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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District, of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY. -PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper in All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1904. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. A shifting engine in the Southern’s yards at Greenville ran away Thurs day, coming in the direction of Spar tanburg. It was pursued by another engine, and after an exciting chase of several miles was overtaken and carried back to Greenville. The reorganization of the Capital City Mill, in Columbia, was perfected Friday afternoon at a meeting in which the new stockholders formerly creditors, participated. Of the $280,- 700 of stock outstanding, there was present or by proxy $200,700. Judge Townsend signed an order Thursday morning granting bail to Roman C. White, the negro charged with killing his step-son near Green ville on the morning of July 28. The bond under which White is to be re leased has been fixed at $2,0uo. A dispatch Thursday night from Central says that a negro brakema.i on a local freight train had one of his feet mashed off Thursday at noon at that place by train No. Op. He was attempting to cross the track in or der to make a coupling, and was knocked down by No. M9, whicn was coming up to the station, The foot was entirely severed. Mr. Matthew G. Geiger, who lives just beyond the city limits of Colum bia. lost a fine horse by lightning Saturday afternoon. The horse was in the stable and when the bolt struck, a man, who was standing near ^►by, was unhurt but the horse fell. ^ It quivered an instant only and was dead. The lightning, strange to say, did not ignite anything in the stable. The State superintendent of educa tion will in a few days announce the winners of the Clemson scholarships. It will not be necessary for the State board of education to be called to gether for this purpose and as the regular meeting of the board is held next month it has been decided not to call two meetings and thus exhaust the fund appropriated for this pur- pcse. Messrs. M. S. McKinnon and A. M. McNair will establish a coffin, table and mantel factory at Hartsville within a few weeks with a capital of $12,000. This enterprise will be lo cated within the business portion of town near the freight depot, and it it proposed to begin building for it at once. The factory will be in charge of an experienced man and it is ex pected to be a paying venture from the start. On Wednesday night at Santuc some one broke into the store of Sims McDaniel. John McDaniel heard some one in the store and went to investigate. When he got there the intruder attempted to escape and was shot by Mr. McDaniel, the ball taking effect in the hip. It was then discovered that it was a negro who had been at work at Neal Shoals, but who would not give his full name. Nothing is known save that his first name is Ed. The building of a splendid monu ment to the women of the Confederacy has been taken actively in hand by the Sons of Confederate veterans. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, of Charleston, has been appointed special agent of the Sons for this work and he has entered upon the undertaking with zeal and earnestness. Ten thousand dollars has already been raised for the monu ment, the result of comparative easy work, but this sum isn’t sufficient and Gen. Walker has addressed an appeal to the entire South in behalf of the movement. D. P. Verncr, master in equity for Greenville county, committed suicide at his residence near that city at 7 o'clock Thursday morning, using a double-barrel shotgun. No one was present at the time. Mrs. Vt rner had left the room only a few moments be fore, and was in another part of the house when she heard the explosion. Hurrying to the room she found Judg Verner’s body lying' on the bed with the weapon resting on the floor. The upper part of the skull had been torn away and death Is supposed to have been instantaneous. One of the largest seizures of liquor ever made in Greenville county took place Wednesday night in the "Dark Corner,” when Deputy -Collector Ai ken and Constables Bell, Whitmire and Charles destroyed 2,500 gallons of beer and mash. Three large distil leries were also destroyed by the of ficers. They had been in operation only the day before, and though net actively engaged in making whiskey when found by the officers, they had not become thoroughly cooled. No one was found at either one of the whiskey-making plants and there were no arrests. The owners of the . stills are not known. People You l%iow and People You Don’.t Know. S. B. Wilkins, of Cowpens, was a business visitor in the city yester day. Felix Spencer, of Webster, was in the city Saturday on business and fa vored The Ledger with an appreci ated visit. W. Fletcher Smith went to Lynch burg last week and spent a few days with friends. To "Fleteh” a trip of this kind means something, for he knows how to enjoy it. Mr. Henderson Martin, of Mount Paran. one of the oldest as well as one of the most highly respected cit izens of the county, came to the city Saturday on business. Though old, Mr. Martin is quite erect and quick in his movements and as cheerful as a boy. . “Bub” Service took an outing of a few days last week and spent most of the time visiting relatives in Greenville county. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Littlejohn, of Ravenna, were shopping in the city Saturday. Cncle Simp Petty, of Cowpens, came to the city Friday. D. C. Painter, one of the county’s best farmers, who lives near Drayton- ville, came up to the city Saturday. He said his crop was suffering for rain. Miss Cornelia Lavender, who has been spending some time at Piedmont Springs, returned to the city the last of the week and reports a good time. Price Martin, a bright and perse vering farmer of Mount Paran, made a business trip to the city Saturday. Price is a genial good fellow and it is always cheering to have him with us. Mrs. R. S. Cook and children ar^ spending some time at Piedmont Springs*. D. P. Phillips, of Lawn, was a busi ness visitor in the city Saturday. H. M. Johnson and his son. Robt, are visiting friends and relatives at Lancaster. W. T. Poag, who has been spend ing some time on his farm and with relatives at Rock Hill, returned to the city Saturday. John F. Jamison, of Webster, visit ed relatives in Chester county last week. W. Bonner Cook, of White Plains, spent some time in the city Saturday. He is one of the county’s old men and all our people are his friends. He called on The Ledger while in the city. Lee Smith, a successful farmer and sterling citizen of Algood, was in the city Friday. H. K. Osborne, Esq., and family are visiting Mr. Osborne's parents at Brevard. N. C. Victor Gaffney left yesterday for Concord, N. C\, where he has a nice position as electrician on the city’s electric light plant. We wish Victor much success in his new field. Joe Osborne returned the last of the week from a visit to his parents at Brevard. N. C. Mrs. Dr. B. B. Steedly and children left last week for Athens, Ga., to pay a visit to relatives and friends. John M. Smith, of Cowpens, came to the city yesterday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Turner, of Earles. N. C., spent Saturday and Sunday in the city the guests of their mother, Mrs. Patsey Davis. Prater Smith, a Blue Branch farmer, came to the city Saturday on busi ness. (’apt. J. B. Bell went to Yorkville yesterday on professional business. Cap*. J. Mims Sullivan, of Green ville, who has been spending some weeks in Gaffney investigating the mineral resources of this county, went to his home in Greenville Sat urday and returned to Gaffney yes terday. Capt. Sullivan is working every day but is keeping his own counsel. We are satisfied he is well pleased with the outlook. Capt. W. P. Love, of Love Springs, spent some time in the city Friday James Harris, of Algood, came to the city Saturday. He reports plenty of rain and crops growing. A .J. Parker was in to «ee us Satur day. He says the bream that he put in his fish pond a few weeks ago are growing rapidly. Our old friend L. M. Cobb, of Maud, came in to see us Saturday. Mr. Henderson Carroll, of Kings Creek, came to the city Satutday on business. J. C. Fry, a prominent lumber man ufacturer of Hickory, N. C., was a business visitor in the citv Saturday. J. D. Pryor, of Ste\y, was in the city Saturday. Magistrate A. J. McCraw came to the city yesterday. E. A. Trescot, Esq., of Blacksburg, spent some time in the city Saturday on business. Rev. J. M. Steadman left the city yesterday to assist in a protracted meeting year Leslie, in York county, this week. GOOD ROADS AND LIQUOR QUESTION. TWO VITAL MATTERS FOR CITI ZENS OF CHEROKEE. Women love mirrors because they don’t flatter and they love men be cause they do. Some men never make any mis takes because they never attempt to do anything. A Gretna Green Affair. Mr. Junius Kale, of Mt. Holly, N. C., and Miss Lillian Kale, of the same place, were married at the Parish hotel at 3:30 o'clock Sunday after noon by Rev. J. M. Steadman, pastor of the Buford Street Methodist church. It was a Gretna Green affair. Mr. and Mrs. Kale are distant rel atives—in fact second or third cous ins—and are cultivated people of pre possessing appearance. They will remain in Gaffney for a few days be fore returning to their home. They having chosen Gaffney as the proper place to have their nuptials per formed. have earned and have the best wishes of all our people for their future happiness and prosperi ty. Mr. Kale is engaged with one of the manufacturing enterprises of Mt. Holly. ' Ex-Representative McCraw Gives His Version of Two Issues for the Pres ent Campaign. Mr. Editor:—In your last paper you j said editorially that there are “only | two issues” in this campaign. With due defference I differ from you as to what are and should be the issues.; Before I say what I am going to, say I’ll make this statement: From the very first day there was a word spoken for our county The Ledger i placed itself in the fore-front of the ; thickest of the fight. Ever since! then it has been a great factor in the : upbuilding of the county. Our town i (county seat) has grown rapidly, beautifully and gracefully. Our county is in excellent shape so far as farm products go. In all this the handwriting of The Ledger is visi ble. Your fight for pure and “un packed” politics is admirable and courageous. Your giving a ton of fer tilizer to stimulate scientific farming is of more intrinsic value to the coun ty than the talking of all our poli- cians. But the best of all is your persistent advocacy of good roads: and this brings us to the real issue in this county. It is the issue that is getting the attention and wisdom of our wisest and best thinkers of the nation. It is an issue that means something. It is an issue, the culmi nation of which, means bounteous wealth and contentment in every home the world over. You ask me what the candidates for the legisla ture have to do with this. They have much to do with it. Everybody looks upon the candidates for the legisla ture as the bagpipes of the office seeking crowd. They can talk, talk, talk, and keep on talking about good roads till they can get everybody, even our long-haired citizens who never wash their faces only on Sun day morning, and not then if the weather is a little cool, to thinking and talking about good roads. Be sides this the members of the legisla ture, whoever they may be. practical ly have the power to appoint the township commissioners. By this power they can greatly facilitate or retard this movement. Another thing that these candidates could talk on is graded school districts, for God knows if graded schools are needed anywhere it is in the country. The towns could better do without them than the country. Our county has made a start and we hope to see in the near future our entire county laid off into school districts with a nine month’s school run every year. The tax that we would pay to maintain these schools would be returned to us sixty and a hundred fold in the way of cultured men and women, fine churches, able preaching, good Sun day school teachers, enhancement in real estate, good neighbors, desirable settlers and a lot of other ways. I think the candidates could with pro priety make this a local issue in th'» coming campaign. As to the bien nial session issue you talk about, that is not an issue at all. It has been for several years, but the last legis- for several years, but the last Legis- lature put an end to it by submitting the matter to the people. It has been thoroughly discussed. The people are of one accord concerning th 0 mat ter. They are going to vote solidly for biennial sessions without a doubt. * The dispensary, in my opinion, ought not to be an issue in the man ner you would have it. It is not so in any ot the other counties, and should not be here, i. e.. for or against the Brice bill. If the Brice bill had passed th^ last legislature it would, beyond a doubt, have failed to bring about the results which Mr. Brice is so well known to cherish. His bill was just simply to chop off the dis pensary’s head and leave it alone. If that is the only way to get prohibi tion we will never have it. Nothing could please those who desire to sell whiskey illegally more than to have such a law on the statute books. In my opinion the law which the last legislatuie passed is an admirable one. It is self-enforcing—a self- cocker. With such a law to back up those who really want to have prohi bition, we certainly can have it. In stead of our candidates talking about Brice bill, which could be of no possi ble benefit, they could, in my opinion, do a great and lasting service to our country by explaining to them the law the last legislature passed. That act in a nutshell is this: Let a peti tion signed by one-fourth the qualified voters of a county (which would be about 5(Kt in Chorekee) be filed with the county supervisor. He then is to order an election. The people are to vote ‘dispensary.” or "no dispen sary.” If a majority of the people vote “no dispensary” then the dispen sary is put out of business, lock, stock and barrel. Then what next? A tax of one-half mill is put on all property to enforce this law. If after a trial of this law it appears to the authorities that the moral support of the people is sufficient of itself to enforce It, then the money that the State treasurer has collected from said county by the one-half mill levy is returned to the county from whence It was collected: that is, back to the people who paid it. Now this is what the law is and nothing else. The Ledger shot wide of the mark In ex plaining this law to the public .in its ^ last issue. If this isn’t the law that is suited to our conditions then I confess to not knowing what we do need. If after | we vote out the dispensary (if we should decide to do so) we haven’t the vigilance and courage to seek out and punish blind tigers, &c., why the law as it now is is amply sufficient to! enforce itself. So we are doubly as- j sured of prohibition in the true prac tical meaning of prohibition. The candidate who says he is in favor of the Brice bill—letting each county do as it pleases with whiskey, putting prohibition on us without any means whatever to enforce it, is a time server, simply playing to the gallery, and to the whims of the non-thinking. He is not a prohibitionist nor any well defined anything else. This carping about having to be taxed to enforce prohibition is demagogy. A true prohibitionist is only too anxious to pay his little mite to have the law enforced. Why is he so? Because it is a paying investment. Let’s see whom it would pay. It will pay the farmer because he will get more and better labor from his wage hands and boys. It will pay the merchant. He won’t have clerks full as a tick selling his goods to his customers. It will pay those we have their capital in vested in various manufacturing en terprises. Their labor will be more efficient and reliable. This one-half mill tax will be the greatest dividend maker of any invest ment that was or ever will be made in our county. You will never hear people who pay the heavy taxes (I mean those who pay some tax) grumble, but on the contrary they will put their hands in their jeans and gladly bring forth the cash. Why is this so? Simply because it pays them to do so. Now there are a great many people who will deny this state ment, but there are a great many peo ple who will deny any statement. Yes. we want the law as it now stands or let the dispensary stand intact. Don’t give us prohibition without arms and ammunition to carry on the warfare. I think it the duty of But ler. Sarratt and Kirby to go on th r> stump and explain this to the people and tell them that the thing to do is to get to business and stop carping. Get up the petition at once. Now, now, and again I say now is the time to do something. We have the oppor tunity, let’s bestir ourselves. I’ll sug gest that DeCamp publish in The Led ger that he has on his desk a petition asking for one-fourth the qualified voters in the county to come into his office, and I’ll venture to say that our good old firend, Mr. Thomas, will our tmod old friend, Mr. Thomasf will i not have room in The Ledger to Drive each visitor personal mention. This law suits me to a T. When I was a candidate for the legislature I was called by some the whiskey candidate. But it was because they didn’t under stand me. Conditions are more favor able to prohibition in our county now than then. too. North Carolina has nassed the Watts law and put a stop to selling along the State line com pletely, and in my opinion, with the law the last legislature passed to back us up and other conditions also favorable, we can in a short while have prohibition working in our county to such a degree of perfection that we would be surprised ar our own success. I am willing to try it. What say you all? Don't all of you speak at once. Virgil McCraw. THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. Good Ball at Fair Forest. The Arcadia and Gaffney baseball teams met at Fair Forest Saturday afternoon and played ball sure enough. It was a game that both teams can justly be proud of, not withstanding that it was broken up after six innings by rain, when all re tired from the diamond without either team making a score. We were un able to learn the names of the bat tery of the Arcadia team, but it played ball, and was supported by the balance of the team in a manner that was fully up to the high grade work of the fielders. The work of our ov n j boys was superb. Hopper in the box i did the work of his life, and it has not been excelled by any pitcher in 1 our knowledge, and little Hamrick behind the bat took the sphere with a grace and ease that would have put him high up in the ball circles if he had been playing in a regular league team. Hopper struck out ten out of the first twelve men up, a record that any pitcher might be proud of. We have not learned the name of the umpire, but he knew his duties and performed them like a man. He is a gentleman. We congratulate both teams for their good playing and manly de meanor. Kings Creek Items. Kings Creek, August 4.—Seasons are splendid at present, and crops are looking fine. Mr. W. W. Hardin and family, of Gaffney, are visiting Mr. Hardin’s father-in-law. Rev. E. B. McSwain. Mr. Hardin returned home today but his family will spend several days with relatives. Mr. Bill Dillingham is quite sick. Rev. J. D. Bailey, pastor of Grover Baptist church, commenced a series of revival meetings there yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. H. K. McSwain are happy over the arrival of a new ba by boy at their home. Mr. G. P. Hambright had two large hams of meat stolen from him last week. Picnic Boy. Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers Huyler, the millionaire candy man, is shortly to establish a seminary for young women in Asheville. Charters have been granted the Avent Live Stock Company at Rocky Mount, capital stock $15,000, H. F. Avent and others stockholders, to deal in live stock; also the Raleigh Amusement Company, Claudius Dock ery and others stockholders, to con duct bowling alleys, pool room, etc. Deputy Sheriff Barker, of Guilford county, has arrested and lodged in jail Sam Smith, colored, who escaped irom the authorities in Bladen coun ty. He is charged with an attempted criminal assault on Mrs. Lizzie Good in, a highly respected widow who lives near Clarkton. Sentiment being so strong against him in Bladen, he was placed at Greensboro for safe keeping. A serious and what came near be ing a fatal accident befell a white waitress at Victoria Inn in Victoria. Macon county, Friday evening. The girl was watching a dance in progress at the Inn and lost her balance and fell through a sky-light from the first floor to the basement. In falling the girl barely missed a large beam, which had she struck would undoubt edly have caused fatal injuries. Mr. William Teague, of Lowell, died suddenly Wednesday morning, aged 59 years. He was the father of Postmaster Teague, of that nlaee. Mr. Teague was at preaching Tues day night, apparently in his usual health. Early Wednesday morning he was heard struggling for breath. Members of the family went to min ister to him. but he never spoke to tell how long he had been suffering. At 5 o’clock he breathed his last. Having been missing from the Es meralda Inn, near Chimney Rock, since Thursday morning. Miss Dev- ereaux, of Raleigh, was Friday after noon found dead ’. y a party of ser.uch ers. The young woman had fallen nr intentionally jumped from a L.g; rock cliff at Silver Falls, and was dashed to death below. She was a member of a well known Raleigh family and went to Esmeralda Inn. in the beautiful Hickorynut Gap and Chimney Rock section unaccompa nied. A telephone message received from Black Mountain said that the Belle Whallon Orphanage at Montreal had been totally destroyed about 5 o’clock Friday afternoon. The fire started in an upper bed room and spread rapidly. At the time of the fire there were 24 children in the home. All these little ones were rescued, how ever. without much difficulty, al though the building and contents were totally destroyed. Considerable winter supplies stored on the second floor and consisting of can goods, etc., were also lost. Rev. J. D. Woodward, a Baptist preacher hailing from North Caroli na, has been arrested in Commerce, Ga., on a charge of bigamy. His first wife is living at Kingsbury and his second one in Commerce, Ga. Samuel M. Ford and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, were tried and convicted in the Superior Court at Monroe Saturday of burning the barn and an unoccupied dwelling of Henry Dry near that place, 14 years ago. Ford was given five years and Mrs. Morgan four years in the State peni tentiary. They both appealed to the Supreme Court. Jesse Allen, the negro, convicted in Oxford Friday of criminal assault was sentenced to be hanged Decem ber 9th. A large crowd was present. Judge Bryan asked defendant if he had anything to say. He arose with little show of excitement and ad dressed the court. He said he was innocent as a baby. He said that the little girl’s mother prosecuted him because she was mad with him and that he was innocent before God and man. and said: "If they hang me ! they will never see God in peace.” He showed much nerve, more than I most men of intelligence would have I shown, under the same circumstan- j ces. Wednesday about night, near the terra cotta works, three miles from Greensboro, Ernest Morrison shot and killed Henry Woods. The two negroes were resting from the work of the day. where they were em ployed in building the new Etowah Cotton Factory. Woods was laying down on the grass, when Morrison who was standing, said to him: “You step over to Lindly Park and bring me some ice cream.” Woods laughlingly replied that he would do no such thing, when Morrison respon ded, “if you don’t I’ll shoot you.” He pulled out his pistol and it went off. the hall entering Woods’ breast, piercing the heart, and killing the man instantly. People Going and Coming Beyond the Broad. Blacksburg, August 4.—Mr. E. K. Belue went to Gaffney today on busi ness. Mr. R. L. C. Killian, of Gastonia, N. C., was in town on business yes terday. Mr. and Mrs. Scott, of Atlanta, Ga., who have been visiting relatives here for several days, left this morning for Rock Hill. Mrs. Scott’s mother, Mrs. M. E. Deal, accompanied them. Dr. F. B. Whitesides went to Hick ory Grove yesterday on business. Dr. R. C. Garland and Dr. J. T. Darwin, of Gaffney, were in town on Tuesday. Mr. Will King, who has been in Charlotte, N. C., for some time, is in town with his family for a few days. Mrs. Ed Turner and children have gone on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Turner at Sharon. N. C. Mr. Clarence Borders, of Kings Creek, was in town yesterefay. Mr. R. P. Roberts, of Cherokee Falls, is in town today. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Duncan went over to Gaffney yesterday. Quite an interesting game of ball was played here yesterday between Gaffney and Blacksburg. The score was 10 to 9 in favor of Blacksburg. Blacksburg, August 6.—Messrs. Dolph and Maurice Little left this morning for Dallas, N. C., to visit rel atives and friends. Miss Estelle Smith is in Kershaw visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blalock spent Sunday in Gaffney with Mrs. Cora Camp. Miss Lola Green, of Gaffney, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. D. G. Cline, hero for some time, left this morning for Waco, N. C., on a visit to friends. Mrs. J. B. Blalock and Mrs. Luther Hoard went over to Gaffney today to visit relatives. Misses Mabel Ramseur, Lola Green, Mayme Gaston. Mary Alex ander, Hope Gibson, Edith Gaden and Messrs. Gordon Logan. Roland Little. Maurice Little, John Logan, Bomar Whisnant attended the picnic at Mt. Paran Saturday. Mr. Lee Little, of Gaffney, and Miss Mag Little went up to Gastonia today on business. Mrs. Wm. Anderson and her moth er. Mrs. Deal, left Thursday for ic visit to relatives in Holidaysburg, Pa. Miss Bessie Carson, of Spartan burg, is visiting her cousin, Miss Mary Anderson of this place. Miss Daisy Neal, of Spartanburg, is the guest of Miss Guyton. Miss Ada Brando* 1 W* i-cr week for Forest City, whe.e ..ill visit Mrs. Alaxander. Mrs. Don Lumpkin, of Chester, is here visiting her mother, Mrs. J. C. Hayden. Mr. j. C. Jefferies, of Gaffney, is in town on professional business. L. E. B. It is dead easy for a millionaire to pose as a reformer. An umbrella Isn’t much good until it is used up. The average man would be tickled half to death for a chance to pay a large inheritance tax. Some men are too lazy to enjoy a A Cherokee Boy. Bryant B. Lipscomb, of Pensacola, Fla., who. with his family, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lip scomb, on Petty street, called to see The Ledger Friday. Bryant left this county before he was grown and has had quite an eventful and successful career. He served for three years in the fith United States Artillery and during the time, while performing his duty faithfully, he devoted his spare time to study, and having a bright mind his acquirements soon attracted the attention of his officers, who de tailed him to duty in an army hospi tal in Baltimore as hospital steward- He was sent to one of the forts on the Florida coast, where he also served as hosiptal steward till his time of enlistment expired. He then engaged in other business in Florida, but not long, for his efficiency being known his services were sought and he was employed in the Naval Hosiptal at Pensacola, where he is still employed and is pursuing the study of medi cine, which he had begun when first in the hospital service. Mr. Lipscomb is full of energy, bfight as a pin and well equipped for his business and is well up on armv and navy topics and governmental affairs generally. He has well de fined ideas of his own about m<m and things and expresses them openly and forcibly. He is a young man that Cherokee may well he proud of for his past, and may confidently look for ward to him for still higher efforts that will secure for him a more prom inent and distinguished future. The Ledger in Florida. A subscriber at Belleview, Fla., whites as follows: “You will find inclosed $1.00 for which please renew our paper, for I don’t want to miss a copy. It is like a letter from home. We all listen for the 2:50 train every Wednesday and Saturdav and have a race to see who " ill iret The I.o.brer first. You can’t' imagine how much company it is to us away from all kindred and friends. We have the most beautiful little town you ever saw. There are only about two hundred in town, but they are all good people. The country 's fine and so healthy and nice and cool; we have a sea breeze all the time. Crops are fine and wages are good.” Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters In the Gaffney postofflee for the week end ing August fi. 1904: Honan Bostic. Miss Emma Bridges. Miss Julia Cansley, Miss Neila Cher ry, James Lipscomb, Pickens Still, Miss Martha Louis, Miss Maggie Mc- Murrey, Geo, Moore, Louis Parker, Ephraim C. Ramsey, J. M. Turner, Wm. Vassey, Miss Anna Wright, Green Wallis. Call for “Advertised Letters.” A. R. N. Folger, P. M.