Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f SitL LARGEST CiRCULATJCN of Any N«w«pop«r in th« Fifth Conflreo«lon*i Oittrict of 9. C. 1VERV ONE PAID IN ADVANCE ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. <« QUARANTM TH« RtLlAllLfT* •f Ivory Advortloor Who Uooo tho Columno of Tlilo Popor. ■K9T ADVIRTIIINO MEDIUM. A Nowopooor In AN Hurt tho Word Implloo and to tho of th« Po.pk of Ch«rVw»» Couvty ■9TABLI8HED FEB. 19. 1994. OAPFNIY. B. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1907. •MB A YEA It MR. W. R. WSIKER PROGRESS!^ FARMER USES BUSINESS METHODS ON HIS PLANTATION. The sage of E tta J ane Chronicles the Happenings of His Neighborhood for Ledger Readers. Wilkinsville, Nov. 10.—The Wilkins- ville post office will be opened for bus iness. Issuing money orders, etc., on the second d»v of January, 1908. M:. W. R. Walker Is at his Sunny Side farm, superintending his work— shredding his corn and laying in a win- ter's feed for his cattle and hogs. Rev. J. F. Matheson visited this farm on Thursday and is much pleased with Mr. Walker and his business meth ods. He says ho thinks that Mr. Walt er took him to be an agent wanting to sell him some machinery or other farm outfit, until he found out who he was. Mr. Matheson saw his cattle and some of his hogs. He was much interested in Mr. Walker’s progressive methods, as well as with him as a polite, cul tured and intelligent gentleman. Mr. Matheson is spending this week among the Salem congregation, which he ig loath to leave after tomorrow, which will be his last day with them as their pastor. We also hate to give him up- Our church has had many reverses in procuring a minister and keeping him. What the reason;is we can’t tell. * The local Farmers’ Union had a call meeting at the Etta Jane school house last Wednesday night, and had two new members to ride the goat. They came off, however, without accident. This goat is a very tractable animai in this climate—a cotton country— and we don’t suppose there is any harm in him as long as his keepers beep him in good humor, but if he gets a thump at a Wall Streeter he will send him so high in the air that the eagles can’t find him. Mr. Sam Strain has been having chills. He is better now. Mrs. Boozer is spending a week with Salem and Sunnyside friends. Mrs. W. C. Sparks, who has been and still is, in feeble health, sent Mrs. J. L. S- a nice boquet this week, which the latter highly appreciates. Such acts of kindness and courtesy are proof of the truth of the old prov erb. "Birds of a feather flock to gether.” It’s the giver that sanctifies the gift. A young man across the river, In York county, aged about eleven years, made application to a country barber the other day for a shave. The bar ber told him he had nothing to shave, when he told the barber he wanted him to shave the back of his neck. Watch out, girls, another beau will be on the rounds before long, if he hasn’t already been to see you. Such chaps need their mamas to take them across # their laps and use a strap or paddle; it will stop such uncalled for proceed ings and prove a health giving brain tonic. W« might ask the question, "How large may men yet grow In this country?’’ Mr. Hamp Bratton is working at the blacksmith trade at Wilkinsville. He shod our pony yesterday and dl£ a good job. We need more of our young men to take up trades and make them selves useful. Too many of them, we fear, don’t like that thing called hard work-—we never did. Somebody Las been taking Mr. J. N. Strain’s turkeys, without leaving a money equivalent. We suppose they are getting ready for Thanksgiving, and we hope they will have something to be thankful for besides an opportu nity to take that which doesn’t belong t<, them. Mr. C- W. Whlsonant has got him a brand new suit and now its “Mister” Whlsonant instead of Calvin, as here tofore. He is not afraid of work and. in fact, seems to like it. We don’t, and never did. “Rich’’ Lanier hasn’t drank any liquor in two years, he says, if all we old soaks will quit drinking blind tigers will be forced out of business. Bully for Rich. If the pride, ignorance and self-con ceit was taken out of some people, there wouldn’t be much of them left. , The Wilkinsville ginnery had a break down last Wednesday, which stopped operations for a day or two. We hear no niilroad news these days. It will start up as soon as the excitement in the cotton market sub sides. Mr. James Garner killed a fine beef . last Thursday morning and found ready sale for it on the grounds. Mr. Ervin Estes ig gathering Dr. L. R. Black’s crop. Miss Emily Bankhead and her sis- ' ter and brother have all had chills. They are now better. Some corn ig yet in the field to gather. The crop Is unusually good this year and very little of it damaged or rotten ag ig often the case. Mr. F. A. Goforth, president of the local Farmers’ Union, urges farmers to sow wheat largely this fall and to put the ground in good fix- It’s a very poor crop of wheat that doesn’t pay for raising. Wheat at home is cheaper than flour somewhere else, no matter how cheap It may be. So with corn, meat and other essentials of life. He is right. Here ig a problem for our school boys and girls to work out: If the third of five be three, what will the fifth of twenty be? Let us hear from you through The Ledger, boys and girls. Mr. John B- Whitesides belonged to the old Twelfth Regiment, McGow an’s Brigade, instead of the 25th, as the types make us say in our last letter. Mrs. C. C. Roberts, of Sbelby, N. C., who with her youngest son has been spending a few days with friends and relatives in this community, in com pany with Mrs. Martin Roberts, visit ed the Salem graveyard yesterday. They gave Mrs. J. L. S. and family a call. They also visited the Goudelock graveyard this week, where Mrs. Rob ert’s mother, the lat« Mrs. W. R. Lip scomb, is burled. Mrs. Roberts will return home today. Mrs. R. A. Foster and children, of Hickory Grove, are visiting her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. S- F. Estes. Mrs. Martin Wright and child, Miss Cleo, are visiting the family of Mr. and Mrs. W. C- Blackwell. Dr. W. A- Fort was down on bis plantation yesterday, looking after his farming interests. Messrs. James G. Garner and James Brewlngton expect to start a saw mill in a short time, sawing for the pub lic. They have located a yard at Mr. Joe L. Estes’. They expect to have a cotton gin in readiness for the next crop. If the editor of this paper doesn’t mind how he middles with the affairs of Col. Ike Smith and the mayoralty of Tbickety, by injecting ’possum dogs in the campaign, he will get the worst “walloping” a fellow ever carried, if we have to send Jim Proctor to "do him up ” It’s none of his business —let him attend to the affairs of bis own burg and let other people alone. For our own part we will vote for Col. Ike—not that we have anything against Mr. Graham or aijy one else who is likely to oppose him, but sim ply because we don’t think there is a man in the town who will fill the posi tion of mayor better than Col. Ike Smith. Besides, he is one of Chero- kfe county’s best men and citizens. It ig Lathrop instead of Trenholm Dowdle. who is sick. We were mis taken in giving the name in our last letter. It would be a case of incorrigible stupidity on our part not to take the big head when so many flattering com ments are made on our poor attempts at journalism. By friends we meet or those we hear from, we are frequent ly told how our letters are appreci ated. Some at a distance take them as a letter from home; all of which we are gratified to learn, but regret that we cannot make them more read- i able and Interesting. Wb met a friend latel-7 who asked us when we got time i to write our letters. We told him we Lad to do like the farmer preacher, | who had to do his own farm work. One day a college bred pulpiteer called In and heard him preach, and after the sermon said to him, “Broth er, i want you to tell me how you can get u'« such sermons. I learn that yo*l are a farmer and make your living by !your farm work. I have to read and study all the week to get up my serm ons and even then can’t do as well as I would like to.” “Ob.’ says the other, “I read when I am resting and study when I work. I keep busy all the time.” So we write while we rest and study when we ride. J. L. S. Clearing House certificates. The officers and directors of the three banks of Gaffney, after having studied carefully the situation in re gard to obtaining currency for cotton drafts or for any other collateral from their correspondents North, found it impossible to get the actual currency from any source, and in order to re lieve this situation they decided to form a Clearing House Association and issue certificates amply secured by collateral deposited with the trus tees of this association. These cer tificates are worth their face value and will pay taxes, buy merchandise, land or anything else you may want to buy. Or will pay any debt you owe at home. If you owe money out of town the banks will furnish you exchange at par and if you need pocket change they will furnish this. What other use would you have for money The condition was simply thie: If the banks should have continued to pay out actual currency for what cot ton that is being soljj and for other demands with no chance of getting money back in a short time their valutg would have been emptied, and would not have had the amount of re serve required by law. As it is they have the currency and gold on hand to meet any demand that requires the actual money. It may work a seeming inconveni ence at times on some one who does not fully understand but who of us is not inconvenienced by the tightness of the money market? Every man should be wiling to do what be can to relieve the situation and when normal conditions have been restored he will have nothing to regret and will be proud that he did ^iis part. . As we understand from the banks and as their ads. in your colums will show, when money was easy they were only too glad to loan money on cotton certificates to enable the farm er to hold his cotton, but these condi tions have changed. The banks have outstanding obliga tions which will be falling due later and in order to meet these obligations they are forced to curtail new loans. If anybody offers you a Gaffney Clearing House Certificate take it and pay anything you wish, for they are worth just as much here as me same denomination of “Uncle Sam’s” money and they were Issued to help evei> man, woman and child in Cherokee county. Citizen. —Fresh car Swift’g Food Products, at close prices for cash. Carroll & Byers. It. THROUGHOUT THE ' PALMETTO STATE. ITEMS OF INTERBT OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happnings AH Over the State Taken from Our Exchange* and Tereely ..Told to Ledger Readers. SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST REMINISCENCES. EVENTS IN GAFFNEY OKSE. AND i The safe in the post office at Seneca, ; was blown open Thursday night and ! $800 in stamps and $200 in currency j wag taken. 1 i Auditor West was Saturday notified that the dispensary at Kingstree had been robbed several nights ago, and that the loss was $42, though it was not stated whether this loss was in j money or stock. Penoyer’s grocery store on Union street, Spartanburg, wag entered by | burglars Friday night and a quantity ■ of fancy and heavy groceries and a small amount of cash taken. The burglars forced an entrance by prizing | up a window in the front part of the I store. ^ Miss Morgan, operator in the Spar-1 tanburg telephone exchange, took a large dose of medicine to relieve her of headache and she was made sick, the drug seriously affecting her heart action and respiration. At one time her condition wag considered serious. ! Prompt medical assistance revived | her. j : Saturday morning at 3 o’clock fire destroyed the stores of Young & Mc- Dill, and Pressly Bros., two of the leading merchants of Due West. Press- I ly Bros, lost about $5,000, insurance $1,200; Young & McDiU lost about $4,000, and had $1,500 insurance. The 'origin of the fire is unknown, but it i caught inside of Pressly Bros.’ store. j While plugging up a hole in a steam ! pipe in the Spartan Inn, at Spartan- : bnrg, a piece of pipe flew off and struck H- H- Clark, engineer in charge of the beating plant, cutting a hole in his right eye to the depth of half an ! inch, destroying the sight and causing all the substance in his eye to flow down his cheek. The injured eye ; wag removed by physicians. It was a painful and most unfortunate oc currence. I State Geologist Earle Sloan has com piled an interesting summary of the value of the annual mineral output of the state for Commissioner Watson’s office. The values are given as fol lows; Stone, granite dimensions, Jet ty stone, and crushed stone, $258,- 389; lime, $34,719; monazite, $043,- 000; mica, $1,000; gold, $78,959; | silver, $02; tin, $10,800; marl, $9,450; : phosphate rock, $108,375; clay, $175,- 351; mineral waters. $348,744; phos phate products, $7,945,955; clay pro ducts, $830,481; gas, coal tar and gas coke, $228,817. Total, $11,090,111. ; The residence of Mr. Ell Beck, lo- 1 cated near the passenger station at Darlington, was destroyed by fire about 1:30 o’clock Saturday mort^ng. Nearly all of his household goods were ; a total loss. Mrs. Beck was Away from home for the night, and Mr. Beck came in late from Florence. He says he made a fire in the heater in the room and lay down across his bed and fell asleep; that in about a half an hour he was awakened by the smoke and flames from the heater. He gave the alarm and the fire department re sponded with astonishing promptness, but too late to save the building. Walter Bethel, a 12-year-old boy, was shot and fatally injured by Car lisle Kreps, a youth about the same age, Saturday morning while out hunt ing near Columbia. The two while out hunting with several others, were flushing a covey of birds on the farm owned by the state hospital for the insane, and when the game arose the party fired Into the covey. A circle had * been formed around the flock, and Bethel was seen to fall. Investi gation showed that a part of a rifle bullet had entered his bead, and he died on his way to the city. Bethel was a son of a glassblower and Kreps Is the son of a well-known physician. The Supreme Court ha s rendered a decision upholding the State board of canvassers in the contested dispensa ry election case from Kershaw coun ty. This means that the election is held to have been illegal, and that the dispensary stays in Kershaw county. On the face of the returns, a s declared by the county board, the election resulted in a majority of 84 against the dispensary. The State board of canvassers dec^red that the secrecy of the ballot wa? violated by the use of one box for affirmative votes and one for negative votes, anu the deciison of the State board is up held by the Supreme Court on this point alone. riecent Happenings jn »"<i City and Other Events jather ed by the Locai Eeira*. Col. T. B- Butler will speak- on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Pleasant Grove school house on the subject of the establishment of high schools. It Is urged that all who are interested In this movement win oe present on that occasion. cotton market was ‘‘W. R. L-” Continues H<s Story 0 f "Ye Olden Timea.” Editor Ledger:—In 1880 .having lost my wife in October, I thought the best thing I could do for myself was to travel. So on the 24th day of Decem ber I packed up my valise and went to Spartanburg, on my way to Texas; hut a big snow fell and changed my , mind, and I went up towards Ashe ville, N. C. I stopped over with Dr. J. B. O- Landrum and had a fine time hunting rabbits, etc. I left there and ran down south to pacolet. to Mr. W. L. Wood's, and there ,1 met two la thes from Spartanburg and two gen tlemen who escorted them down in buggies. I know thei r names; so does Mrs. Mary Wood. We had a jolly good o’-d time, snowballing and eating some kind of cake. I was fond of snow balling in those days. You ask R. A. Jones if I could not whip any two such men as him, snowballing. Yes I could. So I postponed my trip to Texas till March. On March 21st I bid good bye to ray lonely home and drove up to Dr. J. B. O. Landrum’S THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE. RECENT EVENTS OF NOTC IN NORTH CAROLINA. The Gaffney 9.90 yesterday. Col. T- B. Butler has sold his house on Victoria avenue, where he resides, and left my horse and buggy with him to Mr. Edward Lipscomb. til i returned. I also gave my watch to his daughter, Miss Agnes. On the Big Joe Johnson will be on hand 22nd of March I went to Landrum sta- for the D. O. K. K. parade, and will tion and borrowed Rev. J. G. Lan- be in charge of the tiger. drum's horse and buggy and drove out .. to North Pacolet river and stayed all ™ !L‘ night in a fine house, where the girls made delightful music on the organ, and l had my organette along. I could grind out music with a crank, from perforated paper, but the girls could bring it out with the tips of their fingers, and such sweet voices they had. Boys, it makes my mouth water now to think about it. I left Landrum’s on the 23rd of March for Texas. In the meantime ing in the W. H. Smith house, on the corner of Rac* and Johnson streets. C. L- Mingus, secretary of D. O. K. K., will arrived today to take charge of preparation for cermonial parade and banquet. The Southern Railway has -moved the old passenger depot across the track, near the freight depot. This will give additional facilities fo r hand!- Mr. John Eirle Bomar had asked me iug freight. if l would take charge of old Mrs. Betsy Mills, 84 years old. to Little Rock. Ark. So If I didn’t have a girl aboard I hPd an old lady in charge— and it was a charge, too. I put her on a sleeper at Atlanta. She was sick- and between Chattanooga and Mem- n'lis s»he was very sick. She sent for rr.e (I was in the passenger coach), and I went into the sleeper where she was, and an old lady from Fort Smitn, Ark., and a gentleman from Boston. Mass., and he had some brandy, and we gave her some, which quieted her pains and she wont to sleep. We all Fort Sniitj! w'Ts very kind. I delivered thought she would die. The lady from the old lady to her friends who met The Kitchens tract of land which was sold on salosday for $6,00o, con tained 24C acres instead of 28d as was stated in the report of the sale in our issue following the sale. The annual church meeting for the election of all officers occurs at the First Baptist church next Sabbath at 3 p- m- All members are urged to be present and vote in the election. * Royal Vizier J. J. Burnett and 6ie other officers will arrive Wednesday, to conduct the class of tyros across the hot sands and into the oasis of Spartanburg Temple D. Q. K. K. There will be Thanksgiving services her at Little Rock abbut one o’clock at Grassy Pond church on Thursday, at night. She was asleep when. I left November 28th, at 11 o’clock a. m. k er - I 1 affords me much pleasure to All members of the church and the [think back to that night, how we people generally are cordially Invited three, all strangers, were so kind to to attend. ' 0,(1 M rs - Betsy Mills. Boys’ you never lose anything by being kind to the old Rev. O. L- Strlngfield spoke at the and infirm. First Baptist church last Sabbath w e ii ( | landed in Texas, among old night on the general subject of Chris-, fronds. Boys, I can’t teil It all to tian education. He Is an original soul, you; it would take too much writing, with great convictions on the subject In my next ] etter j-n te n you a of education. fieal about Texas, and the girls and Votaries and tyros are requested to divorced widows, and my little pet convene at K. of p. hall Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock to prepare for parade afid meet officers of Altair Temple of Spartanburg No. 102. Be sure to be on time. The readers of The Ledger will be gratified to learn that the little child^n of M- C- Perry, which was so severl* to dle So they can g0 to law for hlg j, - - - The years 1881, ’82 and '83 are quite interesting to me, and doubtless will be to you. Yqu old bachelors, don’t be bache lors any longer, for I never knew an old bachelor to amount to anything much. If he is rich his kin want him burned a few days ago, is doing nlcelj and that strong hopes are now enter tained for it* recovery. One tyro says he ig going barefooted to get used to the hot sands. The tiger is ravenously hungry, for he has not had any fresh meat in some time, so, tyros, get your hearts right before Wednesday, and don’t say that you did not receive timely warning. Chance Wilson and Sam Hopper, of Spartanburg, have purchased Boyd Sarratt’s tonsorlal outfit and will con tinue the barber shop at the same place. Both these young men are first class workmen and will doubt- l»*sg get a large share of patronage. Mrs. Bessie Wood, formerly of Pac olet. has moved to Gaffney and is oc cupying the house ©n Race street for merly occupied by E. L. Eison. The property. It’g go, for I’ve seen it, and I know it’s go. Old corn shucking and negro songs are coming on. W. R. L. Wrestling Match. Kid Patterson’s challenge to wrestie Kid McCoy hag been accepted, and the battle to decide if South Carolina can still hold her championship over Ken tucky for the light weight mat ar tists will be pulled off at the Star Theatre Friday night, November 22, at 8:30 o’clock. Kid Patterson is a young man. 20 years old, weighing 135 pounds, right from the Blue Grass State, looking for victories. Kid McKoy is a young man 19 years old. weighing 130 pounds, from the good old palmetto State, and carrying all the ribbons. Every body Is Invited out to see the great people of Gaffney are glad to number wrestling match, to see If gontb Caro tids excellent lady and her family among the residents of the city. The Ledger has Just issued from the presg a neat little pamphlet, con talnlng a directory' of the South Caro lina holds her championship. These men are both well up in their line of art, and there ig going to be a hot and happy time. This great match will take place at kna conference of the Methodist the Star Theatre, Friday night. No church. which convenes in oar city OR vember 22nd. at 8:30 o’clock. Admis- tbe 27th Instant. It also contains a s* 00 25, 50 and 75 cents. large number of advertisements of the business houses of the city. WHO USES HYOMEI? Saturday the Aetna Insurance Com pany, through Agent Jones J. Darby, presented Floyd L- Baker with a check for $80 in settlement of his claims for being accidentally burned in Goldsboro, N. C.. thjg summer. The Aetna is always very prompt in its settlement of claims. Accepts cl earin a House certificates. Gaffney, g. C., Nov. 18. 1907. i To the Public:—The certificates is sued by the banks of this city are good, and will be accepted in payment for money orders or stamps at this office. While the law is very explicit and stringent on this line, I have ar ranged to accept them at face value. Respectfully, A. R. N. Folger. P. M. •—Groceries under price for cash. —Mattings lined and laid. A Byers. ^ Carroll It Carroll A Byers. It Subscribe f er The Ledger; $1 a year. Fire at Elizabeth City, N- C- At i o’clock Thursday morning fire of unknown origin started in the va cant second story of the building r-wned by John E. Hughes, on Water street, Elizabeth City, and gutted the entire building, the second story fall ing through to the ground floor, which was occupied by 8 M. 8. Rollinson. wholesale grocer, who was out of the city when the fire occurred. Rolltn- son’s entire stock was ruined by fire and water. The stock of the wbole- saie grocery firm of C- W. Stevens Company was badly damaged by wa ter, ag was also the wareroom of A. B. Zelley t Son. who had a lot of pro duce stored therein. The ( armory lo cated above Stevens Company and used by the reserves and Odd Fel lows jga* flooded with water and con siderable damage wag done. Hughes’ and Rollinson’s losses were partially covered by Insurance. The others were fully protected. The Best Peoffle in Gaffney, 8ay The Gaffney Drua Co. Guaranteed in Catarrhal Troubles. No other remedy or treatment for catarrh has ever been as popular or made so many remarkable cures in Gaffney a 8 Hyomei. The best people attest its curative vlrtueg say The Gaffney Drug Co., who are the local agents. The fair way in which Hyomei was sold, to re fund the money unless it gave satis faction. was the best proof wneii ii wes Introduced that it possessed unusual curative powers. The Gaff ney Drug Company took all the risk, and left it to the purchasers to be the judge. Later, when Hyomei was used and recommended by our well-known phy sicians and business men and taeir wives as a treatment that absolutely cured catarrh no matter how serious or long standing, tne sales rapidly gr -w and today there Is no other reu. ®dy in The Gaffney Dru* Fompany’s stock that ^ag such a larre and staple sale. The first breath of Hyomel’s heal ing air kills all catarrhal poison. Try Hyomei today 0 n The Gaffney Drug Company’* offer to refund the money if the treatment does not give you satisfaction. Item* of Interest Concerning 0«r Neighbor* in the Old North fiUrta Clipped from Our Exchangee. A negro woman by the name of Shaw came very near being burned to death Wtednesday night at High Point, but her presence of mind saved her life, she was standing aronnd the fire when her clothes caught. Quick as a flash she jumped into a tub of water and put the fire out. As it was, her clothing was almost burned from her body, but the bums were only su perficial. Another sharper struck Greensboro last week and fleeced two or three of the business men. He had been work ing for Heinz, the pickle man, but had been discharged, yet he represented himself as being still in Heinz’s em ploy and succeeded in borrowing mon ey. He obtained a $10 from Patterson Bros., an<l a sum from the Ham Gro cery Company. He called on one or two others, but got no money. Mr. Peter H. Halapton, of Davie county, and one or two others, were riding horseback along the Dan river Tuesday and when near the river bridge Mr. Hairston’s horse shied, throwing Mr. Hairston into a ten-foot gully on the side of the road. Mr. Hairston was pretty badly injured, there being a severe gash over his right eye. his nose being broken and his wrist sprained. He also complains of a pain in his right hip. He was unconscious for several hours as the renlt of the accident. Luther Smith, colored. 35 years old, a freight handler at the. Champion Compress. Wilmington, was held with out bail by a coroner’s Jury Thurs day evening to await the action or the grand Jury at the January term of court, charged with responsibility for the death of Lula Green, a middle- aged negro woman, whose body wa» found in his house at the extremity of North Eighth street. She had been dead two days and Smith’s indiffer ence about the burial attached suspi cion to him. The coroner went over to Investigate and found bruises on the woman’s back and a superficial cut on her arm. There were also ev idences of internal hemorrhages. Walter Porter, a well-known yr :ng man, 21 years of age, of the Swanna- noa section of Buncombe county, rost all the fingers and the thumb of his left hand late Wednesday afternoon while feeding a com shredding ma chine. It seems that the young man had volunteered to assist a relative in shredding the com and had been at work at the machine scarcely an hour when an ear of com became lodged. Porter reached his hand into the ma chine to extract it, when a stalk of com choked the feeder, reversing or Interfering with the running gear, and the man’s left hand was caught ana the four fingers and thumb were lit erally shredded. Porter was taken to Asheville and all the fingers and the thumb amputated. The forged check for $75 which Mr. E. G- Gilmer recently cashed for R. W. Harris, an alleged representative of the Missouri Glass Company, will be framed and hung on the wall in the office of Hotel Iredell with thin inscription; “This check cashed by the proprietor of this hotel and dedi cated to the memory of accommoda tion.” Hereafter when Mr. Gilmer if asked to cash checks by strange guests he will answer then by show ing them the framed check and the in scription. Mr. Gilmer has been cash ing checks for guests for a long timn with the Idea that he would be caught by a sharper some day. but with'thn Intention of stopping when caughL He has been the victim of the sharp er Harris, and now he has stopped cashing checks fop strange guest# and has framed his reason and stuck it on the wall. The brutal flogging of little Jennie Field, of High Point, at Thomasvllle, has been heralded the country over and already leading Northern and Southern papers have sent special writers to High Point to get up n page article, illustrated, about the affair. The little girl is mending rap idly. due to the untiring efforts of the local physicians, who are with one ac cord in saying that she would have died had not the very Vst attention been given her. Thousands of peo ple have visited the home since the little girl was brought from Thomae- ville some two we^ks ago, and all go away saying that it is the worst esse they ever saw. when the trial comes off. if it is held in Davidson county, * crowds from High Point and Thojnue- ville will be in attendance to hear tb0 evidence and see the people who art charged with such awful cruelties up on a human body. Letter to J. H- Curry, Gaffney. 8. C. Dear Sir: We make you and every property owner In Gaffney this offer: Paint half your Job Devoe: paint the other half whatever you like. It Devoe doesn’t take less gallons and cost lees money, no pay. Yours truly fit ’ F W DEVOE k OO » P. 8. Gaffney Hardware Company sell our paint.