The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 26, 1903, Image 2
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.
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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.
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