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ABNER DANIEL The Ledger’s Serial Story which has charmed and captivated hundreds of readers in Gaffney and Cherokee. :: :* :: ELEGANTLY BOUND IN CLOTH. Stamped in Green and Gold, and printed in large, clear type. Would make a handsome present to a friend. :: :: :: :: F 3 r'ioe Only $l.oO We can supply our readers with the book at above price. THE LEDGER, Gaffney, S. C. Gaffney Savings Bank is authorized to act as Administrator, Executor and Guardian without cost of bond. Wejpay 4 per cent, on deposits of $1.00 or more. Deposit your money in this Bank and avoid the risk of losing it|or having it stolen. F. G. STACY, President, D. C. ROSS, Cashier. Big Values in Real Estate. Improved Farms in Cherokee For Sale One contains 126 acres, bottoms and upland, with three (3) good dwelling houses of two, three and seven rooms each, barns, stables and outhouses, and a fine orchard.! The other contains 140 acres, well improved in every way, and situated [in desirable sec tion of the county. For full information, terms, J&c., apply to f > HALL & WILLIS, Atto|rn|2ys Gaffney, South Carolina. Features of a Daily Journal For London. NO BAOING AND NO STOCK BEPOETS i Christmas_ Christmas is only a week off. You want to “dress up” and look your best during the holidays. I have made some SPECIAL PRICES ou Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Gents’ Furnishings for the Christmas time, and you can fit yourself out for the ocasion at very little expense at the old stand opposite the postoffice. I have a big line of Boys’ Clothing which I am olfering at a big reduction for a short while. $2.50 Suits now $1.75 2.25 Suits now 1.50 2.00 Suits now 1.39 and many others at same proportion which I haven’t room to mention. Come NOW and look for yourself. Bring the little man and I’ll fit him out from head to foot at a very little price, at the STAR. CLOTHIER # J. M. NELSON, Opposite Postoffice. fee Gaffney City Land and improvement Company Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney City; Also Farms neai by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, lu lots of froir 30 to 10i' acres on liberal time ratesi also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur- donah For full particulars apply to J- v. SA.HLKA.TT, Ascent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing Umber. Ashing or hunting, under penalty of law. ornaments as well. and then while the information it imparts is fresh in ^our mind, come straight and inspect our splendid line of Stoves and Heaters. Our Stoves take the shine off all other Stoves. They make the kitchen look like a sitting room. They are not only the very best, in Quality and fitted with all the modern conveniences, but they are They have pleased others ; they will please you. YOU MUST HAVE A HEATER of some lind—you can’t stand the cold without one. Let us show you what we have in Heaters. A severe winter is predicted—better prepaie for it now. R. M. WILKINS HARDWARE CO. *We are selling Stoves and Heaters lower than eaer before. EnKlinh JonrnaliMt Says His Sheet Will lie a Home Taper ami Cheer ful-Girls to he Messengers to Col lect From Subscribers Complaints or “C. O. D.” Orders. * London seems a fertile field for news paper ventures, judging from the num ber of dailies that have sprung into existence during the last few years, says the New York Herald’s corre spondent. Only recently Mr. Alfred Harms- worth’s new Daily Mirror, a paper for w'omen, made its first bow to the pub lic, and now Mr. W. T. Stead is going to begin early next month a daily which will be almost entirely sociolog ical in character. Mr. Stead gave me some details as to the character and makeup of his new publication. “I hope not only to produce a paper,” said he, “that will be good in itself, but at the same time create an organization among its sub scribers for mutual purposes of co-op eration. I think if I could manage to get 200,000 subscribers in London to whom 1 could hope to appeal each day, to whom 1 could deliver the paper at their own doors just at the time when the man has gone to business and the women and children of the household have an opportunity of reading it, great results might be accomplished. “The Daily Taper”—and that, from all I could learn, is apparently the name Mr. Stead has selected—“will be an evening journal, delivered between 10 and 12 o’clock in the morning. It will consist of twelve pages and will be sold on the news stands for a pen ny. It will be a little larger than the Westminster Gazette and delivered at houses. The subscription will be a shilling per month or half a guinea per year. “The messengers, who will be bright young girls, will be instructed to col lect from each subscriber letter com plaints or advertisements In envelopes addressed to the editor, and In this way 1 hope to get in personal touch with all my readers. ‘Twenty depots, in time to be In creased to sixty, will be established at various points in the city, at each of which I expect to have a ‘poste re- stante,’ which sort of thing does not exist in London now; a free telephone, circulating library, reading room or place to call and, I hope, an automatic restaurant. “If a wife who has to stay at home wishes to send a message, all she will have to do will be to put It into an en velope in the morning, and in two hours K will be at the depot, the mes sage will be sent on to the tradesman, the articles desired being delivered ‘C. O. D.’ in the afternoon. “It is a great social experiment us to whether one can use a newspaper for social service. A newspaper is the only organizing center left to the world which is not necessarily sectarian or partisan. I shall be a sort of preach ing friar who will be willing to act as a maid of all work. “The Daily Taper will be a home paper. Everything will be kept out which one might not desire one’s chil dren to see. There will be no racing in it and no stock exchange reports. Thus I shall get so much more space. It will be intensely political, but not partisan, the idea being to cause the atmosphere of the home to permeate the whole em pire. The paper Is going to be cheer ful. 1 shall be an optimist of opti mists and try to find the goodness of badness and bright points of every thing, including Loudon fog and Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy. “As to its contents, there will be a se rial on the basis of an endless story, which will be based on events in the day’s news. One page will be set aside for children. “As to editorials, there will be a col umn leader and perhaps a column of occasional notes. About foreign news : I shall not worry much at first I want j to localize the paper. “There will be four editions, all pub lished at the same hour, and one for each of the four divisions of Loudon. “The first number will appear Jan. 4. “Another principle I hope to follow in the paper is of not hitting back when hit. I shall take it lying down and while In that posture see how I can do good to the hitter, though I rather fear this will be bard to live up to. “There will be frequent cartoons and maps, two of the former appearing each day, original, borrowed, bought or stolen.” Mr. Stead told me he bad also anoth er subscription rate of a guinea a year, which entitles the subscriber not only to the Dally Taper and two other mag azines, but also to an accident Insur ance policy for £100. Come in and get The Ledger before Christmas. Merchants seemed to be good business yesterday. Xew buildings are going up on many streets in Gaffney. Rev. YV. T. Thompson filled his ap pointment at Bethesda in Spartan burg county last Sunday. There was a big gathering of people in Gaffney yesterday. All quiet and orderly, looking after business. It is cold and clear but the farmers think the rain of Saturday night and Sunday will bring up the whtal that has been in the ground so long. The services at Buford Street church Sunday morning will be ap propriate to the Christmas season. There will be no service in the evening. Abbott Bros, have opened a new ~ ook of ewing machines and musio 1 i etrum* nts in the handsome new store of n M. Littlejohn, on the cor net of Limestone and Birnie streets. M. M. Tate, county pension com missioner, will be in bis office in the court house the first Monday .n Jan uary, where all wishing to make ap plication for pensions can get blank applications from him. Especial attention is called to the act that both of the banks in this city will observe Christmas holidays Friday and Saturday, December 25th and 2(J(h, closing Thursday afternoon and re-opening Monday morning. A large number of the Limestone College girls left for their homes Fri- iay morning to spend the holidays. YVe wish them a happy time at home, and tbos# who are remaining at the college, we know they have a good lime assured them and we congratu late them. The exercises of the col lege will be resumed on Monday, the 4th of January. and have;the settlement of an estate? If so, request of the Judge of Probate that youradvertisement be placed in :: :: :: It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District. Commercial Printing Of every description executed with neatness and dispatch at The Ledger office, Gaffney, S. C. New Type, New Presses, the finest quality of Ink and Paper, and Compe tent Workmen. Send us your orders. FOR 30 DAYS === WE WILL SELL Mules, Buggies, Harness, Extra Shafts, Horses, Wagons, Poles, Lap Robes and all kinds of the Best* Groceries at prices that will astonish the buying public. The Finest Line of Table Silverware in Town. We defy competition and invite your patronage. JT- C. I^ipscoiiil* & Co. A SucceaHful Bttzaiir. The bazaar giveu by Mr. George Garrett Byers’ Sunday school class in the Littlejohn building last Thurs day and at night was a pronounced success. Many useful and ornamental trticies were disposed of and a neat •<um realized. The proceeds go to pro vide a Christmas tree for the children •f the First Baptist church Sunday ichool and many little souls will be made happy by the thoughtfulness of Ylr. and Mrs. Byers and the members of the former’s Sunday school class Funeral of Air. Green. The funeral of Mr. John YV. Green was preached at Cherokee Avenue Baptist church on Sunday by Rev. G. F. Hamrick. Mr. Green died at the home of his father in this city on the 4 h lost., after a long illness, in his 25 h - ear. His remains were buried at Beaver Dam church. N. C. Mr Green was a pious young man ; he ritaiueii consciousness to the last and died comforted by h's faith. Liberal Treatment Prompt Service Absolute Safety are some of the features of our service guaranteed patrons of this Bank. We want your business. Call on us at any time. National Bank of Gaffney. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Notice of Sale. Statk ok South Carolina, Cherokee County. }. Plaintiff, AH kinds of Job Work done office at The Ledger neatly and at prices commensurate with high grade work. Try us. Heroic Butler. During the recent church con/ress nt Bristol, England, the lord mayor of the city gave a reception to the members of the congress, says the London News. The place was crowded almost to suf focation, and one prominent clergyman from the north of England, after hav Ing been duly presented to the lord mayor and lady mayoress, found him self carried on by the crush throm various rooms until he was taken agal Into the entrance ball, where a streai of comers were still being presented He could not escape one way or anoth er. The butler asked his name, when lie nt once replied. “I’ve been In be fore.” Immediately the butler called out In a loud voice, "The Rev. Mr. Been In Bcfrrc!” J. F. Whisonant, etc against Blacksburg Spinning & Knitting Mill, et al, Defendants. In obedience to a decree made in the above entitled action I will offer for sale at public outcry at Gaffney, Court House of Cherokee county, S. C., on salesday in January 1904, (Jan. 4th, 1904) dunng the legal hours of sales, the following described property: All that certain piece or parcel of land, situated in Blacksburg, Cherokee county, S. C., containing seventeen and one-half acres, more or less, bounded on the Northwest by Southern Ry Co’s, land, South and Hast by lands of J. G. Black and on all other sides by lauds of J. F. Whisonant, (fully shown on plat filed \ iih decre). Also, situated upon the said land one brick building two stories high, with iron roof, 50 by 80 feet and an additional building, same material in rear of build ing first described, one story, 50 by 60 feet, three tenement houses, two 30 H. P. boilers, one 25 H. P. engine, 41 knit ters, 10 ribbers, 8 loopers, dyeing outfit, one singer, electrical outfit (except dynamo) and all other machinery, con nections and attachments in or connect ed with said plant. Terms of sale, one-half cash, purchaser having the privilege of paying the whole bid in cash, the balance due to be secur ed by the purchaser’s bond and mortgage over the premises and property sold, bearing 8 per cent, interest from day of sale, with 10 per cent, attorney’s fees in addition thereto, if said mortgage is foreclosed in court. The purchaser to keep the property insured for a sufficient amount to secure the balance dut on his purchase. If the purchaser shall fail to comply with his bid within 30 minutes from sale, the property will be offered for re-sale at the risk of the former pur chaser, subject to the conditions herein before stated. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. D. WHEAT, Dec. loth, 1903. Receiver. Dec.-is-22-29-o3. BrougM In Our ‘ . ' * ' We have made A BIG CUT IN PRICES in several of our lines in order to get rid of the stock and make room for other goods. If you want some good wearing apparel at a small cost, NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. Clothing Cut-rate prices to close out. $12.00 Suits at $9.00 10.00 Suits at 8.00 5.00 Suits at 4.50 Extra Pants $4.00 Pants at $3.25 3.50 Pants at 2.25 2.00 Pants at 1.60 1.50 Pants at 1.20 1.25 Pants at 95 Hats and Caps $3.00 Hats at $2.75 2.25 Hats at 2.00 1.25 Hats at 98 See our “Highstepper” Hat, worth any man’s $2.00, cut to $1.50. Big Line Boys’ YVinter Caps— “Warm Things.” High Grade Shoes Just got another lot of those “Maid Marion” 98c Shoes that have given such perfect satisfac tion. Also new hue of “Equiva lent” Shoes—best on the market at the price. An extra good Shoe is the kid-lined “Phonograph” Shoe—we have it. See our Hue of best dress Shoes. Some Bargain Offers in Dry Goods 30c YVhite Twilled Flannels at 24c a yd. 25c Red Flannel at 24c. Few more pieces Waist Goods cheap while they last; several pieces Skirt Goods at a sacrifice; some broken pieces Danish Cloth left—all profit knocked off to run them off. GOOD LINE 25c UNDERWEAR TO CLOSE AT 23c. Come early and get better choice. LIMESTONE STREET. Sam W. Clary. Null ii! Mfg. Co. And Still They Come. The bargains referred to last week have been arriving almost daily, “and still they come.” There’s no end to the good values I have for my friends and cus tomers this time. My line of Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ Clothing is unsurpassed, both in quality and price. Men’s Suits from $5 00 to $15.00 Youths’ Suits from $2.00 to $8.00 Boys’ Suits from 75c to $4.00 Shoes and Hats to fit and please all. Dress Goods in Flannels, Zibelins, Shark Skin and Jother styles, 25c and up. Fleeced Waistings and Tric^Flannels, at 25c per yard. Red, White and Blue Flannels 4 to 15c per yard. Ladies’ Skirts from $1.00 to $5.00. Jackets $1.00 and up. Quilts from 75c to $1.50 each. Blankets from 75c to $5.00 per pair. Lap Robes from $1.50 to $6.00 each. Horse Blankets $1.00 to $2.50 each. Biggest line of Trunks, Dress-suit Cases, Telescopes and Satchels to be found in the city and the prices are as low as the lowest. For a few days only I will offer my entire stock of Buggies at cost to close out. If in need of a Stylish Rig now is the time and this is the place to get it at bargain. I am also prepared to give you a bargain in Harness and all other leather goods. Disc Harrows to prepare your land for grain. Bagging and Ties as low as can be sold anywhere. Fresh lot Fertilizers foi grain at prices that can’t be beat. My Trunk and Clothing department is on second floor. Come up and take a look. Yours for trade, J. 1. S A. T T.