Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J THE LARGEST Cirtulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. Fhe Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. 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, IS94. GAFFNEY. S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1902. $51.00 A YEAR. is,.. IROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE t;v**ut* ’'Aat Have Take* I’iace from One Knit of tiie State to the Other Called from KxcliMO^e!) for (Julck steading by Score* of “l* nay Teople. A negro tenant on Dr. Hough’s ; place near Rock HLl, was accident- ' ally kiiltd Monday. KheriC Robert E.Jenkins, of Beau- fort county, died fteoday morning at his home in Beaufort. A. D. Lantzler. acegro. was nomi nated for congress bv the Republi can convention at Orangeburg oc Saturday. The handsome Mrcidence of Mayor Macbetb Young, of Union, was burned down last week—thought to have caught rotn an electric light wire. Frof. W. fi Witherow, superinten dent of the Winnehoro schools, died on Saturday night. He was a well known educator aoC was about 70 years old. James Collins, of Spartanburg county, bad bis pocket picked on circue day, Friday, ot$130 in the city of Spartanburg. Several others were touched more lightly. The navy department has awarded a contract for building the first gran ite and concrete dry dock at the Charleston navy yard to the Xew Yorit Genticental Jewell Filtration company at $810,000. There were eight murder cases to be tried by the sessions court in Laurens this week, four white and four colored. One of the cases was that of Walker Edwards, a white man, of Laurens, charged with killing i eases who could his wife. manufacture of the combs. He has in process of being patented about half a dozen useful inventions and a company is being formed to put them on the market under the cor porate name of the “Novelty Com pany.” Near Cooley’s bridge, “in Greenville •county, on Saturday last, a negro wo man while going along the road w s assaulted by a tramp negro man; by becoming alarmed at her screams, he failed to accomplish bis purpose. On Sunday morning be was captured be tween Toney Creek and Belton and carried back to be identified by the woman, but before reaching there, he confessed to the whole matter, telling the same story that-the woman told, and told the cegroes who had him in charge that he did not know it was a colored woman, she being a mulatto, or he would cot have acted as be did. Various modes of punishment were ; suggested: buc to make a long story : short, he got away after being well 1 tanned with a buggy trace. Samuel Bigby, who lives near i Honea Path, Laurens county, was shot Saturday night at a disreputable ; bouse in Greeoville. Bigby went to i Greenville in -search of work on Sat- ! urday afternoon and was invited to take a walk by a men with whom he fell in company. They went to a house, and while seeking to gaJn ad mission there wp^s a disturbance on the outside, in which Belton Pewell, a noted white gambler, was the chief aggressor. He was trying to find an other mac, and seeing Bigby and his companion Powell drew his pistol and fired the fatal ehot just as Bigby had turned to (eave the premises. The ball entered the back on the left side, ranging very near the heart, and was cut out on the right breast. A negro man and his wife were caught transporting liquor in Spar tanburg county a few days ago. Their horse and buggy were confis cated and they were sentenced to pay a fine of flW each or serve W days in the chaingacg. The quarantine officers of Charles ton have received uo'.ificatioa from the United States treasury depart ment that the quarantine restrictions against Cuba were raised on Octcber 15, which is six weeks earlier than the customary date. Maj Andrew V. Eicheiberger, for a number of years a member of the state constabulary, died at his home in Laurens on Thursday of last week. Maj. JEichtlberger was a gallant sol dier of the Confederacy for the four years of the civil war. Capt. Geo. H. McMaster, of the 14th United States infantry, has been detailed by the secretary of war to act as instructor of military science and tactics at this South Carolina Military Academy. He is a son of the late Col. F. W. McMaster, of Columbia. Switzer, aged wife of W. Switzer and mother of children, committed suicide razor, on Sunday at her home near Roebuck, Spartanburg county. No cause is known for the deed ex cept she left a note saying her life had been a failure. Mr. Austin Livingston, a promin ent farmer of the north section in Orangeburg county, committed sui cide by shooting himself with a gun at hie home early Monday morning. But few of the details could be had, further than that the deceased soon after eating breakfast went to his room and committed the deed. He was about 55 years of age and stood well with all who knew him. Cisely Rodman, a “bad” negro, who had been “wanted” in Rock Hill for a month or more, boarded a freight train at Charlotte Monday night for Chester, remarking to some other beats that he would ‘ 'go through or kill the whole damn crew.” He was put off the train several times between Charlotte and Rock Hill, but always got back on. At the latter place he was made to get off and as he did so he drew a pistol and was in the act of shooting the conductor when one of the train hands fired on him killing him instantly. Mr. Julian J. Harrison, the Barn well inventor, who has associated Messrs. G. R. and G. M. Easterling with him in the proprietorship of his “fountain comb” patent, has just returned from the North with the Messrs. Easterling. He is said to havs succeeded in organizing a com pany to manufacture the comb with a capital stock of one hundred thous and dollars, and already has an order for 25,000 combs. He will return North shortly to superintend the luikDt Jiot Ltikex. “The fastest selling article I have in my store,” writes druggist C. T. Smith, of Dari«, Ky., “is Dr. King’s New Disco" ry for Comsumpttotx, Roughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six years of sales it bae never felled. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung dis- get no help from doctors or any other remedy.” Mothers rely on it, best physicians prescribe It, and guarantee satisfac tion or refund price. Trial bottle free. Reg. sizes, 50c and $1. For sale by CheroKee Drug Co. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Ccrrespondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. I.eilgi-r Reailerg Diftappoiivl^d lit-i-auxe of ”Uuj <>«ri»sion Talmage's Sermon—Cot ton WI5I .Make r JIalf a Crop- Time for Sow ing Wtieat—Other Paragraphs. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Oct. 22.—Our readers, many of them, were no doubt disap pointed last Saturday to find that Talmage’s sermon was not in The Ledger. Among many of the elder readers this is a most interesting part of The Ledger’s output. But we are aware that the business of Cherokee county is-such that the columns of the paper are taken up more by advertising patrons who are ready the main -aupportere of the paper, wbes it comes to the matter of dol lars and cents. The average sub scriber gets a great deal more than the worth of his money. Just think of.tkis please—one hundred and five copies of the paper a year for one dollwr- That’s no coney for the office. It's advertisers who keep the paper going. While we hate to lose these choice sermons yet we rejoice to know the publishers are turning their space into money which in turn enables him to give a better paper, it’s no use in trying te keep up with editors, much less get ahead of them. Farmer Jones fell out with the editor of his paper and called at the office to tell him what he thought of him. The local noted what belaid in these words: “Farmer Jones says the | editor of this paper is a jackass.” j The editor wishing to get even with them to keep their homes in becoming plight. We regret to learn that Mr. Creed Roberts died at King’s Mountain this week. For a long time he has been suffering with a bronchial trouble. But until that set in he was a very picture of health and strength. His father’s family have been greatly bereaved lately. Only a little mere than a year has passed since the wife and mother died. Then his brother, Lee, died last summer, and now Creed is added to the death list. Truly death is no respecter of per sons, and well and wisely has one said: “In the midst of life we are in death.” Mr. Roberts leaves a father, sister and brother with other relatives to whom our heart goes out in fullest sympathy in this trying hour. It’s right amusing as well as sick ening to see women kissing each other when they meet, and then hear them talk about each other as soon as their backs are turned. Yet we frequently have such amusement in this county. We regret to say that little Wilmer McDaniel’s sickness, of which we have so often spoken, has fallen into typhoid fever. Elder T, J. Estes went to synod at Columbia this week. j. l s. HU Life iu “I just seemed to have gone all to pieces,” writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare, Tex., “biliousness and a lame back had made life a burden. I couldn’t eat or sleep and felt almost too warn out to work when l began to use Elec tric Bitters, but they worked won ders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat anything, have gained in strength and enjoy hard work.” They give vigor ous health and new Hfe tc weak, ‘<ick- lv, run-down people. Try them. Gniy.&t-'c at Cherokee Drug Co. THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Wi.en the receipts of a church fair are less than the expenses there is something wrong with the feminine attractions. A J ypicu! L >utl» Afrit-aa Store. O. R. Larson, of Bay Villa, Sundays River, Cape Colony, conducts a store typical of South Africa, at which caa be purchased anything from ttyf pro verbial “needle to an anchor ” This store is situated in a valley nine miles from the nearest railway station and about twenty-five miles from the near est town. Mr. Larson says : “I am favored with the custom of farmers within a radius of thirty miles, to many of whom i have supplied Cham berlain's remedies. All testify to their value in a household where a doctor’s advice is almost out of the question. Within one mi e of my store the population is perhaps sixty. Of these, within the past twelve months, no less than fourteen have been absolutely cured by Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy. This must surely be a record.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. A house filled with a boy’s noise is happier than a silent home with noth ing but the memory of a boy to cheer- isb. -i Natural Anxiety. Mothers regard approaching winter with uneasiness, children take cold so easily. No disease costs more lit tle lives than croup. It’s attack is so sudden that the sufferer is often beyond aid before the doctor arrives. Such cases yield readily to One Min ute Cough Cure. Liquifies the mucus, allays inhumation, removes danger. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Cures coughs, colds, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung trouble. F. 8. McMahon, Hampton, Ga: “A bad cold rendered me voiceless just before an oratorical contest. I intended to withdraw but took One Minute Cough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win the medal.” Cherokee Druu Co. ^ Fame is but a bubble. The wreath is less strenuous than rel-hoop. laurel a bar- To Cur« it Cold In One i>ny Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. A yellow dog counts that day lost when nobody ooudeacends to kick him. No danger of consumption If you use Foley's Honsy and Tar to cure that stubborn cough. Cherokee Drug him added a .comma each after Jones and paper, which made the personal Tead thus: ‘ Farmers Jones, says the editor of this paper, is a perfect jackass.” I imagine Mr. Jones was d. sap pointed when he seen what the use of the commas did for him. r l heChristian j£ odeaverSociety held a consecration meeting at Mrs. A mend a Lee’s last Habbath evening. The iesson topic w-as “self mastery.” Miss Maud Blackwell read a good essay and some very good talks were made by members of the society. Mr. Jeff Estes, of Hopewell, was on this side of the river last Habbath. Miss Annie Comer, whose affliction has been frequently mentioned in this correspondence, is e:ill sick with fever at JaneevjJle. Rumors says Mr Thomas Hort- nees, of Hickory Grove, has an idea of trying to buy the Thompson mills site on Thickety creek, with a view of putting up a suitible milling out fit. Mr. Hortnees is a fine mill man and if he does get it there will be no further trouble about a good mill being kept there to grind both corn and wheat. Most people have *,ood crops of sweet potatoes this year, we think. The light fre Bt of last week will help the late cotton about opening. Mr. Terry Estes and Asa Black- well, made a trip to Cross Keys, in Union county, last Friday and re turned Monday. They bad a delight ful time and will doubtless go back. Could we have good weather, and every boll of cotton open, the crop might reach fifty per cent. But be yond that it can’t possibly go under the most favorable circumstances. Miss Annie Miller took up school last Monday morning. Mrs. J. L. Strain is quiet unwell. Now is the time for farmers to be gin their wheat sowing operations. Put your best land in good condition and sow early. Our best wheat rais ers say from half a bushel to three pecks of wheat to the acre is enough to sow on any kind of land. It’s a good time now to visit your neighbors to see how they live at home. The first thing the housewife thinks of when she sees company coming is—what can 2 get for dinner today? Mr Robert J. Whisonant, of the firm of Whisonant Bros., of Hickory Grove, is canvassing this county with a scrubbing machine that is by far one of the greatest labor saving de vices we have ever seen for the per formance of that laborious depart ment of womens’ work—scouring. We have seen it operated and know of what we speak. Its only because we know the labor and trouble is costs the good women of this county to do this work, and about which their husbands, fathers, brothers and even sons know or care so little that we aay a word in behalf of this new labor saving instrument. Bob says he don’t expect a man to buy one until bis wife tries, and re commends it. There are two many men in tbie county making slaves of their wives, while they could save them much of the bard work it costs Good qualities that descend from father to son seem to grow weaker, whHe the bad ones always grow stronger. HUickeu Witli Henderson Grimett, of this place, was stricken with partial paralysis and completely lost the use of one arm and side. After being treated by an eoiinent physician for quite a while without relief, my wife recom mended Chamberlain's Pain Baiai, and after using two bottles of it he is almost entirely cured.—Gko. R. Mc Donald, Man, Logan county, W. Ya Several other very remarkable cures of partial paralysis have been effected by the use of this liniment. It is most widely known, however, as a cure for rheumatism, sprains and bruises. Sole by Cherokee Drug Co. When a boy begins rolling up his sleeves when he washes his bands it is safe to ask him what her name is. The Worxt Form. Multitudes are singing the praises of Kodol, the new discovery which is making so many sick people well and weak people strong by digesting what they eat, by cleansing and sweeten ing the stomach and by transforming their food into the kind of pure, rich, red blood that makes you feel good all over. Mrs. Cranfill, of Troy, I. T., writes : “For a number of years I was troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia which grew into the worst form. Finally I was induced to use Kodol and after using four bottles I am entirely cured I heartily recom mend Kodol to ail sufferers from indi gestion and dyspepsia.” Take a dose after meals. It digests what you eat. Cherokee Drug Co. Nothing has yet been discovered that will effectually cure a boy’s “Bunday sickness.” Intero-Mting IteinK Concerning Our Neigh- born Heyonii the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Keailing for Hundred* of Ledger Keadern, Near Oak Grove church in Cleve land county, Saturday night at a corn shucking, Bergwin Thornburg was kicked in the face by a horse and his face horribly mutilated. John Jefferies, colored, while at work at South Fork bridge in Gaston county Friday fell about 15 feet and died Saturday from the effects of a wound in the back of his head He wa* about 35 years old and lived at Dallas. Robert J Mit<-he||. ove of the lend ing retail merchantH of the S u 1 h. de parted this life at his home i K iza- beth City Monday. Mr Mitchell was direct'y responsible for the big stores for which Elizabeth City is noted. A number of progressive Salisbur- iatis have a genuine snak Q eating ag gregation and they are going to tour the Etate. The being who ' eats ’em alive” is termed 1 Ber go,” and the attraction is said to equal any seen at the carnivals in that section. A passenger sod a freight train ni tSeaboard Air Line coliid d to -: Rockingham Monday morning. Her bert Holland, a flagman, whose home was at Sanford, was killed. A freight tram on the Southern Railway was also wrecked near Wilson’s Mills the eau/e day. Peter Blount, colored, who lives near Raleigh, accidentally shot him self in the foot one day last week He was taken to the hospital in Raleigh and the physicians told him that am putation was necessary. He refused to give hie consent until Saturday evening and then it was too late. He died Sunday. He, seemingly, chose to keep his leg and Jose his life. The passenger train that reached Charlotte Monday night at 11 o’clock from Monroe, ran over and horribly mangled an unknown man near that place. The engineer did not see the unfortunate man and the accident would not have been learned of for some hours had not blood been found on the wheels of the engine. Another case of making a bed of a railroad track. lAou’t Imagine that all flours are alike. There is a difference, a big difference. So much depends upon having pure, white and nutritious flour that the subject is worthy your careful inves tigation and consideration. You will be better satisfied in se lecting “Clifton” flour, a fact that everyone who knows anything about flour will tell you. In purity, white ness and quality, “Clifton” flour ex cels all other flours. Don’t imagine that because “Clif ton” flour is a high grade flour that the price is high, for the price is low ; in reach of all housekeepers. Cheap flour is dear at any price, while ‘ ‘Clif ton” is the least expensive, and is the very beat you cau buy. Bhanbhjkp Mills, Owensboro, Ky. Worry ia the interest mankind pays on tbe debt of nature. Lookout for Kever. Biliousness and liver disorders at this season may be prevented by cleansing tbe system with DeWitt’a Little Early Riaers. These famous little pills do not gripe. They move tbe bowela gently, but copiously, and by reason of tbe tonic propertiee, give tone and strength to tbe glands. Cherokee Drog Co. The trial in Lincolnton of Calvin Elliott, the negro charged with as sault on Miss Caleb Brown has, so far, been slow. It took considerable time to complete the jury. Elliott still declares that be is innocent and his lawyers claim that they will be able to show that if their client is guilty of any crime it is an attempt to rape. Feeling is still intense against Elliott and the people stil seem to think he is guilty. Albert Garren, the Asheville young man who was injured while coupling cars at Old Fort on the W. N. C. rail road. died at the Mission Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. A railroad man said I uesday that Garren lay at Old Fort on the night he was injured from shortly after dark until 3 o’clock next morning, when he was taken to Asheville by a belated passenger train and that during this time he had practically no medical attention. Among the shows at the fair grounds in Greensboro is a two-headed baby, which is located on the Mid way. \S bile the spectator may have some doubts about the genuineness of some of the freaks in the side shows he can have none regarding this child. Tbe baby is a well devel oped youngster with two perfect heads, which are joined to the body at the base of the heck. The farads are large but in no way deformed. Each has two perfect eyes, two ears and mouth. ceeded in making his escape. The wound was quite a severe one, tbe eyeball being horribly mashed and sight completely destroyed. Tbe wound was dressed in Gastonia Satur day night and the negro went to Char lotte Sunday morning where he had the eyeball removed. The Wilmington police Tuesday af ternoon arrested Ed Green, a well dressed negro, who is said by one of the showmen of Forepaugh & S 11s’ shows to have been a hanger on around the tent in various cities the past several days. When searched at the police station several pocket- books were found on his person con taining $57.20 in the aggregate; also half a dozen receipts for money sent each day recently from several points to Emma Green and Ada Kent, of Sa vannah, Ga. The last receipt was dated Charlotte, Oct. 19, and was for $50. The police are sure they have a crook but are not certain of their proof, as no operations by pickpock ets were reported. Fire broke out at tbe cotton com press at Hamlet Monday, destroying property valued at $225,000 and caused the death of J. M. Wilson, of Clarksville, Ga., bookkeeper for the entnorees company, and a nephew of George F. Wilson, of Charlotte. The comoress was owned by the Seaboard Air Line company and was leased by E. E Johnson, of Raleigh. The Pee I^e ice plant, one of the largest in the State, 2,400 bales of cotton and a quantity of burlaps and baggings were also burned. Bookkeeper Wil son was nlaying a stream of water on the fire and did not notice that be was being surrounded by the rapidly spreading flames until too late. When Ko *npmnted to escape he fou^d all • v r cut off. After the fire his ooay was found within a few feet of a doorway. It could be identified only by the watch, keys and belt buckle found on it. Cure* ItliL*umitti*iu and Catarrh—Medicine sent Free. Send no money—simply write and try Botanic Blood Balm at our ex pense. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills or destroys the poison in the blood whi ;h causes the awful aches in the back and shoulder blades, shifting pains, difficulty in moving fingers, toes or legs, bone pains, swollen muscles and joints of rheu matism, or the foul breath, hawking, spitting, droppings in throat, bad hearing, specks flying before the eyes, all played out feeling of catarrh. Bo tanic Blood Balm has cured hundreds of cases of 30 or 40 years standing after doctors, hot springs and patent medicines had all failed. Mos* of these cured patients bad taken Blood Balm as a last resort. It is espe cially advised for chronic, deep seated cases Impossible for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheumatism or catarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rich, thereby giving a healthy blood supply. Cures or per manent and cot a patching up. bold at drug stores, $1 per large bottle. Sample medical advice by describing your trouble and writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. A personal trial of Blood Balm is better than a thousand printed testimonials, so write at once. A boy will go into a football game with bruises that would incapacitate him from sawing wood. Immediately after the circus pa rade in Charlotte last Katurday a wo man in a wagon lifted up a blanketed bundle and screamed: “Ob, my God! My baby is dead!” It was found, after questioning, that the woman, with her husband and several others, had witnessed the parade. In their excitement they had forgotten the infant that was too snugly wrap ped in woolen stuff, and as the mother laughed at the antics of the clown ber little baby died. The wo man was from Mecklenburg county. During a fight on a Southern Rail- way train Haturday night among some rowdies returning from the cir cus In Charlotte, Matthew Wither spoon, a negro about 20 years old who works on the farm of Mr. Will Robin- sou, near Gastonia, was struck in tbe left eye with a beer bottle or whiskey flask in tbe hands of a man who sue* Itraln-Food Nonseuite. Another ridiculous food faa has been branded by tbe most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly notion that one kind of food is needed for brain, another for muscles, and still another for bones. A cor rect diet will not only nourish a par ticular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yet, how ever good your food may be, its nutri ment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. 5 ou must prepare for their appearance or prevent their coming by taking regular doses of Green s August Flower, the favorite medicine of the healthy millions. A few doses aids digestion, stimulates tbe liver to healthy action, purifies the blood, and makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get this relia ble remedy at Che/okee Drug Co. Get Green’s Special Almanac. Did it ever occur to you that the average man’s intelligence is below average? Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have bad eczema over thirty years, have tried many remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur. I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I have prescribed It for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it tbe best remedy for cutaneous affections I have ever known, and re gard it as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Reapeotfuily yours, W. A. Heabd, M. D. For sale by the Cherokee Drog Co J % *