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A NEW9PAPCR IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIED. AND DEVOTED TO THE BEET INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.
ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894.
GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1908.
61.60 A YEAR.
MORE PRAISE FOR
SHERIFF NICHOLS
DEFENDED THE JAIL AND HIS
OFFICIAL HONOR.
“J. L. S.” Has Nothing But the High-
eet Praise Tor the Action of Spar
tanburg’s Sheriff.
Wilkinsvillp. Oct. 17.—In talking
with a very intelligent gentleman on
the subject of good roads in which he
Is greatly interested he said: “In
olden times people generally built
their houses on hills and they wanted
the roads to come by their houses
and this accounts for why they are
In so many localities so hilly.” We
don’t know but his idea is correct.
It does seem that they were more In
terested in direction than In route,
at least they didn’t seem to consult
the grade so much as they do at the
present day.
The other day we learned some
thing about fox hunting we never
knew before. An old hunter told us
that it’s no uncommon thing for a
rested fox to take the place of a tired
one in the chase and especially Is
this the case that the “mammy" fox
will drop In ahead of the dogs to save
her cub which will lie down or take
a dlEerent direction to avoid the dogs.
This ruse is mostly played by the
gray species of the vulpine family.
The reds are seldom if ever known
to adopt this kind of tactics.
■nrly risers this week could see
In tte Rastem sky one of nature’s
most beautiful sights—two very bright
stars in close proximity to each
other—so close, in fact, that the one
seemed to bedim the other hut the
two combined made a very brilliant
light Just before daylight.
Fhrhaps It was this beautiful phe
nomenon to which the Almighty re-
fenWd when He challenged Job to
show his ignorance by asking him:
“Where was thou when the morning
staRl sang together, and all the sons
of God shouted for Joy?”
Another grand free show is in store j
for the people of Gaffney and Chero
kee county sometime soon. Mose
Tate, colored, proposes to ride Sam
Strain’s buggy horse “John,” through
the streets of the town just to show
people how he can move when he has
a flMm on him who knows exactly
how to ride. Terry Estes wants
Mose to get a deep red saddle blank
et, martingale, etc., and have John
otherwise caparisoned so as to make
hiia appear to the best advantage.
John Is a spotless gray and on such
an occasion would step as if he dis
dained the ground upon which he
treads.
Were It not for the color of the
man and the horse the old Confeder
ate aoldiers would automatically raise
their hats and extend the military
salute as they were want to do in
days of youre when General Robert
EL Lwe on his famous horse Traveller
would ride along the lines.
If Mose won’t pass for a Robert E.
Lee or John B. Gordon, he ought at
least to come up to standard of a
Marshal Ney In equestrian accomp-
llshksent.
Last Thursday, 15th inst., Archie
and Ruth Strain celebrated their
birthdays—Archie seven and Ruth
two years respectfully. Masters Da
vid Mwlngston and Herbert Finley
and Misses Lr uise and Leala were
the eepeclally invited guests. Mes-
dames Jessie Blackwell, Mamie Strain
and Mrs. J. L. S. were the chaperons.
They had a very enjoyable time and
all went on merrily.
Several of our neighbors, we under
stand, went to the big show at Spar
tanburg today. Mose Tate, colored,
went too.
We have nothing but the highest
praieee for Sheriff John Nlcholls, of
Spartanburg, for defending the jail
and'his official honor in the late at
tempt by a mob to take those prison
ers from him. Some may think he
did wrong hut we don’t. He stands
by the laws of his country and any
maa who does that can be trusted
in any emergency. If all the civil of
fices of our State were made of such
material as John Nlcholls is, raiding
jails aad lynchings Would soon be a
thing of the past. Sheriff Nichols is
one of the men who followed General
Lee la more dangerous places than
facing and fighting off a mob.
Mrs. J. T. Moorehead has for a
long time been nursing a broken
wrist which she received while at
tending to her cattle. It has given
her great pain but she is now able to
use her hand some, though it Is like
ly never again to be of much use to
her. We hope, however, for a better
outcome. Mrs. Moorehead is one of
our best ladles and her many friends
will hate to hear of her misfortune.
Mr. Walter Kirby is getting along
nieely. He is able to be about some
and to take such nourishment as he
needs.
The machinery of the Wllklnsville
ginnery since its overhauling runs
like a spinning wheel and It will, with
no mHibap, soon make up Its lost
time.
We learn that Mr. F. A. Goforth
and Rev. T. TV Owen have bought an
engine and will soon have an outfit
for gtnntng, sawing, etc. Mr. Owen
Is a trst Hats machinist and can
keep the machinery In proper condi
tion to work. No man who hasn’t
a knowledge of this kind need to
think ke can succeed like one who
has.
For several days your correspond
ent has been unwell and not able to
make bis letter as readable as he
wou14 like. Hope Its shortcomings
will be excused and the space occu
pied by more interesting matter.
We are not having as many chills
in this community as people were
looking for after the freshet. That’s
(be way generally. People that
trouble kills die from the effect of
those troubles they never live to bee.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Blackwell went
to Gaffney yesterday on a shopping
tour and spent last night with Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Sparks at the Ham
rick mills.
Notwithstanding the cry of hard
times, short crops, low prices, all onr
merchants are doing a fair business
in their line and are making ready
for a* good fall and winter trade.
As many as three drummers have
been at Wllklnsville at one time and
with most of them orders are placed.
Other merchants are doing a fairly
good business too.
Mrs. J. L. S. sticks to her wheel
and cords and spins her stocking
yarn. This Is fast going out of date,
or rather it’s not coming into the
work of the present day house
keepers. Their thinking it too slow
a process Is only an excuse for lazi
ness and idleness—that’s all.
The death of Hon. William G. Aus
tell was quite a shock to us, though
for a good while we have been aware
that he has not been enjoying good
health. He was the kind of a man
for which we have an admiration.
He was true to his convictions and
uncompromising with the agencies of
evil. To his grief stricken family we
extend our heartfelt sympathies in
this dark hour of sore bereavement.
Place him down, O. gently, comrades;
He’s a veteran worn and gray;
Fold his hatids across his bosom—
One by one we pass away.
Smooth his locks out softly, comrades;
Close his eyes, now dim, but true;
Kiss him for the friend that’s absent,
Bid him for that friend adieu,
n
With your tender hands, dear com
rades,
Place him gently ’neath the sod—
Like a soldier leave him resting
On his armor, with his God;
Let him rest. The boom of cannon,
Nor the battle’s stern array.
Rushing squadrons ne’er disturb him
Till the great reunion day!
J. L. S.
In Memoriam.
Mrs. Sallie Carol hers Walker,
widow of Capt. Samuel Sidney Wal
ker, died at Union Thursday the 8th
inst., from heart failure while sitting
in her chair reading a newspaper.
She was lad to rest Saturday in the
family plot at Skull Shoals cemetery,
the funeral services being conducted
by Rev. D. W. Keller, pastor of Grace
Methodist church at Union. She was
seventy-six years of age.
Such a profusion of beautiful floral
tributes was never before seen in
our country and they bore silent but
impressive evidence of the affection
of her many friends. An exquisite
wreath was sent by Ginn ft Company,
of New York.
Relatives from Union, York and
Gaffney attended the funeral as well
as a very large number of her friends
in the country. It was quite touch
ing to see so many colored people
present to show their respect. •
Mrs. Walker came of a long line of
ancestors, distinguished both in edu
cation and religion. Her father, John
Carothers, was an Elder in the Pres
byterian church for forty-seven
years, and two of her brothers were
Princeton graduates, one a Presby
terian minister, William Washington
Carothers. Her mother, Rachel Ross
Burriss, was a cousin of Betsy Ross
who made the first Continental flag
for Washington.
Mrs. Walker was educated at
Salem Faraale Academy in North
Carolina, one of the most famous
schools for women in the country. So
hoi h by inheritance and by training
she was superbly equipped for taking
a leading position in whatever station
she might be called. She was an ex
ceedingly brilliant woman and this,
with her other graces and rare attain
ments, made her one of the most re
markable women that we have known
in our generation. Her husband’s
and her home was always open to
ministers of the gospel and what
preacher did not remember with
pleasure the fact that he had been
entertained by this hospitable couple?
Her husband died In 1890 and a few
years later she moved to Union where
she lived til! the end.
It has been our pleasure to know
Mrs. Walker for many years and we
feel deeply the loss sustained by our
country and the church. When a per
son of such piety and accomplish
ments passes away there is a void in
our life and it Is a loss that cannot
be lillod. She was a noble Christian
lady and wo will miss her so much.
“She hath done what she could."
She is survived by her son Mr. W.
R. Walker, Southern agent of Ginn
& Company, of New York, and one of
the largest planters In Cherokee coun
ty and by her daughter, Miss Minnie
Lee Walker so well known In literary
and artistic circles.
Jest as she was being laid away
me sun burst forth from the clouds
and we could not help but remark.
“What a beautiful day for our friend
to go home—to her home In glory.
In the sweet fields of Eden, where
the tree of life Is ever bloowing.”
James I,. Strain,
Wllklnsville. g. C.. Get. 15. 1908,
CONSUMPTION.
Prof. Fisher Declares This Disease
Coats Ue a Billion Yearly.
Washington, Oct. 14.—Prof. Irving
Fisher, the eminent political econo
mist of Yale University, who in one
of his papers before the recent Inter
national Tuberculosis Congress In
Washington, declared that consump
tion costs the people of the United
States more than a billion dollars a
year, is preparing an exhaustive re
port for the Natlonationl Conservat
ion Commission, which will contain
not only these figures but similar
data on the economic loss to the
country from all other preventable
diseases.
Prof. Fisher is a member of the
National Conservation Commission
and for many years has been carry
ing on studies along these lines. The
commission received letters from
physicians all over the country urg
ing It to consider the bearing of pub
lic health on the economic efficiency
of the nation in its efforts to ascer
tain the resources of the country.
The commission from the begin
ning has contemplated reports on the
economic aspects of several phases
of the conservation movement which
affect the duration and effectiveness
of human life, but Prof. Fisher has
undertaken to prepare a comprehen
sive statement of the whole subject
of the relations of public health to
the general field of conservation, and
especially as to the waste from pre
ventable diseases and unnecessary
deaths.
Dr. Fisher is professor of political
economy at Yale University ana
chairman of the “Committee of One
Hundred” of the American Associat
ion for the Advancement of Science,
which has for a long time been car
rying on propaganda for the Increase
of national health through the elimi
nation of preventable diseases. This
Committee of One Hundred is com
posed of physicians and men engaged
in active sociological work In every
part of the country, and the results
oi their investigations and experience
are all available to Dr. Fisher, so
that his report ought to he the most
thorough-going and complete sum
mary of the situation ever made.
At the Tuberculosis Congress, Prof.
Fisher declared that 138,000 persons
die of consumption every year. The
cost of medical attendance and tne
loss of earnings before death average
at least $2,400, he said, while If to
this is added the money that might
have been earned with health, the
total loss In each case Is about $8,-
000. He pointed out, also, that the
disease usually attacks young men
and women just at the time when
they are beginning to earn money
and cuts off their .tarning power for
about three years on an average, be
fore they die.
This subject of the economic value
to the country of a general raising of
the average health came up in the
Governor’s Conference at the White
House In May. Dr. George M. Koher
in his speech on the "Conservation
of Life and Health by Improved Wat
er Supply” at the conference, pre
sented figures which showed that the
decrease In the “vital assets” of the
country through typhoid fever In a
single year Is more than $350,000,000.
Typhoid is spread by polluted water
largely so that the death rate from
this disease can be directly reduced
by the purification of city drinking
water. Dr. Koher quoted statistics
to show that the Increased value of
the water to the city of Albany,
where the typhoid fever rate was re
duced from 104 In 100,000 to 26 by
an efficient filtration plant, amounts
to $475,000 a year, of which $350,000
may be considered a real Increase to
the vital assets of the city. Census
bureau figures show that the average
annual death rate from typhoid In
cities with contaminated water sup
plies was reduced from 69.4 per 100,-
000 to 19.8 by the substitution of
pure supplies.
Dr. Koher cited estimates showing
that the average length of human
life in the sixteenth century was be
tween 18 and 20 years, and that at
the close of the eighteenth centry It
was a little more than 30, while to
day It Is between 38 and 40—indeed
the span of life since 1880 has been
lengthened about six years.
'" ‘ NEWS ITEMS
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER
OKEE.
i At the Buford Street M. E. Church, j
Rev. 8. B. Harper, the pastor of
the Buford Street M. E. church, occu
pied his pulpit Sunday morning and
evening, preaching two splendid ser- 1
mons. The morning sermon was
from Matthew 13:12: “Whosoever
hath to him shall be given, who hr
not shall be taken that he hath.”
From this text the preacher drew
many pictures applicable to every 1
day life and applied scriptural en-
junction. The music was splendid,
especially the rendition of “Savior
i lead me lest I stray,” by Mr. and Mrs
i Chns. Hames and Miss Williams.
Or. Brown Shot.
Last Thursday night about 12
o’clock Dr. B. R. Brown thought ho
heard some one at his wood pile. Ho
started out with a pistol In his hand.
Tn passing through (ho double door
one door dosed on his sleeve, and In
his effort to pull away the muscles of
his hand in which he carried the pis
tol contracted, causing the weapon
to go off. The ball went into the
doctor's foot, causing a slight wound
which will keep him In the house for
a few days. His friends are glad It
Is not serious.
: Reviva. at Buford St. M. E. Church.
A series of revival services will be
gin at the Buford Street Methodist
church next Sunday. The pastor will
, be assisted by Rev. E. K. Hardin, of
fhester. Mr. Hardin Is a forceful
and entertaining speaker and all who
hear him will he delighted.
Two services will be held dally.
The hours will probably be 4 and
7:45 p. m.
A very cordial Invitation Is extend
ed to the public generally to he pre
sent and enjoy these gospel meetings.
The G. K. Club.
The younger set met at the home* 1
of Miss Ethel Dudley recently and i
organized a club. The club will meet!
next Friday afternoon at the home of
Miss Sura Carpenter. The members
are: Misses Ruth Littlejohn, Maude
Lavender, Sadie Lipacomb, Daisy WII '
kins, Edith Cook, Ethel Dudley, Mary
Shuford and Sara Carpenter.
Recent Happenings in and Around
the City and Other Events Gath
ered by the Local News Editor.
Cotton brought 8:90 yesterday.
Mr. Rufus Reynolds has a fine field
of oats, August sowing.
Today is circus day. Take the
children to see the animals.
Carroll and Byers are painting the
front of their store, making a great
Improvement.
Rev. Bonner McSwain has the
fipest field of young crimson clover
to be found In the comity.
Miss Mattie Simms has just re
ceived word that she took three pre
miums on hand painted china in the
North Carolina State Fair last week.
Prof. W. L. Johnson, who has been
the organist at the Buford Street M.
E. Church, has resigned that position.
For the present Mrs. A. N. Wood will
do the playing.
Lumber for Mr. A. C. Pridmore’s
residence has begun to arrive in car
load lots and Contractor Baker hopes
to push the building now without
further delay.
The fall term of court of General
Sessions and Common Pleas com
mences next Monday. There are no
capital cases and the criminal docket
is exceedingly light.
The Lodge Historical Club will
hold a public meeting in the Lime
stone auditorium on Wed^sday eve
ning, October the 21st. Dummy will
run. Everything free.
The many friends In Gaffney ot
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. WebstM will be
pleased to learn that they have
moved back to this section from
Georgia. They will make Cowpens
their home for the present.
Mr. C. L. McLean, advance guard
of Howe’s Great London Circus,
reached the city yesterday. He call
ed at The Ledger office and we found
him to be a very afflable gentleman
and one who understands his busi
ness. His stay was short but pleas
ant
Mrs. L. R. Flack and family arrtv
ed in the city yesterday from Shelby.
Mrs. Flack Is going to occupy one of
the cottages belongtaf to Mr. A. '
Doggett on Depot street. Mrs. Flack
is the mother of Claude Flack, the
popular young druggist at the r
ney Drug Co.
Prof. Spears, superintendent of the
city schools, requests The Ledger to
impress upon the parents and guard
ians of children the importance of
having them wear rubbers and wraps
whenever it is damp and wet. The
new system of heating the school
building has done away with the
stoves and while the buildings are
comfortably heated there is no way
of drying the feet or clothing quickly.
Street Overseer James Coylft and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Will Poole, near Draytonville.
Jim says Will invited him down to
take dinner with him and they met
at Draytonville church, but when Will
saw what a herd Jim had brought
down he slipped off without saying
anything further about dinner. Jim
wouldn’t stand for this kind of work
and went on to the house where he
was greeted by Mrs. Poole, who is a
woman of stout heart and who had
prepared a most excellent dinner for
her guests. The only way Will can
get even with Jim is to come to town
some day and bring the whole neigh
borhood and take them to Jim’s house
for dinner.
The following are among those
who went to Spartanburg Saturday
to see Rlngling Bros, circus: Waite
Hamrick, Paul Morgan, Edgar Par
ker, John Snead, Luther Kirk, Ralph
Gaston, Roy Osborne, Bub Service,
Mr. and Mrs. Nat Burgess, Jim H&mll,
Will Darby, “Dee” Parris, J. O.
Sparks, J. Q. Little, J. B. Bell, Dever
Little, Stanyarne Little, L. Y. Ran
dall, Junius Parrott, W. B. Sparks,
L. W. Walker, C. M. Smith. Ed. H.
DeCamp, Miss Lucy Wood. Miss Wil
lie DeOamp, Mrs. W. C. Hamrick.
Miss Volina Hamrick, Mr and Mrs.
F. R. Parker, W. H. Ross, Clint 1'
bins Will Broom and little James
Wilkins.
A Silver Tea.
A silver tea will he given at the
residence of Mrs. W. C. Carpenter
Friday evening, beginning at 8 o’clock.
The entertainment will consist of a
musical program, recitations, ece.
This entertainment will be given un
der the auspices of the Woman’s
Club and the proceeds will go to the
public library. This is § most worthy
object and everybody should patro
nize it. Go and contribute your sil
ver offering at the door—10c to $1.
At the First Baptist Church.
There were two good services at
the Pits! Baptist Chucch Sunday.
Two fine eougrevatons. some good
music, one received under the watch
care of the church and a good offor*
log tor State Missions. The Sunday
school also was good.
FILBKRT NCWS.
Review of Events from One Onr York
County correspondents.
Filbert, R. F. D. 1, Oct. 15.—Mrs.
Sue Cain, of Yorkville, spent a few
days with Mr. John G. Brown recent
ly.
“The melancholy days are come, the
saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods,
and meadows brown and sear.”
—Bryant.
"Music, when soft voice die
Vibrates in the memory.”
‘ —Shelley.
This is the truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is
remembering happier things.”
—Tennyson.
There's an “aching void,” as the
poets say, in this knight of the pen's
life which he feels will never be fill
ed in this world. Fain would he tell
all about ii here, but he cannot just
yet. Tis a thing too profound for
proper expression.
Mr. Sam Watson and Mrs. Milley
Therrill, of Beth-shiloh, were visiting
in tins section recently.
What is a good, practical education,
land how may it be acquired? Let
these quotations answer: Says Ever-
jett: “To read the English language
i well, u> write with dispatch a neat,
i legible band, and io be master of the
j erst riles of artithmetic, so as to
| dispose of. at once, with accuracy,
every question of Jigures which comes
up in practice,—1 call this a gqod
education. And if you add the ability
i»o write pure grammatical English,
PON DFI ELD PARAGRAPHS
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Interesting News (temp and pprppnal
paragraphs.
Pondfield, Oct. 17—Thought it ssems
rather late to mention the death of
little Rheba Martin which occurred
on the tenth day of this month, never
theless do I deem it my duty to bp-
stow some immortal flower upon the
amiable little deceased one, who sow
looks back and says: “I fear no foe,
with Thee at hand to bless. Ills have
no weight and lean; no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where grave,
they victory?
Little Rheba was the three-year-
old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. H.
Morton, of this place. To those
bereaved ones, we extend a propitious
and helpful hand that they may, In
this, their great affliction, retrieve
themselves of such a loss. Our Sun
day school superintendent, Mr. W. F.
Huskey, conducted the burial ser
vices of last Thursday at Drayton-
ville.
The Lord watch between me and
thee.
The Lord watch between me and
thee,
When we are absent.
When we are absent.
When we are absent
One from another,
Amen.
The new church is going up with
marvelous rapidity. It will be res4y
for use very soon.
Rev. E. G. Ross is conducting a
series of meetings at Draytonville this
week. He will close the meeting to
morrow.
, .. ,, Why do not all you members of
Lregard it as an excellent education. | Draytonville help a little? Now is
Ihese are the tools. lou can do the accepted time. If you fttwi at
much with them, but you are help
less without them. They are the
foundation, and unless you begin with
these, all your flashy attainments are
cepted time. If you atm at
ever helping, and are one that does
his duty before it is too late, come
on with your mite.
. i Cotton is getting thin in the field
ostentations rubbish. tor. as Pope i k u t the most of it remains unsold.
\ cry properly says, ' just as the twig j This is good
is bent the tree's inclined.” ' ’
Says Ruskin: "i tell you earnestly, 'Y hv c , a " the farmers not see the
... ,nut i..,„ .i... i—i.:. obvious fact, as it were, that by Just
a little sticking they can win? and
understand the
you must get into the habit of look
ing intensely at words, assuring your-i a K llu,e SI1 ^ K mg tn
self of their meaning syllable by syl-i", 1 ' <an the ^ ?? t . .. ..— - -
liable, nay, letter by letter. A well j e ? es U , P °P w * lch J* 6 potto “ 1 ^ U5r -
educated gentleman may not know e , ,s ha\e fallen to hide In oblivion
many languages, may not be able to j ^ se ? re ‘ °I th ® farmers union? Is
; speak any but his own, may have j I” r o « L 0 b uft a u d , b ™? r P 01
! read very few books, but whatever! L n ca P a 9^y • This Is wh&t the
i language he knows, he knows pre-: buvers are doing-
i cisely, whatever word he pronounces,! Some box-headed, long billed shite-
! he pronounces rightly. Let the a c- 1 P 0111 . 8 ^. “The low price of cotton is
I cent of words be watched, and close-
j ly, lei their meaning be watched more
! closely still.”
“‘No book is worth anything which
is not worth much, nor is it service
able until it has been read and re
read.” 'This, herein specified, is the
real education. This, herein speci
fied, is the way In which it can best
be acquired.
Says The State, quoting from
another paper: “There is an Increas
ing demand for newspaper writers.
not hurting the farmer dishonestly-”
If I were so fiimsily and loose con
structed about the brain cells as this
man I should hold my piecey-
J. u. I.
Timber Ridge Topics.
Timber Ridge, Oct. 16.—It has been
some time since we have written for
The Ledger from this section. We
think the paper improves with each
Issue and Is the best In the coupty.
_ _ The voting contest of the mall car-
Now, this is, to say the least, very j riers was interesting. We are very
encouraging to young writers. sorry though that our faithful ear-
The farmers have begun to sow! rler, Mr. Albert McKown, did nor get
the first prize. He deserved it If any
one did.
Most of the schools In the country
have started, though the Timber
Ridge school has not yet.
There will be an entertainment at
Corinth school house on Thursday,
October 22nd at 8 o’clock p. m., con
sisting of a beautiful exhibition of
scenes from the life of Christ, and
“Around the world in eighty minutes.”
illustrated songs, etc. The entertain
ment. Is highly Instructive and we
hope a large crowd will attend
Mr. Dixon, of the Gaffney mills, has
moved down near our section.
W. B. Tate spent Monday light
with Rev. T. B. Owen and family of
Wllklnsville.
Rev. T. B. Owen and daughter. Miss
wheat and oats.
“Knowledge comes; wisdom lin
gers.’’
A negro woman, who lives in this
vicinity, >gave her hog some newly
grown com the other day. After the
hog had made sure that it was corn,
she says, it looked up at her and said:
“Where in the devil did you get that
com?”
We have a young girl in York
county who picks over three hundred
pounds of the fleecy staple every day.
Beat that, Cherokeeans. Your crowd
are no doubt good pickers, but the
York crowd is better. You are evi
dently “some punkins,” but we are
v more punkins.” This to the editor:
j Now, you don’t mind one’s boosting
| his own section in your paper, do
you? You know, if one doesn’t do i Myrtle, spent. Thursday night with
! his own boosting himself, it isn’t like- Hon. E. J. Clary and family.
| ly to ever be done at all. We have had some sickness la our
Miss Mary Katharine Caldwell, lit-! vicinity recently hut think most
i tie daughter of Mr. W. L. Caldwell, cases have about recovered.
| is attending school at Yorkville. B. F. Tate and B. F. Jam isos at-
Mr. Earl Chambers and Misses tended services at Asbury Sunday af-
! Mannie and Lena Hogue, of near
Beth-shiloh, visited the family of Mr.
! J. R. Hogue Saturday, returning
I home Monday.
Messrs. Lynn Hogue and Tom
Bradford, who used to be residents of
this section, took dinner with Mr. H.
S. Love Sunday.
ternoon.
We learn that Messrs. Ross and
Parker will have a musical entertain
ment and magic lantern show at the
Timber Ridge school Saturday Bight,
October 24th.
The fanners In cur section say.the
cotton crop Is considerably short this
The regular amumn meeting was ^.121 of ,hem are hol4lnf '
Fridav* nlght ShC Baturd»» rCl1 Bi w - R T!>le a ” 1 ' Mls “ °P hella Iam| .
night and S^W Ue pStor Re^ H *>* fended ■•rrice. at Asbury Bun-
Mr.^Swann? 1 of B^K.^ The. WrinWuX
dayf bift owing foThe^th^f^"fet | m the ^o'SS/S
low-minister, Rev. J. A. McMurmy, it be t? ® le ^wi° n.it
had to be postponed a day. And, too, i « ch
Mr. Mills was called away on Saturn' ^ K,9S ® w
day afternoon by th« sudden illness mlsfor J UTie ^ *** ber .J®*
of his father, so he could not be pre- rrnt’hJhef
aent (or communion aorvlcea the next °< $J U ' fJ.Hejohn haa been
’ . .. making molasses this week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Caldwell went Mr j F Jamieson, of this place,
i lo Bowling Grewi Saturday. ; has sold his plantation here apd^on-
No man is wholly bad. templates moving above Gaffney. We
This scribe failed to receive his t0 h ave Mr. Jamieson and his
, o°S y ° f J he u ed ^! r for 0c ‘ ober the estimable family leave us.
) 2nd, so he should appreciate the we congratulate The Ledger on
kindness very much if some one will the efficient corps of corresponfieat*
send him another copy. He doesn’t
want to miss a single issue.
Ben Hope.
It now has. Ben Hope’s letters are
particularly Interesting.
The members of the Gethsemnae
, Methodist church are trying to raise
funds for the purpose of erecting a
Reubin Going to Town.
About two hundred Gnffneyltef new building.
Went over to Spartanburg Saturday Miss Virginia Tate has been spend-
to see Rlngling Bros. Greatest Show toff ■ome time with relatives at Paco-
on Earth, and they got the worth .
their money. Among the passengers Wlth man y Kood wishes to the dear
were Nat Burgess and “Dee” Parris, I a ®dger. Blue Eyes.
Parris seldom rides on a train, espec
ially a first-class train with be <>’ . j —A beautiful don to be given simy
mirrors. After the train started off by Gaffney Jewelry Co.
“De«»’ turned around to Nat and said:
There’s a fellow over there that looks . T->in.„ wnr +», tsc m
a mighty heap like you.” and Nat “ A Dla,n ® nd 7° rt “ t0
looked down the length of the car sway at Gaffney Jewelry Co.
only to see the reflection of himself ■■inn.
In the mirror. And the joke was on —Finest watch repairing and on-
“Dea." • graving at Gaffney Jewelry Co