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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 He -bald that he was opposed to the im migration department and that he would do all in his power to have the law repealed if the people elected him again for one of their members to the legislature and that he thought they would do it.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, Lt. See Com St Adj In Sunt u Suut. Lien For United States Senator Gov. Gv St Gen. Tr Gen Education Gnl Ii R. Commissioner Congress Sol L-’gislature Ed Supervisor Tr Auditor Law PREC.NCT3 CD 1 -j > w >» Li * o © U * La 0 SS © a c 4-> X G £ O © a 3 A s 9 J a 3 b a 2 © •G G ■w a CA '© X a < © T. 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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." Subscribe for The Ledger. $1.51. 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.