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THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, 8. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST EVENTS OF INTEREST IN NEY AND CHEROKEE.

Recent Happenings in and Around The City and Other Events Gath. ered By the City Reporter. Cotton was quoted on the local market yesterday at cents per pound. Christmas holidays for the school children begin this afternoon. The city public schools will not re-open until January 8th.

Mr. Joseph Levetan, one of the hustling proprietors of the S. L. department store, will leave tomorrow for Atlanta, where he will spend the Christmas holidays. Robbs school will have a Christmas play and a Christmas tree at the school house tonight.

An unusually interesting evening is expected. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mr. P. H.

Senn, assistant secretary of the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, will leave Saturday for his home at Silver Street, where he will spend the Christmas holidays. On Christmas afternoon there will be a Christmas tree given to the children the Providence church Sunday school. The entertainment staged to take place at 3:30, and every scholar is urged to be present. Mrs. J.

H. Lipscomb will leave tomorrow for Portsmouth, where she goes to see her son, Mr. B. Bryant Lipscomb, who is paymaster on the battleship, "Florida." Mr. Lipscomb has been in the service for eighteen years.

Grassy Pond Woodmen the World, Hickory Camp No. 360, will hold its regular meeting tonight instead of tomorrow night, which is the appointed time. Important business will be before the Camp and all members are urged to be present. Mr. and Mrs.

Shumpert Pennington are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine baby girl. The young lady was born on Friday of last week and has been named Majorie Beatrice. Mr. Pennington, the proud father, i is connected with the Pearl Steam Laundry of this city. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred V. Grant, former residents of Gaffney who have lived at Bat Cave, N. for the past two years, are spending several weeks in the city with relatives. Mr.

Grant is employed with Shuford LeMaster in their furniture store on East Frederick street while here. Capshaw Woman's Home Demonstration Club will meet with Mrs. Matt Byars this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Special Christmas exercises will feature the meeting. In addition to the Christmas program, how- ever, Miss Barratt will give the ular instruction lesson in "The of Meats." All members of the are urged to be present.

Special Christmas services will held at the First Baptist church day. Dr. J. S. Dill, the pastor, nounces that he will preach at eleven o'clock service in the morning with his subject as "The King's Birthday;" and in the afternoon five o'clock the Sunday school have a "White Gift Christmas" unusual interest.

The public is cordially invited. Mr. Joe W. Humphries announces that Mount Ararat Sunday school will hold its closing exercises next Wednesday, December 27th, beginning at one o'clock in the afternoon. An interesting program of recitations and special Christmas music has been arranged for the occasion.

When the program has been rendered the children will be treated to fruits and candies. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend the exercises. In accordance with its usual custom, the local Carnegie Free Library will be closed week from tomorrow afternoon till January 2, in observance of the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Pratt Pierson, the librarian, stated to a reporter yesterday that all patrons who desire do so, may take out an additional book for the week the library is closed.

When the library is re-opened on the second day of the new year, the regular rules will be resumed. The Ledger desires to announce for the special benefit of the little tots numbered among its readers that, owing to the fact that many letters for Santa Claus reached us too late for publication, we have mailed them direct to the North Pole, where he gets all his mail from every corner of the world. Any letters written to Santa yesterday will surely get into his hands before he begins his annual Christmas Eve journey, 80 no good little children need worry. The 11. S.

Civil Service Commission will hold an examination for clerks and carriers on January 13th, 1917, at Gaffney, 8. to fill vacancies in the postoffice in that city. The examination is open to all who meet I the requirements. Application blanks and full information, including sample questions, can be obtained from the Secretary, Local Civil Service Board at postoffice, Gaffney, or from the Secretary, Fifth Civil Service District, Atlanta, Georgio. Gaffney people will learn with interest that Dr.

Charles Manley, of Chicago, came all the way from his home city to undergo an operation of pecularily serious nature, under a the local skillful physician hand of and Dr. S. surgeon, B. at Sherard, the City Hospital Tuesday afternoon. The operation was entirely successful.

Dr. and Mrs. Manley are spending several weeks in Gaffney with their daughter, Mrs. Edward Watson on East Buford street. They have visited here before and have many friends in the city.

Mrs. H. A. Killian and children, who have lived in Gaffney for a number of years, left yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays in Spartanburg with Mrs. Killian's mother, Mrs.

Attie Tillotson. At the first of the new year Mrs. Killian and children will go from Spartanburg to Akron, Ohio, where they will make their home with Mr. Killian, who has been in that city for a number of months with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, as steam fitter. These good people have many friends here who regret to have them leave.

HAD INTERESTING TRIP. Mr. R. E. Johnson Attended WillysOverland Convention at Toledo.

Mr. R. E. Johnson, agent for WillysOverland automobiles, returned to Gaffney on Friday morning of last week from Toledo, Ohio, where he attended the Willys-Overland Company's dealers convention in session there until tomorrow. Mr.

Johnson states that fully 10,000 Overland dealers have attended the convention since it opened December 6th. During the eight days Mr. Johnson was in Toledo, the Willys-Overland Company, booked orders amounting to $120,226,250, for 1917 delivery. The total money spent for automobiles in the United States in 1916 was 000,000, and already this one company has more than one-fourth of this amount booked. It would seem from these figures that considerable more money will be spent automobiles next year than formerly.

Mr. Johnson traveled approximately 2,500 miles during the two weeks he was away. After traveling to Toledo from Spartanburg on a special train chartered by the Willys-Overland Company, and spending eight days there, he went to Detroit where he saw the big Ford factory in all its branches, then to Akron, Ohio, where he inspected the huge palnt of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company He visited Buffalo, N. and Niagara Falls, places in Canada, and Springfield, Mass, where he went through the famous plant of the Hendee Manufacturing Company, makers of Indian motorcycles Mr. Johnson stopped in New York City just one day and in D.

two days. From Washington, he returned to Gaffney. "Bob" says he enjoyed the trip and names Washington as the most attractive, city on his route. "New York," he said, "is hardly my conception of a good place to live." FORMERLY OF CHEROKEE. Mrs.

Lucretia Moore Dies of Paralysis In. Tenness at Age of Ninety. Good Spring, Dec. December 15th Mrs. Lucretia Moore died at her home here at the age of ninety years, lacking four days.

Five days before her death she was stricken with paralysis, causing her to be almost unconscious all the time. She was a member of the M. E. church, South, for seventy-two years. Just before her death she said to her pastor, "Isn't it great to have such 3 God, the God we serve She was born near Gaffney and married to David Moore, who, with her and family.

moved here about 1868, and won a host of friends here, who were grieved to hear of her departure. Her maiden name was Petty. Her mother having died only a few years ago in Cherokee county at the ripe old age of 98. Mrs. Moore leaves a daughter, Mrs.

Susan Chapman, two sons, John and S. P. Moore, five grand children and eighteen greatgrand children to mourn her loss. The funeral services were conducted at Pleasant Ridge church by Rev. Jarat.

Some of her relatives in and near Gaffney are Pettys, Austins, Clarys and Kirbys. Her grandson, Chapman. GOES TO WINTHROP. Miss Barratt, Will January In Study. MisSpend, Barratt, Cherokee coun- ty's energetic and successful Home Demonstration agent, will leave Gaffney tomorrow for her home in Breezewood, Greenwood county, where she will spend the Christmas holidays with relatives.

Miss Barratt will go to Winthrop College after the holldays, instructions from the Federal Government, to spend the month of January in the further study of Home Demonstration work. All the numerous county agents in the State will gather for this special study, which is an annual affair and a great aid to the young women. Home Demonstration work is proving of great benefit in Cherokee. Miss Barratt will return to her work here about February. When You Become a "Conscious" Reader of Advertising By J.

R. HAMILTON Former Advertising Manager of Wanamaker's, Philadelphia When you learn to read your advertising as you read your news, the cost of everything you wear or use is going to be lowered for you. you knew how much money it takes to If soak an idea into M.RS. C. E.

WATSON DIES. Was Prominent In Woman's Mission. ary Work In South Carolina. On last Friday afternoon while on her way to teach a Bible Class, Mrs. C.

E. Watson, who was the efficient State Superintendent of the Woman's Missionary Union work in South Carolina, was taken seriously ill with dilation of the heart, and died in a few hours at her home in Greenville. She was unconscious nearly all the time after she was taken; but even while delirious she was talking of Jesus and His crowns of glory. When her son, Will Watson, and his wife reached her she recognized them and smiled and said, "Lula, Jesus is calling She had longed and prayed to die in the Master's and what better service could she render than to teach a Bible class? She was such a splendid Bible student and could make the word so plain. She It actually takes as long as two was giving her whole time in the seryears sometimes to get you to vice of Jesus.

She not think and say a certain word. all day but only worked many nights were It's like teaching a baby to talk. spent in service. Nearly all of last Thursday was spetn writing Every known trick of psychology is brought to bear on the history of her church, Pendleton you. Street.

Advertisers have even been known to print their Dr. Hann, her advertisement pastor, conducted upside down, hoping, perhaps, that if you had to stand the funeral services Sunday at 3:30 on your P. M. He took one of her favorite it you might remember what they say. verses, a mystical passage: "Belovhead to read And what you so often refuse to receive it ed, now are we the sons of God, and with your will the doth not appear what we shall be; camera of your eye records in spite of you.

So that of what but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like him; for we you buy through advertising whether you know it or not. shall see Him as He you buy John 3: 2, And yet, in the face of all this, the as his text. He said so many good advertising method of things, but she well deserved every selling things is twenty times cheaper than other method word that was said. How much we known. shall miss her advice and any instruction.

She was always ready an dwilling to Think how much cheaper still it would be if help in any way the advancement of you would only His kingdom. your advertising consciously instead of buying through it as the read in spite of yourself. the western horizon her body hinds sun was sinking bewas slowly lowered into the grave to merchant who doesn't advertise hasn't even a chance await the resurrection morn. The The with the one who does. floral tribute was most beautiful.

Your eye is taking photographs time Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep, every you turn these From which none ever wakes to weep; pages. You couldn't get away from these advertisements if A calm and undisturbed repose, tried. Even the you Unbroken by the last of foes. man who claims not to see them at all is recording them all the time. Every merchant who here Asleep in Jesus! 0 how sweet appears is To be for such a slumber meet; telling you his story every day whether you know it or not.

With holy confidence to sing All That Death hath lost his venomed we are trying to do is to make you conscious readers of sting. advertising instead of subconscious readers. This i is being done Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest, equally for your benefit and for ours. Whose waking is supremely blest! No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour Every time you look for the advertising in this paper instead That manifests the Saviour's power. of making it look for you you bring down your cost of living, you increase the buying power of your money and you get a better quality for the price.

This is true because the men who advertise are always the best merchants. They are the ones who last. The flicker up for a little while and then go out. others That's the proof. On the other hand, every time we get a hundred more of our readers to turn each day with a conscious mind to the adver.

tising news as well as to the general news, we make this a better medium for our advertisers. We give them more for their money because we give them your will. 'And before we are through every subscriber we have will be reading his advertising consciously day by day---never fear. For this is another psychological law. STAR FARM NEWS.

Activities Of People In That Section Briefly Chronicled. Star Farm, Dec. morning the ground is covered with snowindeed it seems that winter is here. with his brother, Mr. R.

J. Sanders, of the Gowdeysville section. Invitations have been received here, which read: Mr. F. A.

Goforth requests the honor your presence at the marriage of his daughter Sarah Lillian Killing hogs and hunting is the or- to der of the day. I suppose visiting Mr. and moving will be the next things Wilkerson Morgan Jefferson at home on the program. Thursday evening, December the Prof. Frady gave an exhibition at twenty-first, one thousand nine Star Farm school house last Monday hundred and sixteen night which was very amusing to the at seven o'clock.

children. The Star Farm school will take a School at Star Farm was suspend- week's vacation for Christmas. ed last Friday on account of the There will be no Christmas tree at teacher, Miss Irene Foster, being ElBethel church this year but the sick. Christmas program, will be given by Mrs. J.

B. Phillips, who has been the children Friday at Star Farm sick for some time, is very much im- school. proved, we are glad to state. Wishing all a merry Christmas and Mrs. Tom Owensby visited her a happy New Year.

daughter, Mrs. J. F. Coyle, Saturday. Mae.

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Guyton had for their guests Sunday, Mr.

and Mrs. A Thankful Tenant. Charlie Dorman and children, of To The Gaffney Ledger: Cowpens. I wish you a merry Christmas and Mr. and Mrs.

F. S. Phillips spent a happy new year. The Ledger has Sunday with Mr. W.

E. Poole and been a friend of mine until few a family. months ago my subscription expired Mr. W. A.

Fort spent Saturday in and I did not renew it, but wish to Gaffney on business. renew it again. Mrs. D. B.

R. Patrick, of Steen I am living with Mr. Lee Little, a City, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. good man. All good men like to Claude Sanders.

have Xmas. Mr. Little did all he Miss Nannie could this year to help me get out last Saturday, Sparks had for her of debt and to help guest Miss Emma Kir- made me get along. I by, teacher of only a half crop this year. Mr.

Tommie Cethsemane, not get of debt, but if my school. did family good white friends will be have moved from this section to Dray- as good to tonville me as they have been, I will get out Mountain. in another year. Mrs. Chas.

Brown and children are visiting in Cowpens this week. Mr. W. D. Sparks, who is attending school at Sunnyside, spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs.

W. E. Sparks. Mr. and Mrs.

Douglas Wright, of Union, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kirby.

Messrs. Saul Camp and Travis Sparks, of the Camps Cross Roads section, spent Sunday night with Mr. H. J. Sparks.

Mrs. James Albright was a city visitor Saturday. Mr. Tom Sanders spent Sunday TILLMAN TO MAKE UNVEILING ADDRESS LOCAL D. A.

PLAN GRAND CELEBRATION. Colonel James Williams' Memorial Beautiful Design--Unveiling Completed In March. Sometime in March, 1917, the iel Morgan Chapter, Daughters the American Revolution, will the unveiling of their monument Col. James Williams, Revolutionary hero of the famous battle of Mountain in 1780, for the erection which a contract was let recently. This occasion will be one of really notable events in Gaffney's history.

In response to an invitation tended him last week by the local A. Hon. Henry Tillman, Greenwood, who is a son of Senator B. R. Tillman, has agreed to the memorial address of the occasion.

An effort will be made to have ator Tillman here for the unveiling also. It was through the personal forts of Senator Tillman that brass cannon and balls for the morial were secured. The memorial which has been ned 'decided beautiful design, having been upon by the monument committee: Mrs. Pratt Pierson, chairman; Mrs. B.

R. Brown, W. H. Smith, Mrs. J.

H. Witherspoon, Miss Ray Macomson, and Miss Jessie Lipscomb, after several months careful deliberation. It will be six feet five inches long, three feet four inches wide, at base, and four feet four inches high, granite. One twelve-pounder brass mountain howitzer will be mounted each end and a pyramid of forty balls will be placed between the guns. A beautiful design tablet of bronze, containing the insignia of the D.

will adorn the side of the memoand will also have the James Williams, hero the battle of Kings Mountain upon it, with "Erected by DanMorgan Chapter, 1917," following. The value of the memowhen completed will be more $500.00. The monument committee of the Daniel Morgan Chapter has labored great and untiring efforts for erection of this monument to Colonel Williams since the bones of gallant solider were laid to rest on Carnegie library grounds two years ago. These ladies deserve special honor and praise for their excellent services in "finding the way" to build the memorial. Mrs.

Pratt Pierson, the chairman, has worked with unceasing zeal since the project was launched, having seen Senator Tillman personally while in Washington last spring and gained his efforts in securing the cannon desired. for the monument. It is planned to have Mrs. Calhoun, the State Regent of South Carolina D. A.

in Gaffney for the unveiling, and promient workers in the organization." In Prof. James Harvey Witherspoon, Gaffney has a citizen who is a direct descendent of Colonel Williams, and he will probably have a prominent part in the unveiling. Elaborate plans being made for the celebration will be announced as completed. The memorial will be placed immediately over the grave on the Carnegie library grounds where the bones of Colonel Williams lie buried, and will face Limestone street. Just as soon after completion of the monument as is practicable, the unveiling and celebration of the event will take place.

Many people from various sections of South Carolina are expected in Gaffney for the unveiling of the memorial to Colonel Williams. Blacksburg News. Blacksburg News. Blacksburg, Dec. Maids and Matrons Club held its regular meeting at the home of Miss Mary Whisonant, on Saturday afternoon, December 14th.

A splendid program for the Christmas season was arranged, from the beautiful Christmas story, "The Otherwise Man," by Henry Van Dyke. The program follows: Introduction to the story, Mrs. J. F. Jones.

The Sign in the Sky, Miss Whisonant. By the Waters of Babylon, Miss Ellie Turner. For Sake of a Little Child, Mrs. Cooksey. In the Hidden Way of Sorrow; a Pearl of Great Price, Mrs.

Jones. Lieberstraume- -No. 3-Liszt, Mrs. Montgomery. A social hour followed the program during which a delicious luncheon, was served.

Assisted by Misses Gaines and Goforth. The invited guest fos the afternoon were: Mrs. P. B. Whisonant, Miss Kate Traywick and Miss Annie Vest.

Miss Avis Dempsey spent Sunday Kings Mountain, N. C. Mr. Tom Peek, of Columbia, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Mattie Peek.

Mr. Manley Moorhead, of Furman University, is spending the Christholidays with his parents, Mr. Mrs. W. J.

Moorhead. Miss Lucile Gaines spent the weekin town with her mother. of When Danof hold to Kings of the exD. of deliver Sen- efthe me- plan- Mrs. of the A.

In Addie Brown. December 18th 1916. NEWS FROM BUTLERS. Chesnee Man Cruelly Murders Wife Then Shoots Self. Butlers, Dec.

people of this section are making preparations for the Christmas holidays. Although the weather is cold now, we Misses" may Mary change Kerr soon. and Mabelle Jones, accompanied by Mr. Oscar Daniel, shopped in Spartanburg last Saturday. Mr.

Arthur Martin, of Chesnee, killed himself and wife last week. He shot his wife five times with a pistol and once with a shot gun and shot himself once with a gun. The cause for the deed is unknown. Mr. Alfred Blanton moved to this section last week.

We are glad to welcome him in our community. Mr. and Mrs. D. L.

Blackwood ited Mr. S. H. Horn and family Sunday. Mr.

Dolar Porter, of Spartanburg, is visiting in this section. Perhaps he will stay until after the holidays are over. Mr. Landrum Sellars, of Gaffney, was a visitor in this section Sunday. We are always glad to welcome him at Mt.

Olive Sunday school, where he was a regular student before m'oving to Gaffney a short time ago. We were glad to have several other visitors with us in Sunday school last Sunday and hope they will come back again. Miss Eula Sellars, of the Mountain View section, suffered a very frightful accident last Sunday morning while standing before the grate in her home. Her clothing caught fire and but for the hurried assistance of several friends in the room at the time, who put out the flames, she would have been, seriously burned. The teachers the Butler school are planning to give their pupils a Christmas tree Friday afternoon and we hope it will be an enjoyable event to both teachers and pupils.

Mary. Sophie Gaffney Dead. Sophie Gaffney, one of the best known colored women of this city, died on Wednesday, morning of last week after illness. Sophie was thirty ty-eight years of age. She had lived with the family of the late Capt.

R. M. Gaffney ever since childhood and had assisted in rearing Capt. Gaffney's children and grandchildren. She was faithful nurse, a loyal servant, and a modest and virtuous woman.

Some months ago she was taken ill, so ill that she could not attend to her usual duties, so her employers rented her house, hired a nurse, and gave her possible attention. But nothing earthly hands could do stayed the hand of Death. The funeral took place last Thursday and was attended by a large number of the children of Gaffney and other white friends. The service was conducted by Rev. G.

C. Leonard, of the Buford Street M. E. Church, and was most impressive and appropriate. The interment was in the Gaffney plot in Oakland cemetery.

than with the the the (Copyrighted.) G. S. Smith. Wilkins Kirby. On Wednesday evening.

December 20th, Miss Edna Wilkins Mr. Alonzo Kirby, both of the Sarratts section of Cherokee county, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. The ceremony was performed at then parsonage by Rev. R. L.

Keaton. The newly wedded pair left on a trip to Spartanburg. After Christmas they will return to this county and make their home near the city..