The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 31, 1903, Image 2
ROADSTER’S VIEWS.
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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY.
BY
Ed. H. DkOamp.
than any other town in the State, and
tne sweetest women and prettiest ba
bies on earth. \ou fellows outs:de
who don’t believe this can come and
see for yourselves.
RAM.ROAD DISASTERS.
The frequent occurrence of railroad
disasters in this country is the cause
of serious consideration. We can
hardly pick up a daily paper that
does not contain the sorrowful news
of a railway wreck due to a misplaced
switch, a dispatcher’s blunder, a
washout or some other cause. As
everybody knows,washouts cannot be
averted. The storm is the work of
God, and yet while it may work havoc
with the creation of man’s handiwork,
still at the same time the number of
railroad wrecks due from this cause
could be materially reduced.
When we read of railroad wrecks at
a distance we generally lay the paper
aside with a few words of comment
and expression® of regret, depending
upon the magnitude of the catas
trophe, but when we read of one in
wnich but two souls are hurled into
eternity and one of them are near
and dear to us, we cannot dismiss the
subject with a mere wave of the
hand. It brings the matter home to
us and make-* us think of the terrible
risks one runs when traveling upon
the railway.
The great steam horse and carriages
as they pass over the steel bands that
link one end of the continent to the
other, that make a trip from the At
lantic to the Pacific a mere bagatelle,
that bring Maine and Mexico into
close communion with each other, arc
the admiration of the world, and
justly so. The brain that can con
ceive of and raise the finances to
carry into execution the tremendous
railway system of this country is to
be admired. But there is still some
thing wrong with a system that per
mits of so many disasters. We would
not for a moment have anyone to
think that we can solve the problem
of averting railway disaters, but the
fact remains that something should
be done. We are informed that tne
railway disasters of England are
nothing as compared to chose in this
country. We don’t expect the rail
road compinies of this country to
listen to any suggestion we might
make, neither do we expect that they
•will ever hear of our suggestion,
'nevertheless we venture the assertion
that if every railroad in tnis country
was compelled to oe built in a
straight line from one point to
another and adopt the block system,
that with the many curves thus avoid
ed, the percentage of disasters would
be decreased. It stands to reason
that on a straight line with two tra.ns
approaching, the engineers could sne
each other in time to avoid many of
the col'isious that take place. Ihere
should be a national law requiring
that all lines built in the future be
built straight from one station to
another and that no curve be allowed
except at a station, and then tne
trains that do not stop at stations
should be compelled to decrease their
speed until tbe train is again on a
straight line. Those roads already
built should be compelled to straight
en their lines from station to station
and also adopt the block system. Of
course this would entail a harship on
tiie railroads now in existence, but
we verily believe that they would, i.)
the course of a few years, save enough
to justify them in the outlay.
Of course railway officials and at
taches will at once say that tbe fool
newspaper man has no sense and the
tiling is impractical and impossible.
Certainly It is impossible to run a
straight line up the side of the Blue
Ridge mountains, but they could be
tunneled, and it is noo impossible to
ruu a straight line in the low land. It
would cost vastly more to build a
straight line in the hill country, but
in the end it would pay. Leave out
the question of the sacrifice of human
life altogether and look at it from a
sordid business standpoint, and in
twenty years there is not a railroad
that would not save more from wreck
age tbau the increased cost of such
construction
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
8ime women 3laim they can get
along without men, but somehow or
other they don’t care to do it.
Look on the bright side of every
thing. It’s just as easy for you and
a great deal more pleasant for otner
folks.
Devotion to duty may sometiues
seem to have its disadvantages, but
in the end those who remain true will
reap their reward.
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Gaffney Is the best town In South
Carolina, barring none. We’ve got
more push, pluck and persevereuce
One hundred and fifty-three new
subscribers during March was not so
bad after all. yet that is what The
Ledger did. We are still doing busi
ness at the old stand and are better
prepared to serve you than ever be
fore. Now is the time to subscribe.
Only $1.00 a year for 103 jopies. less
than 1c each.
President Roosevelt last week ap
pointed ex Senator Jeter C. Pritch
ard, of North Carolina, associate jus
tice of the District Supreme Court.
Tbe job pays $0,000 a year and is for
life. This is one of the best appoint
ments made by the president, but it
will not offset tbe appointment of
Crum. The president does some
mighty funny things to be credited
to a sane man.
We call upon the women of this
section in Cherokee, where the North
Carolina still is seeking a new base to
continue its debasing work, to notify
its promoters that the still is not
wanted, and will not be allowed to
operate in their neighborhood. Few
men can stand the opposition of
women when they become aroused
and fight for their county, their sons,
daughters, their sisters, brothers and
fathers.
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William H. Baldwin, Jr., railroad
president and philanthropist of New
York, with others, spoke at the
Unitarian Club banquet a few nights
ago. Mr Baldwin spoke of the South
as it is and particularly of the need of
moral and industrial education there.
We would suggest to Mr. Baldwin
the propriety of giving a few lessons
on morality to the •‘400” in Buffalo
in his own state, l y doing so he
may k ep the others aloof from the
scandalous practices that brought
about the Burdick tragedy.
Interest in the effort to establish a
distillery in this county is growing—
that is, the sentiment against it is on
the increase. A correspondent in
this issue touches up the matter a
little. We don’t need it at all, and
if report be truejihere is trouble brew
ing for the illicit distillers tow in
in tii*- <•- only The lust
leliows who openly
violate the law need a term in the
penitentiary and no amount of money
or political influence should be able
to keep them out.
GAFFNEY AND CHEROKEE.
An Old RfHhleiit Still FVt*lK a Det-p luti-n-Ht
In Their Welfare.
Mr Editor:—In an editorial of
last Tuesday’s issue, March l():h,
you say that Gaffney and Cherokee
are your idols. May we who have
moved from Cherokee but who still
feel a deep interest in her welfare,
claim a share of your good wishes?
Or shall we feel that it is only the
present and future county that you
are concerned about? I love to near of
Gaffney’s present power and of her
h( pes for the future, but I hope she
will never forget some of her leaders
who helped to make her present pos
sible. Do you think I would be par
doned should I mention a lew names
that I appreciated in the Gaffney of
sixteen or eighteen years ago? None
have done more for your town than
Prof. W. F. McArthur. Others may
have made and invested more money
there, but he has helped to shape the
character of your youth and inak*-
them worthy citizens. He had for a
number of years associated with him
that excellent tutor. Prof. J M.
Tankersley, and later Prof. R. O
Sams. Some of your leading bus
iness men are Prof McArthur’s boys
in the schoolroom. 8 >me of your
best people were attracted to Gaffney
by her splendid educational facilities
and the institution presided over by
these three men was no mean attrac
tion fifteen years ago. It takes
money to run any enterprise, but
what kind of persons do we want to
handle thi* money? It is that kind
whose minds are trained for business
and whose integrity is unquestioned,
and your pMmotors are not only
those who have invested money ii
your town and countt, but also those
who have mv-s’.ed their time and
talent in labor to cult,vate the minds,
shape the chA>a"t. r inspire the mo
tives, and to r -.se the standard of
worthy citizen- ,ip.
I am fullv awsre that ynu have
some fine im orted material, hut w .at
brought them there? Most of them
were not there at tto la\ii g of the
corner stone. Had it not been for
your exiH.lent home element these
would no: have been at true i < ii ’•tier.
Mai Gaff: ey Mve lor tf at ri prosper
and may sue never forget her first and
truest hen 'factors
Though I am distantly removed
from your counti (may 1 say our
county?) The Ledger comes to my
home, and twice a week I see familiar
names in its ciiuimijs Mav we Hatter
ourselv s ’Omi your subscribers out of
yuur con i have a share In vnur
good wishes? Ex CHKK«KKKAN
Although men believe a great many
things they know but few
Thinks Farmers Should 1’ay Reiter Wages
and Keep the Roys on the Farms.
Editor Ledger:—As ‘Roadster”
has been on the road all the time,
for the past two weeks, he missed
getting in a letter last week, but will
do better from now on.
News is rather scarce just now, at
this place. We hear some of the farm
ers complaining about too much rain,
but it will quit raining in plenty of
time for the people to make a good
crop; or at least, it has always done
so in the past.
People are prone to grumble; we
ought not to do so, ‘or God knows
whit is best. We very often forget
what the Scriptures say : ‘‘Consider
the lilies of tbe Held,” and if God, in
His own Divine Providence, takes care
of His flowers, He will surely take
care of His people.
The farmers are all getting a late
start, but they will get an even start
after all. ihe great cry now, among
the most of them, is, that they can’t
find ‘‘bands” to do their work I
have been thinking some time now.
that our farmers would have to go to
paying better wages to keep our boys
and young men on the farms, and off
of the public works, and out of the
cotton mills. It has always been
singularly strange to me that a good
band on the farm could tot get more
than eight or ten dollars per month
for his work, when he works for years,
and twelve or fourteen hours to tbe
day.
A young man can go to the cotton
mill, and if he will try, and behave
himself aright, he can in a few years
build himself up and get far better
wages for his work than he did when
he first began; but on the farm it is
the same small price, forty to Hfty
cents per day. 8o that is the best
reason I can give for the scarcity of
laborers. I think the wages should be
better, and thus keep our boys and
young men in the country, and out of
the towns, for I think the day is not
far distant when farming will be the
occupation that man can follow.
That is only my opinion, to he sure,
and 1 am only a small farmer boy,
and it cannot be much ; so I would
like to hear from some of the rest of
the correspondents of The Ledger on
the subject.
This writer was made glad the other
day when he found a trunk full of
the best books that one can read, in
tbe express office, as a present from
his uncle in Tampa, Fla. Among the
lot of books were : Shakespeare’s com
plete works. Rudyard Kipling’s
works, Webster’s International Dic
tionary and Encyclopedia. So I can
read now until my heart is ;ontent
Roadster.
Furmau Notes.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Greenville, March 23:—The min
strel boys have been hard at w-nrk for
several days and th“ promise of an
ktereating programme wili doubtless
be verified when they appear before
the public in the Alumnae Hall, on
April (J. The manager was indeed
fortunate to secure the services of
Landrum and Hammond, who are
well known and experienced in such
work. It is very probable that the
minstrels will visit Gaffney the latter
part of April.
finite a lot of class spirit has been
manifested for two weeks past, and
the old tower has been the scene prob
ably of more friendly skirmishingthan
ever before. The iuniors placed upon
tbe tower a large Hag which caused
much comment. While the juniors
were in a r*citati >n the ‘‘wise fools”
decided not to be behind and unhesi
tatingly climbed the belfry and placed
a ‘‘soph” Hag some feet above the
juniors. This was somewhat “against
the grain” of the ’04 class, so when
night came two daring juniors mount
ed the steps and with strenuous efforts
succeeded in bringing the ’O') H«g to
the ground where it was divided and
pbces of it worn as souvenirs by the
’04 c'as- the following day The
‘ sotiha’ l used on with a soirifc of
rev-nge, hut did nothing except to
join with the freahmen in a determin
at ion to outdo the juniors. *\t once
acorn on IGm- from both the lower class-
i s wah appo* teil and they proce-ded
to have a t'OJoar * er placed in th" per
ilous position held hy the ’04 fl iglj
Finally thi-, wuh ihe latter, came
down and the freshmen i.nd “sophs”
s ood to the juniors somewhat as the
-Over and gold a'aioiards did to each
ott er sev- rai year ago—1(> to 1.
Prof. G er has h*-*-'i -oirewha; un
well Ur several da \r>u he i- able
•n me-t hi- dass-s r w.
Our spring exairit a'ioris begin
n* xr Thursday and continue um il ■ h*-
following Wednesday A great d.u!
o hard woik is being done, and >h*
ho* s will not be sorry when April 1st
cou.es. ’04
Sojourning In tliu Rural Dlatrlcta.
At a recent sitting of the mayor’s
court his honor had btfore him three
citizens, all white men, charged with
drunkenness They were all citizens
of Giffney and so persistent were
thnv in their drinklntr habit that
their best friends hated to meet them
on the streets and the mayor was
worried out with their frequent ap
pearance before him. They had paid
fine after fine and two of them had
done some time, but it did no good
8o when they got before the mayor
this last time he sentenced one of
them to pay a fine of two dollars, or
to serve ten days on the gang, or
thirty davs in the countrv. The
next one he sentence:] to pay a fine
of tw*ntv dollars, or aer^e thirty
days on ihegang, or stay four months
In the cmritry The third one he
sentenced to pay twenty dollars, or
serve thirty days on the gang, or to
spend six months in the country.
They all took to rural life and their
friends in the city are rejoicing at
thrir absence.
Mr. (VurkHon I'ounded.
Blacksburg, 'vierch 25th, 1903
Editor Ledger:—List night the
quiet of our manse w>ts suddenly
broken bv many ladies a id gentle
men of our church and other friends,
coming with, and -ending many sub-
staniiat additions to our lard* r. We
de-ire, in tin- pub i - way to express
our appreciation o', and thank? for,
their kindness which cannot he es
timated bv ear'hly standards.
God hies- rhem.
Y’ery truly.
Rev. and ViR8 Y B i’larkson
M. E. Church Society.
PISO S CURE FOR
, CURES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS.
Beet Cough Syrup. Taston Good. Ubo
J In time. Soid by ilruwfn.tn.
Money Loaned.
« 10 000 To lend on mortgages <>f real
i estate, stock, or emtorseriients.
:i-g4-tl Gaffney Savings Hunk.
L OANS on improved farms for a term of
years at, seven per cent, interest. No
commissions. For information apply to J. C.
. efferles. \ttornev at Law.
11-22-1 yr
i-OA?srEi>
ON COITNTKY OK CITY
BKAI, ESTATK AT fi l>KK CENT.
G. SV. SI’EKK, Attorney at Law
LOANS NEGOTIATED
FOIt BORROWERS ON
REAL E S T A T E
HI TLER A OSBORNE
A ITOHNEYS
For Sale
iW - Advertisements under this head wdi
f 0 Insert*.i for one cent a word each inser
tion. No ad Inserted for less than ten cents
T^OKSVI.E One half of good paying sash.
■ L door and Mind factory, in Krowiriirtown
of hum. I’rice $4,000 t > $.>.ntio Have other busi
ness; pushed. Address Ledger. :i-2n-4t
tpoR SA LE Fine seed sweet potatoes. An-
A ply to Lewis Humphries. :i-27-:il-pd
TMIE IDEAL Season lor hatching chick-
■ L ens. Tlio ideal breed. Barred I’lymouth
Rock. Eg>rs 75 cents per silting*. SI per sit
ting- when shipped. \l. Steadman,
i aw 1 mo.
For Rent.
L"'OR RENT The storeroom lately occupied
-• by Hie Smith Hardware Co., now located
on Grenard Street next to R. M. Gaffney s
former residence. Apply to D. C. Ross, at
National Rank. :t-:il-tf
p'DR RENT OR SALE My residence corner
x I‘city and Montgomery streets.
:f-24-2t Mrs. A. V. Montgomery.
POR RENT Five rooms. Apply to .1. M.
•*- Nelson, opposite postoflice. .‘1-17-tf
Wanted.
AAfANTaD Fifteen to twenty calves. Ap-
rf ply to R. O. Sams. a-M-tf
"\X?\NTED—A_ man to sell sewing ma-
’’ chines. A No. 1 contract to right kind of
a man to staJt; with good chances for pro
motion. Experience not necesstry. Call on
or address
The Simjek Me<; Co..
Ml Morgan Square,
3-17-4t-pd Spartanburg, s. c
’IXT'AN'I'ED Respectable young women to
i 1 ’ learn cigar making. to $s per week
can he made in two months time. Endorsed
hy the ministers of Charleston. Hoard se
cured for girls from the country. American
Cigar Charleston, s. c. i:; t<>:il Inc.
W ANTED—Chickens, eggs and green
hides. H. G. Clary. Aug. 22, tf.
W ANTEI» To make si might loans on city
real estate. No commissions. Several
thousand dollars to loan.
Apr3l)-tf J. C. Jefferies.
Notice.
LI A V F. your clot lies cleaned arid pressed at
Xx I’eari -team Laundry. Best services
rendered promptly. .1-17-41.
1^01*
BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES
LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS,
DOORS. SASH. BUNDS,
FLOORING, SIDING,
CEILING, MOULUING.
AI.8U A FINE LINE OK
Paints and Oils
50c to $1 :io per gal.
L. BAKER.
Just arrived, a lot of
The Nicest
Big Mules
that have been on the mar-
ket this season, some
extra nice pairs, also
some nice medium
mules. Come, we make
the price right.
A car of No. 1 Hay
at $22 per ton.
Gaffney
Live Stock
Company
H. M. Johnson, Mgr.
The Time Extended
On account of the bad weather yesterday we have
decided to :: :: :: :: ::
Extend Our Opening
a day or two longer, so that the ladies may have
the opportunity to inspect our :: ; : ::
Display of Millinery and Dress Goods
These lines are now ready for inspection and we
cordially invite every lady to come and look through
the two departments. Very Respectfully,
W. J. Wins & Co.
| Fresh Shipment |
of the National Biscuit Co.’s DELICIOUS CAKES, among which are 3
^ the Celebrated ^
Vr
Festinos
AT 75 cts. A POUND.
Vr
I LIPSCOMB <& RICHARDSON. 3
LOWNEY’S CANDIES. PHONE 135 3
72 ’ ^
A. N. Wood. President.
U. It Brown. Vice-President
THE MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK,
OF GAFFNEY. S.
Established I'.Hil.
Capital $50,000.--Surplus and Profits $8,500.
STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DKPOvSITORY.
. .Vrio “rar* 1 blinking arul Exchange business. Is well fitted up with Fire Proof Vault
itud Hurglai I 100I Salt*, with Automatic lime Lock. We solicit the business of people of
all occupations.
O. TVI. ^’ V I I TTM n««Her
Look to Your Interest
and trade with FINCKEN. The amount
saved in one month will start you a small
bank account
Fincken is tlio Place
,—I PLAK THE SAME
Play it as it should be played, with the
equipment that makes playing a matter of
skill, not chance. We have everything
you need, of the right quality, at the price
you should pay. Different kinds of course,
and different prices, but all of them prop
erly made and fit for a professional, and
the price as low as can be for the kind.
BASE BALL:—Balls, bats, mitts, gloves,
masks.
FOOT BALL:—More about this line later.
TENNIS:—Variety of racquets, balls, tape,
nets.
FISHING TACKLE:—Large variety of
lines, hooks, etc. Every requisite for
the successful angler.
Cherokee Drug Co.
LIMESTONE AND FREDERICK STREETS.
;; when you are ready for your Spring Shoes
;; we have them in
Box Calf, Vici and
Patent Leathers.
Prices $1.00 to $3.00.
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<> Also Black Cat Leather Stockings, sizes 6s to 11s.
THE R. S. LIPSCOMB SHOE CO.
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