The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 10, 1903, Image 2

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' • -r—- r PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. RY 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. ♦ ♦ 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. ii-oo-l vr 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. s c , 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. V V i 'i V V v V V V V V V V V V V) V' V V * i V V V V V y V y Matchless Valentines ^ • ‘ JL 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. >T4 ■ M 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. OJVlTirrsUcY, c. I