Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Pj V' I [ : 1^0 ■ i L The: PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. RY Ed. H. DkCamp. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Women are ten times over better than men. but neither men nor wo men are any too good. ♦ •♦ ♦ ♦ The Ledger spent a pleasant day last Saturday with the good people of Elbethel. May their tribe ever be on the increase. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Gov. Heyward is in demand at commencement exercises and educa tional rallies. If he does nothing else during his term of office but encour- ege education his administration will not have been in vain. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The custom of decorating the graves of the departed heroes once a year is a beautiful custom that should not be allowed to become extinct. Our people are not as patriotic in this respect as they should be. We are pleased to note that the custom is still observed in portions of Cherokee, and we hope that next year our peo ple will not neglect a single mound of the departed. The Charlotte Observer announces the publication of an afternoon edi tion to be known as The Chronicle, while the Charlotte News announces the formation of a company to pub lish a new morning paper. Charlotte is hardly large enough for three daily papers, let alone four, and somebody is fixing to get hurt financially. But, then, anybody can start a newspaper, but it isn’t everybody who can keep it going after it is once started. The Ch irlotto Observer yesterday contained the intelligence that the petrified gentleman who was “diskiv- ered” beneath the soil of Hender son county some weeks ago is the •same gentleman that was unearthed near Columbia several years ago and who was found to have been made of plaster of paris. Ah, ha! base de ceivers! Little did you dream when you started your grafting game that the patron of walled eyed science was so close on your trail. It is a mistaken idea that large landed estates are helpful to a com munity, unless the owners can give them their personal supervision and see that they are properly cultivated. The man who is compelled to rent land has little or no interest in it ex cept to eke out an existence. The proper thing is for large land owners to induce thrifty planters to buy places of their own. Then they be come interested in the land and the community, and that interest makes them better citizens. The Spartanburg Herald changed hands yesterday, Mr. Jas. T. Harris having transferred the property to a stock company headed by Rev. Geo. H. Waddell, publisher of the Chris tian Advocate. We do not mean to be facetious, but unless Mr. Waddell is well grounded in the faith it will not be long before he will either step down and out or relinquish bis title to reverend. The daily newspaper business in small villages is a hazard ous undertaking and awfully trying on the nervous system. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The old soldiers will gather to gether today at the State capital in in their annual reunion. Their ranks are thinning fast and in a few more years there will be none of them left to tell the story they all love so well. Their meeting today, tomorrow and next day means a hearty handshake, a tear-dimmed eye, a he*rt full of love, a voice choked with emotion, a laugh, a cry, a fond farewell. God bless them, one and all, and may time deal gently with them and their final charge be up the hill of glory and come to an endless reunion in the New Jerusalem. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ If this county would raise enough wheat to supply flour for the people in it, and enough pork and cattle, in ten years we would be the most in dependent people on earth. And just think of the amount of money the Southern Railway would be cut out of in the matter of freights! Why, it would be enough to build a railroad a hundred miles or so. Besides, home-raised bread and meat taste better than this Western stuff. With our buying bread and meat from the West, shoes from Massachusetts and clothes from Chicago and New York, it is a wonder that we are as well off as we are. We have time and again bad some thing to say about the pernicious habit of lending away from town for things that can be bought here. It is the beighth of foolishness to expect to build up a community by any such method. There is no sense in it. You will in nine cases out of ten get “bit” when you patronize a mail-order bouse. They present their claims in glaring terms, but when it comes down to facts they cannot deliver the goods for less money than the home merchant. Another advantage in patronizing the home merchant is that you see what you are buying, and if it isn’t what you want you are not compelled to take it. A PURE LIFE ENDED. Miss Rosa Johnson is Dead After a Linger ing Illness. The angel of death has again passed over our city and plucked from our midst one of the fairest and sweetest flowers that ever bloomed in the gar den of humanity—a sweet and lovely maiden wnose life was as pure and as fragrant as the flower whose name she bore. It is indeed beyond human under standing why the young,the good, the beautiful are cut down in the full bloom of life just as the radient beams of hope are be ginning to gild their life pathway, just as the future is clothed in its most roseate hues, and just as they have become filled with the joy of living in this bright and beautiful world. But we are not to question the acts of Him who doeth all things well. Miss Rosa Johnson, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. W. L. Johnson, died at the home of her parents, corner of Race and Petty streets, yesterday afternoon at 6:45 o’clock after a lingering illness. While her death has been momentarily expected for the last few days it was nevertheless a severe shock to her relatives and many admiring friends who have kept vigil over the spark of life that lingered but gave not a ray of hope. It is contemplated that the funeral services will be conducted from First Baptist church Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock. Prof. Johnson arrived home yes terday afternoon about three o’clock. He started several days ago, but was detained by a railroad wreck and found it i eccessary to drive over from Spartanburg in order to arrive here btforo the death of his daughter. The Scheme ot Schemers, Washington, D. C., May 6, 1908. E. H. DeCamp, Esq., Gaffney, S. C. Sir:—I note your editorial in yes terday’s Ledger regarding the flatter ing offer made you of a set of books free. I received a similar offer, but having already caught on to their game, ignored the offer, and in about ten days received a second offer from same people which I treated in same manner. These people are, of course, simply using this scheme for an advertising purpose, and employ the very best legal advice it is possible to secure in pushing their claims after the offers are accepted. I have beard of sev eral instances where the sale has been forced, owing to a peculiar word ing of the offer. In this manner you see they are coining money, so to speak, at the expense of poor, un suspecting people. Yours truly, Larky D Snead, Office Treasurer U. S. Decoration Day at Elbethel. Last Saturday was Decoration Day at Elbethel. The good people of that neighborhood gathered at the bury- ing-ground in the afternoon and held appropriate memorial exercises. Able addresses were made by Messers T. M. Littlejohn, Jas. L. Strain and others. After the exercises in the church the aisembly repaired to the grave yard and the graves of those who sleep in that city of the dead were decorated with the most fragrant gems of the flowery kingdom. It was a most fit ting tribute to those who had passed to the great beyond and an earnest indication of the fact that the mem ory of the brave ones who had gone before was not forgotten. May the custom last until time is no more. » Mayor’ll Court. His Honor had a change yesterday. When he went down on the woolsack he was confronted with a docket that charged four prisoners with misdeeds. One of them bad $2 50 standing in bis stead, and as he failed to put in bis appearance his$2 50 still stands. Two of the others are taking a thirty days’ course on the Oberokt-e good roads’ class and the other one, u dusky damsel, is spending a ten day’s term in the city prison. The Florida East Coast railroad, through their laud department, are preparing to drain the Everglades of Florida and thus bring many thousands of acres of land Into culti vation. The revenue from the mines in and anund Butte, Mon., is $55,000,000 a year—probably the richest mineral section in the country. Its output of silver alone is $13,000,000. One Dollar Will Start a Bank Account with the Merchants & Planters Savings Bank OF GAFFNEY, S. C. SAVE YOUR MONEY. ----- WATCH IT GROW. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT r OF THE V MERCHANTS & PLANTERS SAVINGS BANK It’s What You Save, Not What You Earn, That MakesYou Independent. Save the '^.co.V,. Y ne “ erctas & Planters Sam® GUpfnkv, S. c Pennies, and the Dollars Will Take Care of Themselves. THE MERCHANTS & PLANTERS SAjVINGS BANK Will loan you, FREE, a Handsome Private Home Safe, like the one shown here, to keep at home. When the Safe is handed you, it is securely locked and The Merchants & Planters Savings Bank keeps the key. Dro; ^ your coins or bills into it as you can spare them. Occasionally bring the Safe to The Merchants & Planters^ Savings Bank, where it is unlocked and the money counted in your presence and the amount, whatever it may be, is placed to your credit on your Pass Book- The Safe is then locked and handed you again. Don’t put it off, but start while you have the opportunity to get a little safe--the supply is limited. Remember every dollar belongs to you and is credited on your Pass Book. The Bank pays 4 per cent. Interest on Deposits in the Savings Department. The System Installed under the Supervision of C. O. BURNS CO., Originators & Manufacturers. May Appear unreason able to some that we claim superiority for our Photographs on all points. In posing o f figure, distribution of light and shade, tonal ef fects, fidelity to na ture and finish our pictures are simply perfection. \\V have given much study to the means by which the nat ural charms of a sit ter can he enhanced The result is highly artistic pictures. Jane H. Carr. U25 Limestone St. ’Phone 176. Residence 171. Btsssamwmawmr United States District Court, District of South Carolina. In the matter of J. M. Nelson Bankrupt r of j >N, V In Bankruptcy. To the creditors of J. M. Nelson, of Gaff ney, in the county of Cherokee, and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the 9th day of May, 1903, the said J. M. Nelson was duly adjudicat 'd bankrupt; and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at Gaffney, in my office, on the 25th day of May, 1903, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt anil trans act sucli other business as may properly come before said meeting. G. W. Spkkk, Referee in Bankruptcy. May nth, 1903.-11 RUSH. Now is when you need a tonic for that tired feeling; what better than Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery. We are headquarters. S. B. Crawley & Co. 813 Limestone Street Drugs, Perfumery and Station ery. Prescription accu racy our specialty. BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES LUMBER, SHIN6LES, LATHS, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING, MOULDING. ALBO A NNM LIME 0» Paints and Oils &0ctotl.30 per xal. ££to l . BAKER. I A |VT ^ Made on Real Estate in City of Gaffney and County of Cherokee. Abstracts furnished. Ac ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Star Theatre Building. National Bank of Gaffney, Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00 Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00 Stockholders Liability, 50,000.00 Total, - - - $125,o66To6 Deposit** rr e l>3r. 6th, 1903, $209,603.73. We solicit the business and good will of everybody in Cherokee county. F. G. STACY, President, D. C. ROSS, Cashier, J. G. WARDLAW, V.-Prest., MAYNARD SMYTH, A. C. “Money Saved is Money Made” I can save you money on anything in the various linos I handle. Youjshould see my “Superb” line of Clothing two and three piece suits. Pretty line of Straw and Fur Hats just received for Men, Youths and Children. I am still headquar ters for all kinds of Footwear—see me when in need of Shoes of any kind. I have just opened up a beautiful lot of Negligee Shirts from 50c to $1. Nice assortment of Lawns, Organdies, Piques, Madras Cloths, Batiste, etc. My stock of Heavy and Fancy Groceries is selected with great care and I can save you money in this line. I carry a big line of Tobacco from 26c lb. up. Tennessee Sorghum. I have it in 5 and 10 gallon kegs and in half brls. and brls. at prices that move it out. I handle everything for the farm or farmer, such as Plows, Plow Stocks, Hames, Traces, Collars, Bridles, Wagon and Buggy Harness, Etc. While it is too wet to plow come and let me get up that bill of farming tools and also load your wagon with some of my brands of Fertilizer which yoiif must have. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices. See me before buying. Respectfully, J. I. ©A.RK.A.TT.