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■JM wmm. ”, ifwg “v *! t ', ‘r-jri i , ‘ r ir V THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. t The 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 GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1903- $1.00 A YEAH, MUGHOIIT THE PALMETTO STATE. It*yu of Interest of Passing Events. I ALL OVER THE STATE. Sventa ttix i Have Taken Place from One Knd of the State to the Other Culled from ■exchange, for Quick Reading by Scores of Busy People. This is gala week at Anderson, and all who attend may expect a good time. In an accident on the Southern, at Westminister, last Wednesday even ing the engine and (our cars of north- bound freight No. 74 were derailed and Engineer F. B. Chatham, of At lanta, Ga., who was running No. 74 was slightly bruised in jumping from his engine. Constables Burton and Harrison •have trrested Joe Reese, colored, on jthe charge of murdering C.H. Mappus at Seven-mile Junction on the night of October 17, 1901. The arrest was made last Saturday night and Reese was taken to Charleston. He was taken to the Hospital, suffering from dropsy. A negro named John Kinard, liv- stake and four slats about every 20 ing in the vicinity of Delmar, Saluda yards along the row. A man should eounly, was found dead in the road follow behind with a heavy maul, and Friday, his brains having been shot drive the stakes one foot into the out. The negro had been in some lawsuit and was under a $500 bond. No information as to the killing could be had. The coroner’s jury re turned a verdi it that the deceased came to his death at the hands of un- another slat nailed on and filled to known parties. the top when the 4th slat should be Mr. W. A. Aycock, who lives on ‘ on and the 8 , tack completed Sharon R. F. D No. 2, near McCon- P ,lln S on v,Des a3 lon g a9 tb8 y w,n nellsville York county, lost his barn 8n Wednes- • P ,eted - hous a . The murderers loaded the corpse in the victim’s own wagon and drove to a lonely spot in the woods where the horse was tethered but subsequently broke away. The murderers took about $8 from Suras- ky’s pockets. How to Kal.c ami Cure Cowpeatt. Cowpeas is likely to be one of the most important of our croos, when | the feeding value of the bay, and the monural value left in the soil, are ! taken into consideration. How to I make the crop and cure it into first- . class hay is of great importance. I | have had some experience along this 1 line, and am disposed to give you ; readers the benefit thereof. I plant | in drill 24 to 3 feet apart ^to £ bushel seed per acre, and cultivate two or three times with sweep, as experi mented by me and others, has satis factorily proven that the yield is much larger when so done. Planting should be done in June and July. !They are ready for cutting when the , first pods begin to ripen. When ready to harvest, have stakes pre pared and sharpened 2 inchs square and 5 feet long, with 4 slats 4 feet long by 2 inches wide and 1 inch ; thick, for each stake. Now start the mowing machines after the dew is off, and immediately rake into windrows, j 20 yards apart. Now start your wagon, loaded with stakes ana slats, NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap penings In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Oar Kegalar Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Headers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Aug. 1.—The children’s day at Salem last Thursday, 30th ult., brought together one of the largest and most orderly congrega tions that has assembled there on a similar occasion in many years, if ever before. All sections of the country were represented. Precautions were taken to preserve good order, and it was plainly to be seen that it had its effect. Still there was some drinking on the sly. But when the tiger sight ed the danger signals it skipped to a more congenial clime. But it left its ground. Another should follow with hammer and nails and nail on 2 slats 6 inches above the ground at right angles to each other. The stake should then be filled half up, and and contents by tire on last day morning. The contents included two doe mules, two fine milch cows, buggy shed, cotton house, shucks, fodder, etc., in all aggregating in value about $(>00. The insurance amounted to only $50. Mr. Aycock has no information as to the origin of the fire; but believes it to have beeu the work of an incendiary. Mr. Art! ur W. Cushman killed himself at his home, eight miles non beast of Aiken, Friday morning at 8 o’clock. Mr. Cushman was one of the most prominent men in that county and had host of friends throughout the State. He was a m&mber of the Legislature from D'^8 to 1900 and was a canidate for st .rill of that county in 1900. Being defeated well, when the job is com- You will observe that the i vines are not subjected to the sun at all, the cocks or stakes being nut up immediately after cutting. In this condition they are left until ready to heave up or bale. I put up last year 50 acres on one thousand stakes, and though there were small rains, I did not find a i single one moulded, except a very few on which the slats were left off shot and by reason of the suppl/ having given out. My stakes ami slats were all sawed, for stakes, logs ten feet long, and for slats, 12 feet being used. Every stake was 5 feet long and sharpened, and every slat 4 feet, for convenience in hauling, and when the crop was haled, in housing, i see no reason why they should not last indefinitely when put under in this race he moved his family to Aghelter. According to U. 8. Govern- Texas, where he lived about nine ment Experimental station every ton was equal in feeding value to one and months and then returned to home county, where he has been farming ever since. Officer Bates, of the Spartanburg police force, had an exciting chase after a negro thief- Friday morning about 4 o’clock. After watching the suspicious movements of the mis creant for some time, the officer gave den, which consisted of thirty-two chickens in a bag and a number of coats. One of the coats was immedi ately ideutifiied by a notebook in one of the pockets as the property of a young man who works at the Saxon mills. The negro made good his es cape after having dropped his burden and taken to his heels. The York County Good Roads As sociation has passed the following resolution : That) the generai)assem bly be memorialized to amend the road law so as to provide for compe tent, practical township supervisors of roads who shall receive $5 per day, not exceeding 40 days per annum, and two commissioners who shall re ceive $1 per day while In actual ser vice, who shall have special supervis- ino over all the public roads in their respective townships, appoint a'l overseers, prosecute each and every overseer who fails to put the required Dumber of days work on his section. Otis Bohanan, a 13-year-old boy, was seriously hurt in the overalls factory where he is employed, in An- lerson,Wednesday. The little fellow was trying to repair broken belt, which runs one /he sewing ma chines when his clothing was caught ^y the revolving shafting. There was )lo room between the shafting and Ibe floor for him to be turned round and be was caught (against the floor •od terribly bruised. His left arm was^broken in three places and he was probably injured internally. His clothing was almost entirely torn off. Medical attention wae promptly given him and be will recover. Abram Surasky, 30 years old,a Jew ish peddler living near Aiken, was murdered while on bis rounds near Hawthorn in Aiken county Wednes- (fay evening. The body was not re covered until Friday night. George Toole and Lee Green have been ar retted as the results 6( the coroner’s inquest. A negro also is suspected^ M an accomplice. Surasky was shot* 1 twice in the back aud bis bead aad body were horribly hacked with ao axe. The bloody axe wae found near a pool of blood In the yard of Green’s track all the same. Taken ail in all along the windrows, throwing out^a wag a com pi e t; e victory for the bet ter element of people who look with disfavor on the disgraceful conduct of drinking and drunk men, and your correspondent is the recipient of many hearty congratulations on the good order present. The children acquitted themselves creditably and were highly commend ed by Rev. T. F. Boozer, Hon. W. D. Kirby and Mr. W. Harry Gooding and the people of Salem appreciated the remarks of these gentlemen. The church building was beauti fully decorated and the programme was carried out to the letter. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Sparks and family, of Clifton, who have been visiting in this neighborhood, left for home this morning. The protracted meeting began at Salem Thursday night with a sermon preached by Rev. T. F Booztr, from John 15:5, “I am the vine, ye are the branches." The meeting will continue until Monday night, at least, when Rev. W. Neville, of Yorkville, will preach. Some rain has fallen out in differ ent sections but it has not cooled the weather much yet. We are still dry and crops are needing rain badly. State Constable Seay was in this section looking after violatiors of the dispensary law this week. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bigham are visiting Mr. and Mrs T. J. Estes. Mr. Morgan Leech, with his well- boring machine, is at Wilkinsville working at a well for the oil company. Mrs. J5hn Ponder, of Patterson Springs. N. C., is visiting Mr. J. F. Wtight.’s family. Mrs. Ponder is Mr. Wright’s daughter Mr. Morgan Millwood, our great watermelon raiser,has been supplying the market with melons for some time. He has.the best crop we know of—at least three acres planted and the melons are fine. Morg.’s experi ence would make nice reading in the agricultural reports. He plows deep and at the last plowing sows peas among them to shade the land and give the watermelon vines something to hold to. Mr. John McDaniel has a very sick child. Mr. Dan Gallman has the contract for carrying the mail from Union to this place. Mr. Frank Webber has the con tract for taking out the iron bridge at Skull Shoals and ia at work there now. We dislike to see so much con troversy going on through the news papers, and would advise those con cerned to settle, as far as possible, their difficulties outside of the news papers. But it sometimes happens that the aggrieved party don’t know who the author of his grievence is and can reach him in no other way. It’s not pleasant reading to the intelligent class of people. Those who relish it are not of much force, anyway, and often feelings are hurt that a different course might save many unpleasant thoughts. As soon as you find out your man tell him in person what you think of him or over your own signature. No harm can come to the general public by withholding our personal misunderstandings from the morbid ears and eyes of those who only feast upon controversial delicacies. It’s not always the case that the woman who marries a man to reform him getsjeheated. Often it’s the case that the reverse of the case is true. J« L. S. a half ton of the best Timothy hay. I have kept a lot of young horses for two years without a single feed of grain, pea vine hay and common hay mixed being the ration. The cowpea hay is equal to corn pound for pound in feeding value. When put up as I have shown THINGS AT TROUGH Liglitnlnir Strikes n Dwelling House—Good Kains- Personal Items,* (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Trough, July 29.—At last we have bad a delightful rain. Yesterday even ing about 8 o'clock the clouds came up from a southwesterly direction, proceeded by a refreshing wind that fanned away the heat of a sultry day. Then the rain, with heavy thunder and lightning continual, began, and continued until late in the night. More water fell during that time than has fallen since the destructive fresh et. Cow peas; gardens, etc., are greatly revived. During rbe storm lightning struck a dwelling house on "Greenhorn,” occupied by Mr. James Brown aod family (seven in number). One bolt ran down the chimney into Mr. Brown’s side cutting a groove in the brick at the back. Striking the hearth it flashed out through the room where allithelfamily, except Mr. Brown, him self, who was absent at the time, were sleeping on the floor, knocked two panes of glass out of the window, where, they say, it "went out," doing no further damage. The other end of the house was vacant, and the stroke, it seems, divided at the chim ney, striking the roof at the comb, tearing of! a course of shingles and going down on the inside tore a con siderable amount of weatherboarding and ceiling from the wall. About twelve months ago the first house below it was struck, receiving slight i damage. Twenty-five or thirty barrels of lime and cement were at the boiler house exposed to the weather, aud getting wet the lime took fire, causing an alarm and a waste of lime. Mr. James R. Fowler died this morn ing of consumption, from which he had been a sufferer for three months or more. He leaves a widow and three ' small*children, for whom we feel a tender sympathy. Mr. J. H. Bullington has been laid in for some time with carbuncle, from which he has suffered greatly, but is up und out again and we hope will soon Ue recovered. The work d mill No. 3 is still going j on at a steady r.).te. The rock founda tion the . was to. e up by the water is ( about completed and perhaps today the bricK work will be commenced. The wall of the boiler house will soon he finished. The sand has all been removed irom the basement story. Some time will be required to "scour up" and put in running order all the machinery found "able for duty." Rev. S. T. Creech returned Saturday from the meeting of the district con ference held at Woodruff, reporting a fine meeting, etc. Rev. J. C. Lawson has raovecj to this place from Unioc. He becomes pastor of the First Baptist church here. More fish have been caught during the last month than we have seen in the last ten years. LeRoy. THE TIB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. A WAYWARD WOMAN. Mm. Audemon, Once One of York'* Most Beautiful Women. Dies In Honduras. The Charlotte News of Thursday tells the following story : The two men were committed to jail, charged with the murder of a youngiman named Williams. . The tragedy was enacted on one of the NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. P riDci P al streets of Blacksburg at flight, aboutjten o’clock. Their victim was an operator who was employed by the Western and Atlantic railroad and was in charge of an office a tew miles out from Atlanta. It is not of Reese and Luckey, how ever, that this story is written, but of the woman Id the case—the main cause of the trouble that fateful night on the streets of Blacksburg. There came to Blacksburg about the time of Reese and Lackey’s ap pearance in that town, a beautiful woman known as Mrs. Anderson. She was a sister of Luckey and as a school girl was considered one of the prettiest in Atlanta. She married a man by the name of Anderson and Lucette McDonald, a young colored the couple lived for years in Atlanta. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Yrovt Kntertaining Beading for Hundreds ot Ledger Readers The State charters the Springhope Cotton Oil Company, of Nai-h county, capital $80,000, B. W. Upchurch and several score of other residents being stockholders. One hundred and four negroes, men and women, all from New York and vicinity, returned to North Caro lina on one train Saturday, on the Seaboard Air Line. They were so glad to get back that most of them cried for joy. woman, was run over and kii'ed by the shifting engine in the Southern freight yards HtCharlotte at 11 o’clock Saturday night. The dead women was drunk that night and it is presumed that she was asleep on the track. She had an unsavory reputation. The go'd receipts at the local United States assay office in Char- lotte during the month of July were I $28 940 18 The corresponding month of last year the receipts were $35,- | 313 57. The receipts the past month amounted to more than the receipts for any month this year up to date. Grand Secretary Drewry, of the grand lodge of Masons, says that Francis D. Winston last week raised $2,220 for the Masonic,,Temple. Of this $570 was raised at Goidsboro, $420 at Enfield, $480 at Southfield and $185 at. Wilson. Windsor lodge has so far contributed more than any lodge ou'side of Raleigh, it having taken $1,200 of stock. Working at her place on an opt-rat ing table in the knitting mill at Wash ington, Bessie 1 pock, a twe’lve-year- old girl, had her dress wound around the exposed shaft bar that was revolv ing swiftly. As soon as the slack of the drest wat wound up, the girl’s body was whirled round and round through the air and her head struck the floor with a sickening thud, kill ing her instantly. The body of Mrs. Dolph Weaver was found dead in a well at her home in Cool Springs, near|Statesville, Friday. She was bruised about the neck, indi- heard of the ^0^10^8. eating that she had been choked to But as to the woman in the case, death and then thrown into the well. g k e j e f t Biackgburg shortly after the i? 1 ? k°\i7 ner JU u ry J r ! P ° rted that i ' Ir8 ' trH gedy an d returned to Atlanta, Dolph Weaver, had been outraged. A where ehe remained for Mrs. Anderson disappeared from Atlanta mysteriously and her hus band finally traced her to Blacksburg, where she had been living for several mouths in splendid apartments in one of the best homes of that town. It came to the ears of the husband that his wife had betrayed him and waslivin;in open violation of the law with Reese, then a wealthy citi zen of Blacksburg. Mr. Andeison let the wayward wife entirely alone and when an oppor tunity came, he secured a divorce. The next news was that Williams, the young operator of the Western and Atlantic, was paying frequent visits to Blacksburg and the object of his repeated visits to that town was none other than Mrs. Anderson. One night Williams stepped out on the street and before he had gone ten steps frum where Mrs. Anderson was stopping, pistol §hots rent the air. Williams dropped to the sidewalk and in a few minutes expired. For several days the tragei'v, enact ed on one of the principal aireets OJ Blacksburg, remained a mystery. A detective was employed and in less than two weeks evidence accumu lated tending to prove Reese and Luckey the guilty parties. So strong was the evidence against these two men that, to save themselves, they left Blacksburg. Th'ey were, how ever, captured and taken to the jail in Yorkville where they remained only a short while, when they made good their escape. Up to this time nothing has been chase and the negro dropped his bur- ^ bere he shedding of leaves and no mould. They hay will be green and bright.—Col. T. J. Moore in The Spartan. Happy Family Reunion. Etta Jane, Aug. 1.—One of the happiest events of the season was a family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Strain at 4 o’clock yesterday evening. There ware present besides their own immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Sparks and children, Jesse. Archie and Clyde, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel and children, Olive, Wilma, Otho aud Estelle, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Strain and child, Archie, and long list of relatives and friends, among them Revs. W. H. White and and T. F. Boozer. Rev. White acted as master of ceremonies and the order of exeiCises was singing, "Shall we gather at the river." Prayer by Rev. Mr. Boozer, Mr. White read the 23rd and 24th verses of the 20tb chapter of Exodus in connection with the 37th and 90th and 23rd Psalms. Singing, "When our work is ended we shall sweetly rest,” etc. Appropriate talks were made by Revs. Boozer and White and all joined in singing, "All hail the power of Jesus’ name," and Rev. Mr. Booztr pronounced the benediction And thus ended a happy reunion which will long be remembered, not only by those immediately connected but by all present. A Friend. Witgon CruHhed by Train. Friday about 11 o’clock the dray wagon of the Gaffney Carpet Manu facturing Company was on the side track near the crossing just north of the passenger station when it was crashed into by a shifting engine. Fortunately no one was hurt. Some thing bad gotten broken about the harness and the driver had unhitched the team and gone to have the har ness repaired. No other damage was done except the demolishing of the vehicle. V'e discontinue each subscription promps- Ijr at Its expiration. Ho watch your label and tbe date and renew before ’tls too late. New Residents. Mr. John M. McKinley, of Provi dence, R. I., who is connected with Uie dyeing and bleaching establish ment of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, has brought his wife and daughter to Gaffney and they will hereafter reside In tbli oity. We wel come Mr. McKinley and hie family to our midst. Lawn Laconics. (Correspondence of The Ledger ) Lawn, Aug. 3.—There were seven baptized last Saturday at Mt. Ararat, as a result of a series of meetings held last week by the pastor, Rev. A. D. Davidson, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hamrick, of Gaffney. Love Springs and Corinth ball teams crossed bats on the Corinth diamond last Saturday, with the result at tbe close of five innings, which closedjthe game, of 7 to 2 in favor of Corinth. Mr. E. J. Clary, of Corinth, who has been confined to his room for some time with fever is, we are glad to re port, some better. We had good rains here last Satur day, therefore our farmers are now all smiles. There will be a ball game next Sat urday at Corinth, between Drayton- ville and Corinth’s second nine. Your scribe spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in the Corinth section. A Serloud Wound. While catting wood last Friday at his home in tbe Battleground neigh borhood, a son of Mr Christenberry Painter was severely injured. The axe glanced and struck the)young man on the left leg just above tbe ankle, making an ugly wound. The large bone was broken and the flesh badly cut. Dr. McKinney was summoned and he called in Dr. Charley Jefferies. It was necessary to remove about three inches of the large bone and the small bone was found to be fractured. It is (eared it will be necessary to amputate the limb, but this will only be resorted to at the last possible moment. The young man was about eighteen years of age. An Omaha woman has been en joined from talking, but it remains to be seen whether even an Injunction can perform the Impossible. If Joaquin Miller denies the rumor that be is dead his opinion should be accepted as conclusive. Joaquin is in a position to know. If a man doesn’t know when he’s well off some of his fool friends will tel) him. negro, Wilford Rosenboro, is charged with the crime. Rosenboro has been located in Saluda, and the sheriff has gone after him. While engaged in putting a new roof on the residence of Mrs. Mary Huntley at Wadesboro Thursday, a carpenter dropped his hammer through the rafters. Going down for the tool, the workman was horrified to find a skeleton lying in the attic. The skeleton was apparently that of | a white man. Dried flesh still adhered ! to portions of the bones and there j were signs that rats had (&ten a part of the body. Fragments of clothing, Tegucigalpa. a year or more. Then ,Jshe suddenly disap peared, and for months detectives tried to locate her. For, it was sur mised that she had gone to where Reese and Luckey were located. But, the news comes now that Mrs. Anderson died in Honduras some weeks ago and that Reese and Luck ey, as far as could be learned, were not residents of that country. The body of the wayward woman who lived such a checkered career and caused so much real trouble, was buried Id a little cemetery on tbe out skirts of a small village not far from an old hat, a pair of shoes and a collar button were also found lying around the skeletoa. The hat was near tbe skull and tbe shoes were just below the feet. James Sistare and Verge Snipes, two white boys, 15 years of age, were arrested in Charlotte Saturday on a charge of stealing $110 from the father of Sistare, who lives nine miles from Waxhaw and is a farmer. The money represented years of saving on the part of Mr. Sistare and his daugh ter. James Sistare and Verge Snipes plotted to take the money and go West. Friday morning they stole the $110 and went to Waxhaw, where they purchased two bicycles for $47.25. They went to Charlotte and stopped at the Queen City Hotel, re fusing to register. The boys, who spent the night in the police station, expressed no regret over their action. William Simpson? alias William Russell, colored, is a shrewd swindler who is badly wanted by the police and several residents of Charlotte. Simpson purchased several weeks ago, two horses from Dr. C. G. McMana- way. As payment for the animals he gave a chattel mortgage. Simpson next bought a horse from Wadsworth’s Sous & Company, and in payment gave a chattel mortgage on the Me- Manaway horse. Then he bought a $75 buggy from R. L. White A Sons and gave a mortgage on the Wads worth horse. His last business ven ture was to buy another $75 buggy from S. S. MoNlnob, giving in pay ment a mortgage on the Wadsworth and McManaway horses. Simpson sold the three horses and tbe two bug gies at about $400, aud left tbe coun try. In all tbe transactions be did not pay out a cent. Hla home is In Clus ter, Mecklenburg county, where be bad worked on a email farm. The memory of this beautiful wo man and her record of scarlet sins will not soon be forgotten in the towns and cities that she made her abiding places. It is useless to add that her grave, In the little cemetery of tbe Honduras village, will remain unmarked, for there was nothing good in bdr life, certainly nothing to warrant the erection of a shaft to perpetuate her name. Commenting on tbe above story the Rock Hill Herald says: "We do not know where the Char lotte News got tbe story of tbe death in Honduras of Mrs. Anderson, the beautiful but wayward woman who figured so conspicously in tbe trial of M. R. Reese and Ed Luckey for the murder of Charles Williams at Blacks burg several years ago. Mrs. Ander son was reported to have died in Geor gia two years ago, when she is said to have made a dying statement that it was herself and not Retse toat killed Williams. The story of her death was not believed and unless tbe News has ascertained by investigation that its story is reliable, we must accept it as more sensational than truthful." Kinpha»lzes Ita Superiority. The best test of an article is the way it sells. Bransford Mills, at Owensboro, Ky., where "Clifton" flour is made, run night and day, and yet they cannot supply tbe de mand for "Clifton." In this city, as elsewhere, It ie the standard by which other flours are guaged, and tbe statement that "It is just as good as Clifton" only makes Its superiority the more pronounced. _ W. J. Wilkins & Co. If you would get up with the lark go to bed withodt one. Who la Bar Who Is It that makes the Fewer- gallona; weara-longer paint ?