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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver- t 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., TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1908 THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. ftjv*ntn tlmt Have Taken IMaee from One End of the State to the Other Called from KxchaiiKeM for yulck Heading hy Scores of Busy People. Lightning killerl a horse belonging to Furman Stucky at Bishopvilie on Sunday. The naval bill appropriates $()57,- 300 for the construction of buildings at the Charleston navy yard. Spartanburg is to have another na tional bank with a capital of $100,- 00U and J. H. Sloan president. Henry Floyd, colored, has been ar rested in Baltimore charged with murdtr in Laurens county, and will be brought back for trial. The burn and stables of \V. L. Wolfe, of Riwesville, Orangeburg county, were on fire by lightning on Sunday anc burnt 1 down. The city steam laundry of Green wood burned down Tuesday night and much damage was done to near by property. The losses amount to $12,000. The case of the white merchants Smith and Dennis, tried at Florence on the charge of burning their store ai Timmonsviile to get the insurance, resuited in a mistrial. The trustees of Erskine college will erect a monument on the campus to Dr W. M. Grier, h former president. It will be a marble shaft 10 feet high surmounted by a life-size statue of the doctor. The losses of the Charleston ex position are about $4o0,000 made up us follows: Capital stock, $2o0 000; bonds, $50 000; general creditors. $50,000; Captain Wagener. advances and endorsements, $100,000. The new barn of Mr. C. D. Stradley, at his farm on the Augusta road just outside the corporate limits of Green ville, was struck by lightning on Thursday night and was totally con sumed in a short time. A horse and two hogs were burned in the barn, and the total loss is $500 including animals, wagon, lumber and farming tools, on which there was no insur ance. The little town of Cross Hill in Laurens county just across the Saluda river,suffered considerable loss by fire Thursday night. Cross Hill is about 15 miles from Greenwood and the glow of the flames reflected on the sky could be plainly seen from there. It is stated that the total amount of property destroyed would be between $10,000 or $12,000 with only $5,000 insurance. The board of trustees of the South Carolina College, after hearing the testimony, decided that President Woodward’s sphere of usefulness at the college was at an end, and he is no longer president of that institu tion. Maj. Ben. Sloan, professor of mathematics, will be acting president until the board selects Dr. Wood ward’s successor. This will be some time between now and the opening of the next session. The regents for the hospital for the insane at their meeting Friday determined to rush to completion the Taylor building on their grounds so that it shall be completed by July 1. This will give additional accommoda tions for 200 white male patients, but this relief from congestion of inmates is not sufficient. The regents have plans for increasing the number of rooms which they hope to consum mate in the briefest period possible. The livest question in Winnsboro at the time is that of issuing bonds to the amount of $10 000 for installing an electric light plant. A petition has been circulated and signed by a ma jority of the free holders. The elec tion is set for July 8 and the books of registration close June 2$. It is bard to foreshadow the result of the elec tion, though it is believed that purchasers of bonds will have an early opportunity of getting some bonds from a town that is now almost bond- less, its total bonded indebtednc-es being only $7,000- The exposition at Charleston has been put into the bands of receivers, they being the board of directors, ac cording to a decision filed Wednes day by Judge Dantzler. The applica tion for a receiver was made by a Dumber of attorneys, representing certain creditors, some days before the exposition closed, but the decis ion was not rendered at the time, that the exposition might run Its course and the management be un- interfered with. As it Is, the receiv- era are all members of the directory •od the winding up of the exposition will go on without change of manage ment. The order provides that the receivers shall serve without compen sation and without bond and shall take possession of all of the property of the exposition company and file in court an inventory and list of the same and a schedule of the pi^sent employes and salaries. The order al lows the receivers to employ counsel without compensation. The order enjoins all of the defendants and creditors of the exposition company from prosecuting any action or to take any part in any suit against the exposition except in the present pro ceedings. ' Uncle Joe” Covington, a promin ent and highly respected farmer of Hebron, Marlboro county, now in his 73rd year, has already prepared the graves for himself and wife. The graves have been cemented, monu ments erected and marble slabs placed over the mouth of each tomb. He is a most practical man and says that he preferred to attend to this matter before he died, and to make sure that the graves are correct. He has reclined several times in his, and converses about the matter as com posedly as he would any other busi ness transaction. But the most unique thing connected with the whole affair is he has decided to have, t-ome time this summer an unveiling of the monument, and has invited his friends. Messrs. T. C Hamer and J. P. Gibson, to deliver the memo rial addresses. These gentlemen have accepted the invitation, and as noth ing of this kind has ever occurred before in this section it is predict d that several thousand persons will be present to hear what these gentle men will have to say on such an un usual occasion. vMtion \Ve<l<H»K- [The Manila Times. April Alii.l A quiet wedding took place at No. 254 Galle Son Sebastian, Wednesday evening, at 8:30 p. m., Ghaplain Wulk'ej. Artille-y Corps, officiating. The bride was Miss Amelia Davidson, recently a resident of Singapore, S. S , whose home is in Richmond, Sur rey, England, and the groom, Mr. Stephen Herbert Chambers, late a resident of Gaffney, South Carolina, but a native of Kentucky. The bride was attired in a dress of white jusi, lined with white satin. Tne Han't had a deep pleated flare trimmed with ruchings of jusi ami fancy baby ribbon. The bodice was trimmed with white applique lace with rosettes of baby ribbon at the neck and sleeves She wore orange blossoms and carried bride’s roses. Neither parents or relatives being present, the bride was given away by a dear friend, Mrs. Rosonstock. The house was beautifully decora ted with palms and here and there were draped together the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack—a matri monial alliance between at least two representatives of those great nations. The bride and groom entered the hall where the ceremony was performed to the strains of that famous wedding march, which none know how to play better than Prop. John Austin. Mrs. Kosenstock and Mr. John Pickering received. After the marriage, champagne, ice cream and cake were served, and of course every one toasted the young couple; a little rice throwing was in dulged* in ; afterward a dance was giv en. Guests departed at eleven p. m. The bridal pair received a number of elegant presents. Among those present were W. N. Chandler, Jr., Mr J. J. Peterson and Miss Peterson, Cupt W. 8. Wood, Senor and Senora Cortijo, Mr. John Pickering, Miss "Merry” Pickering, Mr. John Austin, Mrs. M. Webb, Miss Wirell, Mr. and Mrs. Skyles. Mr. and Mrs. Hagan, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Johssen, Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Leathe, Mr.and Mrs. Hayman, Mr. and Mrs. E P. Dell, Capt. and Mrs. Marquart, Mrs. Rosenstock, Lt. and Mrs. Bow man, Capt. Geo. Montgomery, Ord. Dept., Capt. and Mrs. Pickering, Gov ernor of Tayabas, Capt. Bandhotz, Kenor and Henora Ossori, Mrs. Polk, Miss Cambell, Frau Anna Htatenberg, and Messrs. J. G. Scott, A. Turner, Frank Clarke, G. F. Sinclair, A. 8. Emery Clog, C. H. Vanderpool, L. H. Coart, R. C. Round and J. J. Jack- son. lluwr It i« Duno. The first object in life with the American people Is to‘‘get rich ;” the second, how to regain good health. The first can be 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- trstion, Low Spirits, etc., you need Dot suffer another day. Two doses of the well known August Flower will relieve you at once. Go to Cherokee Drug Co. and gets sample bottle free. Regular size. 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. HAS NO AXE FOR PUBLIC GRINDSTONE But is Chock Full of Advice for Cherokee Candidates. LOWER CHEROKEE NOTES The CanditlMtoM are Taking the Bay at Etta ,lane.—A MyxteriouH Wliantjiloodle” lit Killed, Which Proven to he a Timber L Wolf.—Crops in tiood Condition. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jaxk June 14—The hot weather is telling on the cotton crop The cool nights heretofore set it back considerable, but it is recovering now. At Gaffney last Thursday we met our o d friend and acquaintance Mr G orge Geddes, who is representing the South Carolina Marble Works, of Columbia. For many years Mr Ged- ries was in the marble hu-iness inUoion where w^ formed his acquaintance He is a son of Mr. John Geddes, of Gaffney, who is so well and favorably known by a large number of our readers, both as a successful gardner and good ChrisCan gentleman. But in behalf of George we must say that he is a much better looking man than his father—he takes after his mother as most good looking children do— ours do we know. The candidates are making things lively among their friends and each otivr. Each one has an abiding faith in bis ability to “land” the office to which he aspires. He cannot see the ghost of a chance for his competitors to do anything but be defeated. This is a proper view if not a wise one for him to take. In point of intelligence and virtue we believe that Cherokee county will compare favorably with any other the subject if he won’t and say every thing good you can of the man or men opposing you, and don’t let your host see in you a desire to succeed, no matter to what inconvenience or dis advantage you put your competitor by your ambition. If your opponent brs any good traits, think aud speak of them. Refuse to talk about him (or them) in any other way. If in conversation any of his (or theirl imperfection, or short-comii ^s should be mentioned incidentally, express your regret that such is the case and give your auditor to understand that they are of no advantage to you— they don’t qualify you for the office 'and you can’t afford to make a step ping stone of them to get into office, yourself. Persue tnis cause consicientiously and in each case you will muke a friend if not a vote, provided the man is anything like a fair minded good citizen. If he is a ruffian he will be none the worse by your treatment of him. His opinions of you will change. He will think more of you and 1-ssof your opponent if he has been using dirty methods to defeat you. We expect to watch the cam puign and have more to say aloog this line lattr. We learn that Mr. Boyce Mercalf, of Lawn, recently shot and killed (near that place) what is supposed to be a timber wolf, which has l>*en in that section for some time. It has been seen by stveral people. The darkies called it a whangdoodle If we understand our correspondent, Dr Martin, of Lawn, called it a‘ timber wolf” and says he has seen several of them in the west where he came from Lis supposed to have a mate still in that section. As a marksman Mr. Metcalf is ihenimrod of Chero kee county. Like Davy CrockeH said, "when the game see him they generally come down.” Mr. Sam Strain is quite sick. Rev. C. A. B. Jennings, of Reid- vill, will deliver an address at Salem on children’s day July 31. .1 I, s ! You and your friends are cordially invited to attend and participate in the Celebration Fes tivities at Gaffney, July Fourth 1902. il: section of the State, or the I’nited States for that matter, and we do hope that those aspiring to office will not lower that standard by indulging in dirty low down cowardly methods to gain advantage of their opponents. Abuse is no argument. Other’s faultsor misfortunes don’t strengthen our personal probity of character or fitness for the position. We feel perfectly safe in saying that such practices, if indulged in, will lay the offender on his political "cooling board” if decent and respec table people cao have any influence at the polls. The practice of gaining votes (or trying to gain them) by undue in fluence will be witched and promptly repudiated by those who would not stoop to dirty mean tricks to secure their election, We have no axe for the public grindstone. We jost bought a new grindstone for our own private use and no candidate present or prospective shall put his official axe oo it if we know it and can help it. We wish them all well—not only well, but that it was possible for each one to suc ceed. We may follow ud the campaign aud every now and then throw in a little free advice but not as a par- tisen or anybody’s “heeler,” but in behalf of the best interest of our people as we see it. What we have to say we expect to say right here in black and white and will stand to it .regardless of consequences. We will start off with a short lecture to the candidates which they can accept or reject just as they ebeose, and there will be neither charge or disappointment on our part. First gentlemen: Don’t under estimate the strength of your oppo nents. Try to find out their strongest points and go to work In a gentle manly way to weaken that grasp. Find out the leader of the faction opposing you sod go and stay all night with him, even if you risk pay ing your night’s lodging. Bring up TWO [Cherokee Critic.] Hon. R. C. Sarratt. who has an nounced himself as a candidate for the senate, is a native of old Spartan burg county and lived and was raised and reared in the section cut off in the formation of Cherokee county. He attended Wofford College, is and has been a farmer and school teacher and has been a success at both call ings. He represented Spartanburg county in the general assembly and four years ago ran for the senate in this county and was elected. He has served the people faithfully and com scientiously and made un impartial legislator. Dr. J. G. Black is the son of Hon. Wm. C. Black and was born and reared in York county, in the section severed from old York in the forma* tion of Cherokee county. He is a graduate of the South Carolina Medi cal College, Charleston. He served us private secretary of Gen. M. C. Butler and in other capacities during the last civil war. He whs elected to the lower house of the genera! assem bly, and later to the State senate, where be showed his intelligence and acumen as a legislator. He is a model, modern farmer and practicing physi cian. To lleulroy the Wild Onion Tawte In Milk. [Asheboro < ourier.l A gentleman told the writer that a tabiespoonfull or two of molasses, mixed iu the feed for a cow that has eaten wild onions, will destroy the taste of the onions in the butter. He says he has seen it tried sufficiently. Give it a trial. —One of these days you’ll try Blue Ribbon lemco and vanila extracts and you’ll see what you’ve been miss ing* —These hot days suggest Ice cream and ice cream suggests Blue Ribbon lemon and yanila extracts* —Keep cool on Ice cream flavored with lemon and vauila extract. THROUGHOUT THE TIB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Intereatlng Ite'inx Con<'«*rnlni; Our »igh- horn Beyond the l.iue Which May Prove Entertaining Beading; for Hundred* of Ledger Keaderx. The Governor has ordered a special term of Wake superior court forJuly 28, continuing two weeks. Friday evening about 5 o’clock the ffre alarm was given from the Daniel Cotton Mill at Lincolnton. The con tents of the waste room were badly burned and the building damaged to the extent of about $300, covered bj insurance. The Mecklenburg Fair Association has issued handsome pamphlets, which give the rules that will govern the tournament to be held at Char lotte. J uly 2nd. There is every rea son to belli ve that the tournament will he a grear success. John R. idick, colored was drowned at E izabeth City Friday morning He was sleeping on the wharf of the Blade 1.umber Company. Some one attempted to arouse him when Rid dick, frightened, plunged into the river and was drowned. Alonzo Reid, the negro who was charged with stealing several articles from the Allen Hardware Company at Charlotte, pleaded guilty to the charge before the recorder Friday and was bound over to the superior court. In detauit of $100 bond he was committed to jail. Commissioner I’atterson, of the Ag ricultural Department, issues an im portant summary of the trucking con ditions in North Carolina and Virgin ia, showing North Carolina’s results from crops is gratifying with bright prospects in continuance, owing to the poor Virginia showing The livery stable of Isaac Kelley, at. Raleigh, was badly damaged by fire at 11 o’clock Thursday morning. Nine fine horses perished in the flames, three being the property of Barbee it Bros., and the others be longing to Kelley. The loss is parti ally protected by insurance. The Secretary of State has char tered the People’s Transportation Company, of High Point, capital $500, 000. for the purpose of constructing and operating an electric street rail way system in that flourishing town. The incorporators areCaliff F. Elder, B. H. Sawyer, George Cohen, of Phil adelphia, and Edward D. Steele. Otto Falstein was shot in the ab domen during an affray with knives and pistols, lastTuesday night at Lex ington, but is improving, and David Leonard and Charles Lookabill, who have been in custody awaiting the re sult of Falstein’s wounds, have been released on bail. Falstein is an em ploye of the Wenonah Cotton (hills. James R. Young has issued circu lars offering $200 reward for the ar rest of the incendiary, whoever he was, who started the fire June 8th, in Ayden, Pitt county, and came near destroying the entire town. Mr. Young also mailed to day circular let ters to all sheriffs and mayors of 250 cities and towns in the State urging the necessity of more prompt and complete reports of fires whenever they occur and the mi king of thor ough investigation of their origin. The taking of testimony in the case against Dr Frank Bright, Rev. T. Bright and C. D Wilkie, the cherry tree swindlers, was concluded in the district court at Charlotte Friday morning. Speeches to the jury were made by Assistant District Attorney A. H. Price for the prosecution and by Senator J. C. Pritchard and Messrs E. J. Justice and Sol Gallert for the defendants. District Attorney Hol ton made the final argument Satur day morning and then, after Judge Boyd’s charge, the case went to the jury. A verdict of guilty was render ed Satuiday afternoon Miss Moutie McIntosh made what Is likely to prove a successful attempt ut suicide Friday evening at the home of her uncle, David Dunlap, about eight or ten miles west of Caittage. it is learned that Mr. Dunlap left her alone at the house during the after noon as well and cheerful as ever so far as he knew. Some time after wards he beard a pistol shot at the house and upon investigation found Miss McIntosh on the floor with a pistol wound in her left breast, the ball having passed through her lung and lodging it her back. It is said that her recovery is doubtful. No cause for the act cap he ascribed. The runaway couple, W. M Nelson and Mrs. Lawrence Coffey, who sud denly disappeared from their homes at Coilettsville a fortnight ago, were tl.oo A YEAR. seen at Hickory Thursday evening on their return. It is said friends here are advising Nelson to let this be the place of separation and have Mrs. Coffey sent back to her father’s, but so far there has nothing developed. The outgoing train tor Lenoir left be fore they arrived from the West, cau sing them to miss connection. The parties both being of prominent fam ilies of Caldwell county, the elope ment has been a topic of conversa tion throughout this part of the State since the date of their departure. The order of Gretna-Green marriag es has changed in Durham. Thurs day morning Rev. G. D. Langton, pastor of the West Durham Baptist church, was called on to officiate at a marriage in which the woman did the "stealing” and the groom was slipped away from his parents. The contracting parties were James Hop- son and Mrs. Calla Clark, both of whom live in East Durham. The boy, a mere lad, looked to be about IS years of age, and the woman was close on to 35. The boy had been taken from the field where he was at work and was married in the clothes that he wore while at his work. Several gathered in to witness the event, which was greatly enjoyed. Abou r four miles out of Asheville, a reunion last Monday took place between mother and son, in which is revealed a story, touching and pa thetic. of a father’s cruelty and an guish and long suffering caused thereby and the almost life-long sepa ration between mother and her son. The son was taken uway from his moth er, who lived in Buncombe county, by his father, when a hoy • ^ht months old He has lived 48 years in ignor ance of his mother’s w rier, abouts and it was only by a chance that he dis covered she was still living in her na tive c.ount ry. By dint of toil and hard labor he has amassed a consid erable fortune, which he expects to he freely expended in providing for his motherVcomfort and pleasure in her declining years. She now is an aged woman bending beneath the weight of three score years and ten. Friday a freight wreck occurred on the Western Railroad two or three miles east of the Swannanoa tunnel, in which Engineer R B. Lee, of Spen cer, was killed and the engine and four cars of the train were derailed. The accident was caustd by the en gine striking a rail bender, an appli ance u-ed in laying rails on a curye. L occurred near Mud ent, at the HOtff mile post, at a point where the road is cut out of the mountain side. Tne slope below the track is 158 feet and the engine and derailed cars took this plunge. Mr Lee jumped downward at the ‘moment of the shock. His death was caused by his being hit by one of the derailed cars. So far as appears from a failure to mention his name in the telegrams received, it is presumed that the fireman escaped, being on the side of the engine toward the mountain and having a chance to land without serious injury on jump ing. Well Done, Bojx. IC'lierukee Critic.] An interesting and closely contest ed game of hall was played here oo Monday last between the Gaffney and Blacksburg ball teams, resulting in a victory for the home team. Perfect order prevailed and "kick ing,” the usual accompaniment of a match game of ball, was conspicuous by its absence. The Gaffney team is composed of a sturdy, handsome and gentlemanly set of yountr men who took their de feat philosophically and pleasantly, and expect to even up the score on July 4th, when the Blacksburg boys will play them at Gaffney. The first part of the game Humph reys did good work in the box for Gaffney ; and in the latter part Wood, who is a first-class pitcher, held the score down. Little, at shortstop, made several fine plays, and, in fact, every man on the Gaffney team played good ball. MecklenburK'N i{i>u<i« mii Exitiiiple. [Danville (Ya.) Bee.J Mecklenburg county, N. C., has within a fraction of one hundred miles of macadamized road, all con structed by convict labor. Good road enthusiasts will do well to bear these facts in mind. State Juxt What Vou Want, There is a lot of the most desirable trade that no one can get who doesn’t handle “Clifton” flour. Users of “Clifton” can’t be satisfied with any other kind. "Clifton” has established a new standard of purity aod the highest excellence. If you have not ustd "Clifton” recently, you should by all all means instruct your grocer j to send you a sack when you order flour again. Don’t let him persuade you he has "something just as good.” He may be buying other so-called patent flour at a little less than he pays for ‘‘Clifton,” and he naturally wants to push this on you because be makes a few cents more on It. In sist on having ‘‘Clifton,” if you want the purest and best. Bkanhkoki) Miu.s Uwensbco, Ky.