The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 2

rJ4'-i' Mm iir I Mind and "toDrfnSTTJOT- Matter, in his THE COMPOSITOR ancestors. The people of Cherokee and York comities especially ought In advertising own paper tho the lecture coin poaitor lmulo it read: "Wind oo per Year. KVEltY THURSDAY BY and Water. to read this story, for they trcud on historic ground and should never forget tho lesson of patriotism and de Thcro a great difference between Jed Ed. going to church and going to worship II.

DkGamp. PLAYS HAVOC With the Manuscript of the "Kernel." TON MILL NEWS. Items of Interest to Textile Workers. God. If we confess our sins to sinners votion to duty taught by Cowpens and King's Mountain.

they will laugh at us; if we confess The price of the book is 35 Aie Ledger is not responsible for Nviews ot correspondents, flsrion dents who do not contri- them to saints they will piety us: cents office Makes the food more delicious and wholesom and if we confess them to God he and can be had at The Ledger or from the author at Cowpens OPERATIVE PERSONALS. WHEAT'S POOR SHOWING. OYL BAKING POWOER NEW YORK. alar news letters must fur- iian.e, not for publication, NOTES AND COMMENTS. identification.

He Hohhed Dlaeoarteonil The president will call an extra will forgive us. Our nights of dispnir often bring out he stars of hope. If 5 men can dig a ditch in 1 days, working 1J hours a day, how long would one man take to dig a ditch half as largo again, working 5 hours a day? We understand that a Chicago jus A letter to the editor which hai session of Congress, if this one fuil to appeared in the leading papers complete the Army Reorganization bill and the Pacific Cable bill. The Write short letters and to the point to insure publication also endeavor to got them to the office by Tuesday. All correspondence should be ad-iressed to Ed.

H. DeCamp Manager. Obituaries will be published at five jents a line. Cards of thanks will be published it one cent a word. i Heading notices will be published "li ten cents a line each insertion.

A. Good Word, for the Veoplelof Antloch, King's. Creek, ItutTiilo and ItlaekHburg. Notes from the Thriving Neighborhood of (Correspondence of The LcGger.) Etta Jane, February 11. In our letter to The Ledger this week some typographical errors appear which we wish.to correct.

The number of Infantry soldiers on rolls'furnished the State Historian is 41,480 instead army bill provides for a regular army If a tice lined a man yli) for lying. lermo bears the signature of Candin' the most feared and murderous of Sidk ian brigands, and is destined to inform; tho readers that he has expelled from hii band a notorious robber named Galbo, as having been guilty of "discourteous and unmannerly conduct in his dealing A Japanese Ulant. A soldier of gigantic stature and enormous strength has been presented to the emperor of Japan. He is Private the Third regiment of tho Nogoya Field artillery. He enlisted in December last and is now 22 years of ago.

His muscular strength is such that he can carry a fieldpieco on hia shoulders and climb mountains with it where horses are not available. He regularly receives two men's rations of food and bi3 uniforms are especially made to fit him. small tax was levied on liars in this of 100,000 men. The president just now is intensely Interested in armies and cables armies to butcher the The Improvement!) mid Advancements of the l'ust Week In North and South Carolina Cotton Mill and Hosiery Factories, Etc. I Southern and Western Textile Excelsior .1 David B.

McCracken chongos from West Point, to Newberry, S. C. P. C. Poag, Secretary and Treasurer Fountain Inn, S.

Cotton Mills, is quite ill with la grippe. C. L. Chandler, loom fixer, has returned to Tucapau, 8. Cotton Mills from Spartan Mills.

L. Guy Secretary and Manager of the Fairmont, S. Cotton Mills, made a trip to Greenville, S. last week. The Willardville Hosiery Mill, Raleigh, N.

will be doubled in Wlin inn TinnilP. 'I tin lot.tnr onrta the words "kindest greetings of frien Filipinos and cables to bring the soul-inspiring news. 1 ship. Fans Messenger. 810 as published.

The aggreeute of country it would produce a hand-ssme revenue in a short time. During our recent visit to Gaffney Mr. Jaa. Templeton showed us through the foundry where they are making all kinds of metal castings. This is ik great addition to tho industrial institutions of our county.

Mr. Babington, of North Carolina, is the foreman and' lie fully understands his business. Some of onr young friends want us to plead for a teacher's column in The To insure a happy new vear. keo the various State troops in tho different armies of the military service is 00,531 instead of 00,331. Another battle was fought in the Phillippines last Saturday betweon tho American forces and the natives.

the liver clear and the body, yigoroi) by using De Witt's Little '-Bail liisurs, the famous little Pills for cot1 ftipution and liver troubles. CherdV The Americans drove them out of Then, again, speaking of the idol gods, "Gods" should be spelled with SEMI-WEEKLY. As we annouced last, week we eond out w'th this issue the first number of our Semi-Weekly. We realize that the change will entail considerable additional expense on us, but we feel in advance that our patrons will appreciate our efforts to serve them and will take care of us in the future as they have done in the paBt. The paper will be issued on Wednes their stronghold at Calcoocan, in Hid Way of Weighing.

"My way is dark and lonely," hummed the grocer as he finished tying up a package of sugar. "Perhaps your May may be lonely," remarked tho customer, "but I guess It's light Chicago News. Tho population of Antwerp includes 20,000 Germans, who, it is said, buy their goods of German merchants only. a little flicting great loss, and suffering but kee Drug Gaffney. II.

S. With era Blacksburg. Educate Your ItotveU With Ctincureta. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, ao.

It c. O. C. fail, drugRlsts refund money; Notwithstanding so much bad weather our people are generally free from colds, grippe, etc. much more size.

Finer grades of stockings will also be manufactured. John Galloway, age 25, a workman in the Elm Grove Cotton Mill, Lin-colnton, N. was killed Wednesday by the mill elevator falling. W. T.

Thompson, of Durham, N. little. Thus without any avowed reason or proclaimed policy on the part of our government our armies are slaughtering these' poor, ignorant savages on those far-away islands, whose only offence is that they don't want to belong to any master. so than ufual under similar circum sta nces. Piedmont Saving and Investment I days and Saturdays, and will be put 3t.o too Advice to Farmers are behind with their farm in all the mails leaving Gaffoey on work.

In fact, but few days have has been engaged as overseer of Greenville, S. C. those clays, As these mails go in all directions, tho bulk ot our subscribers will get their papers without de been fit for work since the year set Ledger. This we have done already; but the Cherokee county tenchers don't seem to favor it if their reticence Is taken as a mark of their approbitlon. We have thought, and still think that if the teuchers would tako hold of this matter rightly they would greatly help some studont struggling with his text books and assist others who have not the advantage of school facilities; They, too, would greatly improve themselves in their vocation.

The Ledger failed to reach this office last Thursday and this was a great disappointment to its subscribers. They came up O. K. cn Friday. Sam Strain wns quite sick Iub Consumptives! spinning at Juanita Cotton Mills, Burlington, N.

by superintendent E. Worth. in. Wheat is making a very poor show lay bright, newsy and fresh from the press. That's nono the worse Bign if there is Tho limes are so fast now, tliat a good stand and the ground properly news a week eld has become stale, manured.

Old funners tell us that if it only can be seen at tho distance John Pearce has gone from Piedmont, S. to the Oak Lawn Cotton Mills, Fork Shoals, S. recently purchased by C. D. Nesbitt fc Son, to repair the carding department.

A mill man at Rock Hill, S. says that they need more cotton i lie loan plan or this company wi C. 1 .1 i In some parts of the north-west lust week, the weather was the coldest ever recorded. Chesapeake Bay was frozen otfer and in Western Missouri and Kansas the thermometer ranged from 20 to 80 degrees below zero. The wave swept as far south as Florida but was so modified before it reached the orange groves that it did little damage.

The lowest point reached about Gaffney was 17 above and we feel sure that our patrons iuuiiu uir more utsimiDic in every wavf after having tried the Semi-Weekly, of a few rods on the first 'of April it the plans of riulUliiiK Loans Assoelai Our plan Is a definite contract ut roaso will never allow us to go back to the is all right. il rates. Loans made un approved iroDcr. edition. ary Walker the mills there for the reason uAmJyukefl, ids Messrs.

Walker, of Sun- one mill han continually to sup- J. C. Jeffekiks, Local Attorney, Gaffney, S. C. James instead of Mrs.

two There are three great remedies that every person with weak lungs, or with consumption itself, should understand. These remedies will cure about every case in its first stages and many of those more advanced. It is only the most advanced that are hopeless. Even these are wonderfully relieved and life itself greatly prolonged." What are these remedies Fresh air, proper food and Seoii's Emision of Cod-Liver Oil wit A Hypo-phosphites. Be afraid of 5rftoUiere are always We shall BTwJaIe9t news .7 1- I i IU LUIVU 1113 ur JUT fJIUUt.

ply them with the to zero. This lacked one degreeo nysiae, who wass reported last Dr. M. J. Wallg.nt got the names week.

Our inform we COrrect the a little mixed up The new Weldon, N. Cotton obtainable up to the time of go ing as low as was A. N. WOOD 1 before prdss, and we shall bo Manufacturing have awarded the contract for their building, to Emry Driscoll, who are to have it finished mistake. VWa nlnncn if subscribers who get their papers a Will somo of our ryny time a country post offices, do not rea BANKER, tell us where and how nye( 0 jn by April 1.

The water wheel has been ordered. Senator Sarratt llefore the Board. In reporting the proceedings of the izo all the practical benefits tha the worlds Redeemer is ref yonomy the books -of Numbers, Deul they would obtain from the dailies, The Victoria Cotton Mills'Rock meeting of the State Board of Control last week, KV the Colum and Psalms? Hill, S. have given a repeat order v9- and that at one-tenth the cost. does a general Banking and Exchai Tu The river last Monday and bia correspondent of The News and draughts but not of fresh air.

t'f James Dillingham and Mr. Morgan, of tho Anlioch and Kings Creek sections at Gaffney this week who report that their section are fairly up with the rost of the county. We are not surprised at York county for wishing to hold this section. No better people can be found within its borders, or even the State than in the sections we huve mentioned. Dear old mother York is one of tho best counties in the State and its people are among the very best, yet wo intend that Cherokee shall be a daughter cf which it may will be pround.

And we don't intend to let the county officials rost until they build a safe and convenient bridge across Broad river for the accommodation of that section. The officials may kick but let them kick. We'll still keep punching. No magazine comes to our desk that is vorULJniirii to as trrnni The" day wus very high. for two more Petteo revolving flat curds to add to their carding capacity, as this mill has been unable to fill their Courier, says: WARNING AND J'ROl'HECY uuBiueoB.

en sccureu witn bad Vi i-, tf Notwithstanding all the "At the board reconvened. Proof safe and Automatic Time Ld Senator Sarratt, of Cherokee, came heavy orders promptly. -tiuy ui unlit, uu iiul lurget foscott's jEraifrk 1 m(horouL weather unci roads we have had since the opening of the year Giles Hill, our mail rider on the Gaffney route, bus made his regular trips on time. Plato McCraw, wno went from Gas- ninety iptiosh rsoxes at mod before the board asking a beer privilege in behalf of John Alexander, of Gaffney. He stated that be knew Alexander to be a straightforward, tested and the highest en tonia, N.

recently to take charge of the weaving at night for the CliDton, S. Cotton Mills, has changed to a similar position with rent. ttorsed of all remedies for reliable man. He also knew Mr. The appropriation bills passed through the legislative assembly this as if they had been greased.

Every year tho protest the enormous appropriations to th State colleges, and other extravagant schemes, becomes feebler; every year additional amounts, modest enough separately diatributiyely, but large in the aggregate, are tskied for and obtained for this and that emer 'weak throats, weak lungsjuul Now that Tho Ledger proposes to make its semi-weekly visits the various sections of the country who have insufficient mail fucilitiesjionld-try and hagcXhcn improved siasto Odom, who was also an -applicant for uys and 6ells btocks andBondfi the Gaffney, S. Cotton Mills. ceftsxuuuuuil in all its staees. the beer privilege, and, although he W. C.

Burnett, formerly assistant did not know so well, he thought him Joe. a.ui Ji 1I druggists. SCOTT UOWNE, Chemists, New York. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited.

boss wearerat Clifton, 8. also a reliable man to grant a privilege to. ortnul Instructor." How pro Enoree, S. husnccii Senator Sarratt further said that he meet the demands of tho And let us have more correspondents in different sections of the country. J.

R. ginnis Mills, Now Orleans, thought a beer privilege woul gressive teachers get along without it, or a similur work on education we La. His father was for 20 years boss helnto Uiu luiWJ. People would are unable see. The Galney City Land and Improvement Company drink, and ho thought it better for gency QYciy 1 wi We are heartily in accord with them to drink beer than whiskey.

eminent pensioners, in the name of He saw no objection to a privilege Offers for sale Building Lots In tills flourishing town, GatTnoy City; Also Farms nea1' office holders, employes, contractors and job holders, is becoming greater; being granted, and in fact he said he uy una in roach oi the SfhooLs ot umrsiono ssprmjrs and of this nlace. in lots of tn '111 t.t ii. i 1 I what our brother correspondent A. of Blacksburg said a few weeks ago of the Mount 1'nroii people. He certainly know what he was weaver with Clifton, S.

1 Mill. H. II. Seawell, the night superintendent of Victoria Cotton Mill, Rock Hill, S.C., since W. E.

Poag resigned as day carder and spinner, succeeded to that position, and now has full charge of carding and spinning day and night. iu ia en vmi iu mi uiuiu i uM'n au iuiLui iii iuiius rum xor uriu pu would recommend that one be grant every year that sturdy individualism ed. Under the law the State board J. V. AieiiVT'T, Agent.

tur.ing aoout ior uiose, people are can only grant beer privileges, and then the county board has to decide that manly independence and self-relianco of our fore-fathers which among the best people not only of N. n. All tresspassing on lamlsof this company, cnttliiR and removing JJajlirrJliUUi Imntlnff, are forbidden uiKler penalty ol' law. Cherokeo county but of the State who may run them. "On motion of Mr.

Williams it was Their homes, furmes, churches and made them and our country great and strong, are becoming more and hospitality all indicate a happy pros decided to postpone all matters pertaining to beer privileges uutil the mora eraied from individual, charac perous people. They aro a plain un THE March meeting." Iter and absorbed by the State; and ostentatious people who are not dis posed to eat up strangers with flat micht let it clinp. so the country is gradually but surely The Colleton Cotton Mills, Walter-boro, S. will begin operation just soon as the work of placing the machinery ia complete. Everything is moving to that end with all diligence under the direction of superintendent R.

W. Mitcham. Newbern, N. has been talking cotton factory lately and W. E.

Snellings states that to a company But it is a cough. One co no sooner passes off befdl A HEW TRIUMPH. jrifting into socialism, and, thereby I111B' SIB 7 11 another comes. But it'. tery or deceit.

Some of the best orchards, vineyards, gardens and farms we seen and tested last summer were in that section. What is said of he if radually paralyzing' the jSlrongest TIAL same old cough aU-fta timp The Consumption 1 a deepesLJLcrces that have ever JrtTiuQ same; old story. Mount l'aron people is mo. Can be Cured. Mio prosperity of the Jsm.

coming there andstabiiahiwi Mie Anglo top. i There 13 first the colli, then the cough, then pneumonia or consumption with the sickness, and life tremb A. Slocum, the Great Chemist and. Insurance Company America ling in tec Daiance. i 9 Home Office, N.J.

John F. Dryden, Presiden li James Wynn, Manager Southern Atlanta, Ga. Assets Jan. 1 st. 1 899 $28,88 1 96.4 Surplus Jan 1 st, 1 399 $5,888,894.7 Annual Income Si 7.481 .875.7 Insurance in force $414,547,053.0 -'I insurance written in 1898, Paid Policy Holders to Date Over of your cough, the throat all in- A tho I I.