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/ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. 1 HE LEDGER SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Vvt GUARANTEE fhe Reliability of Every Adve* - 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, NOVEMBER 11, 1908 $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. luv^ut. that Have Taken I'lace from One Knd of the Ktate to the Other Called from Exchange* for (Julck Heading by Score* of ltn*y People. The bank of Latta, with a capital Btock of #0,000, has applied for a charter. Jim Reynolds, the “snake doctor” as he is known about Greenwood, is in the lockup on a serious charge. Thursday about 1 o’clock Ed Hall, a negro boy, while carelessly trying to let down the hammer on a muzzle loading gun shot and instantly killed his sister, Pearl Hall, at Rowesville. The American Cigar Company has made a proposition to the Greenville board of trade to locate a factory there Over $7,000 has been subscrib ed towards the erection of the build ing for that purpose. The governor has pardoned Millard Johnston of Spartanburg. He was convicted of manslaughter and sen tenced to six years in the peniten tiary. He has served five and a half years, and Solicitor Sease recommen ded the pardon. L. W. Floyd has sold bis entire in terest in the Union telephone busi ness. The system at Union and at Spartanburg, Greenville, Greenwood, Clinton, Prosperity and other places and connections have been sold to the Southern Bell Telegraph and Tele phone Company. The governor visited the Penitenti ary Friday and, as is always the case, many of the convicts received per mission to talk to him and they in variably beg for pardon. One old ne gro who had been in for nineteen years for killing another negro in Edgefield pleaded for forgiveness on the ground that he had killed ‘‘the triHin’est nigger in South Carolina.” A New York newspaper man was in tensely amused with the Governor’s experience with various convicts. The Atlantic Coast Line is defend ing a novel suit at Bennettsville, S. C. Miss Susie Powers, a fourteen-year- old girl, suffered a crushed foot in April, 1900, while riding on a railroad turntable, which was being revolved by other children. She sues the rail road company for $10,000 damage. Her father has employed able legal counsel and is making a hard fight for damages. The case is laughed at iu railroad circles and people are wondering where a railroad company’s liability ceases. At Dillon, S. C., Thursday after noon, Artor Hamilton, aged 79 years, was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line train and almost instantly killed. The old gentleman was crossing the track a short distance from the sta tion platform and was watching a train take the siding toward the south. Another train, not running over 15 miles an hour, approached from the north and ran over him. The old man’s right thigh and left leg were broken. He belonged to a prominent South Carolina family. Thursday before last a bold attempt to secure their freedom was made by prisoners in the Marion, S. C., jail. Two of them confined in one cell set fire to the building and after the flames bad gained considerable head way, they made an outcry. The jailer kept cool, went down into the office, telephoned for help, went back again to the cells, turned loose the prisoners and compelled them at the point of a pistol to put out the fire. When help arrived the brave jailer and bis unwilling fire-fighters had put out the flames. 4 The happiest man in Anderson county is Mr. W. W. Moore, a promi nent citizen of the Piedmont section. Mr. Moore was married in 1876—just 26 years ago. He and bis wife have lived happily together ever since, but no children bad ever come to bless his home. Mr. Moore is on the shady side of the half century mark and his wife is In her 50tb year. He had about made up his miod that the fates had been unohildless, but it Is a long lane that has no turning, and last Thursday night bis wife presented him with twins—a boy and a girl. Governor McSweeney has decided to issue a pardon to a white man named Devildre, who several years ago killed another man in a market street place, Oharlsuton. Devildre, it Is said, was formerly the mascot of tbs Charleston baseball team and as snob was widely bnown In the city. Ha baa made an axosptlonally good prisoner. Many petitions bar# been aant up in bit behalf, bat hie conduct bat been eo good that tba directors have recommended bis pardon and It will be issued next week. He was sentenced to five years and with his good conduct credit has only a few more months to serve. He has beau tified his ceil and made it as home like as he could in the circumstances. He has a picture on the wall of the base ball club, of bis mother and other relatives, showing that he has some good in him. He is about 25 years old. The Alliance Exchange has formally gone out of business. It has practi cally been in that condition for sev eral years, though its corporate exis tence has been kept up. The Alliance had $17,000 on hand and there has been a great deal of controversy over what disposition should be made of it. The Alliance committee, having the matter in charge, met in Columbia and finally concluded to divide up the money on hand among the contribu tors so far as possible. There are $17,000 in bank and the task of re turning this money to the original owners will be a most difficult one. It is proposed to return the money to the sub-alliances contributing and it will be left to them to dispose of it any wav they may see fit. Some may attempt to return it to individual contributors, while others propose to devote the amount to charitable and school purposes. Some of the indi vidual subscribers are dead and some of the sub-alliances have long since been out of business, and the diffi culty of the job can be appreoiated. The money has been on deposit in the Farmer’s and Mechanics’ Bank at Co lumbia, which has since been merged nto the Palmetto Bank and Trus Company. BETSY TALKS TO GUMTREE. She Think* Good School* Are Needed More Than Good Koud*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Lawn, Nov. 8.—“Bet” says that she thinks that the newspapers ought to hold up now, for awhile on the good roads question and discuss the good school question awhile. She believes that they might do the country more good by discussing the public school question than they can by discussing the roads. She says, in fact, we have already got pretty good roads. A long ways better than we have ever had before, and we don’t have near as good schools as we use to have. She says, that it does look to her like we might be able to get grown women to teach our schools instead of the little girls, from sixteen to eighteen years old, that we have been having for a good while. She says that girls of that age are all right to learn to cook and wash dishes, but when it come to teaching school we need grown women for that. We are glad to see Mr. Thomas Spencer again able to get around and attend to his business. Mr. Spencer is one of the oldest men of this sec tion, and one of the most successful farmers of the county. He has been farming for about fi'ty-seven years, and has never bought any corn for his own use, but one year during all that time, and that was to enable him to make his first crop. There are few men of his age, seventy- seven, that can say this much, and especially when we take into con sideration the fact of his having raised sixteen children. Mr. Spencer is also a blacksmith by trade as well as a farmer; and during his younger days, after finishing his day’s work in the field, he would then work until ten or eleven o’clock at night in the blacksmith shop, thus keeping up both bis shop-work and bis farm work. If all of our younger farmers would emulate Mr. Spencer hard times would soon be a thing of the past, so far as the farmers are concerned. We are still having mumps in our section, but so far they have been of a mild form. The decline In the price of cotton is rather d'seouraging to farmers, but they have the satisfaction of having sold the greater part of their crops before the decline. Mr. Wm. Pennington has two very sick children at this writing. H. P. Gumtree. A Thief Caught. A few nights ago Green Colvin, colored, concealed himself in a livery stable here, and after every thing got quiet he came out and took five dol lars from the clothing of one of the hostlers, but was looked in and could not get out. He was seen leaving soon after the stable was opened next morning. As soon as the money was missed! Green was suspected, but he bad gone to Blackehurg. A tele phone message caused bis arrest and $4.75 of the money was secured. Green is now in jail awaiting the consequences. All In the Aaking. Ask for a sack of floar and you gst the flqur that best suits yonr dealer. Hs may oars more for his profit than yoor health. Ask for “Clifton” and yoa gst tbs best and parent floar sold a tbs south. CLOSE OF SUCCESS FUL PASTORATE. Rev. S. A. Nettles to Leave the Pacolet Circuit. A REVIEW OF HIS WORK One Hundred and Sixty-Five Addition* to the Membership of the Church—Forty- Eight Infant* and Fifty-Nine Adult* Hap- tlsed—A Good Financial Report. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Pacolet, Nov. 8—The general elec tion passed off very quietly here, little Interest being taken in voting. In fact there seems to be some in difference on the part of voters to secure registration certificates, as all interest centers in the primary and the importance of castiog a full vote at the general election is not appre ciated as it should be. Many acres are being seeded down in small grain, some of which is up and looking well. Cotton continues to come in, and the merchants are not kicking about trade or collections. Those who attended the State Fair from here expressed themselves in highly appreciative terms of the elaborate programmes which were arranged and carried out by progres sive Columbia. The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Pacolet Circuit met with the Pacolet Methodist Episcopal church South, Wednesday n. m., Nov. 5,|1902. The Presiding Elder, Rev. W. P. Meadows, was on nand, and at his best. His sermon was well chosen and forcefully presented, and will bear fruit in the lives of his hearers. The attendance of the official mem bers and the reports from all the churches were good. The financ.al reports was the best for years. The spirituel state of the church is on the up-grade, thirty-six mem bers having been added to the church. Complimentary resolutions of the faithful and efficient work of the presiding elder and pastor, each of whom having served the full quadren- nium, were read. The following is an extract from the report of the Pastor, Rev. 8. A. Nettles: “Four weeks more and I shall close up my fourth and last year on Pac olet Circuit. This is a hard field, with stumps and roots and other more dangerous objects, and it is needful that one should rise early and work late. Five churches, the two furthest apart spanning a dis tance of twenty-four, miies, and a membership of nearly six hundred, demands no little energy in order to succeed. I entered upon the work under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, with the further incentive that sixty years before my sainted father had been on this circuit, and in one of the very same church build ings (Antiochj had held a twelve day’s meeting, a part of the fruit of which still abode in three persons who joined the church at that time, and each of whom I buried the first of my pastorate. “As Paul had bis Alexander, the copper-smith,who did him much evil, so I have had my Alexander and a few others who have endeavored to injure my influence, upon each of whom I pray God’s forgiving mercy, but I have had to aid and encourage me the elbow touch of deep love and affection of hundreds, not only in our own communion but many outside, who in my hours of trial and afflic tion have proven the great value of true Christian friendship. As the time comes near when I must leave these people, so many of whom have manifested their love and devotion to me, my heart grows sadder and sadder. May our kind Father in heaven bless each one largely in things temporal and at last adminis ter to each one an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesua Christ. 'During the four years just closing there have been 165 additions in membership to the circuit. Of this number forty-six were added the first year, thirty-three the second year, forty-five the third year, and forty-one up to the present time this year. By Churches, thirty-three were added to Antioch, thirty to Asbury, thirty-nine to Lebanon, forty to Pacolet, and twenty-three to Walnut Grove. ''Again, of the 165 additions fifty- nine were by certificate, ninty-tbree by vows, and thirteen by restoration. During the four years there have been 122 losses in menabersbip. Of this loss sixty-seven were by cer tificates given to those who moved awey from the olroalt, twenty-two died, nine withdrew, and twenty- four were dropped. This leaves a net gain of forty- three members. There has been a gain in membership of each church except Lebanon, where there is a net loss of three. “During the four years I have bap tized forty-eight infants an fifty-nine adults. “Financially there has been ad vancement each year in pastor’s salary and the regular conference collections, $342.75 was subscribed for the 20th century fund, and prob ably a little more than that will be paid. “I have endeavored to look after every interest of the church, and I am humbly thankful to believe that there has been progress in every line. Our aim in preaching has been the conversion of sinners, the strength ening of the faith of the saints, and the uncovering of hypocricy. I feel assued that this last year has been the best of my four years pastorate. ‘‘And in this connection let me here gratefully acknowledge my indebted ness to our beloved presiding elder, Rev. W. P. Meadows, for his valued counselings and unswerving love and sympathy.” SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. The pecans on the trees in the city this year are of fine quality. Farmers continue to report fine corn crops, a big yield and good quality. While in the city these beautiful autumn days call on The Ledger and add your name to our list. There will be a special meeting of Grand Lodge No. 186 A. F. M. on Thursday night to coufer the fellow- craft degree. John E. Jefferies has gathered over 400 bushels of corn from a one-horse farm on his Thickety place near D iv. kins’ mill. Four cases were disposed of in the mayor’s court yesterday morning. They were minor affairs and the re sults were small. Tom Goode, colored, who is wanted in Greenville for some offence, was put in jail here yesterday to await a Greenville officer. Big piles of material are on the M. C. Lipscomb lot on Limestone street, and the builders are putting it into bis big store as fast as possible. Rev. W. T. Thompson preached a fine sermon at the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church last Sunday night to a large and appreciative congregation. C. T. Loftin, of this city, who is making brick for the new mill at Glendale, is in the city to spend a few days with his family on Buford street. J. L. S.’s boatman and current problem in Friday’s issue is answered by Miss Dora Scott, of this city, as fellows: The speed of the current is four miles per hour. Tom Good, colored, who was ar rested here Monday morning was car ried to Greenville last night by depu ty sheriff Cooksey, of Greenville, to stand trial for larceny. The cotton and corn being nearly ail gathered and the wheat and oats nearly all sowed, will give the farmers fine opportunities for farm work im provements this fall. Cherokee far mers will use them. The cotton receipts to Saturday were something over 200,000 bales in excess of the receipts to the same time last year. Last year there was much of the crop in the field at this time. Thle year it is practically all gathered. Our old friend “Uncle Lem” Cobb, of Maud, paid us an appreciated visit yesterday, and informed ue that he had $20 stolen from his house last Tuesday evening while he and bis wife were milking at the cow-pen. We hope the thief will be caught. Superintendent of education, elect, James Walker and cousin, Mr. Will Walker, of Union, are going into the cattle raising business on a large ecale on their lands in the lower part of county. They are good business men and will give the business that close attention which will assure suc cess. A Coming Marriage. Cards are out announcing the mar riage of Mr. Clive Folger and Miss Helen, a daughter of Mr. R. B. Am- erson, of Oblckamauga, Ga., on December 10th next. Mr. Folger is the son of Postmaster Folger of this city, and is a clever young man of splendid moral traits and sterling Integrity. He holds a lucrative railroad position in Chicks- mauga, and has the esteem and confidenoe of his employers, having been promoted several times In his present position. Miss Amerson is from one of Georgia's best families and is highly popular In her own home place. We extend congratulations and beet wlebeiL The best record made on picking bops was that of a young lad who picked 458 ponnde In one day, earn ing $8.80 by eo doing. THROUGHOUT THE TIB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Item* Concerning Onr Neigh bor* Heyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. Governor Aycock expects to partici pate in the great annual rabbit hunt near Oxford, in which scores of sports men engage, with an average of a dog to a man The slaughter of rabbits last year was great. John Moses, a switchman on the Southern, was run over by a shifting engine on the Southern yards, near the Victor Cotton Mills, early Satur day morning, and bis leg was so bad ly crushed that amputation was nec essary. He is at the Private Hos pital. John McCormick Gibson, of Cincin nati, who, on Saturday a week ago, at Asheville, was-married to Mies Hen rietta Wolfe, on what was considered his death-bed, died at Asheville Satur day. He had made a will, leaving hie estate, valued at $1,000,000, to his bride. Small-pox are raging in Charlotte. The Observer says: In the pest bouse and house of detention there are over 50 persons, more than half of whom are broken out with sroillpox. And In evi > v pBr*’ «re people who '"tv’r! i h** " » i „ri q itiun 11 Deli ill pi'ivubu ..\>uoco. The Cumberland fair opened Thurs day morning under very bright aus pices. The exhibit, in the number of articles, is very gratifying, while in quality such a display has not been made in a number of years The farm er’s and women’s departments are of unusual excellence and attractive ness. On Thursday Bob Gunnels, an em ploye of the Spencer Mouitain Cot ton Mills, was cleaning the shafting in the mill when his clothing became caught in a set screw and he was jerked from the ladder on which he was standing. He fell on a speeder, his head striking an empty spindle which was in motion and which pene trated bis skull. He died almost in stantly. • > «The latest arrivals at the peniten tiary at Raleigh are Mary Rickert and her son, Dan, aged 40 and 16, respec tively, and who get terms of 18 and 10 years, respectively, for murdering a man. There are only four white wo men in the penitentiary. The usual crime for which women are sent there is infanticide; a very horrible crime, but one which many of the poor crea tures regard very lightly. At Vineland, Columbus county, lust week, a horrible discovery was made in the road near Saul’s swamp about 200 yards from the village. In an old tow sack the nude body of a white infant was found. Hogs bad torn open the sack and the head and shoulders of the child bad been de voured. The community is greatly stirred up over the inhuman act and an investigation has been started. There is no clue as yet to the perpe trator of the vile deed. As Charles Stoeg, a native of the Fatherland, who is a tailor at Char lotte, rolled ten pins and drank beer in the alley on North Tryon street Saturday night, some one jahbed£the blade of a big knife into his abdomen, making a smooth, neat cut about an inch and half wide. The incident never seemed to phase Stoeg, and an hour later he was drinking more beer and singing cheerily. W. T. Wallace and G. E. Mullis, who were charged with the cutting were locked up at the police station. Rev. G. W. Ivey, familiarly known to thousands of people in western North Carolina as “Uncle Ivey,” died at his home at Granite Falls, at 6 o’clock Friday morning in the seven ty-fifth year of his age, and in his 52nd year as a minister of the Gospel. He was the oldest minister in active service in the Methodist Church, Western North Carolina Conference. Mr. Ivey literally died “in harness,” having been taken suddenly 111 daring the morning service at one of his sev eral country churches last Sunday morning. Because he twisted the tail of Col ombo, the big elephant In one of the carnival paradea at Wilmington last week and thereby endangered the lives of bundredi of women and children in the wake of the procession, Rev Tbos. H. Leavitt, the evangellet, vio lently assaulted W. P. Groom, a young man of that olty, with an um brella. Saturday afternoon the evan gellet admitted the aseanlt In the magistrate's court and said ha deemed It only mete and swift punishment for a foolhardy trick. Rev. Mr. Lea vitt paid the costs and was dischar ged. In the Superior Court at Wilming ton Friday James Hogan, white, was sentenced to eight years in the peni tentiary for highway robbery. Wed nesday night he knocked down and robbed Benj. L. Grant, an aged citizen of Wilmington. Thursday at noon he was bound over to the higher court by the mayor and Friday at noon he received bis sentence to t]^e peniten tiary. It was an example of swift judgment for a serious offence. A detective who gave his name as Bald win and who bad been shadowing Ho gan for several days, saw him commit the crime and arrested him at once. Hogan says he came from Virginia. Because his sweetheart would not marry him at once, Vaughn Elliott, a young plumber, about 20 years old, took his own life Wednesday night at the door of the young lady’s home, at Forest Hill a suburb of Concord. Elliott had been very much in love with the girl for quite a while, and hud often asked her to marry him, but on account of Elliott’s youth and unsettled habits, and probably be cause she was under 15 years old, she had constantly refused to marry him. Wednesday night he again urged her to marry him. but the young woman refused, telling him that she could not marry him under any circumstances. Elliott then went to his home, se cured his pistol and told his mother that he was going to kill himself and told her good-bye. About 9 o’clock Elliott returned to the home of the young lady, but the family bad re tired. He then sl opped at the steps, leading to hie sweetheart’s home, placed the muzzle of the pistol to his mouth and fired, the bullet going en tirely through hi* head. The family was aroused by the report and found Elliott in a dying condition. His friends were notified immediately, but the case was hopeless, and death oc* curred about 11 o’clock. A DIAMOND ROBBERY. Took Ring from III* Room-Mat*, Removed the (Stone and Tried to Sell It. (Spartanburg, S. C. Journal, tith.l A ead case came to light here to day of a young student in Spartan burg who had come ^bere to get a business educatoin and who was tempted to do wrong and yielded. John A. Bell is the young man’s name. He came here recently from Haywood county, N. C., so be states, for the purpose of obtaining a bus iness education in the hope of better ing his condition in life. Bell has been rooming recently with another young man. Wylie Mer ritt, at a boarding house in this city. To-day Merritt missed a valuable ring which he had in his possession and came at once to the jewelry store to inquire into the matter. While Mr. Merritt was in Biber’s jewelry store be noticed BellSdcross the street at Correll’s. Mr. Merritt investigated and found the diamond which he had lost. Beil had taken the diamond setting out of the ring and was endeavoring to sell this to the jewelers. He offered to leave the diamond at Mr. Correil’s and call back later this evening for the money. Bell was ar rested and first carried before the mayor who sent the case to Magis trate Kirby for a preliminary bear ing. Bell admitted that be had tak en the ring in an unguarded moment and bad yieled to temptation which he could not resist. 0Mag : 8 rate Kirby sfeer hearing the evidence, bound the defendant over to the next term of sessions court. At 2:80 o’clock this evening Bell was unable to give bond. The case is sad indeed. The young man is said to be of good family and has at home an excellent (reputation. He is quite young and has a good ap pearance. His fault la perhaps due more to weakness than to any inher ent wrong motive. Some of his friends here are mak ing strong efforts to have the matter adjusted so that the young man can escape the penalty of the law. The Library Meeting Tonight. Don’t forget to attend the public meeting tonight in the court house to be held in the interest of the pub lic library. The city council has prepared the rooms and has made a liberal appropriation fqr It. Promi nent citizens have moved for its advancement and the people should all attend the meeting tonight and take the matter in hand, and see that it does not lag until success la attained. It Is not necessary to discuss tbs importance and benefits of a public library to an enlightened people. Bo go to the meeting In the court bouse tonight and move off 'in the right direction, and the thing will be ac complished. Who of onr capitalists will lead off with a big donation to it like Gapt. A. H. Foster bae done in Union? A big donation from ona individual always does away with any tronbls in finding a name for anoh Institutions.