Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w O .V li I* IC V li Carroll Byers Outfiters to Men and Boys PERSONAL PARAGRAPH*. Oaffney. Invite Your Inspection of The Correct Advance Fall Styles Apparel for Men and Boys now Being Shown in The Clothing Department The Furnishing Goods Department The Hat Department The Shoe Department The Boys’ Department. German-American Monazite TVl i IVI O INI eumd t 3 u. In ei OF I T TO S A N L3 Gomc2emtr~eitin££ Id 1 ex n t « IN G, Gaffney, S. C, July 11 mo. W. H. Thompson, who has been visiting Hon. W. D. Kirby and family, left yesterday for Rich, his home. The Ledger will be a semi-weekly reminder to Mr. Thompson of his visit to Gaff ney. John G. Evans, of Spartanburg, was in the city Friday. President T. E. Moore, of the Gaff ney Manufacturing company, spent yesterday in the city. A. R. Osborne, of Blacksburg, was among the Sunday visitors in the city. DeWit‘. Quinn, a popular young man of Shelby N. C. ( is in the ci‘y visiting relatives. James Service, of Mercer, was in town yesterday. Hal Doggett, of Shelby, N. C., is in the city visiting his sister, Mrs. R. S. Lipscomb, on East Frederick street. B. G. L. Pet*.it, of Ravenna, was in the city yesterday. Oscar Lipscomb, of White Plains, was among the visitors at The Led ger office yesterday. I. G. Patrick, of Mercer, was in the city yesterday. Prater Smith, of Goucher, was in town yesterday. Mrs. T. B. Butler and son. Both, Jr., have gone to Pacolet *o visit relatives. G. W. Speer, Esq., returned to the city Sunday night, after a week’s stay in Asheville, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carpenter and Miss Lucy spent Sunday in Hender sonville, N. C. Dr. W. F. Humphries and W. C. Thompson are spending a fe%v days in Asheville, seeking pleasure and rec reation. Mrs. Floyd L. Baker spent Friday and Saturday in Spartanburg visPing friends. H. M. Johnson attended services at Corinth Sunday. Dr. S. M. Gunter spent Sunday in the Spartan City. J. P. Smith attended services at Ma cedonia Sunday. Frank Carson. Maynard Smyth and Tom Clarkson Spent Sunday at Pied mont Springs. Miss Blanche Corry returned Sun day from a visit to relatives in Miss issippi. L. C. Warmoth attended religious services at Grassy Pond Sunday. Miss Lucye Littlejohn, of was in the citv yesterday. WHY FARM LABOR IS SCARCE. Study Your Own Interests If it is a Suggy you want, you want the best. The best Buggy made is the Buggy made by Taylor, Cannady & Co. We have them in both open and top. The only Wagon giving absolute satisfaction is the celebrated Geo. E. Nissen. We have them. Do you want the only Disc Plow that will work a hillside and give satisfaction? If so, call and see Avery’s Pluto Disc Plow. A full line of Turn Plows and Farming Implements. : : : Lipscomb, Goudelock (§b Co. GAFFNEY, S. C. Is the new place opened up at 110 Fred erick St., where you can be served with Meab junches. Soda Water, Ice Cream, Etc., both day and night to white and colored alike. In the rear of Merchants and Planters Bank. : : : : 3 m Car Each of Guggles and Wagons \ \V. \Y. Galloway returned to Mil ledgeville, Ga., yesterday, after spend ing a week in the city with Mrs. Gal loway. Mr and Mrs. H. K. Osborne are visiting relatives at Brevard, N. C. N. C. Snead and daughter, Miss An nie. went to Laurens Saturday to visit relatives. Simpson Blanton, of Grindal, was in the city Saturday. Prof. H. P. Griffith returned yester day from a week’s visit to friends at Woodruff and other points. Mrs. C. H. Robbins is sviiting rel atives in Spartanburg. Ector Harrill, of Shelby, N. C., was among the visitors in the city Satur day. W. B. Wilson, of Rock Hill, was in the city Friday. Mrs. W. P. DuPre and son, John, spent Sunday in Spartanburg. J. 15. Holland, of Greenville, but formerly of this place, was here on a I visit last week. He returned to Green ville Sunday. Mr. anti Mrs. SmP.h Lipscomb and ! .Mrs. A. E. Lipscomb went to State Line yesterday to visit Mrs. Annie I Camp. Charley Haines returned to the city Sunday. He had been to Jonesvllle to visit his parents. Dr. L. It. Black, of Wilkinsville, was i I in the city yesterday on business. J. E. Foster, of Gowdysville. was i among the lower Cherokeeans in the | city Saturday. Miss Daisy Stacy returned borne; Sunday from a week’s stay with rel- J atives and friends in Shelby. N. C. J. B. Jones, of Grassy Pond, was in the city Saturday. George Jefferies, one of the effirient i salesmen at Carroll & Byers’, returned I Friday night from a trip to the moun tains. MUh Mamie Stacy spent Sunday with friends in Spartanburg. Miss Ella May Venable, of Jefferson, C.a., who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. Roland Gaines, returned home last Tuesday. Mrs. W. N. Austell left las*, night for the northern markets to buy a new line of millinery goods. Mrs. Will Spearman and little daughter, of Goucher, were in the city yesterday. George Garland, Esq., of Salisbury, snent Saturday in the city with Mrs. Garland and his sisters, Mrs. Vustell and Mrs. Turner. Mrs. M C. Lipscomb, of White Plains, spent yesterday in the city. Virgil Lipscomb, of Trough, was in the city yesterday. He railed at The Ledger office and subscribed. Laborers Go to Town Where They Can Get Steady Employment. (The Tradesman.) There is a reason for the scarcity of farm labor in the South, other than what has heretofore appeared, and which tends *.o more fully explain the deficiency than what is generally un derstood as being the cause for it. The Tradesman has been doing some investigating on this subject and it finds that farm labor has usually been engaged only for the active crop sea son, and in the case of negro tenants who had a share in the crop, the owner or landlord made advances, and at set tling time, when the crops were gath ered, the tenant usually found himself with IPtle or nothing to go through the winter .hence he was forced into the towns and cities, where temporary jobs were obtainable, and which served to ward off possible starvation on the farm. The ‘'help” were turned out wi*h the mules to forage until spring, or to go to the towns, and a continuation of this “system” has made those who had been reared on farms turn from them and decline *o return, A Norfolk farmer who had come South and had been successful, was asked his opinion regarding this scarc ity of farm labor, and his opinion, based on his experience and observa tion regarding the relative values of farm laborers in the North and the ne gro in the South, and he gave some of the facts that we have se‘ forth, with the further explanation: In the North the “help” were generally employed by the year, except for harvest hands, and on coming South he pursued the same policy towards the negroes. When the crops were gathered bis fences were repaired, fall plowing was done and his hands provided for dur ing the winter. He has been many years in the South, and he has never had any scarcity of help, while his nearest neighbor has pursued the “Southern policy,’’ as he termed it, and was always having trouble in the spring to get his farm- planted, while the condition of the two places was as unlike as possible. The “Southern policy” was depreciating the farm every year, but his showed constant Improvement, as evidenced by the Asbury. i fact that he paid only $K an acre for | it a lew years ago, when he could sell The Latch String Is out for every one who wishes to open a SAVINGS ACCOUNT with this bank. :: We Pay 4 Per Cent. Interest comi ounded quarterly. Capital, Surplus and Profits, $90,000.00. J. Q. Little, R. A. Jones, R. M. Wilkins, Directors: J. N, Lipscomb, W. C. Hamrick, W. C. Carpenter, R. R. Brown, A. N. Wood, C. M. Smith. MERCHANTS & PLANTERS SANK Fire Insurance and Bonds Written. II -- ■> I it now for $ 10 per acre. m TWO COMMIT SUICIDE. Cumberland County Man and Woman Take their Own Lives. Fayetteville, N. C., Aug. 18.—Eras-| mils Jackson, a farmer living in the| northern part of the county, killed himself today by blowing his brains | out with a gun. He leaves a wife and several children. In the same neigh-1 borhood Mrs. Alien killed herself by jumping into a well, having made her| will and left it in the Bible. tllaal ■ | ist he money to your credit in the Gaffney Savings Bank. But remember that it is your reacli only that it is within; your written order is neceasary to obtain it. Burglars and thieves have no chance to get it. A Freight Wreck. •ville, N. r„ Aug. 19 Asheville, N. C„ Aug. 19.—Three! freight cars and a caboose were in a | rear-end wreck on tiie Knoxville ern this mornin from Knoxville, was held up at the scene of the wreck, scarcely more than three miles from the passenger station, for several hours, until the track could lie cleared. A brakeman at work under one of the cars at the time of accident received a severe injury to on leg. The rolling stock of one train was somewhat crippled The Gaffney Savings Bank would like to open an account with you. One dollar will do for a start, your own pride will make it grow. We pay four per cent, inter est on allj deposits. The Gaffney Savings Bank. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. near Riverside Park. W Ml division of the South | ig and train No. do.: > - — — - ~ LOOK OUT! Beginning August 5th, we will positively cut out any subscriber who has not paid his dues up to the first of the month preceding. GAFFNEY TELEPHONE CO. Brown-Bailey. \t the home of the bride at Parole* last Tuesday Mr. T. C. Brown and Miss Iri Bailey were united in wedlock. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s brother, Rev. J. I). Bailey, of Cowpens. It was a quiet home affair, the witnesses being the intimate friends and relatives of the contrae’- ing parties. The bride and groom are well known people of the Pacolet neighborhood and have the hearty con- gratulations of their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Wood and Dr. and Mrs. B. R. Brown, of Gaffney, attended the wedding. Colored Barbecue. The colored people will have a bar becue at Morgan Park on the 24th insf., for the benefit of the High School in this city. There will be singing and addresses on the grounds, and in *he afternoon the assembly will be addressed by Mr. R. C. Sarratt, president of the County Cotton Grow ers’ Association, and by Mr. S. Frank Parrott, editor of The Cherokee News. -tf GREENWOOD ARRESTED. \ \ Y We have just unloaded another car of Anchor Buggies aud we ask you not to overlook the many good points the Anchor Buggy possesses over others. We also have a car of Piedmont Wagons, You know them; they have been sold here more than 20 years. R. M. WILklNS HARDWARE CO. Buncombe County Man. Who Stabbed His Wife, in the Toils. Asheville, N. C., Aug. 18.-—Sheriff W. J. McIntosh this afternoon tele graphed Sheriff Reed that he had ar- rested "Chief” Greenwood at that place and awaited instructions. Greenwood agreed to come back without requisi tion papers and it is probable that an officer will be sent for him tomor row. Gr tenwood is the man who, sev eral days ago. stabbed his wife in a fearful manner on the highway, in Big ivy township, and then fled. Mrs. Greenwood is still dangerously ill and her recovery is doubtful. Mr. Huskey to Speak. Hon. Kimsey O. Huskey will ad dress the voters of Cherokee on the issue of the day at the following places: Wilkinsville. Friday, August 25th. Ezells, Saturday, Angus* 2fith. Blacksburg, Monday, August 2Sth. Mr. Huskey desires that the voters turn out to hear him and extends an invitation to Dr. Anderson to meet him on the stump. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in Gaffney postoffice for the week ending Au gust 19ih, 1905: .1. Bensor. Miss Minnie A. Drum- mons, Mrs. Lizzie Guess, Miss Eliiggie Garrett, Mrs. Dellar Huskey, Miss T. J. Jefferies, Mrs. Violet Llzle, Mr. R. L .McKnight, Mr. Wm. A. Tate. Mr. N. J. Pranter, Miss Lemer Worthie, Miss Eugenie Wilkey. Please call for advertised' letters. One cent due on each. A. R. N. Folger, Postmaster. For Strictly “A” Grade Buggies Go to Smith Hardware Co. and buy the famous “Tyson & Jones.” The Smith Hardware Co. now have the exclusive agency for our fine line of Buggies, Runabouts, Phaetons, Surries, Car- riages, &c., in this immediate territory, and will make the prices right. Call on them. You can get no better work on any market. :: :: :: :: :: TYSON & JONES BUGGY CO., Carthage 1 FARMERS MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, S. C. BThis Association was organized March 22nd, rSq-S, vsitii only a few memlrers and a few thousand dollars insurance, which was transferred from the Companies of I'nion and York Counties, by policy holders living in those sections of Cherokee County which were taken from said old Counties. At the end of the third year the insurance in force aggregated ... .5190,780 Increase from March 2nd, 1901, to August 1st, 1005 127,154 Total Insurance in force August 1st, 1905. 5317,934 Total amount of receipts for the whole period 54,353 46 Total amount paid out for losses 52,366 25 Total amount paid out for expenses, etc 1,166 74 Amount cash on hand August 1st, 1905 820 47 Total 54,353 46 This Company is purely assessment, therefore purely co-ojicrative and mutual, and insures against loss of property by fire, lightning, cyclones, tornadoes or wind storms. It gives protection at actual cost, It complies strictly with its contracts. All losses are paid promptly. It's policies are backed by over 5500,000 worth of property. Now is the time to insure. J. RB JEFFERIES, R. M. GAFFNEY. Secty. and Treas. President. Greatly Redoced Prices on al Summer Merchandise. Men’s two piece Suits at almost your own price. The very thing you need for this season of the year. Prices, $3.90 to $12.50. Men’s Trousers in light colors, _ _ 1 __ J ! —. ~ vwrxrkM -I y-v ■vx d* 1 W Yl 4- f\ Q Q ^ \ TVT L TDy-» 4-4* T r-v 4- L ^\T » A* 1 VT CS V> /“YTI VW** 1 VA y^/-\ tzO dOS0 crash, also stripes; medium peg top to wear hip fashion, $1.50 to $3.50. Men’s Patent Leather, Tan and Vici Oxfords, ranging in price from $1.50 to $3.50, to cloi at $1.10 to $2.50. Also a tew pairs of the celebrated Hanan Oxfords to close at a reduction. Ladies’ and Children’s Slippers to go at a sacrifice. Everything j odds and epds at cost and below. Wash Goods, Lawns, Dimities, Ladies’ Hats, Children’s Hats, Men’s and Boy’s Straw Hats. Lace Curtains from 48c to $6.00 pair. in 8 88