The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 27, 1908, Image 4
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THE GAFFNEY LEDGER,
Tuesday and Friday.
Si. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher
CITY DIRECTORY.
Officials.
W. H. Roes IftTor
W. O. Johnson .... Mayor Pro Tom
George B- Hood City de*k
T. B. Littlejohn Treasurer
A. L. Hallman Health Officer
T. H. Lockhart Chief Police
Batler & Osborne .. .. City Attys.
Board Public works.
A. N. Wood.. Chairman
J. N. Lipscombr: Treasurer
W. H. Ross Secretary
Board of Trade.
W. C. Hamrick President
J. C. Otts Secretary
MARKET REPORT.
LOCAL COTTON MARKET.
Middling H- 00
COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKET.
Market report corrected weekly by W.
Kyle Davenport.
H nn a 30c to 40c
Frys ’ 30c to 30c
Ducks. 7*?®
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Sweet Potatoes, bushel
Irish Potatoes, bushel * l |40
Turnips, bushel
Corn, bushel....
Meal, bushel
Oats, feed, bushel .‘ft.
Oats, seed, bushel to ll.oo
Peas, clay, bushel
Peas, white, bushel fr -?”
Onions, bushel.
and that if he can put the price low
enough that the fanner will either hare
to put up money to save his cotton or
let It go. Now if this cotton was not
in existence the speculator would not
be in a position to manipulate the
price, and the farmer would be en
abled to say “We have some cotton
but you will have to pay what It Is
worth before you can get It.” As we
urged in the article of last week, the
only way to deal successfully with the
situation is to curtail the production
of cotton, by raising your own sup
plies at home and planting cotton as
a surplus crop.
SHIP SUBSIDY AGAIN.
The following statistics were given
in a speech the other day in the
United States senate by Setavor Sim
mons. of North Carolina, which bears
out our recent article upon the need
of ship subsidy:
Mr. President, some of our South
ern cotton mills are largely depend
ent on foreign markets for the sale
of their products. In recent years
they have been making strenuous ef
forts to sell their surplus products
both in China and South America.
With the aid of our consuls in thosp
countries and that of the special in-
vestigators sent out by the govern
ment they have learned what kind of
goods those markets require, and
they have been making their goods
in accordance with those require
ments. What, Mr. President, has
been the result of these efforts.
With China we started off well. In-
\ 1903 we sold her cotton goods t° t* 16
value of about 110,000,000; in 1904,
about $9,000,000; in 1905, $30,000,000;
but as soon as we began to be trouble
some to our competitors in this mar
ket. through their control of our
means of transportation, they put the
screws upon us, and our trade with
China began to fall off. In 1906 lt fel ^
to $20,000,000, while in 1907 it fell to
less than $3,000,000, while in the lat
ter year Great Britain's sales to her
advanced to about $43,000,000,
Japan’s, which in 1905 was only about
one-sixteenth as great as ours, ad
vanced to nearly the same figures as
ours. In South America they have
not let us get much of a foothold at
any time. In 1906 Argentina bought
about $29,000,000 worth of cotton
goods. Wle sold her in that year only
$271,500 worth. In that year Brazil
bought about $15,000,000 worth of cot
ton goods, of which we sold her only
$479,300. In that year the countries
of South America bought $74,712,400
worth of cotton goods. Of this amount
Britain sold in round numbers $47,-
000,000; Germany. $11,000,000; France,
$5,400,000; Italy, over $7,000,000, and
the United States only $3,630,100.
DIVERSIFIED CROPS.
In an article last week we urged
upon the farmers the importance of
raising their supplies at home and
raising cotton as a surplus crop. The
very next day an article was publish
ed in the daily papers from the presi
dent of the cotton association urging
upon the farmers the same thing.
With all the organized efforts of the
farmers themselves, and those who
are in sympathy with them, the price
of cotton has gone down and no man
can say where the downward move
ment will stop. We believe the
,i reason for this is because the specu-
. lator knows that a big crop has been
made, he knows that there are in the
hands of the farmers and in the
warehouses many thousands of bales
of cotton. He knows further that in
many instances money has been ad
vanced upon this warehouse cotton
Tlien; Is more Catarrh In this section r.f the
country than all other dlseases-put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doc
tors yronouuced It a local disease, and pre
scribed local remedies, and by constantly
failing to curt: with local treatment, pro
nounced It incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutlonol trfatmnt.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, Is the only con
stitutional cure on the market. It Is taken
internally In doses from 10 drops to a tea-
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and
mueous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars tor any case it fails to
" ’ circuliTrs and testimonials.
REPLY TO “PETE.”
In Tuesday's issue we published a
communication from “Pete” in which
he takes occasion to score the of
ficials, editors and preachers for not
doing their duty in enforcing the
laws against the sale of whiskey.
Let us see if “Pete” is doing his
duty. We agree with him when he
says that it is the duty of every citi
zen to do all in his power to stamp
out the whiskey traffic, and if he has
been in the back alleys and In the
rear end of the grocery stores and
seen people violating the law then he
is derelict in his duty as a citizen if
he does not report same to the proper
officers and himself bear witness
against the violator.
The editor of this paper has on at
least three different occasions sworn
out warrants against persons for sell
ing whiskey on information and be
lief and stands ready to do the same
thing at any time. It makes us tired
to hear people continually harping
about violations of law, that they
know of themselves and at the same
time making no effort to bring the
guilty one to justice except to ar
inadvert against others for not doing
their duty. Now, “Pete,” if you are
honest in wishing to have the law en
forced, come forward with your in
formation and we are very sure that
the officials of the town and county
will give you all the assistance in
their power.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
It is a subject of remark on the
part of strangers who visit our city
of the lack of flowers in the yards of
our houses. In most of the towns in
this section the people take great
pride in having a profusion of flowers
in their front yards. Beautiful flowers
will add more to the attractiveness of
our homes than any other one thing,
not even excepting paint, and we
hope that all of the residents of the
city will plant flowers in their yards
so that by the time the State Press
Association meets here in July we
can point with pride to the beautiful
flowers which adorn our homes.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
STATE ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
Radical Changes Recommended to
New York Legislature.
Radical changes in the methods of
construction, supervising and main
taining higbwhys in New York state
are recommended in the report recent
ly transmitted to the legislature by
the s[ scial legislative highway investi
gating committee appointed by the leg
islature. e
The more important recommenda
tions are:
The creation of a department of
highways, to consist of three members
appointed by the governor, to have su
pervision of highways, now in the
bands of the state engineer.
The recodiflcation of all existing
highway laws into one statute and the
repeal of all existing laws on this sub
ject.
The establishment of four systems
of highway construction, representing
two now unknown in this state and
continuing in force the present Higbie-
Armstroug and Fuller-Plank systems.
Of the four systems of construction
proposed perhaps the most radical is
the first, which provides for the con
struction of thirty-five trunk highways,
connecting the larger localities of the
state and to be built entirely at the
expense of the state. At present the
state does not undertake the construc
tion of any roads unless the county
and towns pay a proportionate share.
These thirty-five trunk routes would
extend to ali parts of the state.
The second and third systems arc
the present Higbie-Armstrong and
Fuller systems, which have long been
in operation. The fourth is what is
known as the French system and pro
vides for the construction of purely lo
cal roads, the expense to be borne by
the counties and towns, the state tak
ing no share of the burden.
A bill accompanies the report, but re
lates only to the highway code. Pro
vision is made for the imposition of a
provisional tax on automobiles to de
fray the cost of maintenance.
SETTLING DUST NUISANCE.
Treatment Used at an Automobile
Factory That Improves Roads.
At an automobile factory in Toledo.
O., the manufacturers believe they
have settled the dust nuisance and
pointed a way to a phase of road im
provement. The plant covers a large
area. At the rear of the factory build
ings is a circular speedway, while be
tween the buildings are driveways.
These roads are subjected to very se
vere use from testing cars constantly
passing over them, going out and re
turning to the factory, generally at
high speed; heavy traffic of large
trucks heavily loaded, touring cars and
other vehicle's. Naturally these drives
and the speedway created lots of dust
and required constant repair.
Much experimenting has been done,
and the factory people say they have
finally hit upon a good treatment which
gives excellent results and is very eco
nomical. The factory has its own steel
treating furnaces, some oil heated, and
it is the sediment from the crude oil
used in the beaters, sprinkled with an
ordinary can over the surface of the
roads that has improved the neighbor
hood of the plant. Three treatments a,
season, it Is said, makes the roadbeds
waterproof, lays the dust and prevents
ruts and breaking of embankments.
Mr. and Mrs. Wl Gist Tolleson, of
Spartanburg, visited relatives and
friends in Gaffney this week.
Hon. John Gary Evans was here on
business Wednesday.
The “Old Man" ha£ gone to New
berry to attend a meeting of the ex
ecutive committee of the State Press
Association.
Col. T. Bothwell Butler spent Mon
day in Yortydlle gn profesisonal busi
ness.
W, S. Hall, Esq., spent Monday in
Spartanburg.
Mr. Billie Wilson and family, of
Charlotte, N. C., are in the city, the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Landrum
Brown.
H. K. Ofcborne, Esq., was in Spar
tanburg Monday on business.
M. C. Lipscomb, one of the most ex
tensive farmers of the county, was
here on business Tuesday.
Gregg Susong, one of our promi-;
nent young farmers, who is very po
pular with the ladies, was in the city
Tuesday.
, R. J. Foster, of Gowdeysville, paid
The Ledger a very pleasant call Tues
day.
E. K. Belue, a mendacious citizen
of Blacksburg, was in the city Tues
day shaking hands with his many
friends.
Alfred Harris, of the Macedonia
neighborhood, one of Cherokee’s best
known citizens, spent Monday in the
city.
Good Work In Illinois.
President Miller of the Galva (111.)
Good Roads association stated recently
that over twenty-five miles of road had
been graded and as much dragged un
der the auspices of that organization,
lie said further: “We have specimens
of road where the grade was complet
ed in this manner and draiutilu land
where the water line was within one
foot of the surface and through which
for many years people waded bub deep
in mud in the spring and sometimes iu
the fail when it rained. But these por
tions of tlie road are now firm and as
good as any we have.” He also stated
that the highway commissioners had
been making contracts with the farm
ers for dragging their roads at $8 a
mile and that the cash system of road
working is heartily approved by both
the taxpayers and road users.
ODD CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM
Arthur Neil, a Davidson
student, is at home for a few
College
days.
Sleeping Girl Read and Wrote In the
Dark—Studied Harmony.
The -particulars of an extraordinary
case of somnambulism were recently-
communicated to an English medical
journal by Dr. James Russell, assist
ant physician at the Birmingham hos
pital. He says that a girl twenty-one
years old, who is a teacher of the type
writer and a student of music, entered
the hospital to be cured of sleepwalk
ing. While under observation there
she habitually left her bed after three
or four hours’ sleep and busied her
self iu various ways, including de
scending into the music room ami
playing the piano, tuning a violin and
fitting new strings to it and crochet
ing.
Her most remarkable feats, how
ever. were reading and writing In the
dark. If there was even a faint artifi
cial light in the room she would avoid
it and go to the darkest corner, whoiv
she would read various books, study
the theory of harmony and write let
ters. One of her letters was addressed
to her music teacher. It contained a
short essay on “The Sonata Form.”
which was accurate in sense and con
struction. Another letter she wrote
was in German.
When she was awake she did not In
the least remember writing or reading.
An examination of her eyes did not re
veal the reason for her being able to
see in the dark. She has now left the
hospital, her condition having improv
ed. but she occasionally walks in her
sleep still.
RESULT OF A JOKE.
Rich Church Makes False Report
Good by Feeding Hungry Mob.
Some enemy of the fashionable Sec
ond Presbyterian church in Pittsburg
recently played a joke with surprising
results by circulating a story that at
the morning service a good breakfast
would be served to 150 of the city’s
needy. Long before the time set for
service the vestibules and halls of the
big church on Eighth street were
crowded with the worst looking lot of
people who had ever been inside the
doors. They were hungry and had come
to be fed, though neither the pastor
nor any of his flock knew what was
expected.
Pastor S. Edward Young soon found
out, however, and. starting the collec
tion with a dollar, which he said would
find breakfast for ten men. .he went
through the church and soon had
enough to feed every one and have a
surplus for permanent Sunday morn
ing breakfasts. Now every one is in
vited each Sunday morning to eat in
the basement at the expense of Pastor
Young’s “Breakfast Brotherhood club.”
One Advantage ot New Style Lars.
One of the greatest blessings of the
pay-as-you-enter cars is that the ques
tion of how women shall get off cars is
solved. The so called grab handles are
on the front sides of the door only. A
woman leaving the car must face this
handle and consequently must get off
facing in the direction in which the
car is going. While it kills one of
man’s greatest arguments against suf
frage, the fact that women will at last
make a graceful exit from a car will
cause a sigh of relief from every lover
of the beautiful In art—or nature.
To Toach Horse to Pose For Statue.
Edward C. Potter, a sculptor of
Greenwich, Conn., has found a Ken
tucky thoroughbred at Wabash, Ind.,
which he considers a suitable model
for General Custer’s horse. He will
teach the animal to pose and use it in
his statue of Custer Ho purchased
the horse from Edward Shoider.
Absolutely
Pure
From Grapes,
the most healthful
of fruits, comes the
chief ingredient of
ROYALS
The only baking powder
made from Royal
Grape Cream
of Tartar
Costs a little more than the injurious slum
or phosphate of lime powders, but with
Royal you are sure of pure, healthful food.
ESS23SSX2ZSB
PRAISE FOR SPECULATION.
Cornell Professor Says It Is a Species
of Insurance.
E. W. Kern merer, a Cornell profess
or of economics, in speaking of stock
exchanges the other night at Ithaca.
N. Y., said:
“Exchanges are big insurance com
panies in which every member of so
ciety is a member and the speculators
are the managers. They assume great
risks, and their position requires abil
ity. and therefore society must pay
them highly. Although there is un
doubtedly evil in dishonest manipula
tion, it is more than overbalanced by
the good which speculation brings to
society in the form of this insurance.
“In obtaining advance information
as to the condition of crops and the
political conditions, the speculators
are able to keep prices firm and to pre
vent sudden fluctuations and thereby
are insuring society against a sudden
drop or swift changes.”
Darwin Centenary.
The centenary of Charles Darwin Is
to be celebrated at Cambridge, Eng
land, during the fourth week in June.
The report of the council In favor of a
university commemoration of this ail
nlversary has been confirmed by the
senate.
Koad Maintenance Scheme.
County Engineer George F: Horton
of Houston. Tex., has introduced the
stitch in time system on the roads un
der his supervision. Inspectors are em
ployed by the month whose duty it is
to patrol the roads at regular intervals
and repair all damaged places and care
for the ditches and culverts. Stations
are established along the highways
where supplies are stored. It is expect
ed that this method of maintenance
will prove far less expensive and keep
the roads in better condition than the
old way of leaving them until they re
quire almost entire rebuilding.
Mr.
Good For Everybody.
Norman R. Coulter, a
Silver Aluminum Jelly Moulda Free.
Individually Molded desserts are
now considered the proper thing. The
moulds are hard to get outside the
large cities, but users of JELLO, The
Dainty Dessert, can get them abso
lutely free. Circular in each pack
age explaining and illustrating the
different patterns. JELLO Is sold by
all good grocers at 10c per package.
Do not accept a substitute or you will
be disappointed.
promi
nent architect, In the Delbert Bnlld-
Ing, San Francisco says: “I folly en
dorse all that has been said of Hleo-
tric Bitters as a tonic medicine. II
is good for everybody. It corrects
stomach, liver and kidney disorders
In a prompt and efficient manner and
builds up the system." Electric Bit
ters the best spring medicine ever
sold over a druggist's counter: as a
itls one - - - -
Mood pnrlfler it Is unequaled.
Cherobee Drug Co.
SOo at
Gold For Good Road Prizes.
The King drag road meeting held
recently at Williamsport, I’n.. was ali
that could be desired. Eight hundred
voters wedged into the auditorium al
the courthouse to hear D. Ward King
of Missouri speak on “Good Roach
Right Now.” Deputy State Highway
Commissioner Ensign spoke in the
morning. The audience contained men
from all the surrounding counties
some of whom came seventy-five miles
The board of trade raised $1,000 in
gold for good road prizes.
ea**e. Send for cire _ _
Address. J CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, ^c.
He’ ’sFitmily Pills are the beat.
Best Healer In the World.
.. , r. ^ Re v - F. Starblrd, of Bait Raymond,
n-poudelork and little ^ a j ne> sa y 8; «i have used Bucklen’s
Jnnnmn r '^ m' 6 b ’ Jen Arnica Salve for several years, on my
r*.t 111 t Se \v, ra ? ee i s in 1 . H;utmiore \ old army wound, and other obstinate
returned to the city Tuesday. sores, and find It the best healer In
Mrs. N. W. Wilkins, of Cowpens, the world. I use It too with great
was a visitor in the citv yesterday. success In my veterinary business."
‘ Price 2Be at Chertkee Drug Co.
Girlhood and Scotfs Emulsion are
linked together.
--K.
. The girl who takes Scoffs EmuU
sion has plenty of rich, red blood; she is
plump, active and energetic.
The reason is that at a period when a girl’s
digestion is weak, Scott's Emulsion
provides her with powerful nourishment in
easily digested form.
It is a food that builds and keeps up a
girl’s strength.
^ ALL DRUGGISTS! SOo. AND $1.00.
Flower Pots
—AT—
W. Kyle Davenport's
Subscribe for Tbe Ledger SI.50 a Year
The New
Shoe Stc re.
I am receiving New Shoes
nearly every week and will give
you new, fresh stock at the very
lowest prices. Try me and be
convinced.
Yours to please,
1. M. Peeler.
OSTOFATHIC PHYSICIANS-
DRS. W- K. AND ■* * HALE.
Mbntgomery-Cimwtord Hf.,
Spnrt&abmrg, a a
Octeopathy-ApplleabU to oil ownUo
<Lmom§. Wo glvo oopooUl ottootloo
to ilooMog of women
don, *11 iplnnl ofootlono.
Boon, hy appointment.
A
Grand Spring Opening of Millinery
* and Dress Goods and Trimmings. Tailor-Made Suits and Skirts.
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