The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 07, 1905, Image 4
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THE LEDGER.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Here’s hopin’ that James Osborne
mav win today in New York and that
the dispensary may be driven out of
Spartanburg.
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Judge Klugh is to be commended'
for his righteous decision in the Spar
tanburg injunction case. He disposed
of the matter in a courteous and cle
ver manner, but withal in a just man
ner.
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Those farmers who have had back
bone enough to hold their cotton have
lived to see the claims of the Cotton
Association officers verified. In union
there is strength. This will apply to
farmers as well as others.
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We haven’t been keeping tab on
our exchanges lately, but hope to pay
our respects to them in the near fu
ture. but if any have had anything to
say about Cherokee or Gaffney with
in the last few weeks, we assure them
that we have not purposely omitted
to notice it but have been foced to
on account of pressure of business.
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We are indebted to Mr. Leon L.
Mott, the efficient and gentlemanly
stenographer of this circuit for a
verbatim report of Judge Klugh’s or
der dismissing the application to re
strain the people of Spartanburg
from voting on the dispensary, as ren
dered in the court house yesterday,
and Mr. Mott has our thanks for the
same.
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With the playing of the band, the
cry of the sideshow-men, the tooting
of tin horns and the throwing of con
fetti. it is differexftl to kraflBGWY
fettl, it is difficult to keep at work
these days. We hope those who at
tend the carnival may enjoy them
selves and get the worth of their
money. In this connection it might
be well to suggest to the carnival
managers that it would redound to their
honor to see to it that the pickpockets
do not ply their trade while In Gaff
ney.
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If the Southern Cotton Association
had done nothing etse but educate the
farmers to the importance of self-re
liance its organization will not have
been in vain. The one thing needed
by Southern farmers is education, not
alone in books, but in many other
respects, the chief of which is self-re
liance. We trust they will continue
to organize until they are strong
enough to withstand the onslaught of
Wall street gamblers and grasping
financiers. Hail and good day to
the newly educated farmers of the
South!
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We are forced to the conclusion
that a judge must be a very patient
man. This conclusion is arrived at
after having witnessed the ]>atience
exhibited by Judge Klugh yesterday
while argument was being made to
restrain the citizens of Spartanburg
from holding an election on the dis
pensary subject today. To a layman
the petitioners had no case whatever
and it was outrageous for them to
rake up the time of the court in such
manner. But the law is complicated
and it takes bright and brilliant law
yers and patient judges and juries to
unravel it.
Gold Dollar For 50 Cents.
The greatest event that ever oc
curred in Gaffney will take place
Wednesday and continue for ten.
days. Gold dollar for 50 cents. That
is practically what you will get at
the gigantic sale that begins at Nel
son’s Wednesday. Nov. 8th at 9 a. m.
Don’t fail to read Nelson the Star
Clothiers ad. in this issue.
“Yes. Senator,’’ remarked the re-
poter, *T suppose you sometimes find
it necessary to dodge issues?” ‘‘Is
sues?” snorted Senator DeGraft.
“Why, young man, it keeps me busy
dodging prison bars.”
Miss Petty—I had hard luck yester
day. Fido was almost, drowned while
bathing. Friend—Oh. never mind.
Try him in deeper water next time.
The judgment is more likely to ask
“How many shoes did you wear out
in works of love?” than “How many
prayers did you offer?”
There is something peculiar about
the man who takes no interest in
baseball. He may be a person of
superior intelligence.
BIG FICLD FOR COTTON
England Will Investigate South
west, Says Edv/ard Atkinson.
MAY COLONIZE VAST DISTRICT
BoNtou ICvunonilnt SiiKK'-atfl lliat Itnl-
iim Peaftantn on Virgin LiiihIm Could
Add 0,0()0,0<.'0 Hitlt-n of Cotton and
300.000,000 UiiMlit-lM of Wheat to the
I’n-hent Anunnt I'rodnetlnu of the
United Staten.
The possibility that English cotton
manufacturers may look to certain por
tions of the south and southwest for
insurance of a steady supply of cotton
is suggested in a recent issue of ike
Manufacturers’ Record by Edward At
kinson of Boston, who has recently
returned from England. He says that
iu conversation with his British friends
he made the following statement:
“The present crop of maize of the
United State# is grown on 1< 15,000 to
110,000 square miles. The present crop
of wheat is grown on 65,000 to 70,000
square miles; the present crop of cot
ton upon less than 30.000 square miles.
We may add 20,000 to 25.000 square
miles for rice, tobacco, hops and such
other minor products of the soil as
enter into our exports, making a total
area, say, of 230,000 square miles out
of 3,000,000, omitting Alaska. On this
small fraction even of our arable land
the people of the United States are
fully supplied with meat, dairy prod
ucts, grain and cotton, wMth a large
excess for export, mainly to Great
Britain.
“Our kiu beyond the sea are mainly
dependent upon us for food and cot
ton. We may mainly depend upon
them for a market for our surplus.
Such being the fact, I bold that they
must be recognized and that the atten
tion of consumers in Great Britain
should be turned to the development
of these resources in co-operation
with us.
“Two most important groups of in
vestigators are now being organized
to find out whether my statements, al
most incredible to them, can possibly
be sustained.
“Having thus measured the area of
these special groups, I then affirmed
that a section could 1)0 defined In north
ern Texas, Oklahoma, the Indian Terri
tory, northern Louisiana and perhaps
a patch of Arkansas, coupled with an
area of the prairie rice land of Louisi
ana and Texas, of 230,000 square miles
(corresponding to area now in maize,
wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice and hopsj,
of which not one in ten was yet under
the plow or not yet developed.
“I stated that the land is there, the
capital abundant, the power of direc
tion simple, all that is needed being in
telligent labor, preferably Italian and
southern European. Italian peasants,
being accustomed to live on fruit and
macaroni, would find In this section
every variety of the semitropical fruits
Increasing in abundance and an ample
produce of the hard macaroni wheat.
“I also called attention to the fact
that the Red river navigation to New
Orleans and its aiiluents offered cheap
and quick transportation on the way to
Liverpool, that several great systems
of railroads were grldironed along this
whole section, with ample r ilway
service, and that the school system,
from the public kindergarten to the
state university, the normal schools,
the technical s bools and the agricul
tural schools, w as in complete working
order.
“I then made this further—to them
Incredible—statement (can it he sus
tained?)—to wit, one quarter part of
this area of 230,000 square miles never
yet touched by the plow, save 55.000
square miles, may he devoted to cotton
and wdient, aud by intelligent cultiva
tion 0,000,000 bales of cotton may be
added to the present crop of the United
States at the present rate of product
per acre and 300,000.000 bushels of
wheat may be added to the present
crop of the United States at the aver
age product of this section at the pres
ent time, or an increase of about 5o per
cent on the preseut product of the
whole conutry. Whether or not these
statements can be justified will pres
ently be proved by the two lines of In
vestigation from England to which I
have referred.”
The Future of the Telephone.
The bigness of the telephone inter
ests, present and prospective, of the
United States is certainly best under-
stood by the engineers, says F. W. Co
burn in the November Atlantic. Those
men of figures aud forecasts, whose
everyday speech abounds in references
to loads, insulations and relays, have,
as Is well known, magnificent Ideas as
to the future of the industry they are
building up. Already thry are basing
their estimate of necessary construc
tion upon a probable 20 per cent de
velopment within the next two or three
decades, a prediction which means it:
everyday speech that by 1930 or 1935
there should be. if the present rate of
expansion continues, one telephone for
every five people in the United States,
or, as it has been otherwise expressed,
a telephone to every other family and
as many more in places of business.
Rival to Kentucky'n Mammoth Cave.
A cave that may rival the famous
Mammoth cave has been discovered
near Glasgow' Junction, Barren coun
ty. In Kentucky, says a Louisville dis
patch. One arm has been explored for
seven miles. Farther progress was
■topped by a swift stream. Dr. Hazen
and John Thompson, the explorers, are
now engaged in building a boat with
which to ferry the stream. As soon as
this work is complete the search will
be prosecuted farther. The cave is
described by Dr. Hazen as being of
surpassing beauty.
Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a yaar.
Excursion Rates via Southern Ry.
On account Piedmont Fair, Green
ville, 8. C., Southern Railway will
sell excursion tickets to Greenville, S.
U. and return, from Charlotte, N.
Chester, Columbia, Augusta, El-
herton, Gainesville, Asheville, For
est City and intermediate points at
rates of one first class fare plus 25
cents for the round trip. Tickets to
he sold October 30th-31st, November
1st, and for morning trains Novem
ber 2nd, final limit November 3rd,
1905.
For additional Information, apply
to any ticket agent, or
R. W. Hunt, D. P. A.,
Charleston, S. C.
Lidies' and Gents' Tailoring.
Having secured the services of an ex
pert Tailor from New York, I am now
prepared to cut and make Suits for Ladies
and Gentlemen in the very latest styles.
LADIES’ TAILORING A SPECIALTY.
A full line of samples of the newest
fabrics always on hand.
Have your clothing made in your own
town where you can be sure of a fit.
All work guaranteed. Give me a trial
Clothing altered and remodeled.
W. H. Robinson.
Upstairs over Settlemyer building
CLERK’S SALE.
Pursuant to the decree and order
of the Court of Common Pleas for
Cherokee county in the case of E.
Earle Holland, etc., vs. Lilabel Hol
land, et. al., I will expose to public
sale at Blacksburg, S. C., on Saturday,
November 25th, 1905, between the
hours of 13 M. and 2 P. M. in front
of the store room lot of L. M. Holland,
deceased, on Shelby street, the fol
lowing property, to-wlt:
All that lot with store room there
on fronting 26 feet on Shelby street
and running back southeasterly 83
feet, and being the same lot deeded
to Eliza A. Holland by R. A. West
brooks by deed recorded in clerk’s of
fice for York county. Book “G.” No.
8, pages 557 and 558. Also that lot
with residence thereon in Blacks
burg. S. C„ purchased from J. J.
Whisonant by said Mrs. Eliza A. Hol
land fronting on Carolina steert 100
feet and running hack to the road
bed of the Southern Railway Com
pany being 981-2 feet at said road
bed, or right of way.
Terms of sale one-half cash, and
the balance on a credit of eleven
months with interest from the date
of sale at 8 per cent, per annum.
Credit portion of hid to be secured
by bond and mortgage of the premis
es sold, with leave to the purchasei
to pay all cash. Purchaser to pay
for al! papers and recording, and must
comply with cash portion of bid with
in thirty minutes, or a re-sale will
be made on same day for cash at the
defaulting purchaser’s risk.
J. Eh. Jefferies.
ri’k c c Pi’s
Gaffney. S. C., Nov. 4th,'1905.
Pub. in The Ledger Nov. 7-14 and
21.
See Us for Prices.
•< houses an& lots, ail modern im
provements.
One 5-room house, $800.
One S-room house, $600. Lot 80x
200.
One house and lot, $375.
Three of the prettiest residence
lots in Gaffney, 80x160, $250 each.
Two lots, $100 each.
One lot, $65.
One lot, $250.
One farm, good location, 160 acres,
at a bargain. See us for price.
One farm seven miles from Gaffney,
containing 225 acres, $12.50 per acre.
The cheapest farm In Cherokee coun
ty.
1 5-room house, about 21-2 blocks
from depot; out buildings, and all
modern improvements.
Mertson & Bulllcli
THE PIEDMOHT IHI
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Is the place to board. Plenty to eat.
Nice Rooms. Hot and Cold Baths Free.
Rates, $15.00 per month, $1.00 perdav.
7-25-tf
J. C. OTTS
Attorney-at-Law. Notary in Offlea.
Office removed to New Bank Building.
WILLIAM 8. HALL, JR.,
Attorney at Law,
National Bank Building,
Gaffney, 8. C.
Prompt attention given to all business.
DR. W. K. GUNTER,
uen xiex
Office in Star Theatre Building,
Phone No. 20.
nrown and bridge work a specialty.
J. F, GARRETT,
Dentlst.|
Office JOverO The Battery.
’Phone 82
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Carnival Week Bargains
We Will Offer The Following Special Prices For Carnival.
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22-inch Full Worsted, all colors, sells for 10c everywhere,
for Carnival Week, per yard 5c
Best 40 inch Sea Island, length 1 to 15 yards !) : , ! o
Good heavy Outing, all colors, plain and fancy, per yard.. . . 7^-
58-inch Silk and Wool Dress Goods, worth #1 25, per yard. .48c
58.inch Heavy Skirtings, a bargain at 18c
27-inch Heavy Skirtings, per yard I9e
40-inch Wool Dress Goods, black auu and all colors, cheap at
25c per yard, Carnival price, per yard 19c
Cloaks. *
100 Ladies All Wool Kersey 27 inch Jackets. be*t Mercerized
lining, cheap at &G 50, Carnival price $4.50
40 Ladies’ All Wool Black Kersey, 27 inch Jackets, good Mer
cerized lining, cheap at $5.00, to go at $3.75
Ladies’ Long Cloaks, Empire Style, Wool Kersey,
Carnival price $3.50
4 dozen Children’s Long Cloaks, sizes 2 to 10 years, each.. 50c
Ladies' and Misses’ full length Rain Coats, Tailor-made,
Carnival Week...... / $3.60, $5.00 up to $20.00
Silk Tailor Made Suits, all colors and black, regular $10.00 line
Carnival Week price $7.98
Ladies aud Misses’ Suits, New Grey Over-plaid, sizes
16 years to No. 44 $7.75
Ladies’ Black Tailor Made Suits, all wool, body lined, skirt and
jacket nicely braided, cheap at $10.00 $7.50
Howard Style.
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Other tailor made suits in Chitlon Velvet and Broadcloth,
Princess Style and Long Coats, $10.00 to $35.00
Shoes! Shoes!!
Anticipating the advance in leather we bought months ago
$10,000 worth of shoes to be delivered as needed, our line is com
plete and the price not advanced on a single shoe.
Many Bargains for Carnival Week.
Hats. /
Jno. B. Stetson, the famous Howard, the “No Name,” by Stet
son Co., Banner Special, all of these well known makes in new
and up-to-date styles as well as complete line of staples.
Clothing.
Boys suits from $1.00 to $6.50
A special line of all wool suits, sizes 8 to 16, a $3.00 value
Carnival Week $1.98
Young men’s 3 piece suit, new patterns,
Special Carnival Week ' $2.75
Young men’s 3 piece All Wool Black Thibet Suits,
Special for the week $5.00
Men’s Wool Cassimere Suits, for only $2.7&
Men’s All Wool Black Thibet, cheap at $7.50, to go at... .$5.00
Men’s All Wool Cassimere Suits, new over-plaid a good
$10.00 value, a genuine bargain for Carnival Week at $6.90
Boy’s All Wool Over-coat, bouble breasted, $3.00-value for $1.50
Men's full length Ulster, all wool, blue and black $5.00
$25,000 Worth of Clothing for Boys, Young Men and Men Ranging in Price from 50c to $35.00.
CARROLL
Tr, “town talk” Flour.
GROCERIES: A Complete Line of Groceries, Staple and Fancy al Money-Saving Prices.
BYERS.
Swift’s Lard is The Best.