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fy THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Cor^ressional District of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. *E GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY •f Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, 8. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE CROP BULLETIN. Report of Condition of Crops Through PALMETTO STATE | Columbia, Oct. 3.—The week ending Monday, October 2nd, had a mean tehiperature about four degrees above normal in the central and western parts and about normal on the coast. The extremes were a maximum of 94 at Blackville on September 25th, and a minimum of 5G at Florence and Greenville on September 28th. There -r i . was considerable cloudiness over the Happenings All Over the State Tak P | eas t ern part, but almost continuous ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Geo. H. Clarke, editor of the Belton Times and former editor of the defunct sunshine over the western parts. There were no high winds or other conditions that were damaging to crops or that interfered with farm work. With the exception of trace of rain A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. A “SWELL OPENING." MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OP LOWER CHEROKEE. Williamston News, spent Tuesday in j 0 y er the eastern half of the State, Greenville. Mr. Clarke is moving his t j l0 wee k was without precipitation. Williamston plant to Pelzer and ji, e brought has become intensified will establish a weekly paper there. I 0 ver the central and western counties Walton Hill, a Boston capitalist, in terested in Anderson mills, has do nated $1,000 to the Anderson Hospital Association. He was induced to come to Anderson several years ago and has made several subsequent visits, as the guest of Jos. J. Fretwell. His gift was unsolicited, and was intended, he said, simply to show his friendly interest in a community he had learned to love. where the ground is too hard and dry for fall plowing and seeding op erations, and where, in many local ities, water is scarce, with wells and small streams rapidly drying up. The weather conditions were entirely fa vorable for haying and for gathering corn and cotton. There has been no change in con dition of cotton, except that there continues to be some premature op ening. The entire crop has opened Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General IntereaL Band Played While Ladies Inspected the Display. One of fhe "swellest” events of the kind ever inaugurated in Gaffney was | the “opening,” Monday night at W. C. Carpenter’s large mercantile estab lishment on Grenard street, in his mil- linery and ladies' dress goods lines. The large store-room had been beauti fully and artistically draped and deco rated for the occasion in many-hueu draperies, flowers, ivy, palms and pot plants, while overhead and all around numerous lights fiom candles, lamps! and electric bulbs shed a soft glow over the scene, which made it wonder- THE SPARTANBURG STATISTICS. IN To Vote On Dispensary Question—A TADUCCI CTATC Building Boom. I HnniLLL 01 Ail Spartanburg, Sept. 30—On the 7th of November the people of Spartan- burg will be called upon to cast their vote for or against the dispensary*. From present indications it is safe to predict that the dispensary will be put out of business by at least three to one. People who actually love the • oritter” will vote against the Great Moral Institution on the grounds of corruption in the management. Mr. E. L. Cooper, of Greenville, wdio RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Wilkinsville, Oct. 3.—Rev. W. H. White preached at Salem last Sab bath. On the first Sabbath of Novem ber he will hold the commifnion ser- present. The “dummy” was run for vice there; preaching will begin on the convenience of the Limestone Saturday before, at 3 o'clock P. M. -j girls, and a largo crowd of them came Miss Janie McCulloch, who has been I up to view the many new and stylisn quite sick for some time, we are glad i things Uiat were fresh from the fash- Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers. !S, ol i S u a ^Wbje position with the 1 L. S. Poolf> Furniture Company, is vis- The city fathers of Wadesboro Tues-1relatives in the city this week, fully and delightfully enchanting to I day granted license to several saloon' Mr - BasI1 Allen, of Charlotte, spent the eyes*and hearts of all the ladles! keepers at that place and one distillery! Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H E Cunningham, Lenoard Hinkey! unusually fast, and picking will be and George H. Warm*, the three men finished earlier than usual with con who have been smiing a sentence in tmued favorable weather in a few that 1 localities (there is a small top crop. r’ho the penitentiary on tie charge . , thev robbed ! p .uoliice and bank at; but for the crop in general and on Latta, have been pardoned by the gov-! -ndy lan< . is ln particular, the emor This u-tior vs Wednesday erop is unimportant, and the occur- morn’mg after U-ttm-h: i been received!-ence of either an early or a very from Judge W ats u.d Inspector Pul- biH^S f rost will not vary the yield sipher setting Drth the act that these'materially. The average of the ac men had been unjustly imprisoned on i tual figures, from a full report on the percentage of the crop already to say is getting better. Rev. W. H. White gave your corres- pondent a Japanese persimmon which he procured of a friend from St. Au gustine, Fla. It resembles our per simmon very much, except it is as large as a common apple. It has both the shape and color of a half-ripe per simmon. The tree from which it was taken was grafted with a breed from Japan several years ago, and we are told these persimmons are highly prized as a fruit. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. M. Estes have both been quite sick ,but they are hot ter now. ion centers of the north. Nearly all of the ladies of the city were there, too, and the store was crowded to its utmost capacity. The hats, trimmings and dress goods were all displayed in hsmdsome and tempting style, and while the ladies were on their tour of inspection a splendid string band, se cured f»r the occasion, discoursed j sweet music from the balcony over head. Mis A Lipscomb, who has charge of Hie millinery department, had dis-i Played everything in her department in a most tempting manner —and her own splendid taste was apparent in the rich and beautiful hats that slu and by ten o’clock that morning two saloons were in full blast. Rufus Ford, aged 50, night watch man at the Southern Railway^ freight yards at Raleigh, was caught between tile cars and his leg cut off. He is the father-in-law of Rev. J. F. Bateman, pastor of Fayetteville Street Baptist church, Raleigh. At the regular monthly meeting ot the City Board of Aldermen, of Char lotte Monday night the license of the Gray Drug Company of that city to sell vinous and spitruous liquors upon prescrintions was revoked, this action being taken without a dissenting vote. Smoak & McCreary, of Winston-Sal em. received a telegram Mon lay from Raleigh requesting them to furnish a addle horse to be used by President that charge. Application for bail for John M. Ash ley, J. R. Moore, John Moore, J. P. Moore. William Moore, Hugh Bowen and Sam Rigby, charged with lynching Allan Pendleton, colored, near Honea picked, indicates that for the eastern division of the State 71 per cent, has been picked; in the central division 7(1 per cent., and in the western di vision 59 per cent. Reports on sea- island indicate that about 30 per cent. Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell, of Hopewell, has been sick, and also three of her had trimmed }n Baltimore espi cially j Roosevelt during his visi’ to Hie State children ha\e been riglu bad off. | for the opening. i t'air. The firm has secured a splendid Mr. 1. J. E.-tes s bulding a new An especially attractive feature ot animal, the one recently purchased ! barn. ! the event was a register, in which from them by Mrs. R. j. Reynolds of ; The water in Broad river is getting j every visiting lady was requested to | that city, for her own use. ! so low that the ferry boat can't run at. enter her name. The names were j ! Howell’s ferry all the time. ! numbered, and at the conclusion of the Sheriff Reed returned to Asheville Path on September 17. was made at has been picked. At least two-thirds Abbeville Tuesday. After hearing the of the unpicked cotton is ready to evidence the judge admitted the men pick, and picking will be practically to bail, placing the bond at $7,000, finished, with continued favorable which was furnished. Pendleton weather, by the end of October, killed Jim Moore while in a fight. All late food and forage crops are j suffering for rain. Corn is being W. H. Newbold. former State detec- j n many localities. Weather tive under Gov. B. R. Tillman, and a j,i ea ] f or saving pea-vine hay and for man conspicuous in dispensary affairs i haying generally, but has been un- was practically run out ot the town ot, favorable on truck along the coast, Kershaw Tuesday. Newbold lias ex-, an j f or SOV ving fall oats. cited the ire of the people there on j account of his being engaged as a do-1 Ravenna Locals, tective to work up evidence against the j Ravenna, Oct. 3—Mr. R. B. Chalk Several people are making their opening slips of paper bearing num- molasses. The .one doesn’t turn out hers e< tial to the number of ladies a good a qua'tv or quantity as it who ha 1 registered were placed in a usually does. This is attributed to; hat. and one drawn out by a disinter- the seasons somewdiat. ! ested person. The lady whose uum- Dr. T. B. Whitesides, of Blacks- her on the register corresponded with burg, has unbounded confidence in the | the number drawn from the hat was curative powers of his mineral springs, j awarded a handsome and costly silk especially for kidney trouble. He' umbrella by Mr. Carpenter. Miss dered in Asheville would be glad to see it tested fairly in j Lula Borders, of Limestone Colle left last Friday afternoon for Spar tanburg, where he has accepted a po- New York Racket” parties accused of lynching a white man, John Morrison, who had killed ^ three men and ruthlessly and cruelly j s |ti on ^vith the added a fourth victim on the streets of j s t ore Kershavr. ! Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Brown and fam- _, ,. ... , , . ot, i ily. of Jonesville, visited relatives here Hurling vehicle and driver aside, an . o , inbound belt line electric car demolish ed a wagon owned and driven by J. L. Gordon. Tuesday afternoon in Green ville. Gordon is a farmer, who lives in unner Greenville county. He was not hurt. The accident accurred at G:30 o’clock, about 50 yards beyond the in tersection of Buncombe and Ruther ford streets. The car was approaching the crossing at a lively rate, when Gor don’s animal backed the wagon partly upon the track. The mortorman did riot succeed in stopping his car until the vehicle had been tossed violently aside. It was one of those accidents Mr. J. M. Green, one of our young and hustling merchant};, spent last Friday in Spartanburg. Miss Minnie Burgess, who has ac cepted a school at Macedonia, will soon leave to begin teaching. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Foster, of As- bury, were visitors at our Sunday school last Sunday. Mr. Grady Mabry was among his friends at Ravenna last Sunday. Mr. T. E. Burgess went to Pacolet Mills last Saturday, on important bus iness. Mr. D. C. Pettit, one of our cham- the most obstinate cases. We have known the Doctor long enough to know he understands what he is talking about. If a fair test of these waters wore made it might prove a great from Marshall Monday afternoon wher he went to assist in the hanging of Peter Smirk there. Before being exe- cuied. Smith gave the sheriff the! names of two men whom the con demned man swore were responsible for the death of Smith's stepdaughter some years ago. The girl was mur- ilbr head was se- body. Smith was W. C. Allen. He holds a good position with the Southern in the capacity of dispatcher. Notwithstanding cotton is ten and a quarter cents, there is very little offered for sale compared with former years. A very large per cent, is be ing stored in the Spartanburg ware house, awaiting better prices. A cutting affray occurred this af ternoon in Mr. Becker’s cafe. One of the belligerenis received several gashes in the back. While the wounds are very painful, they are not consid- ered dangerous. We refrain from giv ing the names of the parties on the account of their prominence. The building boom seems to have struck Spartanburg in earnest. No less than a dozen buildings are in contemplation and in course of erec tion on the prominent streets, to say nothing of nice residences which are alnvist without number. Spa’-tanbnrg is truly on a substantial boom. Prop erty i • changing hands almost daily. The Battery, of Charlotte, owned and operated by Mr. J. D. Collins, proprietor of the Spartanburg Bee Hive, was partially destroyed! by fire Wednesday. As to the extent of the i damage we have not been advised, but i from reports Mr. Collins is a heavv ‘ loser. W. C. A. ven d from her was the lucky young lady. charged with the crime, but there wan Ing. Grindal Gossip. Qrindal. Oct. 2.—The graded school k iM-o near Pehoboth is completed, ex- cent the painting. It is a nice build- boom not only for Blacksburg but foi j leading colors; in dress goods, Alice Cherokee county as well. blue, plum, olive and apple green; and Many new things are being shown j ,,ot sufficient evidence to convict.! Mrs. Mamie Horn is ill with jaun- this season in dress goods, ribbons j Sheriff Reed will probably divulge the ! dice. and trimmings. In the latter, coral names of the men. ! Miss Mittie Kirby and Mrs. Sallie pink, tobacco and Tokio brown are the For minerals of almost every kind. Cherokee county is one of the most noted in the State. It has long been admitted that its iron ore is equal to any in the wmrld, and superior to some; and w'hy should its w'aters not with the display be equal to any for the same reason?! waist, goods, Dresden. Persian and Faille. All in all, the opening was a grand success in every detail, and every lady who attended it was charmea Hemes spent last w T eek with Mrs. S. A new hospital, to be known as ‘ ^ Nance, who is quite sick. Mercy Hospital, will be opened in y[ r j* ni pjsun is ginning cotton at Charlotte about January 1, by the con ! \v e M. Kirby’s, g regal ion of St. Peter’s Catholic M r .' r.' j. Harris and family spent church of that city. I he quarters ot' Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ar- the hospital will be the building °c-! rowood, of Gowdevsville. cupied at present by the Knights ot I Eddie, the ten-year-old • f olumbus and other church org.miza- and Mrs. Wm. Petty, was tions and generally kmvwn as son of Mr, . buried at the | Rehoboth Wednesdav 27th ult. His Catholic Hall, on East First street, rk. a th was unexpected, even to his just in the rear ot the church, d *u i own family. He was having chills, The dry weather still continues and ; TO DEVELOP WATER POWER. turnips and potato patches are suffer ! ' ing for rain. Cotton picking is pro- Company Secures Property at Gaston b « B ding will be remodeled and fitted j but* was not considered " dangerous! grossing as fast as the help at hand | . Shoals. Near the City, l 'P V 1 M 16 , most nuxlern manner for j M rs> p ettv ha(1 gone to gather beans the institution which will be run by i w hen death struck him, and before he Sisters of Mercy and will be di-i s b© could get to the house he was lectly in charge of a full corps of! ( i© a ,i The large floral tributes spoke trained nurses and assistants and a louder than words of the sympathy idaff of phjsiruans in the city. () f Hie friends of the bereaved family. Froney Hadley, a dusky damsel, of ^ Goldsboro, was bound to court in the! sum of $200 Tuesday on a charge of i robbing Sidney Lewis, a young farmer who came to town Saturday and tank- will admit of. j it is expected that the w’ork of de- There are many cases of chills along veloping Gaston Shoals, a property on the creeks, and some few are located ! Broad river, about five miles from the among the highlands. Fortunately.! city, will bo started at once This there are no very serious cases, as yet.; property and other water privileges Miss Lyl Smarr, of Hopewell, has | were acquired by the Gaffney Manu- facuring Company some time ago, but been right sick for several days. assignable to rathei an unusual roni ' ,i ; pj on otton pickers, picked 312 pounds nation of circumstances than to fault of cotton (me day last week of an.\ person. After being dry and dusty for sev A shooting scrape occurred in the eral weeks, we are today having a Brogon Mills near Anderson about 1 nice, steady rain, which will certainly o'clock Wednesday For some time two j be a blessing to us all. of the operatives, W. T. Laslie and his ! Mr. H. D. Mathis ginned nineteen son-in-law, Henry Lutterloh, have been bales of cotton last Saturday, and at outs. They became involved in a H' 0 mgineer Bill’ Spake colored difficulty in the mill building and Lu- savs he calls that “ginning some.” terloch struck the older man. Laslie Mr\ Goo. M. ( halk went to Spar- was armed and drew ids pisiol. Sev- tanburg yesterday; and it being sales- eral bystanders rushed in to separate day. swapped off his mule and buggy, the two men, and in the struggle which C. followed Laslie’spistol was discharged. The bullet-struck J. L. Osborne, who! Rev. oarroll Sunday, bad nothing to do with the quarrel, ini Gaffney people, both white and col- the side. The ball struck a rib audited, should bear in mind that Rev. glanced off and it is not thought the Richard Carroll, of Columbia, will be wound is a dangerous one. Laslie and ' n Gaffney Sunday to deliver an ad- Lutterloch were arrested and placed in 'Iress in the opera house on the sub- the county jail. vision of the Sunny South, or the labor and servant problem.” His State Constable Hay, of Chief Fant’s discussion on this subject is very in- division, accompanied by Officers Jen-j teresting. He has given the lecture kins and Wright, had a lively adven-1 in many of the large towns of the ture Sunday, while in quest of an illicit State, and no one who hears him here distillery. Their search was in York will he disappointed. Come out,'all ot county and about seven miles from the you! historic King’s Mountain battleground, i they ran across the fixings of a large! Jordan, Smith and McLaurin. distillery, which had just been removed Next Monday, the 9th inst., is the only a short time before the arrival of day set for the appearance in Gaffney of Hon. Harvie Jordan. Hon. John L. McLaurin and Mr. Ed. Smith. They wJll speak on the cotton question— : a subject near and dear to the heart or every farmer in Cherokee—and everv fafmer in Cherokee should make it convenient to hear the discussion or these able and learned gentlemen. the officers. Two thousand gallons of still beer were destroyed by the offic ers, along with what remained of the distillery outfit. Continuing a quarter of a mile up in the woods the men secreted a forty gallon barrel about full of whiskey. This was taken in charge and shipped to Columbia. No arrests were made, and the search was a quiet one. His Hand Burned. Earnest Duff, who is working at the Full of Tragic Meaning are these lines from J. H. Simmons, j Irene Mills, had one hand and arm of Casey. la. Think what might have resulted from his terrible cough if he bad not taken the medicine about which he writes; “I had a fearful cough, that disturbed my night’s rest. I tried everything, but nothing would relieve it. until I took Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which completely cured me.” Instantly relieves and perma nently cures all throat and lung dis eases; prevents grip and pneumonia. At Ch*r<'kee Drug Co., druggists; guaranteed; 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. —Oysters served night and day at Parker’s Restaurant, opposite post- office. —Fresh lot Star Hams, 15c. & Coffee. Hall burned Tuesday by the explosion ot some naptha which he was using to clean some cloth. His wounds were soon dressed by a physician, and he will probably he able to soon resume his duties at the mill. New Cure for Cancer. All surface cancers are now known to be curable, by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. .las. Walters, of Duffleld, Va., writes: "I had a cancer on my lip for years, that seemed incurable, till Bucklen’s Arnica Salve healed It, and now it is perfectly well.” Guaranteed cure for cuts and burns. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co.’s drug store. —7 bars Octagon soap 25c. Hall & Coffee. Subscribe for TM Ledger, $1.00 • year. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel, of ‘ were sold recently to a companv that Hickory Grove, spent Saturday night i Mr. J. B. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, on this side of the river. j j s to ^ at the head of. This Rev. J. B. \\ ilson preached at Wil- company had a corps of surveyors at work at the property last week, and it is thought hero that the work of developing will be begun in the near future. This property is considered very val uable and if properly developed it is thought that these falls will furnish water power sufficient for the manu facturing plants at Gaffney. Spartan burg. Cherokee Falls, Blacksburg, in South Carolina, and Shelby and other points in North Carolina. son’s Chapel last Sabbath. Mr. Sam Lee has a contract for hauling cotton seed from Mr. Emmett Wylie’s to the Wilkinsville oil mill. Mr. Willie Kirby is now engaged in Columbia as a bookkeeper. He is one of Cherokee county’s most reliable and trustworthy young men and we anticipate for him a bright future. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kirby, of this section, who are among our most esteemed friends and -neigh bors. Mrs. C. F. Inman has a pomegranate growing in her yard as large as they ever get in this county. There is a lady in this county who says her husband worships his little bit of money. That is so no doubt, but he is not the only man engaged in that business, if all signs are true. We have no reason as a people to speak hard things about the ancient idolaters. We have them with us in great numbers. J. L. S. Gathered from Goucher. Goueher, Oct. 2.—There has been a great deal of sickness in this neigh ed up on mean liquor. She persuaded borhood, but we are glad to report Lewis to take a walk with her Satur- the sJck ones are getting up day night and while thev were strolling again. she ran her hand in his pocket and Cotton is opening very fast, now, took his money which was found on nn ' ] a £ reat l,eal of it ls ,)eln S Picked, her person when she was locked up. lf it open on for about three or four Froney is a tough character as well weeks like it has been, the farmers as a peculiar fine. She dresses as a will get through picking before cold man and is a scrapper. Only a short! weather The good people of this section had a rally day at the old school house on Mr. D. L. Littlejohn’s plantation, near Goucher, and raised $46.81 for the erection of a new church, to be built Peter Smith was hanged at Marshall, between White Plains and Goucher. time ago she held a farmer from the country and robbed him of the pro ceeds of a bale of cotton, for which she got several months on the roads. TO CATARRH SUFFERERS. Gaffney, Oct. 5.—Last Thursday; Rev. W. H. White, with a party of nine others, took dinner on top of the j W. Kilgo; at 7:3ft p. M. the pastor miokestack of the new mill at Lock-1 will preach on “The Personality of •iart Shoals. The smokestack is 1271 the Devil and How to Get Rid ot feet high. Col. John C. Carey gave | Him.” the dinner, and Rev. Mr. White was! A cordial invitation is extended to Working for New Church. Rev. A. C. Cree. pastor of the Edge-! Madison county, Monday afternoon at Both white and colored contributed, field Baptist church, of Knoxville,! 1:15 o’clock for the criminal assault of I We will begin work on the building Tenn.. was in the city Tuesday to con ! Eva Suttles. Just before the execution' i very soon. Wm. B. suit, with the local architect firm of a telegram was received from Govern,,’ Wheeler. Range & Dickey, with refer-[Glenn declining to interfere. Smith ence to the construction of a new | made a final statement, before a crowd church building in Knoxville.—-Chat-; of oerhaps l.ftftft people in which h > Hyomei Guaranteed to Cure by Gaff- lotto Observer. ; protested that he was facing death ney Drug Co. or Money Refunded. Mr. Tree is now in Gaffney, spend without fear, that he was a saved man. The popularity and increase in the ing a few days with Mrs. f’ree. ; t.iat he loved .iis enemies as well as! sales of Hyomei are unique in the •hose who stood l>v him. He thanked annals of medicine. Such astonish- God that his enemies could “kick him ; ing cures have been made by this about no longer” aqd said he wouln remedy that the proprietors have au- prefer death to the penitentiary, j thorized Gaffney Drug Co. to sell ev- Smith gave evidence of extreme weak- ■ erv package of Hyomei under an ab- ness at times and was compelled to solute guarantee that it will cure ca- pause once or twice .while making his tarrh. If it does not. the purohilser final statement. Buford Street M. E. Church Notes. Sunday chool at 10 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M.. by Rev. J. one of the invited guests. Yesterday we took dinner with Mr. R. B. Lemaster, who is one of our most en ergetic farmers and has made farming all strangers. First Faculty Recital. The first faculty recital of the ses- nay as much so as any man in Chero- j sion at Limestone College will be giv- kee county. Mrs. Lemaster, who was j en in the College auditorium on Fri- considerably shaken up by a refractory | day night, the 13th inst, under the mule some days ago, has about recov ©red from her injuries. We spent last night with Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Smith, of Gaffney, where, as usual we were highly entertained. The Doctor is an old Confederate sol dier and surgeon, and is full of splen did humor. We enjoyed his conversa direction of Prof. Paul Schmolck, di rector of music at the College. The public is cordially invited. Coming to Gaffney. Frank E. Grisswold’s railroad pavil ion. “Ten Nights in A Barroom." will -- ---- be in Gaffnav on Wednesday, Oct. tion very much. He has the Life and [nth. for one night only. See ad. in History of Horseshoe Robinson almost this issue. by heart. He can repeat verbatim j . many of the incidents related by that Don’t Borrow Trouble, noted man. The Doctor told of his re-i it is a bad habit to borrow anything. A skull and legbones. with fragments of clothing and old shoes, were discov ered by hunters within 500 yards of the Norfolk and Southern railroad tracks just outside of the city limits of Elizabeth City Wednesday in a dense woods. Evidence that murder was committed is strong and it is the oninion of the physician to whom the significant find was brought for exam ination, that it was a white man. It is thought by some that it was some can have his money refunded b’" Gaff ney Drug Co. Hyomei is no ordinary remedy. It is the onlv method of treatment that sends by direct inhalation to the most remote part of the air passages, a balsamic air that destroys all catarr hal germs in the breathing organs, enriches and purifies the blood with additional ozone, and makes a per manent and complete cure of catarrh. The complete Hvomei outfi* costs but $1.00 and consists of an Inhaler, a medicine dronner, and a bottle of cent trip to Richmond, and his visit to some of the important battlefields. He was accompanied by a large dele gation from both the South and North, who were attending the National Far mers’ convention in Richmond. He said he enjoyed himself splendidly with them. J. L. S. Girls, if you want red lips, laughing eyes, sweet breath and good looks use Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. The greatest beautifler known. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Gaffney Drug Co. —plugs Brown’s Mule 25c. & Coffee. Hail but the worst thing you can possibly borrow. 1$ trouble. When sick, sore, heavy, weary and wo rtf-out by the pains and poisons of dyspepsia, bil iousness, Bright’s disease, and simi lar internal disorders, don’t sit down and brood over your symptoms, but Hy f or relief to Electric Bitters. Here you will find sure and perma nent forgetfulness of all your troub les, and your body will not be bur dened by a load of debt disease. At Cherokee Drug Co.’s drug store. Price 50c. Guaranteed. —Parker*’ Restaurant serves bis- cultii or lightbread. tramp who had entered the woods and [ Hyomei. The inhaler lasts a life- died, either by sickness or suicide, but time, and if one bottle does nto cure, the body had been thinly buried and an extra bottle of Hyomei can be ob- bad been uriearthed by carrion crows tained* for 5ft cents. It is the most or hogs, which confutes such a theory! economical of all remedies advertised and # the general opinion is that if w:*s for the cure of catarrh, and is the the place where some murderer aid : only one that follows Nature in her his victim. No one was missed at the | methods of treating disease-? o' the time the body was placed in the woods. Breathe through the inhaler for a which must have been all of two years i few minutes four times a dav. and ago. | your catarrh Is cured. That’s all. . ! ’ If not cured. Gaffney Drug Co. will Plans to Get Rich are often frustrated by sudden break down, due to dyspepsia or constipa tion. Brace up and take Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They take out the materials which are clogging your energies, and give you a new start. Cure headache and dizziness too. At Cherokee Drug. Co.’s drug store; 25e, guaranteed. “Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S. -.i *4 refund your money. It makes no difference how long you have been sick, if you are troubled with indigestion, constipation, liver and kidney troubles. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea will make you well. 35 cents. Gaffney Drug Co. A corporation may not have a soul, but it has a thousand eyes. Cubacrlbe for Tho Ledger; $1 a year.