The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 27, 1902, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894.
GAFFNEY. S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 37, 1902.
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THROUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
Items of Interest of Passing
Events.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
fiveutH that Have Taken Place from One
Knd of the State to the Other Called from
KxchanKeH for (julck Heading hy Scores
of Huity People.
A commercial club including all
lines of trade has been organized in
Charleston.
The South Carolina Bankers’ Asso
ciation has been chartered by the
state. E. H. Pringle, of Charleston,
is president.
Portions of Florence and Darling
ton counties were visited by severe
hail storms Saturday afternoon and
great damage was done to growing
crops.
The town council of Saluda has or
dered a complete outfit of machinery
for the building of good streets and
roads, costing more than $3,000
Saluda is without railroad facilities.
The great Game Cock Fireman’s
tournament began Wednesday morn
ing at 9:30 o’clock in Sumter.with a
parade of all the fireman who parti
cipated in the various contests and
continued to Thursday. There were
a great many visitors present.
The recent donation of $25,000 from
a New York friend to the Thornwell
Orphanage at Clinton is in 4 or 5 per
cent bonds and is to be kept in per
petuity as pari of the permanent en
dowment. A Virginia gentleman has
also given $1,000 to found a scholar
ship.
The first tobacco sale preliminary
to the general opening was made on
the Florence market Tuesday by Mr.
H. T. Harilee, who averaged six cents
around for his 7U0 pounds. Florence
expects to sell this year between
5,000.000 and 0.000,000 pounds of to
bacco.
ty from Cashville to Woodruff on last
Saturday afternoon. Among the dam
ages caused by the storm were the
following: The barn of Mr. S. V.
Brockman was blown down, and the
roof blown off his gin house. The
dwelling of Mr. William Phillips was
destroyed, but fortunately no inmate
of the house was hurt. The school
house at Crescent was blown down.
The hail destroyed a number of crops.
Saved From an Awful Fate.
“Everybody said I had consump
tion,” writes Mrs. A. M. Shields, of
Chambersburg, Pa , “I was so low
after six months of severe sickness,
caused by Hay Fever and Asthma,
that few thought I could get well,
but I learned of the marvelous merit
of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption, used it, and was complete
ly cured.” For desperate Throat
and Lung Diseases it is the safest
cure in the world, and is infallible
for Coughs. Colds and Bronchial af
fections. Guaranteed battles 50c and
$1 00. Trial bottles free at Cherokee
Drug Co.
Some politicians are so busy
congratulating themselves about
capturing the markets of the world
that they never become able to es
tablish credit in the local markets.
K«ad It 1m HU Newspaper.
George Schaub, a well known Ger
man citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio,
is a constant reader of the Dayton
Yolkszeitung. He knows that this
paper aims to advertise only the best
in its columns, and when he saw
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm advertised
therein for lame back, he did not
hesitate in buying a bottle of it for
his wife, who for eight weeks had
suffered with the most terrible pains
in her hack and could get no relief.
He says : “After using the Pain Balm
fo r a few days my wife said to me, T
feel as though born anew,’and before
using the entire contents of the bot
tle the unbearable pains had entirely
vanished and she could again take up
her household duties.” He is very
thankful ami hopes that all suffering
likewise will hear of her wonderful
recovery. This valuable liniment is
for sale by Cherokee Drug Co.
At a meeting of the Exposition
Commission held Tuesday at Sulli
van’s Island, a resolution was adop
ted directing Superintendent Love to
pack the South Carolina exhibit unc
store it in a warehouse where it wil
be kept until time for shipment to
the St. Louis fair.
Francis Snipe, a negro of bad repu
tation, was shot and killed by A.
Calvi, an Italian vendor, in Charles
ton Saturday night. He entered the
latter’s store, demaded a bottle of
beer and when refused, drew his pis
tol, but Calvi seized another pistol
and killed him. The coroner’s jury
held that it was justifiable homicide.
Wrought upon too greatly by the
intensity of her feelings, Kate Sim-
mona, a negro woman, dropped dead
io a church in Florence county Mon
day night from hear; disease. A
numben of witnesses testified to the
nature of the woman’s sickness and
no inquest was held. Religious ex
citement probably caused the heart to
give way.
There is a time in every boy’s life
when his highest ambition is to beat
the snare drum in the brass band.
A <>entle 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 taken from us by neg
lected colds, half the deaths resulting
directly from this cause. A bottle of
Boschee’s German Syrup kept about
your home for immediate use will pre
vent serious sickuess, a large doctor’s
bill, and perhaps death, hy the use 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.
The best room in the house is the
one in which the children have the
most fun.
Sprint; Fever.
Spring fever is another name for
biliousness. It is more serious than
most people think. A torpid liver
and inactive bowels mean a poisoned
system. If neglected, serious illness
may follow such symptoms. DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers remove ail danger
by stimulating the liver, opening the
bowels and cleanring the system of
impurities, i^afe Pills. Never gripe.
“I have taken DeWitt’s Little Early
Risers for torpid liver every spring
for years,” writes R. M. EverJy,
Moundsville, Va. “They do me more
good than anything I have ever
tried.” Cherokee Drug Co.
The man who fails is disposed to
attribute his neighbor’s success to
luck.
Wkn WalNtlnff Amity.
The following letter from Robert R.
Watts, of Balem, Mo , is instructive.
“I have been troubled with kidney
disease for the last five years. I lost
flesh and never felt well and doctored
with leading phvsicians and tried all
remedies suggested without relief.
Finally I tried Foley’a Kidney Cura
and less than two bottlea completely
cured me and I am now sound and
well. Cherokee Drug Co.
The foolish man saves his growla
for his home and bis smiles for bia
office.
Ten Vw*r» In H«m1.
R. A. Gray, J. P. Oakville, Ind.,
writes. “For ten years I was confined
to my bed with disease of my kid
neys. It was ao aevere that I could
not move part of the time. I con-
eolted the very beet medical skill
available, but could get do relief un
til Foley’a Kidney Cure was recom
mended to me. It baa been a God
send to me.” Cherokee Drug Co.
GHOULS IT WORK IN
SALEM OmVEYARD
Some Dastard Steals Ribbon
Off Flowers on a Grave.
A TIMELY SUGGESTION.
J. I.. 8. Suggent* that the Ladies Prepare
Dinner for the CrotvdM at the Campaign
Meeting* —Harheene* are Only a Method
of Fulling the Candidate'* ‘‘Leg.”
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta J.vn*k, June 25.—The ghouls
lave been at work in Salem grave
yard The beautiful ribbon attached
to a boquet sent from Cedar Springs
to pu v upon the grave of Miss Mary
Edwards has been taken off and the
fl iwers left scattered on the ground
about the grave.
For forty-eight years that ceme
tery has been open to the public, and
during that time many very fashion
able and costly funerals have taken
place and beautiful tokens of love
and respect for the dead left upon
the grave to perish with the dust,
and not in a single case have we ever
heard of one being molested until
fiow. Who the marauders are
we have no direct means of knowing,
but would like to find out. It would
be a gratification for us to know
how anyone can wear or use that rib
bon without a feeling of dismal pride
or contemptible vanity. Should we
find out the ones who took it we will
certainly publish their names to the
world.
People will soon be done laying by
their qrops and the county campaign
will be on hand.
We want to euesrest to our people
that at each meeting place they turn
i leading merchants in that neighboring
j towns. Mr. Wilkerson has associated
with him Mr. Scott Cobb, who is the
chief cock in the manufacture, and
, he snows his business thoroughly.
Besides the output from the manu
factory, the seed is a profitable crop
—its worth more than the expense of
making up the molasses, we suppose.
The cool weather is rather a draw
back to the cotton crop, though it
shows no bad effects from it yet. We
think that to check the rapid growth
of the weed will be an advantage to
its fruitility.
We are sorry to state that Master
Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. b.
Spencer, of Grover, is yet suffering
greatly from rheumatism, yet be
bears his affliction with wonderful
patience and resignation for a child
of his age. He, his family and
friends have our sympathies. We
would it could be otherwise.
We feel it is due those whose efforts
made the Draytonville childrens day
' success possible, at least a mention
of their names, therefore we give a
list of the Draytonville choir as we
get it from ooe who is supposed to
know all of the members and the part
each taken in the singing:
Smith Rains, leader; bass—W. C.
Parris, G D. Parris, Rowland Parker,
Jas. Patterson, A. J. Parker; alto—
W, S. Wilson, Mrs. Smith Rains,
Miss C. Parris; trnor—Washington
Childers, L J. Parker; soprano—
Misses Ettie Rain, G. A. Rains,
Lovie Phillips, Bessie .Phillips, Lula
Elmore, Florence Wilson, Lula Pat
terson, Bertha Patterson, Mezv Pugh,
Mrs. W. S. Wilson, Mrs. Francis
Mason.
Some of our country people are not
so enthusiastic over the “Glorious
Fourth” as they would be had their
experience been otherwise.
We have often heard the complaint
that the colored people, who are gen-
i erally present in large numbers, se»m
to have divided the crowds into the
following social classes, to-witr; First,
the town whites; second, the town
THROUGHOUT THE
TAB HEEL STATE.
From the Mountains to The
Sea.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
IntereKtlng Iterni* Concerning Oar Neigh
bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove
Entertaining Heading for Hundred* of
Ledger Header*.
Capt. J. D. Taylor, of Kinston,
committed suicide Wednesday, using
a 22 calibre Smith and Wesson revol
ver. The rash act was due to brood
ing over the losing of bis position as
manager of the Kinston Knitting
Mill.
A surprising marriage took place in
Mooresville Monday, when Mr. James
Hartsell, a citizen of this county,
aged 65 or 70 years, and Miss Hattie
Poston, aged 14 years, united hearts
and hands. Mayor Voils per
formed the ceremony.
At a special meeting of the execu
tive committee of the chamber of
commerce Wednesday, it was decided
to at once improve the “Hammocks”
at Wrigbteville Beach and establish
there a permanent encampment for
State troops during the summer. The
Fifth Georgia Regiment which comes
July 17th-27th will be first to avail
itself of the improvement. About
$1,000 will be expended and that
amount will be raised in popular sub
scriptions.
Wednesday at 1 o’clock a horrible
accident occurred at the Asheville
Cotton Mills, costing W. A. Buck,
an employe of the mills, his life. The
hands were returning from dinner
when Buck, who was a card-tripper,
attempted to start his machine.
Finding the belt slack he used his
hands to tighten it. When the ma
chine started his hand was caught
and he was thrown down. It is sup
posed that the belt became twisted
about his neck, as his head was com
pletely jerked from his body.
Miss Jessie Wall, a daughter of S.
W. Wall, E-q.. one of the prominent
citizens of Randolph county, left her
father’s house several days ago to
visit the dairy near the residence and
has not been seen or heard of since.
Miss Wall was a beautiful girl, only
17 years of age. and her family is
well connected throughout the State.
There is no accounting for her
strange conduct and the deepest sym
pathy is expressed for her unfortun
ate and grief-stricken parents.
A cutting and shooting scrap oc
curred at Winston-Salem Sunday
night. The participants were Mat
thew Hicks and Mary Edwards, both
colored. Hicks struck the woman oc
the head with a brick, inflicting a
painful wound, though it is not con
sidered serious. This incensad Mary,
who pulled her pistol and fired at
Hicks, the ball taking effect in the
right waist. It came out near the el
bow. Both parties were drink'ng.
They were arrested and locked up in
the city hall prison.
Bob Hill, a white man .was run over
and instantly killed at 7:30 o’clock
Monday morning by a freight train
on the Atlantic <& North Carolina
road. The unfortunate man was on
bis way home, which is two and a
half miles from Kinston, when the
accident occurred. A bottle half-filled
with whiskey was by his side and told
the sad tale. The engineer saw the
man when 150 yards distant, but
thought he was a coat or the shadow
of a tree and did not discover the
error till too late to prevent the acci
dent.
A remarkable funerl was held at
Raleigh Sunday afternoon. A negro
named Bibb Matthews died June 18
His will directed that his body be
embalmed aod placed io a vault. He
had requested his son-in-law to make
the casket of cedar, with glass top
and sides so that bis whole body
could be seen. This was done. The
body was Sunday taken to the First
Baptist church, colored, where ser
vices were held. Then the audience,
2,000 in number, escorted the body
back to the undertaker’s, where it
will remain until the vault is com
pleted, which will require about two
months. Matthews left property ex
ceeding $25,000 in value. He was by
trade a ajbrick mason and was a very
Industrious and a good mao. Several
thousand persons have looked at bis
body.
The scaffold used iu hanging the
two Emma postoffice robbers at Ashe
ville he* arrived 'at Salisbury by
freight aod will be used for the execu
tion of three condemned negroes in
jail at that place. The scaffold will
be ample large to permit of all three
being given the drop at once, as it
was originally designed for four, the
sentences o’f two of the men having
been commoted by Governor Ayoock.
It will be set up at ouoe In the back
yard of the jail and so built about
with planking that only the legal
number of witnesses admitted within
the enclosure can view the execution.
Sheriff Lee, of Buncombe, will be on
hand to assist Sheriff Julian in his
unpleasant duty on July 8th, thus
making a return of the latter’s kind
ness on the occasion of the Asheville
execution.
Stokes Cowan, a relative of the ne
groes lynched at Salisbury, and
family, suspected of complicity in the
murder of Miss Cornelia Benson, were
driven from their homes last Friday
night. Stokes is a negro of much ani
mal courage and had never taken the
threats made against him at all se
riously. To all those who gave him
friendly advice to leave, be invariably
replied with an oath that he had
nothing to do with the affair and
would not leave. Disagreement
among the mob doubtless saved them
from more violence and a more ex
peditious trip. Some wanted to hang
the whole family, others suggested
the nailing of all the doors and win
dows so securely that when the house
was fired, the negroes could not get
out, still others reccommended merci
less beating and more conservative
ones simply banishment. They could
not agree. But Friday night a well
armed party went to the house and
fired on it with various firemans.
Stokes, with a heavily-loaded shot
gun, which was an old muzzel-loader,
attempted several times to return the
fire, but his gun failed. His wife re
ceived a wound in the arm before es
caping. Stokes returned the next
day to dispose of his crop now in
process of cultivation. He says he
will remain away.
Virulent Cancer Cured.
Startling proof of a wonderful ad
vance in medicine is given by drug
gist G. W. Roberts, of Elizabeth, VV.
Va An old man there had long suf
fered with what good doctors pro
nounced incurable cancer They be
lieved his case hopeless till he used
Electric Bitters and applied Buck-
len’s Arnica Salve, which treatment
completely cured him. When Elec
tric Bitters are used to expel bilious,
kidney and microbe poisons at the
same time this salve exerts its match
less healing power, blood diseases,
skin eruptions, ulcers and sores van
ish. Bitters 5Uc, Salve 25c at Cher
okee Drug Co.
We haven’t much use for the man
who is a bull on the market and a
bear in the home.
How to Avoid Trouble.
Now is the time to provide yourself
and family with a bottle of Cham
berlain s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. It is almost certain to be
needed before the summer is over,
and if procured now may save you a
trip to town in the night or in your
busiest season. It is everywhere ad
mitted to be the most successful med
icine in use for bowel and complaints,
both for children and adults. No
family can afford to be without it.
For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.
Content lies so close to our doors
that most of us step over it without
ever seeing it.
A Kttttl Friend.
“I suffered from dyspepsia and in
digestion for fifteen years,” says W
T. Sturdevant, of Merry Oaks, N. C.
“After I bad tried many doctors and
medicines to no avail one of my
friends persuaded me to try Kodol,
It gave immediate relief. I can eat
almost anything I want now and my
digestion is good. I cheerfully re
commend Kodol.” Don’t try to cure
stomach trouble by dieting. That
only further weakens the system.
You need wholesome, strengthening
food. Kodol enables you to assimi
late what you eat by digesting it
without the stomach’s aid. Chero
kee Drug Co.
Selfishness wants ail and enjoys
nothing.
Cure* Blood and Skin Die*****, Itrblug
Humor*, Kcieiua, Scrofula* Etc.
Send no money—simply write and
try Bontanic Blood Balm at our ex
pense. A personal trial of Blood Balm
ia better than a thousand printed tea-
timonials, so don’t hesitate to write
for a free sample. If you suffer from
ulcers, eczema, scrofula, Blood Poi
son, cancer, eating sores, Itcbiog skin,
pimples, boils, bone pains, swelling,
rheumatism, catarrh, or any blood or
skin disease, we advise you to take
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B) Es
pecially recommended for old, obsti
nate, deep-seated cases of malignant
blood or skin diseases, because Bo-
tonic Blood Balm (B. B. B ) kills the
poison Id the blood, cures where all
else falls, heals every sore, makes the
blood pure and rich, gives the skin
the rich glow of health. B. B. B..
the most perfect blood purifier made.
Thoroughly tested for 30 years.
Costs $1. per Urge bottle at drug
stores. To prove It cures, sample of
Blood Balm sent free by writing Blood
Balm Co, Atlanta Ga. Describe
trouble and free medical advice sent
in sealed letter. £)^Tbia ia an hon
est offer—medicine sent at once, pre
paid. Cherokee Drug Co.
You and your friends
are cordially invited to
attend and participate
in the Celebration Fes
tivities at Gaffney, July
Fourth 1902.
out with their baskets and make it a
kind of neighborhood picnic rather
than to adopt the old style of “bar
becue,” which is only a method of
pu'ling candidates for all they are
worth in a monetary sense, and often
by men who have no interest in the
campaign outside of what money
they can make out of it. Its embar
rassing to the candidates, who are
often in such financial condition that
they cannot do what they want cr
their friends might expect them.
Now we suppose the campaign will
start in Gowdysville township, as it
generally does, and we suggest to the
ladies that they take the matter in
hand, and if they don't see proper to
turn out themselves to hear the can
didates speak (which they have a per
fect right to do if they wish, and its
nobody’s business but their own)
bake a loaf or a few biscuits or pies
and with a fried chicken, ham or beef
steak and a little butter, jellies, jam
or other palatable condiments make
a first-rate luncheon, and they can
send it to the speaking ground by
their fathers, husbands, sons, broth
ers or friends who will ask the candi
dates and their friends to ^oin them
in lunch. It will cost no one a great
deal and the entertainer will feel aa
happv over it aa the entertained.
We hope to hear not only from our
own neighborhood, but from people
in other sections of Cherokee county
what they think of the proposition.
Another thing we wish to say in
this connection. The candidate who
uses whisky, or permits it to be used
in bia behalf, will not get our vote
but all the opposition we can honor
ably command to secure his defeat—
even though he may be our best
friend. He Is unfit to fill any office
he secures by such means.
Our friend and neighbor, Mr. W. 8.
Wilkerson, of York county, just
across the river, has sixteen acres
planted In sugar cane. He has all
the latest and most improved fixtures
for manufacturing it. His goods are
recognized as among the best Id the
market and bis orders come from the
colored ; third, the “country tsekera’
and “factory crackers,” or poor wbit<
trash generally.
For white ladies to be crowded bj
their colored sisters (if that’s the waj
to express it) is very repulsive anc
has much to do with keeping the
farmer at home. j. l. s.
Iltippy Time lu Old Town.
“We felt very happy,” writes F
N. Bevill, Old Town, Va., “whe
Buckien’s Arnica Salve wholly cure
our daughter of a had case of seal
head.” It delights all who use it fc
Cuts, Corns, Burns, Bruises, Boiii
Ulcers, Eruptions. Infallible fc
piles. Only 25c at Cherokee Dru
Co. drug store,
Truth often stutters,
talks without a break.
but scandal
Whooping Cough.
My little eon had an attack of
whooping cough and was threatened
with pneumonia; but for Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy we would have
had a serious time of it. It also
saved him from several severe attacks
of croup.—H. J. Stkickkadkn, editor
World-Herald, Fair Haven, Wash.
For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.
The man who reaches bis ideal
not have far to go.
did
Kendy to Yield.
"I used DeWltt’s Witch Hazel
Halve for piles and found it a certain
cure,” says 8. R. Meredith, Willow
Grove, Del. Operations unneoessary
to cure plies. They always yield to
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Cures
skin diseases, all kinda of wounds.
Accept no counterfeits. Cherokee
Drug Co.
There are no birds on next year’s
hat—yet.
To Cura m Cold In On# Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
If it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig
nature is on each box. 25o.