Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Correct Dress The "Modern Method” system of high-grade tailoring introduced by L. E. Hays & Co., of Cincinnati, satisfies good dressers everywhere. All Garments Made Strictly to Your Measure at moderate prices. 500 styles of foreign and domestic fabrics from which to choose. Represented by J. R. TOLLESON & CO. Gaffney, S. C. Missouri? You know they are the kind of people who have to be shown a thing be- i fore they wiii be lieve it. If you are you are the very one that we want for a customer. We want an opportu nity to show you, if we haven’t had it, that it is to your advantage to pat ronize our store when you are in need of anything that drug stores keep. We want to show you that our stock isfresh, neat, cleanandcomplete, that our prices are right and that our service is prompt and courteous. LOST FORTUNE IN COTTON. Then H. W. Ayer, of Raleigh, Lost His Mind. Raleigh, N. C.. July 7.—The dispatrh from New York telling about the col lapse of H. W. Ayer on the New York Stock Exchange created a distinct sen sation Aver was Stale auditor for four years during the Republican-Pop ulist regime. He was popular and much esteemed here. He was also for a long time prior to that time private secretary to President L. L. Polk of the Farmers’ Alliance during I ,he days when that organization nour ished He has been on the stock ex change in New York for several years. The report is that he lost $150,000 by the recent rise in cotton, being on the bear side of the market, and the loss unsettled his rpind. I •*I was all right np to last Monday. \ver said, “when cotton began to rise and make Theodore Price rich. Every thing was swept away, and almost j crazed by my loss. I began to drink. I drank a great deal, and lately thought I was upon the verge of insanity. I , felt my mind giving away, and I feared that T might kill myself. 1 am glad ' that I am here. 1 want you to take | care of me and prevent me from doing : injury to myself. 1 no longer hav i control over myself.” He was placed in a cell, where a do* ■ watch was kept over him. ami at 11 o’clock last night Dr. Phillip Grossman appeared and bailed him out. Dr. Grossman said Ayer and him self had been personal friends for years, and that Ayer bad undoubtedly lost a great deal of money on the rise in cotton, but be thought the broker ’right have exaggerated the extent of ’.is misfortune. NEW SUPERINTENDENT. Prof. Kittrell, of Oxford Schools, is Succseded by Prof. Bland. Oxford. N. C.. July 6.—Prof. R. G. Kittrell, superintendent of the Oxford gr aded school, has resigned, to accept ; '<> position of superintendent of pub- ic instruction of Granville P-of. Kittrell has been connected with • school . .v> years, and general re- > i..:pressed at his resignation. ' ■, j). h. P.laud, of Burga v. who ba.i :,eeii re-elected principal. > as imme diately elected to fill the < Rice of <u- iierintembmt. He lias accepted and ; .:;y : jt oriiieipal’s place to be p ].ii. i’r.... Kittrel’ will remain in Oxfo d. where he wdl have his office. - j-*. Cora Taylor, wlu has been ill V - veral months, but was improv ing. 'as taken suddenly worse a few days ago. and is now in a very critical condition. CAPTURED IN TENNESSEE. Negro Who Shot Two Men Last Spring in the Toils. Rutherfordton, N. C., July 7.—The negro. Josh Edgerton. who shot and badly wounded the two colored broth-1 ers, John and Roach Lynch, in Green j Hill township, in the early spring, was captured in Tennessee a few days ago. brought here an 1 lodged in jail. He was given a preliminary 'hearing be fore Justice H. S. Taylor yesterday and, failing to give the required bond, was remanded to jail to await the fall | term of Rutherford Superior Court. One of the boys has about recovered from his wounds, but the other has lH>th eyes shot out and he is now to tally blind. The negro Vess Hill, who was shot through the stomach by \\ ill Martin, another negro, at a meeting in Ixigan Store township last Sunday, died yes terday. Martin has not yet been cap tured. MISTRIAL IN DEWEY’S CASE. AM Evidence Has Been Introduced, Including a Letter from Dewey. Xewbern. N. C-. July •>.—On account of the death of the child of a juror, a mistrial was declared today in the case of Thomas \Y. Dewey, alleged wrecker of the Merchants' and Farmers’ Bank,, at Newbern, after all evidence had been introduced. The work of selecting a jury re quired but forty-five minutes this morning, and the taking of testimony began at once. D. W. Roberts, book keeper for the bank, identified the handwriting of various entries in the books ps that of Dewey, and showed that Dewey’s defalcations amounted to snu.Ooo. Somewhat of a sensation] was sprung by the State in introduc-; ing a letter said to have been written ; to \V. B. Blades, of Newbern. by Dew-, ey. on December J, 19b4. in which he asked that all offers of rewards be rescinded, and saying that on promise of immunity from prosecution he 1 would return and pay back dollar for! dollar. ECZEMA ITCHES AND BURNS The return of warm weather means a return of torture to Eczema sufferers. : The blood is charged with bumrng acids ! and acrid matter which is forced to the surface through the pores and glands, forming pustules whicn discharge a sticky fluid, and the itching is intense. The doctors said I had pustular Ec zema; it would break outin small white S ustules, mostly on my face and hanos. ischarginfr a sticky iiuid; crusts would form and drop off, leaving; the skin red and inflamed. I was tormented with the itching and burning character- j Istic of the disease for five years, and during; the time used various medicated soaps, ointments and washes, but these applications seemed to make me worse. After taking S. S. S. a short time I be- gan to improve; the itching did not worry me so much. I continued the medicine, and soon all the uuly erup tions disappeared and my skin is now as clear as anybody's. I nave not been troubled with any breaking out since. Urbans, O. E. E. KELLY. Sometimes the disease is in the dry form, and bran-like scales form on the skin, but the cause is the same—humors in the blood. Salves, cooling washes, powders and the like can do nothing | more than relieve the itching, because j they do not reach the acid-laden blood, I the seat of the trouble. S. S. S. cures I Eczema and all skin diseases by neutral izing the acids and carrying them off through the proper channels. When S. S. S. has done this the symptoms pass away, the blood is cooled and the disease is cured perrmi- fK* las? r ently - Noth * in S acts 50 BnP promptly or surelv in skin PURELY VEGETABLE, diseases as S. S. S., and it at the same time acts as a tonic to the en tire system. Book on Skin Diseases and any medical advice without charge. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. German-American Monazite Co. ?vl i r i fci ft-* eirici t 3 ti r’o li ei r'*-* OF a is: id 1 et ri t « IN Oak Springs, N. G. I uly II 3 mo. Gaffney, S. G. |IDorT.j’t IV | teiiramllsellingSFIour! so cheap you I HE. woud| think I ^am about to give it away., KN . ■■ | J. fF\ K I||N C K E N, | [ Second[Door From Postoffice. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1,00 a year WAIVED EXAMINATION. J. Gaffney Drug Company Prescription Druggists. J. E. Greene, Manager. Opposite Both Hotels. FOR Building and Plastering Llm«, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Parts, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessee*. Telephone 57. A TRAGEDY NEAR MARION. Drewry Powers Kills His Brother Jackson, Accidentally. Marlon. July .5.—Jackson Powers, j seventeen years old, is dead as the; result of an accidental shot, fired by his brother. Drewry. night before] last The brothers were arranging j for a Fourth of July celebration, when] a pistol in the hands of Drewry was j fired, the bullet, entering the forehead j of Jackson. The wounded boy lived j until midnight last night. The acci-j dent, occurred in this county about j four miles north of the town of j Marion. - WAS CHILD BURNED? Residence in Marlboro Destroyed, and One Child in it Missing. Bennettsville. July 5.—Today the, residence of Eh Covington, ten miles; north of here, was burned. Covington and his wife are both in the State j Hospital for the insane, having been carried there about a year_ ago. The ! children, the oldest about 15, remained] in charge of the home. It is reported i that one of them was seriously burned and another is missing. Whether it j was consumed or ran off to an un-; known hiding place is not known. Charters and Commisisons. The secretary of State issued a number of charters and commissions Tthursday, as follows; A charter to the Lynch-Letton company, of Columbia, with $10,000 capital. C. J. Lynch is president, and J. B. Letton secretary. A charter was issued the M. L. Sul livan company, of Anderson. The capital is $5,000, and F. J. Martin is president and secretary; W. C. King, vice-president, and M. L. Sullivan, gen eral manager. The Evening Post Publishing com pany. of Charleston, increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $15,000. A commission was issued the Be nevolent and Endowment association of South Carolina, of Columbia, a col ored concern. The capital is $5,000, and D. A. Hawkins, N. B. Collins, A. S. Johnson and C. W. Dunlap are the petitioners. J. Williams Will be Tried in the Superior Court. Cha'lotte. N. July 7.—Mr. J. J. Williams, who was indicted Thursdiv j on tie* charge of violating a State] st.uuie by persuading G. F. Collins, a linotpve operator in the employ of] the Queen City Printing and Paper] Company, to leave his position, was j arraign' d before ’Sqniro S. H. Hilton, i at the court house, yesterday after- ( noon lit 4;30 o’clock. Through his attornevs, Judge Armistead Burwell ( and Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, he waived] examination. The magistrate bound i him over to the August term of the, superior Court, requiring a bond of] $50 for his appearance for trial. The warrant against. Mr. Williams was sworn out by Mr. H. A. Murrill. j president and manager of the Queen City Printing and Paper Company. Mr Murrill has employed Mr. T. C. Guthrie, of the Charlotte bar. to pros-j ecute the case. To Cure a Cold in One Day Taka Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. £ rwj/ Seven Million boxes sold in post 12 months. This Signature* Cures Grip in Two Days. on every box. 25c. * /Jb Cures all Kidney and Bladder *D- juzusgs—Guaranteed For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. AN ILLICIT STILL. Revenui Officers Destroy a Moonshine Factory. Greenville, July 7.—Deputy Collect-] or Aiken and Constable Bell returned i to the city this morning after having] spent three days in a successful still hunt in the upper section of the county. , | In the neighborhood of Caesar s | Head the officers discovered a large I still, which had recently been in op-, eration, securely hid in an ivy thicket, j The whole outfit, consisting of a cop-1 per still, several hundred gallons of; beer and mash, a number of ferment- j ers, and cap and worm and all other: paraphernalia, were destroyed. No one was at work in the distillery when : the officers approached, but signs of j recent operations were noticeable. Enforcing the Law. (Newberry Observer.) A stock argument of the parroty kind is that prohibition cannot be en forced. Cherokee county seems to be enforcing it all right; and Newberry county can do what Cherokee can. | The law has been in existence in that, county for seven months .and the tes timony of reliable citizens is that the illicit sale of liquor has been greatly reduced, while the legal sale has been entirely abolished of course; that, not withstanding the shipping in of occa sional jugs by express, liquor drinking ; has been reduced to a minimum. The! law is respected and feared. And that will be the case wherever the people themselves vote liquor out of ’.heir j counties. If You Have Something to Sell Make it Known Through The Ledger If You Want Something Put Your “Wanf Ad. in The Ledger I & '4 If You Want Nicely Printed Stationery Let The edger Do Your Work $100,000 Hotel for Winston. Winston-Salem. N. C., July 11.—The stockholders of the Forsyth Hotel company met tonight and organized by the election of officers. Work on a $100,000 hotel will be commenced in a few weeks. FOR ALL COUETY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINQt IN THE •TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. Three Good and Just Reasons. There are three reasons why moth ers prefer One Minute Cough Cure: First, It is absolutely harmless; Sec ond. It tastes good—children love it; Third, It cures Coughs. Croup and Whooping Cough when other remedies fail. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison. Cowpens. Darlington Bank Fails, Columbia. July 7.—The Darlington Trust Company, of that city, closed its doors this morning because of in-: ability to realize cash on paper held, or it was assigned as the reason. The deposits were large, though the exact' amount has not yet been ascertained., It is stated, however, that depositors will eventually he paid in full. The bank had a capital of $120,000. Forced to Starve. B. F. Leek, of Concord, Ky.. says: I “For 20 years I suffered agonies, with i a sore on my upper lip. so painful, i sometimes, that I could not eat. Af ter vainly trying everything else, 1 1 cured it, with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.” It’s great for burns, cuts and j. wounds. At Cherokee Drug Co.; only 25c. 1 If You Want the Latest Local and Foreign News Subscribe For The Ledger The Ledger always gives you the worth of your money in every instance. GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME! Cut the price. Selling out every day. Just a few prices on eatables. Best quality Tomatoes, 3 cans for 25c. Best quality Corn, 2 cans for 25c. Good quality corn, 3 cans for 25c. Rib Meat at 9c. Fat Back at 8c. Pure Leaf Lard at 9c. Pu*"® Leaf Lard in buckets at 30c, 50c and $1,00. Pic-Nic Hams, 10c pound. Regular Hams. 12 1-2c pound. On Flour we lead both in quality and price. White Satin now $3.10. ORDER YOUR NEEDS FROM US. PHONE NO. 134. THE COMPANY ST O RiE .