that Miss Ehoff, of Baltimore, v/ill have charge of dress-making in in their store at 805 Limestone street, next door to postoffice. Miss Ehoff is now visiting Philadelphia and other Northern markets attending the openings of new imported selections which set the styles for the coming season. Miss Ehoff has had ten years’ experience in dress making and comes very highly recommended by former patrons. V/e extend a very cordial invitation to ladies to visit our dress-making establishment and feel sure that all orders entrusted to Miss Ehoff will be executed satisfactorily. Mrs. A Cree for a few days has gone to Atlanta PAYS fORTUNE IN DUTIES. • . — Mrs. Huntington Givefi Pert of New York $31,800. New York, Fob. 27.—Mrs. Arabella D. Huntington, widow of Coilis P. Huntington, has paid $31,800 in cash as customs duty. Officials who Ire- quently have to haggle with women ever the tribute to Unt ie Sam declared that she was a paragon of travelers. Mrs. Huntington, who retu-nel from a trip to Europe on the Oceanic, with her son. Archer Huntington, and Mrs. Archer Huntington, staggered the young man, who as acting deputy col lector, asked her to make a declara tion of her purchases abroad. It was on board the steamer coining up the "bay. Yprng Huntington had the list carefuHy prepared. The sum total of his mother’s purchases abroad was $75,000, the largest amount ever declared by a traveler in the port of New York and probably in the world The duty was also the largest eve)' paid. i There was a score of large fiat 1 trunks containing rich gowns bought in Paris, I ondon and Berlin. Most of the tax paid by Mrs. Huntington was ti i per cent m/made up gowns ul linen, silk and woolen. There was a large amount of jew Iry ur-J precious stones on which she paid 00 per cent. On a lot ol perfumery 60 per cent ad valo rem was paid. Her rugs were taxed at 10 cents per square foot and 40 per cent on their value. Bronze also paid 05 per efcut on their value. Misses Eva and Daisy Stacy were the gu* ste of Miss Ella McCraw Wednesday. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. W. L. Johnson and Miss Rosa have gone to Charleston for a few days. Miss Stella Newberry, of Pickens, is the guest of Mrs. A. K. N. Folger. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Robt. Roundtree and children, of Spartnnburg, are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R M. Gaffney. ♦ ♦ Mrs. C. S. Elam left Thursday morning for the North, where she wen) to purchase the spring millinery for O. E. Wilkins ♦ The many friends of Mrs. Dr. Gar rett will regret to learn of her severe illness, and they hope for a speedy recovery, ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs Fannie Montgomery is home again after the closing of her school at Ezells. ♦ ♦ ♦ «■ On Friday Mrs. Dr. brown gave a dining to her lady friends. A sumpt- ous repast was served The invited guests were: Mesdameg W. O Lip scomb Ed. Gaines. Dr. Littb j ffin, M. Jefferies Dr. Hamrick, A R N Folger, H. Pridmore, A N Wood. O. b Elam, S. A. Lipscomb R. M. Gaff ney. G W Cotton. W. R Lipscomb, A E Lipscomb. M. P Pierson. Dr Smith R Grey antf W, H Hodges. 2 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ a-a Babies end children need proper foed, rarefy ever medi cine. !f they do net thrive f - on their food something [3 wrong. They nsed a iit'iz help to gd their digestive \ machinery working property. CIS ScoSfcsM COD LIVER OIL Wmt HYPOPHOSPHfTES of LIME A SODA will generally correct this | difficulty. If you will put from one- fourth to ha’f a teaspoonful | in baby’s bottle three or foeir | times a day you will soon see a marked improvement. For larger children, from half to t a teaspoorful, according to ? age, dissolved in the*r miSK, ! if you so desire, will very ] soon show its groat nourish- j ing power. If the mother’s | milk does not nourish the * baby, she needs the emul sion, It will show an effect On Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. J ] x - u UQon mother . C Hamrick entertained their I f 21 Cr,(e DOlk * l V 0n Mill Magnate Plnlaiithroplrtt. LC'liarleston News and Courier.] Capt. John H Montgomery, a cot ton mill magnate of bpartanburg. is in the city, registered at the St. John Hotel. Capt Montgomery is □o stranger in Charleston ; in fact he is quite well known throughout the emire south. The manufacturer makes money, but he .>urns a great deal of it loose with a free band. He came pretty near building a fine Bap tist church at Spartanburg and his generosity has material y helped a splendid female college at Gaffney. Tne world never hears of tne vast majority of good deeds and acts of charity and philanthropy done bv the mill magnate. Capt. Montgom ery is anything but a noisy man. He goes right ahead quietly and unos tentatiously making paying enter prises of, something like a dozen big corpore.fions, s'opning here and there to establish a new sohool. build a new church or to confrh.te with a lavish hand to some worthy oi j-'Ct. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor greatly rie,ds repsbs W. C Hamrick entertained thtir friends from half past seven until eiiven. The house was taste’ully decorated with pot plants, and a four- course menu was -erved. the color scheme being p nk ani white, the effect being perfect. Those pnserr were: Mr. and Mrs. W C Carpen ter. Mr and Mrs C J t! f-r s, Mr and Mrs T. B Butler Mr and AGs George Byers, Mr- .1 A C. rroll. Mrs M J-ff-ries, Mr. A N Good and Mr 8. Lipscomb. Mrs. Dr. Brown gave a luncheon Saturday afternoon to h< r ludy friends The invited guests wer. : Mesdames \V. O. Carpenter. J A Wi'litc R S. Lipsccmb, Dr G.irrrtt. J. C Jttftries, J A. Carroll, T B. Butler W. H. Smith J C. Lipscomb N. H. Litthjohn E ’ra H> ms. Will Brown, Misses Grace Willis Beulah Spears, Annie Brown, Nellie Wood, Inez Sarratt and Anna Barnes. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Wednesday Mrs W C. Hamrick gave a dining to her lady friends. Four courses were served end ail spent a most delightful hour. Those present were : M-sdames R M. Gaff ney. C. 8 Elam, N Littlej-hn. 8. A. Lipscomb J T Brown. H Pridmore. J. C. Otfs Dr. Brown Dr Lit’lejobn, Dr Gr ffrh n^d M P P erson. Use Dr. HuII'h Cough syrup .at once, If your child hasi-roupor bronchitis. Was eno time: di-lav may be dangerous. Dr Hull’s Cough Syrup cures at once It is a sale and infallible remedy. All druggEt* sell it for cents. and child, joc. »nd fi.oo, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNli, Chemise, Mw York, When you are in need of ai ythinj; in our various linos. We don’t propose to work on your ira.agination by “flowing adjec tives and gusli”—we buy the kinds of goods that own merits. sell on their WE CAN SATISFY YOU * In Clothing, Shoes, Men’s Heavy Underwear, Rubber Shoes, Dry (roods, Groceries, Hardware, Farming Implements, Crock ery Ware, Patent Medicines. Flavoring Extracts—and, in fact, everything kept in a General Merchandise Store. We carry the BEST AND BIGGEST LINE OF UMBREL LAS to lie found in the city, and we have added to our immense- stock a FULL LINE OF SHOT GUNS. Yours for business. CANDY CATHARTIC . i3 * All « ,oc - —Drags IiU. mmtne stamped C. C. C. Never sold !n bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell “something just as good.” f t ♦ ♦ O ^ Q + i 1 Wood's Seeds BEST FOR THE SOUTH. $ioo Reward, $ioo The readers ol'th.s p.ipi-r will b«-plosiserl to learn that there tv hi leiutt one dreaded dla- ciist- tluii SL-lem-c bus boon able to cui-e in all its st aves itinl that l.si 'auirrli. UalTf. Cat arrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dtseane. requires aconatltu- tioual treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Every Gardener, Farmer and Trucker should have Wood’s 1902 Descriptive Catalogue. It not oulv gives reliable, practical, up- to-date information about ali Seeds, but also the ltest crops to grow, most snooessful ways of growing ditferent crops, and much other information of special inter est to every one who plants seeds. It tells all about Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats, Tobacco, Seed Corn, Cow Peas, Soja, Velvet and Navy Beans, Sorghums, Broom Corn, Kaffir Corn, Peanuts, illllet Seed, Rape, etc. Catalogue mailed free on request. T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, • VIRGINIA. vij»i > Moiiui ire,iiincut. Hall's Calarrh Cure is ,o .uvccok...* « j taken Internally, nt-tinjr dln-ctly upon the In Mih lowest Doiu f j Of industrial ac- , bliMKl mid muc.ius .surfaces of the system. 1U j thereby destroying the foundation of the tivity in New Yor< *be highest per- | nun j*iviu*: the patient xtrenp-th by bulldinsr up the n-nstiiution and a&sitdluit nature in uoltifi It.-, work. The proprietors have so much faith In Its curative power* that they oifer One Hundred Dollars for any jase that It fulls to cure. Send for list of Testimonial*. Address. F J. Chenky & Co., Toledo, O. Hold by Drug*.sis. 75c. Hall’* Family Fill* are the best. per centage of people out of work for causee not due to themaelves was 47, while during more prosperous times these figures were reduced to 9 per Cdnt. in Boston and Baltimore. PILES! PILES! PILES! Dr. Williams’ Indian File ointment wll care Blind. Bleeding. Ulcerated and Itching Files, it absorbs the tumors, allays the itching m once, nets as a poultice, gives in stant relief. Dr. Williams’ Indian File Oint ment Is prepared only for Files and Itching of the private parts, and nothin*' else. Kvery box is guaranteed. Hold by druggists, sent by mail, for 5<ie. and fl.OO per box. WIIjLIAMH jj'F'G. CO.. Crop’s., Cleveland Ohio. We beVeve thoroughly in advertising. To prove it v/e ate gc'ng to use this space for our own pur poses. V/e ha.e ackerus- ing space to sell, and v.e know it v\il pay a good return upon the price we charge for it if it is prop erly used. Our paper goes into the best boxes in this community. It has been going week after week and year after year until each issue is welcomed as an old friend of the family. The news it brings is nev/s of neighbors, of per sonal affairs in which all have more or less of a com mon interest. If one of our readers called upon you, a merchant, you would do the best you could to con vince him that what you had for sale was the best he could buy. You would show him the new things you had got in recently. You would tell him why he should have them and why they were better than he could procui eelsewhere. You probably would make a sale. Your effort, however, would be ooo- hoed to one person. You could tell the same story just as effectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. You do not believe it would have the same ef fect? Commercial Printing Of every description executed with nearness and dispatch at Thk Lkdgek office, (Liifney, S. C. New Type, New Pr ases, the finest uuality of Ink and Paper, and Compe tent Workmen Send your orders. A. N. Wood Prestdeut. ' H. K. Bhown. Vice-President. AlerdiwintH and I^UtnloiH S fctnk OF GAFFNEY. S. O. f A I’I'FA L **30.000 ->* U I* I* 1.17 1*4,000. • - State and County Depository. Doesu gi-uer;-1 B:iiikiug and Excb-iuge business, Is well fined up with Fin- Proof Vault and Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Time ock. We solicit tbc business of people of all occupations O. 1V1. OIMI'TW. Os.hiwr F. G. Stacy. President. J. G. Wakdlaw. Vice-President. THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. CAPITAL, ftAO.OOO. SURPLUS AMJ PROFITS, - 10.000. €tta.te. County and City UeiKmitory. Deposit* solicited from Farmers, Merchants. Manufacturers and others. Every accom modation extended to customers that tlieir business and responsibility will warrant. 1). C. WO«R Cawhier you told the story in the tame way it would. We are reudy to do our part to prove it cate to tzy it? Do yon iFor^ale by Cherokee Driyr Co. I J. I. SA.R.K.iVT'X'. My stock of General Merchandise at Go forths, S. C., is more complete than ever be fore and owing to the hard times I will sell at greatly reduced prices. I 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 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 will 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.