The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 02, 1902, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894.
GAFFNEY. 8. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1902
$1.00 A YEAR.
THROUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
items of Interest of Passing
Events.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
£venta that Have Taken l*Iare from One
End of the State to the Other Culled from
exchange* for tjulck Reading by Score*
of Vuh.v People.
The state pension roll has increased
I, 200 in spite of the 37)0 deaths.
A large adbition has been made to
the constabulary force in Charleston.
Columbia people say if the State
Fair is not held there they will or*
ganize a Columbia Fair.
The united synod of the Lutheran
Church will meet in St. John’s
Church, Charleston, on May 7.
Aiken is to have a $800,000 tourist
hotel before another season opens.
It is to be built by Mrs. H. G. Beck
with, of Colorado.
Eighteen Southern hardware and
mill supply firms organized at Char
leston, as the Southern Supply
and Machinery Di*altrs.
On Sunday night the warehou
of Swift A Co. in Columbia was en
tered by burglars and lard to the
amount of $22 was stolen.
Near Fairmont Tuesday Constable
Ewbanks seized four gallons of contra
band whis-key which were concealed
under a brush pile in the woods.
A gang of robbers entered the
storeroom of the Epworth Orphanage
in Columbia Saturday night and
stole some $80 worth ol provisions.
The State Summer School will be
held at Rock Hill from June 22nd to
July 29th. The State Teachers’ As
sociation will meet thereon July 19th.
Convict Isaac Johnson, colored,
has escaped from the Charleston
County chaingang with his entire
prison outfit, including bali, chain
and stripes.
The constables are still making it
hot for blind ^tigers in Charleston.
Within the.last few days 1 ,(>00 4 bottles
and 1(5 barrels of beer and 4(1 gallons
of liquor have been seized.
The entire force in the Seaboard
shops at Abbeville struck Saturday
because of the emplotnent of a Col
umbia ‘‘scab.” The matter was set
tled by the discharge of the “scab.”
By the wi'I of the late Mrs. Dr.
Maxwell, of Greenwood,Furman Uni
versity comes into possession of her
extensive and valuable library. It
will be quite an addition to the Fur
man library.
The Atlantic Coast Line has pur
chased the Flant System and will as
sume control July 1, 1902. After
that, date the Southern Railway will
have trackage rights over the system
for ail its trains.
Three new streets in Newberry
have been named Montgomery, Mc-
Cravy and Millikan, for John H.
Montgomery and S. T. McCravy of
Spartanburg, and Seth M. Milliken,
the cotton mill magnate of New York.
Governor McSweeney has received
a large number of applications for
the Cecil Rhodes scholarship although
it will be perhaps months before the
authorities receive any commun-
, ication from the executors in South
Africa.
Although there is nothing definite
to be stated on the subject, the prob
ability is that the consolidation of
the Southern and S. C. & Ga. Exten
sion will take place within the next
few days. Up to Tuesday no such
information had been given out to
agents.
The Bennettsviile Democratic Club
was re-organized last Saturday in op
position to Senator McLaurin by a
vote of 76 to 58. Anti-McLaurin
delegates were elected to the county
-convention. Senator McLaurin’s
friends claim that the election was
not a fair test as there £tre 572 names
on the Bennettsviile club rolls.
A negro whose name is said to be
States Gist fell dead on Main street
in Union at 10:30 Tuesday. When
examined by Drs. R. R. Burry and
J. M. Lawson, of that place, they said
his heart failed to act. It is believed
there was something else the matter
with him. Gist weno into the law
office of W. W. Dixon and told him
that some one had hypnotized him
and took $150 from him. He said
that he went to Tinsley’s jewelry
store and took a piece of gold worth
$24. He evidently wanted to consult
a lawyer about the matter. Mr. Dixon
told him he could not take the case
and referred him to B. F.’Townsend,
who in turn sent him to Mr. H. L.
Scaife. The next seen of him he was
lying dead on the street.
the Snoddy farm, ten miles above
Spartanburg, Clarence Hardy, a
young white man, met with a singu
lar accident. The mule attached to
the plow was not making sufficient
progress to please the plowman, and
he shouted out to the animal to step
lively. Simultaneously the singletree
of the plow struck a cockle burr bush
and a number of the burrs were
thrown upon the air. One of these
fell into Hardy’s mouth and in an at
tempt to dislodge it he succeeded in
forcing it cross-wise further down his
throat, and into the windpipe, com
pletely obstructing the vocal chord.
The lad was rendered speechless aside
from severe pain and suffering. The
burr was finally removed and Hardy
was all right again.
George Boinett, 18 years old, of No.
84 Drake street, Charleston, a switch
man employed by the Plant System
Railway, while at work at the foot of
Reid street in that city early Wednes
day morning, was run over by the
tender of a switch engine and badly
crushed and mangled. In some wav
he lost his footing while standing on
the tender and fell beneath the heavy
wheeis. One of his feet was cut off
and his left arm was so badly mashed
that amputation was necessary. Af-
tr - the accident the young man was
’ ed to St. Francis Xavier Infir-
y for treatment. Not till after
d arrival at that institution did
• ioinett lose consciousness. In spite
-cf his excruciating pain he was calm
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and collected and
those around him.
critical.
conversed with
His condition is
TIioiihmihI* Mmt Into Kvilt*.
Every year a large number of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs are urged to go to
another climate. But this is costly
and not always sure. Don’t be an
exile when Dr. King’s New Discovery
or Con sumption will cure you at
home. It’s the most infallible medi
cine for Coughs, Colds, and all
Throat and Lung diseases on earth.
The first dose brings relief. As
tounding cures result from persistent
use Tiial buttles free at Cherokee
DrugCompany. Price 50c and $1.00.
Every bottle guaranteed.
LOWER CHEROKEE
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS,
Farmers Pushing Their Work
During Pretty Weather.
THE SCARCITY OF CROWS.
A light Rain Needed to Hring L'p Cotton
and Corn —Wheat Looking Well—Touch
ing Incident In Dallas—Some Dispensary
Figure* and their Ingenious Arrangement.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta Jane, April 30 —A light
shower of rain would do good in
bringing up corn and cotton. Farm
ers complain of tough land this
sprinc. The winter freezes have done
very little towards pulverizing the
land.
Wheat is looking very well—it is
growing very fast and is generally
thick enough on the ground.
So far this spring we have escaped
storms or hail and wind. The rains
have generally been mild and gentle—
without that dash which so often
ruins and washes away plowed land.
Yesterday Mrs. J L. S.’s turkey
gobbler and a rooster got into a fight.
The rooster struck and fastened one
of his spurs into the gobbler’s goozle
(as Az Garner calls it,) and when
mater familias ran out to part them
the turkey was standing on top of the
rooster who was unable to extricate
himself.
Mr. Jim Smarr, of Hopewell, came
over yesterday.
“Dick,” your answer to the first
suppose Aunt Jennie Clary will say
about ii ?
The ca‘3 of Samuel W. Mitchell vs.
the Woodmen of the World reported
n cor last letter resulted in a mis-
trial.
Mrs. Mary Estes visited Mrs. T
E^tes las, Monday. Both of them
have been sick neai ly all the year, dnd
they haven’t seen each ether during
the time.
Somebody robbed Professor Comer’s
fish nets last we*!. He has been
catching a good many fish, but this
will in all probability break it up for
awhile.
The postoffice at Hopewell, York
county, has been discontinued and,
hereafter, thatsection will be supplied
by the rural free delivery service
from Hickory Grove.
We acknowledge! our||inability to
understand the array of figures^
and their ingenious arrangement
which appears in the Sunday News
of April 27th, purporting to be the
amount of dispensary profits that are
necessary to give each county $75 per
school. The compilation i« made by
the Colombia correspondent of the
News and Courier and Mr. K^hn is
general'v right in what be says and
does. In this list we find Greenwood
at the head with $6 00; Laurens
comes next with $7.00; then comes
Cherokee with $9 84; while Ander
son, Charleston. Chester, DaHirgton,
Fairfield, Georgetown. Richland and
Union get nothing. Horry gets $2 -
907 78; Williamsburg $1,890 50;
while other counties come in for
amounts varying from $51 51 to $1,-
834 20 We are not in a position to
throw any light upon this mystery
and d n ? t propose to attempt it. We
must think there is some inequality
somewhere,—some screw loose in the
educational machine. It is possible
A Ledger 1’rlze Winner.
One of the chief virtues so often
overlooked by youth, is silence.
iriair
m
W'!ioo|)ing Cough.
A woman who has had experience
with this disease, tells how to prevent
'any dangerous consequences from it.
She says: Our three children took
whooping cough last summer, our
baby boy being only three months
old, and owing to our giving them
Chamberlains’ Cougn Remedy, they
lost none of their plumpness and
came out in much better health than
other children whose parents did not
use this remedy. Our oldest little
girl would call lustily for cough syrup
between whoops.—Jessie Pinkey Hall,
Springville, Ala. This Remedy is for
sale by Cherokee Drug Co.
Some people are born
others have fallen in love.
ignorant
i?
• T • ' -■‘T
if
that some counties have, multiplihe
these schools so as to make ted
greatest possible demand upon this
fund, while others, with a disposition
to economize, have taken the opposite
course. Our people generally have
done what they can to carry out the
law. Every child within the school
age has been enrolled, so far as we
know. Year after year the cry htq
been, “Bring out the children and
have them enrolled,—it will increase
our apportionment of the three mill
tax, and give us larger add better
schools etc ,etc.” Had Mr. Kohn have
had the data to have gone further he
might have shown clearly what seems
to he an unsolvable mystery.
We are not at all in the fault-finding
mood. - We only get about three and
sudden changes of temperature—raitf^ fc r, bt*$e paid him by his comrades, I one months school each
wind and sunshine often intermingled I Ge °-; Gordon said: “My comrades, and w* never pay our teacher over $30
I have been touched many times, ami r l, " ln,,1
Sola tic Rheumatism Cured After Fourteen
\ ears of SufferliiK.
“I have been afflicted with sciatic
rheumatism for fourteen years.” says
Josh Edgar, of Germantown, Cal. “I
was able to be around but constantly
suffered. I tried everything I could
hear of and at last was told to try
Cnamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I
did and was immediately relived and
in a short time cured, and iVata
happy to say it has not since 'nfJ
turned.” Why not use this liniment,
and get well? Jt is for sale by Chero
kee Drug Co.
Many small sins are hatched by the
incubator of idleness. **
A (lentle Hint.
In our style of climate, with
its
dtf*
igled
in a single day—it is no wonder that
our children, friends and relatives are
so frequently taken from us by neg
lected colds, half the deaths resulting
directly from this cause. A bottle;pf
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 use of
three or four doses. For curing (3pn-
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.
Nothing is more friendly to a man,
than a friend in need.—Flatus.
Wliat is Foley’* Kliliiey Cure?
Answer: It is made from a pre
scription of a leading Chicago physi
cian, and one of the most eminent in
the country. The ingredients are the
purest that money can buy, and are
scientifically combined to get their
Tuesday morning while plowiogjou , utmost value. Cherokee Drug Co.^- whnfqTpiTArr'Vrcm. What do you
Miss Minnie Wooten, of Blythewood, S. C., who is the prize winner of
six months subscription to The Ledger. She is not 16 years old yet. This
shows you to whnt pretty mid bright girls we are sending The Ledger.
question is right but you missed the
other. Each man hud an income of
$420. The map- is sixty-six square
inches on slate, and one amt one
nioety-siith square inches to the
square tnile. S'ou are entitled to
The Ledger three months if you will
give your real name.
At what time between 9 and 10
o’clock are. tha bands of a watch
seven, hyi'fiiftes’ apart? Also forty
seconds apart?
•V. Ii was a solemn and touching inci-
dOpt in the Dallas, Texas, reunion
la&b Saturday when Gen. John B
Gordon pronounced the reunion exer
cises at an end, and by a special
invocatfbn asked God’s blessing no},
only upoovthe occasion, but upon the
wholfe country. In response to a
THROUGHOUT THE
TAR HEEL STATE,
From the Mountains to The
Sea.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
every^year ‘this old Confederate heart
grows.more tepder and loving as the
end appears. W|ien the end comes
I want your haod^ to bury me, and
on my tomb I woiorld have within,
“Here lisa a Confederate.”
Beyond doubt Gen. Gordon is
among the greate8t)Americans living.
If not the very greatest. He posses
ses all the abjjiile traits of a man—a
brave soIdift'ryW eloquent orator, a
wise statesman';and a pure Christian
gentleman. Like Stonewall Jackson,
he is a man of prayer, and that is the
secret of his greatness.
In all probability he will be at the
Greenville reunion tills summer,
where bis comrades will have the
opportunity to grasp Ids hand before
they pass over the river that dividih
time from eternity.
The question is frequently ask d,
What has become of the crows? We
see very few oh them nowadays.
Usually at this tiiqe’of year they over
run the fields and pull corn, but they
are not doing so now,.
We do not claim for our
teach' rs larger salaries or longer
terms than other sections get, but
we do claim for them and the people
they service subs'antial justice, fair
treat men t and an equitable division . .
of the public money said to be 1 fully identify Neal if he was guilty
Interesting Item* Concern 1 hr Our Neigh
bors Ileyond the Line Which May Prove
Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of
Ledger Reader*.
Walker Hill, a colored boy on the
Gastou county chaingang for stealing
turkeys, pigs, etc., at Gastonia one
year ago. died Saturday of pneumo
nia. He had served about a year and
had another to serve.
Messrs. Finger & Anthony, electro
platers of SalLbury, are preparing to
move their plant from that city to
Lexington, a stock company of $U>.-
000 having been organized by citizens
of that place to conduct the business
on an enlarged scale.
Mr. W. L. Litaker, the brakeman
whr> had bis left ankle crushed aud
briktu at the 8<>uthern Railway
yards in Charlotte Monday night, and
was taatn to the Private Hospital,
had his leg amputated Tuesday, just
above the ankle. He will recover
from his injuries.
The Ananias Club, composed of the
Raleigh newspaper men, will take a
little spring outing at Fuquay Springs
next Sunday afternoon when the sea
son opens at that very popular resort.
It appears that the railroad, in its
extension,is not to pass direct by the
spring, as was hoped.
The* Southern Baptist Convention
which meets in Asheville, May 9,
promises to be the most largely at
tended of any of tiie late conventions.
The sessions will be in the new audi
torium, seating several thousand peo
ple. Governor \V. J. Northern of
Georgia wiil call the convention to
order. It is said be wiil decline re-
election. A number of other names
have been suggested for the position.
A new paper, the King’s Mountain
News, will make its appearance
Thursday May 8'h, Dr. L. A. Bikle
will be editor and Leslie McGinnis
and S. L. Ferguson will be proprietors
These two young men are both skilled
printers and will be sure to get out a
neat, newsy paper. It will be a six
column home print weekly folio.
They have bought the Cherr) ville
Observer outfit and moved it to
King’s Mountain.
Tuesday morning about daylight,
while a very heavy rain and thunder
storm was raging over Fayetteville,
lightning struck and set afire the
Rankin Wood Works and Planing
Mills of that place, destroying the
business office with books and papers,
finishing room, store room, etc , but
leaving whole the machinery build
ing There was insurance of $14,(XK)
on the plant, and the loss on the
property burned is estimated at
$3,500.
A fight between Will Boocker and
a woman named Lytle, both colored,
which occurred near Gorman’s bridge
in Buncombe county Tuesday, has
perhaps resulted fatally. The cause
of the trouble cannot be ascertained.
Boocker’s throat w^s cut from ear to
ear and at lȣt account he was in a
dying condition. Dr. Glenn, the coun
ty physician, was called, and when
he found him his windpipe was sev
ered and he was breathing through
hfs neck. His recovery is considered
doubtful. The woman was badly cut,
but not seriously.
Ben Neal, the young white man ar
rested in Charlotte Tuesday, was vis
ited by Postoffice Inspector Schwan-
emberg, of Charleston, who arrived
Wednesday,and the inspector believes
from all descriptions that Neal is
guilty of robbing two postoffices or
aiding in the same. The inspector
was, however, not fully convinced of
Neal’s identity and so wired to Char
leston for other parties who could
the A. & X. C. depot in Kinston ob
served a negro hanging around the
depot in a suspicious manner and he
determined to keep watch, an well he
did, for about 11 o’clock the negro
stealthily approached a sealed box
car and broke it open, evidently
thinking it was filled with merchan
dise. Policeman Taylor was notified
aud that officer arrested the fellow,
rec* gnizing in him the familiar feat
ures of Julius Marable, employed at
the Gay Lumber Co.’s plant at that
place. The officer escorted the dis
appointed prisoner to the county
hotel and locked him iu.
After having been out about two
hours Tuesday afternoon, the jury
before which the Lowrance brotners
were tried in Charlotte returned a
verdict of not guilty, and Judge
Coble discharged them from custody.
Joe ard Henry Lowrauce were charged
with he murder of Alexander Gibson
at Huntersville last January. The
trial began Monday afternoon at 2
o’clock and practically all the evi
dence was finished before the court
adjourned Tuesday only a few char
acter witnesses were introduced and
then speeches were made by Solicitor
Webb and Mr. Plummer Stewart for
the prosecution, and by Mr. E. T.
Cansler for the defendants.
Charged with assisting other
churches in religious worship and
with distributing a heterodox class of
religious literature, Elijah Fesper-
man, a member of the Golgotha Bap
tist church, in Dilworth, Charlotte,
has been dismissed from the church.
H is trial occurred Sunday night be
fore Rev. J. B Bowen, pastor of the
church, who lives nea*- Matthews,
Mecklenburg county ; R v. T. B. Phil
lips and officers of the church It is
alleged .that Fespermun is a sanctifi-
eationa'ist, though he averred that
he is no more inclined that way “than
a lot of others.” Golgotha church is
styled a Gospel Mission Baptist
church. A specific charge against
Fesperman, it is said, is that he as
sisted Mr C. P. Wheeler in holding
tent meetings.
Hi; Kept Hi*
Twelve years ago J.
of Hartford, Conn.,
leg with a rustv wire.
Ltfir.
W. Sullivan,
scratched his
Inflammation
appropriated for them. We want
nothing more and will be content
with nothing less. *
All this will be explained away in
two word* hy those w’hose duty and
interest it i* to make the explanation.
“Back Fashions” no doubt will be the
explanation we will get. But the
question arrises, “How did any of the
counties get so far behind?
So wrhen we sum the whole thing
up we conclude that it Is Ahab and
not Elijah who troubleth Israel.
Farmers ha'6 most of their bottom
land* to break up and plant yet.
.We hardly think hey will plant
them all. as they have been so un
fortunate for tile last few years in
get’ing them drowned out.
The land in many places is so ter
ribly washed thst it is unfit to cul
Mj. .Goldman Rlrby’s place is being tlvato, and will be idle until It catches
overrun with rats, and he waula a
up again.
J l. H.
and blood poisoning set in. For two
years he suffered intensely. Then
the best doctors urged amputation,
“but,” he writes, “I userj one bottle
of Electric Bitters and 1 1-2 boxes of
Buckien’s Arnica Salve and my 'eg
was sound and well as ever.” For
Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Halt
Rheum, Sores and all blood disorders
Electric Bitters has no rival on earth
Try them {Cherokee Drug Company
will guarantee satisfaction or refund
money. Only 50 cents.
The plea of ignorance will never
take away our responsibilities—Rus-
kin.
Don’t Start Wronif.
Don’t start the summer with a lin
gering cough or cold. We all kaow
what a “summer cold” is. It’s the
hardest kind to cure. Often it “hangs
on” through the entireseason. Take it
in hand right now. A few doses of One
Minute Cough Cure will set you right.
Sure cure for coughs, colds, croup,
grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung
troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts at
once. Children like it. “One Min
ute Cough Cure is the best cough
medicine I ever used,” says J. H.
Bowles, Groveton, N. H. “I never
found anything else that acted so
safely and quickly.” Cherokee Drug
Co
Pride is as loud a beggar as want
and a great deal more saucy.—Frank
lin.
and the man wanted. Neal was tried
before the Recorder and sent to the
chaingang for thirty days for vagran
cy. “His paralysis will be all right
in a few days,” said an officer.
Reports from Montgomery county
bring no new developments in the
case of the mysterious disappearance
of Mr. Ray, of Troy,. A report wa%
conveyed to Albemarle Wednesday by
the mail carrier that it was being cir
culated that Ray had run away, but
this, is not believed, as there seems to
have been no reasop that could have
been assigned for his acting in this
manner. Home eight or ten years ago
a man named Burgess mysteriously
disappeared from the same section
and was never heard of afterwards,
although diligent search was made
for him. The disappearance of Ray
bids fair to become as deep a mystery
as that of Burgess.
Saturday night the watchman at
A Fine Patent Flour.
The celebrated “Clifton” flour,
madec-by the Bransford Mills, Owens
boro, Ky., is introduced in this
market. The ‘’Clifton” flour is not
only one of the finest pateat flours
made, but every sack is sold under
the registered trade mark of the Anti-
Adulteration League, which offers a
reward of $1000 to any one who will
discover any adulteration in this
flour. The proprietor says this
means more now than ever, as the
pure food law passed by Congress two
years ago is altogether inoperative.
As evidence of this, he says the
Illinois State Pure Food Commission
recently analyzed the flour of six
different mills, located in as many
different states, and found a poison
ous mineral known as barytes in the
product of every one of them. This
mineral is just as white and fine as
'flour, and cannot be detected except
by chemical analysis, but its delete
rious effects will be felt by anyone
who eats bread made from flour con
taining it. Having the League's
guarantee of purity is indeed a strong
point in favor of the “Clifton” brand,
to say nothing of its superior quality
of a high grade patent flour. The
‘Clifton” will be vigorously pushed ;
in this market. For sale by R. M. i
Wilkins '& Co., in GafTaey, and Jones
A* Duff, in Blacksburg. j