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# THE LEDGER, Published Tuesday and Friday by Ed H. DsCampu Beginning January 1st the price of The Ledger will be $1.50 a year. Those who desire to do so may take advantage of the $1.00 a year rate by paying $1.00 for another year any i....e before January 1st. TKOCULK. We arc forced to beg the indulgence of our friends and patrons for a week or two. Our engine, which has been giving us no end of trouble for some time, has finally refused to work at all. As we are entirely dependent upon it to get up our tvpe for the paper we are necessarily at a disadvantage. We have telegraphed for a new engine. It will be here in the course of a week or ten days. In the meanwhile we will set all the local and county matter by hand and print the very best paper possible under the circum stances. It is only through the courtesy of our neighbor, the Cherokee News, that we are enabled to get out any sort of a paper at all. We acknowledge our appreciation of the tender of the use of their press, which we are taking advantage of. The generosity of the Messrs. Parrott is duly appreciated. Ra»«lan Wive* For Sale. In the Kharkoff, Poltava and Eka- terinoslav provinces of Russia, says the Novoe Vremya, there is a rapidly growing trade In the sale of wives, frequently at tlicir own desire 1 . The uoual cause is the extreme pov erty of the husband, who can no lon gs .• keep his wife, though it is often because the wife desires to he free from a cruel, drunken partner. The trade has become so common that few markets are held without such transac tions, which are considered so binding that no case has been known of a hus band demanding his wife back. Their market value varies from $40 to $75. More Is never paid. Oraanjr Pond GoMlp. Grassy Pond, Oct. 17.—Rev. C. M. Teal filled the pulpit at Grassy Pond yes terday. Mr. Teal and Rev. C. P. Pelmet changed pulpits yesterday, the latter preaching at Draytonville. The fire alarm was given in this com munity yesterday morning about 5 o'clock. We slapped on our harness and made for the scene. The fire was at Mr. Viigil Sarratt's crib. Some corn and about ninety gallons of syrup were consumed ,by the flames. The origin of the fire is unknown. We were distressed last Thursday to learn of the death of Mr. Joseph McKin ney. Mr. McKinney taught ^school near here last winter. He boarded with A. J. McCraw while teaching. His home was near Henrietta, N. C. Mr. McKinney was admired by all who knew him. His remains were laid to rest at High Shoals church. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Mr. Harrell. We regretted to give Joseph up. But why should we mourn the dead Or shake at death’s alarm; Twas but the voice of Jesus That called Joe to His arm. A. Friend. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82 MUST REACH THE WOMEN. DR. W. K. GUNTER, I_> K N T I »T Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, 4 Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 55. Gordon and Bennett’s “A Royal Slave” is announced for an early ap pearance here. It will undoubtedly be one of the social events of the sea son as arrangements are being made already for several theatre parties by some of our leading social lights. W N T O W > DO IVo. 32i Wrecks of all kinds repaued quick Old vehicles made as good as new Rubber tops put on your buggies; Know that your cash has its equivalent at my shop. Tell me vour wants; I will meet them. Ash, hickory, oak and poplar for your job Little breaks trouble make; I mend them Kindly I’ll meet you, genteel I’ll treat you. W. T. THOMPSON. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAL - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celeb.-a- ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate coutse m the Rye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. J* J* BajrOfhce in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldp 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. 1 heart pine Shingles and 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. Iv. Baker, Vice-President and Manager. Paper That Does, Best Medium For 1 Retail Merchants. [American Preps.] Judge Thayer, editor of the Clinton (la.) Age, who has been a newspaper, editor In the west for forty years, makes the following comment on the relative value of a newspaper to the! advertiser: “Glance over this city and you will accept as a truthful statement that seven-ninths of the sales made by the retail merchants are made to the la dies. Hence it needs no argument to bolster up the statement that for the advertiser to get paying results from his advertising he must reach the ears and eyes of the ladies. "The woman of a household are al most Invariably readers of local pa pers for that purpose. To make a newspaper of interest to the ladies is quite essential. “A large number of readers, made up in about equal proportion of paid subserbers and those who get the pa pers ‘free gratis,’ cannot be even a fairly good medium for advertisers to patronize. This is true if the reader of the paper simply glances it over and does not learn to like the paper. The very best advertising medium is the paper that the subscriber looks forward to each morning in anticipa tion of finding something new and pleasing to read. , ‘‘When a subscriber learns to be pleased with the paper and wishes it well then will that subscriber be friendly to those who advertise in it and very often patronize the mer chant because he does patronize the paper. ‘‘Then women like a liberal adver tiser. A merchant that stingily and FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Parts, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL A CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. parsimoniously uses the columns of the paper may also use his customers In the same way—so many of Ciese would be customers think. "Tradesmen cannot overlook the importance of inquiring into how the paper they patrozine stands with the family that reads !♦ The paper that is thrust upon the family, really against its mild protest, is not the pa per for an advertiser to expect good results from patronizing its adver tising columns. ‘‘The paper must be welcomed, the advertising in it must be welcomed, and this done there is a bond of friendship existing between the ad vertiser and the person to whom he expects to sell his goods. ‘‘The merchant who does not be lieve in advertising his wares is traveling a dangerous path. If he has the goodh and they are such as the public want let him go into the news papers and tell the public all about It. He must possess the courage of his convictions.” We have planned to have a ‘‘Work Day” offering of the Epworth Or phanage, on Oct. the 20th, inst. We desire to have as many people as will to donate their earnings of that day to the support of the orphanage. There are thousands of men and women, boys and girls, who could well afford to give the earnings of one day to the support of a cause so worthy and deserving as that of pro viding for the more than one hundred fatherless little ones placed under the care of the Methodist church in South Carolina, for support and train ing. It will be a small matter to the individual to make this contribution, hut the gifts of the many will aggre gate a helpful sum for the care of the orphans. Let some one be appointed in every community to take charge of the offerings and remit to us, but if preferable the individual may send his own offering. Wo hope the chil dren throughout the State will be encourage to take an active part in this matter, and that all the friends of the orphans will co-operate with us in making the day a success. W. B. Wharton,, Supt. Columbia, S. C. C. Eskridge B 4 U 5 Hav*! your BlHckMir tilling Done. All Smithing, Iron ami Wood Work done in first-class style and at reasonable rates. (Fortenberrys’ old stand.) WHO IS SHE? BUCK'S HEATERS ECONOMY CLEANLINESS COCO RESULTS vdl rI You can heat any part of your house with a I few of our heaters. See our line before buying. BUCK’S STOVES it V> FURNITURE CO. ^ m L-OT'TT- -e-3 fill "Wreck! < r 'i . 1 ~ 1 i. The recent terrible railroad wreck in Tennessee in which sixty-five people were killed, five of whom were our own people, and scores of others badly injured, all in an instant, should be A Warning to Everybody to Insure against accident and death. Cold weather is coming on when fires must be had; and you should Insure Now against any loss by the flames. I represent only the best companies in Fire, Life, Accident and Toruado Insurance. Let me write yonr policies Solid Gold Watch WALTHAM MOVEMENT SOLUTELY FREE To the Prettiest and Most Popu lar Lady in Cherokee County, Married or Single. Every one of Coupon No. 1 cut from The liedgcr and sent in to tills offlee entitles you to a vote for the lady of your choice. It u tiers not liow many you can get Just so they are cut fiom this paper as they appear between now and New Year’s Day, 1H05. COUPON NO. 1 THE LEDGER. Gaffney, S. C. Gentlemkx: I vote for M P. O I believe she is the prettiest and most popular lady in Cherokee County. Signed P. O No rotes will bo accepted after the last day of this year. All votes must reacii Uiis office on or oeforc the iasiday of December, 1 MU. The lady receiving the largest num ber of v >tes cast will receive the watch. It will he ready for delivery to her at The Ledger office January 1st, ltK)a. snould there be a tie In the vote between two or more the tie shall be settled between the winners themselves. The names of the ladles and the number of votes they receive will be printed In The Ledger every week. The watch Is a good one. solid gold, aod can be seen at Thos. H. Westrope’s jewelry store. Hr. Westrope guarantees the watch to be solid gold and the works to be of »he best. How to Get Coupons. There are many ways of getting coupons. If you are a subscriber you will get coupon No. 1 every week up to Issue of December 30th, unless your subscription expires and your paper Is stopped. If you can get papers from your friends containing coupon No. 1. that will be all right, you will be allowed to fill It out and each one will count a vote when sent Into this offloe. Papers will be on sale at this offlee all the time, as many as you want at 5 cents per copy, 50 cents per dosen, or $4.00 per one hundred. If you subscribe for The Ledger or renew your subscription to the amount of 35 cents yon will be entitled to 5 votes; 50 cents, 10 votes; 75 cents. 15 votes; $1.00,20 votes. Every 5 cents paid on subscription to The Leoger entities you to a vote. It matters not how much you pay on your subscrip tion. Yon can par as much or little as von like at a time end as often as you like, but in Cugj of subscriptions you must always use coupon No. 2 below: COUPON NO. 2 THE LEDGER. Gaffney. 8. 0. Gentlemen: Enclosed And $ for 3 months subscription to THE LEDGER and ... .votes In the voting contest for the prettiest and most popular Indy In Cherokee County. I cast my votes for M P. O Signed. P. O. now. x>. c. 1, Agent There will bu no iuslrieiious to iho voting other than laid down here. You may subscribe for The Ledger for a friend and vote for the Udy of your choice. You may induce a friend to subscribe and vote for the lady of his choice. The contest will be conducted with the strictest regard for fair ness and Impartiality. Those living out of town (or In town, either, for that matter) need not send In their coupons No. 1-ach week unless they like. They can watt a few weeks and get a batch of them and send all at once, A strict and accurate account will be kept of all the votes, and each coupon will be filed for reference should any dispute arise. After the contest Is over the winner and the two next closest to her will be requested to furnish The Ledger a photograph to publish the following week after the winner Is announced. Remember, no entries will be made without coupons properly signed and sent In. * Address all letters to THE LEDGER, Gaffney, S. C. Home Made Have your cake, muffins, and tea bis cuit home-made. They will be fresher, cleaner, more tasty and wholesome. Royal Baking Powder helps the house wife to produce at home, quickly and eco nomically, fine and tasty cake, the raised hot-biscuit, puddings, the frosted layer- cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and muffins, with which the ready-made food found at the bake-shop or grocery does not compare. Royal is the greatest of bake-day helps. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK. Watson Thomason, one of the best known and most prominent young men of Rowan county, met a sudden and horrible death Tuesday morning. He started to Salisbury early, driving a team hitched to a two-horse wagon. He was sitting on a barrel, which rolled out of the wagon on a hill about two miles from town. Mr. Thomas- son was thrown forward, falling on the heels of the horses, which became frightened and ran. He was killed al most instantly, his neck and arms ing broken and his body mangled a horrible manner. There was no om on the wagon with Mr. Thomasson but several -people near the spot wil nessed the tragedy. The dead ma was 22 years old and was marrle j last March. He formerly resided Salisbury, but had recently moved 1 his farm in the country. Subscribe for The Ledger $1 a ya The Prudent and 1T1 " ' Buyer wants the best goods for the lowest price it can he bought for. To all such, it is to your interrst to See Us Before Buying. We not only appeal to this kind of shopper but to the person of elaborate taste and the one with moderate means. We want to make it to your interest to deal with us, it makes no difierenue what yov.r circumstan ces are. We will make : : : : : : : : Some Special Prices on Silks, Laces and Embroideries for the next 30 days. Our line of Dress Goods consist of : : : : : : The Best Things in the Market. Mixtures, Silk Downe, Veilings, Sicilions, Raindefy- er, Smoothe Shored Pibalines, Broad Cloths, etc. Dress Trimmings in Laces, Oplique Braids, Allovers and other things found in a well assorted stock. This is a year when : : : : : : • • Money Will Be More Plentiful than usual; good merchandise will be sought; we have it at moderate prices. See us on Shoes. We claim that we can give as good as there is to be had for the price. W. J. Wilkins 4 Co. Gaffney, South Carolina M PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSION World’s Fair St. Louis, M Via Southern Railway OCTOBER 18, 1904 L The Soutuern Railway will operate a Fersoually Comlucteil Excursion to Louis (World’s Fair). Special train, consisting of coaches and Pullman car* leave Columbia, S. C., Tuesday. October i8th, 1904, at 7 o’clock a. nc, and « in St. Louis 4:50 p. m. next day, going via Newberry, Greenwood, And Atlanta and Chattanooga. This train will be in charge of our most polite and experienced P Agents, who will look especially after ladies and children traveling alone, train will lie a solid through train, and upon application in advance we will l for each passenger one whole seat, also accommodations and |>oard will he en in St. Louis, by giving notice in advance, as to what rate desired, length of « St. Louis, etc. For full information as to rates, schedules, etc., apply to R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, South Carolina.