The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 23, 1905, Image 1
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Gaffney, 8. C.,
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With resources March 31, 1905 of orer
$300,000.00,
respectfully 'solicits your
banking business.
A Newspaper In All that the Word Impllee and Devoted ^ the Beet Interests of the People of Cherokee Ceunty.
ESTABLISHED FEB. 1«, 1M4.
THROUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE
GAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1905.
•1.00 A YEAR.
ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING
EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
* Hr openings All Over the State Taken
Our Exchanges and Tersely
Told to Ledoer Reade s.
Amos Kelley, a painter, was drowned
off the Isle of Palms, near Charleston,
Tuesday, while out in a row boat. Tim
accident was caused by the capsizin''
of the boat.
A commission for a charter was is
sued Thursday to the Mutual Ice Co.,
of Sumter. The corporators named
are: Barton Walsh, H. T. Edans, W.
• B. Boyle and J. A. Schwerin. The
capital stock of the company is to
be $20,000.
Chief Grady and State Constables
Howard, Hayes, Mulligan and Miller,
seized a 10-gallon capacity still at the
foot, of Hog Back mountain Tuesday
night. They carried the entire outfit
to Spartanburg. Along with the illicit
distillery 2:’. fermenters were secured
and 1,500 gallons of still beer was de
stroyed. No arrests wore made.
Attorney General Gunter filed an
opinion on the beer dispensary ques
tion. He decided that county boards
have the rights to fix* the salaries,
which .nay be in shape of royalty:
that bottling works in connection with
beer dispensaries are permissible in
'Cities of 2".non inhabitants. As to
premises, he holds that, it is a matter
Of fact to he determined by jury.
The suit of the Clifton Co., vs. the
Southern Railway for damage by cot
ton shipments being lost while en-
route to Clifton mills from some point
in Mississippi occupied the attention
of the court in Spartanburg all last
week. Late Friday afternoon the ar
gument was concluded. The case
was given to the jury prior to the ad
journment. and they were instructed
to return a sealed verdict.
The Troy oil mill, which was order
ed sold by tbo court to satisfy credit
ors, was nut on the block at Green
wood Tuesday. No bids were received
over the upset price set by order of
the court—$17,500 and it was agreed
by the attorneys representing both
* sides to sell the property anyway, sub
ject to the approval of the court. Mr.
S. H. McGee, representing several cli
ents, then bought the property in at
$15,000.
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According to letters received by
those interested in strawberry farm
ing in the Horry section of this State,
the Armour Packing Company, of Chi
cago, has settled for a very large
sum for the delay in shipment of the
berries during the first month, the
letter stating that they have settled
for about 75,000 crates, and although
the prices are not given, the estimate
is placed at $1.25 a crate, which Is
said to be a very low figure.
Work on the new building for the
fitting school of Wofford College in
Spartanburg will probably be begun
this summer so .as to have the build
ing ready for use at the opening of
the next session. The trustees of
Wofford College have not as yet de
cided definitely whether to erect a
building to be used exclusively as a
dormitory or as both a dormitor-y and
class room. Whatever the decision
may be the structure will be a splen
did one.
A strong petition has been filed for
the pardon of James and C. W. Robert
son, of Colleton county. The two,
men were convicted of larceny in
1902, and sentenced to eighteen
months' service. They have served
one year of that time and the request
is jtow made for the pardon, on the
ground that the. young men have been
sufficiently punished and that the
whole thing is the result of a badly
mixed up family row, in which there
was much feeling.
The Fuller-Darlington Co., a whole
sale grocery company, located at
Laurens, has failed. The Tri-State
Milling Co., of Nashville. Tonn . has
instituted proceedings to have the
company put in the hands of a receiv
er and have obtained from Judge
Klugh a temporary restraining order
prohibiting further sale of the goods.
Messrs. Dla and Todd, representing
a number of creditors, will make the
effort to declare the concern bankrupt.
No schedule of the liabilities has
been made, but it is estimated that
they are in the neighborhood of $•!*>,-
OftO; assets are nominal and converti
ble and about the same.
Pete Copeland. Sam Barksdale and
Dick Leaman, colored, have been ar
rested by the authorities of Laurens
county charged with being impli
catod In the murder of Essec Murrlll.
who was killed last week and his
body thrown into the Enoree river.
The finding of the body of Murrlll
in the river by a ptrty of men who
were seining caused a sensation in
Laurens county. The body was
weighted down with rocks, showing
that the murderers expected the wn
ters of the river to hide their crime.
Several investigations have been held
and there has been some talk of a
white man being mixed up In the
tragedy. Other arrests and sensa
tional developmons may follow a
hearing that was held at Lanford
Station Wednesday.
NO DISPENSARY FOR PICKENS
The Institution Voted Out by Majority
of Over 3 to L
Pickens, May 20.—In the election
today the dispensary was voted out
by 3 to 1, possibly 4 to 1.
So far as heard from the dispensary
lias not carried a single box and it
is thought that prohibition will carry
every precinct in the county. There
are 23 precincts in the county and of
these 11 have been heard from. The
vote for and against the dispensary
is as follows:
Against For
Pickens 177 89
Easley 143 27
Easley cotton mill .... 51 1
Liberty 54 1*4
Calhoun 11 —
Central 69 2
Cateechee 29 20
Dacusville 32 20
Maynard 12 10
Praters 60 31
Cedar Mountain 40 10
Total 678 220
This is a total reported up to last
night of 898 votes, and the total polled
will probably go to 1.200 or more. At
the last primary election in August,
1901, Pickens county polled 2.690 votes
for railroad commissioner. But in the
primary election a great many are
qualified to vote who are not quali
fied to vote in the general election,
and the requirements for today's elec
tion were the same as the general
election.
KEEPING UP A CITY.
Cost of Mr’ntaining the City Govern-
. i -t of Atlanta.
Atl i, Ga., May 20, 1905.
Editor 5 ue Ledger:—As I . have
nothing else to do today I will tell
you a little more about Atlanta^ and
the expense of keeping up tlie city.
They claim to have 125,000 people
here. The 130 firemen get from $70.00
to $90.00 per month, eaoh; s the chief
of the fire department gets $4,000 a
year. There jfre 252 policemen here,
who get $70.0o each per month; the
captain gets $100.00, and the chief of
police gets $185.00 per month: the
mayor gets $3,000 a year. They have
125 electric street cars and employ
1000 men who get from $65 to $100
each per month. They have 32
chinches here and 175 liquor and beer
saloons. So you see the headquarters
of the devil’s work shops are right
here in Atlanta.
Dr. Broughton will preach tomor
row on “The Devil’s Auction.”
The new passenger depot was open
ed up last Sunday. It’s a fine one.
It cost over a million dollars and is
owned by Atlanta people and is leas
ed to the railroads. They have fine
lunch rooms and soda fountains in
the depot which is all above the
tracks. You go down steps to enter
the cars. The baggage is all brought
up on an elevator. The depot is on
Market street, half mile west of the
old car sheds.
Peachtree and Whitehall are the
leading streets of the city and Decatur
is the toughest street here. White
hall is where all the fine shopping is
done.
The outside wall of the nineteen
story Candler building is almost fin
ished. Mr. Candler has made a for
tune out of coca cola, so the building
is also called the Coca-Cola Building.
It is said here that Mr. Candler a few
years ago, bought the recipe from the
inventor of the drink for $40 and now
he is a millionaire, made mostly from
cold water.
The Piedmont is the finest hotel in
Atlanta.
They keep men sweeping Peachtree
and Whitehall streets every day and
they are as nice and clean as can he.
They are paved with asphalt.
Respectfully.
J. J. Gaffney.
A NEWSY LETTER
FROM WILKINSVILLE,
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF
LOWER CHEROKEE.
July, Rev. Mr. Orr is expected to
hofl a revival meeting in Hickory
Grove, which will last several days.
Besides the pastor, It(ev. J. L. Oats, he
will be assisted by other able divines.
Everybody is invited to attend.
J. L. S.
WILKERSON SCHOOL.
Exer
The Speaker for Limestone.
Rev. J. H. Boldridge, of Lancaster,
has been engaged to deliver the com
mencement address at Limestone Col
lege. Wednesday. May 31st. Mr. Bold
ridge is one of the best Known Bap
tist. ministers in the State, and Dr.
Lodge has done well to secure him
as the speaker for this occasion.
Interested in Life Insurance?
the best? Then road Llgon’s ‘
Central" half-page today.
Want
Union
Letter to W. H. Ross.
Gaffney. S. C. #
Dear Sir: You understand grinding
wheat, buckwheat, rye. oats and corn.
We understand grinding white-lead
and white-zinc. The two sorts of
| grinding tire not much alike. Very
HKely oats and wheat behave very
differently in the mill, and you man
age them differently—we know very
little about your work: don’t need to:
we’d rather depend on you.
But we paint your house and mill,
and out-buildings; perhaps you’d he
glad to know about grinding paint;
for some people mix their paint with
a stick in a tub.
We use lead-and-zinc—nothing else.
And our zinc is as tough as your oats.
Tub mixers imagine they mix it. They
don’t: they can’t. Takes grinding to
mix lead-and-zine.
They are both white; when are they
thoroughly mixed? Tub-mixers don’t
know It; but tub-mixed lead-and-zinc
is a streak of one alongside of a
streak of the other.
We grind as you grind: and our
paint is lead-and-zinc ground together,
mixed Intimately: if is neither lead
nor zlne, but lead-and-zinc: the lead
is lost, and the zinc Is lo<t: each lost
in the other: both lost in the mixture.
Lead chalks and zinc peels: lead and
/ine ground together hang on ami
protect each other.
We take care of your mill outside;
you take care of It Inside.
Yours truly
95 F W Devon & Co
P. R —R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co.
sell our pain*.
Subtcrlbe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop
ular People and Short Items of
General Interest
Wilkinsville, May 19.—The weather
lias settled down and farmers have
got to work. In many places the
heavy mins have run the ground to
gether and it is rough and hard to
hoe, especially where the cotton was
“run around” with the plough before
the last rain.
Wheat and oats look well, but un
fortunately there is a very small area
of either sown.
Some people have not finished plant
ing yet. Morgan Millwood, one of our
best farmers, says he is very much
disheartened, as he has twelve or
fifteen acres of cotton to plant yet.
Bottom lands on Thickety and Gil-
key’s creeks are too wet to plow, and
will be so for several days, even if
there is no more rain.
If our farmers get much further be
hind with their work, or it keeps on
raining, Hamp Pridmore may look out
for the crow coming toward Gaffney,
if it’s able to reach there. We seldom
see a crow these days; but can hear
them early in the mornings caw, caw,
cawing, just as if they were looking
for their breakfast in some poor far
mer's lately planted cornfield, and i
were disposed to take it without con
sulting him. I
Mr. Yaney C. Comer says the grass
in his crop is now “bootin’.” That’s
hard for V. C.
During our trip to Yorkville a few
days ago we'met our old friend and
former Cherokeean, Mack Hudson,
who lives near that town. Mack is a
lit.le bothered just now. Some mid
dle-aged old man stole his 15-year-old
daughter and ran off with her a few
days ago. He thinks they are some
where in Clierokee county. .Mack
sends his best respects to some of his
old Cherokee county friends abodt
Draytonville.
Everything that can pull a plow or
wield a hoe is in the cotton patch or
cornfield, killing grass.
It’s a hard matter to einvinee some
poeple, with ordinary sense at least,
that doing away with the dispensary
has reduced drinking and drunken
ness In this county. A hundred, yes,
a thousand questions, are asked about
, it. as if the subject was a debatable
| or questionable one. These we meet
J nearly every day when wo go away
i from home.
j In almost any direction You go as
i as you cross the Cherokee coun-
l tv line you can track the demon of
strong drink by the empty dispensary
bottles scattered along the road or
crushed under your horse’s feet. We
used to find plenty of these in this
county when the dispensary was ‘ ■
operation, hut that is all changed
now.
Most, if not. all. the Cherokee coun
ty people do their trading in their own
county, and it's hard to believe that
any considerable amount of these
empty bottles belonged to our people.
1 hat The Ledger is read far and
m*ar and copied by other papers there
is no doubt. A few weeks ago your
correspondent asked for names, &c.,
ot Confederate veterans living at the'
beginning of the twentieth century,
lor the use of a large publishing
house which is collecting these rolls.
I his brought a number of replies
trom other States, as well as our own,
and still they keep coming, until the
Hst^ is now a lengthy one.
Yesterday we got a letter of which
'he following is a copy;
“J. L. S.,”
Wilkinsville, S. C.
Dear Sir:—I see paper containing
your request, to which I take pleasure
in replying:
Full name: George Nash Truss;
I . O. address: Jackson, Tonn; horn
March 21, 1839; solicitor: mustered
into service of Confederacy 4th of
June. 18dl, as private Company E. of
!'Mi Alabama Infantry under Wood-
•wir.l ,is captain and John If. Forney
as colonel; served four voars; was
v:ouinie-i five times— left leg broken
Hire.- times, once at Gaines* mill
once „n Peninsular Campaign, and
"Hoe at Reaves’ Station, twelve miles
below Petersburg, Va.: wounded in
neck at Salem church (near Fredericks-
burg. Va.), and in shoulder at Gettys
burg Pa. Was in Wilcox’s brigade
during entire service, and hope to
meet many of my old comrades at
Louisville, Ky., in June next.
Yours respect.,
O. N. Truss.
The Peninsular campaign referred
to was that of 18f,|, Instead of 18C2.
Such information tis the foregoing
will answer all requirements of the
publishers or the demands of the read
ing public.
W.- are having plenty of cherries
now.
The cold winter has injured the
crop of fi£s.
The apple crop will be rather light
this year.
With a few more sunshiny days and
"ood health we expect to see* much
improvement in the looks of the cot-
ion and cornfields, gardens, etc.
The weather keeps cool and vege
tation is not growing very fast.
The sacramental meeting at the
V R. P. church at Hickory Grove will
begin next Friday, the L’fith Inst. The
vood people of that town expect to
have a large attendance and some fine
preaching will he heard by those who
attend.
On and after the fourth Sabbath in
enter-
school
Programme of Commencement
cises’Held Friday Night.
Wilkinsville, May 20.—The
tainment at the Wilkerson
house last night was a grand success
in every particular, and the large
crowd that attended was well pleased
and well behaved. .
Today there will he a basket picnic
on the school grcAmds, to which the
public generally is invited. Several
speakers have hen invjted and the
school patrons are looking forward
to a nice time.
Last year Hon. Thos. F. McDow. of
Yorkville, offered a gold medal to he
awarded the seholtir of this school
that attained the highest degree of
proficiency this year. The decision
of the committee appointed to reward
the medal will be announced today,
and the medal turned over to the win
ner. We have spoken of the school
frequently—of it* proficiency and the
good work it is doing, all of which was
fully verified by the proceedings last
night.
Here is the programme as rendered
last night:
THROUGHOUT THE
TARHEEL STATE
RECENT EVENTS OF' NOTE
NORTH CAROLINA.
IN
Items of Interest Concerning Oui
Neighbors in the Old North Stat»
Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers
As the result of injuries received
in a runaway Monday afternoon, it
was necessary to perform an ampu
tation in the case of Miss Kenan, of
Kenansville, aunt of Mrs. Henry M.
Flagler, of Wilmington. The opera
tion is regarded as successful and the
pitient, who has passed the meridian
of life, is resting well.
The Secretary of State charters the
Elkin Drug Company, of Elkin, capi
tal. $5,000, J. W. Ring. H. G. Chat
ham and J. F. Hendren. Another
charter was to the Fuller Combing
Gin Company, of Charlotte, authorized
capital. $10(1.900; incorporators. Jos.
I. Farrow, Chas. F. Wadsworth and
Jas. T. Fuller, the latter of Texas.
Prayer by Rev. W. H.
Song, “Happy Greeting
The third annual South Atlantic
| Missionary Conference of the Scuth-
Ariail. j ern Methodist church opened at the|
to All.” ^ auditorium in Asheville Wednesday
—School, j night with 2.000 delegates in atteml-
3. “.Words of Welcome.” i ance. One thousand additional dele-
—Lena Wilkerson ! gates were scheduled to arrive Thurs-
4. “Vacation Time.” i day. the total number being the larg-' been no profit to the men
—Walker Edwards, j est representation ever accorded to a j sold these fertilizers in Gaffney, that
5. Recitation, “Her Reply.” *i convention of any sort in that city, j the farmers have been swindled. But
—Jemina Robinson, i ! they can and ought to protect the far-
6. - “The Bell Wether and the Dea-1 noon Tuesday Rowland, a small j merg j n this matter. Our oil mills
station several miles above Dillon, in s j,jp | n f r() in elsewhere much of the
Robeson county, was struck by a cy- product they sell and other folks ship
out a lot of cotton seed. The cotton
factories ship in much of the cotton
SOME POINTERS TO FARMERS
On the Condition of Affairs in the
Piedmont Section.
Editor The Ledger:—Allow me a few
lines for some thoughts to farmers
and others.
The coast country has found its road
to fortune in truck farming. The mid
dle country has found its fortune in a
combination of cotton and tobacco
for mon&y crops, one hedging the oth
er against the trusts and speculators.
The Piedmont capitalists and labor
ers have reaped a rich harvest in man
ufacturing. The Piedmont fanner is
still gouging red hills and being gorod
r-inblers and the cot
ton min. ami the constructor of houses
and railroads; the one by ruining the
price of his cotton and the other by
depriving him of his labor. It was
hoped that the cotton growers’ asso
ciation would have accomplished
something, but Messrs. Sarratt and
Parrott have smothered that in its
cradle. I hope it isn’t quite dead and
that these gentlemen will give it au
airingg and resuscitate it. Let us
have a full meeting right-soon of the
farmers and business men of Chero
kee, and consider our interests. Let
me suggest something we might con
sider. First, cannot the factories and
merchants do something better for
our farmers than they have done?
I have not weighed a sack of guano or
acid in two years that weighed 200
pounds. I was 700 pounds short on
a car load of acid bought thL year.
It is my deliberate opinion that the
farmers of Cherokee have been swin
dled out of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in two vears by short weights
and adulteration of fertilizers. It has
the men who have
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“The Bell Wether and the Dea
con.”—Fred Brown.
“Little Tommy’s First Smol e.”
—Sam \Vilk ?rson.
Song, “Baby’s Lullaby.”
—Little Girls.
Music, “Red Bird.”
—Miss S. and Mr. R.
Dialogue, “A Pain In the • hie."
“A Boy’s Lecture.”
—Beatie Wi.kerson.
Speech, "Stick a Pin Dere, Bro.
Horace.”—Grover Brown.
Recitation, "Aunt Jemima’s Court
ship.”- Fula Wilkerson.
Speech, "South Carolina in the
Revolution."—Will Roach.
Speech, "Sieze the Moments As
They Fly.”—Wade Buice.
Recitation, “An Incident of the
War.’’—Mary Robinson.
Music. "Shevalier’s Waltz.”
—Miss Sandlfer and Mr. Robinson.
Dialogue, “Ivery Inch a Gintle-
man.”
Music, “Young Recruit.’’
—Miss Sandlfer and Mr. Robinson.
Speech, "The Black Valley Rail
road.”—Claude Wilkerson.
Song. “Little Bo-Peep.”
—Little Girls.
“Floral Drill.”
—Ten Young Ladles.
Rec., “The Mariner’s Dream.”
—Ola Wilkerson.
Rec., “Experience With a Refrac
tory Cow.”—Barbara Brown.
Music, “Peek-a-Boo
a cy
clone, which blew down three stores
and two churches. Other buildings |
were also badly damaged and the
| main street is a mass of debris. Tel
i egraph and telephone wires were:
! blown down and information concern-
| ing the disaster is meagre, but no fa-
' talities hav been reported. The
: storm cloud, which was seen from
Dillon, rose in the west and then
, swerved north. The wind at thac
point blew a terrific gale, but no dam-
, age was done. The rainfall was
! terrific.
Governor R. B. Glenn, accompanied
h\ State officers, members of his per
sonal and -general staff, and the Ra
leigh Light Infantry, as special escort,
went to Newbern Wednesday to par
ticipate in the unveiling of the monu
ment by the State of New Jersey to
the Ninth Jersey Volunteers. Along
with the party went Mrs. Mary Win
field Joyner, who made the flag for
the Beaufort “Plow Boys” in 1861. It
is the flag that was captured by the
Ninth New Jersey Regiment and is to
he returned to survivors of the “Plow
Boy” Company. Mrs. Joyner was ac
companied by her husband. Rev Ed
mond N. Joyner, of Sumter, S. C.
they spin and others ship out much
of the cotton raised. These things
breed ill will between the farmers and
the factoVies and make no money for
either. The^o and many other evils
could he remedied if we could get. to-
thrr and create some agency as a
■■o-bftween and arbitrator.
Thr question of what the farmer
must plant and how he must utilize
his unplanted soil is a very serious
one in this section. He is not the
only one to determine that question.
There ought to be some one in Gaff
ney who could tell how much of truck
ing and dairying, and cattle and sheep
and poultry raising our market 'de
mands. and whether or not It wiP. p a y
to ship. There ought to be .,ome un
derstanding among the farmers as to
who will supply this demand, so that
we won’t have everybody into tho
same thing ami each succeed in min
ing himself and his neighbor by over
production in some line.
We need an organization as large
as Cherokee county, with headquar
ters at Gaffney.
Even one man. thoroughly honest,
and very intelligent and diligent, with
the moral suenort of the whole county,
employed for a salary, would bo worth
thousands of dollars to the county, and
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The work of grading the Durham
& Southern road from Durham to
......v., , v . ^ Apex, and the Durham & South Caro- luousauus ui nonars to the com
—Miss Sandlfer and Mr. Robinson, lina road, formerly the New Hope Val- ‘ wou ‘'1 ' )P "■ *l' n P to contribute to his
Dialogue, “A Rumpus In a Shoe- ley road, is being pushed quite rap- salary, although I would be le^s ben-
maker’s Shop.” Idly. The contractors are working a ®“ted personally than almost anyone
Tableau. “The Reaper and the large force of hands and wanting ■ ) - v ‘ 1 ' s services. :or the reason that
Flowers.” more. The Durham & Southern has * have very little material interests
Dialogue, “Restraining Jotham.” purchased a site for the freight sta- and am better able than most people
Drill. “Ten Little Injuns.” I tion in Durham. This site is next to
Pantomime, “Nearer. MV God, to the court houser close to the union
Thee."—Nino Young Ladies. depot, and fronting on Main street.
Music, “Dixie.” This property was purchased from
—Miss Sandifer and Mr. Robinson Messrs. R. H. and W. T. Rigsbee for
Till $15,000. The property changed hands
a few days ago. It is learned that |
S. the road expects to enter Durham with
trains before the end of the fall.
Chorus, “God Be With You
We Meet Again.”—School.
J. L.
SHOOTING AT WILKINSVILLE.
Sam Kennedy Shot and Badly Wound
ed by Sam Sanderlin.
There was a deplorable shooting af
fair a* Wilkinsville Saturday night, in
which two brothers-in-law, Sam Ken
nedy and Sam SandeHin, were the
participants. All that can be learned
as to the cause of the shooting is that
a dispute arose between the two over
some farm work, when Sanderlin drew
his pistol and shot Kennedy, the ball
entering the bladder. Drs. Bratton,
of Yorkville, Leitch, of Hickory Grove,
and Jefferies and Nesbitt, of this city,
were sent for to attend the wounded
man.
Kennedy was badly wounded, but
tin to yesterday afternoon he was |
still alive. Both men stand well in
their community and the affair is!
deeply regretted by their friends.
{ Officer McNeMl, of Radford, Va., ar
rived at Reidsville Wednesday night
with Chase Price, for whom Governor
• Glenn had offered $100 reward, and
who was captured at Radford a few
days ago. Price killed Robert O’Dell,
a farmer and neighbor in the Leaks-
vllle section two weeks ago. He
claims to have committed the crime
in self-defense, but the evidence
brought out at a preliminary hearing
of some other parties who were im
plicated in the fight look-- had for
him. Price has two small children,
his wife having died a few months
;igo. He is about 35 years of age. \
preliminary hearing \\TI he had ?l
Wentworth. Able counsel will defend
him.
Broad River S. S. Convention.
The next session of this body will
he held with the Macedonia Baptist
church on June 27th and 28th.
Rev. B. W. Spillman, one of the
best Sunday school workers in Amer
ica. will be with us and the meeting
will he helpful to all Bible students
and Sunday school workers. Churches
and schoos will please appoint their
delegates as early as they can and en
courage a good attendance. This " 111
he an important meeting and It Is
hoped that there may he representa
tions from each church and Sunday
school of the association.
A. M. Simms.
Will Douglass, a negro barber in
the employ of George Thetis, at Gas
tonia, died there Wednesday night
from the effects of drinking a large e .J.
quantity of bay-rum, together with a ! not
mixture of morphine and wood alco- 1
hoi. Douglass had been drinking j
heavily for the past three or four
weeks. He went to Gastonia from
Spartanburg a month ago and was ’
employed by Theus. On account of!
bis heavy drinking, he was discharged 1
several days ago. He was on the |
streets Wednesday night at 8:30; an 1
hour later, at his home, he became
delirious ami Dr. McG. Anders was
called in. When the physician arrived |
Douglass was in a comotose condition !
and died soon afterwards.
to look after that interest. An agri
cultural and commercial agent at Gaff
ney with a monthly, or even a quar
terly. meeting of ail our citizens, and
a page in some well circulated news
paper in the county would do won
ders for our progress in material in
terests. This agency would hurt no
body but the sharp rascal who preys
on the ignorant and helpless. If I had
the money T would freely give two
thousand dollars a year to hunt to
death every one of these rascals—that
is, to put them out of lmsines«.
F. C. Hickson.
P. S.—I forgot to tell you that
"General Green" and “the freshet”
are about to arrange to control the
cotton acreage. The man who de
pends on his bottoms for corn might
to see that “Mr. Freshet” means that
he shall go to the hills for his corn
this year. “General Green" says very
plainly that if there Is any money
made on much of the land now In cot
ton It will be made either by plowing
it into corn right now. or a little later
into peas. Either will pay better than
cotton at 7 cents. Crab grass pays
little to man '<r land and is the most
ravenous feci t tha’ ever grew on
any soil. Of all the material curses
of tho South, crab grass is the great-
Our agricultural department has
yet ascertained fo• us just how
much It takes from and gives to the
soil. I am satisfied when it is ascer
tained it' will he found that It Is an
evil, and an evil continually. The
sooner if is dead the better.
F.
C. H
Gold Fish.
The city council has purchased a
lot of gold fish for the r» servolr at the
fountain In the park. The ordOr was
for forty, but unfortunately three died
in transit, and one died after arriving
The nth<*rs, however, look healthy and
it is hoped that there will he no had
luck with them. Tin 1 fish arrived Sal
unlay and can ho seen at the nark
fountain, where they have been the
•b light of hundreds of children al
ready.
Some men’s Ideas of reciprocity are
rather one-sided.
- Special
and big lot
Sarratt’s.
The Newspaper.
(Greenville Herald.)
Any man ran take a newspaner. T f.
is the cheapest thing he can buy.
Every time a hen clucks and has laid
an egg his paper is naid for that week,
i It cost less than a postage stamp—
1 less than to receive a letter. It comes
to you every week, rain or shine, calm
or stormy No matter what happens
> it enters vour door a welcome friend,
full of sunshine, cheer and interest,
i It opens the door of the g»-eat world
and puts you face to face with its
people and its great events, ft short-
! ens the lone winter nights. It is your
! advisor, gossiper and friend. No man
i is iusf to his children w ho does not
prices on Negligee Shirts give them a local paper. No man is
Chas. P Llgon’s advertisement to
day contains some interesting Life
Insurance points. Note the compari
son of rates with other companies.
—I have a line of samples from
Globe Tailoring Go. See them and
havo your measure taken for a spring
stilt. J. I. Sarratt.
to select from at J. f
good to himself
nowsjjapers.
who does not take
We do not do all kinds of printing—
we do the GOOD kind.
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