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i GAFFNEY, S. C.
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GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1897.
$LOQ A YEAH.
ETCHINGS FROM ETTA JANE.
THE SAGE OF LOWER CHERO- j
KEE SEICD3 THE NEWS.
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An Old Confederate Soldier Who is Fall
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of Historic Reminiscences.
Few F:sfc Caught Out
of the Broad.
(Com spendence of The Lodger.)
Etta Jam;, <>ct. 11.—The ruin this
morning is a backset to cotton pick
ing. More than half of the crop is
open in the field if picked out. The
crop is short.
Today Miss Jessie Strain celebrates
her 13th birthday.
Some weeks ago it wag suggested
• that a teachers’ column be opened in
“Thk Leixjkr" for the advancement
of the eduritiona! interest of our
county—for the benefit of the girls
and boys who have the means to ed
ucate themselves, and who will take
advantage of the help such a column
would give tr.em to obtain an educa
tion. It is my honest opinion (hat
through a medium of this kind the j
very best talent within the radius o ;
Tul Lej-igluV circulation would he :
concentrated, and open up wonderful 1
possibilities for those who might take !
advantage of its help.
Ther ‘ is many an Isaac Newton.
Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun,
Daniel Webster, T. J)e Witt TaImage
or Charles U. Spurgeon to he found
in Cherokee county if only such a
missionary as the teacher’s column
could be sent out to hunt them up.
Through .lie I'nion Times I learn
that Dr. Jerome 1*. Miller died a few
days ago at Pea Ridge.
We have- a fine season on turnips
and potatoes now.
The Salem Sunday School will ob
serve its regular Thanksgiving exer
cises on the 2oth of November. A
collection for the Thornwell orphan
age will be taken up on that day and
alLfpends of that institution are in-
vff'd to attend.
II. B. McDaniel, of
had u very sick
It is getting better
Mr. and Mrs.
ickory Grove
child last week,
now.
Mr. JohnT. Whitesides, of Hickory
Grove, one of Western York’s best
men, is an old confederate soldier
full of historic reminiscences. He
gave me u history of nis prison life
while confined at Harts Island, New
York, in 18<io, just after the surren
der, It was tlie custom of the prison
authorities to ship a few hundred
prisoners over into the city and keep
them in the prison barracks until ar
rangements could be made for trans-
portiiig them (south. It happened
that he and R. G. Whitesides of com
pany A 12th Regiment got into
the good graces of the officer in com
mand of the barracks, and he gave
them “city privileges”—a right to go
out in the city and look around, only
requiring them to report at his head
quarters every morning, which they
did. One day as they were walking
along one of tho fashionable thor
oughfares of the city they espied two
ladies following after them walking
very briskly. He said to ,“Rufe”
that those ladies were trying to over
take them. Rufe told him they
were not. for a New York lady would
not speak to them—Southern rebels.
However they allowed them to over
take them and in passing one of the
ladies handed him thirty-live cents
nnd told him to get them a drink if
they wanted it.
One of my neighbors in speaking of
another the other day said, that if he
took colic it would kill him for he
was so hide bound his skin wouldn’t
expand a particle.
Ham Lee, whose misfortune was
mentioned in my last letter, is better.
He run bis ferry boat last week with
only one hand.
Mr. T. Robbs, of Gaffney, was in
this section last Thursday on busi
ness.
I visited friends in Western York
last week. Am always glad to meet
with them.
Krody’s travelling show exhibited
at Hopewell school house last Fiiduy
night.
In the burning of his house on
Monday morning of lust week, Mr.
John Hprouse’s family lost nearly
every article of their clothing, as
well as all their household and kitch
en furniture. To this may be added
his seed wheat and oats and ail his
entire stock of plow tools which were
under the house. The loss was us
complete us it well could be. Ills
family barely escaped with their
Jives. If it could be positively as-
cert-lned that it was the work of an
Incendiary and the scoundrel could
be caught up frith there would be no
use trying to prevent a first class
lynching in this community.
Jeff Blackwell has laid up a line
aupftly of hay for winter use. He
expect# to run a market, garden and
truof farm near Gaffney next year,
I lhaven’t heard of a fish being
caught out of Broad river this year
For either pleasure or profit Ashing
with us is a thing of the past. I
hope that Col. Ham .Tclleries and
others who have them will conclude
to stock th3 river next spring. He
could spare several thousand out of
his pond and not miss them. I sec
no reason why they would not raise
there.
Mr. Meek Parker, of Gaffney, was
in this section last week fixing
clocks. He fully understands his
business. When he does a.job it
stands. Everybody likes Meek.
Home housewives are having much
trouble, to say nothing of Joss by
the chicken cholera. It has been
somewhere in this neighborhood all
year, and still it goes on, and kho
fatter the fowls the n!bre fatal it
seems to be. v
A laborer agreed to thresh HI days
for a farmer, on the condition that he
would give him 1 grain of wheat for
the first day’s labor, 2 grains for the
second, and double each succeeding
day: What number of bushels
would he reeeieve, supposing a pint
to contain 7680 grains; and what
number of ships, eacli carrying 1000
tons burden, might be loaded, allow
ing 40 bushels to a ton? Boys and
girls send me your answers and 1
will publish your names.
From Win. Moore, tiie deaf mute,
of which something was said in this
correspondence some time ago, 1
have received a long and interesting
letter giving an account of his travel
from here to Elberton. Ga. lie also
sent me u number of newspaper clip
pings which I highly appreciate.
11-seems that the abnormal condi
tion of our State politics is such that
the virtues will be called upon next
year to decide between prohibition
and anti-prohibition in order to solve
the liquor problem. Politicians
might as well begin now to set their
sails. We hope, however, that at the
next meeting the Legislature will be
able to do something and avert any
further trouble and discord arising
from the* vexed question.
Infidelity, and in fidelity are dis
tinctive terms with exactly opposite
meaning.
The man who lias a high strung
brainless wife is an object of pity.
It is said that Xanthippi tiie wife of
Hocrutes was endeared to him only
on account of hie children. Domestic
happiness is a failure under such
circumstances.
The sickness reported last week is
generally abating.
Hum Htrain and Asa Blackwell
went over into York county on a visit
last Saturday evening.
Home of our people attended the
show at Gaffney last Thursday and
speak highly of it.
The bridge at Thompson's nill
should have attention at once, as it
has swagged in the middle and the
camber is out of it.
The low price of cotton compared
with the short crop is very discour
aging to tho farmers. The season
for resolves is upon us and it is no
new* thing to hear people say they
will plant less cotton next year. But
this is all taffy. There is no depen
dence to be placed in such resolu
tions. The lower it gets the more
the farmers try to raise, it seems.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes, visited
relatives at Hharon last Haturday.
In getting tiie opinions of different
parties 1 find that nearly all who
have read Tm: Ledgkr speak in high
est terms of it as a paper of fairness
and one that*, can be depended upon
when it asserts anything to be the
truth. This is saying a good deal for
our county paper, but the truth must
be told.
Fagan Martin says that the old
flint and steel musket with which
a private by tiie name of Whitner
killed Major Furgerson at the battle
of King’s Mountain is still in the
possession of the Whitner family on
tiie South Fork of the Catawba in
Lincoln county, N. C., within fifteen
miles of where lie was horn.
There will be preaching at Abing
don creek next Habbath by tiie pastor.
Rev. Mr. Thomasson.
It is about time our Hunday School
Convention would call its meeting.
Isn’t it?
A few years ago it was said that
Charlotte, N. C. was the only city in
the United States completely sur
rounded by railrosds. Gaffney City
can heat that, for withiq a very
short lime it will be cut in two length
wise by two of the greatest competing
systems of the Houth which must
necessarily give it us<cheap if not
the cheapest transportation rates
either of these companies can afford.
The latter rail is on top.
, Our sweet potatoes are fine, al
though the dry weather for the last
six weeks has greatly Hindered their
growth.
Tiie decimal point in the quotient
is found by pointing off from . the
right hand as many places for deci
mals as the number of decimal
places in the dividend exceed those
in the divisor. If they are not us
many, supply the deficiency by pre
fixing ciphers. J. L. h.
Croup Quickly Cured.
Moi'ntain UlrKN, Ark.—Our chil
dren were suffering with croup when
we received a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy. It afforded almost
Instant relief.—F. A. Thountoh.
Thli celebrated remedy li for sale by
the DuPre Drug Co.
JAMES BRADFORD JONES.
THE FIRST TREASURER OF
CHEROKEE COUKTY.
Born and Reared in this Section of
Old Spartanburg—A Business
. Capacity of Note for a
Man of H:s Age.
James 1 Bradford Jones was born
about five miles north of Gaffney, in
the Grassy Pond neighborhood, June
3rd 1864, and is therefore a little
more than thirty-three years old.
His parents were Lewis and Jemima
Jones, who were rearedin that neigh
borhood. Lewis Jones, the father of
the subject of this sketch never
reached home after the war, but it is
supposed became a victim to yellow
jaundice, with which he was afflicted
at tho close. Mrs. Jemima Jones,
tiie mother, still resides on the old
home place and is quite hale and
hearty at the age of seventy.
James is the youngest of a family
of ten—four boys and six girls, one
of the latter being dead. James at
tended the country schools of his
neighborhood and worked on the farm
until he reached the age of seventeen,
when he went to Grover to attend
immediately on receipt of it Mr.
Jones took charge. He has filled the
position with signal ability and we
venture the assertion that no county
in the State has a more efficient and
courteous treasurer than has Chero
kee in the person of James Bradford
Jones.
Personally Mr. Jones is a charming
fellow. He possesses a warm heart
and a willing hand. He is alike
courteous to prince or pauper and no
one, no matter how humble, ever
approaches Treasurer Jones on
county matters that they do not re
ceive the same kind of treatment as
does the most wealthy,
Mr. Jones has rei-antly taken unto
himself a wife, going over into the
Tar Heel Htute and taking for a bet
ter-half om* of Lincoln county's most
estimable young ladles. They are
now keeping house in his pretty little
cottage on Depot street and Gaffney
is proud to number them among her
citizenship.
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FLAW PICKER’S TROUBLES.
THE BACHELOR OF BUFFALO
THE VICTIM OF AN UNHAPPY
MEDIUM.
says about them, but still there is
one thing that can’t be denied, viz:
that they are above the average
of mankind in point of intelligence
in us
never rush
tre ul—into
much as unlike foois ihey
in where unguis fe;-r to
this muntrimoniul ul-
are
Some People Do Not Like His Plain
Manner of Writing and
Getting After Him—Th
Man m the Moon.
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JAMKS HUADKOHI) JOXKS.
school. He afterwards went to
Blacksburg and attended school, then
was a pupil of Prof. W. F, McArthur
and afterwards fo Profs. Dargan and
Harratt, who were tho principals of
the Gaffney High Hchool at that
time. From 1881 to 188!! James was
engaged in teaching school, attending
school and keeping books for his
brother-in-law,* R, A. Westbrook,
who was merchandising at Blacks
burg. Desiring to better fit himself
for the battle of life young Jones,
together with a number of ambitious
young men in this neighborhood,
went to Lexington, Ky., to attend a
business college. After graduating
and receiving two diplomas—one of
honor and the other for proficiency—
he returned to Houth Carolina and
engaged in teaching school at Pleas
ant Grove, Buffalo and Pine Grove,
In the meantime he did book-keeping
for Mr. Westbrooks. In the fall of
1892 he also kept books for 1). D.
Gaston, who was at that time doing
a general mt ,'chandise business. In
1893 when J. J. Magnes# moved to
Hpartunburg he engaged young Jones
to look after his large farm and store
at Grassy Pond. In the fall of 1894
Carroll <k Carpenter employed Mr.
Jones nod he remained with them
until January, 1867. when ho resign
ed in order to move to Gaffney, Car-
roll & Carpenter having in the mean
time made him manager of their
store at Grassy Pond.
Mr. Jones was a new county man
from the start and labored faithfully
for the cause. After the legislature
had granted the new county and the
Governor had ordered the election of
officers, the friends of J. B. Jones
prevailed upon him to allow his name
to be put forward for the position of
Treasurer. Three days after Mr.
Jones was approached on the subject
he agreed to make the race. This
was but eighteen days before the
election and his opponent in the race
had been announced about two weeks’
and had a magnificent start in the
ruje. That his opponent was a ca
pable and clean man no one would
deny. He had been reared in this
section and was for many years en
gaged in tt)e mercantile business and
no one has over been found who had
the hardihood to say one word against
him. It was a pretty race.
‘ During the campaign the candi
dates were on the beat of terms and
it was only after the ballots had
been counted that It was found that
J. B. Jones had won over J, V. Harratt
but by the small margin ofJ*about
three hundred votes lu the entire
county.
Governor Ellerbe signed Mr. Jones’
commission on the 19th of April and*
things to
He Has Been Forced to Join Job in HLs
Bewailments.
.■Correspondence of The Ledger.)
I'lTLU CoAI.JX’ GjIOKNO, Oct. 11.—
Some how or nother I think some- j
times that I am afflicted with Halb; J
(Scribbler’s wife) disease—the ups i
and downs, but my ups an downs {
puts me awfully in the mind of tho
hoppy-toad in the well—have the ups
two feet of a day an the downs four
feet of a night. A little down
atnountH to a treuvnuous big thing
but you may faithfully climb ever so
far an you can’t hardly tell it.
It has been allotted to me to lay
a^ide my daily avocation, from
whence the broad of life comest, up.
jine in with Job’s bewailments. True,
I’m not afflicted with sores as I know
of but wherein there’s no sore there’s
a hundred an one other
make my troubles great.
First, I’m homeiast—too dratted
weak an no count to leave tne house,
an tooalliired tired of the bed to lay
me down, but all this is us -nothing
an vanisheth when the whole team of
little Pickers com. s rushin’, tearin’,
atom pin/ squallin’ an straddle of
sticks for horses, through the room
where I uni a tryin’ to find rest an
recreation. They can actually
stump and bump the headache into
man to whom pain is a stranger an i
do raley bleeve moreover that they
could shatter the nerves of Humpson
ef he was buck here in the fiesh. An
as far us women are conceruo'l 1
don’t raley know hut I guesa there
ain’t very mutch difference between
Mrs. Picker, Granny an Job's wife
since most all women have pritcy
mutch the same traits. Mrs. Picker
ain’t told me to cuss God or die yit
but it’s no tellin’ what she’s thought
indurin’ the run of past time. I be
lieve I’ve succeeded in making her
think that I’m the biggest fool in
this round created world of sin an
sorrow an that ef I should accidentally
drap off as it were that no other mor
tal man would be as big a fool as me
an consequentially she would haf to
remain a widder.
That thar feller ycu call Scribbler
aint no fool by a whole passei, 1 don't
care bow he looks. Any man is lia
ble to buy a boss that will, after a
time, eventually take the swinney,
botts, colic, or something else that
will make him a burden to his owner,
an so it is with a woman—any man is
liable to git a woman on his hands
that is liable to take the svfellin’ git
fat. or sick, or somethin’ else, that
will make her a burden on his hands,
I don’t care how much sense he’s got,
an since Hcribblor’s wife wasn’t fat
when he married her 1 don't think
any reflections should be cast on his
good, back-woods boss sense, or at
least no further than the murryin’ is
concerned.
There was one time indurin’ my
life that I thought I didn’t need a
thing in this world of trials <xnd
tribulations but a wife, but e’er this
i have learned that 1 need everything
else in this vain and Heelin’ world
but a wife, but Ole Flaw is a man of
nerve an backbone, an ef he makes a
bad trade he sticks the tighter to it,
an right here what Banjer Lu said
comes vividly before me—that love
tore down mountains an leveled up
low places an made ole courtship
easy sailin’ for a man.
Now, In regards to these rithmetica,
as Jim Burnett la wont to say. I
thought, way back yander many
years ago, that that gal which I now
call Mrs. Picker, was the onliest gal
that was ever made for calloo an rib
bons an various other sundry fix-
ments, but wherein as 1 have afore
said, I see now where I could have
got along elsewise. But she aint
never got too fat yit and alius heats
bllln water fer the travellers an
whenever an opportunity presents it
self she Is alius ready to do my bid-
din’ or to pieaae me in any wsy she
can, an I don’t bleeve 1 could have
found a better wife in this world, but
yet, I say I could have managed
some way without her. But, honest
ly, I would rather live In that coun
try where powder houaea are eo scarce
as to live with some women I have
seen In mj day tod flneratlon.
Flaw Pici ek.
(Correspondence of The ledger.)
Bui/ alo, Oct. 11.—The health of
this section i:» very good. When
people are well they are self wiiled,
and disobey the Lord and abuse the
doctors but when they get sick they
pray for mercy and medicine. What
strange manner of creatures we are,
anyway!
It is said that a young man of this
community some time ago, ran his
mule almost,to death going for a
doctor. It was his first trip. But
now he smiles from ear to ear and
sings “itock-a-bye baby" because he
ffs called papa. That is going to be the
case of some more young feiloAS be
fore long.
A few of our citizens went over to
the metropolis to see the show last
Thursday, but a majority of them
saw a greater curiosity than John
Robinson’s circus. It was the man
in the moon. Tradition has it that
he was put there .or burning brush
on Hunday. When all the Habbath
breakers get there wo will have a full
moon ail the time.
A prominent mau of Gaffney comes
over here nearly every Sunday to
supervise his plantation. He is an
other man going to the moon.
One of my host neighbors is said to
be a relative of Jessie James, the noted
out-law, but, unlike Jessie, he is a
peaceable and law-abiding citizen.
How often do wo seo people of tho
same blood us opposite to each other
in their natures, us tho North and
Houth poles? Nature, like people, is
cranky and jumps from one extreme
to tho other. Here is an example.
In Father Bachelor’s family thero
were only two children, and tho
other one was a girl. From her child
hood she was industrious and relig
ious, but I have always been regarded
as the black sheep. Every family is
said to have a black sheep, or one
member that does more mischief than
all tiie others combined.
The very best of people have kin
folks of whom they are ashamed, and
everybody knows of somo one else
whom they think are their inferiors.
Helf-conceitedness, like Habbath
breaking, may land a lot of u? up in
the moon. We’ll be so little up
there that people down here wont
see us at all.
People are about through making
mpluses. The yield from sugar cunc
was very good. One of our well-to-do
fanners reduced the toll on his cane
mill from the tenth to the twentieth
gallon—an example well worthy of
imitation, especially by deacons of
the church that own cane mills or
any other kinds of machinery. If
they arc shining lights for the merci
ful Nrzurene they ought to show
mercy to his poor subjects.
Wnether there is any combine be
tween cotton mill owners and buyers
to keep the price of cotton down I
mn unable to say, but there are good
reasons to believe there were a com
bine between some guano com
panies last spring to swindle the
farmers. In Blacksburg an amen
corner agent sold two distinct
kinds of guano both madu by the
same company in Baltimore, under
the same brand. One kind was very
inferior to the other but was mixed in
the car so that the farmers would get
sacks of both kinds in taking it out.
Nobody suspected that they were
being thus swindled until they began
putting it in their fields. A guano
drummer gave himself away confiden
tially that he sold two hundred tons
In Gaffney, under precisely the same
circumstances. I make mention of
this fact in order to give the fanners
ample time to protect themselves
against such a swindle agu'n next
year. Why not patronize a home
industry. We have u large factory
in Cherokee county with a reliable
man at its head. Why can’t our
farmers combine and make some ur-
ragements to get exactly tho quality
of guano they bargain for.
There are some people very much
imbittered against me for telling so
much naked truth in uy letters.
Several people have been talking to
me about it, and all admit that it
is the truth that always hurts. I
can’t read a chapter In the Bible
without finding something that hurts
me, but I don’t fall out with the Lord
about It. If people want to get mad
with me fur telling the truth let
them put their finger lu ffifti/r and
take it out and look for the hol^, and
they will have an Idea how this
World could get along withomt them
—just as though they had never
lived.
Don’t Mn. Waters give poor old
bachelon “cold comfort.’* But
there Is a world of truth in what she
lia-ice with some old blue hen s chick.
As a general tiunj, bachelors v.hoare
poor and homely and work to make
an honest living and who keep them
selves within the bounds of common
decency, can find but little room
in society. But there are sometimes
exceptions to rules, and it has been
my observation tlmt old bachelors
with plenty of money and a smuttv
character cun always swim in the
so called “bon ton" society. Even
young ladies will sometimes snub
respectable young men for their cop-
pany. Mrs. Waters what do you
think of this fashionable society?
Young ladies who look with scorn
and contempt upon their less for
tunate eiisters will take some
old smutty fellow by the arm and
unblushingly walk right up into
God s sanctuary with him. D > they
deserve any more r sped than their
company? What do you think of
these double faced ladies one so of
ten meets, who always meet people
with u pleasant smile, and yet they
will pour out all the venom of their
nature upon their best friends when
out of thyir presence. In take the
general nature of a large majority of
women under careful consideration
is there much encouragement fora
man to enter the realms of matri
monial bliss or is there really any
bliss in matrimony at all? Is there
not a good many ups and downs,
trials and tribulations for every un
fortunate man that enters into mat
rimony? It has been my unhappy
lot to no the medium through which
a poor dead woman took revenge
upon the head of her treacherous
lover, hence I am dubious of all wo
mankind either dead or alive.
Bachelor.
The Circus.
The John Robinson and Franklin
Brothers shows were in the city
Thursday and give two performances
one in the afternoon and the other at
night. The afternoon audience nearly
filled the large tents. The perform
ance was good, as was also the menag
erie but did not come up to tiie per
formance of the Walter L. Main
show last year. It was a clean show,
however, and everything was con
ducted in a genteel, business-like
manner. There was nu gambling or
swindling of any kind and the people,
as a general rule, seemed well pleased
with the exhibition.
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Smothered in Cotton.
Frank, the thr%e year old son of
Mr.and Mrs.J. A. Brown, of Ravenna,
had the misfortune to lose his life a
week ago yesterday by being smoth
ered to death. The little fellow waa
playing in a lot of cotton and waa
digging a tunnel when the cotton
caved in on him and smothered him
to death. Tho remains were interred
Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Brown
have the sympathy of a largo num
ber of friends.
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Colored Folk’s Day.
On Thursday Oct. 2lst the colored
people will own the town. On that
day a colored excursion from Lancas
ter will be in the city over the O. R.
& 0. . The colored people of Gaffney
are making preparations to give them
a royal reception and with that end
in view preparations are now -being
made to entertain the visitors.
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To Preach to the Soldiers.
Hubbuth evening at 7:30 o'clock
Rev. C. E. Robertson will preach a
special sermon to the Gaffney Light
Infantry at the Presbyterian church,
In the morning at 11 o’clock the
usual services will be held. Prayer
meeting to night at 7 :30 o’clock. A
cordial invitation is extended to the
public to attend these services.
Rain.
The long dry spell is past and line
rains have fallen. Notwithstanding
there has been some damage to the
already short cotton crop our people
welcome the ruin.
Catarrh Cured.
No remedy is us effectual in eradi
cating and eurin" Catarrh as Botan
ic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It puri
fies and enriches the bloo^, elimi
nates microbes, bacteria, etc., and
builds up the system from the first
dose. Thousands of cases of catarrh
have been cured by its magic power.
For all blood and skin diseases, it
has no equal. Buy the old reliable
and long tasted remedy, and don’t
throw yo.ur money away on substitu
tes, palmed off as “just as good."
Buy the old’ reliable Botanic Blood
Balm. Price $1.00 per large bottle.
BAYS IT IK ULOHIOrg.
I earn.oi refrain from telling you
what a glorious medicine you have.
For two year* my mother had suf
fered with severs catarrh of the head
and ulcerated sore throat. Hhe re
sorted to various remedies without
effect, until she used Botanic Blood
Balm (B. B. B.) which cured her
catarrh, and healed her sore throat.
W. A. Peep*,
Fredonia, ^la.,
For sale by Cherokos Drug Co. *