Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V THE LEDGER ! of tom foolerv to put up with ihc Tuecrfav Friday. j roads we nave when we could easi v li;tv nood roads with very little ad f.d H. UcCamp. Editor and Po.d.hcr ,, j(j , nil ( . 0; , How ] ODg! oh. how _ __ ' * "iotiH! men of ' heroKee are you ho- l'! 1 .* t !; m esi»oUi-iblf» f >r in-; t ( j put up with th(* present ar- ife views oi co< i estHJiwUs.'itSi. i anKenients! Hereafter no adver isemei t* win accepted at this office after 9.30 o'clock Mondays and Thursdays. Watch vour Inlfe! and the date. And renew before Ms too late; 11 th.^re he an error, uon i net mao. Report te us—we ll m ike you alad. ron; mber, ’tls our atm U: {ileasu. but errors are like peskv lleas-- ') hev will creep in lu spite of fate Thereto'e. watch your labei and tin date —OrlKinai Texas lias passed a law'prohihitinH the shipping of whiskey into dry counties by railroads, express coni- nanies, etc. The 1^ dger asked a law yer the otlior day why South Caro linna didn’t p. s a similar law and he replied because it was unconstltn tional. But. we wer reminded of a story Capt. Jim Bell likes to tell. A negro was placed in jail on some charge and sent for Capt. Jim. Af ter hearing the n gro’s story Capt. Jim, who is a lawyer, said, “Why they can’t put you in jail for that.’’ __ . • r “ — The negro replied, “l knows dat. boss. READY FOR THE FIGHT. ‘ hut de fact am dat day is done gone Darlington county, which voted and got me here.’’ That law mav be out the dispensary is to have a chance , unconstitutional but Texas passed it to vote in a county dispensary some and we don’t see why South Carolina time this year. On this subject the can’t do the same thing, llartsvkle Messenger says: While we hate very much to have ! Hasty Must Serve, to again enter a fight that every one : (Greenville News.) thought was settled for four years. By a decision of the Supreme we feel that the issue is no more in I Court. George Hasty, the Gaffney ho- doubl tuan it was In the fall of 1905. beeper who shot down two men. The criminal record of the county j members of a small theatrical troupe has vastly improved since the voting ! because they protested against his out of Hie dispensary. The public . attempts to enter the room of one of highways are now comparatively free from drunkenness and rowdyism, and the consumption of liquor is certain ly much less than ever before. While (hre hiis been considerable Mquor sold by blind tigers, the present con ditions are so manifestly an improve ment on those existing two years ago. that our faith in the coirtmon sense and business Judgment of Dar lington county will not allow us to believe lhat we are in danger of re turning to a dispensary regime. However, if there is to be a fight, let it be quickly launched and quickly over with Hartsville as always, will he found in the prohibition column, and whatever influence this paper has. will be thrown against the sale of whiskey in Darlington county. Good boy. Coker! You should have easy sailing this time and we hope you will. I’p this way we do not believe the dispensary advocates could get enough signers to a peti tion to order an election. VOTE FOR THE BOND ISSUE. It will not. he a great while before the people of school district No. 10 win be permitted to vote on the ques tion of issuing $25,000 worth of bonds for the purpose of building new school houses and improving those we already have. Jt is nothing but good business to vote these bonds. Suppose Gaffney k 1 waited until we got the money to build our electric light plant and constructed our water works plant, do you suppose we would have had them by this time? No! And al though we have enjoyed the best of water for years and a fairly good lighting plant still there is hardly a taxpayer in Gaffney who realizes the cost of the same. We admit that we haven’t as much water as we need, nor as good a system of lighting as we would like to have, but at the same time there is hardlv one of us who would not be willing to pay ifV.Tcc wihat we do pav and put up sith what we get rather than to de crease the tax and do without entire ly. We kick and fuss and worry and ouaa about the insufficient supply of water and electric lights but we war rant that few are willing to part with them. There are several reasons why we should vote the school bonds, Uhe principale one of which is that the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church, in the basement of whose building one of the sohoois is now being taught, are wsftiting their room and will not let the school board have it for another term. Besides, it is unfit for school purposes. The ceiling is en- tlrelv too low and the ventilation is poor, and the sanitary condition is not what it should be. And again, those children down there should be provided with as good school accom modations as any children. As mat ters now stand they haven’t gottrat. They are crowded almost to sufflea- tion. Then again, the main school build ing is unsanitary and inadequate, and what there is of it is very poorly ar ranged for school purposes. Gaffney needs and should have better school bondings and a better equipment. Our sohoois should be on the latest and most modern plan, steam heated apd well ventilated and lighted. If we wait until we get the money on hand to do this with we win never dp it. so let us vote for the bond is sue. It will not cost us a great deal, anp. as already pointed out in these columns, the corporations in and around Gaffney will pay more than o«ne r half the tax. NOTE* AND COMMENTS Alabama has passed a compulsory education law. We hope South Caro lina will do the same thing at the nett session of the General Assemb ly • • • Those Cherokee farmers who had to come to Gaffney through the mud and slush yesterday to attend court , • * • • ought to be converts to the good. road Idea. It looka like the heighth (he female members of the company will have to servo a life time term In the penitentiary. The verdict of the jury was murder with recommenda tion to mercy. On some flimsy pre text. Hasty's counsel took an appeal to the Supreme Court, and now comes the decision of that court sustian- ing the sentence imposed by the trial judge. Hasty’s crime was oiv of the worst murders that has ever blotted the name of South Carolina, and the fact that his victims were irtembers of the theaarica! profession is per haps all that saved him from a neck cracking. He got off exceed ngly light with a sentence to life impris- enment. but there should he gesi^ral reioieng among good people every where over the fact that his punish ment will ho the next to hanging. Criminals of Hasty’s type deserve no sympathy. Should Be In Every Home. Seneca Journal.) The local paper should bo found in every home. No children should grow up ignorane who can be taught to appreciate the home paper. It is said to be the stepping stone of in telligence in all those matters not to he found in books. Giv«i your ohUd- ' ,o u a foreign paper which contains not a word about any person, place or thing, which they saw or perhaps ever heard of. and how could you ex pect. them to be interested. But let them have the hdme paper and read of people whom they meet and of places of which they are familiar and soon an interest is awakened which increases with every arrival of the local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed and those child ren will read the papers all their lives and become intelligent men and women, a credit to their ancetsors, strong in knowledge of the world as it is today. When the Reporter Scored. Charles M. Jacobs, the chief engin eer of the Pennsylvania railroad tun nel under the North river, recently conducted a party of railroad officials and reporters through the tunnel on foot. At one stage of the programme there was like a little country rail road that I used to ride on. To the president of this road a reporter went hurriedly one evening. “ T understand,’ he said, ‘that tlv re has been an accident on your line tonight.’ “‘Oh. you do. do you?' said the president, with a sneer. “ ‘Yes, sir.’ And the reporter wait ed pencil and paper in hand. “‘What do you know about this ac cident ’ the president, still sneering, asked. “ ‘Nothing, except tnat it happened 1 the 9:15 train.’ the reporter meek- 1v 51 fl R WP “ ‘Well,’ said the president, ‘that train came in on time to the minute.’ *‘ ‘Are you sure of that?' said the reporter. “ ‘Of course I am. sir.’ t’The disappointed reporter pock eted his fools. “T suppose,’ he said thoughtfully ‘that must have been the accident re ferred to.’ ” Spoke Too Late. “There used to be a Princeton jani tor named Jerome MicWade. who was a» witty and amusing a chap as I hav- ever met,” said a prominent judge. ‘‘Whenever you would strike MoWade, he would halt you and for three or four minutes you would hav,3 to listen to some old yarn or other that he would relate as though it had been a personal experience. “ T saw a funny Irishman in a tav ern last night,’ he said to me one -corning. ‘This Irishman sat by the fire reading a newspaper and sucking 1 / eggs that he took, one by one. out of a paper bag. He pan no at tention to anybody. He just read and sucked as though he was alone in bis room at home. “‘AH of a sudden it happened that he eot a very bad egg. and before he knew what he was doing he bolted a dttle live chicken. The chick chirp ed as it went down, and the Irish man said philosopbicaUy: “ ‘By the powers, my friend, you spoke too late.’” A tissue builder, reconstructor, builds up waste force, makes strong nerves and muscle. You will realize after taking Hollister’s Rock Moun tain Ten what a wonderful benefit H will be to you. 35 cents. Tea or Tab lets. Gaffney Dnig Co. Don’t fail to raise plenty of corn and bay and beep animals enough to consume what you raise. —Pearl or CatTall and German Millet, at the Seed Store—Oaffney Drug Co. PE F - SON A L PARAGRAPHS. AnJrew Gilffl:' of Spartanb irg, | ''cat Sunday in th city with his | nnivnts. Ca d. and Mrs H. p Griffith. Mad on Sairutt spent Sunday in th<> city with hffi parents. He is te chiny: school over near Blacks 'tni g. Chance Wilson, of Spartanburg, came down Sunday afternoon. H. C. Knox, of Gi er, spent Sun day in the city with his family Miss Ona Spillman went to Char iotte Friday, returning to the city yesterday. Fred Nance went to Spartanburg Friday. Court Stenographer L. L. Mott ar- riy d in the city Sunday afternoon. O. A. Osborne, of Blacksburg, is the city serying Ms county as a juror. The county makes no mis take when it p aces such men as Mr Osborne on the jury. S. O. Walker arrived home from Florence Sunday. He will remain here until the cotton buying season opens again. E. Pettit, of tile Corinth neighbor hood, was in town Saturday on busi ness. G. W. McKown. one of Cherokee’s noblemen, was in the city yesterday. R. M. Jolly, a former resident of this city, hut now of Spartanburg was in the city yesterday. A. Roy Osbornc. of the Southern de>'ot. went to Charlotte on business Saturday. N. W. Hardin, Esq., of Blacksburg, was in the city yeperday. Magistrate Ligon, of Blacksburg, was in the city yesterday on busi- 110SS. Chief of Police J. C. Duncan, of Blacksburg, was in the city yesterday attending court. A Blunder in Politics. (Charleston News and Courier.) Senator Tillman and other dispen sary politicians were guilty of a most remarkable political blunder when they pinned their faith to the State dispensary. At Gaffney, in 1904. Senator Tillman could have said with entire consistency that he cared nothing for the State wholesale whis key concern, that he favored the dis pensary on account of the restrictions it p’aced about tha retailing of whis key. that these he had WTitten in Che Constitution of 1895, that they and tl ev alone reduce the consumption of whiskey in South Carolina and that the manner and means by which tiie whiskey to lie retailed are bought and imported into t ie State are con siderations of detail and wholly Jm- uertiuent to the lacge principles of control of the whiskey traffic involv ed in the dispensary idea. Instead of taking this impregnable position, Senator Tillman chose to make the State wholesale store and the State as a whiskey dealer the ideas synonymous with “THlmanism” in South Carolina, and they include opposition to the advance of prohibi tion. Prohibition sentiment iproved stronger tran Senator Tillman. The net result is that what Sena tor Tillman advocates as "the dispen- sar” is utterly defeated and repudiat ed. and the only dispensary system that remains is a copy of the Athens. Ga.. or county dispensary, which ex isted before Senator Tillman became a sponsor for the idea in South Car olina. Th B Punishment of Hasty. (Charlotte Observer.) The South Carolina supreme court having sustained the conviction of George Hasty, the young Gaffney man who killed two actors for re sulting the annoyances to which he had subjected two young women members of a theatneal company. Hasty cannot escape punishment. He will have to be resentenced, but it is to be presumed that the sen tence of life imprisonment under which he has stood will again be pronounced. It may seem bard to Hasty to be punished where men quite as guilty have escaped, but he can complain of no Injustice. We pity him and hope that his fate may serve as an example. Letter to R«v. 3. B. Harper, Gaffney. S. C. ________ Rev. Sir: We should like to ask your advice on a certain thing dome: was it right or wrong? We shall have to Mate It. including the names. D F Dreicorn is a painter in Holyoke. Mass. John J Donohue Is an archi tect. Springfield, near-by. 'Donohue was building, at Holyoke, the Holy Family Institute, letting the work by bids, as uriiil. Dreeicorn got the paint job: the paint was to be lead-and-oil. But Dreicorn said to himself: “lead- and oil ins’t half so good as Devoe and it costs more money, what shall 1 do?” He yainteJ Di.voe; and. after tho work was done, told Donohue, saying: “if t :at isn’t uetter than Any lead and oil job. IT1 make It so.” Wjas Dreicorn right or wrong In painting a lead-and oil job Devot?? You ask how it turned-out. This was six vears ago. Now Donohue has anolher job there, a big addition to the CMncllc Hospital; and ’ -n’t us! bids for the painting, but says to Dreicorn: “Go ahead Drel- rorn and give me as good a job as vhu did cn tne Institute. That’s the best t aint job I ever saw.” Tiie question Is “Was Drecorn lie’, t in painting Dev,*? when he had ae-eed to naint lead and-oll?” That isn’t quite all. Lead-and-oil is expected to last three veins. If Dreicorn had used lead-and-ofl. three would have been another job for bJm or somebody-else three yean* ago Was he right in losing that job for himself or sooKbodv-elee three years i go? The Institute took 200 gallons De voe and cost $1,000; the paint has ’'-orr six years, when Donohue says “it’s the best paint job he eve* saw.” Tf he bad used lead and-oll. it would h°'" cost about $2200 for the paint lobs (six and three years ago! and ’ - hungry for paint a vain. Dnslcom lost $1200 of business and took the risk of making Donobn* mad and losing h*s tnndness. forever: to save tfre Holy Family Institue tl’00 besides’ the fuss of a naint Job. (Was Dreicon right or wron*- as a , >aint^r: and which would wm paint vour church, lead and-ot’ or Devoe? Yours truly 26 F W DEVOE ft CO P. S. Wllklna Whtson Hardware Company sells our taint. CLIFTON CHRONICLES. Newsy Items From This Manufactur ing Town. Clifton. Feb. 22. Th work of exca vating the foundation of the new Me thodist church at Mis place was com- tenced iast week but by some means i; s-Iopp (1 after the first davs work snd is sti 1 standing Miss Cora Bridges di< <1 on the 20th Mist from asthmatic and pulmonary ffeetions from which she had been a sufferer for a considerable l ngth if time. Her remains were buried at Mt. Zion on tiie 2!st in tiie pn sence if a large concourse of sorrowing f riends and acquaintances. Two sis ters survive her. The funeral ser- vir were conducted by Rev. J. L. Harley, of the Methodist church. Mr J. P. Foster, overseer of the card room at mill No. 1. has resigned his position and h >s moved to B acks burg and Mr. Henry M. Smith, for mer overseer, but later of Pacolet, fills his place to the great pleasure of the card room operatives and his many friends in general. Mr. James M. Cannon and Miss F!or nee Bi idkes were happi v united in the bond of matrimony last Sun day afternoon at the home of Mr. W. E. White by Rev. John L. Harley. May much happiness and abundant prosperity follow them through the voyage of lifi?. Mr. H. H. Robinson, late of Union, has accepted a position as salesman ip the Clifton company store where he is giving entire satisfaction and (though a stranger) is gaining many friends. He is a son of Mr. H. H. Robinson. Sr., superintendent of the Union county chaingang, and a very distant relative of the notorious “Horseshoe Robinson’ of revolution ary fame, and whose romantic adven tures and expliots are being detailed bv The Ledger each week and are creating intense interest in the minds of some of its readers. Mr. Robinson is reading the story of Horseshoe himself at the present time. Mrs. Mary Henderson is lying very ill from an attack ol pleurisy at this '•"riting. Mumps and measels are quite pre valent in this place. The writer made a trip to Pacolet Mills last Saturday and spent a night with the family of our old friend end boss spinner, Mr. C. A. Sparks, whom we found at his post, in the mill in fine spirits and plenty of work to do. He hasn’t forgot how to utter a Piercing squall in the ears of thre “doffer boys” when he finds them out of place or testing their boyhood hi; a game of fisticuff Besides the family of Mr. Sparks we shook the l ands of a host of other acquaintances, among whom were Supt. M. R. Macomson. himself looking a s “stout as Samson” with that usual good-natured smil-' that is always ready to break forth upon his facy as soon as the mill stops, but it knows not to show up while the wheel is running. Pacolet has the finest, most sub stantial and best equipped cotton mill that there is within the bounds of our knowledge, if not in the State. Everything about it is new and of the least improvements. Nothing is needful but a full corps of operatives, and that they win soon have. S. Won Out. (Milwaukee Sentinel.) “So you want my daughter, do you?” said the proprietor of the newspa per to the young man who was sit ting nervously on the edge of a chair in the parlor. “Yes. sir.” “Have you si>ol:en to her on the subject?” "She’s willing, sir. and she refer red me to you. “But how do you know you love her?” “How do I know ” gasped the young man. “I give you m.y word, sir. that I haven’t eaten a square meal in two months, and sleep is almost out of ”■'» question for thinking of her." “Young man. there’s some style to that talk. I think you may come in to the family. I need a man of your ability to sw^r to the circulation of my paper.” As Bobby Saw It. The day of the annual intercolleg iate football game was approaching, and for the last week or two Bobby had herd little else talked of among his older brothers nad sisters. Sun day came and Bobby was taken to church. In the course of the service the pastor, as usual, gave out the parochial notices for the tallowing week and. having concluded, was about to announce a hymn to be sung when Bobby, who had been listening intently, piped forth, to the edifica tion of the devout. "Oh, mamma, he didn’t give out the football game!” Keeping Order in Church. Dr Emil G. Hlrsch t* e Jewish rab- ,' ii;is a reput ttion for sev ritv and rareasm, which the following story illustrates: Two reporters entered Sinai Tem- 1 c in fliicaP"' sevual minutes late one night where Dr. flirsch was lecturing. The second of the two icwspa ier men car Jessly slammed the door behind him. Dr. Hirsch slop'< d talking instantly and fled a withering gaze on the representa tives of the press. The .man who hi’d slammed the door sank into the first vacant s j at - but the other re oorter was slightly deaf, and knew that if he sat in the back part of the temple he could not hear the lecture. So he started down the long een ter aisle; but the pews were well filled that night, and the only vacant seit he cou d see was in the front •’<nv, directly in front of the pulpit. For this he started, and under Dr. Hirsch’s fierce stare went, faster and faster until he finally slid into the scat. Then Dr. Hirsch raised his eyes to *’ - congregation and said in a loud voice: “Will tiie ushers please lock the doors?’’ —Notice. 1 have reduced the price on Coffees. Syrups, Cottoiene, Gold Dust. Candies, Brooms. Mince Meat, Kraut and a lot of other things. Do not fail to ask about the above. It is to your interest. Yours very truly. Jno. G. Bramlett. Phone 19?. Feb. 26, Mar. 1. FOR SALE FOR SALE—The old benches out Corenth church to he sold at church on Friday March 1st. tx> high est 1 idder. E IV Kit. Chairman 1 n Feb. 2(i 2t pd. FOR SALE—Four good mules and one fresh milk cow. cheap. W. C. Mi Arthur Feb. 20-tf. FOR SALE—House and lot corner Smith and Johnson streets. See Sumter Littlejohn. Feb. 12-tf. FOR SALE—Good secondhand Co lumbia Graphonphone and sixteen Re- ! cords, cheap. Apply to N. S. B., care The Ledger. FOR SALE—A lot of cheap mules for cash or on time. Apply to J. I. Barratt Jan. IS, ft FOR SALE—Two hundred and twenty-two acres of good farming land near Blacksburg; *wenty-two f-cres of which Is good bot.to-u iand: two comfortable dwellings; also out houses: land well timbered. Apply to E.l H DoC-amp Gaffney, g. 0 FOR SALE—A second-hand Mietz & Weiss kerosene engines. 2 horse nower. cheap. Apply this office. Before buying or selling a farm or i anv property, write to The Carolina Realty and Trust Company. Bishop- ville, S. C. Feb. 12-tf. FOR SALE—First class babbit met- al Appjy at Ledger office. FOR. SALE—Old newspapers at thU office 10c a hundred. —All varieties of Flower Seed—In napers. In bulk. Seed Store. Garden Seeds We have just re ceived a complete stock of loose Gar den Seeds. You want your English Peas now. g r First and Best [Champion of England White Marrowfat [Little Gono Earliest of All Besides our loose Seeds we have a complete assort ment of Ferry’s seeds. If you can’t come in person tele phone No. 49. I CHEROKEE ■ I ■ IDROCCOHPAEY. J J Flower Seed. J i» 60GARTS! GOCARTS! warn • i O UR SPRING LINE OF GOCARTS for 1007 is coming iu an l they are real beauties, and you cannot afford to let your b«bv do without one. Gome and see them at once. W» will make the prices anfi terms right. SHUFORD & LeMASTER - ♦%. r ^ • . 'nr.' S'- FURNITURE, STQVES, UNDERTAKING. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—The Sarratt house now occupied by Mr. Potter; has electric lihgts. city water, bath. etc. Stables and good garden. Apply to Dr. S. G. Sarratt. Union, S. C. Feb. 22 it. FOR RENT—A good farm. Apylr to J. I. Sarratt. Jan. 11 tt FOR RENT—Eight room house; good orchard; good garden; barn. Apply to J. C. Lipscomb. Jan. 18 tf. TO RENT—Office rooms over The LeJger. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp. Nov. 2 tf, FOR RENT—My store house, and blacksmith shop and tools. W. T. Thompson. Jan. 1. tf. WANTED. WANTED—You to list your prop erty with The Metropolitan Loan ft Trust Co., of Greenwood, S. C. Reel estate bought and sold. Send for prospectus of The Southern Securi ties Co., on immigration. Money loaned long time, low rates. Write us. Greenwood. S. C. Feb. 15 mo. WANTED—Position as superinten dent of construction of buildings. T. J. Alexander. . Jan. 29th tf. ^orr. LOST—A school roll book between Gaffney and Corinth church. Finder please return to Ledger office. .Eating House. When in town give us a call. We will do all that is in our power to please you. Fresh Oysters served in all styles. Parker’s Eating House Opposite PostoHice. tf FOR SALE. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder on the first lien- day (salesday) in March immediate ly after the legal sales, before the court houso door, the nropretv known as the Gooding bouse, on Logan street. This is a five-room cottage, city water. Sale subject tp mortgage of J. Q. Little. Mrs. Minnie Oex. Feb. 19. 23. 26. Mar. 1. NOTICE. On each Tuesday and Saturday of each week we will grind your com or wheat on short notice. Sastisfaet- ion guaranteed. Your patronage so licited. Tours for business, W. J. Daniel ft J. 8. Spencer. DR W. K. GUNTER, a L> E iM T I « T '?)««* iu Star Theatre Building, Phonic No 2(1. Crow ^ud bridjLU werk a apadalty. OR. ft F. GARRETT. DENTIST. Moved te new eMc# ever Frederlek , * * r v ,,^ Street Front of the Sattsry. ’Fhsn# in OMe# and FOR Up-to-Date Job Print- / ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, 8. C.