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I THE LARGEST Circulation of An/ Ne-vjpaps in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEKI-WEEKLY-PTJBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every 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, APRIL *>, 1904. 81.00 A YEAR* THROUGHOUT THE . PM.METTO STATE, items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Event* that Have Taken Place from One Kmt of the State to the Other Culled from Ex< lianges for (Juick Heading hy Scores of Itusy People. The postoffice at E^stover was en tered by safe crackers Friday night and robbed of $-250 in stamps and money. The monument, to he erected at Winnsboro to the Confede rate dead by the Ladies Memorial Association is being gotten out and will be put up in GO days. For the benefit of thejWade Hamp ton Memorial association the grand opera “Bohemian Girl” will give on May 29, in the opera house in Colum bia, a musical treat. Mrs. Minnie li. Pik-*, fwhose hus band was killed by the recent acci dent at the Spirtaiiburg electric power nouse, has nroti<’’i* iiiit against the company for $2'),000 damages. At the request of Sheuil Bunch of Florence, the governor has ordered the Timmoosville Guards to be pres ent at the execution of Julius Gibbs the negro rapist at Florence today. Congressman Lever inis won his seat in the contested election case. The contest was simply a continua tion of the case of A. D Dantzler, a negro, against Dr Stakes who Leve succeeded. A charter has been granted by the secretary of state to the Lancaster Commission Co., capitalized at $.),* 000. John Crawford is president and treasurer and G. B. Barron vice pres ident and seerstary. \ fc Rev. J. R. Earle, of Anderson, lost two barns by lightning Saturday af ternoon, together with a valuable family horse, about 3,000 bundles of fodder and a lot of farming imple ments. The loss exceeds $600. A decided reductoiu in the price of case goods wnisky ‘has been made by the state dispensary. The reduction will probably hold good during the summer months, as less of the stuff - is sold then than at any other time. The governor Tuesday received and accepted the resignation of R. 0. Sams as a member of the county board of education of Cherokee coun ty, to take effect July 1. The State superintendent of education has been notified. The secretary of the state Tuesday granted a charter to the Sans Souci school to be located at beautiful Sans Souci in Greenville county. Itj will be an institutionifor the education of young ladies. The capital stock is $15 000. The officers are Mrs. Louise B. Perry, president and treasurer; Miss Marie B. Owen, vice-president and secretary. Tuesday morning the case of B. David and M. Berman, charged with violation of the dispensary law was continued in the court of sessions in Columbia. The closing speeches of Solicitor Thurmond and Col. P. H> Nelson who conducted the defense In his usual able manner occupied about an hour and the case was given to the jury, which returned about 11:30 with a verdict of “not guilty.” The King’s Mountain ” ^ *ry Academy is to be incorporated.* col. W. C. Stephenson, the principal, and a few of our wide-awake business men and public-spirited cit zens who have interested themselves in the ex cellent school be has been building up during the last two years, have applied to the secretary of state for a charter for $12,000. The idea is to greatly increase the usefulness of this high class institution, in which every citizen of Yorkville takes a just pride. Roland Turner. G9 years of age, killed himself at bis residence on ht. Philip street in Charleston Wednes day. A thirty-eight calibre pistol was used and the bail was sent crush ing through his head from the left temple, where the cold steel was placed. Turner had been in poor health for several months and des pondency, resulting from his malady, was the cause of his rash act. He leaves one son and three daughters, two of whom resided with him in Kt. Philip street. Tuesday at New Roads, a flag sta tion on the Plant system between Ravenels and Adams Run, the young wife of Section Master W. W. Jones was most foully murdered The un fortunate woman was knocked down with a club and then her throat was cut with a scythe, which the mur derer found lying near by. The ob ject of the murder was robbery. The murder occurred on the first anniver sary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, and the villian stole a gold watch which the husband had pre sented to the haopy wife that morn ing as a token of the anniversary. List December Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Hare, of VVestkill, N. went to Seneca for the health of Mrs. Hare, who was far gone with consumption. They took board with Mr. H. J. Giguilliet of that place. They made friends because of their gentle bear ing and kindly dispontiou. Notwith standing the best of attention Mrs. Hare began to grow worse some week* ago and Wednesday morning sne pass*-e away. It was ditreesing to see so lovely a woman fade away and no rela’ive or old friends near, but many ladies besides those of the house did everything that could be done. The body w as token to the old home for interment. A very sad tragedy occurred last Sunday in Lexington county in which the little son of a devoted mother— her only child and her idol—bad the awful misfortune to accidentally shoot and Kill that mother. The vic tim was Mrs. Pierce Hendrix, the sec ond wife of hd husband, who is a well-tr do farmer. Her little son, Early, by whose hand she died, is just ten years old and is heartbroken. It seems that on Sunday morning, while Mr. Hendrix was away, a large hawk ilew into the yard and began to play havoc with the poultry. Mrs. Hendrix being on the piazza told the lad to get his father’s gun and shoot the hawk. The little f-liow, in his haste, accidentally struck the trigiter, when the load entered Mrs Hendrix s right thigh and severed the femoral artery. Mrs. Hendrix sank to the Hoor with a groan and in fifteen min utes she bled to death. THE "KERNEL” VISITS CHEROKEE’S CAPITAL, Calls on The Ledger and Learns Some Things. LOWER CHEROKEE NEWS. Tot Cmuim** Alarm. ‘‘One night my brother’s baby was taken with Croup,” writes Mrs. J. C. Snider, of Crittenden, Kv., “it seemed it would strangle before we could get a d /tor, so we gave it Dr. Kings New Discovery, which gave quick relief and nermaneutly cared it. We always keep it in the house to protect our children from Group and Whooping Cough. It cured me of a chronic bronchial trouble that no other remedy would relieve.” Infallihle for Coughs. Colds, Throat and Lung troubles, 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Cnerokee Drug Company. Every youth should form at the outset of his career the solnnn pur pose to make the most and the best of life, and to turn to the best possible account every outward advantage within his reach. Robert Ward, Maxey’s.Ga., says: “I suffered from blood poison, my head, face and shoulders were one mass of corruption, aches in bones and j tints, burning, itching, scabby skin, was all run (town and dis couraged, hut Bttanic Blood Balm cured me perfectly, healed all the sores and gave my skin the rich glow of health. Blood Balm put new life into my blood and new ambition into into my brain.” Geo. A. Williams, Roxbury. face covered with pimples, chronic sore on back of head, supperat- ing swelling on fleck, eating ulcer on leg, hone pains, itching skin cured per fectly by Botanic Blood Balm—sores all healed. Botanic Blood Balm, cures all malignant blood troubles, such ns eczema, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula, etc. Especially advised for all obstinate cases that have reached the second or third stage. Druggists. $1. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid hy writing Blood Balm Co . Atlanta, Gu. Describe and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. If time were money, this town would have a lot of rich loafers A V ILI AHLE MKD1C1KE For CoiikI 1 '* anil CkIiIh in C'liiMren. • 1 have not the slightest hesitancy in recommending Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to all who are suffer ing from cough or colds,” says Chas. M. Cramer. Esq , a well known watch maker, of Colombo, Ceylon. “It has been some two years since the City Dispensary first called tny attention to this valuable medicine and i have repeatedly used it and it has always been beneficial. It has cured me quickly of all chest colds. It is es pecially effective for children and seldom takes more than one bottle to cure them .of hoarseness. I have per suaded many to try this valuable medicine, and they are all as well pleased as myself over the results. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. A j ike of the right sort never needs a further explanation. A CliMttitmtoKK DniKifikt'* StMtement. Robt. J. Miller, proprietor of the Read House Drug Store of Chatta nooga. Tenn., writes: ‘There is more merit in Foley’s Honey aud Tar than in any other cough syrup. The calls for It multiply wonderfully and we sell more of it than all other cough syrups combined. Cherokee Drug Company. Dentructive liaiii and Hail ttoriu Near (irlndal—- Kerner’ i> Tlirmvu In a Mule Into a .Mud It'll*' sicknt's* in the Com munity-Other Item* (<.v>! '•oondence of The Ledger > El ia Ja.vk April 23 —Y«»ur corre«- p'lnd >rit made a hurried trip to Gaff ney th.s week and call' d at The Led ger ff: “.as usual, where he found the get.ini manager in one of his most pl*-‘>*rit moods and everything going or 'i first-rate style. The Ledger offu-j is one of the busiest places in tha* hustling town. Its job work de; artment is growing so rapidly that it can scarcely keep up wi'h the orders. T he running expense of the office is from $12 to $15 per day and they do a business amounting to about $6,000 a year. In speaking to the manager of the ‘•lift” the county catiiDuign would give the office in the announcement of perhaps forty or more candidates this summer, he said- •‘My dear sir, it will not be a drop in the bucket ” ‘From a mere financial standpoint we can’t tell that there will have been a political campaign this year.” “We will never know the diffrrence in our busi ness affairs.” While we were in clined to think be was only “gassing” a little the manager reached up and pulled down a lot of j )b work and says: “This is where we get our money (what we do get)” and he showed us samples of work done for parties in nearly every town and city in this county and even outside the State were orders awaiting execution, or work done and ready for shipment. When we expressed our surprise at the magnitude of the business done at The Ledger office he continued: ••We conduct our paper (The Ledger) on such a scale as to give its patrons an equivolent of KJO cents for every dollar they invest with us.” • The paper don’t more than pay its own expenses, (if that.) As an adver tising medium it brings us oraers for work wherever it circulates, and this we do in the very best style so that each job sent out brings in another, and so we keep things moving all the time.” “It is our determination as well as desire, to please our patrons both in prices and the quality of our goods—when we fail on that, we fail on everything.” Our thanks are due Senator B. R. Tillman for a pai kage of velvet beans sent from the L\ S. Agricultural Department. Mrs. Mary C Estes, who has been sick for a long time, is up and about agai n. Miss Sudie May Inman, whose foot was cut some time ago, is going about all right, though the wound hasn’t healed yet Mr. Meek Reynolds, who is subject to spells of bleeding at the nose, had a bad spell last week and nearly bled to death. Dr. W. A. Fort, of Gaff ney. was called to see him and suc ceeded in stopping the hemorrhage. We regret to learn that Smith, tiu afflicted son of Mr. and Mrs. R H. Spencer, of Lawn, Is in a very low state of health. Miss Rachel Barn hill. of Lawn, is also very sick. She has been confined to her bed for a lofag time and dosn’t seem to improve any. A destructive rain and hail storm pasted over the Grindall Hhoals and I'acolet section of our county last Saturday. Lands were terribly washed along the track of the storm. Hull lay in great abundance till next day. For a kind invitation to attend the meeting of the Ladies Memorial As sociation at Sharon on the 13th of next month our thanks are due, and we will try (D. V.) to be there. Yesterday your correspondent was pitched head foremost into a mud hole hy a treacherous mule that ought to have behaved itself better, aud not have treated a fellow so on his birthday. The result is a crip pled arm and thumb which makes writing difficult as well ss painful. Perhaps the compositor will think he can see nothing past usual in our manuscript Mr. J. Wesley Kmith, of Dallas, Ga., wiio is spending some time with his brother, Dr. M. W. Kmith, of Gaffney,Ssince.bis recent bereavement, came down last Saturday to visit his niece, Mrs. Laura T. Estes, and her family. While there he was met by some of his old acquaintances and friends who were glad to see him. Among them was an old colored woman—a slave of his father’s, who nursed him when he was a child. The old negro was so overjoyed at seeing her young master that she “hugged” (and Wess says) kissel ! him. But this part of our narration 1 we 'vilt Bkk Mr*. Smith, if she pleases, j not to uk<. it to heart but to pass 1 it over uni uieed. Addle know* •• Wt-s” so Weil. However, it w.. a | pra\er meeting after a separa*' n of ah nt thirty years. Mr. Sin: o was very particular in asking of ail the old slaves and their fami .es—where they were and how they "ire getting along, how many of th< • . were dead, and, in fact, everythro, that could be said to show that h felt an interest in them. He say- on his next visit he expects to hi. .1 them all up and find how they are getting along There is no disguising the fact that the owners of slaves (who treated them as humans) have alwavs been their best friends, and to-day, will taka greater interest in them than their newly acquired frienus and acquaintances. Last Saturday and Saturday night we had a most delightful season The rain fell gently and coming at the very time when wheat, oats and ua-d land was beginning to need it, ha« ms ie plowing anu planting a most delightful work. The chain gang is at work o . the Howell’s ferry road near Lawn, where the road has been well-nigh impas sable ai I "inter. Captain Jun Coyle promises to give us the best road the means at his command will allow. With him is Mr. Clayton Camp in general superintendence of the woik and the gang is kept busy while at the same time the convicts are treated as human beings THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. luterrMtlng Item* ConcemliiK Our Neigii- l*or* IteyouM tU*> Line Wliic-h May Prove Entertaining Heading for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. The railroad from Washington to ymnuth in Washington county, has r We gr ally regret fire in Darus, Tex on the morning of the 20ih inst. may materially interfere with the destructive which occurred It the pleasure of our friends who are there enjoying the hospitality of a big hearted people, who will see that their guests are provided with all the comforts and pleasures within their reach. Coming as this disaster does upon a people who have done as much to honor the veterans and the cause for which they fought gives us special sympathy for them that could tardly exist to such an extent had it jeen otherwise. To the peoplejof the older states this is one of the most inupoitant as well as pleasant reunions within the his tory of the l T . C. Veterans organiza tion. It gives many an opportunity to see friends long since separated, as well as the country they (many of them) could never have seen. And your correspondent is proud that he, by his vote at the Memphis reunion last year, helped to make this pos sible. Out of a total of 137 votes the South Carolina division cast 137 for Dallas, Texas, against all other places in nomination. We will further add that it is a great disappointment to many of us to be compelled to forego the pleasure we would have had in attending this reunion. Won’t some of our delegates give us a full account of it? Ledger readers will greatly enjoy it. The hands of a clock are at right angles twice every hour. At what time between four and five o’clock are they at right angles with each other? j l s. A I»ee|» Myntery. It is a mystery why women endure Backache, Nervousness, Sleepless ness, Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will quickly cure such troubles. “I suffered for years with kidney trouble.” writes Mrs. i’hebe Cherley 1 of Petersoe, la., "and a lame hack pained me so I could not dress myself, hut Electric Bittern wholly cured me, and, al though 73 years old, I now am able to do all my housework.” It over comes Constipation, improves Ap petite, gives perfect health. Only 50c at Cherokee Drug Store. Love is the great the heart is moved lever by which How It I* Uoue. The first object in life with the Amerh an people is to ‘get rich the second, how to regain good health. The first can he obtained by honesty, energy and saving; the second, (good health) by using Green’s August Flower. Should you be a despondent sufferer from any of the effects of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Appen dicitis Indigestion, etc., such as Sick Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, Sour Stomach, Habitual Costiveness, Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Pros- trUion, Low Spirits, etc., you need not suffer another day. Two doses of the well known Aunust Flower will relieve you at once Go to Cherokee Drug Co. and get a sample bottle free. Regular size. 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. A man’s thirst is often due to a lack of spirits. Nt-Klttct Menu* l>i*iin<-r. Don’t neglect biliousness and con stipation. Your health will suffer permanently If you do. DeVVitt’s Little Early Risers cure such cases M. B. Smith. Butternut, Mich., says “DeWltt’s Little Early Risers are the most satisfactory pills I ever took. Never gripe or cause nausea.” Cherokee Drug Company. been completed and trains have be trun » regular schedule. In the strawberry section of the State there is a prospect of a large crop this season. Shipments will begin in earnest next week. The dwelling of J. C. Carpenter, ct Henrietta, was destroyed by h:e Saturday, together with the entire contents including the fine dental parlor of Dr. Forest Carpenter. The loss is nearly $1 000, with no insur ance. Riieigrb is considering the matter of bunding a railroad from that city via Wilson and Greenville to Wash ington. It Is believed that such a road would be a paying enterprise. It would go through a -splendid sec tion of country. A dead negro was found Tuesday night lying near the railroad bridge in Corncord and where the dirt road crosses the track. The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict that he was unknown and came to his death by jumping from »i moving train. He was on bis way to Washington. Mrs. Fred Oliver, who has appendi citis. underwent an operation at her residence in Charlotte Tuesday after noon. The operation was performed by Dr. Mallet, of the W’oman’s Hos pital, in New York city, assisted by local physicians. Mrs. Oliver’s con dition is 1 considered satisfactory by her physicians. The Greensboro Electric Company is preparing an elegant park of 25 acres at the terminus of the street car line a short distance west of the city limits. The park is in a beauti ful location and will be thoroughly equipped with electric lights, a pavil- lion, restaurant, dressing rooms, etc. Several boats will be placed upon an artificial lake. It <s reported that there is great talk about operating a knitting mill at Wentworth in Rockingham countv. The site is a mile out of town and belongs to Mr. A. J. Whit- temore, and is known as the old Mar tin mill place. It is right at the base of Bald Mountain, Jr , from whose top the eye can take in the county around for many’ miles. Prince Grady, who resides in the lower part of Duplin county, is at tracting considerable attention on account of his tremendously large frame. His wrists are 8^ inches round and his second finger is al most l inches long. His legs are al ready 3 feet and 11 inches, and Grady is still growing. He is now 17 years of age and the sole of his foot measures 11 inches, and Grady reaches up into the air just G feet and 3 inches. An event that will be of interest to many people iq the State occurml recently at the University of Chicago when Dr. Archibald Henderson, assis tant professor of mathematics at Chapel Hill, was elected instructor in mathematics in that institution. Dr. Henderson has accepted, securing a one year’s leave of absence from the University. This handsome an l richly merited recognition of an auie young North Carolinian comes as the result of the impression made hy him upon the students and faculty of the University of Chicago while he was a student there last summer. In the Superior Court in Charlotte Tuesday morning W. H. Green, a col ored attorney, of that city, asked that the bill of indictment against his client, Bud Peoples, who was charged with gambling, be quashed because there were no colored men on the grand jury. He exhausted his right to premptory challenge by refusing to accept four petty jurors, and he then challenged the entire jury as a body. Hie motion to quash was overruled; bis client was tried, con victed and sentenced to serve a term of six weeks on the chain-gang. Green created a decided sensation The Norfolk and Western Railroad has arranged to operate two passen ger trains between Winston-Salem and Roanoke. The new schedule will go Into effect about M»y 4th. One of tiie trains will be run on Sun days. While uothing official can be obtained, railroad men and others beleive that the Norfolk and Western will soon . put on a passenger ‘train from either Hagerstown orRoanok-, via Wiustou-Sttlem to Charlotte. In discussing the rumor a railroad man stated that the Southern and Norfolk and Western are mighty 7 good friends now and if the through trains are put on it wul be for the purpose of ••head ing off” the proposed Winston and Wadesboro niiroad. A head end collision occurred Monday afternoon about G ^o’clork near Anderson in which two men, H. W , Foster and a negro, were seriously injured. The passenger train that leaves Anderson in the afternoon for Belton col lided with an engine carrying a gang of laborers who had been en» gaged in clearing a wreca which oc curred Saturday somewhere between Anderson mid Belton. The passenger train was running at a considerable rate o* s,jo -d and the force with which it u. t the freight engine was some thing t rrific, disabling both engines. Henry E Fries, of Winston-Salem, is necuriny options on 20 cotton mills m the Stat- and South Carolina in order to place them in a combination con pany under a New Jersey char ier. The plan is that this company shall acquire these mills piling for 'roperties at the r^te of Go per cent. >jf The cumulative preferred stock, 40 per epm of bonds and 2<» oer cent, i U 'ited Siat'8 bonds. It is pro posed to issue $7,000,000 of cumu lative preferred stock and take the amount of common -toct:. Mills at Raleigh, Gastonia, Henrietta, Reids- ville, Mt. Holly. Belmont Tarboro and other points in the State and Yorkville and Chester S. C.. are ex pected to go into tnis arra igement. Stockholders ■■ large yarn mills are called to meet May 7 to v^te on the sale. The alarm of fire was given in Thomasville Friday night at 10:80 for the second time within a we* k. The tire started this time in Ray Ed- mundson’s barber shop, on Salem street. The next building destroyed was M. L. Suggs’s shoe store and shop on the north side of the barber shop, loss $1,100; insurance $500. The fire was not idle on the south side of the barber shop. It burned the Thomasville Drug Company’s store, corner Main and Salem street*, entailing a loss of $1 000, insurance $750 The next to suffer was S. C. Grimes' grocery store, on Main street loss $ I,(MX) with $000 insurance. The buildings burned were owned by F. S. Lambeth, except the shoe store, which belonged to M. L Sugg. Mr. Lamht tb’s loss on the three buildings is probably $3 000, with small in surance. She Didn't Wear a Manic. But her beauty was completely hidden by sores, blotches and pim ples till she used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Then they vanished as will all Eruptions, Fever Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Carbuncles and Felons from its nse. Infallible for cuts, Corns, Burns, Scalds aud Files. Cure guar anteed. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. There are a number of Americans making dollars from the manufacture of scents, and yet they are pursuing a legal business; they are perfumers. A Gentle Hint. In our style of climate, with its sudden changes of temperature—rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled in a single day—it is no wonder that our children, friends and relatives are so frequently tak"n from us by neg lected colds, half rhe deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle of Boschee’s German Syrup kept about your home for immediate use will pre vent serious sickness, a large doctor's bill, and perhaps death by the u*e of three or four doses. For curing Con sumption, Hemorrhages. Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. It is the things children see and hear about th<-m that mould their destiny lor eternity. Then what great responsibility restsupon their parents. Child Worth Mllliou*. “My child is worth millions to me,” says Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg, Pa, “yet I would have lost her by croup had I not purchased a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure.” One Min ute cough Cure is sure cure for coughs, croup and throat and lung troubles. An absolutely safe cough cure which acts immediately. The youngest child can take it with entire safety. The little ones like the taste and remember how often it helped them. Every family should have a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure handy. At this season especially it may be needed suddenly. 0 lerokee Drug Co. All pictures of earthly happiness are but transient guest*. To Cure n Cold In On* Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. \V. Grove’s sig. nature is on each box. 25c.