Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"T" ' •' •asw'^yf ■ ■ '' ^ ® »-.-wyw k . \ •>. * ' '$. •' :i r,'- : J THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. V/. Griffith, Locai Editor. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mr. R. H. Bradley, of Raleigh, N. C., in tho city visiting his friend, Dr. A. j I. Sirums^ Mr. Bradley is mar hal of - - . - - ■ r—— | supreme court of North Carolina, 1 The Lerlger is not responsible for | which position ho has held for twenty the views of correspondents. years. Obituraries will be published at n :tta Webb, the accomplished. fl\e cents a line. , illijicr at The Fair, went to her homo Correspondents who do not contrl- n, Moooresl'»ro. N. C., Thursday, to bate regular news letters must fur- pond some time.- nlsh their name, not for publication, Mr. and Mrs. Davis Jefferies, of Un- but for identification. ion, wore in the city to attend the mar- All correspondence should be ad-1 i a p f , , * oir ister. Miss Louise. dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. We invariably discontinue sending ' r he Ledger when a subscription runs out, for we have no way of knowing that a person wants it except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the ground that the paper is worth the money. We are trying month by month to make it better and bet ter. A. CulK'i-tson, superintendent of the over for Christmas, hut has returned l v his home at Clover.. A1.. L. Campbell, a prominent mor- r-i.;;rit of Columbia, was in the city Tuesday. .... is-;*Eveiyn Sarratt went to Peak Tu - lay to visit her sister, Mrs. J. ). .~’,w> sort.. i ham W. Richardson, who lias been i.> fo'orgia buying cotton for some umths, is at home to spend the holi- day- witii Ids parents, Capt. and Mrs. \V. if. Richardson. Miss Nannie Cora Richardson is at home with her parents. Capt. and Mrs. \V. H. Ridiardson, for the holidays. John S. Reynolds, of Columbia, was cotton mill at Liberty spent the hoji-; . , the i3 arisll Hotel yester days in the city, at Mrs. R. S. Lip- 1 *' b scomb’s. day. , , . , . - i Our old friend J. Pink Dellinger, of J. B. Boyd, supi rinton lont of l' 10 ] Shelby, N. C., was In the city yester- ’aroleen Mills, spent Christmas in the | day * James B. Richardson, of Milledge- Beginning January 1st the price of The Ledger will be $1.50 a year. Those who desire to do so may take advantage of the $1.00 a year rate by paying $1.00 for another year any time before January 1st. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Begin the New year right—as many others have—by subscribing for The Ledger. It will strive to be a welcome visitor. • • « A western paper thinks Carrie Na tion has done some good, but adds that “all good people are not to be en couraged.” * • » It would be an interesting sight to see a stuttering man make an ad dress to our strenuous president. It would probably result in a cure. • • • The new year will begin day after tomorrow. Make at least one good resoolution and strive like a man to live up to it, and if you succeeed you will be a better man at the end of 1905. • * • Dr. Parkhurst, New York’s $20,000 preacher, says democracy is full of “impure spirits." The doctor must have been down in the Tenderloin district again, sampling wood alcohol. • • • That Kentucky drought is working great hardship on her cattle, but the good citizens of that Commonwealth found a ‘‘substitute” so many years ago that a drought is no inconven ience at all to them. * • * There has been a wonderful decline in the jug business since Christmas. In fact it has almost dwindled out, the shipment day before yesterday be ing only four gallons. You needn’t try to tell us that this is not an im provement over the dispensary sys tem so far as the curtailment of the whiskey evil is concerned, for, not withstanding the great amount of whiskey shipped here just before Christmas, the officials report this to have been the most quiet and orderly Christmas of recent years. • • • Several weeks ago the Union Pro gress wanted to know what plagiarism was—H>r words to that effect—and the Columbia State replied: “Swiping.” If the Progress wants to know what “swiping” means let it compare the Christmas editorial in the Easley Pro gress of December 21st with the Christmas editorial in The Ledger on December 10th and it will be able to discern the meaning of the term used by the State. That article was the work of one of The Ledger’s bright young men, but this is not the first time that the product of this young man has been “swiped” by our ex changes and palmed off as original. C city with his family. Mrs. Bello Smith, '-villi Iut son, Mat ] v jij e fja , arrived in the city Satur- son. of Charlotte, spent Xmas in the ( wlth his bride (nee Miss Culbert- citv with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Jolly. Like a Letter From Home. Harrah, Okla., Dec 2(JIh 190-1. Editor The ledger.—Please find in- c’oKod $1.00 for which renew my sub scription. l cannot get along without The Ledger. It is like getting a letter from home. Cherokee county was my home for over thirty years. 1 c me to Oklahoma five years ago and have not been able to get along without r i he Ledger, a; it toils me all the happen ings of Cherokee county, and in fact, in all South Carolina, that is of inter est to me. The good people of Cherokee do serve groat credit, and especially the editor of The Ledger, for the blotting out of the dispensary from Cherokee county. With best wishes for the people ami The Ledger. Respectfully, Mrs. Eliza Haas. W * Pass on the Praise. [Exchange.] “You’re-a great little wife and I don’t know what I would do without you.” And as he spoke he put his arms about her and kissed her. and she fogot all the care in that moment. And, forgetting all, she sang as she washed the dishes, and sang on as she made the bods, and the song was heard next door, and a woman there caught the refrain and sang also, and two homos were happier because he had told her that sweet old story— the story of the* love of a husband for a wife. As she sang, the butcher boy who called for the order heard it and went out whistling ou his journey, and the world heard the whkjBe, and one man hearing it thought: *Iere is a lad \ttio loves his work, a lad happy and contented." And because she sang her heart was mellowed, and as she swept about the back door the cool air kissed her on each cheek, and she thought of a i>oor old woman she knew, and a little bas ket went over to that home, with a quarter for a crate or two of wood. So, because he kissed her and prais ed her, the song came and the In fluence went out and out. Pass on the praise. A word and you make a rift in the cloud, a smile and you may create a new resolve, a grasp of the hand and you may repossess a soul from hell. Pass on the praise now. Pass it on in the home. Don’t go to the grave and call, “mother.” Don’t plead, “Hoar me, mother; you were a good mother and smoothed away many a rugged path for me " Those ears cannot hear that glad admission. Those eyes cannot see the light of earnestness in yours. Those hands may not return the em brace you now wish to give. Why call so late? Pass on the praise today. Relit. E. Poole, of Charlotte, spent Christmas with his uncle, J. V. Sar ratt. Mrs. E.. G. Ross spent Christmas at Hickory Grove with her father, R. W. Westmoreland. Mrs. Eva Blanton Harris, of Spar tanburg, spent Christmas with Mrs. Paul Gaffney, and went on to Blacks burg Monday afternoon to visit rel atives. Mart Moore, of Yorkville, was in the city Monday. Miss Leila Curtis went to Hickory Grove Monday afternoon to visit rel atives. Miss Susie Parker, who has been teaching in the graded school at Union, spent the holidays at her home in the city. Miss Jessie Coffey went to Shopton, N. C., Tuesday on a few days’ visit to her father, Mr.. R. A. Coffey. Miss Minnie McCraw went to her home at Grassy Pond Tuesday on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs A. J. McCraw. Miss Nevade Green went to Boiling Springs Wednesday to visit her pa rents. Davis, a son of Adam McCullough, of Paris, Texas arrived Friday to visit rela.^ves, after an absence of eleven years. J. O. Carpenter, of Wolf City, Texas, arrived in the city Friday to visit rel atives. He is a cousin of Mr. W. C. Carpenter, of this city, and was origi nally from North Carolina, but has been in the west for twenty years. Preston Hughey was in the city Friday and subscribed for The Ledger. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gaffney, of Concord, N. C.. spent Christmas with their mother, Mrs. L. V. Gaffney. Mr. Gaffney is city electrician at Concord. Miss Annie Snead spent Christmas with her aunt, Mrs. Yarhoro, at Cross Anchor. Jesse Sanders, one of the substan tial farmers on Broad river, and his sons Dick. Erwin, Tom and C. P., were all in the city Friday. Mr. Sanders subscribed for The Ledger. J. M. Champion went to Eleherton, Ga.. Friday to visit his son, J. Wylie Champion. He was accompanied by his brother, J. W. Champion, who went to visit his son. J. S. Haggins spent Christmas at Clifton with his daughter. Miss Lillian Saddler, of Rock Hill, who is visiting the Misses Pollock, of Blacksburg, was in the city Wednes day afternoon accompanied by her friends. O. E. Wilkins, of Yorkville, who is a member of the firm of the Wilkins- Bristow Clothing Company, in Gaff ney, came over to the city Tuesday to meet his partner, Mr. Bristow, of Greenville, who arrived in the city or the afternoon train to close up the business of the company at this place. Harry Wilkins, of the Citadel, in Charleston, is spending the holidays in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Wilkins. L. J. Hammett, who is teaching school at Harleyville, arrived Satur- iay to spend Xmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Hammett, at Mer cer. R. N. Simms, Esq., of Raleigh, N. C. . spent the holidays in the city with his parents. Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Simms Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Christman, of Spartanburg, spent Christmas in the city with relatives. Paul and Miss Idelle Brown, and J. J. and Miss Aline Cudd, of Spartan burg, spent the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carpenter, and other relatives in the city. Miss Berniece Ellington, of Raleigh. V. C., is visiting Miss Mattie Simms. W. B. Bridges, of Charlotte, and C. D. Maigater, of Gastonia, N. C., spent Christmas in the city with relatives. J. H. Allison, of Blacksburg, was In the city Saturday. W. H. Bird, of Antioch, was in the city Friday. Mr. Bird is a substan tial citizen and a successful farmer of ids section. Miss Effie Bird, of Antioch, who has son, of Waco, Texas), and will remain several days with his parents, Capt and Mrs. W. H. Richardson. J. A. Patterson, of Shelby, was in the city Wednesday on business. Let Us Hope So. [Charlotte Observer.] There have for several months been rumblings in South Carolina which give color to the statement of The Charleston Post that “there can be lit tle doubt that a heavy storm is making up over the devoted head of Senator Tillman’s great moral institution.” “It is almost certain,” says the contem porary referred to, “that the next po litical campaign in South Carolina will Ite fought upon the dispensary as an issue and there will he some rough charging into that, precious establish ment.” Recently Cherokee county vot ed out the dispensary in behalf of pro hibition. although Senator Tillman himself appeared on the stump at Gaff ney and pleaded for the continuance of the great moral institution. The Baptist. State convention in session at Chester last week put the stamp of its disapproval upon the dispensary, de claring, among other things, that the system is corrupting the morals of the people. Various papers, notably The Spartanburg Journal, are waging a vigorous warfare against it, and it ap pears, from many indications, to have lost favor, and that it will soon have to fight for its life. Deserves Great Credit. Van Alstyne, Tex., Dec. 27, 1901. Mr. DeCamp. Gaffney, S. C. Kind Sir.— Please send papa's (J. C. Crocker) paper to Howe, Texas. We have R. F. D. now. We are highly pleased with Tin- Ledger. Papa subscribed for it when he was there in September. He left the twenty-first of this month for Spartanburg. Perhaps he will visit your town while there. We were glad to read of the abolish ment of the dispensary, and I’m sure The Ledger deserves great credit for its noble work. You have my best wishes for your success. Carrie loye Crocker. Worth Many Times the Amount. Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, W. Indes, Dec. 18, 1904. Ed. H. DeCamp, Dear Sir.—Knowing that your paper is worth many times the amount you ask for it, as I can save fifty cents by sending $1..00 for another year’s sub scription, why not? Hoping you much success, I am, Yours truly, Vance Mills. Inquest Held. The inquest over the body of Solo mon McKnight, the negro who was found dead in a basement at the glass works in Columbia, was held in the court house in that city at 8 o’clock Tuesday night. McKnight was only about 16 or 18 years of age and had been employed at the glass works as a “carrying-in hoy”—that is, he car ried the bottles from the blowers to the lerh, which is an oven in which the bottles are annealed. It is said by those who knew him that McKnight was very delicate and had on several different times fallen in a fit, and the theory as to the cause of his death is that he went into this basement for some unknown purpose and was seized with a fit and fell into the corner, where he was found, and died from the effects of the spasm. Can’t Keep House Without The Ledger. Gaffney, S. C., Dec. 28. 1904. Mr. DeCamp:—I have not received The Ledger this week, perhaps my subscription is out. I don’t know, nevertheless I send $1.00 for another year, so send me a paper, as I can’t keep house without The Ledger. Very respectfully, Mrs. D. P. Sides. Can’t Afford to Do Without It. Pearidge, N. C., Dec. 28th 1904. Mr. Ed. H. DeCamp, Dear Sir.—Please find inclosed one dollar for The Ledger I can’t afford to do without your paper. Yours respectfully, H. T. Green. Lonely Without It. Union, S. C., Dec. 26, 1904. Mr. Ed H. DeCamp, I want to renew my subscription to ! your valuable paper; we are so lonely | without The Ledger. You will find I $1.00 inclosed. J. J. Rippy. Don’t forget the old man vith the fish on his back. For nearly thirty years he lias been traveling around the world, and is still traveling, bringing health and comfort wherever he goes. To the consumptive he brings the strength and flesh he so much needs. To all weak and sickly been teaching at’ Corinth, went home hildren he gives rich and last week to spend the holidays with .[I'cnuthcninGf food her family. — ,s - - ^ - Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Lipscomb went to Fair Forest Saturday to visit Mrs. Lipscomb’s sister, Mrs. E. D. Foster. G. C. Butler, of Bessimer City. N. C\, spr-nt Christmas iu the city with his uncle, Hon. J. E. Webster. Dr. Nott, Sr., of Spartanburg, visited To thin and pale persons ie gives new firm flesh and ich red blood. Children who first saw the ■l.l man with the fish are now his sister. Miss Jane Nott, this woek. j rjOWn lip and have children Mrs W. A. Poole, of Lanncaster, V i spent Christmas in the city with her }l ‘ i1el 1 own. when you make a list of the places that you expect to visit when in town doing your holi day shopping. We Can Sbow Yon Something That Will Interest Yon. 1 le stands for Scott’s EmuJ- spe parents, Dr and Mrs. \V. A. Fort. George B. Estes, with his little • r i i; ;i daughter, Mary, of Brookston, Tex.. i ,1 1 P U ’ C ^ fKl “' Cr 011 ^ arrived Friday to visit his parents, Mr nJlghtiul food and a natural and Mrs. s. f. Estes. '>nic for children for old folks rived Friday to join his wife, who is md lor all WHO need flesh and visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. strength. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. W. McKown, at Mercer. W. B. Byars, of Elgin, Texas, arrlv _ „ . oil TlnirmHv (Iti tils er-oii.l trin m 409-415 Pearl Street, NewYork. ed limrs lay on ms second trip to 60c. ana $1.00; all druggists. Gaffney since he left here twenty-live _________________________ years ago. Ho Is here to visit rel atives. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Wood spent the llow'ii Th it? SVe offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for ,tnv case of Catarrh that cannot t>o cured by holidays at Pacolet. returning Tuesday tiallN i atarrh Cure. afternoon. -I' J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. [mi i ... We. the undersigned, have known E. J. MiRs Hill return* d to Hartsvill* i’)| ( .,iev for the laat i.% yonra. and tielleve him Wednesday after spending Christmas uerfectly honnrahle tu all bualntm trnnsac- at home with his parents, Mr. and ileus and rtnanctally uhle to carry out any •, isio.rt util ohltirattona made hy their firm. Mrs. till* s Hill Wr.NT &Tiuiax, Wholesale Rrutorlstti, Toledo, Mrs. J. B. Martin spent Christmas at Blacksburg with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Byars. Mrs. J. Meek Smith, with baby Claude, Is visiting her parents, Capt. and Mrs. S. S. Ross. Mr. Smith came t). Wammxu. Kin.nan .1 Makvin. Whole sale I trmnrlsts. Toledo, O. Hall'll Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally iii’tinir directly upon the hhiod and mucous surface* of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per laittle. Sold by all Drug gist*. Hall'll Family Pills are the best. Prescription Druggists. Opposite “ '' Dotil. B O r JL H PYRAMIDS OF PAIN Boils show the blood is in a riotous, feverish Condition, or that it has grown too weak and slug- iftytj .-*> gish to throw off the bodily impurities, which ^ then concentrate at some spot, and a carbuncle or boil is the result. To one already enfeebled by disease, boils seem to come with more frequency, causing the intensest pain and greatest danger to the already weak and debilitated sufferer. All skin eruptions, from the sometimes fatal ca^ buncle to the spiteful little cat-boil, are caused by bad blood, and th« only way to avoid or get permanently rid of them is to purify and build up the deteriorated, polluted blood, and counteract the humorf . and poisons; and nothing will do this so quickly and thoroughly as 8. S. S., which is the acknowledged king of blood purifiers and great* est of all tonics. Where the blood has become impoverished and if poor and thin, no medicine acts so promptly in building up and restOSi ing its richness, purity and strength. The time to cure Aiioghenr.Pa., Junoii, i90«. ft boil is before it devel- „ ,,rom of twenty or thirty I wm aorelf . . . . afflicted with large, awful boils onmy face and 008, When it 18 in a state body. As soonasthey wouldhaalupinoneplaeo Ol incubation or form-itinn theywouldor ak out in another part of the bodyv iu ui J ? formation and thia continued for tenyeara. I tried aver*! m the blood; for boils are, thing I could hoar cf to get rnlief, butnothis after all. onlv the imnuri- did “e tmy good. load but little faith inS. 8.1 -. o' • i_ I,,- doing me good when I began it, but after takia ties and poisons bubbling it for a short while the boils began to disappea op through the skin, and I continued on with the medicine, taking ft, bo alTi. ^.,'11 : •. tlea, and all the boil* entirely diaappeared. Pit UU8 Will continue in spite years have elapsed since that time, and X hat of Doulticin? and lancinp- n ® v «rbeen bothered since, showing that the out •III vt j . • j ? was P®rmanent. I had some thirty or forty i till the blood gets nd of the most palnfnl holla one ever had, and to h to accumulated poison. ' h a T^\ T j.V, t&ffl The way to stop boils is you. hsnby zinn. to attack them in the;blood, and this is what S. S. S. does. All danger of boils it past when thi blood has been thoroughly purified and the system cleansed of all mo»> bid, Impure matter. I? you are subject to boils, then the same canted that produced them last season will do so this, and the sooner youbegiai ’ to put your blood and system in go«4 order the better the chance of goi through the spring and summer se« without boils or other painful and L tatlng skin eruptions. S. S. S. is gut_ anteed purely vegetable, apd can hi taken with perfect safety by old aatf young, and without harm to the most delicate constitution. It mild and pleasant 'in its action, and uneqtialed as a cure for boils ana kindred eruptions. Write us if you would like medical advice or othfl| Information. 77f£ SPECIFIC CO" ATLANTAt GAM A Merry Christmas ivivo A HappylHew Year! To .‘ill the ladies and gentlemen of Cherokee County. I thank you one and all for the many kindnesses shown ** me during the year just closing, and will say that I will continue my Candy and Fruit business at the same stand during the incoming year and shall he delighted to have you call on me at any time vhile in the city, and mv highest aim shall be to give you good treatment and value received for your money in tlm future, as I have tried to do in the past. Yours truly, S Tk “The Candy Man.” • y N ext Door to P. O. Christmas Holiday Rates, Via Southern Railway The Southern Railway will sell excursion tickets between all points East of the Mississippi and South of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, FOR ONE AND ONE-THIRD FIRST CLASS STANDARD ONE WAY FARES, for the round trip (minimum rate fifty cents). Tickets on sale Decem ber, 23rd, 24th, 25th and 31st, and January 1st, 1905, with final limit for the return January 4th, 1905. For teachers and students of schools and colleges—ONE AND ONE-THIRD FIRST CLASS STANDARD ONE-WAY FARES, for the round trip (minimum rate fifty cents) be tween all points East of the Mississippi and South of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, and points in the Central Pas senger Association. Tickets on sale December 17th and 24th, inclusive, with final limit for the return January|8th, 1905. For further information regarding rates, train ser vice etc., consult any Ticket Agent, Southern Railway, or JR. Vv . Division Passenger Agt. t l n t. Charleston, 5. C. Are Ycm Administrator and have the settlement of an estate? If so, request of the Judge of Probate that youradvertisementbe placed in :: :: : It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District.