The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 03, 1903, Image 1

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THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTh 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. NOVEMBER 3, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STHTE. Items of Interest of Passing ^ Events. consumed, leaving the boys high and dry at 4 o’clock in the morning, 60 miles from home. THE GLASS BLOWERS. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE ALL OVER THE STATE. Event* that Huve Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchange, for yulck Reading by Scores of Bnsy People. A charter was issued Friday to the Home Loan and Trust company of Newberry, capitalized at .$500,000,and a commission was issued the Caul- met cotton mill of Liberty, Pickens county, with $50 000 capital. Citizens of Glassy Mountain town ship in Greenville county have sent a petition to the governor begging him not to pardon Alex Bowers, a res ident of the ‘Dark Corner,” who is in the penyentiary for killing James Howard some time ago. A petition has been sent to Gov ernor Heyward asking that he com mute to life imprisonment the death sentence recently, for the second time, imposed upon Brown Rodgers, colored, for the murder of Rodger Fant, white, at Santuc last winter. Safe crackers blew open the safe of J. E. Smith, merchant and post master at Mullins, Marion county. Friday morning at 3 o’clock and took $700 to $1,000 in cash and stamps. Indications are that it was the work of amateurs. No clue as yet to the perpetrators. The gin house belonging to Wm. Wilson and T. T. Wood, five miles from Greer’s, Greenville county, to gether with twenty-six bales of cot ton, was totally destroyed by fire early Monday mornig. The loss is estimated at $2,000. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Laddie McCurley, a twelve-year old girl, was accidently killed at the Orr Mill at Anderson laat week The girl was going down one of the alleys between the rows of machinery and stumbled over a boy’s feet which were stretched in the alley and fell An open knife in her apron pocket pierced her heart and killed her al most instantly. Daniel G. Hart, the young man who plead guilty at the recent term of the United States Court in Green ville to the charge of opening mail awhile a clerk in the Spartanburg ^poatoffice, was on Thursday afternoon taken from the Greenville jail to the federal prison in Atlanta. Hart was accompanied by U. X Arrowood, who was sent up for raising a bill and trying to pass the same on a mer chant at Cowpens. Joe Liles and Ambrose Flax, both colored, have been lodged in jail in Spartanburg as a result of a shooting scrape that occurred near Fingerville on last Christmas day. Flax shot Liles and until Monday was an un known quantity in those parts. He was recently located in Polk County, N. C., where he was arrested and brought to Spartanburg. Liles’ wound was a serious one but he man aged to recover. Mary Levy, who, as Mrs. George Keen, has been conducting a store at 92 King street, in Charleston, was bound over to the court of general sessions in that city Friday on the charge of receiving stolen goods. When the place was raided by the po lice a hundred silver spoons and many other valuable articles belong ing to the leading society people of that city were found. The police de clare that the Levy woman has for years been acting as “Fence” for the negro sneak thieves of Charleston. They Will Open In the New Littlejohn Building Today. Howell’s Crystal Palace Glass Blowers, comprising a company o ladies and gentlemen, have received permission to open in theS.M. Little john building next to the dispensary today and will remain the balance of the week. They are the only com pany of glass blowers traveling and the only exhibition of its kind in this country. They employ skilled mechanics and come here highly re commended by our exehanges. They take glass and melt it till it becomes soft as molasses, and without the aid of tools or designs, make such ar ticles as deer, ships, globes, decan ters, vases, etc. They spin glass at the rate of 1000 yards per minute on a large wheel and ohow how glass dresses, pin cushions and neckties are made. It is one of the most in teresting and instructive exhibitions ever seen here and no doubt they will be largely patronized by our peo ple during their stay here. A feature of the exhibition is that no article they make can be bought, no matter how large or costly They give every thing they make to the patrons free of charge. Of their exhibition the Asheville Gazette says: “To say thattbe Howell GlassBlow- ers who opened here last night in their large pavilion on Park square pleased the people would hardly givt them justice. But they carried out every promise to the letter—not as performers on merry-makers, but as instructors and scientific workers. One could hardly realize what ar ticles can be made from that hard, brittle substance—glass, and the articles they gave free to their many patrons were such that could not De bought for money. Last night they were packed to the capacity of their tent, and quite noticeable among the large crowd were some of the first families of our city. Commencing this afternoon there will be given two introductions daily—afternoon at 2 o’clock and at night at 7 until 9:30 Their admission, only 10 cents, and every visitor receiving a glass present free,.they should be largely patronized.” MR. CREE RESIGNS To Accept PaHtorate of Baptist Church In Louisville, Ky. At the morning service at the First Baptist church Sunday, Rev. A. C. Cree announced that he would resign the pastorate of that church.to take effect December 31st, next. He stated that he had no desire to leave Gaffney, and if he consulted his own feelings he would not do so. That the call to the Louisville church re cently extended to him, is the ninth opportunity he has bad to go to other churches since he came to Gaffney and that a sense of duty impelled him to accept this last call. At the evening service the church went into conference and accepted Mr. Cree’s resignation with regrets. On motion of Prof. R. 0. Sams, ap propriate resolutions were unani mously adopted expressing the keen sense of regret of the church at having to give Mr. Cree up as pastor and ex tending to him the hearty good will aod wishes of the church. A committee of seven was elected for the purpose of securing a new pastor, consisting of R. 0. Same, S. B. Crawley, W. J. Wilkins, H. K. Osborne, W. C. Hamrick, Mrs. Edna Harris and C. T. Lipscomb. The church also authorized the trustees to sell the school property recently deeded to it by L. G. Byars and othars Dtapeiutary Clerk At From Our Correspondent Etta Jane. at PERSONALS AND LOCALS. of the county everyone had The First National Bank of Green- wood is ready for busineie. A tel egram was received there ^Friday night from the comptroller of the currency authorizing the bank to open and begin business. The First National will occupy the banking house used by the formtr City bank. The building will be painted and completely overhauled. The office has already been in the hands of the painters for some time. The officers of the bank are: £. H. McGee, pres ident; N. A. Craig, vice president, and E. J. Cunningham, cashier. A party of ten young men from ’ Laurens and two from Clinton had quite a narrow escape from being in cinerated in their car early Friday morning as they were returning from the State fair. A lamp exploded in one of the two cabooses in which they were traveling, It being a mixed train, and immediately the whole in terior of the cab was ablaze. Fortu nately the train was slowing up for Ahe purpose of stopping at Cbapin 'jrhen the fire broke out. Several of the boys were asleep and one or two had perilous escapes. Mr. L Ander son, of Laurens, was severely burned, land several had their clothing sat urated with oil by the explosion. In their haste to escape grips, hats, ■hoes and other personal effeots were left to the mercy of the flames. Both cabs were rapidly and totally Elected. a meeting of the county board control, Mr. T. Clingman Wood was elected dispensary clerk for the dispensary in Gaffney to succeed A. C. Jones, deceased. J. M. Phillips, who has served as dispenser so long and faithfully at Blacksburg, was released yesterday. Stomach Trouble Cauaeii Heart Trouble. Heart trouble is almost always caused by stomach trouble. The stomach fails to digest ail the food, and the residue ferments, forming ex cess of gas, distends the‘walls of the stomach, causing a pressure on the nerves and arteries that lead to the heart. This causes the heart to pal pitate or skip a beat occasionally, or both, which is usually very alarming, causing grave apprehensions. Ry- dales Stomach Tablets will prevent this trouble. They digest the food and prevent gass from forming in the stomach. If there is no gas in your stomach your heart will not trouble you.—Gaffney Drug Co. —Direct your doctor to leave pre scriptions written for you with the Gaffney Drug Co. where they will be carefully filled with pure drugs and promptly delivered. Watch our prices. —The Glass Blowers were a feature at the World’s Fair in 1893 and at all other expositions In this country. —The Glass Blowers come here highly reoomended by our exchanges. Interesting Paragraphs and Kecent Hap penings In Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Onr Regular Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) , Etta Jane, Oct 30.—Your corres pondent went to Gaffney this week and took in the town generally,includ ing even the dispensary. The mer chants seemed to be doing a thriving business. People of both sexes from all parts were there and business—either something to sell or something to buy, or perhaps both. The dispensary so far as we could see had the lightest trade of any business house in town—would that it remain so. For the few min utes we were inside its walls it had a very poor lot of customers—only one of our cousins came in. We knew his face but couldn’t call his name A dispensary or beer room is a very poor place to makeup acquaintances, we find; so as if by mutual consent, we let each other pass. Mr. Sam Littlejohn, who is clerking there since the death of Mr. Jones, was kept busy watching. Contractor Baker with his corps of workmen building houses, and the scores of industrious Cherokeeans pas sing the street, each iu pursuit of his or her own , legitimate business. We don't know a city or town in which such thrift and enter prise are shown as Gaffney, and, taken as a whole, where a better class of people live or from time to time come in from the country for the transac tion of their business affairs. The men or women there who have no legitimate work to do are those who don’t want it and won’t have it. A majority of the dry goods houses we visited employ lady clerks and they are fully equal to, if not superior to the men for business. The removal of the old alliance warehouse and hardware store room from near the railroad crossing and the building of such magnificent brick stores as that now owned and occupied by the Smith Hardware Co is a very marked improvement in that portion of the town. Another feature of the town which commends itself to public esteem, is the absence of chronic loafers about the streets or places of business. Mayor Little has made a specialty o this class of offenders, much to the ert’it of his administratioo as wel as the comfort and convenience o the grateful public. Quite a number of new buildings are going up. This makes the town look city-like. The Cherokee Drug Company’s new store is a beauty and adds much to the appearance of Limeotone street. Of one thing we are impressed— the power of printer’s ink to draw trade. That those who advertise most get the most trade, there can be no dispute. Every line of advertising matter is read by somebody and it catches its game sooner or later. We have no interest in making this assertion further than to prove a well established theory. We have read with much interest the article from Col. T. Larry Gantt, on “The stain of human blood.” Only those who know the power of his brain and pen can fully appre ciate what he says on this most im portant subject. He citos quite a number of prominent cases of homi cide in which every one of them worked ruin to the slayer—who was left in worse condition botn in mind and body (to say nothing of soul) than was his victim. Col. Gantt says: “I had sooner go to my grave the victim of another, than spend my days on earth with hands dripping with the life-blood of any one created in God’s own image.” Life is sweet, but it is anything but sweet to be a red-banded murderer. At Gaffney last Tuesday we met “Old Flaw’s” lieutenant, Monroe Mize. • Mr. Noah Buice is on the York side of the river taking pictures. Mr. W. U. Walker, traveling sales man for Ginn & Company’s large publishing house In New York, is at his farm at Bunnyside, looking after bis farming matters. Messrs W. G. and J. H. Fowler are putting up new dwelling houses. Last Tuesday’s frost put an end to the cotton crop for this year. Gam blers and speculators can run the price up as high as they choose now without danger of benefitting the farmer. He has about got all his In terest disposed of. Your correspondent has a very sore jaw from having a tooth pulled last Tuesday, and this la our apology for not making our letter more interest- ng. Last night the choir met at our lome to practice some new pieces. Miss Mary Estes kindly remember ed us and family when she had ler fine porker butchered this week At Presbytery at Spartanburg some one suggested the propriety of our getting up a writing school for the tjaefit of several of the ministers and ymen in Enoree Presbytery. Tnis would no doubt be a good move, but we want some other professional and business men to join us. The State ( Fair has attracted very little attention this year among the country people. No one has gone from this section that we know of. Wagons are hauling cotton seed from the York side to the Wilkins ville oil mill. The people of Elbethel are making preparations to bring off the cenun- nial celebration of their church the 7th and 8th of November. &. J. L. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Gaffney merchants did big business Saturday. The mayor’s court had a light job yesterday morning. Come to Gaffney, see the big build ings go up and join the procession, Miss Talulah Davis has moved into one of the Ross cottages on Grenard street, opposite T. G. McCraw’s. Two hundred bales of Cherokee county cotton were sold and delivered at Cliffside and Henrietta last weea. THRODGHOUT THE HR HEEL SHTE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. dispensary, always ‘a thumping busi- Its sales ran up to The Gaffney prosperous, did ness” Saturday. $475. Our farmers have a good many hogs to kill this fail. The wise ones will feed them heavy now before the weather gets cold and thereby get best results. Miss. Ada Dillard and Mr. Claude Hill, prominent young people of Spartanburg, were married last Wed nesday. Mrs. Sumter Littlejohn at tended the marriage. We present to our readers in this issue of The Ledger, the names of the messengers from the churches of the Bethel Baptist Association who at tended the meetings of that Associa tion in the years 1805, 1806 and 1807. Luther Davis, a young sou of a widow lady, got his hand caught in a belt in the Gaffney mill Thursday evening. His hand was pretty badly hurt, and he received other slight in juries. We are glad to state he is up aud getting on finely. To show the loyalty of Cherokee county farmers to their county cap ital, They sold 365 bales of coctou here Saturday for 10 cents per pound when Spartanburg was paying 10^ and other near by places were reported to be paying even more than that. The case against Jenkins, who is operating a distillery in Cherokee township, as stated, within less than two miles of Antioch church, came before Magistrate Speer again Friday. The defendant waived a preliminary hearing and gave bond for his apear- ance at court. We learn that an ap plication will be made to the booze bosses in Columbia to have the dis tillery shut down until the case is decided in court. Saturday was a red letter day in Gaffney. There have been few days on which a larger number of people have been here, and they were our county people, all in on business and they attended to*their business in a quiet, orderly way and went home when they finished it. They sold 365 bales of cotton, bad plenty of money, paid debts and bought goods liberally, but they carried the biggest part of $20,000 home with them. Wm. H. Mercer, of this city, who has been mining in Arizona for several years, is at home in the city to spend a few weeks with his family, and is receiving the glad hand shake of his many friends in the city and county. Mr. Mercer is an exper ienced miner and no one Ifaows the great mineral wealth of Cherokee county as well as he does. He says if the minerals of Cherokee county were in Colorado, it would be ore of the most popular with investors and profitable mining districts in the United States. ConfegnloDH of a I'riest. Rev. Jno. S. Cox, of Wake, Ark., writes, “For 12 years I suffered from Yellow Jaundice. I consulted a num ber of physicians and tried all sorts of medicines, but got no relief. Then I began the use of Electric Bitters and feel that I am now cured of a disease that bad me in its grasp for twelve years.” If you want a reliable medicine for Liver and Kidney trouble, stomaoh disorder or general debility, get Electric Bitters. It’s guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Only 50c. —See the lady Glass Spinner in the building of Star Theatre all this week. Interesting Items Concerning Onr Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Frov* Entertaining Reading for ’Hundreds of Ledger Readers About 2,000 persons heard Booker Washington speak at the negro State Fair grounds in Raleigh Friday after noon. His speech was full of advice to work along agricultural and indus trial lines and was well received. Gen. M. W. Ransom's sword, pre sented to him by officers of the First North Carolina Regiment in 1861, and the flag of the Fourteenth North Carolina Regiment have been placed in the hall of history in the State museum at Raleigh. A special from Asheville says: The grand jury has summoned several witnesses to give evidence before that body concerning alleged irregularities by employees of the Biltmore estate, and it is stated as almost certain-tfiat true bills wiil be found against them. The men concerned Delong to pnwni- nent families and the indictments will produce a sensation. Mr. Harry Carver, son of Mrs. Mary Carver, of Charlotte, came near end ing his life Friday morning by drink ing the contents of an ounce vial of laudanum. Friday afternoon it was learned that Mr. Carver was still in a serious condition, but that it was thought he would recover. Other than the fact chat the young man was despondent from the too free use of liquors, there was no motive for the rash act. Jeff Watts, who escaoed from the State penitentiary at Raleigh a short time ago, was recaptured Sa'nHuy : n Charlotte and returned i'> t>> i< quarters.yesterdayXMoL uuy j. OliiociB Fitts, Henderson and Johnson mace the arrest. Watts was found on Phifer’s Hill and made no resistance. 1 He was sentenced to State’s. prison ' for two years for forgery and had served only five months when he es caped. A reward is on his head, i which will go to the three officers. A hideous murder was committed on an excursion train from the Wel don fair Thursday night by an un known ne^ro and for no apparent cause. While the train was discharg ing passengers at Summit, a negro walked up beside Levy Allgood, a colored man of Macon, saying: “Hello, Ailgood,” and thrust a knife into his throat, severing ail the main arteries and windpipe. Allgood ran into the car and died in less than ten minutes. The murderer made good his escapo. A man by the name of Hyder was sent from King’s Mountain to the county jail Thursday morning charged with violating the Watts law. He went down to Blacksburg to obtain whiskey from the dispen sary and one Runyans sent by him for a pint. Runyans thought bis li quor was not as good a quality as it should have been and demanded that Hyder refund his money. On the re fusal of Hyder to do that he reported him to the officers and he was arrest ed and tried. “Doc” Bennett, who was released from jail in Missoula, Mont., Thurs day on habeas corpus proceedings and who is wanted at Waynesville, is once more an alleged fugitive from justice. Bennett was wanted for arson and was arrested there on orders from the authorities in North Carolina. The North Carolina sheriff was slow to ar rive and habeas corpus proceedings were begun. Attorney Fail moved to the court that Bennett be discharged and his discharge was ordered. He left Missoula, immediately, after being discharged on Wednesday. Albert Powers, a negro of Durham, was arrested Thursday morning on a warrant charging him with defraud ing John Woods by passing a $10 Confederate bill on him. It was late in the afternoon, near night, a few days ago, when the negro passed the store of Mr. Woods, a few miles from that city, and giving him the sup posed money said: “Here’s a $10 bill. Take out what I owe you, and give me the change.” It was about dark, Mr. Woods saw the figures and at once complied with the request of the negro. He is now in jail. was battered down with sledge ham mers. The safe, which cost $400, is a perfect wreck. The body of an old negro, Pink Mc- Alpie, decrepit with age and crippled, was found in the bottom near a creek bank, on the Watt plantation in Rockingham county Tuesday, and from investigations made it is conclu ded that he had been dead since Sat urday, th# 17th. Mr. Fish Coving ton, who lives near where the body was found, says the old man passed his house on that date going towards the creek. It rained that day and the stream was swollen. It is sup posed that he lost the use of himself and fell into a ditch, and after strug gling to get out he died from exhaus tion. The body was examined and there were no marks to indicate that violence had been done him. His remains were taken to Reidvsille and buried. GLORIOUS CHEROKEE. 35 The Home of Adam and Eve and gthe Suc- ceuftful Farmer. Hale Cherokee’s glorious land. ’Tis the work of nature’s hand; Hale, Its pine knot-light divine— Its tar and terpentine. Mk. Editor: 1 have seen in your where a good many fellows scraps to have them printed. Some of them don’t sound right. Some of our up-to-date farmers go over to Gaffney and tell you ho>v many potatoes they raise and one man told you he had a pumpkin vine that had 32 pumpsins on it as large as nail kegs and you called him a successful farmer. He was some paper have written —Every vlcitor receives » Souvenir made by the Glass Blowers, free. The vault and so-called burglar proof safe at the Florence Mills Com pany store, at Forest City, 6 miles from Rutherfordton, were blown open by expert safe crackers at 3 o’clock Friday morning and about $1,10(1 stolen, about $900 of which belonged to the store. $100 to the town, and $110 to the postoffice. Tools were se cured from a blacksmith shop, near the building, and the entrance was made at the rear doora. There were two explosions heard by several per sons living near-by. The first vault door was blown open, and the second kind of a success, the pumpkins were not larger thao a pint cup. There are men that write about good roads; some fellow recommended grease for good roads. I don’t think there is enough grease in Cherokee to grease a half-mile of road since the Hood, and there is no grease needed on the road only to greaF3 that eter nal great big machine. I have heard so much about it, but 1 have never seen it yet, nor never will, unless I go to see it, as they tell • ' has uni v traveled a little over . .t:ile oince it has been over Some of these fellows tell big war tales. I remember some time back that some fellow you call “Colonel” surrounded and captured a whole regiment of Yaiks at Perry ville, Ky. I was there myself and never heard of it uutil I saw it in The Ledger. It was a right rough place and some were wounded tbere. That fellow that took the regiment kept it mighty well, he should have told it sooner. I take The Ledger myself and read these things. Then after that I saw another fellow, he claimed to be a private, he says he was in the battle of Sbilo. He goes on to say he ad vised Albert Sidney Johnson to fight that battle; he said Johnson had de cided to run until he told him to fight. 1 was at Shilo myself and found it a rough muddy place. There were a good many men hurt there, some got their clothes tore with can non balls passing too close. Speaking of that fellow that told Johnson to fight, I don’t believe it would do for a private to advise a a general; he would be in danger of getting the filling all kick ed out of the seat of his breeches, if he bad any seat in them. I was in the war from first to last and fought, bled and died as much as any one man. I never done much big fight- .ing like some did, but I always went in the lead in a charge when the regi ment was going the direction that suited me; I generally took it slow and easy when we were going with our face before us and I always had company. This is the first letter I ever wrote to The Ledger or an? body else. I am not much of a scholar; in my days schools wasn’t fashionable. The fust school I everf ent to,the man that was boss didn’t come the next day; be was drunk and didn’t have no school. The next he give holiday and that ended it for good. Then after that dad sold a cow and put the whole cow on me in schooling. From that time on, I have been doing mighty wtll in the way of edification. The girls over here are all married— only a few and they want to so bad they can’t wait much longer if they can get anybody that wears breeches to have them. Potatoes and pumpkins aren’t as plentiful here as they have been ; this has been a very poor country. Again I saw in The Ledger wnere some fellow said Cherokee was where the garden of Eden was. I always kuew Adam and Eve never did any good, but I never knew where they lived until I saw it in The Led ger—that accounts fer the bad start they made. Being this is the first letter I ever wrote I will stop, hoping you and old Mrs. Ledger are well and doing well. I will soon send in a dollar; I know you will be glad wbeu my time is out. Arkansaw. Kings Creek, October 26, 1903. —The most intelligent and Instruct ive exhibitions ever originated—the Glass Blowers. —Recommended by the Press, Cler gy and the Public—the Glass Blowers.