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* ‘"v. H The Gaffney ledger. A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT TH* WORD IMPLIES, AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. OAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1908. $1.60 A YEAR. FARMER'S MEETING frequent bursts of applause showed ! the approval of his audience. He con trasted the measley sum appropriat- 1T UnilCC od for agriculture with the enormous HI FIUiIOL expenditures for the army, navy, etc., and then showed how the Amencan twenty-six thousand more cash tenants than in 1890. He urged diversifica tion. Our cotton crop is an economic question and it behooves us to get busy with it. Told of his efforts sig- gle handed, to get our ports open and 1 THE BRIDGE AT HOWELL'S FERRY rhem) can’t fail to see our needs in tion more than a sermon or splendid I * I this matter and for the present we singing in which they take little or rest the matter with them. All we no interest. We believe in teachers 1 have said is on our own responsibill- and preachers demanding the atten- l ty and not anybody else. tion of their hearers and then if they Your correspondent has been suf- can’t get that then demand the room fering with his eyes of late—so much the intruders occupy. We have often LARGE CROWD HEAR GOVERN MENT EXPERTS. farmer brings the balance of national 1 to get our cotton shipped abroad with-1 trade to this country. The farmer out the middle man. He then took S0ME EXCELLENT REASONS WHY s0 that he feels unable to discharge heard it said that love is blind and so makes this nation the creditor nation I up the question of immigration. When |y SHOULD BE BUILT. of the world. He declared, amid ap-' he was appointed commissioner there his duty in writing up the neighbor hood affairs. it is. When a loving couple become , so infatuated that they can't see or plause, that the farmers of this coun-1 was a call for labor from every sec- 1 try should write a declaration of in-1 tion of the State. Frankly told all of | dustrial independence. He spoke of the farmers and manufacturers that Have the tendency of the population to i he did not believe it possible to fill I drift towards the cities and pointed ; the places of the negroes. This call Made Agriculture Life Study. ollt how go0( i r0 ads, good mail facili- for labor became a burden. About scries of purely ! ties and more profitable agriculture this time saw the opportunity to make ' , ‘ would turn this drift back to the coun- the experiment of opening our port agricultural meet ngs, a ong gener 1 1 try The work of the i eg i S i a tor to- and of bringing about a large amount Excellent Talks and Illustrations Made by Gentlemen Who Ag ic third in the The Drifting of Sand at Low Water Stops the Ferry, and at High Water the Flat Cannot Run. it doesn’t make any difference with hear anything but one another, they Will Darby whether our manuscript are unconscious of the impression ! is well written or not. He sets it up they are making on other people. to suit/himself any way. In speaking of the members of the Press Associa- lost teachers anu a great many preachers suffer themselves and Himr tion with whom we had the pleasure audience imposed upon rather than ■ Wilkinsville, July 17.—The at Howell’s ferry is a subject of gen ... „ of shaking hands he made us say bridge "wielding a twenty-pound mule rath- cbmiaiid the attention of their heares. Solomon says: “There is a Gme to er than a twenty-pound “maul.” Why, do all things’’ and to the list he might lln< s. in lids State was held at Gaff ney Saturday It was a signal move ment for the the work of making farm life of advertising for the State without era ' discussion, and different viev\s brother, a twenty-pound mule isn’t have With this ac-cost. He do it. He are expressed as to the outcome of kicking size much less working size. „ determined to Europe without one dollar of our effort to get it. We are not one The indications are that we will being paid by the State, of those who become disheartened at have dry weather for a while at least, chairter and llrst eight verses and We are never draw day is I profitable and happy. .,»*.» *.v, , ’n't t <’i m< nt of our agrt- complished, many of the problems of, went to cultural conditions that Congressman ! <mr overcrowded cities would be , expense solved. Farming is the greatest pro- Every man, woman and child was an apparent lailure, and we try to and farmers dread it Lever hilt luted at Smnt.T this s,,riug ’' fesS j on an(1 tlie Department of Agri- thoroughly inspected before being al- make the best possible use of our op- satisfied. More people have been kill- less young people when he brought the national secre- j cu | ture is try j ng t0 ma k e it a profit- lowed to go aboard the ship. Was portunity. That such a bridge would ed with troubles that never come than tary of agrfi tiltun Chairman Scott, able one. Mr. T.ever tlien took up the satisfied that his experiment so far prove of great advantage to the peo- with those which have. That’s hu- subject of immigration. Immigration as labor was concerned was a failure. i pie of lower Cherokee and to the town i man weakness. is a failure in South Carolina. Advo- From a labor standpoint the sound-' of Gaffney there is no reason to ' We made a trip to the Hickory rated that immigration that comes of | ucss of his original position was sus- doubt. While we have a very good Grove i-eetion yesterday. Farmers its own accord. This fS the kind that' tained. People who say that we do ferrj there it does not at all times on that side of the river are getting makes homes. We**need patriots first not need immigration do not stop to meet the demand of the public, of all and the essential elements of think of our negro people here—they When the river is low sand m en patriotism ^are possession and tradi- do not realize that the bulk of our mulates and stops the fiat from run- added: “There is a time to court and a time to refrain from courting.” Read Ecclessiastes 3rd vonr own conclusions 'hought- J. L. S. THE CAROLINA MUTUAL. of the House Agrh ultural Committee and distinguished experts from the department Into direct contact with our people and close touch with our conditions. Commissioner Watson, of the State Department of Agriculture, through with their work. Crops show the effect of the long wet spell and reed of work. But they are good Commerce and Immigration, contrlbut- <'™is. When we have the kind of. negroes—they do not realize that our ning. Then again when the river is generally especially that Immigrants that are home builders, farms are today being operated by over four and a half feet above Ami com- still, learn on at we have the kind of immigrants that ! negroes—they do not realize that our raon water it. don’t run. are patriots. We don’t want a white suffrage laws have been only a make- again when the dams above shut off Thompson ihe a good Unity. Rev. W. tenant class in South Carolina. Mr. B. H. Rawl, Chief of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agri- (ultare, was the first speaker after that when the no S ro S° ts $300 we dinner. Mr. Rawl is a South Car olinian a Clemson man—and he is doing a great work for the dairying interests of the country. Mr. Rawl has many farms throughout the is being have more negroes in school today til the water again assumes its nor than white people—they do not realize tual condition. These are Hie prinei- ed largely to the success of meeting and h was iherc that an en thusiasm along these lines was aroused that is resulting In a general awakening of our agricultural inter ests to their latent possibilities. The marvelous results accruing, where the department has introduced the most scientific methods, are indi cative of a great future for the South. The department works upon the idea S(|)||li “ |( j We8f operating 0 "under the 0 P cnin S in the North for negroes will mud thrown into the landing make it of these hot days, and spending three Commissioner McMaster Says It Is ht v Good Condition. Insurance Commissioner McMaster was in our town last Friday and Sat urday, the 17th and 18th inst.. examin ing the condition of our Insurance corn crop, companies. He made an examination meeting is of the Carolina Mutual Benefit Asso ciation Saturday morning and was so assisted bv Rev. hurried to get off on the train for Co lumbia that he did not have time to give us a detailed report of f his Com pany. He states, however, that he finds it in good condition and that he is satisfied with its workings. This company has been writing in- sufficient white men in here to be- fiat, and crossing them over safely, .'-istants, is training the children for durance twenty-three months and is shift—they do not realize that we the water the ferry boat can’t run un- Mr. Punn. Large congregations at tend each service. Our Children's Day at. Salem comes pal difficulties with which we have to off next Thursday, 23rd. Mr. Sam cannot keep him from voting. This: contend to say nothing about the dif- Strain, superintendent of the Sunday is the great danger and we must get ficulty in taking wild animals into the ■ hool. with a corps of’competent as- come part of our own body politic to Still, again, when the river gets up meet strength with strength. The the amount of sediment, sand and We will give their names later licensed to do business in Cherokee After riding the mail all day one and Spartanburg counties. During its organization there have been only of the people. It is not the policy of per cow per month. Ho spoke of the ^ad citizen. All we ask is to realize a number of teams want to cross at Hickory Grove, is not doing what we, soon as the information of the deaths the department to do the work, nor |, ( . r j OUH ( .o n( j^o I1H ( Jint confronted the that we are Patriotic first. Would be the same time and this is delay too. expected in giving us the news from was received—and the money is now to have it done by its representatives. f . anilor jn , he ear , . 90 . s He Btate( jV the last to bring an undesirable popu- We sometimes hear it said that a that part. When we get anything deposited in the hank ready for the It seeks to study the soil and climatic ' conditions through its experts, furnish 1 that he had some cold facts that he wanted to present to the people and lation into the State. Mr, spoke of the possibilities of Cherokee Gaffney, or Hickory popu- Watson bridge there will hurt the trade at from over there we must hunt it up next claim. The records are the; the best way we can. We went over carefully kept and despite the fifian- Grove, as this expert knowledge and work with ^ ^ (hpn wna fnr (lio p t>0 pi e to county. He gave some very interest- case may be. This is all “tomfoolry.”. yesterday and found his man Henry cial stringency the company is doing ride whether they would accept the ing figures to what the county had The business of these, towns will re- McDaniel was taking the census of a better business than ever before, methods or not. He took up the ques- done an(i Pleaded for a reawakening sulate itself and when it comes to the Hickory Grove school district—: While the policies are not yet worth the individual farmer The meeting Saturday was held in the court house and two hundred and fifty Cherokee farmers, in dead earn estness, listened attentively to the speakers of the day. Mr. Watson meant to make this a red-letter day for Cherokee county and had arrang ed a strong program. The first speaker was Prof. D. N. Barrow, of the Department of Agri culture, who spoke upon Farm De monstration Work. He said that he had been in this work for twenty years but never had seen such inter est manifested as is shown in this State. Came into this State last fall to organize and establish farm de monstration work. He explained ex actly what the department meant to do. Spoke of the disasterous work of tion of cotton seed meal as a feed and a ' on g Hues. as a fertilizer. Only twenty per cent comparing the two towns the odds is all in favor of Gaffney as a trading Mr. Watson was earnest and patri of the fertilizing value of cotton seed otic and although he was the last of P° int - Witl1 a11 of its stores and cot- meal is lost through feeding. About a number of speakers he held the at- <on mil,s it s not reasonable that one-sixth of our fertilizer is cotton tention of his audience' to the last. getting up a list of the taxable polls a full $1000.00, the amount is increas ing every day and the Carolina Mu- and G. tual pays more than other companies and dogs. Messrs. J. T. Moorehead Andrew Byars have got some south- do for the same cost. The Woodmen Hickory Grove can ever compete with down sheep from Blackstock, Ches- do not pay the face value of the pol- Though they do a great deal of ter county. it IN GOOD CONDITION. icy for three years and yet the assess- One of our lower Cherokee farmers ments are called every month. The swapped horses with the Gypsies and ‘ value of policies in the industrial got a rabbit mouth mule which one companies increases with the num- of his neighbors says can’t bite an 1 her of payments and the cost of these seed meal. As a fertilizer it is worth $28 per ton. As a feed for cattle It is worth the same. Its fertilizing value, after feeding is $21 per ton, there- This is Mr. McMaster’s Report on the haven t the same chance to command fore for every ton fed we have a prof- Farmers’ Mutual, it of $21. This makes the actual ' value of meal, when properly fed, $49' 1 per ton. And yet we are using It as a fertilizer without feeding it, and are annually losing two,, mil- . Hons by this method. Can we afford this? We are yearly shipping meal to Europe and buying it back In meat. i # i . , , ,, He pleaded for a live stock Industry' ers lMutual llisurauce Association, of: as it is, most of this cotton goes to | We like to see them enjoy their much and county as any enterprise m it ** J flafFtiov urwl frmrwl thorn oor»r»oot IMr 1 r r_i l ■» *-in j at i •iji ^ _ , 3 „ j a -■ *■_ * j 1 41 Insurance Commissioner F. H. Mc- , Master was in the city Saturday. While here he examined the books of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Com pany. To a reporter of The Ledger he said: mercantile business at Hickory Grove and are a first class set of men they haven’t the same chance to command trade that Gaffney has. With a con- i venient and safe crossing at Howell’s ear of corn because its front teeth is far more per $100.00 than the Car- ferry and a goou road, Gaffney will j don’t meet each other. It’s a nice i olina Mutual. get the bulk of the cotton raised be-1 looking young mule though you never; This is an enterprise of which Gaff- tween Bullock’s creek and Broad hear of a horse swapper getting : ney and Cherokee county should he river. We say this for the reason cheated—let him tell it. ■ proud, and one which should be en- that Hickory Grove can never be the j The season will soon be on hand couraged by every man, woman and market for cotton that Gaffney with j for the farmers to He in the shade i child In the county. It is doing as T examined the books of the Farm-: a ll of its cotton mills is, or might be., eat watermelons and tell big tales. I much for the upbuilding of our* town the boll weavil in Texas and told °* 1 throughout the South as the basis for ^ affney ’ and found them correct. Mr. Lockhart Mills, and the building of a i needed rest. We envy Mr. Andrew, The amount of mail handled is great AT- _ _ AA ,3 4 A I ® T> A1 /y n Ff rt 4 n wl rx 4 vx si HAT wT x-x W M ± T-% m t- • « A « « X _ta1*_ • A i * A — M A _ ^ M m the steps being taken to destroy It. ^ R. M. Gaffney, Is president and Mr. J. bridge at Howell’s ferry will not put, Byars for his good water, shade and Eb. Jefferies, secretary and treasurer. 1 an additional bale of cotton in the | watermelons which he so much en- “The records were accurately kept Lockhart market. Gaffney has all to and this one item in itself Is of great benefit at it is doing much towards res- joys. Who wouldn’t enjoy An- securing free delivery for us. It Is „ ^ ^ , . I successful agriculture. Urged a deep and thorough prepara-1 tion of the soil for all crops. Showed ! The Slate of Alabama has a Stale _ „ the value of the forage crops to soil, i Department of Agriculture and Prof. anti lh e company has been managed ga i n an( j nothing to lose in this Stressed the value of careful seed j Gra y» Professor of Animal Hus- most economically. It has given in-: pect, as we see things. If the mer* j best all round fellows in lower Chero- and to work for this enterprise is to selection and showed how better, ban( | ry of tlle Alabama Experiment , ance to its mem b e rs at the rate of chants at Gaffney can’t compete with^kee. work for yourself and your town and drew is a sensble man and one of the, really a “mutual benefit association,’ crops would result from this one Station, talked upon Beef Cattle and 37 1-2 cents per $100, has paid all its 1 those at Hickory Grove they ought to We regret to learn that Mr. Claude county. thing. He told of the work of the de- , the Raismg Shee P- He showed how losseg and h as accumulated a surplus i ose the trade. It’s natural for peo- Inman is probably taking typhoid partment in this State. There are, ihe raising of shee P and cattle en ' one hundred and sixty-five special, abled us t0 utilize our waste lands as agents in the South and South Caro-, l ,asture lands aud how thls ultimately lina has fifteen of these. He con- j woul< ^ build them up. We should gratulated the people upon the desire i raise our own live 8tock and keep our to push this State to the front. ! money at home - By usIng a black Dr. D. A. Brodie, assistant agricul- j boar fi> be showed exactly what It $2,572, of which $2,430 is safely in- pj e to trade where they can do the fever. He is about the right age for that dreadful disease to attack. The Carolina Mutual Benefit Asso ciation, with its Home Office at Gaff ney, furnishes as cheap and as safe vested at interest. best. "The company has now about $500,- Hickory Grove, Kellys and Jones- Mr. J. N. .Strain and Master Livy, insurance as can be found in the ooo insurance in force. Especially to v ille are the shipping points for low-; went to Hickory Grove today on busi-1 United States, and at the same time be commended is the mutual feature, er Cherokee in such matters as guano ness. keeps the premiums circulating at there being three directors in each an( i other things shipped in carload Mr. Evins Estes, who was reported home instead of having our money township, who pass upon risks and i 0 t s . sick in a previous letter, is much bet-, sent into other states. turists in the office of Farm Manage-/' os1 p to raiRe catt,e and what prices art j ust i osses . This feature not only When the cry was raised that the 1 ter and able to be about again, ment, spoke upon Crop Rotation and,' ve caa realize - stated that the bisures confidence but tends to de- building of an iron bridge at Gaston Winter Cover Crops. In beginning,, sheep indust ry was the industry for crease the moral hazard in that it Shoals was in the interest of Gaffney, he spoke very complimentary of Com- tbe nian witb ,k,le capital. He as- m akes each of insured feel that he has t 0 bring trade from North Carolina, missioner Watson’s Hand-Book of : ser4ed wbb one bundred sbee P> an interest in the company and that he South Carolina. He told of the need, workin 8 two bours a day a man could And why can Gaffney not have as Mr. Tom Sanders’ family down in big an insurance company as any city hazard in that it shoals was in the interest of Gaffney, the fork have measles. Dr. Fiefield in the United States? It has men of is treating them. We have no great uprightness, integrity, inteUigence, we said it was perfectly right. If i amount of sickness in lower Chero- and determination at the back of it. must see to It that the company Is Gaffney or Cherokee county can se- kee. These men do not intend to confine cure trade from other sections and j We have a good many young peo- this company to Cherokee and Spar- interest. The company is licensed to even from other States It’s right, and pie in lower Cherokee who would | tanburg counties, but intend to go do business in Cherokee and Spartan- honorable for them to do so and to like to marry if they could get a good out Into other territory In the course this lower Cherokee offered no resist-1 chance. We have some nice girls of a few months. This will not only not only in South Carolina but, reaRze as much profit, upon the same uot j m j )0Se( i U p 0 n to protect his own throughout the South, for more diver- j | ands as 0116 nian with one mu,e rais ' sified and intensified cultivation. De- j blg cotton - dared that it was bad agriculture to Prof. J. N. Harper, of the Clemson burg counties.” raise the same crop year after year 1 ollege experiment station, spoke of All of which is very gratifying to anee. Not a finger was raised or down this way who would make good keep our money in our own town and upon the same land without a winter ^ the work of his department of the The Ledger, as it always gives us WO rd said that we know of calculated Wives and boys who would make good county, but will bring in money from forage crop. The people of the New ’ college. He told of the soil study of pleasure to note the success of Chero- t o defeat the plan. We thought it, husbands. other counties. [England States raise increasing crops the State and of the seed breeding kee county enterprises. was right and think so yet and are Prof. A. G. Davis is teaching a sing- Let’s push this enterprise and let glad that our North Carolina friends ing school at Rehoboth. Mr. Davis is every one of us push for the Carolina have a convenient way to get to a 1 a good teacher and does his work Mutual until It shall become one of | thoroughly and we are glad to know the mammoth companies of the every year upon the same land by planting crimson clover In the winter. wor«. they were doing. This soil in-1 formation is for free distribution We can do the same in corn and cot- j among the farmers of the State and ton by using these same resources., seed will be distributed also. We do not appreciate the value of, They are testing cotton to find the cow peas and clover or rebuilding West cotton for the diffeiem Lcil He An Apology. The following personal appeared In handy market. Carolina Mutual We need better land, farms. Congressman A. F. Lever, of the Seventh District, had been invited as the representative from this State on the Agricultural Committee, to ad dress the people. Mr. Lever’s untir ing efforts in behalf of Southern agri culture, are well known throughout the State and his speech Saturday was an earnest appeal to the farmers to depend upon themselves and to make themselves independent. He spoke In his usual vigorous style and the The Ledger of Friday, July 3rd, in That that bridge is an advantage to! that he is so engaged. He has the United States—the the Ravenna correspondence. | Gaffney there is no doubt. But It is I best drilled choir at his church of Gaffney. S. C. “Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Clary and son, also a convenience to the people and i (Sardis) we know of in the county balanced | advocated rotation and showed how a of Macedonia, spent last Sunday with 1 taxpayers living In that community i anywhere. Miss Shuford Entertains. better yield per acre could be obtain tained through proper preparation, cultivation and rotation. Commissioner Watson made the last speech of the occasion. He felt assured that the talks of the day would do good. He said that he had spent most of his life at a sacrifice in bulldnlg up the State. Spoke of our undeveloped wealth In minerals. In speaking of our agriculture he said that only 29.9 of the land surface In this State is Improved. We have Mr. and Mrs. H. D. ‘..lathis.” ! who need It for other purposes than There is nothing out of the ordinary going to and from market. in this simple paragraph except that it contained one more person than it should have contained. Mr. and Mrs. Clary have no son as yet and our cor respondent was either Incorrectly in formed or a little too previous. Our correspondents are urged to be a lit tle more careful in the handling of such notices. The Ledger apologises for this error both for itself and its correspondent. j We are not disposed to say, or ev#n think, that our county board will fall to see the need of a bridge to give this section an outlet when they con sider the situation. Neither do we think that our members to the legis lature will fall to aee it and make the necessary appropriation to build us a bridge. The present members of both these bodies (or those who may come after So many young people attend sing- Last Thursday night Miss Mary ing schools with no other purpose Shuford gave an entertainment at her than to do their courting, that it’s td- pretty home on Robinson street In most impossible to get up a first class honor of Miss Marie Epton, of Spar- choir at each church. Little as they think about it these young people tanburg. Just a few friends were" present, those being Misses Francis hinder the good work that others Oats and Margaret Gowan, of Ashe- would do. No teacher or preacher I ville, N. C., Sadie Lipscomb, Daisy either can do the work in which he la engaged unless he can get the at tention of his hearers—that’s Impos sible. A courting couple will usually attract the attention of a congrega- Wilkins and Sarah Carpenter, Messrs. Walter Little, Hazel Wood and Fran cis Gdfney. All had a most enjoy able time and it will not be forgotten soon.