Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. The Ledger is not responsible tor ne views of correspondent!. Hereafter no advertisements will be accepted at this office after 9.30 o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays. Watch your label and the date. And renew before 'Ms too late; If there be an error, don't get mad. Report to ua—we’ll make you glad. Remc mber, 'Ms our aim to please, Bat errors are like pesky fleas— They will creep In In iplte of fate. Therefore, watch 70ur label and the date. —Original. CITY DIRECTORY. Officials. 7 O Little Mayor H. L. Spears Mayor Pro Tem W. H. Ross City Clerfc A. L. Hallman Health Officer T H. Lockhart Chief Police j.' B. Bell City Attorney Board Public Works. A. N. Wood Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer W. H. Ross Secretary Board of Trade W. C. Hamrick President J. C. Otts Secretary The State Press Association meets in Charleston (or rather at the Isle of Palms) next month and then ye poor country scribe will\ake a day off, put on a fe v airs and do the Rockefellow- Canegie stunt in a seersucker suit and a 98c straw hat. Boys, we will he there, unless we slip a cog. By the way, wonder if Mr. Bugs Raymond and his associ ates will be at home on those days. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Board of Trade has start ed off in the right direction this ;ime and The Ledger wishes md expects it to accomplish a rreat deal of good for Gaifney. • • • Mr. Willie Hearst and Mr. Johnny Temple Graves and Mr. Willie Jay Bryan are all on the same platform. Well, they are very clever performers, but we think it would be stretching the in agination to say they are top liners. • • » • 0 • • • • Tlie trustees of School District No. 10 will, on next Friday, ad vertise for bids on the bonds they have been authorized to is sue. would like to see some of our local financiers take these bpflds. They are a good, safe and sane investment and the fact that local capitalist were the purchasers would add strength and confidence to local securities. * • 0 There has just been a story started to the effect that power ful financial interests are behind a scheme to nominate Mr. Stephen Grover Cleveland of Princton, N. J., for president in 1908. The Ledger is in favor of Mr. C. B. Ay cock, of Golds boro, N. C., but would take Mr. Cleveland as a second choice in the event that 4 it is impossible to have the North Carolina gentle man. 0 0 0 Last Friday we took occasion to comment on the plaint of the Darlington Press for an improv ed cotton market in that town saying at the time that cotton was so high here we were una ble to buy a “shirt." The lyno- type operator set it up “short,” and then the astute proof read er went into collusion with him and let it stay that way. Now, ain’t it ridiculous for a prohibi tion editor to be talking about a “short?” school trustees meet “TIFF” FOR KOREAN IDOLS. • • • Some years ago a surveyor was elected on the board of coun ty commissioners for Pickens eoun y. Pickens county has more hills and dales than Cher okee. This surveyor went to work and laid off roads in that county that are a marvel. For miles and miles one can travel without going ud hill or down hill. If we remember aright the grade is not over 3 percent, on any point on those roads. True they are dirt roads, but they are level, and there is no reason why this county should not profit at the expense of Pickens. • • • Every man in Gaffney who pretends to do any kind of bus iness or who owns any property whatever, ought to become a member of the Board of Trade. Its aim is a high one, its plat form a broad one and its pur pose a noble one.^jCan’t you lend yourself to the scheme? We desire to say just a word in regard to the gentlemanly manner in which the Wofford boys conducted themselves while in our city last week. They certainly exhibited the fact that they were being trained in man ners as well as in rhetoric and mathematices. Dr. Carlisle and his assistants have reason to be proud of the Wolford boys. The Legder inadvertantly said last Friday that the city author ities were cleaning off the city hall park, and as a consequence there came dangerously near being a funeral, for the editor was swooped down upon by three members of the Woman’s Club, who proceeded to black guard him, and to pull his hair and to draw deadly weapons on him, until he was only too glad to escape their wrath and the wrath to come by hastily prom ising to take it all back. We said it simply to have our city council appear in a good light before the public, but we give the lazy, indifferent city % council due notice that in the future it will have to fight its own bat tle. Never again will we be guilty of attributing to that herd of iridifferents a good and worthy undertaking of the Wo man’s Club. We may have to leave town or fight some mem ber of the town councillor writ ing this, but blamed if we hadn’t rather fight every member of the town council and the mayor and the city clerk all put to gether, than to be jumped on by the Woman’s Club. Yes, ladies; we take it all back, and hereby notify the world, the Mesh and his Satanic Majesty, that the Woman’s Club and not the town council is responsible for the beautifying of the city hall park. And in all serious ness we say : “Hail and good day to the Woman’s Club,” and dad blast the town council. Superintendent, Principals and Teactv err. Are Elected The School Trustees of School Lis- ‘ ict No. 10 held a call ineetnx Friday nlKht and elected Prof. .1. T. S'>< urs superintend nt for the ensuing school .'ear. Prof. J. T. Weils was elected principal of the Central School. Miss Margurite Richardson was elected to preside over the primary department, Mrs. Wofford Humphries. Miss Au gustus Rrohawn. Miss l/ouise Sarratc, Miss carrie Sams and Miss Mary Bramlet were elected teachers for the Cenrral School. Prof. P. E. Shuford was elected principal and teacher of the Chero kee Avenue School. He will he as sisted by Mrs. Shnfford. Mrs. G. P. Hamrick was elected ro the Limestone School Miss Ida Crocker was elected to the Fairview School. There are to lie three other teach ers selected for the Central School at the next regular meeting of the board. For the colored school Rev. R. C. Campbell was re-elected principal. Tlie teachers will be Miss Littlejohn and Miss Garther. If we are not mistaken a large ma jority of those chosen to teach next year have been teaching in these schools several years and the fact that they have been re-elcted is a snlen- did testimonial to their w.orMi as teachers. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. SUPREME COURT INCIDENT. Justice Harlan'* Search For a Missing Package of Horehound Candy. Justice Harlan, la point of service the oldest member of the United States supreme court, is one of the most alert and attentive Justices during the hear ing of a case, says a Washington corre- spondent of the New York Post. Therefore It was with some surprise when, during tlie hearing of u Philip pine tax case a few days ago, tlie court attendants observed that lie was pre occupied and apparently paying no at tention to the argument. Ho shook ids gown and felt of It In Uio various places where one might naturally ex pect to find a pocket. All tlie time tiicre was a quizzical expression on Ids face ns if ho were saying, “Where in the name of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence did I put that pesky tiling?’' Finally, putting his hand beneath bis Judicial rolie of office, ho reached to a back pocket of ills trousers and drew therefrom u bag of horehound candy. He opened the mouth of tlie bag and passed It to Chief Justice Ful ler at his left. The chief Justice de clined with thanks. A similar Invita tion was then extended to the other justices, but none of them accepted the proffered treat except Justice White, who is Justice Unrlau’s Immedi ate neighbor on the right Justice White helped himself aud came back for more. The bag was of good size, but before the attorney had finished bis argument the two Justice* bsd emp tied It of Its contents. C. F. Inman and wife ivero irj the city shopping Saturday. R. It. Le Mas ter was in the city Monday looking after tlie interest of his store. L. C. Wormoth attended services at Boiling Springs Sunday. J. Materson Humphries, of Wood-’ ruff, attended the reception at Lime stone Friday night. F. X. Davis, of Gaffney R. F. D. No. 2 was in the city Friday on busi ness. M. C. Lipscomb, one of Cherokee’s largest pi a liters, was in the city Fri day on business. Joe Sparks, of the Spartanburg Herald dropped in to exchange fra ternal greeting last Friday. Joe was down with the good looking and gen tlemanly Wofford bunch. William Hoard, formerly of this eitv. but now' a resident of Winnsbo- ro. was hero Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. T. M. Littlejohn and daugh ter. of Jonesville, aro spending a lew days with Mrs. W. C. Wilson on Fred erick street. C. A. Wood, of Spartanburg, was shaking bands with his many friends i- the city Sunday. George. Lindsey and Park Littlejohn, who have for the past three vears been engaged in boring oil wells in La, came to the city Sunday evening, where they will visit their parents for several days. Mr. and Mrs M. L. Ross returned Saturday from Hot Springs, Ark., af ter a trip of several weeks. Miss Lucy Wood, accompanied by Mrs. W. C. Wilson, spent Saturday night and Sunda at her home at As- bury. Capt. Ira Hardin, of Blacksburg, was among the visitors to the city yesterday. Mrs. J. J. Littlejohn, of Jonesville. is visiting her sister. Mrs. R. A. Jones, Miss Pearl Whisonant, of Wilkins- ville, was in the city shopping yes terday. John C. Lipscomb is homo from West Virginia, where he has been several weeks looking after his rail road business. Seniors at Gaffney. (Spartanburg Herald.) Prof. D. A. DuPre took the geology class of Wofford college on a tour of inspection to Gaffney yesterday. Af ter digging their toes into prehistoric granite all day. climbing the hills of adamant about Gaffney, the boys don ned their “dikes" and attended the reception of the seniors to the Juniors of Limestone last night. They return ed to Spartanburg on an early train this mornlnrf. They report iiaving had one of the most enjoyable days of their lives. WELLMAN’S PLANS. Exph>r*r Tell* Aero Club cf Hie Scheme to Reach North Pole. Walter Wellman, the explorer, who will attempt next July to reneh the north pole witli a balloon, spoke nt some length of his plans bej'oru tlie meuiliers of the Aero Club of America at their rooms In New York. Tlie headquarters for the expedition will bo at Spitzbcrgen. Mr. Wellman, according to the New York Tribune, says tlie balloon will be covered with three tlik kni\;.;es of cotton, and under each thickness there will be a layer of rubber. Tlie craft will possess a lift ing power of IP.fiOO pounds, which will lie far in excess of what it will have to carry. The airship will carry 7,<X)0 pounds of gasoline, 3,000 pounds of food, twelve dogs, sleds and four per sons. A plan has been devised by which the balhmt of the balloon will not bo sand, as it was for tlie ill fated Andre expedition, but will lie an enormous "snako’’ made of leather and covered with steel scales, v hlch will be used as a drag. Tills “snake’* will be filled with provisions. During the summer mouths, according to Mr. Wellman, the wind in the p >lur region! hardly ever reaches a velocity of more than thirty miles an hour, and In case it is neces sary a drer anchor has lieen devised, uluo la tlu . jii.i of u “snako,'' which will be covered with stoei prongs nec essary to offset the wind. Instead of wasting the gasoline running against a bead wln/i this anchor will lie thrown out, and la case the wind blows not more than twenty miles an hour tlie balloon will remain stationary, Mr. Wellman came to New York to attend the wedding of hi* daughter. Mis* Rose‘Wellman. Mr. Wellman ex pects to start from Paris for Bpitxber gen In May with his new airship. Formerly Worthless Product of Mis souri Mines Muy LKuom* Valuable. Another use has been found for the products of the Mi.-sc.un-Kansas lend imd zinc mining district. J. Kava- uniigh will use u byproduct—tiff—In making idols for the worship of the Koreans, says a special dispatch from Joplin, Mo., to tlie St. Louis Globe Democrat. Kuvanjugh is now in Joplin secur ing a carload of the stuff that lias been the bane of mine ojierators for many years. Tiff is a mica-like formation, blialy and somewhat inclined to splin ter and, its specific gravity making it Liilicult to separate from ores, has worried operators greatly. How Kava- i.-nugb came to Joplin carries with it a pretty satire. He was directed to this field by a woman missionary in Korea. Herself teaching the Koreans to de sert the worship of hand made gods, she unwittingly told Kavanaugh where he could had the material he sought for the purpose of commercializing the ;od making business on an elaborate scale. This missionary is Miss Mary Ogles by, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., and whose brother is a roommate of Charles Ferry, employed in the Fred Harvey house at the Kansas City un ion depot. She gave Kavanaugh a let ter of introduction to her brother, who is also employed by Harvey, but Kava- naugh met Perry, who sent him to Jud- sou Jones nt V/ehii City, and on Jones’ advice he went to Joplin, learning that tiff Is more plentiful in Joplin and Galena (Kan.) mines than in Webb City. Kavanaugh was located in Pingyang, Korea, as the manager of some coal mines for the mikado. He saw the great demand for idols and seals among the natives and concluded It would lie a good tiling to establish an idol factory there. He learned that the Koreans required gods and seals to guard against ill luck that were bright and glittering, shapely and capable of withstanding hard usage, as the Ko rean carries Ids god and lucky seal around with him. Kauiiiaugli knew that tiff was found in California, but that it was too brit tle to stand grinding and shaping. The Missouri product, he learned, was amenable to such treatment, and ho went directly to Joplin. lie proposes to ship a carload of the stuff to Ping yang, open an hlol factory there In competition with the native god mak ers and give the people idols and seals more durable aud less costly than the article to which they are accustomed. Should the venture prove successful financially, and Kavanaugh believes it will, he expects to make the shipment of tiff from Joplin to ids Korean fac tory a regular thing in the future and thereby establish'*! market for the now worthless byproduct of the mines. Tb» Only Semi-We«Wy Newspaper In South Carolina At $ 1 .OO* ANIMAL DINNER A SURPRISE. Novel Birthday Feast Given to a New Yorker. A masquerade dinner, with the guests appealing In costumes representing va rious animals, was a feature of a re cent evening's social doings, says the New York Times. It was a birthday surprise dinner given to Lehman Strauss, tlie horseman, and his friends at his home, ool West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, New York. The guests were asked to gather in the afternoon. They were all at table when Mr. Strauss arrived, and their animal costumes completely hid their Identity. The decorations were all typical of animal life, tlie horse predominating. About the room were whips, spurs, saddles and other trappings of the horse. About the table, arranged taste fully amid floral designs, were large and small animals of various types. In tlie center of the table was a hay stack, and under it was a pair of horses wearing the blue ribbon which Mr. Strauss’ pair of harness horses, Delight and i mlightful, won at tlie lust national horse show. A Tramp Magazine. Everett Lloyd, a wandering genius with a brilliant idea, has made 1202 OT’urreil street, in Han Francisco, one of the stations of a Journey around the world, says the Kan Francisco Call. He publishes one number of tlie Vag abond, tlie only tramp magazine in ex istence, in every city that ho visits. Tlie next number will bear a San Fran cisco date and will come from the press on May 1. Each number is tilled with bright articles from the editor and lo cal contributors. Lloyd Is only twenty- four years old. After completing his tour of the larger American cities he will go to Europe to carry ont a similar programme. READ Th* Forthcoming Fourth. Ye*. Independence day, my boy, Will surely come this year, And you shad have your share of Joy, Of patriotic cheer. I'll bring you home u brand new sleigh ' And sharpen up your skates, And on the mill pond you shall play With all your little mates. And, as with boyish glee you run And glide upon the glare, Remember how George Washington Once crossed the Delaware. And over on the vacant ground A fort of snow we’ll plan, And I will be the Hessian hound And you the mlnuteman. We'll wallow deeply In the snow And think of Valley Forge— The wintry wallowlngs and woe Of the Immortal George. And we must not forget, my son, A duty that we owe: Before the glorious day is done We’ll to the village go, s And, gathered snugly round the rsd Hot Are of oak and birch. We’ll bear the Declaration said In the basement of the church. -New York Bun. 'F . ’ll THE LEDGER FOR ALL THE LATEST COUNTY, STATE AND FOREIGN NEWS THE LEDGER Is The Best Advertising Medium In Upper South Carolina It enjoys the LARGEST CIRCULATION in the Fifth Congressional District of South Carolina and has A LARGER CIRCULATION In Cherokee County Than Any Other Paper Its subscription IDt is a bonu fide one, each subscriber being paid in advance. The cir culation is in no sense padded and names are lifted from the list whenever time paid for' expires, thus saving the annoyance incident to dunning the people for back subscription. In other words, it reaches the people who have money to buy what they want. 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