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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 Usee the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper in All that the Word Impliee and Devoted to the Beat Interest of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1904. GAFFNEY, S. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1905. $1.00 A* YEAR. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVilLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OP LOWER CHEROKEE. Pertonji Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of Qenerat inter set. Wilkinaville, Aug. 2‘J.—The weather for tiie past tew days has been fall- lil.e, anu thick clotning is comfort able. We were travelling on the south of Tnickuy creek yesterday and fpufid iara.ers Lusy itli their fodder, much of which has been considerably dam aged by tiie rains. A good deal of It is yet to pull. We took dinner with our good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Janies T. Moore- head. Mr. Moorehead had just killed a tat bee., and our readers will better imagine than we can describe, how we enjoved it. Mrs. Moorehead is not only one of the best of Cherokee county’s} ladies, but she is one of its best cooks, too. Mr. Anderson Byars is sick. The doctor w as in, to see him a few days age. Messrs. (». Andrew Byars ami John Black wo t are bn Idin.. a ne w school house at Gowdeysvilio. li is 10x30 feet in M/re, and will be an up-to-date bu.lmng ..hen ttnidieu and furntsh.'d with the latest and most imuroved school furniture. We understand that the patrons speak of having a barbe cue and picnic when the house is fin ished and the trustees meet to receive it. This will be, no doubt, a pleasant occasion lor all who attend. Messrs. Man Parris, Enloe Dover and Dick Harris, a delpctable trio, are renalring the dam at Thomson’s mill, which was damaged by the late freshet. Prof. Moss closed his singing school at Abingdon Creek last Saturday. Quite a large crowd gathered to heai the class sing. Prof. Ray closed his school at Ararat last Thursday. A general turnout of the neighbors and patrons of the school w r ere present, and your correspondent called and heard the class sing a lesson. They made good music. A protracted meeting is now in progress at Skull Shoals, Rev. Mr. Humphries is conducting it. A very large congregation was there last Sabbath, and also yesterday. It will continue the most of this week, so we understand. * Messrs. Tillet Hartford and Sam Strain returned yesterday from a trip to Clifton and Spartanburg, where they report having had an enjoyable time. One of Randall Jones’ boys, colored, was badly hurt one day last week by getting his leg mashed or torn with a wagon. The flesh was torn from the bone and several stitches w^re taken to sew r it up. The boy is now doing very w r ell, so we understand. Farmers are very busy just now. Fodder is on hand and cotton is open ing fast. We got very badly insulted yester day when Mr. Ligey Howell peeked under the seat of our buggy to s»*e 4 we didn’t have something to drink. Ligey thinks a man should always have a little for snake bites, which might happen any time, Mr. W;n. J. Vaughn and his grand daughter, Miss Jeanette Vaughn re turned yesterday from a visit to San- tuc, in Union, and Whitmires, in New berry county. Mrs. lion. C. W. Whisonant returned today from a visit to relatives in York and Kershaw counties. Mr. Boyce Whisonant, her son. met her at Hickory Grove. Boyce lil.es to go on the York side anyway, and we don’t blame him for it either. Mr. Essel McKown, sen of Mr. G. W. McKown, is at home spending his vacation. He will return to South Carolina College next month, where he expects to complete his education in due course of study. All along the Thickety and Gilkey creek valleys there are symotoms of chills. Mr. Jas. T. Moorehead and his daughter Misa Bessie, have both been having them. They are not con fined to the creeks, but along the river there are some indications that they will set in before long. Wo loam that Rev. F. F. Boozer, of Gaffney, will fill Rev. W. H. White’s pulpit at Salem next Sabbath, as the latter has been given a month’s rest by his congregation. Mr. Jack Kendrick is putting up a new ginhouse. It Is made of corru gated iron and is fire proof. Mr. James Proctor lives at Old Hickory Place, where he has made a crop this year. He is one of our right- hand men and is a clever fellow’. Owing fo so much rain and high w’ater the crop of forage will necessa rily be light this year. Thousands of bundles of fodder rotted in the field both after and before it. was pulled, and the grass was overflowed on the lowlands so that it is utterly worthless. However, there is a- large crop of pea vines and sugar cane sow n that will be saved if the weather continues favorable at the cutting season. Last Thursday Mr. Robert D. Alex ander. of Birmingham, Ala., arrived at the home of his mother, Mrs Capt. W. D. Alexander, of Lawn, on a visit. He has been gone for several years. Though a little grey, he looks well and natural Mr. Jeff D. Hughes, who h&s been confined to his room for three weeks from a fall from and a kick by a mule, is able to ride out now, though be Is l)v no moans entirely recovered from his injuries. We bad the pleasure last Friday of congratulating Mr and Mrs. Man Par ris on their connubial relationship, which, for obvious reasons, we. didn’t make public at the time it hapoened. Mr. Singleton Clary, an old ana worthy ex-Confederate veteran—a member of Company F, 15th S. C. Regiment—is in very poor hea^h just at this time, and we think that his more fortunate comrades ought to do something for his relief. Mr. P. S. Webber has been on a several days’ visit to relatives and friends in Iredell county, N. C. Your correspondent has been travel ing some lately, selling books. He will continue this work as long as it proves successful, lie wants to supply every family in Cherokee county with the best reading matter in the market. Among the most popular books on war historv he handles are: “Reminiscences of the Civil Waih,” by General John B. Gordon; “Story of Stonewall Jackson,’ by William C. Chase; “Four Years Under Marse Robert,” by Major Robert Stipes; “Heroes and Spies of the Civil* War, - by David Humphreys, of the original Stonewall Brigade, and later captain in Ashley’s cavalry; “Letters of Gen’l. Robert E. Lee,” by his son, Robert E Leo. Jr.: “War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, 1801-18(55,” bv H. M. Wharton, D. D., private in General Lee’s army, author of “A Picnic in Palestine,” “A Month JVith Moody,” “Pulpit, Pen and Platform," "Gospel Talks,” “Mother, Home and Jesus,” etc. Besides these all kinds of religions, historical and other use ful books will be sold at publishe; s' prices. As we find time between nans we ill try and let our Lodger readers ■ no.v something of what w T e s£e and •ioar going on in Cherokee county— fbe kind of people we meet and every thing calculated to make The Ledger '•eaders feel an interest in their home and county affairs. J. \j. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE REPUBLIGANS ARE GREAT JOGGLERS. ITEMS OF EVENTS INTEREST OF PASSING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. IS ROOSEVELT A FAKIR? POLITICAL S. Miss Gorham Entertains. On Wednesday evening from 5 to 7 and from 8 to 10, Miss Pablita Gor ham, assisted by Miss Mable Gaines, f Yorkville, charmingly entertained her young friends at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Daniel, on Petty street. A little novelty in the way of amusement was offered in tn following manner: Half as many familiar verses had been selected as invited guests. Half of each verse being writeen on separate cards. Af- tF'r distributing the cards containing the first part of verse to the young gentlemen and the latter part to the young ladies, a lively time followed in finding partners for refreshments, as each young man anxiously sought for the lady whose card contained the other half of his verse. Miss Sadie Lipscomb and Parniece Brown daintly presided at the punch bowl. The following were entertain ed from 5 to 7: Misses Sadie Lip scomb, Parniece Brown, Helen Good ing, Marion Cole, Ruth Littlejohn, Vivian Sarratt, Sarah Littlejohn, Lil lian Boozer, Mario Moore, Mary Sliu- ford, Fannie May Jones. From 8 to 10: Misses Mabel Mercer. Myrtle Lit tle, Christine Baker, Julia Sarratt, Emma Wood. Tiois Spears, Alice Gaines. Lucy Wilkins. Carrie Stewart. Ix>la Gaffney^ Messrs. Edwin Lip scomb, Dlvian Brown, Charles Jones. John Mercer, Albert Fincken, Frank Folger, Norman Jones, William Fol- ger. Wallace Steadman, Robert Dar win, Eugene Wood, Hazel Wood. Anderson Wins. The primary election Tuesday a very quiet affair and a light was polled. The following is the elated retn-ns: was vote tab- Antioch 10 Allens 8 Blacksburg .. .. 100 buffalo 14 Cherokee Falls 83 Draytonville 25 Ezell 16 Gaffney No. 1 18 Gaffney No. 2 115 Gaffney No. 3 7 Grassy Pond King’s Creek 28 Littlejohn’s .. .. s Macedonia 8 Maud 6 Ravenna 20 Sarratt’s .. - Thickety 3 Timber Ridge Turner’s 12 White Plains 17 Wilkinsville • 26 Wood’s ’eoto] 509 238 Preaching at Presbyterian Church. Rev. R. T. Listen, of Oxford, Ala., will preach at the Presbyterian ch\irch next Sabbath morning and evening. \ cordial invitation is extended all to attend these services. Mr. Ljston is personally known to some Gaffnev people, who delight in saying tint be is a splendid preacher, and we trust Gaffney will do herself proud by giv ing Mr. Liston a large congregation. Llke # Finding Money. Finding health is like finding mon ey—so think those who are jirk. When you have a cough, cold, sore throat, or chest irritation, better act nromntlv like W. C. Barber, of Sandy Level Va. He says: “I had a terri ble chest trouble, caused by smoke and coal dust on my lungs; hut. aft'-r finding no relief in other remedies, I was cured by Dr. King’<i New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds." Greatest sale of any cojugh or lung medicine in the world. A* Cherokee Drug Co., drug store: 50 ’<nd $100; guaranteed. Trial bot.tle free. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Mr. Chas. Iceman, the promoter of the cotton mill for Cheraw, was there Wednesday looking over sites for the mill. It is said there that sufficient capital has been subscribed to build j the mill at once. Capital $100,000. i In a free fight at a negro Baptist church near Wagner Sunday night, a negro named Fred Davenport was kill ed by Gross Ready, also a negro, and; several unknown negroes. His holy was cut in a number of places but a j wound over the heart caused his | death. Several other negroes re-1 ceived knife wounds, but they are i not serious. All of the negroes that, did the killing escaped and up to this | time have not been caught. In a row w Jich occurred in New-{ berry on Saturday evening, Denson Renwick, colored, was slash. .1 across ; the breast with a knife in the hands ' of his step-son, John Glenn. The j wound was Ion.; <;nd deep, au/1 the man came near bleeding to death. Thej sidewalk where the^difficulty occurred) looked like a slaughter pen. Glenn has not yet been caught. On the! mie afternoon another negro. Frost) Brown, had his throat cut. by Jim Gall.nan, colored. The cut was deep, but missed the jugular vein. Gallman was arrest 'd. It is rumore.’ that Mrs. Ed Deaton, of Chester, is moving to get a pardon for her husband, who is serving a long term sentence in the State pris on on the charge of having killed J. T. Patterson at Fort Mill. The wo man’s case is a sad one, and yet shameful. The grounds on which she will try to get a pardon are that she killed Patterson herself. She claims that she had wronged her husban i and that Patterson was to blame. She had killed Patterson in despera tion, so her appeal will state. Maj- Hart, her attorney, is dead and she has no one to assist her. She .is said to be working in a mill and endeavor ing to raise seven children. Mr. .1. A. Watson, Chesterfield’s most progressive anad prosperous planter, told a correspondent of the News and Courier that his cotton crop will be 100 per cent., while his neigh- bors will make not more than 50 pei cent. Mr. Watson bought his planta tion fifteen years ago, and this same place up to that time had never been known to raise more than a bale to every three cultivated acres, while he. has six hundred acres in cotton this year and will gather nearly 700 bales, while his croppers will make about 400 hundred bales, making a total of l,d0t) bales raised. Jlis corn crop is about 50 per cent. Mr. Watson farms in an up-to date manner, using •ill modern conveniences. His plant ation is about the most valuable in ’hesterfield county. As a result of a whiskey-drinking and gambling spree, Jake Grant now lies dead at his boarding house in Mul lins. It seems that on Saturday night Jake Grant and Henry Thompson, who room together, got into a dispute over some money which Henry had borrowed from Jake. A row started at. once. Jake took a chair to Henry and Henry used a 32-calibre revolver on Jake. The shot took effect in the left side of the abdomen and ranged downward, severing the intestines in at least ten places end finally lodging n the back about two inches below the brim of • the pelvis. Drs. Brailsford, of Mullins, and Utley, of Marlon, operated on the man, giving him the best attention that was possible, but the poor fellow Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year. died during the night, have been a steady, negro, and expressions his untimely death oveery hand, been arrested. He is said to hard-working of regret ovei are heard on Thompson has not yet l ist Wednesday night at Walterbo ro, while Mr. S. J. Heirs and his fam ily were attending church. Many Green, a colored boy 18 or 19 years old. went to his home and stole one of his horses. The theft was soon dis covered and Mr. Heirs and a party of tiis friends got on the thief’s track and pursued him and recovered the horse at Jacksonboro Ferry, where .ho thief was trying to cross the Edis- to river. The thief escaped and is still at large. Mr. Heirs will pay a reward of $10 for bis capture and de tention until the f’olleton authorities ran send for him. The thief is about 4 feet 6 inches high and Is black: his hair is cut short and he lias a sharp face, with the front teeth full, with the corners of the two middle ones a little broken, fornrng a “V.” He was wearing when last seen a light col ored hat, black coat, and slaie colored Hints. He has a habit of clearing un bis throat after anyone sees him. If arrested. Magistrate J. E. Bryan, of Walterboro, should be informed. Got Off Cheap. He may well think ho has got off cheap who, after having contracted constipation or indigestion, is still able to perfectly restore his health. Nothing will do this but Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A quick, pleasant and certain cure for headache, consti- nation. "etc. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co.’s drug store; guaranteed. Subscribe for The Ledger $1.00 a year. Our Washington Correspondent Seems to Think So—Mr. Francis As a' V J Presidental Possibility. | Washington, D. C., August 30.— j Of all the juggling with the inter ests of the people that ever has cursed the country, the same is going on right now In the ranks of the Republican party leaders who will control the things that are to be done by the next congress./ The Re publican president promises much to the people, while the men wlio will do the performing have their fingers to their noses and are winking both eyes at once. They know he takes no chances in promising them the great round earth for a plaything. So does tr\ That’s why he is so prodigal in his prnniL , 's. If lip me''nt to keep any of them he would have called that extra session last spring or at iho farthest in September, but we have seen him think every time the party leaders went after him, until finally when he had made np his mind to call it on the 11th of November, they went after him again like a chick m after a Jufte bug, and he has, as I sail he would, flunked again, and there will be no extra session at all. The trouble with Roosevelt is that he has more side tracks on his line than any politician in the coun try, and has no terminal facilities. He also is a great poli’ical fakir. When he starts out he means well and to Jo the tilings be says he is going to do, for be thinks straight; but when he gets so far, some politi cal mountebank meets up with him and throws tiie switch and he is afraid to protest and flounders where he is. In this he shows the spirit of the political coward and the oppor tunist. He fears to make mad the leaders of the party and at the same •ime he is bending to their wishes, he is making a grand stand play for the people’s delectation. He cares nothing for the people or their interests. He is working for his own glorification. Hjp is standing in with every play the political leaders of his party is mak ing. and whether he is playing for a renomination or attempting to work the party so that he may .lic’ate his successor, it is yet too early to pre dict and will be until we read his message next. December. The Republican party has promis ed everything to the people and will perform nothing during the next ses sion. It will be a do nothing con gress. The “standpatters” will tout railroad rate legislation and internal revenue taifes to keep down genuine tariff reform. That will make the op position fight so much harder against railroad rate legislation and internal taxes, that there will be nothing d.mo from any standpoint that will help the people. When the session ends there will have been passed the usual appropriation bills and some private steals, and not one thing that the people can point to and say, it. was done in tiie interest of the people. The trouble with the average American citizen is thai be will never look at things as they ought to lie looked at until his belly is empty. With a full stomach he looks compla cently on all steals and grafts by the Republican party, but let him get hungry and- In* will utter a yell that will reverberate from Tadmor-in-the Wilderness to Yuba Dam. Then it usually is too late and the Rgpubli- cjins have got things nailed down for another four years. Some day their pipe will go out and they will wake up. • • • The extremely interesting informa tion eamo floating over here the other day from St. Louis, tha’ the Hon. David Rowland Francis, formei mayor of St. Louis, former governor of the State of Missouri and former president and great high grafter-ln- general of the late World’s Fair, would like to bo a candidate for the next Democratic presidential nomi nation. “provided Bryan was not in the way.” Yes, I presume he would like to be, ami there are others like him who will look long ami wistfully at the nomination and then turn and make a few desultory remarks about sour grapes. I am not authorized to speak for Mr. Bryan nor any other man bn God’s f(x)tst(X)l, except my Ipimble self, but it’s an odds on bet that Vr. Bryan will be very much in the way of one Francis as will about six mil lion other good, sure-enough Demo crats when the time comes to place our standard bearer in the field in the good year of 1908. Of all the magnificently equipped and suptvnal gall I ever heard of. it is the declara tion of Dave Francis that, he would like to be a candidate for the Demo cratlc presidential nomination, and that Is the universally expressed opinion here at the national capital among the leading Democrats who happen to be here on department business. It lias caused simply a broad grin all the way down tl e line. The consensus of comment on thi- latest Franciscan assurance is to the effect that the oleaginous and money ed Missourian would have about as much show for the Democratlif nomi nation as would a eat in hadog wi*b- out claws, or a one-legged man at a l icking match: thr*. the men. who fought twice for Demorcary In ’96 and 190<1, ha\’0 long memories and that they will not forget that Dave Francis was one of the most rabid opponents of the Democratic nominee in both those years and used his money to defeat the Democratic can didate; that while Judge Parker was the candidate last year, of the men who helped Francis to defeat Bryan, yet he did vote the Democratic tickets; but,'that Francis did ngt vote the Democratic ticket either time; that such a man will have to walk a long time behind Uie Democratic band wagon before he is allowed to ride rg.iin. Un’ess all slims fill h're in 'he poetical nerve center of the Nation, Fran ’s would do well to t-ade his preside!*tl*.! aspirations for a yaller dog and then lose him. He would be the gainer thereby. It strikes me that Teddy the First must have had his ear to the ground and heard the rumblings when he de cided to abandon his scheme for an extra session of congress. A republi- ’’•m of national prominence and na tional consequence, too, who has just returned from a visit to Oyster Bay, tells me that the president has final ly concluied that hr* has bee", milled in his onlnion that there was a ereat demand for railroad rate regulation from the tannic themselves, v- in formant savs that Roosevelt has bee" ha vine some investigations majle on the quiet, and be finds much to his ° -fouishment that the agitation which ho Fitnnojed o\Dte 1 qid p.-f come from 'he farm, the st.ire or th" f,?c- to«’v. Its (v-lsdn w’as in f^hioacro which wmnts to secure for itsalf ab solute control of freight shipment^ southeast and southwest as well ns oasi, the iqiter being now ahoo!’i ,, ol v 'n jt-; co’v-'-d. It was a d°ep laid :c.beme and a mighty good one on the part of tho«e Uhieago V’bber. who "-ore looking for new markets to make it appear that the producer and consumer in t‘ , ad of U'e. Jobber were the real agitators. Tn thof enH they bad their men on the po'L'ic 1 ' stumps, demagogues and political strikers, who were retained by prom ises of cash or political preferment in case they would create the im pression that railroad rate regulation was a popular issue. Tin* pres:de% j emissaries have reported to him that they are satisfied that the agitathm had no legitimate bl »h, like iho de mand for tariff revision, which those | political demagogues are trying to) suppress, but was an incubator-like! product nursed by the middleman and broker and brought into the world b> the Chicago jobber who was deter mined to grab everything in sight. The jobber finds profit in fostering this child of purely artificial crea tion. and has been shrewd enough to get Republican politicians-., and per fectly honest men as well to help the cause along. Now that Te.lJ., his ili : cuvevd t e true inwardness of the thing he has dropped the matter like a hot pota- toe, particularly as he found that, the scheme to create a great political machine, the benefit of which had been pointed out to him by the agents of these same jobbers, did not meet with the approval of even the most rabid of the politicians. Tiiesy latter fear that the creation of a political railroad commission with its tre mendous power to benefit or crush States or communities at will, would take from them their present power and transfer it to the railroads them selves, who are big enough to make or unmake politicians at will. It has been a queer business, this skittering about of the president on this railroad ra’e question, and there is no doubt that today he is less strong with the people because of it than he was a year ago. Roosevelt himself is conscious of this and is now putting forward Federal control of life insurance companies and 4)ig corporations as a means of helping to regain his personal popularity. Possibly It may accomplish his pur pose, but j find there is a feeling among active politicians in the Re publican ranks that Teddy mav now be put on their list as a dead cock in the pit. Chas. A. Edwards. . THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers. A private letter received in Win ston-Salem from Wilkes county, states that Capt. Nathan Horton, aged 80, an old bachelor, and Miss Dula, aged 75, who has always resided on an adjoining farm on Beaver creek, were married Monday ai 10 o’clock. The groom is an uncle of Drs. H. V. and P. E. Horton and Mesdames Watt Martin and Thomas Watson, of Win ston-Salem. The nephews are inclin ed to the opinion that it must have been a runaway match. Deputy Marshall Carroll, of Win ston-Salem, returned Tuesday night from Stokes county. While away he arrested Jerry Dunlap, of Wilson, on the charge of operating an illicit dis- i tillery. He was tried Monday before United States Commissioner M. V. Mabe. at Jewell, and bound over to the October term of the Federal court, at Greensboro. His bond was fixed at $200, which he gave. Three witnesses testified at the preliminary l’earing that they saw Dunlap’s pl§nt ; n operation. According to agreement between Governor Glenn and the Governor of Georgia, Benj. F. Kersh, who was ai- rested in Greensboro last week on the charge of kldnanping his own daugh ter in Savannah. Ga., was release.! from jail in Greensboro Thursday on condition that he never again put his. foot on Georgia soil and that the giri be returned to her mother in Savan nah. The officer who went to Greens boro Saturday night after K* -h re turned to Savannah Wednesday night, taking the girl with him. Tuesday morning as the hose wagon of the fire department of Goldsboro was on its way at a dead-run to a fire, as it was passing the corner at St. Paul’s church, the horse save a sudden turn around the corner and smashed the left wheel on the rear part of the hose wagon, throwing Mr. George B. Edwards, who was riding on the truck, violently to the ground. The wagon fell on him. crushing him very badly. Ue ^as picked up and carried to the Elk’s Club, where a phy sician was summoned and was given every attention that loving hands and medical skill could render. His condition is serious, though not criti cal. There is little doubt but that Peter Smith, the Madison county man un der sentence of death, will be hanged two weeks on Thursday, Septem ber 14. Reliable news from Marshall is to the effect that little, if ;.;y, ef fort has been made to have Governor Glenn commute the sentence to life imprisonment. It is said that there is a strong belief on the part of the people of Madison that the law should be allowed to take its course, and that Smith should pay the penalty of bis crime on the gallovs. Smith, who is a white man, near 60 years of age, was convicted of criminally assaulting a 15-year-old child in Madison. It Is also believed that be murdered his step-daughter, although sufficient ev idence to convict him could not be obtained. Back to Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Lipscomb and ,Mr. Alex Lipscomb left Gaffney yes terday for Spartanburg and will re main there for a few days, goin.g from there to Asheville, N. C., for a to.v days and then going on to I^onham, Tex., their home. Mr. Smith Lip scomb called on The Ledger to give us a parting handshake and he asked us to say that the party have had a royal good time since they have been here. It has been a feast every day and they go away with hearts over- llowiug with love for the people of Gaffney and Cherokee. Outing at Sarratt’s Mill. Miss Floy Sarratt compliment'd a few of her friends on last Saturday with an afternoon outing at Sarratt’s mill. The perfect atfernoon and congenial little crowd made it a most enjoyable affair. Tlfe party consisted of Misses Winnie Davenport, Ruth about 4 a merchant of Durham some three Wednesday afternoon o’clock Mr. W. T. Slade, and well known citizen county, died at his farm or four miles from Durham. Death was sudden, hejirt failure being the cause.-''He had not been complaining previous to the time ne was stricken, ! and in a few minutes death had re- j suited. Me had been dead quite a while when the physician, who was j summoned, reached his side. The deceased was an ex-Confederate sol dier and had lived in Durham for a number of years. He moved Jo Dur ham from the eastern part of the State. He was three times married his third wife surviving him There are five living children, two sons and a daughter by his first wife, and a son and a daughter by the second. Since coming to Durham he had been en gaged In the mercamile business. At the time of his death he was a mem ber of the firm of J. C. Leigh & Co., but devoted most of his-time to farm ing. living in the city. He was 65 years of ago. Jessie Lipscomb, Hal Sarratt and Mrs. Helen W. H Sarratt, Gooding, Gooding. / —- ■ Attacked by a Mob and beaten, in a labor riot, until cover ed with sores, a Chicago street c>* conductor applied Btieklen’s Arnica Salve, ami was soon sound an.l well “1 me It In my family.” writes G. J Welch, of Tekonsha, Mich., "and find it perfect.’’ Simplv great for cuts and burns. Only 25c at Cherokee Drug Co.’s drug store. This would be a bitter world but for our tears. —Big line of Traveling Bags and trunks at “away-down” prices at J I. Sarratt’s. —For bargains Goods go to J. 1. in all summer Dress Sarratt’s. —Baskets, all shapes to 25c, at J. I*. Sarratt's. and sizes, 5c Are You Engaged? Engaged people should remember that, after marriage, many quarrels can be avoided, by keeping M oir di gestion in good condition with Electric Bitters. S. A. Brown, of Bonnettsville, S. C„ says: “For many years my wife suffered intensely from dy*o»epsia, complicated with a torpid liver until she lost her strength and vigor, and became a mere wreck of her former self. Then she tried Electric Bitters, which helped her at once, and finally made her entirely well. She is now strong and healthy.” Cherokee Drug Co., druggists, sell and guarantee them at 50c a bottle. —Keep your eye on Tuesday’s pa- nor for A. L. Peeler & Co.’s 5. 10 and ?5e store opening ad. They w' - have some special bargains to offi'*- go If vou want Shoes to J I. Sarratt’s. m T* dr riens “Get the Habit.** NELSON’S. Cc P Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year.