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pp » - The Gaffney ledger. A NKWVAPM IN ALL THAT THB WORD IMRLIBD. AND DBVOTBD TO THB BKDT INTCRCtT OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894. QAPPNEY. t. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 1906. $1.50 A YEAN. HON. L. LAWSHE. Third Assistant Pcstmaster-General, to Speak This Evening. Hod. A. \j. I.iiwsii.-. tiiinl A.'si.staiit Postuiiist) r-<;• n^ral arriv.-il uiis af- at J.l". to t. at from WashiiiKtot) •.•tuni to Washing will > Auditoiiuin of l.imi'.ston e.-niii-' at 7.:;" >hari' Suppor a)]] ii^ <orv<*il to Tin sooiatioti from to 7..!". Tho {wnplf of ' iaftiiov aro iuvitoii to Lour Mr. Lawsia- ami ar<* roquost- tt'l to (.-or;)*- -o as to r*a< h r la torimti by 7.:i". Mr. !.• ws!i< will ili.-ctih.s tlx ti')ii of th< itoijli.sbor -o t| J( . Hostoffo a rttij.'iit ami iti' i l'-iitally toll tin- editor- A ii\ tho Impartinent ri-'iuiri s paid for WONDERS IN TYPESETTING. Junior Linotype Operator Takes the Place of Ten Hand Compositors. —o— One of the features of the Press Association meeting:, popular alike with the ladies, tlx* editors and the children, is the exhibition of the .!u- : nior i.inotype, by tlx* Mersenthaler 1 l.inot.'lie t'onipany. in the art room f J,,. , of tlx* collcee. Kreryiiody knows ahont tlx* Stand- ( ollene this [linotype, by means of which the la I'm* papers of tlx* State, including | to see the exhibit, and will be given a warm welcome. It is the most pretentious exhibit of any nature ever given at an As sociation meeting by any company. ( and the Association members parti cularly appreciate it, as an evidence of tin* importance of the South Car olina Press Association in the eyes of the standard composing machine company of the v mid. The Junior Linotype now on exhi bition here is to he boxed at the close of the Assoeiation meeting ami shipped, by express, to Newport News, Va.. where the Virginia State Press Association begins a four-day THE PIEDMONT IS NOT THE WHOLE THING. illy \V. \\\ Smoak. > o When the above subject was pre- I seated to me I know out* President j did not intend to imply that in thei j matter of entertaining the State As- ! sociatiou, (Jaffney is not “the whole j thing:" nor that in the estimation of ■tile people of tlx* Piedmont, timy j not the* whole tiling. or >ix* j | qualifications for naturalization as a j ''Medmonter is i<> h:;»e tie- bump of] i whole-thing-ness aenm inaily develop-1 ••Tix* (iaffm-y L**dger." are c omposed, j seS8iou on Mollday M ,. xt) Au]y ,; tll . ' s " nhsorhed an they in tuis un-i As-; bur tlx* Junior Linotype is a compara-l , t js ( , lost . ,. ali for lh( , ,. 0 , 111)aI iv-.s i ,iat " ni1 1 " ua1 ' ,h:i ' ,Le * v , live stranger to South raroiinians. | 1 . epresentatives (0 get lhe ma ehine | viouS flii " ,h ’‘ ,( - . is ailothor and it. i tion that it is continually tlx* centre o: a:, ad;.:irinu throng, piloted by the nx!J i ela- erimpal:y s Welter J| representatives to get the machine so much ditteient in its ac-j tQ ,\ e wport News on time for the I j tpening of the Virginia meeting. In- liilentally, it will he about tin* big gest lbs. i, express shipment ever sent on so long a distance through tlx* (iaffnev offhe. w ell-know n Scvorv. aid. agent. Mr. d bv one of of tlx* State, ('ountry. There pert of the State is abnormal, and known as lix- Low is only one other where siieii a hump if in im ''ting .■ pci-- MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAR OLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AND THEIR VISITORS. It. L-ovis I'.'itt, News, Orange burg. Mrs. It. L'-wis ••rry. News. Or angeburg. i'. Vlifford In rry, N‘ \vs. Orange burg. Mrs. Sam 'I'. Itc < d. T.x- World, (Tifton. Miss (Mare |{ec T World, Clif ton. August Koun, News and Courier, Columbia. Mrs. August Kohii, New.s and Mb : 'y* i cj new- ■rs t IX- »lx arc adiiiitted UiO ad<: lass rate will inter V. 'll as t lie i loll. publish* -s licfor to the mail at t of postage T ; . est th*' giajeral publi' publisher. A fo r Mr. Lawshe's tddr R. H. Edmonds, of the Manufactur ers" Record. HalMn.ot'e v. i,l <'.dress the Asscxiation. The public is invited »o rxar the address also. Tlx* i'rcss Association will i>e dc- lighte<l to s'-e tix- auditoritim iilh*<l this evening. X E. H A I'LL, president. N'ew ierrv Herald and News. m the the most expert operators country. Mr. W. L. Parks. Under the deft fingers of the lat ter. more than two columns of this new-paper are frequently set in type in an hour, and this on the Junior Machine, which is announced by tko company to be somewhat slower in aetion than the Standard Machine. A portion of this paper, including J this article, is set on tlx* Junior Lino* Gaffney, Then and NO*. (By Col. T. B. Crews, Laurensville Herald.) You ask me if.J were ever in Gaff- “<* - ollege eac Dey before to which I reply, yes. col " nuis ol ' s,ll « s The state press Association met here Borne time in the summer of 1889. twenty-fou;* years ago. At that time I had the honor of holding the position of president of tinat body of journal ists, ef whom there were about twen ty-five or thirty members present, Borne of whom had their wives or daughters with them, aggregating about thirty-five or forty, perhaps. W'* met with the most cordial, hearty reception, and were hospitably enter tained by the good people of “Gaffney City, or the now city of Gaffney.was then called, it was a town of about PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mr. Horatio N. Goodwin, of At lanta. is a guest of fix* Asscx iation. He represents tlx- American i'rcss Association. Mr. W. 1). Grist, of Yorkville, was heartily greeted on nL arrival last evening. He was accompanied by his son, Mr. Lewis M. Grist. Mr. <\v. Birehnior<* and hi- sons Charles and Lozier, of Camden, are among tlx* recent arrivals. Mr. and Mrs. II. t>. ('uiiiiingliani. of Tlx* Leader and Vindicator, iiishop- vilie. an* hen* with their attractive daughters. Misses In.o and Lutie. A welcome addition to th*- party is Mr. Janies A. Hoyt ot Columbia, Un able ■ orrespoixlciit ot “Tlx* News j and Courier.” Other Columbians who wej*e wurm-i ly greeted, were Mi*. I, E. Nornx*nt, I whose trenchant pen is so often eli-j joyed by the readers of the ■'State;" Mr. C. M. Galloway, tlx* able telc- . graph ediuu* of tlx* same paper, and Misses Linnie La Borne and Alice A. : Henderson. .Miss LaBonx is well known as Slate Librarian; Miss Henderson as tix* stenographer to ; Governor I). C. Heyward. Mr. J. L. Mims of the Edgefield sou, he or she says: “l am from charleston," you can look for i;. It will seen) strange, w- know, u a Piedmouter, when tlx* assertion is i ere p. orded thut a true • lix Charlestonian knows no more about tlx* f'iedrnout than tix* true Mix* Ph-tJ monier knows of charleston. Voicing the sentiment of the bal ance o; tlx* Low 1 'ountry, we . v. ; "T : * Piedmont is NOT th-* *.. ix>!e thing." though it is one of » • stituc nt parts of Son Cnrolin, . I town whore - .e k o a eoadi* ions, in tlx Low C-iunti'v. an* iietny t : iius W I X -4 1 % t iiat go i I'i- II11) I •! •.(it W$i ■ fm I® m WZ-' the arrivals X (A (.g*. z ,/////.’■.//. Wp V li day, and the Advertiser, was anion in* tlx*n carried 011 Tuesday evening, to tiie office of “The Ledger,” where, j Mr. and Mrs. Jno. K. Anil, of N'ew- adih*d to niatt<*r set by tlx* Stand- berry came in Tuesday night. Mr. ard machine in that office, they are made into the paper of which t ills i article is a part. Each visitor who asks for it, and many who do not, is given a souve nir “slug” with his or her name and ’ address upon it, and many are car- ! ried away for use as paper weights, ! etc. Not a member of the Association has failed to inspect, the Junior, and every lady has been in the art room ; at least once. Many of them have spent hours watching the fascinat ing machine in operation. When if. dawns on the ladies and gentlemen that Mr. Parks, tlx* oper ator. is setting, on a low-priced, sim ple machine, in oix* hour as much as ten average compositors can do in their offices by haixi, the fascination : becomes more pronounc ed, and the machine acts as a lode-stone to at tract them again and again. It is certain that there will he Junior Linotypes sold in South Carolina as a result of the exhibit, for what the members have seen with their own Anil is the son of President Anil, and •yes cannot he misunderstood. It is not < »ni;ix*i! i y tlx* Linotype <'o p .i :. . i. i cut. Mr. New- Al’GCST KOHN, and Courier. Charleston. Lins appelt. one thousand inhabitants. But mark j the increase. Today Gaffney has a ! population of between six and seven thousand, with four flue cotton mills, a cotton oil mill, extensive lime works, two prosperous hanks, two well estab lished newspapers.—Gaffney Serai- Weebly Ledger and Cherokee News— a score or more of first-class stores and othe r business houses, including a large ice factory. The press Association and its friends, now in your city, occupying elegant quarters In the spacious and well appointed building of Umestone College, and are most hospitably en tertained. in every particular, and I feel safe in saying that the reception given us this morning was one of the meet hearty we have ever received on any former occasion, the addresses of welcome by Prof Griffith and Dr. Lodge being couched in terms orvate and eloquent, making us all feel glad that we came. I j M j mt * S?» EKM. BANKS. V.-Pres. Columbia State. Savory, that tlx* average operator will get tlx* product from the ma chine that Mr. Parks, who is really a wonder in 1:1s way in this part of the country, produces, but It is claimed, and there is plenty of evi dence to support the assertion, that the machine does set, heads and all, In the hands of the average operator, a galley of leaded brevier an hour, which is the work of at least five av erage band compositors. The citizens of Gaffney are invited a bright young iiew>p;tp**r man. II'* does some newspiiper work, but is at Tne largest lumber mill in the present tix* official court steno grapher of the Eighth Circuit. Hon. J. P. Gibson, an old newspa per man and member of tin* Legis lature from Marlboro county, is witli the brethren. Mr. H. L. Watson, the bright, young editor of tix- Greenwood In dex, came in yesterday. He lias re cently gone into tlx* practice of law in connection with his newspaper en terprise. Mr. and Mrs. H. ('. Bailey and their daughter, Miss Nellie, of the Johnston News, are among the new members of the Association. o The Printing Office Boy. (By E. N. McD.) The boy in the printing office has a pretty tough job. It feels to bin that he has everything to do, uch as setting type, going on errands, sweeping the floor, dusting the sta tionery, cleaning the presses, distri buting papers, delivering jobs, getting the market reports, and, sometimes, when in need of work, the boss"' will send him to meet the trains for personals. o —Tried ice cream at Gaffney Drug Oowif—yf SAM T. REID. Clifton Chronicle. the whole thing. For ages the silent forces of nature have been at work building up a soil that for productive ness has no equal. The Piedmont has been the chief contributor, and 1 has given us such a depth of ferti- j lily that lie have not yet more than i tapped its wonderful resources. When tiie hills of the Piedmont are trams- i ported to the alluvial section of our j State we shall then he enjoying, as we are now, the fertility of our won derful soil, fanned by the breezes of the sea, and warmed by the sun. To the average Piedmonter, the I^ow Country is as much a "land of vague promise” as was Florida, to the Spaniard. They think of it as a vast, misty, mosquitoey, malrri.il swamp, with here and there a prom inence on which negroes aixl coalers bask in the sun—tlx* latter tlx* prey of the former. To such we would state that they were never more mistaken. The county of Colleton for example, contains the largest truck ing section in the country, and the Norman H. Blitcli Co. are the largest planters of cabbage in the world. *n- tirt* world is at Georgetown, while Colleton has a dose second in the large mills of the Westmoreland Lumber Company. In point of Intellect, other sections of our State furnish some able men. In Duncan Clinch Heywood, the Low Country furnished an exaniplary governor; and, but for the myster ious workings of Providence, our next Senator. There is no question as to the ability of some of the present candidates and in all probability our next Senator will be from the Low- Country. Numerous other examples might be given, but one other will ' be a clincher—what is the native county of our present Editor-in-chief, j to say nothing of the . many able j writers of the present and past gene- ! rations in the country South of the : Piedmont. This section may furnish water j power, but much of the fabric grows ; further South. May each section do as it has done before—endeavor to make South Carolina the grand est, noblest State of the Unl'm. . may the Piedmonter realize t ...: there is a low country, and Charles ton a Piedmont, and that all sections are closely interwoven in one com mon destiny. NEILS ('llKISTTNSEN. JR.. Buford G:iz*-tt'*. Gour;":. G,,liii,,hi.( MIm- Mary iv. ■ ,\ >\vs ami ('our- i r. Coixmi'i:.. Mrs. A. !i. . *> "i i;- Siar-, ('(). lumbia. Janx-s Y. Baron. ('hroniMi*, Edge- field. L. Wigfall <'lx-a!liam. Chronicle. Edgefield. Col. T. B. Crews. Herald. Laurens. Louis Appelt, Times, Manning. Miss Augusta App'-lt, Times, Man ning. Miss Vallye Appelt, Tinx-s, Man ning. M. P. Felder, Eagle, St. George. Mrs. M. P. Felder, Eagle, rit. George. R. L. Freeman. Pee Lee Advocate, Bennettsville. Mrs. R. L. Freeman, Pee Lee Ad vocate, Bennetts ville. Thos. H. Coker, Jr . Messenger, Hartsville. A. K. Lorenz, Journal and Re view, Aiken. G. W. Gardner, Jr., Journal, Greenwood. F. L. Knight, Herald, Sumter. W. W. Smoak. Jr., Press and Standard. Walter boro. Mrs. W. W. Smoak, Jr.. Press and Standard. Walterboro. Miss Estelle Smoak, The Journal, Branch ville. Master William Smoak. Press A.- Standard, Walterboro. A. \\. Knight. Herald. Bamberg. Mrs. A. \\. Knight, Heraid, Bam berg. John M. McWhorter. Farm and Factory, Seneca. George R. Webb. Horse Creek Valley New s, Warren ville. Buel Webb, Horse Creek Valley News, Warren ville. Thomas Webb, !!or.-.e Creek Valiev News, Wam*n, ill- . ' Miss Alice Anil, Herald and 1 News, Newberry. Master Humbert Aull, Herald and News. Newberry. Miss Bessie Seidell, Herald and News, Newberry. N. G, Osteen, Watchman and Southron, Sumter, S. C. Mrs. N. G. Osteen, Watchman , and Southron, Sumter, S. C. ^ ; Miss Juanita Osteen, Item, Sum ter, s. c. Miss Essie Murray, Item, Sumter. J. T. Bigham, Lantern, Chester. < 'hester. Miss Nellie Bigham. Lantern, Ches ter. Edwin M. McDowell, Journal, Cam den. j Henry Deas, Journal, Camden. Wm. P. Houseal, Lutheran Church Visitor, Columbia. Mrs. Wm. T. Houseal, Lutheran Church Visitor, Columbia. Miss Vera Houseal, The Lutheran Church Visitor, Columbia. S. Frank Parrott, Farmers' Un ion Sun, Columbia. J. C. Mace, Star, Marion. Mrs. J. ('. Mace, Star. Marion. •Miss Theodosia Jones, Observer, Marion. j Evan J. Lide. Spartan, .Spart anburg. J. L. O. Thompson, Sentinel-Jour nal, Pickens. Mrs. J. L. O. Thompson, Pickens. W. D. Grist. Enquirer. Yorkville. Lewis N. Grist. Yorkville c. W. Bir' iiniore. Messenger, Cam den. Chas. W'illis Birchmor**, Messenger, Camden. Dozier Bin lnnore, M-sseiiger. f'am- : den. James A. Hoyt, The News and ' Courier, Columbia. H. C. Bailey, News, Johnston. , Mrs. H. c Bailey, News. Johns- ■ ton. Miss Nellie Vera Bailey, Johustoe. J. E. Norment, Tiie State, Colum- ! bia. | J. I* Mims, Advertiser, Edgefield. John K. Aull, Herald and News, | Newberry. Mrs John K. Aull, Herald attd 1 News. Newberrv. t * H. L. Watson, Index. Greenwood. C. M. Galloway, The .State, Greet wood. H. S. Cunningham, Leader and Vin dicator, Bishopville. C. M. GALLOWAY, Columbia State. Hubert McCracken, Horse Creek Valley News, Warren ville. W. W. Bradley, Press and Banner, Abbeville. E. H. Aull, Herald and Ndws, New berry. Mrs. E. H. Aull, Herald and News, Newberry. EVAN J. LYDE. Carolina Spartan. Miss fmo Cunningham, Leader and Vindicator, Bishopville. Miss Lutie Cunningham, Leadet and Vindicator, Bishopville. VISITORS. The following are among the vi sitors attending the meeting of the Association. Henry P. Boggs, Glenn Springs. Mrs. Henry P. Boggs, Glenn Springs. Wm. R. Boggs. Glenn Springs. Walter H. Savory, representing the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. W. L. Parks, expert operator for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Chas. S. Conner, American Type Founders Co., Baltimore. Rozier L. Bouis, American Type Founders Co., Baltimore. Miss Adelina Kohn, Orangeburg. Miss Camille Jacobs, Columbia. Miss Mary Youngblood, Columbia. Mrs. D. R. Dinny, Edgefield. Mrs. Geo. T. Sbarpton, Edgefield. Miss Emma Rodgers, Hartsville. Harry L. White, Spartanburg. Miss Annie Moore, Bennettsville. A. J. Knight, Sumter, S. C. Miss Mary Bates, Birmingham. Ala. W. B. Jenkins, American Cordage Co., Louisville, Ky. Horatio N. Goodwin, American Press Association, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Lenny H. La Board, Columbia. Mise Alice N. Henderson, Co lombia. J. P. Gibson, Bennettsville, 8. C.