Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Y * 11 V J ^ | im! With Combined Capital, Surplus tfe and Profits of $120,344.80 With Deposits of $316,078.25 and With Resources of $450,923.05 Tfie National Bank of Gaffneu AISUD Tfie Gaffneu Savings Respectfully Solicit Your m/r\ Banking Business AssuringJYou ThatJTheir.Faithfulfand Untiring^Service is at Your Command. THROUGHOUr THE P41METT0 STITE TEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. At a shooting affray which occurred at Watrloo early Saturday morning, Sam Coleman was dangerously wound ed by George Smith, both colored. Smith was lodged in jail. THE CITY S0L0N8 CONFER. They Object to Poles on Limestone Street. The members of the citv council met in a called meeting Friday to take action on the matter of the Bell Telephone Company installing a booth in the office of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company for the con venience of the company. The coun cil gave the required permission in September last but they mafncain that when the corps of men detailed for the job came, that in addition to making preparations for the enter- ance in the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, they attemoted to place poles on Limestone street in addition to where Robertson and Limestone streets cross, where they allege is as far as the poles must come. An agent of the Bell company was in the city Friday ar^j the meeting of the council was the .esult. They adhered to their former position that they might go int, the office of the mill, placing their poles on Limestone street as t- S. E. Fant, one of Union’s most sterling and nrominent merchants, was stricken about noon Saturday with a third attack of appendicitis, and his condition is considered very I far as Robertson street but that they grave. ' would not allow poles any farther i down, as Limestone street is the prin- Jesso Bush shot and killed James; c i pa i business thoroughfare in the W. Israel in a field on the lands of! city. j s understood that the en- Mr. Perry Cudd, about five miles be-j trance will not be made i all. yond Spartanburg near Whitney, Fri- j day morning. It was the result of a Hobo, Jr., Ta'ks. serious family trouble. Last Friday When train No. 40 of the Southern night the daughter of Bush, about 14; rolled into the yard on Sunday ren- years of age, gave birth to a child.! j n there alighted rather unexpec. jdly It is said that Israel was accused of from between two of the cars a v ’*v being its father. { small, dirty and tired hobo. To i ./ Steve Howard, who was arrested in i Greenville several da'-«> ago in the charge of participating in a rio. at Landrum last summer and who was ”! ' taken to Spartanburg, was given a tearing before United States Commis sioner Atkinson, of that city, Friday on the charge of operating a moon shine still. He was bound over to the federal court. Listen!' Something’ for Nothing! A Beautiful Framed Jeweled Picture, Four Subjects to Se lect From. Given to the Lady Purchasing $5 in Dry Goods. The Company Store. Three Things to,Consider In Buying a Stoye or Range he was small but mildly expresses it In his hurried departure from his im provised “Pullman” he suffered slight- | ly bv coming in contact with Mother When Buster Brown was for tunate enough to arrive on the scei e the small gentleman of leisure wi s repjsing in the waiting room of the ftation attempting to get his bearing! and rubbing his bruses. The scribe was met half way in his attempt to Callie Collins, the 18-year-old son of Ket up a conversation, as the little I Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Collins, of Rock i fellow was an old stager when it came j Hill, died at Blacksburg Friday night to talking. It is not saying too much from injuries received on the Southern sav that he tells his experiences j railroad. He was in the act of coup-! w pH- H' s name, it seems, is Willie ling two cars together and on account Tims, and he gives his age as “Fif- ; of the bumpers in one of the cars ! teen this May, if you please,” although being completely off, the other car was he looks like he might be shy of that pushed against him. squeezing him to mark about five or six years. He told I death. He was not killed instantly the following to his eager listener: but died a few hours later. The ac- that he lives in Augusta, Ga., and had t cident. occurred near Blacksburg. j relatives in Central. That a desire had sprung up in his small mind to Henry Sterley, the man charged visit the said relatives and that, as by the police department of Charles-! the fairy tales "O, “no sooner said ton, with holding up and robbing' cit-Uhan done,” he takes his departure, izens of that city, is now in the city: He, like other adventurers, had a hospital under treatment, upon the I strange aversion to paying the rail- recommendation of Jail Physician Bel-: road for using their cars as a means linger and order of Judge Memimnger of transit, but nreferred the more ex- and it is probable that hy will remain citing plan of evading their keen in the hospital under a guard until guardians and avoiding the payment, the case against him is called at the 1 He "ave his route a s first from Augus- term of the court of general sessions 1Ga., to Columbia, S. C., thence to next week. j Charlotte, N. C.. then to Spartanburg, i and from there to Central, which point Coroner Lindsal and Sheriff Buford had been his destination from the have brought to Newberr- the details | start. After having paid the visit he of a very brutal murder committed be- says that he started home, when, as 'low Prosperity on Wednesday night, j the train arrived at Gaffney he saw Two negro women, Marv Ruff and | a negro leave the train on the jump, Henrietta Summer, were visiting their and he. being half asleep, jumped too. j mother, and returning to their own | He was uncertain as to his future | home, walking along the public road,! when last seen. ‘ a *young white man named Dominick BUSTER BROWN. offered them a ride in his buggy, 1 j which they accepted. Soon after they: Letter to J. B. Bell, ! got into the buggy a gunshot was fired Gaffney, S. C. ! from the side of the road. The per- Dear Sir: As your business is to get i son who fired it was in hidie" and people into and out of trouble, sup- svas not seen by either of the occu- pose you consider their paint; it £ Seasonable Goods At pants of the buP" T v. On motion of his attorneys, the case j of Luther Strickland, who lives near Anderson, charged with having I murdered his wife, was con- j Jtinued Saturday until the June term of court. The ground for the contin- ] nance was that counsel had had in- sufficient time to prepare for the de- makes ’em almost as much trouble as money, except of course matrimony. They buy poor paint a good deJ‘ they don’t mean to: they don’t know any better; they buy without think ing. Bad paint isn’t good. It looks good-enough for a year: then begins io get rusty; but changes so slowly, one don’t notice it. Looking isn’t all. The business of mpj .ijar. 1 " QUALITY, ECONOMY AND PRICE. First—A Range or Stove that isn’t made of the very best material will soon crack —it no longer cooks well, your money was wasted and you are dissatisfied. Second—The Range or Stove that is built so that the heat escapes through un necessary apertures, consumes twice as much fuel as the one properly built, then your fuel bill is too heavy and you are not satisfied. Third—Don’t yield to the common ta’.lacy that the article sold for the fewest dollars is the cheapest. If a cooking apparatus isn’t built for a long life, it isn’t cheap at any price. ^Tts not what you pay for a thing that counts, its what you get for your money. fenso and that public sentiment was j )a i n t i s keep a house drv inside, | too strong against the accused to en-i the wood and Iron of it; keep it from I able him at this time to ge: an impar- ro tting and rusting. Takes good paint tial trial. Feeling among Strickland’s do it. . neighbors is very bitter againsj, him. Good and bad paint are sold at one j but no indication of a desire to take l)r ic„ ur about that. On« can’t go the law into their own bands has do- pv-the price at all; as with lawyers, veloped. i the price has nothing to do with good- 1 ness or badness: and costs are worse i Robert Scott was hanged at Kings-, y^. the painter and sheriff come-in ) tree Friday for the murder of Mr. f or t h e ir share . j Julian Wilson on the 13th dav of last ^0 probability Is that a man, October. The prisoner exhibited un-1 w j M) paints Devoe, will come-out on j usual composure, even until the last | ton. moment of his life, asserting his inno- Yours truly cence and denying any knowledge j<; p W Devoe & Co whatever of the crime. Together with j> s.—R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. Jenkins Burrows and Arthur Williams, ae || our p a i n t. who were executed on the 12th of Januasy, he was convicted and sen-; tensed to death at the special term of court in December, but as there ex isted in the minds of many some doubt as to his guilt he was granted a re spite whereby he might establish his innocence. T' Reauttiv k ayr Cofliploxion TEN DAYS, USB I IN OLA TKC UNEOUA! ED BEAUTIFIER. Charlie Liucison. a farmer living about four miles from Lamar, was stabbed Fridav night about 8 o’clock in front of the store of Dr. J. F. Wat-, son. Who did the cutting is not known, but two negroes suspected of Fourth—Our celebrated Leader Stoves and Matchless Ranges are especially strong Laving knowledge o! the af Jr are in ' ————— j keeping of the officers. Emerson on these points—in fact, all points pertaining to siove perfection—made of the best . lia(i ljeen a f ew minutes before in a material, don’t crack, will cut your fuel bill to half, consequently the most ecouomi-! nearby store, in which he, with Jim cal. They are worth every dollar you pay for one. It is quality that’s considered —not cheapness. Come let us sell you one, as the present price is a very small consideration, but they are sure to go higher, as you well know, everything is advancing. Yours for business, r't.rujerly nulveftised auj sol - .; as Satinola.) tm is W: ' v. < V SUriforct & burniture, Stoves and Undertaking. Hello, Central! Who keeps the cleanest market in town? Connect me. I want to get some fresh meats. Fincken. Wadford and Bowman Scarborough, had some trouble, Emerson having been drinking. He loft this store and while walking along In f' >nt of Dr. Watson’s drug store was stabbed to the heart. Emerson never spoke a word, though his little six-year-old hoy called to him piteously to speak. The knife with which It Is suposed Emer son was killed was fodnd bv his side. ¥ i3C WirtiiM ■ *k*a .... I,.' > :*? Ft CRUm M THC nadimcla l* i i\l* • Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaime letters In Gaffney postoffice for week ending February 19th, 1906: Wofford Amos, forest f’rockitt, E. Gibbs, Hanson Gllher, W. D. Hamet. Bob Jones, Walter Long, John son Oglesby, Wallu Powell (2), N. S. Pendleton, Bula Prll. Duffy Par ris, Sam rice. Mrs. Sallie C. Burzhardt. Mrs. Susan Blackwell, Miss Clotta Co- wil, Miss Annie Dawkins. Mannie Dov- eler, Miss Marth Ellison, Miss Eller Gaffney. Miss tency Nallums, Miss Lucy Jones, Miss Mary Michel, Miss Gallar Simmons, Miss Clara Sufford, Miss Sarah Young, F. S. Carpenter & Co. Please call for advertised letters. One cent due on ea^h. A. R. N. Folger, Postmaster. NADYNOLA i x.rantecd and motuy j'unrt/i it n i ‘.j re-nave fretkkc, pimple., D", liver-scots, coLn deceleration!, L .ick-heads disfiguring orv: toot, etc., i.i t venty (Ays. Leavec tt ;kin dear, so»t. h-althy, and restores th. ■'•’uty of youth. Endorsed by thousands> 'rice 5-9 ct’.ti and 51.0) at all lead'-.- a rug stores, or by mail. Prepared by National Tcilcic Co.. Pari. 1 ,. Tonr., WILLIAM S. HALL, JR., Attorney at Law, National Bank Building. Gaffney, 8. C. Prompt attention given to all business Actual Cost! I arajstill selling Men’s Youth’s and Boys’ Suits at Ac tual Cost. This is not an odds and ends sale but a Clearance Sale of new and up-to-date Suits. I am also selling all Ladies’ Jackets, Skirts and Coat Suits at Ac tual Cost. My reason for selling these lines out at cost is that I am going to discontinue handling same. I can suit anybody in Dress Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats and Gents’ Furnishings generally. Just received 200 barrels of Flour which will go at $2.25 per 100 lbs. Everv sack guaranteed. Full line Groceries and Hardware. •sas'yqo.ind ano^C ^uispjiii eiojaq eui eag Third Series Ready Now. The Cherokee Building and Loan Association’offers every inducement to those who would save part or their earnings. To The Renter. It is the medium through which you may quickly, and with little effort, own your owu home. : : To The Investor. Its stock is collateral at 100 cents on the dollar—and not many stocks are. : ; : : You would do well to study the matter carefully. Clierokee B. & L Assocition, Chas. A. Jefferies, Prest. W. H. Gooding, Secy, and Treas. WAGONS AND BUGGIES, Harness and Saddles, Turn Plows, Middle Breakers, Cook Stoves, Heating Stoves, Sewing Machines. AT Gaffney Hardware Co.