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THE LARGEST s.ircvlation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. THE LEDGER. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wfc GUARANTEE The 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. ti.Vi'ABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C„ FBI DAY. MARCH 27, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THE PALMETTO STATE. ^"emsof Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. ^vttntN tlixt Haw Taken Place from One Kn<t of the State to the Other Culled from Exchange!* for <}uick Keadlng by Scotch of IttiMy People. Work is now well under way on Greenwood Cotton Mill No. 2. The foundations are being dug and the work is going ou very rapidly. Willie Jackson,who was wanted in Darlington county for murder, was arrested in Florence Saturday even ing and has been sent to Darlington. Hon Chas. E banning, of Wash ington, was in Newberrv Wednesday looking up matters arising out of claims against the government in the Indian and Mexican wars. He re turned to Washington Thursday morcing. A citizens meeting was held in Mathews L Bouknight’s hall at Lees- viile this week for the purpose of listening to and discussing plans for erecting a large tourist hotel between that place and Ratesburg. Some northern capitalists were present and made interesting talks, and the im- med.ate erection of the hotel it assured. Ad effort is being made at Beau fort to induce the Southern Railway to extend its seaboard terminal to Parish island. A prominent attorney has been employed by interested par ties to look into the matter of the validity of tide land titles connected with that island. It is believed that propositions to be made to the South ern will be accepted. News has reached Anderson of the suicide in Wilmington. N. C. x of J. L Snipes formerly of that city. It ^develops that he had been drinking " for several days and when found in hii-Jroomlwas barely alive.having swal lowed an overdose of morphine. He died before a physician could reach him. Snipes was 48 years old and leaves a wife and several children. The strike at the Southern Cotton Oil Mill in Columbia last week has not effected that concern very much. The negroes who “walked out” were skilled laborers in a way but the ^nill has been running ever since they struck. As the Southern Cotton Oil company has a numher of mills over the state, it was not any trouble to get other laborers there from other mills. The secretary of state Monday is sued a charter to the Sumpter Lum ber Company, which has a capital stock of $12,000. The directors and officers are G. W. Stone, T. A Kern and H. J. McLaurin, Jr. The Greene- Thompson Company of Spartanburg was also chartered to do an under taking business and to undertake to sell buggies, etc. The capital stock is $20,000. Senator McCall of Marlboro, chair man of the legislative committee in cnarge of the Wade Hampton monu ment appropriation, has called the committee to meet in Columbia on April 1 This committee has charge of the entire work from this time on and will have the responsibility of raising about $8 000 to be added to the legislature’s appropriation and to the voluntary subscriptions already in hand. Dr Crum has received notice of his appointment to the office of col lector of the port of Charleston. It was in the usual form from the treas ury department. Crum will now ar range for his bond which will probably be gotten from one of the bonding C’mpi'Mes The bond is for $50,000, and it is not likely that there are any negroes in this section of the coun try who are able and willing to go on the bond of the new collector for the required sum. Announcement was made at the pos.office department Monday of two new rural delivery'routes in South Carolina, the service^to btgin April 1 Route No. 1 at Ridgeway, Fairfield County, with one carrier, will serve a population of 500 and the postoffice at Bryant will be discontinued, and that at Longtowu supplied by carrier. The second new rural route is from Wlnosboro, serving 408 persons Babb postoffice and the star route will be discontinued. R W. McDaniel, who has been in the penitentiary since the adjourn ment of the February term of court, has been returned to Lexington jail. He was delivered to the neniteiitiiry before notice of appeal was served. His attorneys will carry the case be- ^jpre the supreme court and ask for a Tew trial It will be remembered that Mr. McDaniel was convicted of murder, with recommendation to mer cy, for the killing of policeman J. Lee Neeves at Swansea on Christmas eve last. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People You Kuow him! People You Don’t Know Rev. J. D. Bailey, of Cowpens, spent yesterday in the city and fa vored The Ledger with an appreciated visit. W. D Byars, of Cowpens, was in the city Tuesday Wm. George, of Wilkinsville, was a city visitor Wednesday. I). L Littlejohn was a Ledger visit or yesterday. T L. Bryant and his daughter were in the city Tuesday. Miss Maggie was the guest of her friend, Miss Maud Thompson, on Victoria avenue. John S. Harmon, of Wilkinsville, spent some time in the city Wednes day. Mrs. Furman Moore, of Greenville, is in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Peeler, corner of Gra- nard and Depot streets. H. Z. Hicks, of Ezell, was an ap preciated Ledger visitor yesterday. Oliver Hames, of State Line, spent some time in the citv Wednesday. R. P. Scruggs, of Ezells, was in the city Tuesday. John O. Tate,Jof Gowdysviile, was an appreciated Ledger visitor Wed nesday. A. H. Smith, of Algood, was in the city Tuesday. J. C. Hayden, of Blacksburg, was in the city Wednesday. Lee Patrick made a business trip to the city yesterday. J. R. Healan, of Blacksburg, was in the city Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs Boyce Turner were shopping in the city Tuesday. Magistrate R. W. Lee, of White Plains, spent some time in the city yesterday Wade Elmore, of Draytonville, was a city visitor Wednesday. John Hames, postmaster and pro gressive farmer a< Gowdysviile, was a city visitor Tuesday. E R. Sepoch, a prominent Chero kee farmer of Mt Paran, made a business trip to the city yesterday. Bonner Cook, of White Plains, was a Ledger visitor Wednesday, M. M. Tate, of Webster, came to •he city Tuesday. W. Sam Lipscomb was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Silas Case, of Thickely, was in the city Wednesday. C. A. Spencer, of Home, spent some time in the city Tuesday. Mrs. John Dye. of Chester, is in the city visiting her brother, W. S. Hall, Jr., on Johnson street. Mrs. Dye has many friends in Gaffney who are pleased to have her in the city again. Marge Phillips, of White Plains, came to the city Wednesday. W. H. Martin, of Ezells, came to the city Tuesday on business. G. W. Turnipseed and Dever Little were at Cowpens Monday. A. Harris, of Algood. wts a visitor in the city Tuesday. He called on The Ledger. W. B. Hambright, of Antioch, spent some time in the city yester day. Mrs. G. D. Curetor, is visiting at Inman, her old home. She was ac companied by Dr. Cureton. who re turned to the city Wednesday. John L. Alexander spent Wednes day in the city of the Spartans. He was up there in the interest of his bottling works. Mrs. W. Twitty Thompson and daughter, Miss Maud, spent yester day up the country with Greensberry Humphries. O. P. Hill, manager of the county home, was in the city Wednesday. Attention Veterans! Headquartkks j Jake Oaki’Knter Camp U. C. V. [ Gaffney. S. C. March 2(ich, 1903 \ Jake Carpenter Camp U. C. V., wi I hold its annual meeting in the court house on Saturday the 4th of April at 11 o’clock a. m. Officers for the ensueing year and delegates to the State and general reunions will be elected. I entreat every member of the camp and every veteran in the coun ty to be present, and that they come prepared to fit) out the blanks neces sary for them to fill before they can receive the crosses of honor which the Moses Wood and Winnie Davis Chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy wish to present thfm in June. D. A. Thomas, Commander. CoukIi Settle*! on Her Lungs. "My daughter had a terrible cough which settled on her lungs,” says N. Jackson, of Danville, III. “We tried a gn at many remedies without relief, until we gave her Foley’s Honey and Tar which cured her.” Refuse substi tutes. Cherokee Drug Co. An order from (South Africa for 18,000 eight-horse plows has been re ceived by a plow manufacturer in the United Htatea. To Cur« it Cold In One Day Take Laxative Brorao Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25o. FLAW PICKER ON THE RIGHT SABBATH God Began Makin' This Old World Sunday Mornin’ FINISHED FRIDAY NIGHT It Don’t Mnke no Difference to Flaw what Kings, and Po|ies, and Presidents, and Preachers Say About It, when He Heads a Thing He Knows What It Says, (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Coalin’ Ground, Marcn, 25 —My dear friends an' f*’low citizens: As I promised to commence at Genesis an’ wind up at the windin’ up place, I want to call your careful an’ un divided attention to the 2nd chapter an’ 2nd an’ 3rd verses. God commenced makin' this ole world on Sunday Mornin’ an’ wound up the job Friday night—the Gth day an’ at the dawn of Saturday mornin’, the 7th day, he ended his work which he had made an’ rested an’ blessed it, an’ sanctified it. You meby mought say, “Flaw, how in the thunder do you know what day he commenced, an’ what day he ended the job ?” Well, I take the nateral ungarn ished scriptures for it. Hit don’t make no difference to me what kings, an’ popes, an’ presidents, an’ preach ers, an’ law-makers say about it, when I read h thing with my own raterai eyes I know what it says. Ef you git down to the very sim plest—the calanders an’ almanecks says that Sunday is the first day of the week, which would make Satur day the seventh or Sabbath day. The laws of the states compel you to keep Sunday, the first day of the week, an’ a poor man can’t afford to keep two days, the first an' seventh, so he is forced to work on the Sab bath, an’ "rest an’ hallow” Sunday. “But,” you say. "Flaw, the calan ders an’ almanecks meby mought be wrong fer all we know.” Well, they meby mought fer all I know, but ef the nateral born scrip tures are gone wrong, sivilization is wrong, religin is wrong, we’re a keepin’ up a whole paseel of preach ers instead of puttin’ it on our wives an’ children, we’re a paying out mil lions of dollars to missionary causes to naught—that is, ef the scriptures are wrong. Here is the nateral thing as I have dug it up, an’ it's the way I am a dishin’ ef it out. Ghrist was crucified on Good Fri day an’ arose on Easter Sunday "early in the mornin’ ou the first day of the week,” us the scriptures is wont to have it. Now, if Easter Sunday is the first day of the week, then, of course all other Sundays are first days of the week; which you understand, would make Saturday the seventh day ; an’ if God rested on the seventh day and called it the Sabbath, Saturday is the Sabbath day instead of Sunday. Now, Kernel, here’s a pinter fer you: Hereafter if you have a school on a Saturday hit is sll well an’ good enough to call it Sabbath school, but ef it is on Sunday, by ail means say Sunday school. I raley do bleeve that the reason Mary Magdalene an’ Christ’s mother did not go to the sepulchre to annoint him Saturday was because it was the seventh (Sabbath) day, accordin’ to their customs, to keep holy. Some sportin’ classes in some parts of the United States play base ball an’ tight chickens on a Sunday. Well, the big book don’t say any thing about keepin’ Sunday holy an’ I can’t raley see any harm in it myself, since you’re forced to work on the seventh day (Saturday). I happen to be acquainted with a Seventh Day Advent preacher what had papers of eompelment served on himonejtime fer breakin’ of corn stalks on a Sunday mornin’. He thought he’d win out but, bless your soul, they had it cut an’ dried fer him, as it were. He quoted them all kinds of scriptures in his behalf hut it didn’t work worth a continential. The ole squire says, says he, •Bar- son, your scrip’ures an’ argyments are sound un’ good so fe: as 1 know You meby mought not been a doin’ anything against God’s will, hut you’ve violated the laws of the coun try by workm’ on Sunday. Go way dowti In your flanks an’ plank down the five an’costs in this case an’ fix it up with the Lord any ole way you can.” This bears me out in what I said last week, that poor fallen man can’t look in no direction but what he is headed off by some law or other. May the good Lord help you an’ also Flaw picker. It Haved HU Leg. R A. Danforth, of LaGrange, Ga., suffered for six months with a fright ful running sore on his leg ; but writes that Bucklen’s Arnica Halve wholly cured it in five days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Piles, it's the beat salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cts. (Jiiery Column. Que8tions>pertainiDg to all matters of personal or general interest an swered in this column. Address all communications to Miss Query, “Ledger office.” Miss J :—November 5th P. K:—Black invariably. George:—The ace is either higher low as the hand runs. Mabel:—The quotation is as fol lows, and is by Congreve—“The Morning Bride.” "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.” ‘ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” MissC:—Your restlessness is evi dently caused by your lack of occu pation. Always remember “The great est hapniness comes from the great est activity.” Jennie:—Better consult with your mother, she is the proper one to ad vise you, and you seldom find her acvice faulty. Miss L. V.:—It is perfectly proper for you to accept the tickets iu a case of that kind. Nellit :—Scalp massage properly given will, if persisted in, stop your hair from falling. E. 8.:—We cannot give addresses in this column. If you will send a stamped envelope to this office the address will be mailed you. Uettth Near Huffalo. Mr. Allen Wyley Holt, one of the oldest and most highly respected citi zens o? this county, died at his home near Buffalo on the 20th, inst. in his eighty-third year, and was buried in the church yard at Mt. Paran. A short funeral service was conducted at the grave by his pastor, Rev. Mr Bostic, m the pre ( ence of many mourning relatives an i friends. Mr. Holt lived and died in a few hundred yards of where he was born. He married Miss Polly Young, who preceded him to the grave only two months, in his early manhood. They lived together nearly sixty years and bad born to them five children, two of whom, Mr. John G. and Mr James T. Holt, survive them. Mr. Holt was a member of and an officer ir;- Mt. Paran church many years. He lived up to his faith and was comforted by it when the end came. His high character and exemplary life made friends for him of all who knew him, and his death causes deep sorrow to them all. Fire Yettterday Afternoon. The fire alarm was sounded yes terday afternoon just before six o’clock for a fire in ward five. The reel companies responded promptly and everybody followed on the run. The fire was at Mr. J. T. Brown’s res idence on Montgomery St. If, caught from a bucket of ashes which was sitting on the kitchen floor and was put out by neighbors before the reels arrived. The damage was slight. The Oxford dispensary began busi ness Friday. The sales amounted to $60. Many the tovn people are re gretting the change from prohibition to the dispensary. The county com missioners the first day of January refused to license any saloons, and so the town has been dry during these months. The chief of police makes this remarkable statement, that all last fall while the saloons were open, the fines collected for disorderly con duct amounted to an average ofj $40. perjmonth. During the two and a half months since the first of January, with the saloons all closed the fines have averaged only $4 per month. A telephone message from Salisbury to the Charlotte authorities Tuesday night stated that A. Lloyd Lindsay, the 20-year-old son of the proprietor of the Central Hotel, had run away with a Miss Stewart, a 17-/ear-old Salisbury girl. Instructions were given the Charlotte police to arrest the couple, who left Salisbury on No. 35 Tuesday night, with the presuma ble intention of going to South Caro lina to be married; but the police officers who went through No. 35 could find no trace of the young peo pie. Lucian Jackson, colored, of Char lotte, who is a Pullman car porter, has received a letter from George Stewart, a colored employee In the Pension Office inJWashington in which ti is stated that Lucian’s mother, who lives in Alexandria. Va , has fallen heir to $200 000, which, the letter says, was left to her by “some old sea captain.” Jackson has gone to Alex andria to investigate the matter. Khw or Inflamed Luukm. Yield quickly to the wonderful cur ative and healing qualities of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It prevents pneu monia and consumption from a hard cold settled on the lungs. Cherokee Drug Co. With an abundance of water the Eucaliptus tree will attain a height!: of 100 feet in 10 years. see the Com- NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. IntcreHtlii); Paragraphs anti Kt-rent Hap penings In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent fur lleneiit of Ledger Headers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, March 24.— A’e have had an ahundence of rain within the last few days and it has done im mense damage lo plowed lands and crops. Broad river is reported to be higher than it has been in two years. Tne wire at Howell’s ferry which was about twerity-s» ven feet above com mon water at the lowest place, was torn down yesterday by a tree com ing down and lodging against it. The wire is still fast at each end and c**n be raised as soon as the waters subside, though new posts will have to be put up. We were very sorry to hear of the death of Mrs Mary VVaiker which took place at Gaffney last Saturday. She was buried in the family lot at, Skull Shoals yesterday in the pres ence of a vast concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. Rev. Mr. Best performed the funeral ceremonies. Mrs. VVaiker was one of ‘he* old land marks in this s-f'io" A plain, unostentatiou- *■« ■ ■ — vLoh-i. a Kind woru lo* ouv. ui wnom she spoke, and when she could say nothing good she kept silent. During our long acquaintance with her we never knew of or heard her speak evil or harshly of anyone. She was the mother of our county superin tendent of education J L. Walker, whom we are proud to know has been to her a faithful and dutiful son. He has, like every truly true man, been loyal to his mother, never leav ing her for a moment without proper protection when it was possible. And now that they have been separated he has the consolation of knowing that he has to the letter fulfilled the great commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother.” The boy or man who can do otherwise is capable of doing everything else that is mean and low down. # For three days we have had no mail from either Union or Hickory Grove. vVe failed to get to the Sunday School Cotvention at Elbethel last Sabbath. The rains and high waters have blocked everything. A few people began gardening last woek—planting Irish potatoes, sow ing cabbage seed and bedding out sweet potatoeo. A report was circulated yesterday that some fellow from North Caro lina, en route for St. Louis, was com ing down Broad river in a small boat and was going in his own craft by the water route. It was also reported that he had been hung upon a rock in the river ‘somewhere about Ninety- nine Islands. Several were ou the look-out to see him pass down yester day. If he went we have heard nothing of it. What has become of the fool killer? One of J. VV. Estes’ hired hands got his foot cut pretty badly yester day with an axe and will have to take his bed for some time. Rev. W. H. White will preach at Salem on the 5th of April at 11 a. m. On Saturday before he will make a few pastoral calls upon some of the old and feeble ones who can't get out to church. Our churches in general —ail denominations—neei pastors more than they do preachers. Some ot the ’phones got burnt out the other night during the storm and have not yet been fixed and put into operation. j. l. 8. More HlotH. Disturbances of strikers are not nearly as grave as an individual dis order of the system. Overwork, loss ot sleep nervous tension will be fol lowed by utter collapse, unless a re liable remedy is immediately em ployed. There’s nothing so efficient to cure disorders of the Liver or Kid neys as Electric Bitters. It’i a wonder ful tonic, and effective nervine and the greatest all around medicine for run down systems. Itdispels Nervous- ness, Rheumatism and Neuralgia and expels Malaria germs. Only 50c, and satisfaction guaranteed by Uherokee Drug Co. Among the 5,000 tramway car drivers and conductors iu Vienna there are stated to he 400 kuighta, 50 barons and four counts, besides noblemen. Any,Cook Good KnmiKh “Clifton” flour makes the sweetest and most nutritious biacuita that ever came out ofthe oven—and any cook Is good enough cook to make them. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Rev. H. R. Chapman, of Furman University, will preach at the First Baptist church Sunday. The high waters the first of the week washed away the bridge across Big Thickety on the Algood road. Since it has cleared off the weather is considerably cooler. There was a light frost yesterday morning, but not enough to injure the wheat or fruit crops. There is an opening at Annapolis for some young man in the 5tb con gressional district between the ages of 17 and 20 years. A competative examination for the place will be held in Yorkville on May the 12th. Price Martin, of Mt. Paran, has about fifteen bird dogs training them for northern men. A. G. Miotz, of Blacksburg, has about the same num ber. Both Mr. Martin and Mr. Mintz are fine shots and handle dogs to per fection. June H. Carr’s new studio is tak ing on fine shape. He has had a magnificent sign painted on the Birnie street side of the building. The work was done by A. B Gaines, vhich is a guarantee of its artistic worth and beauty. Rev. T. F. Boozer will occupy the pulpit in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning, on account of the absence of the pastor, Rev. W. R. Potter, who is conducting a protrac ted meeting iu the Presbyterian church at Cowpens. Plans are being made for The Cher okee DrugCompany’s new store which it will build on the southwest corner of Limestone and Frederick streets 'hie spring. The ^ir*. wa8 bought from Judge J. E V\ i t.- -r some weeks ago, and is one of the most desirable in the city. Master Samuel Jefferies Jr., son of Mr. J. C. Jefferies the H. H. & H. attorney, found a duck egg last Mon day that was peculiar in color, being jet black all over. He might send it to President Roosevelt as a souvenir because of the latter’s propensity for things colored. Win. Wilburn, a prosperous mer chant of King’s Creek, was in the city Wednesday the guest of his sis ter, Mrs. Cooper, on Jefferies street. Mr. Wilburn is of that staunch old family of Wilburns, of Cross Keys, in Union county. Wherever one of them is found, he exerts an influence for good. Mr. M. J. Sholer, who some weeks ago took charge of the Southern depot in this city as agent, has tendered his resignation to accept a more lucra tive position with the Southern Cot ton Mill at Beseemer, N. C. Mr. Sholer has proved an efficient and accommcdatingagent during his short stay with us and we regret that he finds it to his interest to make the change. A Llbeml Offer. The undersigned will give a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets to any one wanting a re liable remedy for disorders of the stomach biliousness or constipation. This is a new remedy and a good one. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney ; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Saxony has one of the best regu lated systems of forestry in the world, the net profits from the forests amounting annually to over two mil lion dollars The Stom *«‘li Ik the Man. A weak stomach weakens the man, because it cannot transform the food be eats into nourishment. Health and strength cannot he restored to any sick man or weak woman without first restoring health and strength to the stomach. A weak stomach can not digest enough food to feed the tissues and revive the tired and run down limbs and organs of the body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, puri fies, sweetens and strengthens the glands and membranes of the stomach, and cures indigestion, dyspeysia and all stomach troubles. Cherokee Drug Co. It is estimated that the bees of the United States have produced, during the season just closed, seven million dollars worth of honev and wax. Lard Kxpeiiftiv<* ami Injurious. Lard is not only expensive but in jurious to the health when used in liberal quantities. To make the so- called cheap patent flours white enough, the life is all ground out of the flour; then it is necessary to load it up with lard in order to make it work. This accounts largely for your heavy biscuits and rolls and your bad digestion. It takes less than one-half the lard to work “Clifton” that it does cheap patents, so that you not only save more than the difference in nrice but get a more healthful and nutritious fond product. Health and economy dictate the use of “Clifton.” Foley’s Kidney Cure makes the kid neys and bladder right. Contains nothing injurious. Cherokee Drug Co. —For Art Clothing Bold by Oberokss Drug Co. pany store.