f 0. E. WILKINS fi BRO. 4 Dress Fabrics. New spring wool goods in %! % . novelweaves for early spring dresses and waists. Tiling of it, all wool :i6-inch at 2oc. .Light mohairs, full yard wide in dainty patterns, 35c Black Dress Goods. This is a strong line in our store. We are agents for the ■celebratedGold Medal Black. Every yard has a full guarantee ;i'< to quality and color, price Nftc. to $1.50 per yard. When you buy a black dress you want 'it black and want it to remain so. Clothing. THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C-, MARCH 31, 18»8. 7 fO. E. WILKINS & BR0.4- U f0. E. WILKINS & BRO.4 Shoes. ? MDlinery. Our new spring pattern bats and bonnets, fashioned jtfter the latest foreign and do mestic styles ready for inspec tion on and after March 31st. Full assortments of veilings, ribbons, flowers,sailors and mil- Hew Arrivals every few days in wash •* goods. We intend keeping up the strongest line in this depart ment to be found in Cherokee 4■unh. Have you bought that new spring suit? If not then do not fail to come and look through our stock. The very neatest things to be found, well made up, and. above all, they fit. We have cheap suits; yes, $4, $5, $0.50 and $7.50 suits, but our pride begins with our $ in hair cutting. Theseand all other new and up-to-date matters pertaining to the tonsorial art you will ♦ ♦ find at the City Barber Shop. A full ? line of toilet articles, also agent for ♦ Koch’s quinine tonic for the hair. 0 0-00000 0000000000 *-¥0-00 0 00 0-000-0 0 000-0 o. ♦ t : ♦ ♦ ♦ : ♦ ♦ ♦ \ i 4 y \ ♦ i Proprietor, N‘ \t to Goudeloek’s. Ladies Don’t Fail To see our line of Easter hats. They are beauties and we will save you from 20 to 50 per cent, on them. Be sure to see them. W. 0. LIPSCOMB a BRO. Tea Growing in Gaffney. In the year 1874 Mr. ami Mrs. Til- man R. (iaines founded their nice residence on Limestone avenue, which stands at the spreading oak just above the Presbyterian church. That year Mrs. (iaines planted in the garden a Chinese tea plant, sent to her from the agricultural department at Washington, which plant she has carefully watched all these years The tea bush grew flourishing in that garden until last week. J)r. C. M. Littlejohn having bought this pretty cottage, moved in last week. Desir ing to build a small cottage on the rear of the lot he took the site at the place where the tea tree grew. The builders cut down the strange tree, not knowing its nature and history, hut they sent word to Mrs. Caines that she could have the branches ami «tnmp. The brnnf'hes were pothered up into a uuudic ut lUO nice twigs, that grew from the same roots, about six feet high. The bunch was about five feet in diameter. The stump was taken up and it and the roll of branches were taken to Mrs. Gaines' new dwelling, where she now lives, and she has buried the stump in the yard. This stump weighed about 100 lbs. and the limbs about, as much. This genuine Chinese tea bush was twenty years old and it had the assurance of an ag* of fifty years. The Lkdgkk has in the office one of the branches with its leaves on it, and Mrs. Gaines left a sample of the cured tea leaves. This shows what tea raising might do in our section of the South. Sports in Blacksburg. Two baseball teams have already been organized, with Dr. Thornton as president, and L. It. Stutts and Tom Mays as eaptainn. The boys are practicing daily and before long they propose to meet any and all home teams within twenty-five miles distant. The Gaffney boys should get to work and ho aide to meet the boys across the Broad. A series of gentlemanly games helweeu the capitol of Cherokee and our sister city would prove interesting and serve to strengthen the ties of friend ship already existing and bring us closer together. Let us have them by all means. Big Guns. Uig guns continue to pass nearly every day going South. An tin. tuerise one passed through Monday. A bystander remarked that, “Mc Kinley needen’t back with such tools as, that." Improved Farming. There has been a marked improve ment in the method of farming in tins section in the last few years. The farms in many places are more productive and are being rapidly built up to a paying state of fertility. Much of this improved condition is due to the farms being terraced. The first terracing in this section, if we are not misinformed, was done by .1. V. Surratt only a few years ago. Other farmers soon begun to experi ment with terraces till now an un terraced farm is not often found. Many old washed fields have been restored to their former fertility, and in many instances are more product ive than was their virgin soil. With properly made terraces the land ceases to wash, thus saving to the owner eighty per cent of its pro ducing power* which had formerly Occii consumed m making one crop. The results are proving satisfactory and the longer terracing is done the better it will be done, and our lands will increase in value and product iveness. . -*♦*- - One of Two Ways. Tic- itlitiUlcr u :i* created for one purpoM-. naniHy. a rrct-uiai-h- for tlir tirin'-, and a*- fiin-li ii !•» noi (falilc to any form of dl»ca><- except liy out of two way- The llrst way i* from Imperfect notion of the kidneys. The second way Is from careless local 1 real no-nt of ot her disease* mikk r.vusr. t'ldu-ill liy urine from unhealthy kidneys | Is the eliief cause of bladder Irnuhles. So ■ the wouih. like t hi-hladile:. was created lor | one purpose, and If not doctored too much Is ] not flume to weakness or disease, except in ' rare cases It i.- situated len-k of and very J close to the bladder, therefore any pain. ■ disease o.' liicnaveii. i-:e lou »e I cd |d of three two eetit stamps to cover eost I of post n.-o on the IhiI I h*. M<-u I Ion 'I'll K I.KP- | >ti u and send yur address to In. Kilmer \ t'o lllMMliHmion N Y The prottrli tors of Ibis paper auaianlee the genufuvuess of I Ids ofTer. - MS • — Ar# You U'< nh t VYeak mi's-, luiiuifi nta Itself in tli* „f •mldtliui ami milling laun-s. The Mood is WHlery ; (he !l»xtie« arc wasting the dour ;» lieing iiihuiisI lor disease. A hoiih-ol Urowus' Imi I’ftUrs lulian In (line will r'-sfor,. ymir •Ireiifflh, •onilir your nr;vM, make your IdiMsl rlnh and red. Do you more gmtd f Itwn an si penal v«* ipeuhil nnirxe ofiiiedleW llrowfia' Iron Hitter* is sold by ail dealua. Furniture, Buggies, Wagons, Harness TTii line. When it come- to harne-s, we arc t!ic people. It you ha 1 your harness made to your order ii couldn't please you any Better than ours, for we have all of ours made to our order, and seven years in the Business should give u- a knowledge of how it should he made. Be sirre to see thi- line. As long as you are alive N on dou t want to hear anything about eoflins, burial rob Are., hut if you should die you would need them, so we wili sav just here that we are prepared to furnish anything in this lim* from the eheapesi coffin to the mo.st e\pe:t ive easkut. Call on us. Carroll, Carpenter & Humphries, FURNITURE DEALERS. M ^ . -’k ■timjfc-’VjL*