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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION • of Any Newspaper In tho Fifth Congressional District of 8- C EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE HE LEDGER SEMI-WEEKL\ — rUBLI?HED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY C QUARANTel THC RKLlABlLlT 4 wf Every Adveriser **<ho Use* the Columns of This Paper. REST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper in All t*at the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest of the Pe pie of Cherokee r.ouity ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894. GAFFNEY, 8. C.. TUESDAY. MARCH 5, 1907. »MX) A YEAR. LIFE SERVITUDE m CEO. HASTY. THE GAFFNEY MAN BEGAN SEN TENCE SATURDAY. Says He Killed tE f . Two Actors in 8elf Defense—Declares He Was Not t* Blame. •fficer Irby, of 1h<* State peniien- SMrr. came iu> for floor? Hasty last Thursday and Friday morning left j <>,] s omc lime.’ he said. ‘Ther a will wit}; the nrl -oner. Quite a numebr pot be any HTort. 1 guess, to get me 4f Georg ’s fr to ‘‘I " r j •nnhl bi und ads went to the do- i out th ; s year off. Ho was Irnibing as cheerful hr a man ., hig •r the circumstances. | and I at Gaffney for 1112 months. He says the plea of self defens". The trial that he weighed 168 pounds the day consumed four days, the Jury render before th > kt iing. but lie probably ing a verdict of ‘guilL with recoin- weighes now not more than 135. ‘It m udation to mercy.’ Hasty was sen- was the close confinement that pull- tenced to ife imprisonment in the ed me down ' he said, ‘and not he- State penitentiary at hard labor. His cause of any worry or loss of sieep attorneys took an appeal to the su- ion account of the killing of those fel- nr me court, which sustained the ver- low Of course I regret that I had diet of the lower court in a decision to kill them, but 1 did it in self rendered about the 10th of February, defense and It has not worried me '"’essrs. Bntler & Osborne, of a partic e I haven’t lost five minu Gaffney, and George JohnsUme. of to.* sleep on account of it.’ Newberry, represented the defend- Mb* said that his attorneys. Messrs, a- E Solicitor Thomas S. Sease for Butler * Osborne, would do what th“ State, being assisted bv Senator they could to get him nardoned. ami Otts and Messrs .1. B. Bell and J. that ex Senator A. H. Dean of Green-!r. Jefferies, of Gaffney, vllle. would assist tlmm when the “The citizens of Gaffney came time came to take action. nobly to the assistance of the mem- “‘I am sure that I wl 1 he pardon ’ of the theatrica company upon th- death of .Messrs. Bennett and Davison, th rowin’’ one;, their horn s to them and furnishln them all the net before next vear or later. Ther has been prohab'i tie..- needed. made him clian'^e of sentiment up there, don’t Ihin!-: there ar • 25 men C! -rokee count) who would n*- a petition for mv oardon. Several of George’s f:iend> presents such as tobacco cigars, t 0 cj^r! Th-- oUlcer went h» way of fhar- “ ‘The stateim-nt I uavo at. the trial Wh.e. and the Charlotte Observer ol was correct I don’t care to make Saturday morning contained the fol-!an> chan ro In it. It was a'l truf It l•winr concerning Hasty: woubln t have hammi" d if it hadn’t “The Charlotte city lock up rarely b on for Davison. When Bennett •amfloos within its barred precincts ask"d rn ii>ont : t I *o : d iii’' 1 f o com a w»an who looks less the law hreai er out into t‘->* li: 1 .'] and 1 would o v ’.d;i,n thgii does f11 >r fTf ■ Hasty, th > convict- jt. if | had (’one ar thin' wrong I ed murderer and the admitted slaver ‘ was wM'iier to apologize for it. hut •f two men Ha- ’ v arrived in the city j wt •« to exomin to k’ * •’-t ' it yesterday afternoon from Gaffney on t.nte. n< d mi- jsout,* to Co ’rnnbi a S C vv hor e h * en- Ris Jion. but l>n\ ,’ison ea me >©r* neon a l life sentenc in t he peui- ! stn ’led the fight and I had Wmtjary. Offic" r Irby upanied (o , avo mv life 1 t ri. •d to 1- him i i»e, •atis,* th; r*v w 'ere do-itile "TW,- sen -ntloi • :,) oeeiii rem-i i> which it" a’t,l ( s •st an ,1 hard «au«,*,l th,* i f '* t ragedv o f Hii i-'ty and ho' v re anv shots W r<- fi red <rf tin* two men whom ho ’ew is SI1( •eocsinii ;ind i t din n’t so' mure or le ss f;> milliar li istoi to all tbr ■re was t ft to re than t wo. evwsi'opor r< a,!,* rs in tbi -• cor *tion. It the • nislo 1 ,n it fir^t one I V*n '1 financial assistance t Eater wh-n Hasty was tried for the uder Miss Bishof and Miss Sheri dan were entertained in Gaffney’s best ho ees and the in'Mes of the *'■ i -bowed tie dr sympathy for the girls and their interest i.. the case ri'int' the court room dailv with their nresenc *. “No. 17111 at South Carolina’s t> r- ntiui-v is a warning to voung •on to leave pisto s. cam’s and islo y alomv and. above all to tr at w i npeue- re-neet all women. “George TTa tyV fat; -e i<: i blank i l i tin'' within t K <. wa Is of the nte tuiso” wear in - a c^^vict’s urb and w-it.h on’v convicts as as .. y< | , C dissipated youth.” and Miss up atiil to shoot dll them -learning I v knew in uttick tnd like j — —- 1 turned She Was One of the Oldest Residents A NEWSY lf TT tR THOM WIIKINSVI 'F, MOVEMENTS OP THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paraqraphs Concernina Pop ular Peop'e and Short Items of rhat Section Wilkinsvllle. March 1.—Any man who travels th^ ro..d from here to Gaffnev now and isa t converted into a ood roads advocate is e ; ther slit- •id or has no me rev on dumb animals one or the nth r. If not both. We h been traveling it for tltf* last ibirty years and can tiememb'r on y one February in whie.h the mud was •’' deen as it was litst Wednesday— in 188(1. ■ -. ° r 'ent a few hoitrs in Gaffney Wednesday. A very large er vd was in the c ty. In fact every yv s ion of e or and in a \\ as litora’’v packed with on-lno! m--; and participants in the 1 cal liat'les tru ing on there A mnr’ ' 1 enrosity in ease of Tom Harr!., I'or the mnr- fb- of Mrs. Horten ia Morgan had brought scores to the no nth m business v. It ' ' th older peopU of that town and county. rrv Jeter hab been tried and con victed for burning the house of A. M. 'Mugs, and sentone d to he (tanged. ,f e proc ai -,, eri ’ is innocence to the ’•Ary last and went to the gallows de- ♦ermined to meet his fate though an unhist otic. His attorneys d : d every fni,,,, t'-ov eon’d tp •-•a''e him. His sis’er. Mima, believed him innocent •>nd toot' the alter to the l.o.'d in nnver and inst as tin* black can was about to bo placed over his head and tho noo°p abo”t his neck he received notice form the governor that his CALLED HOME. Mrs. Hattie Pridmore Died Ye«tw day Mominq. A gloom was cast over Gaffney yes terday morning as the m ws of the death of Mrs. Hattie Pridmore was passed from one to another. Mrs. Pridmore had he n sick for the past fourteen months and whi e her death was not unexpected still it caused universal sorrow among her friend* and acquaintances. Death cam© at 11:15 yesterday forenoon. Harriet Terrisa Pridmore was the s mtence was commuted to life im-1 ^ a,,e >^Fer of Hoht S. and Violet WII- ur’e-^n-nept. He was pardom'd after ’■ ' ’ n who lived in the Union s a ctioa serving twelve years .and Progress I of 'What. Is now Qherokee county. Sh* i„r 0 r >- e u« j, . i s ,vw emp’oved hy i was opr* of eight children ther- be- ‘ ‘ Two | Ipg four hoys and four gin's the Union cotton mill. That the intercession of a poor E--M , >* c. Jo -i* t m cop’a have bv‘d to womanhood and married hut . i.. f too .- veral years ai o. The four r ■ i>i liev< They were R. Wl . of Yoritr seem to forget that:— ; ville: W. J. and P. M. VVl’klns, of (this citv and loltn H Wilkins, of thU V)> |. |i|,, wjuud* t form of speech county. -''’•••i* i"t':-nt lit's can try: i in I88d Unttio Wi’klns married Mr Prater—Hie stthlimest trains that gi t) o', hi t 1 e cotinty was re nr tented w "ess. The various, offices, stc • • liaa’ s re minded n c of hoc* hi', certain way. The court room • i>, "r f" or aih Tjif> t'lirt'Jinn’s nativ > Ms watc word ai Hr i nt' itoav n th<- t with to of death: rayo**.” veil il om tor or irnt: The MBS. MARY FOLGER DEAD. is anovrier au* joys and girls, of whom we hone wl'l !,nd ,r er with the answer: A large land owner ponged a ln- lior r to fence him a pa.-turo. The fence wa; to h ten rai : h h s. tfh Trance impulses move the average ihreo panels to the rod. Ti e land twite;- wa crmld -oe or heat , :-it\- who had ever that we el’ of. Wliat oi mankuid om 11mis is the was in Dec-ember of IthG that the ‘Nothing P.nt Money’ Theatrical Gomtmnv stopped at Gafftt"”, where Ra«ty and two brothers were running a hotel The company spent the aight at the Hasty establishment. A info room 17 to get, somet young ’adv member of the troupe I had. my pistol and a d *c «diarged Hasty with improper con This Miss Bishop wanted duct and this 1 rought on trouble with what f got. and T told her. “H - stated that he had made pro'or proposals to Afiss Bi hr I did not say anything to ho ■i ft or site h;>d given ' te cause ipg it. It was Just after T h.n ther.’ of Pickens County. most thoroughly adv. rM*- ed man in for ach a ■ Im 1 •bisloy March 2- -Mrs. Mary Fol- c^erok e county. If the prince of was to maf ‘but g" • di,-d this afternoon at 3:30 o ‘clock Wales was here '■ uld not attr act he wanted until aft er about ten da v's il ness. She th,* attention of so nui IV as Tom will to!, the lab, •- d * ,F d at the Mount ain View Hotel do dtiring hi° trial. rail h,* nia, gon" w 1 • ■re site bad for many years lived One notieeab’e featu re of this v a st closed "iir vhich wi ti her daughter. Mrs. C. M. Blay- tliroi’g wa« it was * di, r and ia roll How many ards. to* k. ■ r.t.n>'ed We have se •n th e time in what did it Mont Gurtis One child was the r*- B of this union. On Opt oh-r 8th 1800. Airs. Curtis ■ ■ • hapnii • married to Mr Han nto* ". Brill •’ore Tim nnion has beea ■-!• cd hv four children, th young- r - e-1 o ’’fch is lint eight months old •t i J Is survived In her husband ■ id chiblren. M;v. Bridmore was a con-istent trmttib r of the First Mantis*' Church Rh- was a woman of unusual a’tract- E ( • i - ■ ttd ’ter friends w' r e H^iltel only hv ; r acnn iitance with human- tv. P 1 :.- will he missed hy more C n her immediate fami'y and many I vili ache b cause of her death to imv hi" ft <- dollars Sin* way, just in the prime of life, co be enc : ,sej and he having only reached her fortieth o the pasture as ’arge as birtlidtiv last June. 1 no all ten finished th to She now two male m' mbers of the company, Bennett and Davison, both of whom Fast/ shot and ki led. He claimed that the show men doubted on him and h>* shot in self defense. He was tried, convicted of murder in the nn to me put her hand in mv pock et nml said: ‘What is that you have ’ t told her it was an orange and offer ed it to her She had her hand In ; mv pocket on the orange and Van d nr' obwo to me. and then is when I second degree and sent-nced to life made the advanc s to her.’ I “Wh<*n asked whv tie didn’t tell and put up he had ea a ttd one-third acres, urns did lie ene'oso and nst ti landlord? Mrs. Folger was a favorite with Gaffney when in such u crowd and on j. g. >11 who knew her. Sle will he great- such an occasion th te would have ly missed not only b\ her friends been two hundred ea es of drunk- Small Wreck on Southern, here but by tho travelling men who ness and 'adtes and eh’ldr'm eoutdn’t Gaffney was Hu* scone of i small ’■noa’v> attached to h<*r because of - walked the str ots without be- wreck Saturday afternoon when th- The funeral wiB take place this "ovn'ng, at 11 o’clock from the First Baptist church. Tit - Interment wlM lx* til Oakland cemetery. church since voting During her last few days of suffering '-'mtiment expressed in her last words were so much in keening with the beautiful life she had lived. As mother sim* was kind, consider- t«iprisonment in the penitentiary "Th ■ trial, which took place In! this on the stand lie replied: February of 1906, was a noted one “Because the judge wouldn’t tot •»>d wa - a firece fight between able that kind of stuff come out.’ •oiiusei. An annual to the Supreme “l n this statement, however. Hasty €onrt was taken, but that tribunal ! disproves his ow f n testimony on the affirmed the action of the lower court witness stand The -vldencp shows It was onlt last month that the last that Hasty was asked if he had said ferine of e c cape in that direction was anything improper to Miss Bishop. I aH* and self sacrificing, having rear •at off. During a’l this time, a year | and tins he denied fiatlv. Now he | (•! a fami'y of nine children, five of and two and a half months Hasty advances an entire’y different story, i whom are still living. Ttiev are: fets been a prisoner in Gaffney jail. The record shows that Judge Mem-! M ssrs. A. M. and A. W. Folger. of “’I had forgotten how to walk min nor excluded none of the defend . Fasley; A. R. N. Folger. of Gaffney, wlien I was tak’n out today.’ said the ant’s testimony hearing dlrectlv on land Mrs. Perrin Odell and Mrs. G. M. prisoner. ‘The unaccustomed glare the case hut that ho ruled out the | B'ay lock, of Easley. She has a large •f the sun. too. was blinding’ | testimony of one Strickland who j number of relatives in Pick-us and 8 “‘Have you found prison life thus would have sworn to things which tw worse or better than you expect- were alleged to have happened two •«l it would he?’ asked the newspaper weeks before the homicide. in with whom he was conversing. “Hasty said that he did not know that Miss Sheridan was in anv way un’ady llke only hy what he had been tobi hy ‘that, man Strickland of Gas tonia.’ whoee evidence was excluded b- Judge Memminger. “Hasty hangs his head a»d has a v' •" pitiful expression. In talking icr h< nlea^nnt dhposition ing annoyed hy drunken roughs and Mrs. Folger was a woman of nob’e negroes and yet so no peon] say Christian character. Reserved and that voting and legis’ating; “John unassuming yet always readx- to aid Marlevcorn” out of business in Ghero " carrying on Christian work. She ke countv hasn’t materiallv imnrov- it as been a member of the Methodist 1 their State of affairs. With due sn h i fr i mg engine wa - pushing two One of Many Good places. (Salisbury Post.) \fr George Hasty, the convict*# 'tmi-ia >- of two actors belonging to Em "N’ething But Mon y” Company, wi’i proceed to serve his sente:. • for life. He was tri d about this tlm* toot " for and convicted. l>ut ant)'aled The lower court is sustain'd hv th© higher Mr. Hasty wi’l no doubt womanhood, reeper-t to every man’s opinion we can on 1 / sav thev don’t see it as w r e “‘Lord!’ smi’ed the prisoner. T bad no Idea what it would he Hke. Have you ever beep in jail?’ ** T never have.’ the Observer man W4»© forced to admit. “‘Wali,’ said Hastv, you don’t know a»ything about it then. Iliad loafed about in iails just, as you are doing his voice is barelv audible. The long lot© of times and thought I knew, hut strain has to’d on his nerves and I didn’t. I believe if I had to stay in ther" was a distinct twitching and JaR where I'couldn’t work or take nervous fumbling of his strined can a« ,r exercise for 12 months ’onger. It. as he told his story. Not having had would kill me. I am sure it. would.’, any exercise for more than 14 months Thl© was said with the same uncon- 1 and no work to do. his skin is very «©m"d cheerfulness which marked tender and he complained of his Me demeanor throghont the inter- hands hurting as a result of the half vWw j day’s w r ork he had done in the knit- “Hasty stated that he had been in ting mill His neck, too, showed South Carolina for about five y^ars. j signs of being almost h'ister d as a U© is hy birth and rearin" a North result of the rubbing of the rough Carolinian. His father still lives at material of which tho convict barb th© o'd home at Randleman is made. “‘The people about Gaffm*;/ are “As the interview was conclud'd : Saturday night. His many friends «/i> against me.’ the prisoner admitted. 1 and Hasty was being led hack to his ! ill '’eenly sympathize with him in ‘They seemed to think 1 lust shot, work ho added this parting state- ' bis sorrow.) the men because I had a pistol aud rrnent: ‘Please don’t publish any-; wanted to be shooting at something, thing of what i said which would TILLMAN AS A SPEAKER. I’ll rottv for the poor fePows that hurt m * with the fo’ks up in Chero- i not kil’ed but I couldn’t help it. If ; kee. They hav<» berm prett.'- good to Said to Be Booked for $43.00 Worth the same circumatances wer" to mo. a lot of them, and I am depend Of Talk This Summer. ©•me up again I would do all 1 could ing on them to help me get out of! According to the Washington Her- t© avert trouble, hut I would do just, here. 1 don’t want anything printed a’d. Senator Tillman has now booked Greenville counties. The funeral services will he held tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Mountain View Hotel, conducted by Rev. J. F. Matheson. Tim interment wi]] he in West View ce”>eter-v at this Place Mrs. Folger was horn February 11th. 1810, in Guilford county. N. C., pear Greensboro and before sh" was married to Dr. A. M. Folger was Miss Marv Pegram. Thev moved to this county about sixty-seven year© ago where Dr. Folger practiced medicine for forty years. He was a prominent physician, having written several hooks on the subject. He died about twentv R-'ven years ago and since that time she has lived with Mrs. Blaylock. Although she was niuetv-one years of age her memory and vitality was remarkable. To the last she was Wo had the pleasure of shaking the hand of Oaffnev’s HercuLs. and bast-jn" in the sunlight of his smiles. When A. W.Dogeett. and T. Daven- mo-‘ can’t cure a case of “b1u"s” its simnlv incapable. Mrs. Bertie Burgess, wife of Mr. Mayor T ittle and his nolice force R. C. Burgess, died at her home near do«orve the thanks of th" citv of Grassy Pond Saturday mornng at 4 Gaffn<*v and Cherokee countv too for 4 o’clock. Mrs. Burgess was an ex breaking un the loafing busin"ss about town bv furnishing work for those w'ho couldn’t find-.it elsew’here. W'” done good and faithful servants, we say. Quite a number of our overthe- ! river friends were in tjnwn—called rib "re hy reason of the murder and other cases from that side—many of them on the Jury or otherwise con nected with th" c-->ft. Some were paving taxes, some selling cotton, buying mules etc Among them we met Mr. E. Hardin, a m-mber of the o’d 5th regiment during the war be tween the States. j By the way, in sn-mking of the Antioch section and its peonle (while they may not he owner of it) the c°-s of coal <m tile Gaffno) Mann factoring company's sldiit.'. It seem* as though the trucks jump d th< track and the cars itotng pushed tit think it an abridgment of his liber- u-ito a little speed it was impos- , if ,, that he is not ai owed to kill a slide for the engineer to stop th? ominlP of , n ., n ilml co OT , about hi« train before the wheels of th" cars regular business, but such is Ilf® ha,] torn the track ip for several Thprp lg no te ii inK w i, at a notit jury yards. Although the wreck was not VV |tj nor | s p- c prtntn what the Su a s-riotis one stil' it stopped traffic nrr . mft ronrt . win say about it. Soutfc op that track tor several hours. Ca’^oMna is a mighty good Place t© ^ „ bemn the cure of the killing habit Death of Mrs. Burgess. Making No Mistake. (Chester Report"r.) Chester county is making no mi»- , cellent worn a- and was held in high ' a ^ c in putting lots of money an# esteem hv those who knew her. She , a i ,0 r into good roads. The macadam wae twenty seven years of ag" and is roads that | ea( i ont from the citf survived by her husband, five children ,,aVt ‘ i* 10 " sme" paid and renaid for and *>ne brother. Mr. Oscar Burgess. , an( i M they are permM- of York county. The funeral was 0,1 f ' n character tkcv W1 H .^ on ^ conducted by Key. S. B. Harper and ’ ,p r i°* 1 dividends to the credit wms attended bv a large concourse of the county. It is a mistake to put friends and relatives. Tbe Ledger j ,l,) with anv kind of road except a extends Its deepest sympathy to the an ^ we trust that our pe<> h-reaved husband and family. ”1* Wll i become de per Imbued wltfc the good roads soirit as time goes by. ENJOY EATING. Before the Mayor. Bob Gilmore and Will Ager. two j negroes, were arrested Saturday on a _ J charge of selling Tquor. They were Good Digestion Can be Readily Gain- taken before Mayor Little, plead gull- | With Mi o-na Stomach Tablets, ty. and were fined $25.00 each. They i it is torment to look upon a tempt- pald tbe fine. ! ' ne: dinner and rea’ize that to eat concensus of opinion among t.hos" A white man was before the Mayor ITccly means distress and suffering. best oua’ifled to Judge is, that the on a charge of drunk and disorderly, niciis they raised a few years ago plead guilty. This was his first of about a distillery b"lng run too near fense and h? was let off with $2.50. their ehurch was the germ from which snrung the great cyclone of ballots active and cheerful a’wavs taking an that snowed the liquor business un ii‘te»-est in current events. (Postmaster Folger went to Easley Salesday Sales. The salesday offerings yesterday were as follows: Let us tell you how you can enjoy -atlng. so that the heartiest meal* will set well and cause no pain, dis tress or uncomfortable feeling of full ness. If you cannot eat and enjoy thre# good, hearty, satisfactory meals a day d r in this State. .._ Its no wonder that York county A tract of land on the other side without anv feeling of discomfort, reluctent’v ceded such a peonle and of Broad river known aft; Runyon voiir stomach is weak and needs th* territory as it did in order to make land. Bought by G. R. Willy for which Mi-o-na stomach tab- Oh"rokee county a picture on the $850. ! will give it. You cannot afford man of the State. A house belonging to Mrs. Minnie 1 to delay treatment, for the longer f did before.’ 'George Hastv has what is com n’y termed and what would he universally admitted to be 'a good lace He is young, only 23. hand- s*mo. and yesterday was neatlv dress ed In a suit of gray, a d rhv and a •heckered sweater He L strongly and studily built. It is need’ess to dav night and «"v">-at Sunday nights which thev would -of like.’ History of th* Crime. "The beginning of the life ntence from th,* dav W’hen tills session ad for this voting man. who is but 23 * mri'-w until congress meets again on years of age. marks the Iasi chapter D-comber J. e\c< pt three nights still of one of the most unfortunate trag- j left on"n. “For these sp"eches,” "dies of the State’s history. In the, says the Herald’s story, “he has a " •'•k of a few brief moments, as alenntract at n nl"'at with a’yconm ro'mlt. of liis indiscreet actions toward oomnan-' that r' < 'sii"'e<.- all risks as to •wv tha* he expects a pardon sooner two youne women, George Hasty connections !,v rail, rent of hall^ and ©•• later Were It not for this hope, sent to their d ath lw<, bright voting ••■ ibe- Hi s flrsl date is Bal- th* light, of his eye« and the flush men. lilight,*,! tiie lives of the two timore. on the night of March 4. upon htv cheeks which not ail th" girls who were betrothed to th- mur March and A)>ri] wilt i)e spent In aonflnement and the trying ord a' of dered men. and ruined his own life. ' P<*nri.- Ivnnia. Maryland Virginia ^ th* pa-t 11 months have b**n ahl*I “Milan Bennett wa* musical dir ct a id N >rt Carolina. ’Ms tour will *©ite fo remove, would b impossible, or of tit,- ‘Nothing But Money’ com extend into th" far west in the fall. The sentence to a life tim * of drud- nan / and Abbott Davison was the and during the sumraer he will h" ei7 and ronfinem'-nt is a thing incom-, leading actor connected with the com- bea’-d in New England and the mld- ©rehensi te. unrealizable and impos-j’'.anv-, and its owner. Miss ATav jt^ jy pt Tulv 4 ht* ’ ’teal-• at Ash- alble to one in whose veins vet Bishop and Miss Verne E. Sheridan land Kv. Jf,* | s free to speak on any throbs the b’ood of youth ” were members of the company and suhiect. he mav choose so long as his The Columbia State of Sunday con-! testified ’n tin* trial of the case effort is the characteristic Ti’lntan tained the following: against Hasty that they were engag- speech. The senator’s honorarium On one of the principal street Cox on Ix>gan street .bought by J. Q : corners in Gaffnev we found our Little for $1,410. friend and r-’atlve. Mr. W. A. Donald standing looking somewhat forlorn. I n Defence of “Bob” Taylor. we thought. Wl© approached him (Chattanooga Times ) and after the sanitations customary Just why any nowspaoer should you al'ow the digestive organ* to h© weak, the harder it will be to get help The remarkable curative as# strengthening power of Mi o-na is at tested bv the guarantee, which th* persist in classing “Bob’’ Taylor with f,a ffttey Drue Co. give with every . _ . - . . ..m .. . 1 Vi engagements to speak every week hetwe* n old friends, acq'iaintanees ‘ ' and neighbors he said he was looking Davis and Tillman It is difficult to | ' )OX - " e r ** ,,1 i'n the money if for some one from his neighborhood und rstand. He is as widely diff'*r- | Mi-o-na fai s to cure, with whom lie could get a chanc*" to from both of them as it is pos-; ^ V°u find tiiat eating w-/-eooh«d go home, as the train had passed, sihle for a man t- b©. He is clean in an ^ tmotierly chewed fiK,d is followed “What,” we said “nobody here from ""rv resnect and th#* vi-rv onr*/»«ite * in, l Properly chewed 100 dm fo lowed your n -ighhorhood?” He said “No, ri 't that l have seen or can s"" ” “Well, yours is t.iie only section of of the county not represented.’’ wo replied. Mr. J. G. Garner keeps meal ground at tlir* Thomson mill to accommodate "is custom rs in case of high water or a break down. Mr V. C. Comer, of JonesviUe. name down Wednesday and return ed Thursday. Mr. Ralph Tx-mastor has put up a store house at his home and furnish ed it with a stock of goods Poon'p who have sold their cotton and are to d - iver it in the present Ta’e and thin from his long con , ed to Davison and Bennett, resepet , t n the grand total is *13.00.) for the condition of the roads will not realize Inement in the Ch"rokoe county iv'd’’. summer’s work—more hy some than Jail. George Hastv. as convict No. j “The com pan, presented ‘Nothing lie could make tendtog his cotton 17411 yesterday he'-an a life term But Money’ in Gaffnev on th,* night crop in the Pa meito rfrate. tMjnt'moe in the State penitentiary for of Dec 14. 1905, ami while in that Vb© murder of Milan Bennett and At) loott Davison of the “Nothing But Ifonev” company, at Gaffney, Dec- 18. 1905. “Hastv talked verv fr ely to a re- ir©sentativo of The State yesterday at the penitentiary. He said that it was a great, relief to get out of lall ait last and he where ho con’d at least •ecaslonallv got, a little fresh air. H© was fitted out with a new suit of weulatlnn stripe©, and nut to work $■ the knitting mill. Owing to his ©resent de’icato health, however, he •ev b© given other work not so con- fltlnr. "H* h*3 been confined in the jail citv the members were registered at a hotel run i*v Will and Art her Has Zimmerman Sentenced. Columnia March ? Daniel Zim- mnch profit from it. We made a short call at The Led ger office Wednesday and found the “old man” and the boys hard at work. From what we learn another paper will soon be started in B’acksburg ty. in which George Hasty, a brother, merman, who a tow- days ago pleaded , with Hon. N. W. Hardin editor. Suc- wav clerk. The voting women com mi tv of forgerv white bond cHrk in Plained that th'-v iVl been annoyed the State treasurer’s office was to hv George Hasty, it being claimed night sentenced to serv" three years that he ‘p<>epd over the transom’ i„ ihe penitentiary. He is 67 years attempted to get Into the room of old His alleged confederate Thos. one of them. i J. Gibson, convicted of receiving “They told this to Bennett and stolen bonds, was too ill to appear Davison, who demanded an anology i n court for sentence and a sealed of George Hast/ and a fight ensued, Hastv kl’ling both of th" actors hy shooting them with a .32 calibre pis tol. “Op the trial, which began in Gaff nev March 1 last year, Hasty put up verdict was left for him. —Buy your seed from the Seed Store. Flower Seed, Garden Seed, Field Seed. Our line of seed is com plete. Gaffney Drug Co. c'*ss to this new enterprise. Nothing ! s a more potential educator than a ! welt conducted newspaper. People wilt read it that, scare *1ey ever read anything else. Cherok"e county is fuilv able to support, another paper if everybody will do their dutv. Some people scout the idea that Mima Jeter’s progress had anything to do with saving her brother Perry Jeter, colored, from hanging at Union nearly twenty-four years ago. the circumstances of which are given by Progress and are well remembered »*v respect and the v"rv ounosite o' both in sentirne"* and modest of l,v heaviness and load on the stomr speech. He is a bubbling fountain of ac h- by bloa’tng hy gulping of .acids good humor and is one of the vice f ’ n ^ "’nd bv distress nervensn ss nresidents of the “brother’;ood of headache, troub’e to sieen. or hv any mankind” He has no use for the rtb er symptoms of disordered or “pitchforb” or Dm “much rake,” and Wf>ak stomach you should I,"gin the i-rigu sunghin** .and mirth wh Tever ”se of Mi-o-na at once. It is guaran- he goes and dispenses it lavishly with teed hv *’ n, ' th<* best known drug- never a thought that tie has an t-uo ^Ists in Gaffnev to cure all disorder* Tn*’ or a fo ■ The prediction is free- th stomach, or cost nothing. A lv made that Senator Taylor wiH Guarantee, like this means a good short v become o»e of the mnet noon- 1" men in the Senate, and that his cloak room will be one resort that A tissue builder, reeonstruetor, —ilt always have disp ayci the sign l"’Mds up waste force makes strong “S R. O.” ! nerves and muscle You wilt realize aft- r taking Hollister’s Rock Moun- N 0 t Ashamed of the Company. tain Tea what a wonderful benefit it (Newberry Obs"rver.) will tie to you. 25 cents Tea or Tab Newberrv is in pretty good com- lets. Gaffnev Drug Co. panv as a prohibition county, and is not ashamed of h"r augmnent along | —Try a bottle of “Nature Cough side of Riich counties as Anderson, Remedy" and a box of “Grip Tablets'’ Oh rokee, Darlington, Edgefield, for that couvh and cold. If they don’t Greenville. Greenwood. Horry. Lan- cut the Gaffney Drug Co. will re- caster. Marion, Marlboro. Oconee, fund vour mon^y Is that fair* PickenH Saluda. Spartanburg Union. , Costs nothing if they don't enre. j York- and Williamsburg. And she — j does not intend that a lot of negro Ar<* you tired, fagged out. nervous, blind tigers, hacked often bv white i sleepless, feel means? Hollister’s men shall drive he: from this align ment. into the Honor business again. —Try the Williamson plan on a small patch of com. using our Im proved Early Golden Dixie Dent Corn. If others can make 150 bush- “ls or more per acre, yon can 4a last a© well. The Seed Store. Rocky Mountain Tea strengthens the nerves, aids digestion, brings refresh ing sleep. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gaffney Drug Co. —One 50c bottle Nature’s Cough Remedy will put an end to that cough—no cure, no pay. Gaffney Drag Co.