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v ■ • x THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District of 8. C. Ledger. «fE GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE. > < ... SEMI-WEEKLV -PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY• 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. GAFNEY, S. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1906. rJ $?JX) A YIAA — 1 T THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF IN^REST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. RAVENNA NEWS. A NEWSY LETTER JAOM WILKINSVIUE, MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF - SLOWER CHEROKEE. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. .T. F. Shirley, aped 65, a citizen of Piedmont, dropped dead one night last week while reading his Bible, as was his custom for years before going to bed. Carroll Hall, colored, tho 12-year- old son of Will Hall, a colored carpen ter of Greenville, was instantly kill ed Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock on the Columbia and Greenville division of the Southern Railway, directly in front of the school for colored on Bir- nip street. John S. Gordon who obtained $501 from the Spartanburg Savings Bank and a diamond from Geo. Henneman by giving fraudulent checks on a! Texas bank, was arrested in Paris. Texas, last week. The diamond was' recovered from a pawn sl op in Wash-j ington. \ requisition will be made for | him. Iron ore was exhibited in Greenville Tuesday which was found in the mountains above Greenville, and an alyzes as high as 69 per cent., and not less than 63 per cent. The ore was exhibited bj R. E. Johnson, of Green- • ville, who has options extending across an entire ridge and is fourteen miles in length. For the first time, the students of the Greenville Female College are to have a college magazine. There will appear soon the initial number of “Is saquena,” a hig? *v creditable publica tion. which will \ attractively print ed and bound. Merchants of Green ville have aided the project by sub scribing liberally to advertising space. Saturday afternoon about 3 o’clock Johnie Steppe accidently shot and Instantly killed Sam Whitener at Union. The boys, both of whom were white, were out hunting with several others? Steppe threw his gun, which seems to have been cocked, across his shoulder, causing it to discharge, the load, striking Whitener in the head and blowing it almost to pieces. As Motorman Abbott was carrying his car dotvn the grade near the cor ner of Main and Wheat streets in Co lumbia a few minutes after 10 o’clock Tuesday night, his car hit a hack, turning the occupants—one passen- gen and the drivel-out. The horse was thrown down, the hack over turned and the hack wheels complete ly demolished. This accident came p near being very serious. Through the combined agencies of the police department and the Green ville County Medical Association, “Dr.” W. A. Williams, a negro living on Uaurens street, has been arrested and will be sent up to the court of general sessions on the charge of practicing medicine unlawfully. He is what is best described as a “yarb doctor,” and has a large following among the more superstitious darkles, but the most lucrative part of his practice was the furnishing of coi- caine to the hundreds of cocaine fiends among the colored people. Preston Crawford, mill operative from Easley, was run over and killed Monday night by the Southern fast train from New York to New Orleans. The accident occurred a mile north of the Greenville station and his body was carried to that city on the pilot of the locomotive, on which it was caught. D, J. Duncan, supposed to he Crawford’s pal, was found a short distance in front of the locomotive when the train stopped. He had thrown himself on tho track with the evident intention of ending his life. This is supposed to have been the idea of Crawford, who was more suc cessful. The Dispensary at Pendleton, in Anderson county, is still open and selling goods. It will *bo remembered that Anderson county, after the dis- , nensary was voted out. took out an injunction and kept the dispensary open until the decision of the Su preme Court. A week ago. when the injunction was dissolved by the Su preme Court, Chief Clerk Charles, of the State dispensary, sent Dispenser Jones, at Anderson, a telegram to close up, which he promptly did. The beer dispensary had sold out some days previously %nd closed itself. No notice of any kind has been served on Dispenser Sullivan, at Pendleton, and so he is still dispensing booze, and has a fair stock on hand for a small town. He can stand as much as a mud turtle but we look for him to expose himself until ho takes pneumonia. Mr. Garner was a Confederate soldier and had about as little regards for bullets as, he has for cold water. He is one of| The Ledger’s best friends in this com-; munity. Mr. S. F. Estes has a very sick mule.; It hai distemper. One of The Ledger’s Alabama pa-' trons complains that she don’t) get her 1 paper regularly. We are disposed to think it must be the fault of her post- 1 master or R. F. D. carrier, for it cer tainly goes to her address regularly, If wn art* rightly informed. Farmers are wanting hands in this section and if present prosnects are [to be the basis of our calculation, our t there will be no doubt about the re acreage this Baptist Press, of Greenwood, deliver-, , „ ipovpe a wife and’one' ed a fine sermon at Goucher last Snn yesterday I e . s ^ j Pev. Mr. Liston will preach at Sa- dav filling Rev F C Hickson’s usual; child, besides an aged father. ,threeM oni Sabbath, the 28th inst., at appointment ! brothers and five sisters, • besMesFa 111 o’clock a. m. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kitchens, of host) of other relatives and friftiK\£*tOj ^y e S p en j two nights this week at Local Items of Interest—Personals and Other News. Ravenna, Jan. 23.—Mr. T. L. Wil kins, who is a salesman with^the J. J. Littlejohn Co., of Jonesville, spent las,. Thursday night with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. “Quit” Wilkins. Messrs. A. A. Mathis and C. D. Burgess, two of our popular young * men. attended a party above Gaffney Personal Paragrapha Conc«yning Pop- last Thursday night and they report, ~ , a “fine time ” Peopj^ and Short - Itoftqa’ «-f > - . . -sD Miss Ella Poats, a popular teacher in the graded school at Jonesville,; spent a few days here last week with her cousin. Miss Ethel Walker, who General Interest. Wilkinsville, Jan. 20.- -MrAtfjSoe wipe: iRfft's? THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE CLIFTON CHRONICLES. News in Town— RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. is teaching the Ravenna school this Hughes, of Oowdeysvilie.-^gBeoli] session. has been repeatedly mentioned in onrpnere will be no doubt Rev. V. I. Masters, editor of the i e ^ erS j jied at bis borne daw bfef¥>r<ftfiction of the cotton iptist Press, of Greenwood, deliver-, tt 0 a aT ,*d‘nhe 1 y e F- ... Spartanburg, spent last Sunday with • mourn his death. Eon several their mother, Mrs. C. E. Kitchens. i fie has been an invalid. To his Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Sparks, of Paco-1 we extend our sympathies, let Mills, attended religious worship. buried at A fi{fl£!l2n Gpfigk-xuuiw at Goucher last Sunday morning. day. Sam .Lstrain-conducted Mr. Charlie Kirby, of Pacolet, was funeral exercises. numbered among bis friends here last To the graa^jvp commit^) Sunday. and to their ht?l*^nli^Etaher^w;e The following Gaffney people at-1 mend bis family ^ ^ tended religious worship at Goucher „ last Sunday: Misses Stacy and Gaff- __ - - - - ^ ney, Messrs. H. H. Bonner and B. B. Goforth. Miss Addle Brown, the popular teacher of the Cedar Springs school, | returned to her*school Sunday after- after spending Saturday and Mr. and “For He rerm And Ho our frame well knowh; Frail man, hi^LMwrare like tho gra The flower inMeld'tftat grows:, For over ib we^vind'’doth pass. And it away Vs gone: noon arter spending saiurnny ana 1 r^b-n hoTnmvn 0 ^ " aa Sunday with her parents. M r. and sha11 1,0 ^ be known Mrs. J. B. Brown. Yesterday.,what may prove a dotre^ Mr. Junnie Mathis, of Pacolet Mills, kjujng took jdace just across the*ri was among his friends here last Sun- f5n Y ork coimty between John Ada' [the Palmetto House at. Gaffney. Mr. Smith Williams, formerly of Blacks burg. is the b ron riot or and he enter tained us royally. Mrs. Williams, his wife, was a Miss Crawford, daugnter of the late Mr. Wm. Crawford, and was raised in tho Smyrna and Bethony congregations of York county, under jthe teaching and preaching of Revs. R. A. Ross and E. E. Boyce of the A. R. Presbyterian church. She is related ,»to some of the best families in York county. The Hopewell Sunday school, a branch of the Salem school, nas an -enrollment of fifty scholars. Misses Lyl Smarr and the Mosdames Dowdle bave charge of it. They meeti every Sunday. J. L. S. day. Mr. Fletdher Mason and his best girl were among the visitors at Goucher last Sunday. Mr. T. E. Burgess and brother Claud, were visitors at Pacolet last Sunday. Mr. Fred Smith, of Cedar Springs, was one of the visitors at our Sunday school last Sunday afternoon. Mr. J. M. Green and Miss Etehl Welker attended religious services at Asbury last Sunday night. Miss Minnie Burgess, the popular teacher of the Macedonia school, ac companied by her friend, Mrs. “Booth” Harris, were visitors in our section last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. G. W. Chalk was a visitor at Pacolet last Monday morning. Mr. J. J. Shippy, from Mississippi, is a welcome visitor in our town. Mr. F. K. Goforth, one of our popular young men, has begun work iu the mills at Pacolet. Mr. T. C. Green, the superintendent of our Sunday school, has had a light attack of rheumatism but is some bet ter at this writing. Mr. M. M. Mize has just completed a flve-roo) cottage which adds to the appearance of our fast growing little town. The colored school here, known as Griffin Hill, has eighty-four scholars enrolled. I call this a pretty good showine. On yesterday we had another rain and the roads are again muddy and slippery. My fine Shepherd dog. “Frank.” has had a bad case of “sore eyes,” hut af ter fighting some, they are about well a^aln. C. Sr., and his son. John Adams, Jr..' tWp colored men, which is another blot o? Death at Gowdeysville. Gowdeysville, Jan. 23.—Mr. Joe Hughes, youngest son of Mr. T. Jeff Hughes, died at his home at Gow deysville last Thursday night, the 18th Inst., after a long Illness. The deceased leaves a wife and one child, father, five sisters and three broth ers. to mourn their loss. His remains were laid to rest in Abingdon church vard on Saturday.' The bereaved ones have our heartfelt sympathy in their darkest hour of sorrow. Call not back the dear departed. Anchored safe where storms are o’er. On the border land we left him, Soon to meet and part no more. When we leave this world of change, When we leave this world of care, We shall find our missing loved one In our Father’s mansion fair. A Friend. get them. On these we don’t care to waste nencil dust or printer’s ink to Gaffney. Jan. 24.—liast Monday night we spent at the Palmetto House in Gaffney, where we met Dr. S. B. our citizenshin if the facte are as wr Schenck. of Waynesvilie. N. C.. who is traveling in the interest of the S B. Schenck & Co., chemical company. get them before the nubile eve. It’s [ He is a very intelligent man and pro- Died in Georgia—Buried in Blacksburg. Ethel May, the ten-months-old bady of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Ross, . of Le- grange, Ga.. formerly of Blacksburg, died at Legr^nge last Monday. The remains were taken to Blacksburg Wednesday for interment. Those ac- compaying the corpse were: Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Ross and two sons, Fay and Jake, L. W. Ross and Logan L. Ross, uncles of the baby. Several relatives from Gaffney attended the funeral. The funeral partly from Georgia return ed homo last night. Mr. Ross is a member of the J. C. Ross Bros. Co., railroad contractors and are well and favorably known here. May Live 100 Years. The chances for living a full cen tury are excellent In the caee of Mrs. Jennie Duncan, of Haynesville. Me., now 70 years old. She writes: “Electric Bitters cured me of Chronic Dyspepsia of 20 years standing, and made me feel as well and strong as a young girl.” Electric Bitters cure Stomach and Liver diseases. Blood disorders, Qeneral Debility and bodily weakness. Sold on a guarantee at Cherokee Drug Co. Price only 50c. TO CURE A COLD IN ONEUAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If it fulls to cure. E. W. «rRDVE*S sig nature is on each box. 25c. only the culmination of a wj'rtc that has been going on directly or indirevUv for some time—want of the proper trail ing of children in the home. Back of all this lies the cause. It's a well known principle of nhilisonhv that “cause and effect are inseparably con nected.” The manner in which some children (white as well as colored) are being raised in this country is a serious oa»ue for alarm. “Whatever a man soweth that shall he also reap.” Is an assertion of Holy Writ that none can gainsay or modify the meaning of. He who sows crime may expect to reap criminals. Then, again, the low standard of morals is a great harrier to the at tainment of higher aims and policies that would correcti many evils that sooner or later must blast the hopes and the happiness of “families as well as communities. Bad examples. oH: be fore children will bring their legitimate fruits soner or later. Whenever or wherever the moral or educational training of children is turned over to the chYirch. the Sabbath school and the day school without the cordial and loyal sunnort of the home, we may look for failure In the accomplishment of much good, if any. We are not in the lecture business and you may think we ought not to take up so much of the space in your columns. Mr. Editor. Dav before yesterday there were three burials at the colored Zion church at Hopewell and one the day before. We took a trln to Blacksburg this week and delivered some books over there. Yesterdav we nassed thromrh the As bury section, sold some books and took dinner with our good friend. Mr. Bert Porter, where we were highly and kind le entertained bv that gentleman and hie snlendid family. Mr. Porter runs the Dawkins’ mill and does a good business in his line. Rev. Tbos. Leitch is now conducting a series of meefrnrr at Asbunr church where he has good congregations both ni^ht and dav. He is working un the neonle of that community by his nreachlng. Mr. Marshall is conduct ing the singing. We commend The Ledger for the able editorial which appeared ip ves-i tprdav’s Issue under the caution “What Will Cherokee Do?” These thoughts can’tt he Ughtlv treated bv ♦hose who have the best interest of the countv and State at heart. Mr. and Mrs. T,esH» Black well are visiting friends and relatives In Ches- tei* conntv. They will be gone until next week. Mr. Wm. A. Robinson, of Sharon died at his home last Thursday and was buried at Bullock’s Creek church yesterday. He was one of the oldest and most highly resnected citizens of his community, having spent his long and useful life in that section. We knew him when we were a mere boy. Rev. J. B. Swann conducted the funer al service. Like a shock of corn fully ripe, he was gathered into his Mas ter’s garner. Mr. Jack Smarr Is much interested to find a mlssnle word for which the Atlanta Constitution offers 11,000. poses to establish a trade in this coun ty. He speaks highly of the enterprise of Gaffney and its people and we trust i:e will have no reason to change his good opinion. Yesterday we visited the mills of the Globe Manufacturing company, where we found President Webster and his forces all at work. This is one of the latest acquisitions to Cherokee county’s manufactiuring enterprises. President Webster seems to be perfect ly at home In his new and commodious office. They were Just putting up for shipment their first bale of yarn. Last night we spent with Mr. E. J. Clary and family. Mr. Clary is one of Cherokee county’s foremost citizens and an up-to-date farmer. He farms on the intensive rather than the exten sive plan. He has his cotton crop of last year stored away for better prices. The roads throughout the county, so far as we have seen, are well-nigh Im passable in many places and can be no better until weather and circumstances favor their Improvement. The Interest in Gen. Gordon’s Remi niscences of the Civil War still remain* unabated and orders are comng in for the book. Since publishing the names of those Confederate veterans who have given the work their unqualified endorsement we have the pleasure of adding the names of others who ex press themselves as equally well pleased with it and endorse what the general says. Among them are Dr. M. W. smith, Messrs. D. A. Thomas. C. T. Bridges. Junius Sparks. Alfred Harris. T. J. Patrick, W. J. Vaughn, J. R. Littlejohn. J. J. Magness. H. P. Goforth. Hon. N. W. Hardin, James E. Bratton, P. S. Webber, and a host of others The sixteenth annual convention of the United Confederate Veterans will be held in the city of New Orleans on the 26th and 27th of April, by which time we hope to report a sale of 200 copies of “The Reminiscences of Gen. Gordon” in Cherokee and neighboring counties of South Carolina. J. L. S. A Birthday Party. Blacksburg, Jan. 24.—On Friday af ternoon, the 19th instant, which was Ehe fifth birthday of Miss Phyllis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. V. Mays. Miss Phyllis delightfully enter tained at her home her little girl friends. Games were indulged in and greatly enjbyed. after which the guests were seated around a table and partook of the dainty refreshments prepared for them. Among those present were Ruth Anderson, Kathleen Hardin, Ruth Haden. Izabel Caldwell. Helen Moor head. Louise and Phyllis Mays. Mrs W. E. Anderson assisted Mrs. Mays in making the affair a most enjoyable one for tJhe children. That Thriving Personals. Clifton, Jan. 20.—Frequent rains con- tinue, and cold weather with hard freezes follow, keeping an abundance of mud in all passways, to the great annoyance of foot-travelers. Fire wood and coal are both scarce and high in price, which at this season * . i « i makes some homes less comfortable. Items of Interest Concerning Our j Rut wWle sumjunded by variou8 need8 Neighbors in the Old North State ' and difficult obstacles, as a general I thing people are endowed with (as we Air. E. H. Coapman, assistant, think) remarkable health for a winter general superintendent of the eastern; like this, so full of sudden changes district of the Southern Railway, was | of weather. At this writing there is seen at Greensboro Tuesday and in- not a case of serious illness within the terrogated regarding the report pub- bounds of tbo writer’s knowledge, lished last, week that he was to move The annual conference of the M. E. his office from Greensboro to Cnar- church at its last meeting sent Rev. lotte. He said ho knew nothing of John L. Harley back to Clifton and the rumor. There was a conference Cowpens for the present year; and with Mr. Coapman in Greensboro, sent Rev. J. W. Elkins, who had been Tuesday of the officials of the mechani- pastor here for the last two years, to cal and transportaion departments of Saxon Mills and Duncan. Rev. Harley the eastern district. Matters of gen-: had been pastor here for four years era! interest to the servic- were dis- at one time a few years ago. He la • cussed. ! true man and an eloquent speaker, and his return to Clifton was hailet^ with William Farrington, a negro, was pleasure by his flock and acquaint- Tuesday morning arrested in Durham ances. on the charge of abandonment. Far- Rev. T. H. Harrison filled his ap- rington has been making his home pointment at Cross Anchor last Sun- in Greensboro for the last six months, day. and on his return home on Mon- and said his wife would not) go there: f lay me t with a strange “freak” in the to live. He decided to get a divorce, way of Providence on tho way. From and ho went to Durham to appear ip: Ihc neighborhood of Cross Anchor he his rase, now in court. His wife, as : was driven down to Enoree Mills to soon as she found he was in that city, hoard the C. & W. C. train for Spar- had a warrant sworn out against him tanburg. in a buggy with My. Troy for non-support. The case was called Bobo. Just before arriving at Enoree, Tuesday morning, but was continued until Thursday. Farrington gave a $50 bond. The police of Durham have unearth ed what looks to be an organized clan of store robbers and two of the rob bers have come to grief. There may be others in the crowd. Those under arrest are William. Francis, alias William Frank, a «judish negro who claims Philadelphia as his home, and a woman companion, Ada Moore, who it stopped on its wheels with the horse has lived in Durham for a inunber of years. The evidence, so far unearth ed. shows that) four stores were rob bed and that Francis or Franks was the principal and that the woman con cealed him and the goods. Little Dennard Roberts, the six- year-oM son of D. W. Roberts, was nearly killed by dogs at Newbern Sunday afternoon. The boy was attacked by one dog and knocked down and several other animals rush ed m and joined tho dog and, but for the efforts of B. G. Credle, the boy would have been killed in a little time. The dog which attacked the boy first was a big bull terrier, the oianding on his feet, Rev. Mr. Harri son sitting in his proper place on the seat and the driving reins hanging around the dashboard. Mr. Bobo had either jumped or fallen from the bug gy; he didn’t know which, but he was standing upon the bank. Neither the men nor horse were hurt, nor the bug gy and harness injured. Before the occurrance the horse was wild and easily frightened, but was then very calm and gentle. All that Mr. Harri son remembers of the happening is that at one time he was standing on his head in the buggv and at another of "cutting a somersault.” Misses Ethel Strain and Maud Black- well, of the Etta Jane section of solely for that purpose, but he escaped from the enclosure where he was kept. Bud Abernathy, one of the most notorious negroes ever convicted of a crime in Mecklenburg county, es caped from the Little convict camp, ■ which is located in Steelo Creek town ship, Tuesday morning between 7 and 8 o’clock. Abernathy was firing the engine that ran the rock crueher. A guard was kept over the force of hands working around tho crusher and screen, but the force of guards was short Tuesday morning, and his attention was needed elsevheie. He was away from the crusher about 15 minutes and when he returned Aber nathy was gone. charge of a farm for the present year. Mr. Foster, lato of Mississippi but West McBride, the negrp charged f° rm erly an operative of Clifton, sue- ‘He had a strong idea that tiie- Beats the Muelc Cure. “To keep the body in tune.” writes Mrs. Mary Brown. 20 I^fayette Place. I The sentence reads thus: Poughkeepsie, N. Y. “I take Dr. ‘ King’s New Life Pills. They are the most reliable and pleasant laxative I have found.” Best for the Stomach. Liver and Bowels. Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co.; 25c. —See my line of Scotch mixtures if in need of Dress Goods. J. I. Sar- ratt. —I live for business, and my busi ness with it’s low prices, helps me liye. Nelson. Hear Prof. Cyrus Brownlee New ton Tonight —Blue Ribbon, 10 cents a yard. What is it? Ask for Blue Ribbon Gin ger Ale. It's fine. —See my window display. Nelson. he ha» seen was running after him.” Won’t some Ledger reader heln him to find it? We learn that Dr. W. A. Fort lost three mules this week. We have not learned the cause of their death. Mr. Jack Smarr paid us a visit to day. . Mr. John B. Whitesides, an old ind highly respected citizen of Hickory Grove, is, we are sorry to learn, lying verv low with pneumonia. He la an elder at Smyrna church. We have known him from our boyhood days. Mr. James G. Garner will have the dam at Thomson’s mill replaced In a few days. This a. m. he was at work with his shoes off and his pants rolled up to his knees and he was at work. A Modem Miracle. “Truly miraculous seemed the re covery of Mrs. Mollle Holt, of this place,”' writes J. O. R. Hooper. Wood ford, Tenn., “she was so wasted by coughing up puss from her lungs. Doctors declared her end so near that her family had watched by her bed-side forty-eleht hours: when, at my urgent request Dr. King’s New Discovery was given her, with the astonishing result that improvement began, and continued until she finally completely recovered, and is a healthy woman to-day.” Guaranteed cure for coughs and colds. 50c and $1.09 at Cherokee Drug Co. Trial bottle free. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES Itching, Blind. Bleeding. Protruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to re fund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. —Hats for Men, Youths and Chil dren at bargain prices at J. I. Sar- ratt’s. —Big lot of Quilts from 85e to $2, at J- I. Sarratt’s. with killing Mr. Mike Williams, near Polkton about two weeks ago, was caotured Tuesday by Mr. Walter Horne, overseer on Mr. L. L. Little’s river plantation. Mr. Horne, see.-’” the negro, commanded him to hold up is hands. He then marched McBride in front of him for two miles to tis home, where he kept him chained to the stairs throughout the night. Wed nesday morning he carried the negro to Wadesboro and turned him over lo the authorities, who placed him in jail. McBride, it is fcaid, had gone to the home of his son-in-law to borrow money to take him to Georgia. He had disguised himself by shaving clean. William Russell, a young white man of 25, set fire to the solitary cell in the calaboose at New London. Stan ley county,' 24 miles from Salisbury Saturday evening and was so badly burned that he will die. Russell was arrested Saturday for disorderly con duct and locked up in the town pris on. a minature affair. In his cell was a quantity of straw and he lighted the pile. His cries of alarm could not be heard until the building was par tially consumed and those who rushed to the rescue were unable to locate the lock. With sledge hammers they succeeded in tearing the door down and ran for their lives as volumes of smoke rushed upon them. The im prisoned man managed to make his exit and fell in a heap at the entrance of the calaboose. He was given im mediate medical attention, but no hope tor his recovery was held out. The building was destroyed. Half the World Wonders how the other half lives. Those who use Bucklen’s Arnica Salve never wonder if it will cure Cuts, Wounds, Bums, Sores and all Skin eruptions; they know it will. Mrs, Grant Shy, 1130 E. Reynolds St„ Springfield, 111., says: "I regard it one of the absolute necessities of housekeeping.” Guar anteed by Cherokee Drug Co., 25c. —Matrimony may be speculation, but it’s well for girls not to stay too long on the market. There’s no spec ulation about Nelson’s values. ceeds Mr. Smith. Mr. Foster has of late been superintendent of a cotton mill in Mississippi, hut was compelled to resign on account of its being in a very unhealthy section. S. LETTER TO LEDGER READERS The Gaffney Drug Co. Guarantee to Cure Catarrh or It Costs Nothing. Editor of The Ledger:— In view of the prevalence of ca tarrhal troubles at this season of the year, we want to tell your your read ers that we have never sold anything that gave more satisfaction than Hyo- mei, when used in catarrhal troubles. You get immediate |>lf from the treatment, and cons^ #nt use will prove to every sufferer, as it has to many of our customers, the virtue of this preparation. Personally we are intrested in Hyo mei, for it is made and sold on honor, and we do not want your money un less you are benefited and satisfied. There is no stomach dosing in con nection with Hyomei. It is a thor oughly local treatment for a local dis ease, and its soothing, healing medi cation goes direct to the spot where it is needed. The complete Hyomei outfit con sists of a pocket inhaler, a medicine dropper, and a bottle of Hyomei. and the price is only $1. while additionaJ bottles can be obtained tor 50 cents. We positively guarantee a enre when Hyomei is used in accordance with directions, or we will refund your money. This certainly shows our faith ar.d belief in the virtues of Hyomei. Yours very truly. The Gaffney Drug Co It invigorates, strengthens and builds up. It keeps you in condition physically, mentally and morally. That’s what Hollister’s Rocky Moun tain Tea does. It is a wonderful tonic and heautifler. 35 cents Tea or Tab lets. Gaffney Drug Co. —Shoes for everybody at slaughter prices at J. I. Sarratt’s. —You have been calling constanv ly tor “Aunt Dina’s” Sarsaprilla. We have it now. 50 cents, three bottles of $1.25. Company. ttle, Drug at a place where a high “fill” was made to facilitate the crossing of a ravine that crossed the road at that point, they met a wagon loaded with furniture. They drove aside to make room for the vehicle to pass, and in so doing our friends in the buggy drove too far over and the wheels of the buggy dropped off of the main roadbed and overturned, carrying the men and horse' down the side of fiEd embankment to the level below, where property of James S. Bryan. It was Cherokee county, spent a few days useful as a watch dog and was kept lW R b relatives at. Clifton last week, but have returned to their homes. Farmers are beginning to arrange plans for the management of business for the year and are busily discussing methods of cultivation by which large yields can be attained; and schemes by which “hard times” may be sur mounted. But mostly all seem to shudder at the theorv of reducing the acreage of the cotton crop, which is the very throne of “hard times,” and without the adontion of which rule “hard times” will continue to be the cry. Mr. Henry M. Smith, who for quite a number ot years past has been overseer of the card rom at Mill No. 1, has resigned his position and has taken