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4 THE LARGEST, 'Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. i HE SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver. User 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, 8. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1908 91.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PHJETTO STATE, items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Kveut* that Have Taken Place from One J£n<l of the Ntate to the Other Called from Exchange*) for (Juick Heading by Scores of Hum}- People. Four houKes occupiod by factory operatives at Darlington were burned Sunday night. A negro named Joe Alston killed Mary Johnson, colored, on Young’s* Island Sunday. J. T. Leslie, a mill operative, was drowned last week in the pond at Keedy River Factory. The Chick Springs Company of Greenville has been granted a com mission for a charter. President F. N. K. Baily will open the South Carolina Coeducational in stitute on the first of October. Fireproof vaults are being placed in the office of the clerk of court and judge of probate in the Orangeburg court-house. Greenville is to have a Gala Week during the coming winter. The <?iu cinnati Carnival Company will fur nish the attractions. A. negro woman named Julia Smith was killed by a stroke of lightning in afield near her home at Hyman, Florence County, last week. The corporators of the Toxaway Cotton Millsof Anderson have applied to the secretary of state for a charter. The mill will have a caoital of !f!225 l > 000. At Ten-mile Hill near Charleston Sunday two negroes became involved in a drunken row and one killed the other. The murderer took to the swamps and has not been captured. Last week Edgefield, without a single dissenter, voted to bond the town for $15 000 to build a new mod ern school building to replace the one destroyed by lire a few months ago. The Conway and Seashore Railway Company has filed^a mortgage for $40,000 with the secretary of state. The mortgage wee in favor of the Southern Loan and Trust Company 0/ Charleston. ^here was a slight wreck in the yards of the Southern railroad in Co lumbia Tuesday. Two engines ran into each other, one being considera bly torn up. Nobody was hurt, as the engineers jumped. The receipts of new cotton at Sumter up to last Saturday reached a total of 582 bales against no receipts to the same date last year. The re ceipts for last week were 540 bales and the receipts for Saturday were 1G7 bales. Bob Mosely, the negro who has been acting us dogcatcber for Columbia fdr some weeks and has been hauled up many times during his tenure of of fice, was sent to the chaingang yes terday morning for abstracting a young puppy from a gentleman's yard at 2 a. m. He'was caught in the act this time. CoronerJGreen, of Columbia, Tues day held an inquest over the body of Bessie Code, colored, who died Mon- day*uight from the effects of mor phine poisoning. The verdict of the jury was that she came to her death from an overdose of morphine admin istered by her own hand It was a case of suicide. She had attempted ouce before to kill herself. Just a few weeks ago Eugene Code, her bro ther, took his own life. Suicides among negroes were uokpown until a few years ago. Monday night a young man, Mr.C. E. Frazier of Columbia, met with a peculiar accident. He was riding on a park car coming into the city, and was thrown from the car in a way which will make him sore for some time. The wonder is that he was not killed. Near Wise’s store the car line runs close to a picket fence. Frazier was standing on the running board of tbe car and bis foot was caught in tbe pickets in some way. He v was jerked from tbe car with considerable ‘force, but was unin jured, apparently, except for a few scratches and bruises. William W. F. Bright, superinten- dent of education of Pickens county, died at his home Wednesday morning, eight miles southeast of Pickens. |Mr. Bright has long identified with the educational interest of^Pickens coun ty, having taught about thirty-five years in the public schools. From 1894 to 1890 he was school commis- ■loner of Pickens county. Again in 1898 he was elected county superin tendent of education which position be held at bis death. He died on tbe day preceeding the primary election, but this did not deter hie election, as he was running without opposition. The wreck on the Columbia. New berry and Laurens road Monday was attended with considerable financial loss to the company. Engineer Wil liam.Land was hurt and Fireman Burt was killed. William Lance, a co’ored train hand, was brought to Columbia in a critical condition. His head was terribly bruised and his tongue was nearly cut off. A negro tramp named Nila Raff, from Pros perity. was also badly hurt by being crushed between the care. Engine No. 5, one of the largest and best of those belonging to this company, was badly smashed up; eight freight cars containing merchandise were derailed and smashed up. The property loss will be about $20,000. AU Were Savetl. “For years I suffered such untold misery from Bronchitis,” writes J. H. Johnson, of Broughton, Ga., “that often I was unable to work. Then, when everything else failed, I was wholly cured by Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. My wife suffered intensely from Asthma, till it cured her, and all our experience goes to show it is the best Croup medicine in the world.” A trial will convince you it’s unrivaled for Throat and Lung diseases. Guaranteed bot tles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Cherokee Drug Co. The «Jinal estimate of the wheat crops of I ndia for the season of 1001-2, recently given out by the statistical department of the government of In dia, gives the yield as G 000,000 tons of 2,240 pounds. How It 1h Hone. The first object in life with the American people is to ‘‘get rich ;” the second, how to regain good health. Tbe first can he obtained by honesty, energy and saving; the second, (good health) by using Green’s August Flower. Should you be a despondent sufferer from any of the effects of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Appen dicitis. Indigestion, etc., such as Sick Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, Sour Stomach, Habitual Costiveness, Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Pros tration, Low Spirits, etc., you need 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 Special Almanac. It is semi-officially announced this morning that the July earnings of the United States Steel Corporators ap proximate $13,000,000. August fig ures are expected to exceed this. Perfection Attuiuetl. “Clifton” fancy patent flour is a perfect flour. It is not possible to put more quality and purity into a flour than the “Clifton” brand con tains. “Clifton” is a soft wheat fancy patent. It is made from select wheat, every grain of which was grown on Kentucky soil—the finest wheat in the wide world. Only the choicest berries are selected. These are thoroughly cleaned, and then by a special process of gradual reduction are converted into flour. The cream of this flour is separated and sifted gently through the finest silk belting cloth, giving it a velvety softness ee'dom found in ordinary flour That’s “Clifton,” and that’s why it is a perfect Hour—the finest product expert milling and a modern mill can make from the best wheat grown. “Clifton” is a flour of quality at a reasonable price. You can pay as much and get an inferior flour, but you cannot get a better flour what ever you pay. Bkansfokd Mills, Owensboro, Ky. If old Noah had left the job of building of the ark to a government contractor the chances are be would have got wet. A Pliyxlvlan Uealefl. Dr. Geo. Ewing, a practicing phy sician of Smith’s Grove, Ky., for over thirty years, writes his personal ex perience with Foley’s Kidney Cure: “For years I had been greatly both ered with kidney and bladder trouble and enlarged prostrate gland. I used everything known to the profession without relief, until I commenced to use Foley’s Kidney Cure. After tak ing three bottles I was entirely re lieved and cured. I prescribe it now daily in my practice and heartily re commend its use to all physicians for such troubles. I have prescribed it in hundreds of cases with perfect suc cess.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Fortunate is tbe young man who possesses a fail set of] good habits. To Cur* A Cold In One Dnjr. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggist refund tbe money ( if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature on each bo x. 25c. # LUWER CHEROKEE LOCAL JUPPENINGS. News of the Week Sent from Etta Jane. A GOOD TIME IN CHESTER. Our ‘Correspondent In Regaled with Ice Cream Suppern and Evening Parties— Great Pall-OfT in Cotton Crop* —Fine 8ea- Hon for Turnips—Per*onal Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Aug. 27.—Our thanks are due Hon. D. E. Finley for a lot of public documents sent ourself and neighbors from time to time. Sam Strain returned from a trip to Chester county last Monday much pleased with what he saw. The Abingdon Creek congregation have recovered and painted their church building. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Eotes and family, as well as M. H. T. Estes, returned from a visit to Cross Keys, Union county, last Saturday. They enjoyed the trip and we wouldn't be surprised if Terry goes back down there some time soon. Yesterday Miss Ethel Strain and some of her lady friends enjoyed a fine treat in the shape of a thirty- seven-pound watermelon of the Cleckley variety. We suppose that this copy of The Ledger will hardly be received in time for many of our readers who are interested to read our exhortation for them to turn out at Asbury next Saturday and form a telephone company that will develop much of the southwestern section of this county. Mr. Davis tells us he has the money about made up to buy the wire and the poles, but the right of way is yet to get. Everybody who can should attend. Mr. Luther Davis, formersly of this county, son of our friued Robt. VV. Davis, has been assigned to duty on the police force of Union. We congratulate the town authcrities on securing two such efficient officers as Luther Davis and “Big 1’ack” Mosley. They will humble any crowd of their size and give the town as good ser vice as it can get in the enforcement of its laws. v either of them is afiaid to do his duty. Miss Annie] Comer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maston Comer, has gone to the knitting mill at Jones- ville We learn that Mr. Comer expects soon to move to that town with his family. So many good families and workers are leaving the farms to find employment in the cotton and knitting mills is not a very encouraging sign for the farmers. Sorry we can’t have more who see their way clear to stay on the farms where they car, have sufficient remu neration for their labor. It’s ruin to the country. Yesterday Messrs Newman and Sydney Smith, of Gaffney, with their families passed here on their way to see their niece, Miss Ida Craig, who is lying at the point of death at the nome of her uncle, i\ r Duff Smith, near Hopewell, York county. The rain yesterday caught a good deal of fodder down. We have a fa e season in the ground for sowing turnips and people generally are taking advantage of it. Mr. T Jeff Hughes came'over yes terday to see his daughter, Mrs. Ora E-ites. Mr. G. M. Hill, of Gullney, was down yesterday looking after bis iarm Mr. A. 8. Herman and his son, Herman, were in this section this week on business. Farmers are agreed in their calcu lations about cotton. They can’t make it out over half a crop under the most favorable circumstances from now on until the end of the gathering season. The fall off in the last mouth is truly ularnmig. Well, the first primary election passed off nicely, in which a number of novel incidents combined to put many of us on our office “cooling hoard.” These, or some of them at least, are too good to let pass and we must ask our readers to pardon us for recalling a few of them—they will be rich, rich reading for our Led- gerites. We, of course, regret that we can’t use names for fear that we might insult some modest female who don’t want to figure conspicu ously in the public print, and we can’t exactly mention men for fear of getting our "noggin” cracked. We will try and be prudent and let the hit dog howl. It will be tbe dog’s fault and not ours if the secret gets out. We will not disappoint our readers and we don’t intend to lay scenes outside of Cherokee either. “Let tbe heathen rage” and the pub lic get the fun. Mr. Jasper Thomas has answered our problem of some weeks ago in re gard to ages of husband and wife. The former was 45 and tbe latter 15 when they married. j. t. s BLACKSBURG BUDGET. A Hatch of Local Item* Concerning: Our Neighbor* lleyond the Jtroari. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Blacksburg, Aug. 28.—Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Pollock announce the en gagement of their daughter, Zilplr, to Mr. M. H. Morrow of this city, the wedding to occur at the Methodist Episcopal church Blacksburg, 8. (J , October 2nd. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. V. Mays left Wednesday on an extended visit to relatives and friends at Richmond, Va. Miss Edna Healan, who has) been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. L. King at Greenville, 8. 0., returned home Monday. Miss Neil Night, of Cartersvilie, Ga., and Miss Lincy Morgan, of Double Shoals, N. C., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Baber this week. Mrs. H. L. Coe and daughter left Tuesday for Asheville, N. 0. Miss Alice Gaston left Monday for New Oxford. Pa., where she will visit friends for a few weeks and on h*-r return home she will stop at Balti more and purchase goods for the mil linery department of the “Com pany’s” store at Forest City, N. C , which departmeut she will have charge of during the coming season. The election here passed off very quietly Tuesday, and with very little drinking being done. The vote cast was 231, which is the largest vote cast at this precinct in years. Look I'leaMant, I'lettHe. Photographer C. 0 Harlan, of Eaton, O., can do so now, though for years he couldn’t, because he suffered untold agony from the worst form of indigestion. All physicians and medicines failed to help him till he tried Electric Bitters, which worked such wonders for him that lie declares they are a godsend to sufferers from dvspepsia and stomach troubles. Unrivaled for diseases of the Stom ach, Liver and Kidneys, they build up and give new life to whole system. Try them. Only 50c. Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Nothing jars an invalid more than to wake up iu the morning feeling splendidly and then remember that he is sick. Cure* Ecxema, Itchiiu; Humor*. I’lmple* and Carbuncle*.—Co*11* Nothing to Try. B. B B. (Botanic Blood Balm) is now recognized as a certain and sure cure for eczema, itching skin, hum ors, scabs, scales, watery blisters, pimples, aching bones or joints, boils, c.rbtiucles, prickling pain in the skin, old, eating sores, ulcere, etc. Botanic Blood Balm taken internally cures the worst and most deep-seated cases by enriching, purifying and vitalizing the blood, thereby giving a healthy blood supply to the skin. Botanic Bloqd Balm is the only cufe, to stay cured, for these i awful, annoy ing skin troubles. Heals every sore and gives the rich glow of health to the skin. Builds up the broken down body and makes the blood red and nourishing. Especially advised ior chronic, old cases that doctors, pat ent medicines and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists, $1. To prove B. B. B. cures, sample sent free and pre paid by writing Blood Balm Co., At lanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Great destruction is being done by sharks and dogfish to the nets of the mackerel .fishers on the west coast of Ireland, A Lure for LTioleni Infantum. “Last May,” says Mrs. Cnrtis Ba ker. of Bookwalter, Ohio, “an infant child of our neighbor’s was suffering from cholera infantum. The doctor had given up all hopes of recovery. I took a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to tbe house, telling them I felt sure it would do good if used according to directions. In two days time the child had fully recovered, and is now (nearly a year since) a vigorous, healthy girl. I have reccomtnended this Remedy frequently and have never known it to fail in any single instance.” For sal*' by Cherokee Drug Co. When a bachelor does find his ideal woman it is only to discover that she • s looking elsewhere for her ideal man A Nece»*ary Precaution. Don’t neglect a cold. It is worse than unpleasant. It is dangerous. By using One Minute Cough Cure you can cure it at once. Allays in- flamation, clears tbe bead, soothes and strengthens the mucous mem brane. Cures coughs, croup, throat and lung troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Children like it. Cherokee Drug Co. Speaking of ducks, it takes green backs to catch canvashacks. Many persons in this community are suffering from kidney complaint who could avoid fatal results by u dng Foley’s Kidney Curs. For sale by Cherokee Drug Go. THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IiitereKtiiig Iterm* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Heyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Rending for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. Mr. Enoch W'a*kins was placed in jail Sunday charged with shooting Mr. Richard Britt at Rudy Branch. Both parties were drinking at the time. Britt may recover. Mr. J a tries A. Thomas, who has been in South Africa for the past few years, representing the American Tobacco Company, lias sailed from London and i* expected to land in New York this wee it. He will come to Reidsvilla immediately afterwards f >r a visit to his mother. The Board of commissioners are considering the building of a court- hou*e and jail combined at Lumber- ton, and believe the work can be done for $15,000. The present sire of the court-house is an admirable one. and j excellently well suited for purposes named. The rr.eeting of the commis sioners on yesterday was to consider plans for the new jail, hut on exami nation of the piesent court-house, called another meetirur for September 5th to consider prospective plant to be submitted by the architect, for consolidated building named above John Parker of Durham was tried for criminal assault and found guilty in the Superior Court this afternoon. He was remanded to jail and ho was sentenced Tuesday morning to be hanged The trial of the case, in cluding the argument, of counsel, con sumed less than half a day. The jury was out one hour and twenty- five minutes. It was a clear case of rape, the victim being a nine-year-old negro girl. The"crirae was commit ted last February and was a brutal one. Parker was coldly indifferent throughout the trial and heard the verdict that meant he must die with out a quiver. He was ably defended by Jones Fuller. The case will pro bably be carried to the Supreme Court. Mr. \V. L. Aderholdt, who operates a distillery near Crouse, is an inmate of the Private Hospital in Charlotte. Saturday afternoon while feeding ap ples into the mill, the drum head of the machine flew off and struck him on the chin. The lower jaw-bone was broken in three places; in the center and near tbe middle on each side. The teeth of the upper jaw were all knocked out, except two or three of the back teeth. He was brought to Charlotte Sunday and the attending physicians looked after his injuries. The teeth that were knocked out by the force of the blow, were replaced and last information is to the effect that he is getting on exceedingly well. His mouth is so sore from the effects of the blow that he is forced to take his nourishment through a rubber tube. The physicians say he will recover. A bull-fight cannot bo compared to a light between two netrro women. Tuesday evening Plummie Jackson, one of the most notorious negro women of Charlotte, who was drunk at the time, met another colored woman named Lizzie Moore, oo the railroad near the compress and after speaking a few words to her about a man made a fierce attack She had beaten the Moore womon pretty badly when Officer Hunter arrived and arrested her. When Mr. Hunter started to take her to the station she began using obscene and profane lan guage. Her conduct was so bad that she had to be carried to the Tombs by a back street. Acting Recorder Hilton sentenced her to a term of 30 days on the gang for the affray with the Moore woman and fined her $10 and the costs for her bad language, tbe fine to be worked out on the gang—a term of about 100 days Sheriff Wallace of Mecklenburg re ceived a letter from the warden of the penitentiary at Atlanta, stating that Will Harris, alias Greene, alias Jones, a white man who is an escaped con vict from a Mecklenburg chaingang, is serving a three-year’s sentence in the Georgia penitentiary for counterfeit ing. Harris was sent to tbe gang there for stealing a bicycle and sundry other articles from different people. Before his trial he escaped from the jail but was recaptured After he was sent to the gang he escaped three times, not being caught the last time. While he was still in trouble he swooped down in South Carolina and ktole a type writer. He has a bad record, and has been in tbe penitentiaries of Tex as and South Carolina in addition to the Georgia prison. “When be serves bis term out in Georgia are you going to bring him back hsref” was asked the sheriff. “In my opinion he will escape before his term is ended,” re plied the sheriff, “but if he is still in custody we will have him.” The appeal in the Wilcox case, in which a new trial is asked for James Wilcox, to be hanged for the murder of Nellie Cropsey, at Elizabeth City, was heard Tuesday by the State Su preme Court. Appellants endeavored to have the Court consider an affida vit made by Wilcox’s father that his son did not have a fair trial, that the ringing of bells and demonstrations ia court influenced the jury. The grounds of appeal are that the plain tiffs did not have sufficient evidence to go to the jury or warrant a con viction; that the testimony was not in proper shape and that there were errors in the Judge’s charge. The State pleaded as facts to show a crime had been committed that there was no water in the stomach, lungs or pleural cavities of the dead body of Nellie Cropsey, no blood in the heart, little or no froth in the lungs; that Thers was a bruise on the head; that the brains were decayed, the rest of the body intact, and the membrane of the skull discolored. To show Wil cox’s guilt they pleaded the oppor tunity, time, place, twenty minutes accounted for, and his indifference about the matter. It will be several we«-ks before a decision is rendered. The Southern is having a streak of hard luck. Right on the heels of the big and disastrous wreck at Harbins. Monday morning, comes an accident , to one of the road’s pet trains. No. 38, the north bound vestibule that left Charlotte Tuesday night at 8:18 o’clock, ran into the open switch in side the yard limits at Danville. The engine, tender and one postal car left the track. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. One or two were painfully bruised. Like the wreck at Harbins, the trouble at Danville Tuesday night was evidently the work of miscreants. The switch had un doubtedly been tampered with. A train had only a short while before been in and out the side track. Superintendent Baker of the Char lotte division of the Southern has been to Harbins and has personally examined the track and switch at that point where No. 35 was wrecked. He started that the accident was due to the dirty work of a train # wrecker. By the use of an iron crow bar, tbe wreckers pulled the rail spikes in the ties at the switch and moved the ties from their position. At another spur-switch, the lock to tbe switch was missing and has never been found. The wreckers intended to throw the train into a 15 to 20 foot fill at the end of the side track. Luckily lor all on board, the engine jumped the track before it had gone more than GO feet from the switch. Had the train plunged into the fill, the loss of life, would of necessity, been frightful. At PHunama, Colombia, by Cbamberlaln's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rcin*dy. Dr. Chas. H. Utter, a prominent physician, of Fannama, Colombia, in a recent letter states: “Last March I had as a patient a young lady six teen years of age, who had a very bad attack of dysentery Everything I prescribed for her proved ineffec tual and she was growing worse every hour. Her parents were sure she would die. She had become so weak that she could not turn over in bed. What ta do at this critical moment was a study for me, but I thought of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and as a last re sort prescribed it. The most won derful result was effected. Within eight hours she was feeling much better; inside of three days she was upon her feet and at the end of one week was entirely well.” For sale by Cherokee Drug^Ccu The famines in the interior of Rus sia are coincident with a decline iu the humidity due in great measure to the destruction of forests. To My Erlena*. It is with joy I tell you what Koriol did for me. I was troubled with my stomach for several months. Upon being advised to use Kodol.fl did so, and words cannot tell the good it has done me. A neighbor had dyspesia so that he bad tried most everything. I told him to use Kodol. Words of gratitude have come to me from him because I recommended it.—Geo. W. Fry. Viola, Iowa. Health and stren gth, of mind and body, depend on the stomach, and normal activity of the digestive organs. Kodol, the great reconstructive tonic, cures alt stom ach and bowel troubles, indigestion, dyspepsia. Kodol digests any good food you eat. Take a dose after meals. Cherokee Drug Co. About 400.000 larks a year are sent from tbe continent to the London market!. Dickey’s Blood Cure eradicates all poison and impurities from the blood. It cures scrofular, rheumatism, syp- blllls, old sores, tetter pimples, and all diseases arising from impure blood. S. B. Crawley & Co.