Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. what they will—but this fight on the dispensary Is nothing more than a renewal of the old anti-faction against the Reformers, under the guise of cor- A Tillmanesque Outbreak. (Cincinnati Times-Star.) If there is one thing that our old 1 frien.i Benjamin Pitchfork Tillman, of The Ledger is not responsible tor the views of correspondents. Obituranes will be published at five cents a line. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for Identification. All correspondence should be ad- j dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. I ..j . aw A. •••1*11*11, ruptlon in the dispensary. We dp not South Carolina, cannot abide, it is shield or uphold any thief, and say monotony. Mr. Tillman has made the ; nunish any one found stealing from senate sizzle on more than one occas- the dispensary, but do not condemn a i (>n since he first entered that august ; law because the Conservatives put assembly as a represen*ative of the j in office corrupt men from their ranks, great State of South Carolina. He can 1 A A XI X * —* , - 1 but turn them out and place honor able and honest men in charge. Next year is election year; elect only those who have been your friends since 189b, because anyone who was against stand a warm debate quite well, and is not greatly distressed when his po litical enemies tell him what they think of him and his me*hods. It is j when peace and quiet comes over the | We invariably discontinue tending <r he Ledger when a eubecription rune jut, for we have no way of knowing that a person wants It except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur* gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the ground that the paper la worth the money. We are trying month by month to make it better and bet ter. you then, that same enmity is still in eapitol that the most uniquely orna- his heart, and he would resort to any mental of present-day senators looks j means to defeat or down a Reformer. ^ bored and finally shows unmistakable, Keep your eyes open and stick to slgns of distress*. your party and narty measures. Mr Tillman seems to have grown Now, what we want to know Is tired of the monotony of hearing simplv this: If the Conservatives are charges of dishonesty brought against .* „ .. . .. . . ~ „ fellow senators, for the other day he - took a liana in the prosecution game, and become responsible for the rot- w i th himself as chief victim, “My tenness in the dispensary why can’t policy,” he said, “has been to get ev- thev overthrow the Tillmanites alto- erything in sigh* for the South when . i „ ? I saw a chance, and I tried to get it, gether and burst up the thing entirely. right or wrong honestly or dishonest- Such argument as produced by The jy because those people up there have Standard is absurd and is unworthy been stealing from us long enough.” ^ of it. We don’t know how it was else- Tillman is a character. We do not SUCH IGNORANCE! w we do know that all the ^lieve that he is dishones* In fact, Under the dispensary law in Chero-, .Ushers in Cherokee were J e iS ° ne ° f w 6 very * ew ra(, l cals wh ? kee Gaffney had one place where Iormer dispensers in i.nerokee were have come , nto p OSIt ions of promi- liquor could be bought. Now there Reformers. They are good men and nence in the past few decades whose are three, selling night and day. There there was no breath of suspicion honesty has impressed us as being are that many internal revenue li-1 against them, and we know that three a,> ~'.^ Question. censes r a ken out in Gaffney. One has, Tillman is in some ways a type in been taken in Pickens, but it is young or ,ne lpa,nil S men to 0 PP OS ® ine {,1S himself. He never seems to have been in the prohibition movement yet. Pro- pensary in Cherokee were Tillmanites quite able to persuade himself that hibition means the unrestricted and —Rev. F. C. Hiskson, J. C. Otts and ; reconstruction days are really over, unlicensed sale of liquor so far as g p rank Parrott. Nobody fought the j” * ast ani * South Carolina is concerned. Admit-! * ; all the time. He is not in any sense ting that the dispensary is bad. it is l,h P cnsar > harder nan tn.se gentle ; natl0 nal. In a position of power as not so bad as that.—Columbia Record.) men - The Standard is below its stanza prominent leader of the dominant ,,, surprised at the Record.)‘lard when it resorts to such dema-i I»arty at the na ional capital he would f , I be a menace, if he were not a jokt*. Go and examine ’he internal revenue - - SPn j or senator from South Carolina Last Friday we told how we would! . t * ,e l ea( ling Democratic freelance record . If this statement is based on hearsay evidence have your informant! h d ha(1 )ld t the in , the senate ’ a , !? cid ^ ,, and . if ..mu a at-itu uctu we sum spate io uie un jq ue success. May he live long to go and examine the records. I ’‘ | dispensary element and our motives: keep th#> senate from going to sleep have examined the records go look had 1)een q Ueg -j one d. The Spartan- and to further add to the gaiety of again and see if the revenue licenses bur „ Journa , having been accused of nat,ons in the fllture - selling out, gave a detailed statement Reply to “Rosebud.” of the amount of matter printed, and White Plains. Aug. 21. 1905. said it received thirty cents a line for Ed. Ledger:—Please allow me space publishing the ma’ter in The Journal in J 0,11 paper to replj to Mr. Rosebud s you speak of did not expire on June 30th. 1905. We know more about this matt- : than The Columbia Record. We know three licenses were taken out t > expire June :;<>th. 1905. We know they have not been renwed. Ve know there is not now a United States ’/cense in Cherokee unless it has been taken out within the pas’ week. ' . - ‘ i article in last Thursday's Issue of The and The Freelance (weekly edition of Cherokee News. 1 regret very much The Journal. This was about $2 an that there has come up any trouble , inch. All we’ve got to sav is that the between the two teams, for when we! I . u v _ r i invited the Ravenna team up to our! gentleman who bought the space at R1 . oimd our intention was to give them , that price had a very poor idea as to a f a | r <r ame 0 f hall, and expected that United States Commissioner J. B. Bell t j le value of advertising space. We ven- it would be an afternoon of enjoyment, and Deputv Marshall Bert Hallman U|re tnc ass p r ,j on that no business But the Ravenna team brought two of say there are no licenses in Cherokee hnuse in Spartanburg pays any such i Asbury and three of the Pacolet , .. - I.,-- i- rate, and ~ —• *'" Mill teams to play against us. We yet The Journal says the on ]y p U j j n three players that didn’t) matter was inserted as an advertise-. belong to our team. It was agreeable that they know of. Neither of thej drug stores irt Gaffney has a license. Neither of the hotels has a license. , .. . it- i ,, • at the regular rates. We wish to both sides for Mr CnnU-cm- I " e ca ”. no - 1WM “ » t *f- to oongratnlato The Jm.rnal upon ,l,e hire the same. an,l if heTaiM to she' nr.v. we are au.horiaert to aay -o very m aB„10cent ratea I, e e- s an.l tr,„t I el, !"' r io«ice .he,, we were to I.-.f Record that ... or one „t its „ nia| „, a| „ s „ ^ ' friend., can buy liquor In Gaffney the „,„|e r ^ from a Wind t, S er they will be paid • alons ho , les| , $U»n When shown the article above re ferred to. Chief of Police Lockhart said: “I wish the man who wrote that article would come to Gaffney and try *o buy some liquor. He simply tells what Is not true when he says liquor can be bought here day and night from one place, let alone three.’ j put another man in his place. But, no, they thought they would put a man from their own side behind the catch er, so Mr. Cooksey had to stop calling I the game, for when he would call a down with the argument that he gets str jj <e on Ravenna boys their man it in the daily and weekly Spartanburg would call it a ball. If the Ravenna Journal for less *han we ask him for | boys had said that Mr. Cooksey wasn’t a little old semi-weekly. 1 ^ving them justice then I would htrt-e. ! given away for them to put in a man . _ _ from their side. Our pitcher, Mr. Children's Day at Gethsemane. Wvatt, couldn’t ihrow anything but Lawn, Aug. 21.—Children’s Day came off last Saturday at Gethsemane , )a s on Batenna. so we quit, the score as per arrangement, and was very; 1 ' K ° u ^ an( | ^' ,ur - * am con- greatly enjoyed by all present. The! I . 1 ' nr tliat ‘I 1 - : l^nows better It's provoking to have men who pre- program was quite different from the, ian , at , uas writing, but he tend to be truthful and honest pervert programs h* generally carried out at 1 ' ' J ,n nial<A people believe tend to be tr " imn a “ <l “ on ” 1 P Childrens Dav exercises. Instead of) ,!la, 4 Ra '“nna had a good and quiet a’ter- as The Record has done. IVf . it;i . i(ms , . th( . chi id ren ti ,e V had f 6 ’ ^ he mistaken in it, ma T „e,.e „o question about the e.iitor I,.: ^y; iabontio unTeoin,,^ believing what he wrote. We admit speeches by Prof. \\. K McArthur and I , . Wivto rouble said the a bluff ,-ii t, , ijir»fr « 1M i ..iso.,., —r,-,,,. M-m i same over them. But if they think it he believed was reliable. But hung i Mr - ' ' Wil a ,,luff « amf “ can l ,ick as in Coltiml ia. where the records could hood a < > -• . man y men as they wish and name the et them on half- ini- auci settle it. about so important a matter. And the portant part of the program—dinner— i White Plains Boy. most provoking part of 'he business which the S^ r ! adi ^ n ha< ^ j Usually the son of a self-made man is this: Should The Record take the m t P ckl P the "p a i ate and satisfy to '^^end the ladder from the trouble to examine the records in Co- t j ie a pp C .tite of the most fastidious.; h'| in | at "imlt his father stopped lunibla the chances are that it will And we want to say by way of em- ( limbinK ' not admit its error. These dispensary phasis that “Newsboy enjoyed that ' i, part of the program hugely, advoca'es seem to have lost all th Rev j r Wilson tiegan a series of ; believing what he wrote. We admit speeches by Prof. W. F. McArthur and | K? .': e " na ],ny * hafl h ’ s I;n j r f '- 011 there .va- mom for him to molt, the Rev J. B. wil-nn. of Gaffney Mr. ! Wa n ^,„Tvr li.'l'^ nan* Inv „ assertion, provided, of course, that hr of rhiil|ren Hn(l the objeet in at all. but ;he Icav.mna boys sai ha-1 information to that effect which view for the i r Accomplishment,” and u hlle Plalns •'°. vs tried to run a he believed was relialile. But living Mr. Wilson’s subject was "True Man- i -ame out them. Btr in Columl ia, where the records could hood and Womanhood.” The exercises | p ’ a ;' a ’ J . , .i were Intersperse,l with some good mu- , ai D m - 1 '“yj "i he examined, there is no excuse for ^ led by Mr Rrown L( , vve _ About hay and we will met The Record to take anybody s word o’clock P. M. came *he very ini- ' a -’ --toubfi' and sett he nor and manhood they ever pos sessed. They will unconsciously tell a falsehood, and, when their attention is directed to it. will ignore the cor rection. The people of Cherokee are delight ed with prohibition. It is a vast im- pravement over the old state of af fairs We want others to know it. If the editor of The Record will come to meetings at Gethsemane yesterday. 'There is quite an interesting meet ing going on at Corinth, which was I begun the 13th inst.. by Rev. Felnult. There had been up to yesterday ten additions to the church. Fodder pulling will become general in this section this w» ek. and it is to be hoped that our farmers will have; fine weather for the saving of their fodder. Capt. Coyle, with his good roads Gaffney we will entertain him with- company, is doing some good work on out oo-q and show him one of the <,,lr ,u ads now. busiest and cleanest (morally) towns in South Carolina, and we believe that wi*h ail his prejudice against prohi bition he will go away converted. We extend an invitation to anybody To come here and see for himself. There are hundreds of Newsboy Grassy Pond Gossip. Grassy Pond, Aug. 21.—As it has been a long time since l wrote to the dear old Ledger I will today give it a call, as I have a few moments to spare. 1 hope this will miss the waste basket; homes here if it does 1 will come again. Opera House Thursday, Aug. 28th - THE GREAT - Clivette. that would gladly throw open their door- to entertain a delegation from any nart of the State who might wish to come here to inspect matters for themselves. No. no. dear Record: there are no Internal revenue licenses in Gaffney. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Ellis’s sweet li’tle babe passed away last night. Its remains will lie laid to rest this after-1 noon at Grassy Pond cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sairatt’s little babe Is very low at this writing. Miss Lela Glover, of Spartanbury Is visiting relatives in this section. Modern Magician And Illusionist Up-to-date Hagic and Exposures. . • i > Miss Sallie Ellis, of this place re- Then- is 1,01 a »insl<* Mace where tame,I Iron, Spananlmrs Sa ur'.lL ‘ liquor can be bought, either night or where she had been visiting relatives dav, and if you will be true to your- an ^ friends. • Vfw... self an i your readers you will search the records and then retract what you have said. Miss Quellie McCraw, of Gaffney, has been visiting relatives in tnis section. Mr. and Mrs. Jud McCraw, of Gaff- ney. have been visiting their father nrmArnr11 ,ln<, n,olher . Mr. and Mrs. Webb. DEMAGOGUISM. Mr. J. Vinesett celebrated bis 59th Some of the ultra Tillman, pro-dis- birthday yesterday. His children and) Itensary papers certainly are rare some of his other connection surprised birds wh- n it comes to reasoning. Take a dinner. Thetable was -*9 BIG 5** Specialty Acts. Prices: 15,25 and 35 Gents Secure Seats Now. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. the court olland, etc., and others, deceased, Mich creatures? -have persistently ’1. s. Hass Gamp, of Gaffney wer,V«Y« ! to eHtabll8h t} >eir claims before"me'it! fought for the past fifteen years any present, with a basket of’n I re r/Jwi the ~ court roora for Cherokee county measure tha’ the Reform party of this The occasion wa* very much miovelii w D T,,esda y- Sept. 5, 19Q5, at 10 a. m opi State inaugurated, and not being sat- by all who were present Th.. «rV.*?' be debarre J of participation In the isfled with a portion of the offices in wouldn’t care is such atf-iir „• , i\ eH ^ atd 0 * tbe Sfl ld Her«a«ea the State, they yell like hyenas when come oftener. they meet opposition. They may say- LTV Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 H. B. Carlisle, Referee. Your Corns Hurt? Protect Yourself f • • • Against loss by accident, sick ness, fire, storms, and leave your family comfortably “fixed” when you die, by investing in an INSURANCE POLICY. I represent the best companies. Come to our store for a bottle of Nyal’s Corn Cure* it’s a liquid prepa ration that we guarantee to remove corns, either soft or hard, without pain or danger. It costs only 15 cents and gives $15.00 worth of relief. • • • D. C. ROSS. Gaffney Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically, J (^“Office in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. Let The Shoe Store Fit Your Feet One of the very importantthings in buying Shoes is the fit. This we study as well as -value. Bringiyourfeet and let us fit them. We don’t piride our selves on cheap Shoe[s but good S h ojes at right prices. The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Company FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Company Prescription Druggists. Opposite Both Hotels. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co, THE LEADING ANNUAL DIVIDEND COMPANY OF AMERICA. JONES J. DARBY, Agent, Gaffney, S. C. HAS NEVER WRITTEN A “TONTINE” POLICY. IT SELLS ENDOWMENTS AT LIFE RATES NO STOCK-HOLDERS PURELY MUTUAL If You Have Something to Sell Make it Known Through The Ledger If You Want Something Put Your “Want” Ad. in The Ledger If You Want Nicely Printed Stationery Let The Ledger Do Your Work 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. 2.X. « II.