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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. Ledger. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. % Wt: UUARAN rhe Reliability of Every au - tiser Who Uses tlu ol- umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of tlfe People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1903 $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Mint Have Taken Place from One Knd of the Ntate to the Other Called from KxehanKe. for Quick Heading by Scores of Hosy People. The Bank of Marion was chartered Mondav. Capital $2r),0U0. Henry Mullina, president; P. Bethea, cashier Governor McSweeney has appointed W. T. Brad'ey rreasu.er of Abbeville, in place of J. R. Blake, who was elect ed Senator. The People’s Bank of Beaufort waa given a charter Monday. Capital !jif)0,- 000 F W. Scheper is president and W. F. Naracher cashier. The Lindsay Mercantile company of Chester was commissioned. The capital stock will be $15,000. Corpora tors William Joseph and R. J. Lind say. Tillman Hampton, a negro employe of the Richland Distil'ing company, near Columbia, was scalded to death in a vat of boiling mash on December 24tb. / A charter was issued “The Mill Operatives’ Sick and Accident Frater nal Union of America,” which will have headquarters at Laurens. J. G. Wolfing, Jr , is the president. The secretary of state Monday is sued a commission to the Bank of Horry. The capital stock will be $25,000. Corporators are P. B. Scarboro and W. A. Freeman. A commission was issued “The Fur niture Dealers’ Protective Associa tion.” A. G. Rhodes, of Atlanta, and A. W. Litschgi, G B Buel, C. L. Stickney, of Charleston, are the cor porators. The ice factory of Mr. F. Schmidt, of Columbia, was burned at an early hour Wednesday morning. The fire was discovered shortly after 1 o’clock and the entire plant was consumed. The building was a one-story brick affair, with engines and boilers in ad joining buildings The factory and machinery were insured for $12,500. Wm. Fait, a representative of the Gibbes Preserving company, a large corporation of , Baltimore, announced Monday through his attorney, E W. Hughes, of the intention of the com pany to establish a canning factory in Charleston, principally for the canning of oysters. The new enter prise means a big thing for Charles ton. The Southern Railway Company has decided to place a shifting engine in Rock Hill, the order to take effect tae 15th of January. Mr. J. W. Tripp, of Blacksburg, has been ap pointed yard master, and will go to Rock Hill at once and make his resi dence there. From now until the 15th be will be engaged in locating rights of way of the old Three C’s and Southern Railway for a reason that is not yet apparent. Had Oxener, the white man who was shot by a ne. ro, near Goldville, Saturday night, is not seriously hurt. It is said that he received two wounds, one in the back of the head and the other in the shoulder. The story is that be went to a negro bouse on bis place to put down a disturbance, whip he was fired upon. Harry Gap- bin, d negro, is in jail, charged with the shooting, which he denies. Anoth er, negro, who is charged with the shooting and who received a wound in the thigh, it is said, has fled the country. Preparations are actively going on at the Charleston navy yards for the oonstrnctlon of the new dry doca and soon the work will be begun by the New York Filtration company, which was awarded the contract. Pile driv ers are being erected, hoisting en gines pat in place, piles stored and other preparations made for the early oonstrnctlon of the dock. The ex cavations will probably be began next week, when a large force of hands will be pnt to work. Daring the next two months the navy yard will be a very bnsy place. Gov. McBweecey Is being urged by some of his friends to sne an up-coun try daily paper for libel. This paper in an editorial intimated that in par doning McIntosh, tbs white man twice convicted of murder, the gov- •rnor was actuated by motives that • were questionable. There was a sug gestion of bribery In the charge which was very galling to the gov ernor’s friends, and he is by some of them being arced to bring salt for libel. His public acts they claim, are open to criticism, bat snob a charge as this should be challenged. Little Vivian Green the fonr-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Green, of Spartanburg, died Sunday afternoon from the injuries she re ceived on Saturday afternoon by be ing burned. The child was stand ing in the dining room of her home, warming before an open grate fire, when by some means her apron caught, and she was enveloped in stantaneously with a sheet of flames. A servant saw the accident and gave the alarm. Mr. Green rushed in, and in putting out the fire, burned his hands severely. While the child’s hands and face were badly burned, it is thought that internal injury caus ed her death, she having swallowed or inhaled the flames and heat. A notorious negro thief, of Green ville, named Houston Gary, was shot Sunday morning about II o’clock by Mr. W. C. Gibson, who was in search of him. Gary is know n as “Pipehead,” and he spends most of his time on the chaingang or in jail, but he does a lively business in stealing when he is not in the custody of the law, and his operations for the last several days have been on an extensive scale. Sun day morning Mr. Gibson and his son were riding around the city iu quest of the negro Gary, who was under sus picion, and while driving through a negro settlement near the upper bridge on Westfield street, the young man called his father’s attention to the negro ahead of them, whom be felt sure was Gary. Their pace was quick ened and so was Gary’s and when he started to run Mr. Gibson jumped out of the buggy and ordered him to halt, which only accelerated the negro’s speeds, and then Mr. Gibson fired at him with a 38-calibre with good elfect at a long distance, and the ball en tered the thigh from the rear, lodging near the skin in front, where it has been located by Dr. W. J. Bramlett, the county physician, since the negro was'put in jail. Finds Way to Live Lons;. The startling announcement of a Discovery that will surely lengthen life is made by O. H. Downey ofOhu- rubusco. Ind. “I wish to state,” be writes, “that Dr. King’s New Discov ery for Consumption is the most in fallible remedy that I have ever known for Coughs, Colds and Grij). It’s invaluable to people with weak lungs. Having this wonderful medi cine no one need dread Pneumonia or Consumption. Its relief is instant and cure certain.” Cherokee Drug Co., guarantee every 50c and $100 bottle, and give t^rial bottles free. The adage that there is plenty of room at the top is about as comfort ing to the struggling masses as the conductors’s dictum that there is plenty of room in front. Wanted. We would like to ask, through the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green’s August Flower for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and Liver Trouble that has not been cured—and we also mean their results such as sour stomach, fermentatiou of food, habitual cos- tiveness, nervous dyspepsia, head aches, despondent feelings, sleepless ness—in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or liver? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and send you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We have never known of its failing. If ao, something more serious is the matter with you. The 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all drug gist. G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J. But even where patience has ceas ed to be a virtue, it still lacks impor tant elements of popularity as a vice. A J. Snell wanted to attend a party, but waa afraid to do so on ac count of palna in his stomach, which be feared would grow worse. He says, “I was telling my troubles to a lady friend, who said: ‘Chamber lain’s Oolic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you In condition for the party.’ I bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating that two doses cured me and enabled me to have a good time at the party.” Mr. Snell is a resident of Summer Hill, N. Y. This remedy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Aliison, Cowpens. From all we can learn, heather as it should be pronounced rhymes with either as it should not be pronounced. Fin* K Dough for Wadding Cnka Or any other cake—and still the best flour for feread, biscuit and everything else. That’s what “Clif ton 1 ’ floor Is, an all-ronod floor that will never disappoint yon no matter what yon use It for. Boy it sod try It. Things do not go wrong of them selves ; somebody poshes them. Ask yonr doctor abont “Fewer gallons; wears longer.*’ NEWS UF THE WEEK IN LOWEH CHEBOKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. The Holidays I’leaHautly Speut—Mr, Wlltton llrown Dead—Township Superintendents £ Elected—Kev. J. P. Marlon Called to a 1'astorate In Lafayette, Loulsann. UCorrespondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Jan. 1.—This date is first written by your correspondent for The Ledger and he wishes all its readers a hanpy prosperous New Year and long, long lives. Nothing of special interest has take place during the holidays that we know of. Everybody has had a pleasant time so far as we know, and the young people are keeping up their fun and amusements. Miss Annie Miller, our teacher, is spending the holidays with her parents at Newport. She will re sume her work next Monday, Janu ary 5th. Miss Grace Whisonant came up from Kershaw to spend the Christ mas season with her home people at Wilkinsviile. She has been teaching there this year and has a fine school. The recent cold spell called for plenty of firewood and thick clothing. The boys have had a fine time bunting rabbits, The fox hunters have been out for two mornings with out getting up a trail. Mr. Wilson Brown, one of our over- the-river neighbors, died suddenly at bis home on Tuesday night of last week and was buried at Salem on Wednesday, Rev. P. B. Ingram per formed the funeral ceremony. Heart disease was the immediate cause of his death. He was about seventy years of age was a member of Com pany B. 12th S. C. Regiment in the war between the States From the Uuion Times we clip the following which no doubt will be of interest to a great many Ledgerites who know him: “Ada, I. T. December 19. 1902. Editor Jno.R Matbis. Union, S. C. Dear Editor:—Tell all of my friends in Union and lower Cherokee county that I will be glad to meet all them at my father’s, H. T. Scott, in Spar tanburg, S. C., Christmas day, that is if I have not outlived all of them. W. Cai*ek8 Scott.” Our Ledger readers will remember that we gave an account of meeting Capers at the Memphis reunion last year where be sung bis Rebel song at the headquarters of the South Caro lina Division U. C. Veterans. Mr. C. W. Whisonant began “take- ing stock” last Monday. This be does annually. Mr. Johnnie Estes, of Sedoiia,Onion county, is spending a few days with friends and relatives in Cherokee county “looking round ” Sam Strain has made frequent visits across the river lately—some thing must be up! Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes and fam ily are visiting relatives at Sbarou this week. Mr. Banks Jones, of Hickory Grove, and Miss Florence Kirby, of this place, were married last Wednes day by Rev. P. B. Ingram, of the M. E. churcb. We wish them much joy and a long happy life. The North Paoolet Sunday School Convention met at Wilson’s Chapel last Sabbath. Owing to the very cold weather not a great many were present, but the convection work went on the same. C. W. Whisonant, of Wilkinsviile, was elected township superintendent of Gowdeysville and R. S. Porter, of Bowlinivliie, for Draytonville town ship for this year. The old officers were re-eleotea for the present year. Nearly all the Sabbath schools were reported in winter quarters at pres ent. We learn that the Abingdon creek congregation met last Sabbath to elect and call their preacher for this year. Rev. W. H. White will preach at Salem next Sabbath at 11 a. m. Its likely that the night meeting will be discontinued until thd winter bresks— especially while the weather is cold and roads mnddy. If reports are true we expect other weddinga to take place between now and spring. If they don’t there is nothing in signs. Pigs are very scarce. They demand fancy prices where the stock is good and they are not stunted. The Hopewell colored bend oamf over Monday and played at Will White’s. They didn't stay all'day. Rev. J. P. Marion, formerly paetor of Salem cbnroh, has been called to LaFayette, Louisiana,where be gets a ■allery of $1000. He hea onr beat wjebee in hie new fiqjd and we asenre bis people that they have an able minister as well, as a fine pastor. There are few better educated men and tbeologiaus in the Sunday School synod than Bro. Marion, besides, he decended from one of the oldest and most popular of South Carolina fami lies. Our heart goes out in deepest sym pathy to Mr, and Mrs. Edwin B. Macomson and family in the great bereavement they have so recently been called upon to suffer—the death of their son, Olin, who was one of Cherokee county’s most useful and promising young men. Death rides In every passing breeze It lurks In every (lower; Each moment has its own disease Its perils every hour. . J. L. 8, The Secret of Long Life, Consists in keeping afl the main or gans of the body in healthy, regular action, and in quickly destroying deadly disease germs. Electric Bit ters regulate Stomach, Liver and Kid neys, purify the blood, and give a splendid appetite. They work wonders in caring Kidney Troubles, Female Complaints, Nervous Diseases, Con stipation, Dyspepsia, and Malaria. Vigorous health and strength always follow their use. Only 50o, guaran teed by Cherokee Drug -Co. As a general thing, it takes more generations to make a gentleman than it takes to spend his patrimony ; which may account for there being so few perfect gentlemen among us. UnconuclouH from Croup. “During a sudden and terrible at tack of croup our little girl was un conscious from strangulation,” says A. L. Spafford, postmaster, Chester, Mich , ‘and a dose of One Minute Cough Cure was administered and re peated often. It reduced the swell ing and inflammation, cut the mucus and shortly the child was resting easy and speedily recovered.” It cures Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, and all Throat and Lung troubles One Minute Cough Cure lingers^'in the throat and chest and enables the lungs to contribute pure, health-giv ing oxygen to the blood. Cherokee Drug Co. It is s.re comfort to reflect that Father Time is far more likely to cut himself than anybody else, if he holds his scythe as shown in the conventional New-year’s pictures. Oue Hundred DoUurM a Box Is the value H. A. Tisdaie, Summer- ton, 8. C., places on DeWitt’s Witch Salve. He say-*: “I bad the piles for twenty years. I tried many doc tors and medicines, but all failed ex cept DeW’itt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It cured me.” It is a combination of the healing properties of Witch Hazel with antiseptics and emollients; re lieves and permanently cures blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles, sores, cuts, bruises, exzema, salt rheum and all skin diseases. Cherokee Drug Co. It is a pity that so many pushing poeple should should devote their in tent chiefly to pushing other folks out of the way. A Scientific Discovery. Kodol does for the stomach that which it is unable to do for itself, even when but slightly disordered or overloaded. Kodol supplies the nat ural juices of digestion and does the work of the stomach, relaxing the oervous tension, while the inflamed muscles of that organ are allowed to rest and heal. Kodol digests what you eat and enables the stomach and digestive organs to transform all food into rich, red blood. Cherokee Drug Co. There are sixteen ounces to the ponod still, but two of them ate wrapping paper In a good many stores. The ciowned heads of every nation, The rich men, poor men and misers All join in paying tribute to DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. H. Williams, San Antonio, Tex., writes: “Little Early Riser Pills are the best I ever used in my family. I unhesitatingly recommend them to everybody.” They cure Constipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache, Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Malaria and all other liver troubles. Cherokee Drug Co. ■ The woman who has more than one chance to marry is bonnd to have re grets, no matter what she does. Have You a Critical Eye? Things made of “Clifton” flour present an appearance that will charm your critical eye aod at the same time you will have the satisfac tion of knowing that in this flour none of the helpful, strengthening elements of the wheat have been lost. Try this flour and be convinced. Young men know It all, but old men have the coin. Ask your lawyer about “Fewer gallons; wears longer.” THRUU6HUUT THE TlH HEEL ST1TE, From the Mountains to The Sea. * NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. , The John B. Ross Co., of Charlotte, was incorporated Wednesday with a capital of $75 000. W, J. Roscoe serving fifteen years from Richmond county for murder, is pardoned on the recommendation of judge and jury. Joshua Borden, 12 year old son of E. W. Borden, colored, of Kinston, died Tuesday about noon of blood poison caused by a bullet from a toy pistol. A special’to the Rsleigh News and Observer says that the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad had pur chased the Atlantic Hotel at More- head City. While firing a gun Wednesday night at his home in Cedar Creek Mr. Buck Hales, son of the late Lai Hales, had the top of his head almost blown off, the gun exploding while he held it high up to fire a Christmas salute. John and James Reimer, two small boys who live with their parents about five miles from Salisbury, were painfully injured by, the explosion of a toy cannon with which they were playing. Both eyes of James, the youngest of the two, received serious injury. Jack Hardy, of Mecklenburg, is pardoned. He was convicted of rob bery in July 1900 and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The gov ernor says the pardon is recommended by the solicitor, the jury and others aod Hardy wouldn’t have committed the offense if he had been sober. At a prayermeeting three mihs from Rutherfordtou James Snydtr called upon several sinners to assist in a prayer. On their refusal to do so Mrs. Snyder went forward and as sisted. When the congregation arose they were astonished to find Mrs. Snyder dead. She died while praying. A charter is granted the the Pepsi Cola Company, of Newbern, capital $25,000, C. D. Bartham owning prac tically all the stock The company will make a beverage. It is given au thority to establish branches at Richmond, Norfolk, Baltimore, Phil adelphia, New York and other points. The Dunn’s Mountain GraniteCom- pany began on January 1st the ship ping of stone for the rebuilding of-the Church of the Good Shepherd of Ral eigh. The contract is for about $8,- 000. The foundations of this edifice, built of-stone furnished by the same company, have already been com pleted. The burning of the rectory of Grace churcb at Morgantou entails a net loss of 91,900 upon the church. The house was worth $2 500 and the in surance was only $600. It was occu pied by the family of Arobdeaoon Hughson, who ia in the north collect ing money to establish mission schools in Western North Carolina. Tuesday afternoon in Stanley coun ty, near Gold Hill, John Summet, a 14-year-old-boy, bad climbed a tree and was making his way out ou a limb about seventy-five feet from the ground when the limb broke and be fell. The boy’s neck was broken and be had ceased to breathe when a com panion, who was near by at the time of the accident, reached him. % That part of the bird law of Rowan county wbiob prohibits the sale of quail is practically a dead letter. It has never been believed that this part of the bird law would stand if taken to the courts and those who are inter ested in tbeir rale decided last year to take the matter to the supreme court If necessary to protect their rights. In consequence of this agree ment birds have been sold this year by many dealers In Ssllsbury who will continue to sell them until' the game season has expired. Some time ago the town commie- sioners of Mt. Airy refused to grant license for retailiog liquor, the coun ty commissioners having done so. A suit was brought by liquor dealers bolding county license to compel the town authorities to issue them. This was strenuously resisted and the judge refused to order it. Monday argument waa again heard by Judge Shaw ou petition of the liquor sellers to compel the town commissioners to issoe license. Judge Shaw refused to order a mandamus against the city authorities. Lee Sol, a demented boy aged 14 years, of Caswell county, was missed Friday evening from bis home, and fearing that be might have wandered off and become lost a searching party was a ooce organized and started. The search was fruitless until Sunday morning, when the boy was found nearly frozen and his lower limbs black,' as if he bad been beaten. The affair created e great deal of excite ment. but it is not thought there was foul play. The last reports were to the effect that although not dead, the b >y could not possibly live. Mr. Alexander Webb,vice-president of the North Carolina Home Insur ance Company, says that December has been the worst month in the \ ar for fires—$175 000 at Winston, $50,- 000 at Hickory and $45 000 at R . ky Mount, and $20 000 at Washington. Mr. Webb is authority for the state ment that Raleigh people do not pro tect their property by insurance to the same extent as the other large cities. He says Raleigh p vs io premiums $88,000 per year, while Asheville pays $75,000 Gh»r|..tte $100,000, and Wilmington $107,000. Dr. A. M. Edwards, of Darlington, io Rutherford county, tells of a very peculiar accident that occurred near his place the other day. Two b'>>s, sons of Zeh Cristie, were trying to burn out a ball, which had lodged in their rifl--, with a hot iron rod and were having some trouble wOh it, when their mother came up and ne- gan helping them. She was holding the gun mizzle towards her, and *as preparing to put the hot iron wire in to the gun, when in some myaionous manner the gun fired. The ball struck her on the arm and glanced into her side and as yet Dr Edwards has been unable to locate it. The wound is not considered dangerou*. Heads Should Never Ache. Never endure this trouble U*e at once the remedy that stopped n for Mrs. N A Webster, of Winnie, Va., she writes “Dr. King’s New Life Pdls wholly cured me of sick headacht s I had suffered from for two tears” Cure Headache, Constipation. Bil iousness, 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. When two men get together each talks about himself, when two women meet they both ta k about some other woman. Report from the Reform School. J. D. Glut k Huperinteudarii, Prun- tytown, W. Va.,writes: .“After trying ail other advertised cough medicine we have decioed to use Foley’s Honey and Tar exclusively in the W esr Vir ginia Reform School. I find it the most effective and absolute!) harm less.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Marriage is a failure when both husband and wife make the di-covery that they have married beneath ttn m. Coughs, Colds and Constlpatlou Few people realize when '-king cough medicines other than Foley's h[ouey and Tar, that they contain opiates which are constipating besides being unsafe, particularly for chil dren. Foley’s Honey and T«r con tains no opiates, is safe and sure and will not constipate. Cherokee Drug Co. Perhaps the worst thing about rheu matism is the apparent necessity of listening to everybody's cure for u. Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphu> C<* , Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen:—-I have had ei z-ma over thirty years, have tried mat y remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has th- disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Hul- phur. I think if used property it is undoubtedly a specific for e<-z> ma. I have prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I cons Her it the best 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. Hkabd, M D For sale bv the Cher k-e Drug Co The fact that things do not meet with our approval does not seem to disturb them as much as it does us A Timely Topic. At this season of coughs and cnlrtg it is well to know that Foley’- Honey and Tar is the greatest throat and lung remedy. It cures quickly and prevents serious results from a cold. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. The honesty that is the heat po icy is not always the best honesty. A kidney or bladder trouble can al ways be cured by using Folev’s Kid ney Cure In time. For sale by Ch-rn- kee Drug Co, Never judge a woman’s mind by tbe time it takes to make It up Ask your grocer about * Fewer gallons; wears longer.”