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~ - vT»$j > / J l THE '.ARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District, of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger SEMI-WEFKLY—PUBLJSHEIf TUT SEAY AW i ;ITr AT. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. —o—o- A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devotee to the Pest Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY MAKCII 2 , I9L4. $1.00 A year; THROUSHGUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. A shooting affray occurred at La- them. in the lower part of Pickens county. Sunday afternoon. Walter Ellis, white, shot and probably la tally wounded a negro. The negro was disturbing the peace and drew a knife on Mr. Ellis. The Governor Saturday, upon the recommendation, pardoned “^t of Spartanburg, convicted of larceny of live stock and sentenced to one vear The negro is seventy years old, and the solicitor thought that he had been punished enough. The warehouses ami their contents belonging to A. Wtchman & Co of Walterboro, were burned Wednesday night At 10 o’clock a severe rain and thunder storm raged and their warehouses were struck by lightning, which set them on fire. R. L. R. Bentz, one the leading dry goods merchants of Greenville, an nounced Thursday that he was un able to meet the demands of his cred itors, and had applied to 1 nited States Judge Brawley of Charleston, for an order in bankruptcy. Robert Wilson, colored, was shot and fatally wounded at Lumber, Dar lington county, Friday morning by Robert Register, also colored. Reg ister was arrested by Deputy R.. G. Parnell and lodged In jail at Darling ton. Further than this no particulars have been learned. *The secretary of State Friday char tered the Summerville Hardwood Company, of Summerville capital ized at $5,000. The officers are: R. B. Cuthbert, president, and W. M. Richardson treasurer. The purposes of the concern are to manufacture articles from hard woods. Mr. A. Cass Canfield, a prominent New Yorker wintering at Aiken, died at that place Thursday after an ill ness of only a few days. Mr. Canfidld was taken suddenly ill of stomach trouble on last Friday, but his condi tion was not serious until W r ednes- da^ morning when pneumonia set in aix^his death ensued. Mr. R. M. Bateman, a prominent business man of Spartanburg, died at his residence, 445 North Church street in that city Sunday morning at 2 o’clock after a week’s illness. He succumbed to a violent atack of pneumonia. His widow, three sons and two daughters survive him. Mr. Bateman was a native of Maryland and has resided in Spartanburg for twelve years. The Supreme Court Saturday granted a new trial to James Dennis Edwards, who was sentenced to life Imprisonment from Greenville county for the killing of Frank Neely, three years ago. The attorneys secured the new trial on the ground of error in drawing the juries and the admis sion of certain evidence. The decis ion was handed down by Associate Justice Jones. An accident to one of the engines at the power house of the electric company in Spartanburg Thursday night caused a temporary suspension of street car service. All electric lights in the city were extinguished for about half an hour. The accident was due to the breaking of a piston rod and resulted in material damage to the extent of several hundred dol lars. No one was injured. The news of the arrest of Scipio Jenkins, colored, in Savannah, for the killing of Frank Pinckney, also colored, in the suburbs of Charleston on Sunday the 20th inst., was re ceived there Thursday and an officer left Friday morning to bring the ne gro back to Charleston. The negroes had been gambling when a dispute arose which ended in Jenkins shoot ing Pinckney in the abdomen, caus ing death a short time afterwards. Appropriation has been made by the Beaumont Manufacturing Compa- A NEWSY LETTER FROM ETTA JANE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Teddie:—“Stop your foolishness, Morgan! It’s bound to be.” the attending physician, had Dr. O. B. Mayer, of Newberry, meet him in consultation, and after a conference they decided that an amputation would give no relief. When the mag istrate learned the true state of af fairs. although Yarboro had only a few days ago been released on a $000 bond, steps were at once taken to have him apprehended and early Fri day morning the sheriff put him in jail. Yarboro is a married man, about forty >ears old, and has a large connection in Saluda county. Havird has always had some pecu liarities, but was never regarded as being anything like vicious. He is not quite thirty years of age and has a wife and children. The N. P, I. S. S. Convention. The North Pacolet Interdenomina tional Sunday School Convention met at ElBethel Saturday, March 27. After devotional exercises by the chaplain, Rev. Simpson Blanton, the president, Bro. Strain, took up the business of the convention. The roll of schools was then called. Of the twelve schools four sent in reports. The rest of the schools have not gone out of winter quarters yet. The following were the delegates: Salem—Sam Strain anl Leslie Blackwell. Mt. Moriah—Wallace Foster, Roy Sparks and John R. Jefferies. ElBethel—E. G. McCulloch, Z. R. Phillips, M. Becknell and Mrs. E. G. McCulloch. The first query was then taken up and discussed. A general conference of Sunday school work was then taken up. Bro. Strain and Bro. Wm. Jefferies made talks. Next query, “What has the spirit of commercialism and socialism done for the church and what are they likely to do?” was discussed by Bro. Strain, Bro. Littlejohn and Bro. Mm. Jefferies. Next query, “‘Does the exclusive use of the lesson hielps assist or hin der in the intelligent study of the scripture?” was discussed by Bro. J A. Hamer, Bro. Strain and Bro. Whis- nant. Next query, “Does the cause of temperance impress its importance on the average church member?” was discussed by Bro. Wm. Jefferies and Bro. T. M. Littlejohn. Miscellaneous—The time and place of next meeting was then discussed. Gethsemane was chosen as the next pliice of meeting. Two delegates were then elected to attend the State con- THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. H. E. Jefferies, Secretary. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in the ny to make an enlargement of their mill in Spartanburg to more than vention—T. M. Littlejohn and J. L. twice its present size, and only cer- Strain—with C. W. Whisonant and tain conditions remain to be met to p. s. Webber as alternates, assure the enterprise to Spartanburg. The company desires to erect the mill adjoining its present plant within the ‘i/'Jty -limits, provided an exemption ' from taxation can be secured for a reasonable term of years. The cham- Gaffney postoffice for week ending her of commerce lias endorsed the Marcli 28th. 1904. Please call for proposition of the Beaumont people. “Advertised” letters. Arrangements have been made for _ Mrs. lylm r Damms, Miss Sarah the reception, care and entertainment [* auren T ; ' 1|KS Pearle fernandefl, Miss •of the old soldiers on the occasion of ^ r ; ^J ss Velio Jones, Miss their annual reunion in Charleston Littlejohn, Miss Hardenia next month. A meeting of the com- Simpson, Miss Lizzie Smith, Miss mittee, which invited the veterans at Mayre Young, Bud fowler,- Frank the Columbia reunion last year to go to Charleston, has been held and the committee organized for the ac tive work of co-operation with com mittees of the camps of veterans which will have control of the reun ion. Charleston intends to make the Mabry, tom Pyatt, Rev. G. W. Young. G. E. Wlnten. One cent due on each of above. A. It. N. Folger, P. M. Rheumatism. Sore Muscles or painful Joints, may stay of the old soldiers in Charleston “m" ai riSi nK x, atta , C ^°!l rh Z' very pleasant and arrangements are ,, , ' t ri ! * l | i, i 8 B t. Aoedliiir on this line Liniment, rubbed on the affected pi .•«euing on this nne. parts will relieve the pain and sore- It is reported that Pope B. Havird, ness, and prevent rheumatism. El- of Saluda, who wis shot a week ago Mott’s Emulsified Liniment for all by John Yarboro, cannot possibly soreness, stiffness and lameness of live, blood poison having set up in Joints or muscles, the wounded arm Dr. J. J. Kirksey, Gaffney Drug Co. Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers The postoffice authorities report that W. J. Terry, ex-postmaster at Roberdell, is held by the United States commissioner on charge of trafficking in postage stamps and making false returns. Lee Stirwalt, a young man of Ca barrus county, who almost shot his j arm off a few days ago, died Thurs day night. Drs. Young and Rogers amputated the arm but the injury was too great to effect a recovery. Tom Heatherington, nearly 80 years old, is confined in jail at Co lumbus charged with unlawful co habitation. The alleged crime will be ventilated in the approaching term of court, which convenes there next week, witli Judge Shaw on the bench. Several days ago an electric light wire was broken in Newbern by a team passing through the city. The wire was left hanging to the pole and Friday night at 8:30 a young colored man by the name of Boss Cobb lean ed against the pole, when he came in contact with the wire, killing him instantly. Quince Mitchehll, of Alexander county, died in North Wilkesboro Wednesday evening. He leaves a wife and famhy of children to mourn his loss. He was in F. D. Forester & Co.’s store at that place about one hour before he died in his wagon. There was a coffee pot of liquor found in the wagon where the dead man lay. Edwards P. Bailey, a leading citi zen and for a quarter of a century president of the Wilmington Iron Works, in Wilmington, died Thurs day night at 8 o’clock after a brief illness with congestion of the brain, lie was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pyth ias, Elks and other orders. He served the city one term as an alderman and has occupied other public positions. He leaves a wife and two children, E. P. Bailey, Jr., a cadet at the A. and M. College in Raleigh, and Miss Virginia Bailey. The State charters the Hudson Cotton Manufacturing Company, at Hudson, Caldwell county, to spin and weave, capital stock $80,000, with leave to increase to $125,000, J. J. Moore, of Gastonia, J. L. Nelson, of Lenoir, and Charles J. Reid & Co., of Philadelphia, being the largest stockholders; also the Purity Ice Company, of Elizabeth City, capital stork $100,000; W. T. Old and others stockholders; also the Gate City Ice Company, at Greensboro, capital stock $50,000, J. R. Barnell and oth ers stockholders. The officials of the Southern Rail way are making extensive prepara tions to present their side of the question at the union depot hearing to be held before the Corporation Commission In Charlotto today (Tuesday). Mr. J. S. B. Thompson the general agent of the Southern has been in Charlotte for the past few days conferring with leading business men and other railroad of ficials, and lie appears to feel sat isfied that he and his associates will be able to make a good showing for their side at the hearing. Philip S. Henry, the wealthy New ZealanUr who recently purchased the Hazzard place on Beaucatcher mountain, and the O. D. Revell place known as “Zelandia,” near Ashe ville, Wednesday through his attor neys applied to Judge Long for an. injunction against the city of Ashe ville and the Warren Brothers’ Bitu- lithic Paving Company, restraining the paving company from doing any more blasting at the city’s quarry, on the side of the mountain east of the city and close to Mr. Henry’s property. Judge Long granted a tem porary injunction, and the notices were served on Mayor C. T. Rawls and the Warren Brothers’ Company by Sheriff Reed. The incorporators of the Atha Chair Company, a corporation re cently formed and which bought the plant of the Key Furniture Company, at Statesville, met in the bank build ing at that place Friday night and or ganized. Messrs. H. C. Cowles, W. A. Thomas, J. B. Shelton, Geo, H. Brown, A. P. Barron, C. M. Steel, H. C. Wilson, L. C. Wagner, W. T. Kin caid and F. A. Sherill were elected directors. The directors elected W. A. Thompson president; H. C. Cowles vice-president, and J. G. Shelton sec retary and treasurer. The officers of the new company, except the direc tors, are the same as those of the Statesville Furniture Company. Mr. Jesse L. Kennedy, a prominent citizen of Lenoir county, while testifying on the witness stand in Kinston Thursday in his own behalf, fell from the chair and died in five minutes. Mr. Kennedy was being tried for shooting and disabling for life Mr. Ed. Hughes, of La Grange, who was attending court there about a year ago. The last words uttered before it was noticed he was weaken ing were that Hughes walked up be hind him with a knife and struck at him; then he (Kennedy) drew his pistol to protect himself. Hughes made another pass at him, and the shot was fired. The judge ordorod the jury withdrawn, and court ad journed for the day. K. S. Finch arrived in Raleigh Fri day morning from New York to an swer to the charge of conspiracy against the State in securing the re ceivership of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, jointly with V. E. McBee, who is now under bail. Finch’s lawyers, W. C. Maxwell and W. S. O’B Robinson, said he had no statement to make, as he came there under charges as a prisoner. Infor mation secured led to the belief that Carl Duncan, a large private stock holder of the Atlantic & North Caro lina road, had paid $2,250 to Ed. Chambers Smith, from whom Finch bought the stock of that road, to bring the suit, but Finch’s attorneys say the money came from Greenville, S. C., to W, H. Day, one of Finch’s attorneys, who gave it to John W. Hinsdale, another of his attorneys, who paid it to Smith. The fast vestibuled train on the Seaboard Air Lino, No. 31. known as tin* Florida Limited, ran into an open switch at Henderson Thursday morn ing and was badly wrecked. Notone of the fifteen passengers on board suffered injury. Engineer Tucker, who stuck to his engine, was fatally injured, both legs and both arms be ing crushed. Other members of the train crew are reported to have sus tained injuries. Conductor Westly was unhurt. The Florida Limited is due to pass Henderson shortly af ter midnight, hut does not stop there, j The train entered the town at high i speed and plunged into the open switch, colliding with a shifting en gine which was standing on a side-! track attached to a Durham & North ern freight. The wreck caught fire from the overturned stoves and two j Pullman sleepers and two box cars | were burned. Three box cars were! smashed into splinters and the two locomotives were entirely wrecked. Blacksburg Budget. Blacksburg, March 28.—Mrs. D. D. Gaston and Miss Luna Young spent Friday at Cherokee Falls. Miss Mayme Gaston came over Friday from Spartanburg and re turned to that city Monday. Mr. Charlie Duncan left Sunday night for a trip to Vermont. Miss Nettie Hammersley is visit ing friends at Catawba Junction. Mr. and Mrs. A. M .Bridges and their son Tom are in North Carolina visiting relatives. Messrs. Fred Turner and Julius Weathers were in town Sunday. Mrs. Scott, of Atlanta, Is here visit ing her mother, Mrs. M. E. Deal. Mr. Grover Baber, who has been attending school in Charleston, is at home for awhile. Miss Gertrude Little, of Greenville, stopped over here to visit relatives and friends Friday on her return from Baltimore. Mrs. A. R. Holmes returned here Saturday after an extended visit to relatives in Charleston and Cottage- ville, S. C. Miss Jennie Elliott, of Waco, N. C,. was in town Friday. Miss Beulah Herndon, of near Gro ver, N. C., was in town Friday shop ping. Miss Hope Gibson returned Friday after spending several days with rel atives in Marion, N. C. Messrs. C. A. Stewart and Norman Whisnant left Thursday night for At lanta, Ga. Mrs. Wm* Borders and her daugh ter, Miss Lula, were up to attend the services at the Baptist church yes terday. Mr. A. C. Lee, of this place, went over to Greenville Sunday. Miss Grace Lee left Sunday for a visit to friends in Spencer, N. C. Mrs. George Webb and children spent Saturday night in town and left for their home in Spencer, N. C., Sunday morning. Mr. Ed Smith, of Spencer. N. C., was in town Sunday. Messrs. J. C. Plonk and R. P. Rob- i erts, of Cherokee Falls, spent Sunday in this city. Messrs. Jim Blalock and Max Dun can went to Grover Sunday sporting. E. B Climatic Cures. The influence of climatic conditions in the cure of consumption is very much overdrawn. The poor patient, and the ricli patient, too, can do much better at home by proper attention to food digestion, and a regular use of German Syrup. Free expectoration in the morning is made certain by German syrup, so Is a good night’s rest and the absence of that weakening cough and debilitat ing night sweat. Restless nights and the exhaustion due to coughing, the greatest danger and dread of the consumptive, can be prevented or stopped by taking German Syrup liberally and regu larly. Should you be able to go to a wanner climate, you will find that of the thousands of consumptives there, the few who are benefited and regain strength are those who use German Sryup. Trial bottles, 25c ; regular size, 75c. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D Allison, Cowpens. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop- ular People and Short Items of General Interest. Correspondence of Tne l,edger.i Etta Jane, March 26.—For several days farmers have been hindered with their plowing on account of rain, but they have been building fences, cleaning out ditches and do ing other work necessary on the farm. Mrs. Betsy Hartford, a very old and decript lady of this- neighbor hood, is not getting along very well. She is failing fast in strength and her eyesight has about gone. From what we learn of the school district survey it will take a much larger area than was first mapped out to give the legal number of square miles. It will necessarily call for more than one school building to ac commodate the children, too. We are told that Tom Lanier (one of Lon’s boys) laid a wager with some parties at P. S. Webber & Son’s store at Wilkinsville that he could eat sixteen boxes of potted ham and crackers in proportion. The bet was taken and the potted ham and crackers were purchased and placed before Tom with the under standing that if he ate them all the parties were to pay for the repast, but if he failed to do so he was to pay for them and the bystanders were to eat what was left. T(*in went to work and ate ten boxes of the ham and twenty-five crackers before he stopped. He said he could eat the other six boxes but was afraid they might make him sick. He topped it off with four glasses of cider, and our informant tells us Tom was not the least inconvenienced by the little snack. Tom. however, paid for the outfit and turned the other six boxes over to his friends to finish up. Next week the World’* Interna tional and Interdenominational Sun day School Convention will meet in the city of Jerusalem. That sounds odd to the average newspapar reader. But, nevertheless, it's a redemption of the promise, “Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine in heritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” Yet some people don’t see any good in foreign missions, they say. Mr. Joe Estes is very unwell with a sore leg and foot. He is threat ened with blood poison. We regret to learn that Mr. Or pheus Inman has a very sick child. Messrs. G. A. Byers and C. F. In man are laying off terraces on the Jackson place. Mr. Jeff Estes, of Hopewell, came over to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. M. Estes, one day this week. Mr. Wm. Webber has a very sick child. County Supervisor J. V. Whelchel has been looking after the roads in this section. In some places they need work badly, but they generally are in good condition. At the Hoey ford, on Gilkey creek, there could be great improvement made by causeway ing the road across the swamp or by buying a road bed from Mr. S. M. Littlejohn and turning the road round by the foot of the hill, thus put ting It in good firm land. About half a mile this side of Wilk insville there is 150 or 200 yards of road that needs about three times that number of loads of rock put in it. The mud is very deep and It’s difficult for a team to pull an empty wagon through it at times. Mr. A Frank Smith has In his possession some old Confederate rel ics that would be quite an acquisition to the stacks of mementos In the Limestone museum. The tank of the Wilkinsville oil mill is circular and holds 8,000 gal lons of oil. It is 14 feet deep and lacks 18 inches of being full; what is the diameter of the tank and how much more oil will it take to fill it? Miss Mattie Estes is getting some better and is able to be out again. We regret to hear that Mr. Thomas Scott is very sick at his home at Cannon’s camp ground, in Spartan- burg county. Mrs. F. A. Goforth, his daughter, has been spending much of her time at his bedside. There will be preaching at Salem on the first Sababth in April at 11 o’clock a. m., by Rev. W. H. White. Our nimrod, Levi Wood, colored, caught another otter yesterday out on Thickety creek that weighed 16 pounds. Levi is a Ledger subscriber. J. L. S. THE LADIES favor painting their churches, and therefore we urge ev ery Minister to remember we give a liberal quantity of the Longman & Martinez Paint toward the painting. Wears and covers like gold. Don’t pay $1.50 a gallon for Lin seed Oil (worth 60 cents) which you do when you buy other paints in a can with a paint label on it. 8 & 6 make 14, therefore when you want fourteen gallons of paint, buy only eight of L. & M., and mix six gallons pure Linseed Oil with it, and thus get paint at less than $1.20 per gallon. Many houses are well painted with four galons of L. & M. and three gal lons of Linseed Oil mixed therewith. These celebrated Paints are sold by Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney; Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg. n I