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Bad Taste in the Mouth I ♦ ♦ r When you get up in the moriitog with a coated tongue and a bad taste in the mouth, you may or may not be seri ously ill, but if there is any disease going, your system is just right to catch it. We know what you think— first you are half persuaded to try Vinol, and then you say to yourself: “ That’s the same story all the medicines tell; I’ve heard it before.” But Vinol is not like other medicines. If it were, we shouldn’t be talking about it in any special way. If you will regulate your bowels with Vinlax and take Vinol to improve your diges tion and assimilation of food, these troubles, with the head ache, “ liver complaint,” neu ralgia, rheumatic pains, and nerve troubles will disappear as by magic. We pay back the money if it doesn’t help you. CHEROKEE DRUG CO IST.S Wuxi S. Ham,. .In. .iamks A. WiM.tt>. HALL & WILLIS, ArroKVkYS \ r i,a\v. ST Alt THKATIte Bl.un. G -X l- r »- r 1-C V . G. Notary I’uWlc In olHci-. Prompt attention ?ivcn to alI business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-a r - Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, » ^ Dentist. Office ov< r National Bank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between K. A. Jones and Oa venport. Office and,Residence .Phono. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. Movement for School l.lbrary Hckuii WOrk In Mines--Personal. tCorresponrtence of The Ledger.» Blackaburg, S. C , March ‘.i —In one of Voltaire’s amusing letters from England occurs this remark: “The necessity of sajirg something, the perplexity of having nothing to say, and a desire of being wittv are three cim^msta icss which alone are capable of making even the greatest writer ridiculous.” How must it be with the minor composers? Perhaps this letter will tell Blacksburg has begun to move slowly towards getting a school li brary Of its many past and present enterprises this is one of the most laudable. It we can teach the young to cultivate a taste !or reading, ana give them the best to read, we shah do more to belter tne community than by establishing any commercial enterprise. ‘ The Maids and Matrons Club’' therefore are due the thanks of ah our citizens for begirning so good a work. ButTslo was so high last week that many of our friends on the other side coaid not get to town. How lone some and melancholy they must have been. But then we all have disap pointments in life. Mr. John Boyce, who recently recovered from blood poisoning at David.-on Oollege, is again with us. We are glad to see him and know that he i« recuperating so rapidly. Work is going on steadily at the iron mines near here. With North ern capita! at the bsck, Cherokee iron ore in the front, and the present energetic inquiries in the middle, great success is ussured. At the receit municipal elections Mayor Geo. C. Nutting was re-elect ed, and the following councilmen chosen : Messrs. J. R Healan, Ro land Black, T. L. Black, Gilliard dline, J. F. Whisonant and Dr. J. T. Darwin. The town afiairs were well manugea last year. Besides dispens ing justice to the erring the authori ties improved the sidewalks and bought some property adjoining the town hall. Last Saturday evening Prof, and Mrs. Maxim and Miss Williams, of Limestone Institute, and Mr. Tom Ciarkson, of GalTney, drove through the country and spent a few hours in town There is very little gaiety here at present. Whether it be caused by Lent, or ennui, or the joys of home life, we can’t say. Howevtr, when Easter comes and April’s enlivening influence, we shall no doubt chroni cle many tvents that will be pleasing to woman and society. At present our patient readers will have to bear with thin layers of fact welded to gether by thick layers of folly and fancy. G. w. A WHISKEY FAMINE. AT THE STAR THEATER. Dr. c. T LIPSCOMP, i > ic x r i js 'p Office in Star Theatre Building. I* I ION E No. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The-Battery. CLAIMS PAID By £TMA * nsurance it I Pin Company For Accidents and Sickness through this agency since January: W. I). Kirby, W. R. Pearson, W. H. Harrison, Jr., A. L. Peeler, A. W. Clary, H. L. Spears, H. A. Littlejohn, Win. T. Gaston, L. Baker, Why not lusuie YOl'R tlim dent and sickness. K ir rates and otln-r formation call on or address JONES J. DARBY. District Ayt. # 3 2 -'4 7-5« 127.14 25.00 12.86 70.00 75 27.86 . 3214 against accl- Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Kye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. ITor r •iuildlng and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster H.dr. Plaster Paris Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, % Blasting Powder, r ust and Dynamite Cans, call on Limestone Springs Lime Worts CARROLL ft CO., Lessee*. Telephone A Poverty Soshul Will be held in the store room for merly occupied by VV. O. Lipscomb & Bro., on Robinson street, Friday eve ning, April Jrd, at 8 p. m. Every wt man whut kums must ware a kalliker dress and apern or some thin equelly appropriate and leave their powdle dog to hum. Know gont with biled shirt and dood kollur will be aloud to kum unless he pays a tine of five sents. A kompetent kommitti will introduce strangers and look after bashful fellers. The following vittels will be served : Ise kreme, 10 sents; kake, o sents. The fines for ladies will he es fullers: No apern, 1 ten' ; kid gloves 2 seats; hut with Hours er leathers, 2 sents; trimmed apern, 2 sents; dimon finger wring, 3 sents; gold frame giascs, 3 seats; silk dress. T> sents; wui dress, 3 sents; ornamental bar pins, 1 sent. The lines for men will be numerous and partially as follows: Blacked butes, 1 sent; segars in pocket. 1 sent each; pipes exempt; watches— no Waterburry—1 tent; stove pipe hat, 1 sent; chawing gum, 2 sents; stand up koDar, 5 sents; patent lether shoes, 2 sents; creased trous ers, 2 sents There will be instrumental music recitations and songs by some of Gaffney’s best taleut. Admisehun: Adults, 10 cents; 'liildreii 5 cents. rieKldeiit Buy tier Coming. Do not fail to bear the address of President Snyder, of Wofford College, at the Baptist church on next Thurs day evening at eight o’clock. It will prove most interesting and in structive, for Dr. Snyder always has something good to say and presents it in a most attractive style. The coming of this distinguished gentle man and ripe scholar marks the opening of the public library and all of our citizens are urged to be pres ent on an occasion fraught with so much interest to our community. After the address at the church all are Invited to repair to the Library, in the City Hall, and inspect the books. Recent Donation), to the Library. The library has recently received important books and papers from Mrs. J. R. Littlejohn, Mrs. O. E Wilkins, Mr. D C. Ross. Mr. 8. F. Parrott. Charlotte Observer, Mr. Chas. M. Smith, Mr. E. H. DeCarap, Rev. W. T. Thompson, Master Brian Bell and Master Watson Bell. The generosity and kindness of these friends is greatly appreciated and wc trust that others will feel constrained to donate a few volumes. Prohibition No More IinpoMHlhle than Other Wonders that Have Keen Achieved. Who ever thought of a whiskey famine! Picture in your mind the terrible day; people of every rank and condition going mad for whiskey ; the stnefa and highways strewn with the dead and dying; all of our grand old institutions of learning total wrecks; our sacred altars of spiritual Hre explained away, and the old guide star copper stills with their length and crookedness of worm—ail converted into dynamos, electric and telephone appliances. Ail the distil leries and rectifying buildings and kppurtenances changed into homes and farm barns, feed bins and troughs—all the bars and furniture transferred into libraries, bottles, or namental glass signs, etc., cast into floral and agricultural frames, curb ing, Belgian blocks and business fronts. 8ee our country flooded with fruits and grain of every kind. All the penalty chains, prison bars, court houses lost in the impossib.e. which is education. Yes, the impossible. Some say prohibition is impossible. It has been said of other things. Do we not stand dumbfounded today? We face facts and opportunity calls out. “Move onward !” We breakfast today in Philadelphia; tomorrow in Jacksonville. We converse across the Atlantic by the wireless tele graph; we talk across the continent by the aid of the telephone; we glide along the highways on, and are charmed by the hum of, the horseless carriage; we behold the airship soar away toward the heavens like the eagle; we behold liquid air measured by the irallon and water frozen in red- hot vessels and many other wonders too numerous to mention All these had their day ol • impossible,” but were conquered by education through soberness. Just like prohibition and the race problem will be made pleasant, permanent realities. A whiskey famine ! Don’t tremble so, you alchoholic lunatics, no danger of the stream running dry in your day; and if it should it would not change your case, for your system is rotten to the core. But men and women are determined to give, through education and soberness, to the children something better, yes many things better than you and I have ever dreamed of. Whiskey fam ine! Let us set up the monument in advance and write thereon the in scription : “We are awake and sober; in God we trust.” Amen to North Carolina’s law makers, for it is time to call a halt. \\ hy not let their stills die without the right of transfer or hope of a resurrection day? No, no, Cherokee county is not the lake into which the condemnedare to be cast.Cherokeeans, assert your manhood and in ever? way say, “No! Too much whiskey now.” Look at the glowing head lines of advertisements in almost every general and local paper. What is to be done with all this old whis key—four, seven and fourteen years old? There are millions of mail order customers, and yet age creeps on the chemical. What is to be done? We have medicine tablets, milk tablets, food tablets candy tab lets, and if you will attend the mayor’s court jou can see liquor tablets. How long are we to be a lot of pigs in the pen. and with weicouii grunt accept everj thing that is dumped into our pen? Is there a wail of despair coming from the Satanic lips of a mad mar. lost in the midmght darkness of ig norance. seeking a location in our county for a condemned still? ]i such a one can be found, take him and shake him till you wake him, and in the name of a disciple give him a cup of cola water and tell himi^e whiskey famine is over and God i- still our refuge Citizen Stereoptlcon Lecture on Alttskti and the Klondike The Land of Midnight Nun. Miss Elinor Courtney, the adven turous South Carolinian, who went from Chicago to the Arctic regions as a press correspondent iu ’98, remain ing in the North nearly four years, will lecture at the Opera House on Tuesdav, April 7th, on the wonderful land of the midnight sun and her thr.lling experiences there. For a long time Miss Courtney’s reports from the Arctic region were the only ones that reached the States, and the New York World has called her ‘one of the pluckiest correspond ents ot the American press ” D is a somewhat extruordiu try achievement for a woman of education and refine ment to have penetrated the Arctic circle. The press all over the coun try speak in highest terms of Miss Courtney’s excellent work as a lec turer. and such well known writers as Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Lilian Whiting, Florence Huntley and Marion Foster Washburne, of Harper’s Bazar, sing her praises. 'These lectures are illustrated with stereopticon views, colored by artists, and are both entertaining and in structive, taking the audience througti a land of great mtere-st and wonderful scenic beauty. The Progress, Union, S. C., says: “The immense expanse of Alaska and its many natural wonders were vivid ly portrayed to a large audience at t he Optra House last, Thursday evening by Miss Elinor Courtney, who did not speak from hearsay, but from actual experience. With the aid of the ster eopticon the audience was carried back and forth across Alaska, gazing upon Muir glacier, the greatest won der of its kind in the world; through thrilling experiences upon the Yukon to the famous Klondike, on to Nome. The closing scene was a gorgeous view of the midnight sun reflected on the waters of the Yukon. * Miss Courtney is most charming in manner, ana tells of her experi ences in such an entertaining and un affected way that her listeners are charmed.” on Time Deposits. Apply by letter or in person to the " ‘ ' & Planters OAF'JS'INEY, H. CL Capital and Profits $58,500. A. N. Wood, President, R. R. Brown, Vice-Prest., C. M. Smith, Cashier. U a Mr. Cliaptiitin at First Itiiptiat. In the absence of Rev. A. C. Cree, the pastor. Rev. H. It. Chapman, of Furman University, preached in the First Baptist church Sunday fore noon, but owing to the hard rains of the morning, he was greeted by a small congregation. His text was the 45th verse of the 25tb chapter of Matthew, and from it he delivered a sound and strong ser mon which was much enjoyed by his hearers and which has received many favorable comments since. Mr. Chapman is a young man of good address, studious, beyond the average in education and deeply pious. We would be glad to have him with us again. While in the citv he was the guest of Sheriff Thomas. WoulH You? Gould Yru I Last Question: Should you I Pass these opportunities without giving us a trial ? For the next 15 days we will sell the following bicycles and bicycle supplies at the following figures. Oo«t ot TNo Ooist 'I'liev MtiNit Oo. Foot Pumps, 37c each; Hand Pumps, 15c each; M. 8: W. Valves, 15c; good Oil Lamps, 85c each; 30c Bells at 15c; Bicycle Wrenches, 20c; Wood Rim or Rubber Cement, 3 tubes for 10c; Graphite. 3 sticks for 10c; L pt. cans Cement, 15c, sold for 25c; Single Tube Tires, fi.38 each; M. 8c W. Inner Tubes, 7*ic each; Spokes, 2c each; Handle Bars, 25c; Bar Grips, 15c per pair; Saddles, 25c up to $1.00; Pedals, 35c each; Coaster Brakes, 53-65; 1 Thomas Bicycle, good as new, 58.00; 1 Rambler, with $10.00 pair puncture proof tires, 5 I 5-° o ; 1 Rambler with M. 8c W. Tires, good as new, 518.00. We are agents for the following bicycles: Columbia and Hartford, Rambler and Ideal, Cleveland and Westfield, Crawfords and Vedetts, and Reading Standard. Will sell any of the above makes at 10 per cent, and you pay the freight. We will do your repair work cheaper than any bicycle shop in the city. We are yours for 1903 cycle business, tic 'rOI^I^ESOiNL Gaffney, S. C., 717 Limestone St. LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST. It ia quiet natural that an ocean greyhound should occasionally run down a catboat. Snow, rain, hall and sleet have fal len In England, doing great damage. Fakirs In Gaffney. For the last several cays there buve been on the vacant lot in rear of W O. Johnson’s store on Frederick street, a set of men with several ■ e- vices for faking unsuspecting people out of their hard earned money W« are astonished that people who work for monej will allow it to be filched from them in any such way, anrt more so, that such leechers as '■.hese fakirs ar* 4 , would be allowed to carry on tbeir swindling games of chance in the open day in Gaffney. Col. Ntmln'M UeneroHlly. The authorities of Limestone Col lege are deeply indebted to Col. J. L. Strain, of Etta Jane, for several his torical volumes which he has recently presented to the college. The vol umes make a valuable addition to the large collection of works on Southern history which may now be seen at the college, and the officials greatly appreciate Col Strain’s thoughtful ness and generosity. Kliln Again. We had a few clear days from the middle to the last of last week and the farmers got to do a little plowing with, in most cases, the ground full wet, but Saturday night the rain came again and continued through Sunday and a good portion of yesterday. Now the plows cannot be started before the lust of the week. Sunday and yester day were about the coldest of this month. Watl« Hampton. Last Saturday, the 28th inst., was the 85th anniversary of the birth of South Carolina’s greatest son, Wade Hampton He died on the 11th of April 1902 A framed picture of him placed in one of the front windows of The Ledger office Saturday attracted great attention. Deserv= ing of Study are the pictures produced at this studio. It will be seen that our PH010GRAPHS are lifelike, artistic and permanent. We are now lo cated in our new place at 625 Lime- stond St., and our constant aim is to fully please each patrott. If it’s the best you are looking for in fertilizers this is the place to buy. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices against all honest competition. I still have ajfew wagons and buggies which I will selll cheap to close out. Wagon and buggy harness. I am proud of the record I have made in the shoe business. Nearly every sale makes a permanent customer. Honest goods at fair prices have done the work. We often hear expressions like this, “I get better value in those at J. I Sarratt’s than any place in the city.” I continue to keep my stock of farming tools and farmers’ sup plies up to the standard and will save you money on anything in either line. NOW IN STOCK Seed oats for spring sowing. Lean save you money on Clothing, Dry Goods, Hats, Trunks, Valises, Satchels and Bags. See me before buying, I have several good farm mules which I will sell cheap for cash or on time for good papers. Respectfully, gfey tell. Carr. V# • National Bank of Gaffney, ’Phone 17H. Residence 171. Capital Stock, Surplus and. Profits, - Stockholders Liability, Total, - - - $50,000.00 25,000.00 50,000.00 $125,000.00 K'elry- Oth, *<><>3, $209,603.73. We solicit the business and good will of everybody in Cherokee county. F. G. STACY, President, D. C. ROSS, Cashier. J. G. WARDLAW. V.-Prest., MAYNARD SMYTH, A. C. p Q p F. PLOWS 4^c. is the time to fortify yourself against an at tack of the grip. This is the sort of weather it is lurking in. We have the remedy that is sure—Allen’s Cold and Grip Cure. S. B, Crawley & Co. 813 Limestone Street Druggists, Perfumers a n d Stationers. — Prescriptions S roperly filled and promptly ehvered. Carload Plows 4)C a pound. We have moved into our new quarters, on Gra- nard street, and our stock of Plows, Plow Stocks, Hoes, Hames, Traces, all kinds of Farm Im plements, Barb and Poultry Wire is unsurpassed and all bought before the advance. :: : : Prices are Right on Everything. Come to see us. SMITH HARDWARE CO. P. D. F. PLOWS A