The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 26, 1903, Image 7
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WATCH THE BATTERY AND THE BEE HIVE
Straws Show IVhick IVay the IVind is Blowing.
You will see more Battery and Bee Hive bundles on the streets than half-a-dozen other stores combined send out. Tons
and tons of New Merchandise rolling in every day, consisting of Shoes, Clothing, Dress Goods, Jackets, Capes and Holiday
goods. Never before in our history have we been in position to offer such marvelous values as we are now offering. It is not
room we need, but more goods. We can hardly keep enough for our immense trade though
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NEW THINGS ARE DAILY ARRIVING.
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Hurry up and join the great throng that is daily wending its way to The Battery and Bee Hive, where you can get more
goods for the same money and same goods for less money.
Apron and Bonnet Ging
hams 3 1 -2c yd.
Children’s Shoes 1 Oc a pr.
Double width Wool Dress
Children’s Suits as low as
Suspenders 5c a pair up.
Goods 1 Oc yd.
49c.
Ladies’ Undervests 1 Oc.
Boys Wool Hats 5c and up.
‘Men’s Suits $2.98 and up.
Towels 2 1 -2c each.
FOR ONE RUSTY PENNY.
1 paper pins, i paper needles, 2 penholders, 2 lead pencils,
2 bundles hairpins, 1 box tacks, 1 pkg. envelopes, 1 tablet,
1 pair good shoe strings, 2 thimbles,
and hundreds of other things too numerous to mention.
Visit The Battery and Bee Hive,
The Cheapest Stores in the State.
J. C. RATLIFF, Propr.
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Jury List.
Writ of Venire Facias for Thirty-six
Petit Jurors for Extra Term, A. D., 1903,
first week.
J. T. Haines, Gaffney.
Ed Orr, Sarratts.
R. H. Randall, Blacksburg.
O. A. Allison, Gaffney.
J. B. Brown, Ravenna.
R. T. Lawson, Ezells.
W. S. Jolly, Ezells.
J. E. Austell, Gaffney.
J. S. Littlejohn, Gaffney.
W. T. Poag, Gaffney.
G. E. Martin. Blacksburg.
D. L. Jones, Gaffney.
J. F. Beam, Grindall.
J. N. Anthony, Gaffney.
J. J. Gibbons, Blacksburg.
G. A. Byars, Sarratts.
B. F. Petty, Gaffney.
M. B. Scruggs, Ezell.
J. L. Moorehead, Gaffney.
M. Bridges, Gaffney.
Rowan Jennings, Gaffney.
R. S. Lipscomb, Gaffney.
J. W. Sparks, Asbury.
J. C. Hancock, Cherokee Falls.
R. W. Jolly, Grassy Pond.
D. B. Hughes, Gowdeysville.
Ben Waddell, Ravenna.
S. G. Pridmore, Grassy Pond.
H. S. Sellers, Wilkinsville.
B. G. Clary, Gaffney.
J. Vinesett, Gaffney.
T. J Jenkins, Gaffney.
R. H. Taylor, White Plains.
R. M. Rodgers, Gaffney.
W. H. Westmoreland, Kings Creek.
W. T. Broom, Cherokee Falls.
. Jury List.
* ^ Writ of Venire Facias for Thirty-six
Petit Jurors for Extra Term, A. I).. 1903,
second week.
R. W. Clark, Gaffney.
Morgan Martin, Sr., Cherokee Falls.
W. H. Perry, Gaffney.
W. E. M. Kirby, Gowdeysville.
J. G. Jolly, Ezells.
J. B. P'oster, Asbury.
R. C. Pool, Wilkinsville.
G. E. Clary, Gaffney.
W. F. Brown, Gaffney.
J. T. Barnhill, Gaffney.
J. J. Lipscomb, Allens.
J. C. Powell, Gaffney.
E. F. Lipscomb, Gaffney.
Garnet Martin, Gaffney.
G. Calep Spencer, Cherokee Falls.
R. M. Jolly, Gaffney.
R. W. Allison, Grassy Pond.
T. E. Wright, Wilkinsville.
A. W. Smith, Macedonia.
G. M. Huskey, Gaffney.
G. Newton Taylor, Ezells.
R. A. Westbrooks, Blacksburg.
W. A. George, Wilkinsville.
Bookter Ray, State Line.
R. M. Huskey, White Plains.
Lewis Humphries, Gaffney.
E. K. Belue, Blacksburg.
W. G. Fowler, Sarratts.
L- F. Blanton, Gaffney.
J. R. Gordon, Cherokee Falls.
C. C. Harris, Gaffney.
M. W. Brown, Ravenna.
Elipbus Harmon, Draytonville.
C. C. Humphries, Gaffney.
R. G. Black, Grassy Pond.
E. J. Clary, Allens.
Dr. S. H. Griffith,
PHYSICIAN - - SURGEON • -OCULIST.
Former pupil of the celebra
ted Oculist, Ur. Julian J.
Chisolm, of Baltimore. Has
also taken special post-grad
uate course in the Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat Hospital of
Baltimore.
Glasses Fitted Accurately
and Scientifically.
•^Office in Cherokee Drug Co. B'ld’g.
Tax Notice.
1 will be at the following places to col
lect taxes, or have a clerk there, on the
dates listed below.
W. H. Gooding, Co. Treas.
f Buffalo, Nov. 23d, 10 a. m to 12 m.
Blacksburg, Nov. 23d, 1 p. ra f tofip. ni.
Antioch, Nov. 24th, 10 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Kings Creek, Nov. 25th, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Cherokee, Nov. 25th, 4 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Cherokee, Nov. 26th, 8 a. ni. to 12 m.
Special term of court requires my oflice
open after 26th, until adjournment. No
tice of any further appointments will be
given.
Wild
Turhjey
Hunting
B IG, beautiful, brave and wise,
the wild turkey is ideal game
for the United States. He is
big enough to satisfy some of
the material craving of even the big
game hunter, lie eludes the still hunt
er as subtly as the shiest deer. He
gives the cross country rider, coursing
him with hound and horse, a run that
often is equal to fox hunting. The
wing shot finds him equal to the occa
siou. He is the finest game bird in the
world. Not even the royal auerhahn.
sole living representative of the an
cient big game world of Europe when
the huge aurochs crashed through the
forests, can compare with him.
Hunting the wild bird with hound
and horse is sport for the very select
few, for not only is it necessary to find
the birds first, but they must by found
in open country where they cannot es
cape too readily by flying into cover.
Therefore, coursing is limited to open
country where the turkey, not having
been bunted too fervently, is incau
tious enough to feed in farm lands and
open, flat country. The dogs are sent
In to cut olT the retreat to the woods,
and then the mounted men break out
of their hiding places and pound down
on them.
The wild turkey Hies and runs alter
nately. He lopes like an ostrich, though
not so fast, and whenever he thus takes
to running the dogs and horses gain on
him. When they get unpleasantly close,
up booms the big bird and flies like a
feathered projectile straight abend un
til ho has reached a safe distance,
when he pitches again and resumes
running.
It is clean sport and exciting enough
to "hurry any man’s blood. But the
true hunting of the wild turkey, with
shotgun or ritle. that tests a man’s
strength and cunning and woodcraft
and patience to the full is still hunt
ing.
It may be enjoyed still in some parts
of Pennsylvania, but the best territory
for It is in the southern states. Vir-
When a wild turkey is tracked on
snow he will lead the shooter a chase
of miles. The turkey can hear as
keenly as he can see. A cracking twig
underfoot will startle him more quick-1
ly even than it will a deer. Often the
man will not be able to get a shot, al
though he may follow a flock all day
long. Often he will get his shot only
after he has actually walked the birds
down—tired them out by close, patient,
grim pursuit. The man who can do
that is an athlete.
West Virginia contains thousands of
acres of hunting eoufttry that is in
many respects as wild as it was be
fore the white men landed in America.
Western North Carolina has turkeys,
particularly between the Blue Ridge
and the Great Smoky mountains, and
thence on across into Tennessee the
turkey hunter can still find surpris
ingly large tracts of hunting country
where not only turkeys, but deer and
boar, hide in the thickets. — Boston
Transcript.
Whitt They Had For Dinner.
First Boy - We Lad a minister for
dinner yesterday.
Second Boy—Wo bad turkey.—Judge.
TliunknirivluK Ceremony.
It's a very formal matter,
Eatln’ turkey out our way,
’Cause gran'paw alius rises
With a word or two to say
After grau'maw asks the blessin’.
Jest before he starts to carve.
It’s a Joke We think It’s funny.
If we didn’t we might starve.
It’s something about Turkey
Gettin’ all mixed up with Greece,
An’ how the combination
Means disturbance of the peace.
Every year we’re all attention;
Not another word is spoke,
An’ we nearly die a-laughin’
When our gran’paw tells his joke.
Hit DOPES DIKE AN OSTltiCH.
glniu offers It in the country on both
sides of the Blue Ridge, although it is
not necessary to go so far to reach |
haunts of the fine game. Culpeper
county, where President Roosevelt
hunted, Is only a short distance from
the national capital and well east of
the mount^iins.
FEASTING A CENTURY AGO.
Dcncription of nn Old Time TUnnkn-
uHIuk IJinner In >evv Klnglnnd.
Tne I'hnnksgiving feast of a century
ago had a charm to it that today seems
to be lacking, says the Seattle Times.
Here is a description of one of these
celebrations:
“In the great red farmhouse on the
hill preparations were begun long before
the day. The turkey that stalked before
the dooryard had been watched with
lungry eyes and fattened with urgent
.•are. Pumpkins had been brought from
the cornfield to sun themselves on the
wood pile. Ah, it was a sure sign of
the day’s approach, and they might
have defended their right to be there
without being laughed at by tbe an
cient chronicler’s words. ’Let no man
make a Jest at pumpkins, for with this
fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his
people to their good content till corn
and cattle were increased!’ A goodly
supply of all garden vegetables was at
hand. Apples and pears, the best in tbe
orchard, bad been gathered and bidden
away in the dark to mellow. Alas for
the feast if there was not molasses
enough to be bad! There could be none
without it. Stores of raisins and citron
bad been laid in, so there was some
thing for the girls to do while the boys
looked after the popcorn, which bad
l>een seasoning in their wood shed
chamber, or picked up walnuts under
the old shagbark tree in tbe pasture.
Then there was a deal of work neces
iary within the house—the wedding
?hina to be brought out. tbe brasses all
to be polished, especially the ancestral
andirons, and the spare chambers to be
set In order, with extemporized beds in
every available comer—all ready for
the homecoming. Grandpa and grand
ma were the reigning sovereigns, and
their family was a royal one. The night
before Thanksgiving they are all there,
and the duughters-in-law have stowed
their little ones away in big feather
beds, a dozen, more or less. In each, like
sardines, and tbe youngsters have gone
to tbeir pillow fight in tbe attic chain
hers.
“Around the huge open fireplace, bv
tbe light of its burning logs, those boys
of the olden times spin their yarns of
childhood days and crack tbeir Jokes
until the laughter changes to tears and
they are ready for the evening prayer
and tbe tender good night And then
the Thuukscivlug morning! It Is clear
and cold, perhaps tbe first snow upon
tbe ground, for Boreas was wont to
contribute something unusual before
tbe days of weather reports. All the
family are at church—it was expected
and the proper thing, for family reli
gion was on dress parade—and the
gray haired parson, regardless of the
passing time, rises to the occasion in
fervent words of gratitude to God for
his abundant mercies. Then comes the
dinner, skillfully managed by the maid
en mint—God bless her!—an indUpeu-
sable condensation of virtue on such
occasions, a dinner not so elaborate as
bountiful not so elegant as healthful
How the children's eyes dance, even
■hose of tiie babe in the big board era
d'e who has no part or lot in ii. The
turkey of course, is there, crisp and
brown. :t' only one can be which bus
been slowb roasted before tbe lire and
basti d from the dripping pan beneath.
Vegetables of all sorts load tin* table;
delicacies 1 m. 11.at have been wait
.eg long 1 tha: ire 1 and iiemCrous
mysteries o! iln ir old tasliioned culi
nary art Then there are pies of sun
dry kinds the chicken pie among
them: but best of all and can we
trust mtr le. lings to mention themV-
vetniine pumpkin pies baked in squan
fins having oti!j four corner pieces tc
I .\s the evening shadows fall
l erc is a grand assembly about the
ii'eplaee How merrily the corn spilt
t. rs in the popper! How familiar th"
mm! of tii • nuts cracked on the
‘ eartl.ston •' What apples and compe
titions in paring (hem without a break
n lie- goal -n shavnnV! 'I he eider flows
from tlie great earthenware pitcher--it
never became old in those days "
i THE TURK’S SOLILOQUY.
Whin »li«* buckle*.* iiir.l Tiiir:l.» ««f
tin- V1111 in’.I liilliuK Carnival.
Th s , imuksgiviug business! It i takes
nc* wish 1 hud never been hatch
ed. 1 wonder who started it. any
wayV And how in common scum- did
turk ys get into it? In my mind
Thanksgiving means giving thanks for
something, and what thanks nr re
in eating turkey? 1 suppose the peo
ple who started it must have declared
that henceforth once a year every be ' r
shall assemble ami eat turkey until
they can eat no more. That’s what they
do. for I saw our folks last year II \v
happy our race would he if we didn't
have to be thinking of tbe time when
we should be killed and stripped of our
feathers. Ugh! W hat a ghastly sight
a roast turkey isl^
This business must be stopped. I
declare it must. I have an idea too
I’ll tell my children to Instruct all tur
keys from henceforth to lay away all
the corn they can in the summer and
as soon as the frost comes to go under
the ground and stay until the ground
hog comes out. ’Twill be hard living.
I know, but any kind of living is better
than dying. If I were as spry as I used
to be. they’d not catch me today. Don't
l remember how 1 fooled them last
year. 1 just waited until they thought
they had me, and then, whiff, I was in
a tree! They did chase me from tree to
shed, to barn, to the woods, and there
I stayed for three days. I’ve a notion
to go to the woods now, although my
limbs are stiff, and I know I’ll catch
cold, but—gobble, gobble, gobble! Here
is Marthy.—Gertrude Jefferson in How
ard Spectator.
FEASTING AND FASTING.
t*roapt*ruuv Auicricn tin Dm iv thi*
bine Ht KeepiiilK l-'n*« l»-«.v.
The changing attitude of the Amer
ican is shown in iii< increasing will
Ingness to have Thanksgiving con—
around every fc\s weeks and hi- r-
luctauee to have a last day. I p in
New England even, where fast day
was as regular as feed day. it been me
in the last few years an oceasion for
military reviews and firemen's parades
and picnics and doings like that rather
than for prayer and mortiliciition of
the flesh and the devil. It's a long
time since the church bells have rung
tbe people together to stisiain one an
other through a day of short rations.
Why. do you know, there are Amer
icans who can cat at Dclmotiico's ev
ery day in the year except Sunday and
have turkey at evert me. I! •' • . ■ 1 e
our i-oiiditioii. thru. \\ it : :l a <
Frenchman who breakfasts on water
and wine and bread, has a turnip for
lunch and bouillabuise or Some snob
mess for dinner, or with the Scotch
man existing on oatmeal, whisky,
onions and pipes, or with the poor Eng
lishman. who finds nothing on his ta
ble but Montana beef, Canada mutton.
Massachusetts plum pudding, Califor
nia oranges, Connecticut tobacco and
Michigan celery, or the sad German,
who must sit down to Philadelphia
sauerkraut, Hoboken frankfurters,
Brooklyn beer and bretzels made of
Minnesota flour.
And so, comparing our lot with a lot
of other people’s lots, we take pride to
ourselves and satisfaction and eat our
annual bird with a light heart and a
gravid stomach and are at peace with
all the world, for we are feeding a
good deal of that world as well as our
selves and therefore ought to have its
friendship and its money, if there is
any money left outside of the United
States.—Brooklyn Eagle.
No business can possibly be
successful that is tiot adver
tised.
This is a sweeping statement,
but it is true. There are some
merchants in this community
whose experience apparently
contradicts the statement.
The contradiction, however,
is only apparent. If they have
attained any degree of success
they have advertised. They have
let people know what they had to
sell, what they were here for and
what they proposed to do. Just
in proportion to the thorough
ness with which they done
this and met the conditions of
their competitors they have suc
ceeded.
If they have used the newspa
pers they have worked with the
best tools so far as getting pub
licity is concerned. If they have
worked without the newspapers
they have been handicapped and
have not attained the highest
possible measure of success.
A fertile seed planted in fertile
ground, carefully watered, will thrive
and bear fruit.
A properly organized business,
in any inhabited place, well advertised
will succeed. The law of
growth is as certain and inexorable in
one case as the other.
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Thankafrlvine Decoration*.
If one ba« access to country flelds In
November tbe glowing red berries and
vines and branches of gorgeous hues
that may then be bad offer most artis
tic material for Thanksgiving decora
tion. The downy thistle balls picked
at the right time are effective mixed
with autumn vines and berries.
It should not be forgotten that au
tumn leaves may be gathered at the
moment of their greatest beauty In
late October or t early November and
beautifully preserved by being dipped
lightly In a weak gum arable water.
When dry they should be kept in boxes,
carefully and lightly packed, ns the
treatment makes them very brittle.
By this method, however, their colors
are preserved, and they may be used
repeatedly.—11 a rper’s B11 zn r.
A Figc-un Fie For ThnukaBlrlnc-
Pluck and dress six pigeons, split
them In halves down the breast and
back. Put some small disks of salt
pork in a largo saucepan over the fire.
When fried crisp remove the pork and
put In a large onion, cut in thin slices,
and let them fry a nice brown in the
fat. Then put in the pigeons and let
them brown on both sides; add a little
butter. After the birds are well
browned pour in enough water to cov
er them to half their depth, season
well with salt and pepper and let them
simmer gently till quite tender; then
add half a pint of cream, and when It
bubbles add two tablespoonfuls of flour
well dissolved in half a pint of cream.
Stir it briskly to keep from lumping.
Next take out the pigeons, lay them
nicely in n deep baking dish, pour tbe
gravy over them; make a rich pie crust,
roll It out. lay It over the birds, mois
ten the edge of the dish so the crust
adheres, cut a few little gashes in the
crust, stand the dish in a moderate
oven and let the pie bake tbree-quar
ters of an hour. Cover the top with
buttered paper to keep it from burn
ing too fast.
Tbiinksuti luu In Furtu Klco.
In Porto Rico Thanksgiving day. or
“Dia de Gracias," as it is there termed.
Is honored by the v losing of govern
ment offices and appropriately ob
served. The stores are open on half
time only, the plantation works are
Idle and the people of town and coun
try seize the occasion for tin inter
change of visits. As an excuse for
idleness merely the Porto Rican labor
er halls the “Dia de Graeias” with joy
and promises himself indulgence In a
“danzn” or perchance a surreptitious
cockfight. The liu!k of the population
lias been convinced that Thanksgiving
Is a day to be celebrated with almost
ns much gusto ns the “Cuatro de Ju
lio," or glorious Fourth, and even with
out the mental reservation many were
accustomed to make at the commemo
ration of our republic’s natal day. no
official affirmation being needed as to
Its right to “follow the flag.’’—New
York Post>
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I v at Its expiration. 80 watch your label and
ihn date and renew before ‘tls too late.
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