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A Great Record. FROMTHE FLOOD LANDS Telegrapher Describes Incident of Oregon Cloudburst. ONE HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS written since Mch. ist, 1903. in Cherokee County HEPPNEB A VERITABLE TRAP. means of securing food seemed to be furnished by Providence. The water drove poor little rabbits up under the very wheels of the cars. As the water crept higher the rabbits actually got on top of the wheels. Every morning it was easy to collect as many rabbits as we could cat. That seems remark able, but it was really a fact.” Why Should You Insure in the Penn? BECAUSE there is no better company to insure with. BECAUSE its policies are free from restrictions as to travel, residence acd occupation. BECAUSE it pays liberal annual dividends to its policy holders. BECA USE it confines itself strictly and consciteniously to legitimate insurance. [t BECAUSE it is 5G years old and has the experience. BECAUSE it has written more insurance in Cherokee County the past three months than any two of its competitors. Life Insurance Company. 0ff,c qa££V! t s. m c St '' D, H, HALL, District Manager, CRACK GOES THE WHIP IN COME THE ORDERS MirpkMaCM SELLS THE VERY BEST GRADES OF FERTILIZERS AT THE VERY LOWEST COST It pays to fertilize your lands w THE VIRQINIA-CAROLIN, CHEMICAL COMPANY; PRODUCTS. BOLD EVERYWHERE Tha Vlrglnla-Carolina Chemical Co, CHARLESTON, a & TIE IEMICIL OOMPH! “The Largest Manufacturer of Fertilizers on Ealrth” Forty odd Manufacturing plants Wholesale purchasers Largest importers Concentration of Management The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney City; Also Farms neai by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of fron 30 to TOO acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For full particulars applv to J. V. A^ent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on, walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting, under penalty of law. Straw Hats and Slippers. I have decided to close out a lot of Straw Hats REGARDLESS OF COST. Also a lot of Men’s, La dies’ and Misses’ Slippers to go AT YOUR OWN PRICE. See them; they are rare bargains. ' A few 5 and 10 gal. kegs Tennessee Sorghum left. It is the genuine article and only 35c a gallon in 5 gallon kegs. Biggest line of Shoes in town at lower prices than you pay elsewhere. Clothing, Hats, Dry Goods and Notions at pricey in keeping with the times. I have as complete stock of General Merchandise as can be found in thejcity and only ask that you call and get prices and I am sure of*a customer. Respectfully, J. I. SARRATT. Charlea A. Taylor Snyn the Town That Wa„ Swept Away l.ay In a Pocket lo the Mountain,,—•KnnnnM Flood Drove Kahbitn Into Hailroad Cur.s, and I'liHNeiiKera Thun Secured Food. F. G. Hart, the telegraph operator i for the Oregon Railway and Navlga- : tion company at Heppner, recently j wrote for the New York World and ! sent by wire an account of a tragic mo- ; ment in the flood in which he had a | miraculous escape from death, taking | with him four children. James Ker- nan, the station agent, and his wife, j whose daughter (Katie) Hart had with him, would have escaped also had not Kernan stopped to call Portland in an iffort to inform the outside world that Heppner was being overwhelmed with waters. Here is the' account from Mr. : Hart, dated Lexington, Ore.: “I was working in the Oregon liail- way and Navigation company’s office at the time that the flood was coming down upon us. I was writing a letter to my parents, who live in Hilgard. Ore. I noticed that it was raining very hard, and, in company with Mr. Ker- j nan, the station agent, his wife and his ' fifteen-year-old daughter, watched the creek. We did not realize that it was rising so fast until we heard a terrific roar. Then I called the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Kernan to the flood which was coming, with the water roll ing over and over, picking up and crushing houses as though they were eggshells. I cried: ‘My God! Isn’t that awful? Come, lot us run for the hills!’ “I took hold of the little daughter's hand and those of three other little children tha>t ran into the station be fore I started. I rushed for the hills, Mr. Kernan and his wife following. Only by the help of Divine Providence did 1 succeed in getting the four chil dren out on high ground, and as I gain ed the higher ground I turned to look and see how the best friend I ever had on earth was making it. The rapidly rising waters had caught him and his wife, and they were drowned before my very eyes. Neither tongue nor pen ! can describe the scene, and it seems be yond human minds to imagine the sight.” Heppner, Ore., as described by Charles A. Taylor, the playwright, was a veritable trap for such a flood as the one which recently brought death to a large number of its population. Mr. Taylor has several friends there, and believes that many of them were vic tims of the cloudburst. "The first time I went to Heppner,” he said to a New York Evening Journal reporter, “was in November, 1901. The town was twenty-six miles from the main line and the trip there was slow and tedious. The railroad ran along Willow creek, which was a strong mountain stream in a deep valley. “My company was the first that had been to Heppner in three years, and I never saw people so glad to see actors. There was no room for us in the small but well equipped hotel, but tbe landlord turned out enough guests to make us comfortable. We were treated royally on all sides and noth ing seemed too good for us. “The very thought of going to see a play seemed to thrill them, and that night the little opera house, which was used for charitable entertainments al most entirely, was packed to the doors. The same thing was true the next night, and Mr. Crawford, proprietor of the hotel, told me that every man, won. and child in the city who was not ill had seen the show. "The wealth of the town was re markable. There did not seem to be any poor people there. They seemed perfectly satisfied with one another and were willing to let the world outside progress without their aid. The hotel was about the only building in town that was up to date. The rest of the houses were built along the main street, backing on the creek. “The town was in a pocket in the mountains. On every side were high hills, sloping down to the houses and being drained into the creek which proved so much too small when the cloudburst came on Sunday (June 14). The creek is like a raging torrent all the time. It runs Into the Columbia river just above Luc falls and a few miles below Heppner.” A reporter for the Kansas City Jour nal at Topeka finds that 312 pianos were destroyed in the North Topeka flood. If these instruments had an average value of $300 the total would amount to $93,000. One thing is cer tain, not a single piano which passed through the flood will ever be used again. Pianos are commonly regarded as of strong and substantial construc tion. To look at those which passed through the Topeka flood one would conclude that they were as fragile as a house of cards. Their woodwork is swelled, bulged and split. Tbelr veneer ing has peeled off like paper from a wet wall. Their internals are warped and twisted out of all semblance to an orderly machine. They have been thrown out in the streets, without an exception, to be hauled away with oth er rubbish. BIGGEST SHIPS AFLOAT. L1WER TROUBLES “I find Th'-flford’a Black-Draught ^ a good medicine for liver diaesse. H cured my on after he had epent $100 with doctors. It ia all the med icine I take."—MRS. CAROLINE MARTIN, Parkersburg, W. Va. If your liver does not act reg ularly go to your druggist and secure a package of Thedford’s Black-Draught and take a dose tonight. This great family medicine frees the constipated bowels, stirs up the torpid liver and causes a uealthy secretion of bile. Thedford's Black - Draught will cleanse the bowels of im purities and strengthen the kid- ntws. A torpid liver invites colds, biliousness, chills and fever and all manner of sick ness and contagion. Weak kid- !>«ys result in Bright’s disease whieh claims as many victims as consumption. A 25-cent package of Thedford’s Black- Draught should always he kept in the house. “I used Thedford’s Black- DrauKht for liver and kidney com- plsinfs and found nothing to excel it."-WILLIAM COFFMAN, Mar blehead, 111. THEDFORD’S DUCIf- DSAUCHT I* ■n®w and scientific compound made from roots, herbs and barks—contains neither opiates nor poisons. It purifies the blood and removes the causes of rheumatism and all blood disease!. Anyone can take RHELriACIDB with abate lute safety. Does not injura the digestive organ". WIUl TWO CURES. j Flobrnob, 3. C., Aug. 16,1002. GentlemenI bepan to suffer from rheumatism about tbree years ago. and had it very bad in my limbs. At times I could hardly walk. Was treated by B physician without benefit. More than a year ago, Mr. George Wilson, an engi neer on the Coast Line, living in Flor ence, told mo Ibat "Rhbuiiacidb” cured him. I got a bottle and it bene- fltted me. I took five bottles and am now as well as I ever was in my life, i regard “Rheumacidb” as a great medicine. 1 know of others It has cured. Truly, 8. T. BURCH. Dablihotobt, 8. C., Aug. 19th, 1902. GentlemenAbout two years ago I had a very severe attack of inflamma tory r heu matism. I suffered great pain and was confined to my bed for five weeks. During the time I was treated by two Physicians without permanent , Capt. Barker, a conductor on the Atlantic Coast Line heard of my condition and sent me two bottles of ‘•Uueumacide.’’ I began to take it and in a week I got up and walked on d utches. After taking three bottles of the remedy I got entirely well and wont back to my business. I personally know of a number of ether bad cases that were cured by the use of your medicine, in this town and vicinity. It is all that you claim for it. Truly. J. L. 8ISKRON. Sold by Druggists. Will be sent express pa : d on receipt of $1.00. Bobbitt Chemical Co., - - Baltimore, fid., U. 5. A. *For sale by the Cherokee Drug Company. Palatial Liners to Be Ballt by Ens- IInU and German Companies. Ocean steamers greater than the Cedric or the Celtic of the White Star line, now the largest vessels afloat, are planned by the Hamburg-Amerlcan and the Cunard lines, says the New York Press. Neither boat Is intended for record breaking. The Cunard liner will make the run from the Irish coast to New York in seven and a half days and the Hamburg craft will have a speed of about seventeen and a half knots. It is in preparation for the ac commodation of these and similar ves sels that the New York dock depart ment has asked the permission of the war department to build piers at least 1,000 feet long In the North river. The proposed boats ooyUl not be docked unless the line is extended. The Cedric and the Celtic are 700 feet long, 75 feet wide and 49 1-3 feet deep. The new Ilninburg-American liner will be 725 feet long, 77 feet wide and 50 feet deep, and have a mean speed of J seventeen and one-half knots, ns against sixteen for the White Star liners. The Cunard vessel will have about the same measurements and speed. The German craft will be able to carry twice as many guests as the Waldorf-Astoria holds and will have three promenade decks, one a roof garden; fifty baths, a gymnasium, three smoking rooms, two libraries and two parlors for women. FOR BILIOUSNESS The liver must be gently stirred so that (he bile win be thrown off in the right channel; the eyetem at the same time ahould be invigorated by a tonic that Nature may begin her work and complete the cure. anoTONIC PELLETS Form the modern mild power cure that completely doe# tbe work, without shock or injury to any past of the system. Booklets and samples free of any dealer, or complete treatment, Twenty-five Doses, 25c. BROWN MFG. CO. NEW YORK AND OREENEYILLE. TENN, *For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. 'X ‘■-TO * y C- v . •! >&* -SMl V ■j . 1 . . . r - *—■JL.- UHMER ES OH THE 0UTHERN nm THE LINE FOR BUSINESS, THE LINE FOR PLEASURE, THE LINE FOR ALL THE BEST SUMMER RESORTS Complete Summer Resort Folder Mailed Free to Any Address. W. A. Turk. S. H. Hardwick, W. H. Taylob, Pass. Traffic Mgr. Gen'I Pass. Agent, Asst. Gen'I Pass. Agt. WASHINGTON. D.C. WASHINGTON, D.C. ATLANTA, GA. J National Bank of Gaffney, Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00 Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00 Stockholders Liability, 50,00Cb00 Total, - - - $125,000.00 I>epo»it» ITeby. 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. A. N. Wood. President. K. It. Brown, Vice-President The Merchants and Planters 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 JO/ on deposits in our == *v/o Savings Department. Deposits accepted from $1.00 up. O. M. SMITH, Cashier. Elliot G. Houston of the Denver Record Stockman, had an uncomfort able experience in traveling through the water belt of Kansas during tbe recent floods on his way to his old home at Louisville, Ky., says the Den ver Post. With forty-eight other pas sengers he was water bound for six days on a Missouri Pacific train four miles from Bridgeport, Kan. It was lip possible cither to move the train for ward or to go hack, and in a short time the food supply was exhausted and the mule passengers rustled eat ables among the farmers of the neigh borhood. “We exhausted the food the first day.” said Mr. Houston. “At the start we were told that we could have but iwo meals Instead of three meals a day. Every semblance of food was quickly gone, and then It became nec essary for the male passengers to get something to eat. The farmhouses saved us. Several of us got boats an^ rowed from house to house each day and In this way secured food suffldeuv: at least one meal a day. One Cure a Cold in One Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Seven MBBon boxes sold in port 12 months. This Signature, Cures Grip in Two Days. on every box. 25c. THOUSANDS DAILY REGRET % WASTING THEIR MONEY. ...Not One Ever Regrets Saving It... Resolve to save and you can save. A firm determination opens the way. We invite everybody to open an account with us, and we will make it profitable for you to do so. Deposits of $1.00 or more received and interest paid thereon it the rate of 4 per cent. ^ F. O. STACY, President. D. C. ROSS, Cashier. j fill. ' Si iiliMili