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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE. The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of Thi# Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1904. A Newspaper in All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Cherokee County. GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. CLIFTON CHRONICLES. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Adjutant General John Frost an nounced Friday that he would not be a candidate for re-election. He will retire from politics. County Supervisor Boyd, of York county, on Saturday ordered that an election on the question of dispensary or no dispensary be held on Tuesday, September 2d, 1905. Thursday niftht at Rock Hill some miscreant put out poison and the re sult is thirty doits of the city lie cold in death. Some were- of hiph degree, others were merely dogs but all were more or less dear to their mas ters. Senator Tillman will yield to the request of a number of citizen's of York county and address a meeting at Tirzah September 7. A petition has been circulate! all over the coun- to to ask him to speak on the dis pensary question. The e is every in dication: of an enormous crowd to hear him. On last Friday night the Southern’s north-hound passenger train ran into a buggy and horse at a crossing just this side of Kershaw, wrecking the vehicle and killing the horse. The occupants of the buggy. Robert Blackman, of Kershaw, and Ellie Bruce, of Heath Springs, were not seriously hurt. Governor Heyward returned from Virginia Wednesday night, in which State, with his family, he has been spending a week or two with friends. His vacation did him good and he is the picture of health. He decilend to express any views as to the develop ments in the dispensary investigation, saying that the committee was doing its duty and until its work was com pleted he felt that he should say noth ing. A very severe rain and thunder storm prevailed throughout Laurens county Friday night, but there was little wind. A hundred ’phones of the Laurens Telephone Company were burned out by the lightning and va rious objects were struck throughout £ he county with more or less damage. At Waterloo the residence of Wash Ix)ng was struck, two holes were made in the roof and a quantity of weather boarding knocked off; the stock was torn off a shotgun in the room, and a bureau smashed, but none of the oc cupants of the house was in any way injured. Mr. Long and his family were all in the house. The rainfall was very heavy and the lands much washed. Mary Foster Marshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Marshall, of Greenville, died at 3 (('clock Saturday afternoon of lockjaw. She had been desperately ill for a week, and while heroic efforts were made by the phy sicians the disease could not lie checked, and death relieved the little patient after terrible suffering. She would have been 7 years old in No vember. While playing with several other companions about ten days ago the child received an accidental cut on the foot with a shovel, and while the wound gave no trouble at first more serious complications developed and the anti-toxine treatment was used. Members of her family and others, who watched faithfully for days, were ever hopeful that the rem edy would succeed. Saturday morn ing, however, there was a change for the worse and she died that after noon. Last Friday evening on the down train from Augusta to Beaufort, a white man, named Griffin with his wife and daughter, to get. out at Jackson Station, on the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad, be haved so unseemly In his Intoxicated condition and used such profane and blasphemous language, to the annoy ance of the other passengers, that the conductor, Walter Marshall, who Is one of the most considerate and popu lar conductors on the road, insisted firmly, but courteously, that he should go to an adjoining car, out of the hearing of the ladies and others. Griffin was forced to go, and when the conductor had removed him, he pull ed out a pistol and showed it to some of the passengers, saying: "You see, it ain’t loaded, but I will kill him.’ No attention vas paid to the threat, but when the train reached Jackson Griffin stepped out and loaded his pis tol, and, while the conductor was help ing his family out of the car, he shot him, inflicting two wounds, one in his leg and the other higher up, both caus ing bleeding. No physician being in call at Jackson, the wounded man was taken to Ellenton, where he was left in charge of a physician. A physician happened to be on hoard a passenger train for Beaufort, and rendered emer gency aid. The seriousness of the wounds has not been ascertained. Eye-witnesses to the affair pronounce it one of the most outrageous .and un warrantable assaults and batteries with Intent to kill that could be Im agined. —Umbrellas from 45c to $2.25 at J. I, Sarratt. m “Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S. Men and Matters at the Big Mills On the Pacolet. Clifton, Aug. 22.—The writer has just returned home from a visit to friends and acquaintances down in his “old range” in the Etta Jane sec tion of Cherokee county, where he has passed the most enjoyable outing that he has met with in quite a while, in the hospitable homes and with the families of such men as Messrs. S. F. Estes, T. J. Estes, Jas. L. Strain, W. C. Blackwell, Jas. B. Strain, together with a host of “comers and goers”— all fully prepared to interest or en tertain any one, let him he of any class he may. The people down in Cherokee are living amid cheering prospects of a bountiful harvest, not withstanding the effects of drought and wet weather and freshets all combined. We spent a great portion of our time in the company of Mr. S. F. Es tes, who is the most interesting man in our present knowledge. "Uncle Sill” has just passed his seventy- fourth birthday (though if Aunt Mary wasn’t living we don’t believe he would claim half of it.) He never was a perfectly “stout” man. but at the present time looks as young as he did twenty-five years ago. He pos sesses a noble memory and can re call many of the incidenfts of the past, that can fill a conversation with intense interest. He thinks what he believes, and in his belief he is as firm as the rack of Gibralter; and in his decision as unchangable as the law of the Medes and Persians. Mr. Charlie N. Griffin is very sorely afflicted by two carbuncles on his A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular Paopla and Short Items of General Interest. Wilkinsville, Aug . 26.—Receiving and heard the class sing several pieces. Miss Mollie Montgomery is the organist, and the music was splen did. Prof. Roy has endeared himself to the people of that section as a proficient musician. His scholars have made considerable advancement in music in the ten days he taught. Messrs. Sam Strain and Tillett Hartford w-ent to White Plains church and to Clifton yesterday. They will take in Spartanburg before returning. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Strain have an other hoy baby added to their family. Mrs. Amanda Lee has gone to Pat terson Springs to visit h°r daughter, Mrs. J. S. Wright. Mr. Willie Kirby is spending his vacation at the home of his parents. ] THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE BLACKSBURG BUDGET. RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers. ,, ...V,, o • onH W P kMrhv Ho will I MI'. VV. nHCK, a weil-lO-QO an invitation to do so, your cqrres- Mr. and Mrs. W. C. KirPy. H( w111 ! () f d a ountv ( i rount ,.i i nondent visited the farm of Mr Smith return to Columbia next week. 1 , f ’ ro . p P e , d . ponuent visiiea me lami oi mi. ouiiL. ; night while visiting at a friend WrtrtrT at Pinr»knpv r VPRt.PI\1aV. ThG KGV. \Y. H. \\ nUP Will ])M aCH 91. ] ^ Wood, at Pinckney, yesterday. The lands embraced in this farm are known to the older people as the Phil- peck. McMahon and Josiah Smith places and are situated on or near the Pinckney road, between Kelton and Pinckney ferry, on Broad river, in Union county. To say that Mr. Wood has a model farm is but lightly expressing it. He has seventy acres in cotton, which he works with hired labor. Mr. Charlie Millwood is his foreman. In the absence of Mr. Wood, Mr. Milwood exercises his best judgment as to how the crop should he worked or managed. Most of this land is comparatively level. It’s what we call grey land, with clay subsoil. On about eight acres Mr. Wood has made an experiment .this year and the result is there to show for itself. Of this, we want more par- Friday s house, Salem' next* Sabbath. September" 3d“ | tliree miles from Salisbury. He was a‘ 11 o’clock A. M.. and also at 1:30 j ,n « 00(l health an 'l ,itiath Js supposed P. M What is Happening Among Our Neigh bor* Across the Broad. Blacksburg, Aug. 28.—Mrs. 'V U'la* can and children, of Atlanta, Ga. are visiting relatives in this place. Miss Ora Rudisil), of Shelby, Is vis iting Mss Mabel Ramseur in this place. Mrs. C. A. Stewart and little daugh ter, Ida, left this morning to visit relatives in Prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shiver, of Rock Hill, are visiting relatives in this p'ace. Mrs. Lee Smith and children re turned to their home in Forest City Mr. L. W. Beck, a well-to-do farmer I today, after spending several days in town with friends. Mr. Ed Blalock, of spent Sunday in town. Spartanburg, to have been dud to heart failure. His The rainly weather has spoiled j home is near Rockwell. He was '>2 much of the fodder this year. In j >' ears (, hl. , ...» , ticularly to speak. To give a full detail back, one of which he has been suff- * l e ° l cultivation, as Mr. ering from for about seven months. | '' 0() ^ £ ave ^ t° tis, would make this But at the present writing he is bet-M e ^ er 100 l°ng for the space at our; that the railroad from Spartanburg to | V''jj ter, and we trust is on his way to | f,omman ‘h Suffice it to say that the - - - - ... . . recovery. i !aiu * was broken to an average depth 1 of LM inches and the rows laid off six feet wide with a small shovel plow. On about one-half of the land he used Mr. M. P. Nelson, formerly of Pac olet, but now of Pelzer, and son Hardy, gave us a call today. They, ... , r , are out on a “rest up” of two weeks, 100 ^ soluble guano to the and have been on a visit, to some friends at Gastonia, N. C. acre, and on the ottn r half 600 pounds ! to the acre. The limbs of the cotton The anti-dispensary men of Spar- met ’ n row an( l oftener than anburg are working earnestly to have: oth , erwlse are overlapping each other. and fruiteed to the top, and most of tanburg are working earnestly an election held sometime in the near future for the purpose of deciding the question of “Dispensary or No Dis pensary.” If all will vote as they talk the “honorable institution” is doomed to utter extinction. the bolls have five locks of cotton in them. The cotton is his Wood’s Tex as variety, which he prizes very high ly and for which he has received j many orders at $1.00 per bushel. Sev- | eral of the neighboring farmers were The publisher of The Ledger re-, . , , _ cently gave out a cut and sketch of 'here yesterday and went over the the “hustling” life of Mr. W. Sam Lip-| crop w,th y° ur correspondent, and Tom Whisnant returned home Sat urday night, after spending several days with his sister. Mrs. George Eaves, in Marion, N. C. * Kt.i -v i, tor V.OU i,p Pn i I Miss Riola Faulkner, of Kings Creek, 3 . • ' k 1 ‘ ! M. H. White, a horse owner, of spent a few days last week in this saved as yet nf i Hertford, called upon Capt. Boardman, | p i ace . Hicborv 0 Grove 8 and children came I at Washington, D. C.. police head-: Mi ss Edna Moss was in town a few ' i ' i t .pcii-jv •< visilr and r« : quarters Friday mornirtg. and reported hours Saturday, on her way home from over last Tuesday on a visit and re , tlm he was robbed of a diamond. Charlotte N. C. (i 1 (namp intvn this worth $70a - while at the Rockville I Mr will Porter, of Belwood. N. C„ 'i at tnovinv official i, us i Fat 1 ’ the day before. He was unable spent Sunday in this place, s.} last Wednesda\ n offi . , to glve any iflea of how th e theft was | Mr. W. A. Blalock made a, flying committed, or by whom. 1 trip to Gaffney Saturday afternoon. Mr. Will Anderson, of Gaffney, spent One of the most cowardly and vi-; Sunday in town with his parents, cious assaults ever committed in Mrs. Logan, of Patterson Springs, Salisbury, look place Friday morning • i s visiting her daughter, Mrs. D. S, at the Kelser Cotton Mills, as a result Ramseur, in this place, of which Mr. Walter Crump, the only Baxter Bettis, of Earl, N. C.. was in son of Dr. W. L. Crump, lies in the : 0 \vn Sunday night. Whitehead-Stokes Sanuarium in a cri-j Mr. Zeb Bettis and Miss Georgia tieal condition, and \\ ill. Charle- and Sepoch, of Mt. Paran, attended ser- Jim Carruthers are in jail without vices at this place Sunday night. turned yesterday. St way ness. N. T. Burris, colored, the Skull Shoals ferryman, has some of the bes‘ corn we have seen on Pacolet. He is a good farmer. J. L. S. WANT A RAILROAD. Eze Section Must Have One at Any Cost, Ezell, Aug. 24.—We are informed Rutherfordton is being surveyed by way of the Big Island ford. N. C. The people up that, way seem pretty sure that it will he buiP. Contractors are trying to get hands. We hear there is to he a bridge Mrs. Robert Gaston, of Columbia, is visiting Mrs. D. 1). Gaston, of this place. Little Lottie Phillips is visiting her Detective Haney, of the Southern, who has been at Salisbury since the collision hetwenn a runaway engine aunt M rs. Wm. Phillips, in Gaffnev and a shifter on the yards there Tues- 1 day night, resulting in the death of Engineer Horatio Bullock, is still Bankers Visit Gaffney. Henry M. McAden, director of the built across Broad river near Line, j working on the case. If he has ^ j^ a ^j ona ] u an k of Gaffney and presi- N. C. We believe Island ford would j learned anything he refuses to dis- dent of the Piedmont Fire Insurance Charlotte, N. C.; L. L. president of the First tion- al Bank of Gastonia; R. R. Ray, treas- w L - v\ e ueiieve island torn would l learneu anytiung ne reiuses ui m»- dent of tl have been a more suitable place, and close the information. It Is believed company. benefited more people; hut we are glad that the person w.io was r-sponslb e i TenkinS( p that we will have a bridge, even if it ' for the collision, tl t :> responsibility 1 al Bank o is a little inconvenient to the people of this section. We are looking forward to Gaffney for our railroad when they build the electric road to Hendersonville. We know riglu along this ridge will lie the best and cheapest way it can be scomb, one of the most energetic, in- '* t |'’" wmlpwZlfp q hm i lu,ilt - 11 can be l,uilt f, ' om Gaffney dubious and economizing men of | ! to Columbus without building a single .Jill l/M Jiy-, vv*. | today. And if he will take the P° un ' ,s »f seed cotton to the acre, trouble of procuring and giving - °f ^ r - Wood’s crop is planted with like sketches of the lives of Mr. Lip-| rhe same kind of 866(1 an(1 with froni scomb’s father, -Mr. Edward: his I two r ° th ree hundred pounds of gu- hrother, Mr. Hamlet S., and his uncle, 1 ano to ,he acre antl W6 8a 'v very few - 1 acres that will fall much short of a Mr. William R., they could have placed bale of cotton. Taken all in all it’s before the minds of the young men, . , who are starting out “to make their tlie )6s f cotton farm we have seen, fortunes” a series of Important model, an<1 -' lr - ^ () od an, l his tenants are .o lessons in industry, economy and )e congratulated upon their success perserverance. Such lessons (if 80 lar ln growing it. properly heeded) might prove the i w6 are with the cotton growers means of supplying one of the great-! 0 / the ■South interested in the cuLiva- est needs that some of the young men i f lon t b f crops, we take pleasure of the present day have—a need for ■ 111 submitting to our readers the in- the love of work. | tensive, rather than extensive, plan Mr. Elisha Bomar, who for twenty- °/ cot / w *} raising and recommend Mr. five years has been foreman of the Wood s farm as an example. This we Ciifton company store, has resigned woul(1 1)6 P| a( l /or al l ,0 r as many as his position there and will enter into r>anl lo visit while the crop is on the a mercantile business at Landrum., ground, to show for itself, and get 1 uis views and methods of cultivation. During the long period of his servi tude at Clifton he has given to both We could say much more of bridge and with very little grading. In speaking to one of the leading busi ness men of Gaffney about having a rail road through this section, he said: “Oh, we folks of Gaffney want you to have a railroad sometime, hut we are not wanting you to have it now. We want you to feed us for a while yet.” Now, we are perfectly willing to help Gaffney if Gaffney will help us, but we want a road and we want it now. and if we can get one by way of Con verse and Marie Louise mills, as there has been some talk, Gaffney need not blame us. The people of Arrowwood have con tributed one hundred dollars (as re quired by the Statel for the buijding of a room or addition to their school house. They will get fifty dollars free from the State. As Arrowwood has done so can Simpson, and we do hope our trusteees will bring this matter m.ie HI ' mum m- iuv* Kivcu ’'wu.. rrWwI’n farm that would nerhana in-i ..... ... his employees and patrons entire sat- " ( *> d J ho a mod-1 before tbe peo P for ° ur schn ?' hoU8e terest our readers, but as he is a mod- ■ est man and doesn’t, court publicity. | isfaction in his dealings. Mr. Sam T. 1°..I is over-crowded and one teacher con Reid, of Converse, now fills the va- u ' ai ' ai \" T” V v ''“/ K V'-''j not do justice to so many pupils: and. canoy occasioned by the resignation j herefore «** desist for the piesen |>esides, we in Cherokee have just as of Mr. Bomar. 3,1,1 bo,,p to bear from 80mG one e,se H«rh* m ,, Q ho ..am to tho The Clifton company has put in six ! (,n rb6 6 °G fm farming operations, new spinning frames into Mill No. 1 ^ r ' W° (Ml . IS, . 1 3mong b f ot her im- They are the “Whitin” frames. provements. building stables on con- Rev. G. P. Hamrick, of Gaffney, is | r rete a™. Bering them with, sheet conducting a series of services at Mt. ,!<m - making them thoroughly flre- Zion church this week. ' u 3 P> 6a8a nt (lay spent Mike Marooney. ^I tb Pear 1 l ‘ 1 «f 1 r 1 8 at Pinckney We had a splendid dinner and all .. . . .... i'he fruit we wanted. It was one of unc aimed Letters. | those social events we are fond of List of unclaimed letters in Gaffney i , )art 5pjp a ting in. The Pearidgers are nostoffice fqr the week ending Au-1 a pi a j n . patriotic people. If they like gust 28th, 1905: Miss Emma Burton, Miss Mattie Black (2), Mrs. T. M. Brown, Mrs. Annie Caviness, Miss Ola Le > Can trell. Miss Amv Davis (2), Minnie Jeffers. Mrs. C. L. Littlejohn, Mrs. you you are all right. But if other wise you are all wrong. They are true to their friends and to each i much right (if we do our part) to the money the Stale gives as Spartanburg or anv other county. Rev. L. C. Ezell and .Rev. Hill, of Knoree, have just, closed a series of meetings at Arrowwood. We had a warm meeting and many were con verted and the church members re vived. During the meeting a voting Mr. Gossett met with a serious and maybe fatal accident. He had started with his family to night service, and on going down a Uill the bridle bits broke and th*' mule ran away, tnrow- ing him and his wife out of the wagon into the creek. He was rendered tin- really belongs to any never he discovered. person, will ttrer McAden Mills, McAdenville, N. 1 C.: S. N. Boyce, cashier First National • _ , „ . Bank of Gastonia; and L. R. Hagood, Mr. Sandy Dodson, a prosperous Cashler Bank of King’s Mountain, were farmer living seven miles east of El- in the city TimrsdaVi the g Ues r s of kin died Saturday morning at i the National Bank of Gaffney. They o clock. His death is •supposed to were al ] a g re e a hly surprised at the have resulted from a fall out of the elegant home of the National Bank barn loft. He managed to get to the and tbe wonderful growth of Gaffney, house but could give no account of This was Mr Jenkins’ first visit to wha the rouble was. His hat was Gaffney, notwithstanding the fact that m the loft and blood was found on he bas |j ved so near us for the p as t the floor. Dr. Ring was hastily sum- twenty years moned and everything was done for; * ‘ ] his relief that could he done, but he never rallied sufflcienMy to give any explanation of how he was hurt. He was 41 years old and leaves a family and a large circle of friends and rel atives. Mr. John Brooks, a tenant of the farm of Mr. Philip Sowers, near Salis bury, was instantly killed by lightning Friday afternoon, during a severe thunder storm which visited that sec tion of Rowan county. A mule, upon which Mr. Brpoks was riding was al- ^T7 ^ ^ . Mr i V , assey so killed. Mr. Brooks and son were . „ ’ ‘ * °'7^ h 86 " 31 b bomo ' plowing when the storm arose. They 7 ?: ather 1 in 8 wa8 started to the house; just as Mr. . ..“ f I* 3 /* ' l! ? 1 -, ,, I r l 8 Brooks, who was riding in front, near- fho ‘ . ‘ v ! . u ‘ u cb ' bo , 0 ’,, 3,3d ed the barn, ^he fatal flash came, k111 * ! others J ' 1 ' <)0, as t U a “ !iie ing him and the animal he rode in- ' s ’ stantly. Mr. Brooks was 50 years old _ . and is survived bv a wife and five , A Most Atroc, ® U8 Cr,me ' i A mos* atrocious attempt at robbery Entertained at the Old Homestead. Mr. Alex Lipscomb, Mr. and Mrs. Smith Lipscomb, of Texas; \V. R. Lipscomb, \V. C. Lipscomb. I. M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McArthur, Mrs. Agnes Wood, and Mrs . Vick Hammett were sumptously enter tained on Monday by Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Vassey and their attractive family. The whole party had a jolly time and long will they reme nber the reunion and the hospitality shown children. Quite a sensation was sprang in Salisbury's foreign quarter Saiurday. when William Saha, a Syrian, was ar rested. charged with assault and at tempt to commit a criminal assault upon the wife of Joe Saleeha, a.lso of the Syrian nationality. The case was tried before a justice Saturday afternoon and was continued until yes- and murder was committed at Clark, a small place near Newhern, Friday. Sam Johnson, a negro, went into the general store of Mr. G. T. Eubanks, where the postofflee is located, and demanded money of Mrs. Eubanks. She refused and he replied that if she didn't give him money he would kill her. She turned and made a motion as if to get him the money. Without ‘ i waiting to see whether she would get terday. Saha being released on bomb b Johnson grasped a meat axe and Th evidence shows that Saha entered, s , bt , r on t h e head, cutting a long the room of Mrs. Saleeha. who threat- sb n tbe peal and breaking her 1 * it if iwi eaed to cal' a policeman if he did not leave. As she went to the window to , _ , , j | IIS LVJ liiCy V I I v. * i < t v-• v I ------ — other. Our pleasure was i a6 r 6as6(1 ! conscious by the fall. His wife drag-1 cry for help. Saha left. Saha is also about the middle of the afternoon when Miss Bessie Long, the beauti- Mary Mitchell. Mrs. Sallie Milwood 2. i fni, intelligent and accomplished Mrs. Belle Petty, Mrs. Mary Ross, Mrs. Mamly Real, Mrs. Fannie Ross, Mrs. Hattie Toney, Mrs. Maggie White. Mrs. Lela Wade (2), Rev. Bul lock. col., H. N. Jener, J. E. Jefferies, daughter of ex-Sheriff J. Gid Ixing, who is teaching the Pinckney Grovs school, marched her school to the grove where we were all assembled ged him out of the water to prevent; a married man. He conducts a fruit his drowning. By this time the mule,; store on Council-street. At the trial which had run on with the wagon and two small children, turned and came back, the wife stopping the mule and saving her children. Dr. McKinney was called immediately and Dr. Jeff- the services of a court interpreter, were needed, as the Saleeha woman 1 ’‘ i, could not sp’ak English. Miss Emm: breaking jaw. The negro ran off hut the men (d the place jgave pursui* and caught him about six miles from town. George Eubanks, the husband of the injured woman, followed with a shot gun and e man securely tied and brought He was placed in jail. 4 . , . , , i -- Shllars. of Whiteville. j col l K tones H D Reddick Tren ! ^ etC ”i an< i eries, of Gaffney, called in consulta-! died at the hoarding house of Mr. J.; tarn China & Cmckerv Co.. ' Me“k | , the JoncreTe wiL^f Ms^fireproof : lion L They decided the skull was not ; W. Lang/y at Dunn Saturday night I ..V_vl,_ v 1 | broken, but he was seriously hurt in-[ at 7 o clock as the result of an over-' ternally. He is still living and some * - *' * * " ' WAY TO TREAT HAY FEVER. White. Please call for advertised letters. One cent due on each A. R. N. Folger. Postmaster, dose of laudanum, which she took that morning. The drug was evidently tak en v ith suicidal intent. The case was Attempted to Escape. W. H. Berry, white, who is in ‘he Richland jail charged with disposing of goods under mortgage and who is also wanted in Charleston on the charge of bigamy, made a clumsy at- tempt to escape last Tuesday. He had been allowed in the jail yard for a brief time, hut before being put hack in his cell he concealed a piece of iron bar under his coat. Later he tried to prize off the bars of the win dows and door of his cell, but was de tected in the act by the jailer. He will not. have another opportunity *0 make the attempt. Drunk and Disorderly. Saturday afternoon Forest Jackson and some friends went to Spartanbprg and tanked up on the chemically pure. They returned to Gaffney that after noon. Saturday night Jackson got too much on board and became drunk and disorderly. He was arrested and car ried before Magistrate Bridges, who imposed a fine of $5.00. —If you want Shoes at under nrlce* go to J. I. Sarratt’s. Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year. stables. Miss Long has a large school hope is now entertained for his re- hright, intelligent children, whose be-, cover y havior on the grounds showed that ■ arp Vmving a glorious revival! a rather peculiar one. About a week she had them under proper control, j af piedmont church. Ii is almost like j ago Miss Rebecca Jackson, of Dillion, and they respected her. too. Miss - a pentacostal shower and it is good to S. C.. went to Dunn to meet her lover, Bessie took great interest in Mr. | be there ' Mr A Hinson, of Horr- county. South 1 Carolina, who was in the picture busi- bess. A few days later Miss Emma Sellars, of Whiteville. came to meet Wood’s “brag cotton,” as well as the novelty of his new building. She made herself and school a pleasant acquisition to our already well "con tented party, which hy this time in cluded several of the farmers’ wives and smaller children. Vaudeville Entertainment. The Little Motz Children will appear at ihe Blacksburg opera house tonight. These beautiful and talented little ------- girls have created a furore where they Everything went well with us until I have appeared. They possess the most some one suggested that “we Jiave i wonderful talent of any children on Vox to give us a talk on reduction farming.” etc. Right there, for the! s. X A t « * the stage. Their costumes are simply gorgeous. first time during the day, your cor-f and while they are children in age, respondent felt like he would he glad i they are grown people on the stage to be back in Cherokee county. His dilemma was a critical one—either he must make a talk or hack out; the first he felt unable to do, and the lat ter ne was determined not to do. So he sailed in as best he could, and after he got through he received the as surances from the major part of the audience that his Interests and views were with theirs one and the same—the betterment and upbuilding of a stronger, healthier and happier standard of intelligence and morals should he and is the aim of every good citizen. With nothing less can we be content. Prof. Roy closed his singing school at Ararat last Thursday. We called her lover, Mr. B. Floyd, who seems to be in the same business and a partner of Mr. Hinson, and also from ihe same county. The young men arrived one day and found Mr. F. S. Jackson, fa ther of Miss Jackson, in town, and they canvassed in other quarters. Yesterday Miss Sellars seemed to lie in trouble, and this morning about 3 o'clock took a dose of laudanum. Mis* The exercises will he replete In every j , a(1<son 8a y S she came here Ur meet detail, and the occasion will be a most delightful one, and it will do you good to go out and see these wonderful children perform. Read what the Salisbury Enquirer says of these children: “The Little Motz Children played here last night to a large and very select audience, and too much praise cannot lie given them. They pleased even' one. The one-act, ‘Editha’s Burglar.” alone was worth more than the price of admis sion.” —Rare bargains In Embroideries and Insertions, 2 to 18c per yard, at J. I. Sarratt’*. and marry Mr. Hinson and persuaded her father to go hack home, saying that if Mr. Hinson failed to come Mon day or Tuesday, as promised, and marrv per she would return home. Miss Jackson is about 19 years old. —Big line of Traveling Bags and trunks at “away-down” prices at J. I. Sarratt’s. —For bargains In all summer Dress Goods go to J. I. Sarratt’s. —Baskets, all shapes and sizes, 5c to 25c, at J. I. Sarratt’s, Stomach Dosing, Just Broathe H y o m e i a—Stops Sneezing and Smarting. The Gaffney Drug Co. are recom mending to their customers as a cure for hay fever, Hyomei. It is claimed for this remedy that it stops the spasmodic paroxysms, the sneezing, the smarting and run- rring of ‘he eyes and nose, and other acute symptoms of this disease. Many persons have been cured of hay fever hv Hyomei, and the dis coverer of the remedy professes to be {aide to prevent both the occurrence of the annual attack and to stop the progress of ‘he disease, even in the most chronic forms. A. Hamlin, of Westford. Mass., writes, “Hyomei cured me of hay fe ver in one week’s time. I consider it a duty to tell others who suffer from this disease.” This endorsement is only one of hundreds that have been received by the proprietors of Hyomei. nrd the Gaffney Drug Co.’s offer to refund the money if Hyomei does not do all ‘hat is claimed for it. is the strongest proof given as to the confidence they have in Hyomei’s power to cure ha" fever. The complete outfit oo«ts but '1.00, while extra bottles can he procure '. for 50 cents. “Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S. Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year.