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t THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any NovMpaptr In th« Fifth ConoreMlonal District of ft. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE LEDGER SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY vTK OUARANTS* THE RlLlARlLlTf of Ivorv Advortloor Who Uoea tho Columns of Thla Papor. DEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Nowapapor In All tkat tka Word Impllaa and Dovotod to the Brat Irterest of the Po-plo of Chorokee Couity. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, ft. C, TUESDAY. APRIL 30. 1907. $1.00 A YEAR. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WKKINSViLLE. MOVEMENTS OF “HE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of that Section. Wilkinsville, April 24.—A blunder of the types In Hiving one of our scriptural quotations has brought many dusty Bibles from their hiding places to see what we meant. Thank you Mr. Proofreader, its a very bad something that has no good at all in it. Also the types make us say In last Friday's Ledger that Enoreo Presbytery will meet at Mountain- vllle instead of Mountville on October loth. Mrs. Sallie Mitchell’s boys. White, Tom. Cal- and Dock, of Hopewell, went to Gaffney last Friday and on their wav home they had a runaway scrape and got thrown out of the sur- rv and the tongue of the vehicle was torn up considerably. The boys were as muddy as thev well could be but none of th u m were hurt. It was a narrow escape you made. boys. From "A Subscribers” letter to this paper from King’s Creek under the of April 17. we clip the following which has the ring of the pure metal and deserves more than a passing notice: “I do not think It Is right to let worthless men. nor any other men. come into our midst and work all day on the Sabbath like they are doLpg at Gaston Shoals. I believe the law ought to take some steps to nut a stop to this working on the Sabbath. "If Christians will trv in every way they can to make the country better I think the Lord will be with them.” A few years ago when the salvage company was dredging Pacolet river for cotton and other valuable swept awav from the factories by the great, flood, it was currently reported that the sanctity of the Sabbath wa& be ing notoriously outraged by those en gaged in the business and a little “nlain talk” from an officer of the law bearing on this pernicious and uncall ed practice put a stop to it. or at least, we never hoard of it being done again. The people have the power to nut a stop to all such nuisances if thev will only exercise it. But what’s everybody’s business in nobody’s. The officer of the law who is reason ably cognizant of its violation and sits idle until some one comes for ward and makes complaint and as sumes the responsibility for the “cursing” that follows Is not better, even if as good, as the man broight before him for its violation If “actions speak louder than words” it must be conceded that the little finger of heartless corporations and large financial Interests is thick er than the loins of a sovereign State. It looks that way. If a poor farmer whose crop was run ning awav in the grass would be found hoeing or plowing it out qu the Sabbath day he would be looked up on as a heathen as well as a law break er. The same would apply to the mer chant. mechanic or other men who would prosecute their worldly busi ness on this Holy day. Yet. because large corporations see proper to dis regard the Sabbath they are passed bv as if thev had the right, of way to do as they please. ^ e hope it is not as bad as our brother correspondent thinks it is and that those whose du ty it. is will look into the matter and correct the evil. One of our neighbors thinks he felt an earthquake shake last Thurs day night alK>ut 10 o’clock. These terrestrial disturbances are so com mon in other parts of the world we mav look for them to come our way sometimes, too. Mrs. J. L. S. has a hen with twenty- four young chickens When told that the hep couldn’t take care of them she said: "She can if she will spread herself.” Charley Foster Is her assistant chicken raiser. He knows the dif ferent hens, their color, names and dispositions, the number of eggs in each nest, and the time they will hatch as well as Sem Brown ever did. The song, or rather the sentim'^it of the old soldiers, especially those of the army of Northern Virginia, Is: I want to go to Richmond One more time; t I want to go to Richmond To see that gal of mine. Your correspondent spent Monday night with Dr. M. W. Smith, at Gaff ney where he had a very pleasant time talking over old times The doctor was born and raised near here in York county and for may years after the war did an extensive prac tice in this and York county. He has a rich fund of reminiscences that would be very entertaining to our Led ger readers if written up in proper style. This we may attempt to do later on. Wb were nuuch pleased to meet at. Gaffney on Monday our old friend Mr. Pink Hollis, of Greenville, whose genial face and disp;)6ition will cure an ordinary case of “the blues.” Also we were i lad to meet the veteran mlllright Mr. W. H. Wright, who Is now succes. fully running the mill on Little Thickety near Thlckoty Sta tion. M*. Wright is one of our lead ing mil] men in the county and what be doesn’t know about operating ma chinery but few others have learned. Yesterday about 12 o’clock m. this section was visited with the heaviest rain fall that we have had in many years If ever before. It was a per fect water spout. It didn’t fall over five minutes. It is thought by some If it had continued for half and hour th» plowed land would all have been washed to the clay. Sam Strain, our mail carrier was out In it with, his mail. He was near Mr. W. S. Sparks’ when it. began to fall and when he reached the Owens’ ford bridge on thickety the creek was running around the end of the bridge and wheu he got to the branch near Mr. Andrew Byars’ it was past crossing. Fanners who had done a good deal of plowing are wearing long faces. We are due Mr. W. R. Walker many thanks for one of his fine pigs which Mrs. J. L. S. is going to try to . -ake a hog out of. The heavy rain of yesterday proved beyond all doubt that deep plowing in the spring Is the way to keep land from washing. Where the “middle buster” was used the deep furrows on anything like level land held the water and no damage was done. It’s a great nltv this useful plow wasn’t put to work forty years ago. But we are getting wiser in some respects the longer we live, and famers are learning something too. We were in Mr. Boyce Whisonants now house yesterday for first time. Wlhen finished it will be a beautiful home. Boyce Is doing much of the work himself. Wo never knew he had such a mechanical turn before. The wind yesterday broke some fruit trees down. It blew all evening like a hurricane but did no other damage that we know of. Those who haven't planted their cotton seed will go at It when the ground Is dry enough. We presume that the ladies of the memorial association will select a speaker for the occasion wh^n .thev meet to decorate the graves of the Confederate soldiers buried at Salem. Of this, notice will be given in this correspondence. We are glad to learn that the little boy of Mr. and Mrs. Dagnall. who was so badly burned some time ago is get ting some better and hope he will re cover. We acknowledge a kind invitation to attend the entertain met to be given at the Wilkerson school house next Friday. Mr. Will McCraw, of Gaffney, is the teacher. That is the first rural school dis trict we know of that voted a special tax for the support of their schools and thev have been doing good work along educational lines ever sinoo^ They are a progressive people and deserve th plaudit “well done. Rev. T. F. Boozer preached at Sa lem last Sabbath and Sabbath night. At. both services there were good rf)n ' gr-gatlons. He will preach there everv third Sabbath until a regular pastor Is secured by this and the Gaff ney church which are grouped to gether. Wilkinsville. April 27.—We are glad to learn that the little orphan child that Mr. and Mrs. Dagnall nave, who was so badly burned, is getting along nicely and will soon be well if nothing happens to it. The little fel low made a very narrow escape from death But he has had the very best attention that could be given him. Dr. Hood has treated the case with marked success and Mr. apd Mrs. Dagnall have done everythin*, i'ney could for it. They are very much at tached to the child 1 —as much so as it it was their own. The neighbors, too. have taken great interest in it and done what they could for its relief: all of which is very commendable and sneaks well for the community in which the little wolf has found a good home. Mrs. Dagnall is an inva lid herself but she has bestowed all the warmth of a mothers’ lovejinon the little fellow and we hone she may vet have his strong arm upon which to lean in her declining years She is a member of ope of the best families of Western York and a hjtfh- toned lady in everv respect. Several of our neighbors went to Gaffnev last Thursday on business-of different kinds. Only when the ground is too wet to Plow will the faripere leave their work unless compelled to do so. . , All day Wednesday Thickety cnVik was too high to grind at Thomson’s mill and Mr. J. Q. Garner took ad vantage of It and went to Gaffney on business. He took Ed. Edwards with him- . , . Those who had planted cotton seed before the rain will have to harrow the land to let the seed come up. The rain run the land toff aher and the wind and sunshine will bake it. Several of our people expect to at tend the Confederate reunion at Co lumbia next month. Many of them have never been to a reunion and say thev m ist go this time. Quite a num ber of them think thev will go to R.ohmond, Va.. and look over the old battlefields near the city. We regret, that these reunons come off at a tin)'* when farmers can’t well spare the time to go. VW are frequently asked how far Jamestown is from Richmond. To Jamestown prop'-r—the exact spot where the first settlement was made it is fifty miles in a south' ast direct ion. While it Is thirty miles beyond that to the exposition grounds at Hampton roads. The reader must not confuse the ancient and ruined village of Jamestown with the township which boar* that name and whose territorial limits include tlye exposition grounds thirty miles away from the site of the ancient Tillage which bears the name—Jamestown. For Instance w!e live in Gowdevsvllle —not in the town but in the town ship which stretches from near Cher okee ford on Broad river to the mouth of Pacolet: and from near Grjndall Shoals on Pacolet to Howell’s ferrv ion Broad river. This information is gratuitous whether correct or not. If the reader will consult encvclonae- dia Britonica, Vol. XXIV, page 200 he will see tlm situation. For James I. of England, who grant ed the charter to the first settlers the town, county and river were all named. This w-as thirteen years be fore the Pilgrims Father landed at Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Lowery Webber at tended church at Salem last Sabbath and took dinner with the family of Mr. S. F. Estes. Between here and Gaffney there are some very bad holes in the road that might be stopped very cheaply .by a few loads of rock being thrown In them. At one place near Mr. Jim Mason’s it Is very difficult for wagons or other vehicles (especially loaned ones) to pass and there is no way to get around it. This is only one in stance. There are many others in the same fix. These, it seems to us, might be attended to by the road overseers without waiting for the chalngange to do it all. Outside of these we have no special coniplajnt to make of our roads except that they should be widened where they ane too narrow for wagons to pass each other. We understand that a liquor case has recently been sent up to the ses SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST, EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. Recent Happenings | n *nd Arourd th* City and Other Everts Gather ed by the Local New* Editor. Limestone college will close oc May 29th. Go to the city hall this evening at |6:30. You may be able to help Gaff ney. Request for donations to alumnae banquet at Limestone college are withdrawn by the committee. There is considerable talk of another banking institution for Gaffney. The three already here seem to be on flrm foundations. Dan S. Vernon, general ag nt for the Edsall-WInthrop Pavilion Stock company, is in the city advertising the coming of that company. N. S. Burgess, who has charge of f, 'e presses of The Ledg-r. went to Blacksburg Saturday to work on the press of The Piedmont Observer, gate the affairs of the company before the I’nited States court. There will be preaching at Abing don Or ek bv Rev. W. E. Crocker the first Sunday in MAy. There will be morning and afternoon services and dinner will be serv d on the ground. Visitors and strangers are cordially invited to attend. Col. T. B. Butler returned to the eitv y sterday morning from James town. The colonel savs it is going to h;.u bg show. There is a good deal of work to lie done yet. Governor Ansel and ills staff were the recip- ents of many court sies during th£ir stay. Petitions are being circulated ask ing the board of county oonimissiou- ers to reconsider th - matter of erect ing a bridge across the top of the dam at Gaston Shoals. The Ledger bdieves that a large number of peo ple are in favor of this bridge and the commissioners will make no mistake by erecting the bridge. The building of J. H. Curry’s, next to J. M. Nelson’s, was injured by fire ! some weeks ago when Nelson lost his ! stock of goods On Thursday April i 25th the loss was adjudged to be $259, and on the next day the South- | ern Stock Fire Insurance company represented by Smith & Lipscomb for warded Mr. Curry a check for the money. The Woman’s Missionary union of ; the Broad Piver association will be ENGINEER HOLROYD DROWNED. Meets Untimely End While at Work at Water Works’ Plant. Clinton J. Holroyd. an engineer em ployed at the new water-works’ plant, was drown*d this afternoon in the fll- t-r plant. Shortly before 4 o’clock, Holroyd. then on duty at the plant, started to walk to the filter house along the narrow ledge, which, though not Intended as a walk-way, hag beep used as such. This ledge is only a few inches wide and it is presumed that Holroyd lost his balance or had an attack of vertigo. He fell In with out a cry and made scarcely any struggle after going under the Coming to the surface only once. & carpenter at work nearby went tp his assistance, but could do nothing jtfni luelp was summoned. City Engineer Chisolm reached the scene after » short while and within half an hour after Holroyd had fallen in Mr. Chisolm had taken his body from thh water, about 20 feet from the spot where he fell In. The water In the filter plant is about 13 feet deep. Hol royd was in the employ of J. L. Lud low, the engineer, with headquarters at Winston, N. C. He was about 35 years old and had been South about three years, his home being in Wal tham, Mass. He was married Dec ember. 1905, to Miss Della Horn, of Tarboro. N. C., and she is now In Tar- boro on a visit. The body will be held at an undertaking establishment to await the instructions of his relatives. The coroner did not deem an inquest necessary. To Enlarge Auditorium. Spartanburg, April 27.—For several years at the close of the Spartanburg music festival the rumor has been cur rent that th** Converse auditorium is to be enlarged before the next annu al event. Now this rumor is put to rest and the semi-official announce ment is made of plans for enlarging the auditorium, work to be begun this summer. Tho present plans are to add on to the front of the building, bringing the auditorium out. as far as th*- T'^rtlco and erect a tower on each iside with an entrance to the balcony thpoiigii each tower. This will bring the seat ing capacity up to 2,500 and to© same time will add to the architectur al beauty of the biulding. Drowning at Whitney Mills. Spartanburg. April 27.—J. A. Searcy, an employee at Whitney mills, was drowned in the pond at that place this afternwn and not until late this evening when the water had been drawn off was his body recovcx^d. Searcy was 22 years of ago agd had been married only a few months. He was a son of J. D. Searcy, who is al so an operative and came from North Carolina some time ago to work in the mill. Searcy and two compatn- ions were fishing. He either fell from the bout or jumped in the pond in tending to swim to the other side, say those who saw the affair, but pro ceeded only a few yards when ho went down never to appear again. EDSALL AND WINTOROPE, Who Will Be Here Ail Next Week, Under Canvas. sions court from this section. If the matter was rightly looked into there doubtless would be others to follow. Ed. Edwards, color'd w**nt. to Gaff nev this week with Mr. J. G. Garner. Ed says he is going to take Henry Lb scomb’s idace in The Ledger of fice when Henrv resigns or gets tlre^ He thinks he can attend to it as well as Henrv can. We take and read the Progressive Farmer, publish'd at Raleigh. N. C.. and think it one of the best naners on farming and the management of the farm wv» have ever read, and this Is no reflection op the others. Mr. T. Jeff Hughes has been on the sick list for a few days He is at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Joe Estes, and she is doing all she can for him. Mr. Hughes la a man of great ejiergv and “get up” and his Inability to stir is very annoving to him. He has never be-n confined to his bed by sickness for anv length of time since we have known him Hie one of our old army comrades. We regret that arrangements were such that we could not wHl attend the exercisoK at. the Wilk-erson school hoiis > yesterday. Mr. Will Mc- Craw. of Gaffnev has been teaching there this ssion Revs C. M. Teal and W*. E. Crocker will preach at. Abingdon Creek th** first. Sabbath in May. There will J>e two services with dinner on the grounds. The public is invited. Rev. W. K. Crocker is expected to address the people at Salem on Satur day night, before at 7:30 o’clock* on the subject of missions and mlaslon- arv work. Wto bespeak for him a crowded house of attentive hearers. J. L 8. J. W. Abbott for lowoot prlooo on oofflno, easkota and roboo. Pull stock all aisss. The young ladles of Limestone col lege are preparing to issue thejr col lege annual—the Calcild. They are go ing make an effort to get out ap ' xceptionally attractive number. The citv street force is now engag ed in hauling dirt from th** Southern freight. dei>ot yard to the passenger depot yard. The work will improve th* appearance of things generally. While John Spencer was handling a pistol ip the market of G. C. Harper ij Saturday night th * same was acci dentally discharged. Fortunately no one was injured. The acts of the Legislature of 1907 have arrived and are now ready for dstrlbution to the count./ officers and magistrates of th * county bv ’he clerk of court. The theatrical season isabout to draw to a close. There will be two or thre'* more attractions and th(jp the house will close for the aummer, during which time it will be renal rod. The Victor Cotton Oil company re ceive,i their two new ice wagons Sat urday and put them out yesterday niorning. They are up-U^ijate in ever/ respect and add a citified air to things. There will lx* dedication services at Skull Shoals on the 4th Sunday. The deacons which were elected last Sunday will also he ordanlod. Everj member Is requested to be present. ]Visitors and strangers are cordially welcomed. The Lipscomb Silica Springs com pany has been declared bankrupt and the matter has been referred to O. W. Speer, referee In bankruptcy. The petitioners will thoroughly Investl- heid with the First Baptist church Inm* th:* fifth and sixth. This is the first session to lie h id at a sei>arate .time and placg from the association. I Every church in the association is urged to »s nd a delegate whether there ib a society in the church or not. Programs of the meetings will bo published later. Limestone Lodge No. 74 K. of P. will convene every Monday nig.ht 8 o'clock instead of first and third Mon day night. There is considerable in terest now being taken in the lodge n ."d there is about six applicants to have the degrees conferred on them now. It Is rquested that all members attend these meetings, so we will be in a position to entertain the disflRet meeting to lie held in October. The next meeting will be first Monday night in May. Contract Let for New Church. Spartanburg, April 27.—The con tract for th * erection of the ucv\» Be thel Methodist church was a ward/* 1 toni/ht to tV. L. Hicks of this city for $15,000. With a few cans of Argo Red Sal mon in the pantry, and an Argo Red Salmon Cook Book, the housewife is always prepared for unexpected com pany. It can be served in many dif ferent ways. April 29 Mav 3. —Soke Lygia Perfecto *>c cigar. F. B. Gaffney. New Enterprises for Union. Union, April 27.—The Union Motor Car company, which lias beep orga nized hero with a capital stock of $15.- 000, for the purpose of doing a era! passenger and freight business by motor cars, will also be empog-er- ed to make and deal In these ma chines. Mr. H. T. Yates and L. M. Jordan are the corporators and it is said that th y will put in two lartre motor cars to begin business witji as soon as tho organization ha* beeo completed. They will probably have schedules for various parts of the city and particularly betwe: n Union and Monarch. Ex-Coroner Green 8hoot« a Negro. Columbia, April 2G.—Ex-Co jtfcier Will Green shot Mose Tucker, a ne gro hackman. through the head, in stantly killing him in the Mainftrqa^ fruit store of Peter, th * Greek, tlire morning. Green surrenderd saying that, he told Tucker that if h* ad vanced on him with the knife he would kill him. A Farmer it Drowned. Charlotte. April 2G.—The body of Clarence McAuley. a prominent farm er of Mecklenburg county, was found in Rocky river, fifteen miles . from here, yesterday evening. The voung man Is supposed to have beeq swept down the stream by the high waters of Tuesday. GUARANTEED STOMACH REMEDY* You may ask why the Gaffney Drug Co. are able to guarantee to refund the money unless Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets cure when no othr|* remedy for stomach troubles is sold In thla manner. If the stomach Is only given • rest bv using a digestive, the muscles soon become weak*, and it is ncesaary to continue taking a digestive tablet after everv moal. On the other hand, Mi-o-na used before eating, strength ens the stomach so that, you will soon be well enough to give up the use of medicine. Mi-o-na costs but 59c a box. and makes positive and complete cures. The best proof of its merits is the guarantee lo refund the mnnev if it does not cure that the Gaffney Drug Co. give with everv box. —My stock of furniture and houae- hold goods is new and you can buy what you need now and pay m« In November. —Canning tomato seed for sale at Gaffney Drug Co. —Green’s Knock Out Drops applied in earlv spring means no bed bugs for that year. Put up and sold by Gaffney Drug Co. only. —Pure Bradford. Kleckly and Geor gia Rattlesnake W^ennelon Seed. Also the famous Rocky Ford Canta loupe Seed—undoubetedly the best of all Cantaloupes. Gaffney Drug Go.