Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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v"'* ^ ■: '• / 'V * • v'” ' r ■- •• ' *"'■ V • ^ r; THI OAPFNCY LCDOIft TuMtfay md Friday. KA. h o«Campt editor and Pubtlahar TIm Ledger la aot raapoiudbto ter tea rlewa of Ita oorreapoadeata. CITY DlMCTOItY. W. & Roaa Mafto W. O. Johnaom .. Major Pro Tam Coe. A Hood City dork T. H. Uttlajoba Tua—rar T. a Lockhart Chief PoHoa A. L. Hallmaa Health OHder Metier 4 Oaboiae .. .. Cttj AttjBi Board of PvMlo Wortsa. A. N- Wood .. J. N. Lipeeomb A O. Clary Maro a# Trade. W. C. Hamrick J. C. Otto MARKET REPORT. LOCAL OOll'ON MARKET. MlddJi&e 10.30 Uens fry*.. !abcio30c Docks. 20c £««» 17XC Irish Potatoes, bushel $1 00 Sweet Potatoes . 50c Corn, bushel 1.00 Meal, bushel 1.06 Oats, bushel 85c Onions, bushel $1.00 NOTES AND COMMENTS. Are you making preparations to aend your child to school? If not, for humanity’s sake do not longer neglect so important a matter. • • e Go out and vote next Tuesday. We need to poll as large vote as we can, in order to be allowed another repre sentative in the legislature. • * • This is the last lap of the voting contest. As will be seen from the statement in todays paper there has been a change in the standing of the contestants. Get busy and have your friends vote early and often for your favorite carrier. tion Indeed. Such methods as adopt ed by these thugs might frighten some puppets but no man will alter his course because of it. We opine that the “Wlndleship combination” has lost some of its power and pres tage by its unmanly course. • • • The Ledger is grateful to the peo ple of Gaffney, Blacksburg and Cher okee county for the very loyal man ner in whicu they have stood by it during its fifteen years of existence. daughter, Dovle, of Blacksburg, were in the city yesterday and paid The Ledger an appreciated call. Mrs. J. B. Foster and daughter, Maggie, of Asbury, were shopping in the city yesterday. Mrs. W. H. Bird, of Greer, was In the city spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. A. B. Kirby, on ITad- erick street. RAVENNA READING. News Notes and Personals from Our Regular correspondent. Ravenna, Sept. 2—The protracted There have been times when we have meet * n £ at Goucher continues to grow , lt ... ^ ' in interest as it goes on. Thursday felt like casting anchor and giving „ T I Rev. J. W. Guy preached on the “Life up the ship. These were when ad-1 0 f p e t e r.” The morning subject be- verse winds struck our sails and toss-! ing “Seven downward steps of Peter” ed our frail barque about upon the' the the evening discourse, “Seven up- ocean of uncertainty. But through it | war< * 3teps Peter. Friday the „ . . . .... . ... . I crowd increased and a full house all we have had an abiding faith in , . . .. - „ ! greeted the speaker, who delivered a the final triumph of right. We know j very flne sermon at e ach service, we have sometimes run against the j The afternoon sermon from the words current, we knew at the time we were, but we believed all along and we are still firm in the conviction that we were working for the best interests of all and If we had it to go over again we wouldn’t alter our course. Time will tell whether or not we were right. We know we have al ways acted from principle and that the consideration of the dollar has never entered our mind. If we had chosen to do so we might have sold out and thus been the gainer for a moment, but there are greater things in this world than dollars—and that is the conscientiousness of being right. The Ledger is today on a firmer foundation than ever before. of the thief on the cross, “Lord, re member me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.” This sermon was the finest discourse we have heard in times gone by. At the close of the sermon Mr. Guy had nearly every one in the large congregation moved to tears and at all times he held his^ listeners with his eloquent sermons. On Monday the meeting begun and it was announced on yesterday that, the services might continue through) Wednesday of next week, although the outcome Sunday would decide the question about continuing the services longer. M. W. Brown has his grist mill now in full operation aid as it runs by a gasoline engine, will only grind on Saturday of each week. Miss Mary Chalk has returned from a pleasant visit to Columbia and We shall continue to try to make lti| jonesville. In Columbia she visited worthy of the patronage, esteem and her sister, Mrs. Fred J. Parham, am? good will of all. We ask the cordial while in Jonesville visited her sistert co-operation of the entire populace in Mr8- tteorge ® rown - cur effort to make it the very best newspaper which the surroundings Some think that the yield of the pre sent crop will be rather light. Your correspondent made a trip down to Ravenna yesterday and re turned. Mrs. Hattie Mize and children spent a few days with us, but have return ed to their home at Ravenna. Scarlet fever has been reported, as making its appearance at this place, but by being kept close it hasn't spread in its ravages. ’Possum hunters are getting out on their annual campaign these chilly nights. We met a crowd from Clif ton. yesterday afternoon, going down towards Pacolet with dogs, lanterns. was 58 degrees at Santuc on the 28th and at Batesburg on the 29th. The precipitation was excessive in the western portion, and generally above normal in the central portion, and normal, or above, in the eastern portion. A number of places in the western counties reported weekly amounts in excess of ten Inches, with a maximum of 13.12 inches at Green ville. (Owing to Interrupted mail and telegraph service, reports were not received from many station in the western division). The heavy rain fall early in the week closely follow ing excessive precipitation near the close of the previous week, caused de- etc.. but haven’t learned their sue-1 structlve floods in all the streams In cess. From the amount of musca- the western half of the State. Pre dines, persimmons and wild fruits in vious records of high water were ex- the country at present, it is reason- ceeded by from one and a half feet able to suppose that it will be a profit- to six feet, or more, accurate data be- able business this fall. If anything! lag not yet available. By the close of will be sums. slow in insisting upon ita right to protected in the enjoymont of at lei a few hours’ quiet. ’short” it will be the ’pos- Nothwithstanding bad roads, flood- ed cotton mills, idle hands and short Garden Jsst. Come into the garden, Maud; Wear your summer rigging; Come into the garden, Maud; 1 See your husband digging. I —Montreal HoraML i Yea, come Into the garden, Maud, When the summer sun Is rod! Watch the old man hoe the cabbages That will cost $2 a head. —Scranton Tribune. Yea. come Into the garden, Maud; Cut out the billing, cooing; Reach for a club—come and see what Your neighbor’s chicks are doing! —Houston Poet. pay tickets, the mountain wagons don’t fail to bring apples, potatoes, | floods was widespread, including the chickens, etc., in such quantities that | practical destruction of all bottom the market is over-stocked, and the an A crops and damage to uplands by poor fellows are obliged to carry the; eros lo n - greater part of their loads farther on or hack home. S. Making Night Less Hideous. — ■ (New York World.) Mr. Smith Has Changed. New York has at last made the (From The State newspaper, August amazing discovery that many of the the week flood stages had reached the lower courses of the river, exceeding Yea, come into the garden, Maud; previous high water records by from Before the sun gets hot, one foot to four feet. The damage And help to slaughter worms an4 caused by the heavy rains and the i bugs, That eat what truck you’ve got. —Waterbury Americaa. rrv 18th, 1905.) Speech delivered by Mr. E. D. Smith, now candidate for United States Sen- noises which disturb Its days and nights are not only unnecessary but illegal. More amazing still, it has ate, June 17th, 1905, to the farmers! found that the y can be stopped and is of South Carolina: i actually beginning to take the trouble President E. D. Smith, of the South to stop them with the assistance of Carolina division of the Southern Cot-1 tbe P°flce and tue courts, ton Association, said yesterday: , Certain owmers of amusement re- “From a great many sources we sorts at Fort George, for instance, are hear the cry that this is another poll-! pained to receive warning to close at tical move. midnight, which Is a very effective “We claim this distinction: In this wa, y suspending their machine- state we have practically asked the farmers for no all. We made discord. The peramblating hand-organ man has had his day in J. M. Green spent Monday evening in Gaffney on business. of our work less than $200. M. W. Brown spent last Friday “We have asked and will ask for no will permit. There are hundreds of j night In Jonesville, visiting his broth- j p 0 ijtj ca l office as a reward for what money at have gotten from the producing and ; court and been instructed that there laboring classes for the prosecution are hours of the night when his crank- handled music becomes an unneces sary noise. Peddlers who blow horns, street venders who jangle bells. people In this county who read a newspaper. The political dem to reading it and then try to pursuade him to take one of his own. One of the refreshing things of the recent primary was the action of the Beaufort county Democrats in return ing to the Senate Mr. Niels Christen sen, Jr. He has the courage of his convictions and he is always to be found on the right side of every great moral question. We rejoice at his re- election because he is a Senator in deed and nothing he will ever do will bring discredit upon him or his State. • • • There are about three thousand registered voters in Cherokee coun ty. There are several hundred more voters who have not registered. It is Important that every voter in the county register and vote. When Cherokee reaches the point where there' are three thousand voters we will be entitled to another member in the House of Representatives. If every man in the county who is enti tled to vote will go to the polls next Tuesday and cast his ballot Cherokee will be allowed to send three repre sentatives to the House of Represen tatives in 1911 instead of two. This will give us four members of the Gen eral Assembly. The more represen tation we have in the General Assem bly the more important we become. We should not be deprived of this re presentation through the neglect of the people to register and vote. Let. every man who is entitled to a vote | Greenville, go to the polls next Tuesday. Mr. Jno. G. Bramlett • • • do not | er, G. E. Brown. Miss Cleo Lipscomb and Misses , Mary and Lillie Pettit, of Whito agogue comes along and poisons their | plalng attended the Goucher servlce8 minds against newspapers in general j ] as t Sunday. and they swear they won’t read one W. Paul Brown returned to the or allow certain papers to enter their Landrum High School yesterday. homes. Every man ought to inform: Mls8 IreM Ronner “4 i vin, have entered the high school at himself and there is but one way to pi edmon ^ q do it—that is to read. If your neigh- j Mr . Neely Lipscomb, of White bor does not take a paper lend him ! Plains, attended the Goucher serricee yours until he becomes accustomed | Monday. Miss lone Mabry, from above Gaff- PEREONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mrs. A. V. Montgomery, who has been visiting in Spartanburg, return ed to the city Tuesday afternoon. Rev. S. B. Harper, who has been away from the city for several weeks, returned last Tuesday. Mr. J. W. Tolleson left Wednesday ! for Baltimore, New York and other points, where he goes to purchase goods. Rev. Dr. A. M. Simms is back in the city after an absence of several weeks. He la somewhat improved in health. Mr. James Cansler, of Tirzah, who is in the second race for railroad commissioner, was in the city Tues day shaking bands with his many friends. Norman Jones and Ecbford Little left Wednesday afternoon for David son College. Fred Turner left Monday night for Eatonton, Ga., where he will buy cot ton. June Carr, Paul Morgan, Derbin we are doing. We have not asked nor will we ask for the aid of any politi clan or set of politicians. “We have opend the doors for any and every man who chooses to come in and help in the light. gangs of street rowdies who make night hideous are beginning to learn the road to the police station. Even the street-car companies are In line for discipline. They are among the very worst offenders, with their broken-down cars and rattle-trap run- ney, who Is visiting her brother, Mr. J. B. Mabry, of Asbury, attended the Goucher services last Sunday. Mr. G. E. Brown, of Jonesville, visited here last Friday. Our telephone line Is progressing nicely now, although the heavy rates of last week hindered the progress very* much. Mrs. Richard Baines aad son, John, of Asbury, attended religious services at Goucher Sunday. Mr. Ben Jamison, of Timber Ridge, attended the protracted meeting at Goucher last Sunday. Mrs. C. T. Chalk spent last Satur day with her relatives at Asbury. Your correspondent and his better half leave Thursday for several days visit to relatives and friends above Gaffney and next week expect to visit around Asbury and “take In” the meeting at that place. C. CILFTON CHRONICLES. ‘.T wish to emphasize the fact that n j n g gear. If they can be taught this cannot be a political move, In reason, truly paradise may yet be at- that all those who see In It, or joined. imagine they see In it, another at- The wonder of it all ig that New tempt, as they claim, to fool the farm- should have tolerated this bed- ers, we Invite them to come in and j am Q( no j se m ]is ances s0 Jong and join their Interests and their money <h a t the public should have been so to help bring about the condition which we so earnestly desire and j which we have proven can be achiev ed by our achievements; and if at any : time these brethren desire to enter the field of politics we will give them their furlough and ticket of leave, and allow them to come back to the world of politics and lay whatever claim they may to popular favor by virtue of their individual accomplish ments. “No man or set of men shall, so long as these officers are in charge of the Southern Cotton Association, use this organization for political pur poses. We have no right, nor Is It our province to become censors of the political opinions of any man or set of men. They have the right to express them at any time or place. We have the right, and are exercis ing It, to say that they shall not hold official positions with our organiza tion and at the same time seek an official position In the State.” JlfP PREPARED INSTANTLY. Simply add boil ing watei. cool nnd serve. 13c. per package at all grocer*. 7 flavors. Refuse all substitutes. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that on Wed nesday, September 30th next, I will apply to the Hon. J. E. Webster, Pro bate Judge, at his office at the coart house in Gaffney, S. C., at 10 o’clock, a. m., for a final settlement and dlo- charge as Administrator of the estate of W. Scott Hill and Sarah Hill, and Laura L. Hill, Ruth Hill and Rochelle R. Hill, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate or interest ed therein, are required to present, the same at or before said time, or be forever barred. W. W. Gaffney, As Admr. Estates W. Scott Hill and Sarah Hill, and W. W. Gaffney, D. C. Phillips, Admrs. Estates Laura L. Hill, Ruth Hill and Rochelle R. Hill, deceased. Pub. Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25, 1908. —Those school bags at Gaffney Drug Co. are peaches, all colon, styles and shapes. Rickets. Simply the visible sign that baby’s tiny bones A are not forming rapidly enough. Q Lack of nourishment is the cause. O Scott J Emulsion nourishes baby’s entire system. Stimulates and makes bone. Exactly what baby needs. . X ALL DRUGGISTS i 80s. AND $1.00 *++++++++*+*+*+*+++*** Newsy Letter from Our Regular s e e how Mr. Smith has changed Correspondent. his mind since that time. After or Clifton, Sept. I. As a result from ganlzlng the farmers for the better- Jones and John Kelly went over to the late freshet, v.c have been thrown: merit of themselves, he has now at- Blacksburg Wednesday in June’s au tomobile. out of business for one week from to day, during which liine we have done The cowardly and brutal assault on Editor Dave Oirst, of the Yorkville Enquirer, by two political heelers last week cannot be two severely con demned. We do not believe any editor should use his paper to the in jury of any man, yet It is within the province of an editor to criticise or condemn unclean political methods and when the editor falls In this he fails in his duty to his constituency. Mr. Grist believed Windle and Blank enship a bad combination and he of fended them by redlcullng them and referring to them as the “Wlndleship combination.” So far as we know he did not say anything that could be construed as an insult, but the fact that they became so exasperated over the defeat of their candidates as to lose their heads and make a deadly assault upon the editor Is very good proof that they were a bad combina- t cm pied to drag the organization ta in the political world to elect him to Walter Baker has returned to the nothing profitable to our self or any | Gie Senate. The farmers of the city after a three weeks tour through : one else, (lifton No. 1 mill suffered State should think well before they North Carolina in his automobile. less damage than that of No. 2. the should allow themselves to be used Mrs. Jno. G. Branflett and daugh-1 greatest being the tilling of the wheel bv se lfish office seekers. Mr. Smith’s tors returned to the city yesterday , pit and forebay with mud, sand and position In 1905 and his position to- after having spent a month with rel trash. Also the water arose in the'day are contradictory of each other, atives and friends in Anderson and ; weave room to a heighth of about and shows that he had a selfish mo- ^ eighteen inches, leaving mud and sand ' Gve at the time he began to organize returned to: to near the same depth. No cloth or tbe farmers, and is now attempting city yesterday from Greenville where • warps were damaged to any extent. to on their shoulders Into tho he had been spending a few days The driving belts were wet and so ^ nited States Senate. with his parents. damaged as to have to be sent to Weekly Weather Bulletin. Weather bulletin for the week end- He will Aar- as good as ever. ] Ing August. 31, 1908: The No. 2 basement was filled with The weather for the week was par- Mr. R. N. Simms, of Raleigh, X. C.. Charlotte to be worked over, but they came In Wednesday to see his parents, are expected to be brought back to- Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Simms, leave today. Miss Mattie Simms, who has been sand above the looms. The bridges tlcularly noteworthy on account of visitimr In RaWh v r for *nmo < one of them being ln cour8e of con - ,he unusually low August temperar time, came home Wednesdayto^Hie i struction > -re both swept away, tares during the latter portion, and delight of her numerous admirers in The new bri,,ge was about onefour,h the exre8B,ve rainfa » ln th « —stern . . .. — - . portion that caused * ‘ * Gaffne”. Mrs. Sallie Durham and little ' complete. It was to be built of steel at a cost of $13,000. Both the others (at Nos. 1 and 3», stood the storm. ■—; Roads are washed considerably in ! places. unprecedented floods. The sunshine was deficient. The mean temperature was from 6 to 8 degrees below the normal, the gretest departures having occurred in the central and western divisions. The dally maximum temperatures Stats Or Ohio, city or Toledo, i Sh Fkahs J OC CHES. n T "akes oath'that he is 1 Cr °P 8 were ^ se merely *en or partner of the firm of F. J. ciiknkyA aged in this as in other sections of the Oo., doing husIncHN In the City of Toledo, . . , . . j ■ .. . ... County and .state aforesaid, and that said ! country—not so much on lowlands—; were unusually low especially during DMjLAR^^r^elwh^nd^cvery awe^oMjA* [ the & reate8t a01011,1 f bein K the loss Friday and Saturday; they were near H A all”s Catarrh"^he curod by ,he UH1 ‘ <>t , of fodder. j ly normal on the first two days, with frank J.CHENEY. Fair-weather again smiles upon na- a maximum of 92 degrees at Bowman pi^nS^thT. f 8th d“yof n DeJ:eSr b A 1 thiSo’ I ture ' and the P‘ 10 l ,le are improving and Florence on the 24th. The dally 1I A. w. GLEASON. the opportunity of gat hertng their {HEAL f Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly on the blood and muenas sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials F. J. CHENEY A OO., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists. 76c. Hall’s FamilT Pills are the best. crops. Fodder pulling Is the main pursuit of business, among farmers. The “fleecy staple” is beginning to minimum temperatures were general ly In the seventies on the first two days, after which they ranged In the sixties, falling below 60 degrees at a peep forth and will soon call for quick i number of stationa on Friday and hands to remove It to safer quarters.] Saturday. The lowest for the week THE SAME CONSIDERATION The child with her penny Havings bank. The small boy with his Htn&ll change, The lady with her pin money savings, The small man with his small roll, The big man with a big roll, 9 The big man who applies for a big loan. The small man who applies for a small loan, The lady with her church subscription list, The small boy with school entertainment tickets. The child with society entertainment tickets. are all accorded the same considerate attention and extended the most liberal treatment consistent with good and profitable banking. THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK Office in The Nafiood Bank of Gaffney, S. C