Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER Tuesday and Friday, H DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger Is not responsible for tho views o/ correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their rnme. not for publication, but for (den.lflcation. All correspondence should be ad- dfjsef' to Ed H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND C -MME 4T8. Hooks of subscription to the capital stock of the Cherokee Cotton Growers Warehouse Co., are now open at this ofl ee and a’so at the office of the Cherokee News. Call at either place and subscribe for some of the stock. • * • What has become of the idea of ]> ir.? : : s Col. Bacon’s letters in book form? Surely the thought is too good to be abandoned. What about it. Mrs. Editrix? We do not wish to be de- nrived of such a rare treat, and you know we will stand by to the last ditch. * • » '^et us once more remind you that on next Monday the public schools open. Have you determined to send that child under your care to school? If you have not, let us plead with you to do so. You owe it to the child to give it the best advantages possible, and you will not be doing your full duty unless you give it the benefit of the best education that you are ca pable of giving it. • • • Senator Tillman says Cherokee is trying to debauch the balance of the State by enforcing prohibition. If enforcing the law and endeavoring to Inculcate a good moral law into our citizenship is debauchery, then we are guilty. We opine, however, should the remainder of the State become de bauched through the exampItTof Cher okee that the debauchery will not be so baneful as the debauchery caused bv the dispensary. • • • Do not rush your cotton to market. Unless you need the money very, very badly do not sell it below 11c, and it makes no difference how badly you need the money don't sell below 10c. The cotton farmer has the situation Don’t geiv^^ntTsTT around and ‘chaw terbacker,’ and spit and watch the parade and talk about the clown, the elephant, and the bare- back lady. Moreover it seems a nar row business policy on the part of the pink lemonade man; for while the men may have various ways how eles are the women and children to drink the nink lemonade unless they can go to the town pump and take the taste out of their mouths?” The above is from the Charlotte Ob server; but what we would like to know is whether The Observer meant to sa “bare-back lady,” or lady bare- back rider. You will note there is quite a difference. * * * The Columbia Record says: “Under the dispensary law in Cherokee, Gaff ney had one place where liquor could be bought. Now there are three sell ing night and day. There are that many internal revene licenses taken out in Gaffney.”—Georgetown Outlook. It is very evident that The Outlook is not a very careful reader of The Rcord, or it would have noticed that in effect The Record later said that it was sorry that it had said what it did say about internal revenue licen ses in Cherokee. Certain it is thai Brother Dorr does not read The Led ger at all or he would not have quoted this saying of The Record at so late a day. In this connection we append the utterances of the Greenville Mountaineer on this subject: “In spite of repeated denials, some papers are still asserting that there are three federal licenses in Gaffney for the sale of liquor. We fail to see why some people will persist in mis representing the state of affairs. The people of Gaffney have repeatedlv de nied that even one person there holds a federal license, and we are quite sure they know what they are talking about.” ?rip. W*? like the idea fluTfarmer sitting at home and having the buyer come to him, instead of he eoing to the buyer. That is about the way things stand now. The spinners must have the co on ;.nd if the farm er keeps a stiff upper lip he can get his own nrice. * * * Next Wednesday a delegation con - sisting of the county commissioners of Cherokee, Coi'gv. y Supervisor Phil gentle- go to TTpT'aTi l three or four other men from this county, will Charlotte and drive out to the scene of construction of good roads in Mecklenburg county. The object of the visit is to inspect good roads and to view good road building. It is hope! that this visit will enthuse these gentlemen on the subject of good roads, and so Imbue them with with the idea of having them in Cher- okke. that they will return home sing ing the praises of the good roads of Mecklenburg until Cherokeeans get the fever and will not rest until we commence in a systematic manner the construction of good roads in this county. • • • In Re the Dispensary. (Columbia Stated With the esteemed Abbeville Press and Banner accusing the equally es teemed B. R. Tillman of drumming in the interest of whiskey drinking the times are all out of joint.—New.s and Courier. “You know.” - said Senator Tillman to the Gaffney Ledger, "it took thirteen years to discover the corruption in the dispensary system.” The senator should refresh his memory by re ference to the newspaper files. It did not take a year to discover the cor- •uption, but it took upwards of a doz en years to force him and other bgiot 1 advocates of the system to admit tie condition. Until within the last week he has not admitted the corrup tion: instead he has for years defen ded the dispensary, defended the men in gumijncted its^aJ^irs'^nH uV.V ( “_ 1 f irinou' 11,e ^ h -v the oppo ■‘ftionw His attitude has been such as to encourage those having opportunity to steal to take advantage of the shel tering arms of the system’s defend- ■ • Columbia State. Pre-ddem Brock is reported to have told someone recently that the Rich land Distilling company has made no money. That is a question beyond the knowledge of the outsider, but it is a fact that this distillery has enjoyed a great big patronage from the dispen sary. Certainly a greater patronage could not have been expected. The question naturally arises: “If the dis tillery has made no money when favor 'd by the dispensary to the very limit, vhat would it have lost had the dis- pensary favored concerns outside the State? And would the distillery have been established here, with practically no other market than the dispensary, if the patronage of that institution depended on the precarious possibili ties of competition in the open mark et?” These are the questions that have not been answered. The enor mous orders given the Richland con cern inevitably suggest favoritism. Why that favoritism? Could another listillery be established here, produce the same class of liquor, offer i.t at the same prices and divide equally the business now given to the one that has enjoyed something much akin to a monopoly? South Carolina's Code. (Spartanburg Journal.) What an unreasonable thing is this killing of the paramour of an unfaith ful wife. A short time ago a Georgia ciU* was shocked by a tragedy of this sort with not the best and most con clusive evidence that the wife was really guilty. Now, in South Carolina we have a nrominent citizen killed and his slayer irreparably injured .if) his life and happiness by a killing which under an old and barbaric code is supposed in some way to avenge outraged “honor,” though it is diffi cult to see how the homicide has done anything else than make bad mattery Infinitely worse. What is the logic of this sort of action anyhow? What good does it do? In what way does it constitute a vindication of honor or an ameliora tion of unhappiness? There is no logic, only a blind adherence to a false and exploded notion. It does no good, but much harm. It is in no sense a vindication of honor, for the innocent husband's honor is unhurt by the iilleii relations. There is no amelio ration, but an aggravation of unhap piness and an extension of trouble and misery to many persons not in volved in the firs* offense. It is true that homicide of this sort is usually justified by a jury and the slayer set free so far as any legal punishment goes; but what of the after life of a man whi has stained his hands with anothers’ ,|ood and by so doing proclaimed to th world the unfaithfulness of his own ,ife? He can never recover from the effects of the tragedy and is to a degree forever a ruind man. The erring wife is im paled on the curious and morbid gaze of the world and widely advertised as an adulteress and her refo m made practically impossible. If rt illy guil ty, she is worse than ruined How much better would t he in cases like this to have provision made for divorce and free an innocent man from bonds that would ever be galling to him and always stand in tee way of his happiness. Why should the acts of others, of which he himself is totally innocent, visit their lasting punishment on him? Why should he not have the right legally to discard the woman who had betrayed him and be just as free as he was before he married her to bestow his love and his name on a pure and virtuous woman? An innocent wife, of course, should have the same rights. The quest' ns cannot he answered in any other v. ay than affirmatively, yet our State alone of the la in the Union in its statute books proclaims the negative to the crying demands set forth in a situa tion of tiiis sort. Reception at Asbury. Miss Julia Wood, of Asbury. held a reception Wednesday evening at her hospitable home a few miles below the city in honor of iic-r attest, Mi^ if1 !aTl 'T5<flrg~ of (TreerU'llTe, Tenn. Quite a number of her young friends attended, and everyone enjoyed the occasion, and the splendid refreshments, to the fullest extent. Miss Wood is an ideal entertainer, and she omitted nothing that would contribute in the least to the. pleasure of her guests. Several of the young men of Gaff ney went down to take part in the pleasures of the evening, among whom were .1. Eh Jefferies, Louis Wood. Dr W. K. Gunter and Lawrence Wood. Gigantic Rottenness. (People’s Pape.-.) Speaking about graft, we just want to say tint the u has never been any thing unearthed yet in the graft line that for gigantic rotienne.-s will come within ten thousand miles of the graft that has been disclosed in Hie dispen sary of South Carolina. Putting the liquor business of the “Pelmetto State" in the hands of a set of offi cials and running it as a State insti- i ution has developed a scandal of graft that would stampede the hob goblins of Hepsidam. It occurs to us that the press of South Carolina has devoted a suffl- cion amount of space to the views of our senior senator on the dispensary. It is all well enough to continue to advertise him when he is advocating anv measure that will benefit and up lift the citizens of the State; but when he persists in advocating some thing that has debauched and will con tinue to debauch the people, it is the duty of the press to ignore him after it has given him a respectful hearing. ( .i tv V‘ both young and’ old,' who will Senator Tillman is absolutely wrong, reeret to learn of his misfortune, and in advocating the dispensary, but, to ! who will hope for his speedy recovery, use his own language, he is utterly j reckless as to the consequences be cause he believes the dispensary to Cut With a Hatchet. Walter Smith, the bright lit.il rt son of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Smith, of this city, had the misfortune to lose one of his fingers Wednesday afte noon by a blow from a hatchet. He and some of his little friends were nlaying with the hatchet, when <>n of them accidentally let the blade come in contact with one of Walter’- fingers, almost severing it from the hand. Physicians were called in, th it tie fellow was given an opiate, and the finger was amputated near the firs; joint. Wal l :• bus a host of friends in the Tillman is a A be the beat solution. Wise men some times change their views on groat public questions. We hope Senator wise man. • * • “The latest and meanest of the methods of the trusts is the one re ported frogi Indiana when the pink lemonade vender at the circus locked the town pump. Now, we all admit that pink lemonade is an indispensable attache not only of a circus but of a circus day. But so is the town pump. It is the place to gather and stand Drwfm*** Cannot Ik 1 t'ur«'il bV Iimm' upplinitlotis, :i> iln'y cannot reach the diseased portion of the ar. There I- only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by Inllamed condition of the mucous Piling of the Eustachian Tube. When Ud tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it b entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can he taken out and lids tube restored to its normal condi tion. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of Mi atecaused hv catarrh, which Is nothing hut an inflamed ondtthm of tin mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) thatc in not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F..). CHENFY & CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggests. TV Hall’s Kamllv Hills are the best If a Cow gave Butter mankind would have to invent milk. Milk is Na ture’s emulsion —butter put In shape for diges tion. Cod liver oil is ex tremely nourishing, but it has to be emulsified before we can digest it. Scott’s Emulsion combines the best oil with the valuable hypo- phosphites so that it is easy to digest and does far more good than the oil alone could. That makes Scott’s Emulsion Lhe most strengthening, nourishing food - medi cine in the world. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists 409-41 5 Pearl Street New York 50c. and $t OO. All druggists ew Provert He that lives upon hope will fast— But he that lives on Uneeda Biscuit will feast. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Don't forget Graham Crackers Butter Thin Biscuit Social Tea Biscuit Lemon Snaps 'M (Ukv Rugs, Iron Beds and Reed Rockers, The kind you have been looking for, have just been opened up. Be sure to come and see them. WE HAVE THE FAMOUS $15 Dexter and $12.50 Rex Mattresses that will make sleeping a luxury. Nothing is more ueedlul for a hard worked, tired person than a good Bed. Come and get one, Yours truly, Shuford & LeMaster. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Co. Offers fur sule Hulldlng Ixits In this flourishing town,'Gaffney; also Farms mar by and In reach of the Sonools of Limestone Springs and of this place, in lot, of X to 100 a'-res n liberal time rates; also AgrlculturalLands to rent for Farm purposes For 1 part)' ulars apply to J. V. SARBATT, Agent. N R.—All persons are forbidden to enter on, walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing timber or fishing, hunting, under penalty of law. ORDER OF ELECTION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. To the Commissioners of Election for the County of Cherokee: WHEREAS, W. D. Kirby, who, at the general election held in November, 1004, was chosen a member of the House of Representatives for the elec tion district of Cherokee county, to serve for two years, has since said election resigned; and whereas the Constitution of the State of South Car olina directs that in such a case a writ of election shall be issued by the speaker of the House of Representa tives for the purpose of filling the va cancy thus occasioned for the remain der of the term for which the mem ber so resigned was elected to serve: NOW, THEREFORE, you and each of you are hereby required, after due advertisement, and with strict regard to all the provisions of the constitu tion and laws of the said State lynch ing your duty in such case, to hbhf an elec’ion for a member of the House of Representatives, for the election district aforesaid, to serve the remain der of the term for which the said W. D. Kirby was elected; the polls to be opening at the various places of elec tion in the said distric* on Tuesday, the twenty-sixtn day of September A. D., 1905, by the various sets of man agers for those places respectively; and the counting of the votes cast and the declaration of the results of the election to be in accordance wiUi the provisions of law providing for the general elections and the manner of conducting the same. THIS WRIT, together with your re turn of the election to be held under it, have before the House of Represen tatives at its next meeting after the election. WITNESS the honorable Mendel L. Smith, Esquire, Speaker of the House of Representatives at Columbia, this second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun dred and five. Mendel L. Smith, Speaker of the House of Represen tatives. • Tom C. Hamer, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Order of Election. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Cherokee. By virture of the above writ to us directed from Honorable Mendel L. Smith, Speaker of ihe House of Repre sentatives, dated September 2nd. 1905. it is: Ordered that a special election be held at the various precincts in said ^ county, the polls to be opened at seven ’clock a. m. and close at four o’clock p. m. on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1905, for the purpose of the election of one member of the House of Representatives, from said county to fill out the unexpired term Tjt tilHa Honorable W. D. Kirby, re signed." ^ _ /For the purpose ol^ e/iection the following named persons (ire appointed managers at the respec tive precincts: Blacksburg—J. D. Kennedy, Elijah Harrill and E. R. Sapoch. Allens—J. B. Carter, E. J. Clary and H. B. Lipscomb. Grassy Pond—L. Huskey, E. A. El lis and G. C. Humphries. Turners—B. O. Turner, John Pettit ami C. P. Teal. Woods—J. F. Jolly, M. Bridges and L. E. Wood. Macedonia—Wm .Garner, E. P. Richards and A. Harris. £ Ezell—J. A. Scruggs, Jonas Vassey and J. S. Parris. Antioch—J. R. Dickson, J. A. Whis- nant and E. Hardin. vTimber Ridge—J. D. Carter. C. M. Tate .and E. L. Tate. Buffalo—A. H. Moore, Lewis Hop per and S. C. Carlton. King’s Creek—E. W. Love, R. H. Mitchell and Wm. Borders. Cherokee Falls—S. S. Gaffney. J. F. Smith and J. W. Byars. Draytonville—Wade Elmore, John Barnhill and Graham Macomson. Ravenna—T. G. Chalk, R. R. Brown and J. R. Wilkins. Gaffney No. 1—W. J. Jones. Sam Clary and J. S. Wells. Gaffney No. -2—Gus Abernathy, T. R. Wilkins and R. M. Jolly. Gaffney No. 3.—S. M. Littlejohn, C. J. Wall and W. T. Thompson. White Plains—R. W. Lee, A. A. Crocker and M. C. Lipscomb. , Butlers—W. H. Swofford, J. A. Mar tin and C. M. Sellers. Sarratts—J. H. Wilkins, W. J. Pjrid- more and P. Y. Poole. Littlejohns—J. W. Sparks, Dick Lit tlejohn and J. E. Gault. Maud—J. H. Ruppe, J. R. Godfrey and C. W. Moore. Wilkinsvllle—Sam J. Strain, Will A. George and Jesse Wright. Thickety—I. M. Smith, John Daniels and Moses Goforth. The first named manager for each precinct will call upon the commis sioners of election for this county at the court house at Gaffney. S. C., on Saturday, Sept. 23rd. for boxes and tickets. Managers of each precinct must place account for services of themselves and clerk in box with elec tion returns in an envelope directed to the commissioners of election of Cherokee county, S. C. D. A. Thomas, Chairman, W. W. Hopper, John Hughes. Commissioners of election, for Cher okee county, S. C. NOTICE TO TEACHERS, The regular examination for teach ers will take place at the court house September 15th, 1905. ' J. L. Walker.' R. C. Sarratt, Jas. C. Jefferies, County Board of Examiners. 9-12-lt. il Ready for Fall Business-Every Departm’t Complete Children’s School Shoes at Away Down Prices. See Our Show Window Before Buying. * The Original White Satin Flour Now $2.90 per One Hundred pounds. Phone No. 134. 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