Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 i ■■ ■Mj-jg .-.J A. li* - II ■ V' The i^EHGEH. £ PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DeCamp. The Ledger is noc responsible for tbe views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Heading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Some people make a mountain of a molehill and endeavor to draw others to the top of the hill, but usually the hill proves to be too small for more than one No. 10 boot. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Cherokee's progressive County Su pervisor Whelchel and board of coun ty commissioners are receiving praises from the press in many parts of tbe State for their wise action in buying good roads machinery, and less pro gressive officers are cited to their course as one worthy of imitation. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It occurs to us that there has been quite enough said about this base ball business, so the best thing to do is to let the matter drop. Notwith standing the assertion that there are people in this community who have no moral character, it is certain that Gaffney is as virtuous and moral as any town of its size with which we are acquainted, if not a little more so, and there was no cause to go into a spasm over so small a matter. The state rum shops in Anderson have been notified to require purchas ers of the “chemically pure” to sign requests for it in presence of the dis penser and not to sell to any one but once a day. We thought that was tbe law and that all dispensers were observing it. Surely the State is not openly violating one of its laws, for the violation of which some of her citizens pay fines or serve terms on the chaingangs, and for the suspected violation of which she has shot some of her best citizens to death. Wade Hapmton and M. 0. Butler each served South Carolina for long terms in the United States Senate with credit and honor to themselves and their state, and both retired from that body poore menr, as far as this world’s goods are concerned, than they were when they entered it. Now, look at the new issue : McLaurin leaves it an iron and railroad king and Tillman and Latimer are hold ing on, Tillman a director of and holding stock in a $1,000,000 oil com pany and Latimer a big copper mine stockholder. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Ex-United States Senator John L. McLaurin has become interested in a two-hundred million dollar syndicate, and is the vice-president as well as one of its directors, and attorney for the company. We never expected Mr. McLaurin to become a captain of industry. We knew he was brainy and energetic, but we never gave him credit for having so much sense. We are agin the trusts, heart and soul, we are agin the republican party because they foster the trusts, but we can’t help admiring the genius that places a man at the head of a great industrial establishment. Hail and good day to Johnny Me. We hope he will be successful and that he may never forget the road that be trod in his onward march to progress. South Carolina should make rapid strides along material and educa tional lines, if good newspapers are an incentive. Aside from the daily press there are numerous weekly papers whose every issue is filled with matter encouraging material and educational progress. Then there are the semi-weekly papers, prominent among them being tbe Yorkville Etquirer, tbe Rock Hill Herald and Rock Hill Journal, tbe Chester Lantern, the Newberry News and Herald and tbe Greenville Moun taineer, to say nothing of the two published in this place, that are doing more for tbe advancement of their communities than any other agency when one considers the monetary investment. Most people do not realize this fact and few are generous enough to give tbe local paper credit for what it accomplishes. Is it not straining sweetness to kiss a pretty girl through a veil? PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People You Know »nd''People You Don't Know Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wood returned to the city Saturday from Columbia, where they bad been to visit Mrs. Wood’s mother, Mrs. T. Stobo Far row. Oliver Hames, a prominent farmer of State Line, was a city visitor yes terday. Rev.JC. M. Teale was among his many friends in the city Saturday. Misses Edna Brown and Lillie Go forth, of Ravenna, were shopping in the city Friday. T.jS. Webber, of Dellinger, was in tbe city yesterday on business. W\ J. Thomas, of Thickety, was a business visitor in the city Saturday. W. S. Hall, J. B. Bell and J. C. Jefferies, of the Gaffney bar. and N. W. Hardin, of Blacksburg, are attend ing the United States court at Green ville. M. B. Scruggs, Esq., of Ezells, came to the city Saturday. Mrs. John Hayes, of Glendale, is visiting relatives and friends in this city. S. S. Littlejohn and his sister, Miss Hattie, of Goucher, were shop ping in the city Friday. ifcMrs. Rosa Roundtree, who has been visiting Mrs. George Blanton, in Shelby, N. C., returned to her home in the city the last of the week. Hon. C. W. Whisonant was among his friends in the city Saturday. H. D. Wheat was in Charlotte, N. C., the last of the week. H. K. Osborne, Esq., went to Co lumbia yesterday on professional busi ness. 2 Rush Dover, of Antioch, was in tbe city Saturday. Dr. W. C. Hamrick was in Shelby, N. C., the last of the week. Will C. Thomson, of Lockhart, was in the city Sunday on his way home :'rom Asheville, N. C. John Allison, a successful farmer of Grassy Pond, was in the city Sat urday afternoon. W. T. Poag went to Spartanburg Friday on business. H. M. Johnson returned to the city Friday from a business trip to the North Carolina mountains. Jesse Pinson, of Thickety, was a city visitor Saturday. John B. Brown, a orominent plant er of Ravenna, was in the city Fri day. Wm. Vassy was a city visitor Satur day. J. B. Foster, of Asbury, came to the city Friday. Drs. J. N. Nesbit and C. A. Jeffer- es attended the meeting of tbe State Medical association at Sumter last week. There were about one hundred and fifty members in attendance and the meeting was one of the most suc cessful in the history of the associa tion. Both of Gaffney’s doctors report a pleasant and profitable time. G. W. Lemaster, of Wilkinsville, came to the city Saturday. M. W. Brown, a thriving young merchant of Ravenna, came to the city Friday. W. H. Cabanis, a prominent build er of Glendale, was in the city Satur day. He called on The Ledger and subscribed. Magistrate R. W. Lee came to the city Friday. Wm. Blackwood, of Gowdysville, was a Ledger visitor yesterday. ■‘Kans” Goforth, a progressive farmer of Ravenna, came to the city Friday. Mrs. W. A. Neale, of Spartanburg, was visiting in Blacksburg the last of the week. Robt. Goforth, of Ravenna, spent some time in the city Friday. Landrum Bryant, of Cowpens, was in the city yesterday. 0 A. Osborne, Allie Osborne, Jas. Borders, T. H. Hughes and A. A. McFadden, all of Blacksburg, came over to the city Friday afternoon. D. D. Little, a prominent cotton man of Spartanburg, was registered at the Commercial Saturday. J H. and C. D. Steedmae, of Caro- leen, N. 0., were among the Sunday visitors in the city John H. Montgomery and M. La mar Smith, two of Spartanburg’s popular young men, came over Satur day evening to attend a reception at Limestone College. Mayor Little spent Sunday in Spartanburg. W. A. Neale, Jr., was in the city yesterday superintending the work preparatory to putting the county’s good road machines to work. James W. Hamrick and nit daugh ters, Misses Nora and Nettie, of Davisville, N. 0., were shopping in the city yesterday. Joe Osborne, who has had a severe attack of erysipelas, has (sufficiently recovered to go to his home in Tran sylvania county, N C., where he will remain some time recuperating. Mrs. Walter Hopkins, nee Miss Alma Lynch, of Concord, N. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch, on Logan street. “Gilly” Cline and Ed. Belue Cime over from Blacksburg yesterday. Miss Ella Kirby was called to Hot Springs, N. C , yesterday by a tele gram announcing the seriout Illness of her brother, Mr. Charles Kirby. crop :bulletin. Cr<>|>H Meeting of Cherry Cani|i No. V.i. There will be a call meeting of Cherry Camp No. 74, Woodmen of the World, in their ball tonight (Tuesday), for work in the Protection degree. A full ittendence of the members is desired. Krenh Lot Juat Received. We have just received a fresh lot of ‘ Clifton” flour, guaranteed to be tbe best patent flour in tbe market, and will keep it in stock regularly in tbe future. Try a sack of “Clifton” next time. W. J. Wilkins &Co. Report of condition of Different Throughout the NtHte. Columbia, 8. C., April 14, 19051.— The week ending 8 a. m., Monday, April 13th, had a mean temperature of about GO degrees, which is 4 de grees above normal. The first of the week was cool, the middle and latter portions w«re very warm. It appears thai tbe frost of the 5th reached to within a few miles of tbe coast, and that thin ice formed over the north ern counties, but that the damage was confined to white potatoes and other tender garden truck. Fruit escaped injury. There were quite general rains on the 8th, heavy in the western and northern counties, that delayed farm- work materially by making the ground too wet to plough in the already named divisions, were plough ing was practicable on one or two days only at the close of tbe week. The rainfall was light over the eastern half of the State, and farm- work was scarcely interrupted by it. The week closed with warm, cloudy, threatening and showery conditions prevailing, that are favorable for growth of vegetation but are unfavor able for the rapid progress of farm- work. Planting operations made favorable progress in the eastern and south- eastern counties, where they are as far advanced as usual at this season. In the western counties planting is from |teu to fifteen days later than usual, with but little corn and no cotton planted. Corn that was planted early is coming up to fair stands, and some is being cultivated. Birds are destroy ing stands in a few counties. Cotton planting has not advanced beyond the central counties, and in places in the eastern counties is being pur posely delaved, awaiting more settled weather. Oats look well in a few localities only. Generally they have been seriously damaged by a grain aphis and by rust. Some fields are ruined. Wheat has an unusually rank growth, but in places the plants are turning red, in other localities rust has appeared, both conditions tending to mar its prospects. Rice planting has made fair progress, ex cept injthe Georgetown district, where tHe lands are still too wet to work. Tobacco plants are plentiful and early. Transplanting is actively underway. Some farmers have al most finished this work. Straw berry shipments are being made from all the eastern truck districts. Melon plants are sickly in the Charleston district, owing to defective seed, Other|truck crops are growing sluwly. Bugs have appeared on white pota toes. Pastures afford fine grazing. Fruit prospects appear to be unim paired, with, however, a few localities that report peaches sparsely set. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. How l , r«»|i«-rty UlmiiK«N IIhikIh Aiiioiik Rutty Cherokee Clti/eiut. Following are the real estate trans fers as entered on the auditor’s books for the month ending March 31, 1903: Cherokee Township, M. M. Rhyne, to town of Blacks burg, one lot, $00. J. G. Black, to town of Blacksburg, one lot, $1.00. Mrs. Jane Black, to town of Blacks burg. one lot, $50. Sallie L. Whisonant, to town of Blacksburg, one lot, $72. Mrs. Jane Black, to town of Blacks burg, one lot, $40. W. A. Baber, to town of Blacks burg, one lot, $25. J. F. Whisonant, to town of Blacks burg, one lot, $55. J. G. Black, to town of Blacksburg one lot, $1.00. J. F. Whisonant, to town of Blacks burg, one lot, $1.00. Jjhn Wilkins, to John McSwain fifty acres, $200. D. F. Morrow, to J. F. W’hisonant forty-three acres, $200. T. D. Moore, to P. T. and J. G Sepoch, 1G5 acres, $800. Wm. A. Hayden, to Mrs. Maud Hayden, seventy four acres, $1 GOO S. A. McSwain, et al, to Dicy Mullintx. twenty.four acres, $185 J. Eb. Jefferies, clerk, to W. Sam Lipscomb. 241 acres, $3,288. Limestone Township. C. M. Amos, to Fannie Sarratt, 1G2 acres, $500. Mary A Fincken, to C 8. Good, one lot, $325. N. Lipscomb, to Mary A. Fincken, one lot, $350. J. Eb Jefferies, to J. 8. Northey, twenty-one and six-tenths acres, $190 J. Eb. Jefferies, to J. N. Lipscomb, fifty-two acres, $300. Felix Isler, to J. Eb. Jefferies, twenty-one and six-tenths ajres, $165. Mary Manning, to O. L. Hallman, forty-five and one-naif acres, $250. C. T. Lipscomb, to Will Turner, one lot, $350. A. M. Glover, to Clarence Turner, 126 1 10 acres, $1,500. • Gowdysville Township. E. Ellen McKown, to M. J. Lemas ter, one-third interest in 210 acres and equity in twenty-three acres, $650. White Plains Township. Wilson Lipscomb, to B. E. Wilkins, 182 acres, $5 00. Morgan Township. T. 0. Harrill, to W. A. Moore, 100 acres, $410. F. E. Blanton, to J. P. Blanton, 1 4 100 acres, $7.30. J. Eb. Jefferies, clerk, to J. Eb. Jefferies, fifty-two acres, $401. Robt. Scruggs, to Susan Martin, seventy-seven acres, love and affect ion. J. A. Scruggs, to Susan Martin, twenty-nine acres, $145. Dr. FltzgpralfPft Good Work. Dr. Delano Fitzgerald, a wealthy gentleman of Baltimore, wuo has been spending the lastthreeof four winters in the neighborhood of Lowrysville, in Chester county, has bought a lot in Lowrysville and erected on it a pretty and substantial building and presented it to this pretty little t( vn to be used by it as a library build ing. In addition to this the doctor has given and placed in this building more than one thousand volumes as a nucleus of this generous work he has undertaken. He has named it The South Carolina Free Library and placed the good people of Lowrysville in charge of it. From what we learn Dr. Fitz gerald’s good work at Lowrysville has just begun. He has thoroughly iden tified tbe people of this cultured and refined little town with his enterprise, and will with his supervision and ad ditional bequest to the library and the enthusiastic support of the peo ple place in Lowrysville an institu tion for which the State will be thank ful and justly proud. A Hypnotist to Uome to Gaffney. On next Thursday and Friday nights William Fayssoux, mind read er and hypnotist, will appear at tbe Star Theatre. Mr. Fayssoux is a native ot Gastonia, but has won laurels as a hypnotist and mind read er. He is said to excell Boone, who was here several years ago. The work performed by the human heart each twenty-four hours is equal to the lifting of 129 tons to a height of one foot in the same length of time ^ PISO’S CURE FOR M , CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. [ Beat CouKh Syrup. Tastes G-xxl. Uae in time. Sold by drugglxts. ^ CONSUMPTION For Rent. INVAdvertlsements under this head will oe Inserted for one cent a word each Inser tion. No :id Inserted for less than ten cents F ill KENT The storeroom lately occupied hy the Smith Hardware Co., now located on Urenard Street next to It. M. Gaffney's former residence. Apply to It. G. Koss. at National Hank. 3-31-tf F°n KENT—Five rooms. Apply to J. M. Nelson, opposite postoffice. :5-17-tf Wanted. W ANTED To buy or rent a small cottajre above KuforU street. Apply to J. \V. Lipscomb. t-dl-tf. w ANTED—Chickens, t, ;s and KTeeu hides. B. G. Clary. Aujj. i., tf. W ANTED—To make straight loans on eity real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Aprilt-tf J. C. Jefferies. F Found. '(HIND Package of cloth. Owner can uet by proving property and paying for ad. Notice. My boy Dudley Peeler, has left home with out my consent. 1 forbid anyone eniuloyiuK him without paying me half his wages. 4-17-»t pd. Anderson Peeler. WANTED: To buy your milk, fat or poor cattle Will sell milk cows on installment or for cash, whichever you desire. Will ex change milk cattle for beef or yearlings. 4-7-1 mo W. D. KIRBY & CO. Money Loaned. L OANS on Improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. 0. Jefferies. Attornev at Law. 11-22-lyr LOA^KI) M( ON COUNTHY OR CITY KK.AIi ESTATE AT li PER CENT. G. tV. SI’KKK, Attorney at Law. LOANS NEGOTIATED Foil B0&B0WKB8 ON HEAL |S T A T■ BUTLBB & OSBO&NB ATTORNEYS Look at This! You can get what you want from the Par lor Market, such stuff as I mention here: I Tesli t':ilib;i<re, Beans, S|uashes. Beets, and most anything you can mention, I have It. A nice fresh lot of Southern Strawberries. Ask for the Parlor Market, or telephone No. Si. W. J, MAN ESS, Prop. FOUNTAIN'S MUSIC Our Fountain has been started for this season and the gentle “siz.z” of our lively soda is a musical sound to those who have enjoyed the de licious drinks we serve. We can’t say our soda is any bet ter this year than last. It’s hard to improve on perfection, Imt we do know that we shall use the pur est and finest material that money can buy, and shall omit no effort that might make these most de lightful beverages more delicious still. CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Limestone and Frederick Streets. WILKINS The Name I WILKINS that is so closely associated with the best in merchandise—the name that charms the feminine eye, for it brings up in the mind an endless profusion of rich Dress Fabrics, dainty White Goods, Muslins, Lawns, Piques, Laces, Em broideries, Dress Trimmings, beautiful Hats, and all the lovely articles of dress so dear to a woman’s heart. BUSINESS J Dkingers Correct Style, High Grade, ** Low Price. 1 best three characteristics of our business form the basis of our success. It is well known all over Cherokee that we keep nothing but the best, that we are always up with the prevailing styles, and that we sell at as low prices as are consistent with the quality of goods we handle. Every article that goes over our counters is full of merit, and every sale makes a satisfied customer. We sell so as to sell again. Poor goods spoil the temper—trade with WILKINS and be happy. STYLISH W. J. WILKINS <S> CO. MILLINERY on Time Deposits. Apply _ by letter or in person to U the “ ' ' & Planters Bank, OAF'F'IVJSY. H. C. Capital and Profits $58,500. A. N. Wood, President, R. R. Brown, jVice-Prest., C. M. Smith, Cashier. Rock Hill Buggies Ol Come to us for your Screen Doors and Windows, Screen Wire Cloth, Barb Wire and Nails, ami most anything in the Hardware line, at good prices. R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co, One Horse Wagons ipwmw mmmmmmmmmmwmz | Beginning Saturday Mnrning we will sell 3lb. standard | TOMATOES E at ioc a can. .50 Dozen to go at this Price. % LIPSCOMB <£ RICHARDSON. ^ LOWNEY’S CANDIES. PHONE 130., Timmmmmmmmmmmm'si * SMITH HARDWARE CO. a eadquarters ARDWAR AND Farming' of All Kinds. POULTRY WIRE BARBED WIRE ^ SMITH HARDWARE CO.