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the largest circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 1 HE JLEDGER. SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Advr»- 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. 8. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1908. f 1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events, ALL OVER THE STATE. fcveatri that Have Taken fJaee from One KikI of the State to the Other Called from KxolutnKeH for Quick Hearting by Scoree of ftiuay People. The twenty-fourth annual State Fair will be held in Columbia Get. 28 to SL Charles Bolt, a prominent and worthy citizen of Union and art old Confederate veteran, died at his home in Union last week. It ds estimated that the cotton re ceipts for the port of Charleston will be from.875,000 to 450.000 bales this year against 270,000 bales last year. The Third South Carolina Infantry of Charleston won the first prize at tne big I Herstate shoot at Savannah last week in competition with com panies from other states. The store of G. B. Bush & Son and a dwelling house at Hopkins, Rich land county, were burglarized one night last week. About $50 in money besides valuables were stolen. The seoretary of state Wednesday issued a charter to the Bank of Pros perity, which will have a capital of $25,000 and proposes doing business at once. Among the directors are A. G. Wise, JcC. W. Robertson, A. R. Boozer and G. G. Hunter. Alfred Cohan, colored, was arrested at Marietta Sunday and taken to Walhalla jail. Cohan was implicated in the wreck on the Southern rail way near Harbd'ii’s last week Cohan has served two sentences already—one for forgery, another for murder. V/hile attempting to arrest two un known negroes who were stealing his corn, William Ray, a farmer living near Greenville, was seriously cut in the neck Sunday au4 will probably die. Ray had a gun, hut the negroes overpowered him and took it away. Ther is no clue to the guilty negroes. The Postal telegraph company is arranging to open an office in Spartan burg. The line is being extended in that direetion now, the linemen being in Charlotte and Spartanburg. A first class efflee will be fitted up in a central location and a strong bid made for a part of Spartanburg’s business. The people of Charleston arc stirred up as they have never been .before over the proof ihat fraud was retorted to in the primary election there last week. A mass meeting was held Wediaseday night at which resolutions were passed and plans made for Che prevention of the repetition of su< h an outrage. Rear Admiral Kndicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, has advertised for bids for the construct ion of a stone and granite dry dock for the new naval station at Charles ton. Specifications for the work will be sent out in a few days and the bids are to be opened at the Navy Depart ment on October 11. A part of the property known as Gibbes’ Green in Columbia and which the authorities of South Carolina Col lege had supposed to belong to the college, was advertised by the sherill of Richland County Monday. The sale was stopped by the governor un til the college authorities may prove ownership of the tract. Ike Jones, the negro who shot an other negro at the Catawba Power* company’s dam some time ago and walked the streets of Rock Hill with a 44 Colt’s and defied arrest was taken to Rock Hill Friday night by Police man Jenkins from Chester. Ike had just served a sentence of 30 days on the gang in Chester for carrying a concealed weapon. The indications are that there will he changes in various star mail routes leading out of Yorkviile about Oct ober 1. It has been impossible to se cure definite information on the sub ject; but it is believed that the Beth any and Bethel routes will be discon tinued. The Bullock’s Creek route may not be discontinued, but there wilt probably be some change in it. The death of Auditor Brewtoo of Spartanburg makes a vacancy in that office. A delegation went down Tuesday and called upon the governor in reference to the appointment and they urged that he immediately make one, because the business of the office demanded it. But the governor could not be moved from his usual course in such matters and referred the whole thing to the legislative delegation. Governor McSweeney Wednesday received a letter from a prominent citizen of Lexington calling his atten tion to the fact that the Southern railway persistently violates the law against running freight trains on Sun day. There is a strict law against running such trains. Governor Mc Sweeney will look into the matter himself and advised the complainant to write to the railroad commission about it Sunday night a burglar attempted to enter the residence of Mr. John S. Thurman on McBee Terrace in Greenville. Mrs. Thurman was alone in the house at the time, and when she heard a window raise in one of the rooms she promptly seized & pis tol and began to shoot, at the same time screaming for help. Her shots frightened the would-be burglar away and her screams brought assistance, but too late to capture the miscreant. On Friday while Mr. Arthur Weath- ersbee and a companion were driving into Aiken, when about threes miles from town, two large moccasin snakes fell from out of a tree into the buggy. Mr. Weathersbee has had experience with snakes before, having once been bittea by a big rattler, and deter mined to capture these unwelcome companions. One of the snakes got away, but the other was captured alive. It is one of the largest moc casins ever seen around Aiken, being six feet long and fully as big around us a child’s arm. In capturing his soakeship Mr. Weathersbee received two bites, one on the wrist, but he says snake bites can’t hurt him ever since his experience with the ratier. A il’anton’M Noble Act. “I want all the world to know,” writes Rev. C. J. Budlong, of Asha way, R. I., “what a thoroughly good and reliable medicine I found in Electric Bitters. They cured me of jaundice and liver troubles that had caused me great suffering for many years. For a genuine, all-round cure they excel anything 1 ever saw.” Electric Bitters are the surprise o f all for their wonderful work in Liver, Kidney and Stomach troubles. Don’t fail to try them. Only 50 cts. Sat isfaction is guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Some men frankly admit they can’t sing, but the man never lived who didn’t think he had a keen sense of humor. Take Care of the K! otuaeh. The man or woman whose digestion is perfect and whose stomach per forms its every function is never sick. Kodol cleanses, purifies and sweetens the stomach and cures positively and permanently all stomach troubles, indigestion and dyspepsia. It is the wonderful reconstructive tonic that is making so many sick people well and weak people strong by convey ing to their bodies all of the nourish ment in the food they eat. Rev. J. H. HolJaday, of Holladuy, Miss., writes: “Kodol hue cured me. I consider it the best remedy I ever used for dyspepsia and stomach troubles. 1 was given up by physi cians. Kodol saved my life.” T>ike it after meals. Cherokee Drug Co. Death may not be contagious, yet when a man dies politically his rail road pass also expires. Water Cure for Chrouie CoiiMtlpation. Take two cups of hot water half an fiour before each meal and just before going to bed, also a drink of water, hot or cold, about two hours after each meal. /Take lots of out door exercise—walk, rido, drive. Make a regular habit of this and in many cases chronic constipation may be cured without the use of any med icine. When a purgative is required take something mi'd and gentle like Cbainberlaiii'a Stomach and Liver Tablet.s. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Often the spirit of perseverance strikes a man hardest when he is in the wrong. Perfection Attained. “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 fn 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 fiour is separated and sifted gently through the finest silk belting cloth, giving it a velvety softness se'dom found in ordinary flour. That’s “Clifton,” 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 get a better flour what ever you pay. Bkanhkokd Mji.i.h, Owensboro, Ky. —The Gaffney Live Htock Co. will exchange baggies or wagons for cattle or young males. A PLEASANT VISIT TO PACOLET MILLS A Thriving Place With Good Churches and Schools. CENTERS OF EDUCATION May Hereafter he the Mill Towbh of the Country—Two Days Spent at Clifton—Cong rtltion of Crop** In the Country—Personal Paragraphft. (Correspondence of The Ledger.* Etta Jane, Sept. 8 —Last Friday your correspondent in company with bis better half visited Pacolet Mills where he had the pleasure of meeting many friends and old acquaintances. The people of that mill town seem to.be getting along very well, and are contented to let things alone as they are viewed from a political stand point. They have a large and up-to-date school building furnished with the latest and most improved school ap pliances together with a corps of experienced teachers. All the chil dren of the operatives and other mill employees can go to school for ten months in the year without any cost—not even books. To the cur riculum has been added a Kinder garten department under the care of an expert instructress. Thus, a long felt need has been supplied, and the fact is the mill towns are fast coming to the front and we reasonably look to them hereafter as centers of edu cation and intelligence as well as industry. We are more than ever convinced now that if the State will allow the mill men to solve the mill problem themselves the solution will give entire satisfaction to our right think ing men. Mr M. Rhett Macomson is general manager of the Pacolet Manufac turing Company at Trough Shoals—a large and important work it is too. But Rhett is equal to it. He is a fine business man and his promotion to such an important and responsible position is a compliment seldom paid a man of his age. We predict for him a bright future and a high stand in business circles. From Pacolet we went to-Olifton No. 1, where we spent two days and nights very pleasantly with relatives and friends. Here we found several of our old neighbors who have been there for some time and all doing fairly well and contented. We attended Sunday school at the Baptist church. They have a large school and a good choir. Clifton No. 1 is one of the oldest mills in this region, having been In operation about twenty years. Along the roads we found crops very good in places, especially corn—it is line. Cotton is generally cut off and the best calculates say it will turn out only half a crop. People are picking it out us fast us they can. At Pacolet Mills we visited the cemetery. This is a nicely laid off plat of ground on a high, dry ridge overlooking the town. In it are many eosrly and beautiful monu ments which mark the last resting places of loved ones. Many familiar names upper on the tombstones. Mr. William Moss and Miss Virgia Millwood, both of Union county, were married at Sunny Side on the 81sfc ult , by J. Rutus Poole magis trate. Mrs. William Jefferies, whose ill health has heretofore been mentioned in this paper, we are sorry to say doesn't seem to improve much. She has been confined to her bed for five months. Her daughter. Mrs Allen, of Greenville, is spending a few days with her. Mrs. Jefferies is a member of one of Union county's oldest and most respeted families. She is a daughter of the late Lemuel Humes and a sister of Mr. T. L. Hames, Esq., who died suddenly at bis home at Jouesville a few weeas ago. Some of our people attended the children’s day exercises at Corinth church Jae‘ Sabbath and they speak highly of the exercises, as well as the pleasant time they had with those Corinth people who showed them the courtesies characteristic of the good people they are. Mr. Ed. Clary, the superintendeut of the Sunday school knows how to make his people enjoy, themselves. He was ably assisted by Miss Ellen Kirby and other young ladies whose very presence and in terest in the occasion were an assur ance of its success. To the bridge at Owens’ ford, on Thickety, we would be glad to call the attention of our county authori ties. It needs repairs very much. It has never been a strong, safe struc ture. I’ts a part of the legaev we brought over from old Union county and Cherokee county is not in any way responsible for Its inefficiency. It has been kept up and In passable order with as small an outlay of mooey as was consistent with tbe work. As soon as our county finan ces will admit of it we hope to see a strong, safe bridge built there and covered. There is too much travel from that part of the country toward Gaffney to allow this bridge to be come unsafe. The mail contract from this place to Union is now in charge of ex-Sberiff J. Gid Long, of Union, who has em ployed John Cato, colored, to carry it. VVe may reasonably expect the people of bunny Side and Surratts to have better accommodation in the way of mails than they have had heretofore. On account of other pressing busi ness we could not attend the meet ing at Mr. Jas. R. Littlejohn’s store last Saturday which was held espe cially for the purpose of organizing a company to build and operate a tele phone line from Gaffney to the lower section of Cherokee county. However, we are strongly in favor of the line and hope to see it put up. It will be a great convenience to our section of the county. Mr. Spillers, the sole contractor of the mail line from this place to Union, died last Monday. He had been un well for several weeks. As announced in a previous letter, the protracted meeting did not begin at Abingdon Creek church last week. It was a mistake on the part of our informant. j. j. s A lioy’K Wild Hide fur Life. With family around expecting him to die, and a son riding for life, 18 miles, to get Dr. King’s New Discov ery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, W. H. Brown, of Leesville, Ind., endured death’s agonies from asthma, but this wonderful medicine gave instant relief and soon cured him. He writes: “I now sleep soundly every night.” Like marvel ous cures of Consumption, Pneu monia, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds and Grip prove its matchless merit for ail Throat and Lung troubles. Guaran teed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bot tles free at Cherokee Drug Co. drug store. A girl doesn’t have to be a magician to call a fellow a lobster and then make a monkey of him. A Certain Cure for Dysentery and Diarrhoea “borne years ago I was one of a party that intended making a long bicycle trip,” 8tt y 8 F. L. Taylor, of New Albany, Bradford couny, I’a. “I was taken suddenly with diarrhoea, and was about to give up the trip, when Editor Ward, of the Laceyville Messenger, suggested that I take a dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1 purchased a bo tie and took two doses, one be fore starting and one on the mute. I made the trip successfully and never felt any iii effect. Again last summer I was almost completely run down with an attack of dysentery. I bought a bottle of this same remedy and this time one bottle cured me.” Hold by Cherokee Drug Co. When t^ o men are unable to agree they usually leave it to the man be hind the bar. Hewn re of the Knife, No profession has advanced more rapidly of late than surgery, but it should not be used except where ab solutely necessary. In cases of piles, for example, it is seldom needed. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cures quickly and permanently. line- qualed for cats, burns, bruises, wounds, skin diseases. Accept no counterfeits. “I was so troubled with bleeding piles that I lost much blood and strength,” says J. C. Phil- lids, Paris, 111. “DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured me in a short time.” Soothes and heals. Chero kee Drug Co. According to the small boy’s ver sion a thin slice of cuke is butter than no bread. LmgerliiK Summer Colrtn. Don’t let a cold run at this season, bummer colds are the hardest kind to cure and if neglected may linger along for months. A long siege like this will pull down the strongest con stitution. One Minute Cough Cure will break up the attack at once. Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. The chil dren like it. Cherokee Drug Co. There is a demand" for guttapercha 600 times greater than the supply. Cured llemorrhnfre* of the Lung*. “Several years since my lungs were so badly affected t'hat 1 had many hemorrhagea,” writes A. M. Ake. of Wood, Ind. “I took treatment with several physicians without any bene fit. I then started to take Foley’s Honey and Tar and my lungs are now as sound as a bullet. 1 recom mend it in advanced stages of Inng trouble.” Cherokee Drug Co. The good deeds that men do live after them—on tombstones. Avoid serious results of kidney or bladder disorder by taking Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug Co. THROUGHOUT THE T>B HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Intt-n-Htlng IterniH Concerning Our Neigh bor* lieyoud the Line XVhieli May I’rov* entertaining Heading for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. The Biltmore farm will be repre sented at the; Mecklenburg fair in Charlotte. Rev. 0. E. Todd, for seven years uastor of tne First Associate Reform Presbyterian church of Charlotti , died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baiii- more Wednesday. Mr. D K. Pone of Charlotte has sued the Norfolk and Western rai!- road for $10 000 dimagf-s. This act ion is the result of an assault on Pope bv Mr. M. M. Lewis, postmaster at Madison. The Republican convention held at Yadkin ville on Monday, nornina ted J. (,). Holton, brother of District Attorney Holton, f.»r the bta f e Senate to represent tne counties of Wilkes and Yadkin. Governor Crane of Massachusetts honored the requisition papers for the return of Monroe R igers, from Proc tor). Mass., where he is under arrest, to Durham, where he is said to be wanted on the charge of arson. The Bell Telephone Company is spreading out in every direction in Mecklenburg county, and in a short while country neighbors will all be in direct communication with the city of Charlotte as well us the outside world At the meeting of the State Farm ers’ Association, wr ich was h*-ld at Raleigh Wednesdav, strong resolu tions were adopted urging the farmers to build cotton seed oil mills in every section of the State where one thous and bales of cotton are produced. Safe-crackers entered the postoffice at Waynesville at a rear window by a ladder Tuesday morning, blew open the safe, taking abou*- $700 worth of stamps and about $180 in cash The explosion took place at about 2:30 o’clock, according to those who heare it. Tools taken from a blacksmith shop in town were left in the office. There is no clue as to who is the guilty party. J. B. Conrad, who lives on Muddy Creek, near Plafftown, was in Win ston Tuesday with a live upland ter rapin, that he claims is eighty years old. Ho bases this claim on the fact that “T. C. 1822” is indistinctly marked on the bottom shell of the terrapin. He says this was done by his father, T. Conrad, who had a habit of marking terrapins in his younger days. Mr. Conrad said that lie ran across one a short time ago that he had marked forty years ago. Gariand Bennick, of Newton, more familiarly known us “Grizzly.” was shot Tuesday night by John Wilson. Both are negroes and the shooting oc curred at the house of a negro woman on Snow Hill, the negro portion of the town. It was reported that Griz zly was seriously wounded and would die, but he was walking around next day and says he don’t mind a little 88 hall, that he has 44s in him and still lives. Wilson has not been caught, and is probably in hiding un til the results are better known. Will Cowan, was captured in Salis bury Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Krider after being a fugitive from justice for more than three years, Cowan was charged in February, with committing a criminal assault on a young white woman in the Mt. Ulla vicinity. He could not he lo cated, however, and was a fugitive ‘until Tuesday, when Deputy Krider saw him near the freight depot in Salisbury and promptly placed him under arrest. Cowan will bo tried next week at the September term of court. Mr. C. E. Wright, of the United States Secret Service, returned to Charlotte Wednesday from Lincoln- ton, where he captured John W. Hoyle, a pal of Avery G. Dawson, the young man whom he arrested several weeks ago on the charge of making a $1 bill aopear as if it were $5. Hoyle was tried Wednesdav before United States Commissioner 8. P. Sherrill, at Lincolnton, on a charge similar to that of Dawson. He was bound over to the Federal Court and in default of a $500 bond went to jail. Hoyle s an ex-convict The culmination of a sensational romance was reached in Monroe Tues day night when Miss Maggie Byrd and Rev. J. P. Richardson, both of Virgioia, met at that place, boarded a train for South Carolina and were married. About a month ago Mias Byrd and her preacher friend ran away to be married, but were over taken at Wadesboro by an irate par ent and Miss Byrd was taken away |rom her lover and carried back home. Tuesday night she met Richardson at Monroe and this time the carefully planned elopement was successful. News comes from WiDBtou|that sotr e smooth article in the way of an emi gration agent in that section endeav oring to evade tbe law against solicit ing by advertising a fake excursion to West Virginia coal fields. The effort is plainly a scheme of labor agents to inducp the colored people to go up there to take the place of strik ing miners. It is generally under stood that such a trip is dangerous as many of the non-union miners have been shotjand killed by the strikers, and it is practically impossible for people to work who really want to. A serious charge awaits in Greens boro a man named J. W. Woody, for mer employeejof the Southern Rail way. He has been a nrakeman on the road. The charge is that lie made u criminal assault Tuesday night on the daughter of a Mr. Haney, claimed to he only 12 years of age, and a war rant was placed in the hands of a deputy sheriff Wednesday morning. Woody had left the city. He is known to have left some time during the night, presumably on a freight; train. Deputy Sheriffs Jones and Weatherly are confident of getting their man. Woody was an extra brakeman of the Southern Railway between Spencer and Monroe, Va., but has lately thrown up his job. Little is known of him in Greensboro. His crime, even if it should be shown that he did not use force, is a capital one. Not Doomed for Life. “I was treated for three years by good doctors,” writes W. A. Greer, McConnelsville, ()., “for Piles and Fistula, but, when all failed, Buck- len’s Arnica Salve cured me in two w»-eks.” Cures Burns, Bruises, Cuts, Corns, Sores, Eruptions, Salt Rheum, Piles or no pay. 25c. at Cherokee Drug Co. drug store. Selfish people never laugh unless they can do so at the expense of oth ers. A (ieiitlr 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 Sjrup kept about your home for immediate use will pre vent serious sickness, a large doctor’s bill, and perhaps death, by 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 jour druggist will tell you Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. Occasionally a girl marries her ideal, but he soon outgrows it. Came Near Itcini; a Cripple. Josh Westhafer, of Loogootee, Ind , is a poor man, but he says he would not. be without Chamberlain’s Pain Balm if it cost five dollars a bottle, for it saved him from being a cripple. No external application is equal to this liniment for stiff and swollen joints, contracted muscles, stiff neck, sprains and rheunaatic and muscular pains. It lias also cured numerous cases of partial paralysis. It is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. When poverty looks in at the win dow love vacates the roost. A Commuiileatloii Mr Editor—Allow me to speak a few words in favor of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I suffered for three years with the bronchitis and could not sleep at night. I tried several doctors and various patent medicines, but could get nothing to give me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which has completely relieved me. — W. 8. Brockman, Bagnell, Mo. This rem edy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. It takes the plowshare of effort to open the furrow of success. Feet Swollen to Immeime Mize. “I had kidney troubfe so bad.” says J. J Cox, of Valley View. Ky., “that I could not work, my feet were swollen to immense size and I was confined to my bed and physicians were unable to give me any relief. My doctor finally prescribed Foley's Cidney Cure which made a well man of me.” Cherokee Drug Co. Money and poor relations are two roots of some evils. Foley's Honey and Tar is peculiarly adapted for chronic throat troubles, and will positively cure bronchitis, loarseness and all bronchial diseases. Refuse substitutes. Cherokee Drug Co.