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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. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns Of This Paper. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894. GAFFNEY. 8. C., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER ”5, 1908. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. ftventit that Have Taken I’lace from One JEnri of the State to the Other Called from KxchaiiKeH for (Juick Reading by Score* of linxy I’eople. The new $00 000 government build ing for Spartanburg will be located on the site offered by John B. Cleveland on the corner of North Church and Walnut streets. Sunday morning the machine shop of F. M. Pooser it Sons, of Bamberg, was totally destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved. Building and machinery valued at $3,000, with $1,000 insur ance. This is the property formerly known as the Dixon Iron works. Mr. Whit Conner, of Cokesbury, accidentally shot Mr. Roy Calder in the foot while out hunting yaturday inflicting a painful, though not dan gerous wound. The fellow over the creek says. “You see, Whit has bought one of these everlasting six teen to one guns and it takes every thing in sight.” An important case is ponding in Spartanburg against Lawson Parker, colored, who has been running a small farm near Glendale. Parker is charged with housebreaking, with stealing 1,- 000 pounds of cotton and with selling a crop under lien. The latter charge is preferred by T. L. Bryant Co,, and the others by Geo. W. Warren. The stockholders of the Blue Ridge hosiery mills, which enterprise is lo cated at Landrum, held a meeting in the law office of Simpson it Bomar in Spartanburg Friday morning. It was decided at this meeting to increase the capital stock of the plant from ^20,0'J0 to $10,000. This mill has been in successful operation for several years past, and.Mr. Joseph Lee is its president and treasurer. A considerable sensation has been created by the elopement of Dr. A. H Montgomery, a prominent physician and corporation physician for the Pacolet mills, with Mrs. Goss, wife of a merchant. Both ire married and had families. Dr. Montgomery hur riedly disposed of his drug store and met Mrs. Goss at the depot, taking a northbound train. It has since been learned that they hud tickets to Wash ington, D. C. Ned Kendrick, a negro, attempted to force his way into the room of Mrs. Mary E. Pjlliott, a highly respected, hardworking white woman of about 45 years who lives with her sou, a 1!) years old lad, about four miles from Blaney and 12 miles from Camden in West Wateree. The negro reaped the due reward for his criminal intent, as Mrs. Elliott with undaunted courage that would have done honor to any, killed him, at her door step. An unsuccessful attempt was made Thursday night to burglarize the Bank at Liberty. The would-be burg- larsmade an entrance into the bank building and blew open the vault with nitro glycerine, but could not get into the safe which was made by Mosler and has the screw door. The vault was practically wrecked. The burglars left absolutely no clue. Blood hounds were secured from Clemson college but they did not accomplish anything and so far no clues have been secured. Laurence Randall, who shot and killed Arthur Weathersbee, has given himself up and is now in the Aiken jail. He has retained the Hon D. 8. Henderson as his counsel. Randall ! is the father of Alfred Randall whc f had a difficulty with Weathersbee. J Both Randall and Weathersbee mar ried sisters, so the dead man was an uncle to Alfred.lt is said that Weath ersbee had hold of the gun when it was fired. Weathesrbee leaves two brothers who are very much exercised over the tragedy. Through freight No. 72 collided with a mule and buggy two miles south of Hodges Friday night. The collision resulted in the total annihilation of the mule and buggy and some injuries to the occupants of the buggy, two negro women. One of the women, Annie Lomax, had her leg broken while the other woman was seriously bruised. The engineer did not see them until too late to stop bis train, which was going very fast. It is sup posed that the women tried to cross aud that the mule got obstinate. The governor Saturday morning re ceived the following dispatch from A. J. Bennett of Martin’s, station near Allendale. “Some unknown parties robbed me of $J ,400 lasf night. Please assist me by sending bloodhounds and a man to manage them to Allen dale, over Southern road. Will meet them there on first train. Also offer a liberal reward. Will write full par ticulars later.” The governor wired Mr. Bennett that there were no dogs to be had in Columbia, and advised Mr. Bennett to wire the sheriff of Orangeburg county. On Wednesday evening last some daring thief entered the home of Mr. Thomas Johnston, an aged and highly respected citixen of Spartanburg, who lives on his farm between Cashville and Reidville. A niece of Mr. John ston was the only person at the house at the time. She ran out to call Mr. Johnston from the field and when the two reached the house it was discov ered that the burglar had found where Mr. Johnston kept his money and had taken all of it. The exact sum is not known, but as Mr. Johnston is a thrifty, well-to-do man, it must have been at least $100 that the thief se cured. The burglar has not been ap prehended. Deputy Collector A. E. Aiken and Deputy Marshal Corbin returned to Walhalla Saturday at noon from Mountain Rest, where they found an illicit distillery in operation. They captured and brought with them John C. Rogers but the other operator of the distillery made his escape after a most exciting chase. Mr. Aiken has recently been elected to the legislature from Transylvania county, N. C. He is a Republican and a warm friend of Senator Pritchard. He was a member of the legislature that elected the senator. In fact his vote was the one that elected him. Mr. Aiken is as popular in upper South Carolina as he is at his home in the Old North State. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Come in and subscrbe for The Led ger. Forest City, in North Carolina, has a Ben Tillman. Mrs. J. W. Smith, on North Lime stone street, has ripe raspberries of the second crop. Rev. L. R. Gaines has a gourd vine that has one hundred and eight ma tured gourds on it. The county chaingang is building a bridge over Little Thfckety. Capt. Camp has twenty on his force now, but a casual look out on the street will convince anyone that others will be with him soon. Mr. John Millwood presented us yesterday with some nearly grown ap ples of the second crop of a tree, that matures the first of August. The tree has nearly a full crop on it and many of the branches are full of hlooms. Rev. W. T. Thompson preached at Brown’s Chapel Sunday. The ser vice was a Thanksgiving one, was well attended and heartily entered into by the congregation. After the service a liberal thanks offering was given. The county supervisor of Union county has bought twenty-six acres of land in the county and is building permanent barracks for the county chaingang on it. Will Cherokee pro fit by our progressive neigbor’s ex ample? R. S. Lipscomb and N. H. Little john have bought out the entire stock of T. G. McCraw ifc Son and will continau the shoo business at the old stand. They are enterprising and will doubtless make a success of the business. While down town last Friday after noon Mrs. Ed H. DeCamp had the misfortune to lose her watch. It was a double case gold watch with a pic ture on the inside lid. Anyone find ing same will be suitably rewarded by returning to The Ledger office. Mr. J. A. Graves, of Bullock’s Creek, York county, moved to the city Thursday. He and his faniily will for the present occupy the Sam B. Turner cottage in the Northwest ern part of the city. We welcome Mr. Graves and his family to the city. The Broughton services for chil dren Saturday afternoon was attend ed by six hundred children. After the services we were pleased to re ceive a visit from four or five hundred of them who came in to see The Led ger presses work. Come again, chil dren. Mrs. Essie I’etty has secured a place for her two boys and little brother in the Catholic training school at Raleigh, N. C., which is conducted by the Sisters of Mercy. The boys left Monday, the J7th inst , to spend part of their future at Ral eigh. Mrs. Petty expects to take a situation there and make it her home sometime in the future. The midnight train going South Sunday night on the Southern Rail way was wrecked by running into some freight cars that had gotten out of a siding at Beaumont Mills. The engine, express car and one coach were broken up. The negro fireman was killed. Engineer Solomons was seriously hurt, as were Joe Mitchell, the baggage master, three white pas sengers and one negro woman. GREAT INTEREST IS BEING MANIFESTED The Union Services Continue With Increasing Intest. HOUSE FILLED TO UTMOST A Special Sermon to Children Saturday Afternoon—Three Soul Stirring Sermon* Sunday—Synop*ls of the Masterly Sunday Morning Sermon. The union revival services at the Star Theatre continues with increas ing interest. At the Friday night service quite a number repaired to the enquiry room and every time the invitation has been extended since then the number of enquirers has increased. Saturday afternoon Dr. Broughton conducted a service for the children, entitled: “The gospel in lead pen cils.” The lower part of the house was crowded with little folks and the preacher succeeded most admirably in entertaining and instructing his Lilliputian audience. The house was again crowded Sat urday night and many repaired to the enquiry room at the close of the ser vice. At the Sunday morning service the meeting place was filled to its utmost capacity. There was not a particle of available room either down stairs or in the gallery and many people stood. The half hour song service was an inspiration. The space on the stage alloted to the choir was filled to overflowing and everybody seemed in a singing mood. Prof. Tillman was in a happy frame of mind and got all out of the song ser vice it was possible to get. Rev. VV. R. Potter offered a fervent and earnest supplication to the Deity and prayed for a realizing sensb of the presence of the spirit on the meeting. Before commencing his regular discourse Dr. Broughton discussed theatrical matters. He declared the theatre building in which he preached was too nice a building to be used for theatrical purposes, and further de clared that no theatre run on a moral basis could succeed. He said Henry Irvine, the world’s greatest actor,had tried to run a moral theatre in Lon don and failed,and that Edwin Booth, America’s greatest actor had tried the same thing in New York and had failed. Booth became so disgus ted with the theatre that he would not allow his own daughters to attend them. He had no word of re proach for the men who put their money in the building because he be lieved them all good and sincere men, but if they tried to run the theatre on a moral basis they would lose money. He suggested that a Y. M. C. A. be formed, that the building be turned over to the Y. M. C. A. and that a course of moral entertain ments be provided under the aus pices of the Y. M. C. A. For the Sunday morning service Dr. Broughton chose as his text Genesis 5:24: “Enoch walked with God.” Dr. Broughton said in part: I have of late years been very much interested in the study of biography. The study of men has been more in teresting to me than books. The first book that I ever read in the way of a biography was the life of Dr. Martin Luther. Then he spoke of how he was impressed with the passage of Luther’s “Diet of Worms,” when Luther said that he would go to the diet were there as many devils at Worms as tiles on the roof of the house yet would he go, or every shingle on the house would be turned to a devil. But in all my biographi cal reading nothing has been more interesting than the reading of biog* raphihies of good men. The most interesting history we can read today is the history of the Bible. Just take the history of Job and Ruth. Then taking up the history of the New Tes tament,take the history of Mary Mag dalene. Then the history of Enoch. Just think what is contained in one inch of this biography. There isn’t one thing said about Mrs Enoch. If any one were to write my biography, certainly they would say something about my wife, but nothing is said about Enoch’sjwife. From what is said about Enoch we know that he had the best wife on all the universe. The fact that Enoch walked with God 300 years is the best proof that he had the best wife on .the earth. Man could not walk with God 300 minutes with some women of today as his wife. Womon is made of better material than man. Women should always take the lead in every good thing. What is said about Enoch is so good. This life of Enoch denotes good progression. He then spoke about people bolding down the gospel like Squatter-Sovereignty— just setting down and not expanding the gospel. There is one thing that makes a man interesting to me and that is for him to be always expan ding something—furtermore expand something that is good. The thing that inspires the world is life. Then he related the account of young phy sicians in a dissecting room, how rough they were—using tobacco, drinking whiskey, cursing, and every thing so as to lose sight of what they are doing, but suddenly they came to a little child and when dissecting it they found the blood oozing out of the flesh; the moment that the blood was discovered and signs of life there was respect and honor. The reason the church hasn’t got more power today is because she doesn’t put the re spect to it. Let us see what is en- volved in this walk with God. Until the church desires to walk with God there is no use to discuss it. There are but two roads, one leads upwards and one leads downward. The church of today has the spirit of worldliness and that is the reason we haven’t a better people. When members of my church asks me if it is wrong to go to the theatre I axk them two questions. The first question that I ask is this: What is the ten dency of the theatre? Is the ten dency upward or downward? It is not the play so much as the players (they not being what they shouldbe— by their dress, actions, and general appearance—all have a tendency to evil). When I see a troop of girls who belong to a theatrical troop riding on the train going from one city to another I think not of the girls but of their mother. Now, when you have discovered the tendency of the theatre then answer the question—do you desire to walk with God? If you desire to walk with Goa, then if you know that the theatre is downward then you can’t afford to attend the theatre. We talk about dead churches—why are our churches dead because the tendency of the people is dead. Then he spoke about the evi^s of card playing. What is the ten dency of card playing? Girls are to be blamed for entertaining their sweethearts with cards. You must consider the tendency, not only for the harm per se, but for the tendency upward or downward. Oh, if the church would get high enough to argue these questions with its mem bers. Now then another thought en- volved in this walk with God is a life of mutual trust. Then he spoke of the harmony of the people trusting each other. This is also true of Enoch and God. They never disagreed with each other. When the Lord would tell Enoch the road to go, he would go that way regardless of the way that he would choose to go. This is the way we should always do. Then he said, have you found many hardships in your life? If you have it is because you have nit been walking in the way that God would have you to go. You should never see the day when you haven’t got faith in God. You must believe in the God of penticost, the God of the Savior of the world. I can trust God, but God can’t trust me. Why? Be cause God knows me too well. He knows what I am and knows that I cannot be trusted. Now, just one more thought—to walk with God, to trust God, brings God’s blessings upon us. Then he said that he also liked the book of Daniel. Daniel is my favorite. When he was told to eat meat in the king's court he pre ferred to be cast into the lion's den. Tom Brumby was one of the greatest heroes of the Spanish-Americun war. Tom Brumby at a banquet in Atlanta said that he desired water instead of wine. It means something today for a man to stand out facing all the environments and refrain from these things. When Daniel was urged to obey the king, to drink the wine and eat the meat, he still refused. Then the king ordered him to be cast in the lion’s den, but God first went to the lion’s den and told the lions about Daniel being thrown into the lion’s den, and said when Daniel comes I want you not to be ferocious and angry and growl, but I want you to put your arms around bis neck and take good care of him—not hurt him in any way. After thowing Daniel in the lion’s den his persecutors went back away to hear the lions crashing the bones of Daniel and eating him up. After awhile they came back to see what had become of Daniel, to see if there was a bone of him left; but when they came they found the lions and Daniel asleep with Daniel’s head pillowed on the shaggy mane of a lion. This shows that if you will stand by God He will stand by you, no matter what comes along. There can be no question but what this sermon was the best effort of Dr. Broughton. One could see and feel his intense earnestness. He alter nated from the sublime to the red!- culous at will but, the greater part of bis discourse consisted of the sub lime. Dr. Broughton has no time for the pessimist. He is an optimist of the broadest type and is forever look ing on the bright side. When be would rise to the highest tension bis audience was held spell-bound. Dr. Broughton Is not flowery or what might even be termed eloquent, but be is intensely plain and outspoken. He is not harsh, neither is he sensa tional—at least nothing sensational has yet developed. At the conclusion of the masterly sermon Dr. Broughton asked all to bow their heads in prayer. While the vast audience was bowed he asked ail who felt that they were not doing right and desired to do right to indi cate it by standing up. Fully one tnird of the audience stood up. He declared that this invitation was no clap-trap, that Moses was the first man to call for mourners when he said: “Come out on the Lord’s side.” On Sunday afternoon the largest congregation of men ever seen in Gaffney assembled to hear Dr. Broughton lecture on “Devil Traps for Men.” It was an exceptionally clean sermon for men only and was utterly devoid of sensationalism. Sunday night the place of meeting was again crowded to its utmost ca pacity. Every particle of available space was occupied and many people were turned a^ay. Dr. Broughton spoke on “The prophecies of the second coming of Christ ” He had been termed a crank for preaching on this subject but it was a sweet conso lation to him that he had God’s word for all he said on the subject. The Bible prophecies were enough for him. No man knew the day nor the hour of the second coming of Christ. He was liable to come at any time— this very night—therefore all people should be prepared for His coming. Some one had said He would come in IU04 and some one else had said He would come in 1!)20. These men were cranks that turned backwark, for no man knows when He will come. Dr. Broughton quoted more scrip ture in support of his discourse on this theme than on any occasion yet, and this effort was pronounced by many to be the best. » Funeral of Mr. 1.. <;. Uyars. The funeral services and burial of Mr. Luther G. Byars last Saturday perhaps had the largest attendance of any similar occasion in the city for months. The remains were ac companied from his late residence by a long train of relatives and frier.'!* in carriages, and by Granard Lodge of Ancient Free Masons in a body to the First Baptist church, where the funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Arch C. Cree and the Rev. Mr. I’otter, of the Limestone Street Presbyterian church, and Rev. Mr. Hodges, of the Buford Street Method ist church. Mr. Cree preached the sermon. After the services at the church the procession was joined by the graded school children of the city at the First Graded School building. They wished in this way to manifest the high regard they had for Mr. By ars, who was president of the board of trustees of the city schools. After the religious services at the grave were concluded the Masons took charge of the remains of their deceased brother and with the beau tiful and impressive ceremonies of their ancient and honorable order they laid the mortal remains of their beloved brother in their last resting place to await the resurrection morn. DUliM-ateil Her Arm. Last night as the family was start ing to church Myrtle, a little daugh ter of County Treasurer and Mrs. T. H. Littlejohn, ran against a baby carriage that had been left in the walk in the yard, and fell and dislo cated one of her arms. Drs. Griffith and Littlejohn were summoned and set the arm and soon had the little sufferer as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. We are glad she is doing well this morning and hope for her speedy recovery. Mr. K. M. Woolly Movt-il to (ireemvootl. R. M. Woody, who has had charge of the weaving department of Lime stone Mills ever since it was built, has resigned that position and accepted a similar one with the Grendal Mills at Greenwood. The many friends in Gaffney of Mr. Woody and his family regret his change, but hope and be speak for him the same success in Greenwood that be has had in Gaff ney. He and family will leave for their new home to-morrow. Women Ami .Jewel*. Jewels, candy, flowers, maa—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 in its early stages and heal the affected lungs and bronchial tubes and 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 can get tbla reliable remedy atUherokeeDrug Co. Get Green’s Special Almanac. THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IntereHting Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Heyoml the Line Which M»y Prove Entertaining Heading for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. The International Harvester Com pany of America Saturday “domes ticated” itself in North Carolina, its capital being $1,000,000. Saturday evening a lodge of Odd Fellows was formed at Allenboro. There are petitions for three other new lodges—at Cooleemee, Ruther- fordton and Albemarle. Fire at 2 o’clock Friday morning gutted the combination wood and brick building occupied by the Atlan tic Coast Line ticket office, purchas ing agent’s and general storekeeper’s offices in Wilmington. The loss will probably reach $50,000. A peculiar and serious accident oc curred Sunday morning about 11 o’clock on the side of Beaucatcher Mountian, one mile east of Asheville. A man named Jerrett walking along the path on the side of the mountain slipped and fell down the steep moun tain side, striking his head against a rock and infleting a deep and danger ous wound, Jarrett was found by a passer-by soon after the accident and was taken to the Mission Hospital in an unconscious condition. It is not tiiought that Jarrett’s injuries will prove fatal. After four days of careful investi gation of the Wilcox sentiment as it exists in adjoining counties, Judge Fred Moore'Saturday ordered that the trial he carried to Hartford, Perqui mans county. The Judge said: “I find the people of Perquimans opposed to capital punishment. This will be in favor of the defendant.” The opin- mn of the prisoner’s family in adverse to the removal, they regret having asked it, knowing that bitter anti- Wilcox feeling now exists in Hert ford. There are some who think the defense has made a great error John and Lester McMahon, sons of a well-known Baptist preacher of Rutherford county, have been on trial there the past three days for the seduction of Florence and Daisy Mc Arthur, daughtera of a well-to-do and respected farmer living in the lower part of the county. Both l}oys were found guilty and Saturday morning Judge Hoke sentenced each to the penitentiary for 15 months. It is generally reported that the case could have been compromised for less than has been paid for lawyers’ fees, and the wonder is that the boys took such a chance. At 2 o’clock Sunday morning Mr. C. E. Hopper, of Charlotte, one of the proprietors of the Central Hotel, who has a room in the annex, heard some one creep soltly up the annex stairs, fumble at the knobs on one or two doors and then enter a room Mr. Hooper ran into the room and found what he expected to find—a man who sought to get a night’s lodging free of charge. No words of any conse quence were exchanged, but Mr. Hooper caught the stranger at the back of the neck and slowly but em phatically kicked him all the way down the steps aud into the streets. An organization of the Wilmington Tobacco Warehouse Company, re cently chartered by the Secretary of State with an authorized capital stock of $100,000, was effected Friday by the election of W. E. Worth, presi dent; George O Gaylord, vice presi dent; James Kyle, secretary and treasurer, and George O Gaylord. W. E. Worth. W. B. Cooper, S. I*. Mc Nair, H. L Yallers, M W. Jacobi, R. R Stone and Frank Andrews, direc tors. The object of the company is the establishment of a market in Wil mington and ultimately to build up an export trade from that point, also to encourage the cultivation of tobac co in eastern North Carolina. Mr. H. Abrams, a contractor of Winston-Salem, received a letter Sat urday that made him happy. He was notified that he had won a suit that has been pending in the courts for five years. Mr. Abrams built a $.')(),- 000 business house for a wealthy firm in Georgia. The contract called for completion in six months and he was to forfeit $50 a day for every day after this limit. The firm began putting goods in the basement before the six months expired and this prevented Mr. Abrams from laying the floor in time. The company refused to pay him and a suit was instituted. The case went to the Supreme Court and Mr. Abrams won, getting judgment for $2,000 and cost. We conld all resist temptation if it was to do right.