Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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If you have bitter or bad taste In the ®orn- g, poor or/Cariable appetite, coated tongue, sul breath. coWlpatcdor irregular bowels. I weak, easlli tired, \spondent, freouent sad aches, pain or distres^hi "small of back." aawlng or distressed leetbu * n Btomac h. rperbaps nausea."risings” in throat after eating, and symptoms Of weak stomach and torpid liveh no medl- Olaewin relieve you more promptly or-<:ure wou more-)» !”-'.3’V‘ii!!y than liyMOjJVp c's golden Medical I .irovery. Perliaps only • part of the alcove inpdims will be present Ot one time and yet point to torpid liver or biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all hot bread and biscuits, griddle cakes and Other Indigestible food and take the "Golden Medical Discovery” regularl^and stick to Us 0>e uni<1 you are vigorous and strong. The "Discovery” is non-secret, non-alco- hollc, is a glyceric extract of native medici nal roots with a full list of its Ingredients printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. Its ingredients are endorsed and extolled by the most eminent medical Writers of the age and are recommended to •ore the diseases for which it Is advised. Don’t accept a substitute of unknown •ompositioc for this non-secrot ytEiucunc IV KUOWX COMPOSITION. •ound). Out of this dilemma the way la easy. If the federal government was to iasue us needed $400,000,000 of 2 per cent thirty to fifty year bonds to aid Highway Expert Tells Why the j road buiidin* it wonid o.ro> tb. ^ v j r j tional debt up from $11.11 to $10.5? Government Should Help. HAS THE RIGHT AND ABILITY. NOTICE OF RECEIVER’S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. By virtue of an order granted by Honorable D. E. Hydrick, Presiding Judge, in the case of James M. Mc- Swain, a stockholder, etc., Plaintiff, ▼s. The W. C. Carpenter Company, Defendant, I will sell at Gaffney, South Carolina, on Monday, Septem ber the 7th, 1908, the entire stock of goods consisting of dry good, notions, hats, shoes, clothing and all other goods in said stock, and fixtures of the said The W. C. Carpenter Com pany , the said stock of goods and fix tures will be divided into lots and parcels and sold separately, or as a whole, sealed bids will be received for the same in lots or as a whole, and such bid or bids will be accepted as may make the same bring the greatest amount. Sealed bids will be received by the ^ receiver any time prior and up to twelve o’clock noon of the 7th day of September, 1908, for any lot or par cel into which the said goods or fix tures may be divided, and if any bid be on a certain lot or parcel such bid shall be accompanied with a certified check for fifty dollars (50); If any bid on entire stock and fixtures such bid shall be accompanied by a certi fied check for one hundred dollars ($100); the Receiver reserves the right to accept or reject any bid or bids, and to return the checks of the unsuccessful bidder or bidders. All bids will be opened at twelve o’clock noon of the said 7th day of September, 1908, and upon acceptance of any bid or bids, the successful bid der or bidders are required to pay balance of the purchase money for stock or lots as the case may be, with- la the next two hours. Bidders may inspect stock and fixtures at any time by making application to Receiver. Maffney, S. C., this the 5th day of August. 1908. D. C. ROSS, Receiver for The W. C. Carpenter Company. Aug 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4. Secretary of Farmers' Good Roads League Points Out How States Can Be Helped by Bond Issue—Definite Conclusions on Construction Methods. U. 11. Gross, secretary of the Farm ers’ Good Re-ids league, has written as follows from Chicago to the editor of the New York Tribune ou the sub ject of building improved highways: Should the federal government by a bond issue assist the slates to build public roads? If so, to what extent? The answers to the above questions Involve the consideration of several things- first, the right of the govern ment to do so, the need of It, its ability and, last, whether it is a wise policy to adopt. In the brief space available 55 and the interest charge from 29 to 39 cents per capita. The debt per capita fhen would be almost exactly where It w-as ten years ago. It would require $8,000,000 a year to pay i he interest on the bonds, but ev ery dollar of It would be saved upon the one item of rural delivery. Of the 2,100,000 miles of highways •bout 900.000 miles are post roads, and about 800,000 of these are unimproved. The $400,000,000 for national aid would give about $500 a mile, or about 25 per cent of the average cost of bnilding hard roads upon these high ways. After ten years of study of road building at home and abroad the writer has reached the following definite con clusions: First. — That If we are to have good roads within a generation the federal government must assist In building them. Second.—Tliat the government contribu- Mississippian Has Thrilling Ex perience With Robbers. WAS BOUND HAND AND FOOT tlon be pro rated among the states as the work Is done on the basis of one-h&lf the gross sum upon the full road mileage we must assume the necessity for good of the state and p one . half U p 0 „ the basis roads; that their condition atlects mar- 0 f population. The plan works out fairly Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Kdieves coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest •nd bronchial tubes “Am pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar” Children Like It* For BACKACHE WEAK KIDNEYS Tit teVitt't Kidnej and Bladdar Pills-Sure aid Site ket conditions and thus concerns all the people; that bad roads are pro ductive of a great and preventable waste that amounts to several dollars a person a year; that one of the great est needs for the social and economic development and welfare of all (he people is good roads. As to the right or i>ower of the fed eral government to build or assist to build highways, section 8 of article 1 of the constitution says among other tilings: Congress shall have power "to establish postoflices and post roads.”, More than 10 per cent of all the high ways and most of the main roads are used for rural mail delivery and so are postroads in the meaning of the consti tution. President Monroe in a mes sage to congress May 4, 1802, says: In whatever sense the term "establish” Is applied to postoflices It must be ap plied in the same sense to post roada Cooley in his book on constitutional law says: Every road within a state. Including railroads, canals, turnpikes and naviga ble streams, existing or created within a state, became a post road whenever by action of the postofflee department pro vision is made for the transportation of the mails upon or over it. The above is deemed sufficient to show the government has the unques- tlonable right to improve highways used for rural mail delivery. Article 1. section 8, clause 1, provides In part: “The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general wel fare of the I'nited States.” Is not highway improvement for the general welfare? On March 14, 1818, the house of rep resentatives passed the following reso lution : Resolved, That congress lias power un der the constitution to appropriate money for the construction of post roads, mili tary and other roads and of canals and for the Improvement of waterways. Among the early statesmen who held that the federal government hnd ample power to build roads were Jefferson, Madison, Clay. Webster. Calhoun and Others. The government has expended mil lions on the old < umberland road and to all the states. This plan would make | available out of $400,000,000 approximately IE,000,000 for New York. $26,000,000 for Pennsylvania, $22,000,000 for Illinois, $18,- 000,000 for Ohio, $13,000,000 for Michlgsm, etc. Third.—That the actual construction of j the roads should be done under state su- t pervlsion upon specifications approved by the United States government engineers. Fourth.—That the initiative should be left with the respective townships, road districts or parishes, these to furnish at least one-third of the total cost, with tbe slate clothed with power to veto any Im provement if of insufficient Importance. This power would probably be seldom If ever used. It may be assumed if the road | was not a main highway^and needed the people of a township would not vote to build it when they had to raise at leaet one-third of the money required to do so. Fifth.—Tliat if tliis country is to fulflll its high destiny and meet the require ments placed upon it by its wealth, posi tion and its opportunity good roads are a | paramount necessity, and to get them speedily requires both federal and state aid to hearten the ’people to undertaka ; this great work. Good roads will do more for the educational, social and economic development of the whole country than 1 any other single agency. GOOD ROADS IN ENGLAND. H# Wa* Then Tied to a Tree and His Mouth Filled with Mud—In this Con dition He Remained All Night, but Finally Freed Himself. Rich ton, Miss., Sept. 3.—Tuesday night about 8 o'stock, while on the way from hlg home at Grafton to Rtchton, Z. W. Wallay, • prominent citizen, wa* acoosted by two high waymen, supposed to be negroes, pull ed from his horse, tied with the bri dle, hand and loot, to • tree, his mouth filled with mud and robbed of $32. Mr. Walloy spent the night in this condition, getting loose Wednesday morning about daylight. As soon as word was received here of the crime, a posse ot oitiseng left in pursuit of the robbers. Walley cannot give a description of the ponies, as they threw a cloth of some kind over his head, but he says he knew they were negroes by their odor. SEVKN PERSONS DROWNED. W. H. Moore Says the United States Should Follow British Example. W. II. Moore, president of the Na tional Good Roads association, writing to the editor of the Kansas City Star, says: The finest examples of perfect, easy and durable roads I have found In the British isles are the Warwick road from Leamington to Warwick castle, about two and a half miles; the Kenil worth road from Leamington to Kenil worth castle, five miles, and the Strat ford road from Leamington to Strat- ford-on-Avon, ten and a half miles. These roads are about four rods wide between fences. The traveled or im proved portion is twenty-two feet wide between grass edges. All these roads have horse paths on one side Some of these are carefully prepared with stone averaging from two to three feet deep, the top surfac ing being earth. The paths on the side. whl< It are two or three feet from the main road, average about five feet in width No material has ever been Pleasure Party Meets with Dleaeter in Penobscot B*y. Deer Isle, Me., 9ept. S.—•Seven summer tourists out of a party of ten were drowned by the capsizing of a I!5-foot sloop in Penobscot bay, oft this island, Tuesday. The party of light-hearted summer people started out for a sail in Penob scot bay. It was drawing near the clo^e of the vacation season for most of them and they had planned this as their ’nst outing together. The wind was from the southwest and aqually. The sloop was of tho “open” variuty. It had no deck forward and no cab in, and it contained no ballast, »s the (tauy of ten weighted the boat down quite heavily, and Captain Haskell, an experienced navigator in these wa ters, thought that the craft would be wei! balanced. The party had scarce ly been gone an hour before the wind freshened up, heeling the sloop well over, and dashing the spray upon the occuponts. Captain Haskell realising that there was danger, put. about and started back. The boat had not proceeded far when a huge wave capsized it. The occupants were throinto the water and nil but three of the party of ten were drowned. GALE WRECKS SHIP. SOLDIERS BREAK CAMP. a number of military roads, establish- nore '' or 1,0 suitable to Ing a precedent. The public roads of hor * ps ’ foot to ^ horsemen than STAR Chicken Feed and Wheat -AT— W. Kyle Davenport's ing a precedent. The public nearly every civilized country in the world have been built in whole or In part by its general government. It is the only plan that lias ever succeeded. It Is the world precedent As to tiie need for better highways no argument is necessary. The gen eral government is expending $35,000,- 000 a year on rural delivery. Accord ing to Senator Bankhead of Alabama, the postoffice department estimates that unifTmiy good roads would mean longer routes, more regular service and a saving of 2<> per cent In the cost Thus tiie loss to the postofflee depart ment due to bad roads is now $7,000,- 000 a year and Is increasing as the service is extended. It will soon reach $10,000,000 a year. While bad roads en tail a loss to the mail service of $7,- 000,000 to $10,000,000 a year, the loss to the farmers and consumers of farm produce cannot be less than twenty times as much. As to the ability of the federal gov ernment to assist in building good roads, how better can we judge this than by comparing the debt per capita of our country with the leading nations of the world that have built good roads and found it paid to do so? The per capita debt of Germany, ac cording to the Chicago Daily New* Al manac and Year Book for 1908, is $49; England, $88.83; Italy, $82; Spain, $98; Prance, $144, and the United States, $11.11. The amount of annual inter est charge to be met by a citizen of Germany is $2; France, $0.05; England, $3.47; United States, 29 cents. The panic of 1907 was occasioned largely by the enormous demand for currency "to move the crops.” Why need the crops be moved with snch haste and at such great inconvenience to the railways and so completely drain the cities of money as to cause a panic and the loss of many millions? The fanner knew the winter and bad raid season was approaching and that tf he didn’t get his crops off before (he roads broke up he didn’t know how long the embargo of bad roada would prevent him from doing so. Another factor was the Insufficient amount of government bonds to serve as tbe basis of national bank circula tion. As no bonds were available tbe banks could not increase their circula tion, as they would have been glad to de and which would have Immedi ately relieved the financial strain. The country needs good roads, and It needs f larger debt (strange as that may the common earth surfaced roads. The roads referred to receive carefnl and constant attention. In the early season. May or June, they receive an application of coal tat product. This is Impervious to rain and allays tin* dust. The very best In terests of the people of the British isles socially and commercially are conserved by the splendid system of public roads. If the great army of pol iticians In the United States who are making pyrotechnic speeches and all candidates for municipal, state and federal offices should confine their cam paign to the subject of good roads and when elected go after the question in earnest, they would soon accomplish the greatest good in their generation. Every county can afford good roads. With a little common sense financier ing by bonding or making a special levy with an interest and a sinking fund consideration any commanlty can possess good roads, with all their attendant blessings. The curse of mud roads In the United States is a nation al, monumental fraud. It is a hideous evidence of mlsgovernment, a reproach against tbe advancement of equal rights and liberty to all. 800 Troops Leave Strike Dtotrtct of State of Alabevna. Birmingham, Ala., Sfopt. 3.—Eight hundred soldiere of the Alabama na tional guard, who have been on duty in the Birmingham district since soon after the strike of minere was called, are beginning to break camp. The first companies left Wednesday, the troops at Blocton returning to Union town, and tbe troops at Acton returning to Albertville. The battalion from Mobile, consist ing of four companies now scattered through the district, will be sent home In a special train Friday and by the end of the week It is expected the dis trict will be clear of state troops for the first time in five weeks. The first regiment has been in oocttaual service since July 1$, whan it was sent to Chickamauga, probably tbe KXfcgeet time Alabama troope have boon in uniform since the war. Governor Oomer has issued an order thanking the men and ofltoaas tor tbelr services. SECOND VICTIM OF POISONING. Combine For Good Roads. Minneapolis (Minn.) teamsters and motorists have joined forces in an ef fort to secure better roads, tbe Minne apolis Teamsters’ union and tbe Mlxma- apolis Automobile dab having decided to go into politics to secure good high ways. The plan Is to work and vote only for aldermanlc candidates who will pledge their aid to the good roads cause. Theodore Wlrth, superintend ent of the Minneapolis parks, has bean sleeted the first honorary member of the Automobile club, and be Is expect ed to help the movement. Roads and th* R. F. D. Notice is being sent out from th* postofflee department to many rural communities that unless roads sm re paired and placed in condition for un interrupted service daring the year the rural service will be dlscontfooed. This is work for good roads that will doubtless have a wide and wholesome effect, says the Atchison Qlobs. Tbs rural mail service has become so much a pert of tbe fanner’s Ilfs as to be regarded as a necessity, and ha ten't likely to let It lapse for the sake of a little time and aMgy needed to road buOdtng. Chicago, Sept I.—'Lena Berne, S year* ot age, tbs second daughter of Mrs. Matthew Bern a, the Hampshire (Illinois) woman who poisoned her three children and hersalf Monday, died Tuesday. She is the seeood vic tim of the mother's deed Mrs. Bern a and her daughter Fran ces are still alive. Hopes are now being entertained for th* recovery of the girl, but It is said the mother can not live more than two or thre days. The youngest ohlM, George, two months old, died soon after the poisoning. Mrs. Bern a made a statement in which she said that the planned the death of her three children and herself three days previous to the deed. 6he said she feared that She was going to die, and she dreaded Che thought of leaving the little ones. Roberts Will Recover. AtJ*ntic City, N. J., Sept. 3.—The condltfcw of Charles B. Roberts, of Baltimore, who wae shot, it la claim, •d, by a highwayman on the board walk here last Wednesday Eight, con tinues to improve and his recovery is not doubted. Tim police have made no progress in their efforts to appre hend the assailant of Mr. Roberts. Mulal Hafid Proclaimed Sultan. Jjalla Magfania, Algeria, Sapt. 3.— Mulal Hafid has been proeJatanetf sul tan of Ujda near the Moroccan border Une. aasU much popular rejoicing. English Channel Has Been Lashed by Furious Storms. Iiinfion, Sept. 3.—A terrific e has been prevailing all over ihe Ern- lisli channel. Reports received Iter-.- show tnat much damage was done ashore, as well as on the sea. Th wind at times blew at the rate of 70 rr.ilo? an hour, wmen is almost un- pr< cr •dented at this time of the ye ,• r. Nr ve i before has it 1 hern tx'ces arv in i tinnier to suspend the boat . ser vire between F-iiKstone and Doveri in i t. e midday s< rvkx's to Cahi is. A n enormous number of V : ss Is h a v" v> , . .1 .il driven ashore or o- Kit: • 1 Nf s< < -holt er. Manv c xeiti nt: t I'SCttes ti r rc pci u .!, but fortunat ely there ha; bet n it ) great loss of life. excep. in the ( •a:-e of the 1' in h bar’ < A run i n. t'ie ( new ot whirl) hat ! a t erribh < ptrie ne n The V m:i; c n wei it a.vo ir.id in M iti rram Sands, and tne i people on t lie hind cmi’.'i plain’: SCf - the t r u ■••litiR ing 1- the riggiti g or lashed to tiie bul.vaiivs, hut wt ?re 1 • • lesi to save t hem. One of the : masts f e:i. nr: - \ ing a nuirlxr if the rnon d : w a with it. Two of • nw, ' vhieh r unt here 1 33, were n seuo d by life lii iles. ;tt:d 'V ' 1 ' »i six others \V« a d ted ash .ore • lilt* Th e captain of tin A on/.: >n was 1 1:111. ARE YOU SURE That the loe cream you buy is strictly ff PUkK f Do you know that the makers’hands I were clean, flies excluded from the factory, g and freezers and other utensils kept in Sanltai/ Condition) Why take any chance where your health is concerned I Why not MAKE AND FREEZE YOUR OWN ICE CREAM In 10 MINUTES FOR ic* A PLATE with Jen-0 IGE CDEHIO Powder It U so easy. Simply stir contents of one 13«. package Into a (mart of milk and freeze, without cooking, heating or the ad dition of anything else. This makes two quarts of ice cream, clean, pure and whole some. A good ice cream freezer ean be bought for a dollar or two which will last for years, and will soon save its cost. 2 packages JELL-O ICE CKKAM Pow- der tor 25c. Flavors: Chocolate, Vanilla, Straw berry, Lemon and Unflavored. Sold by all good grocers. 4 The Genesee Pure Food Co., le Roy, N. Y. rd in bis cabin i>y :i failing mast. SLA COVETED WI ~H DEAD FISH. Believed Subirprire Earthquake Has Occurred Near Y aqt.ina Bay. Newport. O: rv on. Sept. 3. -That tiM re l.r.H l>o !; ;i mltmarine earth- qua’e or vol:nic » nt; ion ■ otnewhere tv at Yaqnina Mty. L tin* ,)p!ii f ,,1 sea cao'aitiK cumin" into port for the ya.-t w ok. The oe an for thirty- <• miles out is cove- ‘d with dead Ini iv; an 1 ihe lx aeh< t< r mile.s on eitl.u side of laqr.ina Bay ; ie ni.ing tip wit!; dead fish that appear to have lx on Killed in some catastrophe. It is estimated that l.WKi tons ot herring are now rotting - t the shorfs of Yaquina Bay and as many more in Mm othar four bays of this oounty. A Beautiful woman. H«r aunoundlaga Should be la har mony, and ean beat be made ao by a well kept home. The L. ft M. Pure Paint makes the home beautiful. It preserves It and prevents decay. The cost per gallon ready for aae In only $1.20. it wears for ten yean and longer. Thirty-three yean of con tinuous use la evidence. Smith Hard ware Go. L. ft M. Paint Agents. WHIN In need of tiona call on The Ledger, nish either printed or NOTICE OF REGISTRATION IN COUNTY. Pursuant to statute, the Supervia- ors of Registration for Cherokee county will be at the following ap pointments on the days named for the convenience of the electors. Un der the constitution all electors must register this year, no matter If regis tered heretofore, they must register again: Wilkinsville, Monday, September 14, 1908. Sarratt’s, Tuesday, September 16, 1908. Littlejohn’s, Wednesday, Septem ber 16, 1908. Goucher church, at school house, Thursday, September 17, 1908. Macedonia, Friday, September 18, 1908. Ezells, Saturday, September 19, 1908. Blacksburg, Tuesday, September 22, 1908. Cherokee Falls, Wednesday, Seih tember 23, 1908. At tbe above places on the above dates, the books will be opened from 9 o’clock a. m. until 4 o’clock p. m. And on the first Mon’day, Tuesday and Wednesday in September, 1908, the books of registration will be open ed at the county court house from the hours of 9 a. m. until 6 p. m. S. R. Thackstou, M. L. Guthrie, J. R. Dickson, Supervisors of Registration for Cherokee County. Subscribe for The Ledger. $1.68- Good Looks! Good Wear! Double satisfaction in the 7*,-; ~ •y- / «; ’OK •? '—jr — — Oxfords that we are offer ing at a bargain for a few days only. The prices will make you a perman ent customer. : : .v The Company Store. •fi iGfi <iri * (•P'l iifi tiVi tTrYtirVtirViOrV<ifi itrY<irViirq ilrVilrT vlrV»®ri *tirYt•rVilrq iifq | A CAR LOAD J ^ OF OVER 50,000 SQUARE FEET OF ^ & Galvanized V. Crisp Roofing. | Let us use some of this to cover you from the winter rain. . \ Piedmont Wagons Anchor Buggies Wilkins-Watson Hardware Company. Kog. 21-tf.