Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LARGEST Circulation'of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 1 HE SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FB1DAY. Wfc guarantee The Reliability of Every Advei - 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., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1902. $1.00 A YEAR. THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL 0V2E THE STATE. fcventti tfmt Have T»ken riaco <>»e Kr ;l of the tba «>tlier CaJlMl fro«< EtchabKes tor yui«k.ttca(Uns bj Haowm of.liuHy I’eainle. Clemson sod South Carolina col leger played e. game of foot ball in Coliwnbia yest^rduy. Coogressmau Finley ot York county; raised. 120 buske'a of onivus this year on hie farm neir Uack Hsll. He sold them at a buistiol. P. (L.Beck of Florence county lost his bare and ten mulos by ./ire on Fri day night. There was no insurance on the property. The city of Georgetown Ahas sold |75,000 worth of 4 1-2 per cent 30- year bonds to Bernard Jd. Baruch of ;New York, at .$102 and .accrued inter est. It is said that a party of lumber men from Stillwater, Mich., have an option on GC'tOOO acres of timber land in the southern section of the state. The Luthetan synod of South Caro lina at Little Mountain last week adopted a resolution declaring against “close communion” in the Lutheran ohusch. Q. Walt Whiteman, one of the best known men in the State, and many times candidate for governor, died Sunday night at bis home in Union .after a very short Illness. The grand jury of Lancaster county iin their presentment protest against the use oi the criminal courts for col lecting debts. This evil, they say, is general. James Alien of Florence got a ver dict on Saturday for $S,.(X)0 against Isaae Sulzbaeher and son for damages because of an assault made upon him by them some time ago during a diffi culty in the latter’s store. A Sumter negro thought he would have some fun with a Chinaman and sent him a dead rat wrapped up in a piece of paper. The Chinaman com plained to the mayor and the fun cost the negro $10. The position of superintendent of Winnsboro’s schools, made vacant by the death of Prof. W. H. Witherow, has been filled by the election of J. P. Quarles, a graduate of the Citadel Academy in 1900. The Misses Gibson, of Rock Hill, have brought suit against the S. C. & G. Extension railroad for $5,000 for alleged damage to their land along the Catawba river in Lancaster county. Zureika Kirby, the six-year-old daughter of Henry Kirby, of Wood ruff, died Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock as the result of burns received Tuesday afternoon while warming by the fire. Officer Martin of Columbia Monday picked up a negro named William Johnson who says he is an escaped convict from Sumter. Johnson was sentenced for a year for some offense, and a few days ago when an opportu"< nity offered be slipped off and went to Columbia. A white flagman on the Southern by the name of Gilliam was killed about one o’clock Tuesday morning at the junction two miles from Spar tanburg while shifting cars. In some way a detached car ran over him and crashed the life out of him. Thirty gallons of liquor and 147 bottles of beer were seized from blind tigers in Sumter on circus day. A young lady lost a gold watch and chain while watching the animals, a farmer bad his pocket picked of $250 and Lawyer Keels was euchered out of $20 by a ticket seller. Martin Milan, a young white farm er, was put on trial in Laurens Wed nesday, accused of killing Whit Gray, a negro 76 years old of that county. Self defense was the plea and it re quired nearly all day to bear the case. The case wae given the jury about 4:30 o’clock and after deliberating two hours an acquittal was agreed to. Aud there ends a rather celebrated case of long standing. About one o’clock Wednesday a white man giving his name as Fowler, stating that he was from Clifton, went to the depot in Spartanburg suffering great pain, and stated that be had been knocked unconscious by a train on the Southern near the point where the Union railroad con nects with the main line of the South- eru. Fowler stated that bis back was causing him much pain aud be ap peared to he badly hurt. Officer JEenry Dunning, of Colum bia police force, Sunday night arrest ed Winter Cantey, a negro about .56 years of aga, on the .charge of mur dering Eiiat Kershaw.,.a negro woman, with whom he had been intimate. T&e body of the woman was found on the Broad river road Saturday night with the ttuoat cut ifroa. ear to ear. The authorities were ootilled, and at the inquest It was brought out that the woman, .who Pved in Columbia, had been intimate with tCantey for several moofeLs. Lest Thursday night the dwelling house, with most of its contents, of Mr. Hawkins-Smith of U nion county, was.burned. Air. Smith lived about five cniies from JonesviMe and was quite a successful farmei;. having worked hard and saved hie earnings. He had bought a tract of land and built a.ueat and-comfortable dwelling upon it, and was enjoying hie new ■home when very suddenly it was ewept nway. His loss wae about $2 ,000 with $300 insurance. A negre named iUlysses Campbell ehot and killed Blanche Dial between four and five o’clock Sunday after noon at the restaurant of Jim Brown, colored, neer the Air Line depot in Greenville. Blanche had sent Camp bell with fifty cents to buy her some liquor, and .he returned without the money or the liquor, when she began a quarrel with him about it. Camp- bell told her id she didn’t hush he would ehoot hex, and her reply was, “Shootand be d d,” standing squarely in front of him as she made the defiaat remack. He took the wo man at her word., and with a 38-cali bre pistol shot her through the left breast, producing almost instant death. Campbell was captured and lodged in jail. Ww Ure in Peril. “I just seemed to have gone all to pieces,” writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare, Tex., “biliousness and a lame back bad 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 anytbiisg, have gained in strength aud enjoy hard work.” They give vigor ous health and new life to weak, sick ly, run-down people. Try them. Only 50c at Cherokee Drug Oo. Even the pessimist thinks he is an optimist. , NtrU-keo With I'amlyitiK. Henderson Grimett, of this place, wa* stricken with partial paralysis and completely lost the use of one arm and side. After being treated by an eminent physician for quite a while without relief, my wife recom mended Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, 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. It is the feline strain of femininity which makes it claw what it loves and caress what it hates. A Typical South African Store. O. R. Larson, of Bay Villa. Sundays River, Cape Colony, conducts a store typical of South Africa, at which can be purchased anything from the 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’a 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 fonrteen have been absolutely cured by Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy. This must surely be a record.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. There is no doubting the piety of a woman who will work two hours over a cookstove baking a fifty-cent cake to sell for a quarter at a church fair, but there is room for doubt about her business judgment. 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. 8uch cases yield readily to One Min ute Cough Cure. Liquifies the mucus, allays inflamation, 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 conteat. I intended to withdraw but took One Minute Cough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win the medal.” Cherokee Drug Co. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWEB CHEROKEE Erom Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. il’coceedliMli of Unrellnjf vt Coafetleraet Monumeat—ExceU««t Sera, on at JUcMopo- tauila -Vine Turnips Ami Good Corn Craft* —{Little Sul'erer In tfce Country. ^Correspondence al The ledger.) EttTA Jake, Oct. 20.—To a friend ia Richmond, Va., we ore indebted for an account of the unveiling last Saturday, 25th inst., of the monu ment to 224 known and unknown Confederate soldiers from 'Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia and Alabama who lie buried in the national cemeteries of Philadel phia. This monument was ecected by the Dabney H. Maury Chapter of Philadelphia, of which Mra. Jaynes T. Halsey, the daughter of the late General Dab ney H. Maury, is the honorary presi- daut. A party of distinguished Phil adelphians were present and partici pated in the ceremonies. All the Confederate organizations in the city, including Richmond Chapter U. D. C., Gaicwood Memorial Association, Hebrew Memorial Association and Pickett Camp Sons of Veterans were represented, besides many others from different places. A committee of ladies from the Hollywood Memo rial Association with Lee Camp U. C. Veterans had the affair in charge. Three distinguished Philadelphians were present as speakers, to-wit, Mr. John Cadawaider, Col. A K. McClure and Mr. James M. Dodge. These, with Gen. .Fitzhugh Lee, Senator John W. Daniel and Dr. Nelson Page were the speakers. In describing the monument our informant says: “It is a handsome boulder of Barre granite with four sides rock-faced. Its size is 6x3x7 with bronze inscription tablets on the back and a panel 2-6x2-6. On the front is a bronze relief cast from a full size model of three flags crossed, under which is the inscription, ‘Furled, but not forgotten,' and around the large medallion is in scribed, ‘Fate denied them victory, but gave them immortality.’ On the back of the tablet reads, ‘Erected by the Dobney H. Maury Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, of Philadelphia, in loving and grateful memory of the 224 known and un known Confederate soldiers from Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and Alabama who lie buried in national cemeteries in Phil adelphia. Unveiled October, 1902.’ ” The location of the monument is on Gettysburg Hill in the soldier sec tion of Hollywood cemetery, where already lie the remains of 18,000 of their dead comrades whose graves are lovingly cared for by women of Rich mond, Va. This handsome testimonial of love from the Philadelphia chapter will take its place by the side of the Con federate pyramid and the Otey monu ment in the beautiful Hollywood; where in years to come they will bear silent testimony to the brave deeds and gallant struggles of those who gave their lives for the cause they held dear. Some people when they go to town come home and want sjveet milk to drink. That’s a bad sign, boys. The rain last Monday caught a good deal of pea vine hay on the ground and cotton in the held. There will be preaching at Salem next Sabbath at 11 a. m. by Rev. W. H. White. Rev. Sam T. Creech preached at Mesopotamia last Sabbath from the text, “For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost,” Luke 19:1(>, One fully compe tent to judge spoke of the sermon as the finest effort of bis life. She said it was a gracious appeal to the un converted to accept Christ while He could be found. We are really sorry to bear that Mr. Creech may in all probability go to another field next year. He has done a great deal of pastoral work among his people that has been amply rewarded, and we know of changes in certain tough characters that no other minister has ever yet had or exerted the same in fluence over. We were shown a specimen of Mr. Sbelt Sellars’ turnips last Friday. They are of the purple top variety and are exceptionally fine. He had a few of them at Gaffney and has an abundance of them at home. If all our people were like Shelt we would have more and better gardena and turnips than we have. People who can’t raise snob things ought to get the plans of those who can. Mrs. Jimmie Strain is guite unwell She has hem sick more than a week. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Estes and Miss Oregon made a trip to Gaffney last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Byers gave the young people a pleasant soir*-e last Saturday night. Several of the York county boys and girls came .over and enjoyed the occasion. Mr. H. Terry Estes took a .fine bee gum Monday evening Sam Strain thinks it had ,150 pounds of honey in tit. “Philom,” your method for-irhang- ing a square tc an oblong figure wont «Io. You must'take the square root of the number *opresenting the .com parative length -of the sides and by .it,multiply one of the sides for the longer and divide,by it for the sh«£t> r si le. There will be a grand rally of U. O. Veterans at Chester next Tuesday— 4th of November. Soicetimes people unwittingly say things which hurt when they have no intention of doing so. An educated lady speaking of a certain community says the women don’t know anything to talk about and they talk about one another. In our letter in Tuesday’s pap^i* speaking of rowdyism at church the types made us say “Christian white men” instead of certain white men. We belie* , no person can make an exemplary church member who does not take and read his or her church paper; yet we believe th^re is oo bet ter religious paper published than Ram’s Horn, or one that is doing the same amount of good. There is no dry sectarianism about it. Each is sue has a cartoon by Frank Beard that teaches a lesson to the observ ant reader. Mes.-rs. Henry and Thorn Millwood are going to move to Mr. Thos L Robbs’ place next year. Mr. Jesse Wright &Co. have ginned nearly 600 bales of cotton at Lawn this season. Mr. Creighton Patterson, one of our Gowdysville farmers, says he is making a fine crop of corn this year —a plenty and more than a plenty to do him, with a very fair crop of cotion considering the season. This is easily accounted for when we consider that Creighton is one of our best workers. We are sorry to learn that little Smith Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. 8. Spencer, of Lawn, is still suffer ing with rheumatism. The little fel low bears his affliction with great for titude and patience for one of his age. He is a very bright little boy and his long and continued suffering has in no way impaired his mental faculties. He can remember dates, names and incidents with remarkable precisiou. It’s the duty of all good people to visit the little sufferer aud speak a word of cheer and encourage ment to him, or place a bouquet of flowers in bis hand to let him know and feel that he has their sympathies. Dear reader, this may be your oppor tunity to do an act of kindness that will be rewarded both in time and eternity. Will you improve it? —J. L s. Uoex Like Hot Cakes. “The fastest selling article I have in my store,” writes druggist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., “is Dr. King’s New Discovery for Comsumption, Coughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung dis eases, who could 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 CberoKee Drug Co. It is estimated that 49 per cent of the days in London are wet. The Wont 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 ail over. Mrs. Cranflll, 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 all sufferers from indi gestion and dyspepsia.” Take a dose after meals. It digests what you eat. Cherokee Drug Co. Oxen and sheep fatten better in company than when left alone. Lookoat for Fever. Biliousness and liver disorders at this season may be prevented by cleansing the system with DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. These famous little pills do not gripe. They move the bowels gently, but copiously, aud by reason of the tonic properties, give tone aud strength to the glands. Cherokee Drug Co. THROUGHOUT THE UR HEEl STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. luterastlug Items Couceruiiig Oar Nelftb- bors Keyond the Line Which May Prove KutertHiulng Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. R. O. King, of Raleigh, who was suing the S. A. L. for $40,000, has taken a non-suit because one of ten jurors declared he would not give a verdict against a railroad. Gov. Ayaock has pardoned J. L. Havener, an aged Confederate veteran of Wilkes, who was sentenced for v four months for doing injury to a dwelling. He tried to make some disoslute women leave his locality. Dr. S. B. Rozier. of R^zier, Lincoln county, lost, his barn, containing six hundred bushels of corn, by fire Fri day night. The fire is thought to have been af incendiary origin, and it is said that those who first reached the fire could easily detect the odor of kerosene oil. One year ago Dr. Rozier sustained a similair loss. Mr. P. 8. Sudderth, son of the late Sidney Sudderth, of Burke county, while giving signals on a shifting train at Nebo Tuesday, fell from the top of a freight car Hud was run over and instantly killed. It seems that sever al cars were being “kicked” into the sidingwhen the on th..* Mi. -'uddefh was ou was eirucK :>y <. 't.. cur with such force that the young man was thrown to the track and the car passed over his body. William Strupe, son of Mr. E. A. Strupe, of Salem, accidentally shot himself Tuesday afternoon, near the Xading place, about half a mile west of Salem. The young man was out hunting. He stopped at a spring to get a drink of water, setting bis gun against a tree. The weapon fell over and fired, the load of shot taking effect near the right eye. Two or three children, who were playing near the spring, were the only ones that wit nessed the accidental discharge of the gun. Sunday morning, as train number 37, southbound, on the Southern, was pulling out of Gastonia at about 15 miles an bour a switchman opened a switch over which the rear car was passing just before the back trucks reached the switch. The consequence was that one part of the trucks went on the main line and the other ran into the open switch. The track was badly torn up for some distance and the passengers in the last car fright ened, but fortunately no one was hurt. H. B. McDowell, a native of Ran- dolp bcounty, who went to Charlotte from Danville, Va., several months ago and leased the Leon Steam Laun dry, was arrested in Baltimore Wed nesday on charges of fraud preferred by the People’s Ice and Fuel Com pany and the Standard Ice and Fuel Company, of Charlotte. The Stand ard company states that McDowell owes it a debt of $149.32, while the People’s Ice and Fuel Company al leges a debt of $45. Both companies claim that McDowell obtained the de livery of fuel under false pretenses. On last Tuesday the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. John Stuart, near Tobaccoville in Forsyth county, while playing near the house with some smaller children, forcibly sucked into her mouth a foreign body which found lodgement in her throat. On Thursday physicians skillfully and successfully performed the operation of tracheotomy and removed a well seasoned cockle-burr from the wind pipe. Strange to say, neither pain nor difficulty in breathing were dis tressing from the time of the acci dent till the burr was removed. The girl is doing well and will recover. There was a very sad accident on the Washington and Plymouth rail road Tuesday which occured near Pinetown, Beaufort county. A young man, Levin Wallace, Jr., was in be tween the cars of a log train coupling. It seems that the logs bad been so loaded that the ends of some projec ted farther than others, and the young man’s bead was caught be tween the ends of two logs and was completely crushed, killing him in stantly. He waa an industrious and energetic young man and had just completed a new home to which he would have taken a bride at an early date. Contractor Charles Ellen was shot and instantly killed by John Marks near Angler in Harnett county late Monday night. The two men had quarreled, and Marks, who was drink ing, threatened to shoot Ellen, when the latter dared him to make good bis threat. Id au instant Marks drew a revolver and fired, the ball passing through the heart of Ellen. As he fell Marks fired again, the ball taking effect in his bead. Marks escaped and has not yet been apprehended. They were both prominent men, Ellen being a railway contractor, and Marks a mill operator on the Cape Fear and Northern railway. Mr. John Cribbs of South Carolina, was killed at the old Wm. Grautham place, near Ashpole in Robeson coun ty, Sunday, and Henry Marlow has been arrested as the guilty party. The facts so far obtained are these: Marlow had been to South Carolina and purchased some hogs which he hired Cribbs to take home for him. Cribbs toon his son along to drive the wagon while he rode in the buggy with Marlow. Marlow claims that an unknown party assaulted him and struck at him with a stick. He dodged the blow, which struck Cribbs and rendered him unconscious. Cribbs was taken in the house and died from the effect of the blow. It is said that both parties were drink ing and that Marlow struck the lick which killed Cribbs. Dou’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; in reach of all housekeepers. Cheap fl jur is dear at any price, while “Clif ton” is the least txj'ensive, and is the very best you can buy. Bransford Mills, Owensboro, Ky. Any man who boasts of having small feet also has a diminutive brain. Cures Rheumatism 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. Most of these cured patients had 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 Bulm. It makes the blood pure and rich, thereby giving a healthy blood supply. Cures or per manent and not a patching np. Sold at drug stores, $1 per larga 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. Women never are taught what they know; they are born with it. Hraln-Food Nonatmae. Another ridiculous food faa has been branded by the 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- t'cular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yec, how ever good your food may be, ita nutri ment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You 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 the liver to healthy action, purifies the blood, and makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get this relia ble remedy at Cherokee Drug Co. Get Green’s Special Almanac. A woman can forgive a man’s self- love If be also loves another. 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 the beet remedy for cutaneous affections I have ever known, and re gard it as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours, W. A. Heard, M. D. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co.