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o—o—o THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLV -VU TC HID TUESDAY ANT' *• r’IW Y. O—0 WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. —o—o—o --o—o- •Niuwiiuc per in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County ti^TAKLlSHKI) 16, 1894 HAKH'X EV, 8. C., FRIDAY. APRIL I. 1904. $1.00 a year; TK30U3H9IIT THE PALMETTO STATE SOUTHERN’S DOUBLE TRACK. Trains Now Making Schedule Time Over 47 Miles of It. The Charlotte News of Tuesday evening says that it learns from a prominent railroad man that trains on the Southern are now making ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING schedule time over forty-seven miles of the double track. A NEWSY LETTER FROM ETTA JANE. EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. The State convention of the Bap- ’ a yTrv" slow speed and i list Young People’s Union to be held nll „ ncp norfh an(1 sout This section of the double track over which trains are running at the usual rate of speed is between Wash ington and Manassas, a distance of thirty-four miles, and between Mid land and Brandy, a distance of four teen miles. During the winter trains running over the double tracks were limited in conse- tist Young People s i nion to ue ueiu nce both north and south bound in Anderson the first week in Apn lra j ns have been most of the time off gives promise of being a much larger sc h e dule. affair than was at first anticipated. Saturday morning an order "was is- plant as soon as the ground and weather will permit. Members of Camp Jefferies U. C. Veterans are sending in their dues and having their names added to the roll for the present fiscal year. So far it’s membership is larger than it has been in some years, yet there are still others in arrears whom we hope MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF to bear from and enroll BOon . THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE road,” regarding which so many sen sations have developed. The commit tee is generally regarded as a very good one. Gray is a prominent law yer; Page president of the Aberdeen Railroad, and Lee is a prominent mer chant. LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest. Correspondence of Tne IjedKer.l Etta Jane, March 30.—A very good congregation met at ElBethel last Sabbath on the occasion of the North Povernor Hevwvd Tuesdav offered sue(1 to trainmen, stating that the pacolet Interdenominational Sunday r whif! of *200 for the arrest and track was in good condition and that School convention, which was a very narties who shot the usual schedule could now be pleasant one. Thesemeetingsareat- from ambush 1 and killed J. W. Meetze, maintained over twenty-seven miles tracting more attention than for- in Lexington <oui!t>, on lebiuar} 19. Tbe j,j ewg * informant also states For some time there has been a Ben Williams, a well-to-do colored that by the last of this week or the disposition on the part of some to man of Anderson county, C4 years of first of next, twenty miles more of change the convention from a quar- age, died Tuesday under distressing the double track will be put into regu- terly to a semi-annual meeting. The circumstances. His daughter, aged lar service over which the regular matter was brought up before the con- 24. had died of consumption. On the schedules will he made. This covers vention last Sabbath, when it was way to the funeral the father drop- the distance between Catletts and promptly voted down and the quarter- ped dead of heart disease. He was Culpeper. | ly meetings overwhelmingly sus- agood old ‘‘slavery time” negro. ..... | tained, as they ought to have been. L/iiTton v^nronicies. On 1 v a fpw 8oVic>ol8 8Pnt written rG- E. M.Gillespie, who lives at the old Clifton. March 24.-Notwithstand- 1K) Vts-most of th?m are yet in win- Speegle place in West End, Green- ing the vast destruction caused by ^ er quarters, but are reorganizing and ville, Monday afternoon accidentally the memorable flood, Clifton is once wil] be heard f rom ] ater on _ Verbal discharged his shot gun. the load more beginning to reai her head however, from most of the tearing the ankle of his two and a among the business centers of indus- sc bools were made. The North Paco- half year old child to shreds and sev-: try. Mill No. 1 is now running in j e ^ Sunday School Convention of eral of the shot taking effect in the full blast, though a scarcity of water Fh^njkee county is now a member hip of Mrs. Gillespie. 3 he child s has been somewhat of a hindrance in Q f state Sunday School Associa- foot had to be amputated. | the way of progress of late. No. 2 an ,j j iai ’ raised its part of the M from accounts, start about April gt a t e f un d an d elected its delegates visited again Monday ]st . No . 3 has be en rebuilt on a new ; to the State Sunday School Associa- We understand that a large congre gation met in the new church at Skull Shoals last Sabbath when the first sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Humphries, pastor. Mrs. Amanda Lee is quite sick. She has something like grip. Last Monday Dock Bridges, our mail carrier, lost his pocket book con taining a small amount of money, but he found it and its contents were all right. Among the list of illustrations in the memorial edition of “Reminis cences of the Civil War.” by Gen. Gordon, which are familiar to many of the old soldiers, are; The battle field of Seven Pines, part of the bat tlefield of Antietam today, Gen’I. Lee and Division Commander D. H. Hill riding along the line during a respite RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. CHEROKEE CLIPPINGS. “Roadster’' Writes of Farmer* and Schools and of Courts, Etc. Cherokee, March 30.—The schools Aiken was night by a bold robber or gang of site> and the house is about finished. tion Bv anot her year, if not before, robbers. No clue has been found to It now stands on one of the highest we wlll be glad to see the county of the rascals. As burglars scooped eminences in its surroundings and Cherokee renresented the town last December and entered wl ll be operated hr electricity Tbe SLSths of the various sub- the residences of W J. Ilatt. F. B. Clifton has good church facilities, jects on the programme were charac- Henderson, L. Bradwell and Mrs^ Ed- but the attendance is usually small, teristic of those who took part in ward King, leaving no clue to their Two de nominations-Methodist and : thein as well as who were identity so did they Monday night Baptist—the former under the pas- otherwise interested. Everybody who and left no trace; only in this in- toral charge of Rev. A. C. Elkin, and pays attention learns something, stance but one place was visited. the latter under that of Rev. T. H. „ on . W m. Jefferies, while speaking, Conntv Suoervisor Miles of Soar- Barison. called attention to that often mis- tanburg Tuesdav inspected and re- The y also have a flourishing school quo ted and misunderstood text of Xd ihJ ^rbri/grover PacoS <* 7 •^olar, under the st . p aul , and sa ld: ' The apostle does river at Pacolet. This bridge is one h a of T huni ce I homson no t say a word about ‘money being of the irost durably built of any in an ,l May , Lan sford. the root of all evil/ but that - the love Spartanburg countv The rock work . The , Pacolet f > f money is the root of all evil and piers were constructed by the , river at thl f Point that has been so (I Timothy 6; 10).”’ county chaingangs under competent l 008 ln contemplation, will in a There is no harm in anyone overseers. The span of the Pacolet day ®. “ore be ready for the use of the making all the money he can honestly bridge is 220 feet in length; it has P u ^ llc - ^ promises to be a safe. : . lld expending it properly. The more 4a double track and two feet walks. It substantial structure. Its cost is b e makes and has. the greater are his ^;ost the county $3,200. said to be $4000. opportunities for doing good. Carne- After a cold and unusually drying and Vanderbilt have expended winter spring has crept Pope B. Havird, the young white man who was shot by John Yar borough. white, a week ago. in Saluda county, is in a serious condition. The right a. m of the w r ounded man, which received a large portion of the shot, •was amputated on Sunday by Dr. O. B. Mayer, of Newberry. Yarborough who had been released from custody on $600 bond, when Havird’s wounds were not considered serious, has been lodged in jail again, to await the re sult of the wounds. The Supreme Court in Columbia has handed down an important decis- er ’ w h° h as been very sick lor sev- ion as to right of cotton mills to is- ei a t , ^ a >’ s ' * s improving slowly, sue checks to their employes for use \Ne learn that Mrs. Polly White, at mill stores in lieu of money The ' s ^° ' ves near Bl a cksburg, is dan- case went from Spartanburg county Kfc> i_b UK ^. , and was a suit against the Spartan following is a list of some of Mills, of Spartanburg, brought by ? ur i nen( i s who have started on their Johnson, Lytle & Co., who held a 3° urue y across the sea of matrimonial upon us: millions for libraries and schools with some sunny days and delightful where the people can get all the ad- showers, that have put new life into vantages of those institutions. It’s almost everything. Farmers have not the legitimate use of money but been pushing farm work “for all it is the selfish, sinful love of it that the worth," gardeners have been following apostle condemns. Carnegie and Van in the train, while fishermen brought ,’erbilt and hundreds of others will up the rear. But at this writing a ; KO down in history as blessings to considerable change is felt, that we the age in which they lived, as well are fearful may prove injurious to as those who follow them. There is the garden growth and peach crop no better community we know of especially. LeRoy. than that at ElBethel. It’s always a Grover Gossip. Grover, March 28.—Mrs. Wm. Fost- llems of Interest Concerning Our are beginning to close in this section m • uu • e* * and our farmers are preparing for a Neighbors in the Old North State laige cotton crop Some a re expect- Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers 8>ct fifteen cents, some ten, and some six. That is the “unknown The Grand Jury of Wake county quantity.” It is owing to what the Superior Court returned a true bill think, as to what the price will be. Wednesday against K. S. Finch and Your humble teacher gave last Fri- V. E. McBee, charging conspiracy 'lay for examination to the pupils of against the State in obtaining a re- the Simpson school. The school was ceivership for McBee for the Atlantic a small one, but those that were ex- & North Carolina Railroad in Febru- amined did well in all of the studies ary. given them. There was but one pu pil whose general average came be- Monday night at 3:30 the handsome ] ow n i ne ty per cent. Master Dobbins mule stables and the residence of the Walker made the best average and keeper, on the Biltmore estate at Miss Nettie Cash came a close sec- Asheville, were destroyed by fire, en- ond- in the battle of Antietam. the Wil-{tailing a loss of $12,000. All the ani- We feel like congratulating the ed- derness near Chancellorsville, a camp mals except one horse and mule were jtor of The Ledger for his editorial on the Pamunky river in Virginia, saved. It is supposed to be the work Q f a f ew we eks ago entitled “Strike intrenchments on Little Round Top ! of an incendiary. at the Root.” I don’t see What will tort G of%urftounfl U C r at A ehartor has he™ granted the Dur- ^"on Tin’! al they are°to (from a war-time photograph), I.ook- ham Union Station Co., capital ( , u ! eourS out mountain, the Wilderness cam- 525,000, the purpose being the erec- I don’t believe there is sented Georgia in the United States senate in 1869. J. L. S. Concord Comments. mi. ii t»i ii uvua. > aj uuuvi ui uimnc wi 111 Editor The Ledger:—Please allow , 0 , ..... , lit Sheriff Roark, of Brunswick, e a little space m your valuable pa- t(j serv ’ e five fo , r for a few dots from Concord sec- sl ht and Sheri ff Lucus, of Beau- caa 1 say mu ' „rt. a negro to serve twenty years ‘ “*• *»* JiSL." me per tion. We now see signs of the coming I f(>r rnurder spring in the poplar and maple un folding their tender leaves, in the number of checks and were refused payment by the mill on the ground that they were issued solely for the convenience of their operatives. George Bond, colored, lies seriously wounded at his home near Pauline in Spartanburg county, as the result of pleasure for us to be with them on such occasions. Two years before the war it was a great social center. People gathered there from all quar ters for miles and miles around. Speaking of them we heard an old citizen and one of the most observant and best informed men in Cherokee county, say that in ElBethel congre gation there were not less than one thousand slaves owned by the mem bers of that church, and they had money and lands and other property in proportion. They were refined, bliss since our last correspondence: Mr. M. H. Bell and Miss Fannie Foster; Mr. D. A. Thompson and Miss Bessie Martin; Mr. T. E. Thompson and Miss Almeda Bettis; Mr. Thus. Vf ‘ a,lh >' and thp most Prosperous peo- Waterxou and Miss Laura Price. " 1o ’ ?1 South. And much of the Who’ll be the next? same ,)lood is there yet. It would be _ Rev. I. T. Newton, of Brevard, fill- a pleasure for us to give the long list a pistol shot inflicted by a negro i ed his appointment as pastor at Mt. names of families and persons who named Henry Sims. Sunday after- Paran church on Saturday and Sun- can remember as belonging to noon Bond and Sims were drinking day the 19th and 20th inst. that^ section in days gone by. and carousing about Pauline. They Rev. W. I). Bostic and wife closed wer e glad to see the genial Ed- became involved in a personal diffi their school at Holly Grove, S. C., ^ r The ledger at ElBethel. who, culty, as the result of which Sims the 25th inst., which has been in ses- b .‘ s * >,J tt.er half and two sweet drew a pistol and shot Bond, and then ^ s i° n for about four months. littlo girls, came down to the conven- made his escape. The ball entered Little Zeke. hope they will attend more the right side of Bond above the hip <J ‘ olir mootings and learn more of and ranged inward, towards the back- t Makes a Clean Sweep. om People, and we insure them a bone. Up to last night Sims was t-till Therms nothing like doing a thing hearty welcome paign, battlefield of Cedar creek, and I tio!1 and ma ntenance of a union de- f aa twelve 8 that ^at on^thaMurvf many others of equal note and impor- P°t in Durham. A. B. Andrews and th at ba , a' 6 doubt fn h?s mind that Unce, including three photographs H, Miller are the principal incor- a „ ' " of Gen. Gordon-one at the age of | Iterators. Stock is to be token later “^d Phillip. we Sam. twenty-two, one taken at the close of , J - V the Southern, Seaboard and Nor- ^ , 0, the war when he was tbirty-three "-'1' & Western ra.lrod companies. ^ ”“ v ° r m 8 « "Lt .onto y-urs old, and one when he repre-! ^ ^ pasqu , )tank county as one politician would have them do. carried to the penitentiary Wednes- ‘ . <>v to . s ’ 1 re > a av ‘ can ta ^ e day M. F. Stancill. a young white man s } df - a case and Put up a who is to serve eighteen months for , OA,Jr ? on especially when betrayal under promise of marriage. . 1< re i, s so mnc h money In it for Shoniff Pr.orL- -if Hninaurlyik t OOk a hlm - ThG m&n that WaS kI1Ied for man- had no mone Y- no Wends, and the ■ .w much for him. I one could have heard Solicitor Henry’s talk and hare any doubt as to how Geo. Brown was A charter has been granted the Au- killed. Now take the case of Geo. plum bushes and peach trees burst- tomatic Paper Hanging Company, of Camp, colored, for burning a house, ing into bloom, ami in the sweet Durham, with a capital stock of $50,- stable and mule. They wanted to songs of the many birds which come j 000, to operate the David McCanless send him to the penitentiary for life with the springtime. patent, McCanless, who is from Ashe- for killing a mule and the men that Rev. E. D. Bullock, our pastor at ville, being the principal stockholder, killed Brown go free to kill another the Second Baptist church, colored, The State also authorizes the Penn- ™ an i f they can find him in the dark, filled his pulpit Sunday and preached slyvania Development Company, of Iy ' ow doesn’t it look t’mt way? a good sermon from Revelations 6:2. i Carthage, Moore county, to increase 1 want to see the ume come when There was a very good attendance. its capital stock to $200,000. our P^Ple will have some backbone Our Sunday school at Bethel is pro- and quit being led about by the nose gressing nicely under the manage- A. W. Atkinson, a highly regarded a * ew politicians. George Camp ment of Brother T. B. Jackson, super- operative at Sherwood’s bobbin fac- ou &ht to have been punished, and will intencN-nt, and the writer, Sisters El- tory, met with a painful accident ,>e because he is a poor man, and the la McCullough and Rena Bridges and j Tuesday morning. He was running man that killed George Brown ought Brother P. Lipscomb as teachers. bolting saw, had his left foot on tbe lo ,>e ’ aud is no doubt surprised him- A good crowd is expected at Bethel log being sawed, and by some means se ^ at not being punished, the first Sunday in April to hear Rev. he made a slip, his foot striking the There are people who think be- C. C. Somerville, D. D., of Charlotte, saw. All of his toes were cut off, cause a ma n is old and fought in the N. C., who has been selected to and his whole foot badly mangled. c * vd | war ’ that ke ought not to be preach the funeral of Rev. H. D. San- He is now at the hospital, where P un ished for anything he might ders. every attention is being given him. I do > , and ^ there is any man that ought We enjoy reading the various cor respondence in The Ledger, espec ially that from the Etta Jane writer. In answer to the question of Mr. John Blackwood, of Gowdeysville, through the Etta Jane writer of March 22nd: The mothers’ children are first cous ins to the two daughters' children, be cause the three fathers were broth ers; and the mothers’ children are also aunts and uncles, if they be boys and girls, of the two daughters’ children, because the old lady is the mother of the two daughters. Wishing The ledger continued success, C. W. Morgan, (Col.) to have good sense and ought to be- Wood & Moring's store in Asheboro have himself and try to help the was broken into Tuesday night and a young men do right, I think it is the lot of clothing, jewelry, etc., was ta- old gray-headed man that cannot stay ken. An entrance was gained by re- here long. Not all men that fought moving a large glass in the front in the war got a free pass to heaven, door. The postoffice at Aberdeen and not by any means, the hardware store at Tryon were al- It is to be hoped that just such an- so broken into this week. There is other case as this one will not again no clue to the guilty parties. Two come up in this, county, strange negroes were seen approach- I think the editors of the papers ing Asheboro Tuesday night from and the people in general should Montgomery county and suspicion wake up and speak out on this sub- points to them. jfcct. “Roadster.” The colored church nine negro houses in and eight or Rockingham, WHY WOMEN SIN. thoroughly. Of all the Salves you . ^ rom a friend and comrade living lows: “I was in an awful condition. at large. „ . __ ever heard of, Buckley’s Arnica Salve 111 a distant State, but who was once The jury in the case of J. S. ; is the best. It sweeps awav and cures a citizeu ot Uli s State, we received a and W. Y. Stevens, of Charleston, i Burns, Sores. Bruises, Cuts, Boils, letter in which he. among other owners of the schooner James D. De- ; Ulcers, Skin Eruptions and Riles tl)in gs, says: “You request me to well, rendered a verdict for damages R’s only 25c, and guaranteed to give vvriu * 8om «rthing for The Ledger. I against the Dewell Tuesday night in satisfaction by Cherokee Drug Co inten d to write something as soon as the sum of $2,000. The suit of the Druggists. 'I cau. I wish to assist the editor, if Stevens was brought against the De- I can, in his able fight against drunk- well for damage ? in the sum of $7,000, | Nearly every man in the country eImess aa d murder. Something must claiming that #vhen the Clarence has been talked about for president ,>e done. Surely if the press of the caught fire last April at Johnson’s on the day he was born by his father Slatt> w ould Join with him it would coal docks the crew of the Dewell cut and mother. wield an influence sufficient to check the steamer loose from the pier, caus- if not to stop these two great evils in ing her to drift out into the stream Sciatic Rheumatism Cured. South Carolina.” and that she burned because the fire “I have been subject to sciatic Hon Godfrey B. Fowler is still at department could render no assist- | rheumatism for years,” says E. H. ance. 1 ■*' were destroyed by fire about 8 o’clock There is a World of Pathoa in It That The Gowdeysville School I Tuesday ni ^ ht The 1 ail 18 Appeal* to All. Gowdeysville March 30 —The Gow- i I Ust acrosS the street and when the [Providence Telegram, Feb. 10, 1903.] deysvilte schlxil will run two weeks ^ ames were at their height a priso- The many patrons of th4 Park longer. The children are well pleased P er raised a window' and announced Theatre have a chance this week to with their teacher. Miss Annie House. r° tbe c J’ < ?, wd bPlow that ,°. we . n a really good melodrama. It 1* She is an extra good teacher for the a fello w pnsoner, had just died, i somewhat out of the usual run of little ones. The children’s parents ^ B the^Luk IJ , lay8 an<1 U is without doubt the bent are well pleased with her. | £ w ith A. B. McDonald as the reault , b at has visited here this year and Bonnie Thomas has a hen which i* 1 an aff ,f' ,n wbich Mc ‘ presented by a cast which has not lavs two oggs a day. He thinks she McDonald attacked a man been surpassed here duriug the should lay meat to fry them with ’ ? amed W H at *°“ a ” d thG la , tter J n T fllct ^ l^sent season. The weather is cool. We have a , vu,und caU8ed McLeans ‘The play deals with woman's lot of wet weather. Farmers are be-; aeain - weakness and man’s perfidy. The hind with their work. P. C .C. i i^wis McLeod, of Ramseur, is sc enes of the play are laid in and laid up at Greensboro with a cut off ar °und New liork, showing many in- Robbed the Grave. and badly crushed foot. He was beat- ,,H S Dng places in that city. The A startling incident is narrated by i n g his way Tuesday night on No. 38, flrst scene is made impressive by the John Oliver of Philadelphia, as fol- ; the train coming in from Ramseur. Old Trinity s steepled cathe- My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continu ally in back and sides, no appetite, growing weaker day by day. Three physicians 1 ad given me up. Then I was advised to use Electric Bitters; to my great joy, the first bottle made a decided improvement. 1 continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they robbed the grave of another victim.” No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cents, guaranteed, at Cherokee Drug Co. The reason a chorus girl can afford 'o own automobiles is she doesn’t work listing the graded school dis- Waldron, of Wilton Junction, Iowa! trict We Ieani th at. othe uistricts have to spend the $20 a week she The Monetta mills of I ando dies My Joints were stiff and gave me be laid off as s< - as it is pos-; gets as a salary on the $50 worth of ter county were burned M.»ndav raucb P aln and discomfort. My Joints ■‘blc to have it done. champagne she drinks. ,.. c u J), y ’ wer f. . uraed Mon<Iay ; would crack when I straightened up Rev - " H White will preach at neai th<^ dynamo in the en^ne^rwim ! USed , Cha “ berIain ’ 8 Pain Ba,m a « d SalG “ «*xt Sabbath, April 3rd, at 11 Chronic Bronchitis Cured, neat me aynamo, in tne engine room baV e been thoroughly cured Have ° clock a. m. ♦ Vi mill r T’li« fl »•/-> l\ii s* n i silx 1 «r ^ ' x ■* c* v \r. of the mill The fire burned quickly, not bad a pain or a J he fronj th ^ ‘For ten years I had chronic bron- old Fearing arrest from the officers at the dra ! cb * me8 > °ri4an, lights and softly station, he tried to get off the moving snow. J he entire production train as it approached the station. He ls bau dsomeIy staged.” made a failure in his efforts at jump- ~ " * ing and fell under the w'heels. One r *’ ® t,tler Entertains, of his feet fortunately was nushed , ^ ue j»day night last, Mrs. T. B. from the rail: the other was ground Sutler informally entertained a few into a pulp. Dr. Charles L. Scott was of h * r Iad y friends at her pretty home immediately summoned by the rail- on ' avenue, the reception be- road authorities, and pronounced the complimentary to Mrs. Charles injury a very serious one. probably , BnnBl °f Martinsville, Va. A necessitating amputation of the toot, °f light and dainty refresh- | nients was served in a tempting man- A grip was taken from the Wash- ner and the ladies spent a most en- ington Pullman car at Salisbury Sat- 1°yable evening. urday night. The grip was the prop- Mrs. Butler was assisted in enter- erty of Mrs. Samuel Noyes, w'ho has fa > n > n g her guests by Misses Nell been in Asheville, and she reported "'*>d and Lillian Wood. The ladies to Agent Johnston the following prop- brosent were: Madames Chas. P. erty lost; Cash $15.50; opal breast «mi‘h, of Martinsville, Va., E. H. pin and four diamonds $75.00; hand- Gaines, W. B. DuPre, B. R. Brown, kerchiefs $5: gold thimble $5; gold B G. Sams, B. B. Stedly, A. M. Simms, spectacles $7.50; gold bracelet $35; k M. Steadman, J. T. Darwin, A. 8. “I tried all remedies available, but erv l'n thc'mlll trouble for maD y months. It V cer- has been severe on the peach speak above a whisper/ 7 writes* Mr had 1 v damaged A thick wall that ^ inly , a wond «rful liniment.” crop, though we don’t think they are Joseph Coffman, of Montmorenci, Ind uaaiy aamagea. a thick wan inai j. or 8a i e by Cherokee Drug Co.. Gaff hadly hurt yet. divides Mill No. 1 from tike new mill, Iiey . B D. Allison, Cowpens. ’ We made some inquiry into the r«- or Mill Jo.2. prevented the flames ^ J>orted .. wblte capping” affair men- dG [ ng aay damage in the latter Rheumatism. tioned in this corresprmdence recent- mill. Tlie mills were the property of g ore Muscles or painful Joints, may ly. a “d we find that while there was Mr B. Hea h. of Charlotte, and were mean an approaching attack of rheu- something of it, it did not material- under the management of his son, | matisra. Elliott’s Emulsified Oil i*e, and it’s well it didn’t, for we The cold snap for the last few chitis so had that at times I could not gold cuff links $15: sundries $5; Capt Gorry, Ed. H. DeCamp and Miss Ehoff, Mr. Bascom Heath. About 125 em- Liniment, rubbed on the affected don’t need such Voyca are _ i air ^ l n „ 0 fl u „ t „ 0f . employment parts will relieve the pain and sore- Our Ledger readers were not a Ill ness, and prevent rheumatism. El- j tie disappointed when Talmage’s ser- liott’s Emulsified Liniment for all mon did not appear in last Friday's by the work of the flames. The prop erty loss, it is estimated, will amount to about $100,000, which is covered by insurance. The way to make men appreciate your Jokes is to buy them a good din ner to eat while you are telling them. soreness, stiffness and lameness of joints or muscles. Gaffney Drug Co. Love may be blind, but there Is al ways a spark of feeling between lovers. paper. But it came in yesterday’s all right. People have done very little plant ing in their gardens yet. The ground is too cold and wet. But they are putting in guano and getting ready to Jones, the conductor, says that he °f Baltimore. and the porter were in the rear of a car checking up. with the front door ^ Great Sensation, with no success. Fortunately my i locked when the theft was committed There was a big sensation in l>ees- employer suggested that I try Foley's and it is assumed that some one with vil,e - ,nd ■ when W. H. Brown of that Honey and Tar. Its effect was al- a key to the d«x>r entered steathlly most miraculous, and I am now cured and secured the satchel, of the disease. On my recommenda tion many people have used Foley’s Honey and Tar. and always with sat isfaction." Sold by Cheroke Drug Co. When it comes to acquiring a knowledge of school books the small hoy prefers absent treatment. A man with cloven breath ought to be iu the spicy speaker class. Governor Aycock Tuesday morning announced the appointment of R. T. Gray, of Raleigh, Henry A. Page, of Aberdeen, and W. T .Lee. of Waynes- vllle, as a committee of three citi zens to jointly act with tbe State Board of International Improvements to make a thorough Investigation, as the governor expressed It, of “physi cal, moral and financial condition of tbe Atlantic ft North Carolina Rail- place, who was expected to die, had his life saved by Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumption. He writea: “I endured insufferable agonies from Asthma, but your New Discovery gave me immediate relief snd soon thereafter effected a complete cure.” Similar cures of Consumption, Pneu monia. Bronchitis and Grip are nu merous. It’s tbe peerless remedy tor all throat and lung troubles Price 50c, and $1.00. Guaranteed by Chero kee Drug Co , Druggists. Trial bottlea free.