The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 9

i) BIG THE LEDGER: 0AFFME7, S. NOVEMUEIt J5, 1807. REE hoes, Dry Goods eiocl I Itl i it 311 The best Laundry Soap on the market, full 1 2oz cakes, at 3 for 1 0c. Large line of toilet soap, at one-half price. 150 Dozen guaranteed 200 Spool Cotton in white and black, yards to the spool, at 2c per spool.

ft i i IT Yl Will unload the last of the week a car of fresh flour from $2.00 per hundred up. Thanking you for past patronage and soliciting a continuance, of the same. Five bales of full wide sheeting at 4 1 -2c to 1 4c per yard. Bolts of dress plaids to go this week at 4c per yard. See our outings at 4c, 5c and 8c per yard.

liespectfiilly, O. Lipscomb will not l3e undersold. "Thou Shalt not Steal," ft i i i I i i I BOB." EASON, We arranged. No. 1 has 11,818 and 366 looms and everything is runuing smoothly.

Futher particulars have been received as to the terrible death of Geo. Putnam Baker, mentioned In these columns Oct. .10, as occurring at Bates-ville Factory, Greenville, S. C. He was standing on the speeder machine endeavoring to slip a belt over a pulley when, failing to observe his dangerous position, his shirt was caught by the shaft and he was whirled from his feet to be dashed and beaten against tho ceiling.

At the first wild shriek for help the operatives sprang to the engines and every effort was made to stop the whirling wheels. Tender hands released the quivering form of the young man from the death grip of the now motionless shaft, but he lived only fifteen minutes. His neck and one leg was broken and his body wa9 terribly bruised. He died without recovering consciousness. The Newberry, S.

cotton mills have made many improvements in and around the mills since they were erected. When first built they had about 13,000 spindles, anda few years ago their capacity was increased by the extension of the main building to double size and the addition of more machinery, which gave them a plant of 25,000 spindles. They have 871 Whitin looms, all white goods. The ot which are on completeness of everything about the mm is very noticeable, and gives to the mill a thoroughly up-to-date appearance. At those mill there is a Burial Fund Association, the -members of which bury all of the operatives over 10 years of age.

On the death of a meiijbor $35 is given to the relatives of the deceased for burial purposes, and to replace this amount in the fund each member is assessed 10 cents. All of the help is well contented, as the wages are good, and the management of the mill and rooms are under excellent and efficient men. YELLOW FEYER PREVENTED BY TAKING "Our Native Herbs" the Great Blood Purifier and Liver Regulator 200 DAYS' TREATMENT 1 00 Containing a Registered Guarantee. 32 page Book and Testimonials, FKEE. Sent by mull, postage paid, bold only by Agenti for The ALONZO O.BLISS tlie Cherokee, Barber Shop.

H. W. TALLY, Prop. Razors Keen and Towel, Clean, I respectfully solicit the patronage of my old customers, at my new stand, rear of Clarkson Smith's Confectionery, But you may keep a good deal of your money that usually goes to other people in your own pocket by coming to us when you want to buy i Dry Goods, Shoes, Pants, Trunks, Groceries, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Crockeryware, Glassware, Pocket and Table Cutlery. Our store is headquarters for Good Flour at the Right Price.

All our goods are new and fresh, so you need not be afraid of getting anything old or stale. The goods we keep are up to date and stylish too, and the prices are as low as the lowest. Now remember we dont advertise that we give away goods or anything of that kind, for we couldn't afford to 'do that, but we do say that if you will call on us we will save you mone. LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEXTILE WORKERS North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their AdvancementsOperative Personals.

Southern and Western Textile Excelsior. The Modena mills, Gastonia, N. have just purchased 2,200 twister spindles. B. F.

Hicks, overseer of carding at the Union 8. cotton is visiting in Augusta, Ga. The Clifton mill S. No. 3, uied just 290 bales of cotton and 12 bales of waste, 302 bales in all last week.

W. J. Fortner, loom fixer, changed from the Clinton, S. cotton mills to Pelzer, S. mill Nov.4.

Mr. Clippard, the new spinning room overseer, is hustling things through in mill No. 2, Spartanburg, 8. C. C.

E. Falls, of the Enterprise mills, Kings N. C. is recovering from his illness and able to be out again. A 5 year old daughter of Superintendent Shea of Clifton mills No.

1 and 8, and Glendale mills, died Nov. 17 and was buried Nov. 18. The l'aterson Mfg. China Grove, N.

held its semi annual meeting a week, ago, The usual i per cent, half yearly dividend was declared, E. J. GoBsetfc. overseer of spinning atjthe Cowpens, S. cotton mill, has resigned to tako charge of a spinning room in the Mills mill, Greenville, S.

C. J. P. Leak, Pres. fend Treas.

of the Midway mills, and H. S. Ledbettcr, manager of the Textile Mfg. Kockingham, N. were in Charlotte Thursday.

F. C. Ferguson, superintendent of the Rocky N. cotton mills desires the address of 8. II.

Huffstick-ler, a machinist formerly at Spartanburg, S. The Nashville just closed, has awarded the Whitney, S. cotton mills the bronze model and a diploma for the best exhibit of bleached goods. J. B.

Bailey, who has been fixing looms iu Clifton, S. mill No. 1 for several years has resigned and accepted a similar position with the Union, S. Mfg. Co.

.1 Second Hand W. A. Wofford had to imove lively a few days ago at the 'racolet, S. cotton mills to extin- guish a small blaze in the lint room under the cloth room. J.

M. Arthur took charge of the cloth room Monday at the Arkwright mills, Spartanburg, S. He was cloth room boss at Cowpens, but recently cloth grader at Clifton No. 2. Walter M.

Scranton, who has been in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York mills, is now overseer of the 28,000 spindles and 17 spoolers in the Charleston S. C. cotton mills. Cloth RoomOversoer S. F.

Sutton, of the D. E. Converse mill, Glendale, S. run a one-horse farm as a side issue this year near the village. He made 16 bales of cotton from 25 acres.

J.W.Anderson, overseer of weaving at the Langley, S. was elected W. M. of the Albert Pike Lodge No. 174, Langley.

S. C-, at the last regular communication of that lodge. Superintendent M. G. Stone, of the Spartan mills, has been confined to his home sick for a few days.

Jesse Jackson, the weaver, has also been home sick a few days, but is able to be out again. A fire in the picker room of the Ft. Mill 8. Mfg. Thursday, did $1,000 damage.

They sent up to the Charlotte for a new lot of belting, and are hustling to get the machinery re-started. A company is organized to build a railroad from Southern Pines, N. on the Seaboard Air Line to Hope mills, Hope mills, N. on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, and Wilmington and Weldon railroads. 8.

H. Howard, late superintendent of the Cedar Falls, N. Mfg. has taken the superintendency of the Harden, N. cotton mills, which he writes us is running night and day and is pushed with orders for yarns.

One family of 19 arrived at the Clifton 8. cotton mills Tuesday. A man with 17 children is many times welcome at our cotton mills these days. Pity that the fathers of large families so often lie around and live on the earnings of their children. The card room of the Spartan mills No.

2 is running at night on acount of one side of the large engine giving away, and the other side has not enough power to run all of the mill that they have been running. They have nearly one thousand looms running. H. K. Messersmith, book keeper of the Roanoke cotton mills, Roanoke Rapids, N.

died Nov. 15. Ho was a Baltimorean. He tendered his resignation to the cotton mills jusb a few days before his illness and intended leaving for Baltimore to engage with his father in the cotton business In that city. H.

Creekmore has severed his con nection with the Patterson, N. cotton Mfg. Co. Mr. Creekmore has been superintendent with the uboe company for Borne time but he thought it advisable, so to better himself, to accept the overseership of the spinning department at the Anchor cotton mill, Huntersville, N.

C. D. Y. Cooper, Tres. of the Henderson, N.

cotton mills. has achieved great success as a tobacco warehouseman. and his warehouse isselling more tobacco than it ever did before. Although getting a little bald, he is still the handsome, wide-awake, hustling D. Y.

Cooper, and ranks among the most successful business men in the old North State. R. M. Lindsay, who has been boss carder for nine months at the Elm Grove cotton mills, Lincolnton, N. left there this week to take a similar position in the Buffalo Thread mills, Concord, N.

C. J. A. Lybrand. formerly of Ft.

Mill, 8. but who has been running the carding at night at Elm Grove, has now taken the day job, and he is succeeded at night by VVm. Rogers. P. 8.

Baker, Troas. of the Crow-der's mill, Kings N. has a brave 14 year old son, Luther. One day a few weeks ago he noticed a quuntity of leaves burning on the roof of the house of W. A.

Maun'ey, Pres. of the Kings Mtn. Mfg. Co. He quickly notified Mrs.

Mauuey her house was on fire, then igot a ladder, mounted the roof, and with buckets of water soon had the flames extinguished. The Charleston B.C., Knitting milln were sold at public outcry on November 9 and were bid in at the upset price of $13,000 by Geo. W. Williams, representing certain stockholders. The plant was built last year and cost $23,000.

It has been conducted with negro labor, and was represented to be runfllng yery successfully and prosperously. To the unitiated it looks like a freeze-out for the smaller stockholders. The new company has taken out a new Btate commission, the capital stock being $25,000, the par value per share being $250. W. Gregg Ohisholm, Henry P.

Williams and T. L. Dodd are the corporators. The Union cotton mills are running nicely. The new mill, built for spindles is one of the most imposing cotton mill structures in the South.

It is 4 stories high, and its massive size reflects the progressive of the cotton mill industry in the Southern states. At present the mill contains 40,000 spindles and 1,081 looms. The spaaious rooms when filled to their full capacity with machinery will be exceedingly attractive as one of the weaving rooms Is already having 900 looms presenting to the eye a broad space of active machinery pretty in. design and well BRIDGES "JOHN.