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/HE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District, of 8. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AMD FRIDAY. THE NATIONAL BANK OF 6AFFNE) Gaffney, 8. C., State, County and City Depository, With resources Maroh 31, 1905 of otw $300,000.00, respectfully solicits your banking business. ftp a' A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Beet Into reels of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1$, 1M4. GAFFNEY, S. C„ TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1905. •1.00 A YEAR. DRUMMERS SAVED A DROWNING MAN GALLANT RESCUE AT CHICK SPRINGS. THE FOURTH AT GLEENDALE. A Cotton Mill Man of Gaffney Becomes Exhausted While in Bathing and is Rescued by Drummers. (Anderson Mail.) Messrs. C. W. Long and S. L. Fitzpatrick, well known traveling men, are in the city. Mr. Long is from Knoxville and Mr. Fitzpatrick travels for a St. Louis house. They were the heroes in a sensa tional and daring life saving episode at Chick Springs Sunday afternoon. Those who witnessed it say the young men are entitled to Carnegie hero j medals. Mr. C. M. Crews. coton mill man from Gaffney, had been in bathing ini the lake at the Chick Springs^Hotel, in company with a number of other! persons. His strength became ex-1 hausted and he began to sink. There, were a score or more of persons in | and around the lake and a panic en sued. Women and even men rushed from the scene in terror, not wishing to see a man drown. Mr. Crews had gone under ire water for the second time and It! death se ned practically certain. Mr. Lon'’ was on the bank and some disianee away. When he saw what was the matter ho stalled for the lake on a run, throwing off his coat, and sprang in without a mo ment's hesitation. He swam to the drowning man and seized him. Mr. Crews, as is always the case with drowning persons, was in ^ ter ror. He seized Mr. Long in a death like grip, and both went under the water. Mr. Long struggled loose and attempted to get a hold on Mr. Crews in a way that would insure safety, but Mr. Crews again clutched him around the neck and another struggle follow ed. In the meantime Mr. Fitzpatrick had secured a boat and had reached the spot. Mr. Crews was then gotten to the hank. He was practically un conscious by this time and it took several hours’ hard work to revive him. Mr. Long was able to swim to the bank, but was in an exhausted condition when he got out of the wat er. .Mr. Long and Mr. Fitzpatrick were lionized by the other guests at the hotel, and they finally had to leave, as they are adverse to talking of their own deeds. The story was told in Anderson to day by a traveling man who came in on the train with them and who wit nessed their bravery at the hotel Sun day afternoon. Spartanburg Gun Club to Celebrate the Park. Spartanburg, July 1.—The Spartan burg Gun Club will celebrate the Fourth at Glendale park shooting pig eons. All business houses have agreed to close on that day in order to give the clerks a chance to cele brate the occasion. All is quiet since the primar, which was quite exciting because of the popularity of the two candidates. Mr. John F. Floyd, the nominee, is a business man of no mean ability and no doubt will give us as good an ad ministration as his predecessor. Mr. Arch B. Calvert, who has served for twelve consecutive years. Misses Pattie Roberts, of Shelby, X. C„ and Carrie Babington, of Tay lorsville, N. C., spent last week with their aunt, Mrs. \V. C. Allen. Mr. R. A. Hambright, a prosperous] farmer of York county, and his two sons spent several hours in the city Friday on their return from Landrum. Mr. Will Cooper returned Saturday from Clinton, where he spent a few days with his uncle, Mr. A. I). Cooper. G. R. Whitaker, an experienced mill man of Greenville, spent last week in town on business. We understand he will in the near future assume charge of the weave room of the Shelbv cot ton mill. Misses Mattie and Belva Allen spfiu Friday and Saturday in Gaff ney with their friend. Miss Minnie Wessinger. The Knoxville excursionists re turned Saturday after spending one day taking In the sights of the city. They report having had a pleasant I trip. The entertainment given at Lm opera house Saturday night by the j Woodmen of the World was a sue- j cess in every way. A nice sum was realized. It was In the interest of the ! Woodmen. It will he repeated Mon- i day and Tuesday nights. We are glad to note that. Prof. R | C. Elmore, who had the misfortune to be thrown against a trolley car one dav last week, is able to assume his duties as suprlntendent of education, i to the delight of his many friends. Mr. G. Martin, of Gaffney, passed I through Spartanburg last week on his way to Cedar Springs to attend the commencement. W. C. A. CLIFTON CHRONICLES. People and Around the was born and of Blacksburg of Mrs. Polly A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILMNSVILLE. Conditions Big Mills. Clifton, June 27.—On Thursday morning, the 22nd inst., Mrs. R. P. Wright was found dead in her bed at the home of her son-in-law. Mr. W. J. Goforth at Clifton No. 1 where she had been living for a number of years. She had been for sometime an inva lid from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, but was able to sit up and go about the house. On retiring to bed on Wednesday night she seemed to be as well as usual. She was seyen- ty-one years of age, reared in the vicinity and was a daughter Crow. She was buried at Clifton cemetery on Friday afternoon in the presence of quite a number of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, all of whom deep- . .. ly sympathize with /he bereaved faml- ** V L S n , MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Ptrsonal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular Paopla and Short Items of General Interest. Wilkinsville, June 20.—Dry, dry, dry is the cry now heard on every* hand. ‘‘Uncle Sill,” who is authority on dates and who was old enough to plow writing may have misled the composi tor who ban Led the manuscript, and to him we take off our hat and say it’s our fault, perhaps, and not his. J. L. S. OUR TIN MINES. The CONCORD DEPOT EPISODE. PROBABLY FATAL FALL. Ten Year Old Girl Meets With Seri ous Accident. Spartanburg, June 30.—Eula Hen drix, age ten years, is in a critical condition at the home of her father, H. G. Hendrix, who lives near Pacolet, suffering from injuries received sev eral days ago by falling from a tree and striking a barbed wire fence. Last Tuesday she and a number of playmates were climbing a tree in the yard of her father’s place. While in the tree the limb on which the young girl was standing broke and fell . In her descent she came in con tact with a barbed wire fence and a painful wound was inflicted in her right side. In addition to the wound inflicted by the barbed wires her body struck a stake in the ground. Dr. J. S. Thompson was called in shortly after the accident, ami dressed the wound and did what ho could to allay the sufferings of the child. At the time the injury was not thought to he serious. During the past two days, however, her condition has be come serious and grave fears are en tertained for her recovery. Traveling Man Flogs a Hotel Porter Who Shut Him Up in a ‘Bus. Concord, N. C.. June 3ft.—There was quite a lively scene at the depot last night. Mr. J. C. Henley, a Salisbury drummer, got off the train and got in a ‘bus to come up town. Peg Bostic, the porter on the ‘bus, shut the door, and, learning that another train would soon be there, attempted to keep the drummer in the ‘bus some time, al though he protested vehemently and finally he had to knock the porter down before he could get out. The drummer, after getting out to his bag gage, got his pistol, and things looked lively for a time. At the trial this evening Peg, the porter, was fined $lft and cost, while the drummer was exonerated. Mr. Henley's lawyer ar gued that his client, was deprived of his liberty and he had no recourse hut to fight his way out. ly on account of their great and de plorable loss. The religious exercises were conducted by Rev. T. H. Harri son. of the Baptist church. .Mr. \V. D. McPherson,jpf whose ill ness we made mention some while since, has. to the gratification of his many friends, recovered, and is off on a visit to friends in Cherokee county. The weather continues dry and vegetation appears to be greatly checked in its growth and products. But showers continue to fall in neighboring section-, and we still hope that our time for rain will even tually come. Seaberry Jones said (and I thought i 1 would as >oon risk ins judgment on farming as that of any one) that, “Give him a dry June and he was sure of a heavy yield in cotton crop.” If Soaberry’s argument proves true this i" and cotton brings a fair price in the : farmers will “he in it..” Mr. < A. Sparks has kept two stands oi 1 r>os this year from which he expected * increase his stock to at leas: half a >zen stands or more, hut they failed n turn out a single swarm. Thus becoming discouraged at !>”<' indm try, he ha - bought a horse and buggy with a view of trying his luck at the livery business. We think that some of Bachelor’s “snakes” from Buffalo Vivo gotten over here. They are desirous of ex tending their territory and getting suitably located by the time that the prohibition party of Spartanburg shows the dispensary advocates where “Toney hid the wedge.” Mike Marooney dry year 1845—a great deal of cloudy sprinkles are no indication of a gen eral rain. In fact, morning showers are said to be like old women’s dances —soon over with. Farmers keep tugging away at their crops—plowing and booing by spells as they can. There is a good deal of sickness in | our neighborhood; but fortunately I none of it very serious so far as we | know. Mrs. W. C. Sparks is right had off. Dr. Allen, of Gaffney, met Dr. L. R. Black yesterday in consultation, and we are glad to know that they de cided there were no serious conse quences to he apprehended. Miss Emily Bankhead has been bad off for a good while with malarial trouble. Dr. Black has had her and her brother and sister moved to His place in order to get them away from the malaria on Gilkey creek. She has been sick for a good while. Messrs. James Bratton, Martin Roberts, Mor gan Millwood and Aleck Parker went, or sent hands, one day this week and worked out her crop, which, like the had been in the! is still sick, in consulta- week. so we BEER DISPENSARY FIGHT. THREE ROBBERS CONVICTED. Two Young White Men and One a Mere Lad. Wilmington. X T . C., June 29.—Jos'sio Mason and his brother Joe, young white men. and William Guthrie, a lad, were convicted today of highway robbery and assault with intent to kill, j Guthrie is only 17. and the sunoort of i a widowed mother. Following her I son’s arrest Mrs. Guthrie attempted to commitf suicide, and was restrained by force from seeking a watery grave in the Tape Fear. THORNWELL HAYNES. MORE TROUBLE FOR MURRAY The Negro Ex-Congressman Arrested for Perjury in Sumter. (Sumter Item.) George W. Murray, the negro ex- Congrossman, was arcsted Tuesday on a warrant issue d by Magistrate Harby, charging him with perjury. The warrant was issued as an out growth of the ch t'ge of forgery for which Murray was tried, convicted and sentenced to the chain gang more than a year ago. It is matter of com mon notoriety; an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court from the verdict of the Sessions Court, which appeal is still pending. When the warrant was served on Murray Tuesday lie immediately ar ranged to give bond for his appear ance for trial at the next term of the Court of General Sessions and lie was released. South Carolina Man Made Consul at Nankin, China. Washington, Juno 2ft.—Thorn well Haynes of South Carolina has been i appointed consul at Nanking. China, 1 and G. Jarvis Rowers of Virginia con-' Steve sul at Guadeloupe, West Indies. John Gary Evans Wants a Salary Paid Dispensers. Columbia, June 27.—As a result of an application for mandamus this morning before Judge Ernest Gary, there will he a hearing before his hon or on July 3rd as to why the State Board of dispensary dierctors should not pay beer dispensers salaries in stead of royalties. The proceedings were brought by ex-Governor John Gary Evans through Messrs. Bellinger, Townsend and Commander, and the hearing is expected to he a most in teresting one. Sometime ago Mr. Evans attempted to get the same case j before the Supreme Court, but on ac- I count of the crowded condition of the i docket it was found necessary to post- ! pone proceedings until the November j term. This morning, however, Mr. ! Evans stated that he had decided to I bring the matter up before a circuit I judge and have the arguments ' threshed out. | The order issued by Judge Gary this ; morning is as follows: “Upon reading and filing the peti- j tion here it is ordered, that H. H. Evans, chairman, and John Bell Tow- ill and L. W. Boykin, as constituting : the State Board of Dispensary direc tors, he and the same are hereby re- 1 quired to make return to the petition 1 herein <>• the 3rd day of July and 1 show cause why the writ of manda- 1 mus should not he granted. ] “That said causes be shown at my ; chambers at the court house of Rich- ! land county.” SHOT BY STEPFATHER. Easterlin Big Asheville Distillery Seized. Asheville. N. C.. July 1.—The large listillery of Wiley I’, Black was | seized early this morning by revenue offieeirs under Collector Harkins, and more than 5.000 gallons of liquor confiscated. It is said the seizure l was due, to “irregularities.” and al- j though no official information could ] b'> obtained it is alleged that the “lr- I regularities” consisted in the finding of blockade whiskey in Mr. Black’s establishment by the revenue officers. The whiskey was removed from the place today and stored in the base ment of the •government bull ling pending a formal Investigation. A Shooting Affair at James Citv. Newborn, N, C„ July i. Harry Brown, colored, was shot at James City this morning by Lewis Moye. The trouble arose over slanderous tales alleged to have been circulated by Brown about Moye’s daughter. Brown was shot twice, one hall hitting him on tho chin and passing out un der the jawbone, the other grazed his arm, the pistol being close enough to set the clothing on fire. Neither wound is dangerous. Moye gave him self up to the sheriff and claims the act was done in self-defense. Both are under bond. —Men’s Garters, Suspenders and Handkerchiefs at R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Store. --Children’s White Socks at the Shoe Store. Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year/ $3,500 Fire at Chester. Chester, June 27.—A stubborn fire broke out in the cotton warehouse of tho Spring Cotton Mill this afternoon about 1 o’clock, doing considerable damage to the building and partially destroying about 2ftft hales of cotton. The fire company promptly respon ded. and after about an hour's hard "(irk got. the flames under control. The damage is estimated at $3,500, fully covered by insurance. Conductor Killed in Freight Wreck/ Raleigh, June 3ft.—In a head-on col lision of two freight trains at Frank- linton, the Seaboard Air Lino, to night, Conductor Hudson, of Weldon, •as killed. He was in tho cab of tho south-hound train, whicti ran into the north-bound, the latter having failed to take tho siding. Tho engineer and fireman jumped, but Hudson remained on the cab. Both trains were badly wrecked. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. Wolfe Killed by Joe Near Branchville. Branchville, June 29.—Steve Wolfe, a negro boy, was shot and almost in- stantly killed by his step-father, Joe Easterlin. at the latter’s house, on the Fairey place, m i" here, this morning. It appears that bad blood has exitsed between the tv o for some time, but it is not clear whether the shooting was done in self-defense, or was deliber ate murder, though it Is said the boy had a pistol in his hand when shot. Easterlin left soon after the shoot ing and has not yet been captured. The coroner’s jury viewed the body aan.l will render a verdict later. rest of our neighbors’ grass. Master Gettys George Two doctors have been tion over his case this understand. Mrs. .1. H. Fowler is not getting on so well. She improves slowly. Sam J. Strain has been complaining for three or four days. He is taking a course of medicine now. Miss Maud Davidson, who has been sick for several days with malarial fever, is getting better. Mr. Morgan Millwood, our champion watermelon raiser, cut tho tops off his vines one day this week. He says L will make the melons grow larger. When “Morg" fails on watermelons it’s a bad time for his neighbors to have any. "Morg” doesn’t care to be classed as an out-and-out prohibition ist teetotaler, but he likes to see a man who drinks liquor at all drink it in "moderation.” He despises to see a man make a dog of himself, as so many do. Mr. Dick Harris, who went over on the York side this week to do some ditching, got through and returned yesterday. The short notice about the Fourth of July celebration at Limestone we fear will not reach all the old soldiers: in time for a general turnout on that: day. So few of them (comparatively) | take the papers and their neighbors may not extend the invitation to I them in time for them to he there. There is a good deal of complaint among the farmers about the insects j working on their corn. But what do! many of them do hut complain? The cut worms do more or less damage I every year and will continue to do so until the law against killing birds is 1 rigidly enforced. Gardens are burnt up by the dry, hot weather. There Is siill some corn to plant on low lands yet when the ground gets in season to plow, the last wet spell are Prospects Are Fair For Develop ing More than One. (Special to News and Courier.) Spartanburg, June 2G.—Since the day that the scholarly and clear mind- ded Tarleton rode over the roads lead ing to King’s Mountain the minerals of this Piedmont region have attracted attention. Tarleton was an educated and accomplished man and he had spent many years abroad. His mind was always on the alert. When ap proaching King’s Mountain, it is re ported that, he said to one of his com panions that there was gold enough in that vicinity to make gold shoes for their horses. From that day to this men have been seeking and find ing gold in all that belt extending from Charlotte to Abbeville. For years it was supposed that gold and iron only were to be found. Take Gaffney as a centre and strike a cir cle with a Cb-mile radius, and, besides gold ar.i iron will be found in that circ' copper, galena or common lead, pl'imbago or black lead, monazite, lime, limestone, marble steolite or soapstone and granite. Prospectors have not struck the precious stones yet, bin they are no Joubt awaiting the discovery. For two years attention has been directed especially to tin. Two car loads of tin stone, giving about 70 per cent, of pure tin. have been taken from the Ross mine and shipped toj Cornwall for smelting. This was | taken out of tho ground near the sur-j face and by rude methods. The quan- j tiiy and quality induced Capt. Ross j and others to investigate more fully, i and then some prospecting began, ex-1 tending from Gaffney to Bessemer. I near Charlotte. X. C. The most scientific and practical prospecting is now going on at the I Ross mine. Several months ago some] capitalists made an arrangement with Capt. Ross by wl 'cii they *ould make; a thorough examination of the mine. BLACKSBURG BREVITIES. Personals and Locals from the Iron Ctiy Across the Broad. Blacksburg, July 3.—Mr. E. A. Bridges, of Salisbury, N. C., spent Sunday in town with his jister, Mrs. A. A. McFadden. Mr. A. Quinn went to Yorkville yes terday where he will spend a few days with his father. Mr. R. B. Babington, of Gastonia, was in town Friday on business. Miss Mayme Blalock returned home yesterday after spending a few days in Spartanburg with friends. Mr. V r ernon Phillips, of Gaffney, spent Sunday in town with relatives. Mr. M. E. Earle went to Piedmont Springs Friday where she will spend a few weeks. Miss Elizabeth Bridges is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. B. Shiver, in Rock Hill. Mr. Will Wilkerson, of Hickory Grove, spent last week in town with his aunt, Mrs. S. B. Whitesides. Mrs. S. E. Cooksey and sister, Mrs. Hallie Thomson, of King’s Mountain, spent Friday in town with Mrs. D. F. Bridges. • Mrs. Lee Little and daughters, Misses Mayme and Eva, of Gaffney, spent Friday in town with M^s. W. A. Blalock, on their way to Piedmont Springs. Miss Effle McFadden, of Rock Hill, spent Sunday in towft with Miss Revis Blalock. - Mrs. J. ft. Shiver and little son, Homer, spent Friday in town with relatives. Miss Bessie Boyen, of Patterson Springs. X. C.. is visiting Miss Maybel Ramseur. Mrs. P. T. Sapoch and chillren are visiting relatives "in the Mt. Paran section. • Miss Lily Price* of Grover. N C., spent Thursday fn town shopning. Mr. Victor Plaxico, of King’s Creek, was in tovgi Saturday. * Mr. W. A. Blalock went to Gaffney Saturday on business. Mr. M. L. Nichols, who has been working in Spartanburg, spent Thtfrs- day night in town on his way home at Earle, N. C. Mrs. E. S. Vaughan and son. Ebb, of Adamsburg, are visiting Mrs. W. J. ^siting and the understanding is that they will purchase the same at a stipu-! Moorehead, in this place, lated price, provided tin is found in! Miss Willie Sherer is paying quantities. Mr. J. L. Daniels, ] friends in King’s Mountain, a native of New York, is superintend-1 Miss Ethel Maxwell V<*ft* this morn ing the work. He has spent many ing for her home ^ Charleston after years in the mining regions of the far ] spending some time in town with West, and the knowledge he got there friends. while working with pick and spade! Mr. Will Anderson who has be<£i has been supplemented by reading 1 working at Pacolet, is visiting his best authorities on mining. He is parents in this*place. pleased with superficial indications' and thinks that tin may be found in that region in quantities to warrant, the erection of a smelter. The shaft i ARRESTED FOR CRUELTY. at the Ross mine is now 120 feet deep. From that point they will run out latterals in order to cut the vein. The fact that 40 to 50 tons of tin stone had been taken out by Capt. Ross without the aid of a mining ex pert is encouraging. It must be re membered that each ton contains about 1,400 pounds of pure tin, which lias been selling in Xew York at 27 to 30 cents a pound for the last five years. Mr. Daniels says that it is not Beat- Buncombe Man Bound Over for ing His Little Daughter. Asheville, N. C„ June 30—L. Dunn, a while man 50 years of age, and a resident of Clayton Hid, was arrested by Sheriff Reed yesterday afternoon charged with cruelly beating his 9- year-old daughter; given a hearing before Magistrate Gudger and bound to the next criminal term of Superior Court. Sheriff Reed learned yester day afternoon of the terrible punish ment inflicted by the parent, and go ing to the man’s home found that the a mine yet. hut the prospects are fair for developing one, and perhaps more! information'he haiT received was cor- than one. Bessemer is about 30 miles, rect. He immediately arrested Dunn, at sev- placed him in jail and ordered that from Gaffney, and tin is found oral places between those points. Following the same line it ought to appear between Pacolet and Thickety, not far from White Plains. PREPARING FOR THE EDITORS. the little girl he taken to the Child ren’s Home, where she will he cared for. Sheriff Reed said today that he had never seen a child beaten so fear fully tn all his life. “He must have used a hickory stick,” said the sheriff. “The little girl was beat black and blue; there were numbers of black places on her body as large as the palm of my hand, while her heal and neck showed that the man had not selected any particular s|>ot on which to apply the stick. I found that blood was oozing from her ears, ".nl this . , . , , twenty-four hours after the punish- visit of the editors and preparing i ment had been inflicted.” Tin Asheville Board of Trade Arrahnes for Pleasure of Pencil-Pushers. Asheville, July 1.—The committee of the hoard of trade having in charge the coming of the North Carolina and \ irginia Press Association next week, lias been at work the past few days Peas planted since j arranging details in connection with coming un free- 1 ly. There will be a large them sown and planted this The water in Broad river low at present. We learn that the Wilson’s Chapol crop of, 11 programme of entertainments. At i said that year. a Int *°tlng of the committee this after-1 condition is very no<,n - ’he programme of entertainment ' was decided upon. The programme Is an elahorae one and the purpose of sheriff the child was in a serious and that in all probability Children’s Day comes off on Saturday I 0011101 [ttee is to give the newspa- before the fifth Sunday of next month ] P er ’l” 10 ’heir lives. Fea- —July 29th. the child’s ear drums had hurst. SOUTHERN EMPLOYE KILLED. Letter to Cook & Tolleson, Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sirs; Saved $3ft; might have he.in $90. Mr (’ L Frost, builder, Portland, Me, built three houses in Deering, a su burb of Portland, exactly alike. Paint ed two lead-and-oil for $155 each, for paint and labor. The third house, ho painted Devoe at a cost, of $125. (To he continue.!). The rest, of the story ought to he told a half-dozen years hence. It will he: two houses rusty; one in good condition. He didn't h el love In Devoe. Our agents got him Into it. Ask him now —enclose a stamp. Yours trulv 107 F W Devoe & Co P. S.—R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. sell our paint. - 1 have just received a lot of latest design picture and room moulding, picture hooks, wir\ etc. Come and see them. L. R. Gaines. —White Stord. Canvas Poles at The Shoe Messrs. Mason and Aleck Smith, of Sharon, are visiting relatives and friends in this community. We have a good crop of figs coming on Other fruit wi'.l be scarce. By private letter from Alabama we learn that the cotton and other crops] there are about in the same condition as they are here- generally had. and in the irrass, too. We regret to learn of the death of Prof. James Wood Davidson, which ] took place at Chattahoochee Hospital,] Florida, last Friday, 23rd inst., at the age of seventy-six years. He was the 1 author of several popular books, among them ‘‘Davidson's School His tory of South Carolina.” “The Living Writers of the South.” and “The Poetry of the Future.’’ Wtyit little your correspondent knows about pho nographic shorthand he owes It to Prof. Jas. Wood Davidson. The colored people propose cele- j flee of hrating the “Glorious Fourth" at I Court. Walker’s church next Tuesday with a barbecue, to which, in all probabil ity, will be added a few shooting scrapes. In the issue of today’s (Friday) Ledger we notice some typographical errors which make our letter appear somewhat, awkward. First. Tho amount paid by Salem Sunday school during the present quarter Is $ 1.7ft in read of $51 70. Second. In the problem given it should have been "six" girls agreed to pay the proprietor of a hoarding house $9.ftft per month each for a school term of eight months; or they would pay him the same amount (to-wlt; $72.00) for us many days as they could place themselves In a dif ferent position around tho dinner ta ble. etc., etc., We confess that our illegible hand- ttires of entertainment include a spe cial train from Blit more to Riverside Park Tuesday afternoon, tendered by the Southern Railway, when the visi- •ors will witness exhibitions of the Cherokee Indians, secured for the Fourth by the Riverside Park manage ment. Tuesday evening a hall will he given at Kenilworth Inn complimen tary to the editors, and Wednesday will be spent In trolley rides over the city with a drive to Vanderbilt’s and a banquet that night at tho Inn. Thursday a special train will he oper-1 atod to Lake Toxaway. AIR COMPANY INCORPORATED. Chicago Capitalists Will Build Sani tarium at Black Mountain. Asheville. N. Articles of Incor poration for the Harrison Mountain : Air Company, of Black Mountain, this! oration j county, have been recorded in the of Clerk Erwin, of tho Superior The authorized capital of the corporation is $25,000, divided into 25ft shares of stock. The stockhold ers and tho number of hares owned are: (’has. E Piper, of Chicago, four shares; Wallace K. Harrison, of Chi cago, 123 shares; and Isaac J. Archer, of Black Mountain. 123 shares. The principal office of the cor|s»ration will l»e located at Black Mountain. The object of the new concern as given In the articles of Incorporation Is to build and operate a sanitarium to care for and treat the sick, includ ing all manner of diseases; to hiilld and operate a hotel; to build and op erate cottages and to deal In real es tate. Engine Dispatcher at Spencer Run Over by a Locomotive. Spencer. X. C., July 1.—Harold Crowell, engine dispatcher at the round-house of the Southern shops here, was run over by an engine last night and sustained injuries from which he died early this morning. The young man. it is learned, had sent out an engine for a north-bound train and was on the tender accompanying the engine across the yards. At a con venient point he jumped from the lo comotive with the intention of re turning to the round-house office. An other engine was hacking into the yards unobserved bv the young man. and he was knoekeq down and one of ids lower limbs practicaly crushed off. The limb was later removed entirely by surgeons at the hospital in Salis bury. to which the young man had been carried. He rallied from the op- hut soon relapsed and died. ] He was an orphan boy and highly es- ; teemed by his associates here and at 'Salisbury, where he resided with rel- j at ives. It Is usually the man who gives good advice that sots a had example. Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year. Court Proceedings. No rases have been heard at court since the last issue of The Ledger. Court adjourned Friday morning, and did not meet again till v’sterday morning. Yesterday the ons« of T/ivo vs. Turner. Involving a title to some lands, came up. and if occunied the attention of the court all dav. There will he no jury cases today. —Are you going away? If so you will need a Straw Hat. Buy it at cost at Carroll & Bvcrs*. — Got you a new Straw Hat while you need it, at cost at Carroll A Byers’. — See our Straw Hats in the window —all at cost. Carroll & Byers.