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K'.-r THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, W. Griffith, Local Editor. The L,edi_ • Is not re8p<inrflbl9 for the viovs of ’.orrespondents. Oblturarles will be published at live cents a line. Corresfiondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for Identification. All correspondence should be ad- dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. A beautiful and chaste womaif is ihe perfect workmanship of God, th^ glory of angels, and the rare miracle of earth. * * • If ;onie people would pay their bills as nicely as they do compliments, there would be fewer rascals in the world. • • • Hail and good-day to Col. Thomas E. Moore, the new president of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, of this city. We welcome him and trust that he may find life so pleasant among us that he will take up a per manent abode with us • • • The National Bank expects to get into its new quarters this week. Gaff ney can boast of two of the finest bank buildings of any town its size in the world. They are right opposite each other and will eye one another'] with a jealous eye, but a kindly spirit. • * • The young man that expects to ac complish anything in thjs world need not think he has an e|>ernity in which to do it. The world is looking for bright young men bn the farm, in the school house, in the store, workshop or counting room, and if you want to make your mark in any calling you should 3oiy& no time picking up the chalk. • • • Postmaster A. It. N. Folgcr went i > Georgia Friday to see his son C!iv , ■.ho was reported to be very .iek. | Mr. Folger was delighted to his arrival, that Clh ■ was not miy much better, but was preparing to 'etuni to his work. ’i • . John 0. Kilgo. of Tritely Col- 1 . Tn. C., passed through the c ty Friday enrente to Greenwood, where he went to deliver an address before the young ladies of the female college there. Clint Robbins came home from Wof ford College, Spartanburg, Friday, to visit his parents, Mr. and M"s. C. H. Robbins. .Mi-os Janie Culbertson, Marion Gadsden, Mary Martin, Emma Calhoun, Edna Brown and Minnie Burgess, all Limestone College girls, attended ser vices at Goucher church Sunday, in company with Dr. Lodge. R. B. Wood, of the J. I. Case Thresh ing Machine Company, at Salisbury, N. 0., was in the city last week in the interest of his house. Capt. J. J. Magness was in Spar tanburg the last of the past week. R. C. Swofford went to Spartanburg Sunday on “business.” Miss Drake, from Converse College, is visiting her friends at Limestone College. Geo. W. Hart. Esq., of Yorkville, was in the city yesterday. \\. Sam Lipscomb has returned from New Orleans, where he went as a del egate from Cherokee county to the cotton growers’ association. Mr. and Mrs. Foster, who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. N. Lip comb, have returned to their home at Fair Forest. M. Swofford, of Grassy Pond, was ih the city yesterday. I. M. Smith, of Thiekety. was a ciiy visitor yesterday. Willie Vassey, of Beaverdam, was in the city yesterday. W. W. Gaffney went to Spartanburg yesterday on business. J. G. Galloway returned yesterday from a trip out of the city. Rev. F. C. Hickson went to Goucher Growing of Early Cabbage. Refused Application for Bait Ti.e writer of this article is the • ,,u| k r e Gage refused an application originator of the cabbage growing in- f° r i-' 1 'be case of the five men ■ Mislry on the Carolina coast. I grow "ho are confined in the Berkeley coun-j • ty first cabbage for market in the on . Gie c'.arge of lynching the find o.i : ' ear 18kS, from a beginning of one- no ^ ro ' Bookhart, at Eutawville, ' ''kali acre. The business lias in-1 laM yea.-, and bis action in the matter -eased until at the present time : w-nI b( ' approved by the better senti- there are over 4,000 acres of cabbage! ’‘’'‘'tt of the entire Stale. It lias been rown each season in this territory. ] 11 ca: ' l!| ! survey of the Po grow a successful crop the first I l^rbeloy and Orangeburg county lines and most important tliing'is to secure Gmt the negro was killed in Orange- ; l.mts that are grown from high j " ir ” county, instead oI Berkeley coun grade seed, as no amount of care, fer- . a,u ^ ’■ e tria. of those chraged with tilizer or cultivation can make a good Giis horrible crime will be held in crop if the plants used are grown from i OnmSPburg instead of Berkeley. T bis infe 'ic" seed. You cannot judge from ] ls 1 case in which G vernor Hey- the appearance of the plant, as all j war ^ behaved so splendidly, and the young cabbage plants look the same. | "I'o jioh-ing up his hands, and Your safest plan is to purchase your ilauts from a responsible dealer who nas been in the business a long time t For the law will take its propi-r course without being affected by technicali ties. through which many a guilty per- nm! who has an established reputa- i ias esca P e( l punishment for his lion. The better class of seed grow-j cnuieH - ers select their stock very carefully, i While fe-e were confined to our home last we<Yk by an atack of—something Incident I to our recent western trip— the Columbia State played a trick on us by i/‘marking “What hath prohibi tion w/ought?” and one of our bright young/ men was so unfeeling as to copy /the same in these columns. That!is the way of the world! Just as soon as you get a fellow down take advantage of him. • • • if the Columbia State and Spartan- btirg Journal would cease growling at eacl^ other, start a petition in their respective counties calling for an election on the dispensary subject and go to work and try to create a healthy public sentiment against the outrag- ous systerii and have it voted out of their counties, they would do a d« al more good than growling and showing Sunday to attend the exercises of the convention, Mrs. B. E. Thomson and her daugh ter, Miss Lucy, of Blacksburg, were in the city yesterday afternoon shop ping. Senator T. B. Butler came home Fri day afternoon and returned to Colum bia yesterday. A. Urquehart, of Blacksburg, was hi the city yesterday. Hall & Willis moved into their new office in the National Bank building yesterday. James Jefferies, a rising young farmer of Wilkinsville, was in the city Saturday and made The Ledger office •a business call. E. R. Sapoch, one of the prominent men of the Antioch section, was in the city Saturday. Miss Sallie Darwin, of Smyrna, who has been spending some time with her brother, J. M. Darwin, on Victoria avenue, returned home Friady. John Whisonant, of Blacksburg, was a visitor to the city Saturday. J. F. Lord and his son-in-law, J. A. Jenkins, of Cooleemee, who is here with his family, went to Spartanburg Saturday afternoon. O. G. Falls, of King’s Mountain, wav in the city Friday. I. P. J. Wood, of Spartanburg, was a business visitor in the city Friday. R. R. McKnight, of Yorkville, spent removing from the field all heads of cabbage that are not p“rfcct. Some seasons they have to rut out two- thirds of their plants an I do not save their seed from more than one-third. Seed selected in this way will cost from $2.50 to $3.00 per pound. Other seed growers allow their entire crop of cabbage to make seed, and do not use any care in the selection of seed grown. These seed wil cost from 40 to 00 cents per pound. The cost of the seed is two-thirds of the cost of growing cabbage nlants, so you can readily understand why a plant grow er who pays $2.50 to $3.00 for his seed cannot sell you plants as cheap as the grower who buys inferior seed at 40 to 00 cents per pound. My thirty-six years experience has proved to me that, it would pay me better to use high grade seed at a cost of $10.00 per pound than to use inferior seed, if I could get them free. Those who do not make a regular business of growing cabbage have been in the habit of setting out their plants in the months of February and March, think ing that the plants do not live if set earliep in the winter. This is a mis take. as a plant set in December or January, under the proper coditions. will live just as well and head much earlier. The following instructions wil give the proper method of set ting. The South Carolina sea coast, on account of locality and climatic conditions, is admirably adapted to the growing of hardy open air plants. The plant growers sow their seed in the open fields in thf* late fall, from October 20th to November 15th; these seed germinate quickly and make a very rapid growth for a couple of weeks; by this time the nights start to get cold. The growth of the plants is checked, and usually about Decem ber 1st to 10th our freezing weather begins, when the plants stop growing entirely. The cold weather has caused it to become tough and hard. It is now in a dormant condition and will remain in this condition until the lat ter part of February or untl the spring weather opens up. While iq this con dition these plants will stand cold without Injury. I have seen my plarits covered with ice and sleet for sev eral days, with the thermometer down to 18 and not be injured at ail, while the same plants if they had been in a thrifty growing condition and full of sap would have been killed by a heavy freeze or a sight of frost. To avoid the danger of losing your plants you want to buy them while they are dormant; the sooner Road Work Needed. Ed. Ledger:—We would he glad if; the overseer of the road between here i and Spakc’s gin would notice that the approaches to the Limestone bridge need some additional dirt at the ends of the bridge, and also that there is a place about a mile this side of the bridge where a culvert should he put in. We hope this may be attended to; and this reminds us that if the road roller, which is standing idle, were run over the rough places in the roads it would do great gtxrd. The ground is now dry and mellowing af ter the freeze and the roller would smoothe down the ground and save much work and put the roads in good condition. Many deep ruts would he filled by this method and the had , places put in good shape for spring j travel. Why may not this he done? Use the machinery. It is idle. Citizen. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters remaining in the Gaffney Postofflce for the week ending January 30th, 1905: John Asike, James Black. J. D. Blan ton, John D. Craig, S. W. Davidson, Robert Gadfey, J. J. Goforth, J. M. Jolly, B. Z. Jeffers, Alford Locket, Jas. Littlejohn, C. E. Lipscomb, J. W. Moss, Geo. Montgomery, L. L. McEl- more, John McAde, R. L. Plyler, Jake Pairs, Tom Summers (2). Leander Stevens, E. C. Turner, Mrs. Sarah Brooks, Miss Josie Blanton, Mrs. Idie Gunn, Miss Alice Handy, Mrs J. M. Harris. Mrs. M. J. Morrow, Mrs. Ma ry Phillips, Mrs. Mary Petty. Call for “Advertised Letters.” One cent due on each. A. R. N. Folger, P. M. Pay of Various Armies. It may still be said of the soldiers of the army of the United States that they are the best fed, the best clothed, the best paid troops in the world. The Slav soldier, who is fighting to main tain the prestige of the Czar in Man churia, receives only twelve cents a month. The litle Jap, who is oppos ing him, receives only sixty cents a month. France pays h#r soldiers $1.74 a month. German pays her sol diers $2.50 a month, and England pays her soldiers $7.14. But the Amer ican soldier gets $13 a month in time of peace, with a 20 per cent increase in time of war. It is not often you see a Shoe ad. headed Mon- azite, but our object is to call the attention of miners to our Water- Proof Boots and Shoes. Being in water they need as near water-proof goods as they can get. If we haven’t what you want we can’t get it. The entire l)u>im.*s-( of the Acme Furniture Co., including the stock of W. V. Humphries & Co., will bo closed out at the eailiest date possible. Anyone wishing to engage in business of this kind will find this a splendid opportunity. How ever, we will lose no time wait ing for a purchaser of this kind, but will begin closing out ajj once. Now is your time to save money and you may not have a like opportunity again soon. All parties owing bills are requested to call and settle promptly. Yours truly, Acme furniture Co. CABBAGE PLANTS FROM THE BEST TESTED SEEDS. Now ready for shipment. Large strong, healthy. These plants were grown in the open air and will stand severe freeze without injury. Early Jersey. Wakefield, Large Type or Charleston Wakefield, which are the best known varieties of early cabbage. Also Henderson’s Succession, the best large, late and sure header. Au gusta Early Trucker, also a fine type of late variety. Neatly packed in light baskets, J1.50 per thousand; for 5,000 or over, $1.25 per thousand, F. O. B. express office. Special prices made on large lots. Dec-tfi-qnio CHAS. M. GIBSON, Youngs Island, S. C' Lipscomb Company; their teeth at each other every other i R. R. McKnight, of Yornvine, spent, j... - n J’ 0 " do day. It may net I* o„r tin:,- l.mt- Thursday of last w«* in thn city. "> n ”<""-or I5th the better. into „ i i ' John A. Hames, of Gowdeysville, , , JOU have it. select a piece of insk> on this subject and we know we| wh() is one of OUI . ’ 8UCC e SS f„i farmers,! medimnly low, well drained are liable to get slapped over or be j , vas j,, t i, P r it y Saturday, kicked out of the way; but it’s dis-j Dr. T. B. Whitesides, of Blacksburg, gustfng to see two such distinguished • 1 ° farms largely on Bullock’s creek 1 ne$r Hickory Grove, was in the city Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Littlejohn and little daughter, Virginia, of Spartan- burg, have been in the city the past few days visiting relatives. They took dinner with Rev. !. J. Newberry '"e bed. far enough down that the top on Saturday, this being his 70th birth-- b e d will be above the plant; journals acting like they do. Get to work and do something, both of you, or shut up, one or the other. • • • The legislature has at last fixed It so there will he no biennial session of the legislature of this State for two years to come. Of course we do not understand the red tape necessary to he gone through before tills can be done, and we have no desire to make ourself r! iiculous by any Rtolish crit icisn: o' land: break it up as thoroughly as you can, then pulverize well with a good clod breaker or harrow. Lay off your rows east and west, 30 inches apart, with a bull-tongued plow. Make up your bed by throwing two furrows together with a single horse turn plow. Take your nlants and set them 20 inches apart on the south side of Star Theatre FRIDAY, FEB. 411) Tbs Big Laughing Bbow S if . Notice! Don’t forget, call on us when you want something nice in fresh Meats and Country Produce. Our meat cutter has fifteen years ex perience and can cut your meat to suit you Give us a trial order and see for yourself. Our prices: All Steak straight loc lb. Pork loc, 12J^c and 15c, fat off. Yours for business, f Thank you, Dempsey & Hawkins, Opposite Star Theatre. ^ ■ — — — 1 - Oo You Want Your or •'athcrinc Littlejohn, daughters of Mr. Sumter Littlejohn, accompanied them. J. Fit. Jefferies, C. T. Clary, Ixigan Warmoth. Dr. W. K. Gunter. C. C. Kirby, Henry Lockhart, Ed Stacy, H. H. Bonner and Walter Humphries, all ttont body; hut it appears to (, f the city, attended the Sunday school us that it is a desire on the part of convention at Goucher .Sunday. „ ^ «... T. E. Collins, of Spartanhutg, was in the members of the legislature to the city Saturday. needlessly inflict itself upon a long- Dr. S. M. Gunter and H. S. Drum- suffering and over-indulging c mstitu-- iuond N of Clifton, visited friends in the ency. God knows we have more laws '‘G Sunday night. A , , , A. L. Crutchfield, of the firm of now than we know what to do with— (’rutchfleld-Tolleson Company, Spar certainly more than are being prop-, tanburg, was in the city Sumlay.- day Misses Hattie Lou andi ,I1,s * s <u>ne T0 keep the north and and erly enforced—and why they should be so anxious to make still more is be yond our understanding. What we need is fewer laws and a better en forcement of them. • • * To us there is always something pathetic about a man who has been identified with an establishment for years relinquishing his position for any cause. Recently there have been two disolutions of business interests in this city that appealed to this senti ment. The Ledger regretted both, hut there can lie no doubt that both these severances will redound to the glory and growth of Gaffney. We re fer to the dissolution of the firm of Carroll, Carpenter & Byers, and the resignation of Mr. Wheat from the presidency of the Gaffney Manufactur ing Company. Instead of one big-de partment store under one manage ment wo are going to have two under different managements. They will contest for trade and will make two blades of grass grow where one grew before. Instead of one big mill we are to have two big mills, for wlto will say that II. D. Wheat will bo content until he lias decked the hillsides around his present Irene Mills with additions and tenant houses until it rivals the plant of any other manufact uring concern in this country. And there is something manly in tho sen timent of good will toward the old mill as expressed by Mr. Wheat; and every man who knows him will wish him well in his new enterprise. Rochelle Rogers, who is bookkeeper for the Laurens Cotton Mills store at Laurens, spent Sunday in the city. Issac Turner, a wide-awake and progressive merchant of Converse, was in the city Friday. Clarence Gaffney, who is in business at Spartanburg, came home Friday night on account of his children being quite sick. T. M. Littlejohn, a large planter of the Star Farm section, was in the city Saturday on business. Mrs. H. V. Bryant spent Saturday in Spartanburg shopping. Chief J. C. Ducan, of Blacksburg, was in the city Friday afternoon. N. C. Snead sp<mt Friday in Spartan burg. Mrs. Lillie Laney and children, of Munroe, N. C., arrived in the city Friday afternoon to spend a week with her parents. Mayor and Mrs. R. M. Gaffney. Her sister, Mrs. Rosa Roundtree, will accompany her on her return home to spend some tiiw\ S. M. Lipscomb, of Asbury, who has been confined at his home by sick ness, was in the city yesterday on hi return to Spartanburg where lie is at tending Wofford Fitting school. Mr. Lipscomb subscribed for The Ledger before he left. O. G. Fails, of Kings Mountain, N. C., was in the city Friday. James Doyle, advance agent for the “Weary Willie Walker" show, was in the cHy Saturday hilling ills attrac tion. Andrew E. Moore, of Spartanburg, was in the city Friday. J. F. Heine, of Blacksburg, spent Saturday in the city. J. O. J. Wood, of Spartanburg, was here Friday. Col. J. O. Wat Haw, of Charlotte, spent Synday an 1 yesterday in the city with his family. What la “Eg Nog?" jiy It this is done to keep tho northwest winds from twisting breaking the small plants. Be sure to set the plants well down in the soil. • nd see that the entire stem up to the first leaves is in the ground. The earth should he well packed around the plant: It should he packed so firm that if you take your plant by the leaf and pull the leaves would break off before the plant would pull out. it is understood that you have u-ed plants that are in a dormant condi tion. These plants should not be fer tilized at all, until about two weeks before the regular spring weather opens up. The top of the plants will not grow during the winter, but the roots will tie growing ail of the time. About the middle or last of February —or say two weeks before your regu hr spring weather starts—take a turn plow, or half shovel, and throw a fur- tow away from the plants in each al ternate row; run the furrow close to the plant: sow in thi« furrow fertili zer at tho rate of 1,"90 pounds to the acre. This fertilizer should annalyze 8 per cent, phosphoric acid, 7 per cent, ammonia, and 5 per cent, potash. Af ter you have put down the fertilizer, go into the furrow that was not vorked before and do the same thing; then keep the allyes well cultivated. u.Hng for this purpose a cultivator or diamond toothed harrow. You want to keep the land from this time on well cultivated and as well open ns possible, so that the sun and lir can get In and warm up the soil. The '’ 0 bb8go loots that have been growing all winter are now strong and will take up the fertilizer rapidly, and the plants will grow much faster, and make you a head of cabbage two to three weeks sooner than if you had i t the plants in February or March This article applies to the growing uf cabbage in Virginia and all of the Gulf States. Do not forget that the mooe s or failure of the whole crop depends on your getting good plants from reliable seed. F< r this reason you should buy your plants from a responsible grower who has been In the huslnobB a long time and has an established reputation. Yours very truly, W. C. Geraty, Youngs Island, 8. C. You Walker. Funii]! Comedians, Pretty Girls, Catchy Music, New Sengs. Not only a Laugh—A Scream, A Roar. Hear Willie Sieg Everything New - Don't Miss This. Prices: 25c, 50c, and 75c. FINAL DISCHARGE. Tur.ed or repaired with satisfaction guar anteed, or do you want to buy a I flam or Organ ? ::2S I’ll sell for cash or 0:1 time and give j ) oil the I Worili oi Your Money. 3 W. L Johnson, At JoWm’Store. Sufferer i iff IK!! From some Kidney, |&i Liver or Bladder trou- & ble, try Hot Springs Kidney and Bladder ^ Cure. Just one 50c Notice is hereby given to all con- cornod that we shall apply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for Chero- Veo county. South Carolina, at his of fice. on Wednesday, February 15th, next, for final settlement and dis charge as Administrators of the es-1 HI’ tate of Wm. Moss, deceased. ! 441 All persons holding claims against | said estate will present the same duly - attested to the undersigend on or be fore February 15th, at 10 o’clock A. M. W. T. Moss, G. W. Moss. As Admrs. Estate Wm. Moss, Deed. January 20th, 1905. ^ Pub in Gaffney Ledger Jan. 24-31, & Feb. 1-14, 1905. 1 cine of wonderful cur ative power. i The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. t heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele- >rated Paints—guaranteed to go further ind last longer than any ether in the . market. When in need of anything in | the building line, call an,, see us; we’ll ' treat you courteously and inaxe your es timates for nothing. V3 £1 MANAGER k or*. —Ladles and Misses Jackets cut prices, at J. I. Sarratt’s. at —The Big Sale at Tho Battery still going on. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that I will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for Cherokee county, 8. C., at his office at the court house on Fri day, February the 17th, 1905, at 11 o’clock A. M., for a final settlement and discharge as administrator of the estate of Obedlah Tate, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate will present them on or be fore said date, or forever be barred. J. Eh. Jefferies, Clerk and Administrator of said Pub. 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