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C-V-v *rm •■Vimt&iWX: •i ;ii ii-i; &'■■ 3 i! LIQUOR IN CHEROKEE. The World's Greatest Tailors. » NEW YORK, March 4th, 1905. Mess. J. R. Tolleson & Co., GafTney, S. C. Gentlemen:—When showing our line do not fail to impress upon your customers that we guarantee fit and satisfaction. It is an old adage and well read, that “a Satisfied customer is the best advertisement.” This is the kind of advertising that has helped to make us the biggest tailoring concern in the World, and right now, at the beginning of the season, we wish to impress upon you that we will satisfy your customers. The point we wish to make is simply this: we do not want you to have a single dissatisfied customer. We use the best hair clothes, consequently the front of our coats will not break. Should, however, an exceptional garment lose its shape do not hesitate to return the garment to us and we will put it back in proper shape, and if this cannot be done we will make new ones for you, no matter how long during the season the customer has worn same. The same applies to the lin ings. We guarantee our linings to wear, and if any linings do not give entire satis faction we will reline garment free of charge. Trusting that you will redouble your efforts to prove the merits of our made-to-measure garments, and with best wishes for a successful Spring business, we are Yours truly, The International Tailoring Co. P. S.—The Spring and Summer line is complete, there are no “Outs” or “Tempor ary Outs”. Full line of samples at J. R. Tolleson & Company, Gaffney, S. C. The Gaffney City Land and Improvemen! Go. Offers for sale Rulldlni? Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney; also Farms ne by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of 3< to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for FannRpurpose? For full parti ulars apply to J. V. SARRATT, Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on, walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing, timber or Ashing, hunting, under penalty of law. the: he:dge:h always contains all the latest local and foreign news. Subscribe now $1.00 o Y o i \ i'. “J. L. S.” Challenged in Regard to His Sentiments on the Subject. Editor Ledger: —We saw in your last issue in the correspondence of The Ledger from Wilkinsville, over the initials, “J. L. S.,” a sentim.ent that nnfst not go unchallenged. He says: "The majority of the people are willing to do their duty, if they only know it. But they don’t propose to he made a laughing stock of for the world.” Again, he pitches into the legislature, and says: "When the people voted the linuor out of the county they expected the legislature to fix the necessary law, but in this they were disappointed .and they think it useless to protest further.” , If the "Sage of Etta Jane” had sug gested in the same space what the duty of our people is it would have been better. Does not “J. L. S.” know that eternal vigilance is the price of law and order? To nass laws, to vote out liquor, etc., is one thing, but to enforce them is another. The shout ing crowd is always in the majority, but when it comes to self sacrifice and efforts to enforce laws there are far less good citizens. There are many who can criticize; many who say, “Go ahead, I am with you, but I have not time. We have sheriffs and J constables to enforce laws. It is not ! my business. I may lose a customer, ! or a client.” Or some of the politt- I clans fear that they wdll lose a vote. . But the best officers are powerless I without the aid of the best pf our citl- j zenship, and we wish to enter a pro- 1 test against such half-heartedness. • W<> do not want to think such are the ! purposes of “J. L. S.” He next crops the legislature. Well, i 1 shall not take up the cudgels for . those gentlemen. They are able to | and doubtlessly will take care of themselves when the time comes. Hut we may say in passing that there 1 is hut one simon pure “prohibitionist’ in the delegation from this county. (We hope that the vacancy to he filled ! will give us two at the next session.) • Yet in the face of that, the dispensary j majority was wiped out in the house. No dispensary legislation was drafted. Why? Because the senate killed the prohibition hills passed by the house; and the house as promptly killed the dispensary hills from the senate. Hut the cause of prohibition made progress. The* hostile majority of two years ago was changed to a decided 1 majority for prohibition, and if i “J. L. S.” read the reports of the pro- i coodings, he must have seen where Cherokee always had one vote and one voice for prohibition, and on the final test in the senate the liquor forces only had a majority by three votes. Why is “J. L. S.” disheartened, and throwing cold water on an attemnt to rid th’ • count'. " ’ nly of the sale, hut also i f the making of liquor? We do not think we should have been forced to petition, hut taking the cue from the letter of Hon. H. H. Evans, chairman of the State hoard, there is nothing else to do. He intimates that the “booze board” may he moved by a petition. Is there anything wrong in doing the best we can under the circum stances? Suppose the city authori ties at Gaffney had sat suninely down, simply because the United States court, has decided that they can’t in terfere with interstate commerce. Would Gaffney be a dry town? Sup pose all our citizenship in every com munity in this county sit down on the stool of do-nothing, simply because now and then some poor devil gets drunk on “poruna, ginger ale,” or hitters. Shame on such a policy. Wipe out the law of murder, because some jury failed to do their sworn duty. I hope that letter, as we read it, does not reflect the sentiments of “J. L. S.” We do not want to think it does. Let law and order remember that vigilance must he our watch word. We know that some of our people are going to keep up the fi-zht In fighting liquor, and it hacked by the dispensary forces, we cannot nick our ground. Wo are not dealing with ideal conditions, hut. with rugged facts of life. “J. L. S.” was too good a soldier to refuse to fight because conditions did not suit him. He did not refuse to march because the Confederacy failed to pay his salary, or he was disappointed in not getting as much or the kind of food he wanted. No one expected another attempt to establish a distillery in this county, after the closing of the distillery at AnMoch two years ago. But shall de cency, law and order sit down in its tent and sulk because the State board of control has refused to do its plaip duty? No, a thousand times no! As good citizens we must uphold our constables, magistrates, sheriffs, etc. The records show not only a de crease in drunkenness by seventy-five per cent, but the mayor’s court, the criminal courts, magisterial and cir cuit courts all admit it is easier to put down “blind tigers” than while we had a dispensary. There were three to our “blind tigers” in this county when we had a dispensary to what we have with prohibition. Come out, Bro. “J. L. S.;” sign that petition; urge your neighbors to do it and let us show to all the world that Cherokee not only voted prohibi tion but intends to have it. That if the State board lays down terms that we don’t like, if the legislature does not do all we think it should, that we propose to fight it out. And every time we get a chance we intend to in crease our majority in the house and change the senate until we have a majority there, too. One (if the Old Guard. REDUCED RATES To Spartanburg Account .of South Atlantic Music Festival. On account of the South Atlantic States Music Festival at Spartan burg, S. C., May 3rd-5th, 1905, the Southern Railway announces the very low rate of one first-class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip (min imum rate 50 cents). Rates to apply from all stations Atlanta, Athens and Elberton, Ga., to and from Charleston and Savannah to Asheville, N. C., inclusive. Tickets to he sold 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of May from all points in the above ter ritory; also on May 5th from stations. Greenwood and Greenville to Char lotte. N. C., and Asheville to Colum bia, inclusive. Final limit of all tickets May (1th, 1905. For further information as to rates, etc., address any agent of the South ern Railway, or, Brooks Morgan. A. G. P. A. Sou. Ry., Atlanta, Ga. Conviction Follows Trial When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to hare in his bin, how do you know what you are getting ? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), oared to speak out Gould any amount of mere talk hay# persuaded millions of housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity ? TUs popular mieeeaa of LION COFFEE eaa be due only to Inherent merit. There la no stronger proof ot merit than con- tinned and Increasing popularity. U the verdict of MILLIONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince yon of the merits of LION COFFEE, It costs you but a trifle to buy n package. It Is the easiest way to convince yourself, and to make yon a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEE is cold only In 1 lb. *eaJed packages, and reache* yon aa pore and clean aa when it left oar factory. Lion-htad on every package. Bare these Lion-head* for valnable preminma SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE W00LS0N SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. r/l Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. J* KjjTOrtice in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. Notice! If you need anything in the line of meats, call and see us. We have the largest cold storage room in the city and while it is a nice piece of furniture, it is for use and not for ornament. It is al ways well supplied with the best of beef, as we do not carry to the slaughter pen any hut the fattest of cattle. We also handle a special line of pork and sugar- cured hams. In fact, we carry in stock anythig that an up-to-date market hand les. For best goods, fairest prices and up-to-date treatment in every respect call and see or phone Dempsy & Ballengen Mch. 31, im. a umuawmmnmu H r ) 'V < >11 feSerfcrr - ! COMBINATION DISABILITY POLICY Issued by The Aetna Life Insurance Co.? Insures the insured for the principal sum and double w hi n- traveling; also insures the beneficiary while traveling in favor of tin insured for principal sum. Special benefits to insured; elective indemnities to insured; special indem nities to beneficiary; surgical operations to insured, and beneficiary b-r any kind of accident or si kness to insured; permanent total dis ability for sickness, quarantii * indemnity. Claims are payable in cask or in twenty-year gold bonds. 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Thursday Night, April 20 C The Beautiful Melo-Drama “The World Against Them.” Friday Night, April 21 That Everlastingly Funny Comedy “Is Marriage a Failure?” i ■ n - b ; r >. & V m: m r*4i. ■ >-A mM r* m > - .' i *W \ PRICES OF ADMISSION: 25c, 35c and 50c, Saturday afternoon to see “Little Red Riding Saturday Matinee, April 22 The Beautiful Fairy Tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” Saturday Night, April 22 The Greatest Play Ever Written “The Two Orphans.” Reserved seats now on sale at Ledger 4 Office. Don’t fail to bring the children out next . i i as fra3 T hursday night if accompanied by one paid reserved seat admission.