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* \ J THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. Fhe Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of 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 HAFFNEY. S. O., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. ttvenlN Hint Have Taken Tlace from One End of the .State to the Other Culled from Exchange* for ^Julek Heading by Score* of Hn*y People. 'Fht* n-grn m n droi'oe'J ILeo'e! la-t S'j' d>. v ini.r injf iryiru; t > siv. 3 cotton w»t> f Mind St’ur^avoo D ve for the third time. They wact 80,000 acrt'e of land. Ezekiel Jones, a negro man of Co lumbia, was fined $10 Tuesday morn ing for cruelty to animals the day be fore at the Seaboard depot site. Jones and another negro named Spearman were beating a horse hitched to a heavy scoop and Captain Starling, the president o f Society Prevention Cruelty to Animals interfered. Spi-arman got away, but the police naught Jones and he was locked up On Saturday between 11 and 12 o’clock as an extra freight train was en p’Ute to Charleston two little ne- , gro boys D rew a rock at the engine and struck the engineer inflicting a painful wound upon the face that caused the unfortunate man to fall NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Interesting Paragraph* and Keeent Hap pening* in Lower Section of the Connty Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Header*. ^Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane June 17.—The Pacolet river disaster continues to be a theme IF g&» f'i# ' drunk by no account husbands and fathers while their wivos and children would go in need of the ne cessary comforts it is intended to give them We attended court at Gaffney last Monday and met with quite a number of friends and acquaintances from all parts of the county who make abouc the same report of their crop pros pects—the rains, etc. We also had the pleasure of meet ing for the first time Rev. Arch. C. Cree, the popular pastor of the First Baptist church at Gaffoey, whcm we found to be a pleasant, genteel and approachable man. He is deservedly popular with bis people. We also met Comrade W. J. Mc Gill, of King’s Creek, who showed us his parole from the army of Northern Virginia. Also* the stockings worn by his grandfather at his wedding nearly 100 years ago. We also met our good friend, Mr. Reese M. Roark, of Antioch, who is the proudest man in his section or perhaps in Cherokee county, because at his house there is a Reese M. Roark, Jr., whom he says is one of the finest boys we ever saw—age nearly ten months. We wish the young man great success. We dropped io with ami greatly enioyed the hospitality of our worthy and efficient' county treasurer, W. Harry Gooding, who, with his most estimable wife and daughter, Miss Heleo, made us feel perfectly at home during our stay. Tte published programme for the North Tacolet Sunday School conven tion which meets at Corinth on r he 28fb instant omits one query, which is by no means the fault of the prin ter. It is this: The childless church —and who is to blame for it? To be discussed by T. M. Littlejohn. Mr. iJohn A. M. Estes killed a coachwhip snake last Monday that measured seven f et and two inches in length. Many farmers find difficulty in plowing overflowed lands. They say THE TAR HEEL STATE. * From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Frovt Entertaining Heading for Hundred* of Ledger Header* After an illness of three weeks, Mrs. Jemima Turner, the oldest woman in Charlotte, died Tuesday evening at the home of her son, Mr. W. D. Furner, in that city. The safe in the postoffice at Pin nacle, Stokes county, was blown open Monday night and robbed of from two to three hundr- d dollars in cash and stamps. The burglars made their es cape. The Winston Tobacco Association met Tuesday and elected a central committee to act with Governor Ay- cock ic securing delegates to a State convention to he held io Raleigh, the object of which is to arrange for a North Carolina exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. Gov. Aycock delivered the address before the literary societies of Vander bilt University in the University chape! Tuesday night. His subject was “Education.” Governor Aycock attended the University commence ment exercises next morning and left for Chattanooga in the afternoon. While putting in a new boiler at the seminary at Red Springs Tuesday, J. M. Hargett, a machinist for the I). A. Tomkins Company of Charlotte, fell from a ladder and was seriously in jured. It is feared he is hurt inter nally. He was taken to Charlotte and frighten them off before they could steal anything from him. The men could not be found by the police. The most horrible tragedy that has ever been enacted in the memory of the oldest inhabitants of Ashe county took place Sunday, at the foot of the Alleghany mountain rang" just in side of that county. Crick Davis, with an axe, cut to pieces two men and: his own wife Alfred Barker and son, Levi, from Virginia, had stopped over night with Davis, who had insisted upon their staying, and * while they were asleep Davis attacked them cut ting them to pieces with an axe. Mrs. I Davis attempted to prevent the deed and was herself struck several times with the axe, and the attending physician said she would die. Davis was probably insane. He is in jail. The town of Reidsville was thrown into considerable excitement Monday when it was announced that a num ber of the operatives of the Pacolet mills, in South Carolina, had been brought there and that they had smallpox. A rigid and thorough ex amination was promptly made by the authorities and as a result 42 of the parties were put in the pest house. The operatives from the South Caro lina cotton mills which were destroyed by -he heavy rains of a week ago went to Reidsville Sunday. There were about sixty-five of them, sent there by Mr. J. W. Manley, superintendent cf the Edna Cotton Mills, of Reids ville. who was at the scene of the wrecked mills, and who furnished transporation for them. There were a hundred and twenty-five more of them ready to start when the secre tary and treasurer of the Edna Mills, Mr. J. B Pipin, notified them not to come. Flood Survivor* in Gaffney. Since the Pacolet flood many of the survivors have visited Gaffney. One of the most interesting of these visit ors was Mr. B. T. Johnson, of Clifton, who was here Tuesday. Mr. Johnson ' •ii ffig From photo] CLIFTON MILL No. i. [by Carr. Here the destruction was not so great as at Nos. 2 and 3, though the mill was badly wrecked. It, with mill No. 2, will probably be rebuilt. Farr’s pla *e, several Pacolet. miles below J. D. Williams the man who was cut by J B Ward at Phoenix on F.*i day night, is doing very nic> ly. Mr. Ward was at homo no the daj after the cutting and not awry from it as stated at first. Capfc. Legare J. Walker, ope of the bravest of the citizen soldiers that Charleston furnished to the Confed eracy; for many years a cotton fac tor. and some time railroad cotnmis sioner of South Carolina, died Sun day at his home in Summerville The county commissioners of Spar tanburg are busy discussing with the members of the Spartanburg delega tion in thejlegislature the question of securing money for replacing the bridges of the county that were washed away by the recent floods. John Osborne, a well known printer of Columbia, suffered a very painful accident Sunday. He was kicked on the leg by his horse, and the limb was fractured midway between rhe thigh and the knee Dr. Knowlton aald that the injured man would be laid up several weeks. It was offbially announced Tuesday morning that Dr. Edwin McNeill Po- that, pastor of the Memorial church, Philadelphia, had been elected presi dent of Furman University in Green ville. A telegram received there by the secretary of the board of trustees. A. G Furman, announced Dr. Po- teat’s acceptance of the position. About 12:30 Sunday morning a ne gro man broke into the barber shop of Richard Graham colored, at Beau fort. He had provided himself with a bottle of gasoline, with which be eutur&ted two barber chairs and then Ignited them This brought out the fire department. A stream sufficed to extinguish the incipient blaze. Hundreds of hands and scores of wagons from the country have been on Broac river assisting in getting out aud hauling cotton and cloth. Some people went on the river at fi.st and carried away cloth and other ■mall things thinking or claiming to believe they had a right to do so, and, no doubt, many of them have snough goods laid away to last them for days to come. The News and Courier reports that there are now in South Carolina representatives of about 1,000 French Canadians, who want to make their homes io tbs South tod who are represented to be men who are skilled In tbs art of agriculture aud are thrifty, economical aud progressive. The representatives are Id this State into a state of uncons uousness. The fireman seeir g ihe engineer fail back with blood flowing grasped the throt tle and applied the braKr * and brought the train to a standstill. The crew chased the rascals for a long distance but they escaped. The doors of the (Iharleston hotel were closed Monday afternoon by the present managers, who d“cid»d that in the face of the ou’‘fltar)d'ng debt against the hotel and the determina tion of the hotel’s creditors to place it in the hands of a receiver, it would b-i best to close the hotel for the present. Monday morning Yianxger Palmer notified his guests that the hotel would be closed to the public at 4 o’clock and asked them to make arrangement for accommodation els- where. The guests gathered ■ ..eir baggage and moved to thq^other houses in ihe city. This is the first time in over half a century that, the doors of the Charleston have ever been shut. Mr. M. B. Mam* Entertain*. Mr. M. B. Bams entertained a num ber of his friends at a lawn party given at his home on Victoria avenue last Friday evening. The entertain ment was given in honor of his friends. Mr. Roy Morrison, of Pio neer Mills, and Mr Templeton, of Abbeville, 8. 0., a graduate of the textile department at Clemson Col lege, who had stopped on their way home from college. Miss Eva Bams, assisted by two young ladies, served refreshments. Those present were: Misses Viola Hamrick, Louise Wood, Ethel Barratt, Louise Jefferies, Willie Morgan, Dora Scott, Cleo Gaffney, Christine Goudelock, Myrtle Barratt and Cornelia Lavender; Messrs. Law- j rence Wood, Vernon Baker, John ! Jefferies, Victor Lipscomb, James | Wood, Vernon Phillips. Malcolm ; Goudelock, Kvle Davenport, E lgar ! Parker and LaFar Lipscomb. • Some men are so stingy that they actually wear their pockets wro^g side out to keep tbefr friends from asking a loan. Really the men’s trousers these days are a whole lot more modest than the women’s skirts. Go to Limestone Park this after noon and “root” for the home team. Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets are just what you need when you have no appetite, feel dull after eating and wake up with a bad taste in your mouth. They will improve your appetite, cleanse aud invigorate your stomach and give you a relish for your food. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. of aim. st universal commei t, and within the nexr few week*, nr months at farthest, the story in book form will be selling like hot cak s through out this county. Every daj adds its tale of woe to th , list of casualties as well asthi". of hum^.n suffering— until it is now unprecedented. The prompt, patriotic uud liberal response of the people to the call.* of distress is also unprecedeoted. and makes us feel proud that we are cPizeos of such a gr^at nation, one that has such high ideals of humanity. From a letter of an inte.ligeut and gentlemanly opeiative who has long j-been in the employ of the Paco'et Manufacturing company at Trough, we quote the following, although jit was not expected by the writer to find its way Into print. It speaks loudly for those who felt the shock of the disaster, and will no doubt give ihe sentiments of every one whose misfortune it was to he caught in that great calamity. Fhe writer say*: “We all have the opportunity of staying on here, wito work to do all the time, with no house rent to pay. I can't now work on a farm; and, for only one hand in the mill, couldn’t get a job elsewhere, there fore I nave concluded to stay on and do what 1 can and hold my job here. I am in debt to the company, anyway, at this time; but by showing a will ingness 1 have their confidence aud trust, aud ail 1 need is ability. Through the providence of God (I s.-e no other uourca it could come from) the good people of Gaffney, Spartan burg and Greenville (and 1 don’t know where else) have raised a con siderable fund—something like $12,- 000 or $15,000 for the relief of the people here and at Clifton. So yes terday they laid down flour, bacon, toffee, sugar, etc., to the amount of about one month’s rations fur our families. With that and what we bad on hand before, I think we are safe in that line for awhile.” This letter is in the right tune. We have beard it said that some wouid-be beneficiaries are clamoring for what they claim as their part of this relief fund, when we are satis fied that the donors never intended anything else but that it would go to the destitute and deserving in the way of food, clothing, medicines, etc., judiciously applied. Id this way (and we are confident it will be used in 00 other way) it will do a greater amount of good than in any other way It can be fuied. For uo doubt if It were given out in cash to the people lots of it would be spent for liquor to be Mi ♦/ 1 mi :w> From photo] CLIFTON MILL No. 2. [by Carr. Showing the destruction caused by the flood and condition of the mill as it now stands. To the left is “Santuc,” where the greatest destruction to life and the operatives’ homes occurred. the settlings are so thick in places that it is »mpo8*ibie to do anything with them this late in the season They are planting and replanting where the lands will admit of it The farmer is beyond doutu the hunt- est raa.) in th world 10 discourage. Disasters don’t do it. As soon as one crop is, crowned out he planr* an other in the sam** place ju«t as chst-r fully as he did the firsr time, and with him it is work, wmk. work all the time. As soon as it is possible to uo mj w« hope our county commissioner* and those of Union county will lake steps to replace the bridges of Skull Sooais and Gnndall Shoals. I tided, we understand, ire ail the bridges in which 0 ir county was iuiercetcU luat have been damaged to any exiout and it is a great inconvenience for our people to do without either of them. The Skull Shoals’ bridge is lying in the river just below where it stood { and the rock piers are all intact. Much, or perhaps most, if not all, of, the material on the Skull Shuals bridge can be uted again. • j. L s is now at his home, at the corner of Eleventh and Caldwell streets. The thirty-third annual convention of the grand lodge. Knights of Pyth- j las, of North Carolina, convened in Wilmington Tuesday night in the splendid new hall of the three Wil mington, lodges, in the Murchison Bank building Grand Chancellor J L Scott, of Graham, presided, and a'! other offi jers and about 250 repre sentatives were present. The Seaboard Knitting Mill, of Huodtraon, will resume work iu a short time. The property has been purchased by New York oarties and the plant will be enlarged ami im proved and operated on a larger scale than before. This is the same con cern that went into the hand* of a receiver some time ago. It employed about 150 hands before, and it is said that when the plant is enlarged they will work nearly twice that number. Oh. Ye* I You wish you bad ordered Brans- ford’s “Clifton” floor for to-day, but you didn’t. It isn’t our fault; we bad plenty of it ready to deliver at your order. Don’t get caught napping next time. W. J. Wilkins & Co. Clarence Smith, son of Capt T T Smith, of Charlotte, was held up in that city by three footpads Tuesday night and was given an exciting ex perience for a short time. He had just escorted a young iady horm and on bis return up South Tryon, at the mouth of a dark alley, he encountered this barrowing episode A sack was thrown pver the young man’s head and bis captors began dragging him into the illey. His cries for help were loud enough, despite the cloth, to wat? a merchant in the Santuc neigh borhood. He lost everything. His ' ntire family was sweot down. He managed to gtt on the t :p of a small cottqp-house, which served as a raft, and was rescued. His'.little boy float ed, off ob the top of another cotton- hoilse'a'hd the last seen of the little fellow;he was fl mating down the river. Mr Johnson was especially gratified with the fact that he will be able to pay his creditors every cent in full. His safe smi its contents were saved and ea<*h of his creditors has written him offering, to extend aid. Addllloual Contribution*. Mr. Z l 1 . Castleberry, treasurer of the Gainesville relief fund, acknowl edges receipt of additional contri butions from Gaffney, through City ! Clerk W. H«nrj Ross, to the extent >f $7. Gaffney’s contributions to both the Gainesville and Pacolet suf ferers were timely and were deeply tppreciated by the relief committees vbo had the matter in charge. The color of a man’s nose is often far more expensive than the color of his wife’s cheeks. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you. if you used Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thou- *ands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25 cents, money back if not cured. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co.