The Gaffney
A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES. AND DEVOTED to THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.
ESTABLISHED FEB. IS, 1894.
QAFFNEY, S. a, TUESDAY. AUGUST 25. I90S.
$1.50 A YEA*
CANDIDATES CLOSE
AT DRAYTONYILLE
A RESUME OF WHAT THEY TALK
ED ABOUT-
Th* Candidates Are Given Respeet-
tal Hearing—Neighborhood News
Notes and Personals.
Dmytonvllle, Aug. 21.—We are
Itaving some Inclement weather
which we are glad to see as the crops
sire suffering very badly for ram.
The candidates for the various of*
flees of Cherokee county spoke at
Pondfleld Thursday. The meeting
was called to order at eleven o’clock
by Chairman F. H. Morton. The first
speaker was Mr. D. R. Lavender for
supervisor. He told the people of the-
•experience that he had in road and
bridge work and that the office for
which he was seeking did not require
« speech-making man but a working
man. He said that he was a working
man and if the people would elect
him for supervisor that he would de
vote his whole time to the duties of
the office and would give the people
better roads than they have at pre
sent.
Mr. E. Felix Lipscomb was the next
speaker and he said that he had filled
the office as good as any other of his
predecessors if not a little better.
He spoke of the iron bridges that had
been constructed at the different
places on Broad river and that he had
j saved the county some money by
having the bridges constructed. He
thanked the people for their liberal
support that they gave him two years
ago and asked them for their support
again this year and he thought they
would comply with his request next
Tuesday.
The next and last speaker for super
visor was Mr. Joe V. Wbelchel. He
said that he was told that Mr. Lip-
4 scomb had torn up some roads during
his term in office of supervisor and
that he had come to the conclusion
that it was true. He said that he was
traveling down in the lower part of
the county recently and that became
to a place where he had to get out
and walk to get over the roads and
if elected would give the people roads
that they could travel.
The next speaker was Hon. E. J.
•(Mary for legislature. Mr. Clary made
a good talk and during his speech he
told some good anecdotes which were
enjoyed by the people. Mr. Clary
gave bis views and ideas on the lien
'law and immigration department. He
-bald that he was opposed to the im
migration department and that he
would do all in his power to have the
law repealed if the people elected
him again for one of their members
to the legislature and that he thought
they would do it. He said that he
was proud of his record that he made
in the legislature this session, as it
was his first time of being a repre
sentative and that he was always at
"bis post of duty with the exception of
two days when he was called home
on account of the severe sickness in
bis family. Mr. Clary said that he
thought that the people ought to send
•a farmer Instead of two lawyers to
the legislature as their represent a
lives and that, they would do so. He
^closed his speech by asking the peo
ple to remember and give him half of
Their votes and they could give the
'other half to Mr. Hall or Mr. Hardin
Just as they chose on the 25th of
this month.
After Mr. Clary had spoken a recess
one hour was taken for dinner,
essrs. Spencer and Porter had their
barbecued meat ready to serve the
people and the people served the
meat to a cool finish. After the peo
ple bad refreshed themselves they re
assembled to the speaker’s stand
where the chairman introduced Mr.
JV .3. Hall for the legislature. Mr.
Hall discussed the lien law, immigra
tion department and education. He
said that the lien law stood repealed
In the lower house but was still on
the statute books. He said that if he
was elected he would repeal the law
If the people said so and if not he
would let it stand. He said that he
was opposed to the Immigration depait-
ment and that if he was elected that
■'he would repeal the law of (migration
and try to have the department ablisb-
ed and the money that was given to
support the department be con
tributed to the agricultural and com
merce departments. He said that he
did not believe in letting foreign peo
ple that could not speak our language
and did not think they had to be
governed by our laws to come over
here and become citizens of our coun
try. He thought that the people
ought to give their children an edu
cation so they could make good citi
zens and fill offices of their own coun
try. He was cheered by a good num
ber of the people for his good speech
and he asked the people to give him
a lively vote next Tuesday.
Mr. N. W. Hardin, of Blacksburg,
had arrived In the afternoon and he
was the last speaker for the legisla
ture. He gave his views and ideas an
the Hen law and the department of
immigration. He said that two years
ago that he was In favor of immigra
tion but since he had seen the con
dition of the immigrants and country,
that he was opposed to the importa
tion of the immigrats fttto this coun
try and that he would be glad to see
the department abolished. He made
a splendid speech, which the people
enjoyed very much and he wanted
the people to remember him on tbe
25th of this month as they did in the
election that was held to elect a re
presentative to fill the unexpired
term of Mr. W. F. McArthur.
The next speakers were the candi
dates for the office of superintendent
of education. Mr. J. L. Walker was
sick and could, not be present and
enjoyed by the people. He said that'
he thought that he could fill the office
better than any of the other candi
dates could, because he had had some
experience in the important office.
He told of his experience as clerk of
the board of commissioners and that
he knew where every man’s land in
the country of Cherokee was and If
the people would elect him for their
next auditor that he would do all in
his power and ability to help them.
The last but not the least by any
means, for auditor, was Mr. Walter
V. Humphries. Mr. Humphries said
that the other candidates had been
throwing off on him for being so poor
and slim and that was the reason he
could not marry. He said that he did
not see how Mr. Ezell married unless
he advertised for his wife. Mr.
Humphries was slured at because he
was the best speaker of the candi
dates for auditor. He related some
anecdotes during his speech and he
closed his speech with one and re
ceived much applause from the peo
ple.
The last speaker of the day was
Mr. Will W. Gaffney, candidate for
treasurer. He did not make any
speech because he did not have any
opposition and he said that he could
not make one. After the program
was concluded the people began to
SAGE OF ETTA JANE
A VISITING GOES
HE TAKES HIS BETTER-HALF WITH
HIM.
Cli«st«r County tho Soon# of Hi*
Psramlulationa—Stopping With OM
Frionds.
Blackstocks, Aug. 22.—In company
with Mrs. J. L. S. we left home Tues
day morning for a few days visit to
this section where we have been en
joying ourself mingling with the peo
ple of our native county and looking
over the stamping grounds of our
youthful days. Many, very many
changes have been wrought by both
nature and art but still it is our dear
old home with many sad and pleasant
recollections clustering around it.
We spent our first night with Mr.
Joe H. Estes and family near Arme
nia church where we were most kind
ly received and royally entertained.
Wednesday we took up our line of
travel passed through Chester stop
ped at the home of Hon. J. K. Henry
sel, Hibernia, under Capt. Fitzsim
mons. They landed at Norfolk, Va.,
and sailed down the coast to Charles
ton where they disembarked and
made their way up into Fairfield
county where the family of children
grew up.
We will give our readers a fuller
account of our travel when we get
back home. We trust our readers
will bear with us while we have the
opportunity to prepare the notes of
our travels for the printer.
Mrs. “J. L. S.' has been a little un
well and we fear has not enjoyed our
trip as we would have her to do.
J. L. S.
Death of Mrs. Pagenstechtr.
Blacksburg, Aug. 19.—About 8
o’clock on Sunday morning the 16th
inst., at the home of her son-in-law.
Mr. Farmer Moore, Mrs. Margaret
Pagenstecher entered into rest after
a serious Illness of only a few days.
Mrs. Pagenstecher was the daught
er of Mr. Hardie Brown and was
bom in Ashboro, N. C., December
IDth, 1833, being in her seventy-fifth
year at the time of her death. She
was happily married in 1854 to Mr. J.
Pagenstecher, a German by birth,
and who died in 1896.
She is now survived by three
daughters, Mrs. Bertha Moore, who
AN EXPLANATION.
On account of the recent heavy rain
and the high water incide-t thereto, the
power plant on Broad river was put oat
of commission Tuesday afternoon, and sa
a consequence The Ledger was put out of
business for the time being. Part of the
matter in this issue appears just as it
came from the linotype jnachine, having
never been corrected. We are able to
get oat this issue through the conrtsey of
our neighbor, Tbe Cherokee News, due
appreciation of which is hereby acknowl
edged. The power plant expects to re
sume Wednesday night and we expect to
come np smiling Friday morning as us
ual.
Tillman Sure of Bryan.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
who is pay his first visit to Paris this
week, says that Bryan not only ought
to win, but will win. Looked at from
Europe, what has most impressed 1
Benjamin Tillman in the home poli
tical situation is the spect#;le of Mr.
Taft going obediently to Oyster Bay
for President Roosevelt to revise and
approve his speech of acceptance of
the Republican nomination. No can
didate has ever before, he says, made
THE ELECTION.
The Heavy Rain off Tuesday Prevented a Large Vote in Cherokee County. Only About 60 Per Cent, off The Voters Turned
Out. Swoolen Streams Made it Diffffcult to Get Returns. We Print Below a Tabulated Report off The Race For County Offfi*
cers, For United States Senator and For Governor,
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i he chairman read a letter that Mr.
Walker had sent stating that he was
r rry that he could not be present at
!:e meeting on account of his illness.
Mr. Estle S. McKown, for the same 1
)fflce. was the next speaker. He did
lot make a speech but announced
’.is candidacy for the office of super-
ntendent of education and hoped that
•he people would remember him
vhen they went to ca^t their vote
’or superintendent of education.
The candidates for auditor were
icxt on the program and Mr. James
\V. George was the first to occupy the
and. He made a good, brief talk and
■*aid that if the people thought he was
the proper man for the office for them
to cast their vote for James W.
George on the 25th of this month and
if he was elected he would devote his
whole time to the duties of the Im
portant office.
Mr. George was followed by Mr. T.
Both Hughes, who announced himself
as a candidate for the office of audit
or and trusted that the people would
remember and vote for him on the
25th of this month.
Mr. Will D. Thomas was the next
speaker for auditor. He made a good
talk and said that he wanted to b<;
tne next auditor and that if the peo
ple would remember him next Tues-j
day that he would fill the office to the i
best of his ability and knowledge.
Mr. Thomas was followed by Mr. J.
E Ezell, who announced his candi
dacy for the office of auditor of Chero
kee county and hoped the people
Ajuld remember him on tbe 25th of
this month.
The next speaker was Mr. John E.
Jefferies for the same office. Mr. Jef
feries made a good talk which was
leave for their homes and for the ball
game.
The conduct, at. the meeting was
very quiet and there were very few
men under the influence of whiskey.
Miss Daisy (’rocker, who is assist
ed by Miss Flossy Porter in her
school at Pondfleld. dismissed their
scholars at ten o’clock and took in
the campaign meeting.
People are making molases but we
nave not heard how the crop is turn
ing out. The people of this section
believe in raising their own molases
and bread.
Messrs. Worth Little, T. Daven-
port, Collis Kirby and John Q. Bar-
rat t, of Gaffney, attended the cam
paign meeting at Pondfleld.
Mr. Sparks, an insurance agent of
’’n on, was in this section this week
in <he interest of his business.
Cotton is opening rapidly in this
F-ecilon and we think there will be a
vo: v good crop made.
We notice that The Ledger has a
new correspondent from Blacksburg,
‘.‘Lucile Lee.” We enjoy reading your
letters very much. Some of the cor-
resj ondents who have been regular
wrl'ers have almost completely stop
ped writing. Come on with your let
ters and keep our friend DeCamp
ahead of the others.
Mofoup.. Charlie T. Bridges and
dautr’-.N- -. J. R. Service and J. E.
Rains, of Gaffney, attended the coun
ty campaign meeting at Pondfleld
Thursday. School Boy.
From two boy companions of Tuffs
Sashem, the Syrian boy whose dis
membered body was found In Chica
go. it was learned that he entered
tho house of the Turk under arrest
Sunday and was not seen alive again.
where we had the pleasure of meet
ing his family and resting ourself a
short while. We met Mrs. H. and
her interesting family who invited us
to abide with them but we had to go
further.
We stopped Wednesday night with
Mr. and Mrs. Washington McKown, of
Cornwells. He and his sons are run
ning a machine shop where they do
a great deal of work making and re
paring machinery, engines, etc. Our
stay with them was very nleasant.
They are a noble set of people and it
is a great pleasure to be with them.
Mrs. McKown has a lot of all kind of
dried and canned fruits and vege
tables and her home is a model one
for any community. Mr. and Mrs.
McKown, raised a family of boys and
girls now men and women of which
any community might be proud. We
left there Thursday morning for
Blackstocks and are now at the home
of Mrs. Alice Bell and family where
we have met quite -a number of
friends and relatives who thought
enough of us to call and see us.
Crops in this section, especially
corn is fine, though they say not as
good as It was last year. Cotton is
not near so good as the corn. This
seems to be a general complaint.
May of the farmers down here have
enough of last years corn on hand to
do them another year. This is one
of the leading features of progressive
agriculture.
Our old aunt, Mrs. A. J. Neal, who
lives with her daughter, Mrs. Bell, Is
In her ninety-flve year since the 4th
of May last. She is an exiraordinary
woman. She ran tell about crossing
the ocean when she was only four
years old. They came in a said ves-
iives near this place. Mrs. Ixm Jetton,
of Shelby, N. and Mrs. Mamie
Wages, Spartanburg county. Her re
mains were carried to Shelby on
Monday and interred by the side of
her husband and two shildren.
Although of a rather delicate con-
stitutkn and never strong and hearty,
she was blessed with a cheerful dis
position and by always looking on the
bright side and sweetening her own
life and the lives of others, by pleas
ant words, and kind acts. She lived
over the allotted age of man. She
combined true refinement and gen
tility with a strong sense of her moral
and Christian obligations Ailing well
the various positions of wife, mother,
friend and neighbor, and when the
end came she was ready (like ripened
grain) to be gathered to her Father’s
house to be forever at rest with her
Lord.
“As each goes up from the fields of
earth
Bearing tbe treasures of life,
God looks for some gathered grain of
good.
From the ripe harvest that shining
stood.
But waiting the reaper knife.
Then labor well, that in death you go,
Not only with blossoms $weet—
Not bent with doubt and burdened
with fears,
And dead dry husks of wasted years—
But laden with golden wheat.”
W. A.
It may be old-fashioned, hut we al
way did prefer our shirtsleeves to a
“smoking jacket."
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his first official appearance before the
people in that attitude. It is a shock
to Americans over here, and ’must
cost Mr. Taft heavily at the election.
Senator Tillman adds that Mr. Taft,
like most fat men, is personally good
natured, but as a candidate he has no
separate personality, whereas every
body knows where Bryan stands.
Senator Tillman, who followed Bry
an’s itinerary on his lecture tour,
found that Bryan had won popularity
everywhere.
Ex-Governor David R. Francis, who
is also in Paris, thinks that Bryan's
chances are rosy chiefly on tbe
grouni that be Is convinced the mess
of the public desire a reduction m tbs
tariff. He believes that American in
dustries are perfectly prepared to
hold their own against European com
petition on equal terms.
A K. of P. Rally.
Monday night week promises to bo
a red-letter occasslon for Limestone
Lodge K. of P. Mr. Frank P. Cooper,
of Charleston, will exemplify the se
cret work of the order; Maj. M. L.
Bouham, of Anderson, will deliver an
address on a subject of bis own se
lection; Hon. B. A. Morgan, of Green
ville, will also make an address; Mr.
C. L. Brown, of Abbeville, Grand
Keeper of Records and Seals of the
Grand I^>dge of South Carolina will
lecture on the importance of prompt
payments of dues. The above pro
gram will be the business for the
evening. The session will open at
8 o'clock sharp. The visitors will ar
rive in the city during the afternoon
and will be entertained by local
I'ythians. Every member should b«
present.