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THE L* <GE8T CIRCULATION of Ary Newspaper In tlt« c htt< Conareaalonal ulstrict of E. C. t^ERY C 'IE PAID IN ADVANCE i he Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. .. Jl *R4NTfc.i THE RKLlAtILlT# Evor v AffvertlMr L'raa tho Columns of This Papor. VEST ADVERTISING MED UM. A Nowspapor in All |kaA tSa Word Impllts and Dsvotsd to tho Boat IntOrOat of the Pejple of Chorokec County. CSTABL1SI ED FEB. 16. 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C, TUESDAY. JULY 9. 1907. •1.00 A YEAR. THE CELEBRATION GREAT SUCCESS. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. E/ GOVERNOR EVANS MAKES A SPLENDID SPEECH M. "esm—Other Features l c‘0’!i'.-‘- ':.\F)eot<-(l, Mu* \ W'i ro. all; c»‘l<*bratod iui The celebration was • ■ ys as the indomitable i- found throughout f'herokoe would not al- of such a nature at- any tiling hut a success. From early morning until well toward Gaffney Eea: C. A. Bai of the Day. As was <i Four] h of .lul; in G affney ai a gr* par succ spirit which Gaffn ey and low anythine tempted to ed noon crowd could be seen Hocking to the beautiful and historic grounds of Limestone. As a famous visitor to the city for the day remarked to the newspaper representative: "These grounds hallowed as In y are hy memories of former days and this representative crowd is a combina tion that cannot he heat for an occassion of this kind.’ The day passed off quietly with absolutely no brawls or o'her disturbances. The first event of the day was a baseball game between Grassy pond and a team composed of players from Corinth and th f . Gaffney .Manufactur ing Company. The game resulted in a victory for the Grassy Pond team. Following the baseball game Hon. John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg, ■x-Goverm r ,,i' South Carolina, claim the atunuori of three thousand icople who lb- enod attentively to ivory word of the distinguished ponker After being introduced in l few well chosen words by Capt. .1. Roll for more than an hour he do- Ighted his audience with a speech hat was replete with wit and wis- k.ni. Many people who heard the r oech of Governor Evans pronounc 'd i: the strongest argument they u.il heard in years. Following the oration of the day .he majority of the people dined rom well filled baskets, another ’eature that is typical of Cherokee, tftor dinner the special events of he afternoon were pulled off The rreased pig was first loosed and after i difficult ehasp wuas rounded up by jlias. Duncan. The lamb race was next n which many charming little mhses howe,] how ileet they were of foot. Irace Mosoly captured the lamb. In ilirnhing the greasy pole Grady "’oyle showed himself to he an adept it this peculiar accomplishment. Two barrel races were Indulged in dip horizontal and one quarter mile ace. Broad us Lipscomb was the vinner in the fir^t while Clayhurn lumnhries was victor in second. Ule n Humphries and Tvuiis Elliot icd in the wheelbarrow race and livid ej the prize money. Lester ’hillip:- won the pota'oe race Louis Elliot wa i the winne r in the quarter iiilp foot race. Going Hays won the mat. race Ray Campbell was the vinm r in a quarter mile race. The including feature of the day was a jaseball game between Gaffney and he strong club representing the y d. C A of Spartanburg. Thp asso- dation men put ip a game fisht but p! a ; ri; ,.d hey were no match for the “Indians” if Gaffney who never let up and vlien the smoke 0 f battle had cleared iway it was discovered hat Gaffney lad epured six run while Spartan- mr:.- had to he sati fled with three. iVood who twirled for Gaffney had visitors a* hi mercy throughout at no time was h" in danger of ing his game. He yielded hut four s and forced six batters to swing vain for the elusive sphere, acham, for Spartanburg yielded *ve f hit? and struck out five id v E G Ross leaves this morn ing for Union, when* he goes to visit hs brother He will he accompanied bv Mrs. Ross. Misses Maud and Jenelle Thomp* i ori afe at home again after a visit to their sister. Mrs Stanley Mason, in Richmond, Va. W p Lister and Thomas Haynes, (,• Hiffside. x. G., were in the city Saturday. Har'-nec p Sullivan, of Anderson, was in the city Saturday. \Y s. Wofford, of Charlotte, N. C., uw in the city Saturday. W D Dent, of Greenville, was in t ie city Saturday. Roy P Brown, of Greenville, was in Gaffney Saturday. A. M Pettit, of Alachan, Fla., Is in 'hi city visiting his many relatives and frinds. Mr Pettit has just re turned from a trip to the Jamestown • iposii ion. Gapt. J. B. Bell was a business .a iior <o Spartanburg yesterday. Jessie Bradley visited the Ledger Office yesterday with two cotton blooms One opened on July fifh and ih" other July 8th. Mr and Mrs. W. F. Humphries li ave todav for Waynesvllle, N. C., where they will spend the summer. Mis.i. Belle Littlejohn, of Converse, was in the city last week the guest of her sisiter, Mrs. H. Ij. Spears. ^fnlli H Si-pitch, of Mt. Paran, U the attractive guest of Miss Cyn thia McCraw. E. L Cole t, as returned to the city after spedng hir vacation in New York. Mipc Georgiti Young, of Forest. City, X. C spent July Uh in C.affn«>y. Misses Pearl Lookout and Jessie ITamhriaht pent the tth in Caffney. Mr and Mrs. George p. Thomas. r Grover. X C. v >re in Gaffney for the ft h it B Whitesides, of Smyrna, was Gaffney visitor last week. J M McGill, of Hickory Grove, was in the city ^riday. P L Thomas, of Paoolot. was in 'he city for the events of the 4th. Dural pinkerd, who has been with Carroll & Byers for some time, has returned to his home in Greenville. Miss Lucy Tolleson, of Spartan- luirsr. is the charming guest of friends in this city. Messrs. Loon Tolleson. Willie Wrigtsom Sam Black. Wilbur Can non Jimme Layton, Clarence Tolles- son. R Hopkins and Irwin Magnoss, of the Y M. C. A. baseball team of Spartanburg, wer© registered at the Commercial Thursday. W A. Sutton, of Columbia was In the city Friday. Messrs. F. H. Sexton and M. C. Sanders, of Union, spent several days of last week in Gaffney. John T. Stephens, of Kershaw, was iii Gaffney Friday. •Mi's Louise Shell, of Spartanburg, is the guest of Miss Wilma Gaffney. Wells Littlejohn, of S’arr. Is the guest of his parents. Dr and Mrs. C. M Littlejohn. W. J. Moorehead, of was In the ci'y Friday. Miss Laura Duff has the city after a visit to Blacksburg. Pressly Duff of Baltimore. Md.. js the guest of his father. Mr. J H. Duff os- Ea t Fred.Tic]; street. SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. Blacksburg, returned to friends In L.st of Letters. Recent Happenings | n and Around th* City and Other Event* Gather ed by the Locai New* Editor. Rev. C. F. Felmet will conduct services at Draytonvllle church on next Sunday. Mayor’s court Saturday morning had one case on deck. A white man paid one dollar for a. little too much fun. When the mayor called for mayor’s court yesterday morning nobody re sponded hut the police officers, city clerk and Ledger reporter. The jury In the case of Setzler vs. Spake was dismissed Thursday morning. They failed to agree on a verdict and a mistrial was ordered. Judge R. O. Purdy left Saturday evening f or pig home in Sumter, after having been the presiding judge in Gaffney for the past two weeks of court. The regular serviceo will be held at Limestone Springs Baptist church next Sunday at 11 o’clock. A cor dial invitation is extended to all hy the pastor. Rev. E. C Ross. Xo meeting of the city council was held Friday night, which was the regular meeting nig] t The council will meet tomorrow evening. There will be no prayer meeting service on Wednesday evening at the Limestone Presbyterian church hut services on next. Sab hath at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. There, was a splendid congregation at Midway Sunday. There was one addition hy letter. A protracted meeting will commence at this church o n the first Sunday in August. Superintendent of Education J. L. Walker announces that he has a scholarship at Meridian College worth sixty dollars which he will give to some worthy young lady. A force of carpenters were engag ed Friday in repairing the office of the postal Telegraph Company which, when completed, will improve the ap pearance of the office very much Hon. W D. Kirby was called to Cedar Springs Saturday to attend the funeral sendees of his oldest sis ter, Mrs. Lizzie Smith, wife of Mr. T>. M. Smith, who Hve? near Pauline. A treat is In store for the citizens of Cherokee county this month. On July 3lst E. D Smith, r. H Weston and T H Hyatt will be in Gaffney to address the Cotton Growers Asso ciation. An effort is being made by the management of the Gaffney Base Ball Club to arrange a game of base >al] for this week with Blacksburg. of this year. On all three the thermo meter hovered in the top of the nineties un ( ] even night brought hut little relief. Summer, though late in i arriving, is here now in all her fury. Mr. A. W. Dog.-ctt, who for years has been a familiar figure } n Gaffney business circles, has sold his grocery business on Limestone street to Mr. K. B. Wetherford. of Augusta. Ga. who now conducts •]),, business. Mr. Doggett has not yet announced his future plans. i; A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVIK F. LOWER CHEROKEE. Car.iorSphu Ooeeerrinn Ron Only one ease mnm-ared in mayor’s court Friday morning, that of an automobilp owner who had exci* ih il the speed limit. This is the first in stance of an appearance on this charge since the ordinace regulating the speed of the machines was nas«- ed by 'he council. The summer term of the court of common pleas adjourned >>n Satur- dav evening. The la«* case tried ,v*is that of Davis vs. Nnthonv This case resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $17’ This was a land case in wnch the difference in nrice of some land figured. All members o p Elbethel church are requested hy the pastor to be present on tpo firs Sunday in August. Services will be held in both fore noon and afterno m with dinner on the grounds. A meeting of several days will tip coni .’"need Saturdav at 3:30. The pastor will announce his help at a later date. The court of common pleas was engaged Friday morning with the ’rial of Rippy vs Southern Railway for damages sustained i, v him while engaged i,, working for the ilef.'ml- ant at Blacksburg \t the dose of the plaintiff’s testimony the in-nal motion for a non suit was mad" and was granted. Tlr ii.akc.s tit" third non nit which the Southern has ob tained at this term of court. Notwithstanding the extreme heat pf Sunday morning a large congrega- gation greeted the pastor of Buford Street Methodist church for the regular communion service. Mrs. Shanks’ rendering of Gounod s “O Divine Redeemer,” calling for intense expression and at tnies great power, was artistic and much enjoyed by all. There were no services at night, the congregation wishing to join in greet ing Rev. J. F. Matheson, the new pas tor of the Presbyterian church. I and he is always busy doing some thing. A few families on the York side of !the river have chills. Mr. T. Jeff Hughes broke a lot of ! eggs last Tuesday while crossing at Howell’s ferry. In getting In or out of the fiat his chicken box turned movement^ C F -HE PEOPLE OF over on his eggs and broke several dozen of them and we can’t think he ’ is In a very good humor about It. Mr. Bob Stinson, from across the river, told us Monday he had cotton (’looms. He has a fin P farm on the f’-irv place on the York side. Mrs. Mildred McDaniel, of Hickory Grove, has an exceptionally fine crop of onions both in size and flavor. Wilkinsville, Julv .' -The death of Th ^ ar ° a purple red color and are Mr. John ’1 v Colton, of Union has i ;.’ov"d m < ’'°r of our army com rades for whom we always entertain- a ' igh re ’ bo;h ns a soldier p... ^ oat Scctior,. s»-. ; o.| r.H'Hai c i He man Mthough he was a mere boy when lie entered the army h" was always "present” o" “accounted tiw" at “roll call.” He as largo as tea cups. They a r '" begin ning to rot. Several people from this section a:tended the celebration of the Fourth at Gaffney, while others “ f o does” nearer home. We staid a* home with the “old oman.” The Fourth has got to he a threat day, whether rod.- r,ito mil; 7, horseback to loin know what it means or not. the army-from his home in Union , ^ Minnie Moss of Hoiewell. w-unty to 1’ n".v'- V U 'James river below Ricbmoad, Va. Col. A. C. Haskell, of the 7th S. C. cavalry, mad • hi.;’ one of his eopriorc and he va- with Col Hash* n wounded on the Dariiytown r ..id mark of which on his carry to his grave. has been spending a few days with Mrs. T B. Whitesides, a t Blacksburg, -inee the doctor’s death. Tmlependance day dates from be was Thursday, July 4, 1776. Since that t j7 lime the 4th of July has come on fare he w iH Thursday twenty times. Da by d v our ranks tire thinning, One by one we disappear: And at each succeeding roll-ca'I’ '•m vc]- coiv-ado'i answer. “Here." of M r e took :i trip into Yo* •k coun’v is week. F nrm* ts ali p ] :r the line r rave! are tl ' V L r ; ? 1 i <> • j* croiis In :'!i] fix Gen * rnP y (* ro n? ur" ‘-•nail 1 ‘ loot? w*'11 bo !*<* h;ive boon irii burly work- ed. Th< s;p: ip* is the ! S(» in our i wr 1 --or •: i(»» V Millie ha. . -) i g. •u; co .a/: uiu' aii u' the senreitv of lalior farmers have We would he glad to call the atten- tl i of our road authorities to those gully bridges which are badly in need of repairs. ’i' n; of the low lands along Gilky . :.i| Thif .ety creeks are practically drowned out. and Us getting too I a f® to plant them over now Tie- ire y.i- in April killed our flg irees down to the ground and we will have no fruit of that kind this year. Housewives are canning black- •ni"s for next winter’s use Mrs. l L S. is kept busy at that work. Mr. W C. Blackwell’s folks nad an ice cream supper last Monday night dope their own work and are. as a t() wpict, a number of their friends r "neral rule jp better fix than it was one tinio thought the> would be. We congratulate our colored friend Watson Armstrong, for being the first to furnish The Lodger with a cotton bloom Watson has the repu tation of being an Industrious man and a good farmer and we wish him much success. He works with Mr. William \. Goudelock- n f ' a r Gowdeys- ville. Misses Claude Sims and Oliver were invited Mrs. Jessie Blackwell has been laid up for a few days with a sore jaw occasioned by a defective tooth. it hasn’t yet been announced on what day Rev. Mr Matheson (the new preacher) will preach at Salem, but wr. suppose on the third Sabbath of thL month. Notice will he glv«n as soon as ’he announcement Is made. Tv following is rh" list of tin- It it- hoped that the contest can be ie id letters remaining In the (>affr;"Y postoffico for week ending July Sth, 1907: Miss \lma Black. Miss Bridge Banister. Mr- Nancy Brooks. Mrs. The Score. GAFFNEY \B R H Lipsi ouiP Bell lb Byars, 21 Davis ss Littlejohn Campbell, Lip; con I Gaffney rf Wood • 3b cf If 1 PO 7 17 1 ft 1 1 ft ft ft E 0 1 '0 ft o 0 ft 1 1 Totals 1' 6 11 27 14 3 Ettio Caldwell , Mrs. Vila Donos. Mrs. VI1 i< ■ Horton Mrs. Alice Hammett, M rs. Bit ha \f ( iore. M 1 1 Humie Brack, Mrs. Faunif. Rug:.'.- Miss May taler, R B Bryant, Geo R v-e, R. {>. Davis, L D 1 loltlies. (2). 1 A' i. .laves, S. B. Lnee. E. L Miller, Henry Martin. Deck Melurf Eo H Mnlatmx. Moses McGo man C . Y Robinson. John tt)i-n C” .1 c. Sim R C. M'all. Mrs . Emma Bran. 12). Mrs. Rtter ' Mrs. Marg lo Macon. Mrs. Vriti.u Noudow Mrs Mllson. Chas. I >'inl;i P E B. eriy. Milo Duglas, W. E Ju mio--on Edie | .eg Sam Maze, .loo c McCaul less, Tonny Murph, (2), s p Paris, Frank Rosomon, pat, Kopp" rts, D. 1 IJ. She laid, (2). Millie Simps ot; Chat Sate r field. The above letters returned from 1 >rnvo Cotl' "ar ■ting c om finny. \ 1 {. N Folger.. Post master. Call i foi advertisf ■d letters. One cent due on each. A R N Folger P. M. SPARTANBURG AB R H PO A E Wright-on 3b Black, lb Hopkins, ss Tolleson r Cannon, rf Layton. 2b Boneham, p Tolleson C If Maim ess cf Totals Struck out Beacham. five one, Beacham t Three base Beacham Two and Bell . a o . *> . 4 .4 1 f 3ft 1 1 ft ft 1 ft ft 1 2 1 11 0 2 ft 1 ft ft ft 1 9 Biacksburg Beats Yorkville. Black hmg. July 8 On July the Ri. Blue! - burg faced Yorkville on heir '.round and a fast and interest ing game of baseball was played, i he game was very exciting until fh" n mning. vhon the visitors fell on ’’ Yor vill" ppeher. curing fiv" r un He then went n wa ^ hatted verv severely Ft pieces? and The -core: H E ft 2 4 24 11 4 hy Wood, six: hy Bn e on halls. Wood wo. hits Gaffney and hasp hits. Lipscomb . I Floyd. Smith r, First Baptist Church Notes The service was conducted last Sunday by Rev. J. T. Love, 0 f At lanta, and both services were good. In the morning the church tool: up its offering for the home mission work anj the amount was good and thp responsiveness of the congrega tion was refreshing The music at both services was very good. Blacksburg Yorkville , Batters: Blacksburg—Bird and YoiTvilb—Gaines and Struck out by Floyd ten, by Smith fiv* Two base hits. Bird two and Blalock. Thre e base hit Gaines. The feature of the game was the pitching of Floyd. No one succeeded in stealing second as Bird was on his toes and caught a beautiful game Argo Red salmon is standard in quality, quantity, color and price. July 9-12. ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO July 9-12. arranged. The deacons at Bethesda church will be ordained at ten o’clock next Sunday morning Pastors and dea cons of the -unrounding churches have been invited to assist in the exercises. The following officers of Gaffney Lodge No. 13 I. O. O. F. were install ed Friday by district deputy V B. Smith: T. B. Butler. X. G.. W H. (toss, v G,. O D. Hancock secretary, V B. Smith, treasurer Mr. IV. .1 Wilkins was exhibiting some large well formed tomatoes on Friday which had been -enf him by Mr. Joe Humphries of R. F D. No. 3. These tomatoes reflect great credit on Mr. Humphries as a garden er. An auction conspicuous bv theab- s mce of bidders occurred on Fred- "riel- 'tree- Saturdav afternoon. A mill** was at auction btr was not sold. The owner would not. sell the animal fop the amount bid—five dol lars. A meeting at Fhiloah church will be commenced at 8 p. rn. July 24th. T h* pastor wil] be assisted by Mr. Walter Humphries and a most sur- cc- sful meeting is anticipated The public is cordially invited to attend these services. L Baker yetorday presented The Ledger with a sample of Irish pota- toes as grown ' n his garden. The -ampl" weighed one and a quarter •omuls, and was a fine specimen, dr Baker has one of the best, gard- ens in the city Mi- Lillian Goforth, until recently a saleslady with the Battery, is now vi'h W. J. Wilkins & Company, in the same capacity Miss Margaret S toe bard, who ha* been with a s. Lipscomb & Company, succeeds Mis.s Goforth at the Battery. In a game at Blacksburg last week the second nine of Gaffney wa- de feated in a score of 8 to !> in six in nings. The game was called to al low the first nine of Blacksburg to practice. Davis for Gaffney secured four hits out of as many times at bat. Saturday, Sunday and yesterday have probably been the hottest days Items form Tirzah. Tirzah. July C.—I thought I would write a lette r to your paper. If It escapes the waste basket I will write again. I am a little girl, ten years old and have three little brothers and we hnve a lot of fun hunting terrapins. We find one every day in the blackberry patch. They get sul len and won’t crawl, hut there Is a w ay to make them crawl and If you want to make them hit the grit, stick fire close to them. Crops aro looking nice and the farmer..- are getting along nicely this week. Oats ar A very good In this section I wish some of the little cousins would write to The Ledger. What a grand time we would have reading each others letters. I only have one pet. That is a lit- *]e crippled hen. She has two little chickens. We sell our eggs at Rock Hill and get twenty cents per dozen for them. M' s-rs. Allison and Smih are our merchants at Tirzah. Mr. Smith and family took in the Fourth a’ Yorkville. Miss Eva Carotherg accompanied them. There was such a large crowd there they couldn’t hardly get anything to eat or drink. Messrs. Wallace. OaM and Camp bell are buying fox to nut at Catawba dam for spor* this winter. They havo engaged twenty-five Lichtning struck a tree in Mr. Hope's yard Sunday. al=o one in Mr. Tim Gardners’. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gardner spent Sunday afternoon with us. Mrs. Will Youngblood is in bad 1; alth She is goirc to Piedmont Springs to stay a while. Misg Floreed Bowen has gone to Piedmont Springs for her health. She j< the daughter of Mr. Bishop Bowen, our mail carrier on route No. 7 Mrs. Barron has gone ro her home at Shelby, x. c. She has been spend ing some time with her brother. Mr. Ec| ; . Frewell. Mrs. Will Frewell has bee/i sick l.uf i=? well again. Mrs. j c Wallace has been can ning means. We have beans and cabbage In abundance. The health ot our neighborhood is good. June Bug. Ne w paint Factory. I»ngman & Martinez, Paint Makers of New York City, who commenced business 5') years ago tin 1852). one of the largest paint makers in the trade, have filed plans for an addi tional Paint Factory in Brooklyn, which will he about 100 hy 200 feet in area, five floors in all making 100,- 000 square feet more of working sur face. From present indications the time hilders, of Sarratts, aitended the j S ^approaching when respectable unveiling of Mr. Hamlet LeMasters p 00 pi e cat) meet and enjoy them- monument at the LeMastep grave- S( fl VOs without being disturbed by yard last Saturday, 24th ultimo. Mrs. Eliza Foster, who has been laid up with a broken ankle for nearly two months, is able to get about a little now. Her general health is good and she has borne her misfortune with great patience and resignation. the presence and disgraceful conduct of drunken roughs and rowdies—tho very lowest type of hunianitv This is riot confined to the colored race by any means—the whites are equally ns bad if not worse. How a dirty, elf-confessed gambler can go into a Me are told that a general row oroW( j n f gentlemen and tell what ho took L'a® 0 at the V alkers church, | ias y, A e n doing—how long he has colored, last. Sabbath, their Cnildren s !ioon rardg _ an(1 what , 1(J has Day. in which one of the peacemakers wlthoUt being kicked out of their had several pistols he took from the !g morP than we cnn under- would-be combatants to keep them <?tand. We ape no fighting man but from doing harm. is too much for us to swallow Wo are further told that prosecu- withour ralslntr the Irish to its hlsrh- e=f nltch In a mens a* the entered church near Dr Black’s a short time ago, . , , Mose Tate a respectable well-to-do ter opinion of "cole ed n wa drawn Into it aga'ast h 1 -? will. When the old man ,, , , , . got his “dander” up his wife tried to this lawlessness now becoming so q „ ipf hlm bm ho wouldn’t nulet (sequent. worth a cent He said h" wanted to If it could bo Investigated it would "a* n*. a few “niggers.” Mosn you be found that whiskey is at *he hot- •‘•ou’d b'’ve had a nasty mo,ss if you tom of it all Somebody is selling had p would have nuked m alliga tions will be taken out. But that will h" the P nd of it. The frequency of these reported outbreaks are fearfully alarming We have a bet- people in that neighborhood than to think they are willing to submit to it and it ought to he stonped Ghero- keo county ha- boon the dumping ground for the riff raff long onough The Mills Deal tragedy ha- created a great deal of sentiment on both sides and people are outsnoken It is unlvorsall .- admitted that the trial has been the hardest fought legal battle ever witnessed in th" errnina! courts of Cherokee tor J L. S. Comnbmentar. to Judge Qurdy. Before adjournment of couu on Patn-day 'he following resolutions which had been passed by the Bar Association "’ere read by Cant J B. Bell. Remarks were made hy variou< members of ‘he bar which, county Me , vorf> responded to h-Judge don t know a better use to which a piir dv who seemed verv much affect- newspaper can devote its space than b ’ y thp manifestations of regard ’lie publication of the evidence and oy^ppsep,! bv the resolutions and re trial notes in such important cases , 1ia rl-<’ of ‘V> lawyers- si that the reading public can ac- “At’hereas. Tien R O Uurdv. the ouaint itself with, and form an Intel- presiding iiidge, ba c resigned the of- ligent opinion as to the mert 1 - of the circuit judge, which resigna- oaRO - tion becomes effective September 1, Our old friend and watermelon iftft7 and whereas this is the last, raiser Mr. Morgan Millwood will soon term of this eourt over which Judge be in market with the product of his Purdy will preside; therefore. Be it farm. He has several acres planted Resolved 1. That the Bar Associa- in ruei onf! and his prospect for a crop Mon o p Cherokee county deeply re- is very good grots the fact of Judge Purdy’s re- \ coord In g to the ancients last M T od- Mrement from the bench and w -h nesday, July 3rd, was the first dog for him success in his future field of day. But as Great Britain did not labor. adopt, ‘he Gregarian calendar until 2. That, by his ability, uniform September. 1752, when, as eleven courtesy, diligence and a '•■n > o’ho dav s had been lost, it was necessary <JntI pR of his office, be has great.y to call the third of September the endeared himself not only to the fourteenth, in order to bring the members of the bar, but to the court calendar and seasons once more to- an d county officials, and to all with gether. consequently the two days whom ho has come in contact, are one and the same. This w f as done 2. That a copy of these resolutions bv an art of Parliament, and leads he presented to Judge Purdy, and to what Is called “Old Style” and that they be inscribed upon "New style ” This arrangement minutes of the court the would make July 1 tth the time on which dog days begin with us and end on the 22nd day of August, in clusive. It has been twenty-five years 11882) since we have had as good an o;u crop a- has been harvested this vear J. E WEBSTER. President. W. S. HALL, Jr. Secretary. Smyrna statements Smyrna R. F D. No. 2. July 2 — Owing to the scarcity of news i have Mr. John Foster has been working not reported from this side for quite on the farm for Sam J Strain for the a while. last few days. People of this section have their Cousin Man Parris came down to crops in fairly good shape Old corn work a farm with Mr Mor-gan Mill- * s ' a >'‘d by. wood this year but he returned to the J h'’ cotton crop vuL he >hort as cotton mill before he finished It. compared wl ' ' a ^ f wars crop "Morg's” a man who don’t play and Squares ar" ph nuf i, bu: so far no work all at the same time. Mr. Mill- ^ C) *' m3 !,e( ' n reported yet wood has one of the best farm hands Hoping that my next letter will in this country—Will Sawyers—a contain more news, I remain a friend Argo Red Salmon has ;ae “Moor- full blooded Indian, a member of the ,n ^ 10 Hedger. C. E. S i” taste, the more you eat the Catawba tribe. He has been living' are you want. with Mr Millwood for several years Subscribe for The Ltdger. $1 a year. If you will try Argo Red Salmon, you will find a Salmon tha; you can al vayg depend upon. Nothing ulcer. There is no better Salmon canned at any price than Argo. One trial will prove it.