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71 \ \ S THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in tho Fifth Congressional District of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE. i— ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. t A Newspaper in All that tho Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Cherokee County. GAFFNEY, 8. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1905. \ V WB GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY •# Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. John Stevenson hilled Squire Neal by hitting him over the head with a shot gun Monday night in the lower part of Anderson county. Both are negroes. Stevenson, who claims self- defense, has been lodged in jail and will probably be tried for murder this week. A mile beyond Honea Path Monday night Melvin I Ashley’s grist mill and engine room were burned about 7 o’clock. Mr. Ashley estimates his loss at from $2f.O to $:500. with no insur ance. He thinks the fire was an ac cident and that it caught from cinders thrown out from the engine, afetmoon. Henry L. B. McCall, a well-to-do farmer, who lives between 1 atum and McColl, was shot Saturday by the son of a negro tenant on his place. 'I he gun was fin'd at a distance of about flftv vards, and the load of bird shot struck Mr. McCall in the face, nock and chest. The w< unds are painful, but not necessarily dangerous. Bail was granted to E. S. Please who killed hi brother-in-law, Ben Coleman, at Saluda recently, by Asso ciate Justice Gary, at Abbeville. Mon day in the sum of three thousand dol lars. The bond was made up without delay and Blease released. Messrs. George C. Wheeler, John B. Davis and James F. Rutherford are the bonds men. It is announced that Mr. C. K. Schwarar, the present editor of The Rock Hill Record, has purchased that paper, with the complete outfit for job work from Messrs J. G. Anderson and j m Cherry. Editor Schwarar went to Rock Hill from Pottsville, Pa. He is a man of indomitable push and en ergv and has deserved the comjnonda tion he has received for his efforts in the journalistic field in South Caro lina. Application has been made to the Secretary of State for a charter for the Security Trust company of Spar tanburg, which is capitalized ’ 000. The promoters are Mr. w. b. Glenn a leading bond and brokerage man of that city, and J. W. Simpson, cashier of the First National Bank. The company will buy bonds and se curities of towns and cities, and will do a general business of underwriting municipal bonds. Sheriff Gilreath, of Greenville, stat- el Monday that he had about straight ened out the tangle about the two men charged with assaulting Dan Hawkins two weeks ago an 4 l that the men would be carried to Pickens county for trial and would not he taken to Green ville, as was first proposed. ®‘ 1 ® rin: Jennings, of Pickens, was expected o pass through Greenville Monday af ternoon enroute to Columbia to get the men, Henderson and Vaughn, who have been placed in prison in the cap ital city, and return with them to P’rk°ns for trial. Gov. Heyward went to Lynchburg, Va., Tuesday to meet his family who have been spending the summer at Mrs. Heyward’s former home at Lex ington. Before leaving, the governor received a telegram from the mayor of Waterville. Maine, inviting Gov. Hey ward and his staff to be among the guests of honor at a banquet to take place at the Elk’s hall in that city. Other distinguished visitors from the south were to bo present, and the governor of Maine was to be there o give them official welcome. Gov. Hey ward acknowledged the receipt of the Invitation with thanks, but was forced to decline. Walter Salmond, of Columbia, col ored, shot Will Seagraves, also color ed, through the body Tuesday night about 9 o’clock as a result ol an al tercation about the remarks of Sea- graves to Saimond’s wife. The bullet - (1 ok effect in the spinal column of Seagraves and he is totally paralyzed. His condition is regarded as critical but if he should survive his wounds he will in all probability be paralyzed for life. The shooting occurred at the homo of Salmond. near the corner of Plain and Gadsden streets. Salmond made his escape immediately after the affray and at midnight he had not heen captured. He is employed at the glass works and Seagraves is employ ed by the Seaboard Air Line. Are You Engaged? Engaged people should remember that, after marriage, many quarrels can be avoided, by keeping their di gestion in good condition with Electric Bitters. S. A. Brown, of Bennettsville, S. C., says: “For many years my wife suffered intensely from dyspepsia, complicated with a torpid liver, until she lost her strength and vigor, anq 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. —Don’t fail to see our new line of fancy tailor made Vests for men and boys. 98c to $2.00. J. R. Tolleson A Co. GREAT VICTORY IN MARION. Was It the Result of Senator Tillman’s Recent Speech? Marion, Sept. 19.—The election held on the question of removing the dis pensary from Marion county resulted in an overwhelming victory for the prohibitionists. It was generally thought that the dispensary would be voted out of the county, but the most sanguine prohibitionists did not dream that their victory would be so decided. Everywhere the election passed off quietly, and it is probable that when all the polls are heard from the result will be about 4 or 5 to 1 against the dispensary. So far fourteen polls have been heard from, giving a total of 992 votes against the dispensary and 1G4 votes for the dispensary. The votes by precincts is as folows: A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. A rial Against 74 For 18 Bermuda 9 (j Campbell’s Bridge .. . 22 7 Cedar Grove .. .. 16 12 Dillon 15 Friendship n Hamer 0 Hopewell .. .. 71 0 Judson .. .. 29 12 Latta 5 Little Rock .. ..68 0 Marion . ..187 62 Mullins .. ..144 12 Nichols .. .. 23 o Sellers .. .. 24 6 Mr. and Mrs. Gaines Entertain. On Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gaines entertained the young people in honor of the Misses Brown, of Martinsville, Va. Their lovelv home was a scene of beauty. The rooms were beautifully decorated in trailing vines and roses, and with the glow from the lights it made one think of fairy-land. A “Mother Goose” contest was in- ulged in, A\>ith much fun. The prize Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items General Interest. section are generally poor. Our good colored friend. Emanuel Littlejohn, who lives on and manages the “Whig Hill” farm ,is a specimen of his race that they ought to bo proud of, and by all means imitate. He has cut and put up this year over twenty stacks of hay and has that many more yet? to harvest. He has been living on that farm for 38 years. Our readers will remember that last year he killed a home raised hog that weighed upward of 500 pounds. Of this he has one mid dling and ham yet. He is a man who literally lives at home and boards at 0 f the same place. He gets along with and has the confidence and respect of his white neighbors. Emanuel is a good citizen who has done much for his race without injuring or trying to THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN Wilkinsville, Sept. 20.—Our friend, _ nj.ug Mr. I. F. Wofford says he knows he, pu ii down his w | llte neighbors and dreamed a lie the other night, for he friends. He has plenty of old corn to dreamed he was eating pork. do him far into next year, and has sold Owing to the busy season and the difficulty in getting help at this time, Rev. W. D. Hammett postponed the over one hundred dollars worth of pigs and hogs. He has given his children the best education obtainable, and has . — ^ La.nia.uic, till(1 I]clh protracted meeting at Abingdon Creek by his own efforts accomplished much church for another month, at which j n an agricultural sense. We are proud time he expects Rev. Mr. Taylor to to make this statement, as it should help him. encourage others to imitate his ex- Miss Janie McCulloch is lying very ample. low with fever. She has been sick Mr. Bert Porter is running the several days. Dawkins mill and getting a fine run of Mr. W. R. Walker is at his Sunny- customers. Today he had a load ' from near county, ind knows how to attend it and give his eustom- Air. \v. K. Walker is at his Sunny-1 customers. Today he had side place looking after his farming wheat to grind which came interest. His stock of cattle is a fine Lockhart Shoals, in Union sight to see. He has evidently one of | He has a fine merchant mill a Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers. A restraining order was granted sev eral weeks ago preventing the issuing of bonds for the erection of a graded school building for the negroes at Kernesville. The case has been ar gued before Judge Bryan, and is now |"ln his hands for consideration. Deputy Insurance Commissioner Scott, of Raleigh, has gone to Greens- boro to appear in cases against four men who are charged with burning the barns of a man named Stanley. He worked up this case through one man I who recently confessed. 1 LIMESTONE’S OPENING. New Session Begins Under the Most Favorable Circumstances. Limestone College formally opened yesterday morning for tho session of 1905-6. The students began to arrive Monday afternoon, large numbers have come in on e-^ery train since, and more are to come yet. Over one hun dred young ladies are now in the col lege, and fully half as many more are expected to come in the next few days. The college building will be crowded to its utmost capacity this year: and the work of the new session begins under more favorable condi tions than ev^r before under the pres ent management of the college. Prof. Schmolck, late of the Univer sity of Kentucky, is director of music at the college this year, and Mrs. Mrs. Schmolck is vocal teacher. A violin specialist has also been added to the music department, and instruct ions will he given upon that sweetest of all musical instruments. Mrs. Ola Vaughn (formerlly Miss Olo Martin, a student of Limestone) Is housekeeper, and Miss Sallie Burns Is back as matron. The campus has recently been mowed, the whole place put in order, and Limestone is herself again! the finest cattle farms in the South. Mr. Malcom Lowery and Miss Ber nice Byars were married at the home of the bride on last Sabbath evening by Rev. W. D. Hammett. We wish them all the peace, pleasure, hapoi- noss and prosperity that awaits two worthy young people just starting out in life. The Wilkinsville ginnery is in full operation now and people are getting ers satisfaction. It is reported that many of the ne groes living in Duplin, Greensboro's eastern suburb, have become addicted It’s a great pity peo-1 to the use of cocaine, and a warrant pie did not plant more wheat than they was issued Tuesday morning for the arrest of George Johnson, a negro, charging him with selling the drug. The did. Much talking has been done about the recent earthquake, but nobody seems to be affrighted by the recent shake-up. Our old friend and comrade, O. E. Tate, is quite feeble, but he is up and about. “Raz” their cotton ready for market as'fast i brave soldier of'VI -V"" 1 a ’ Ul 3 as they can. But there will be none of it sold for less than ton cents, if it can possibly be helped. Now is the time for farmers to work was draw: and won by Mrs. Floyd 1 together lor their own good and that Baker, while Mr. Tom Clarkson was consoled with a stick of candy. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines received, assist ed by Misses Kate and Annie Brown. Miss Khoff and Miss Annte Johnson. Mrs. Floyd Baker presiding at the punch bowl. Dainty refreshments were served by Misses Alice Gaines and Carrie Stewart. The invited guests were Misses Nannie Cora Richardson, .Blanche Car ry. Ehoff, Annie Johnson. Louise Sar- ratt, Lillian Wood. Myrtle Sarratt, Co ra Wilkins, Ethel Ross. Bessie Ken drick, Nolle Wood, Inez Sarratt, Voli na Hamrick. Myrtle Gaffney, Lula Gar rett, Gus Brohawn: Messrs. Tom Clarkson, Frank Carson. Robert Sw r af- ford. Latta Parish, Maynard Smyth, Charles Hames. Kyle Davenport. Har ry Byars, D. Claude Ross, J. Anthony Sarratt, Vernon Baker, A. C. Pridmore, W. K. Gunter. Lewis Wood, Dover Lit tle, Judson Sarratt, Sam Fort, Harry Wilkins, Lawrence Wood, Dr. Garland. of the community in which we live. \J1 industries and enterprises are in the 5th Regiment. during the war. People are busy picking The crop will be very short is gathered. Quite a crowd of lower Cherokee- cotton. when it TO SEE MECKLENBURG ROADS. Party of Gentlemen from Cherokee County, S. C., in the City Today. (Charlotte Chronicle.) A party of gentlemen f .m Cherokee police saj •hut Johnson always ' omity. South Carolina, arrived in the has a large supply of the stuff on hand city this morning, for the purpose of and makes his !ivins> selling it to th -<sting a glimpse of Mecklenburg’s members of his race, ( specially in good roads. Cherokee, like a great Duplin. j many other progressive counties, is ; beginning to see the need of good Gao. ' Willingi'am, a well-known ; roads, and, if public sentiment is-right, voitag nan of Greensboro, in attempt-, there will be an issue of bonds for that ir g to catch a sleeper at High Point! purpose. lost his hold and had hn left foot The party was driven over some of tround off under the car. He was on 1 Mecklenburg’s good macadam this his way to Hot Springs. Ark., for treat- means success to all of them without distinction. Yesterday we found our friend Mr.! Z. Rufus Phillips and bis boys in their, Gilky creek bottoms pulling fodder ; The corn in which they were at. work had been up to the ear in water but i there is much more than a half crop j of it. Rufus is one of our best farmers j and lie knows when and how to culti vate such lands to get the best results thought H at, owing to weak conditio!’, fight for his Hf< is already he will have a hard ans went to Gaffney today. Some of ment and had stepped <> ‘ _ , them had cotton, but others went on i old good-bye to some i<‘ dues, terested in the farmer and his succes ] business of different kinds. From all we can gather there will he a strenuous effort by the farmers to hold the price of cotton to at least 10 cents. If they are compelled to make a sacrifice they will make it in favor of the home merchants if pos sible. -T. L. S. George Russel], a white man, about 25 years old. met with a serious if j not fatal accident at Winston-Salem i about 10:50 o’clock Tuesday. He was j mo ning and the members expressed, themselves as pleased at what tbev saw. Macadam is already used in t’V'rokee to a small extent. Mr. T. B. Thackston, of ; he South- ern Railway, is accompanying the par- f and it. is through the courtesy of the railroad that the trip was inairV'* The other t/emhdrs.. of rh e nartv are Messrs W. 'TT' Ross, Ross, M. C. Lipscomb. partv L. R TO INSPECT GOOD ROADS. Mrs. Dr. Garrett Entertains. Ou Friday evening the hospitable home of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Garrett was a scene of youth and beauty, when they entertained in honor of Miss Neva K. Schaefer, of Baltimore, the guest of Mrs. Floyd L. Baker. The rooms were daintily decorated in ferns, palms and cut flowers, the chandeliers being draped in the colored paper cor responding to the cut flowers used. “Anagrams” was the game of the evening, and never was a game seem ingly more enjoyed as on this occas ion. Miss off the Carson There as this was the birthday of the genial host we would venture to say the two numbers would correspond very nicely. Mrs. Garrett received in her usual charming manner, assisted by Mrs. Floyd Baker and Miss Augusta Bro hawn, while the Misses Lula and Free man Garrett and Louise Wood served a most tempting menue, and the even ing was one long to be remembered by all. s. Large Committee of South Carol Mr. Phillips has some of as good corn, Look at Macadam Roads. as we usually find in this section. (Charlotte Observer) We are having some very hot weath- , T , , , , . er just now. and both fodder pulling . ^cklenburg county is known ina , -vj i.-> tiuuwn for and cotton picking is progressing fine-1 her good roads more than for any other lv. Every one who can render the tv.!,,- mu- _ render the farmer a service is at it. Now there is a sentiment among the farming masses that has never heretofore existed in such a wide spread determination. We understand that a few days ago when some farmers were bid $9.90 per hundred for their cotton, they turned their wagon homeward and bid Mr. Buyer good day ami started off. It one thing. The week seldom passes but that some party arrives for the purpose of looking them over. The fact is admitted by all, that nothing has added more to Charlotte and the county than the fine macadam roads that stretch from the city in all direc tions. A number of gentlemen were in the city yesterday from Cherokee county, was onlv the work of a momepwintil j C They came for the purpose of he required ten rents was offered and 1 ,lrlvln f. over f ^ , roads t aud ^ning he trade closed and both parties I something of their cost of construc- smiled at the result. t,on ’ ™ s the y did an(1 - on returning clS Upon the Brick House farm of Col. Samuel Jefferies, there is apparently hay enough to feed all the stock of that community until late in the win ter, if not until next spring, if it was all carefully harvested and housed. „ uu return to the city, expressed themselves very highly pleased with their trip. “Mecklenburg county.” declared one of the party, “has a gold mine in her roads. They are the best that I have ever -seen.” This seemed to be the counties in ning to s on the good roads Cherokee county is one of these. The party —‘ — beautiful pieces of bottom land we question know of in Cherokee county. • ■ **c jiitny yesterday c( Your correspondent has been mak of the following well-known ing a canvass of the “lower Cherokee” z, ‘ ns °f that county: section of the county and hasn’t had Messrs. W. H. Ross, sufficient time to prepare the notes! J - Linscomb, T. L. Bri be would !>c Pdad * ' consis- citi- W.H ihm. L. R. Ro*g, m. yant, S. S. Phil- Rev. W. T. Thompson Burned. The many friends of Rev. W. T. Thompson, of this city, will regret to learn that he was badly burned about the face and hands yesterday by the explosion of a rubber tire. It seems that. Mr. Thompson uses a machine run by gasoline to mend rubber tires, and the explosion threw the burning gasoline all over him. It is earnestly hoped that the burns are not serious, and that Mr. Thompson will soon re- cover. j am, s. s. Phil- he would be glad to furnish, and ex-1 Aps, E. P. Macomson. S. C. Carlton, W. poets vet to furnish our readers. This ' • )\ ood and Ed. H. DeCamp, editor garbled report we hope will be over- (,! Hie Gaffney Ledger, looked and excused for the present, j \Vp spent last night with Mr. Hester Gnndal Personals. Blanton. ; -Gnmlall* Shoals. Sept. 19.—Rev. L. Our old friend. Pink D. Phillips, is , R- Gaines filled his regular appoint- styi at the Bates mill. He is a dyed- ruent here Sunday. He was aecompa- in-the-wonl ex-Confederate soldier and , mod by Mrs. Gaines, can tell many Incidents connected with Mi‘. Jim Arrowwood and wife, of the war which we will relate later Gowdysville, visited J. R. Harris Sim on. perhaps. J- G. S. Jay ! Mrs. Lucinda Fowler, of Union, is Timber Ritlge, Sepi. 18.—This week j visiting relatives here, vour correspondent spent two days in Misses Mittic A Desperate Fight. J. It. Gaillard and Loon Minton, both colored, of Columbia, had a desper ate fight Tuesday night about 10 o’clock on a corner of Coming and Radcliff streets, and Gaillard received three shots in the head, side and leg from the revolver of Minton, while the shooter was badly beaten about the head with brass knucks. William Horlbeck was arrested along with the fighters as an accessory to the shoot ing. Both were charged with aggra vated assault, and were sent to the hospital from the police station. Min ton Wednesday morning appeared be fore Magistrate O’Shaughnessy. along with William Horlbeck. The men be fore the magistrate were committed to Jail to await the results of the shoot ing of Gaillard. Gaffney, during which time he met | and Mrs Sallie Kirfiy. Mae Hames Attacked by a Mob and beaten, in a labor riot, until cover ed with sores, a Chicago street car conductor applied Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and was soon sound and well. “I use it in my family.” writes G. J. Welch, of Tekonsha, Mich., “and find it perfect.” Simply great for cuts and burns. Only 25c at Cherokee Drug Co.’s drug store. hopeful. thing we are fully assured, and that is that not a bale of cotton will go on the market for less than 10 cents if it can possibly he helped by the farmers. We took a look through the new na tional bank building in Gaffney. Pres idem Ross and Cashier Smyth, to whose courtesy we are indebted, took pains to show the convenient and safe arrangen mts they have for taking stay- .-»>u, imi, went to affney Saturday. Several bales of cotton have been sold from this section. Mr. J. E. Gault, we beliovr e, sold the first bale. Most every family in this section and eat- M. K. . _ •1*1(111 J 111 II have been making “’lasses ing “’lassy’’ candy. Help the Blind. To whom it may concern: T. L. Martin. Limestone’s piano of the treasures committed to! tuner, is soliciting work in Gaffney e-eening. This building is one of] I lease patronize him, because he un- " derstands his business, because he is trying to help himself, and because he has a wife and six children to support. If you help him he will appreciate it. God never intended that his unfortu nate children should lack for good thing. Respectfully, T. L. Martin. strong line from 26c to $1.00. Tolleson & Co. the most, complete and up-to-date in the State, and the money vault and safe are an absolute protection against fire and burglars. In fact had the, most expert safe cracker the opportunity to do so with all the tools he might ask for he could never enter the safe un til he knows the combination. Dyna mite, thunder and lightning could nev er effect an entrance through those solid walls, bolts and bars. It will in terest any one who will take the trouble as your correspondent, did, to look through this magnificently ar ranged building, with all its parapher nalia to conduct an up to date busi ness. by Gurney Quate, who has served sev eral terms on the county roads. Quate used a shot gun and put about 100 shot in Reed’s left side, arm and neck. The wounded man was removed to the hospital, where it was ascertained that a number of the shot went through his arm. The doctor picked out a num ber of them.! Mr. Reed rested very well Wednesday night and his phy sician says he will recover. The trouble started last Saturday evening when the latter was ejected from the store for abusing the proprietor. Mr. Quate is in jail. Otho, the nine-year-old son of Mr. F. Ostwalt. of Troutman, met death in a most tragic manner Monday afternoon. It seems rh'ar the child became entang led in a belt and was then caught on a rapidly revolving shaft, when he was hurled around so forcibly as to knock a hole in the hard ground where his body hit as it cgime around' each time. No one was present at the time and Mr. Barron Kennedy was the first to discover that the machinery was slack ening from the broken belt. On inves tigating bis eyes were met by the sickening sight of the child’s body flying around on the shaft. He im mediately stopped the engine, but in a few minutes the child was dead* Ed. Davis and Otis Williams, the two negroes who had been arrested in Charlotte by Sergeant Pitts and Patrolmen Malcom and McCall Mon day night, were arraigned before Rec order Shannonhouse in the city police courtTuesday morning on the charge of store-breaking and larceny. There was no doubt as to the guilt of the defendants. The web of evidence the police had woven around the case was conclusive and in the face of this the men had confessed. Only one count was made against the prisoners Tues day—that of entering the store of W. J. Fite. They will probably be ar raigned again for other charges. Rec order Shannonhouse bound the defen dants over in the case and committed them to jail again in default of a bond of $5()0 each. is driving a deliver'’ wagon and. in at- L. Bryant, S. S. Phillips. E. P. Maeom- ! tempting to turn ‘he corner at the I son, S. C. Carlton. W. C. S. Wood and postoffice one wheel struck the curb- Ed. H. DeCamp, editor of The Gaffney ing. Russell lost his balance and fell Ledger, out. the back of his bead striking the pavement witk great force, inflicting an ugly knot on tho head and produc ing concussion of the brain. The wounded man was removed to the hos pital. He was reported to be in a semi-conscious condition Tuesday af ternoon. While it is not thought that the skull is fractured, the result of his injuries will not be known for a day or two. Mr. John A. Reed was shot and se riously wounded at his’store, just east TO SEE OUR ROADS. Delegation of South Carolinians Here Today. (Charlotte News.) Mr. E. H. DeCamp. editor of the Gaffney Ledger, is at tho head of a de legation of citizens of .Cherokee coun ty. South Carolina, who came over to day to take a look at Mecklenburg’s good roads. In the party are Mr. T. B. Thacks- ton, of the Industrial Department of of Winston-Salem. Monday evening [the Southern Railway: Messrs. L. R. V\TT Cl »1 /'A.* « ± 1 ’ Ross, W. H. Ross, E. P. Macomson. S. S. Phillips, W. C. S. Wood, T. L. Bry ant. M. C. Lipscomb. S. C. Keltpn, F*. A. Goforth and E. H. DeCamp. The party, in company with Mr. JU H. Weddington. chairman of the board of county commissioners, left the city this afternoon for a trip over the Lodo road. This is one of the finest pieces of road in the country, and it is use less to add that the South Carolinians will be favorably impressed with what they see Taken to Hospital. Charley Mangum, the white man who was seriously hurt in Mangum township several weeks ago. was taken to the Watts Hospital in Durham Monday night and underwent an op eration Tuesday morning. It is claim ed that the wounded man and. several companions were under the influence of whiskey and were playing, when Mangum fell backward into a -pring branch. In tho fall the back part of his head struck a stone and from that time to the present he nad been un conscious. Dr. J. M. O’Kelly went to Bahama Monday for consultation and it was found that his skull was frac tured. He was then taken to Durham and Tuesday morning the operation was performed by four or five doctors and the skull lifted from the brain. He has slight chances for recovery. A Better Motto. “My motto,’’ said the new lodger, is Pay as you go.’ The landlady shook her head. “It wouldn’t do in my business,” she said. “A man might remain a month and then forget his motto when he went. M” motto is, ‘Pay Saturday night or go.’ ” Wo spent Thursday night with our good old friend and comrade, Junius Sparks, and family, and last night with Ask to see our Nefeiig** Shifts^ comrade Robert Pearson. We took ii_ - -— * *- ** j R.|dlftPor yesterday with Mr. John Jame son And his family. Crops In this any Got Off Cheap. He may well think he has got off cheap who, after having contracted constipation or indigestion, is still able to perfectly restore his health. Nothing will do this but Lr. King’s New Life Pills. A quick, pleasant and certain cure for headache, consti pation, etc. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co,’s drug store: guaranteed. “Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S. Like Finding Money. Finding health is like finding mon ey—so think those who are jick. When you have a cough, cold, sore throat, or chest irritation, better act promptly like W. C. Barber, of Sandy Level, Va. He says: “I had a terri ble chest trouble, caused by smoko and coal dust on my lungs; but. after finding no relief in other remedies, I was cured by Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.” Greatest sale of any cough or lung medicine in the world. At Cherokee Drug Co., drug store; 50 and $1 .00; guaranteed. Trial boDle fi "Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S Letter to J. E. Jefferies. - Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sir: These facts from Leach- man & Edelin, Grafton. W Va, will be useful to you. A customer painted his house last* time with the paint they were selling then—they thought it first-rat^: it cost them 5 cents a gallon'more than ours —took 18 gallons. They sold him 18 gallons of Devoe for same house; he used only 11: re turned 7: saved about $30. If this is the way Devoe is going to work, there oughtn’t to be iquch difl- culty in selling it. This is only half of the story. The other half is the wear. A third half is the reason for both: all pain s goes further and ‘wears longer than part paint: true paint than false paint: full- measure than short-measure. A fourth half is the cost of painting, which goes by the gallon. It costs a third more to paint 18 gallons, than 11. Yours truly F W Devoe Ac Co 122 P. S —R. M. Wilklnr^ Co sell our paint.