The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 05, 1904, Image 2
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who make up The Led-
AMONG OURSELVES.
rUESDAY AND FRIDAY.
BY
Ed. H. DkCaMP.
The Charlotte Observer recently
! published a statenoentaSito its average
circulation for 1903, which was
The Ledger ib not responsible for 1 nearly 6 000 for the daily and over
What will the next legislature do
with the lieu law and the "yaller”
dog?—Orangeburg Patriot.
That (l»t<l MInn SrhiMn*.
(.Gastonia Gazette ]
The engagement of li-v. W. P.
Fife in the business of booming stock
in a far off gold mine in California re
calls the witty renuarK of Jerome
Dowd ten yesrs ago, that nobody
tt>« views of correspondents.
Correspondents who do not contri
bute regular nows letters must fur
nish their name, not for publication,
bat for identification.
Write short letters and to the point j
to insun publication ; also endeavor
to get them to the office by Monday 1
Mr. Bryan was not received by the
kaiser, although his majesty must , , x . , ,
have known that he would not have I seem ^ to ^ ^ak.ng any money ex
to do all the talking—Columbia i ce ^ 1 t ^ ie P euit,, ntiary and the evange
State.
8,000 for the semi weekly edition,
and the Observer richly deserves its
splendid subscription list for it is the
best paper between Washington and
Atlanta. We wonder what the for-j i 8 drawing near, the necessity for
mer proprietor of that paper, Mr. South Oaro.ina to have an exhibit is may be allayed, word
Chas R. Jones, would say were be more keenly felt than ever. ^ liro fi ni1 i 8 gent out with evidently pleasurable
the woedertul I' i P“ rU "
lists—a saying that was striking be-
cause it was so true. How matters
. have since changed! The penitenti-
Now that the big show in bt. Loni* ^ y n0 | 0D g er makes 0 rnonev, and that
is drawing near, the necessity for | the public . 8 mi8Kivmg8 it be los-
and Thursday tnornings. f 0 d a? to see. the wonderful ^ npari!in ‘ ! satisfaction that the penitentiary is
Obituaries will be published at five | ““ve today to 8ee “ j I self-supporting. Evangelism was a
cents a line. I g r o wlh of the P a P er ho loved 80 wellr Wonder if Mrs. Dan Russell will be fad. It seemed to be a money-mak
Reading notices will be published ♦♦♦♦ known as the “cussin’ postmaster of ! mg fad. But it has passed How
at ten oents a line each insertion. ! The Gastonia Gazette rfcently in* | Wilmineton.” as her husband was many of
Star Theatre
THURS.
J A N Y.
The Funniest Show on Earth
RAILROAD
JACK!
Comedy Drama in Four Acts.
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BOOKS
All correspondence should be ad
dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager.
The Gastonia Gazette recently in- j Wilmington,” as her husband was
dulged in some very sensible remarks ! known as the ’‘cussin’ governor of
(which, by tho way is nothing ,mu-! North Carolina.”—liastonia Nows.
We invariably discontinue Bn ’* 1 ' or eh,t bri 8 ht P ,iper i ) “ ne “ t ' hr
sending The Ledger when a l ' Ichln s e 0 ' 0 ' ,urtMi0s ,n by
subscription runs out, tor we
have no way of knowing that
a person wants it except by
receiving his or her renewal.
We urgently solicit a prompt
renewal, on the ground that
the paper is worth the money.
We are trying month by
month to make it better and
better.
the press, and now comes the Char
lotte Observer with a lot of good
horse talk on the same subject. The
Gazette proposes to prune its ex
change list while the Observer de
clares that all its exchanges are more
or less valuable, and that it is a
pleasure for it to exchange with the
weekly and semi-weekly papers. We
want to give the Gazette notice right
now, to the effect that it had better
not “prund” us if it doesn’t care to
mistakes bave a row ’ ttnd a8 t0 the Observer,
Mistakes are the commonest things and the other daily papers that deign
in this world. There was a time | to compliment The Ledger by ex-
when we were under the impression changing with it, we wish to say that
that we were infallable, but maturer I It is duly appreciated at this end of
years have caused us to wonder how
in the world we made as many as we
did withont discovering more of them,
It is only a few days until the
legislature convenes and those who
are prophesying what it will do and
those who are prophesying that it will
not do anything are very
Newberry Herald and News.
those professional evangel
ists could not draw a crowd, iet alone
make money out of it? Tney did
some good very probably; but it
seems that they cannot succeed at it
any longer. Let us hope that the
hard lines upon which the penitenti
ary and the tvaugelists^have fallen
busy — mean that the good, safe, solid and
I reasonably pious people wbo have
never been overly fond of either may
be having tbeir innings with the horn
of plenty.
22-PEOPLE IN THE (ftST~22
« re re
THE FUNNY TRAMP, THE EXPLO
SION OF DAWSON SWITCH, THE
CIRCUS TRAIN, THE TORNADO
SCENE.
12 — Big Specialties — 12
and now the discovery of oar mis
takes has become so common that
to discover one no longer astonishes
us. We try to profit by the discovery
of oar mistakes and not repeat them,
but no sooner do we begin to feel
easy than the disease breaks out in a
new place. These mistakes are an
unending source of anoyance.
And a twin brother to mistake is
misunderstanding. Oh, bow we have
been misunderstood and misappre
hended! If we know onr heart our
purpose in life has been to be of
benefit to mankind. We have labor
ed, and, thank God, not in vain, for
the line. Why, if it were not for our
exchanges we would be like a ship in
mid ocean without a rudder. May
peace, plenty and prosperity be their
portion during 1904.
The ‘‘industrially educated” negro
is yet destintd to be a blessing, if in
disguise, to the South. He has been
‘ industriously educated” and he in
dustriously avoids work, and his ab
senco from the cotton patch has so
decreased the cotton crop as to ad
vance the price to 12£ cents a pound
and still higher later.—Lancaster
Enterprise.
John G. Capers says that he was
not at the Hanna banquet, and con
sequently did not eat with the negro ,v, u>.au,c? vk* oaj , auu i tt^ ttei CTTT T \7TCW7
Lyons. What SouthCarolinians,among if it is found that it was the work of L''-'Dili UN FULL VIllW
whom he was bom and reared, want some malicious person, the offender
to know is whether he would have sat should be held to a strict account
at table with a negro. His views j The Ledger says that there has only
on social equality will fix his social I been one case in the city, and the
people are in no way alamud
A full line of Ledgers,
Day Books, Receipt
Books, Blotters and Tab
lets always on hand.
Also a big assortment
| of Stationery and Writ-
| ting Materials.
I
Calculated to Harm.
[Greenville Daily News.]
The GaffneyLedger makes a most it>
dignant, yet a most righteous protest
against th ) reports which have been
spread to the effect that there is an
epidemic of smallpox in that com
munity. Such rumors are calculated
to do harm. Why tney are sent out
broadcast, we are unable to say. and
and Frederick Streets.
Attraction Extraordinary!!
..DUKE..
The Largest Lion on Earth
A young lady actually thrown
into his cage and rescued from
under his very paws by the tramp.
Limestone
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status in
knows it.
South Carolina, ar.d
-Bamberg Herald.
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If we were capable of impressing
upon the people any one thing above
another we should endeavor to im
press upon the renting class the great
advantage of owning property. The
renter pays out enough money in
from four to eight years to pay for
his bouse and lot or his farm, and in
the end has nothing to show for bis
labor, whereas if he were to buy on
the easy payment plan be would even
tually |become a freeholder. This
would in truth make a better citizen
of him. We do not mean to say that
what wo believed at all times to be
the best interest of the people of j a rsQter is not a good citizen, but we
do say that any good citizen who is a
Local Cotton Marxet.
The following prices prevail on the
Gaffney market today:
Good’ middling 12.50
Middling 12.374
this section. Borne people have
thought our purpose a selfish one,
ani some have even said that We
never undertook auythig except for
onr own personal aggrandizement.
Like all other men we have ambition.
We lore to be petted aod pr.iaed when | thl3 w ay^ou *m become » property
we do anything that is worthy of it.
Bat we have never ‘■ought cheap notor
iety, or political uuuoror preferment.
We have had high ideals of govern- <
ment and high ideals of how the
renter would be a better citizen were
be a freeholder. By all means, rent
ers, buy and become owners. The
task may seem herculean but you
will become used to the burden and in
owner, whereas, if you proceed along
! the same lines that you have been ac-
i customed to you will never amount to
what you should or would were you a
property owner.
An Explanation.
The Second Methodist church, lo
cated on Limestone street, is no
longer a part of the Gaffney circuit
but was made a station by the con- —Nature’s Cough Remedy—the i
fertuce at Greenville in Dec. last. : cou « h medi « ine made b y'I'he
By special appointment by Bishop A. Grog Co. is still curing coughs all
Coke Smith. I was assigned to this over Cherokee Co. It is guaranteed, :
charge for the current year. The y° u know,
location and conveniences of this -
church are known to all. There will '
be services at 11 a. m., and 7 p. m.,
the fourth Sunday,11 a. in., excepted,
when I will preach at Btnlah
church. The usual Sunday school
and prayeroneeting service will be
held. To all of these services the
public is cordially invited.
J. N. Isom, P. C.
Jan. 4, ’04.
OF THE AUDIENCE.
Lion on Exhibition Day of Show.
Price 25c, 50c and 75c.
Seats on sale at Cherokee Drug Co.
Watches,
on hand.
officers to carry on a government
should be chosen. We confess that
the present method of selecting
officers does not meet with our ideal.
We don’t say it is wrong', because we
believe in the idea of the office seek
ing the man and not the man seeking
the office. Under onr present system
it seems impossible for it to be other
wise than the man seeking the office.
We do not belive in bossism in poli
tics. The office belongs to the people
and not to the office-holder. It is
disgusting to see how some people
‘‘button hole” and palaver when
they are seeking a political job. The
same man under ordinary conditions
wouldn’t notice the majority of the
people he seeks to influence by his
snave manners while seeking office.
We have digressed somewhat from
what we started out to write, but we
trust these few rambling truths have
not been written amiss. We were
talking about mistake!—mistakes of
the head and mistakes of the hand—
and not mistakes of the politician or
of the party. The subject was sug
gested by the num rous mistakes we
make in our business in this office.
We dislike to make them, but we
can’t, to save our life, avoid them,
and the next best thing we can do is
to try to correct them. This we do
free.’y and willingly, but there are so
many people who cannot give one
credit for making an error, especially
if that error be against them. They
are prone to think that it was a pre-
To Encourage the Cultivation of CereaU.
On the 15th day of next November
The Ledger will give one ton of the
best grade of commercial fertilizer
for wheat to the farmer in Cherokee
county, a subscriber to The Ledger,
who this year raises the greatest num
ber of bushels of corn on one acre of
upland in this county. The contest to
be decided on or before the 10th'of
November by three disinterested men
to be selected, one by The Ledger
and two by the contestants.
After the contest is decided and
the fertilizer is paid we will want
each contestant to furnish The Led
ger with bis mode of preparation of
soil, planting and cultivation of bis
acre of corn, so it can publish each
one’s methods for the benefit of the
farmers of Cherokee county.
It is a condition of this contest
j that each contestant notify The Led
ger of his intention to contest for
this prize by May 1st, 1904
Ed. H. DbOamp.
BIJOU THEATRE,
Blacksburg, S. C.
Friday, January 8th.
BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES
LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS,
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS,
FLOORING, SIDING,
CEILING, MOULDING.
ALSO A FINE LINE OF
Paints and Oils
The Funniest Show on Earth
Railroad Jack
Comedy Drama in Four Acts.
A Wonderful Saving.
The largest Methodist Church in
Georgia, calculated to use over one
hundred gallons of the usual kind of
mixed paint in painting tbeir church.
They used only 32 gallons of the
Longman & Martinez Paint mixed
with 24 gallons of linseed oil. Actual
cost of paint made was than $1.20 per
gallon.
Saved over eighty ($80 00) dollars t ^
in paint, aod got a big donation be- ^ “ irCOpiC III tnC Last — 2/
8 id 68. •
EVERY CHURCH will be given a
liberal quantity whenever they paint. see:
Many houses are well painted with
four pallons of L. <fc M. and three ^^13 H NN\ 1RAMP, I HP, EXPLO-
gallons of linseed oil|mixed therewith. SIGN Oh DAWSON SWITCH, THE
Wears and covers like gold. CIRCUS TRAIN, THE TORNADO
These Celebrated Paints are sold by ! SCENE.
Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney;)
Blacksburg Drug Co
50c to |1.30 per gal.
—For stationary
ney Drug Co.
., Blacksburg
go to The Gaff-
12- BIG SPECIALTIES -12
We discontinue each subscription prompt
ly at Its expiration. So watch your label and
the date and renew before ’tls too ;ate.
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
! Jefferies. Attorney at Law.
! -lyr
Final Discharge.
It Will Certainly Have Its KfTect.
(Edgefield Advertiser.!
The mismanagement and the bad
financiering of all the Whaley mills | I q 0 ^ > a t n o’clock a. m., for final settle]
in Columbia will to a limited extent ment and discharge as guardian of the
njure the credit of every cotton mill estate of Fannie L. Corry, minor, but
Notice is hereby given that I will apply
to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for
Cherokee County, S. C.,at his office at
the court house on Tuesday, Jan. 25th,
Price 25c, 50c and 75c.
Tax Notice.
December 31st is the last day taxes are
payable without penalty. During Janu- j
ary the penalty is 1 per cent.; during
P'ebi uary the penalty is 2 per cent.; dur- j
ing March (to 15th, last day) the penalty
is 5 per cent. This schedule prescribed 1
; by law.
W. Harry Gooding,
County Treasurer.
Watches!
Poor repair work wall injure your deli
cate watch. WESTROPc takes care of
the mechanism so that it will do reliable
work. WESTROPE don’t do cheap
work.'but the work he does gives him the
reputation for being skillful. WEST-
ROPE wants to put your timepiece in
good order for you.
Nice Line of Jewelry,
Rings and Chinaware always
Thos. H. Westrope.
FOR. SALE
Fine thoroughbred pedigreed pigs; stock
bogs for service. 1-5-im.
mhhm L. BAKER D. L. Splawn, Gaffney, S. C
in the South. ‘ It is certain to have u
deterrent effect upon the flow of east
ern capital southward for the pur
poses of industrial development
Away with anything that even savors
of ‘‘wild cat” cotton mill building.
A Card.
Many thanks to our friends who on
oar arrival at the parsonage furnished
as with refreshments, and wbo were
tireless in helping to furnish the par
sonage, and who have shown us other
tokens of kindness. May the Lord
now of age.
J. Kh JKPVKRIKS,
Guardian.
Published in Gaffney Ledger Dec. 29th,
Jan. 5th, 12th and 19th.
Bank Statement.
Statement of the condition of the Merchants
& Planters Hank, of Gaffney. S. O.. at the
close of business. Dec. .list. 1W3.
HBSOCltCXS.
Loans and discounts $105,005 33
Overdrafts None
make the recipients of these blessings : Furniture and fixtures nir> m
conceived plan to do them an lojus- j abundantly helpful to this people. c^Vand (’ashVtems
J. N. Isom, P. C. stocks ’30sso
Janaary 4,1904
tice. We endeavor to correct every
error we make, bat it shoald be re
membered that we cannot correct
errors unless we are apprised of
them. Therefore we trust that those
wbo have business relations with us
will not hesitate to inform os of any
error of which we may be guilty.
MOTKH AND GOMMKNTH.
U lleauty Only Skin Deep'.’ liauii.ities.
Beauty is only ikin deep, but the Hurpoti stook * r 5 000 no
forces that create bei.u?j art-as deep Undivided profits’... ;. ii.se as
as the fountain from wbicb inev flow. Dividend No. 5, Payable Jan. Ist.lMM 3.000 00 1
When the Blond is charged with im Deposits. (Individuals).. $154,30151 j
Due hanks 7,DM «s 101,405 19
In a private letter to a warm friend
in this city, Mr. I. Peeler, of Center,
Miss, writes: ‘T receive the Gaff
ney Ledger regularly. I am much
pleased with It—decidedly the best
local county paper I peruse.” All
of which is gratifying to the bright
purities Beautv dissf pears whop the
blood is pur*- Beauty hlossums in fare
and form Rvdahs Liver Tabb ts krt p Htatf. of Sooth uabolika, i
the Liver healthy aid the Bowels
regular, prevent the blood becoming
ladened •*ith hile and waste matter,
make the sku; clear, eyes bright and
Beauty more ttiaQ skin deep. Gaff
ney Drug Go
$•55,997 51
I. C. M Smith, cashier of the above namod
hank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement Is true to the best of my knowl
edge and belief.
Sworn to before me.
Jan.. 1904.
(:. M. Smith,
< insider.
this the 1st day of
—All oongh medicines will not lock
•like to you after you have taken Na
ture’s Cough Remedy It Is better.
Guaranteed by The Gaffney Drug Co.
Correct Attest
11. K. OsnoKNK.
Notary Public.
W. c. Hamrick,
A. N. Wood,
K. M. Wilkins,
Directors.
Proud
Reputation
as the “old reliable"
drug store of Gaffney,
as one of our many pat
rons puts it, and we are
daily living up to that
reputation. Are we fill
ing your prescriptions ?
If not, why not ?
S.B. Crawley & Co.
813 Limestone St.
Drugs, Perfumes and Stationery
Prescriptions Properly Filled
and Promptly Delivered
Big Values in Real Estate.
Improved Farms in Gberokee For Sale
One contains 126 acres, bottoms and upland,
with three (3) good dwelling houses of two,
three and seven rooms each, barns, stables
and outhouses, and a fine orchard.!
The other contains 140 acres, well improved
in every way, and situated in desirable sec
tion of the county.
For full information, terms, ;&c., apply to
HALL & WILLIS, Attorneys
Gaffney, South Carolina.
And Still They Come.
The bargains referred to last week have been arriving almost daily, “and still
they come.” There’s no end to the good values I have for my friends and cus
tomers Uks time.
My line of Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ Clothing is unsurpassed, both in quality
and price.
Men’s Suits from $5.00 to #15.00
Youths’ Suits from $2.00 to #8.00
Boys’ Suits from 75c to #4.00
Shoes and Hats to fit and please all.
Dress Goods in Flannels, Zibelins, Shark Skin and Jother styles, 25c and up.
Fleeced Waitings and Tricot Flannels, at 25c per yard.
Red, White and Blue Flannels 4 to 15c per yard.
Ladies’ Skirts from #1.00 to #5.00.
Jackets $1.00 and up.
Quilts from 75c,to #1.50 each.
Blankets from 75c to #5.00 per pair. •
Lap Robes from #1.50 to #6.00 each.
Horse Blankets #1.00 to #2.50 each.
Biggest line of Trunks, Dress-suit Cases, Telescopes and Satchels to be found ia
! the city and the prices are as low as the lowest.
For a few days only I will offer my entire stock of Buggies at cost to close out.
If in need of a Stylish Rig now is the time and this is the place to get it at
bargain.
I am also prepared to give you a bargain in Harness and all other leather goods.
Disc Harrows to prepare your land for grain. '
Bagging and Ties as low as can be sold anywhere.
Fresh lot Fertilizers for grain at prices that can’t be beat.
My Trunk and Clothing department is on second floor. Come up and take a
look. Yours for trade,
A. R. R. JL T T.
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