Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 /HE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District, of 8. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger 3EUI-WEEKLY —PlTBiJSHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. The National Bank of' " .,S. C. State, County and City Depository. Everything of a hanking nature en trusted to our care receives our very best attention. We would be glad to have your business. Bank Closes Every Day at 3 P. M. Except Saturday, 5 P. M. A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. It, 1*94. GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. i y nUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely p Told to Ledger Readers. While operating a planing machine in the Malard Lumber Company’s plant Thursday afternoon, Henry Rec tor got his hand badly crushed. The wound was so serious and the injury so extensive that it is expected that the hand will be amputated. Rector is about 25 years of age. He is mar ried and has a family. A head-on collision between a light ^ngine running as an extra and a hosphate train occurred Saturday on le Atlantic Coast Line, at a point Jven miles south of Ashley Junction, between Charleston and Savannah, in which Flagman Hill, of the light en gine. was killed. Full details have not been obtained, but it is understood the light engine was being brought from Savannah to Florence. The Brown Lumber company, of West Union, has applied h r a com mission. The company is to be capi- talGod at Sl'b'WO. Corporaovs; L. M.. J. and S. Brown. Th • Vill vw< >d Boa, Oar c npany, of Georgetown, has also applied for a cot .mission. The corporators are: H. Kaminski, F. G. Tarbox, Joseph Schenck and G. W. Kaminski. Capi talization, $10,0Q0. All beer dispensers of the State are summoned to appear before the dis pensary directors april 24, to show cause why they should not he removed for violation of the dispensary laws. The order will create excitement in the cities of Charleston, Columbia, Spartanburg and Greenville, where there are a number of beer dispensa ries. It is stated that the question does not affect those who sell beer at wholesale and supply dispensaries. In the United States Court in Char leston Saturday, the three men re cently convicted of conspiracy to rob, and robbing, the postoffice at Latta, were sentenced. Rudolph Rabens got three years; James Johnson, alias Murphy, seven years, and John King five years, all at hard labor in the Federal prison at Atlanaa. The sen tence of Johnson was longer on ac count of his plea of guilty to larceny of government funds at Enoree. No tice of appeal to the Court of Appeals was given by the attorney for Rabens. With two jagged wounds in his I throat, his ankles and wrists cut and a stab in his abdomen, A. Vandiver Ray, an inmate of the Spartanburg poor house, was found in the woods Thursday afternoon. The old man wandered away and with a pocket knife sought to end his life. It is thought that the wounds will prove fatal. The old man stated that he fully intended to end his life. He said he had been grieving terribly over the separation from his little grand daughter who was left at Wellford when the old man was sent to the poor inouse. ^ Elsie Adkins, colored, of Beaufort, /Vas killed Friday night at 8:30 o’clock by her husband, Peter Adkins. The I latter then shot himself in the right breast and left neck. Both of the .38-calibre bullets were extracted by attending physicians. The wounds are considered very serious. The couple separated about a week ago, > since which time Adkins lias been brooding over his troubles. His fail ure to obtain employment and conse quent inability to support his wife, to gether with a good cause for jeal ousy, are t.ho supposed reasons for the murder. The couple were married about two years ago. Henry Hollins, who escaped from J. L. Howell and Rhett King at Mas cot last Sunday night, and who was reported to have been lynched, was lodged in jail In Spartanburg Thurs day night. Hollins was arrested last Saturday night on the charge of ar son. burning the barn of J. L. Poole at Campobello, and while he was be ing brought to Spartanburg he made his escape. An effort was made, it is said, to take the prisoner b^ a gang of white men. hut during the mix-up Hollins jumped from the tur/gy and took to the woods. Hie :e*g.\> '-ent to the home of Baker Caldwell, near Gowansville. He said he wanted to give himself up; that he wanted pro tection. Sheriff Nieholls was notified and Thursday aftemrHm Deputy Sher iff White went for Hollins, returning with his prisoner. Marion Parr, the cotton mill opera tive, the murderer of the hoy Clar ence Shealey, whom he killed in a most brutal manner by slipping up behind him, apparently in a drunken frenzy, and cleaving his skull with a hoe, paid the death penalty on the gallows in Columbia Friday with a smile on his lips and without a tremor. Under the influence of his two spiritual ad visers, the Rev. Mr. PAnson. Baptist, and the Rev Mr. Snyder, Methodist. J who have been praying with him con- atantlv. he was keyed no to a rellg- MT Inim fervor which sustained him to the last, that peculiar light constantly coming into his eyes as ho prayed and sang on the stand that, indicated be had made peace with his God and was confident in the cinvlction that he. was about to enter into eternal glory with his sins confessed and free ly forgiven. The drop fell fft 11:11 A. M., and h* was pronounced dead In four and a half minutes, his neck hav ing been broken by the fall with a sickening crack. MONDAY’S MATINEE. Two Colored Gents of Leisure Get Ninety Days Each in City Court, The cast of characters in yester day morning’s matinee was composed of two colored gents of leisure, who, notwithstanding the nature of their occupation, were both fat and sleek and perfect in health and strength. One of them, “Cooter” Lockhart, had purloined a pair of pants from Carroll & Byers’ store and some hats from J. R. Tolleson & Co., and not being fastidious in his tastes regarding the style of weariug apparel, and having more than he needed for his own per sonal use, “Coot" had tried to dispose of some of the stolen property, and thereby got caught. Besides two cases of petit larceny, the mayor ad ded the very appropriate and justly merited charge of vagrancy to his list of offenses and gave him thirty days for each one—three in all. So “Cooter” will be absent from his favorite haunts in the city for a term of ninety days, or just three long, hot months, while the good roads class will have the pleasure of his com- pany. The other offender was one Cephas Littlejohn,, of the same ilk as Coot, who had been beating trains in the absence of anything ^Ise to do. Ce phas was likewise charged with va grancy: and as he admitted that he "hadn’t had time” to work. Mayor Gaffney concluded to put him where he would have nothing to interfere with his desires in that direction, and gave him seventy days on the gang— thirty in two cases, and ten days of an unexpired term. Two cases of drunk and disorderly were continued till this morning. South Carolina Tin. (^’ arlotte Observer.) There has been talk and talk about the tin mine near Gaffney, S. C., and of the fabulous sum its owner, Capt. Ross, has refused for it. Perhaps this tin mine may yet become famous. We have faith in it. In the United States the only tin mines are in South Da kota and South Carolina. In each in stance the properties are in course of development. The Yorkville En quirer tells us that the first shipment from the mine near Gaffney was in 1903, and was 38.471 pounds of con- centratis. A second shipment was sent in 1905. One ton of this was equal to aboAit 1,400 pounds of metal lic tin, the average price of which in New York was 28 cents a pound in 1903. For several years the produc tion of tin has been increasing and the price has gradually advanced. The United States uses about 43 per cent, of the world’s production of tin, hence it would bo of great importance if it could be discovered in large quan tities in this country. All the tin used has to be imported, except that se cured from detinniug old cans and scrap tin. We believe the time is coming when South Carolina will gain more fame as a producer of tin than as the seller of dispensary liquor. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE, MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. snake near Mr. P. Y. Poole’s one day this week. This is the only snake of that kind seen in this section in sev eral years that we have seen or heard of. Capt. Dick Jolly, superintendent of the chain gang, went to his home in Gaffney this afternoon. J. L. S. TIN AND TIN MINING. Taking Time by the Forelock. (Youth’s Companion.) It was late in the afternoon, just at dusk, when a carriage, evidently from the country, drove up to the door of “Anson King, Stationer,” and a young woman alighted and entered the little shop. She asked to see some thin sta tionery, and after selecting what she desired she hesitated for a moment. “Do you make any reduction to cler gymen?” she asked softly. “Certainly, madam,” said the sta- tioneer, with great promptness. “Are you a clergyman’s wife?” “N-no,” said the young woman. “Ah, a clergyman’s daughter, then,” sand the stationer, as he began to tie up the paper in a neat package. “N-no,” said the young woman. Then she leaned across the counter and spoke in a confidential and thrilling whisper, “But if nothing happens I :hnll 1)6 engaged to a theological stu dent as soon as he comes home next month.” Election of S. S. Officers. At the Presbyterian church Sunday Col. J. G. Wardlaw tendered his res ignation as superintendent of the Sun day school, and W. M. Webster re signed his position as secretary. Mr. S. Frank Parrott was elected superin tendent to succeed Col. Wardlaw, and Mr. Joe Robertson secretary, to suc ceed Mr. Webster. A satisfied customer is undoubtedly a first-class advertisement; but the point is to get the customer to satisfy. —Nelson, the Star Clothier, is re ceiving big shipments of new goods every day preparatory to inaugurating a big ten days’ rale, which he intends to begin next Friday. He wants ten or twelve extra clerks to help him during the sale. —Opera House next Thursday. Fri day and Saturday nights—the charm ing Woods Sisters and their merry company of players. —I have a line of samples from Globe Tailoring Co. See them and have your measure taken for a spring suit. J. I. Sarratt. —Each lady accompanied by one paid reserve seat admission Thurs day night will be admitted free to see the Woods Sisters. ■—The only place in town to buy the new line Oxford Shirt and Tie to match. Carroll & Byers. — Special prices on Negligee Shirts and big lot to select from at J. I. Sarratt’s. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest. Wilkinsville, April 14.—The big fish Dock Lavender showed The Ledger is a baby beside the carp that Mr. “Man” Parris killed in Thomson’s mill pond last Tuesday. It weighed eleven pounds. “Man” says he can prove it He shot it with a shot gun. He killed a seven pounder Wednesday. Mr. Smith Wood, of Spartanburg, has our thanks for a bushel of his fine cotton seed—The Texas Wood— which he raised on his Pearidge farm last year. This cotton has five locks to the boll. He raised 3,000 pounds of seed cotton on one acre last year. He plants it eighteen inches in the row and the rows three and one-half feet wide. He says if planted in very good land five feet wide the limbs will lap In the middle of the row and make the same yield. The lint is an extia good quality. „ Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Webber of Wilk insville, are both right unwell with grippe. Mr. Webber is in bed. The Wilkinsville oil mill is a great convenience to this community. A good ginnery is connected with it anil cotton seed meal and hulls are ahvays on hand for those who want them. The would-be-mischief maker who read our recent letter so as to understand that we said Dick Har ris and Aleck Parker were riding around on the Sabbath, drinking whis- kev, needs to go to school. Dick, be sides being a staunch prohibitionist and tetotalist. is too much of a gen tleman to be found on the public high way drinking whiskey on the Sabbath day We excuse the person, believing be' intended it as a joke at our ex pense. We have had an unprecedentedly fa vorable spring so far for farm work, and the farmers are making good use of it. Corn planting will begin in ear nest about next week if the season be favorable. Some little of it has been planted already, v Mr. J. Theodore Bigham, of Sha ron, who has been spending a few days with his daughter, Mrs. Sallie B. Estes, expects to return to his home today. Mr. Jack Palmer, of Sarratt, is sick He has dyspepsia. He was a gallant Confederate soldier and has reached an advanced age. One of Mr. Beatty Morrow’s child ren and W. J. Pridmore are both sick, so we learn. Capt. Dick Jolly, with the chain- gang, is doing some good work on the public roads south of Thlckety creek. He expects to move on this side of the creek next week. He has but few hands. We miss the output of the dispensary much more on the pub lic roads than we do in the public schools. Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Black visited the Misses Kendrick, of Sarratt, last Wed nesday. Mrs. J. L. S. and daughters are busy quilting. There seems to he a mania for this kind of work among our neighbors. Nearly every family we have visited lately are quilting. When a lady gives a quilting she generally has two quilts on hand, and as soon as one is taken from the frames an other Is swung up and the women find something else to do than talk— but it must not be understood that the latter Is altogether neglected. Nothing adds so much to the happi ness of the home as good music.and good reading matter and a willingness and readiness of the family to take phrt In either or both of them. That home must be miserable where noth ing but the clap-trap of neighborhood gossip is heard from day to day and from week to week. Whenever the home is not riiade pleasant for the 1 children they are apt to seek for pleas ure elsewhere—and the end is better imagined than described. Would that all parents fully realized the truth of this assertion. We visited our county .superinten dent of education, Mr. J. L. Walker, last Wednesday and found him plow ing. Ho isn’t afraid of work and he was reared on the farm. We know of a husband and wife whose grandmothers on both sides wen* sisters, all four of them. Will someone tell what kin the husband and wife were before marriage? Mr. S. F. Estes has been fishing some. He caught a nice fish day be fore yesterday. Messrs. J. N. and Sam Strain planted their watermelons today. More guano ’s being put under corn this year than usual. This accounts largely for the guano being bought this year by farmers. Messrs. Fowler Brothers are still hauling the cotton they sold some time ago. They have a number of bales kept over for a better market. Mrs. C. F. Inman, who lias been sick for some time, we are glad to say is up and about. \She is an excellent up and about. Sho is an excllent lady and her many friends will be glad to hear of her recovery. Most of the schools in this, the twenty-fifth school district, have sus pended until after crops are “laid by.” Nearly all the cotton in this neigh borhood has been ginned, and only a few bales remain yet to be ginned. Messrs. Fowler Brothers have put. in about one hundred sacks of guano on their farm and expect to get more; but still it won’t go up to their pur chase of last year. Somebody killed a large coachwhip THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. The Significance of the Development of the Ross Mines. (Yorkville Enquirer.) In this day of expansion and open ing new doors of trade in the far East, the minds of business men and promoters of great enterprises are on the alert. The agricultural indus tries that interest the South are the production of cotton, rice and sugar. When it is considered that the United States is paying about 30 cents a pound, or $050 for a long ton of tin, the importance of developing the mines of the country seems to be very great. The development of the Ross tin mine at Gaffney is progresing slowly under the new management. Capt. S. S. Ross is in charge of the work at present. Tin stone, cassiterite, or tin dioxide, has been found in seven teen States and territories. Attempts to develop and work the mines on a large scale have been made in v^ry few places. At this time the < nly deposits that are att.-icting at ten lion are in Alaska, South Dakota and South Carolina. The Linton Tin company, operating the mines in South Dakota, have a small concentrating plan:, but i they ship tin to Europe to have it | smelted. The first shipment from the | Ross mine at Gaffney, was in 1903, and was 38,471 pounds of concen- tratis. A second shipment was sent in 1905. One ton of this was equal to about 1,400 pounds of metallic tin, the av erage price of which in New York was 28 cents a pound in 1903. For several years the production of tin has been increasing and the price has gradually advanced. The United States uses about 43 per cent, of the world’s production of tin, lienee it would be of great importance if it could be discovered in large quantities in this country. All the tin used has to he importer), except that secured from de-tinning old cans and scra-p tin. A smelting plant was begun at Bayonne, N. J., in 1903, to treat ores from the Malay Peninsular, but be fore it was completed the export of tin from that region was prohibited by a very high duty, and the work was abandoned. Tin found in this country has to be sent to Europe for smelting. More than Jialf the tin of the world comes from the Malay States. In 1903 they produced 54,797 long tons, while the Cornwall mines yielded only 4,150. The total produc tion for that year was 93,893 tons, of which 74,797 tons were produced in Malay and in the islands of Banaca and Billiton, in the Malay Archipelago. Boliva stood third in tin production in 1903, the output being 9,500 tons. The smelting of tin runs far back in the history of the world. If any one even reads such antiquated literature as Homer’s description of the Shield of Achilles, he will find that tin, with gold and silver, enterted into the or namentation of that work of divine art. Sprinkle the Streets. Would it not he well if our city fathers would arrange this summer to keep Limestone street sprinkled from the tower to the the railroad crossing? The dust is already had on windy days. Granard might also be sprinkled for two or three blocks and also a couple of the cross streets in the business portion of the town. No one will object to the spending of money that adds to the comfort of ail the people. It is a good time for the city force to clean out the gutter so that when the spring rains come the streets may he washed clean. Whoop ’em up, city fathers! Dr. Simms received a telegram Sat urday announcing a new grandlon in Raleigh, T. U. Moseley, Jr. Letter to Chief of Police Lockhart. Gaffney, S. C. The police are finding us out. Officer L H Pinney, of Erie, Pa, painted his house Devoo, perhans two or three years ago—the tale don’t tell when—the painter objected, but Pin- ney insisted. Two neighbors of Pinneys have painted since: one lead-and-oil, the other some other paint, don’t know what. But officer Pinney lives in the nicest painted house of the three. The rest of the story we don’t know: what it cost the three to paint. We can guess: about half for officer Pinney. Yotirs truly, 84 F W Devoe & Co P. S.—R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. sell our paint. —Thursday night ladies will be ad mitted free to the Woods Sisters if accompanied by one paid reserve seat admission. —Go to C. C. Humphries’ for pure soda water, delicious ice cream and all the latest drinks, dispensed by an experienced man. —We carry the famous Kirscbbaum Clothing. They have a high reputa tion for fit and quality. Carroll & Byerg. ~-Let us show you our line of Col lars and Shirts. Everything new. Carroll & Byers. —Don’t fail to go to C. C. Humph ries’ Ice cream parlor for delicious ice cream. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. Items of Interest Concerning Out Neighbors in the Old North State - Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers The program committee of the North Carolina Teacher’s Assembly are rap idly completing the program of the great meeting to be held in Greens boro on June 13-16. North Carolina bonds for collection on which South Dakota sued the State were received by Attorney General ’Gilmer Friday and turned over to the State Treasurer on cancellation. The recently incorporated firm known as the Wadesboro Dry Goods Company, of Wadesboro, has started out with a paid up capital of $10,000 and will conduct a wholesale and re- t'iil dry goods business. The follow ing officers have been elected: K. W. Ashcraft president: J. D. Horne, vice president; J. W. Griggs, secretary and treasurer. Mr. J. A. Russell, clerk of the Su perior Court, received Friday morning a check for $10,000 from the Southern Railway in settlement of three judg ments entered against the company at Me Inst civil term of Superior Court. The money in settlement of this class of cases is always paid into the hands of the clerk of the court, who pays it to the administrator or his attorneys. John Rolack, colored, was killed by Robert Warren, also colored, at C o’clock Saturday night, in Edenton near Elizabeth City. The two men were engaged in an argument about wrestling and soon began quarreling. Kolack, who was the largest man, knocked Warren down and was about to hit him again when Warren stab bed him in the neck, severing the juglar. Rolack died in about twenty minutes. Warren quietly gave him self up to the officers. Governor Glenn, at the request of citizens of Newbern, writes the Gov ernor cf New Jersey urging him to at tend the ceremonies at Newbern early in May for unveiling the monument to the Tenth New Jersey’troops. Gov ernor Glenn’s purpose is to attend with his staff and as many military companies as can be gotten together for the occasion. Citizens of New bern will give a reception on the ev ening and the survivors of the Tenth New Jersey troops on the next even ing. The entire ceremonies being un der the auspices of the latter. ’Squire W. O. Bailes, who is known far and wide as the magistrate who has married more couples in the past few years than all of the ministers combined. Thursday shot and fatally wounded his cousin, Edward Bailes, a prominent young man of Mecklen burg county. It seems that had feel ing has existed between the Bailes families and that a quarrel ensued as the result of the old grudge. Bailes’s physician said Friday that his condi tion was very critical, and the prob ability was that he could not recover from the effects of the wound. ’Sqr're Bailes has been arrested and will be given a hearing at Fort Mills, S. C. The Citizens’ Bank & Trust Compa ny, of Concord, opened its doors for business Saturday under the most fa vorable circumstances. This institu tion is located in the heart of the business section of the city, and the rooms are elegantly furnished with all the latest improvements in hank ing facilities. The burglar-proof safe weighs 13,700 pounds, and is unique in design and of the highest mechani cal workmanship. This institution is backed by some of the most influential business men of Cabarrus county. The stockholders are substantial merchants, farmers, etc., and they are scattered about in all sections of the county. A general mixture of a few bad negroes and white men, blockade whiskey, cards, etc., in the northern suburbs of Burlington a few days ago resulted in a general fight, in which guns, razors and clubs were brought to bear, and one negro, Haywood Al len, was probably .fatally shot and a white man, J. J. Self, was knocked down with a pistol, and many others were slightly injured.. The crowd had gathered according to a prearranged plan, it is thought .to meet a blockade whiskey dealer, and were drinking freely and indulging in a game of cards when the row occurred. All ox-, cept Self and Allen beat a speedy re treat'and but little of the details are known, but an investigation is being made, and Interesting developments are expected. Passengers on a Southern train, running between Winston and Moores- vllle, relate the story of the usual rock throwing by a drunken negro Friday afternoon, while the train was running through a cut. coming out from Winston. Engineer Jones was struck by a large rock, when he imme diately applied the emergency brakes to his engine, stopped the train and ran hack to the scene of the assault, where he found the miscreant. He at once tied his feet and hands and con fined him in the coach, where a watch was kept over him until the arrival of the train at Mocksvllle, when he was taken In charge by an officer. Engineer Jones’ injuries were only slight. The unusual feat of so promptly stopping a train, to accom plish the arrest oj an assailant, brought forth much’favorable com ment by all the passengers. Recital at Limestone. A recital was given at Limestone College Saturday afternoon, at which the beginners, assisted by some of the intermediates, took part. All played and sung from memory and showed fine mental and musical training. Following was the program: 1. Au Matin Goddard Miss Winona Phifer 2. Children’s Carnival .. Streabbog Miss Carrie Bowling 3. Over the Ocean Blue .... Petrie Miss Hettle Ezell 4. Song of Spring Scamoll Miss Alma Funde-burk 5. Blumenlied .. .. Lange-Rosewig Miss Lou Perry 6. The Heather Flower .. Spindler Miss Birdie Petty 7. Over the Hills to Sunlight Town —Vannah Miss Lucie Carpenter 8. Doll’s Dream Oesten Miss Lula Werts 9. Valse Rurarael Miss Daisy Gamble 10. Parade Review .. .. Engleman Misses Gertrude and Cora Allen. 11. (a) French Child’s Song . Bebr (b) Patience Carmer Miss Mary Lodge 12. Love’s Old Story . ..Campbell Miss Edna Davis 13. The Woodbine .. .. Smallwood Miss Fannie Arnold 14. Constant Devotion .. .. Geibel Miss Jo Drummond 15. Quartet—The Magic Flower ^ —Geibel Misses Wilburn, Davis, Franks and Sarratt 1C. Under the Lindens .. Beaumont Miss Eva Perry 17. Serenata Turner Miss Marie Martin 18. (a) Entreaty Bohra (b) The Sweetest Flower Lieber Miss Erin Huff 19. Con Amore Beaumont Miss Wilma Gaffney 20. Beautiful Venice .. .. Bassford Miss Annie Drummond A Coming Marriage. Invitations are out to the marriage of Miss Ella Kirby to Mr. J. L. Pruitt which will take place next Wednes day night at the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church at 8:30 o’clock. Miss Kirby is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Kirby, of this city; and Mr. Pruitt is from Boiling Springs. N. C., but is now engaged with the Cherokee Marble Works of this place. Encou: ' ing -Young Folks. Dr. Sinr"s 'id some very encour aging things Sunday morning about the hoys and girls of Gaffney. He declared them to he the most polite ever seen in a town or city. The cus tom the hoys have of tipping their caps to ladies is certainly a becoming one and worthy of praise. CHEAP RATES Via the Soi’thern Railway to the Fol lowing Point*. Kansas City, Mo.—Southern Bap tist Convention: May 10-17, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus 50 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 7 to 11, Inclusive; final limit May 23, 1905. St. Louis, Mo.—National Baptist Anniversary, May 16-24, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 14- 15-16, with final limit May 27. 1905. Asheville, N. C.—South Atlantic Missionary Conference, May 17-21, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 16, 17; final limit May 23, 1905. Fort Worth, Tex.—General Assem bly Southern Presbyterian church, May 18-26, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus $2.00 for round trip. Tick ets on sale May 15, 16, 17; final limit May 31, 1905. Hot Springs, Va.—Southern Hard ware Jobbers Association June 6-9, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale June 3, 4, 5.; final limit June 13, 1905. Savannah, Ga.—National Travelers’ Protective Association of America, May 16-23, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus 50 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 13-14; final limit May 26, 1905. Savannah. Ga.—Fourth Annual Tournament Southern Golf Associa tion, May 9-13, 1905. Rate one first class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Tickets on sale May 7, 8, 9, 1905; limited May 15, 1905. The Southern Railway is the most direct line to all of the above points; operating pullman sleeping cars, higl# hack vestibule coaches, with su perb dining car service. For detailed information apply to any ticket agent of this company, or R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. I am prepared to furnish you ice cream in any quantities on short no tice. Satisfaction guaranteed. C. C. Humphries. toadies free Thursday night if ac companied by one paid reserved seat admission to the Woods Sisters. —We can fit you out from head to foot with new and nobby Easter goods. Carroll & Byers. —Ask about our Easter neckwear. It is the nobbiest in town. Carroll & Byers. —Three car loads good Flour just received. W. J. Wilkins & Co. —Corn. Oats, Bran, Hay, & c w in. W. J. Wilkins & Co. —Panama Hats for Men at Carroll & Byers’.