Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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# K v r ‘ i ♦ 4 tl William8. Hall. Jr. jamm A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS. AlTOUNKys AT LAW. STAR THBATKB BLOG. <L> A. W frr .’>1J-C Y . < -'- Notary Public Inloffleo. Prompt attention Htven to all business. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. f pM~i Kfl.-n over Cberokee Drun Co. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, D E X I « 'r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. Money Loaned L OANS on Improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent, interest. No commissions. For Information apply to J. O. Jefferies. Attorney at Law. 11-22-lyr Truth Seeking. If Diogenes h a d been equipped with' one of our 10c Jun- i o r Lanterns, h e would not have had such a long quest. S.B. Crawley & Go. 813 Limestone St. Drugs, Perfumes and Station ery. Prescriptions properly filled and promptly delivered. Notice to Bridge Builders. I will be at Thickety Creek near Mace donia church on Green River road in Morgan Township, Wednesday, Nov. 18th, at 11 o’clock a. m., to let contract to build a bridge across Thickety Creek. Plans can be seen on day of letting. A right reserved to reject any or all bids. J. V. Whelchel, Nov. 10-13-17 County Supervisor. Notice to Bridge Builders. I will be at Sarratts Creek near the Dock Ross place in Limestone Township, Tues day, November the 17th, at 11 o’clock to let contract to build a bridge across Sar- ratts Creek. Plans can be seen on day of letting. A right reserved to reject any or all bids. J. V. Whelchel, Nov. 10-13-17 County Supervisor. Notice to Contractors. I will be at Gaffney Saturday, Nov. the 21st, at 11 o’clock to let contract to re move the wreckage of the Skull Shoals bridge on Pacolet river. The right is re served to reject any or all bids. J. V. Whelchel, Nov. 10-13-17 County Supervisor. Save Money by buying goods from I. M. Peeler. I am now making a run on Shoes and will save you money on them. Groceries and all other goods at bottom prices. Give me a call. I. M. Peeler. feoplr You Know mid People You Don't v Know Co). T. B. Butler and Capt. J. C. Otts returned from Columbia Friday night, and Col. Butler left the eame night for Alabama where Mrs. Butler and “Both Jr.” are visiting relatives. They will return to their home In Gaffney in a short time. P. C. Garvin was an early visitor in the city yesterday morning. Thomas Cabiness and Montgomery Cabiness. of Pearl, N. C., were iu the city Saturday, the guests of Rev. atd Mrs. W. T. Thompson, on Victoria avenue. Will Blackwood and bis son, Hydrick. were Ledger callers Friday. Mr. Blackwood added a name to onr list. J. C. Childers, of Sarratts, came in Friday and renewed. J. A B. Smith, a sterling Chero- keean beyond the Broad, was an ap preciated Ledger visitor Saturday. W. A. Smith, of Algood, spent some time In the city Friday. E. K. Belue, of Blacksburg, came over to the city Saturday ou business. Mrs. Joe Estes and Misses Oregoc and Jessie Estes were appreciated Ledger visitors Friday. vV. S. Hall, Esq., went to Chester last week to see his parents, and went out on the old country home where he was raised went over the old fields and shot partridges. J. E. Foster, of Gowdysville, came to the city Friday. W. A. Jones, a successful planter from across the Broad, came in to see The Ledger Saturday. John E. Hames, a prominent far mer of Go vdysville, was a business visitor in the city Friday. Ed. T. Self came to see The Ledger Saturday and renewed Wade Pridmore, of Sarratts, came to the city Friday on business. R. H. MoCraw came in from Maud Saturday and paid The Ledger a visit. James W. Sparks, merchant and farmer of Asbury, came up to the city Friday. He called on the Led ger and renewed. John Thomas Ruppe, of Maud, paid The Ledger a visit Saturday. T. J. Hames, of Asbury, spent some time in the city Friday. Miss Lizzie Howard is visiting rela tives in Greenville. Jonas Blanton was in the city Fri day afternoon. W. E. M. Kirby, of Grioda'l, came to the city yesterday on business. J. B. Fulton, a prominent farmer from across the Broad, was in the city Friday. He called and subscrib ed. June T. Robbs, of Maud, made a business trip to the city yesterday. A. J. Goforth and daughter, Miss Hope, of Mt, Paran, were shopping in the city Friday. W. J. Vaughan, a Pacolet river farmer, was a Ledger visitor yester day. “Uncle Jack” Byars, of Gastonia, N. C.. was among bis friends in Gaff ney Friday. “Uncle Jack” must come back borne. W. D. Byars, of Algood, came to the city yesterday on business. Ira Hardin, Esq., of Blacksburg, came over to the city Friday. Jacob E. Sepooh, a merchant and farmer of Mt. Paran, came to the city yesterday on business. ''Uncle Sill” Estes, an old and worthy Cherokee farmer from the lower part of the county, made a business visit to the city Friday. Our old frien,d Sam H. Rippey, of Mt. Parau, paid The Ledger an ap preciated visit yesterday. T. J. Estes, of Etta Jane, came to the city Friday. Leo Little left the city yesterday for Lincolotou, N. C., where he goes to accept a position with the D. A. Tbompkius Co., of Charlotte. Squire Chas. Legge, one of Chero kee’s old and worthy citizens, was in the city Friday. H. M. Johnson went to Cheraw last week on business. L C. Mabry, of Gowdysville, was in the city with cotton Friday. E. P. Hollis, of Greenville, is in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Turner. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. A Cough Is Only A Symptom, A cough is not a disease, but a symptom of disease. A oaugh always indicates that either the throat or lungs are affected. When the mucous lining of the throat or lungs becomes inflamed the irritation causes cough ing. Don’t negleot a cough. It may be a symptom of serious throat or lung disease. Rydales Elixir kills the germs that cause the trouble, soothes the irritated mucous mem brane, gently stimulates the nerves that control the respiratory organs and thus help nature to speedily re store normal conditions and healthy action.—Gaffney Drug Co. We had the biggest frost of the sea son last Saturday morning. Our cotton buyers did right Friday. They paid 10.42$ for cotton. G. M. Phifer hae bought the hand some Copeland house and lot on Gra- nard street of Mrs. A. C. Cree. Gaffney cotton buyers got a move on themselves last week and put the price up right. It sold Saturday for 10:56$. In our last Issue we stated that Miss Leila Thackston had accepted a position with J. R. Tolleson & Co., when we should have said with J. W. Tolleson. If frost will destroy the fall crop of the Hessian fly they passed away Saturday morning and farmers can sow wheat now with safety. Tbe sooner tbe better. A correspondent from Greenville of The State, of the 6th instant states that four up-country counties will supply one-third of tbe $100,000 en dowment for Furman University. Cherokee is one of the four If the weather permit, Miss Eva Sams will tender a reception to the Ruby Band at her home tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 5 o’clock. Tbe regular meeting of the Ruby Band will take place next Sabbath. After a stay with the Peoples Mar ket and T. W. Williamson <& Co., Mr. W. J. Maness has gone back to his own market and grocery on Grenard street next to Carroll, Carpenter A Byers, where he says he is eager to greet his old friends. Mr. B. - F. Green succeeds him at T. W. Wil liamson’s market. The Jenkins distillery case was argued Friday iu Columbia before tbe big booze board, by J. C. Otts for tbe plaintiff and T. B. Butler for the de fendants. It seems, from our point of view, that this big still will h«ve to go, but tbe*board gave the defendants thirty days more in which to fully present their side of tbe case. The Southern is going to build a new depot in Greenville. The thirty- year-old board depot in Gaffney looks mighty bad in the midst of the mag nificent brick buildings going up all around it. Besides its every arrange ment is out of date. It should be re placed by an up-to-date brick build ing. Will not the city authorities and tbe State Railroad commissioners take the matter up and see that Gaffney gets proper consideration in this matter. Prof. J. T. Moore, a native of tbe Union portion of this county, but who has been teaching in several counties in the State,last year as prin cipal of the Walterboro graded school, has recently built an elegant home on his farm in the lower part of the county and moved with his family to it. We extend to him and his family a hearty greeting on his return to bis native heather and wish for them all the success aud pleasure of a happy country home. Tbe professor was in the city Friday and favored The Led ger with an appreciated call. Trouble With the Cooks. There seems to be a great inclina tion among many colored cooks to reg ulate their own hours and to especi ally try to impress tbe fact on their empoyeers. In many cases em- ployeers have to submit to this wanton negieot of duty ou tbe part of their cooks, and as a consequence have to do much of tbe work them selves that their cooks are employed to do. There may be others, but we happen to know of one who regards her obligations and performs her du ties faithfully. She knocks at the kitchen door, where she cooks, exact ly at 5:30 every morning now, and in tbe summer months an hour earlier, and goes to work as soou as she gets in. She is a good cook, polite, neat and clean, and after a meal asks, "How did the dinner” or whatever meal it may be, "suit you?” She alway gets a complimentary answer, which she receives with a grateful smile, indicative of her pleasure. Her name is Minnie McCulloch. She has the confidence of her employers who woul<! do her any reasonable favor, and.wbois certainly not looking for a newcook. Local Cotton Market. The following prices prevail on the Gaffney market today: Good middling 10.65 Middling 10.55 Men who gamble over tbe bard earned products of the poor cotton farmers have no right to find fault with those who gambled over tbe Mas ter’s garments while He hung on tbe cross. BIG PENSION CAMPAIGN General Black’s Plan to Help the Veterans. A LARGE IN0REASE FAVORED. Grand Army'a Chief Declares For One of From if21,000,000 to $30,- 000,000—F-very Veteran Sixty-two Years Old Without a Tension Who Had Sixty Days’ Actual Service to Receive a Stipend. General John C. Black, the new com mander in chief of tbe Grand Army of the Republic, has begun his adminis tration by declaring in favor of an in crease of tbe pension expenditures of the government that would amount to from $21,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year and would run the total payments up from the present figure of $140,000,000 to $161,000,000 or $170,000,000, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. General Black Las declared that It will be the policy of the Grand Army of the Republic to fight from now on for a pension for every veteran of the civil war more than slxty-two years old who saw sixty days of actual serv ice and for his widow after him. This means that General Black intends to commit the Grand Army of the Re public to a campaign for the addition of at least 300,000 names to the 1.000.- 000 already on the pension rolls. The commissioner of pensions, Mr. Ware, estimates the number of sur vivors of the civil war who are not now drawing pensions at more than 200,000. He says they may number 225,000. If the proportion of widows to survivors Is as great as was the pro portion of widows to survivors at the corresponding date after the Mexican war, there are probably a few more than 100,000 widows of civil war vet erans who are not now drawing pen sions. It is difficult to estimate what proportion of the survivors are sixty- two years old or more, but it Is quite probable that enough are of that age to bring the total number of new pen sioners, Including the widows, up to about 300,000. The amount that this would add to the annual pension expenditures would depeud upon the rate of pension to be allowed. If a service pension law should be enacted it is safe to say that the rata would not be less than $6 a month, or $72 a year. At this rate the addition of 300,000 names to the roll would add $21,600,000 to the annual expenditures. llie was sixteen he was a gay bride groom of seventy-two. He died in 1841 at the ripe age of eighty-one years, when his wife was only twenty- | five ’■ears old. There conies a time in every pension list when the number of survivors is at the maximum and when the num ber of widows Is at the maximum. The number of survivors of the civil war was greatest of course immediate ly after tbe war. Whether the maxi mum number of survivors on the pen sion roll on account of that war has been passed or not will probably de pend upon whether a service pension law Is enacted within the next few years. There is no question as to whether| the number of widows of soldiers In that war will Increase. Judging from the figures for the Mexican war, the number of civil war widows will go on increasing for the next fourteen years at least, as the maximum number of widows of soldiers in the Mexican war was not reached until 1899, or fifty-one years after the close of that war. This would make the number of civil war widows reach the maximum in 1917. LEBAUDY’S LATEST SCHEME A NEW JEFFERSON LETTER. Company of Soldiers Thanked For Offer of Services In 1807. Charles Witherspoon, a well known resident of Petersburg, Va.. lately found among tbe papers of bis grand father. the late Commodore Harrison Cocke, a letter written by Thomas Jef ferson, who at tbe time was president of the United States. The following is a copy of the letter: To Captain John D. Burk an the Peters burg Company of Riflemen: The offer of your services In support of the rights of your country merits and meets the highest praise, and whenever the moment arrives in which their rights must appeal to the public arm for sup port. the spirit from which your offer | flows, that which animates our emotion, will be their sufficient safeguard. To the legislature will be rendered a faithful account of the events which have so Justly excited the sensibilities of our county, of the measures taken to obtain reparation and of their results, and to their wisdom will belong the course to be ultimately pursued. In the meantime it is our duty to pursue that furnished by the existing laws, the authority of these having been recently and grossly outraged in the state of Virginia. The governor will employ such portion of the militia as in co-operation with the forces of the United States in the same quarter may protect the country, its citi zens and property from violence. Toward this your services are accepted under his direction. I tender for your country the thanks you so Justly deserve. THOMAS JEFFERSON. Washington. July 19. 1807. “The events which have so justly ex cited the sensibilities of our country” were the firing on the United States Advocates of a service pension for 1 steamship Chesapeake by the British the civil war would hardly, however, | man-of-war Despard and associated ifl- be contented with such a beggarly pit- ddents which occurred In Virginia wa- tance as $6 a month, especially In view ters. of the fact that the last congress in- creased the rate of pension for sur vivors of the Mexican war to $12 a month, oi- $144 a year.* It is certain that congress would not give the sur vivors of the civil war a service pen sion of $12 a month. Jacqaea I. Wants to Eatabllak a Home For Negroes In Africa. The New York Herald recently pub lished the following from Its London correspondent: M. Lebaudy, otherwise Jacques I., emperor of Sahara, has tired out a multitude of reporters, photographers aud representatives of firms anxious to have a hand in fitting out bis em pire, and the other day the siege of his room at the Savoy hotel was raised, and he was free to go about his busi ness in London. What*that business exactly is M. Le baudy still refuses to disclose, but the London Dally Mall contains a version of M. Lebaudy’s intentions which pur ports to be on next to the best author ity. According to tills report, M. Le baudy desires to be handed down to posterity as the greatest benefactor of the negro race who ever lived. With this idea his Intentions are purely pacific and commercial. He de sires first to obtain the consent of the European powers who claim to have influence over the territory on which he has designs, to establish along the northwest coast of Africa an empire larger than Rhodesia, to be entitled the United States of Liberia. Here be proposes to found a negro state, peo pled by negroes from America, espe cially from the southern states, who would receive grants of land and be encouraged to found a country of their own. If M. Lebaudy obtains all the territory he desires he will have a country rich in minerals, India rubber and coffee. He is not unwilling to engage some of his own vast capital In the enter prise, but he seeks to interest other capitalists in the venture. In this lies the true secret of his visit to London, where at the present moment he is in negotiation with several railway con tractors. He is further In treaty with a well known steamship company with a view to contracting for a fleet of ves sels which will run from Liverpool to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. AUTUMN WAISTCOATS. Types That Will Be In Vogue For Men. In nothing does the average man show taste or the want of it so clear It is probable that if such a pension | ly as in the choice of his fancy waist should be provided for the rate would i coat, says a writer in the Haberdasher be $8 a mouth. This would involve in- i Here no hard and fast rules hedge him creasing the pensions of 37,748 pension- and consequently the temptation to em ere who are now drawing less than $8 brace the odd and outer is strong. The a month aud would bring the addition-' very fancy waistcoat is out of it It al expenditures up to approximately has had its run, and now the inevita- $30,000,000. ble decline has set in. An idea of how long the civil war I The waistcoats for autumn are more pension roll is certain to maintain for midable proportions, whether a service conservative and in decidedly better taste. The plainer the cut and the Some men see a funny side to most serious situation. the WE ARE HACKING AT HIGH PRICES all the time and now have the largest line of reliable heavy Shoes ever shown in Gaffney. The R. 5. Lipscomb Shoe Company. pension law is enacted within the next simpler the treatment of collar, lapel few years or not can be based on the fact that there are on the pension roll, fifty-five years after the close of the Mexican war, 5,964 survivors of that war and 7,910 widows, or a total of and pockets the better the garment squares with fashion and fitness. Col lar and collarless waistcoats both have their devotees, though the tendency seems to be to dispense with the collar 13,874 pensioners on account of the lit- j whenever possible. Several new waist- tie army of 78,718 men that partici- c°tit 9 intended for wear with the even- pated in it. At the same ratio there ing jacket have been introduced. One will still be on the pension rolls in is made of a suede gray mercerized 1921, or fifty-five years after the date fabric and is cut single breasted. It from which the pension office reckons 1 Is patterned after the single breasted the close of the civil war, no less than 400,000 pensioners on account of that war. Some further idea of the longevity of pension rolls may be obtained from the fact that there are now on the rolls, eighty-nine years after the close of the war of 1812, one survivor and 1,115 widows, and, although it is 120 years since the close of the war of the Revo lution, there are still on the pension roll two widows of soldiers of that war. In other words, widows of sur vivors of the civil war in considerable numbers will still be drawing pensions in tbe year 1986. Many of the future widows of civil war veterans are little girls in pina fores. Many more of them are/being rocked in their cradles. Some of them have not yet been born. It is now thirty-seven years after the official close of the civil war. The younger of the two surviving widows of vet erans of the war of the Revolution, Esther S. Damon of Vermont, was not born until 1814, or thirty-one years after the official close of the war. Within the last few years widows of the Revolutionary war have died who were born more than thirty-seven years after the close of the war. The willingness of girls to marry old pensioners Is proverbial. One of the widows of the Revolution who died during the last year was Nancy Jones, who was born in 1816, or thirty-three years after the close of the war, and who married Darling Jones, a survivor of that war, in 1832. when he was six ty-eight years old and she was sixteen. In the case of Mary Sneed, another Revolutionary veteran’s widow, who died last year, the date of her marriage is not on record, bn^ the disparity be tween her age and that of her husband was greater than that in the case of Nancy Jones. Rowdoln Sneed, the Rev- olutionary soldier In this case, was fif ty-six yean old when bis wife was born, and if they were married when evening waistcoat and fastens with three mother of pearl buttons, there being a mock button at the bottom. Another new waistcoat for evening jacket functions has a long roll collar, a peaked lapel and closes with four crystal buttons. This Is a French idea. The mode allows a good deal of lati tude in waistcoats for day wear, but evening waistcoats must be severely simple. Absolutely nothing else will answer. President's Joke Abovt His Teeth. President Roosevelt who has been having his teeth attended to, cracked a joke recently concerning his teeth, which the cartoonists are so fond of making the largest part of his likeness, says the Washington correspondent of the Chicago News. The other day. aft er he had finished one. sitting, tbe dentist asked solicitously If he had han dled the presidential molars roughly. “No, you have not treated them one- half so badly as have some cartoonists I could mention by name,” replied the president Autumn Dars. Now the year is growing mallow And the leaves turn red and yellow And tbe dreamy sunlight lingers on the hills and on the plains. And the grapes with purple luster Hang in many a tempting cluster All along the weedy roadsides and In pleasant country lanea In the woods the crows are calling, And the butternuts art falling. And the thickets ars so quiet one can hear the slightest sound. And the plums that long have glinted ’Mon* the leaves grow rosy tinted In the sweet autumnal sunshine that is brooding all around. Now the corn, aa In the olden Days we've known, Is husked In golden l oads, and, though we'll miss the song birds and their notes of happy cheer. Btlll, when we behold the treasures That are heaped in such vast measures. We are glad that summer's over and that autumn days ars here. -Osoar Johnson In National Magaalns For October Divers Reasons fcpmsKr for sending your washing to us could be given. All can be summond up, how ever, in four words— “It is done Right” No question about that. We have per fect facilities, competent help aud the de sire to please. These are all put to good use on every bundle of work that comes into The Pearl Steam Laundry, and the result is seen in the spotless con dition and fine finish of each piece. Phone 122. BRING THEM TO ME The cold season is approaching. How about those last winter suits that are too good to throw away, and yet need brightening up a little ? BRING THEM TO ME and have them overhauled—I’ll make them look fresh and new. Clean ing. pressing and tailoring done by an expert. V. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over W. U. Telegraph Office. Notice of Extra Term of Court. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. } Notice is hereby given, that in pur suance of an order of the Hon. Y. J. Pope, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina, there will be holden at Gaffney, Cherokee Court House, S. C., a special term of the Court of Common Pleas, beginning Monday November 30th, 1903, and continuing two weeks, with the Honorable Janies P. Carey of Pickens, S. C., presiding as Special Judge of said Special term of Court. Proper juries for each week of said Special term of Court will be drawn to serve in accordance with the law. Nov. 4th, 1903 J. En Jefferies, Pub. Nov. 6-13-20. Cl’k. C. C. Pi’s. Do you eat ? If so go to the upper side of town and see where you can get Meats and Groceries of all descriptions and free delivery. Prompt attention given to all telephone orders and visitors welcome to the store. I will mention a few articles I keep ou hand: Loose and Link Pork sau sage, Bologna of all kinds. Picnic and Gold Brand Hams, Dried Beef, Souse meat and Hogshead Cheese, Fruits and Vegetables of most all kinds; fresh Fish and Oysters Friday and Saturday. Come or call ’phone No. 23 aud I will he at your service at all times. Yours to please, W. J. MANESS, Proprietor.