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7m. \ THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCair.p, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger Is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Oblluraries will be published at *ve cents a line. Correspondents who do not contrl- * te retiular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should he ad- dessed to Ed. H. DeOamp, Manager. t It would greatly lessen the necessity of divorce courts. » * * V.'e have no admiration, and pre- cious little resstect, for Senator Cole Blease, of Newberry. How the people of that county, exceptionally intelligent as they appear to be, can toinaeh such a demagogue, is beyond us. • * * BE CONTENT. Be content! It's easy enough to say to the other fellow, but did yod ever ta< e it home to yourself? How about you? Are you contented? There Is no place in business for the fellow that is content. Whenever a man ts to the point that he is satis fied he will soon be crowded to the wall by those of his competitors who are not content with what they have. Had this newspaper been content to go on with a slow moving hand press it would not t< lay be occupying the handsome building it occupies; it would not have had a handsome, up- to-date press, type-setting machine, engine, folder, job presses, etc. Had Mr. H. i. Wheat been content with a little $50,000 mill the giant Gaffney Manufacturing Co., that now plays such an important part in the business and industry of this community, would not have been in existence^ Had Mr. A. N. Wood and Messrs. Car- roll & Stacy been content with the little 2x4 banking business they were engaged in ten years ago there would have been no Merchants and Planters Bank or National Bank of Gaffney now occupying hadsome granite build ings of their own. Had Drs. C. A. Jef feries and W. P. Humphries be^n con tent with their small begining the Cherokee Drug Co. would not now be occupying its handsome three-story pressed brick front building; and so on through the list. We allude to the local enterprises as an illustration, be cause we know more about them and they serve our purpose to Illustrate better than would a narrative of the careers of Jno, D. Rockefeller and Jno. Wannamaker. The readers of The Ledger know more about the former than they do the latter. Yes, it’s all well enough to say to the other fellow, “Be content,” but we wouldn’t give a chew of tobacco for all the contented men in Chero kee. They will never amount to any thing. It’s the fellow who is not con tent with the present status of his business that is going to do some thing. He is the fellow who becomes a captain of industry. The young fellow in the store or ^coui^ing.room, or on ihe farm, who is content to do only what his em ployer tells him to do will never rise. He don't deserve to. It’s the fellow who is always busy doing something, the fellow who is always “Johnny on the spot” when there is something to be done, that the boss keeps and eye on; and he's the fellow that the boss is looking out for, and whenever there is a vacancy for a better job he is the one that will get it. It’s the same way on the farm. .There is only one overseer place on any farm and the young fellow who displays the greatest amount of ener- Wo note that when the dispensary natb-r came tip to be voted on In the Fenato, the name of Cherokee’s Sena tor Mr. Butler—did not appear as voting. We assume that Mr. Butler was unavoidablj absent; but we would have been pleased to record his vote against the system. The Senate is hardly doing the manly thing in re gard to the dispensary, and it remains to be seen whether or not the House will display any greater courage. * • • The Ledger notes with a good deal of satisfaction that Cherokee’s rep resentatives in tho House, Messrs. Kirby and Otts, are generally to be found voting on the right side of all important matters. Take, for instance, the complusory education bill. Al* though the bill—and, by the way, a most deserving and important one— was defeated, Messrs. Kirby and Otts both voted for it. So when we want to cuss the legislature for its stupidity we must omit Cherokee’s representatives. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. People Going and Ccming Beyond thr Broad. Blacksburg, Feb. ft.—Mr. Norman Whisonant, of Alabama, is in town vis iting relatives. Mrs. C. A. Stewart and little daugh ter, of Hock Hill, are visiting Mrs. Stewart’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A M. Bridges. Rev. Mr. Ross, of Gaffney, was in town a short while Saturday after noon. Mrs. M. E. Deal, who has been vis iting relatives in Atlanta, is at home for a few days. Mr. J. B. Shiver left last week for Atlanta, where he has a position in tho Southern Railway shops. E. K. Belue went to Atlanta Mon- lay on business. ^ Lula Borders, erf Limestone, vitfited, I ^ Lipscomb, of Fennessee, her parents at Kings Creek Saturday and Sunday. Ed. Adams, of Cherokee Falls, was in town Sunday afternoon. * Misses Georgia Sepoch and Flor ence Porter were in town Sunday night, the guests of Mrs. Peter Se poch. Furman and Walter Belue, after a few days in town with their parents, retupied to college Saturday. 1 M. S. y — SPARTANBURG BUSINESS COLLEGE. Lipscomb Reunion. There will be a reunion of the third general Ion of th' 1 decendants of Wm. Lipscomb, Sr., who moved from Vir- : ginia over one blind* I y<*ars ago and settled on Thickety crei <, Spanan- | burg district, 8. C. The names of the three generations living are: Joe E. Austell, Wm. Aus tell and Mary Wood; W. L. Goude- ! lock, Thos and Amanda; W. R. Lip scomb, Edward, and N. W. Poole; W. L. Lipscomb, N. Lip comb; Jno. and Sally Pool; J. M. Lipscomb and W. R. I Lipscomb; J. H. Lipscomb and David; W. C. Lipscomb, Agnes McArthur; Dorah Alexander and Vic Hammet; j J. J. Lipscomb and M. C. Lipscomb; T. M. Littlejohn, Nathan Livingston: 1 Ellridge, and Mrs. Mitchel; J. H. Lit tlejohn, Sam and .Mary Turner; Thos. ; Ixickhart. Henry and Mrs. Eliza Cook: and i $ PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mr. Fred V. Turner, one of Gaff ney’s best eitlEens, who has been buying cotton at Eatonton, Ga., has returned to the city. Miss Claudia Johnson, of Rich Hill, was in attendance upon the Perry pi ano recital at Limestone College Friday night. Dr. W. K. Gunter left Sunday for Aiken, where he goes to visit his mother for a few days. Dr. S. M. Gunter, a brother of Dr. W. K., will look after the business during the absence of the latter. Mrs. Lillie Laney and children, who have been visiting Mayor and Mrs. R. M. Gaffney, returned to their home in Monroe, N. C., Saturday Mrs. Rosa Rountree accompanied them, to spend a while in Monroe. Miss Maud Thompson, who has charge of the school at the Robb’s school house, came home Saturday morning to spend Sunday with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. T, Thomp son. J. C. Lipscomb has had his resi dence on Victoria avenue repainted very artistically and he is beautifying his yard with ornamental shrubbery. Mrs. W. G. Tolleson, of Spartan burg, was in the city Saturday to at tend the funeral of her uncle, Mr. R. C. Thomson. Rev. G. E. Ross went to^ Hickory Grove Saturday to preach in‘the Bap tist church at that place on Sunday. He returned to the City ya^ter^iy. I D. D. Gaston and J. F. Whisonant, of Blacksburg, were in the city yester day, "Ed. Hampton, of Cherokee Falls, spent Sunday in the city. E. Harrell, R. A. Westbrook and VV. A. Baber, of Blacksburg, spent yesterday in the city. Allie Culbertson, superintendent of tho Liberty Mills, was among the vis itors in the city Sunday. Misses Annie Moore and Goulie Lit tlejohn sp^nt Sunday at Cowpens. S. G. Wingo, of Campobello, was in the city Friday on a visit to his daugh- gy and intelligence is the one who will get the job when there is a vacancy. Cherokee county needs a host of in- tellisent, Industrious young white larmfir . men who will study w! at .ertops a certain soil will produce with tiilt' he 1 -! results. We need men on "thtp farm who are not content with jqaking one bale of cotton to the acre, ojr evon seventy-six bushels fit corn to ' one acre, or making two blades of grass grow where one grew before, but who will make two bales of cotton to the acre, a hundred bushels of corn, and four blades of grass where one grew before. The curse of the country today is the contented man, let him be in the bank, the store, the workshop or on the fann, Get out and hustle, Th« fellow fho starts out at 9 o’clock to do a (Rly’s work has already lost a good part of the day. If you are going to work, go at it like you mean hush ness. If you are going to make a feint at it and play, better lay off and play altogether until you get ready to go to work. This is an age of doing things and you can’t hope to do any thing that will attract attention un less you go at it with all the vim you can command. Splendid Impression Made on Visitors to Spartanburg. A gentleman who has traveled ex tensively over the country said in an interview recently of a well known Spartanburg institution: “Among the many evidences of pro- gressiveness and thrift In this rapidly growing town and one of which her appreciative people are pround, and the praises of which gratuitously sound on every hand, Is The Spartan burg Business College. “While here it has been my pleas ure to visit this school. I was shown through the different departments of Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type writing by Mrs. L. Neel Vernon, the principal, through whose executive ability and superlative attainments as a teacher, the college has reached its present high standing of excellence. Each department was filled with stu dents—all busy at work—quite a number of whom are recent additions, and I was informed that more are ex pected—I wondered where they could find room for work on their arrival— as I noticed that every desk seemed to be occupied, but the polite principal facetiously remarked. “There is al ways room for more.” The student body represents this and adjoining States—some coming from Pennsylva nia, and it is a bright and intelligent body of young ladies and gentlemen “The school rooms are in an ideal place for such work—being the Cleve land Building on Magnolia street— opposite the county’s imposing court house, and is not only free from the dust and noise of the street below, but at the same time furnishes a mag nificent view of the surrounding town. “Mrs. Verifon is not only the Vb-.'sest- type of a Christian lady—thus making it safe for parents to entrust their daughters to her care, but has few, if any equals—as a teacher; and her wis dom and tact is further accentuated by the fact that she has chosen com petent instructors—having with her still Miss Minnie Cason, of Greenwood, S. C., who has been with her a num ber of years, and is also a lady of rare qualities and fine attainments; an 1 Mr. V. P. Patterson, an experienced practical accountant—formerly from Virginia—but who has been for sev eral years a resident of, and has filled responiAblo positions in Spartanburg Alice and Agnes Wood, and Tena Lip scomb; Robert Kirby, Abel and Mar tha Porter; Janies Wood, (92 years old), and G. T. Wood; George Wood, son of Drewy Wood; J. T. Wilkins! and Mary Littlejohn; a total of forty ! six. You are cordially invited. Now, cousins, let us meet at Gaff-; ney on Wednesday, the 1st day of! March next, to eat and sing and en joy the day socially. Come with your wives and baskets filled with provis ions for a picnic dinner. I’ll furnish i the coffee and sugar, etc., and sing i for you the Goden Wing. If any of the third generation has | been overlooked, come just as you are. ; This gathering together is for the | third generation. Come, rain or shine; it is my seven-; ty-seventh birthday. Now there are thousands of you of I the fourth and fifth generations. I ad vise you to have a picnic and learn who your ancestors were. W. R. Lipscomb. Webster Locals. Webster, Jan. 31.—Last Sunday Rev. R. B. Beatty, of Newberry, was elect-. ed pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church. | We all wish for him much success with his two hundred and four mem bers. The weather is very cold at this time. Very little is being done on the farms at Webster yet. A. B. G. * V I y & ! ! It is not often you see a Shoe ad. headed Mon* azite, but our object is to call the attention of miners to our Water- Proof Boots and Shoes. Being in water they need as near water-proof goods as they can get. If we haven’t what you want we can’t get it. You can’t save much time by stop ping your watch. > 3 ^ERTiuiEW-* 6- DOMC IT’VEJt n©'. - l * ul VIRCfNtA-CAROLINA CflCHlCALtO'S.'j SAits orncis: ju. S/r.AHKAH.tA. , ATUHTA.6A. CL'ft’IAN'N.C grf MOlirOOMrov.AUL fcGAfOm.WL 4 ' chariu;on, s.c. Richmond.va. M Lipscomb Company. The accurate compounding of prescriptions and receipts from drugs of known potency is the important work of any drug store. It is reliabtitty in this regard that eventually com mands the confidence of ..both the physician and the pnb]xc. This branch of the business haSi always had our special atten tion. We have a superb stock of prescription drugs, including all the newer remedies, and every prescription brought to us is compounded in the most scientific manner. The simp^ lest recipe has as careful atten tion as the most intricate pre scription. Prices are just as reasonable as the service is fine. No matter what you get here, you get what you ought to get. Cherokee a A . ,■ Prescriptioe Drnggists. ... ipwtmfnwwjtfflfws* West End Bargains i ter, Miss Edna, who is a student at _ Limestone College. She returned home j —latter devotes his entire time to with her father Saturday. . tije interest of the school. J. H. Graves, of Sharon, was in the \ “Little wonder that The Spartan- He was. | burg Business College is so popular, If your Dealer cannot Supply You, Write lie. this NOTES AND COMMENTS. The man who stands in readiness for the opportunity is the only really successful man. • • • How about the proposed electric road from here to Asheville? The Ledger invites its readers for an ex pression of opinion. • * • We are all keenly human and in curably so; consequently none of us live up to the highest Ideals of life; but we can mend our habits. • • • Women like petting, and so do men; and If this luxury, which costs noth ing, were Indulged in more freely by people who are married to each other) Feb. 7, It city Saturday on business, until recently, a merchant at place, Mrs. C. A. Wood went to Pacolet Friday to visit her parents, and re tijrned home Sunday. Miss Mary Whitesides, of Blacks burg, came over Friday afternoon to visit her nephew, Dr. J. T. Darwin. W. M. White, a well known marble man of Gastonia, N. C., was in the city Friday. Rev. W. T. Thompson went to Earls, N. C., Sunday morning to visit his father-in-law, who is ill. He re turned to the city yesterday morning. Dr. \V. A. Anderson, of Blacksburg, was in town for a short while yester day. # Lawyer Carlton, of Salisbury, spent Saturday in the city on professional business. Hon. J. C. Otts took advantage of the recess in the general assembly from Saturday at 1 o’clock until 12 o'clock Tuesday and came home Sat urday night. He returned to Colum bia last night. Hon. W. D. Kirby came home Sat urday and remained till Monday with his family: 4 B. K. Humphries was out of the city Friday and Saturday on business. Senator T. 13. BiPler spent Sunday oid yesterday in the city with his family. C. R. Willard, of Spartanburg, was in the city yesterday. Will Bettis, of Earl, spent at Mr. Wm. Austell’s. Misses Lula Borders, of Creek and Georgia Sepoch, of Blacks burg, and Miss Porter, of Buffalo, three of the Limestone College young ladies, In r,es and returned yesterday, W. J. McGill, of Kings Creek, was in the city yesterday on business. M. (’. Lipscomb, of White Plains, was among the prominent Cherokee- ans in the city yesterday. and its efficiency and growth on the progressive scale, when these facts are known, in connection with the very liberal terms on which the work is conducted. I could but feel while going through and witnessing the per fect system of the institution, that pa- rentl could have no fears in entrust ing their sons and daughters to this sehr easy enough to forgive our enemies after we have got even with them. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. It appearing to the satisfaction of the County Board of Education, that more than one-third of the voters re siding within the proposed School District, who return real or personal ] property for taxation, have petitioned j this Board as'ing ihat an election be ordered to determine whether or not an additional levy of four (4) mills be voted fym the purpose of supple menting the regular constitutional and other school lax of School Dis tricts Nos. 19 and 22; which districts shall have the boundaries as set off by survey of G. B. Fowler in 1905. It is, therefore, ordered by the County The Up-To-Date Market. I have the Beef ane. the Pork, any cuts you want, and will give you any kind of a piece you want. It is first- class and we want to sell it, too. How much can we send you? Plen ty fresh double-ground Sausage daily. A good stock of fresh Danish Cabbage, ’rish Potatoes, Sweet Pota toes; plenty ">f nice Candies and fine Northern Apples, Oranges, Lemons, and Raisins at loand 15c per pound. Come or call ’Phone No. 60, when you want something good. Same price charged as cash. I am the man that broke the ice. Yours for business. I have purchased the stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confection eries, Cigars, Tobacco, Dry Goods and Notions formerly belonging to J. A. Graves, in “West End.” I bought the goods at I y- .A. IJijr W ocl not ion ^ From fir«t prices, and will .->ell just as I bought—Low Down. Call and in- speet my stock and you will find I j can save you money. B. . Gibbs, 1 Graves’ Old Stand—West End. Si CABBAGE PLANTS FROM THE ^ BEST TESTED SEEDS. Now ready for shipment. Large strong, healthy. These plants were grown in the open air and will stand severe freeze w ithout injury. Early Jersey, Wakefield, Luge Type or Charleston Wakefield, which are the best know n varieties of early cabbage. Also Henderson’s Succession, the best large, late and sure header. Au- i You Sufferer From some Kidney, !jv Liver or gadder trou- '* L. W. McGuinn. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given to all con cerned that we shall apply to Hon. J. 10. Webster, Probate Judge for Chero kee county, South Carolina, at his of fice, on Wednesday, February 15th, next, for final settlement and dis charge as Administrators of the es tate of Wm. Moss, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate will present the same duly <). B. expros'ofiice. Special prices JU Cure. Just One 50c made on large lots. - — Dec-164010 CHAS. M. GIBSON, Youngs Island, S. C. f/' »* *»« 111*7 uuiy a , r, oimty Board of Education for said attested to the undersigend on or be- ‘ J county and State: That such an elec- fore February 15th, at 10 o’clock ... , t'u n be held at Mabry’s mill and j A. M. • Kings 1 _» i_ ^ • NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on the*) l*»th day of February, 1905, the un dersigned will apply to the Secretary of State, at bis office in Columbia. S, (’., for a charter for the Gaffney Commercial Club. J. B. Bell, Preat., 1). (\ Ross., V. Pres., J. H. Crews. Sec., * B. L. Haines, Treas. Corporators. Hughes’s store, In said districts, on Wednesday, March 1st, 1905, at which election only stirh electors as re turn real or personal property for taxation, and exhibit their tax re ceipts and registration certificates, shall be allow ed to vote# as provided in Vol. 1, Section 1208 of the Civil Code of South Carolina. Those voting for such additional school tax will us»* a printed or writ ten ballot on which is tin "Yes;” those voting against such ad ditlonal school tax will use a printed or written ballot on which is the word “No.” For the purpose of conducting said election the School Trustees for -r-hool Districts Nos, 19 and 22 are appointed managers. P.y authority of the County Board of Education for Cherokee county, South Carolina, February 4th, 1905. J. L. Walker, Chrm. County Board Education. W. T. Moss,* W. Moss, As Admrs. Estate Wm. Moss, Deed. January 20th, 1905. Pub in Gaffney Ledger Jan. 24-31, & Feb. 1-14, 1905. m bottle will give you v relief and convince £ you that it is a medi- £ cine of wonderful cur- ative power. h The FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice Is hereby given that I will word I apply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate ..,1 I » • - — The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of Judge for Cherokee county, S. C„ at the best that the markets afford and at bis office at the court house on Fri- the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine day February the 17th, 1905, at 11 Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele o’clock A. M., for a final settlement brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and discharge as administrator of the and last longer than any other in the estate of Obediah Tate, deceased. i market. W hen 111 need of anything in All persons holding claims against the building line, call and see us;, we’ll' said estate will present them on or be- treat you courteously and n a<e your es- fore said date, or forever be barred, timates for nothing. J, ISt). Jefferies, I « Iv. B a k er\ Clerk and Administrator of said Estate. Pub. Jan. 24- 31 4k Peb. 7-14. Company. g Prescription Druggists. Opposite Hotels. £ MANAGER. Subscribe for The Ledger, only $1.50 a year.