The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 12, 1905, Image 4
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FOR SAL1.
FOR SALE—Fine Jersey milch
cow. Apply to W. C. McArthur.
Sept. 8th 2t.
FOR SALE—Household furniture.
Apply to Mrs. F. M. Montgomery.
Sept. 8tn 2t.
FOR SALE—The McArthur resi
dence corner of Race and Petty Sts.
Apply to Mrs. F. M. Montgomery.
Sept. 8th 2t.
FOR SALE—three fine milk cows.
Apply to R. O. Sams. 9-1-tf.
FOR SALE or RENT—my residence
just outside corporate limits, on Prov
idence road. W. H. Dempsey.
8-28-lmo.
FOR RENT—The C. S. Good cottage
near graded school. Wa*er works, etc.
J. C. Otts, Atty. Sept 22-tf.
FOR SALE—Two platform wagon
scales; one $15 and one $20. Victor
Cotton Oil Co.
FOR SALE-“Old North State” Let,
ter flies, at 30c each. At Ledger office.
FOR RENT.
FOR RENT—House with water
works; near graded school, J. M.
Darwin. 9-8-tf.
The Food That Does Good
The Cod Liver Oil Emulsion "Par ExcrlUnee" (or
JouKha, Cold*, Influenza, Bronchlti*, La drip,
ore Throat and Lungs, Catarrh, Pneumonia,
.onsumption and alf Pulmonary Disease*. All
druggists, two sizes, 50c. and $1.
TRIAL BOTTLE FREE BY MAIL
to all sending name and address to
JZOMULSION CO.. 98 Pine Street New York
SHORT LOCALS.
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Roller Mill. Corn Mill, Storeroom
and One-horse Farm fo.* rent for
standing rent, cheap. W. G. McBrayer,
R. F. D. No. 1, Gaffney, S. C.
8-18-tf.
FOR RENT—Storeroom In W. Sam
Lipscomb building. Apply to E. F
Lipscomb. 3-3-tf .
SUITES OF ROOMS to let in the
Star Theatre. A. N. Wood. 3-22-tf.
WANTED.
WANTED—1,000 cords wood; will
pay highest market price. Gaffney
Manufacturing Co. 8-25-tf.
WANTED—Nice, clean white rags;
no quilt scraps taken. Send ‘o Ledger
office.
WANTED—500 cords good wood,
delivered at kilns. Gaffney Lime Co.
8-8-tf.
WANTED—200 cords good pine
wood. Will pay the market price, de
livered here. Limestone Mills.
7-14-tf.
WANTED—500 cords good wood,
delivered at kilns. Limestone Springs
Lime Works. 8-8-tf.
LOST.
LOST—Lady’s brooch, with topaz
bangle. Reward if left at Ledger
offic . 9-12-lt.
LOST—An opportunity to make
money, by not advertising your sur
plus stock in The Ledger’s 1 cent a
word column.
MONEY TO LOAN.
I am prepared to negotiate loans on
Improved farms for a term of year*
In amounts of $1,000 and upward, at 7
per cent, and from $300 to $1,000 at
I per cent Apply to
J. C JEFFERIES,
Gaffney, S. C.
OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS.
The public schools, viz: Central
school, Cherokee Avenue school,
Limestone Mill school, Fairview
school, and Colored school, formerly
known as Gaffney Graded schools,
will open September 18th, at 9 A. M.
Pupils without promotion cards
will be required to pass successfully
a written entrance examination.
The same text-books will be used,
and can be obtained at the court house
from the county superintendent.
Parents are urged to have their
children be present promptly at 9
A. M. the first day.
W. C. McArthur,
9-12-15. Superintendent.
NOTICE OF OPENING OF BOOKS
OF SUBSCRRIPTION.
Notice is hereby given that on
Wednesday, September 13th, 1905,
at 9 o’clock A. M., books of subscrip
tion to the capital stock of The Cher
okee Drug Co., will be opened at the
Cherokee Drug store, Gaffney, S. C.,
and will remain open until 3 o’clock
P. M. of the same day. The capital
stock of said corporation will be
$10,000, divided into 100 shares of the
par value of $100 per share.
C. A. Jefferies,
W. F. Humphries,
Commissioners of Incorporators.
9-12-lt.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS,
The regular examination for teach
ers will take place at the court house
September 15th, 1905.
J. L. Walker.
R. C. Sarratt,
Jas. C. Jefferies,
County Board of Examiners.
9-12-lt.
For Sale
885 acre farm. $20.00 per acre.
67 acre farm In YorKVillef’7.50 per acre.
2£l acre farm ££2.00 per ac j ‘
117 acre farm.|27.ll0 per acre
About 2,000 cord of line timbr
60 acre farm, £22.00 per acre
83 acre farm |14 00 per acre -
3 miles from ’
Gaffney.
ti miles from
Gaffney.
IK
miles
from
Gafy
llfl acre farm, new 7 room house,
2 story, barn, poultry yard, etc price
$4 000, 118 acre farm 60 acres In fine
timber. $41.00 per acre 1
1754 acres llon.Oo per acre.
1244 acres Improved good house etc.. $1,200.00
In Gaffney.
25 acre farm 4K miles from Henrietta and
Cliffslde, 22 acres of It In tember. $10.50 per
acre.
HOUSES aud LOTS.
8 room house and 6 acres In Blacksburg
$1306 00.
8 room house nice lot $700.00. A 10 per cent.
Investment.
4 acres 3 blocks from depot $3,300.00.
Lot 80x200, west end 1330.00.
Lot 2K acres 4 room house 11050 00.
Lot 135 feet bv 200, 3 blocks from depot, $725.00
Lot 200x300, 4 blocks frc.ro depot, |700 00.
FlneOroom house, newly Hulshed near graded
school.
8 fine bouses and lots near depot.
Prices reasonable.
Finishing
Touch
of a man’s education is
EXPERIENCE
and the more experience
he has the more finished is
his education.
So it is in the drug busi
ness ,and years of EX
PERIENCE added to a
thorough knowledge of
pharmacy make a drug
gist more add more pro
ficient, and in the same
proportion and to the
safety and accuracy with
which Physicians’ Pre
scriptions and Domestic
Recipes are compounded.
Our Drug Store is a model one
conducted on a modern system.
Our PRESCRIPTION DEPART
MENT is always In charge of
a Pharmacist made competent
by a thorough knowledge of
Pharmacy and years of experi
ence.
Rev. Earnest Ross filled Rev. Fel-
met’s pulpit at Corinth Sunday,
Sheriff Thomas now has about
twelve boarders in the county jail.
The hours for opening the library
have been changed from 4:3d to 6:30
p. m.
Cotton brought ten cents on this
market yesterday. Only a few bales
were sold.
A. B. Kirby, of Corinth, has taken
a position as salesman for the Gaff
ney Hardware Company.
The merchants are getting in their
new fall and winter goods, and are
preparing for, and expecting, a large
trade this season.
Miss Ambrose, w’ho will have charge
of the millinery department of Car-
roll & Byers, is expected to arrive
in the city today, direct frogi New
York.
John W. Tripp, formerly a resident
of Blacksburg, but now residing in
California, was in the city yesterday;
having come back to this section on
railroad business.
Hon. W. D. Kirby leaves today for
Columbia to attend a meeting of the
hoard of directors of the State peni
tentiary. A feature of this meeting
of the directors will be an inspection
of the State farm.
Work on the city's new well has
been resumed, and a depth of about
120 feet has now been reached. Con-
siderable rock is frequently encoun
tered, which necessarily makes the
drilling slow and tedious.
Gaffney now has a “5 and 10c
store.” A. L. Peeler & Co., tho pro
prietors, opened up Saturday morn
ing in the building next door to J. I.
Sarratt’s, on Limestone street. The
opening day drew quite a crowd.
Mrs. Ed. H. Gaines entertained a
few of her young lady friends Fri
day afternoon, at her elegant home
on Victoria avenue, in honor of
Misses Ledbetter, of Alabama; Ehoff,
of Maryland, and Brown of Virginia.
The superintendent of education
of the county will be in (TTs office
every day for one week, beginning
Monday, September 18th. 1905. He
wishes all the children of the differ
ent graded schools that can possibly
do so to obtain books during that
week.
Cherokee
Gaftney, S. C.
assssss a sssss^b
For Sale.
One 163 acre farm,
splendid land.
4 vacant lots, as pret
ty building lots as
you will find in Gaff
ney, for $250 and $300
each.
2 vacant lots three
blocks from Lime
stone street, for $100
each.
3 nice houses and lots
close in.
1 house and lot $325.
Others we will be
glad to show you any
time. No obligation
tc buy.
Robertson & Guilick.
R. L. Parish
The Builders Supply Go.
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.
Fv. JBalcer,
MANAGER.
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The Battery
Our buyer has just returned from the north
ern markets, and the new and up-to-date
goods are rolling in on every freight train.
We will tell you about the prices later;
haven’t time just now, but come right along.
Just as good goods at The Battery as at any
other place; just a little cheaper--That’s all.
C. Ratliff, Prop
An Ingenious Youth.
plication 'TT to^pracuS 1 common
take^ the dilapidated linen off the
Shrubbery. ”Jay” has recently gone
into the* well-boring business on his
own hook, and has rigged up an ap
paratus for the purpose nea^ h
hnmp on Limestone street, ine m
tive power is furnished by an inverted
bicycle frame; a rope being attached
: « thp nedals, and through a
“C Une/to an nvorhansinjl
branch of a tree, operates the drill
11 The youthful inventor has already
penetrated about ten feet of terra
the surface, it was evidently some he
had poured in himself. risht
The outfit, while simp le , is a "ight
ingenius affair, and shows that it was
planned by an inventive mind.
Neolect at the Cemetery.
Xownllrivatriots in the cemetery
have moved from Gaffney, hut it
seems that they
provision for having th. g
the graves are m-b* refresh i n g to
°'IZ Tit iots S cC e and wed
S”p, with flowers blooming upon or
beside the mounds wherein rest *
that is left of beings who once H
'and breathed and walhed an,on6 ns
'Vv a au'nlS:L" K l« <l t be el e 0 emS,erv T tbe
ciS Of the dead—have proper atten
tion.
, Hand* 1 *who*" wlT wanted in
this° county for fraud, representing
himself to have been sent out by^
pension department Tuesday by
was arrested last niesaay uj
ou twriinp at Lincolnton, N. C.
Sheriff Cline i ai . hv th seerdt
vtarris was located by m
S U ior”ome”te% e e was immght
uoitman Harris confessed to ni.
crime before Commlssion t r , m ? r ® S pre-
at Blacksburg, who gave him a l -
Hminarv examination and in default
of a one-thousand dollar bond coim
mitte i him to Cherokee county jail to
await his trial at Greenville court.
New District Agent.
Mr C E. Thomas, who has recent-
lv become a citizen of Gaffney, has
accepted the position of district agon
£ the Security Mutual Life Insurance
Co of Blnghampton, N. Y. of wmen
company Messrs. Chas. P. Ligon and
N J Lancaster, of Spartanburg, are
The South Carolina genera agema
Mr Thomas is an experienced
insurance”man and has a live, liberal
and aggressive company to represen .
Success is sure to result. His of
fices will be on the second floor over
Gaffney Drug Co. „
First Baptist Church Notes.
Dr. Simms exnects to .return from
the mountains in time to fill his pul
nit next Sabbath, the l<th, as usua .
He would he glad to see all his people
present.
WILLIAM S. HALL, JR.,
Attorney at Law,
National Bank Building,
Gaffney, S. C.
Prompt attention given to all business.
J. C.:OTTS
Attorney-at-Law, Notary In Offlca.
Office removed to New Bank Building.
Or. D. P. THOMSON,
Dentist.
Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone SS-
J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist.
Office Over The Battery.
'Phone 82
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Buggies an' 1 Aegeus,
GAFFNEY HARDWARE GO,,
R.. O. Sams, Manager,
Gaffney, South Carolina*
Tom Clarkson, who has had experi
ence with Wagons, Buggies, etc., is
with us and will be glad to see his
friends and show them through our
stock. :: :: :: ::
Paints and Oils.
CTQ
DR. W. K. GUNTER,
D E K T I » T
Office in Star Theatre Building.
Phonk No. 20.
Crown and bridge work a specialty
THE PIEDMONT INN
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Is the place to board. Plenty to eat.
Nice Rooms. Hot and Cold Baths Free.
Rates, f 15.00 per month, Ji.oo per day.
7-25-tf
Promptness Guaranteed.
Picture Framing, Sign Writing, Paper
Hanging, Hou-ie and Carriage Painting
L R. Caines ’Phone No. 47
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. Jt jt
MITOffice in Cherokee Drug Co., BTdg.
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drugglnt*.
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Girls end Boys Wanted
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To Make Money.
(J fCall at the Shoe Store
any afternoon between four
and five o’clock. Any boy
can make from $1.00 to
$3.00 a week.
The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co.
GAFFNEY, S. C., Aug. 31st, 1905.
Mr. Jones J. Darby, Disct. Agt.,
;ETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Gaffney, S. C.
Dear Sir:—I wish to extend my thanks to you and your
Chief Adjuster, P. B. Eyler, for draft of $75.00 for my recent disability;
also draft to Dr. B. L. Allen for $15.00, for medical attention. I rec-
ommed your company to any one who wants fair treatment and up-to-
date Accident and Health policies, as you are liberal in your settlements
and deserve patronage of the Insuring public. Yours truly,
J. C. Painter.
THE ROGERS HOME PLACE on the comer of Rut-
ledge and Pine streets. Seven-room house on lot 160x200
feet to 20 foot alley in the rear; good well on back porch;
wood shed, chicken house, bam with six stalls, crio and
hay loft. Fruit trees, ^rape vines, shade trees in front
and back yard. Premises fenced. In other words, a
complete home. Price $2,500.
You can easily sell off an 80 foot lot, and |have left a
very cheap home.
For further particulars address
J. W. ALEXANDER, - - Spartanburg, S. G.
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