Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DkCaMP. it, but what more is to bn expected of a people who rest at the bottom of the list in ignorance and whose Lieutenant Governor shoots down a man in cold blood for a fancied wrong? Some people will say, “Well, WOMEN AND SOCIETY. [All Communications to this column should 1 h> addressed to P. o. Box aiM-l NEW YORK FASHIONS. Wanted. The Ledger is not responsible for g 0 elsewhere?” Because we don’t t'« views of correspondents. want to.’ VVe would rather stay at Correspondents who do not contri- home an( j te u y OU f aC 6 to face of n^sh thfi U r not B^r pubBcation, your meanness and short-comings but for identification. I than to shoot at you from ambush or Write short letters and to the point t, i insure publication ; also endeavor Many waists in cr pes rie Chine. Louisine, and peau de soie are seen beautifully embroid<red with Corti- if you don’t like it. why don’t you oe i|j fii 0 giii^ w bich i s R | W ays found looab.e endorsement that none nay the most suitaole for this work The gainsay. A pure white linen p vn model shown has the popular mut- with blouse waist embroidered and ton-leg sletvesdispia)inp novel point tesr-Advertlsemeuts under this head will je Inserted for one cent a word each inser tin'.. Noad Inserted forIps'ithan ton ceni Materials: Styles For Country Wear: Oul- Door SportliiK: Millinery: Answers. The prestig t of lit en ur a drers ma- t£l« | l iHn,H full > «8ta'liMied ! WTOJl T S!»:7te° “o^SiShlnr^’vJlw when embroidered, seia u seal of fusil tliousand dol'ars to loan. Apr2(t-tf J. O. Jefferies. ms 11 wBBmwTYTr: THERE'S VIM MO ENEOGV For Sale. t. > get them to the office by Monday a id Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Reading notices will he published at ten cents a line each insei-.on. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. the sam*' finish on skirt, brings pride to the wearer and approval to an on ed cuffs, and the sloping shoulder is jooker t and tqual emotions attend admirably produced by a cape-like the exhibition of ecru, blue, pink or long range. It’s time, men and wo- extending well out over the I red dresses in the above mentioned men, that we begin to think of our shoulder. Embroidery plays a con- mateiul. This, the unsophistcated condition and try to do something to spicuon* part in tho making of this j might presume to be in rere quality 1>. J. Holt will sell stock Merchandise and rent store in Gaffney. law-4t. F OR .SALE I’ics and milk cows. Andrew tBonner. Grassy Bond. S. C. fi SO; 7-3-pd QOME line cows and calves for sale. Win. Jefferies. Home, S. C. «-2i;-2t. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Senator Hanna has capitulated and will pull in the same harness with Roosevelt. better it. Education is the key note, pretty little waist. The ignorance that now hangs over our blighted state Is appalling and the only remedy lies in education. Hang some of these murderous de mons by process of law, ostracise those unscrupulous lawyers who try to save the necks of their criminal Clients and rise up to a higher degree of manhood. We have the oppor tunity if we will but grasp it. Let lynchers and white caps and murder- ; ers understand that they will ba The meanest man under the sun is the man who will resort to trickery given no corner and by the eternal to gain a point over bis adversary. How would Roosevelt and Washing ton do for running mates? That ticket would take in both the Lily white and the black-and-tan elements of the G. 0. P. With these two and Dr. Hillis wouldn’t things in Wash- heavens you will find that they will seek a more congenial clime. befitting fastidious women, but in this case fins feathers do rot make S fine birds” end the coarser the linen the more stylish. Pongee, chiefly in ecru, competes strongly, having th>- advantage of not necessitating laundry bills jentire suits of the same, made with flattering coat skins, proclaim the wearer afar, as being fashionable and when tbe skirt is of some vther | material, a flapping ecru coat sends down the scale of approbation on the side of the wearer. Some new outfits ' of this character show, however, a skirt laid in box plaits all around am; in even length, the blouse and coa' skirt similarly finished, and in this * case drapery is of course kept within bounds. F oil SALE House iiml lot near Second Hap- tlst C'-lmreli. Butler & Osborne. 5-211-tf For Rent. poll iTt U KENT—A three room cottage with jrood well water; next to my resltleece. J. I. Sarratt. tf Money Loaned. L OANS on Improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent, interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. C. Jefferies. Attorney at Law. 11-22-lyr I^OiVI^ED ON COUNTRY OH CITY HEAL ESTATE AT ti PER CENT. G. W. Sl'EEK, Attorney at Law. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Bank Statement, People You Know and People You Don't Know Miss Minnie Lee Walker, of Union, is the guest of Mrs. J. 0. Jefferies, o:i ington be a sight for the gods to be- Grenard street. Clerk of Court Jefferies spent Wed- aesday in Spartanburg. ^ , , i, A. G. Davis a prominent citizen of Honesty is a l wa yfr the best po icy.; g p eut 8ome time in the We will set’em up to any man or C jty Thursday. woman in Cherokee county that (will Maj. John F. Jones, of Blacksburg, disprove the assertion that The Led- has returned from a business trip to ger has received more m w sabscribera T 0 , Bmck8 . in the last two months than Buy- i )Ur g i j g v i 8 iting relatives in Rome, Ga. other newspaper in Gaffney or Chero- Mrs. A. B. Gaines will leave the kee county. A lawyer in Gaffney, when ap proached in regard to taking a very V-> A-"* * FOR COUNTRY WEAR the outfit is proportionately adapted | more to outdoor than indoor wear Lydia Languish styles may obtain for ; the evening, yet even here at, times. the fa.r one may retain her short skirt L . loseof business. June mi., lua't . in every glass of our Egg Phosphate. Some time when vou are hun- gry and “all fagged out" let our dispenser mix up one of these “fatigue dispellers” for you. Nothing so good to brace one up in a hurry as a good egg drink. Ours are better than most because we are careful to use only freshest of eggs and then the drink is made right too. They don’t have the flat taste that ordinary egg drinks have—they're sim p 1 y delicious. :: :: :: CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Limestone and Frederick Sts. ' v» ' The fashion in sleeves changes with great rapidfty, and new designs are being constantly proluced. Shirring which is now rapidly gaining in popu larity, is used on sleeves to good ad vantage. This work alway lends itself best to soft materials. One of tb3 new coat sleeves is the pagoda or flow ing style. Statement of the condition of the Merchants & Planters Bank, of Gaffney. S. at the se of business. June :tOth. l!io;i. In aceord- occasimially. when coming in 'o a lain anee with an Act of the General Assembly of supper, after some drive, boating,! Sout,,Curollna ' yatebing or sporting experience resources. Such facts have had no small influ te r 2fts disCOUntS : . ence in the retention both of inde- Furniture and fixtures.... 47s4i pendtnt waists and abbreviated skirt?, Jacks' ,m ,)iink!> !l " d ‘ :ish v !iult !-|;j nor have improved facilities in travel ing and traveling cnnveniencei been without great influence. In sum For a Loan of $300 on Gaffney Real Estate Apply to J. C. Otts, Atty. 4211,4:1? .17 -tin-1 nasty case,replied : “No,I can’t take that case. There are some things that money cannot hire me to do and one is to mix up in a dirty law suit.” More men like that would add lustre to the profession. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t expect too much of the poor, down-trodden country editor these days. With the weather hot enough to dry up what little brain he has that it wilt rseed in a gourd, no money ' • i . flour $') a barrel and not a cent with which to pay the first of next week for Greenville. At lanta and other points, to visit friends and relatives. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ G. M. Phifer, a promjnent business Mis. Murph and baby, of Rich Hill, man of Pacolet, with large interests iire t * ie S ue8t s of Mr. and Mrs. Me at Gaffney, was in the city Tuesday Arthur, on business. Dr. Leo Davis Lodge spent some Misses Nell and Emma Wood will time in Spartanburg Wednesday. leave Monday for a visit to their sis- Wiilie Gorry. of Spartanburg, is n ter, Mrs. W. O. Lipscomb, in Knox- the ciiy vieitiug his aunt, Miss Jane ville, Teun. Nott. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ULlf T. Clary and his sister, Miss Mrs W. R. Potter and children Nettie, who have been visiting their leave in a few days on a visit to rel- brother, Rev. Amos Clary, at Front atives in Kentucky and Tennessee. Royal, Va., and other cities, returned so to the city Wednesday. Miss Addie McArthur left Wednes- Trot b 1-. Sbuford sod wile an,I day tor N . 0 . Miss I la Crocker are attending the ~ ♦- -+ ^ ♦ teachers' normal school at Rock Hill, t Miss Ada Crocker and her little Mra - Sumter LitUejohu has returu- xent, is it at y wonder that our pa- niece, Bessie Thackston Crocker, have from a visit to Spartanourg pera contain so little? The real won- been visiting friends and relatives at der is that they contain as much as they do. There can be no reason for our friends in King’s Mountain going in to hysterics over the baseball gume. The Ledger man reported the game exactly as it ras printed. That all there is to th-* business. Others John W. Fowler, a pronii.-.ent plan may have had a different view point ter ana citizen of lower Cherokee, . .. ,, .. .J IV ditloreutly. We L't « «PPreoi.ted Ledger vlei.or visiting Mrs. R. M. Laffney. claim the Indians to be invincible, MAUII.ITIES Ciioital Surplus Not umhvido'i prolits. 1 lividoiul No. 4, Payitlili Re-discounts Deposits, (I lullviduals) “ Hue bunks... i 75 000 I i 4,000 00 ii,;t53 i r nly 1st I'.hu :i,oihi <io 15.000 00 iKO.'.M'iti 20 1.17s lit P’s. 114 !>n Shelby, N. C. Miss Ethel Foster, of Union, is the Rev. John B Wilson will fill his guest of Mrs. Jamts Gaffney, regular appointment nex^ Sunday at ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Wilson’s cnapel at II a. m. Mrs. M. L. Gurley left Wednesday Rev. J. M. Steadman will preach at (or her home in Spartanburg. G thsemaue next Sunday morning in , pisce of 1 residing Elder Kilgo. Misses Laura Duff and Mary Bram- ie ' is8 Evelyn ftarratt is spending j et havw returm , Q f roin a pleasant some time at ihermal City, in the visit to hove Springs. 18 “land of the sky. ♦♦ ♦♦ Mrs. Service, of Draytocville, is Correct Attest ming ud wnat must bo taken Mini wnat left behind, attention too is net-dfui as to v>hat may best refresh after open air exertion. Thus ns the time comes round wnen we pui k our trunks ami sa’chels and start lor the $21l.4!is 07 country, we sit down to go over th- ; STAT oJ^ l oKKK , !'orxVv! NA ‘ !' little list Of things we must have for , Ci M. Smith, cashier of t he above our comfort, and among the first few 1 hank, do solemnly swem- that tin . 7 , . statement is true to the best of my items jot down usual a supply of | and belief. Murray it Eauman’s Florida water. G. M Strange, isn’^it, we never tire of it. Sworn to bef o rt . me. this the And yet it is not strange after all, July, lltox for ha a not the whole world been using it constantly for nearly a hun dred years ?and it was never more popular than it is this season. In MILLINERY the use of lace as a factor becomes more prominent. Sometimes heavy lace is laid Hat and united with straw, or again are seen examples made largely in dotted silk shirred over a frame which shows plainly through the thin covering. Sucn foundations likewise are combined with straw In the world of millinery, however, the “go as you please” is regnarc. and hardly a rule can be laid down that is not broken. Automobile hats are a style peculiar to themselves, named above k nowl- SMITH. < lash ter. 1st day of 11 K. Osborne, Notary Public. W. C. Hamrick. A. N. Wood, 11. M. Wil.KINS, Directors. New Painters. We are not exactly new painters, having: oeen in the business for several years, hut we are a new firm In the painting' business. Experience has taught us that the laborer does the work while the contractor gets the credit and the money. We want the credit and the money for the work, so have formed a co-partnership to do a general painting ) business. We solicit the work of Ihe people of Gaffney and surrounding country, prom ising first-class work at the lowest living prices, guaranteeing satisfaction. Carriage painting a specialty. Call on or write us and we will give you being in turban shape, much smaller prices that will make it interesting. We are now carrying a complete line of Films in the various sizes to fit all standard makes of cameras. Favor ns with your orders for Films and we will furnish you new, fresh goods of unsur passed quality. :: :: June H. Carr, 625 Limestone Street. ’Phone 176, Residence 171. yesterday. Jamts K Littlejohn spent a por- Miss Bessie Kendrick has gone to but we lay down this broad proposi- tion of this week on ms farm near Raleigh, N. C., to attend the summer tion: The Indians will play any Asbury. - school, strictly all-home team of any town in ^ r - ai:i ^ Mrs. O. E. VYilkins left for ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ North Carolina of.not over 6,000, and Yorkville where Mr VVilkins goes to The Junior League of the M. E open the First National Bank of church will serve ice cream this if tbey don t win the game they will Vorkville. Their many friends in (Friday) afternoon on the court house set ’em up to ice cream and water- Gaffney regret 10 lose them and con- lawn, melon If King’s Mountain will play graculate Vorkville on securing them. left an all-home team and Gaffney don’t; ^ r ' tlD ^ ^ r8, J 0 ! 10 tHabam , t , luesday to spend some time with beat them, they will not ask any ex- iD North Caro!ina pense money. But there is no neoes- James Davis, of Davisville, N. C., sity in getting miffed over a ball came to the city Tuesday. game because the umpire displays Martin, of Ezella, was in the ... city Tuesday with hie umber wagons ignorance of the game or in bis eager- M w B / own of RttVenntti 0HrriP ness distorts the rules. U p t 0 c j t y Tuesday on busim-ws. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Will Austell, a prominent business The press is the most independent man of Pacolet, was a Gaffney visitor institution in the whole world. It is luesday. E H Gaines was ar home, on Vic toria avenue, a few days the first of the week a good thing for the country at large that, as a rule, the men who make the press are a high-minded, con secrated set of men who prize honor above dollars, who would rather give up their life than to yield to the baser elements of man. The fact that the Mrs. Fletcher Smith entertained a few of her visiting friends Wedt e-ida evening at tea. Those invited were; Mrs V\ in Wilkins. Greenville; Mrs. Meek Smith, Clover; Mrs. Chas. K Gould. Spartaninirg ; Mrs Davis Jef feries, Union rs. 1 W Avery, Mrs. Boyd H imes and Mrs. Etta Jefferies A Large Order [Greensboro, N. C. Record.1 Probably the largest, order ever given for paint in the State < f North C irolina was r v lived by the Oicll Hardware Co , at Grecnjibore, N. C., GAINES & RAMSEY, Shop next door to Steam Laundry, GAFFNEY, S. C. » than what is generally noticeable and 1 quite enveloping the head in hood fashion, is a silk extension fastened under the chin b / a large ribbon bow. Colors are in unison, except a pom pon on the left side that is usually either black or white. ‘Eleanor:” While the greater proportion of sleeves show pronoun ced an i really misplaced fullness be low the eloow (sometimes from ubovo che elbow) yet new examples are L; very muen modified proportions, so „ . „ that* sleeve fashionab.e !*sc summer c Letters, Science, Engineering One .. ., . , Scholarship to each Lounty of South Lar- will pass muster this season for per- ohna En F trance examinations held at sons not extremists. Gaffney byjCounty Superintendent of Ed- ” Jane : ’ Gloves are in conservative ucation and Judge of Probate on July 10. styles for conservative people, but Tuition #40. Board and furnished room fashi mists will often choose new in Dormitory, $10 per month. All can- GOLLEGEOFCHARLESTON CHARLESTON, S. C. 118TH YEAR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 25. ones s-bovving bright embroidery ou a didates for admission are permitted to firm silk foundation. These er me in compete for Boyce Scholarships, which *H l«og'hw with or without firg-r* P a .v * 100 a year. For catalogue, and 1 Or* t;r*-aier number white. Gun ' Address HARRISON RANDOLPH, time in the city Tuesday. Miss Gladys Twitty has returned to her boon at Heath springs after a visit of twn or three weeks to her sif ter, Mrs Dr. Griffith, on Frederick newspaper is supported by those who street. take it because they admire, it is also noteworthy. Men are compelled to keep up the office holder whether i John Bently, Asbury, spent some (rom w. A, IrAin, K-q , of Durham. tbey desire to do so or not, but if be does not like the editor or the news paper all be has to do is to withdraw his patronage. There is no power on earth to compel any man to take a neswspaper unless be desires to do so. There is no getting around the fact that the newspaper wields a great in fluence, and there is also no getting around the fact that in nine casts out of ten that influence is directed in the proper manner to bring the best good for the people. It’s a base scoun- SIm-i-IU. Leave My Gan. [Kentucky mountaineer’s version.] Sheriff, leave my gun. With it I killed a cow To start the feud my son And I have going now. ’Twas my forefather who, With that old rifle, shot His foemnn through and through. Oh, sheriff, take It not! That old familiar lock My father’s hand has pressed; The ramrod and the stock I prize o’er all the rest. Sheriff, it must not go! Without It in my caro How could I shoot my foe From back behind somewhere? —Chicago Record-Herald. The order wa* 101 5,000 gallons of Devoe lf“!id-anr’-/;iuc punt, tile u ed on the large Irwin vlilla ami to it cottages now being built in Hartueii County Many of the leudii g paint manufac turtrs were eager to secure this order, and it speaks volumes fhat* tLe pie- f tenet was given t » Devoe leud-and zinc, *bich is undoubtedly ike fore- ra >8L paint in this country today. metul shades are very stylish and ecru is of si 'oe importance Net g!o\ts or m'tf< ir» in all leo^fhe and with or without fingers. Kate Bruce We like best to call SCOTT’S EMULSION a food because it stands so em phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet in the matter of restor ing appetite, of giving new strength to the tissues, especially to the nerves, its action is that of a medicine. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. President. F0LEYSH0NEMAR Cures Colds; Prevents Pneumonia FOLEYSKIDNEYCURE Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right & WE LEAD Always; Our reputation as the lead ing Drug .Store of the upper part of the State is well deserved and carefully protected. It is the result of careful methods, straight dea ling an d prompt ness. S. B. Crawley It Co., 813 Limestone Street. Drugs, Perfumes and Sta tionery. Prescriptions properly filled and promptly delivered. $100 Reward, $100. Thr* readers of Mils paper will lx: pleased to , learn that there Is at least one dreaded dls- drel that will use his position in life ease that seieliee has been aide te -ure In all . j . , . 1 . .1 Itsstagesimd that I* Catarrh. Hull's Catarrh for purposes detrimental to the re- cure isthconiy |K>sitivecure now known to „ 1,1 „a ! the medical fraternity. Catarrh Ixdng a mainder OI manKinci. j constitutional disease, requires uconstltu- + tionul treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is m , . , , _ taken Internally, acting directly upon the There was a lynching in Orange- MimmI and mucous surfaces <>r the system. . nr j j . j thereby destroying the toundation of the burg county Wednesday morning, and disease, and giving the patient strength by Slight injuries often disable a man ftnd cause peveral days’ loss of time 1 and when blood poison develops, ^ ometitries result in the loss of a band ot limb Chamberlain's Fain Balm is an antiseptic liniment. When ap plied to cuts, bruises and burns it CHUse# them tn heal quickly and with one maturation, and prevents any danger of blood poison. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. /JEk 3r. Woolley's M: r>AIXLESS mm t'! AND WiMeyCure SENT FREE ro •> users of un,.-, ...a opium, lat'dar."r. elixir of opium, co caine or walfkey.n largo bock 01 par ticulars on hout* or sanatorium tr;t.: ment. Ad<lrr r s, H. M. WOOLLKY CO., 104 N. Pryor Street, Atlanta, Georgia An L'aoalt She—What on earth lias your wife been talking about? He—She’s been talking about three hours.—Yonkers Statesman. Your Uuenta Will I’ralno It. Why not try a sack of Bracsford’s D „ „ w . „ Clifton?” You will never know white caps killed an old negro and StJre'ir^oit'.g i'tH’work^'The pV^Homr^ « ood ‘ fc l" y r u u " e “• , Y ?“ r severely beat three women in Atder- l '* H" eurativc jntwer. | neighbor finds it the best flour in the sob county Tuesday Governor Hey ward expresses regret at this law lessness, and all good citizens deplore it . that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any | market, and your home people as well ja.st* tluit It falln to euro. for llht of / m . ^ K * testimoniuiM. an your guests will praise your bFead, Adclress. F. J. chrney At Co.. Toledo, o. 1 gake and pastry If made of “Clifton” Hall’sFaml W Plns'irc the best,. | Hour. W. J. WiLKINS <t Co. ^ ■ — F u Silberman Bros. Largest Fur House in America. R Branches All Over Europe. Highest cash price p.-«id for nil kind? '' of raw furs. Hold your shinmem 1 until you gel our ixice lift. h’ntt i /vr it to^tay. We mail it L ee. j 6ILCKRAIAR BR03., « lt23tol2SMk 1 • .c to Ita wmwH i—■inwra-sfy- » r.-a.- vHir^ m If You Want The People To See Your Advertisement, let it be legal advertising or otherwise, you place it in The Ledger. It is the only paper in Cherokee county read by the masses. A. N. Wood. President. R. R. Brown. Vice-President FOtEYSHOmMAR The Merchants and Punters Bani OF GAFFNEY. 8. C. Capital $75,000.-*-Surplus and Profits $10,000. STATK, COUNTY AND CITY DEPOSITORY. We solicit the business of people of all occupations. < I We pay on deposits in our Savings Department. Deposits accepted from $1.00 up. C. N4. SMITH. Cashier.