Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?■} PlIFC lwFCI>OISl^. AND FRIDAY. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. “UBLISHED TUESDAY BY Ed. H. DkCamp. Yon Don’t Kuopio You Know nnd People Knon Lemuel Blanton, one of the most prosperous farmers in the counfcf# | n c j ty Friday Ihe Ledger is not responsible for spent some time in the city Saturday. ; ^| r an( j ^| rg Charles K. Gould, of for the norther markets to purchase his fall and winter goods. Joe Osborne spent Sunday with rel atives in the mountains. W. L. Rushton, of Blacksburg, was Kerp Slickin' Vm At Him. [.Exchange.! Is it pleasing to the many admirers of our senior senator to learn that he was actually caught with the goods on his person. His excuse, '‘they A New Store To School Trustees. Filled with the best and freshest line of toe views of correspondents Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point He says his crop is needing rain bad- iy- J. Frank Beam, of Grindall, came up to the city Friday, on business, you bet. A. J. Parker, of Draytonville, was an appreciated Ledger visitor yes- to insure publication ; also endeavor ,0 get tbem to the office by Monday ^ p w p Bat | er . o( * ObTtu U .r!e S will be published at flte Edgelield, are io the city spending a . ,. few days with Hon ° Reading noticas will be published Butltr, corner of at ten 3ents a line each insertion All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. and Mrs. T. B Victoria avenue and Rutlege street. Wra. Caldwell, a prominent far mer of Kings Creek, and township commissioner of Cherokee township, was in ihe city yesterday on official business Wade Pridraore. a prosperous mer chant and farmer of Sunny Side, was Spartanburg, are in the city visiting Mrs. Pierson. They are on their wa;, home from a two-months’ stay in the north. John T. Stevens, a prominent lum ber man of Kershaw, and an officer of the Gaffney Live Stock company, was in the city yesterday. R. H. Ferguson, a prominent in surance man of Spartanburg, was in the city the last of the week. G. M. Cline, of Blacksburg, was over Friday for a short while. <veep sticking ’em at me,” is like the _ _ , j n x »• poor wretch’s excuse for drinking. F3nCjf GlOCSMBS 311(1 ConffiCtiOnSMBS Hasn’t manhood enough to say No.” The late lamented Senator Earle re- | turned all passes with a courteou- note saying that he could nut accept | them. This splendid act was not i boomed in the oewsappers then. The contrast is stronger now. For Sale. in the city. Stand below Commer cial Hotel on Limestone street. Prices right in every particular and prompt service ‘rendered. Give us a share of your patronage. HAMLIN & RADFORD. Goods delivered free in any part of city. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Advertisements under this head win oe inserted for one cent a word each inser tion. No ad inserted for less than ten cents Some of the Gaffney merchants are beginning to receive their new for the fall and winter trade. LNCPEAN journalism. Among the resolutions adopted at the recent meeting of the New York Press Association was the ‘following: in C jj.y c j t y yesterday. Believing in the power of the press Hon. Wm. Jefferies was in the city for good or evil, we reaffirm the pr.n- yesterday. cipals heretofore adopted and pledge g am Fort spent several days in ourselves anew to keep constantly in Waynesville, N. C., last week, mind the necessity of giving the world Mrs. Mary Smith and daughter, clean journalism ami pure newspaper. Mj S8 Mary,and son Louis, of Chester, j occupying the stand of The Dixie on in order that our schools and our are visiting Dr. and Mrs. Fort, homes may be protected from vicious Mrs. Tumpie Emory was a Ledger influences. To this end we will re- yj s jt ;0 r yesterday, fuse the publication of all literature Albert Harmon, an industrious or advertising which may tend to lead f arm er and first-class Cherokee citi- our youth toward that which is im- ze0) wa8 a b US i ne98 visitorjin the city pure and unclean. yesterday ts are T^ult SALE- Legal Cap Itond 1’nper w goods A numbered lines. At The Ledger Office. witli Carroll, Carpenter & Byers are moving the goods from their lower establishment to their stores on Grenard street. The Dixie and Outlet Clothing and Shoe stores have consolidated, both Limestone street. The Limestone Mill is putting in a quanity of new machinery and speeder frames, and a number of new looms will arrive eoon. T^OR SALE—Old newspapers at idea liun A dred. Apply at this ottice. ■poll SALE—All kinds of legai blanks; such as used by Magistrates and court ofti- ctals; deeds, mortgages, etc., as cheap as the cheapest. Apply at thisoliiee. Ft .b 4 pOK SALE—Babbitt metal, made from old type remelted into bars; the very best babbitt metal made. Apply at The Ledger office. I can now make arrangements with the Central Campaign Committees to hold an Educational Meeting, or Rally, in two or three, and possibly four different sections of the county. These meetings will be for all communities desiring to consolidate schools, build new school houses, levy special taxes, start libraries, or make any forward movement in the cause of education. If any school dis trict desires such help, please make it known to their trustees, and we can ar range a program. Through this committee I can ^Hfhe speakers to the extent of pay^j^all traveling expenses. Now let us have a general educational revival as far and as much as we can. The children need it, the county needs it, and it is our duty to assist in anything that will help our youth. Everyone should be, I believe, interested in this matter. I will get the very best practical speakers available— ideals of art are not j preferring local talent. Let me hear permitted to inter- troi . n a,1 >' district wanting such aid.fbs- c -.iii pecially the large school districts—Nos. fere with the prac- I2 / 4i l6 , and the stnal j er ones tical production of where there is only one white school. I am sure a few meetings like this will be of great benefit to the entire people. J. L. Walker. Visionary An exchange in diemissing the res olution remarks that it is unfortu nate that so many newspaper pub lishers yield to the temptation to print objectionul advertisements. On the whole, a vast amount of harm is done to the morals of the community. Many of the most flagrant offend*rs cannot even make the poor and un worthy excuse that ‘‘they need the money,” and by publishing the dis gusting medical advertisements and thinly veiled invitations to vice and crime, they advertise their own lack of virtue and moral cleanliness. Such papers can never exercise a powerful influence in their editorial columns in uplifting the moral standard of a community, for to all professions of virtue and morality the advertising pages give the lie direct. It is encouraging to see the mem bers of the New York Press Associa tion resolve upon cleanliness in jour nalism, but the reform will never be brought about in full until news paper readers refuse to buy, read, or advertise in the unclean journals. Newipupers w'll cease to be unclean only whei t b *v discover that unclean- linese will no longer pa>. M. B Vaseey. who has been teach-1 ing the New Pleasant school, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit yes terday. County Commissioner VV. C. 8. Wood attended a meeting of the board in the supervisor s office yes terday. R. Lalla Parish, of Anderson, spent Sunday in the city with his father, “Happy Cal,” at the Parish Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett Byers, with little Charlie Sam went to Asheville Saturday. Mrs. Byers re turned Sunday tight; hut Mr. Byers remained over till yesterday. The dummy engine.which has been in the Cherokee Foundry shops for some weeks undergoing repairs, was turned over to the iime company yes- ter day afternoon almost as good as new. County Superintendent of Educa tion J. L. Walker gives notice in the advertising columns of this issue of Th° Ledger, that the fall examination of teachers will be held at the court house on the 18th inst. FOR SALE. Any quantity of framing lum ber. See Joe A. McCraw, at McCraw, N. 0., or Virgil Mc Craw at Carroll, Carpenter & Byers. Aug. 24-lm NOTES AND COMMENTS. Those automobile races are a sort of kill-quick procession. Hanua has capitulated and will pull in the same harness with Roose velt. ♦ ♦ Senator quay has announced his determination to retire from politics. Let ali the people give thanks. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl vania, may get a taste of his own libel law. In his message signing the bill he characterized a certain car toonist as a hired ‘‘outcast,” and now the cartoonist is going after him in the courts It would be rather amus ing if the governor should be the first victim of his pet measure. We notice a disposition on the part of the press of the country to critw else the veterans of the Spanish- Americau war because a number of them have applied for pensions for disabilities contracted in the service of the government. This is all wrung and * xhibits a spirit of ungratefulness on the part of those offering the criticism. Out of the large army the government placed in the field it is to be expected that a number of them will make exaggerated claims upon the pension rolls, but the authorities are amply able ro protect the treas ury against such raids. The same occurred with respect to the civil war. But it does not justify us io con demning tiie many for the shortcom ings of the few. Let us who remain ed at home show as much patriotism in our way as thote who went to the wur in their response to the call for troops. In other words, let us not throw stones where they arc deserv ing of roses. MIhImKoh. The trouble with the man who never makes mistakes is that he doesn’t know a mistake when he makes one. He who never mskes a mistake never makes anything, and loses the best part of bis education. Get wiser when you make a mistake; the only crimo consists in making the same mistake twice. Wise meu make mistakes and profit by them ; fools continue to make mistakes and fsil to learn wisdom by them. Only dead men never make miatakes. The mun who learns life’s lessons without making mistakes gets his tuition too cheap to learn much. A thought of one’s own mistakes should soften the criticism of the mistakes of others. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Steadman, who have been visiting in Saluda county | for the past two or three weeks, are expected home this week. Mr. Stead man will occupy his pulpit next Sun day. J. C. Ratliff, the genial and popular proprietor of The Battery, has gone north again to lay in a large supply of new ammunition for his big guns. S. A. Washburn, of Shelby, was in the city the last of the week. W. C. S. Wood, of Goforth, was in the city Saturday. C. B Sloan, of Spartanburg, spent Sunday in the city. County Commissioner T. L. Bryant attended a meeting of the board yes terday. T. M. Littlejohn, county commis- alocuc from Gowdysville township, v\u> at tUe board meeting yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Lemaster spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clough Inman, near Etta Jane. Arthur Kendrick and Miss Bessie Kendrick spent Sunday with relatives in Gastonia, N. C. Dr. Davis Furman, a prominent physician of Greenville, was in the city Sunday on professional business. Mrs. VV. D. Evans, of Kinston, N. C., who, with her children, has been spending several days with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Cureton, left yesterday for Inman to visit her mother. Misses Lucy and Sarah Carpenter are visiting their aunt, Mrs. J. N. : Cudd, in Spartanburg. Mrs N. C. Snead is visiting rel- j atives and friends in the Martinsville section of Spartanburg county. Miss Sallie Kendrick rourned to her home in the city Sunday night from a week’s stay with relatives in Gastonia, N. C. Mr. D. A. Thomas, who has been at Piedmont Springs for two weeks for his health, returned home Friday much improved. Mrs. Albert Watson, nee Mamie Poole, of Charlotte, is in Ihe city the guest of Mrs. Volney Sarratt, on Limestone street. Mrs. Ed H DeCamp and little daughters, Willie and Nellie, returned from an extended trip to North Caro lina yesterday. Ira Hardin, of Blacksburg, wus in the city yesterday on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Sarratt and Miss Minnie Goforth are at home after a trip to the north. J. I. laid in a big stock for the fall and winter trade while gone J. Frank Carson, of Rock Hill, ar rived in the city yesterday to resume his old position at the Company store. We welcome Mr. Carson back to Gaffney James Pettit, a model Cherokee farmer, was a city visitor Saturday. J B. L P*-ttit. of Ravenna, was in the city Saturday visiting his son, Mr John Pettit. Mr-. G. G. Byers spent Friday in Spartanburg. Mrs. H P. Griffith went to Wood ruff Friday to spend several days with rrlativee Dr. Lodge, who went to the “low country” iast week in the interest of Limestone College, returned to the cily Saturday night. J. W. Tollesou has gone north to purchase his lin<-H for the coming seasons. Mr and Mrs. R. A. Whitlock, of Jonesville. are the gut-sts of Mr and Mrs. J. T Bro*n. on Montgomery street. Mrs M L Gurley, the accomplish ed milliner at W. J. Wilkins’ estab lishment, is in the northern markets selecting her fall and winter millinery. A N. Webb, of Chester, was a visi tor in the city Friday. Barney Clary spent two or three days last week at White Stone Litbia Springs. W. J. Wilkins left Sunday night R. C. Swofford, a popular salesman at Carroll, Carpenter <fe Byers, resigned his position and left the city yesterday for Jellico, Tenn , where he goes to be bookkeeper in W. O. Lip scomb’s big railroad camp. Mr. W. S Philips and Miss Beat rice St. John were married at the home of the bride’s parents in this city on Sunday by Magistrate Bridges. The bappy couple have the best wishes of The Ledger. The Southern Railway has com pleted the coal chute at the city power house, and is now grading a track to run cars over on the chute. This will bo a great convenience to the city atd is duly appreciated. Wanted. W ANTED Copy of The Ledger of Au«ust Utli, l!Ki:i. Bring or send to Ledger office. W ANTED More Green Salted Hides than anybody. Highest cash prices paid. B. G. Clary. 8-24-tf W ANTED .'dll dozen eggs; also nice chick ens. Z. A. Robertson. S-iJl-tf. 'S, .t; High Grade Photographs. Our pictures are artistic, beautiful in tone and finish, faithful portraits, and absolutely per manent. Films and other supplies for teurs. OFFICE DAYS. Until further notice I will be in my office on Friday and Saturday of every week and every first Monday. J. L. Walker, tf Co. Supt. of Education. ama- .t.r.vxiU iJune H. Carr, 625 Limestone St. ’ Phone 176, Residence 171. P huu XKTANTED Everybody to know that 1 am rm8 W Mill selling beef. B. G. Clary. 8-11-tf W ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf ’ J. O. Jefferies. \vrANTED--Ten thous- and pounds green or salted hides at once. Also, all kinds of hides bought at highest cash price. Z. A. Robertson. 8-2 1 -tf. Lost or Stolen. T OST OR STOLEN White Pointer dog, be- tween 4 and 5 months old; liver colored ears ana liver-colored spot at root of tail. Leave information at Ledger office. 8-2s tf Mr. W. D. Cooksey, of Greenville, succeeds Mr J. D. Buice as overseer of spinning at the Gaffney cotton mill. Mr. Cooksey is a former em ployee of the Gaffney Mfg. Co., and is a popular and t ilicient mill man. J. D. Buice, who has been for a long time the efficient overseer of spinning in the Gaffney cotton mill, has severed his connection with that mill and wiil leave today for Gasto nia, N. C., to occupy a similar po sition in the Loray mills at that place. J. C. Ratliff, of The Battery, left the city yesterday for New York and other eastern cities, where lie goes to buy amunition for his ten-gun bat tery on Limestone street. Hu says it will come in the shape of bargains for his customers apd he wants to turn them over to them from his rapid-tire guns. J. H. Crews, who has for a long time been connected with the office of the Gaffney Manufacturing Com pany, left Saturday for Harriman, Tenn., to engage in business. Mr. Crews has many friends in Gaffney who regret his departure, hut hope he will meet with success in his new business enterprise. W J. Maness has discontinued the meat busmens at his store on Granard street and accepted a position as manager ot the People’s Market, on Limestone street, for Z A. Robert- >on. Mr. Maness invites all of his good country and town friends to come to see him at his new place, where he will bo pleased to serve them. Deputy Stieriff Barnet S Lipscomb has resigned his position to accept one at the Victor Cotton Oil Mill with hU, brother,J. N. Lipscomb, and Sheriff Thomas has appointed Mr. Charles H. Austell to succeed him. Deputy J.ip-comb has made a mo t efficient officer and the friends or him and Mr.{Austell|ftel he has a worthy successor. liralna Needed In AdvertlaiiiK. | West Chester, Pa., Republican.) Inattention to commonplace prac- tial details may rend'-r futile the brightest conceptions of genius. Brilliant advertising schemes may fail utterly for lack of an infusion of common sense. The brainiest adver tisement will have but little drawing powtr if it be confined to a compara tively worthless medium. Brains are absolutely necessary to secure success in advertising, but to achieve the best results they must be backed by sound judgment and prac tical knowledge of conditions and de tails, and it must not be forgotten that the best advertising ever devised will not create and maintain a de mand for a worthless article. Notice. W E do the best of commercial pr inting at prices commensurate with first-class work. If you haven’t time to call telephone or- write us and we will do tin; rest. Address Tire Ledger. Box .1. Gaffney, S. G‘. BUILDERS' SUPPLIES LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS. FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING, MOULCING. ALSO A FINE LINE OF Paints and Oils 50c to $1.30 per gal. co T0 L. BAKER s Hot, Weather, Like the prevailing sort, is particularly hard on the littlejones. They need extra care ; the medicine you give them should be pure and carefully pre pared. Purity and care are w a t c h w o r d s of t li i s house—always to be de pended upon. S.B, Crawley &. Go. 813 Limestone St. Drugs, Perfumes and Stationery. Prescriptions properly filled and promptly delivered. W E print anyt hing from a visiting card to a newspaper or a book, and out- prices are as low as the lowest. Wrile, telephone or call on us. The Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. Money Loaned. L OANS on improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. C .'etferies, Attoraev at Law, !l-“-lyr Opening of Graded Schools. The Gaffney Graded Schools will re open at 9 a. m. Monday, Sept. 7. Let all pupils Ire present on time with their pro motion cards. 8-28-31 R. O. Sams, Supt. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Don't Forget the Parlor'Market lias been open all lids summer, and •«*« iijrji has carried tire **- i *® i \'ei-y finest of meats | and hams, and will continue to do the same 1 food business this fall and winter. 1 am pre- pared better now ro sell to my customers ' Ilian ever hefor*-. Come to the PARLOft MARKET and ask my prices; P can give the | lowest 1 rices on most anything you want to buy. I have meats from 5c per pound up to 15c. Come 'or- call Phone No. :.’:i and W. .1. M mess will fill your order at short notice. I want to call th<' atiention of the tobacco' chewing men: I will sell for- tin-next 30 days Schnapps, Kite and Liberty Bell for 35c. and | if you can treat this price, that is tire place ' to buy: if not. come and see me. 1 am leaded or ducks or tobacco. w. Are You Administrator New School Supplies Our fall slock of stationery and school supplies is here, and exceeds all past assortments. We believe we have been very fortunate in the buying, also. This will insure your receiving high value for smallest possible cost. Soon be time to think of school supplies, and we want you to :: :: :: :: :: :: t,hink of us when you are ready for them Have bought stock with a view to doing our customers good, and want yon to profit by it. :: :: :: Books, Tablets, Pens, Pencils, Slates, Ink, Mucrlat»e, Crayons, Etc. and have the settlement of an estate? If so, request of the Judge of Probate that your advertisement be placed in :: :: :: It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South'Carolina Congressional District. LOANS Made on Real Estate in City of Gaffney and County of Cherokee. Abstracts furnished. Ac ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Star Theatre Building. National Bank of Gaffney, CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Limestone and Frederick Sts. Capital Stock, Surplus and Profits, - Stockholders Liability, Total, - - - $50,000.00 25,000.00 50,000.00 $125,000.00 To all Teachers in the County. Oepoaitt* 6tli, 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. S(y far no effort hau been made to explain that the large ahlpmentH of mules to South Africa are responsible for the blgb price of beef. Paderewski wept when be departed and said be was sorry to leave the United States He took $126,000 of its money with him. The regular fall examination for all teachers will be held at the Court House on Friday,"September iStb. There will be no examination for teachers after this one, until the 3rd. Friday in May, 1904. I cates, and those whose certificate will j Tite Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company expire lief ore May 1904, are required to stand this examination before they can teach the coming fall. These examina tions are never very difficult, so let every teacher Ire jready to get his or her certifi- cati in a lawful way, so there will Ire no friction between the teacher and the trust :es. J. L. Wai.kku. 9-1-4-8-11-15-18 Supt. of Education. Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney Ulty; Also Ji arms new by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of from’ M to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For fi .1 particulars apply to j. v. JVarent. N. R.—All persons an; forbidden to enter oncwalk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing timber. Ashing or hunting, under penalty of law.