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1 The Gaffney A NEWtPAPCR IN ALL THAT TH« WOND IMPLUS, AND DBVOTtD TO THK BKtT INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEB. It, 1894. LATEST NEWS FROM BLACKSBURG DOINGS OF THE PEOPLE IN OUR SISTER CITY. •APPNBY, •> C* TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. 1140 A YEAR. Brief News Notes and Personal Para graphs Gathered by Our M lron City” Correspondent. Blacksburg, Sept. 21.—Mr. Adam Metis, formerly of this place but now of Spartanburg, spent Saturday and Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Metts. Mr. A. Whisnant spent from Tues day to Friday in Richmond, Va., on busiaess. He took advantage of the excursion rates on the Southern. Mrs. A. E. Woody and daughter, little Miss Edna, of Spartanburg ' Junction, spent Saturday and Sun day here with relatives. Mr. Rembert Ward left Monday morning for Johnson City, Tenn., where he will spend a day or so on business. Mists Revis Blftlock, of Spartan burg Junction, spent from Saturday to Monday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Blalock, on Pine street. Mr. A. Osborne went to Richmond, Va. last week, returning home on Friday. He reports a delightful trip. Mrs. A. Whisnant and nephew, Bright Ratteree, spent Saturday in Charlotte, N. C., on business. Master Tally Albert, of Rock Hill, spent Saturday here with his grand mother, Mrs. Martha Moore. Mrs. P. B. Whisnant and Httl® daughter, Vivian, are visiting rel atives in Rock Hill this week. Miss Osa Smith and little neice, Ellen Kellum, of Trenton, N. C., are here the guests of her brother, Mr Smith, on Shelby street. Mrs. Glenn Davis and children, of Toccoa. Ga., are visiting her aunts, Mrs. A. J. Goforth and Mrs. Jennie Roberts, for a few days. Miss Lucy Knox, a former Blacks burg girl but now of Charleston, spent Thursday night here with Miss Marie Goforth and left next morning for Spencer, N. C., to visit her father, Mr. R. E. Knox. Miss Lucy expects to visit friends here before return ing to Charleston. Miss Rosa Duncan left last Satur day morning for her home in Paris, Texas, after spending several months here with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Moore- head. While here she visited several places and made many friends who are sorry to see her leave for her Western home. Mr. Roby Morrow has returned home from Greenville where he spent several days with friends. Prof. E. A. Montgomery spent a few hours in Gaffney Saturday morn ing on business. Miss Marie Goforth has returned from a visit to friends in King's Mountain. Mrs. Henry Hodge, of Georgetown, is here on a visit to her aunts, Mrs. A. J. Goforth and Mrs. Jennie Roberts. Mrs. Mary Earl returned home Monday morning from Crocker’s, N. C., where she visited her brother, Mr. Will Little. Mrs. Gordon Logan and little son, John, ffyent Sunday at Patterson Springs, N. C., with relatives. Mrs. B. F. Logan returned to her home at Patterson Springs, N. C., Saturday after spending several days here with her daughter, Mrs. D. S. Ramseur. Mr. W. D. Gaston, a successful planter of the Buffalo section, was on the streets here Monday. Miss Tot Montgomery returned 1 home Saturday from Greenville; where she spent several days with friends. Mrs. Rice Whitesides left Saturday morning for Hickory Grove to spend a few days with relatives. Mr. Wm. Flynn, who has been here for several weeks with the V. C, C. i Company, left Saturday night for his home In Philadelphia. Miss Bonnie McCluney, of Wilkins-1 ville, is here spending some time with Mrs. F. A. Reinhardt. Mr. A. C. Moore, of Gaffney, spent 1 a few hours here Sunday. Miss Pearl Whisnant, of Wilkins ville, is the guest of Mrs. F. A. Rein hardt. Miss Nan White and Mr. A. M. Cross drove over to Gaffney Sunday afternoon. Mr. Darwin Blalock and sister, Miss Revis, drove up to Grover, N. C., Sunday afternoon to see their aunt, Mrs Frank Nichols, who is quite sick. Mrs. W. O. Metts and little sob, Louis, of the Buffalo section, visited friends and relatives here a day or/ two last week. Mrs. J. B. Ross spent Saturday at Crocker’s N. C., with Mr. Will Little and family. Mr. Dan Byars, of near here, la clerking for Mr. W. J. Moorehead. Misses Eunice and Laura Lumpkin, of Charlotte, N. C., visited Capt. and Mrs. G. C. Nutting Sunday. Mr. Will Little, of Crocker's, N. C., spent Monday here with his sister, Mrs. Mary Earl. Dr. Wm. Anderson, who was elect ed as delegate to Washington, D. C., to the meeting of the International Congress on Tubercolosls, left Mon day night on No. 38 for Washington where he will spend several days. DEATH OF MR. J. A. GAFFNEY. The End Came Yesterday Just Be fore Noon. The news of the death of Mr. J. Adolphus Gaffney yesterday cast a gloom over the older residents of the town, and especially those who were well acquainted with the dead man. For several months he Has been a sick man, but It was only last Friday a week ago that he was out driving j about town. He had been, a sufferer from stomach trouble and the direct cause of death was given as cancer of the stomach. In May Mr. Gaffney underwent an operation, later re covering so as to be able to go to THE LATEST NEWS FROM WILKINSVIILE DOINGS OF THE PEOPLE LOWER CHEROKKE. A Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. of Interest. sion. He is, and has long been, a man of influence—living to a very great age but neglecting this all im portant duty. He always acknowl edged the sovenignity of God and the ; justice of the eternal punishment. ! But he based his hope too much on OF his good works.' j Miss Grace Whisonant is teaching in the Banks High School at Hyatt j Park In Columbia, i Mr. R. B. LeMaster has finished his new house and moved into it Mary Susan Huskey—Other Items so m^ Ume ago. He has a beautiful home and has it elegantly furnished. Mr. W. R. Walker is on his Sunny- Wilkinsville, Sept. ig.-Merrs. S. side farm this week ,ookin e af,er hls R. Thackston and Luther Guthrie, affairs and superintending the build- Piedmont Springs, but he never re*!*'’ “ ,1U ‘ c >; j ng 0 f his new silo gained his lost vigor and death crept | two members of the county board of Cotton is opening fast and farmers Miss Marie Goforth has accepted | slowly but steadily upon him. j registration, spent Tuesday night are keeping up with their picking a position as assistant clerk at the postofflee. Mrs. Mabel Green, of the Buffalo section, visited Mrs. A. J. Goforth one day last week. Messrs. Chas Miller and Johtt Kitchens have opened up an up-to- date barber shop next door to Mr. O. A. Osborne’s and will be glad to have their friends call on them In their new place of business. Mr. Gaffney was a consistent mem ber of the Providence Baptist church and there are none who are heard to speak ill of him as a man. He was a salesman by occupation and won the esteem of hls employees by hls devotion to duty and the confidence of his customers by his amiability and courteousness. In early life he married a Miss Humphries. To this union four with us. Each of them are ex-Con- verv W **U. Miss Mabel Ramseur has accepted | children were born, viz: Misses Cleo. a position with Mrs. S. E. Lucas as i Hope, Mr. Stewart and Master Win- trimmer for this season and will be glad to have her friends call and see her. / Miss Jean Whisonant came up from Winthrop College, Rock Hill, Mon day and spent the day with her mother, Mrs. C. L. Whisonant, re turning Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Rush Dover, of the Antioch section, spent Sunday here, the guests of Mrs. Dover’s mother, Mrs. Sallle Davis, on Pine street. field. These children and the wife survive. Mr. Gaffney is widely con nected in this section, where he was reared. He was a gentle man. full of ambition and a hard worker. The 1 We, the people of the neighbor hood are pained to hear of the death of Mrs. Mary Susan Huskey which took place recently at her home in Gaffney. For many years, (in fact, a bucket of his confield beans that an ,ie '' lifel she ,lved amongst us un escaped the ravages of the high d sk< • w ' ,k kei husband and family, water of three weeks ago. n,oved to Gaffney several years ago. Mr. James G. Gamer will have his Shf> was a f;ne business woman, a water gin in readiness for the federate soldiers and each, in turn.! told some of his war experience which made their visit very interest ing and to us very pleasant. “Uncle Sill” has furnished us with in- She was a fine good neighbor and an excellent citi zen and raised a family of children of which any community might be proud. The last time we saw her she looked as if the clock of time had turned baewards with her at leas twenty years. But she said her Mr. J. Q. Whisnant left Monday for Spartanburg on business. He will j ashes of Adolphus Gaffney. be gone about two weeks. j Mrs. Turn age and daughters, Misses Pearl, Myrtle and Reta, left Friday afternoon for Jacksonville, Fla., where they will make their fu ture home. Mrs. W. W. Duncan and children have returned home from Rock Hill where they spent some time with rel atives. Limestone Sanitarium. A Ledger man visited the Lime stone Sanitarium yesterday and was agreeably surprised with what he saw. The sanitarium is on West Robertson street, about three blocks from the Southern passenger station. It Is a brick structure, conveniently coming cotton crop. The low price of cotton, from the farmers view point, can be easily ac counted for and we don't expect it to be any better until after the No- j vember elections when we hope busi- ness will resume its normal condi- fe<di,1K didnt ,ndicate 1L She was sympathy of the community goes out ' tif)n and everything move on ]ib , v ; then in apparently good health. But to the bereaved family. r,. . .. ‘ alas: . 1 Reports from the west indicate a The funeral will take place this af- „ j ternoon at 3 o’clock at Providence wiII bp hlgh ^ the ’ i everv ,,aS8,nR •' ear ‘ jit lurks in everv flower; The past few days have been espe- Each moment has its own disease- eially favorable for farm work and i, s p eri ] s every hour farmers have been making good use of them. The bereaved family have our sym Mr. H. Terry Estes has.been mak-! I ,a t k . v - ing molasses this week for the pub- LIMESTONE OPENS TODAY. church and the remains will be laid to rest In the quiet churchyard along side of those of kindred who have passed on before. Peace be to the S. S. Convention Meeting. The North Pacolet Interdenomina-, jj c tional Sunday School Convention will meet with the Reboboth church on September the 27th at 10:30 a. m. The convention will be opened by a song and praise service conduct ed by the chaplain. First. Review of the quater’s les sons. Second. How to prepare and teach the lessons so as to get the best re sults. May He who taught the morning star Estes visited her son, 1 j™ *°i,f„ , j ^ | E re keep their chalice pure, and fresh and sweet And help them all their trouble bring And place them at “The Mercy Seat.’’ Mrs. J. A. M Joe, and family last Friday and spent the day very pleasantly. We have j no better neighbors than your | “Miss Laura.” She has a good word ' for everybody. Messrs. Fowler Brothers took a drove of beef cattle to the Gaffney market last Wednesday. We think a good many of our L . neighbors will try wheat raising next « <»« can get good «ed to b“ gin with, and, besides, more oats will be sown this fall than usual. It’s about time for the ’possum hunters to start out. Several choice hunting dogs have been killed to pre- drances to progressive Sunday school work. Fourth. Is the spirit of commer cialism preventing church members arranged, and was In the best of or-j from up to their privileges and ,, , der. The building Is supplied w j t h j ™' s >™ n8,b,m, es. and ,f so. to what ex- vent the gp re ading of hydrophobia* electric lights, hot and cold water. |Mrs. J. L. S.’s 'chickens have quit private sqwerage, and heated with 1 Do we appreciate the «P-< dying with cholera, either electricity or coal. Everything i P ortunIt, es of this age ahd realize it* . a hundred in all. is neat, attractive and substantial, i re8 Po n slbilitles? • Mp g8rg Ten patients can be accommodated at Volunteer speakers are expected went to one time. The equipment is equal to) t0 talie P art ^ tbe discussion of the business. that of a $50,000 institution. The '^ous subjects. Mr Qlgt Reynoldg who hag had & An intermission of one hour will i™,, « be taken for dinner. ' '° nS aP ®" ,<,vcr ’ wa * al,,e t0 a ‘- C. W. Whisonant, For Co. on Program. She lost about W. C. and Asa Blackwell Gaffney last Monday on building and grounds are attractive ly arranged. A professional nurse has charge of the patients, while j Mrs. R. Wood is the housekeeper, i tend church at Abingdon Creek last Friday. He is getting along very well / and the clean manner in which she keeps things is an evidence of her ability. The property was purchased Mawtr’. Matin.. W,th the exception of Mr. Walter Kirby we don’t know of any serious In the absence of the mayor,) sickness in lower Cherokee. Mr. C. some time ago from Cal. Parrish by j Mayor Pro-Tem W. O. Johnson, play-|F. Inman’s family and Mrs. Lattie Drs. Nesbitt, Darwin and Sherrard, ed th e prominent role yesterday Smarr are getting well, and has only recently been fitted out, morning and cleared up the business The registration board gave out a of the day with neatness and dis- good many certificates on their patch. Charlie Reynolds was assess- j round this week. The members of ed five “bucks” for a little fun Satur- the board think that the poll list In day. while a young white boy parted the county will reach 3,000 votes with one dollar on the charge of Mr. J. G. Garner has ground some but they have already had several patients. The sanitarium is open to any physician in the county. Simply to illustrate how convenient an insti tution is should prove to be we will Mr. I^ee Little, of Gaffney, told “John Snap” how to break his mules from scaring at an automobile or bicycle. Lee is an expert horseman and knows how to treat them to make them safe and sensible. Mr. Sam A. Lee had a house cover ing last Wednesday. We are glad to learn that our young friend, Mr. Joe Robinson, is thinking of preparing himself for the ministry. That’s a noble aim for a young man to make and we hope those with whom he is associated will give him all the help and en- Good Work Along Educational Lines in Gaffney. The educational bug is ouzziag long and loud in Gaffney these daye and everybody in the city is interest ed. directly oi indirectly,' in some phase of the city public schools or Limestone College, which opened to day. The public schools of the city have opened with an exceptionally large enrollment and the children continue to flock in. The schools this year are in the hands of a corps of teachers that it would be found hard to equal. The efficient superinten dent of last year, Prof. J. T. Spears, is again in charge, and assisted by such a strong body of assistants that the year will certainly be most suc cessful. The attendance already la a record-breaker and as the roll steadily grows all previous recoroe will be made to look insignificant. The corps of teachers for this year consists of: Superintendent, J. T. Spears; principal of Cherokee Ave nue School, F. E. Shuford. First grade. Misses Edith Kinghom aad Mrs. F. E. ShufortT; second grade, Miss Ida Crocker and Miss Laura Lumpkin; third grade, Miss Julia Mc- Swain and Miss Beulah Herndon; fourth grade, Miss Augusta Brohawn and Mrs. G. P. Hamrick; fifth grade, Miss Madge Anderson; sixth grade. Miss Mary Bramrett; sevenftT eighth and ninth grades, Mrs. Edna Harria, Miss Leila Morgan and Miss Addle Stansell; commercial department, j composed of gradute attendants. Miss J Edith McCracken. R. C. Campbell, ! with two assistants, is in charge of J the colored school. Within the past year something I like $25,000 has been expended in Im- j proving and erecting new school buildings. At the opening of this new school year the teachers aad pu pils go into comfortable quarters In rooms heated by an approved sys tem of hot air. Gaffney is fortunate in its progressive, wide-awake school board and earnest, conscientious teachers. The schools are In excell ent condition and the future ts full of promise. Limestone College opens today, and all Indications point to the larg est attendance the college has ever enjoyed. The able faculty of last year return to their duties with the exception of a new music director In the person of Prof. Henr?" Foote Per rin. He is a grandson of United States Senator Foote, of Kentucky, who did such able service for the South in the Senate just at the close of the War Between the States. He has re ceived a thorough musical education botn in this country and abroad. He couragement he needs. He descends,* 8 a graduate of the Conservatory of from excellent parentage on both Music at Berlin, also a graduate of sides and is a worthy young man, beyond doubt. The Presbyterian Raff Conservatory at Frankfort, Ger many. His studies in Germany occu- church is in need of many more min- P* 61 * seven years. He is a pupil of nisters anyway and when a young! men who were taught by Liszt, Reu- man presents himself for that work | benstein and Leschetixky. He comes he should be encouraged and helped, to limestone highly endorsed by lead- too. ing musicial experts of the United We are very glad to learn that our States and Europe. He is a musical friend and former pastor, Rev. Wm. authority, and has twenty vears’ ex- Henry White, now of Alabama, has' Pertence In hls calling. The other had a great revival in one of his I members of the musical faculty of ciiurches and a number of additions limestone, which has a reputation to the church was the result. There 1 extending over the entire South, will be tne same as last year. Miss Edna state that a patient can be taken beating a train, there and cared for by a professional nurse, boarded and waited upon for the same cost of a professional nurse 1 at home. It Is an institution which; Catarrh should receive the moral and finan cial support of the people of this sec tion. He says it is HAWKING MACHINES. Sufferers are I new corn this season, perfectly dry now. The student of history will the battlefield of Waterloo in are no better men in our judgment than Rev. Mr. White and bis many Van V1,et Hfgley will return as vocal South Carolina friends will be pleas- Instructor, while her two able assist ed to hear of the successful work he ants - Miss Mary Alice Dew and Miss is doing in his new field of labor. ' M ar . v Alice Churchill, will return, j Mr. Jeff Estes, of Hickory Grove,! Miss Dew b e pleasantly remem- find i has been running his mower on this 1 b< ' red tho editors who met at the Bel-j side of the river cutting hay this Stat e Press Association here last July as the young lady who reudered Whitlock the charming recital in honor of the Messrs. Webber and Nothing But gium nine miles southeast of Brus- wt-»k Hawking, Spitting and Blowing sels. Machines, Says an Authority. Of the 2,879 men who went to Gaff-j will finish the Hoey ford bridge on visiting journalists. Is is possible that in these days ney last Wednesday only 17 of them j Gllkey creek this week. We haven't The music instruction io be had at . ' „ . * wh *n cleanliness and sanitary re- went proposely to see the show.; seen it but those who have sav it’s a '^estone this session will be sur- Children Poisoned With Wild Berries, form is being preached in fhe church- The others had business—some, of j good Job. passed by no college in the South. Sunday three children of Mr. Alex ! cb. schools and at public gatherings, course, had to go to take the old! Mr. Walter Kirby is still quite Another Pleasing feature in the musical department will be lessons on the pipe organ. It will be remem- ,.... .„. bered that, the Alumni of Limestone leave home but they thought they) M TQmao r . . .. presented the college with a modern ought to go to please the “younuns.” a coo i l _ Mr Man p flrrl _ 8 g ° m aa d expensive pipe organ last ses- Gentlemen, that’s right; to give your sion, which will be used this session, wives and children all the pleasure _ ^ Ir ^ ey * 8 PuG'ng up a new house Letters continue to pour In to Dr Lee you can is your duty. Soft drinks may produce hard drinkers. We took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. suuuay inree cnnuren or Air. Aiex »cuuuis ami ar pumic gamermgs, naci io go to take the Old! \ Ir Walter Kirhv Ik «HI1 m.ito Allison and one child of Mr. Lan that thousands of people will com- ’™nan and children, as many of them Hlc ‘ k ' Wp . Pflrn that nr w * „ . drum Allison, who live near Grassy I tinue to suffer from catarrh, when ha( l never seen a show. It was a | j H to meet Dr Fi fl M th th« Pond, were rambling in the wood:; there Is an absolutely certain remedy mlkhty busy time for the men to m /m- ™na.,ito*i/«r 6 ^ B * near their home. They discovered , always on band, some berries which they mistook | Hyomel (pronounced High-o-me) Is for sugar berries and each of them; a pleasant, medicated and Antiseptic ate quite a quantity. The berries proved to be poisonous and all four of the children were made quite sick. Dr. J. N. Nesbitt was summoned and administered an emltlc and at last account the little ones were doing as well as could be expected. air. Breathe It in and it will cure catarrh. It will stop foul breath, watery eyes, and crusts In the nose, In a few days . “I suffered from catarrh for two First Baptist Churoh. There were good congregations, good music and good services. Two members came In by letter and one was received for baptism. The Runday school also was good. Miss Mathis was present In the morning and talked to Mrs. Otts’ class and the Philatheas combined and greatly edified them. The college class will begin next Sunday with young Hro. Dobson as teacher. years; tried numerous remedies which | John R. McCulloch at Wilkinsville failed; used one and one-half bottles ,a8 i Wednesday. Master James Me- of Hyomel and am entirely ^ured.”— ] Cullocb, their son, is attending Wof- C. N. Lindsy, 407 East First Are.. Uord College this session. Mitchell, 8. D. \fcsdames Mollie LeMaster, Mary A complete Hyomei outfit, consist George, Martha Sanders, of Pacolet, Ing of a strong, hard rubber pocket a »'d Snllle Whisonant, of Blacksburg, inhaler and a bottle of Hyomel, costs visited Mr. and Mrs. .1. R. McCulloch only $1, and extra bottles, if after- ,a «* Wednesday and spent the day. wards needed, cost only 50 cents The friends and well wishers of each. Gaffney Drug Co. sell It and, Mr. Jesse J. Mabry will rejoice to guarantee it to do exactly as adver tised. Hyomel also cures Asthma, Bron chltles, Coughes, Colds, and fntaate Croup. learn that he has uuiied himself with the church and received the sacrament of baptistn. We have been hoping to sou Uiia for 8 long time and ore fM to boor of his conver- L. near Mr. John Gowdeysville. Yesterday was the forty-sixth anni versary of the battle of Sharpsburg, Md. j. L. 8. Blackwoods at Davis Lodge, president of the Col lege, and these indicate that ‘.he at tendance will be record-breaking. Limestone has a well earned reputa- ■ tion for furnishing young ladies who art* well drilled in their work as each Ptomaine Poisoning. year the demand for Limestone grad- Mr. Clarence Gray, with hls wife nates exceeds the number of young and child, Mr. G. W. Speer atid wife, ladies who care to teach. Much of Mrs. Senora Gray and Mrs. Agnes the credit for the great progress McArthur, were the victims of made by Limestone in recent years ptomaine poisoning Sunday evening. i« due to untiring efforts of Dr Lee as was also two children of Mr. and Davis Lodge, the brilliant president. Mrs. Boyd Sarratt. They all partook Dr. I.odge is probably the best poet- of junket cream made of cows milk ed president in the State, not only ard canned peaches. The two elder- on educational matters, but on other ly ladles were made desperately sick lopics. His education has been thor- while the other were nof so serious, ougb, and there are few men In the Everybody now. is getting along nicely j South who are as brilliant and as versatile.