Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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X, f THE LARGEST i Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver 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 9, 1908. f 1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. ftvnnt, that Have Taken I’la. > from One End of the State to the Other .ailed from EzchanKe, for Quick Reading 'v Score, of liu,y People. The game law of the State prohibits the shooting of partridges until the 1st of November. The Bank of Mayesville, Sumter county, has been chartered with a capital of $50 000. Governor McSweenoy has olfered a reward of $100 for the arrest of Cap tain Quinn who killed Jim Anierson in Abbeville county seven yeaisago. The secretary of state Friday re ceived notice of an increase in the capital stock of the Carolina Por‘,land Cement company, of Charleston, "rom $15,000 to $50,000. The postofflee at Statesburg, Rum- ter county, has moved one mile from the town to the house of the post mistress. This is the first move 4 he office has made in 125 years. Northern capitalists are contem- piating building a trolley line from Spartanburg to Greenville, via Fair Forest, VVelford, Pelham and several of the mills in Greenville county. Freight No. 17 on the C. tfc W. C. Railway was wrecked near Greenwood Thursday afternoon. Eight cars were derailed and burned. The conduct or, engineer and two train hands are reported hurt, but not seriously. Friday afternoon, Nero Butler, a negro man, was shot by Constable George Jones, of Beech Island, while resisting arrest. The negro i’s at pres ent at his home on Beech Island, and it is said that his wound will prove fatal. The contract for building a dam across the Congaree river just below Columbia was let in Charleston Wed nesday to the Evansville Contract Company of Pittsburg for $65,875. When it is finished the river will be navigable as high as Columbia. The ginhouse of Mr. J. W. Burn side,of the Mill Creek section of Rich land county, was burned Friday after noon. The fire was caused from a spark from the engine. About 1,000 bushels of cottonseed and three bales of cotton were consumed. Loss esti mated at $1,000. Mr. Jos. L. Barnett,’aged about 65 years, died suddenly at his home near Woodruff cotton millsThursday mor.i- ing at 10 oVock. Air. Barnett was in accustomed health apparently that morning but was suddenly attacked with something like heart disease and quickly expired. Jim Vincent was fined $20 in Col umbia Friday for having stolen groc eries from McCraney’s store during the Hotel Jerome fire in that city over two years ago. Jim hied him self to Savannah, but returned to Columbia last week and the police remembered him. Major Thomas W. Woodward died at his homo at Rockton, in Fairfield county, Thursday after a long and very painful illness. “Tom Wood ward” was a familiar name in the State and his career has been that of a splendid citizen, a gallant soldier and citizen of unsullied character. The regular fall civil service exam inations will be held in Columbia on September 29. The examination is held for any vacancies that may be in any of the departments, especially the internal revenue and railway mail service. There are always about a hundred applications for the various positions. Perry Smith, colored, who . lives near Spartanburg, committed a crim inal assault Thursday upon his four teen-year-old stepdaughter who is a deaf mute. Smith was detected by bis wife who came In town last night and had a warrant issued for her husband’s arrest. He has been released on bond. William Delsenroth, a barber who up to last Sunday was employed at John Harper’s barber shop in Spar tanburg, was arrested in Charleston Wednesday for obtaining goods under false pretenses. The goods were pur chased from M. Greenw.ald of Spar tanburg, and Delsenroth was brought back to that cltv Friday afternoon. There was a^peculiarly sad death at Wright’s hotel In Columbia Saturday morning. A “drummer,” far away from home but among sympathetic strangers, lay down to sleep away the effects of a little Indisposition, and when the kind hearted manager of the hotel went to Inquire bow the night had been spent, the poor fellow wae found dead. Clarke was the young man’s name and his home was in Massachusetts. A four year old boy of Eugene Lankford, who lives near Arkwright in Spartanburg, fell in a well in Mr. Lankford’s yard Wednesday after noon and had a narrow escape from being drowned. The cb ’d fell twen ty-five feet into several feet of water, and was found lying on the bottom of the well unconscious. It was rescued with much difficulty, but soon re gained consciousness and aside from a few bruises, was not much the worse for its long fall. News has reached Columbia of the work done by a slick swindler who has been operating in Lexington coun ty. He is said to have represented himself as the agent of a vehicle manufacturing concern, and took a number of orders. His terms were moderate, but he required a cash payment to guarantee the freight charges on the ship rents. He has not been heard from lately, and it is stated on good authority that examin ation has proved that he was a fake. Emmitt Styles, of Sandy Flat, Greenville county, has been arrested and placed in the county jail by sher iff Gilreath, charged with being im plicated in the murder of Walter Mc- Carrdll, which occurred several weeks ago at a county campaign meeting. nearWilson’s store in Greenville coun ty. Carey Styles shot and killed Walter McCarrell and also wounded his brother, Emmitt Styles, and Ern est McCarrell. At the inquest the testimony of witnesses implicated Emmict Styles in the shooting and a warrant was sworn out by the local magistrate. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. The Settlemyer building is looming up. Subscribe for The Ledger—twice-a- week for $1.00 Quite a number of our people at tended a picnic at Buffalo church Saturday. Considerable progress was made last week on the brick work of the new city hall. R. E. Linder, of Maud, is building a handsome residence on the west end of Frederick street. The rain yesterday interfered with the workmen who are working on the numerous new buildings going up in the city. VVm. Scott Byars has accepted a position as foreman with W. O. Lip scomb it Co. on their big grading contract at Jellico, Tennessee. Saturday was lively, a big crowd was in attendance, merchants did a good business and candidates and their friends got in their best work. J. C. Ratliff, proprietor of “The Battery,” has returned from the northern markets where he bought a full supply of goods for his famous “Battery.” Lumber and brick wagons are moving in ever direction on ail our streets now, delivering material at the site of some one of the many new buildings being built in the city. “Buzzard” Smith, a coon who has had many troubles in this, his home city, is now languishing in the Char lotte jail for taking unlawful liberties with another man’s horse and buggy. The editor is under obligations to Mr. S. R. Humphries, of Byarsviile, N. C., for a pear which weighed six teen ounces. We could not learn the viriety, hut it was a fine specimen and had a delicious flavor. There is one little platform on Limestone street where people in search of able bodied negro men can generally find a half dozen or more. But one wanting laborers will be los ing time to stop with them. Maiten Sprouse, who claims both Spartanburg and Gaffney as her home, and who either city would be ashamed to own as a citizen, is in jail in Atlanta, being held as u witness against a citizen of that city for se ducing her! The many friends of Mr. Wm. C. Thompson, who came up*from bis farm to his father’s some weeks ago with a severe case of typhoid fever, will be glad to learn that he is con valescing with good prospects of an early recovery. Chief Duncan, of Blacksburg, came over Friday and brought two colored youths who matriculated In Super visor Whelchel’s good roads class which Is being instructed by Prof Camp, near the city. They will take a thirty days’ course. (iafTnejr’ft Untiled Hetioola. Gaffney’s splendid graded schools, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, opened yesterday with a full corps of teachers and a large attendance of children. School No. 1 had 225 pupils at the opening; No. 2, 108; No. 4, 21 and No. 3, col ored, 104. These numbers will be much Increased by the last of the week. LOWER CHEROKEE LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Recent Happenings in the Etta Jane Section. GRINDING SUGAR CANE. People In the Lower County are Mnklujc Up their MolAHHen Cane Which Ih Turning Out Well—Mr. Mike SellarH and Family Move to JoncHvllle—Pemoual Mention. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sept. 6.—The death of Mr. Charles Bolt, which took place at Union last Friday, is sad news for us to give our readers. Mr. Thos. A. McKown, of Detroit, Texas, writes us that although he has chills and fever in his family at this time, yet he is living in one of the richest sections of the state. They have good schools, churches and Sunday schools with midweek prayer meetings regularly. We hope Thomas will write occasionally for The Ledger. The rains falling occasionally are doing the late corn, cotton, gardens and turnips and potatoes some good,' while they are injurious to the fod dering work. Our old friend, Jonas Blanton, was in this section this week on business, but we did not get to see him. If he passes our cabin another time with out stopping we will make it lively for him when we see him. We don’t believe in superfluous titles, but in yesterday's Ledger we saw Mr. T. L. Hames, Esq. If it isn’t ours it’s the compositors bung ling work. Mr. H. B. McDaniel has gone over 90 feet with his well and hasn’t got a satisfactory flow of water yet. People are making up their mo lasses cane. The crop is turning out only tolerably well, though the sam ple is fine. Mr. P. S.' Wells and his boys are running. They have taken their mill and evaporator to the grove near Wilson’s Chapel in order to get rid of the bees. Pink has an abund ance of bees and he don’t want to grind them up so he just moved the mill. We had the good fortune to sample some more of our good friend C. F. Inman’s watermelons this week. He has somj) fine ones, but they will bo the last he will have this year. His good wife had our buggy loaded in part with some of her delicious pears, over which Mrs. J. L S. almost went into ecstacies. They are of the Le- Conte variety and they are good. We told our readers something about these same pears last year. Before these lines reach our read ers the result of the second primary election will be generally known and we hope that everybody will make up their minds to make the best of the situation and accept the result in good faith. To be constantly wrang ling over dead issues is poor business. If we haven’ got our men (or the men of our choosing) we can congratulate ourselves that we have as good offi cers and rulers as our neighbors, and if they can stand it we can. So let that settle it for the two or four years in which we will have another chance to remedy the evil, if any exist. We’ll guarantee there are hardly any two men who voted exactly the same ticket. Doubtless no two men voted the same ticket throughout in every particular, for if we will only apply a simple arithmetical rule to the ticket (that is the number of candidates and offices to be filled) we find that a Cherokee county voter could change his ticket 362,880 times—nearly four times the number of voters in the state. Mr. Mike Sellars will move with his family to Jonesville next year. vVe hate to lose as good neighbors and citizens as they are, but Mike says if he isn’t satisfied he is coming back and will put him up a tent in Egypt and farm next year. Mr. Sel lers put a nice watermelon In our buggy the other day which we, us and family enjoyed very much and thank him for. It was a Bradford. Mrs. W..C. Blaikwellhas been sick for about two weeks. It's a malarial trouble, we suppose. Miss Ida Craig is still very unwell. She is at her Uncle Duff Smith’s near Hopewell, York county. The Salem congregation have pro vided a set of pulpit chairs and lamps for the church from part of the pro ceeds from the lemonade stand on children’s day, July 31. J. L. s. Auotlier New HuUtllng. Mr. M. C. Lipscomb has deter mined to build at once on his busi ness lot on Limestone street. He will build a first-class store room on the first floor and the second floor will be arranged for offlcei or living apartments. MECKLENBURG’S BIG FAIR. It rronilgeA To He The Higgest Anil Mo«t Suct'eMfal Ever Held In North Carolina. What promises to be the biggest and most successful Agricultura- Fair and Race Meet in the history of North Carolina, will be held in Char lotte on September 80th and October 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Everything will be on a big scale, in keeping v.ith the reputation of the progressive city of Charlotte. The fair grounds, build ings and race track are well arranged and elegantly appointed and can be easily reached by a double electric car line which will land visitors at the gates. All the railroads will offer greatly reduced rates. The fair will be kept open at night, the grounds and buildings being lighted by a system of electric arc lights. The exercises will close about 11 o’clock each night with a magnificent display of fireworks, following a baud concert. The exhibits in all departments will be full and complete. The larg est single exhibitor w'll be George Vanderbilt, of the magnificent Bilt- more estate, near Asheville. He will have on display his entire exhibit of farm and dairy products, cattle, live stock, etc., but will not compete for any of the premiums, these being left for the smaller exhibitors. On the ground floor of the main ex hibition ball will be found an electric motor, furnishing power for an inter esting display of machinery, all of which will be in actual operation. For instance, one big manufacturing concern will install a complete plant for the manufacture of shirts, over alls, etc. In addition to many out side concerns, all the Charlotte ma chine builders and agents will be rep resented in this department. The poultry show will be the larg est and most interesting ever seen in the two Caroiinas. It will be under the management of Mr. B. S. Davis, president of the North Carolina Poul try Association. There will be from 1,500 to 2,500 birds in the show, one breeder alone sending 250. The exhibits of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, etc., will be unusually large. The display of agricultural products will be the largest ever made in the State. The entries for the horse races, both running and harness, promise to be phenomenally lagre. The liberal purses offered will insure the presence of a large number of high-class horses. A purse of $300 will be offered for each harness and $200 for each run ning race, with $100 additional as a bonus’for breaking the North Carolina track record, now heldjby Greensboro. The purses for the running races are the largest ever offered in this circuit. There will be a large number of high-class special attractions, repre senting the best features of a good circus. They will include the Flying Kathbuns, the most phenomenal trap eze performers known ; Litzs’ school of trained spaniels, introducing Dan dy, a highdiving dog that will leap from the top of u 45-foot tower; Prof. Sigbee’s trained horse Trixy, a beau tiful white mare, and many other at tractions. All these performances, which will be absolutely free, will take place in front of the grand stand between the race heats. The “Midway” will be composed of attractions not before seen in North Carolina. Among them will he an electric theatre, something new and novel. Music for the fair will be furnished by the Concord Band, composed of 20 pieces. The Fair Association will distribute a number of valuable and useful pres ents among excursionists and other visitors. On Tuesday, September 30th, a $25 00 set of harness, donated by the Khaw Harness Company, will be giyen away. On Wednesday, Oc tober 1st, the present will be an ele gant Gas Htove donated by the 4 C’s Company. A $75 00 organ from the store of the Andrews Furniture Jc Mu sic Company, will be given away on Thursday. On Friday, the last day of the fair, a standard high-grade buggy, the wholesale, price of which is $75 00, will be given away. The High Point Buggy Company will do nate this valuable present. Ample accommodations will be pro vided for all visitors. Open-handed hospitality will be dispensed on every hand. Hautl Cut Ky Cotton Uln. The many friends of Mr. James Godfrey will regret to learn that he had one of his hands so seriously in jured in his cotton gin near Grassy Pond Friday as to necessitate the amputation of all the fingers. He was attended by Drs. Griffith and Jefferies, and we learn Is doing very well and is expected to recover with out any serious complications. Again A. E. Anderson & Co., fash ion tailors of Chicago, will have an expert cutter with 500 latest patterns of suitings aod overcoats at our store on Sept. 10th and 11th. Call and leave your measure. Fit aod work manship guaranteed. Oakkoll, Caki’ENtkr Sc Byers. THRUUGHUUT THE TARHEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Iiitert:atliig Itermn Conrernlng Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Iteadeni. Mr. D. G. Boyd, of Atlanta, Ga.. was very seriously hurt at the South ern depot in Charlotte Saturday night getting his left arm cut off just below the elbow by a shifting engine. Miss Mamie Davis, of Mooresville, was operated on for appendicitis at St. Peter’s Hospital in Charlotte Thursday evening. Her condition Friday was all that could ho expected. The Southern Railway Company has issued orders for the concentration of its Charlotte freight yards at the junction, one mile nor 1 h of the city, and Charlotte is to hnve a railroad town on its northern suburbs. Mr. J. B. Whittaker, who for eight years has served as editor of the Winston-Salt-m Sentinel, has severed his connection with that paper to take up educational work. He has labored earnestly for his section and has done a good work. Thursday Louis C. Crouch, who keeps a refreshment stand in Win ston-Salem, received a couple of full grown mountain rattlesnakes by ex press from some friend at Mt. Airy. They are large reptiles and one of them is adorned with eleven rattles. Shortly after the snakes arrived three young ones were born to them. Dockery Locklear, a Croatan, who farms for Mr. N. W. Jenkins, in Black Swamp township, Robeson county, sold bis crop of tobacco, raised on four acres of land, for seven hundred dollars The proceeds of the crop are equivalent to the pro duct of more than fifty acres of cot ton of average yield at the present price. The erstwhile Campelite preacher, Richardson, arrested in Monroe Fri day on a charge of embezzlement, made by the Andrews Music Company of Charlotte, was given a hearing be fore A. C. Johnson, Esq., at Monroe and was bound over to court and re manded to jail in default of bail. His wife has decided to go to her relatives in the country and engage in cotton picking. A charge of criminal assault was made Friday by Lou Yates, u woman o f indifferent character, living near Salisbury, against Bud Blackwell, a 12-yeur-old negro boy. The boy was arrested and held, but was dismissed after a preliminary hearing. After her failure to have the bov held, the Yates woman said that she had been induced to falsely swear out the war rant by a third person. During the storm Wednesday after noon a stroke of lightning killed a mule at the Loray mill in Gastonia belonging to Mr. R. Moton. The mule and a horse were tied by the side of Mr. Motou’s house, but the horse was not hurt. The bolt struck the house and tore off two or three hundred shingles. The inmates hap pened to oe in tlie other end of the house and escaped harm. A serious accident occurred Satur day afternoon at the Windsor Hotel in Asheville. Mrs. Frazier, of Savan nah, Ga., fell down the elevator shaft, u distance of two stories, breaking her right arm in three places, injuring her head and back. Internal injuries are feared and the result of the accident may be fatal. Mrs. Frazier, who is 55 years old, mistook the elevator door for the en trance to her room. In the Superior Court at Salisbury Friday afternoon Will Cowan, a young negro man, accused of an attemnt to commit a criminal assault upon Elia Wilcox, a colored girl, was given his liberty before his counsel had finished cross-examining the prosecutrix. The girl’s tale on the direct examin ation was contradictory in its details and on the cross-examination it be came apparent to every oue in the court room that she was dealing large ly in fiction. The Southern Railway has got itself “arrested” for running a train through Bessemer faster than the law allows. The train which did this vio lence to the municipal regulations was a freight going towards Gastonia Tuesday afternoon at 4:40 o’clock. At Bessemer trains may be seen for a mile. When this one emerged from the cut west of town a citizen drew hii watch, and in just 40 seconds It was on the other side of town a mile away—a speed of 90 miles an hour. Eugene Smith, a white man who claims to be a cotton mill operative and a resident of Alamance county, was arrested in Salisbury Thursday night on suspicion of bis being a man wanted in Georgia for the murder of a deputy sheriff on Christmas day, 1897. Rewards aggregating $1,000 have been offered for the arrest of the guUty party. Circulars were sent broadcast and it was one of these which led to Smith’s arrest by the officers of Salisbury as the printed description fits Smith accurately. Fire broke out at 12 o’clock Friday night in the waste-house of the Salis bury Cotton Mills, an ironclad build ing, about 100 feet from the main building. The alarm was communi cated by a passenger on No. 40, one of the late trains, who saw the begin ning of the fire. The fireman turned out promptly and put four streams to playing upon the flames. The build ing was utterly destroyed within lees than an hour, but the fire was suc cessfully kept from spreading to a la’rge pile of fire wood immediately adjoining and thence to the mill building. The loss is between $4,000 and $5,000, covered by insurance. John Alston, alias Albert Gregory, alias Hadly, the expert hardware store burglar who was recently cap tured in Greensboro; got a new move on him Friday morning when an offi cer from Forsyth took him back to the county roads there, from which he escaped Monday after nearly kill ing one of the guards. He will serve out an eight-months sentence there, before being tried for murderous as sault on the guard. Unless he es capes, by the time his terms for as sault and escape expire, he will be tried in fcsiler City, Durham and Greensboro for robberiesjand assaults there, provided all the witnesses are not dead from old age. A Urtmil River Flulierinitii. John Martin, who has been a fish erman on Broad river all his life, was in to see us Friday. He sajs his catch now is confined to cats and German carp, that all the fine native fish, such as fat fish and red horse, and shad that come every spring, have been cut off by the big dam at Columbia. He thinks it a great hardship to be deprived of his former fish supply and that he is being de prived of it unlawfully. We think so too, and that it is a matter of suffi cient importance to warrant a close investigation. While any individual could have it looked into we do not believe it would be out of place for the solicitor of the proper circuit to take the matter up and see whether or not the free passage of fish in Broad river is being unlawfully obstructed, and if it is found that they are, to see that proper fish ways are put in and that those who have built the obstructions receive the full penalty of the law. A Western Vint tor Mr. Drury WehDer, who was born and raised in the Spartanburg part of Cherokee county, and who r >ved west twenty-eight years ago and is now a citizen of Titus county, Texas, is in the city visiting his sister, Mrs. J. M. Thomas. Mr. Webber is pleased at the prosperity of his old home country and is amazed at Gaffney, which has grown up in “Gaffney’s Old Field” since he left the county. He has many old friends here who are greet ing him with hearty handshakes. Two WtMllllllgH. Mr. Ed Durham, of this city, and Miss Bessie Green, of Union, were married in the latter city Sunday by Rev. Mr. Hollins Mr. Durham and his bride arrived in the city yester day at four p. m . and were tendered u splendid reception at the home of the groom’s parents on Limestone street. They have the host wishes of their many friends. Mr. George C. Haines, of State Line, and Miss Eva Whelchel, daugh ter of County Supervisor Whelchel, wore married Sunday at the home of the bride’s parents by the Rev. C. M. Teale. The groom and bride are of the county’s most worthy and popu lar young people whoso many friends, including The Ledger, wish for them a long life of happiness and pros perity. __ ____ SatUfavtiou. “Clifton” flour always satisfies because it is always kept right up to the standard—the highest standard of purity and excellence. “Clifton” possesses every quality essential for making bread that is white, light and sweet. The rich flavor so seldom found in the bread made from ordinary flours—that de licious pure wheat flavor is always found in the bread made from “Clif ton,” which is no ordinary flour, as most people know. “Clifton” flour is milled from the pick of the finest wheat grown; milled scientifically, with the best of skill and machinery in every detail of its manufacture. “Clifton” is easily a leader and is standing the test of thousands of families. If you do not use “Clif ton” have your grocer send you a sack. The satisfaction experienced by our many customers is assured. Bkanhfokd Mills, Owensboro, Ky.