The Cherokee Times from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

CHEROKEE COUNTY FAIR NOVEMBER 9-14 r. Y7'5 Y7' JO iib HJ iiJl 1L-J Jl nil THECIIKROKFKTI ICS 13 CIIF.ROivFX COUNTY'S MOST VALUABLE ADVERTISING MEDIUM 13 THE STATE'S LEADING SEMI-WEEKLY '1 XviL .4 iiil $2 00 A Year The Mouthpiece of Cherokee County's Progressiveness. Established August 4, 1922 Volume 4 GAFFNEY, S. (THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1925 Number 15 CHEROKEE EVENTS SOON TO SURVEY Joint Meeting Of Two Plan To Nationally Advertise Piedmont If Fund Is Secured Luncheon Clubs From Two States Here Soon Gaffney Rotary Club and Shelby, N.

Kiwanis Club Will Hold Second Social "Get-Together" Affair at Beautiful Limestone College Some Time This Month. Gaffney Would Cooperate With Other Towns Of This Section In "Telling The World" About Advantages Which Exist Here Local Efforts Also To Be Put Forth. after the many members of that club who were away from home for the Summer holidays had returned. "And in addition to that," wrote members of the Shelby club, "we don't want to hold this Gaffney meeting until after the Limestone College students have returned to resume their studies there. We have heard for years about the beauty and gra-ciousness of the young ladies attending Limestone and we want to come and see' for ourselves if all these reports have been founded on fact." The decision was therefore reached that the meeting of the two clubs and of the representative business men of the two towns would be postponed until early in October and the matter was left in status quo until this week, when Major Moore addressed his second communication on the subject to the Shelby Kiwanis Club.

The visitors from Cleveland county will make the trip to Gaffney via automobile and it is expected that there will be at least 100 and may be more, Shelby visitors who will come to Gaffney for the meeting. Immediately upon receipt of official advices from the Shelby Kiwanis Club as to the date which wiil best suit their convenience for the meeting, the Gaffney Rotary Club will begin the preparation of an enjoyable program to be carried out at the meeting here. President Robert C. Granberry of Limestone College several months ago gave his consent for the joint meeting of the clubs to be held at Limestone and this will add much to the pleasure of the Major Henry C. Moore, secretary of the Gaffney Rotary Club, yesterday stated that he had addressed a communication to the Shelby, N.

Kiwanis Club, in which he stressed the fact that the local Rotary Club and the entire city of Gaffney as well is anxious to have the Shelby Kiwanis Club at seme early date repay the visit which GafTney Rotarians and business men made to the Cleveland capital last Spring. In his communication Major Moore left the choice of the actual date for the joint meeting of the two luncheon clubs and business men ith the Shelby people and it is expected that some communication will be received from them before the end of the week num-ing the date which will be satisfactory for them to make the journey to Gaffney. Those who were present at the Kotary-Kiwanis meeting, held at beautiful Cleveland Springs near Shelby several months ago, asserted without exception that it was the most enjoyable affair of its kind in which they had ever participated and it goes without the saying that all those who were present at the initial affair are looking forward with very keen anticipation to its repetition here. At the time when the Shelby Kiwanis Club acted as host to the Gaffney business men and to the invited business men of this city, it was planned that the return meeting wou'd be held at Limestone College in Gaffney within about a fortnight from the Shelby meeting, but later the Kiwanis Club of Shelby reached the conclusion th.at it would be wise to postpone the event until prepared a form of legal summons which it is thought can be used to good effect upon the mo- torists who are daily passing through the city. The most important matter considered at the meeting Tuesday was the matter of raising funds with which to wage a publicity campaign for this city along National lines.

It was explained that the present income of the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce is barely sufficient to meet the operating expenses of the body and that not less than $5,000 will be required if Gaffney and Cherokee county are to ba sufficiently exploited. Ways and means of securing the sum needed were considered and it appeared to be the consensus of opinion that the proper manner by which to secure the funds needed would be to place the sum of one mill tax upon the property owners of all of Limestone township. This, it is estimated, would raise approximately 85,000 provided the Legislative delegation, consisting of Senator Thos. B. Butler and Representatives R.

A. Dobson and H. C. Moore, can be induced to lend their approval to the plan and will consent to introduce a bill in the next General Assembly providing for the additional levy of one mill in Limestone township. It is believed that the natural increase in property valuation between the present year and the next year would take care of the one mill without any additional tax being placed upon the individual taxpayers of the county.

Naturally the local Chamber of Commerce would not undertake the National advertising campaign itself with a sum as small as $5,000 but if that amount can be secured, it would be pooled with like and larger sums raised by the other towns and cities of the Piedmont South Carolina, in order that this section might "tell the world." OUTE FOR ROAD TO STACY. FERRY Will Then Be-Adopted Into The South Carolina State Highway System. TO GET MAINTENANCE C. Woods Wannamakcr, county highway engineer for Cherokee county, said yesterday that he plans to begin imme-diate'y upon the and other preliminary preparations for the buildinjr. of the connecting road from Gaffney to Stacy's Ferry, where it will join with the highway recently completed by North Carolina road forces from Shelby, NT.

to Stacy's Ferry. Wren the matter of connecting two high ays was first agitated, State Senator T. B. Butler and En-einoer Wannamaker went to Colum bia and appeared before the State Highway Commission urging that the commission construct the connecting link between this city and Stacy's Ferry. At that time the commission slated that it did not have sufficient funds to undertake the work, but did agree that if Cherokee county would build the and that if North Carolina would do likewise, the highway, or that portion of it lying in South aronna, would oe accepteu into he South Carolina highway system, vhich in other words provides that the State Highway Comrr.i.-sion would take care of the maintenance thereof.

At the meeting held in Columbia on September 1G the State Highway Commission adopted the following resolution, copy of which was received here yesterday here yesterday by Mr. Wannamakcr: "The commission further agreed, in the event Cherokee county will construct according to the department's standards (with no. obligation as to the department's reimbursement) the projected road from Gr.ffney, north, to the North Carolina liiv, to incorporate the said road into the State system and assume its maintenance; provided a road from Shelby to form a connection therewith is built as an addition to the State Highway System of North Carolina." It is declared that North Carolina has several months ago carried out her part of the agreement and has improved and completed the road from Shelby to Stacy's Ferry and that this has already been accepted into the North Carolina system. Engineer Wannamakcr said yes terday that it is now his purpose to proceed as rapidly as may be possible with the work of making the necessary plans for the road and that it will then be possible to award the contract, for the improvements v-'hich must be made on the South Carolina end of the highway before it can be taken into the South Carolina State Highway system. Because it is the nearest and most satisfactory route between the towns of Shelby and Gaffney, numerous Gaffney and Cherokee county people have expressed pleasure within the past few days that the Cherokee County Road Commission has determined to go right ahead with the work of improving this very important link.

:0: SMALL BLAZE HERE AT WALLACE PLANT The Gaffney fire department was called out at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon by an alarm from the FOUNDERS DAY AT BAPTIST COLLEGE TO BE OBSERVED Furman University Is Now Planning Big Exercises To ITe Held October 10. THOUSAND EXPECTED (Special To The Times.) Greenville, Oct. 30. Furman University lias sent out more than invitations to former students ti be the guests of the university at free dinner to be served at noon in the refectory on Saturday, October 10, in joint celebration of Foun-j ders Day and the annual Home-Coming event. This is the day of the football game between Furman and the Citadel teams.

The principal speaker for Founders Day will be the Hon. I. C. Blackwood of Spartanburg who will address the visitors and students Founders and Home-Coming Day morning at 10:30 o'clock in the chapel. Founders Day is one of he most important occasions each year at Furman as it is held in observance of the birthday of the late Dr.

Richard Furman. The authorities of Furman are elated over their success in securing as the chief orator for this occasion the Hon. Blackwood. He is the solicitor for the Seventh Judicial Circuit and is being prominently mentioned as a possible candidate for governor. The free dinner to the guests will be served at one o'clock in the handsome new refectory of the university.

The Furman Alumni Association is planning to make this dinner a feast of music, oratory and food. There will be short talks by members of the alumni in Greenville and one from elsewhere in the State also a member of the faculty. The music will be furnished by the stuJerits including the Furman band and talented vocalists. While describing the plans for this dinner an officers of the alumni declared that it will be a regular old time "pep" meeting. The requests has been made by Furman officials that every former student who plans to be the guest of the university at this dinner to mail a post card to the business office of the university at once.

This will greatly assist the officials in preparing for the large number of visitors they expect to entertain on Founders-Home-Coming Day. SHELBY IS MAKING RECORD AT HER FAIR According to GafTney people who went to Shelby last night to attend the Cleveland County Fair, the fail- association there had disposed of approximately $3,000 worth of sea son tickets for the the time the fair opened on Tuesday and they were anticipating that the sale of single admissions would bring the total from gate receipts alone to about $15,000. This is regarded by lccal people as being a very remarkable showing and occasioned considerable comment. Gaffney visitors who have been going to Shelby for the fair during the week are loud in their praise of the displays and of the courtesies accorded them by the people of Shelby and by the officials of the fair. :0: COTTON STALKS TO BE SHOWN AT FAIR S.

C. Stribling, farm demonstration agent for Cherokee county, is doing everything in his power to make the approaching Cherokee county fair a success, and at the same time he is bending every effort to see to it that the exhibits there will prove to be not only of but of value as well, to the farmers of the county. In yesterday discussing the cotton stalk exhibit which is being planned for the fair, Mr. Stribling said: "We again call attention to the fact that we would like to have a good number of five-stalk exhibits of cotton at the county fair in No vember. These stalks should be exhibited with the cotton still in the bolls.

In most cases it is going to be necessary to use glue to hold the cotton in the burrs so as to bring it to the fair. To glue the lint in the lock may be carefully taken from the boll and a drop of glue placed in the back of the bur and the lock replaced and allowed to dry. In case a few of the bolls have already been picked it will be all right to go to nearby stalks and get sufficient locks 1 -J mi ijuiio. iiicy should be pulled or dug up and the stalks may be stood up on nails driven through a plank." OYER THE COUNTY OF LATE INTEREST Happenings of Note in Various Sections Are Presented in Brief Form. MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE W.

A. Home, who is connected with the Southern Railway System in Charlotte, N. spent: Tuesday and yesterday in the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Sparks, Mr.

Home being a first cousin of Mr. Sparks. J. El Sarratt, well known Gaffney livestock dealer, has gone to the livestock centers of East Tennessee where he expects to purchase a car-load of cattle to ship to Gaffney. The cattle will be fattened here and will then be disposed of by Mr.

Sarratt to Gaffney meat market men. Fred Boozer, who is in charge of the branch store of the Battery, located at Kings X. spent a few hours in the city yesterday on business connected with the stores. He says that business conditions in the North Carolina town are rapidly improving and that the volume of trade is increasing daily there. Lewis Poole, who is connected with the office of Sheriff J.

G. Wright, has been confined to his bed at his apartment in the Rabbins building for the past few days. His many friends in the city and county hope that he may soon be completely recovered and able to resume his duties. Friends in Gaffney of the Rev. N.

A. Murphy, formerly pastor of the Gaffney Catholic church and th.3 Catholic church at Spartanburg, will learn with interest that he has been transferred from the pastorate of 'a Charleston church to one in Columbia and has already gone to assume his new duties. Father Murphy many warm friends in Gau'ney wi.j are interested in his movements. 1 "I have seen some more prosperous communities than is this, and places where much more business is being transacted, but frankly I never expected to see any place in which I would prefer to make my home than right here in Gaffney." That was the declaration made here this week by Guy LaBree, formerly of this city but now a realtor in Florida. Mr.

LaBree says that wherever he may roam, he will have a warm fpot at all times in his heart for Gaffney and Cherokee county people. Numbers of Gaffney people spent last Tuesday in Charlotte going there for several purposes, same of them to attend the "Made-In-Caro-linas" Exposition, some to attend the Merchants Dinner which wa3 given there at 12 o'clock and some to attend the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner which took place Tuesday night. Included in the Gaffney citizens who spent the day in the Mecklenburg county capital were: C. C. Hubbard, C.

C. Rob-bins, Ed H. DeCamp, John J. Moore, W. J.

Wilkins and J. B. Bell. J. N.

King, young GafTney man who is a student this year at Clom-son College, has been elected 33 a member of the college council, to represent the junior class of the institution, according to information just received here. Reports coming-from Clemson to Gaffney are to the effect that all the young men from-this county who are attending Clemson this year are doing splendidly in every particular. Byers Harvey, better known to everyone in Gaffney as "Slim," is a member of the Clemson varsity football team this year. Paul V. Thomas, son of Wr.

D. Thomas, well known GafTney insurance man, has sent his father a copy of a very interesting illustrated newspaper from Auckland, NV.r Zealand, the paper requiring about three weeks to reach its destination. Young Mr. Thomas is in the United States Navy, being attached to the U. S.

S. Mississippi, and the newspaper he sent here dealt largely with the recent visit 'of the United States fleet to Australia. Paul has been in the navy for about tiiioe. years and has only 11 more months to serve. He writes his father that he is in hopes of being transferred to Norfolk at some early date, in which event ne will probably be able to secure a leave of absence and visit his relatives here for a week or so.

Plans by which Gaffney and Cherokee county may be extensively advertised nationally as the ideal home and business city were considered and discussed at a meeting of the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce Advertising Committee, held Tuesday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 4 o'clock, and while no definite decision on the subject was reached, the plans considered were given the hearty approval of the committee and it is probable that some steps will be taken in the matter' at an early date. Present for. Tuesday afternoon's meeting, over which Secretary J. B. Johnstun presided, were Major Henry C.

Moore, Dr. S. B. Sherard, Frank W. Sossamon and J.

B. Bell. It was explained by Mr. Johnstun that he is planning to have prepared and circulated a handsome little 10-page folder, the size to fit an ordinary business envelope, and which folder will set forth in as few words as possible the numerous advantages, natural and acquired, which the city of Gaffney possesses as an abiding place. The folder will contain 10 or 12 cuts of the most attractive scenes of the city, including street scenes, the new high school building, the Hotel Carroll, the post-office building, Limestone College buildings and the like.

In addition to this activity, Mr. Johnstun plans to have prepared small cards which will set forth a warm welcome to Gaffney and on the reverse side of which will be a questionnaire, asking the stranger passing through to fill out the blanks and return to the Chamber of Commerce here. The blanks will ask the question, "What is your impression of Gaffney Good. Average or Bad?" "What Would You Suggest to Make Our City More Desirable?" "About When Do You Expect to Again Pass through Gaffney?" Mr. Johnstun has also YOUTH SHOT SELF TODAY Clyde Sparks, the 17-year-od son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Sparks, who live on the banks cf Broad river, was in a critical condition at the Gaffney city hospital today as result of serious wounds he received about 6:30 o'clock this morning when a shot gun which he was carrying was accidentally discharged. It is stated that the young man's left arm was so badly shattered that it was necessary to amputate that member, all the elbow joint having been shot away.

In addition, a portion of his face on the left side was terribly lacerated and it is feared that the sight of his left eye will be lost. Young Mr. Sparks and a companion of about the same age set out for a squirrel hunt this morning and in some manner the unfortunate youth managed to drop the gun, with the above stated terrible results. Ke was immediately placed in an automobile by his parents and rushed to this city where hospital officials are" doing everything in their power to save his life. FORD AUTOMOBILES COLLIDED TUESDAY Two Ford automobiles, one driven by Francis Harvey and the other by Ralph Bolin, collided at a point on Cherokee avenue Tuesday night, as a result of which both cars were cuuaideiiibly damaged.

It is said that the accident was unavoidable, although efforts are being made to place the blame for the affair. REV. MR. FAIRY IS TO BE TRANSFERRED Gaffney friends of the Rev. W.

A. Fairy, formerly pastor of the Bu-ford Street -Methodist church of Gaffney and now presiding elder of the Spartanburg district, will regret to learn that Mr. Fairy will have to be transferred from this territory when the next session of the Upper South Carolina Conference of the Methodist church is held at Abbeville. Mr. Fairy has served CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL BANQUET HERE ON OCTOBER 10 Cards were yesterday mailed out from the offices of the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce to all members of the local trades organizations requesting that the Secretary, J.

B. Johnstun, be advised by each member immediately as to whether that individual member plans to be in attendance at the banquet and first annual membership meeting of the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce, which will be held at Limestone College on the night of October 10. The meeting is to be held in the auditorium of Limestone College, following which the entire will repair to the large dining hall of the college where a delightful dinner will be enjoyed. All this is to be without cost to an individual member, the expense of the undertaking being defrayed by the Chamber of Commerce as an organization. Secretary Johnstun says that while it is too early as yet to be anticipating many replies to his inquiries, he is confident that almost every member of the Chamber of Commerce will be in attendance when the meeting Is called to order, on the night of October 10 and he believes that the entire public of city and county will be interested in the affairs transacted at that meeting, since a full and complete report of what has been done thus far by the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce will be submitted and plans for the future activity of the body will be outlined.

The formal program for the evening has not been completed, but it is now in the process of formation and several speakers of more than State-wide reputation have een tentatively secured for the evening. In addition to the speech making, a number of musical features are to be provided for the evening. his allotment of four years in this Wallace Vulcanizing plant, located district and under the laws of the East Birnie street. The alarm conference will have to be sent to was occasioned by a gasoline ex-some other field for the next four plosion, but the blaze was extin-years. The Rev.

Mr. Fairy has guished with the use of chemicals hundreds of friends in Gaffney and before the arrival of the fire fight-all over this section. ers. EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR GAME HERE TOMORROW ELECTRIC POWER IS NOW MORE PLENTIFUL The matter of a sufficient supply of electric current for Gaffney industries has become less acute within the past four or five days, according to those connected with the Gaffney Board of Tublic Works, and they say that they have net be. able to observe any fluctuation or "let up" very recently in the electric power reaching here.

This is quite a relief, as a condition existed here a few weeks ago which resulted in many of the smaller industries being able to opnvnte only on part time as a result of the power LODGE BIBLE CLASS PLANNING FOR RALLY The Lodge Bible class of the First Baptist church of Gaffney has addressed a communication to its 100 members in which every member is urged to be in attendance at the meeting of the class next Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock in the basement of the Carnegie Library building. It is explained that this is the annual "rally" day of the school and the Lodge class is making every possible effort to have a luu per cent attendance for the occasion. W. J. Wilkins is the president of the class and C.

F. Blanton is the teacher. Everything is declared to be in readiness for the first real football game of the season to be played on the Gaffney high school grounds, the local highs being slated to meet the North Greenville Academy team here tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. As is usually the case, Coach Carson is not making any boasts about what hi3 team will be able to accomplish, but it appears to be the consensus of opinion that the Gaffney high team, as in former years, will this season be able to give a good account of itself. It is understood here that the North Greenville team has been improved to a considerable degree since last year and the prediction is made that Gaffney will meet with stern opposition tomorrow afternoon.

This being the first association game of the season, it is expected that there will be a large crowd of football enthusiasts in attendance tomorrow afternoon to witness the initial clash..