Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■'''mm- •' • ' '*■ '* ’-v •%' V * *• . " Z. * , ; ’V ;y| .1 • ' t ' ‘ • v ‘ ; . 'Y *' v t* >#<«>* ft. v w f 4 jfi 41 > • 5 & jr ; A' • “■ . '.v v.;? t m fM \ c -* THE uEDGER. Tuesday ana Friday, OeCamp, Editor and Publisher, W. Qr-ffith. Local Editor. NOTES AND C MME 4T8. Gaffney is no longer a cross-roads village. It takes men of ability and experience to run the affairs of the city successfully. Our next mayor and board of aldermen should be men in whom the people have confidence and who will have the ability to fi nance the proposed sewerage bonds successfully and to the best advant age of the tax payers. Keep in mind the fact that successful business men are the only ones who command the confidence of those who buy bonds. • • • Some time ago Mr. George W. Bon ner made up his mind to sell out and go west—a very mistaken idea—but after selling out he decided that no spot on earth could compare with Cherokee and concluded to remain here—an altogether sensible conclu sion for a sensible man to reach. There is no better place on earth than Cherokee and she can ill afford to give up any of her good citizens, •which makes The Ledger doubly glad that Mr. Bonner changed his mind. • • * The following is from the Sumter Herald, and every word of U is as true as steel, showing that Editor John Knight has the proper concep tion of the man, John McLaurin: John L McLaurin has never need ed any agency to resurrect himself polMically. While not active during thJfpast few years, his influence has beelh felt wherever he saw fit to ex ert ft, and his friends have not been of the kind who desert, for they be- lived in the man and the principles which he advocates—and the num ber of these is being added to all over South Carolina. The papers that have so much to say about his being “dead," don’t seem any more willing for him to sleep quietly than do his friends. * • * It isn’t often we essay to make any comment on. the action of any minis ter but we want to say that the very manly and altogether cordial welcome extended Rev. R. T. Liston Sunday night by Rev. J. M. Steadman is de serving. It was full of sentiment and common* sense and brotherly love. It has often occurred to us that the cause for which gentlemen of the cloth labor would meet with more marked success if they would themselves dis play a more kindly feeling toward one another rather than split hairs on denominational questions. Mr. Stead man is certainly along the right Hue f.nd we hope to see the day when all churches unite in the one great cause for which they labor—the salvation of mankind. m m m In another column we are publishing a Blacksburg dispatch to the Green ville News. We do this for the pur pose of bringing the matter square ly before our county officials. They should be made acquainted with facts. The marshal in question avers that the correspondent knows more than he does if illicit distilleries are in ex istence on the other side of the river. We would suggest that the marshal and other officials call on this corres pondent, obtain all the information possible from him, and those who cir culated and signed the petition, and proceed to put the blockaders out of business. That’s the way to do it. • • • How are you going to spend Thanksgiving day? Are ydu going to spend the day in rest and recreation, in innocent pleasure and amusement, and in giving thanks to the Great Giver of good for the many blessings you have enjoyed during the past year? Or. will you desecrate the day by devoting it to drunken debauchery and unrighteous living? We would like to raise our feeble voice especial- V in protest against the wholesale and wanton destruction of birds, and other game, on that day, which is too much the custom at this season. If you have no gratitude in ’'our heart, don’t mock the spirit of the day by | hunting down and shooting innocent creatures. We know there are many who will not read this,; and, that many who do, will pay no heed; but if it be the means of deterring one boy, or man, from “taking in sport the life he cannot give,” our protest will not have been made iq vain. • • • In a private letter to the editor of The Ledger Mr. Brooks Morgan, As sistant General Passenger agent of the Southern Railway writes: “I presume you have heard the good nows that we are going to build a first class, up-to-date, station at Gaff ney. This station is to cost in the neigh- borhood of $15,000 and the construc tion of same will begin just as early as all details can be arranged.” All of which is extremely gratifying to The Ledger and those of our citi zens who delight in seeing things go forward. We would suggest that the citizens of the town arrange a ban quet and invite the railroad officials to visit us on the occasion of the opening of the new depot. These gen tlemen are as clever as they make them. The most of them are princes among good fellows and we can lose nothing by cultivating their friend ship and good will. Besides, we need to know more of them and they of us and we need to know more of our selves. By all means let us make it a county affair and let every good and progressive citizen join in the good cheer. But how in the world are we going to have good cheer without the flowing bowl, and how are we going to have the flowing bowl in a dry county? This is one of the disadvan tages of bein^good! • • » We are proud of the fact that we are a native of North Carolina, but we are often humiliated by references tc* the gullibility of the good people of that State. A land agent sold them lots to the extent of several thousand dollars which ttiey will never get. Bill Fife has sold them gold mine stock and is now selling them oil stock—in fact he seems to be milking them to a cool finish, and yet they never tire. But the amazing thing to us is that the Charlotte Ob server will continue to sell him space when the evidence is so plain that it must ultimately result in a complete loss to those of its subscribers who place confidence in the advertise*- ment. It is safe to presume that no industry that promises the unusual profits promised by Mr. Fife woqld have to advertise for stockholders. There are thousands and millions of idle money seeking a legitimate in vestment of from 5 to 10 per cent., but the owners of the money are too shrewd to take long chances on wild cat enterprises. It’s none of our busi ness what kind of advertisementE The Observer or any other paper prints,' but we just hate to see our friends lend themselves to any such business even if they do get pay for it We wouldn’t advise our readers through advertising or otherwise, to send money to any kind of enterprise that we did not believe to be .egitlmate,; and we have our doubts about Mr.: Fife’s enterpitoe. An Announcement. On account of next Thursday being Thanksgiving day, we shall publish only one issue next week. That one will be published on Wednesday, so that our readers may have their papers to read during their holiday. $ioo Reward, $ioo .« The readers of this paper will b*- pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded dis ease that science has been able tc '*uro in-all Its stages and that Is < atarrli. II all's Catarrh Cure is the only positive erne now known to < the medical fraternity. Catarrh la-ng a constitutional disease, requires a constitu-! tlohal treatment. Mali's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting dlree bltsKl and mu<tous surfaces ol thereby destroying the found disease, and glvlntr the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers Unit they offer One Hundred Dollars for any •ase that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. Chknby & Co.. Toledo <>. -Hold by Druggists. 75r lia I'sFadlv Pills at < the best. A Card from U. 8. Deputy Hallman. The correspondent from Blacksburg to the Greenville News is either grossly ignorant of the facts in the case or he has made a malicious and willful misstatement thereof. All the work which I have done as deputy U. S. marshal has been done at and around Blacksburg, since the United States Court adjourned at Greenville. I have not had a single case at Gaff ney since the court adjourned. As re gards the operation of illicit distil leries in the neighborhood of Blacks burg, will say that some weeks ago I had information that one was operat ing near King’s Creek and I imme diately organized a posse and located and seized the same, involving a per sona! expen llture of $15, for which the government has refused to reimburse me. As I work on fees alone, this lias fallen pretty hard up- c me; but in spite of this fact, if th i correspondent of the Greenville N ‘ws, or anyone else, will give me the location of an illicit distillery in this county, I will have same destroy ed at once. I do not know the condi tion of affairs in York county, as there is a deputy marshal in that county, whose business it is to look after mat ters there: but, I do know that there are fewer blind tigers in Cherokee than before the dispensary was voted out. If the correspondent referred to above would be honest enough to ad mit the truth. T dare say the condi tion of affairs which he refers to ob tains in York county and not in Cherokee. A. L. Hallman, U. S. Deputy Marshal. DISTILLERIES IN CHEROKEE. Is Illicit Whiskey* Being Mj^de Inside County? Blacksburg, Nov. 22.—Only a few days over a year ago, Cherokee coun ty, under the provisions of the Brice law, took the initiative in abolishing the dispensary system, and by a ma jority vote of nearly five to one, forc ed the closing of the insitution at this place and at Gaffney. Since that time the people of the country have made strenuous efforts to enforce the pro hibition law, but the citizens of that section of the country bordering on the North Carolina and York county lines, believe that they cannot effectu ally stamp out the numerous block ade distilleries which infest that por tion of the county, without aid from the governor, all efforts to secure the assistance of the proper Federal au thorities having proved fruitless. For the above reasons, a petition has been forwarded to the governor, which reads in part as follows: We, the undersigned residents of Cherokee township. Cherokee county, S. C., beg to call your attention to the following matter: “The dispensaries at Blacksburg and Gaffney were voted out by the people under the provisions of the Brice Act. November 8th, 1904. Prior 4o that time, there were a number of prosecutions for the illicit manufac ture and sale of liquor in said terri tory, but, since the closing of the dis pensaries at the places above referred State constables, the increase in the Painting the ‘Ship of Zion.” The owner of the building on Jef feries street known all over Gaffney as the “Old Ship of Zion.” Is having it brightened up by a new coat of paint. Roy Martin is doing the work. Roy has also painted Mr. Sumter Little john’s new* house. You can always fbll what a woman throws at by what she misses. Everything that is blind and grins at the locksmith isn’t love. 4 4 9i ■ ill i > ii t uri llroctiy upon tin* us of ji he syst em. ' >un<i;|t.ioii of ilio SPIED PIT UFE —That’s what a prominent druggist said of Scott’s Emulsion a short time ugo. As a rule we don’t ise or refer to testimonials in addressing the public, hut the above remark and similar expressions are made so often in connec tion with Scott’s Emulsion that they are worthy of occasional note. F rom infancy to old age Scott’s Emulsion offers a reliable means of remedying im proper and weak develop ment, restoring lost flesh and vitality, and repairing waste. The action of Scott’s Emulsion is no more of a secret than the composition of the Emul sion itself. What it does it does through nourish ment—the kind of nourish ment that cannot be ob tained in ordinary food. No system is too weak or delicate to retain Scott’s Emulsion and gather good from it. —* * ✓ We will aend you a sample free. B« sure that this picture in the form of a label ia on the wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. scon & Bowirc Chemists 409 Pearl St, N. Y. 50c. and $1: all druggists. illicit manufacture and sale of liquor lias increased to such an extent that it has become a source of the great est annoyance to the respectable and law-abiding residents of this town ship. While blockade distilleries have been destroyed in this territory, we most positively assert that there are at least four of that kind now in oper ation. There is a Vnited States m r- shal in this county but he is located at Gaffney, and though the condition of affiirs'in this section has been re peatedly called to his attetnion, he remains inactive and confines* himself to the town of Gaffney, a place on the west side of Broad river and upon which side, a blockade distillery has never been known to have been oper ated in the last twenty years.” This petition, from what your cor respondent can learn, has been signed by the most respectable people of the immediate section of the county trou bled and by those of the adjacent sec tions. Be Sz* re to Use OaiPy Cream ef Tartar First Baptist Church Notes. Regular service next Sabbath morning and evening as usual. All are invited to worship with the con gregation. Sabbath school at 9:45. A lesson of especial interest on the subject of conscience and liability. Buford St. Methodist Church Notes. Sunday school at 10 A. M. Preach ing at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sub ject at 11 A. M. “The Hold Outs,” at 7:30 P. M., “The Value of a Man.” Junior League at 4 P. M. Cordial in vitation to all strangers. Food made with . alum baking powder carries alum • to the Stomach unchanged. Scientists have positively demonstrated this and that such food is partly indi gestible and unhealthful. . It is one thing to apprelate a com pliment and another thing to swal low it. ' A woman never quarrels with her self as long as sh\» has a friend left Your Tailor Says “You Are Hard To Fit” f • Slyly trusting thus to cover his own shortcomings as craftsman. As a matter of fact, ninety-nine men out of » one hundred are easy to fit, if the clothes are made rightly Ours (Kirschbaum) will fit you, be you lean or stout, short or tall. Fifty-one years of knowing how have solved i this problem, and are summed up in the Kirschbaum. This Name Stands for 51 Years of Knowing How Kirschbaum Learn To Look For It Carroll Byers Limestone Street Gaffney, S. C. I’m the Talk of the Clothing Trade — 1 1 My Big Sale has created a great sensation in Cherokee County. Everybody has been talking about it for the past ten days. Even the merchants of Gaffney are surprised at the great quantity of goods that were sold during my ten days sale. MY ENTIRE STOCK OF GOODS ' \ MUST BE SOLD BEFORE DECEMBER 25TH. r In order to accomplish this, \ have decided to continue selling at sale prices. You who have visited me during the sale know that everything in the store was marked down lower than the lowest. Low PRICES GONE LOWER. You will find me this week even cheaper than I was last week. Opp. Postoffice NELSON, The Star Clothier, Gaffney, So. Car. # ' / / { ttf J./C f , I !-; v > m L - ; fVv'v a* * fcJBfe' fc i/35 • 'H'vV’.? , y* fii * * w.