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- , ,/£■ -i ( I.ARGE8T CIHCULAriON *» ^ny N«w*paotr In tn« c 'ifth Congressional District of t- C » Hv ONE PAID IN ADVANCE L HE LEDGER. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. ./■ QUARANTCI TM RlLlABILITY •f Evsry AdvW^lMf 'Vho Usss ths Columns Thlt Rapor. •JEtT ADVERTI9INQ MEDIUM. A Nsvwopspor In All Burt tits WoiB Implloo and Dsvotsd ts ths Bsst Interest of the Psjple of Chsrokee County. ' STABLISHEO FEB. 16. 1894. QAFFNEY, «. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 21. 1907. $1.00 A YEAR. A ROMANCE OF INTEREST. a Sad Clos- though pen of the THROUSHCUl THE PSiMETTO SUTE. ITEMS OF INTERST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happnings A'l Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges •Tnd Tersely Tcid to Ledger Readers. Governor \n.-el Tin -(l;n issued a requisition for James Ropers, a ne- pro wanted in l^inpstree for murder of liis uiude. wlio lias li'-eti eaupr'nl In Atlanta. Til- Wood niff Mills, at Woodruff, deelared an extra dividend of 2 per cent, on the ir.th of ihis month. The repular :• jiej- eem dividend will he declared the first of July, as usual. Count. Supervisor W. i). Starling has fixed the second Tuesday in Au gust as the date for the dispensary election in Richland county. There is considerable speculation on the result, hut it is believed that it will be voted out. The money lend* rs in Charleston whose place; of business were closed by the city because the lenders re fused to pay a license of $1,00ft, have scared an injunction against ilm city ter of their own. Mr. Thomas ac- A pleasing Story With in a Scene. The following pretty, little story is from th< Gaffney correspondent, of the Green ville .News. It is reproduced here because it relates to a chapter in the life-story of one of Gaffney’s promi nent, citizens: Gaffney, June 13—A romance of peculiar inrerest has just R aked out. Its origin dates hack to 18G1, when a company of South Carolina soldiers were on picket duty at Centreville, near Fairfax cour- house. The War- renton Riiles were encamped there .and three young ladies were making tin effort to get by the picket, lines, and were held up by vho guard. The officer in charge was Lieut. D. A. Thomas, of Company F., 1st South Carolina Infantry SHORT NEWS ITEMS it NEWSY IETTER OF LOCtl INTEREST.! FROM WILKINSV LIE, TAKEN TO PRISON. EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. MOVEMENTS OF ”HE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Franc H. jone s Goes to Atlanta on Six-Yea r Sentence. Charlotte, X. C. June 18.—The chronicle says: Franc H. Jones left Charlotte this of United 11 o'clock Recent Happening* in and Around °ersona; Paragraph* Concerning Pop the City and Other Even.« Gather- ular People and Short Items of ed by the Locai N«w« Editor. that Section. There was nr, mayor’s court . * s ", Wilkiusville. June 19.— Mr. G. lerday morning. | Wash Garner, of Kelton was In this The Victor Cotton Oil Compau s '‘ ction !l sl> or t tin ie Saturday, will run by electricity next year He is (l millwright by trade. President .1. N. Lipscomb has con- As soon ts crops are laid by the traded with the Southern Power for happy fainilx reunions will wiio asked the fair Company for power. morning in the ■ custody States Marshal Sims at tor the federal prison in He would have been tuk nig lit. but was held her in the preliminary he; THR0U6H0UT THE TARHEEL STATE. RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. mifs to show their passports. Onoof tin girls askial for a palmetto button, from sin* took a gold bracelet, aim and gav<- it to him. Mr. Thomas, who is now a resident 'ho afternoon, ot Gaffne..', and is commander of Jake Carpenter Camp of II C. V.. and lather of Sheriff W W. Thomas, has had tha; bracelet ever since, till a few months ago, when ids wife suggested that tie make an effort, to find the lady who gave it to him, or one of her descendants, arid return it to its proper owner, as they na<i no daugh ter well filled baskets. Grassy and Tiove Springs will cross hats in nut most of them will b© op -n and we hope an enjoyable There will be a basket picnic at time is in store for all our readers and tlie young officer cut one from his l>»ve Springs Saturday, .Tune 22nd. w j 10 ^ a j ; , fe advantage of it. Some «oat and gave it to her. In return Everybody is Invited to^ attend ^itn ) ( ^ (jf „ )in ^ to Tpxas on a v - lsI , take in the irnestown exposition and many will „ r i xtend their trip to Richmond and Rev. John F. M a the son and his vyasiiingtoh and also visit somi* of charming wife arrived in the city , ^] 1( , Virginia itattleflelds—especially yesterday morning and spent the ^p |**mit\sular section. Quite a day here. They were the guests of Ilimibt , r of ol(1 soid^.,^ WKnt to sjo Mr. and Mrs. j. D. Jones. They will probably move here by July 1st. away last to testify ng of C. Boyce Belt. He spent the night in the count\ jail and appeared at the ! government building this morning | apparemlv una’iashed and in good spirits. At;er it was made known tiiut furl per testimony from him .vouhl he useless was again timed over to the mar-1 shai to await the getting ot Albert Stewari. an old u nite man, who goes . , , to prison U, serve a term of l.% months ,ho ™ 1, - h investigation into the cause lor blockading. Neither of the pris- '>f w reck will be made. oners were handcuffed. ^ charter is granted the Bufort J ew peep e -lathered at tile court Ranking & Trust Company, capital room Mils morning io see > he last of ( stoc j. $30,000. jj. W. Taylor and others mi was P ie * | stockholders. The State also author- pai in.g Mount ! lor the journey Jones , izeg the yj ctor Manufacturing Com- |tem s of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors ' n th* Old North State Clipped from Our Exchange*. Mrs. Marv Gridnstaff. of Sylva, this morning he\V'° was iiljured in , f last , \ Ionda J[ P . night s wreck on the Murphy branen 1 of the Southern railroad, died Tues ' day evening. It is stated that A authorities restraining them from ur- ther proceedings until a hearing is had next Saturday. Siarks Garner, a prosperous farm er of Union, committed suicide Tues day by shooting himself through the heart, with a gun. Garner and hT entire family had been ill with fever. It. is supposed that the disease had weakened bis mind. Fie was the best man physically i n the county. The case of the State vs. A. B. Jordan, editor of the Dillon Herald, Indicted for criminal libel, was nol pressed in court at Chesterfield Court. HottSf. Tuesday morning, after a written statement in regard to the The board of Public cordingly wrote to the Hon John It. Turner, clerk of court at Warronton, W, asking him if the young lady was still alive and if she were mar ried. Mr. Turner wrote him that she was still living, and a correspond ence was begun. Mr. Thomas now has in his possession, and values be yond price, the letter from Mrs E. F. KJoman, nee Miss Agnes Pickett expect to lie Helm, telling him about her family, October, stating that one of her daughters had married a South Carolinian. The story of the affair is thus told in a T i mes-Dl spa I eh rejtor;; “A little romance of peculiar in terest and not wholly without senti ment, has recently come to light in Warrenton, in which a popular and Fletcher Smith has sold his pretty little home on Race street to Dr. Malcomb Goudelock. Mr. Smith has rented the house now occupied by Dr. Goudelock iiUfi they expect to ex change residences about July 3rd. such a mission which the short time il iwed for the U. C. V. reunion wt/iihiii’t admit of. Mr. John Dowdh. an old soldier a membei of Company B.. 12th S. C. regiment, who took sick at Yorkville tin* day of the unveiling of the ('<in r derate monument, is still very sick .it his home at Sharon in York Works has countr. i Mesdanies \Y. G. and ,T. H. Fowler were called to the south side of Pacolet. last week on aceoiu t of sick ness in their respective families. Mr. John Sprouse, father of Mrs. Win. G. Fowler, died last Saturday and v as buried at Foster’s Chapel Mr. j. T. 1 jaughlin, who has t»een 1nst Sabbath. An immense crowd contracted with the Electrical Power and Manufacturing Company for electric power to un the city light ing plan* and pumping station. They using the power in tae for sat guieih in the hallway of the building by ids attorney and one or two friend'- woo chanced to drop by and bid him fareweii. The prisoner was smoking l.iis second cigar after ids breaklas; ;ll ! m . jail and seemed tiiorougiily resigned to bis fate. Oc- e.isioiialiy ne would smile and at no d.ii uu ne appear to think ol the prison /-ell tmit awaited He looked ■ tae man wm.i was glad to forget the past He attracted little atten tion at the depot. v.iil Get Out in Four And a Half Years. If Joii'-s makes a good prisoner it is stated that he will nol have to serve more Ilian four and a half pany. of Fayetteville, w’hich make* cotton goods, to increase 5*® capital stock to $2f>ft,000. The fifth annual conventiou of the North Carolina Retail Merchants' Vssociation met in the assembly room of the Gilford-Benhow Hotel inGreens- boro Tuesday. The first session was attended by about 73 delegates, ’mt fully twice that number were there fop the night session The McNeill Manufacturing Com- pany. W. I). McNeill president, and C. L. Pemberton secretary, has given 1 the contract to Lockwood. Green & Gompany. of Boston, Mass., for the *ar- ot his six-yeat senu-jice. Three construction and equipmen- of their charges had been submitted by Mr. well known matron of this town was Jordan and accepted as a satisfac- the heroine. I- happened in 18C1,the tory retraction by the prosecutors. first year of the war, when the War renton Rifles were camping near Grave fears are felt, over the con- Fairfax court house at a little place dition of Deputy Sheriff Will Elbert ■••illci] Centreville., Three Warren- Gilbert, of Fairfield county, who is ton girls were on their way to see under treatment at the Columbia their brothers, or perhaps, sweet- hospital The popular young officer hearts in the Warrenton Rides and was dangerously wounded, it will be were held up by the picket guard remembered, while he was at Rion’s j n command of Lieut. D A. Thomas, several weeks ago His pistol drop- of Company E., 1st. South Carolina ped from his pocket and went off. Infantry, and asked u, show a pass living at Union for some time, ar rived in th 0 city Monday with his family and will make Gaffney his future home. Mr. I^aughlin is no stranger hero and h 0 and his family are welcomed with outstretched arms to their old home. attended his funeral. Mrs. Robert Lawson, mother of Mrs. John n. Fowler, was at last ae- Magistrate r, Frank Camp yester- da- received his commission from the Governor He will probably be sworn in today and at once open up for business. Mr. Camp is well and favorably known and has had con siderable experience in keeping the peace and should make a splendid magistrate. Mayor Little is n success as a truck gardener. He purchased IftO cabbage count! ed. Rev Salem n i rrh t. very low and no life expect- T. F. Boozer preached at la-u Sabbath and Sabbath Tie had good congregations at each service. The new ohti ;h at Skull Shoals was d -dicated last Sabbath. Rev. J. D. Bailey, of Cowpens, preached the sermon as was announced. A very large congregation was present. It is reported that a mad llog was in the Wilkinsville neighborhood a few days ago and bit some other dogs and a yearling. The little tilt reported to have Jiionibs are reduced from each year tor good behavior. It is probable, however, that thi> prisoner will get at least two vacations long before his sentence expires. He will likely ue ■ taken to Greensboro to testifv in the ey.se against i'et'ey G. Fcmville next October, and it* December he maybe jeturned here to appear as u witness | ugiiinst (.'. Boyce Ueli. It is under stood that Jones' testimony will be used by the government in its effort to convict Beil and Fonville. cotton mill at Manchester to run 10,- "ftft spindles and 2ftft loo The dam for the water power ts already built. A sensation was sprung a* High Point Tuesday evening. when it was learned that the wife of Oscar Kearns, who was found dead in the woods near that place Monday eye ing. had applied for a warrant charg ing Officer Sechrest with the killing of he r husband, it f s claimed that the negro had been gambling and ie was fast mail ♦hat he was shot twice while running by Officer Sechrest Sen* -atlonal developments were e X p GC t. the heavy bullet ploughing its way port. In ;i little conversation which plants for 2<> cents and from them has take,, place at Union court last week through the liver and stomach. naturally followed, one of the young raided enough cabbage for the use between Solicitor Sease and Lawyer ladies asked the lieutenant for a of his family and has sold about DePass, has furnished the gossip The ease 0 f Silas 'Worthy, a negro palmetto button from his uniform, three hundred pounds at 3 1-2 cents managers with all the material they boy, against trie .Tonesville Oil Mills which no gallantly gave her, and in for ?2flft.00ft damages for loss of a return for which she gave him No. 97 Again. Il is reported that the train on the Southern, No. 97, be- l p( j tween New York *nd New Orleans,-' ' ... is to be put back on the road with Tim property owners on side peraaps the snm e schedule as be- of Tolsnot swamp neap Wilson have .oie, though Agent Ezell has not yet agreed to employ an engineer to sur- beeu notified as to just what time it vev said swamp with the object to will pass Gaffney. It will handle the having it drained Fomm’ssioner mail that No. -13 now carries, thus Wright, of the \grP'ii!ru"u ; Denart- getting the New York papers in ment. recently made an add-.*-/ at several hours earlier. Wilson on the project, and it 'is No Id was taken off some time reasonably certain that the owners ago, and there was much dissatis- of the lands on the stream pur- lactiou on account of it, because chas© a dredge and do the w-,r; : . A hand by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants, was taken up in court in Union am] the judge rendered a verdict for the defendant about noon Monday. Both these cases have been to the Supreme Court, where new trials were ordered. Tues day afternoon, Amos against the .Tonesville Manufacturing Company suit for $10,000 damages for neg ligence. causing the death of an em ployee, was settled by compromise on a basis, it is said, of $1,000. .Tames Broad waters and Ernest Revels, who were arrested at Con ga vo nun a gob! bracole. she then wore on her arm. and in which her name (A. P. H.) was scratched, perhaps with a pin. This occurred on the morning that (he hrav© find intrepid Capt. John Quincy Marp was killed, near Fairfax court house, and the pickets were under strict orders to allow no one to pass. "Years have passed since that mem orable morning, and while the paths of these two young hearts have been wide apart, yet the mem ories of that morning did not fade, and i fly a leltep to Mr. John R. Turner, clerk of the circuit court, per pound, besides giving away a lot need for the present. Both of these ma<i ® a °^ s f e . v ® ral h f ours lD !ar f\ of fertile land to friends. One head raised in his gentlemen and their friends no doubt .. 0l T ?f w ° .'.V, 0-51 redaimed on the compleMo; garde n weighed sixteen pounds, regret tho affair but they deserve . benefit *th\ ^ on . p wor h- That’s raising som e cabbage. ’ credit for Hie manly course of trying facilitate the mail W the issue on the muscle. It’s much tn , e ,uai d ® Ilve , r >' a11 “ v er Mr. Rev. John F. Matheson, the new I11or e credit to both This style of bouth along the Southern s route, ville, pastor of the Presbyterian church fighting is hard work, especially when „„„ sl . , en _tS°\ . wil1 1,6 but on dr,nt preached at that church last night, both parties are equally matched in courag ( , and physical strength. But, win ne of -he IBs discourse was aide, instructive and entertaining. He is by far the bovs. it’s mightv hard on old clothes, most attractive minister the Pres- Mr T M Muilinax, of Troy, one of byterians have yet brought to this -piK, Ledger’s ardent supporters, at- city and il is believed his coming (ended the dedication of Skull Shoals means much for this church and the church Iasi Sabbath. Prof. A. G. community as well. He is an ex ceedingly clever Christian gentle man. Davis, of Mercer, was there too. Lain mails, be a benefit to this C. V. Henkel, of States- has been elected oresl- . of the Tennessee and Ken- can not be said, but it is an assured Dicky Horse and Mule ' on.pany, (act that it will be some time in the which was organized a- Knovville. very near future. Tenn., last week with a capital --nek - — of $73.ft<l0. The company will do a Postoffice to be Moved, general stock business and v il! he- Mr. A. F. Trotter, of the Postoffice gin operation in the earlv fall. Al- pepartment, Washington, U. C., was though Mr. Henkel i s interested in m the city Wednesday. Mr. Trotter this company. In* will con’inu-^ to Timber Rid ne Topics. Timber Ridge, June IS.—Mrs. Sal- lie Goudelock and daughter, Miss Carrie, of Pacolet. are visiting rel atives here tins week. We are glad to report our sick without requisition paper* and the name was given, officials had M'return to •Tennessee other letters wore News reached us bv ’phone. last ' lotill<id tfl e owners of the store room live In Statesville and will as he r e- Mondav morning that Dr. T. B. “° w ^cupied by th© local postoftice tofore give his personal ar'e.-.-ion to Whitesides was dead. But later In l ) iat th ® oll,ce w °uld be moved at the business 0 f the Henkel Live the (j a y the report was conradicted. 111 e expiration of the present lease,: stock Company. But yesterday morning it was an- ,anuur >' lst . J1KI8. Mr. Trotter closed nounced that his death took place a < : 01 ?[ ia< '’- " l1 ^ Mr. L. Baker to build .\t a meeting Tuesday -oek- <ui Monday night about 11 o'clock at ,l . U1 1U S to be used by the post- holders of the American NaHonal ills home at Blacksburg. This news ^ yevnpied by Bank, recently formed at Asheville for the conduct of a genera! banking business with a capital of $200,000, a permanent organization was effect- i- j j 11 iix, ^ 1 brought grief to a large number of ,• "alter Baker. The building will - ■ rick bui --- modern pens several days ago. have been re- frfim Lieut. Thomas, now of Gaffney, leased on hail. They are charged s r, inquiring if this voung ladv with being fugitives from justice from still lived in this community, and if Newport. Tonn Two officials were she was married, ere The reply sent by the State of Tcnnosse© 10 carried the information that she had , carry the men to that Stnte for lon<r been married and continues to 1-1 ' mim^ui 1 m .i ...n*.,,, . . . , • , , punishment, Jmt they refused to go live in this place and her married 1 foll: ' s 1,ct " ,r n 1 tllis writing, though friends and acquaintances who were a two-stoiy brick building with to g» m this piac, anu n< r marrn o , ^ j c Tate ifi still verv r, looking for it. His funeral will take st « a ni heat and modern in every Miss Bessie Allen, of the Corinth pi ; , rp 7u Salem today where he will ies liect. The postoffice will be on without their men. According lothe jVhe , twol”'r^uuing , Tn "thr’reTurrof i 8 f ction ’ 8,M * nt SuD l ay t here wilh hor ’>«’ burled at 11 o’clock a. m. adloin^iTon^b^ J WU1 story told by. ftroadwafeks and Revels ! rp© , )r acelet and with the remiest I sister ’ M,s - «• 0 - Tat(: ' We have known Dr. Whitesides U ou the south side. Mr. Arthur Goudelpck, of Pacolet, f,. on , our ea rly boyhood days—in fact spent Sunday here with relatives. wo were boys and schoolmates to- Death of Joseph Clary. .Rev. and Mrs. T. - B. Owen, of get her We told our ledger readers Joseph Clary, a highly resepeted eom© effective, the newly organized Gaffney, visited our sick and spent something of him in our letters more 1 ' e - sll *ont of this city, died Wednes- bank having taken over all ’h~ stock Saturday nigUt here with Dr. T. O. than a year ago—how kindly he and ‘‘ay night after a lingering illness, of the Blue Ridge National Bink at Tate and sisters. his most excellent wife treated us at . - request. they were advanced money* by a cot- r ), i(f |, pe given t„ the daughter hear- ton mill at Newport for their fare to j n g her name” Gowpens. where they * claimed to be Th( . S( . q11 ,., to lho slory is sad. going on a wisit. They secured work r- was | m r ;i fe w ' weeks after the at Cowpens ami did not. return. ' . PmcUflf. • was returned tliat he follow- « tt . - ;ing clipping was sent to Mr Thomas h,s nLj.rS Tv, R - T Warrenton.' Virginia bv Mr. has negotiated, througn the Palmet- T„ rTlf , r . T ’ “MTS. Edward F Kloman died at usual loan for $2oft.fi00. which tbe; hftr - in Warronton OT> Thurs-1 ,Ion •‘d and the officers and dlrec f ors of Hie bank were chosen On July 1st the consolidation of the American National Bank with the Blue Ridge National Bank of Asheville .vi!! be lli his younger days Mr. Clary was Most of our farmers are replanting their home in Blacksburg. regarded as wild and reckless, but | their corn this week. h<* married Miss Maria Leech, one 111 atel be had sobered down $200 a share. George Washington Jone- lored, day. May 2. after a short illness. In State makes regularlv at this time of 2® TT r Thp m^ e v te th v i ber' yoiiith 'she'was'a^very’atitTtive Commerce, New York city. rKon ]atPr om , of There i R no money coming into the State treasury at thirf season and so the treasurer has to seek funds in New York. One note, is given for $130.ftftft and another for $100,000 Of this amount, about $143,000 is to be user] to pay the interest on the bond er debt of the State, the coupons for gentlest, of matrons, and later still * entered up on her declining years wirh the af- feetioriale regard of all wno knew her. She j s survived by a husband and large family of sobs and daught: '•rs, all of whom were present at her funeral, ami have grown up to be a Colton Is very shabby in this sec- among the best girls ever raised in a “ d wab fading an upnght life. Mr. 25 years of age. was found beside >n. York countv who still survives him * ary ^ atJ about thirty-eight years of the track on the beach lin-* near The scholars of the Timber Ridge a ,„i w ], 0 founts he r friends by the aae - 1,6 was a -’nember of Corinth Wrightsville Beach Monday night. that are to take part hundreds. Everybody loves her and Ua Ptist church. Deceased leaves a both legs cut off and his bodv badly m's Day exercises, are f . a ]i 8 |,f r “Aunt Rice." w " e aud large family of small child- multilated. The which cre paynhlc the first „f Jnly. IS"’"'!' "> •»' lovo while the balance is needed for cur rent expenses. i n guiding their young lives Her funeral took place from the Episcopal church on Saturday After being out from late M ondav ,a «t ™d " as a,tPnd /‘ d b y a ♦ mi<il r,ogrU- ir. r.v.wi- number of her friends.” Sunday school in Hie Children requested to meet at the school r,. am j yR-s, Whitesides are mem house Sunday morning. i„. rs 0 f two of the largest and wealth- Miss Clarrissa Hames and brother, i© s t families of Western York. FI'teller, paid our Sunday school an R„ r |„ R tlie greater part of the war appreciated visit Sunday. (especially the latter part of it) Dr. Mrs. Walton Littlejohn, of Gaffney, Whitesides was an assistant surgeon is spending a few dajs here with i,, the Confederate army where he Mrs. R. M.Littlejohn. gained quite a reputation as a sur- M-s. J. D Carter is very sick at g, ;on and practitioner of medicine, this writing. She is having chills. Several years ago he gave up the wish her a speedy recovery. afternoon until nearly 1ft o’clock Tuesday morning, the jury charged with the trial in Columbia of l/*wis Rvers for the murder of his step-son, OIL or G Lanahan, failed to agree Boys Drowned. Anderson. June 18 - Gordon niiiil Rov Bannister, two lads of ten motorman '*n the ren to mourn their loss. The funeral last car to the beach saw a hat on will take place at Corinth church to- the cro.-s ties in front of ’aim and day ami will be conducted by Rev. stopped hj s cflr to investigate, and go- C. F. t elmet in^ forward he picked up the hat and was attracted to the negro some dis- A Hail Storm. tance away by a groan He la; be- A severe hailstorm visited this side the track in a half conscious oection Wednesday, doing consider- condition and fearfully multilated. able damage. About twenty-six acres He was drunk on the sound, and was of corn at the county farm was probably struck by the car going to We wish her a speedy recovery. practice of medicine and devoted his literally stripped. John Painter's town just ahead of that on which the Messrs. Will Carter, Winford and'attention to his farm of which he cro P wa s al s o severely injured, also mortorman was running who found large, f ,i S Pf , Uy of Cor i n th, were among made fair success. Though he had Barney Clary’s and a number of him. • those who visited our Sunday school not been active in the practive of ethers. At Limestone the hail fell Sunday. 1 medicine for a long time, yet his ad- ’ n large quantities, covering the Commssion’s Order. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Tate were Gaff- vice was often sought for by those ground in places, as well as doing Columbia, June 18.—The railroad HIHjney visitors Friday. | j n need of such services, this he! con8idera bl e damage to the corn, commission today issued an order f pon a verdict. Judge Dantzler j years, were drowned this afternoon herefore ordered a mistrial. Byers, in the pond at the Gluck mills, who has been in confinement since' These lads were in swimming nnd the homicide, on March 7th, now goes got into deep water. The pond is back t/> jail, there to remain until i about fifteen feet deep in the deep- again brought forth for trial, unless he shall in the meantime arrange for his release on bail, which is said to be improbable. The second trial of the case will hardly commence be fore the next term of the general ses sions court in September. —Fresh cantaloupes at F. B. Gaff- nerV esl place. They sank and before as sistance could roach them life had departed. Coroner Pruitt went to the scene this afternon hut decided an inquest unnecessary, as death was due to accidental drowning. These boys lived with their parents in the mill village about three miles south of the city. The deaths have cast a gloom over the mill village. in our last letter the type (or our j gave freely and many are the families e tc. that the rules of the Southeastern own error) made us Ray that Mrs. J. of his neghborhood who no doubt; Car Service association must comply S. Carter and Mrs C. V, Tato at-i saved large doctor bills bv his gene-, Officers Eleced. ! win the rules of the commission In tended services at Corinth. It should 1 msitv and kindness as well as his i At the meeting of the board of a number of cases they do not. For have boen Messrs. J. S. Carter and knowledge of medicine and diseases. ; directors of the Cotton Stalk Fiber instance the association has a shorter For more than two years he has ' -Machine Company held at Urn office number of hours for cars to be un- C. V. Tate, as there is no ‘‘Mrs.’’ in either case. We are having plenty of garden eatables and the blackberries are getting ripe. They will be all the fruit we will have. Blue Eyes. In throwing a fi s h out of the water Editor DeCarnp gives a good imita tion of "Bugs” Raymond in action. been medical examiner on the board of pensioners of Cherokee county and so far as we know, or have reason to believe, he discharged his duty faithfully and conscientiously. Whatever may be said .of him no body could truthfully charge him with ‘‘littleness of soul." Peace to his ashes and calm to his memory. j. L. 8. of J. C. Otts in this city on Wednes- loaded than the commission Piles al- day, at 3 p. m., the following officers low. Violations of this ord**;- will be were elected. President, J. Eb. Jef-1 prosecuted, lories; vice-president, J. A. Carroll; secretary, B. G. Kuhne; treasurer, Chas. Hames; general manager, J. L. Daniels; attorney, j C. Otts. An assessment of twenty per cent of subscriptions was called for pay able July 1st, 1907. You can’t tell a woman'.- ag * af ter Rh® takes Hollister’s Rocky Moun tain Tea. Her complexion is fine. She is round, plump, and handsome; in fact she is young again. 35 cent*, Tea or Tablets. Gaffney Drag Oo.