Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We Want to Write Your Fire Insurance and Bonds L WOOD & SMITH. Agents Old Reliable Companies SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. A FOX HUNT. Buy in Haste Repent at Leisure There are many drugs sold to people who do not get what they think they get, because the}’ do not take time to investigate, and because they do not buy at the right place. This is quite certain to be true of those who buy from traveling or auction stocks or from mailorder houses. We have been in business a good many years, but have never yet seen an alleged bargain of this kind which we would not duplicate. As a rule we can pro vide better bargains and help you to select better what you want from our regular stock. Value cannot be judged in this line of goods unless you know precisely what the quality is, and the only way to learn the quality is to depend upon the judgment of a dealer who is at hand to make good all promises in regard to the goods. ()ur trade is founded upon confidence This confidence is based on years of fair selling, quality considered. W’e are always in position to protect your interest in everv way and are always here to provide the evidence that we can do this. Cherokee Drug Co. We employ two Licensed Pharmacists. Prescription Work a Feature. All The Details necessary to the safety of our customers, stockholders and directors are carefully followed at this bank. If you are seeking courteous attention, liberal treat ment and absolute security, let us have your business. We will be glad to confer with those who wish to open an account, let the amount be large or small. NATIONAL BANK OT GAFFNEY, GAFFNEY, S. C. STATE, COUNTY AND CITY DEPOSITORY. Capital, $50,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits, 33,000.00 Stockholders' Liabilities, 50,000 00 Protection to Depositors $133,000.00 D. C. ROSS. President. MAYNARD SMYTH, Cashier. J. G. WARDLAW. Y.-Pres t. CHAS. W. HAMES, Asst. Cashier. ItWon’tTake You Long to “catch on ,, to the fact that Doctors get the results that they expect from PRE SCRIPTIONS filled by us. The reasons are that we positively do not put into them any drug of questionable purity, and in filling a prescription, we do not deviate a hair’s breadth from the way it is written. Our prices are reasonable. The Gaffney Drug Co. Prescription Druggists. LwtJoTc Fcdi- tlit? Hor*-»et-*licDe Sin• Gome to Us for Your Wagons We handle the W. E. Spach hand made Wagon, also the Piedmont, two of the best makes of Wagons that are on the market. “Don’t Forget It, The Anchor Buggy” Wq are Agents for Gibbs Machinery Co., of Columbia, S. C., and can fit you up with any kind of machinery on short notice. R.. N. Wilkins Hdw. Co. Subscribe for The Ledger. Come and see The Ledger and sub scribe. IC has rained in Gaffney every day but two since the 25th of July, and it rained in sight one of those days. Rev. A. M. Simms will aid the pas tor in a protracted meeting at El- Bethel. beginning on the second Sun day in August. The Colfax-Rebekah Lodge will not meet Saturday evening as was in tended, as the hall will be in use for other purposes. The protracted meeting at Provi dence will begin next Sunday. Rev. Joe E. Smith, of Concord, N. C., will assist the pastor. 1 Dr. W. B. DuPre and family are moving into the handsome cottage on Victoria avenue which he purchased a few weeks back. Z. A. Robertson is having his old wooden place of business on Lime stone street torn out and will erect a ; brick store in its place. The veterans of Gowdeysville township will meet at Wilkinsville; Saturday, Gth inst.. at 10 o’clock a. m., to elect their member on the pension board. During the shower Tuesday after noon lightning struck a large tree in the yard of Mrs. Tena Gaffney, on North Limestone street, shocked her son Oscar severely and killed her best dog which was chained to a stake in the ground. Watermelons and cantaloupes have been coming in every day at an al most unprecedented rate. Wagon loaded full tip to the top come in on every road entering the city. The great supply makes them very cheap, but they keep coming and the produc ers seem satisfied with the prices. Dilbert Hughes, a young white man for whom a warrant was issued some ten days ago. charging him with breaking into and robbing Mr. Sam Clary’s store in this city, was arrested yesterday in Blacksburg by Chief Duncan. Hughes was brought to Gaffney yesterday and placed in jail. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines and chil dren left Wednesday for Yorkville, where they will make their future home. We regret to have them leave Gaffney, but they thought the move best for them. We trust that pros perity will attend them in their new home, and that their fondest hopes will be realized. We congratulate our young friend. T. K .Yassey, of Thickety, on his se curing the scholarship offered to a young man of this county by the Col lege of Charleston. Mr. Yassey is an industrious and studious young man. and we predict that he will make a good record in the time honored old college in the "city by the sea.” Mrs. W. O. Lipscomb, of Knoxville, | Tenn., accompanied by her children ; ami her sister. Miss Louise Wood, of this city, who has been spending some Gme with her, arrived in the city the first of the week and is with her fa ther. Mr. Moses Wood, on Grenard street, where she will remain a short time and then join her husband, Mr. W. O. Lipscomb, on his railroad work in West Virginia. Rev. J. B. Wilson is conducting a very interesting and enthusiastic meeting at Sardis church, near Flint Hill. He is assisted in the meeting by Rev. Thomas H. Leitch and his singer, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Wilson will begin a meeting at Wilson’s Chapel Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, and continue it throughout the week. He will also be assisted in this meeting by Rev. Leitch and Mr. Marshall. • The rains last week extended to al- I most every portion of the county, which has added much to the crop I prospects. Both upland and bottom | corn are promising. The cotton crop is generally reported to be growing and fruiting well. But in a few places some kind of louse is found on the j bottom side of the leaf which is caus- ; ing it to turn black and fall off. We trust that this pest will not prevail | to any great extent. S. R. Suber, who some years ago 1 successfully ran a "kandy kitchen” , and fruit store in Gaffney but con cluded to try his business in other climes, returned to the city a few weeks ago and will tomorrow’ open up | a full stock of goods in his line In one of A. N. Wood’s new brick stores I now being finished on Limestone, l street. Mr. Suber’s many friends in Gaffney are glad to have him and his | wife return to our city and wish them a big business. One bank building and five brick, store rooms of most modern architect ure and finish are being erected on Limestone street in Gaffney at the present time, and two more will | be begun in a week or two. All these buildings have been rented and will ' be occupied as soon as completed. ; This is a pretty good show ing for one street, but if anybody else w’ants to go in business on Limestone street just let him come to Gaffney and say | so, and almost any property owner OB the street will agree to have a first class house with pressed brick and plate glass front ready for him | in sixty days. Lively Chase of Reynard by Cherokee Boys. The boys from Hickory Grove, in York county, and from Etta Jane, this county, came up Monday afternoon with twenty-one fox hounds. They were joined in the city by about half a dozen young men and eight more dogs, and about 1 o’clock Tuesday morning they left the city and went out by our old friend, Mr. J. C. Painter’s, and got him and a few’ of his fox hounds and proceeded to Thickety mountain, where they knew Reynard was lying in w r ait for them. They reached the desired ground a little before G o'clock Tuesday morn ing. In a short time a good trail was struck and by G o’clock Reynard was up with about forty dogs after him in full cry. The sport was fine for about an hour and was being enjoyed huge ly, when the farmers’ dogs in that section began to catch on and enter the race. The fice, the hounds, the half hounds, the curs, the bulls, the collies ami all degrees of bird dogs came in and took a hand, w’hich of course interfered with the fox dogs, almost discouraging the pack and soon brought the race to a trail, which was continued sometimes hot and sometimes cold for seven hours, when everything came to a standstill, and all came home worn out, fully realiz ing the mistakes of the day and hav ing well but hastily matured plans to prevent similar ones in the future. They reported lots of fun and a general good time and were pleased that the men and boys of the moun tain section turned out to join in the sport. Everyone had a itfetty good report for his favorite dog and a pret ty god excuse for its shortcomings. Some of the party returned to the mountain again Wednesday morning and soon got a fox up, but the misfor tune of the day before soon began to arise again and men in the crowd who knew how to hunt foxes “blowed” their dogs off and quit the race. Every one in a fox race does his best, there is no doubt of that, but there are generally so few in the crowd who know how to hunt foxes and manage a pack of hounds that it is a wonder if most of the hunters don’t retard the race more than they help it. But the inexperienced are so enthusiastic few can have the heart to censure them, even if they break the race up. as they often do. The way to catch a fox is for a few men to get from five to ten good hounds: be sure to have most of the men an.I dogs to know their business; let the neighborhood keep their dogs out of the race and the old hunters keep the new ones from hollowing and riding recklessly all over the coun try. then the sport is reduced to al most a science. There is no unneces sary noise and scarcely anything can be heard but the constant cry of the hounds as they roll over hill and dale, which will electrify every nerve in a man who has a soul. GREENVILLE, 5. C EDWIN McNEAL POTEAT, President. FURHAN UNIVERSITY, Courses leading to the decrees of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) and Master of Arts (M. A ) n*duc^ to a^Hnin/urn 1 Lurjre an.I Comfortable Ih>rtnit4»riev Expenses 14 For rooms apply to Frof. H. T. Cook. For Tata o^ue or In formation. address. 1 he Secretary of the Faculty. July % Aujr 5, y, 12. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Go. Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourlshiag town, Gaffney; also Farms ne by and in reach of the Schools of Limestone !»prinKS and of this place, in lots of 3C ses to 300 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm purpos For full particulars apply to J. V. SARRATT, Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through orover thelandso f this company, cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting, under penalty of law. A Season of Danger You’re wise if you have an Insurance Policy safe and sure. If vou have not, you run a good deal of risk. The excessive heat, storms and cyclones, and the dangers of travel at this season, all make life a little more uncertain and property unsafe. I SUCCEED the late F. G. Stacy as agent for all the companies in Fire, Life, Tornado and Accident Insurance represented by him, and shall be pleased to serve you in any line. . C. Ross. We Are Offering LOW GUT SHUES HI Kids,[Patent Leathers and Tans ’at greatly reduced prices—It’s [not too late to buy them. You can get three months good wear yet. Come to see us. ^ The Shoe Store First Baptist Church Notes. Dr. Simms will fill his pulpit next Sabbath as usual. Morning subject: “Elijah at Che- rith.” or “Dark Prospects.” At night: "The Hospitality of a Starving Widow.” Go ami carry your friends and wor ship with them. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. A number of teachers w’ho have been absent for some time will be with their classes again next Sabbath and the pastor desires a full attendance. Go in time for the opening exer cises if possible. I *111114 Your I^eniiies They Will Grow Into Dollars And the fruit will be ease, plenty and comfort for your older age The Richest* Field is Our (Savings Department* Where the fertilizer is 4 per cent. Interest, compounded quarterly, start at once and be in at the harvest. * Merchants and Planters Bank, A. N. WOOD, Brest. CHAS. P. LIGO.N, Asst-Cashler. C. M. SMITH, Cashier Excursion to Norfolk. On Monday. August IGth, the South ern Railway will run an excursion to Norfolk, Ya., operating special ial trains from Gaffney and Marion, N. C. Train will leave Gaffney at 4:22 p. m.. and Marion 5:03 p. m., August IGth, arriving in Norfolk at 7:30 o’clock next morning. The fare from Gaffney is only $4.50 for the round trip, and $4.00 from Marion. Returning, train will leave Norfolk at 7 p. m., on August 18th, thus giving passengers two days and one night in Norfolk. COME! COME TO SEE US. We are Sacrificing Colored Wash Goods A Talk to Ladies. Mrs. A. M. Reeves, of Charleston, will give an illustrated talk to ladies at the City Hall this (Friday) after noon at 5:30 o'clock. Her subject will be. "The higher physical life of woman.” No admission will be charged. Suicide Prevented. The startling announcement that a | preventive of suieide has been dis covered will interest many. A run down system, or despondency invari ably precede suicide and something has been found that will prevent that condition which makes suicide likely. At the first thought of self destruct ion take Electric Bitters. It being a grf*at tonic and nervine will strength en the nerves and build up the sys tem. It is also a great Stomach. Liver and Kidney regulator. Only 50c. Satis faction guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co., Druggists. South Carolina Military Academy. One vacancy In the State Beneficiary scholarship-* is to Ik- awarded on competi tive examination for ( herok»e county. Blank forms of application should be ap plied for at once to Col. C. S. Gaalsden, < 'lialr- man Board of Visitors, or the Cminty Super intendent of Education. Th* seapplications. FULLY MADF. Ol’T, must he In the hands of the Chairman on the 1st day of August, lu order to receive attention. C7cj 1 • O. S. Ocl *-*clt?x~~\, Chairman Board Trustees. July 15,22, 2!». Aug. 5 in Batistes, Lawns, Nickers, Zephyrs and many other lines in summer goods. It is our intention to clean up all summer goods. All remnants at greatly reduced prices. :: Ladies’ and Misses’ Summer Hats at your own prices. :: :: :: :: Men’s Straw Hats at cost and below cost. Men’s Slippers and some broken lines of Sun day Shoes at prices that have touched the lowest mark. :: :: :: :: See us for your Children’s, Misses’ and La dies’ Slippers. Prices will be cut deep on most every line of these in our house from this time on. :: :: :: :: Special Communication. A special communication of Granard Lodge No. 180, A. F. M.. will be held in the lodge room Saturday evening, August Gth, at 8 p. m., for work in M. M. degree. Members are earnestly i requested to he present. All visiting ! members will be welcomed. It’s as easy for some men to get under the cloud of debt as it is diffi cult for their creditors to see the sil ver lining. I la lima. bTdrufgUu. CONSUMPTIO The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. i heart pine Shingles ami Laths, and Devo’s cele- | brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and mace your es timates for nothing. 1^. Baker*, Vice-President and Manager. See us, see us! We will save you money. W. J. Wilkin « Co.. Gaffney, S. C.