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THE LETIGER: GAFFNEY, S. 0., APRIL 7, 1898. Rare For Spot Cash ^ $100 Bicycles for $40 and $50. 3 ^ 50 Bicycles for 25 and 30. 3 $2.50 Silver Knives, per set $ 1.30. $2.50 Silver Forks, per set $ 1.30. Silver Spoons and Sugar Shells at reduced prices.. 3 brass hoop, Red Cedar Buckets, formerly 50c, now 35c. 2 brass hoop, White Cedar Buckets, 1 5c. This offer good only for 30 days. What is Household? Well, we will tell you. It is just tho very best sewing machine made. We sell it and will save you at least 40 per cent, if you want to purchase a machine. We have them in several different styles— call and see them. Dry Goods. We now have as complete a line of Dry Goods as you will find in the city. A full line of Lawns, Nainsooks and Barred Muslins, Laces, Embroideries, Braids, Etc. Clothing. If you want a Handsome Suit of Clothes call on us. Shoes. This is our specialty. We have a complete line. All kinds and sizes. As cheap as you can buy them. Window Shades. ii gy gy We have just received another new line of Windo.v Shades in all the new styles and will sell them at rock- hot tom prices. See our new line of Trunks. They are up-to-date and cheap too. ‘Wo are still selling the best, Family Flour on earth for $2.2.") ‘per hundred. Good Green Coffee - - - 10 lbs for ♦ 1.00 ‘Good Roasted Coffee 11 lbs for $1.00 OCR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT. Brino us your chick ens and eggs. We will pay highest market price for them. Jake Carpenter Camp. At a meeting of .lake Carpenter Camp. U. C. V., held on Saturday the 4th inst., the following officers were elected to servo t a ensuing year: Moses Wood, commander; W. C. S. Wood, 1st lieute aV; 1. G. Sar- ratt, 2nd lieutenant; Thomproa Eu banks, 3rd liutenant; W. J. Austell, adjutant; James A. I’<ason, quarter master; C. T. bridges, sergeant ma jor; Dr. Chas. Sims, surgeon; Rev. Thomas Campbell, chaplain; X. Hlanton, treasurer; R. W. Allison, vidit;(> W. brown, color sergent; It. M. Jolly and J. F. Jamerson guards. D. A. Thomas declined reelection as adjutant, having been appointed adjutant of Cherokee regiment. Miss Mary brown, daughter of the late Capt. John J. brown, comman der of the 4th Palmetto Sharpshoot ers, was elect»d sponsor. .Miss brown is one of Cherokee’s most charming young ladies, and The Ledukk congratulates the old soldiers on their selection of the fair daughter of their deceased gallant commander. Miss brown has appointed for her maid of honor Miss Annie Sarratt, a daughter of Hon. A. A. Sarratt, who was a lieutenant in one cf the Spar tanburg companies in the Holcomb Legion. Miss brown has made a superb selection in appointing Miss Sarratt. and has secured one whom the old soldiers will be proud to honor alike with herself. Attempted Murder. On the night of the 3()th ult., Ellen Wood, alias Goode, a much married negro woman living in one of W. H. Smith’s houses on Jonhson street, was snot by some one on the outside of the house about 12 o’clock. Ellen says that she was in bed and asleep at the time she was shot, and that whoever shot her, first took a pane of glass out of the window and shot her through the open place thus made. Ellen has two living husbands in town, one of whom she hud married about two months ago. His name is Elas Wood and she had run him oil about three weeks before the shooting. On the night of the shoot ing a widower friend of Ellen’s named Will Jones was spending the night in her house. Ellen says that between 10 and 11 o’clock she went out of her house and saw Elas Wood standing in her chimney corner, and spoke *o him, but Wood aid not reply to her. After going back in the house she saw Wood standing at the window from which she was afterwards shot. She soon went to bed and went to sleep and was shot just about the time the midnight train passed. Ellen is wounded in one thigh net r the knee; has a serious wound which is troubling her a great deal, but it is not considered dangerous. Mo arrest has been made. Town Council Talk. At a mreting of the town council held last Friday night Aldermen E J. Barnett and R. M. Wilkins were a 'pointed as a committee to select s mie isolated house or houses for p :st houses in case of necessity. An O’dinance was also passed requiring all persons having privies to use lime in tiiern as a precautionary measure. A committee consisting of Aider- men L. baker and E. J. barnett was also appointed to draft a special license ordinance. The committee on electric lights were instructed to proceed at once to b ty six arc lamps and fixtures, to he placed wherever in their judgment they are needed the most. The town clerk reported $2,111.39 balance in treasury March 31st. The committee on streets reports contract for o ic hundred loads of stone to be used on the streets, and that work on the streets will begin dying thi® month. After discussing several other matters of importance to the town it was decided to postpone action until the next regular meeting. The cauncll then adjourned until last night, proceedings of which meeting will be presented to The Ledgei; readers in our next issue. The Mocking Birds. The sweet notes of a lonely mocking b "dare occasionally heard in the city .nese days. We can almrsr, see the cars of the small boys prick up when these sweet singers sing, in tho an ticipation of the joy they will have In eg tin destroying the young of these birds, which, in a few years, at the present rate of wholesale and wanton destruction, will be among tnebirds that were. If there is a law for the preserva tion of our song birds we call on our officials to enforce it. If there is no law for that purpose we beg our city officials to taki. such steps us will prevent the destruction of their nests and young in the limits of the city, and exact u license fee from all per sons who offer young mocking birds for sale therein, and thereby save to the city and county the Southern nightingale, and at the tamo time teach the greedy destroyers of what they should take pride In preserving a wholesome lesson, and secure to the appreciative the sweet songs of one of nature's precious gifts. A New Postofflce. A postoffice, to be known as Pow ell’s, has been established at bob Powell’s store, five miles north-east cf Cowpens. It is in this county. Parties in that neighborhood who wish to get their paper at Powell s can do so by notifying this office. No Small Pox in Gaffney. The Ledger has learned that a re port is in circulation that small pox is prevailing in GufTney. While we were satisfied that the report was false, yesterday we made dilligent inquiry of the board of health, of the physicians and city officials, and all with one accord say, ‘ There is no small pox here.” Dr. Scttlemeyer says he has had a few cases of slight eruption of the skin, similar to a few cases he had last spring and others that have been oceuring in his practice ever since he has been practicing his pro fession. These cases make the per son a little sica for from twelve to twenty-four hours, but they are noth ing like small pox. * The Ledger is glad to be able to contradict this report on such high authority, and we take this opportu nity to assure our readers that if a case does appear here our next issue after its appearance will contain a notice of it in full. Every precau tion is being used to prevent its in duction into the city. A Valuble Work. We acknowledge the receipt of the Eleventh Annual Report of the bu reau of Labor, and Statistics and First Annual Report of Inspector of Mines of North Carolina, for 1897, by James Y. Hamrick, commissioner. This report is a valuable hook and does credit to the state which made it possible, and to that talented gen tleman. its author. In this report Mr. Hamrick has treated carefully and exhaustively all the enterprises and occupations of his state, the soil, productions, met als, precious stones and minerals generally. It contains cuts of many of the cotton mills of tho state, lum ber mills, mountain scenes, growing crops and of many of the large gold nuggets that have been found in the state. In short it is too replete to admit of a creditable notice in one like this and will be of lasting ser vice to North Carolina. Ciierokee almost claims this able author as her own, his home being in Cleveland county just above the state line. Uncle Frank Northey. Uncle Frank Northey, now eighty- three years of age, was in the city Tuesday. Uncle Frank was born at Cornwall, in England, and came to America when a young man. He has been in this section about sixty years. He in his active life was a miner and commenced work at Cher okee Ford soon after reaching this section. He saw the rise and fall of the iron industry in this county, and w th our old friend, Mr. William L tile, probably knows more about t lese active, hustling days at the f ird than other man now living. Uncle Frank is in good health, but being very deaf goes out very little. His visit Tuesday was his first to Gaffney in seven years. He lives i n his farm near ‘ The Ford.” Two ot his daughters live with him, and his son near by, all of whom contribute by their upright ccurse to the happi ness of their father’s old age. The Gaffney Light Infantry. The Gaffney Light Infantry are holding themselvi s in readiness. This tine corps is composed of the elite of Cherokee’s young men. They are the worthy sons of ’■oblo sires, who in conflict with U iited States troops in the Confeder al war painted many fields n.-a vvuu t ieir blood. Conditions are changed now, and if the necessity arises the record of these young men in th** service of the United States will be on a parallel with tlio.se of their fathers against it. Young men do your duty. Cherokee Catches Cne. Accordifig to the last report of the authoiities, Cherokee county is enti- Fed to one beneficiary cadet in the Citadel. This is a line opportunity for some one of our worthy young nun to get a good education free. Let them take notice and may the worthiest got the piace. One of Two Ways. The hhiJder was civateil for one purpose, namely, u receptacle for tin* urine, ami as sucli it i> not lialiie to any form of (lisi a-e except l>y one of t wo ways'. Tlie lirst way is from Imperfect action of the kidneys. The second way is from careless local treatment of other diseases nm:r cAt;sr I nhealthv urine from tiulieaUliy kidneys isllic ehlef cause of Madder troubles. So the womb, like the Madder, was created for one purpose, am! if not doctored t mi much is hot .i.iMe to v - ikim ,s or disease, except in rare cases It Is situated hack of mid very elost* to tui' bladder, therefore any pain, disease or Inconvenience maiilfcstetf In the kidneys. Ictck. Madder ni urinary pttssajre is often, liy mistake, attributed to female Weak ness or womb trouble of some sort The error Is easily made and may he as easily avoided. To lin’d out correctly, set your urine aside for twenty-four hours; a sedi ment or settling indicates kidney or bladder trouble. The mild and the extraordlnarv effect of I)r. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, and bladder remedy is soon realized. If you need a medlctneyou should have the j last. At drujjKists tiny cents and one dollar. Von may have a sample bottle and ' pamphlet, both sent free by mall, upon re I c ipt of three two cent stamps to eover cost of postage on the Itnttic. Mention Tiik I.rp- I UEKand send your address to Dr. Kilmer & . t'o.. UliiKhamton. N. V Tho proprietors of 1 this paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer. kJlsea o» of iiic Blood nnci Nervee. No olu uoed suffer with neuralgia. This disease is quickly and permanently cured by Hrowm’ Iron Hitters. Every disessa of tne blood, nerves and stomach, chronic or othwue, succumbs to Hrowns* Iron i HitUis. Known ami used for nearly a quarter of a century, it stands to-day fore- most among onr most valued remedies. Browns’Iron bitter* is sold by all dealer*. A Veteran Dead. Thomas Moaely, of Gowdeygville, , one of the oldest and most high y respected men in Cherokee county, died in this city March 31st at tl e residence of his son, J. 1*. Mosel;, on Roberson street. Mr. Mosely wu» in his eighty-third year. He was born on I’ea Ridge near “Mosely’s Oats,” in Union county. His an cestors were among the lirst settlers of the Pea Ridge section where some of the names have continued alive since. Mr. Mosely was a brave Con federate soldier and hud raised a large family. Several of his children survive him. He was a man of un ostentatious habits and had con ducted himself through life so as to always have the respect and confi dence of all honorable men. He was buried at Corinth the 1st of April in the presence of many of his relatives and friends who have the sympathy of The Ledger. The Ledger. The last issue of the American Newspaper Directory says the Gaffney Ledger has a circulation of 1,4.VJ. The Ledger has improved on that number considerably since the direc tory was issued and is still going ahead. jo ‘PI $QS&- CURE. FOR o JOIIIV iincl IlOU. „ CIMS wnlRIT All RSE FAILS. Itast Cough Syrup. Tamon U«m»L Lie In tlma. Sold by drogRUtr. a '' COJNLS«M PTfONL Everybody Say* So. Cascarets Candy Cathnrtte, the most won derful medical discovery of tho ago, pleas ant uml refreshing to Iho taste, act uently un<! positively on kidneys, liver and Itowels, | cleansing tho entire system, dlH|>el colds, ; cure headache, fever, habitual constipation l amt biiiousnes*. i’leasn buy and try a box of C. 13. C. to-day; JO, dft, M)cents, ooldand l guaranteed to cure by uil druggist*. Tne Carpet Mill. Plans for the Gaffney carpet mill have been received and contractors are figuring on them. We look soon to see the work of building com menced, and another big working centre created in growing Gaffney. — -«•»- — ■ ~ Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best S.tlve in tho world for Cuts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Salt Rheum, Fever S«. ^s, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures Piles or no pay required. It is gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 2o cents per box. For sale by The DuPre Drug Co. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascurets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. Pains of '■-* Rheumatism V M*v© Completely Dis appeared Since Taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Rheumatism 1* due to arid in the blood. Hood’* Sarsaparilla ncutral- iy.es this acid and permanently cures the aches and pains of rheumatism. Read the following: “ I was troubled with rheumatism when I was a small boy, and I have been a suf ferer with it more or less all my life. Not long ago I took a bottle of Hood’s Sarsa parilla, and it did mo so much good 1 continued its use, and since taking three bottles I have felt no symptoms of rheu matism.” R. H. Blalock, Durham, N. C. “I was troubled with rheumatism and could hardly walk. I have taken three bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and today am a well man.” Robert Jones, 302 Macke St., Wilmington, North Carolina. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—In fact the One True Blood Purifier. All druRiflsts. St; six for $5. Get Hood’s. HrmH’ft LHIlti are the favorite eatliar- I1UUU ITIIIS* tlc AU dru g g | sts . CLINE BROS. & CO., Livery Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. First-class turnouts; prompt attention; and courteous attendants. r*rw c solicit your patronage. MARTIN, EDWARDS SHINES ‘I . . . LUMBERMEN, . . . GAFFNEY, ----- S. C. All kinds of lumber cut to order Goods delivered at depot or mill on short notice. Hatlafactlon guaranteed. t 24-tf Money to Lend on improved farms in York county or Cherokee township adjoining; repayable in easy annual installments. For further particulars apply to C. E. SPENCER. Attorncy-at-Law, 3-24-:hno Youkville. S. C. Easter. The practice of wearing something new on Easter Sunday is universal thromdi- out Christendom. This new thiiiti mav ho anything, so long as it is worn for the first time, whatever new thing—a . shirt waist, a tie, a dress, or anything else to wear—is desired to follow the custom we can supply it. and we have it at a price that is new in saving. Shirt Waists. We have the loveliest line of Shirt \\ aists ever brought to this city, so come and get your pick for Easter, Our selection is entirely new and cor rect, made in the latest and host possi ble way, in bias snipes, plaids, and new figures. W. O. LIPSCOMB & BRO. This settles it! Hereifter I will have all rr.y clothes nADE TO ORDER BY That's the right idea, Harry. T o win success a man cannot be too careful of his appear ance. EDWARD L STRAUSS fi CO. America's Popular Tailors, Chicago. “All weather is alike to tne” I wear the kind that “RETAIN THEIR Ji Jt SHAPE.” * That's the kind Tm look ing for. I'll order a suit from their agent imme diately. ' MADE TO ORDER BY EDWARD E. STRAUSS & CO. America's Popular Tailors, Chicago. We are agents for Messrs. Edward E. Strauss <Sc Co. and will take your measure and guarantee a fit in every instance. CARROLL & CARPENTER COLD STUFF In the shape of Soda Water, Cocoa Cola, Bon Rons, Lemonade, Ac., are “on tap” now at our fountain. Call on us when you get thirsty. Don’t forget us when you want pure drugs. THE DuPRE DRUG CO. i / „ /- --- -a- ... . ..