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gnt? ■ ■ puy r - rvsf^r? JV I*. THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, e d. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, J. Brian Bell, News Editor. A GAFFNEY BUILDER. On February -Ith, an associa tion was formed in Gaffney having for Its object the mutual financial as sistance of its members. How well they have succeeded in the undertaking may be judged in part by the fact that five members who previous to this time were pav ing rent now live in their own homes. Eight members whose homes were mortgaged to people they never saw, have paid off those mortgages -nd have the personal help of the other members in getting out of debt. It is a big brotherly association do ing all it can to uplift its members who may be in a fight—to upbuild Gaffney, give work to carpenters and brick masons and to make better citi zens of its members. Individual cases of assistance could be cited if necessary to prove that the association is an ideal one to join. The association referred to is the Cherokee Building and I»an Associa tion and every one should become acquainted with its plans. The association takes in new mera- bers February 1st and it would be well for you to take some stock in it, as it is a Gaffney builder—that is. it is helping to make a city of Gaffney. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Ask your neighbor to subscribe for The Ledger. It is the duty of every citizen to keep posted on affairs per taining to his county and in no way can they keep so well posted on Chero kee affairs as by subscribing to The Ledger. We need you in our business and we try to make ourself so worthy that you will need us. • • ■ Are you thinking about good roads for Cherokee? Why should wo not profit by tile experience of other coun ties? Why wait for years before we commence the construction of good roads rather than take advantage of the experience of Mecklenburg coun ty? There is no one thing that would advance Cherokee so fast as good roads. Let us take on the progressive spirit, throw aside old fogylsm and be come up-to-date. It doesn’t cost any more and it is a great deal better. So talk up good roads. • • • Cherokee people wear shoes. That’s astonishing, but it is nevertheless a .’act. Now wouldn’t it be the proper thing for Cherokee to have a shoe factory and make her own shoes? think so. It would also be proper to have a clothing factory and make our own clothes. Some good. live, hust ling citizen should get busy along these lines. In fact it would be well for all the good, live hustlers of Gaff- n. y to got busy and organize a Cham ber of Commerce or Board of Trade and begin to push the possibilities of Gaffney. Now is the time, while land tis cheap and before factory sites go sky-high. With cheap electric power now almost In sight, it would he wise to look ahead for future developments his character. 01 • • Ever since the suicide of R. Kolth Dargan, of Darlington, last July, there have been wild rumors to tlhe effect that Dargan was not dead but that he had practiced a clever ruse in or der that, his people might pront be cause of the insurance he carried on his life. One of the insurance com panies pretended to believe this can ard and declined to pay the insurance monev until tihe grave was disturbed and the body examined. This was done last Friday, and the examination made puts at rest the wild rumor, as people well acquainted with Dargan viewed the body and pronounced it that of Dargan. There is some ghoulish about this whole business that grates upon the finer sensibili ties of mankind. We did not know Dargan. but are gratified to know that bis family has been vindicated. The mental suffering they must have en dured was a severe test. It was bad enough that this man should have so far lost his reason as to end his own life—for no one but a crazy man would do such a thing—without his fhmily being subjected to such a trial. Granted Bail. Dr. E. S. McDow, who has been In jail in Lancaster since the shooting of Mr. Hazel Witherspoon on the 6th Inst., was granted bail Thursday af ternoon in the sum of $500 by Magis trate Caskey, physicians having certl fled that Mr. Witherspoon is out of danger. Attorney Trantham, of Cam den, 4s Dr. McDow’s counsel. Mr. Witherspoon, who is now able to be up, went to Chester Wednesday eve ning and bad the bullet in his body located by means of X-ray. The bal was found next to the third rib but was not removed, as It is doing no harm. WRITTEN F*ROM W1NNSBORO. A Former Cherokeeaq Writes Home to Ledger Read«rs. Winnsboro, Jan. 20.—For some time I have been anticipating writing a let ter to The Ledger, feeling that it would be almost like writing one home, and tonight will try to scribble off a few lines from this place, as I do not know whether The Ledger has ! a correspondent here or not. I would be very glad to see a letter in The Ledger from Winnsboro every’ week, ( that is if some one else would do the writing. I can not, but hope it is not) because it seems a great burden to me, and that it is because It does not come to me as a talent, though as I am not in Cherokee county among its j good people I feel that it is my duty to help my old county friends all tnat| I can, and especially Mr. DeCamp. not! onl” in getting news in The Ledger columns to its Cherokeeans, but its wide spread subscribers. At this place we are having some unfavorable weather at) this time, some days are warm and pleasant but turn to be damn and foggy, and raining and cold, and causes sickness, cold leading into pneumonia. There is said to be one case of typhoid fever in Winnsboro at this time in the home of Mr. Bollck. This young man hasj been sick for several days and we! wish him a speedy recovery and to see him up going about Winnsboro attending to bis usual business. The farmers of Fairfield have be gun to make big preparations tor another crop, and as cotton has been a good price 1 presume every one will try his best for this year. I have| heard of very few oate being sown near ths place, but from the way plow stocks and mules are going out from town, there must be something j doing. Orders for fertilizer are going in to the factc-tes in numbers now, [ and farming fi. ires are in great de-! mand. Myself and a great many others about eighteen months ago tried 'to advise the people to not over-! do the business on cotton that would run down the price, but look where the price is now. I thought I knew something about what future prices would be, bpt if I had heard of it! then I would not have known it from a door post. Go it farmers, the more the j better. There is being a new bank erected > at this place. The Winns-, boro people have a business head. They are carrying things along rapid ly. The bank is expected to open on February 1st, next, and if nothingi happens they will lie ready by that time. I think that there is plenty of room here for the new bank and do not see why it should not prosper. We had the pleasure of hearing Rev. Mr. Stokes preach last Sunday. He is the new pastor here in place of Rev. Mr. Campbell, who served his i ■'rtn, and was sent to Spartanburg. Rev. Mr. Stokes is a young married man and we hope for him a success ful year. We give him a hearty wel come here with us. Last Sunday was his second sermon here at the M. E. church. His text was from Genesis !)th chapter and 23rd verse. • The young people of the Baptist Wo! church organized their young people’s meeting last) Thursday night. Mr. Jesse Doty was elected president; Miss Annie Doty, secretary, and Miss, Leilor Christmas, treasurer. We | wish them nothing hut success. We regret to note the death of Mrs. A. H. Guilard, of this place. She died January 17th. The day following, her funeral was. preached at) the Episco pal church. She was buried in the. Episcopal cemetery. A few days be-1 for© her death she happened to swal low one of her false teeth, though that is not w'hat is said to have caus ed her death. Mr. Bob Brawley, of Union, was in Winnsboro yesterday. He has come over to visit his sister, Mrs. W. C. Peay, who lives a few miles from this place. Mr. Brawley is a young man who knows a good many people of Cherokee county, so he and your correspondent were soon good chums. Mr. J. M. Jennings, the future cash ier of the new bank of this place, was in town yesterday. Mr. Jennings is the cashier of the State Bank of Co lumbia, and one whom a good number of people are well acquainted with, and I am sure Mr. Jennings will be welcomed back to this place by his old friends here and all feel sure he will give satisfaction in his work with l ho new bank. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Refo, of this place, had a china wedding at their home last Tuesday night. They have been married twenty years. There will be another wedding in town soon, and it will not be a china wedding either, I learn. If this comes out I hope to give the details of the wedding next time. Success to The Ledger ami its readers. Willie B. Kirby. For Sale ■■ ■ Perfect Complexion Beautifier warranted to produce'} r a perfect Complexion, re- movingjall facial blemishes, and it makes a pretty addi tion to the toilet table. Read| their add in another column. For sale and guaranteed^by us only, iu Gaffney. Phone us or ask to see it when in the store. The Gaffney Drag Company R. C. GARLAND. Mgr. " Hotels and Depot. What Gaffney Really Needs. 1 (YorkvlUo New Era.) Over in Gaffney they are bragging about a big new depot. It would seem that what they need over there just ati present is a commodious jail equip- ned with all the modern devices for legacy cracking criminal necks. »re are a lot of people whose of economy is buying an auto ll* to gave street car fare. The Kansas college student who turned highwayman must have got his training in the gentle school of hazing. There are mauy good Flours but, as you know , there can be BUT ONE BEST! 4- PI It is made for those who have a care with regard to their food : : : : : For Sale by CARROLL & BYERS, Made by Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Com pany Lawrenceburg, Ind. l-iw lvoiS 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 l anteed Pure White Lead and Zinc, Notice is hereby given to all con-l an j p ure Linseed Oil. Nothing better corned that we will apply to Hon. J. | to paint your house with and costs E. Webster, Probate Judge for Cher©- 1 i esg than mixed paints. When In need 385 acre farm, $20.00 per acre. 67 acre farm in Yorkville $27.50 per acre. Lot 72x100, 3 miles from Gaffney. 83 acre farm, $14.00 per acre, 6 miles from Gaffney. 17^ acres $100.00 per acre. acre farm 414 miles from Henrietta and 25Cliffsides, 22 acres of it in timber, $16.- 50 per acre. HOUSES and LOTS. 8 room house and 6 acres in Blacksburg, £1,300.00. Fine 6 room house,newly finished, $1,800 Lot 72x135, $700.00 down. 78 acre farm, $1,350; 2 years to pay for it. 4 acres 3 blocks from depot, $3,300.00. Lot 80x200, west end, $350.00 Lot 2^4 acres, 4 room house, $1,050.00. Lot 135 feet by 200, 3 blocks from depot, $725.00. Lot 200x200, 4 blocks from depot, $700.00. Fine 6 room house, newly finished, near graded school. 3 fine houses and lots near depot, $6,000 125 acre farm 7 miles from town, $13.50 per acre, 14 in timber. 185 acre farm near Pacolet Mills, $15.00 { >er acre—enougli timber on it to pay or it. 185 acre farm 7 milesfrom Gaffney, $15.- j 00 per acre. 140 act e farm near Cherokee Falls, 40 acres in fine bottoms, 60 acres virgin timber, $15.00. 114 acres close to Gaffney, 28.00 per acre. 122 acre farm good houses, barns, etc., part in corporate limits, $4,100.00. 125 acre farm near town, $1,350 00. 78 acre farm 3 miles out, $i,35c,.oo. 129 acre farm 3 miles out, £16.00 per acre. 84 acre farm extremely cheap. 202 acre farm, good houses, good barns, etc. Price $1,800.00; easily worth $12.- 00 per acre. The Hill house and lot, 5 rooms $510.00; the cheapest place in town for money. Would rent for $6.00 per month. The Charlie Stacy house, only £800.00. 75 acres most all in timber, $r,000.00. One fine lot right in heart of town, $2,- 100.00. One farm (extremly large) $10,250.00. 50 acres, house, etc., edge of town. Price £4,000.00. 41 2-5 acres of land, new 5-room house, circular piazza, 4-acre orchard, good barns and outbuildings. Price $2,350. 100 yards from car line. Lot 80x180, corner Jefferies and Laurel streets, near graded school. Frice $375. 4 room house, barn, store room and 1 acre land at Thickety depot, $425.00. Lot 80x200 in left of resident portion of town. Price $800.00. 147 acres (De Loach lands) $7.00 per acre. 380 acres (De Loach lands) $7.00 per a*:re. 518 acres eight miles from Gaffney. Price ,6$250. Seventy-five acres in bottoms. 316 acre farm six miles from Gaff ney on R. F. D. No. 1, lying on Sar* ratt’s creek. Twenty acres good hot toms, 125 acres in timber. Three settlements. Price $15 per acre. Two lots four blocks from depot 75x300. Price $100 per lot. Seven-room house, eight acres of fine land. Good barn, out buildings, etc. The Morgan home, Price $4,000. One beautiful lot corner Meadow and Grenard streets, 80x200, price, $1,750. FOR RENT. 8-room house and one horse farm iu town. House being fixed up. UNION COUNTY. One pretty new C-room cottage in Union; nico barn and outbuildings. Yard and garden; nicely fenced; on Wardlaw street near E. Main. Only a short distance from railway stt tlon | and school house. Young 'rchird, splendid water. Price $1,500. Two- thirds cash, balance in one year. CHEROKEE COUNTY. One four-room cottage near Irene Mills in splendid condition, on nice lot. Is rented for $6.00 per month. Price $700. CHEROKEE AND YORK COUNTIES. 900 acres of nice land In near Smyr na, Hickory Grove and King’s Creek. 700 acres In nice timber only a couple of miles from R. R. station. 100 acres in good bottoms on King’s and Wolf creeks. Several settlements. Price $15.00 per acre. 700 acres of land on Broad river adjoining the above tract, nicely tim bered, two good settlements, In fine condition. Price $15.00 per acre. 455 acres close to Smyrna and Hick ory Grove, good land, lies well, good settlements, near good school. Prl» $15.00 per acre. 218 acres, good settlement, prett: land, lies abreast up to railway sta tion. well timbered. Very cheap at $15.00 per acre. 85 acres on Thickety creek, 35 acres In good bottoms, house, barns, etc, Being put Into good shape, good soli, not rocky. Price $15.00 per acre. About 7 miles from town, close to school. | ‘ ’ Spring Styles | IN MEN’S AND BOYS’ ^ I SoA and Still Hats i Ja Howard Style. New Caps for everybody. CARROLLABYERS 3 ^UUUUUUUUUUlUUUlUUk? FINAL DISCHARGE. kee county. South Carolina, at his of flee, Gaffney, S. C., on Monday, Feb ruary 19th, 1906, for final settlement and discharge as executors of the es tate of Maj. Lee Linder, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate will present the same duly attested to the undersigned on or be- for said day of settlement. 10 o’clock 1 a. m. or be forever barred. Nannie V. Smith, R. E. Linder. Exor’s. estate Maj. Lee Linder, de ceased. Pub. In Gaffney Ledger Jan. 26, Feb. 2. 9 and 16, 1906. of anything In the building line, call and tee ut; we’ll treat yon cour teously and make your estimates for nothing. ft -• V .. L,. Baker*, MANAQCVt. Prices reasonable. R. L. Parish SALE OF tjOUSE AND LOT. On saleaday in February I will offer for sale to the highest bidder (if not sold at private sale before that day) one lot 80x160 on Buford street, with eight-room house thereon; also small barn. Waterworks; within four minu tes walk from business center of Gaff ney. W. A. Turner. Jan. 19, 23. 26, 30, Feb. 2. FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Platter Hair, Platter Parlt, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuee, and Dynamite Capa, call oe LIMESTOXE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL A CO* IT. La(lies , and Gents’ Tailoring. Having secured the services of an ex pert Tailor'from New York, I am now prepared to cut ami make)Suits for Ladies and Gentlemen in the very latest styles. LADIES’ TAILORING A SPECIALTY. A full line of samples of the newest fabrics always on hand. Have your clothing made in your own town where you can be sure of a fit. All work guaranteed. Give me a trial Clothing altered and remodeled. >W. H. Robinson. Upstair sover Settlemyer building HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Ton Nuggofs A Buiy Medicine tor Busy People. Bringi Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A epeeiflo for Constipation. Indigestion. Lives and Kidney trouble*. Pimples. Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Sluggish Bowel*. Headache and Backache. Its Kooky Mountain Tea In tab let form, HA cents a box. Uonulne made by Hollistih Dhuo Com pant, Madison, WIs. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE j; Reduction We have a lot of 9x12 Art Squares that we will now close out at 20 per cent, dis count. Come and see them. They are just what you need at the right prices. We can save you money on all kinds of Furniture, as we bought heavily before the advance, and Furniture is still going higher, as all lumber and raw material is up nearly 50 per cent. So if you are go ing to need anything soon now is the time to buy while we can give you the advan tage of the old prices. Yours truly, Shuford & LeMaster. JONES J. DARBY PROTECTS Business, Income, Salary and Family DISTRICT AGENT Accident and Liability Dept, Aetna Life Ins. Co., Hartford, Conn. Gaffney, S. Give Me Fincken’s Market, I want to try some of his □TENNESSEE MEATS. FINCKEN. Tiie Gaffney City Land and Improvement Co. For Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town. Gaffney; also Farms near bv and In reach of the Scnools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of 80 to 100 acres n liberal time rat*8; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm purposes ~ 1 part ulars apply to J. V. SABBATT, Agent. N. b.—All persons are forbidden to entor on. walk or ride through or over the lands of the company.cuttlng and removing timber or Ashing hunting, under penalty of law. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. •Phone 8a DR. W. K. GUNTER, UEJPi T1»T Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonb No. 20. Crown and bridge work a speelalty WILLIAM t. HALL* JR* Attorney at Law, National Bank Building, Gaffney, t. C. Prompt attention given to aB buslneea Furniture, Organs. Planoe "nd Automobiles Gan be Brought to Life and look fresh and new, by aslmg Liquid Veneer. Cheap, durable, and handy; anyone can apply It fully. Call at The “B, B.” Store and get a bottle; lOo and 60a. We do not do alt klnda of printing— we do tho GOOD kind.