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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns oi This Paper. A 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. MAY 26. 1903. 81.00 A YEAB. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. ■Cv«ntH that H»ve Taken Place from One Kn<l of the State to the Other Culled from KKchaugen for ^juick Keadlng by Scores of Hnny People. The oldest soldier in South Caroli na is James Powers, of Richland County, a vettran of four wars. Sheriff Hunter of Lancaster has ar- rerted and lodged in jail several ne gro men and women who are thought to have been implicated in the kill ing of Ben. F. Blackman, last Sunday. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Columbia Trust Company of Columbia. The com pany will do a general banking busi ness, dealing in stocks and bonds on a capital of $100,000. Henry W. Parsons of New York city, E. W. Robertson and B. L. Abney of Colum bia, are the petitioners. Judson Beck, of Barnwell, has had a narrow escape from the gallows. Governor Hej ward has commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. The condemned man was to have been hanged April 24, but it was represented to the governor that an appeal was pending and a respite of 30 days was granted. The governor received a letter Fri day morning from O P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics of the cen sus department, who is compiling a work showing the area ceded by the thirteen original states to other ter ritories and states. Mr. Austin finds that after the peace treaty of 1783 some maps show that South Carolina owned a narrow strip of land extend ing to the Mississippi river. About twenty invitations were re ceived Friday morning by the gover nor to deliver addresses and be pres ent at commencement exercises and other events. The invitations came from every section of the state and the dates for some of them are two months off. It will, of course, be impossible for the governor to accept many of these invitations. Constables Thursday night raided a store in the mill district, in Columbia kept by a man named Miles, and took everything in sight. A large quan tity of jwhisky and beer, ice chest, slot machines, glasses, soda water and everything else was seized and Miles was put completely out of business. This is about the most thorough raid made in some time. Governor Heyward has declined to commute sentence imposed upon Winter Cantey, and the condemned man will be hanged bv the sheriff of Richland County May 19. The crime for which he was convicted was re volting in its atrocity. He murdered Eliza Kershaw, his paramour, after having enticed her out of she city into a piece of woods. Mr Broom, an aged Confederate veteran, is in extremis at the Colum bia hospital. When he left bis home in Kershaw Mr. Broom had a slight cold. During the reunion, while at the home of a friends in Brookland, Mr. Broom grew very much worse and was removed to the Columbia hospital. He has an aggravated case of pneumonia in both lungs and is delirious. Several days ago Julius Harvin, one of Mrs. N. R. Witherspoon’s plow bands, committed a'criminal as sault on his wife’s niece, a child seven or eight years old. who was nursing for Julius’ wife at Goochville. Some of the negroes wanted to whip him and run him off but by advice of white men a warrant was taken out for him. Some one gave him the tip and at noon of the day the warrant was secured he took to the woods. A negro man visited the house of a lady on Gervais street in Columbia a night or two ago and after asking some foolish questions asked the lady if her husband was at home. She became frightened and slammed the door in his face. The negro’s manner greatly alarmed the lady, whose husband happened to be in New York, and she baa to send for her brother-in-law to remain in the bouse with her ail night. From the ne gro’s manner she was sure, she said, that he was there for no good purpose. Tho police were unable to locate the man. Gov. Heyward Friday received a cablegram from Hon. R. H. Walker, member of the legislature from Barn well county and a leading citizen of Allendale, announcing that his nephew, Lieut. Ward V. Walker, had been killed in action in the Philip pines. He begged the governor to assist in getting the remains to the home of the mother of the deceased at Appleton The governor sent his condolences to Mr. Walker, and wired the war department to do what they could in the case The army register of 1903 does not give the name of Lieut. Walker among the commissioned officers. SUNDAY SERVICES. Two Splendid SermmiH by Mr. Steadman— Work of MInh Wllllama. There was a large and attractive congregation at both services at the Buford Street M. E. church last Sun day. At 11 a. m.Rev. Mr. Steadman preached on the “Storms of Life.” In his opinion, trials and difficulties discipline and develop us—“Rough seas make skillful sailors. At the evening services his subject was, “Wanted, a Man.” His sermon was a plea for manliness, in every relation of life. This was the last Sunday that Miss Williams will direct the Buford Street choir. This is generally regretted, for her friends are legion. Her work as directress has been exceptional and pleasing to both pulpit and pew. Mr. Steadman, last night, feelingly referred to her faithful work. He said : “In all my experience as a min ister I have never had so satisfactory a choir. I have never had one mo ment’s anxiety about the choir and music. I have always felt that part of the services would be right, and so it has. The directress and choir have never failed me, and that means a great deal, while the music and its rendition have always been in a consecrated and Christian spirit.” He also spoke of the faithful services of the others, Miss Barton, Miss Whitmire and Miss Brown, who have so faithfully aidedjand sustained Miss Williams, as well as the resident members of the choir. If there is such a thing as compli menting the work of the choir,lastBun- day’s work was the best in its history. The feature was Miss Williams’ solo, “Eternity;” while “Oh he joyful in the Lord,” by Misses Wood and Barton, and Messrs Lipscomb and Hames, as a quartette, was admira ble. In conversation last evening Mr Otts said: “All credit is due to Miss Williams; but for her the committee were hopeless ' She has been the woman for the occasion.” The church and its friends will no doubt'be pleased to know that ar rangements are about completed to continue the choir, with additions, and under a competent director. As intimated above, Miss Williams will not return next season, at d the church will lose her services. She will take post-graduate work in vocal music.. Miss Whitmire will proba bly go to Florence. S. 0 , while it is exceedingly doubtful if Misses Brown and Barton will return. The work of Mr. J. W. Lipscomb as a bass has been admirable; there has been a marked improvement in his work. His faithful services have been gratuitous, and often at a sacri fice of his time from business, to at tend practice; and for this reason bis services are the more appreciated. He has placed the Buford Street con gregation under lasting obligations to him. The choir and congregation closed the services with “God be with you till we meet again.” An luterestln^Caae in Uourt. Last Thursday morning the case of F. G. Stacy vs. The Cherokee Foun dry and Machine Works was com menced before Magistrate Speer. The whole day was devoted to testi mony of Messrs. Stacy, Randall, and Peeler. There are several nice law points involved, and the case is one of interest to lawyers. The suit is based on an implied contract, and counsel for.defendant contends that □o quantum meruit, or implied con tract, can arise against a corporation in favor of an official. It is said the point has never been passed upon by our supreme court. J. C. Jefferies is attorney for Stacy, and J. C. Otts is attorney for the corporation. Plano Kecital at Limestone. This (Tuesday) afternoon, at 4:30 o’clock, there will be a piano recital at Limestone College auditorium given by Miss Lucyo Littlejohn, graduate in the claes of music of 1903. This will be followed by one,tomorrow evening at 8:80 o’clock,given by Miss Lucy Barton, assisted by Miss Ruth Cooner. The public is cordially invited to attend both recitals. Mieses Barton, Cooner and Littlejohn are charming young ladies of rare attainments and those who attend these recitals will be treated to a rare feast of music. Former Senator Kellogg, of Louis iana, and Judge Weldon, of the Court of Claims, vVasbington, are the only survivors of the Illinois electors who in 1860 were chosen to cast the vote of that State for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. IntereHtlng ParaKi-apht* and Keccnt Hap- penlnga In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Our Regular Correapou- dent for HeneHt of Ledger Readers, (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, May 23.—Mr. Will Westmoreland, of Hickory Grove, is repainting Hon. C. W. Whisonant’s house. Farmers are wanting rain so that they can begin chopping out cotton. Mr. John Williams, who went to the cotton mills of Gastonia, N. C., last winter, has had a good deal of sickness in his family and they are coming jack to their old home next week. We spent the day yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Webber, of Wilkinsville. Since the death of their daughter, Miss Avelona, they have been very lonely. But they have great reason to rtjoice at her tri umphant death. Her last message to them was to meet her in heaven. She was a noble young lady and her circle-of friends was only bounded by the circle of her acquaintances. Mr. Webber has been crippled for a year and has not been able to do the work of his customers; but he still does all that he can. Pink is chock full of energy. The Wilkinsvilie oil mill is an established certainty, or at least everything is in shape for commenc ing work, and there is no doubt out that much of this year’s crop will be worked up iu this new mill. Those of our people who have bees say they are doing very well this season making honey. Dr. L. R Black has settled down to his practice of medicine. For the time being he will live with Mr. C. F. Quinn. He did some practice here more than a year ago and iu it he was quite successful. The North Pacalet Inter-Denomi nation Sunday School conventional will meet at Uorinth church on June 28' h. Programme will appear goon. We hope the genial editor of The Ledger will give us a full report of the New Orleans convention of the U. 0. veterans, together with other incidents of interest. This will be good reading for all of us. One of our colored neighbors, Levi Wood, caught a fish out of Thickety creek one day last week which weighed ten pounds. It was a carp, we are told. There is a general complaint cf rust on the wheat, andjjthe oat crop is as good as a failure. Dr. and Mrs. 8am Foster art high ly pleased at the arrival of a boy baby at their home. W’e congratulate them. Several of our people went to Gaff ney this week on a shopping expedi tion, and there is a lot of new dresses in the neighborhood tJ make up. A rumor has reached here that Mr. W. R. Waiaer is lying very sick at Richmond, Va., with peumonia. Our friend, Mr. Morgan W'illwood, who is one Cherokee county’s cham pion watermelonjraisers tell us that to cultivate melons rightly the ground should be plowed just as deep as it is possible to do when they are being worked. The deep plowing holds the moisture—the very thing the melon feeds from. We hope our readers will note Mr. Millwood’s plan and re port results this fall. Messrs. Mill- wood, John Gaffney and Capt. John Mintz are the three principal melon raisers in Cherokee county that we know of. We have seen some of their melon farms and they speak for themselves. Rev. J. T. Fowler, of Camoobello, visited his brothers, Messrs. J. H. and Wm. G. Fowler, this week. The people of Bullock’s creek held memorial service at the cemetery last Saturday. It was a very interest ing programme and was carried out to the letter. In my last letter speaking of Rev. Mr. Knox’s church iu Columbia, it should have said Laurel street in stead of Green street, wnere the church is located. During our recent visit to Colum bia we called at the asylum and saw our old friend, William E. Blackwell, who has been in that institute for quite a number of years. He knew the writer very well and it’s remark able how well he remembers every thing. At one time be had the bright est mind of any man we ever knew. He was a natural born poet. We have for a number of years been sending him copies of different papers which he reads, and can tell more of them than some peoole will who are out of that institutiou. He requested us to send him papers regularly. Mrs. Jimmie Strain has been quite unwell for a few days. The gunners have been playing havoc with the crows lately, and the cornfields are having some rest from these posts. We are glad indeed to understand that the comptroller general’s office in Columbia exonerates Commander M. M. Tate, pension commissioner of Cherokee county, from the irregulari ties occurring in the pension list of this county. Mr. Tate is a concientious man, and will not for friend or foe swerve from his duty, as he under stands it. This is a relief, not only to Mr. Tate but, his friends as well. Hon. W. D. Kirby was in this neighborhood this week on business He is a hustler that gets about when be starts out on business. j.i. s. Cloning Exercises School No. 3. Long before the time appointed, Friday evening, 8 o’clock, the spacious hall of graded s:h( ol No. 2, was filled with friends and patrons of the school, to witness the closing exercises. For more than an hour the audience was delightfully enter tained with music, recitations, dec lamutions, dialogues and operettas. More than one hundred children, beautifully dressed, from six to twelve years, took part in the exercises. In the opening song. America, they pre sented a most charming and im posing scene upon the rostrum. They, without an exception, rendered their parts well,bestowing much honor upon the teachers who so faithfully and patiently trained them. After the exercises by the school, Prof. Sbuford, in a brief, but appro priate address, introduced Hou. Clyde R. Hoey, editor of the Cleve land Star, Sheiby, N. 0. To those who know Mr. Hoey it is needless to say the audience was delightfully entertained. He is one of North Carolina's, most* gifted young law yers. Nulwilhsbauding Mr. Hne.v’s stay was short. Gaffney was glad to have him as her guests. Successful Term at Colored School. The session just closed at graded school No. 3. has been a successful one. It is the school for colored children and is presided over by Rev. Robt. C. Campbell. There was,during the past session, an average atten dance of 325 pupils, of whom 146 were females and 179 were males. The principal, Rev. Robt. C. Camp bell, is a colored man who stands high in this community. He has been the pastorof a colored Methodist church—Duntnn Chapel—here for a number of years and has had charge of graded school No. 3, ever since the graded school system has been in augurated in Gaffney. He has proved a fine disceplinarian and an acciptable teacher. He says his as sistants are faithful and capable and have added much to the success of the school. Cherokee JPalle Milla Increase. The following is clipped from the Columbia State of Sunday : “Mr. J. C. Plonk, president of the Cherokee Falls Manufacturing com pany, was in the city yesterday to ar range with the secretary of state for a chart r for the big manufacturing es tablishment near Blacksburg. This mill was chartered by the legislature in 1882, and in order to amend the charter it would have been necessary to get the legislature to uass another act, a process which is very distaste ful to the law makers. The company wished to increase its capitalization from$300,000 to $1,000,- 000 and it was decided to take out a new charter fr om the secetary of state. The company deposited a check for $550.50 in payment thereof.” This large increase of the capital stock of the Cherokee Manufacturing Company means much for Cherokee county. It means a new city of two or three thousand people at Cher okee Ford, where patriots of the Rev olution camped and operated from, and on the same site where less than half a century ago a small army of iron workers lived and made iron. CommlHBiou Appointed. The commission appointed by au thority of au act of the general as sembly to raise $10,000 by popular subscription to supplement the $20,- 000 given by the State to build an equestrian statute of General Wade Hampton, has appointed Dr. Wm. Anderson, of Blacksburg, Mr. T. M. Littlejohn, of Star Farm, Mr. T. L. Bryant,,of White Plains and Mr.J. N. Lipscomb and Mayor J. Q. Little, of Gaffney, to raise Cherokee county’s portion of the $10,000, which ie $150. Knowing our Cherokee people and the members of the committee in charge of the work, we confidently predict that Cherokee’s portion will be raised and forwarded in the next few days. THROUGHOUT THE UR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. InterealluK Iteuia Concerning Our Neigh bors Heyond the Line Which Mny Rrovt Entertaining Reading for Handreds of Ledger Readers Henry Brown, a misled negro por ter in the offices of the Seaboard Air Line offices, in Raleigh, has confessed to stealing$193 27 from the desk of Mr. Marvin Harris the company’s local collector. He is in jail to await the next term of Wake Criminal Court. The appeal in the case of James Wilcox, charged with the killing of Miss Nellie Cropsey, which was to have been heard last week, was post poned until to day (Tuesday). It is the last case on the Supreme Court docket and there will be oral argu ment. In a fight in Wilson Friday after noon. between Thomas Sanders and Sing Lee, a Chinese laundry man, the Chinaman received wounds which may prove fatal Ai the time the doctors could not tell the extent of his injuries. Seeders claims self- defense. Dr. J. K. Ruffin, one of the oldest citizens of Wilson, died very sud denly at that place Friday about 9 o’clock. He has be u sick for the past four months, but his death was not expected. None ot his family were with him when he died. The funeral took place on Sunday. The occurunts of Mr- Eliza Rig ger’s boamir;-.. t. • > i \ ti‘i rm '-ii street, in Chai'.uitc \\< ;v ait;us> (1 at an early hour Saturday morning by a would-be burglar who attempted to enter the dwelling The intruder was frightened away before he suc ceeded in geltirg into the houee J. B. Hiver, W, H Rich, George Wheatly, Gil Ward, John Allen and W. W. Barnes, chargeo with the mur der of Percy Jones at Wilson on the night of May 13, have applied to Judge Brown for a writ of habeas cor pus and the matter will be heard be fore him on Tuesday or Wednesday next. Messrs. J. D. McCall and Heriot Clarason, of Charlotte, left Monday for Dallas where they go to appear for Col. Robert L. Abernethy in his suit against Col. Julian S. Carr, Col. Abernethy claiming that Col. Carr owes him $1 300 as salary while en gaged as overseer of the Occoneechee farm. Mr. O. F. Mason, of Dallas, also represents Col. Abernethy. John Broadnax, who murdered Mr. Sidney Blair, an aged and highly es teemed citizen of the Oregon section, was hanged for his crime at Went worth Friday, at 1:35 p. m. The exe cution took place in the presence of thirty-odd people and the guards al lowed the sheriff by the law. Deputy Sheriff J. E. Lambeth sprung the trigger which ended the career of one of the most remarkable murderers in the history of the county, and the execution was in every way a com plete success. Death resulted within 12 minutes after the trap had been thrown, and there was no sign of a struggle or of pain to the victim. Fannie Whitlock, colored, the ad ministratrix of Winnie Craig, also colored, who died at the smallpox hospital in Charlotte in November, has instituted proceedings in a dam age suit against the city of Charlotte for the death of Winnie Craig, al leging negligence on the part, of the city|in the care of the deceased while at the hospital. It .will be allege 1 that the woman did not die of small pox, but as a result of the treatment she received while in the hospital. The plaintiff has retaiued as counsel Messrs. Thomas G. McMichael and W. F. Harding. The case will likely come up at the next civil term of the Superior Court, which convenes there the 8th of June. Something that very seldom hap pen# took place in Goldfboro Thurs day eveuing. William Smith, aged 24 and, who is supposed to be from Scranton, Pa., procured from the register of deeds of Wayne county li cense to marry Anna Wooten, a negro, who has lived there ail her life. He failed to get any one to tie the knot. Smith obtained his license by representing himself to be mixed- blood. He is without doubt a white man. The Wooten woman is about 25 years of age. When these facts became known, several young men advised him to leave town. Without auy unnecessary delay he acted upon the advice given. Smith bad been at work iu Goldsboro on the streets for quite awhile, assisting in the street improvements. A SOCIAL EVENT. Delightful Reception Given by Mr. and Mn. W. if Smith. Tbe reception tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wellington Watt, of Charlotte, N. C., by Mr. and Mrs. William Hilliard Smith lust evening was one of the most charming social events of the season. The pretty new home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, on Granard street, was appropriately decorated for the occasion and from 8 :80 to 12 o’clock it was a scene of animation. Lovely and exquisitely charming femininity vied with hand some and gallant gentry in making the affair a most delightful one. Few receptions in the social life of Gaff ney have equalled this, and it has not been surpassed by any. It was also the thirtieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Smith, but it is only fair to add that had they not disclosed the secret themselves, no one would have guessed it, for one was more liable to think that it was the climax of a honeymoon than to believe that a score and a half years had passed since that event. The dining-parlor was a dr^am of loveliness and tiie tempting array of viands weie the choicest selection of the culinary art. It is difficult to conceive of such a reception Deing given in a citv of less than twenty thousand population, and it only goes to display the varied and wonderful resources of the conceiver of the affair. The color scheme was red. On entering, the guests were greet ed by Miss Effie Hopper at the land ing, while Mies Fannie Fori did the introducing. Mrs Rosa Roundtree, Mrs. Ed Eison and Miss Viola Mer cer presided over the dining-room. Miss Myrtle Gaffney and Miss Julia McArthur acted as ushers, and Mies Eunice Johnson and Mies Blanche Wilson presided at the punch bowl. A delightfo f Mire of the occasion was the attendauce in a body of Mrs. Smith’s Sunday school class of beautiful and bright young ladies. Mr. and Mrs. Watt are leaders among Southern society. Mr. Watt has resided iu Charlotte for yeais. He is one of the most popular kuights ol the grip in this country, a gentle man of culture and refinement, and numbers among his acquaintances the leading social and business people of the South. Mrs. Watt is a Savan nah lady, lovely in feature, graceful in carriage and charming in personal ity. She impresses herself at once, being a woman of refinement and cul ture, devoid of hauteur. She will be pleasantly remembered by all who ha^e had the opportunity of meeting her white here. The following is the list of invited guests: Messers and Mesdames J. V. 8ar- ratt, J. C. Ratliff, R. R. Allien, O. E. Wilkins, A. B. Gaines, T, B. Butler, E. H. Gaines, James R Littlejohn, Ed. H. DeCamp, H. K. Osborne, R. A. Jones, J. D Jones, Claude Jefferies, W. C. Carpenter, R M. Gaffney, H. D. Wheat, L. Baker, T. H. Littlejohn, Nathan H. Little john, R. S. Cook, W. H. Gooding, Boyd L. Hames, W. 8. Hall, J. Q. Little, J. A. Willis, J. A. Carroll, George Garrett Byers, W. A Dog- gett, R. 8 Lipscomb, Ed. L Eison, H. M. Johnstn, A. N. Wood, Winters Galloway, Sumter Littlejohn, 8. L. Cutting, W. R. Lipscomb, W. F. Smith, Major and Mrs. Jas F. Hart, Yorkville; Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Cree, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Fort, Rev. and Mrs. James M. Steadman, Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Potter, Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Wilson, Col. and Mrs. J. G. W’ardlaw, Miss Clarkson, Messrs. Mercers, Miss Blanche Wilson, Prof. Claude McArthur. Mr. Tank McAr thur, Mr. Logan Warmouth. An Interesting Case. J. C. Otts, Esq., went to Blacks burg Friday evening, where he ap peared as coutsel for J. E. Ladshaw, guardian ad litem for Lola A. Turner, plaintiff, against Chas. A. Turner, defendant, in the taking of the testi mony by commission of Mr. R. G. Baker, who is unable to attend court. 8. G. Finley, Esq., of Spartanburg, appeared as counsel for the defend ant. The testimony was taken be fore Magistrate Gold, and is said to have been very interesting. Ex-Gov. John Gary Evans and Stanyarne Wilson, Esq., are also at torneys in the case. The suit ie for alleged ill-treatment and cruelly beat ing of the daughter, Mies Lola A. Turner, by the father. Mr. 0. A. Turner, and is for $10,000 damages. The case is an unusual one, and from the above array of counsel, it will doubtless be a legal battle to the fin ish. Ice Cream Festival. There will be an ice cream festival Saturday evening iu the grove near Mr. Tom Patrick’s, below tbe Gaffney cotton mill. Everybody la invited. Tbejproceeds will go to tbe B.Y. P.U.