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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District, of 3. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. GAFFNEY, S. C. f TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1904. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ^TEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Lightning struck and burned the store of Mr. Albert Eagle Thursday afternoon. Mr. Eagle lives at Del- niare, a postofflce about six miles north of Leesville. The loss will amount to about $2,500, and he carried about $1,300 insurance. Quite a heavy electric storm passed over Timmonsville Thursday evening, doing considerable damage. Light ning struck the dwelling of Mr. J. R. Reynolds, who lives some four miles below the town, killing Eva Reynolds Instantly and shocking Mr. Reynolds and his wife severely. Thursday evening during a severe thunderstorm lightning struck a barn and stables belonging to Hon. J. M. Humphreys, two miles below Carters- ville, in Florence county, and killed two mules and burned the buildings. Mr. Humphreys lost his entire oat crop. It could not be learned whether he was insured or not. The case of \V. Edward Deaton and Mary Deaton, charged with having killed J. Lawrence Patterson at Fort Mill last May, was given to the jury in Yorkville about 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. After being out about two hours they rendered the following ver dict: “Edward Deaton guilty and rec ommended to the mercy of the court; Mary Deaton not guilty.” An order was taken Friday before Judge Klugh, in Charleston, placing Walter W. Leggett, of that city, who is a defendant in an alimony case filed w few days ago. under bond for his appearance. The wife’s attorney had fears that Leggett was about to leave the city and evade the law and the order was taken in consequence, the bond being fixed at $1,000. John Pickett, of Columbia, the mes senger boy who was awarded $8,000 damages against the Southern Rail way for the loss of an arm, must have his case tried over again. The Su preme Court Saturday morning ren dered an opinion reversing the decis ion of the lower court and sending it bac'u^ for another trial. Suit was brought for $10,000 and the jury awarded him $8,000, and the road ap pealed. Arrangements are being made to be gin the necessary repairs to the Char leston Hotel in Charleston, and the re-opening of the old hostelry in the fall as a tourist hotel. The grant of a hotel privilege by the State board of control insures the project, for no hotel of the kind could be operated successfully without such a privilege. No time will be lost by the new own ers in putting the hotel in good con dition. Private Shuman, of the Greenville Light Infantry at Camp Columbia, was shot in the foot Saturday after noon by the accidental discharge of his pistol. Several of the members were playing in the street when the pistol was discharged. The ball en tered just below the ankle, going through the foot. Private Shuman went up to the hospital. He will only be laid up for a few days, and his wound is in no way serious. Sarah Rennet, a colored nurse, was arrested in Charleston Thursday for sprinkling the four-year-old child of Conductor Thomas Jellico. of the Southern Railway, with a solution of carbolic acid, which burnt the child’s face and head and neck considerably. The solution had been used in sprink ling plants to kill insects and the wo man turned the sprinkler on the child. It is said the negro has maltreated the child before and the sprinkling of acid was done in wanton meanness. The child is badly blistered, but will doubtless suffer no serious effects from the fluid. A number of Charleston holders of exposition bonds ha/e donated their holdings, amounting to $2,200, to the South Carolina Military Academy for the erection of the new gymnasium which is planned. About the same sum w'as raised by the special com mittee of the Alumni association and with this fund a good gymnasium will be installed for the physical develop ment of the cadets. Plan are being planned now for the gymnasium and for the enlargement of other depart- i ments which will inmprove the cur riculum of the institution and increase Its efficiency and standing. , Norman S. Cason, an industrious and prosperous farmer of Abbeville county who has been almost totally blind since childhood, met with a pe culiar and happy accident while in Abbeville Wednesday. A correspon dent says Mr. Cason was sitting in the store of P. Rosenbery & Co., and In attempting to put on his hat the brim struck him in the eye. For a moment he was rendered totally blind, but soon afterwards his sight came to him and he was able to dis tinguish friends and objects never be- fot* seen by him. He said he could see the obstruction to his vision grad ually passing away after the total blindness came on. The woman who will drink and flirt will some day stoop to other dirt. People You Know and People You Don’t Know. Charles P. Ligon returned Friday from Cincinnati, where he had been to attend a convention of “the best people on earth.” John V. Price, of Algood, spent some time in the city Saturday. J. C. Jefferies, Esq., was in Spar tanburg Friday on legal business. Lee J. Hammett, of Lawn, who a few weeks back graduated at the State military academy in Charleston, was among his friends in the city Saturday. June T. Robbs, a worthy farmer of Maud, spent some time in the city Saturday Miss Louise Johnson left Saturday to spend a few days with Mr. Dink Mathis at Ravenna. Capt. I. M. Smith, of Thickety, made a business trip to the city Saturday. E. A. Trescot, Esq., of Blacksburg, was in the city yesterday. James W. Sparks, merchant and farmer of Asbury, was in the city Sat urday. ' R. J. Foster, of Gowdeysville, was in the city yesterday. N. W. Hardin, Esq., of Blacksburg, was in the city Saturday on legal bus iness. Misses Ada and Ida Crocker re turned the last of last week from a visit to friends near Newton, N. C. Jesse Wright, a working farmer of Abingdon, was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Prof, and Mrs. Shuford returned from Rock Hill Friday, where they had been attending the Stale summer school. They report a pleasant time and are much pleased with the work of the school this session. Joel Petty, merchant and farmer, was in the city Saturday. J. L. Sanders, of Sarratts. made a business trip to the city yesterday and added his name to our list. C. Cash, a prominent merchant and farmer of Ezell, was in the city Sat urday. He called to see The Ledger. E. P. Macomson was a prominent visitor in the city Friday. Prof. Moore, of Sunny Side, was in the city the last of the week. Sol S. Phillips spent a short time in the city Friday afternoon. Going Doggett, of Charlotte, N. C., was in the city Saturday on business and visiting relatives. Kinyon Blanton, of Maud, came to the city Friday on business. John M. Daniel, of Thickety, made a business trip to the city Friday. J. J. Quinn came in to see us yester day and subscribed. He says the crops about Camp’s Cross Roads have not suffered for rain, and that they are in fine condition. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Pridmore, of Grassy Pond, were shopping in the city Friday. Mrs. Z. J. Thompson and little son, Loy, of Shelby, N. C., are in the city the guests of their relatives. Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Thompson, on Victoria avenue. Joe Phillips, a Grassy Pond farmer, spent some time in the city Friday. Miss Inez Spears, of Jonesville, is in the city visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Agnes Wood, on Robinson street. G. W. Elmore, a successful farmer of Grassy Pond, came to the city Fri day. H. D. Mathis, of Ravenna, spent Fri day and Saturday in the city with friends. Jonas Vassey, of Ezell, was a busi ness visitor in the city Friday. Rev. W. T. Thompson, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Nanti, returned Friday from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Stanley Mason, in Richmond, Va. W. C. S. Wood of Grassy Pond, made a business trip to the city Fri day. Perry Z. Holmes. Joe L. Mooney, R. G. Byars and James J. Scruggs will go to Charleston this morning on the Southern excursion. W. J. Thomas, of Thickety, came to the city Friday to see the Limestone Guards off for Columbia. County Commissioner A. B. Scruggs was a city visitor yesterday. M. B. Vassey, of Thickety, paid The Ledger a visit Friday. Miss Sibbie Spears, of Jonesville. is in the city spending some time with her sister, Mrs. J. J. Gaffney. Marion Bridges, of Dellinger, was a Ledger visitor Friday. Wm. Blackwell, of Gowdeysville, called to see The Ledger yesterday. Thomas Morris, of Gowdeysville, was in the city yesterday and favored The Ledger with a call. Mrs. John T. Van and son. Norman, of Charlotte. N. C., who have been spending several days with Dr. and Mrs. Lodge at Limestone College, re turned home yesterday. A. G. Davis, of Mercer, spent some time in the city yesterday. Magistrate A. J. McCraw was an early visitor in the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crocker, of Goucher, were shopping in the city Saturday. James Davis, of near the North Car olina line, made a business trip to the Hty Saturday. Miss Nellie Mitchell, a charming young lady of Kings Creek, was shop ping in the city Saturday. While here she favored The Ledger with an ap preciated call. Meek Stroup, a prominent young business man of Clover, this State, was in the city Saturday. He called to see The Ledger in company to be proud of. Ira Hardin, Esq., a prominent busi ness man of Blacksburg, came to Gaff ney Saturday. Dr. W. L. Settlemyer spent a day in Gastonia, N. C., the last of the week. J. B. L. Pettit, a pushing farmer of Ravenna, came to the city Saturday on business. T. S. Webber, of Dellinger, was a Ledger visitor Saturday. t NEWSY LETTER FROM ETTA JANE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. CONVERSE CLIPPINGS, Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest Etta Jane, July 23.—While in Gaff ney Thursday we were show-n the pic ture of a prominent man of that place which was taken in Atlanta, Ga., some time ago. We think the best thing he can do is to sue the artist for damage. Several parties who went to town Thursday came home wet, but glad to be in that fix. Mr. Morgan Millwood has plenty of watermelons now to supply this coun try, to say nothing of a host of others who have more or less. Notwithstanding w’e had more rain last Thursday evening than has fallen here at any one time since the June freshet of last year, yet yesterday morning dry dirt could be kicked up in some places. “Uncle Sill” Estes is not often hum bugged, but sometimes he, like the rest of us. makes mistakes, as the fol lowing will show: Sometime ago a fellow came through this country selling a map. After showing the map the fellow- told “Uncle Sill” that unless he could get three hundred subscribers in Chero kee county his company wouldn’t de liver a single copy of the map in this county. Uncle Sill thought it a very good opportunity to accommodate the fellow without costing him anything, as he had no idea of ever seeing him again. So he put dow-n his name for a map to be delivered at $1.50, and the fellow- went on his way rejoicing. The next man he came too had no idea of getting a map, but when he saw “Uncle Sill” had subscribed for one he thought it must be a good thing, and so he popped his name down for one, with the same understanding—that if the agent didn’t get 300 subscribers the obligation w-ould be null and void. So it went on from one to another, un til the same fellow came back, this time with the maps, leaving them and getting the money in each case. When the fellow came to “Uncle Sill” to deliver his map, one of his (“Uncle Sill’s”) boys was present and said: “Pa, I don’t know what you want with that map. We have one just like it we got for ninety-eight cents, and it is the very identical same map.” "Well,” said “Uncle Sill,” “w-hen I subscribed for it 1 didn’t think there were 300 fools in the coun ty, but now there is no telling how- many there are. “Uncle Sill” says now that he sub scribed for the map as much or more from sympathy for the man than any thing else, because he talked as if he was sick. Said he had been teaching school and w-as now out for a vacation and a little exercise combined, in which he was trying to make a living. Between the first and second visits of the agent “Uncle Sill” could see a marked improvement in the man’s ap pearance. On the last trip he looked so much better than he did on the first. That’s very easily accounted for. He was getting the money on this trip. We had a fijie rain last Thursday evening and everything looks much better now-. It came not before it was needed. We heard one of the most practical and observant farmers and business men of the county say last Thursday at Gaffney that if the w-eath- er continued five days as it had been for the last three days, the cotton crop would be completely ruined. And it would be almost if not quite as bad on the old corn. Almost every day we hear of wells and springs going dry. Nope of the streams are carrying their usual amount of water. In some places Broad river can be waded .and many of the lesser streams are completely dry. Some of our neighbors took wheat to the Whitesides roller mill on Clark’s Fork to get it ground this week. Today our people expect to enjoy a picnic occasion at the new school house, where they will hear some talks on education and on school matters generally. We hope to give our read ers a full account of the proceedings in our next letter. The public generally have been in vited and the patrons and friends of the school have gone to considerable trouble and expense to make it a pleasant occasion. The proceeds from the sale of lemonade and other re freshments will be applied to the pur chase of seats-and other furniture for the school house. J. L. S. People and Affairs Around the Three Cliftons. Converse, July 22.—Next Sunday there will be an old time singing at Cannon’s Camp Ground, near here. In the forenoon the exercises will con sist of selections from the old South ern Harmony, edited and published by William Walker, who taught vocal music with such splendid success throughout this Piedmont belt over! half a century ago. In the afternoon selections from the latest authors w-ill be rendered by the young people of the neighborhood. Mr. James Quinn, a popular and ex perienced cotton mill man, has • ac cepted a good position with the Union mill. Several families have moved from Clifton No. 1 to Woodruff. Mrs. A. P. Tisdale, Mr. W. O. Cash and Mrs. J. M. Milikin are among the number. Misses Mattie and Belva Allen at tended the session of the State Dental Association at White Stone yesterday. They report a pleasant time. Mr. B. S. Allen, formerly telegraph operator at Clifton, but more recently of Spartanburg, has been transferred to Charlotte. Miss Mary Lockman, of Glendale, spent yesterday w-ith her friend, Mrs. Isom Kirby. The two-year-old son of Rev. T. H. Harrison, which has been very sick for three months, is somewhat im proved, we are glad to note. Mr. and Mrs. M. Turner and daugh ter, Miss Kate, of Grover, N. C., spent one week with Mrs. Nannie Bartee re cently. It is not generally known, but it is nevertheless true, that Converse has a real live bank. Mr. Sam T. Reid is the affable and accommodating cash ier, and Mr. John A. Law, of Spartan burg, is president. The directors are Jno. A. Law, Elisha Bomar and Jno. E. Shea. Mr. Mitchell Scott, of Charlotte, who holds a good position with the Louise Mills, is visiting his father, Mr. B. F. Scott, this week. Miss Eunice Roberts, of Shelby, N. C. , has just returned home after hav ing spent a week pleasantly with rela tives. Yesterday afternoon lightning struck the smokestack of tiie No. 3 mill, but the exact extent of the damage we are not prepared to give. The stack was in course of erection, lacking only about twenty or thirty feet of being complete. W. C. A. THROUGHOUT THE TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA. Mr. Hagan in Gaatonia. The following in reference to our worthy fellow-townsman. Mr. Smiley Hagan, we clip from the Gastonia News: “An unusual thing occurred at the Wesleyan church Sunday afternoon at the 3 p. m. service. Smiley Hagan, of Gaffney, a deaf and dumb shoe maker, was at the service and shout ed. The service was quiet until he began to shout, and the congregation seemed to take inspiration from him, and many others shouted. He did his shouting by motioning and making a little hissing noise. The scene was an unusual one, and those who un derstood that the man was deaf and dumb knew what he was doing.” Mr. Hagan is a good Christian, an industrious workman, and deserves the confidence of good people. HURD, THE MAGICIAN In His Wonderful Performances at the Theatre. Hurd, the wonderful, will appear at the Star Theatre three nights this week, commencing Thursday night. The programme is a widely diversi fied one, and presents the magician in all his wonderful feats of legerder- main. Valuable presents will be given away nightly. Admission 15 and 25 cents. In addition to the feats of magic, there will be a good vaudeville pro gramme presented by some of the leading lights of the variety stage. A good, clean, high-class and very in teresting show- is promised to the patrons of the theatre: something to while away the tedium of a few heated hours and make you forget all your troubles. The following will prove interesting reading: (Columbus, Ga., Enquirer.) Quite an amusing little incident oc curred at the market yesterday, the participants being Professor Hurd, the magician.and a peddler of chick ens, who hails from the country. Prof. Hurd walked up to the ped dler. who w-as at the time holding a rooster in his hand trying to sell it, and Prof. Hurd remarked that it w-as a fine hen. The peddler replied, “you city folks don’t know the difference between a rooster and a hen. That’s a rooster.” “No, it’s a hen,” replied the magi cian, and to prove his assertion, he placed the fowl in a basket which was lying near by, and after a minute or two he then removed the fowl from the basket and there before the ped dler’s eyes were seven eggs. The magician yien walked calmly away, the peddler staring in blank amazement. (Toledo, O., Bee, July 22d.) There is a good deal of resemblance between the performance of Freder ick Hurd, the magician at the Farm theatre this w-eek, and that of the late lamented Hermann, surnamed the great. Hurd shows that polish and dexterity that were characteristic of Hermann, and the patter w-ith which he keeps his audiences interested while he is leading up to his feats of legerdemain are not the least enter taining phases of his performance. Probably few people realize how im portant this patter is in the success of a sleight-of-hand artist. There is Kellar, in some respects a most clev er magician than Hermann was, but he has never been able to attain the vogue that came to Hermann, simply because he did not have the faculty of holding his auditors’ interest while he was preparing to mystify them. Mr. Hurd |x)ssesses this faculty in a marked degree; and he says he is all the time studying his audiences that he may know as well as he can just what goes best with them. Executive Clemency. Columbia, July 22.—Special: Gov. Heyward has granted a pardon to Dan Brown, a consumptive convict on the Charleston chain gang. Hugh Nicholson, a white farmer, who two years ago murdered a neigh bor in Chesterfield county, and was sentenced to three years in the peni tentiary, has been pardoned on ac count of physical infirmities. His family is in the poor house. Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers After being out for 24 hours the jury in the case R. V. Jones against the 4 C’s in Charlotte returned a ver dict Saturday at 11 o’clock, giving the plaintiff judgment for $750. He sued for $10,000. It is reported that Mrs. Will Ogles by, of Newell, has become cross-eyed. She w-as dressing her hair before a mirror and her eyes became crossed and have remained so since. Efforts by physicians to change them have failed and she is suffering much. She is a young married woman. The board of directors of the Bank of Lumberton, carrying out a plan de termined upon last December, have taken steps to increase the capital stock of the bank to $50,000, and in doing so they have a number of busi ness men of the town and community who have heretofore owned no stock in the bank, thus making the bank even more than ever an enterprise in which the whole town and community can feel an interest. The Elk Mountain Cotton Mill Co., of Asheville, is chartered with $50,- 000 capital to operate a cotton mill. The incorporators include J. A. Bur roughs, Gay Green, Chas. A. Webb, Theo. F. Davidson, W. B. Northrop. The Bank of Gibson, Scotland county, is authorized to begin business at once with $15,000 capital. There are about a hundred subscribers to the stock, notable among them being W. B. Adams and W. C. Caldwell. Raleigh’s colored population is in a tremendous stir over the bringing of serious criminal charges against Rev. W. E. Walker, pastor of the St Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal church in that city. This is one of the largest colored churches in the South. Warrants have been issued for his arrest. It is understood that he has left the city for parts unknown. He is charged with betraying a fifteen- year-old daughter of one of the most respected colored citizens, Maurice Watts. Walker is a married man w : th a large family. Mr. Gustave Rosenthal, secretary and treasurer of the Juanita Cotton Mills, Alamance county, was found in an unconscious condition in his office in Raleigh about three o’clock Saturday, and little hope was enter tained for his recovery. The condi tions in his office pointed strongly to suicidal intentions. The office door was locked, windows were down, and several of those first in the room say there were strong fumes of gas. How ever. this theory is vigorously denied by his friends, and there was certainly no apparent reason for suicide. He is probably 05 years old. The wife of Mr. Frank Beaman, of Goldsboro, died suddenly Friday morn ing between 12 and 1 o’clock, of heart disease. Mrs. Beaman returned home Thursday, after six weeks’ sojourn in Raleigh, where she underwent treat ment for her heart, apparently much improved. About 12 o’clock she got up for a drink of water. On returning to her bed, she stooped and kissed her husband, arousing him. Shortly after wards, he heard her struggling and hurried to her bedside. A moment later she was dead. She leaves a husband and three children. One of the children lies now at the point of death. A report, confirmed by ’phone mes sage, the details of which are meagre, was current in Goldsboro Saturday afternoon to the effect that Emmett Herring, a merchnt of Faison, a young white man, Friday night attempted criminal assault upon a Miss Swinson. a young white woman of the same county, and narrowly escaped lynch ing by enraged citizens. Miss Swin son lives with her parents, about eight miles from Faison. Friday night young Herring, with a lightning rod, drove over to the home of the Swin- sons, and in some manner, it is alleg ed, induced Miss Swinson out of her home and attempted the infamous act. It is further alleged that Miss Swin son heroically resisted, tearing Her ring’s shirt into ribbons before her alarm was heard, and her people came to her rescue. Later the friends of the family collected, put a rope around Herring’s neck, and swung him up to a convenient tree, but her father im mediately cut him down with the re quest that the law be allowed to take its course. Bub Wilson, an operative of the Dilling Mill, at King’s Mountain, com mitted suicide Wednesday by taking laudanum. It is reported that it was a deliberate act of self-destruction and the physicians failed to reach him in time to save his life. News reached Mooresville late Fri day afternoon of a very distressing family row over In Cabarrus county, along the line of that county and Mecklenburg. One William C. Mar tin had been drunk for several days, and Thursday night beat his wife un mercifully. The wife is the mother of twin babies Just five weeks old. Martin’s nephew, Charles Rogers, who works on the place, held Martin while the wife escaped with the children to a neighbor’s, Nathaniel Fulham, where they were cared for during tho night. Friday morning between 11 and 12 o’clock Martin followed his wife and renewed the quarrel, and again began to beat her. Charley Honeycutt, who lives near Fulham's, and who married Mrs. Martin’s sister, went to the scene, accompanied by his wife. All four of the husbands and wives became engaged in the melee, when Honeycutt struck Mar tin on the head with a part of a wag on bolster, fracturing the skull, break ing the nose, and knocking one eye entirely out. Martin was not expect ed to live. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. People Going and Coming Beyond the Broad. Blacksburg, July 25.—Mrs. C. M. Strong, of Charlotte, N. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Moore, of this place. Miss May Crosby of Sharon, is vis iting relatives and friends here. Miss Victoria Mintz, of the Buffalo section, is in town visiting Miss Della Rhyne. Miss Lola Green, of Gaffney, is here visiting her sister, Mrs. D. G. Cline. Mrs. E. Peoples and daughter, of Steel Creek, N. C., are here visiting Mrs. Frank Moore. Miss Connie Baber, of Gastonia, N. C., and Miss Ethel Keeter, of Gro ver, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Baber for a few days. Mrs. Blanton and son, of Forest City, N. C., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Baber. Mr. J. C. Jefferies, of Gaffney, is in town today on business Mrs. Rebecca Black Porter, of At lanta, Ga., is visiting relatives and friends in town. Miss Mamie Blalock left Saturday for a two weeks’ visit in Marion and Forest City, N. C. Mr. Ed George, of Gaffney, was In town a few hours Sunday. He was the guest of Messrs. Dolph and Mau rice Little. Mrs. Riviere, of Shelby, N. C., Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Chas, Ba her. Mr. I). D. Gaston spent Sunday ir: 1 town with his family. Miss Mattie Liech of Greenville, la vishing her sister, Mrs. P. Bomar Whisnant, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Webb White returned home last week after spending some time with relatives and friends in and around Newberry. Mrs. Tom Moore, of Furman, is vis iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell Smith, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Turner returned to their home in Sharon. N. C., after , spending several days in town with their son, Mr. Ed Turner, and other | relatives. Mr. Ralph Turner has returned from 1 Piedmont Springs, where he has been on account of his health. 1 Mr. Lee Little and daughter, May- me, spent Sunday in town with rela tives. Miss Edna Healan is in North Caro lina, visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomasson. Mr. Girard Sherer spent Sunday in town with his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Blanton, of Stice, N. C., spent some time in town with relatives last w-eek. Mr. Clarence Borders, of Kings Creek, attended church here yester day. Rev. Mr. R. A. Hedgpeth, of Forest City, is in town holding a protracted meeting at the Baptist church. All are invited to come. Mr. Jim Blalock went to Marion Saturday for a day or two. Mr. Ed Blalock went to Gaffney Sat urday on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shiver went to Gaffney Thursday shopping. Miss Mary Alexander, of Yorkville. is in town visiting Miss Hope Gibson. Mrs. George E. Eaves left Thursday for Marion to visit her husband’s pa rents. Miss Clara Thomson, after spending several days with Miss Mabel Kam- seur, returned to her home at Stan ley. N. C., Saturday. Mrs. M. E. Earle returned home Fri day after spending several days at Piedmont Springs. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Anderson re turned home Friday night after a few days’ stay at White Stone Lithia Springs. L. C. B. FAIREST KIND OF OFFER. If Mi-o-na Does Not Cure Dyspepsia. Gaffney Drug Co. Will Return Your Money. When you buy a box of Mi-o-na, na ture’s cure for dyspepsia, have them sign the following guarantee. This protects you absolutely against loss should the treatment fail to cure you ' GUARANTEE We hereby agree to refund the I money paid for Mi-o-na on return of the empty box, if the purchaser tells us that it has failed to cure dyspepsia or stomach troubles. This guarantee covers tw-o 50c boxes, or a month’s treatment. Signed Any one who has dyspepsia, indi gestion, headache, dizziness, fir specks before the eyes, or any form of liver and stomach troubles, shouhf take advantage of this chance to hr» cured without risking a penny. Th<* guarantee is plain and absolute ft' Mi-o-na does not do all that is claim ed for it, if it does not give ner^ect satisfaction, if it does not cure dvs pepsia in any form and give nerf°cf and natural digestion, your money k returned upon demand Gaffney Drug Co. give a positive guarantee w-ith every box. showing most conclusively their faith In this remarkable remedy.