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M ■j-'ftjK- rtf'll |‘| ik" ■ ■ ..smJ ' THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FSIDAY. 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. j f ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894 GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY. JULY 7. 1903. 81.00 A YEAR. INTREPID INDIANS PARAUZE PALEFACES. Cherokee and Cleveland test for Championship. CHEROKEES VICTORIOUS Gaffney anu Shelby CroH» Hats on Fourth and Hotly ConteHted Game Gaffney Wins !>y Score of !> to 0—Good Hall was I’layed— good OD tWO ftnd players on the team. He plays with out frills, but he plays ball. Isom at first played professional ball. Lipscomb covered second to per fection and himself with glory. Elmore held down thirdjin magnifi- Con- cent style. He didn’tjmake an error. Richardson was the star fielder. He got everything that went to him and his remarkable throw to home plate, whereby he cut off Williams, was of a sensational order. By rs played an errorless game in centre. Brown had three chances, made dropped one, and THRODOHODT THE NEWS OF THE WEEK damage done the cotton mills alone for their losses, to say nothing of the damages sustained by the farmers PALMETTO ST ATE, IN LOWER CHEROKEE r: o n" g fn* h t e „ r ;re r P “ u D b d nrr n r z p( :z ^ bridges, etc. Items of Interest of Passing From Our Correspondent at is the'tiZdng 'iay aDciect rule ' toclay Etta Jane. .p&. will be continued on to Mr. Jack Ken drick’s at Sarratts. j. l s. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. ALL OVER THE STATE. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ScoreH by luningrt. The Indians went on the waroath Into the Old North State; The story of the gunie is an aftermath Which the boys with glee relate. Ids I As a tribute to their skill; Nine palefaces were mangled, As the Indians hit with a will. Over the centre-field fence Bish Isom hit the ball; Shelby rooters went into a trance For it completed their downfall. Hopper was In tiie pitcher's box, Jones did the hack stop act; At second Lipscomb was sly as a fox And Little played short for a fact. Elmore on third did splendid work. Ope, Byers and Brown were in the field; Each man in his place worked like a Turk, And not an earned run did they yield. Isom held first like a professional. Never a hall did he miss; Ope’s throw to home was sensational— For the Gaffney rooters 'twas bliss. But this is enough of this doggerel— The story of the game may prove better; We know this rhyme is ethereal. However, that does not matter. Eor should you note some slight defect Within this wreath of verse; Please don’t forget to recollect We’ve written stuff that's worse. horse for a Yes, we’ve written stuff that’s worse. But it was a great game of ball, from our point of view ; and that is the point which we like. Never for a mo ment was the game in doubt. Hopper, the first man up, hit the ball, but was caught out; Lipscomb followed with a hit, as did Elmore, Brown and Isom, and Lipscomb, PR- more and Brown crossed the rubber; Isom died on second as Little and Richardson made outs. Shelby went to the bat and was retired in one-two- three order. After the first neither side scored until the sixth inning, when Gaffney piled up four runs, two of them being made after two men had been put out. Then came the fireworks. Hopper was pitching mag nificent ball. Brown went to bat and made a scratch hit, getting to first. The score was then seven to nothing in favor of Gaffney. Hopper side stepped and caught Brown at second, but Umpire Wells said it was a balk. The funny part about this decision was that the same thing had been worked before and the umpire did not call it a balk; but the first time the play was slow and failed to catch the man. However, that was the time for the umpire to pronounce it a balk. The same play has been made time and time again and Mr. Wells is the first man to pronounce it a balk. This decision caused a wrangle between the teams and the umpire, but Gaff ney was so far ahead that it was thought she could afford to grant that much, so the play proceeded, al though some of the players were ready to quit the field. In this inn ing Brown, Alexander, Carroll and Blanton scored. The seventh inning was the one that made the Shelby rooters sick. Bish Isom walked up to the plate and knocktd the ball over centre field fence. It was a great hit and the Gaffney # rooters went wild, while the Shelby rooters drooped like a parched then Brossie gave him the laugh, while Tommy begged kicking machine. There were about 150 rooters from Gaffney present and they did not fail to encourage the home team. The deportment of the team and their friends on and off the diamond was admirable. Shelby folks were mighty cieyer and did all in their power to give us a goodjtime, but they didn’t enjoy the ball game. King’s Mouctain sent over a num ber of fane and it was hard to tell which side they were on. Umpire McGinnis thinks Gaffney should have had a shut-out to her credit. He and Mr. Wells differ about the sid-step and Mr. McGinnis is right. Mr. Wells is a clever gentleman and a conscientious umpire. He gave , Gaffney one decision that she was not ; entitled to, but he was honest in it. He also gave Gaffney the worst of it several times, and he was also con scientious in that. Gaffney should have two or three games on the home diamond now. It would serve to increase the interest in the game at home. We have the team and can out-play any all-home team in any town in North or South Carolina of not more than 7,000, population, and such a team should be encouraged. HON. L. A. COUDELOCK. V Former South Carolinian Dies in IMs- 8lMhl]>|>i. “After several months o f pair.fu suffering, death brought relief to oi e of Union cout.ty’s most respected citi zens last Sunday evening. Mr. Goudelock came from South Carolina to the Keoweville community more than thirty years ago, and was at ail times recognized as a safe and active worker for the good of his commu nity and county. He served as a member of the board of supervisors in the early history of the county and represented his county one term in the legislature. In all his public and private acts, his course was governed by his high sense of what he believed to be best for those whom he served. Mr. Goudelock was a loyal and con sistent member of the Methodist church and for many years gave to it faithful and efficient service in an official way. He was also an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, having recently served his lodge as master. In all these relations both public and private, his constant aim was to be and do right. Truly a good man has gone from among us. His remains ^were laid to rest last Tuesday afternoon by his Masonic brethren in the presence of his neigh bors and a large number of friends from different parts of the county. The bereaved family and relatives have our sincere sympathy. May God bless andjeomfort them.’’ Leander Goudelock, uue subject of the above sketch from Kventfl that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from KschangeM for Quick Reading; by Scores of 'Hatty People. The bronze plate stolen about a year ago from the Spanish cannon mounted in the State house yard in Columbia has been recovered. The First South Carolina Regiment of State troops will encamp in Co lumbia this summer, the 20th of July, and will continue in camp for a week. At a meeting of the directors of the First National Bank of Sumter it was decided to declare a 83 1-3 per cent, stock dividend, increasing the capital stock from $50,000 to $100,- 000. Col. Williamson H. Martin, a prominent attorney of Laurens, died in Asheville, N. C., Friday afternoon. He was in his 52nd year, and had been in ill health for the past six months. Abraham Ancrum, a negro living somewhere near Springtown, is in jail in Bamberg charged with a horrible and revolting crime. It is said that he has beaten his 14-year-old daugh ter to death. The secretary of State Thursday issued a charter to the Carolina Clay Company, which will havej headquar ters in Columbia. The capital stock is $50,000. Wm. Lockhart, of New York, is president. The Neeley Compress company, of Chester, has applied for a charter, the capital to be $100,000. It is said 1 that the company owns a new patent for compressing cotton. The corpora tors are J. N. Neeley, T. J. Cunning ham. J.K Marion. The people of Mecklenburg county, N. C., are protesting against the bu reau of marriage kept up by ’Squire W. 0. Bailes and the feeling is such that Gov. Heyward has been asked to remove Fort M Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap penings In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent for Henetit of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, July 3.—The oppressive heat of the last few days and nights reminds us of the presence of “dog days,” about which so much has been said and so little positively known. But, nevertheless, enough to make it certain that they are of very ancient origin, and have been identified with many of the superstitions of the past ages. The Dog star, which rises with, or in close connection with the sun for the forty “dog days” is one of the brightest stars in the heavens, and one of the most powerful in its in fluence. When the Seven stars are in mid-heaven, or overhead, if we will Paculet Mills Notes. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Trough, July 3. — Miss Bettie Smith, who for a number of years was a resident and operative here, but late of Valley Falls, died at the latter place on the 24th ult. of con sumption. She was a lady who stood high in the estimation of all who knew her. A consistent member of the Baptist church, a faithful teacher in Sunday School, and an earnest worker in support of the mission cause, while the suffering and desti- Interestlng Items Concerning Oar Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers Randolph county has sent ten crazy persons to the asylum in the last few weens, who went crazy on the subject of sanctification. Capt. A. Thies has sold the Phoe nix gold mine in Cabarrus county to the Miami Mining Company of Pitts burg, Pa. The purchase price was $18,000. Mr. John McRae, of Gulf Town t , ....... , , . ^ ship. Chatham county, died qui‘3 tute never failed to share both comfort sudden | y Wednesday with what .3 thought to have been neuralgia of the heart. and relief from her hands. Her remains were buried at Goueher Creek church, near where she was born and reared on the 25th, Dr. Fitch, State evangelist, conduct ing the funeral exercises. She leaves a widowed mother, a sister look from thorn In a aonthoasterly “nil hrother, together w,th a wide clr- , V de of sorrowing kindred and friend?, direction we first find the “Ell and Yard” or what Job calls “the Bands of Orion.” (Sometimes called Jacob’s rod). Continuing in a straight line we find Sirius, or the Dog star, about which so much has been said and written in all ages of the world. This star is so distant we can’t imagine the infinitude of space between our earth and it. It is computed to be more than one hundred and thirty thousand millions of miles. It is so far away that if it were blotted out of existence it would be twenty-two years before we would miss it from tbe heavens. It is one of the earliest named stars in the heavens and is supposed by some to be tbe nearest to the earth. The Egyptians called itciothis and its heliacal risingjwas a forerunner of the rising of the Nile; while the Romans considered it a star of evil omen the notary public of upper whose appearance above the horizon ill township, who marries over caused the unhealthy and oppressive 300 couples every year. Thursday in Columbia Joe Friday, colored, stabbed Walter Stephenson, also colored, with a knifs. inflicting a wound from which the blood flowed like water and which proved fatal in a short while. The cause of the cut ting was a dispute over a game of craps. Friday escaped. W. H. Sellers, charged with viola tion of the dispensary law in the par ticular of transportation of contra band liquor in the night, was found guility by Magistrate Moorman in Columbia Saturday and sentenced to heat of summer, Mr. Thos. J. Estes’ well wall fell in a few days ago, and he has to carry water now with whom we can deeply sympathize in their sure bereavement. Steady work, amid the complicated sounds of hammers, axes, saws, etc., and songs of darkies while wielding shovels and rolling wheelbarrows, the thunders of the dynamite, the whistle of the locomotive and the rumbling of cars, all converge to the point of making us believe that mill No. 3 is going to be awakened some time in the near future. People have left, and stili keep leaving, since “the washout,” until there are not more than 75 families left remaining at present. Such a great number of vacant houses at once, present a rather solemn appearance If a modern Walter Scott could arise, and wished to write another “Deserted Village,” we think that this would bf the most propitious place at which he could locate for the pur pose. Rev. A. A. James preached to his congregation (Presbyterian) in the First Baptist church last Sunday, from the text: “That they may adorn the doctrice of God our Saviour in all Mr. T. Jeff Hughes passed here yes- things.” Titus 2 :10. terday with a load of chickens and During the freshet, Pacolet river eggs, going to Union. left its former bed below mill No. 3, Miss Vira Bankhead is not doing so where it made a wide bend in its widl now, we are sorry to say. A large force is at work getting tbe drift cotton out of Pacolet river and drying and repacking it in bales. Hamp Jones, colored, diedjat Gaff ney Wednesday and was buried at Salem colored church yesterday. Rev. Dr. Collier conducted the pay a fine of $100 or to servo 30 days funeral service. He was a very re- on the county chaingang. spectable colored man and belonged The body of an unknown negro boy to a family of slaves owned by the was found Friday night at West Point Thomsons. Mill in Charleston. The body had Those who took occasion to look on been brought up by the tide and was Wednesday night, just after dark, imbedded in the mud, rendering re- saw a most beautiful phenomenon in moval difficult. The boy appeared the heavens—Mars in conjunction to have been about 12 years old. No with the moon. For several hours clue has yet been found to his identi- the two were close together and the course, and filling the old channel full of sand, lumber, logs, trees and whatever trophies it could “pick up” from the devastation above, it turned its current into a channel of its own, where it is said to have run about 100 years ago. One negro asked another, that pro vided he owed him a ten dollar bill, could he tell him why that bill was unlike the State of Tennessee? The other instantly answered in the nega tive, and asked for an explanation. The questioner replied thus: “Tennessee is Tennessee, But that bill, you’d never see.” LeRoy. The New Al- leaf'at noon time. Little made an out bany, Mississippi,News, was a native and Richardson scored on Jones’ bit of the Spartanburg portion of Chero kee county, was the only son of the late John B. Goudelock, Esq., and is well and favorably remembered by the older class of our readers. He was orderly sergeant of Capt. Banks Lyles’ Company in .the 5th S. C. Regiment of Jenkins’ brigade and served through the|war with gallantry bit after? making a pretty two-bagger. For Shelby Abernathy and Brown scored. This ended the run-getting as neither side scored during the re mainder of the game. The following is the score by inn ings: R H E SO Gaffney...3 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0—9 10 fi 7 and credit to himself and State. Shelby 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0—6 7 7 9 He possessed all the good qualities The Shelby team consisted of six of head andf heart that go to make home men and three outsiders, two of up the patriotic citizen, the gallant whom belonged to the King’s Moun- soldier and Christian gentleman. His tain team and one to Newton. Gaff- bereaved family have the sympathy ney had one outside man. Gaffney made more hits and more runs, less errors and less strikeouts. Tbe scorer gave Hopper nine strike outs, Williams, thejegotistical,getting four of them. Williams is a good'ball player, hut he is not the only pebble on the beach by any means. He is quick tempered and acts very badly at times. His performance Saturday, at one particular period, was a dis grace, but he afterwards displayed manhood enough to apologize. The game was full of snap and ginger. Blanton, Shelby’s pitcher, succeeded in extricating himself from a pretty bad predicament in tbe fourth inning. Gaffney bad one man out and the bases full. A hit meant runs, but Blanton did not yield tbe bit, striking out one man and putting out tbe third man at first. Hopper was In bis element and pitched great ball throughout. Jones never let a thing pass him at a oritioal moment. Leo Little is one of Jhe steadiest of his and their many relatives friends in South Carolina. and Mr. and Mrs. Cutting Go North, i—i Supt. S. L. Cutting, tbe popular and efficient superintendent of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company’s mills in this city, accompanied by Mrs. Cutting, left the city Saturday to spend some time at his old home in Wakefield, Mass. Supt. Cutting has not been stout for some time and thinks a stay of a few weeks on his native heather will restore bis 'health. His and Mrs. Cutting’s many friends in Gaffney sincerely hope that be Is right and that before a great while bis health will be restored and that they will have both him and Mrs. Cutting with them again. Get well and come borne quick, Mr. Cutting. We discontinue each subscription prompt ly at Its expiration. So watch your label and the date and renew before ’tis too late. ty. Tuesday afternoon about 5 o’clock the Rev. John D. Montz, living near 4’leasant, Richland county, had his dwelling house and moat house con sumed by fire, and saved but very few articles. One of his sons, 11 or 12 years old, was severely burned and very narrowly escaped being burned to death, his father rescuing him at the critical moment by snatching off some weatherboarding. Mr. D. MacLauchlln Therrell, manager of the Bell Telephone com pany, was nearly drowned in the surf at the Isle of Palms, near Charleston, about 6 p. m. Saturday, and for an hour the most vigorous resuscitative methods were employed to restore him to consciousness. He was dragged from the water, limp and apparently lifeless, by the life boat crew, which responded quickly to a cry of distress. A Miss Truesdel, who lives on fac tory hill, in Camden, and was about 24 years of age, was drowned in the factory pond there Friday evening. She went in bathing with her two sisters at “Nettles’ cove.” and it is supposed that she stepped off into a deep place, lost her footing, and not knowing how to swim, was drowned. About an hour and a half elapsed after the fatal accident had occurred before tbe body was recovered. Owing to threats made by negroes at Norway, Orangeburg county, to revenge tbe lynching of Charles Evans there, a battalion of State militia has been ordered to Norway on a special train. It is reported that tbe largest force of negroes have surrounded the town of two hundred Inhabitants and are threateng to destroy tbe place, which is helpless against the over whelming number of blacks. Tbe cause of tbe alleged tbreata-of tbe negroes is tbe lynching of Charles Evans in that place last week for tbe marder of John Phillips, a one-armed ex-Confederate soldier. sky being clear could be seen very plainly. Ljoking upon these grand displays of nature we can readily see how Isaac Watts could sing:— “Night unto night His name repeats, Each day renews the sound Wide is the heavens on which He sits To turn the seasons round.” Whoever can look upon these celestial bodies and see bow wisely and systematically they are arranged and doesn’t feel a debt of profound gratitude to his Creator for having made him a part of the divine ar rangement, is an ingrate of tbe most despicable kind. The more we study the great les son of the creation, the more insig nificant we feel ourselves, and how mean we are to set up our poor knowledge and power against such an omniscient and omnipotent Creator. Yet some are fools enough to do so and risk the consequences. The Tsalinest beautifully expresses it when he says :— “God is a great God. and great King, Above all gods He is; Depths of the earth are in His hands, The strength of hills is His; To Him tiie spacious sea Indongs Eor He the same did make; The dry land also from Ills hand its form at first did take.” Mrs. J. F. Wright was called this morning to see her grandchild at Pat terson Springs, which, we hear, is dangerously ill. Miss Ethel Strain is right unwell from getting too warm hoeing yesterday. Dr. Lionel R. Black was called to see her and she is now doing very well. Perhaps some of our readers would like to figure on tbe immense damage done by tbe flood in Pacolet river last mooth. If so we will make this proposition: If Adam, when he was created (say 6,000 years ago), could have gone to work at $1 per day and worked six days per week, oolleotlog his money promptly at the end of each week and depositing it In a savings bank where he got 6 per cent. Interest for It, be wouldn’t have bad enough to pay tbe Like a Letter from Hume. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Hannjkkal, Mo., July 2.—Another short letter to my old friends in the little city of Gaffney. We are having some fine weather out here, now, and the thrashers are flying around to get the wheat out. We get The Ledger twice a week and it seems like a letter from home. I don’t know what 1 would do if it were not for The Ledger. All of the South Carolina boys want to know what his become of Flaw Picker. We would like to hear from him once in awhile. I went out with a few of my friends Gast Sunday, and we went through the large it field of wheat that I ever saw. There were 220 acres in it. You never see a field of wheat of that size in your part of the country. The thrashing machines ran here all day last Sunday; and you can see people going hunting and fishing on zio Wentz, Sunday out here, too. With best wishes for my old Gaff ney friends, b. r. Kings Creek Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Kings Creek, July 4.—There is a picnic out at Piedmont Springs today. Mr. Ed Caldwell,of Gastonia, N. C., was at the station today on a brief visit to his father, Mr. William Cald well. Mr. Meek Plaxico and wife, of Lockhart, 6re visiting relatives at and around Kings Creek. Mr. J. E. Cooper, of Lincolnton, N. C., and his brother, Jobo, from Virginia, came down this morning to visit Mrs. J. E. Cooper and their little brother, Charlie, at the resi dence of Mr. T. P. Whisonant. J. a. c. Who Is He? Who is it that makes the Fewer- galloui; wears-longer paint? A new mechanical invention intend ed to stop trains approaching each other andj prevent collisions, will be put to a thorough test at Gulf, Chat ham county, on the 23rd inst, The invention is that of Mr. Mortimer Kingley, and the outcome of the test will be awaited with lively'interest. The express office at Red Springs, Robeson gcounty. was entered Thurs day nightand between fifty and one hundred dollars was taken from the woiden box used as a safe. The rob bers entered through a window and bored a jlarge hole in the top of the box to get to the money. They left the brace and bit in the express office. Mr. D. L. Maultsby, who lives near Hillsboro, Columbus county, was se verely bitten in the leg by a rattle snake a day or| two ago, while in the woods near his house. The snake, which was an unusually large one, was killed by Mr. Maultsby immedi ately after he was b * u. The at tending physician sa d uv would re cover, Doolly (Spring?, the ten-year-old colored girl who was so severely burned while making a fire with kero sene oil at the home of Mrs. Chas.. Upchurch, in Charlotte, Friday, died at 5:45 o’clock in the afternoon, From the times, otjche accldent'until death caixre, the child suffered in tense pain. She was frightfully' burned about the body and arms. Finley Winkler, son of Mrs. Tom Campbell, of Straw, near Wilkesboro, was brought home from West Vir ginia Thursday |in a coffin. He had been working out there about two years. He was killed by a man by the name of i’orter, with whom he was boarding, on account of jealousy Porter had about his wife and Wink ler. Mr. Winkler was about 20 years old. A survey has been completed for a new railroad to extend from Whittier to Soco Gap in the Balsam Moun tains. The Lippincotts, of I’hiladel- phia, tbe Mason Lumber Compand, the Hans Reese Tanning Company and several Eastern capitalists are said to be interested in the road, which will be about twenty-four miles long traversing a region of original forest oak and hard wood. It is to be completed by January 1, next. An insane negro named Lee Car michael assaulted Chief of Police Crutchfield and Officer Martin at Winston-Salem with a knife Satur day afternoon, inflicting several ugly gashes on the faces of the officers. The negro was first arrested in a saloon by Chief Crutchfield for mak ing an assault on another negro. When the chief went to Carmichael’s cell the latter ran bis hand through the bars and with his knife open slashed the chief three or four times in the fa:e. Policemen Martin and Hasten rushed to tbe ceil and before they succeeded in getting the knife, the negro cut Martin in the face and Hasten on the left wrist. John Osborn, the negro charged with criminally assaulting Mrs. Liz- a white woman aged 64 years, in Union County, on Sunday night, paid the penalty with his life Thursday night. He was taken from the officers who were conveying him to the Union County jail and lynched at a point two miles from Indian Trail, a station on the Carolina Cen tral Railroad. The lynching party was composed of several hundred people and the two men who had charge of the prisoner were easily overpowered. Osborn received a preliminary bearing during the after noon and was committed to jail to await the next term of Union County Superior Court. If is said that the negro made a full confession of the crime before he was lynched, Oh, Yes! Yeu wish you had ordered Brans- ford’s “Clifton” flour for to clay, but you didn’t. It isn’t oar fault ; we bad plenty of it ready to deliver at yonr order. Don’t get eanght napping next time. W. J. Wilkins A Co. J jT /> /