Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adve >. 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, SEPTEMBER 2, 1903 f 1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. £v*ntn that Have Taken I’lace from One End of the State to the Other Called from ExchangeM for Quick Heading by Scores of Hatty People. The barn and stables of John J. James at Darlington were destroyed by tire last week. Two cows and a horse were burned. The board of trustees of Clemson College Saturday unanimously elected Dr. P. H. MMl of Auburn, Ala., pres ident of the college. Mr. J. T. Tarrar, of Columbia, lost a fine horse recently which died from hydrophobia. The horse and a cat were bitten by his valuable Irish setter. The cat also died. A fire at Leesville Wednesday night destroyed the town hall and the mer cantile establishment of Jacob Austin and a barber shop. Several other buildings caught fire and were par tially destroyed. While overseeing some repairs on the guttering of his house at Chester Thursday Judge Gage slipped and fell from the ladder on which he was standing and broke his left arm just below the shoulder. Governor McSweeny Friday appoint ed Judge R O. Purdy to hold court at Beaufort in place of Judge G. W. Gage, who has met with a painful ac cident at his home in Chester, having dislocated his left arm. Governor Crane of Massachusetts has written Governor McSweeney that he would honor the requisition made upon him for the negro who is wanted in Greenwood for murder and who has been captured at Clinton, Mass. Architect C. C. Wilson, of Colum bia, has nearly completed plans for a new three-story hotel in that city to occupy the site formerly covered by the Hotel Jerome. The hotel is be ing erected by Mrs. Jerome Fagan. The Southern officials have issued notice that the name of Rich Hill has been changed to White Stone. The change has been made on ac count of White Stone Springs, which promises to become a favorite resort in South Carolina. The passengers on the southbound C. <fcN. W. experienced a scare on Thursday near Yorkville on account of a broken rau that came near throw ing the train from the track. The rail caused a terrific jolt; but there was no serious damage. Concha Balaguer.’the beautiful but insane Charleston girl who was the occasion for some very diplomatic and undiplomatic correspondence be tween the governor of South Carolina and the governor of Georgia, died in Columbia a few days ago. Simeoo McDuffie, a negro brake- man, was killed Saturday morning by a Coast Line engine at the Bluff road crossing in Columbia. McDuffie was on the engine and jumped off to change the switch, but evidently miscalculated the speed of the engine and was caught under the wheels and instantly killed. The first of the new South Carolina rice crop was received in Charleston Saturday morning. There were 102 barrels and the receipt is earlier than last year, which was received on Sep tember 10. The shipment was pur chased at private sale by Melchers & Company, and came from the plan tation of Mr. Bisstl on the Pon Pou river. The rice is classed as good. Dora Wilkie, an inhabitant of the red light district of Spartanburg, took an overdose of morphine Friday afternoon and died from tho elect at 12 o’clock that night. Late in the afternoon she was seen reeling along the street and just as she got in front of a colored neighbor’s house she fell. When assistance reached her she was found unconscious and remained in this condition until she died. John G. Neely, who was convicted sometime ago before Magistrate S. N. Johnson of York, and a jury, on the charge.of obtaining money under false pretenses in connection with the al leged United Mutual Insurance com pany of South Carolina, and senten ced to pay a line of $50 or go to the chaingang for thirty days, was sent out to that institution on Thursday to begin the service of bis sentence. Liza Suber, a negro woman about SO years of age living on Rev. J. J. Hjong’s place, about five miles from Pomarla. in Newberry county, was Hound dead in the bouse in which sba [was living ou Wednesday morning. DTbe body was on the floor beside the Led. There a as a ballet bole above Kne eye, and her face waa bruised as though beaten with a club. Some money which she had been displaying had disappeared, and it is supposed she was killed for her money. Sheriff Buford on Wednesday car ried to the State Hospital for the in sane, Mirny Young, a negro woman who lived on Mr. Henry Boozer’s place, in Newberry county. The wo man was carried to the hospital in January and some time ago her re lease was secured. However, she soon proved that she had not regained her mind. During this month she set fire to one of Mr. Boozer’s tenant houses and on the order of the Pro bate Judge was placed in jail. Wed nesday morning her husband was ad mitted to the cell and she hit him over the head, knocking him down. John Steele killed Sam Usher at his home near the Buford battle ground, in Lancaster county, last Wednesday. There had been bad blood between the two men for some time on account of the location of a public road that hacLbeen fixed since the war of the Revolution. Each had made threats against the life of the other and both were desperate men. Usher was a one-armed Confederate soldier about G5 years of age, and a disagreeable character. He had been hunting Steele with a gun during the day. Steele came upon him at his home and filled him with buckshot. R. E. Brewton, auditor of Spartan burg county, killed himself at his home in Spartanburg Sunday morn ing. His wife left him at 7 o’clock to get some hot water, and returning to his room she found the door locked and could get no response to calls or knocks. The room was entered through a window by means of a lad der. Mr. Brewton was found lying on the fioor almost dead from loss of blood. He had cut himself five times in the neck und two or three times on the arm, using both a pen knife snd a razor. Wheo found he was holding his head over a vessel which was half full of blood. At 9 o’clock he died and he was buried yesterday evening. I'rompt I’ayment. Mr. Ed. K. Belue, the local agent for the New York Life Insurance Company, yesterday received two checks, aggregating $4,000 for Mrs. M. Duff, of Blacksburg, the same being the amount held in that com pany by the late James W. Duff When one considers the fact that Mr. Duff has been dead but a little over a month, and the circumstances sur rounding his demise, this is a remark ably prompt settlement on the part of the company represented by Mr. Belue. Cherokee KlUe*. The members of the Cherokee Rifles are requested to meet at the court house this evening at 8 o’clock for drill. Capt. Willis desires that the bojs meet promptly. <>ener»I Walker VIsltM (ialTiiey. Gen. C. I. vValker, commander of U. C V. of the Army of Northern Virginia and trustee of Limestone College, was in the city Saturday and spent some time at the college with Dr. Lodge and Prof. Griffith. He also favored The Ledger with an appreci ated call. Gen. Walker expressed himself as highly pleased with the improvements being made at the col lege and at the number of applicants for matriculation at the next ses sion. He thinks the Winnie Davis Hull oi History a grand idea. Anbury vs. ItiiveniiH. Asbuky, Aug. 25—On Saturday last, 23rd inst., Asbury crossed bats with Ravenna on Asbur>’s ground and a most interesting game of ball followed. Battery for Asbury, Mabry and Mabry; for Ravenna, Robbins and McKenny. Struck out by Mabry, 10; by Robbins. 7. Asbury did some pretty work and it is what should be termed a‘•snatching” game of ball. The score stood at the finish 10 to 12 in favor of Asbury. Perfectlou Attained. “Clifton” fancy patent Hour 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 se'dom found in ordinary flour. That’s “CliftoD,” and that’s why it is a perfect flour—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 gat a better flour what ever you pay. Bkansfokd Mills, Owenaboro, Ky. MAIL FACILITIES i Lower Cherokee People Want Free Delivery. MAILS ARE IRREGULAR. The Present Mali Service on Several Koutes In Lower Cherokee Is Inefficient and In terested Ones Will Demand Better Facili ties—The Wells Family—Other Notes. (Correspondence oi The Ledger.) Etta Jane, August 29.—As the smoke of battle clears away the cas ualties of the fight are more and more apparent. Stupendous sur prises come in on all hands. Some are surprised that they failed—others that they succeeded, and so the whole matter runs on ad libitum. Theorists on all hands are accounting for the results and scarcely any two of them agree in every particular. Were they to reduce their theories to the throw ing of the heads and tails process they would be about as correct in the gen eral outline as any other method they can adopt for the solution of the problem. The most universally ac knowledged factor is whiskey. Against its use for election purposes a general protest has been made, not only at this election, but at all others heretofore where it has had something to do with the result. It’s a pity this is the case. The public has the problem of eliminating its use from elections to solve and the man who solves it successfully will immortal ize himself by filling a martyr’s grave (politically). “Ephraim is joined to his idols.” The people of this section are be coming more and more worked up as to their needs of the rural free deliv ery mail service. The section south of Thickety in particular must get relief. They have had a very ineffi cient mail service from this office to Suunyside and Sarratt’s on the Union route both ways. This nuisance is absolutely unbearable. These post- offices ure supplied with mail from Gaffney and Union, the routes meet ing at Etta Jane. Of the route to Gaffney there is no complaint—Froc- tor Wright is doing his duty. It s the irregularity of the Union route that causes the trouble and inconven ience referred to, and it’s going to be corrected or an attempt to supply them with better facilities will fail. Those people from about Sunnyeide down us far as Pinckney ferry and up Broad river and Thickety till oppo site ritar Farm ure going to test their right and they ure going to bo hea d and get the relief they demand at the hands of the department, and that before long too. The rain put a stop to pulling fod der but people will begin again today. We were glad to meet at Gaffney last Tuesday Mrs. Nanny Wells, of Rutherford county, N. 0., who came down with her children on a visit to h< r sisters, Mrs John B. Foster and Mrs. James A. Littlejohn, of Asbury. Hhe has a large number of other near relatives in Cherokee county. Mrs. Wells was a Miss Goudelock, a daugh ter of Mr. 8am Goudelock, a brother of Mr. Win. L. Goudelock, of this county. Her mothtr was Janie Parker, a daughter of Mr Elelizer Parker, both of this county. We regret we haven’t time and space to give a full history of Mrs. Wells and her family It would be interesting to our Ledger readers VV e might say her paternal ancestors were Mr. and Mrs. Adam 8. Goude lock and her maternal ancestors Mr. and Mrs. Eieazer Parker, all of whom were born and rtiised In what is now Cherokee county. Her father, Mr. ham Goudelock, and her mother, Miss Jane Parker, were happily mar ried and went west just before the breaking out of the civil war. He enlisted In the western army and took part in many of its noble achieve ments. After his death his widowed wife concluded to return to her old home in South Carolina with her lit tle children. 8he crossed the Missis sippi under the most trying circum stances. Her trunks were searched by the Federal authorities, who had possession of the entire Mississippi river and by their gunboats had cut the Confederacy in two. However this noble and brave mother with her children made her way jback to her parents where she lived and raised her children with credit and educated them for the great and responsible duties of life. We propose at an early day to give our readers a fuller account of Mrs. Goudelock and her trials in coming through the Federal lines at such a critical time. There were so many of them it will read like a novel, while every word of it is true. Emily Huger, Mary Towson, Emily Geiger and other Revolutionary heroines have no greater history than that of Mrs. Goudelock and her children when it is fully written. Look out for it.{ Rev. W H. White will preach at Salem on the first Sabbath in Sep tember, the 7th. j. l s. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Monday was salesday, but no sales in Cherokee. There is no grass growing under the feet of the candidates in the second race. The building spirit is on in Gaffney as the many new business houses and residences attest. One week from today, Tuesday the 9th inst., the second battle of the bal lots will be on again. Will Switzer, of Greenville, is in the city and will in a short while open a clothing house here. The business literary meet.ng of the Epworth League will be held at Mrs. Folger's residence Thursday evening. Tho weather is fine now for pulling fodder and picking cotton, and Chero kee farmers are putting in good time on both. John Cook, a well known young business man, has accepted a position in the Red, White and Blue store on Graoard street. Rev. Amos Clary is supplying Rutherford Street Baptist church in Greenville during the vacation of the pastor, Dr. D. W. Key. See the card of Hon.- Banks L. Caughman in this issue. Mr. Caugh- man will be remembered as the au thor of the separate coach law. Popular Geo. W. Brown has ac cepted a position in the dry goods de partment of the mammoth mercan tile house of J. C. Lipscomb & Co. Dr. A J. Settlemyer has begun work on a two story brick business house on his Jot near the Commercial Hotel. J. H. Curry has the contract. T. B. Cole has accepted a position with C. C. Harris in his grocery store on Granard street. “Tommie” de serves patronage and will work for it. C T. Morrison, of Hickory, N. C., will run an excursion on Sept. 25th from Gastonia to Asheville, N. C., via Spartanburg, 8. C. The rate will he low. J. D. Sparks, who has been sick at his father’s in the country for some weeks, is, to the delight of bis many friends, back at his business in the city. On Saturday Jones J. Darby paid Wade Tillotson $27.75, the amount due on a sick benefit policy held in the Aetna Insurance Company. Mr. Tillotson had been sick but thirteen days. The Ledger has received a copy of the Winthrop catalogue for 1901-2. It is a beautiful piece of work from tho presses of the Columbia State and shows the college to be in a flour ishing condition. John T. Haines and Hardy Perry left this morning for Prosperity.New berry county,to superintend the build ing of a block of brick storerooms which L. Baker of this city is building for Mr. Kenneth Baker. The State Fair authorities have furnished The Ledger with a copy of the premium list for 1902. It is an inviting list and we trust it will at tract the attention of Cherokeeans enough to have the county represent ed at the next fair. The iron and plate glass for the front of the Spake Curry block, have arrived and will soon be in place. The rooms will be finished as rapidly as possible and will be things of beauty. Now business men are waiting for them, and will fill them up with goods as soon as finished. We direct attention tp the adver tisement of the Aetna Life Insurance Company in this issue This com pany is represented by Mr. Jones J. Darby, and the twentieth century combination accident and general health policy is one of the most at tractive policies offered by any com pany. The Merchants Grocery Company has moved its stock of groceries into its new quarters on Frederick street, which it recently purchased opposite its old stand. This company has been doing a wholesale business a year or more and by the untiring en ergy of its managers, T. L. Brown and W. A. Turner has made a mar velous success. D. W. Cooper, one of our most prosperous farmers, has canned more than 1,500 cans of fruit and vegeta bles this season and is still canning. At odd timei this summer he con structed him a cannery after bis own style and has used it successfully. This shows what a little effort makea possible on every farm in Cherokee county and we Gust other! will profit by Mr. Cooper’s example. —The Gaffney Live Stock Co. will exchange buggies or wagons for cattle or young mules. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. InlereMtlng Itermn Concerning Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Kutertaining Bending for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. All the stock necessary for the establishment of a new bank for Mon roe has been subscribed and the or ganization will be made on the 8th of September. The Lcray Mil), of Gastonia, was com pel led to close down, Friday morn ing at nine o’clock for lack of cotton. A big shipment of their cotton was hungup on the road between Gas tonia and Spartanburg, 8 C. Mary Sampson, an ag^d colored wo man, was found d'-ad in bed in a room on Mr. W. R. Paliafe rro’s place at Dilworth, Charlotte, Friday morning. It is supposed that the old woman in turning off the gas the night before failed to cut it entirely off. The Piedmont Colored Industrial Fair Association will hold its first annual fair, November 18, 19 20 and 21, at the Mecklenburg Fair Associ ation’s grounds in Charlotte. The premium list will be given to the pub lic in a few days. Over $1-000 will bo awarded in premiums. The republican state convention Thursday was “lily white.” For the first time in North Carolina politics there was not a negro among the 000 delegates. Senator Pritchard in his address declared that when the suf frage amendment was adopted it passed from the realm of politics, and if the democrats were sincere there can be no race issue in North Carolina. William Mitchell, who died several months ago in Raleigh and whose embalmed body has since been at the undertaker’s, will be placed in a spec ially built vault, with glass front, in Mt. Hope Cemetery in that city. He was one of the richest negroes in Ral eigh, and left special provision for tho glass coffin and vault. His body will be viewed easily. While crazy from drink, Mr. R. A Beattie, whose home is on East Ninth street, in Charlotte, drew his gun Friday night and fired two shots in his bedroom. Mrs Beattie, who was standing near her husband when he fired the first shot, was badly fright ened. She 'phoned to the police but before the officers arrived, Mr. Beat- tie left the bouse. He was found later and placed under the care of a physician. In Gastonia Wednesday night, Charles Morrow, a young white man, was badly mangled by the Southern's southbound passenger train. Young Morrow had placed his sister on the train and when he went to leave the car by the back door he found it locked. By the time he reached the other door the train was swiftly moving off and when he jumped he fell under the cars, with the result as above stated. He may recover. The Carolina and Tennessee and Southern Railway company was char tered Frinay with $300,000 capital, to build a road from Franklin. Macon county, along the valley of the Little Tennessee river, through Macon, Gra ham and Swain counties to the Ten nessee line near where it is crossed by tfce Little Tennessee river. This is a movement by the Southern Rail way company to complete a through line from Knoxville, Tenn., to Charleston and Savannah. Shortly after 10 o’clock Saturday night a white woman, whose name could not be ascertained by the police, was robbed on West Trade street in Charlotte, of a bundle containing dress goods by a negro man, who grabbed the articles from her arm and escaped. The lady was going west and was just in front of the resi dence of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, when the negro, who had followed her from the postoffice, advanced on h«»r and seized the bundle and ran. He was not captured. Ephriam McGill, a negro, who re cently went to Marion from South Carolina, committed a most fiendish assault upon a five-year-old child in that town Friday night. The child ie a daughter of Zeb Greenlee, a re spectable colored man. Greenlee lives in the suburbs of Marlon, and has been ill for some time and bad McGill as a nurse. The latter took advantage of the absence of the child's mother to commit the heinous crime. McGill Is 50 years old, and is in jail. Tbs child is in a critical con dition. > < Saturday morning in Fayetteville county the jury rendered a virdict of acquittal in the case of the negro Hodges, charged with burning the barns, with several bead of live stock, of Mr. Britton at Timberlaod, in the western part of Cumberland county. In this case the alibi, of which bench and bar usually fight shy, saved the defendant, as he proved himself many miles away at the hour of ‘be fire, though his woman swore dead against him. In the same court, however, he had been convicted of bigamy the day before. The gun of Thomas Edge, a farmer of Sampson county, exploded while he was hunting squirrels, and a piece of iron from the breech was imbedded in his forehead. In this condition be walked home three miles, and went across country to the Fayetteville Marsh-Highsmith Sanitorium. In the removal of the piece of the gun a part of his cranium came with it, leaving a hole in his forehead; and Edge, by standing in front of a look ing glass, can watch his own brain throbbing. He seems fairly at ease, talks rationally and can move himself around. “Prof. Speedy,” a high diver who has been giving nightly performances at Riverside Park in Asheville during the past week, was severely and per haps fatally injured Thursday night. The platform from whichhe dived was about fifty feet above the sur f ace of the lake, and the jump was made into four feet of water. While preparing to make the dive Thursday night the professor slipped and fell the entire distance, alighting in the water on the fiat of his back. He was taken to the hospital, where it was found that he had sustained serious injuries to his spine. His recovery is re garded as doubtful. • A New Telephone Line. • Home, Sept. 1.—A meeting was called at Asbury on the 30th of Aug. to take into consideration the build ing of a telephone line from Gaffney to Sarratts postoffice, via Webster, Dawkins Mill. Asbury and Gowdeys- ville, as well as some other lines. A number of citizens met and after talking the matter over it was thought best to form a joint stock company to build the main line. R. W. Davis reported $132 subscribed, and subscriptions being called for the amount was increased to about $200. The meeting was then ad journed to meet again at Asbury ou Sep . 13th at 10 a. m. Dr. Douglass represented Jones- ville and said they would aid in the enterprise and the line to Joneeville. All persons interested along the line and elsewhere are most respectfully invited to attend the meeting on the 13th inst., as it is desirable to organ ize that day and begin operations at once. R. W. Davis. Wra. Nance, Esq , Jas R. Littlejohn, Dr. Oliver Tate, M. M. Tate end Wm. Jefferies have subscription lists in hand. Shares will be five dollars each, payable on call after organization. Wm Jeffkkies. A Great Couvenleiu-e. The county ferry recently estab lished at the Stacy place on Broad river, is proving a great convenience to the people in the upper part of Cherokee township. It shortens the distance from their homes to the county seat fully one-third. Chero kee is progressive. Her officers are on tho lookout for her general wel» fare and never lose a chaoce to lighten the burdens of the people when consistent with progress. MHKiHtrate’* Fleeted. Magistrate R. W. Lee was elected in White Plains township at the re cent primary, B. U Gold at Blacks burg, R. Torrence at Cherokee Falls, J. W. Alexander, North Draytonville, A. J. McCraw at Grassy Pond. G. W. Speer and C. T. Bridges, Gattney.Geo. D. Scruggs at Ezells. Poole and Strain run over in Gowdeysville and Mabry and Kirby in South Drayton ville. Mayor's Court. The mayor’s court had the usual Monday morning crowd yesterday morning, but it turned out a small affair. One little lone “V,” with an alternative of ten attached, was all the irregular fun of Saturday night, brought lo. The little lone “V” went n cheerfully and evened it up. How it U Done. 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 CostivenesB, Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Pros tration, Low Spirits, etc., you need not suffer another day. Two doses of the well k town August Flower will relieve you at once. Go to Cherokee Drug Co. and get a sample bottle free. Regular size, 75 cts. 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