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7 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 FBIDAY. 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. OAFFNEY, 8. C^ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PRLMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Bail in the sum of $4,000 has been granted Watt Nobles, and to the ne gro Down in the sum of $1,500. These are the men charged with killing Po liceman Foster at Greer’s some time ago. The secretary of state was ‘Friday notified of an increase in the capital stock of the Woodside cotton mills, in Greenville county, to $400,000. A commission was also issued the Mc- Clellanville Canning Company, with a capital of $2,500. People Going and Coming Beyond the Broad. Blacksburg, Sept. 26.—Mrs. C. A. Stewart, of this place, is visiting rel atives in Prosperity and Newberry. Miss Lucy Thompson is visiting in Augusta, Ga. Mr. M. M. Freeman, of Claremont, N. H., who has been visiting in the city, will leave for his home tonight. Mr. Ed George, of Gaffney spent Sunday with Mr. Dolf Little. Mr. Clarence Borders and his mother attended services at the Bap tist church here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Olis Anderson went down to Hickory Grove Friday and returned Saturday. Mr. Girard Sherer spent Sunday in town with his mother and sisters. Miss Anna Sherer returned home last week after a month’s stay in last week after a monthss stay in Baltimore and other northern cities. She expects to have her fall opening in millinery goods soon. Mrs. G. C. Leach, of Hickory Grove, is visiting Mrs. Dr. Tom Whisonant, in this place. Mr. Tom Week, express messenger on the Southern Railway, spent Sun day in town. Mr. Ralph Turner and Miss Katie Loe Randall went up to Zore church in North Carolina to attend the as- SEVEN OF FAMILY KILLED IN WRECK SCOTT HILL CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN VICTIMS A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVIllE, MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Capt. Charles Donald Clay, retired, United States Army, has been ap pointed commandant of cadets at Clem son College to report November 1. He is a Kentuckian and a grand-! sociation. son of Henry Clay, and was retired! Mr. and Mrs. Cooksey’s little son, on account of wounds received while; Rufus, is very ill with pneumonia. | serving in the Philipines. | It has practically been decided that i Columbia will get the usual rates to ! the fair. Nothing has been heard di- rectly from the railroads by the cham- \ ber of commerce, but it has been stated that one of the roads has al- j ready announced that a rate of one ' fare plus 25 cents will be given. It | is possible that even a lower rate will ; be granted. i About 175 bales of cotton were bad- I ly damaged and a large portion of it twas totally destroyed by fire at the | freight depot at Winnsboro at 11:45 .o’clock Thursday. Two lots of cotton ^on the platforms on both ends of the 'depot caught fire at the same time, Mr. Govan Cline and Mr Phillips attended the association at Zore church last week. Mr. Perry Thompson and daughter, Miss Hallie, spent Sunday with Mrs. Cooksey. Mr. Jno. Gallaher is moving into the little cottage owned by Mr. E. A. Bridges. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Boswell, of Co lumbia, are visiting the family of Mr. M. A. Metz, in this place. Beney Webb, of Spencer, N. C., spent Friday in town with James Blalock and went on Saturday morning to Charleston, where he will spend a few days. Mrs. E. Guntharp is visiting Mrs. A. E. Woody at Spartanburg. She Returning from Knoxville, Tenn., With Dead Body of His Son, Mr. Hill and Six Children and Grand children Meet Death in Collision. Last fall Mr. W. Scott Hill, of this county, and one of its most success ful and progressive farmers and worthy citizens, sold his farm and moved with his family to the neigh borhood of Jellico, Tenn. His son, Mr. Lee Hill, and his family went with him, and a few weeks back Mrs. Scott Hill and two grown daughters returned to the city to visit two sons' and brothers, Messrs. John and Wm. Hill, who remained here when the others of the family moved to Ten nessee. When Mr. Hill went t6 Tennessee, his son-in-law, Mr. Con verse Webber, and family accompanied him and settled in Knoxville, and judging from the habits of these good people, they w'ere all pushing along successfully in their life work which had to most of them such a tragic end. Last Friday Mr. John Hill, of this city, received a telegram that his brother Lee had been killed by an explosion of powder at Jellico and that his father, Mr. W. Scott Hill, his sister, Sarah, and his brother Lee’s widow and her four children, would leave with the body for Gaffney Saturday morning. The corps and those accompanying it were expected in Gaffney Saturday night or Sunday morning, but were not on time, and while speculating Sunday morning as to the cause of the delay, Mr. Landrum Spake, a brother-in-law of Mr. Scott Hill, re ceived a telegram from Knoxville, Tenn., from Mr. Converse Webber, saying: ’’Scott Hill, Sarah, Lee’s Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest Wilkinsville, Sept. 23.—Farmers have some very perplexing questions to deal with as the following will show: Farmer A has a tenant, B who “worked on the halves.” B wanted to sell a bale of cotton, but didn’t have seed cotton enough picked out to make a bale. So he borrowed 227 lbs. of seed cotton from A and had it ginned and put in his bale. Now how much seed cotton must B give A out of his own crop to make them even? The rain threatened on the 21st didn’t come and farmers still have a good spell for gathering cotton and late fodder. The committee of entertainment are still receiving notices from those who expect to attend Presbytery at Salem, Oct. 4. utterances of Editor Emerson Hough who says among other things on this subject: “Besides this, the Bob White is a scavenger among injurious insects. It eats the potato bug, the cucumber beetle, the bean beetle, the ladybird bug, the wire worm, the May beetles, the boll weevil, the caterpillar, the army worm, the cotton worm, the cut worm, the Rocky mountain locust and the chinch bug. In the spring and summer the number of these in sects eaten by the Bob White quail figures into the many millions. How useful that little game bird may be is to be seen by the fact that the cot ton crop has at times been damaged to the extent of $15,000,000 by the boll weevil. The pototo beetle some times costs the farmer $10,000,000 a year. The cotton worm may cost $30,- 000,000 a year, and there have been years in which the chinch bug cost this country $100,000,000 in a twelve- month.” It’s time farmers and land owners were enforcing the law protecting all classes of insectivorous birds by post ing their lands and stopping the kill ing of them in such a wholesale man ner. J. L. S-. THE / TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. WHAT THE SOUTHERN IS DOING Needs Only a Double Track and that is Being Built. [Charlotte Observer.] The New r York Tribune says: “The ^ Southern Railway south of Washing- By ’a^misprint the Southern Pres- ton has j ust P ut on its fi rst install- pointed Mr. A, F. Moses receiver of ment of new passenger engines of T — ”— Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers A charter was issued for the Rocky Mount Hosiery Company, at Rocky Mount Friday, with $100,000 authoriz ed capital, to operate a knitting mill, the largest stockholders being J. C. Branswell, T. P. Branswell and C. T. Mathews. The Randolph Creamery Company w T as also chartered with $25,000 capital authorized. Joe Scott, a former well-known butcher and horse-trader of Charlotte, was tried before Recorder Shannon- house in that city Saturday afternoon for an assault on Fanny Dellinger, a white woman, and for falsely im prisoning Mrs. W. P. Hickman. He was found guilty in each case and bound over to the»Supreme Court un der a $400 bond. Judge Allen Saturday afternoon ap- wife and four children all dead. Will Mr. Wm. Graham moved from here | he in Gaffney with them tonight or will visit her sister, Mrs. Ed Shoals, caused by sparks from a passing j f) j p a j r Forest, before her return train, it is supposed. By good work j ij 0me of the fire department the depot was | wm. Graham moved from here , „„ JU saved, but the large piatforms were, ^ Ropk Hill last woek He has just! tomorrow morning, considerably damaged. The loss is | reoent i y had his home completed there | They had been killed while on their and has gone there to occupy it. | way to Gaffney with the cdrps of Mr. V. I Lee Hill in the terrible railroad col lision which occurred on the Southern Court Docket. near Knoxville Saturday morning. On account of some changes that; This sad news cast a shadow' of were necessary, a meeting of the Gaff- sorrow over all our people. They „ ucll 11C iCI1 WIC ney bar was held Saturday, Sept. 24, knew all these people well and favor- of his head struck’ the pavement.!] 9 . 0 *’ ^ n . ( ^ th ® followln S ca ^ es se ^ f °r ably, and for the aged widow and her Some hours after he fell Mr. Piersou i tl f ia * at the October torm of the Court ; two sons and two daughters who are 1 of Common Pleas for Cherokee coun- j n Gaffney, their hearts were full of ty: l sincere sympathy. Monday, Oct. 10. i The body of Mr. Lee Hill arrived 5. Willis vs. W r estern l nion Tele-1 unattended Sundav afternoon and was graph Company. W. S. Hall and But- cared for by friends and held for about $0,000, covered by insurance. R. M. Pierson, a wealthy sawmill man of Walterboro, fell from a street car at the union station in Savannah, Ga., Saturday night. He was getting off the car when he fell. He lost his balance and when he fell the back died at the hospital. Mr. Pierson was to have been married Wednesday to Miss Leah Anderson Westendorf, of Charleston. Mr. Pierson was with his fiance at the time of the accident. bytftrian says that Enoree Presbytery will meet at Salem Tuesday, October 23rd. W r e hope all interested will observe this mistake and read it Oct. 4 th. Next week we will try and furnish our readers a list of the ministers and delegates who expect to attend Pres bytery at Salem and the homefe as signed each. Mr. J. Leslie Wright, who has been on the sick list for several days, is going about again, but he is quite weak. The colored people have got their rights to their church property com monly known as the Gowdeysville Colored Methodist church into a mud dle, which no doubt the court will have to unravel. About twenty years ago Mr. O. S. Kendrick sold them a lot on which to build and gave them a deed to the land. They put up 'a the Pacific type, each one weighing 175 tons. They have six drivers, two trailers, and two pairs of pony trucks, each driver being 72 inches in diam eter. These monster locomotives are 71 feet long and carry a steam pres sure of 221 pounds, 60 pounds more than ordinary engines. When pushed they can go one hundred miles an hour, but are only expected to make that rate of speed on holiday and spectacular occasions.” The Southern is, as shown by* the above facts, and numerous other in cidents, equipped quite Tip to date. All it seems to lack of being a strictly high-grade road is a double track, and that is being constructed as fast as possible. the Peoples Fuel and Ice Company s business at Winston. His bond was fixed at $5,000. The motion for a receiver was made by the counsel for Mr. D. H. King who sued Kerner Brothers for possession of the plant and business formerly owned and con ducted by King, but for a year or more in the control of Kerner Broth ers, who compose the Fuel and Ice Company. Mrs. Samuel Grissom died suddenly at her home in Pleasant Ridge, Gas ton county, early Thursday morning. She retired Wednesday night in ap parently good health. Becoming ill in the night she arose and weak to the bedside of her husband, who was himself ill with fehills and fever. He- arose to minister to her. but she sank I to the floor dead before he could do Deceased was a Cherokee Minerals. Cherokee minerals continue to in- j anything for her. terest our own and outside peo- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R- house and also a school house. The j pie. Almost every week we have in-! Kincaid, of Plesant Ridge, and was old trustees—those mentioned in the vestigators from abroad and our own 30 years of age. deed—have all since died and others people have their eyes open to the have been appointed to succeed them, | possibilities and are taking care of Ben. Holt, colored, of Spencer, shot some of these also have died and still! themselves in the rush. and painfully injured his wife at A number of immigrants directly from Scotland arrived in Columbia Friday morning. The party had come through by way of Philadelphia and were detained for two days by the authorities until communication could be had with Commissioner Watson. Friday morning they came in and will be placed at once on the farms. They are Daniel Gorman, Hugh Gorman, Peter McDonald, James Neilson, Alex. Tompson, Wm. McGarlane and Thos. Gibson. Commissioner Watson has never had any trouble with the boys from the New York Charities society, with one exception. ler & Osborne for plaintiff; J. C. Jef feries and Evans & Finley for de fendant. 6. Davis vs. Smith. J. C. Otts, plaintiff; Butler & Osborne, defend ant. burial until Monday morning with the other seven who, subsequent tele grams had stated, would arrive as first stated by Webber’s telegram. Crowds of sorrowing relatives and -.A r. r, : friends m et the evening train Sunday 10. Chadwick vs. Gaffney Mfg. Co. i an( j tke early one yesterday, but they Stan\ arne IVtlson, Butler & Osborne, failed to come. It was then thought ,, Tuesday, Oct. 11. I best to bury the remains of Mr. Lee ] 1 L' s .’ Allison. Hall & Hill w'hich arrived Sunday, and they Milhs, J. C. Jefferies and Butler it were carried out to Oakland cemetery Osborne. 21. Jenkins vs. Osborne. 11. ] w wamaim cemetery an d quitely laid to rest in the pres- „ . „ , tx o ence 0 * a lar S e gathering of relatives Osborne; Carson and Hall & Willis. a nd friends. A short funeral service W ednesday, Oct. 12. was conducted at the grave by Dr. A. p ^ ' S p R ltc ^ ens - Wallace! m. Simms. The pall-bearer were & er * 0s T )< L rn ^’ T _ Elmore LeMaster, Cap Lemmons, Eb. I 12. Gaffney vs. Jefferies; J. C. Jefferies, Z. A. Robertson W F Governor Heyward has received a Otts; Butler & Osborne and J. C. Jef- Smith and Virgil McCraw petition for and a petition against the feries ' The names of the seven dead be- commutation of the sentence of Hoyt 22. Ramsay vs. Gaffney Mfg. Co. s j ( i es L ee Hil i a hl father ATr Hayes, of Oconee county. Hayes is J. B Bell and Hall & Willis; C. P., w. Scott Hill, his sister, Miss Sarah the man convicted of the murder of Sanders and Butler & Osborne. Hill his wife Mrs Laura Hill and his his wife last year and sentenced to Thursday, Oct. 13. f OU r cLddren * George William Hill be hanged. An appeal was overruled 10. Lemons vs. Carpet Mfg. Co.! eight years old, Ruth Hill, six years in the supreme court and Hayes was Wilson; J. C. Jefferies. old and Rochelle Rogers Hill thirteen re-sentenced at the last term of court; 17. Enger vs. Cline. J. E. Web-; rao nths old iene Kogers Hn1 ’ thlrteen to hang on October 14. The petition ] ster; Butler & Osborne. The wreck in which ATr win o,,,i for his commutation was only filed 23. Baker vs. Telegraph Co J. B his daughter, daughter-in-law and Wednesday and the governor will j Bell and C. P. Sanders; J. C. Jefferies j grandchildren Were killed, was the have to send it on to Judge Dantzler, and Evans & k inley. most disastrous of anv railroad who hear.1 the caae and to Solicitor Friday, Oct 14. i wreck t „ “ “"remember to have o" Boggs before that time. As usual,; 24. Little vs. Robertson. J. » curred iu'any of the Southern States in the matter. he will follow their recommendations Bell; Butler & Osborne. ; More than three score persons w'ere et ' a ki,led outright and over *50 were L Jefferies, Butler & Osborne and Hall j ure d. **>0‘"Roofing Co vs Sarratt Hall A fte r llume / onS te,eKrams ’ and large jC “\v'iiii«- nioi V W rioi Hal gatherings of relatives and friends of & Willis, Butler & Osborne. I the Hill family, on the arrival of every train from the south, we learned before others have been appointed who now hold. By some means we don’t exactly understand, another wing of the col ored Methodist church holding under thoi auspices of a northern branch of that church have laid claim to the property and are contending for it through their local minister, and his corps of trustees. It’s a desirable piece of property nicely located and may cause a good deal of contention unless a streak of good sense and better judgment strikes the contestants and induces them to settle it outside of an expensive lawsuit. Broad river is unusually low just now. People have been fording it on horseback at Howell’s ferry. The sand obstructs the ferry boat so it can't run at times. Our new mail arrangements makes it necessary for us to send our letter to The Ledger a day sooner than heretofore. More and more discouraging are the reports from the cotton crop. That it will be far short of our ex pectation there is now' no doubt. In Capt. J. M. Sullivan, of Greenville, who came here some months ago and w'ho has invested in mineral lands in the county, is much pleased and en couraged with Ifce situation. He has established a modern mining campon his Nott property, which contains quarters ft* men and all necessary mining appurtenances, and he has his miners at work sinking his first shaft, and says every pound of mate rial taken out of the shaft is “pay dirt.” Capt Sullivan has had expe rience in this line, w’hich, with our own knowledge of Cherokee mineral, gives us confidence in his success. He says Cherokee tin is all right and will continue to pay, but her for tune lies in her immense gold veins. A most fiendish crime was com mitted at Falls of Neuse Cotton Mills, 12 miles from Raleigh, Mon day afternoon. George Tilley, a young farmer, shot and seriously wounded his wife, who was at the time sick in bed and had in her arms a babe tw'o weeks old, and his mother-in-law , Tilley did the shooting while in a many places it’s all open and much rage because Mrs. Lowery was in- of the crop is now gathered. The | fluencing his wife, so she refused to price is the only encouragement the move to another farm, they having farmer has; it will make up in some lived since their marriage, one year measure for the shortness of the crop. The com crop is generally fairly good. x Deputy Sheriff Durham serving jurors today Statesville Saturday morning. It seems that the woman left him Thurs day evening and went to Statesville. He follow'ed and endeavored to in duce her to return, but she refused. Friday night he slejYt in a bain in the yard of the home where the woman is employed and when she came out to milk the cows he took deliberate aim and fired. The bullet was deflect ed by a corset stay and simply made a painful flesh wound. Holt made good his escape. Mr. S. J. Craver, a postal clerk on the Southern Railway between Wilkesboro and Greensboro, was ser iously injured on the train at Greens boro Saturday morning, by having his back badly wrenched. He was able to be taken to his home at Winston. Craver was at work in his car, while the usual morning shifting was going on in the work of “making up” the train for Wilkesboro. There was an unusually heavy bump of a car against the one he was working in, which precipitated him out the open door and on to the grofihd bruis ing him considerably and injuring his back. The company's surgeon was soon in attendance and pronounced his injury apparently temporary. ago, with his wife’s mother. After the shooting Tilley went to a nearby store, made a siatemenf and then is round j disappeared before a deputy sheriff were kined and one fatally SC alded. could reach there from Raleigh in The doad are; H C- Fowler, superin- By the explosion of a boiler in Er win Mills No. 2, at Duke, Friday ; morning, at 6:55 o’clock four men Mr. M. P. Hammett has a novel, response to a telephone call. Officers tendent of the mill. L. M. Hurst, gin but a good way of keeping the threads and citizens are scouring the country hand H G . Branswell. gin hand; all Expert safe crackers ertered the postofflce at Kingstree, Wednesday night and after a short session with blacksmith tools stolen from a near by shop, extracted a package of $4,000 addressed to the Bank of Kingstree, $350 in postoffice funds, about $150 Marriage at Lockhart. Lockhart, Sept. 26.—Married, on going to press that another telegram $350 in postorace funds, about $150 | Thursday evening at the home of the * ^emainTof tha ! i the worth of stamps and Jewelry belong- bride’s parents, Mr. M. E. Sealey and h v 2 last niSt the dead woa J > ing to Postmaster Jacobs, valued at Miss Macie Plaxico. Miss Macie is n $500 The burglars then departed, a very accomplished and entertaining since the arttele i *• * leaving no clue. The money for the j young l^y and Mr. Scaly is one of the death of [he Hm? in th? a ln 6 ^ bank had been sent from C’harb ston our society gentlemen. We wish , wreck nea^K^oxId L Te2i railroad ~ Q "' , “ a long and happy life Mrs. Con^r^e Webber orknox'vme tJpev^M 1 "^ wa8 . Performed by have arrived in the ’ity and l ate the Rev Mr. Greer, of Sharon. J that George William Hill is l ive The ferry boat has been moved soverelv hurt hut «.ni from the regular landing to the eddy s . evere . 1 .y. . hurt _ b «t will recover, and below the mill. Ekhart. no one knew of the order except bank officers and the telegraph operator. The loss was discovered next morn ing. As the money had been insured the bank will not lose anything. R. W. McDaniel, once convicted of * murder and sentenced to life im- Many men and women are constant- prisonment and whose case has been , subJ e C ted to what they commonly before the suprme court twice, is now term .. a con t lnual Bt raln” because of some financial or family trouble. It wears and distresses them both men tally and physically, affecting their nerves badly and bringing on liver and kidney ailments, with the atten dant evils of constipation, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, low vitality and despondency. They cannot, as a rule, get rid of this “continual strain,” but they can remedy its health- destroying effects by taking frequent doses of Green’s August Flower. It tones up the liver, stimulates the kid neys, insures healthy bodily functions, gives vim and spirit to one’s whole being, and eventually dispels the physical or mental distress caused by that “continual strain.” Trial bot tle of August Flower, 2&c; regular size, 75c. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L, D. Allison, Cowpens. a free man. The Jury in Lexington brought in a verdict about 1 o’clock Friday morning after being out several hours. The case has been fought for several days and a large number of witnesses werj put up by the defense, several n*w points being brought out. The defense put up ac cidental shooting as the cause of the death of J. L. Kneece. the town mar shall who was killed by McDaniel, and also put up a number of witnesses al leging that Knoece was a bad char- factor and drank heavily, being drunk ^on the day of the shooting. It Isn’t always the best cook who prepares the most fancy dishes. When a man thinks he knows it all i he is happy until he wakes. that Mildred Hill was alive yester day morning badly hurt and sinking fast—thought she will. die. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in the Gaffney postofflce for the week end ing Sept. 26th, 1904. C. L. Borrer, J. H. Coggins, Edward Dagle, Alex Jeter. Kilns Line, J. H. March (2), Chas. Mauney, John Petty. Siney Porter, Dennis Ryrsen, Jemie Shuford, G. W. Taylor, B. Thompson. N. Watkins, Tom Wilsurs, J. P. Whel- chel, Miss Emma Carson, Miss Mil lie S. Elmore, Miss Fannie Edwards, Mrs. Emeline Ederds, (2), Mrs. Mar- gret Jefferies, Lizzie Tate, Sinda Wil liams. One cent due on each. Call for "Advertised Letters.” A. R. N. Folger, P. M. “Pa, won’t you buy me a watch?” “What for, my boy?” “I want to swap it to Billy Wiggins for one of his pups.” on the spindle of his wagon from j in search of him wearing out—he don’t take off the! wheel to grease it. Mr. Tom Owens- by says the best way to treat a worn mt tap is to change it for the one on white. Geo. McLean, laborer, color ed. The injured: Henry Wall, color- Capt. J. H. Harris, Messrs. \\ illiam j edi badly scalded, and will die. The Brown and M. P. Kramer, three mem- explosion is a mystery. The boiler bers of the Southern Railways’s shop was j ke one US ed in furnishing steam the other wheel just before or behind | hose reel team at Spencer, were for t h e cotton gin and the plant was n as the case may be. n nine cases severely injured Wednesday evening, Retting ready t o start to work for the out of ten the wagon will run another while fighting fire in the Southern’s day . Braswell, McLean and Wall year after the change of the taps is made. Mrs Sallie G. Ingram and daughter. Miss Willie, went to Gaffney this week on business. big coal chute. Letter to Rev. A. C. Cree. Gaffney, S. C. Rev. Sir: In nfiaking pastoral vls- This morning was quite airy and ' its, of course, .you do not consider some people think we had frost. Mr. W. R. Walker is on his planta tion now looking after his farming interest. He is a man who has as much interest in the public welfare as any one we know. He never al lows an opportunity to pass without doing his part in any work that is for the upbuilding of his people. The Wilkinsville Oil Mill Company is now running its ginnery full time and can scarcely keep up with its work. Miss Pearl Whisonant, assistant postmaster at Wilkinsville, is visiting fdends at Blacksburg. “Less” Wright didn’t do much good threading needles at Mrs. Fowler’s quilting last Tuesday. His eyes were too weak, he says. Miss Janie Bell, of Blackstock, who visited us this summer, writes that she has attended some of Rev. Mr. Leltch’s “us meetings” since she re turned home. This Is the year for people to sow wheat and put it in in good order If they want a crop . Old farmers tell us that after a dry summer we are apt to have a good wheat and oat crop. We remember it was so In 1882. That the wholesale killing of birds, especially partridges, has worked ruin to the farmers is proven by the your pleasure or comfort or ease; you go where your people live. But you have two sets of feelings in going about—can’t help it—we all have. But you especially have; for a part of y ur business is sympathy. Well- kept laws and well-tilled fields, nice homes and nice people, are cheerful to you, as they are to everyone. Tum bledown buildings, poor fences, men harrassed by burdens too heavy for them, overworked women, and dirty- faced children, you may be strong to were in the room and Superf*ten|lent Fowler and Hurst were standing near the door talking. Without warning the terrific explosion occurred, com pletely demolishing the J>oiler room and killing the four men instantly. Their bodies were horribly mangled. A bold and dastardly assault, hold up and attempt at highway robbery was committed on Spruce street in Asheville in the glare of an electric light, and under the shadow of a church Friday night, shortly before 12 o'clock, when Garroll A. Henry, manager of the 5 and 10 cent store of that city, was hemming from an evening spent with friends, was at tacked by two persons, both white get on with; but you would be more . men, red pepper thrown in his eyes, he than human to find inspiration in was knocked down, his clothing stab- misery. bed with a sharp knife, and his hat Paint divides the two sorts of peo- ripped from brim to brim. The at- ple: one paints, and the other don’t, tempt to rob and murder Mr. Henry Or, perhaps, the thrifty paint well; was the boldest crime that has been the unthrifty paint ill. committed in that city or section To paint well is to keep paint ( since the Emma postofflce robbery, sound. There are two ways to do it: several years ago, for which crime one is bound to paint often; the other two men were hanged and tw-o sent to use good paint. ! to the penitentiary for life. After go- It costff about half as much to paint 1 ing through all of Mr. Henry’s pockets Devoe as to paint with any other save one, failing to find any money paint; for Devoe trkes fewer gallons ' and becoming frighteneu, the would- than mixed paints and wears twice be robbers left their victim still as long as lead-and-oil. * stretched on the ground and ran. The thrifty and comfortable have There is no clue to who committed the art of using money more wisely, the crime. How lucky they are! how happy! Yours trly, Too often the man who pushes him- F W Devoe & Co selif along in the world shoves others 67 ' | aside.