Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 / ■ has. THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col- m » 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., TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1902 $1.00 A YEAH. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Eyents. ALL OVER THE STATE. Long Distance has completed Manufacturing $500,000, of the Tialloman, his murder brother Kir.nta that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Called from Exchange, for Quick Reading by Scores of Bnsy People. Sumter is having street signs put up aud her houses numbered. The health officers of the state met in couference at Charlestou last Wed nesday. The South Carolina Telephone Company its line to Augusta. The Ware Shoals Company, with a capital of has been chartered. In Klngstree Wednesday H. H. Brown was acquitted of H. B in-law. Lightning struck the cotton ware house at the Bitesville Mills, Greeu- ville. Over 300 ba'es of cotton were injured by fire. Incoming vessel? arid fishermen re port much volcanic matter along the coast near Charleston, being brought there by the Gulf Stream. The town of Fort Mil! has offered $100 for evidence to convict the per son who attempted an assault on a white girl there Saturday. The governor has accented an invi tation from the two literaty societies of Winthrop College to preside at a debate to be held at the college June the Kith. A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Greenville Friday morning. The tremor was accompanied by a low, rumbling sound continued for several seconds. The board of trustees of Clemson College will meet at the college oo June 4th. The matter of the accept ance o^ President Hartzog’s resig nation vgill come up. A seven story granite building is to be erected in Columbia for the Caro lina National Bank on the site for merly occupied by the city ball. It will cost about $150,000. The governor has commuted to four months the sentence of one year imposed on Franklin P. Kounts, who entered a plea of guilty in Green ville county to the charge of larceny. Columbia wants to be transferred from the Eastern judicial district of South Carolina to the Western dis trict and then to be made the seat of the court to be created for that dis trict. i The city council of Charleston has beeu petitioned to convert Market Hall into a Hampton memorial, to be kept by the Charleston Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy as a relic depository. On Tuesday Mimick Whittle, a well to ao farmer living Id tbe Cloud Creek section of Saluda County, killed his sou by a blow ou tbe bead with a chair. They were iu a dispute about some chewing tobacco. The stockholders ef tbe Orr Cotton Mills held a meeting in Anderson some days ago. Tbe affairs of tbe mille are in good shape. It is gener ally understood that the capacity of the milts will be doubled and that tbe work of snlarging will begin within a year. The governor has granted a pardon to ao old negro, Madison Smalls, con victed in 1875 and sentenced 12 months in tbe penitentiary for hog stealing. He escaped after serving six months of hie sentence and has been living at his home Without molest- atiou for 27 years. Special Agent Howard, of tbe rural free delivery service, has been io western York during the past week surveying routes from Sharon, Hick ory Qrove, Smyrna and Grover. Tbe Grover route rune down into York county, but Mr. Howard was uoable to recite from memory its gen eral direction and the points reached. ' Tbe president, on Wednesday, nom inated W. L. Harris to be postmaster at Charleston, vice G. I. Cunningham, recently appointed marshal for the district of South Carolina. Mr. Har ris is a repuplican who has lived in Charleston for about a year, and tbe fact that his wife is a cousin to Major Mloah Jenkins is supposed to have figured largely in his appointment. The state summer school at Win- tiirop in Kick Hill this summer, will commence June 25th and the appli cations fir admission are pouring in Superintendent McMahan now thinks that the school this year will be the moat successful yet held, which is saying a great deal. The courses have been arranged with care and the factulty is an exceptionally strong one. Recently the floors of the capitol have been tom up by thejworkmen put ting in the iron tubes carrying the electric wires throughout the build ing. The secretary of state took ad vantage of this to have all tbe heat radiators reset aod to have new ones put io, thus avoiding tbe necessity and expense of taking up the floors when the new and enlarged heating plant is put in. Several new radiators have been conveniently located in the hails of both the bouse and tbe senate. GOOD ADVICE TO OUR CANDIDATES J. L. S. Tells How to Win the Farmer’s Vote. DO NOT BOTHER THEM. Messrs. 8. S. Ordway A Sons, the contracting firm that has been doing masonry work on the big dam of tbs Catawba Power company in York county, have made an assignment to Major James F. Hart, of Yorkville, for the benefit of their creditors. A? tbe result of differences that have ariaen between Ordway & Sons and tbe Catawba Power company, tbe contractors have lost control of such profits as they claim to have in work already completed, and this is given as reason for their assignment. Tbe South Carolina Pharmaceutical Association and the State board of pbacmaceutical examiners have joined forces for the better enforcement of the State laws relating to the com pounding and selling of drugs. Rep resentatives of the association and board will shortly call on the governor and U'ge him to instruct the dispen sary constables to assist the consti tuted authorities in the enforcement of the laws in question. There are a number of unlicensed druggists over the State who are daily violating the laws and it is the purpose of the asso ciation and the board to r« quire these men to quit the business until they pass the required examination and prove their ability and competency in the profession. At midnight Saturday President Wagner turned off the electric lights, aud the South. Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition passed in to history. There were at least 10,000 people present at the grand finale. The exposition opened on the 1st of December and the aix months of its existence have made a very brilliant season for Charleston. The first half of tbe time was not prosperous for the fair, hot during tbe last three months great crowds have visited it. It is stated the entire enterprise will be a loss financially and tbe stockholders will receive noneof their subscriptions back. Some loss will probably fall on the bondholders and there are a few outstanding debts, though the showing iu this respect will be much better than was predicted. Otherwise the success of tfle exposition is unques tioned. The last day was observed as Charleston Day and tbe attendance was large. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Cotton Looking Sickly.—Rumora of a Novel Wedding.—Other Intereatiag New Itemw from Our Lower Cherokee Correspon dent’ll Ready Pen. iCorrespondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, May 30 —We don't know what headway has been made hy the different committees appointed tq enroll the soldiers who went from the different sections of South Caro lina to the late war. These reports will be called for at tbe Greeuvi.le meeting of U. C. Veterans and we hope that every county will be ready to report fully, that the object of the resolution may be carried out without urther delay. Gowdysville township has her report in tbe hands of its chairman, Capt. G. W. McKown. What say the others? Two months still remain for this work to be completed and if it can be done at all long-r time isn’t needed. Several persons have bad colds, sore threats and general bad feelings since the cold snap set in. Warm sunshine with an occasional shower is what we want now. We notice the candidate’s column is still growing in length. This is a free country, so called, at heart, and everybody has a right to come out that wants to. But one word with you, gentlemen. If you want the farmer’s vote don’t come about him electioneering until he ’‘lays by” his the business says that stormy nights are the best time for raiding ben roosts. People are indoors and the dogs lie low and let the raider have Pis own way. A Progress correspondent writing from Pacolet Mills, in speaking of the storm last Sabbath, says: “The storm passed through where the gam blers were, and it is reported some did good praying.” Bully for that! Its an ill wind that blows nobody good. The cool weather continues and cotton looks sickly—it doesn’t seem to be as large as it was a week ago. Farmers are getting it tbioued out and it is generally in good fix so far as the working is concerned. This morning the thermometer stood at 54 degrees. Mr. John A. M. Estes reminds us that we had a heavy fog on the 28'h of March. ‘"Fog in March, frost iu May” is an old saying, and it is rea sonably true this time. We understaud that a novel wed ding is expected to take place within the next few days. W«* withhold the names of the parties for tbe present, at least. The Tenth Triennial International Sunday School Convention will meet at Donver, Col., June 26th to July 2od, 1902. South Carolina is entitled to thirty-six delegates The co^t of the round trip will be about $45.00 aud the State executive committee wishes to send a full delegation. Dele gates will be teken care of by the lo cal committees. Visitors will get the same railroad rates that are al lowed delegates. The delegation is expected to go via St. Louis and there take the Dixie Sunday School Spec ial.” Among the important duties of the convention will be the election of a new international lesson committee to furnish Sunday school lessons for six years to twenty-five millions of the earth’s inhabitants. All who take part in the work, duly accredited delegates to this convention will be THRODCHODT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. To see all tbe candidates names take Tbe Ledger. The Ledger is the paper—take it twice a week a whole year for $1.00 Robbs and Baker have a contract to make 1,300 000 brick for one party in Gaffney. They have the most of them made and will surely bare the balance ou time. Tbe mayor’s court was called iu solemn form yesterday, but there was not a case on the docket. Good for Gaffney. Tbe mayor would like to have it that way every moruiug. J. A. Whieooant, of Antioch, su pervisor of registration, was in bis office in the city yesterday. He and Supervisor Gibson were tbe only ones present yesterday. Mr. O E. Tate was kept at home on account of sick ness. The trains for the 'set few days have been bringing in tbe commen cement visitors in large numbers. All is gaiety iu Gaffney and the. col lege girls aod their friends are haviog tbe good times always incident to commencemenl at the grand old col lege. Considerable feeling exists among the Daughters of tbe Confederacy in Richmond over the alleged opposition of Mrs. Davis to the proposed Jeffer son Davie arob. You and your friends are cordially invited to attend and participate in the Celebration Fes tivities at Gaffney, July Fourth 1902. $ IntcrMtlnff Itnrma Concerning Oar Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. By a recent decision of the Supreme court sewing machiue companies ship ping machines into North Carolina must pay state license tax of $850. The regular anual session of the North Carolina State Board of Med ical Examiners will be held in Wil mington, N. C. beginning June 4th, 1902. Mrs. John M. Thomas, whose home Ison Park avenue, Dilworth, was painfully injured Monday morning by being run over by a bicycle mes senger. Counsel for Rich Blaton, one of the negros convicted of rape at the Febru ary term of court, give the legal notice by adverisement to day that an appli cation will be made to the Governor for a pardon. Tbe machinery for the new veneer ing factory at Linwood has been placed and work will begin next week. Mr. Lee W. Phillips, formerly of Yadkin College, will be the secretary and general manager. Mr. Charles Madison, who lives on Little Hunting creek, in Iredell coun ty. drew off a mill pond one day last week and caught 17 turtles, the largest one weighing 23 pounds aud the smallest nine pounds. Chairman Simmons has issued the official call for the State convention at Greensboro July 10 He recites the resolution adopted by the com mittee for couveutiou to decide the method of choosing a Senator. The force at work on tbe plant of the Cape Fear Electric Power Com pany will be doubled iu a short time, and more than 300 men will be push ing to completion the dam, connec ting line and receiving station. Governor Aycock has set Thursday, July 8th, for tbe execution of mur derer Archie Conley, and Dick Flem ing and Richard Blanton, both for rape, ail at Salisbury. The supreme court has refused them a new trial. The safe of Drs. Patterson & Judd, dental surgeons on Hay street,Fayett- ville, was robbed of $50,and John Gray, the negro office boy was arrested for the theft. Officer Beuton haviog found Id his house a set of dentist’s instru ments. How It I* Done. The first object in life with the American people is to “get richthe eecoud, bow to regain good health. Tbe first can be obtaioed by honesty energy and saving; the second, (gooc health) by using Green’s August Flower. Should you be a despoudeot sufferer from aby of the effects ol Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Appen dicitis. Indigestion, etc., such as Sick Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, Sour Stomach, Habitual Costiveoess, Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Pros tration, Low Spirits, etc., you neet not suffer another day. Two doses of the well known August Flower will relieve you at once. Go to Cherokee Drug Co. and get a sample bottle free. Regular size, 75 cts. Get Green’s u pecial Almanac. crop, uuless you do aa a caodidate we heard of ouce who called at a house ano tbe lady told him her hus band was iu tbe field hoeing cotton. He dismounted, hitched his horse, gathered s hoe sod started out to see bis man, who was by this time corn- log at a brisk walk toward tbe bouse. “Go back,” he yelled to tbe man, “I’m coming tbar to see you.” Ou he went, and when he got there told the fellow to “fell io” and follow him aod be would learn him how to hoe. After going two or three rounds (in which he always got out bis row in time to help the farmer finish his) he told the mau he must go, and struck out without even telling his business. The farmer said, “hold on my friend; the horn will sooo blow, go to the house and take dinner with me.” “Nu,” he replied. “1 under stand that Mr. ■■ isn’t going to vote for me sod I’m going to make him feed me sod my horse today sure,” So be went on aod got to ’s house just as he came io to dinner. He apologized for oomiog io just at that time aud said he knew he (Blank) didn’t want to be bothered with candidates while at his farm work aod then went on to tall him what he was out for. This satisfied Mr. Blank that the fellow was a prac tical, common sense kind of a man and when he beard bis neighbor Jones tell what a good hand he was to hoe cotton, Blank voted for him. Col. Ike McKissiok never failed to make himself useful when oo his elec tioneering tours, and always made a vote or votes by it. We don’t charge the candidates anything for this ad vice further than to go and do like wise. We were premature iu saying Mrs. Wood Pridmore sent us the souvenir edition of the Dallas (Texas) Times. It shouid have been Commander T. D. Goudelock who sent it. The party who brought the paper said Mrs. Pridmore sent it and thereupon she has our thanks for her trouble as well as •‘Uncle Tom” for tbe present. One who claims to he au expert at entertained on the Harvard plan, that is, lodging and breakfast, and several of the churches cootigious to tbe convention will serve lunches for diooer and supper, thus keeping tbe convention delegates near at baud. Visitors can take advantage of the convention as well ae delegates aod will be favored with seats and other accomodations in the convention building. The returning limit of ex cursion tickets will be liberally ex tended for all who desire to go to the Pacific Coast, Yellowstone Park, Salt Lake City and other points in tbe great west. Numerous side trips in tbe mountains of Colorado will be ar ranged with tbe different railroads and thirty days can be very profitably spent in tbe Rocky Mountains alone by those who desire to study tbe Gcd of nature in ail of His grandeur. Those who have the means, time and desire to make a trip will never have a better opportunity than that now offered. As a conventional body there is nothing in tbe civilized or Christianized world equal to the in- teroatlonal 8. 8. Convention. - J. L 8. Death of an Infant. The infant son of Mr. Tom Heater, of Cleveland county, N. C., died last Sunday. Tbe babe was a bright, in- terestiog little fellow, tbe joy of two parents’ hearts, and they are sorely stricken in this loss. “The Lord gave and the Lord bath taken away, bl»seed be tbe name of tbe Lord.” May tbe heavenly Father bless and console the bereaved. Tbe funeral service was held yesterday at the Cherokee Baptist church, the Rev. Arch C. Cree, pastor of the First Bap tist church of Gaffney, officiating. Her had Predicament. “She says she’ll have to have a new bonnet before she can sing in tbe choir.” “Well?” “Well, he says that she’ll have to sing in the choir to get the money for a new bonnet.”-—Chicago Post. Chief of Police H.C. Irwin, of Char lotte received information Saturday morning of the capture of Alonza Reid, who is wanted io Charlotte for wholesale robbery. Tbe capture was made by tbe Chief of Police of Wil liamsburg, Vs. / Tbare is a proposition on foot, with good prospsets of success, to build a railroad from Camdao, W. Va., to Statesville—and, Id fact, to tbe Catawba river—provided the people of Lincoln county will vote a sub scription to grade and crosstie the river to Lincolnton. One standing for half an hour at tbe Fayetteville station of the Atlan tic Coast Line Railroad will see some- thing of the immensity of the move ment of truck over this road to North ern markets. Trains a quarter of a mile long and more, iadeo with vege tables, are not unusual, and this baa marked the whole mouth of May. Louis West, an escape from the Cum- berlaod county chaingang, was un earthed from hie hiding place in the coal shute of tbe Atlantic Coast Ljne Railroad at Fayettesville Wednesday, but Deputy Sheriff Mongban chased him two or three miles, aud then, to halt him, had to sboot him In tbe heel, where, like Acbillee of Troy, be proved to be vulnerable. Dr. J. 8. Abernethy, of Long Creek. Mecklenberg county, has lost nine bogs In the past few days caused by tbe bite of a mad dog. Several days ago a strange dog was seen in tbe pasture where tbe boga wars. Ins few days tbe boga became sick and died In terrible agony. Tbe dog that bit tbe animals waa killed some dis tance from Dr. Aberoethy’s home. Tbe cause of the death of tbe hogs, Dr. Aberuethy says, was, without questiou, hydrophobia and that, too, io its worst form. Chief of Police Scott,of Greensboro, has received a notice from United States Commissioner Coleman ,of Dan ville, Va., to be on the look-out for a typewriter crook who is heading for these parts. His racket is to replace an old Smith-Premier typewriter with a new one. After talking tbe matter over with his victim and offering ac ceptable inducements the trade is made; then he manages to get the old machine to work over and tbe new machine never arrives. The Smith- Premier people have sent out notices repudiating the so-calied agent. A mao by the name of Seymore Jeff ries went to Cleggs Hotel at Greens boro Friday afternoon and asked credit for a lunch. It waa refused by Mr. William Clegg, the clerk, whereupon Seymore began cursing and soon both men clinched. In the melee Clegg received two serious stabs, one in left the side and one in the back. Physicians were summoned at once and the outs sewed up. One was ao inch and a quarter deep, the one iu the side, and the doctor is concerned about its results. At last accounts Mr. Clegg waa resting easily. Jeffries is in jail awaiting results of the wounds before ao examination. John Wilson, a machinist on tbe Seaboard Air Line Railway yards at Mooroe, was assaulted and seriously hurt Friday night by John Brodaway, a negro. The negro bad reported Wilson for sleeping when be ahould have been at work. This angered Wilson aod he and Broadaway bad a ' few words about it. As Wilson walk ed away Broadaway r<-tnarked that be would “fix him ” About 1 o’clock be proceeded to carry out his threat by slipping up behiod Wilson as he was stooped over, cleaning an engine, and striking him a heavy blow with a piece of coal, on the back of the head. Wilson dropped senseless and remained so for a half hour or more. The bone was not broken. The negro escaped. Npeciul Rules An educational party to the “Sum mer School of the South,, at Knox ville, Tenn., June 19-July 31st, con ducted by President P. D. Pollock aod P. W. H. Kilpatrick of Mercer University, will leave Macon on spe cial train over the Southern Railway on June 18th. Forty-seven different courses of study are taught in the “Summer School of the South” by specialists North aud South; twenty-one courses iu common school subjects and meth ods; nine courses iu psychology aod pedagogy; seventeen courses in high school aud college work; and many lectures by men cf national reputa tion, on general topics. The cost of boaru and lodging is $3 50 to $4 50 per week ; registration fee for any or all the work $5 00; railroad fare, one fare for the rouod trip—from Macon and return $8 94; similarly reduced rates from all other points on the Southern Railway. Register your name for tbe special party with Pres ident P. D. Pollock, Mercer Univer sity, io order that choice rooms and location may be reserved in advance. Write Superintendent P. P. Clax- ton, Knoxville, Tenn., for complete circulars of information as to course* aod cost, aod to tbe undersigned as to auy details of the trip. James Freemin. T. P. A., Macon, Ga. H. F. Cary, F. P. A , Jacksonville, Fla. W. H. Cakfky, C. P. A T. A. Columbus, Ga. Old Coin*. Col. Martin, of Martin’s Falls, came in. to see us yesterday aud •bowed us severs! old coins which were dug up a few days ago a short distaoce below Cherokee' Falla by Obe Parker, Jr., while he was digging fish bait. Parker found something over eight dollars mostly of Spanish coin, but there was some French aod American pieces. The latest date we saw on any of it was on a United States fifty cents piece of 1813. General Miles aud Admiral Dewey were aoubbed on tbe French battle ship Gaulols. They had been invited to respond to toasts, but tbe admin- istretion saw they were silent. Tbe Tennessee Democrats have nominated Hon. James B. Frazier for Governor aod reaffirmed tbe Kansas City platform. Tba Only Reaaon Von Don’t. A great many people are using “Clifton” floor now who a year or two ago bad no idea of doing eo. They didn’t know the merits of “Clf- ton” flour, and, in a way they wars satisfied with what they were getting. It waa good enough ao long ae tbsy didn’t know about “Clifton,” but It wouldn’t be good enough now. They know about “Clifton” now. You don’t know sboot “Clifton/ Hour, perhaps, and tbe other kind is good enough for you. But it won’t be when you know all about “Clif ton.” You might as well learn about it now. We want to tell you, aod to demonstrate all we ssy. If you in vestigate and we don’t make good, you are not out anything. But if we do make good (and we will) you will have gained something For sale by R. M. Wilkins A Co, in Gaffney, aud Jones & Duff, in Blacksburg Branskoru Mii.ls, , Osrensboro, Ky.