The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 10, 1903, Image 2
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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY.
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Ed. H. DeCamp.
The Educational, published at Co
lumbia, gives editorial endorsement
to an article in our Christmas num
ber in which we ventured a few feeble
remarks on the relative duties of tne
ed’tor and the school teacher. Sub
sequent events have served to make
us more fully realize the importance
of the truths expressed in that edi
torial. Little did we dream when we
wrote: “What our country needs is a
class of editors who will tell the ‘ruth
for truth’s saice, regardless of the
consequence of vhom it may effect—
even if it effect himself,” that in so
short a while Carolina's most gifted
writer would be called upon to y : eld
his life for the sak** of having told
the truth. The assassin’s bullet never
ended a more truthful life. No man
could do more for the truth than did
Let;
The
A few
the farmejs
selves
The rai
farm worl
bad shapt
Jonas
zite min
dy
;er is the paper. Take it.
s like yesterday will allow
to get a move on them-
Rev. G
burg, hel
church
s last week put a stop to
and haze left the roads in
lanton, a successful mona-
and farmer, came to the
city Satu lay
T. H. Westrope has moved his
jewelry s >re to his own building on
Limestoci street.
Croft Williams, of Blacks-
services in the Episcopal
Sunday
afternoon.
Nine tfnts for cotton is causing
the farm rs to bring in the small re
mainder If their crop and sell it.
A. N. Vood is one of the corpora
tors of
and Pow
Quite
arrived t; Limestone College in the
last ten
the begi
he Electric Manufacturing
r Company, of Spartanburg.
number of new pupils have
ays to begin their studies at
uing of the new session.
N. G. Gonzales—he gave his life for
it.
When we penned those lines above
referred to we were thinking of how
we had been abused and misrepresent
ed and maligned because we had
dared to take a stand f <r truth, for
purity in politics. Even our best
friends, it seemed, had turned their
backs upon us and inMt-ud of the
warm handclasp and words of en
couragement they usually gave, with
few exceptions they shunned us and
Insisted that we had ruined all by
our rashness. We felt the bitter
pangs of misconstruction and our
heart was heavy because the people
for whom we had labored zealously
were attributing to us motives that
were as unwarranted as they were
untruthful. Perhaps some day the
people who have seen fit to distort
everything we have said that did not
agree with their views will realize that
we were working for what we believed
to be right. If they should ever
come to this conclusion, then our dis
appointments and heartaches will not
have been in vain.
NOTKS AND COMMENTS.
Our friend of the Edgefield Chron
icle does us the honor to appropriate
one of our editorials, word for word—
with a few slight alterations to make
it appear original—in his editorial
columns. We feel flattered, but
assure our friend that when we clip
from the Chronicle it will give us
pleasure to give due credit.
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Some time ago The Ledger suggest
ed that on account of the congested
condition at the State Hospital for the
insane, that the State buy some land
in one of the upper counties and
establish another hospital. The
Greenville Mountaineer objected on
the ground chat the State already
owned plenty of land in Columbia for
all the purposes of the hospital. Now
The re;
and Th
lands,
high it
banks.
aijd
ti
ent heavy rains put Paco'et
kety out over the bottom
while Broad river has been
s generally kept withm its
The a
day rain of Saturday kept
the usuJ Saturday crowd until after
noon, wieu it assumed quite good
proporti ns and merchants report
a prettyjgood business.
The bidding in Gaffney last year,
which was a record-breaker, did not
finish the city by a heap. The plans
already in shape for 1903 leave 1902
behind, and others are maturing.
Ed Clary, who has been with C. C.
Harris some years, has accepted a
position with the large firm of Car-
roll, Carpenter & Byers, where he
will be glad to see his old friends.
Yesterday was fair and fine and
there was quite a good crowd in the
city. The merchants seemed to do a
good business and the stock dealers
had good sized crowds around their
barns.
Mr. Shade Wood and Miss Ramath
Burgess were married on the 3rd inst.
by Rev. W. T. Thompson. These
young people are of our best, and
enter their marital life with the good
wishes of a large number of strong
friends.
' M. B. Brissie has resigned his po
sition with the Virginia Life Insur
ance Company and has accepted a
position with A. D. Jones & Co., of
Greensboro, N. C., Southern man
agers for W. W. Kimbal & Co., of
Chicago, 111.
The young man who was put in jail
about a week ago for marrying a girl
under fourteen years old, has been
released <>u bond ihe little girl has
gone back to the home of her parents,
and many people hope that there
will be no further prosccusion of the
case.
The R. 8. Lipscomb Shoe Company
has moved its splendid stock of shoes
into the old postofflce building on
Limestone street, which has been re
modeled, and now presents a most
handsome appearance. The stock
has been artistically arranged and
every one in the house is ready to
make buying shoes from the R. 8
Lipscomb Shoe Company a real pleas
ure.
there is a resolution before the Gen
eral Assembly to authorize the hos
pital to buy four acres of Columbia
land for a price not to exceed $5,500.
We still think it would be wise to do
as The Ledger suggested. Establish
a new hospital in one of the upper
counties.
Senitor Marcus Hanna, the manip
ulator of the Republican campaign
fund, has introduced, by request, a
bill to pension worthy ex-slaves.
Hail and good day to Mr. Hanna’s
bill, even if it is introduced by re
quest. We hope it will pass and be
come a law. Thera is a good deal
more sense and justice in this bill—
even though introduced by request
—than there is in some already on
the statutes. Mr. Hanna need make
no apology for its introduction.
Every Southern Senator should vote
for it, but we will bet a “chaw of
terbaccy” they never get the chance.
The dear lovers of the down-trodden
colored people of the South will see
to it that they don’t get relief. Mar
cus is pitying for tbs votes of the
colored delegation iu the next Na
tional Republican convention, and
he’ll get ’em sure.
No Koberjr at Seneca.
Seneca, 8. C., Feb. 7, 1903.
Ed. The Ledger :—In reading The
Ledger last night I discovered an ar
ticle saying that the safe crackers
bad visited Seneca a few nights ago,
which I emphatically deny. This is
7-V:
a false report, and not knowing where
you secured your information I write
you to please make the correction.
I think it possible that whoever re
ported the same to you read the ar
ticle that I sent to some of my pa
pers, or the capers that I represent,
that was dated from Seneca, giving
' tbe account of the safe crackers at
Btun a few nights ago.
Respectfully,
L..H. Cary.
frhg account of the robbery at
Beinoa .was taken as a State news
item frothe Spartanburg Journal—
Ed.] \
Lockhart Local*.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Lockhart, Feb. 8.—Not much has
transpired since my last letter that is
worthy of being published in your
newsy paner.
A considerable quantity of rain fell
here last week and the river has been
quite full.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Crawford are
on a visit to the latter’s parents, Mr
and Mrs. Cannon, at Spartanburg.
Mr. Wm. i.lackwell, of Etta Jaie,
is on a visit to friends and relatives at
this place.
Rev. W. II. White filled bis ap
point here at the Presbyterian church
yesterday. It has to be very stormy
indeed if his reverence fails to meet
bis appointments.
Tbe roads are well nigh impassable
and tbe way they look now a good
roads’ convention would not do much
good. Roads are a good deal worse
than they used to be from tbe tact
that each year there are more people;
consequently that calls for more
travei, and they are cut up more
which makes the mud much deeper.
Tenant bouses are being built here
when the weather permits. Several
are now under construction.
The Ledger failed to reach us on
Saturday evening. We hope it will
come to hand today. Homo.
Letter to A. It. Uatnea.
Dear Sir: We bear you’re doing a
good business, and we know alreiuiy,
without your telling us, that youmse
good paint and do good work. We’ve
got a big business too—been at it 149
years—making good paint, best paint
in the world, Devoe Lead and Zinc.
“Fewer gallons and wears longer”
—that’s the reason in short. It takes
fewer galUms of Devoe Lead and Zinc
than of mixed paints to cover a bouse,
find it wears longer than lead and oil
or any mixed paint.
Smith & Wilber,Cambridge Springs,
Pa., write:
Ono of our painters says Devoe Is tbe best
E alnt for a painter to use when taking work
y the job, as It goes farther and covers
better than any paint be ever used.
Here’s the experience everybody
has with it. Tbe dealer who sells
Devoe gets the bulk of the paint busi
ness of his town. Tbe painter who
paints Devoe gets tbe painting of bis
town. Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.,
New York.
BEYOND THE BROAD.
Local News and Progress of Enterprises In
Thriving Itlacksburg.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Blacksburg, Feb. 6.—A delightful
afternoon tea was given by Mrs. Jno.
F. Jones on Thursday afternoon in
honor of Mrs. Williams and Miss Wil
liams, of Aiken, S. C. The ladies as
sisting Mrs Jones were, Mrs. Alonzo
Tripp, Mrs. Oakman, Mrs. W. E. An
derson, Mrs. Shaw and the Misses
Oakman and Deal.
Mr. H. D. Wheat has taken charge
of the knitting mill with his usual
energy. His practical ability and
success in the management of other
industries leads the stockholders to be
lieve that a new measure of success
will attach to this enterprise—the
addition of a spinning mill, and in
stallation of more knitting machinery
in the present mill is talked of
The water-works and fire protection
system being installed by the Vir-
ginia-Carolina Chemical Company, is
nearly completed. With a reservoir
on the mountain and the network of
pipes and hydrants surrounding their
acid works and fertilizer plant they
seem to be securely protected from
fire risk. This is a busy season with
this company and they are sending
out more goods than usual.
W. L. Rushton, of New York, man
ager of the Bessemer Iron Ore Com
pany, reports contracts have been
made for boilers, compressors, air
drills, cars and tracks, and that the
work of installing such machinery at
No. 2 mine will be started this mouth.
The Southern Railway will build a
spur track to this mine- which it is
proposed to work in open cut, and
the company expect from it to ship
upwards of 1 000 tons of magnetic ore
per day. The Stewart mine will be
equipped so soon as this is in good
working condition.
Cherokee Inn is filled with North
ern guests. The nealthful conditions
of this locality are unsurpassed, and
some day they will be more fully ap
preciated and the mineral springs
made an item of greater importance
Few realize that during the war the
Confederate government utilized one
of these springs on the basis for the
manufacture of Epsom salts, and that
for years the Lithia Inn and Sulphur
Springs Inn was the mecca of down
country people, who formerly had
summer residences at the foot of
Whittaker Mountain.
Invitations are nut for the marriage
of Miss M. E. Porter and Rev. G.
Croft Williams at the Episcopal
Church of the Atonement in Blacks
burg Thursday evening at 7:3U
o’clock. Miss Porter is the daughter
of R E. Porter, a prominent citizen.
Rev. Mr. Williams is rector of the
Episcopal Church at Blacksburg and
at Gaffney and Lancaster.
[Mr. Williams has been rector of
the Episcopal Church at Gaffney for
several years. Hu is tamest and
consec'a’fld worker for the cause he
espouses, unu, wuhal, a young man
with whom it is a plee^ure to come in
contact. His numerous Gaffney
friends and admirers wish for him
and his fair bride-to-be a bright,
happy and prosperous future.]
For Sale
Advertisements under this heao will
ije inserted for one cent ii word eneh inser
tion. No ad inserted for less than ten cents
F Oll SALE—One flood work horse, or will
trade for gentle family horse. J. Eh Jef
feries. 8-10 if
LH)U SALE Thirly or tori.v Bushels Orange
•n Cane seed. I*. Suiilh. Uoui’lier, S. C.
8-10 2tpd
F oil SALE—140 acres land in Uogansvllle
Township, known as the Tolleson place,
adjoining lands of Harnett, Mrs. Hughes et
al. Will be sold on reasonable terms.
llavenei & Gantt. Attorneys,
Feb titf Spartanburg. S. O.
F oil SALE—Jersey Bull, apply to G. B.
Humphries at Dock lloss’ place.
Feb.«. 10 I'd.
Wanted.
■\iyANTKD—People to know we sell the fol-
” lowing Bicycles; Columblas, Clevelands.
Crawfords, llartfords. ideals, Ramblers and
Westfords. Parker & Tolleson.
Jaii-JO-tf
W ANTED—Two intelligent boys 14 to 15
years of age to learn the printing busi
ness. Apply at ibis office
Tl/’ANTED—At once, 50 shares Gaffney Mfg.
““ Co. stock. State price. Hall & Willis,
Attorneys. Jan. 23-tf.
W ANTED—500 bushels peas at once; high
est price. J. L. Alexander.
Jan. 0-1 mo.
W ANTED—Chickens, eggs and green
hides; II. G. Clary. Aug. 23, tf.
W ANTED—To make straight loans on city
real estate. No commissions. Several
thousand dollars to loan.
Apr29-tf J. C. Jefferies.
Notice.
H EREAFTER we will only gin on Wednes
day of each week, aiid grind at the
roller mill on Saturday. Victor Cotton Oil
Company. Jan. 23-tf.
Money Loaned.
L OANS on improved farms for a term of
years at seven per cent. Interest. No
commissions. For information apply to J. C
’efferles. Attorney at Law.
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Money to Loan.
Wo have money to loan in any amounts on
city and county property and stocks and
bonds. Interest tf to 8 per cent, according to
amounts. Terms to suit borrower.
Hall & Willis, Attys.,
Gaffney. S O..
Dissolution Notice.
T HE partnership heretofore existing be-
tw ep B. G and W. O. Wilburns and A. W.
Love Is i hts day dissolved by mutual consent,
B. G. Wilburn retlrlngand selling his Interest
to H. G. Anderson. The style of the firm
hereafter will be Wilburn Anderson At Love.
All parties owing the old Arm will make pay
ment to the new Arm, who Unauthorized to
settle up the business.
B. G. Wii.bithn,
W. C. Wilburn,
A. W. Lovb,
H. G. Andkkhon.
Kings Creek, 8. C., Jan 29,1903.
The Limestone Star.
The Limestone Star, u monthly
publication issued by the pupils of
Limestone College, is always full of
well written original matter on appro
priate subjects by 1 he pupils of tbe
college and is issued in the most ar
tistic form of auy college publication
in the State.
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, CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
| Boat Cough Syrup, Taste* Good. Uae
In time. Sold by druggists.
lEErtthwif
Notice to Teachers.
The regular evoir m on r < g . i-ln
will 1>t* held in: e < i
day, Feb. 2uiii. A v. ':<> , :i»«• no . < ii-
cule are re<)iiiv< il lo *. >mi si ui na
tion. I hope t- w bo a E ■ mI-
ani'e, as I am . if o :: . oil be
come persona ii\ ..ne. a id i i ie
teachers
The while t> < b s \ 11 m i in mv
ofliee up si - . ue
colored Icaclu - w 1 m ,i <• » nu:l
room. I I. \\ *
Feb. 10-13-17 S o I- on.
The Cherokee Publishing Company,
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the books of
subscription to tbe capital slock of The Cher
okee Publishing Company will be open on
and after Saturday, Feb.T4, 1903. at the of-
Acesof Butler and Osborne. Gaffney, S. C.
Proposed capital sto-*k, live thousuml dol
lars, the shares to be of the par value of
twenty-live dollars each. Purpose* of the
organization, to publish a serni-we -kl v news
paper, The Cherokee News. Mr. S. F. Parrott,
the editor, who will tak** two thousand dol
lars stock, proposes to the extent of his
salary and dividends, to guarantee 7 pM*
cent, dividends. 2-tfth-10tb.
Saturday will be St.
Valentine's day; surely
you are going to re
member HER.
As usual our line is
complete, new, bright
goods, all sorts, Fancy,
Sentimental or Comic.
, Drop in and look them
over.
S. B. CRAWLEY & CO,
Si3 Limestone St.
Druggists, Perfumers and Stationers.
Prescriptions Properly Filled and
Promptly I >e!i Vt red.
One
Figure
more or less in the
price paid for pic
tures may 111 e a n
beauty and perma
nency or entire
lack of it.
The path of safety
lies between ex
travagantly high
a n (1 ridiculously
low p r i c|e s and
leads right to our
studio. We make
PHOTOGRAPHS
at fair prices.
These pictures
combine good art,
perfect portraiture
and high finish.
We guarantee that
they will not fade.
Jnne H. Carr.
812 LIMESTONE ST.
’Phone 17ti.
On the market
Again to buy
The best load of
Big Mules can
Be bought.
We keep all
Kinds and sizes.
Come and see
Us before you
Buy.
GAFFNEY
LIVE STOCK
COMPANY,
H. M. Johnson,
Manager.
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Valentine day comes
next week. You will want valen
tines and you might as well pick from an
assortment of the latest and best ones. N o t h-
ing new but what we have, and the prices are also
the best to be had. Any tiling you want from
one cent up. Some of the card mounts and
boxed creations this year are truly superb.
Nothing gained by waiting; better
make your selections while the
assortment is complete.
Comic ones?
Yes of
cour
se.
Cherokee Drug Co.
LIMESTONE AND FREDERICK STREETS.
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m m I* m m m. * a * M A A, A—JL A ^ A
JUST IN
AT STOCK HEADQUARTERS
One Carload
Kentucky Mules,
One Carload
We will make the prices right,
you want something iu either line.
Call and take a look when
POAG MULE COMPANY,
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE.
Limestone St., Opposite City Hall. ’Phone No. 40.
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST.
If it’s the best you are looking for in fertilizers this is the place
to buy. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices
against all honest competition.
I still have a*few wagons and buggies which I will selll cheap
to close out. Wagon and buggy harness.
I am proud of the record 1 have made in the shoe business.
Nearly every sale makes a permanent customer. Honest goods
at fair prices have done the work. We often hear expressions
like this, “I get better value iu those at J. I Sarratt’s than any
place in the city.”
I continue to keep my stock of farming tools and farmers’ sup
plies up to the standard and will save you money on anything
in either line.
‘ NOW IN STOCK
Seed oats for spring sowing.
Dean save you money on Clothing, Dry Goods, Hats, Trunks,
Valises, Satchels and Bags. See me before buying,
I have several good farm mules which I will sell cheap for
cash or on time for good papers.
Respectfully,
J. I.
Tne Gaffney City Land and Impronemtnt Company
Offers tor sale Building Lots In this AouristilnK town, Gaffney City; Farms net
by and in reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of from
30 to 100 acres on liberal time r ites; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur
poses. For full particulars apply to
J. V. "THT, A
N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on, walk or ride through or over the lands of this
company, cutting and removing timber. Ashing or hunting, under penalty of law.
A. N. Wood, President. II. R. Brown. Vice-President
THE MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK,
OF GAFFNEY. S. C.
Established 1901.
Capital $50,000.~Surplus and Profits $8,500.
STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSITORY.
Does a general Banking and Exchange business. Is well Atted up with Fire Proof Vault
and Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Time Lock. We solicit the business of people of
all occupations.
C. IV*. Gashler.
Frank Hammond, President. W. G. McDavid, Sec'y. and Treas
THE CAROLINA LOAN AND TRUST CO.,
GREENVILLE, S. O.
Capital Stock - - $100,000.00.
Real Batata Loans made on easy term.. Will buy you a home with rent money. Call on
HALL & WILLIS, Local Attorneys.
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