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’ I. THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 1 he Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. We, GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Advei • User Who Uses the Col< umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3S, 1902. #1.00 A YEAR. THE PW.METTQ STATE, Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. £;v«ntM nit Hlivti Taken Place from One r- En«1 of tMe Kfate to the Other Called from . Kachan, for Ouick Keadlng by Scores of Busy People. The case of Barney Evans, who was tried fT the murder of J. J. Griffin over a year ago. was concluded in Co lumbia Stturday and resulted in his acquittal fter the jury had been out but a few minutes. Paul Sat ders. Sam Mcllwain and BilIXeely were committed to jail in Yorkviile last week; the ) first on Wednesday and the other two on - Thursday, by Magistrate J. B. Mills, of Fort Mill town-ship, on the charge of housebreaking and larceny. The U nite( States government will open a naval recruiting station in Spartanburg on November 17, for the purpose of securing recruits for the United States navy. The station will be kept open until November 22. These stations re being opened at points all over the south. J. H. Lewis, yard conductor at the Spartanburg and Asheville Junction, shot Will Austin, colored, an employe of the Southern, at the Junction one mile west of Spartanburg Thursday af ternoon at 3 o’clock. The ball entered the body of the negro just above the waist, piercing the stomach. The barn and stables of Mr. P. O. Beck, of Darlington county, were burned Friday night about 9 o’clock. Ten horses and mules besides wagons, forage, etc., were destroyed, and no insurance. Mr. Beck’s place is about one mile from the town of Darlington, near the Mineral spring. The early hour of the fire would seem to indi cate that it was accidental. Guilty of man-slaughter with re commendation to mercy was the ver dict agreed upon Friday night at II o’clock in Laurens court by the jury charged with the case of the State vs. Walker Edwards, accused of murder ing by shooting Mrs. Rosa Edwards, at the Laurens cotton mills, in Lau rens, on Sunday night, May 18, last. Counsel for Edwards argued the mo tion for a new trial. The South Carolina synod convened in Columbia on last Tuesday night, with more than 80 delegates present. Twenty-two more delegates were en rolled on Wednesday morning, mak ing over a hundred in all The open ing sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. James Woodrow, retiring moderator, and Rev. D. N. McLaughlin was elec ted moderator. The business of the week progressed smoothly and pleas antly. Mr. L. B. Boylston, son of Mr. Preston Boylston, a well known citi zen of the Whaley neighborhood of Orangeburg county, met with ,a very painful accident Friday afternoon. While planing lumber at bis mill his leg was caught by the belt of the ma chine, which resulted iu a broken thigh and a badly bruised leg below the knee. His body was slightly bruised in other places, especially in the head. A very pitiable case is reported in Spartanburg—that of a woman who is looking for her half-witted son, who has been lost now nearly seven weeks. The mother is almost crazed with grief at her loss. The boy. Lee Dona- than, left his mother about six weeks ago. Since then nothing has been heard of the young man. His mother has hired herself out as cook for a Spartanburg family and is making every effort to locate the boy. On entering the depot at East Spar tanburg on Wednesday night about 8 o’clock, Mr. W. J. Pooser, station agent, found that cbe depot had been broken into. Discovering the pres ence of the burglar Mr. Pooser quickly summoned some friends from the car barn of the electric road, and they surrounded the depot. The burg lar made bis escape, however, by jumping from a window of the build ing. He eluded his would-be captors, and fled at a rapid gait. Several shots were fired at him, but without effect. In the sessions court at Anderson Geo. 0. Tenney, of Spartanburg, has brought suit against the Anderson Water, Light and Power Company for $28,000, foreclosure of mechanic’s lien, for work done for the Light and Power Comyany in building a dam. The plaintiff asked for $28 000 and the defendants set up a counter claim of $87,000. A motion was made to strike out the answer of the defen dants. The motion was refused with out prejudice, leaving the matter to oome up at tbs nest term. Oo Thursday last Mr. Bob Jsfferies, who has charge of the pump house of the Spartanburg water works, had an experience with a bull. The bull was in a lot near the pump house, where Mr. Jefferies had gone for a walk. He was followed by a temale terrier. The bull did not relish the idea of visi irs in the lot, and soon made for Mr. Jefferies. The animal tossed the man up in the air, and when he fell, the bull attempted to gore him, when the terrier seized the bull by the nose and held the enraged animal until Mr. Jefferies arose from the ground. Thursday night at about 12 o’clock, as John Cantrell, a young white man, was returning home from Spartan burg, where during the day he had sold a load of cotton, he was held up by three men, who seized his horse’s bridle. The man had on his person $200, every cent of which the high waymen took at the point of a pistol. The hold-up occurred at a lonely spot in the road six miles from Spartan burg. After the robbery Mr. Cantrell proceeded to the Fingerville Cotton Mills, where he telephoned to Spar tanburg. notifying the police of the affair. The money did not belong to Cantrell, but to George Brancom, who lives at Melville Hill, N. C., for whom Cantrell had sold the cotton. The rebbers were three in number and undisguised, but were evidently strangers to those parts. Cantrell recognized them as white men, but beyond this is unable to give further facts concerning their identity. Karmerg Ituxy With Their Crop*. Last week was a fine one for work and right well did the Cherokeeans use it. Many of them were in the city Saturday and almost any of them could give you an interesting story of his week’s work. All kinds of fall work had been pushed with a vim. Picking cotton, hauling corn, sowing wheat and oats, getting in hay and digging potatoes had all been in the picture during the week. Every one was satisfied with the week’s work for the fine weather had enabled them to do it all well The ground was right for good plowing and the crops gathered were housed in good shape. All speak well of the corn crop, and some are beginning to bring in big ears, some more than a foot long. They spoke of the many modes of preparing wheat lands and the neces sary quanity of fertilizers and seed for an acre, which shows the interest being taken in this important crop. The short crop which was harvested in the spring seems to have given new energy and inspired renewed efforts to make a good one next time. We hear of no scarcity of seed for the crop being sowed. Many have sowed rye and some have good stands Moat farmers say cotton is turning out better than they expected. We hear little talk of hard times. Furman Twitty l>eao. Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Griffith were called to Heath Springs Friday morn ing by a telegram announcing the serious illness of Mrs. Griffith's brother, Mr. Furman Twitty. They went on the first train, but arrived too late to see the young man alive Mr. Twitty was a young man of sterling qualities, and while he was taken off before he attained his ma jority, bis course in life was such as to give promise of a useful life. Mr. Twitty was well known in Gaffney, where he had many warm friends among our people whose sympathy goes out to the afflicted family in their sad bereavement. A ProgreHHlve Peanut Party. Miss Helen brohawn entertained a number of her friends at a progressive peanut party on Friday afternoon, in honor of Misa Anspach of Philadel phia, and Miss Daucey of Florida. Those present were: Misses Lillian Wood, Annie Johnson, Francis Fort. Bessie Kendrick. Eva and Ethel Ross, lone Littlejohn, Ethel Sarratt, Effie Hopper and Mrs. 0. Hum phries. De man what spends half his life in climbin' ter de mountain top is so weary w’en he gits dkr dat he don’t appreciate de scenery. l>ou’t Imagine that all flours are alike. There is a difference, a big difference. So much depends upon having pare, 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; iu reach of all housekeepers. Cheap flour is dear at any price, while ‘‘Glif- ton” is the least expensive, and lithe very best you can buy. Bransfobd Mills, Owensboro, Ky. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. A Good Funner and Ills Parmer Hoyt*— Mr. Tate’s Cotton Crop—Marriage Ltceuse and Church Kowdylam—Bally of Con federate Veterans—Other items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Oct. 25.—Mrs. C. W. Whisouant, of Wilkinsville, who has been somewhat indisposed for some time,has gone on a visit to her daugh ters, Mrs. John P. White, of York- villc, and and Mrs. Dr. Durham, of Kershaw. Her friends hope she will have a splendid trip and return much improved in health and strength. We learn that our old friend and neighbor, Mr. Morgan Millwood, who has been living in the upper part of this county for several years, expects to return to this neighborhood next year. He is a splendid farmer and a good woiker and has taught his boys to follow his example. He don’t claim to be a temperance man, a prohibitionist or anything along that line. He is in favor of a man taxing a a drink when he feels like it. and can pay for it; but he does despise to see a man make a dog of himself. We met quite a number of our friends from the country on the streets of Gaffney yesterday and were glad to note that they have fair corn crops in their respective neighbor hoods This is the most encouraging news wo have heard (or many years. Cotton, of course, is short, but if they can pull through and straighten up their obligation ail right, they will go into next year’s crop with greater energy and zeal than heretofore. Our old comrade, Mr John O Tate, of Asbury, tells us be has as good a cotton crop this year as ho ever made in his life. He is perhaps the only man in Cherokee county who can say that much and tell the truth. It was our pleasure, as usual, to visit The Ledger office where we found everything well arranged and getting well settled down to business. W’e have no hesitancy in saying that the new Star Theatre building in which The Ledger office is situated would make a creditable show on Broadway. The Ledger’s business office is a daisy, and everything connected with it (including one of the best looking editors in the State), gives it a metro politan appearance. Murat Halstead might consider himself complimented by such surroundings. We are always glad to drop in and look arouiid. The boys are courteous and gentlemanly and will make visitors feel at home. There is no more popular place for lady visitors to the city to call than at The Ledger office. The manager tells us (and his subscription lists proves what he says), that The Ledger has a much larger circulation now than it has ever had and its prospects were never brighter. We expect soon to begin delivering copies of “The Story of Stonewall Jackson,” and in our trip over the county hope to meet many of the admirers of that great man and put into their hands a book in which our young people especially will find a model character by which to shape their future lives. In the meantime we hope our canvass will enable us to give The Ledger readers some items of interest, not only of their respec tive communities and people, but of the county and its people at large. Messrs. J. J. Robinson and Frank W’atson, of York county, made a trip to the Cherokee county’s capital yes terday. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Black, of Pine Grove, were in Gaffney yesterday. Cherokee county has no better people in it than they are. Thoir little boys are workers. One of their little boys aged eleven years told the writer yes terday that he picked 140 pounds of cotton a day. Few grown men do that well, and still fewer any better. tVe are glad to know that what we have said about the marriage license law and church rowdyism has tbe approval of some of the best people. We have not alluded to either of these merely for the sake of bun combe. They are matters of vital interest, which of all others ought to occupy the minds of the people if future generations would rise up aud call us blessed. One man says, “You ought to ‘touch up’our white people who go to church drunk.” That’s what we are doiug, brother; when we lay down a rule for the colored man we expect the self-re* specting white mao to meaeure him self by it. If he don’t hie neighbors will; and they have that right too. We understand that it Is no new thing for| Christian white men (or rather boys, we suppose, for no such are men in the proper sense of the word), to visit churches and go in among the worshippers with whis ky in their pockets, and perhaps in a “dead game” state ot intoxication too. And worse than that,if possible, they will “buck up” to respectable ladies wiiom they havn’t the moral courage to face without being liqoured up to the starting point, and ask permission to see them home, and very often, strange to say, they are allowed to go. Now what is the remedy for these evils?—it’s u rigid prosecution of every case of this kind. The laws of the State make it a crime for any one to be found at, in or near any place of pub lie worship, in a state of intoxica tion, or otherwise disturbing the worshippers by drinking at, in or r i ear such places; aud you church officers and members apply to your civil officers and straighten out these gentry and you can have ueace as well as be free from future intrusion along that line. Miss Jessie Strain, who has been spending several days on the York side of the river with her sick niece, Miss Wiimer M. Daniel, returned home today. There will be a grand rally of U. 0. Veterans at Chester 6n the 4th of November to which a cordial invita tion is extended the boys who wore tho gray to come and take part, there is no place within the limits of the lute Confederacy where the fires of patriotism burn with greater brilliancy than in “Old Chester.” Thi town was an oasis for the travel-worn and wounded so.ldiers of Lee’s army as they passed to and from their far western and oonth- western homes during ihe»-v n'.fu’ sixties. The women were, if pos sible, better than the men (as they always are). They never ailowid a train to pass, particularly after or during any of the great battles, that they were not on hand with doctors, medicines, bandages, nourishments and all other kinds of comforts and refreshments necessary to revive those who were in need of help. To Mr. A. L. Hammett, Beaumont, Tex., as we are indebted for a copy of “Beaumont and Port Arthur of To day,” a nicely illustrated book giving much information about those places and the oil and lumber business of that section. We are glad to know that Mr. Hammett has a good posi tion in which he is making money. From his letter we get much infor mation of which we may speak later on. j. L. s. A I’leaHiiut Surprise. It was quite a pleasant surprise last Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs T. E. Shuford when the Bessie Crocker Memorial Sunbeam Society rushed into the dining room and loaded the table with good things until it tairly groaned under the load. It was a pleasant occasion for Mrs. Shuford to receive so many expres sions of love from the children of the Sunbeam Society which she organized in memory of Mrs. YV. E. Crocker, who died in Japan September 1900 Through The Ledger she tenders her thanks. A Ktuiaway. Saturday afternoon Dr. R. F. . Me- Kown, of Cherokee Falls, and Me. Frank Scoggins, of Hickory Grove, were driving a spirited horse in Gaff ney,which became frightened at some thing and ran off with them. Both were thrown from the buggy and Mr. Scoggins seemed at first to be serious ly hurt. He was taken to a hotel and carefully treated, and after a few hours was sufficiently resuscitated to be caried to his home where we hope he will soon be all right again. New Telephone NulMcrlhers. Telephone subscribers will please insert tbe following names in their directories: 190 Hall, W.8. Jr, Residence 05 Lockhart, Thos. H.... Residence 183 Lipscomb, J. H Market 55 McKown, Mrs C. Ella Boarding House 188 Shuford, F. E Residence 'Women Au«l .leweU. Jewels, candy, flowers, mao—that is the order of a woman’s preferences. Jewels form a magnet of mighty pow er to the average woman. Even that greatest of all jewels, health, is of ten ruined in the strenuous efforts to make or save the money to purchase them. If a woman will risk her health to get a coveted gem, then let her fortify herself against the in- siduous consequences of coughs, colds and bronchial affections by the regular use of Dr. Boschee’s German Syrup. It will promptly arrest con sumption iu Its early stages and heal the affected lungs aud bronchial tubes aud drive the dread disease from the system. It is not a cure-all, but it is a certain cure for coughs, colds, and all bronchial troubles. You oan get this reliable remedy at Cherokee Drug Oo. Get Green's Special Almanac. THE HR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Intereqting Item* Cuncertilnt' Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Katertamlng Beading for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. The negro arrested at Clinton Sat urday on suspicion of being John Williams, who made an assault on Mrs. Johnson, a few days ago, was released Saturday night. Friday morning Edward A. Utley, a guest of Hotel Lafayette, Lafayette, shot and instantly killed T. B. Hol lingsworth, night clerk at the hotel. Utley was drunk and wild. Henry Carter, timber-wagon driver, hauling logs to the Shaw mill in Sev enty-first township Cumbt rland coun tv, fell under the wheels Saturday and his body was terribly crushed. Winton-Salem is to have a $100,- 000 furniture manufacturing plant. The promoters of the interprise are among the city’s lead ; ng business men. Only high grade furniture will be manufactured. Last Tuesday Mr. Thomas Richard son. an employe in the ginnery of J. 0. Bailey & Son, at Marshville, Un ion county, was killed by being struck on the head by a piece of falling shaft, j H lived only a Uw hour-' ' •- Cie ! accident J. YV. ' oody, a white man charged with assault, was tried in tbe superior court of Greensboro Friday. Tne bill was changed to improper conduct with a child under 14 years of age, and to this charge Moody plead guil ty. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the state peniten tiary. The store house of Oswalt it Co., near Barium Springs in Iredell coun ty, was entered by burglars Tuesday night and a lot of dry goods, shoes, clothing and other merchandise were taken. It is thought the thief or thieves, came south and the police along the way have been notified to keep on the lookout. As a result of a drunken row in Miller’s store, on East Sixth street in Charlotte, Saturday night, Berrji Epps, colored, shot George Jenkins, colored, in the head with a revolver The bullet entered the left cheek just below the eye and has not been located yet. It is thought he will re cover. Eops lied and has not been apprehended. News reached Elizabeth City Fri day night of the death by drowning of David C. YY’hitehurst. a prominent merchant of that city and member of the firm of Fulmer & VY’bitehurst, fancy grocers. He left there Monday with a party of friends to go on a hunt.ng trip at Stumpy Point. He was in the act of reefing the jib of tbe boat late in the night when he was knocked overboard by the sail. Tbe boat was tacked to the rescue, but the body could not be found. The two weeks which court has been in session in Monroe for tbe trial of civil causes came to an end Satur day, but the court was continued into this week, because a very important case is yet unfinished. This case is one Wiileford against P. 8. Bailey, of Clinton, 8. O., for $10,090 damages. The plaintiff alleges that Bailey and one Ida Wiileford, daughter of the old rapn bringing the suit, conspired to abduct, and did abduct, this wo man’s young sister, and the old man’s daughter, for immoral purposes. The defendant denies in toto. The Appalachian National Park Association was formally organized at an enthusiastic meeting held in Ashe ville Saturday under the auspices of the local board of trade. More than fifteen cities of Tennessee. Georgia and the Carolinas were represented at the meeting. Tbe association pur poses to begin active work at once in the promotion of the scheme to have Congress appropriate funds sufficient to purchase about 10,000 000 acres of mountain timber lands in the Appa lachian range in North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee and Georgia for a national forest reserve. Mr. Thomas Murdock, a young far mer of Troutman, Iredell county, while out hunting squirrels Saturday afternoon, accidentally shot himself. He was standing on a log and had placed his gun with one end on the log when by some mishap it was acci dentally discharged. Tbe full charge of shot penetrated his hands aud wrist, terribly lacerating them and tearing away three of bis fingers. Physicians were called In and ampu tated tbe arm about middle ways be tween tbe elbow and wriat. Mr. Mur dock suffered the Intensest agony be fore tbe operation, but was quiet after wards under the influence of opiates. A suit involving the title to the en tire plot of land upon which is situa ted the seaside town of Summer Rest, adjoining Wrightsville, in New Han over county, has just been brought in the Superior Court in Wilmington, the claimant being Mrs. Mary E. Ir win. The defendants are Pembroke Jones, YV. B. Blanks, Dr. Hill Pritch ard, of New York, and about 40 others. The land is claimed under a deed of assignment made in 1856 by Benjamin Motte, to Bernard Baxter. The suit will be bitterly fought by the property owners, who say it is an un heard of proceeding and one that has no foundation in law. Able counsel is employed on each side. The Southern passenger from Mar ion, en route to Blacksburg, S. C., * had a narrow escape from destruc tion Friday morning, one mile from Rutherfordton. It was discovered early in the morning that the Hol land Creek trestle was in flames, and had it not been for the hard work of the section hands who discovered the fire, the passengers in the train would have gone in. The train was flagged down by one of the section men about a mile beyond the trestle. The pas sengers all walked over as the train moved slowly over. Two or three pieces of the trestle were burned out. It is said that the trestle caught the night before from sparks from the engine. THE STATE DISPENSARY. Sum June* Write* of South Carolina’* Gin Mill amt IP* Liquor. YY e take the following article from the Atlanta Journal, in which Rev. Sam P. Jonps exon : t*** upon the South Carolina Ui.-jannury and the qualities of the proverbial “chemi cally pure:” The biggest thing in South Carolina is the dispensary. Ben Tillman and the devil saddled the thing on South Carolina and the politicaus and the devil are running it with the aid of fools and rascals who buy the liquor. Whisky is sold from the dispensary from sun up till sun -flown and the prices range from 10 oents for half pint bottle to $1 00 for pint bottle, from popskull to “good lickir.” Drummers and “gentlemen” buy the “good linker” and negroes and poor whites buy the 10 cents a pint stuff. All the dispensaries of the .state are furnished their liquor from the Col umbia wholesale shop. The state takes its profits at headquarters be fore the town and county dispensaries get hold of it. Then the town and county divide the profits equally. And the work of drunkard-making goes steadily on. I find iu mingling with the people (I mean the good • people), for I go with no other sort, they are all opposed to the dispensary. They say it’s better than the saloon. Just as they prefer measles to small pox. They say it’s death to morals and manhood, whether it’s furnished by saloon, blind tiger or dispen sary. The dispensary is as much in poli tics in South Carolina as the saloons of Chicago or Atlanta are in politics. Therefore both gangs know that when they go out of politics they must go out of business. And so it goes, and it locks like as long as the infernal greed of whisky dealers and tbe in- - fernal appetite for drink shall possess men that the traffic will go on, but I am still at my old game fighting tbe gangs on both sides They tell me I can’t stop it, but I tel! them that I am like the boy who grabbed tbe calf by the tail and the calf took off down the road at break-neck speed, and the boy keeping up with the procession, and by and by a gentleman said to tbe boy, “Tom, what are you doing with that calf?” “I am trying to stop him.” “You can’t stop him that way,” said the gentleman. “I know I can’t,” said the boy, “but I’m slow ing him up some.” Notice to Our AdvertlHeia. Hereafter we must insist on our ad vertisers having their copy, either for new ads or for changes, in this office by 12 o’clock on Mondays and Thurs days, the days before we go to press. We make this rule in order that we may give our patrons better service, and we hope they will favor us, as well as themselves, by conforming to it. It takes considerable time to set up and properly arrange advertise ments, and unless our advertisers remember this and let us have their copy by tbe time named above—12 o’clock on tbe day before publication (Monday and Thursday)—we cannot guarantee the service which we should like to render them. 'V A great many people who oao never get to oburoh on time never fail to be Id their teats when the theatre our- tain goes up.