Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f » Everything to eat». TLiat’s what 1 deal In excluslvnly. I UkiU after my business, watch the markets closely, and as a conse<iuence I can tilways furnish my patrons with the best and freshest of Meats, Croceries and Country Produce. Kinir ilf the P irlor Market when ■you want any thing EXTRA NICE for your table. W. J. MANESS, Phone £1. BE IN THE SWIM (iive me your clothes to clean, press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over W. U. Telegraph Office. Willi a m S. Hall. Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAR THEATRE BLDG. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention given to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ONlUEAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. 'Office over National Hank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Davenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, DENTIST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over JThe Battery. ’Phone 82. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND •PERMANENTLY CURED. -Glasses Fitted With*Scientific Accu racy ami all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. IToi—^ Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris Shingles. Portland Oement, DynamlW, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, cal) on Limestose Springs Lime Verts CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone CLAIMS PAID am — By Life "Insurance Company For Accidents and Sickness through this agency since January: W. D. Kirby, $ 32.14 W. R. Pearson, 7.50 W. H. Harrison, Jr., 127.14 A. L. Peeler, 25.00 A. W. Clary, 12.86 H. L. Spears, 70.00 H. A. Littlejohn. 75-oo Wm. T. Gaston, 27.86 L. Baker, 32.14 Why not Insure YOUR time against acci dent and sickness. For rates and other formation call on or address JONES J. DARBY. District Agt. CHIEF EXECUTIVE A COSTLYARTIGLE Large Expenditures at the White House A FLOATING PALACE Enormous Sums Spent for Running Expen ses at the White House, Improvements There, and the Buying and the Fitting Up of the Mavllower. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, D. C., May 21:— The people of the United States have a strenuous President in the White House, and he also is a very costly proposition when you come to count the dollars he has cost the tax payers of the country since he entered the mansion of the chief executive of the nation. Aside from the half a million dollars it has cost to repair and refurnish the building during the past year, the cost of maintaining the establishment has increased enor mously. There was $05,000 spent on a presidential office building, directly to the west of the White House, and members of Congress who have ex pressed an opinion of it say that it looks like a stable. It certainly is about the orneriest looking affair for the office of the chief executive of a great nation to have cost so much money that any man ever suw. On first beholding it nearly every man says to himself that, if that little cheest box cost $65,000, then some man certainly got in his graft good and hard. Then there are other ex penditures that the people of the country never heard, in connection with Roosevelt’s short occupancy of the White House. There has been an increase in the running expenses of the White House, since the Roosevelt advent, of over $25,000 a year; new furniture and fittings for the “May flower” (the President’s yacht) over $100,000; the cost of keeping the “Mayflower” in commission for two months last year, about $15 000; re pairs and r;fitting the “Mayflower” last year about $64,000; repairs and refitting the “Mayflower” this year about $60 000. All this with the half million dollars spent on the While House makes approximately ab:ut $750,000 that the strenuous President has cost the taxpayers of the country more than he or any man in his posi tion should have cost them. There were a few thousand dollars left over from the appropriation to fix up the White House unexpended after the work was finished, and plans immedi ately were put in operation to get rid of this amount before the end of the fiscal year, June 60, next. A lattice work screen was erected to hide the Roosevelt family wash from the vul gar gaze, a double tennis court is in progress of preparation, although the President never plays tennis and by the time it is finished the Roosevelt children will all be over at Oyster Bay for the summer Fine imported green bay trees costing over $600 each have been placed on top of the east en trance to the White House, until it resembles nothing so much as a beer garden on a roof in the height df the season. Great beds of high-priced flowers of many kinds will he set out and that part of the White House grounds used by the Roosevelt family and their friends will bloom with the luxuriance of the tropics. ‘ There aiot a goin’ to be no core to this ap ple” when the President gets through with that appropiation. It will he “all in” and the people will have paid a pretty penny to gratify the aestheti 1 tastes of the strenuous President. The President’s yacht, the “May flower,” is the most gorgeous craft that ever floated in salt water. It was built by Mrs. Ogden Goelet and was about completed when the govern ment bought it for $430,000, at the time war was declared with Spain. Jt is officially classed as a cruiser and is about the size of the “Cincin nati” or the “Boston.” In the as signment of ships of the navy she ap pears “on special service.” She is really at the disposal of the President at all times, and was fitted up at enormous expense for his enjoyment. The King of England or the Emepror of Germany does not travel in more imposing style than does Mr. Roose velt when he is aboard his private yacht, for the “Mayflower” is nothing less than that. As I said be- for the refittings and refurnishings cost not less than $100,000, and a part of this was for solid marb'e baths that cost $2,000 each. Presidents Cleveland and McKinley were satis fied to ride on the “Sylph” or the “ Dolphin” when they wanted to go .OUR LINE OF. Sandals, Oxfords and Slippers is the most complete yet shown. All sizes, from the Infant’s soft sole to the largest size for Ladies. ISe R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Next door to Cherokee Drug Co. out to scr, but alongside of the “May- Mower” th«y look like cheap tugs. If the people of the country want the aristocracy of wealth instead of intel lect in the White House, they should by all means keep Roosevelt there. * * * Tne decision of the Supreme Court, recently handed down, on the Alaba ma electric franchise case, and which declared in effect that a sta’.e has the right to determine who iihall be en titled to the ballot, has created much interest here in political circles. Of course, there are diverg nt opinions. Among southern democratic members of Congress the opinion is universally approved on constitutional grounds, while some of the northern republi can members say that no state has a right to disfr .nchise any class of its citizens. The decision of the court is a victory for states rights. It vir tually says that any state may do as it pleases in a sovereign matter of this character, and the decision will tend to clarify the situation respecting negro suffrage in all the states of the South, and probably will put an end to other test cases. If so, it is be lieved here that it will have a far- reaching effect for good in the whole country and go far towards the set tlement of the so-called negro prob lem. * * * One effect that the rottenness in public office under republican admin istration is going to have, is that it will revive the necessity for a demo- erotic platform next year modeled after that of 1876, on which Samuel J. Tilden was nominated and elected. That platform called for reform in almost every paragraph. There is as much necessity for reform now as there was then, and it seems to be the consensus of ^democratic opinion here that the cry of reform will be one of the issues in the next cam paign. If the honest men of the nation, regardless of politics, could be made to understand the conditions here in many of the departments, t hey would sweep the republican par ty out of office on the cry of reform alone and with no other issue in the campaign. Charles A. Edwards. Do You Advertise? Every successful business man has been a good advertiser. Every good advertiser is a successful business man. Advertise In The Ledger and be suc cessful. The day upon which the Supreme Court will hear an appeal for a new trial of tho Wilcox case has been fixed for Tuesday. May 26. Wood’s Farm Seeds. Cow Peas — Soja Beans Two of the most important crops for farmers everywhere. Write for leaflets entitled “ Soja Beans vs. Com ” and “ Cow Peas—The Clover of The South,” giving special information about these crops. We carry large stocks of al SEASONABLE FARfl SEEDS, Seed Corn, nillet, Sorghums, Teosinte, Late Seed Pota toes, Crimson Clover, Buckwheat, etc. Wood’s Seed Book and Special Circu lar* giving prices and seasonable In formation, mailed free. T.W. Wood & Sons, Soodsmen, * RICHMOND,-VIROINIA. Money Loaned. L OANS on Improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. C. Jefferies, Attorney tit Law. ll-L-J-lyr LOANED ON COUNTRY OH CITY REA I, KSTATK AT 6 PEH O. W. SPEEK, Attorney at Law. J # ney CENT. I *»#■ l.taw. LOANS NEGOTIATED FOR BORROWERS ON REAL ESTATE BUTLER & OSBORNE ATTORNEYS In order that your physician may be justly treated and that your own interest may be protected, it is necessary that the druggist who compounds the prescription be as carefully chosen as the physician who wrote it. Take it to a store that makes a specialty of its pre scription department—a store where graduate or registered phannacists only are employed and where the compounding will he done by scientific methods. We can assure you that ours is such a store. CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Prescription Druggists, Limestone and Frederick Streets. Jim Dumps gazed out on sidewalks hot And looked in vain for one cool spot; And vowed he ne’er again would eat A lunch of heat-producing meat. Once more has “ Force ” restored his vim, Although ’tis hot, he’s “ Sunny Jim.” orce* The Ready-to-serve Cereal makes comfort possible on a sweltering day. Helps Him to Roop Cool. “ 1 Force ’ is a blessing to hot humanfty. I find since eating it—and I want it every morning— that I am able to go through a hot day with much more comfort than when I used to eat hearty meat breakfasts. It has taught me how to live. “R. B. Claybbrgeb.” " Vjj \m2 W—3 Economy and Comfort. ‘"1 T ^ might well be termed wealth. We ; ^ter" Mattress -a ^ ave t ^ ie most econ ° m icai RefKg- i ■> GO fjj erators made. And there is noth- — ■ - - * ingf more comfortable and beneficial brain and muscle . • ‘LW lUhttrocc W mgf more comic • ■' f'-v'X 'T*C«!LLSo j to overworked 10.0 O. h than “Dexter” and “Rex” Beds. .4 iht! ffetjfli Waitress B Then why not invest a few dollars -r - „ and make living a pleasure. Ask for them, k Shuford & LeMaster. “Money Saved is Money Made” 1 can save you money on anything in the various lines I handle. You should 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 lor 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 you must have. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices. See me before buying. Respectfully, J. I. Tne Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney City; Also Farms neat by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of fron JO to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farn pur- u >seu. For full particulars apply to J. V. JVsfent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing timber. Ashing or hunting, under penalty of law. A. N. Wood. President. R. R. Brown, Vice-President ! The Merchants and Punters Bank OF GAFFNEY. S. C. Capital $75,000.—Surplus and Profits $1 0,000. STATE, COUNTY AND CITY DEPOSITORY. We solicit the business of people of all occupations. We pay J|0/ on deposits in our Savings Department. Deposits accepted from $1.00 up. C. Nl. SN1IXH, Cashier. National Bank of Gaffney, Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00 Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00 Stockholders Liability, 50,000.00 Total, - - - $125,000.00 Deposits F^eby. 6tli, 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. Commercial Printing Of every description executed with neatness and dispatch at Thk Ledger office, Gaffney, 8. C. New Type, New Presses, the finest quality of Ink and Paper, and Compe tent Workmen. Send us your orders. Cost Sale Having bought out the Poag Mule Co., we offer the entire line of Buggies and Harness at and be low cost. These buggies are new and up-to-date and if you are in the market to buy now is the time. GaffnBy Live Slock Company. BUILDERS' SUPPLIES LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING, MOULDING. ALSO A FINE LINE OF Paints and Oils 50c to $1.30 per gal. L. BAKER. United States District Court. United States oe America, Western District oe South Carolina. In Bankruptcy. In the‘matter of ) Bankrupt’s W. Harry Dodenhoff, > Petition for Bankrupt, j Discharge. District of South Carolina. }- S. S. On this 15th day of May, A. D.,. 1903, on hearing the foregoing petition it is Ordered by the Court that a hearing be had upon the same, on the '30th day of May, A. D., 1903, before said Court at Charleston, in said district at ten o’clock in the fore-noon, and that notice thereof be published in ‘The Ledger,” a news- paper printed in said district, and that all known creditors, and other persons in interest, may appear at the said time and place, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said peti tioner should not be granted. And it is further ordered by the Court that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them at tteir place of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable William H. Brawley, Judge of the said Court, and the seal thereof, at Charleston, in said district, on the 51th day of May A. D., 1903. Richard W. Hutson, 5-22-29. Clerk. United States District Court. United States oe America. Western District of South Carolina. In Bankruhtcy. In the matter of ) Bankrupt’s Jones & Duff, and > Petition for J. D. Jones,'Individually, j Discharge. District of South Carolina. [ S. S. On this 14th day of May, 1903, on hear ing the foregoing petition it is Ordered by the court that a hearing he had upon the same, on the 30th day of May, A. D , 1903, before said Court at Charleston, in said district, at ten o’clock, in the fore noon, and that notice thereof be published in “The Ledger,” a news paper printed in said district, and that all known creditors, and oilier persons in in terest, may appear at the said time and place, and show cause, if any they have, ■why the prayer of the said petitioner should not he granted. And it is further ordered by the Court that the Clerk shall send by mail, to all known creditors, copies of said petition, and this order, addressed to them at their place of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable William H. Brawley, Judge of the said Court, and the seat thereof, at Charleston, in said district, on the 14th day of May, A. D., ‘9“3 Richard W. Hutson, 5-22-29. Clerk. Opening of Books of Subscription. } State ok South Carolina, County ok Cherokee. Pursuant to a commission issued to the undersigned, as corporators, by J. T. Gantt, Secretary of ’State, on the 16th day of May, 1903. NOTICK is hereby given, that hooks of subscription to the capital stock of the Wilkinsville Cotton Oil Company will he opened at Wilkinsville, State tuid County aforesaid, on Wednesday, Mfcy 27th, at 3 o’clock p. m. The said proposed corporation will have a capital stock of $10,000 divided into too shares at the par value of #100.00 each, with its principal place of business at Wilkinsville, S. C., |and will he em powered to manufacture cotton seed oil, gin cotton, manufacture rophig, itc. C. W. WH1 SONANT, Prank McClunky, P. G. Stacy. 5-22-it Corporators.