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THE LARGEST circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressiona) District of S. C. The ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FKIDAY. W c GUARANTEE A tie Reliability of Every Adv'- - tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C„ TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR* THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. rtvvntH th»t Have Taken Place from One Kn.l of the State to the Other Culled from KxchaiiKert for Quick Heading by Score* of ltu*y People. A cornmi-'sion wu* issued fhp Bark of Springfield, Orangeburg county, which will have a capital of $25 000. A com nission has been issued the Greenville Improvement Company of Greenville, which will have a capital of 25 000 The secretary ot state has issued a charter to the Green Hunting and Fishing Club of Columbia, upon peti tion of E. C. Grieshaber and C. E. Kelly. The election held at Conway Tues day on the question of “ Dispensary” or “no Dispensary” resulted in a vote of 08 no to 20 yes. This settles the fact for the time being that Con way is to be a dry town. J. A. Sawyer, of Union, is back from Galveston, Texas, where he went in search of two witnesses to the Hill will, which fell into the hands of Mrs. John Hopkins. The estate is said to be worth $140 000. Dr. John Robert Smith, lovingly known throughout Laurens county and by many friends in the state as Dr. •'Peg-leg” John Smith, died at his home near Laurens ^ He £was about 04 years old. He had been in feeble health for more than a year but his death was sudden. The Thad L. Clinton residence in ' Yoraville, for several years past owned by Mrs.Emily L Rickord.of New York, and occupied by Mr. J. R. Gardner, was destroyed by fire la*t Tuesday morning. Mr. Gardner was away from home at the time. The loss is estimated at about $800, and $500 of it is covered by insurance. A pitiful thing happened Thursday in the lower part of Colum bia. A young colored girl, Agnes Mayfield, bought 20 cents worth of * morphine and used it When her friends found her she was asleep in front of her door. If a skillful physi cian had not come to her at once and used strong measure■< she would never have awaked. But she was waked. Zan Bradford, a well-known well digger, was painiullv hurt lasfSatur- day. He was working in a well on the premises of Mr. Daniel Pratt, near Lockhart, and I'.he injury was sustained as the result of the falling of a bucket of rock. His right leg was hurt; but no bones were broken. He is not yet able to be about again, however and is not likely to De for several days. City Attorney W. B. Wilson of Rock Hill has been authorized by council to make answer to the com plaint served by the heirs of A. T. Black in their suit against the city, the Southern Railway and a number of individuals to recover certain val uable city property now controlled by the Southern along the trucks ex tending through a large part of the best business section ol the city. Seventeen carpenters, employed in the construction of the buildings now going up at the Brogon mills at Anderson, went out on a strike Tues day. They are members of a labor union which was organized about two weeks ago. Several days ago the mill company decided that they would not employ union labor, andThursday the foreman in charge of the work was notified of tbe decision that bad been reached. The case of Ada Brooks, colored, vs Western Union Telegraph Com pany, was heard in the common pleas court in Greenville Fridiy. This is a suit for $2 000 damages, action be ing taken under the mental anguish 1 statutes, and also for punitive dam ages arising by reason of the failure of the telegraph company to deliver a telegram announcing death of plaintiff’s father. The jury returned a virdict of $750 for the plaintlff- A case of interest to laymen and lawyers was tried in Lancaster Thurs day. It was an action brought by E. C. Secrest as receiver of J. A. Hilton & Co., a former firm of Ker shaw, against the Hartford Fire In surance Company for $l,4o0, the amount of a policy of insurance issued by said company to said firm January 1, 1897, on the stock of goods of the latter. By direction of the Judge the jurv rendered a verdict in favor of tbe insurance company. One of the main buildings of the Anderson Mattrest Factory com pany’s plant was destroyed by fire Thursday morning at 9 o’clock. The fire originated in the mattress gin ning department, and the materials in the building being of a highly m- liammable nature the fire was quick ly communicated to other portions of the building and the entire building was quickly consumed. The loss was about $10,000, nearly covered by in surance. Mayor J. Adger Smyth and Judge Chas H. Simmons, of charleston, trustees of the Gibbs bequest, re ceived Friday check for $107,763.89. which is the fund from the estate af ter subtracting expenses involved in litigation. Of this amount $53 881 94 was depositee in the People's Bank and $53 881.95 was placed in the Bank of Charleston. The balance yet to come from the estate is held for a residuary fee to meet the ex penses of litigation necessary to wind up the ease. This money was left to the city of Charleston by James Gibbs to establish an art in stitute. Relatives contested the will and it has been tied up in the court for some years. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. A number of our people went to the Union meeting at Elbethel Saturday and Sunday. The mule trade in the city con tinues good. A good number were sold Saturday. Thickety and smaller streams were out of their hanks, and over the low lands yesterday. The weather forecast for South Carolina says fair and warmer today with fresh northeast winds, becom ing northwest. Prof. Geo. Pratt Maxim, Mrs. Max im, Miss Mary Williams and T. B. Clarkson drove over to Blacksburg Saturday afternoon. Wheat and oats have remarkable growth for the season, but both are crops that cannot be counted ot too inui h till they are in the granaries. The Gaffney Brick company have begun work building houses and dig ging wells preparatory to making brica as soon as the weather opens. June H. Carr has moved into his new studio in the Littlejohn block corner of Limestone and Birnie streets He began work there Satur day. I 1 . G. McCraw presented The Led ger with a stalk of young corn with six leaves on it. This is the largest we have heard of in this section this spring. Cherokee coutty is in as good shape financially as it has ever been. Merchants report good business and an unusually large proportion of it cash business The business in the mayor’s court yesterday showed no boom. Every thing was of a petty character, even the fines, which only amounted to seven or eignt dollars. The damages to bridges in this county, caused by high waters some ten days ago, have mostly been re paired, and we hear of none caused by the rains Sunday and yesterday. It is rumored that Mr. T. L. Black, the efficient agent of the Southern at Blacksburg, will soon succeed Mr. W. T. Irwin, as agent of the same company at Spartanburg. Mr. Irwin has tendered his resignation. The Union meeting at Elbethel was well attended Saturday, and it held an interesting sessions, but on account of the stormy clay Sunday it held no session, and the delegates returned to their homes Mondiy morning. A great many people were in the city Saturday. They came from every section of the county and all were well up on wet weather and bad roads They deprecate being so far behind with farm work and long for good work weather The United States court for the western district of South Carolina will convene in Greenville oa Tuesday morning, April the 21st. Judge Braw- ley will preside. The grand and petit jurors have been drawn. More of them are from Cherokee. Sut dty at 11 a. M., R-v. J. M Steadman preached in the Beuf >rd Street M. E. churcn Sunday scnool room to a small but interested con gregation, on ‘‘Christian watchful ness”. There were no services at night on account of the disagreeable weather The citizens of Gaffoey are now taking about 60,000 gallons of water from the city water works every twenty four hours. All of this is taken from one well which is 555 feet deep. Notwitbstand this great quan tity used the well shows no signs of weakning. Mr. Rader, of Charlotte, N. C., who was so severly hurt in a runaway here some teo days ago, and Mrs. Rader, who came over to be with him during bis affliction, left for their home in Charlotte yesterday afternoon. While Mr. Rader is far from well, we are glad to state he Is dowing well, with prospects of a speedy recovery. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. IntereHtlng I’ltru^ruiihs and Krcent Hap- pruingH In Lower Serf ton of the County Gathered Up by Our (tegular Correspon dent for Kenetit of Ledger Reader*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, March 28—Dr. C. M. Littlejohn, of Gaffney, was in this section yesterday on professional business. We were slightly mistaken in speaking of the wire at Howell’s ferry being down when we said it was still attached to the postings at either end. It got loose from the roller on this side and was carried down the river its full length by a raft. The neighbors gathered on day before yes terday and took it out and replaced it and the fiat is now running all right. We live in a neighborhood of public soirited people who are ready to do their work on any matter which materially concerns the public weal. Mr. Sam Foster gave the young people a nice sociable last night. The water courses were higher by odds the last rain than they have been in a long, long time, and much damage was done to plowed lands, terraces, ditches, etc. Sam Strain and V. C. Comer went to Kelly Crossing today for a load of guano for the latter. Vany expects to make a big cotton crop this year. Your correspondent has been on the back ground for some time and is not in position to give the news of the neighborhood as he would like. We see several other correspondents from this section putting in their ap pearance in your columns. This is right ; we will gladly turn over the work to them for the time being if they will keep the readers posted properly. So go ahead, boys, and send in your letters and we|gaurantee they will be noticed. Mr. Will Westmoreland will finish painting the inside of Salem church next week if the weather and condi tions are favorable. The Sunday School Convention at Elbethel was held last Sabbath as announced. Not a great many were present but we are told it went on eT the same. The next meeting will be at Cirinth in June. The high waters cutoff all this section from getting to Elbethel last Sabbath. This is the only direction in which we have no outlet in time of high waters. All the streams are bridged with good substantial bridges except Gilky creek, and it has a good bridge on the Union and Jonesville road leading out from Wilkinsviile. This is somewhat out of the way for our people. We couldn’t ask for any more conveni ences from the county until all other sections are supplied as well as we are. We notice that Flaw Bicker is in tbe ring again. He has undertaken a big work—commenting on the Scripture of the Old and New Tes tament from Genesis to Revelation inclusive. We must admit our surprise that out of so many intelligent Bible read ers as The Ledger has t.uhudy has ever taken him to taw They just allow him to go on—having his own say jus'jao if the world and all the rest of mankind were to drir k down his logic. But what’s everybody’s business is nobody's business, and we think perhaps this class of readers to which we have just referred think they will obey the Divine Command, “Case not your pearls before swine.” We would not notice this in this connection were it not that Flaw makes a swipe at the “Kernel.” It seems that he has a penchcn' at scripture readings and Christian short coming- and largely puis such construction on each as his own liken and dislikes suggest. Or, that’s the way we read nirn. If we are compelled to take issue with him we will take up one ••pint” at a time (but we don’t mean by that Fu*s X)—one pint of his aigymints. For instance, he can’t see why Sat urday instead of Sunday it not the Sabbath. Well, Bro. Flaw, here is all we can say. Our catechisum asks and answers this question : “Which day of the seventh hath God appointed to be the weekly Sab bath? Answer. From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.” J. L. s. There is, in the heart of women, such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People Yon Know ‘and People You Don’t Know C. P. Garvin, of Allens, was in the city yesterday. Richard Foster, of Gowoysville, came up to the city Saturday. E K Belue, of Blacksburg, came to the city on business Friday. M. M. Tate was in the city Satur day. H 1). Wheat was in Charlotte, N. C., the last of the week C. P. Teale of Stevy. spent a short time in the city Friday. A. S. Smith, of Algood, was a Led ger visitor Saturday. James Robbs, of Grassy Pond, was a city visitor Friday. John S. Smith, of Love Springs, spent some time in the city Saturday. Dr. W. L. Settlemyer was in Spar tanburg the last of the week. Edmond Blanton, of Allens, spent some time in the city Saturday D. C. Belher and Ed. Whitesides, of King’s Creek, were appreciated Ledger visitor Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Moore, of Buffalo, are in the city visiting rela tives. Clough F. Inman, of Etta Jane, paid The Ledger a visit Friday and re newed. Landrum Clary, a prominent farm er of Algood, came to the city Satur day. 1). J. JHolt, of King’s Mountain, came over to the city yesterday. J. C. Jefferies, of Abingdon, was in the city Friday. Chas. H. Austell, who is traveling for a manufacturer of farm machinery, spent Sunday in the city with his parents, Hon. and Mrs. W. G. Aus tell. We are glad to learn that Charley is succeeding well in hi- bo- iness Capt. A. Urquhart, of Blacksburg, was in the city Friday. Roland Humphries was in the city Saturdty^and Sunday, the guest of Rev and Mrs. W. T. Thompson, on Victoria avenue. T. J. Hamas, of Asbury, was a Led ger visitor Friday. Allie Osborne, a prominent young business man of Blacksburg, was in the city yesterday Capt. J. J. Mugness, of Grassy Pond, spent a short time in the city Friday. Miss lone Liltlejohn visited friends in Spartanburg the last ot the week. H. K. Osborne, Esq., was in Green ville Friday on legal business. A. M. Glover, of Spartanburg, was in the city Saturday. Dr. J. F. Garrett was in Grover yesterday and will be in King’s Moun tain today and tomorrow on profes sional business. D. C. Painter, was in the city Sat- ru lay. Frank McCluney, of Wilkinsviile, spent some time in the city Satur day. Summie Alexander, of Love Springs was in the city Saturday on business. E. J. M. Durham, of Davisville N. C , was a Ledger visitor Saturday. Mr. Rivenbark, of Charlotte, came to the city Sunday to visit his afflict ed friend, Mr. Rader, at Mrs. Wood’s boarding house. He returned the same afternoon. G. W. Boncer, of Grassy Pond, was in the city Saturday. Mrs. P. L. Ellis is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. J. vVebber. at Buf falo. Goin Doggett, of Charlotte, N. C., was in the city Saturday visiting his mother, Mrs. W. A. C. Doggett A Pretty Herd of Kalddt*. We doubt if anyone in the state, dealers excepted, has a larger or prettier collection of white rabbits than our good friend Will Brown now has ut his home near Limestone. Will has a large herd of them, and they are all fat and sleek, without mark or blemish to mar their beauty, and everyone of them is as tame and gentle as a house c it. A black and white spotted one—the only one of the kind in the lot—is a perfect beauty, and a prettier specimen of the hare tribe would be hard to find Will loves to “fool with ’em,” he says, and their tameness is due to his fondness for them and the gentle care he gives them. Everything in the brute creation appreciates kind treatment, and at jonce becomes at tached to tbe one who accords it. With all his cleverness and close attention to them, Will has not been able to eradicate from his pets that inherent fear of a dog which is com mon to all their species; and at tbe least sound which seems to indicate the approach of a member of tbe canine tribe they will scatter like rats and make for their holes in the ground, each one striving to get in first. Will has lately added to his collec tion a pair of Belgian hares. These are about three times the size of our oommon rabbits and with ears as large as a donkey’s They are not at all “atruok with beauty;” but their oddities are intereating and amusing. Success to Will and his rabbits. THROUGHOUT THE TARiHEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS lutei-eatlng Item* Coii<-ernii>K Our NttiKl" bor* Heyonri the Line Which May l*r«v« Entertaining Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader*. Governor Ayeoek has declined an invitation to attend a meeting of the southern Educational Board in Rich mond next month on account of a prior engagement Mr. E. M. t’arver, who was con nected with the Amos Owens Oherrj Tree company, and who wei r West about, the time the “bubble bnr-tid,” has given bond and will reiurn to North Carolina the first of May and stand his trial at the June term of the Federal co rt in Charlotte. Some time between June and July a civil service examination wil he held in order to select four mail car riers for service at Elizabeth City, the postoffice having done trough business to increase its ru ing and justify their employment. The mail carriers will enter on their duties about Augu-t 1st. Suit has been begun in Superior court in Asheville against the South ern railway on account of the death of Tom Fisher, a railway engineer, who was killed recently in a vvreck on the 4-hevi‘l* divi-ion of ih‘ -on*!} ern. I t e amount of <! n i j~ asked for, $50,000, is perhaps the largest ever sued for on account of one man’s death. The postiffiee safe at Flat Rt ek Hender-ou county, was blown open with nitro-glycerine by Purglars about 1 o’clock Thursday and looted of $200 in cash. A large amount of stamps and some small checks are missing, none of which has been re covered. The door of the safe was blown from its fastenings and a hole torn in the floor. The glass doors and windows of the budding were also demolished. No clue to the cracksmen has been found. Ernest Haywood, indicted for the murder of Ludlow Skinner on the 21st of February, was Tuesday morning ar raigned in ourt in the presence of a great crowd. He answered “Not guilty” to the special solicitor ap pointed for tbe occasion, Hon. Walter E. Daniel, of Weldon. Haywood was surrounded by his lawyers, nine in number. He was pale and has grown emaciated since his confinement in the county jail and his hair has grown perceptibly grayer. As he came in he shook hands cordially with each of his counsel. The case will be taken up July 15th. Saturday night at 11 o’clock the furnished, but unoccupied residence of DeBrutz Cutlar, Esq., on Nun street, in Wilmington, was ransacked and set on fire by unknown parties. A family next door beard a noise in the building and discovered the flumes. The burglar ran across the yard and escaped as the fire alarm was being sent in. A window on the west side of the building was found up by the firemen when they reached the scene. The damage will be be tween $200 tu d $300 The police are working on the case. The depot of the Southern Railway at Asheboro wu* struck by ligh ting Saturday night and would have been destroyed tnjjether with a large amount of freight, hat in not been that a member of the depot force hap pened to be in the vicinity at tbe tune and on seeing a light in the of fice rushed in and before any con siderable damage had beeo done sue- needed in extinguishing the fire. It was a narrow escape and but for the presence of the agent which was ppeelv accidental, it being at a late hour of the night the building and contents would have been a mass of ruins. As a result of burns received last Monday Miss Mollie Gibson, a daugh ter of Mr. James Gibson, died Thurs day night at her home near Mat thews, Mecklenburg county. At the time of the accident Miss Gibson was watching her father and others clear off a new ground. While standing near a brush heap, her dress caught on fire and seeing that she could not put out the flames, she ran in the direction of her father. Before she teached him, her clothing was in a light blaze and before the fire could be extinguished, the unfortunate girl was horribly burned. Governor Aycock has accepted an invitation from the Wilmington coun cils of tbe Junior Order of United American Mechanics to deliver an address in the Academy of Music there on Wednesday evening, April 22nd. The occasion is the formal presentation of handsome silk flags and editions of the Bible to the Hemmenway and Union schools of Wilmington. State Councillor George E. Hood, mayor of Goldsboro, will also be there and will address the J unit,rs, presenting the gifts to rep resentatives of the schools. Gov ernor Aycock has been asked to speak generally along educational lines. A telegram Friday afternoon from Washington, D. C.. to relatives in Charlotte, announced the sad death in that city of Elbert K. B. Osborne, formerly of Charlotte and a son of ihe late E. K. B. Osbo.ne, who at one time was one of the leading busi- ntss men of Charlotte. The dispatch received by the menuDers of the fami ly stated that Elbert had died from asphyxiation, a gas jet jin the^room being turned on when the body was found. Those who know young Os borne state that the suicide idea is highly improbable; that he had just Secured a *ood position and was ex ceedingly happy in the love of wife and babv. AT ANTIOCH. School I’u|>iI*ami Patrons Indulge in Ama*- iiiK KxerelMe*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Antioch, March 25:—The recent heavy rains have again brought farm work to a standstill and it will be sev eral days before plows can start again. The wheal, and oat crops in this section at present bid fair to be the finest we have had for several years. We fear, however, that a severe cold spell at the advanced stage they have now reached would greatly injure 'hem. Brof Frank McCluney’s school at this place cio-ei • !; last Friday and the patrons ami pupils had arranged for a picnic on Saturday. Notwith standing the fact that Saturday was an unfavorablejday alarge crowd of pa trons, pupils and friends, assembled at the schoolhouse and spent a very pleasant day. Owing to toe shortness of the ses sion, Brof. McCluney had not pre pared a special program for his schol ars and the day was spent in un in formal social manner, the beys en gaging in military drilling, baseball, potato races, foot races and jumping, while the girls and young ladies stood in lovely groups looking on and seemed to be wondering why Cupid was not taking a more active part in the ceremonies. At noon a beautiful dinner was spread, consisting of all the good things which the good ladies of Anti och so well know how to prepare, and one and all were cordially invited to partake. The crowd stayed till late io the evening wbeo all returned to their homes feeling that the day had been well spent. Brof. McCluney has taught a fine school at this place and the patrons are loud in their praises of his work. The singing convention composed of the Antioch, Bethlehem, Grover and Blacksburg choirs, will meet with the Grover Baptist church on the first Sunday in May and the different choirs are beginning to practice for it. The Antioch band has recently been reorganized in good shape and the boys are now practicing with a vim. Hoozikr. CHEROKEE AVE. CHURCH. Send Delegation to Elbethel -Work of IS. Y. P. U., Sunbeam and Ml*Hlonary Socletle*. The Rev. G. B. Hamrick, pastor of the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church, was absent from the city last Sunday in attendance upon tbe Sunday School Union of the Middle Section of the Broad River Associa tion. which met with the good people of Elbethel. March 28-29. The delegation to the association from this church was as follows: Rev. G. P. Hamrick, Chas. J. Hughes, Chas. L. Davis, Miss Ella Kirby, Mrs. F. E. Shuford. and Miss Alberta Hall man and they would have attended Sunday but the rain and wind came, and kept them all at home except Mr. Hamrick, who went Saturday morn- ing. The Sunday School met at 10 a. m. with about, one-fourth of the regular attendance, on tbe account of the bad day. But quite a number of excelltnt singers were present. Mr. VV G. Hopper, of Buffalo, was present and led the singing and made the Sunday service very enjoyable. The B. Y. P. union, which meets every Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, decided not to meet but will have the same programme for next Sunday evening. The subject will be—“Our Missions Among the Mormons of tbe Great Northwest,” conducted by Mr. Stegall, and addresses by some of the other B. Y. 1*. U. workers. Tbe Sunbeams are doing an excel lent work under the leadership of Miss Bessie Shuford. They will ren? der an excellent programme for the public in a few weeks, which will be announced later. The Woman’s Missionary society ii moving on nicely and great tbinga are expected from it. I