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- MY GENTS’ FURNISHING STORE * Is chock full of bargains in every line. I am offering a very strong line of Men’s Suits in all the newest and most attractive goods for this season at very close prices. Style and fit equal the best custom tailored Suits. Boys’ Suits that are unrivaled in qual ity, style, price and fit. Special bargains in Neckwear, Shirts and Men’s and Boys’ Headgear. Anything in Hats from a 10c Malaga to a Jno. B. Stetson at $5.00. Gents’ Umbrellas, 40c to $2.50. 1 can give you prices on Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Embroideries, Insertions and Ladies’ Skirts that you can’t duplicate. / No misfits in your Shoes if bought from me. I have them in all styles and leathers, for men, ladies and children. Ladies’ Parasols from 40c to $2.00. This is the place to buy your Hay, Corn, Feed, Oats and Provisions at money-saving prices. Just received, a big lot of Cotton Hoes. The Piedmont Cultivator’is something every farmer needs. I have them. Call and get price. See me when in need of anything usually kept in a Gents’ Furnishing Store or a General Store. GENTS’ FURNISHING STORE 816 LIMESTONE ST. I. SARRATT GENERAL STORE 818 LIMESTONE ST. vl AN IMMIGRATION OFFICE. Established in New York by the State of South Carolina. The Ne\ York Herald of recent date says: "T'lere has been established by the State of South Carolina an office in New York to obtain its share of this city's surplus labor. Headquar ters at 15 Jroad street were opened under the supervision of Col. E. J. Watson, State commissioner of immi gration. Raymond L. Griffiss, of the law firm of Fetzer & Griffiss, has been appointed resident commissioner. “My department,” said Col. Watson, was launched upon lines entirely new in this count! y, being charged with ‘agriculture, commerce and immigra tion’, a peculiarly advantageous combi nation of governmental functions. In all three branches we have been work- inb by night and by day, and it is counting not < ly for the State but the common country as well, tending in the first place to turn the tide of immigration from the congested cen ters to the fertile but sparsely settled South. “The branch office here has just been established, being the first of the history of the industrial develop ment of a section of the country un der governmental direction. The de partment is now preparing to send rep resentatives to five or six North Eu ropean countries not yet touched. We will be looking not only to the rehabilitation of agriculture, but to the broader mineral field, in which we have really valuable properties. We are offering good investment for capi tal and the State is seeing that they are safe. We are likewise offering good lands cheaply to those looking for homes, and we are going further— offering employment to agricultural la borers. servants and the like in posi tions wherein they will have onortuni- ty to -a\o their earnings and in a few years become independent. “I believe in this work we are aid ing patriotically in solving one of the greatest economic problems of the country, in a neacefnl and desirable solution of the negro problem and in assisting the general government to avoid many of the vexatious questions accompanying the influx of foreigners, which has become a menace to the large centers of population. “South Carolina has recognized the fact that Now York City is the great gathering place of the unemployed. Immigration is not entirely to blame for this. Every part of the country has contributed to the surplus labor market of New York. The great build ing enterprises, the tunnels and bridge contracts have attracted ten men for every position to be filled. South Caro lina is anxious to relieve the city of a part of this surplus. The State has 14,000,000 acres of undeveloped land and wants new white blood.” ACQUITTED OF FOSTER’S MURDER MURRIL WAS MURDERED. The Exact Spot. Last week we were on Pea Ridge In Union county, and had Messrs. Dan Garner and “Kiah” McKissick to point out the exact spot where Professor Lowe lit with his balloon in 1801 when he made that famous aerial voyage from Cincinnati, and was taken up by some of the Ridgers for Abe Lincoln’s spies. It was where the town of Kel- ton now stands that he landed. “Old Bully” Garner, one of the great fight ers of the Ridge, and others, wanted to kill him, but Esquire John P. Mc Kissick coming up, and he and Lowe both being Masons, saved the Profes sor’s life and he was taken to Union, where he was royally entertained for a day and night, or two days and nights, and sent to his home rejoicing that he was still a living man. Had Professor Lowe with his bal loon picked his place, he could not at that time have chosen a worse place to land than on Pea Ridge. Old Mrs. Creecy Homes and her daughters were the first to get to him, andthe old lady wanted an axe to split his head open. Uncle Kiah McKissick says he was at Rowland’s store! now Sarratts), in this county, when they saw the bal loon coming, and soaring round and round like a trukey buzzard, it finally came down. He then, with a lot of others, made a break, and never broke “the lope” until they got to the spot where h" landed. “By that time,” "noP> Ki says, "there were 200 people there and still they kept com ing, 'intil the crowd numbered twice that.” J. L. S. Two White Men and a Negro Go Free on Circumtsantial Evidence. Greenville, May 13.—Watt Nobles and Boyce Stone, two white men, and George Downes, colored, were acquit ted this afternoon at 3 o’clock of the charge of murdering Policeman Foster at Greers. Police Officer William S. Foster, of Greenville, was shot and instantly | killed while on duty in the town of I Greers on the night of July 2, 1904, be- j tween 9 and 10 o’clock. Nobles, Stone and Downes were in town the j night of the tragedy, and on account of their being seen running from the place where the shooting occurred and ! their previous record as whiskey deal- i ers .they were at once connected with j the crime and subsequently arrested. The evidence at the trial was wholly circumstantial. After cosuiting the bar. Judge | Prince announced that he would hold a special term of court here for two j weeks, beginning the third Monday in July .in order to clear the congested docket. There will be more than CO cases for trial, six of which are mur der cases. Lived More Than a Century. Edegefield, May 13.—Old “Mauma Sangua” Henderson. 105 years of age, lied at her home on the Picken’s es tate a few days ago. She was a ser vant of Gov. Pickens and belonged al ways to his family, to whom she was loyal to the end. Women are so naturally deceptive they cun make a sham look more real than a genuine thing. Subscribe for The Ledger, only $1.00 Contract to Be Let. The Highland Hotel Company, of Charlotte, will shortly let the contract for the building of their handsome ho tel, having been delayed by the ill ness of the architect, who had a se vere atack of pneumonia. The build ing committee is composed of Mes srs. R. A. Dunn, T. W. Hawkins and W. S. Alexander, of Charlotte, and the architect is W. F. Denny, of Atlanta. They will award the contract for the building. The structure will be six stories, with a basement. The main building proper will be 99 feet on Trade sereet by 150 feet on Church. In addition to this main building, there will be a kitchen extension on Church street, having over it a fine assembly hall, with a seating capacity of about 250. The lobby space will be large and very attractive. The dining room will be on the lobby tloor. There will be two main, en trances—one on Trade and one on Church streets. Laurens Negro Killed and Thrown Into Enoree River. Laurens, May 13.—The inquest yes terday developed' the fact that the dead body found in Enoree river the evening before was that of the negro Essex Murril. Sheriff Ducket and Solicitor Cooper both attended the inquest and the evi dence as brought out went to show that the negro Murril was at Enoree on last Friday evening. A negro, Dick Leaman, testified to having seen him there and to have remarked to him that it was a good time to go down the country, meaning to the plantation of Mr. M. B. Poole, who is one of the largest farmers in this section of the country. Mr. Poole lives about eight miles nortn of this place. Investigation showed that the kill ing took place on the public road about three-fourth of a mile from the resi dence of Mr. Poole, and about three miles from Enoree. The tracks of four persons went from the scene of the killing to the place where the body was found in the river, a distance of about one mile. A hand stick was found which was used in carrying the body, also the indications pointed to where the bearers had lail the body down to rest. The autopsy showed that Murril had received two wounds as from a pistol. A rope had been placed around his neck with a large stone at either end and his body thrown in the river. The coroner’s jury did not return any verdict, but will continue the in vestigation and probably will not make a report for two weeks. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82 Maybe, when Gen. Sherman said what war was, he meant a summer garden. Making gold bricks without gold is an ancient industry. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. J. C. OTTS Attorney-at-Law, Notary In Office. Office removed to New Bank Building. WILLIAM S. HALL, JR., Attorney at Law, National Bank Building, Gaffney, S. C.‘ Prompt attention given to all business. DR. W. K. GUNTER, Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty. DR. B. L. ALLEN, Physician and Surgeon. Offices In the Star Theatre building. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 56. jFOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGSTIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 67. We do not do all kinds of printing— we do the GOOD kind. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker, Will furnish your Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, Guar anteed Pure White Lead and Zinc, and Pure Linseed Oil. Nothing better to paint your house with and costs less than mixed paints. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you cour teously and make your estimates for nothing. Iv. Baker’, MANAGER. If anybody has a message for the people of this community he cannot deliver it to them so effectually, so cheaply, so quick ly in any other way as through die columns of this paper. It is the business of this pa per to carry messages of one kind and another into homes. The message will be delivered, too, under favorable conditions, for few persons take up their local paper except in a pleasant and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board may be good, but it can be seen only by travelers who go that particular road. The message in the local paper carries itself to thousands, no matter by which road they travel. Select your space and put your message where it will do the most good. We, peibaps, can l}elp 70a if you will but ask ua. im 1 PS WE OROW OLDER We should strive to get experience without paying too much for it. When you buy a Suit of Strouse & Bros’. High Art Clothing, you can feel that you have .your money’s worth. We have all the newest fads and fashions in Men’s and Boys’ apparel, and can save you money on every purchase. Why wear CHEAP Clothing when you can wear GOOD Clothing just as cheap? Strouse & Bros, fit you better than tailor-made, wear better than any other brand. Every Suit guaranteed. Oxfords! Oxfords ! Oxfords! High and low cut Shoes in all the newest shapes and styles. The fa mous A. E. Nettleton and King Quality brands. Never in the his tory of the Company Store has there been such a demand for Low Cut Shoes. A new lot just arrived.' Ask to see them. The Drew Selby Shoes for women in the realm of footwear, represent excellency in quality and workman ship, ease and comfort in fit and durability in wear. These goods are designed by experts and are made from specially selected stock. They combine in a rare degree, STYLE, COMFORT, WEAR. When you want Groceries that are clean, fresh and sweet, send or touch the wire. Phone No. 134. THE COMPANY STORE. IVew A.rrrv£d» in the L-adies’ J>e- partment. Just arrived six pieces White Linen, Irish finish, at prices 124c,JJ15c, 35c and 50c the yard. A new lot Persian Ribbons, novelties for Belts and Collars, at prices 15c, 25c and 50c the yard. 24 inch Habutai Silk at 30c the yard. 36 inch Habutai Silk 60c quality at 45c the yard. We carry the celebrated O. Ac 1=3. a la Spirite Corset© In stock, that are made from the best material used iu the manufacture of Cor sets. Every pair guaranteed to be a perfect fit. Lace and embroideried Collars, prices 25c to $2.25 each. ' > Vj One lot of white embroideried Shirt _ waists at $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50. We lead when it comes to Laces and Embroideries. Any old price. l.EL'i l