Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. T’. j Ledfi I? ni>t responsible for the views 01 correspondents. Hereafter no adver.lsemsnt* will bs accepted at this office after 9.30 o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays. Watch your label an.i the date. And renew before 'Us too late: If there be an error, don't Ret mad. Heitort tc us—we’ll make you *lad. Re:n. mber, *tls our aim to please. Bui errors are Uke peskv fleas— Tb«tv will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —Original .M OTES AND COMMENTS. If Governor Ansel does not prove equal U> the occasion today his friends will feel very much disap- polnted. We are expecting him to dismiss >he board. • * * Harry Thaw, who is being tried in New York for the murder of Stanford White, will plead insanity He should have no trouble in makinn his plea Rood if one is to judge by his past. * # * Senator Otts is our authority for the assertion that many members of the state Senate regard The Ledger as the best county newspaper in the State It is a distinction to be proud of and we appreciate it. but. gentle men. there are others. * ■* * If Ledger readers would onlv he thoughtful enough to mention to Ledger advertisers that they read their advertisement in The ledger it would not only tend to strengthen the belief of merchants in advertis ing but it would help us. • • • How many men in this county, do you suppose, would be willing to pay a tax of $2 a year for good roads? Tot if every man in the count'' would An so we could have macadam roads from Grover to White Plains apd from the Battle Ground to Salem church. • • • The manlv thing l<fr a newspaper to do when convinced ihat it is in er ror. especialv where offense is taken when none was interested, is to apol ogize. There are some papers in South Carolina that must think- them selves incapable of committing an error. * • • It is such cattle as Black, of the dispensary board, who have con tributed much toward making the dispensary obnoxious io the people. Black is the man who threatened to shoot Frazier Lyon in Columbia be- cause the latter was getting too close behind his devili&h work. • • • About the best, thing Cole U Blease over did was to introduce the bill to prohibit the sale of cigarette® and cigarette paper in South Carolina, but we are almost pursuaded to behove that when he finds out what a good thing he has done that he will vote against his own bill • • • The bucket shop seems to lie doom ed The bucket shop has rxjat the South untold millions, has robbed many homes of happiness, made pau pers of princes and gamblers of other wise respectable people. We can part with it without shedding a tear or the slightest feeling of remorse • • • There is somethng pathetic in the case of the Gaffney men who went to Spartanburg and took on too much wood alcohol, and yet there is a lu dicrous side to the affair. It Is evi dent that thev were neither lodges of good elder nor good judges of liquor It should be a terrible warn ing to others. greater than that of any other town tn South Carolina, provided, of course, the people grasp the opportunity. For some reason or other there is a lack of Interest on . the part of the people of this town in the develop ment of the wonderful water powers on Broad river. We need not think that the people who are putting their money into these water powers are doing it simply to help Gaffney. They are business people and if Gaffney cannot, create enough manufactories to consume this power they will simp ly carry It on to a town that can. There should have been several manufacturing enterprises under way already. The town should be adver tised and its possibilities made known to the outside world. Other towns are eager to get this power and while it will cost more to take it to them than to stop at Gaffney it may be d pended upon that the promotors of these jKvwers are not going to stop here unless there is a market for their product. We are frank to say we do not approve of the plan to sell this power in bulk to the town and let the town retail it out The town has no more right to deal in electrici ty than the Stute has to deal in whiskey. One might just as well say the town had the right to monopolize the flour trade, or the meat trade, or anv other branch of industry. The ; eople pay taxes to support the town and the town has no rigV to monopo lize anv branch of industry in order to make money out of a few for the benefit of the many. These power companies should he required to sell their power in any quantity at a reasonable price, but there is no ex cuse in their charging one concern ?40 pe r horse power and another $15 Letter From Mr. Hickson. Tecumseh. Okla., Jan. 29.—I have not established headquarters for ray self yet, but have established head quarters for my mall here, and you may send my paper and ask my friends to address me at Tecumseh. Okla.. till further notice. There are many things of interest that I might write, but I am so un certain of things that 1 am afraid to say much lest I may have to take it back. 1 am almost, in th»- exact cen ter of the new State of Oklahoma. Modern Watchea. While I am the most skeptical man on earth. I am at the same time the most optimistic believer in progress. If the world doesn't improve, where In the name of tin* due muses are vve go ing t |i.' Today we can buy for less than j dollar a watch that will keep as K ,,f> d "time us a chronometer worth $1,000. The ohron mietcr must be wound daily. The cheap watch mast also be wound daily. The only differ euee in the winding is that the chro- near the line between the Indian Ter- nometer (polite term onlyi requires a ritory and old Oklahoma. Near the edge of the rain and timber belt. East of me are mountains, valleys and hills and river and creeks. West few short turns of the stem, while the other thing occupies a few minutes of your time. The watches made by M. M. of Havre seventy years ago were of me is a wide expanse, not level, iiermctically sealed before they left his however, as I thought, and not desti- i establishment and probably worked in tute of streams as I thought E\er> , vacuuaj secret of their manu- where in the rain belt, land is high. , . ... from $20 to $100 per acre. I am on I d,ed w,th him. - New York the border of the cotton belt. North | re88 ‘ of me is wh^al and oats and corn, and ! south of me cotton and corn. The Historic Frigate <o Be Burned, stock business is not carried on as ! The hull of t..«; United States frigate formerly. The boll weevil has not , of war Expounder, which has been in reached this high yet, so they say, j service for many years as a coal barge, hi t the boll vorm played havoc last i was recently sold to John Uogau of y-ar. They are not done gathering providence. I; I., who will burn It either cotton or corn. Neither crop n f tcr removing •Lie $600 worth of cop did well here last >ear on account , p er w hich it i supposed to contain, t i <0 says the Host.' Post. The Expounder : Tll) , v figured in 8>\> 1 historic-incidents in I 1 the civil war. j or nearly a year sine* 1 ! PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Miss Ethel Ross is visiting her sister. Mrs Meek Snjith. of Clover. lose Lipscomb, of White Plains, was in the city Wednesday. W. H. Adams, of Gastonia. N. C., spent last Sunday in the city S. A. Allison, of R. F D. 2. was In the city Wednesday M. C. (Neeley) Lipscomb, was among the progressive Cherokee planters in the city Wednesday Elmer Folger. a former Gaffnogr lajy. sou of Postmaster A R. N. FVd- ger, who is now residing near Easley, was in the eitv several davs this week vlsitin his parents. J. S. Dillingham, of King’s Creek, was in the oltv several days this week on business. Wofford Lipscomb, of the United States navy, is at home visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs John H Lip scomb. at Limestone. Mrs. W 9 O. Littlejohn, from Eden- ton, Ga.. has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harris, of R. F. D. No- 3 W. C. Carpenter is spending a few days in Georgia and Kentucky on business. Rov. L. M. Rice, of Union, was in the oitv Sunday. He filled Rev. V. I Masters pulpit at Providence. •Luther Curry arrived in the city yesterday after a weeks stay in North Carolina The Contract Let Mr Hi D. Wheat, president and "«neral manager of the Irene Mills has contracted with L. Baker and the Gaffney Brick Company for the addition to his mill. The addition will he 04x84 feet, two stories high, and win be built on to the old mill, between the old mill and the engine and boiler rooms^| When comoleted 't will practically be one building as the upper floor is to be on a level with the floor of the main building. Because of the slant in the land It makes It comparatively easy to build two stories and still have the top story on a level with the old mill. The contract calls for an outlay of about. $8,000. Work Is to he com menced at the earliest possible mo ment. of the exeessi\e rain. ! do not Ike the people here near so well as the people of Texas are not near so kind to strangers. The climate^l hough is much better. ! bull of lb old frigate was aban- The rains are more reliable, the bliz- | doned as a coal barge it has been lying : zards not so severe, the summers • at a dock in Providence. Last Fourth : more cool. The water supply seems | of July It was planned to tow iho to be good, but of course nothing to ! barge to Gasp.v point and horn It in | Nursing baby? It’* a heavy strain dn mother. Her system is called upon to supply nourishment for two. Some form of nourishment that will be easily taken up by mother’s system is needed. Scoffs Emulsion contains the greatest possible amount of nourish ment in easily digested form. % Mother and baby are wonderfully helped by its use. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00 compare with upper South Carolina^ I am not sure whether I shall stay here or not. Will write more when I know more. Very truly, F. C. Hick-son eornmemoratiyn of the burning of the transport Gaspee oif that point, but for some reason the plan was afterward given up. Just Rcieem/ed Yesterday $2jGGG Worth of The Famous / i A Play For a Meal. The weary tramp with the red beak halted in front of the way- side cottage. “I called, mum,” he announced, "‘because I found di? sample package of dyspepsia tablets down the road.” “Dyspepsia tab lets?” snapped the woman with the broom. “V/hat have I to do with dyspepsia tablets?” “Why—er—I thought maybe you might give me something to eat dat would gib me de dyspepsia so I could test dem.” —B^st thing on earth for cold and grip. Nature’s Cough Remedy and Grip Tablets. If a 50c bottle of Na ture’s Cough Remedy and a 25c box of Grip Tablets don’t knock that cold we will refund that 75c as cheerfully as we took it. Gaffney Drug Co. —Just received every imaginable kind of vegetable seed. Buy seed In bulk, why pay for the paper. Gaff ney Drug Co. • • : The Ledger’s Washington corres pondent is furnishing our readers with some interesting matter these days. No dally in this country has a better or more capable correspondent at the capltol than has The Ledger and were it not that we fear he would rebel we would he pleased to give his name to our readers. He is a thorough newspaper man, however, and what he writes mav be defended upon. • • • Btreet Overseer Ooyle cut down an old dead tree on Johnson street the other week and Tuesday, when the snow was on the ground and It was biting cold, hauled a portion of it to the home of an ola colored woman , who had been sick some time and had no fuel. We applaud the deed. Mir Coyle. You and your superior officers deserve credit. The only thin*' strange about this Is that It oc- cured in the negro hating South—to let some fanatics talk. If all the charitable deeds done by the whlje people of the South could be record ed in a book it would make a volumn so large that a man could not carry It • • • The posslhllithw of Gaffney are Edwin Wilson. Edwin Wilson the noted baritone sincer. will be at Limestone College next Tuesday night. The dummy will run for the occasion. This will be one of the musical treats of the season. Concerning Mr Wilson the Daily Saratogian says: “Mr. Edwin Wilson proved to be an exceptional musician. Hi s numb ers were of uniform excellence. His dramatic power was ably expressed in the Fisher son. T wait for Thee.’ and the denth and force of his voice were manifested in ‘Bid me to Liv^,’ by Hatton. For an encore he sang Rubinstein’s ’Good Night.’ in mas terly fashion. A« an encore for Han del’s ‘O ruddier than a cherry,’ he sang a portion of the same aria." Count Leo Tolstoi was reported dy ing. but his son denies this $ioo Reward, $ioo. The .-eaders of this paper will be pleased to lehrn that there Is at least one dreaded dis ease that science lias been able tr -lire in all Its stages and that Is ('atarrb. il al I sfutarrh fare is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be na a constitutional disease, inquires a constitu tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, aettmr directly upon the blood and mueous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative iiowers 'bat they offer One Hundred Hollars for any rase that It falls to cure. Send for list of testtmonlsis. Address. K. J. Chkney & t o.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists. 75c HalfsT’amllv Pills ate Hie Im*si -—Try a bottle of "Nature* Cough Remedy” and a box of ‘‘Grip Tablets’ for that cough and void If 'h°y don t cure the Gaffnev Drug Co will re fund your money Is thAt fair? Costa nothing If they don’t cure. —One 25 cents box of Grip Tablets vlll ond that cold In the head No cure, no pay. Gaffney Drug Co. Subscribe fog The Ledger; $1 a year. —we are pushing seed just now. Everybody knows that we are in the drug business. Gaffney Drug Co. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—One house and lot; one store room and goods; one shop and framing outfit. Good chance for some one want ing to do .business. Ap ply to L. R. Gaines. Feb. 8. 12 pd. FOR SALE—One handsome sorrel standard bred Kentucky mare, six years old. Has the quality and speed which makes her a first class road ster. For termi see Ed Stacy. Feb. 5, It. FOR SALE -A lot of cheap mules for cash or < u time. Apply to J. I. Sarr&tL Jan. 16. tl. FOR SALE!—Two hundred anu twenty-two acres of good fanning land near Blacksburg; twenty-two acres of which Is good bottom land, two comfortable dwellings; also out houses; land well timbered. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp. Gaffney. S. C. FOR SALE—A second-hand Mietz & Weiss kerosene engines. 2 burst power, cheap. Apply this office. FOR SALE—Old newspapers at thL office. 10c a hundred. FOR SALE—First class babbit met al. Apply at Ledger office. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—A good farm. Apply to J. I. Sarratt. Jan. 11 tl Plant Wood’s Garden Seeds FOR SUPERIOR VEGE TABLES & FLOWERS. Twenty-eight years experience —our own seed farms, trial grounds—and large waiehouse capacity give us an equipment that is unsurpassed anywhere for supplying the best seeds obtainable. Our trade in seeds both for the Garden and Farm is one of the largest: in this country. We are headquarters for Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Oats, Seed Potatoes, Cow Peas, Soja Beans and other Farm Seeds.' Wood's Descriptive Catalog gives fuller and more complete Infor- \ matlon about both Garden and Fhrm / Seeds than any other similar publira- / firm in thlci ominfrv. i \ tlon Issued In this country. Mailed free on request. Write for It. T.W.WM&Sons, Seedsmen. RICHMOND, . VA. I The Kind That Express The Sen timent Vow Want Them to Express FOR RENT—Eight room house; good orchard; good garden; barn. Apply to J. C. Lipscomb. Jan. 18 tf. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Lo.!ger. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp. Nov. 2-tf. FOR RENT—My store house, and blacksmith shoo and tools. W. T Thompson. Jan. 1, tf WANTED. WANTED—Everybody to know that the skating rink will be open from 3 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon and from 7 to 10 o'clock aj night. Ad mission 10 cents, skates 15 cents ex tra. Ladls free. Fob. 8 tf. WANTED—Fifty bushels of wheat R, O. Sams. Feb. 8 ti. WANTED—Position as superinten dent of construction of buildings. T. J. Alexander. Jan. 29th tf. WANTED—At once, two painters. L. R. Gaines. Jan. 29. Feb. 1-5. pd. WANTED—Half dozen copies of The Ledger of December 21sL Send to this office. j Valentines S Valentines i i ! 1 I 1 I I I I 1 I I I I I 1 Prices From 1 Cent Dp \ I 1 I Fire Insurance! We r«pr*Mri! some of *he (argent and moat auoatantlal I’ompaoleat and would Use lo write your bUMlneft. 5-14-tf. Smith & Lipscomb, Agents The disigns are prettier than ever before. We have most all the kinds. Post Card Valentinas Comie Valentinas, Drop Valentinas, Laos Valentinas, Novelties. I I CHEROKEE I DRUG COMPANY. I / s/l 4? Cp'if ~ / / i* —i'- tk*’/r~ v-V ► * T7 * jl\£L I AI V* MOST POPULAR L.’iVE OF FOOTWEAR Fee- €v?rv Rlcmbcr of €vcrv Familv. ?sr £ >cry Occmp'!*cn and v Position in Eife BATTLE AXE SHOES save you money, because they iotiffOP and C'OSf nc ntair& than shoes or inferior qual ity. Once a purchaser, you remain a customer. A call will be appreciated. Lipscomb Co. In the old Acme Furniture Company building on the upper side of the Railroad. We will be receiving for the next ten days a beautiful line of Dry Goods, Dress Goods and Notions, both Staple and Fancy. Come to see us. \ Make Our Store Headquarters. If You Are Looking For a Fence That will stand HARD USAGE ; That will not SAC DOWN or CURL OVER on tho top; That has stays that WILL NOT SLIP; That will CONFORM TO UNEVEN GROUND; That has no SLACK WIRES ; That does not require an EXPERT TO ERECT ; That is LOW IN PRICE— THEN READ WHAT WE GUARANTEE THE WE THAT 1. The stava are Bnac- TKICAM.Y Wildkd u> sir.uuik, forming a per fect union and an amal- g a m a 11 o n with the strands sot found in aay oth*-* f-Di-e. 2 N > wraps to get looee or held moisture and Cause rust. 3. No projections to h'jurt- s'oekor tear wool from sheep. 1 Stronger at the joint, than any other fence: welded together by electricity. r « 5- Guaranteed tbatthe S wire is not Injured at ^ the Joints. 0. Guaranteed adjust- a le to uneven ground. 7. Guaranteed that stays will not separate fro-ii* strands. 8. Guaranteed all right In every particular. 0. Made by the most modern process and on th> latest tu proved ma chinery. 10. Most of the weak po nta In other fences are on account of the way the stays are Unieoed. G>r stays are amalgamated with the strands by mesas of electricity, and the siren.th of the fen<-e im-reas d a hundred fold over the strength of a fence where the sta>s are wrapped or damped on the strands Wilkins - Watson Hardware Co. Tennessee Lump Coal $6.50 per ton Delivered. $3.25 per 1-2 ton Delivered. $1.65 per 1-4 ton Delivered. No less than 500 lbs. Delivered. Victor Cotton Oil Co’my. Feb. i i n l- Subscribe for The Ledeer $1.00 a «ear.