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Pink and white Cash, dotted with dim*
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All on account of
Calm age
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D. D.
administered by a mother whose love Los Angeles, Cal., March 4.—In this
iras tempered with common sense. lermon the preacher pays a tribute to
She knows that OZOMULSION is; mothers-in-law In general and shows
n fountain of energy for grown-ups, that gratitude and fidelity to friends
too. It stops waste of flesh. It makes and to religious principles are essential
plenty of rich blood. For pale, feeble parts of the ideal character. The text
folk it is the chief nourisher at life’s' is Kuth 1, 10, “Whither thou goest, I
feast. It cures Consumption when will go.”
taken in time. All druggists sell it—, The mothers-in-law from time im
50 cents and $1.00 the bottle. Let us, mi moriul have been an object thr
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from time
an object
cheap and coarse wits of the day have
never tired of ridiculing. We do not
know why this is, but as soon as we
mention the name of mother-in-law ai-
gratefnl character was Ruth. She was
not one of those deceitful women who
have smiles and affectionate words and
loving caresses only for those she is
using for a mercenary object. She
was not like the ungrateful elder
daughters of King Lear, who had rap
turous terms of endearment for their
father only while their parent sat upon
his throne. But she was one of those
noble women who, if a friend had been
i good and true to her, never forgot that
goodness. That friend might live in a
palace or in a hut; she might be hon
ored or despised by the world; she
might be old or young, but Ruth would
love her and cling to her just the same.
She had all the characteristics of
S ataTidiness to her friends as had the
great and noble Emperor William I. of
Germany, who % was never known to
turn bis back upon a true frieud. So
true was his heart that when the Ger
man army started forth on the Franco-
Prussian war it is said that he left the
battalions and went to Potsdam
there knelf at the tomb of his mother,
Queen Louise, who had been bumbled
by Napoleon 1. And when he returned
as a conqueror, while all the capital of
Berlin was ready to give him the wcl-
most every one's face begins to smile
a. though he 1 were expecting a joke, come of triumphal entry, he again left
“Sunset” t’ox. the famous wit of con- the ranks and whnt to that same tomb
And the dollars will take
care of themselves. Some
people make fun of “thirty
•ents” but it is an account
worth saving, nevertheless,
and that is what we can
save for you ever time you
buy ten
Electric
Light Globes
4, 8, 16 and’32 candle-pow
er from us. It’s this way,
we have made arrangements
with the manufacturers
whereby they allow us three
cents for all old burnt out
globes returned, and in
stead of putting this money
in our pockets as many
merchants would do, we
give it to our customers.
Bring your old globes to us
when you come for the new
ones and we will allow you
three cents a piece for them.
If you can’t come ’phone us.
^ The ^
grc.ss, used to say that his audiences
would never take him seriously. When
ever he arose to speak the meu and
women sitting before him generally
began to laugh. “And,” said James
A. Garfield to a frieud many years
ago, “ ‘Sunset’ Cox never got the credit
which belonged to him as a farseeing
I statesman because the world always
J looked upon him simply as a funny
! man.” As the world looked upon “Suu-
1 set” Cox, so it looks upon mothers-iu-
| law. It considers the subject simply
; one to tickle our risibilities and to
i start forth a whole chorus of cachinnu-
j tions and guffaws. But, though cheap
j wits may make fun of our motbers-in-
I law, I for one am not to be classed
j among these satirists, for of all peo-
| pie I do not know any who are nobicr
i and truer and more self sacrificing as
! a class and who can rise to higher
heights of inspiration than these same
j women whom some of us may sneer at
| with the derogatory appellation of
1 mothers-in-law.
Of course some mothers do object to
their sons and daughters marrying.
But in ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred this .objection is not based on
selfish grounds. When the subtle life
companion for the boy comes along,
inevitably the mother will say: “My
son. I want to see you man-led to a
good wife. Helen is a good girl. I am
glad you are going to wed her. Of
course It is awfully hard for me to
and knelt to thank God that her dis
grace had been avenged. So with
Ruth. She never forgot those who had
been true to her. Naomi might be de
spised by the world, but Naomi had
been her friend. And because Naomi
had been true to her Ruth would never
leave her side.
A CrlxlM In Ilntli’M I.lfe.
Can you picture this beautiful young
girl at this critical moment? The
mother-in-law comes to her and says:
“Ruth, my dear. I must go away. I
cannot make a living here. My hus
band is dead. My two boys are dead.
And all these people are prejudiced
against me because I am a foreigner
und not of their blood. You stay, my
child. Your parents will take you
home and ail will be well. Don’t ruin
your life for my sake.” Then I be
lieve I read the thoughts that rapidly
pass through Ruth’s brain. At first
she soliloquizes, “Shall I stay?” But
the noble part of her soul says: “Nay.
Naomi has been a mother to me. For
over a score of years she put her whole
life into the developing of her two
hoys. Then she gave to me one of her
sons. She said: ‘Take him, Ruth. lie
is thine.’ Then she took me into her
great loving heart as her own daugh
ter. All that she had was mine. And
now, after she has given to me her all,
shall I desert her In the dark hours of
1 distress?" “Nay, Naomi,” she says, “I
will not turn my back upon thee.
band’s family, In her affections, must
take first place as it does In the east.
By the law of the Scottish clan as
soon as the daughter of one clan mar
ried into the family of another clan at
once she ceased to have any affiliation
with the clan of her father. In India
no sooner does u girl marry than she
goes into the home of her mother-in-
law and at once ceases to have any as
sociation with the home oi her child
hood. Thus In one sense was It with
the Hebrew and Moabltish marriage
laws. When Ruth married she be
came part of her husband’s family.
Naomi became ber mother. And, ac
cording to the marriage laws of her
time, she was in duty bound to care for
Naomi for better or fer worse. Cannot
you and I learn a mighty lesson for
fidelity to our marriage altars of the
west by Ruth’s faithfulness to the
marriage laws of the east? The simple
fact Is too many people look upon the
marriage altar simple as a trysting
and Ptace and not as a sacred shrine. They
seem to think that the marriage ties
are not unbreakable bands of steel, but
mere gossamer threads, which can
glitter for a little while in the sun and
bo snapped at will. They are ready to
plight their troth and say, “I will wed
thee for better,” but they are not ready
to say, “I will wed thee for worse.”
Why, so lightly do some people think
of their marriage vows that a popular,
literary man of England some time ago
advocated the idea that marriage
should not be for life, but for only a
term of ten years. If at the end of a
decade the husband got tired of bis
wife because she had lost the bloom of
youth, or because her hair was streak
ed with gray, or because the burden
of supporting the household was too
great, or because, like Brigham Young,
he might see the pretty face of some
other woman whom he would like to
make his favorite, then the mar-
found In the book of Ruth: “And Na
omi said unto her two danghters-in-
law. Go each to her mother’s house,
the Lord deal kindly with you as ys
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great soulful eyes upon Naomi as she
says: “Mother, why speak thus to me?
385 acre farm, $20.00 per acre.
67 acre farm in Yorkville $27 50 peracre.
have dealt with the dead and with me.” Lot 72x100, 3 miles from Gaffney.
Then metbinks I can see Ruth turn her *3 acr e farm, I14.00 per acre, 6 miles
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my baby. Your room has always been
just off miue. Night after night I
would sit up waiting to hear your step
and to have our little talk and feel the
good night kiss. That must all end
now. But, my boy, 1 know it is for
your good to marry. Helen Is a good
j glr). Be good to her v my son, and re
| member, i will always love her as a
daughter for your sake.” Was not that
> the way your mother did when you
started out in life? Was not that the
way your wife’s mother did when she
gave her daughter to you at the mar
riage altar?
Then there is the charge that our
; mothers-in-law are always ineddliug.
Of course some of them may. Mothers
I in-law are no more perfect as a class
than we are perfect But I for one
have never looked upon mothers-in-law
as vicious idlers. 1 have always
looked upon them as a great reserve
corps, ready to come to the world's
; help whenever they are needed. Look
' back into your past life. Was your
! mother-in-law a vicious meddler? Did
i she hang around your house until she
| became u nuisance? Nay. She never
: bothered you lu that way. When that
1 awful sickness came into your .house
! she came as u ministering augel. Day
after day and night after nigL. she
hovered about that sickroom. Don't
talk to me about mothers-in-law as a
1 class being pests. They are the nooiest
and the most self sacrificing women
on earth. In the first place, they say
to the world: “Here Is my son. Here
: Is my daughter. Take them. Let oth
ert go and live with them and he first
in their affections.” Then after these
mothers-in-law have effaced them
selves, when trouble heads toward our
homes, they are the first to come to our
rescue. Ah, that was a sad day In
your life when your mother-in-law
died. There would not have been the
difficulties which have since separated
! you and your wife from her relatives
, had your mother-in-law not been car
ried out to sleep among the flowers.
A I'erfoct Mother-in-law.
Well, all that a perfect mother-in-law
ought to be Naomi was. She had rear
ed two fine boys. She had given these
two sons as husbands tp two young
maidens in the land of Moab. Then by
a strange series of fatalities Naomi
I not only lost her husband, but her two
j sons. There were three widows alone
> to face the struggle of life. Naomi
said to the two girls: “I will go back
to my own country. I hear that the
famine in the land of Judaea is over.
I will go back there and live and strug
gle ou, but you two girls go back to
your mothers’ bouses and marry new
husbands and all will be well.” Orpab,
one of the girls, wept over her mother-
in-law. She kissed ber and left But
Ruth, the heroine of my text, would
not do this. She came near to Naomi
and said, “Whither thou goest. I will
go.” And she not only said this, but
she stayed by Naomi’s side. Such la
the simple story of this perfect mother-
lD-law, Naomi, in ber relationship to
this model daughter-in-law, Ruth. And
as we study this subject you will see
bow Ruth wbo became the ancestress
of the Havlour, successfully met the
duties pf life In this the darkest hour
of ber earthly existence.
Not a miserable, contemptible, un-
where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy
people shall be my people, and thy God
my God." Could Ruth the true, Ruth
the noble, speak otherwise? My
friends, have you these noble charac
teristics of gratitude? After a per
son has been true and self sacrificing
for you, afier that person has given to
you practically the whole of her life,
are you going to turn that person adrift
as soon us the dark clouds of adversity
gather about ber head? Are you go
ing to use the word “friendship” as a
synonym for “convenience?’’ As soon
as you think it is for your owu best
interests, tire you going to turn your
back upon your true friends, as the de
ceitful Duke of Alva seut Admiral
Hoorn and Egmont to the block and as
Napoleon 1. exiled Josephine, the best
friend he ever had?
Oh, the contemptible actions of which
some of us are guilty toward those who
have blessed us in the past! The story
Is told that many years ago In the is
land of Mauritius a poor old black wo
man, who was u slave, workVd and
struggled at odd. hours and saved until
after awhile she got together euough
money to purchase the freedom of her
daughter. Ah, that was a happy day
for the old black woman! She went to
ber child's house with the good news
and said: “My child, you are freel You
are free!” With that she seated her
self by her daughter. But the story
goes that the daughter drew herself up
and said: “Woman, how dare you sit
In my presence? Do you not know that
I am now a free woman and you are
still a slave? Rise at once and leave the
room!" The story at first seemed to
me to be a farfetched oue, and yet,
after much consideration, 1 doubt If it
is. Almost every day we can see un
grateful children acting thus to their
parents and ungrateful meu and wom
en turning their backs upon those wbo
have lifted them to their thrones or
started them on the road to success
and happiness. Not thus was Ruth.
In Naomi’s adversity she remembered
Naomi’s past love. May God help us
to be true to those who have been true
to us In the troublesome years that are
goue!
Tr«* to Marrlaar* Tows.
Ruth measures up to the full stand
ard of the test of human gratitude.
She does more. She measures up to
the full test of ber marriage vows.
And when I speak thus I am placing
that standard very high. The marriage
law of the east la a far more difficult
one to which to do justice than the
marriage law of the west Tot she
obeyed those eastern laws to the last
letter Let me try to contrast those
two laws for you.
When a young woman stands before
the marriage altar of our land and the
Bpiacopai rector says: “Wilt thou have
this man to be tby wedded husband, to
lire together after God’s ordinance in
the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt
thou obey him and serve him, love,
honor and keep him in aickneas and in
health and, forsaking all others, keep
thee only unto him so long as ys
riage relationship could be terminate J.
while, on the other hand, if the wife
was a frivolous, good for nothing gad
about and she got tired of Per husband
because he liked to sit at home and
play with the children, or work over
his books, or plan how they could de
crease their expenses so tlioy could
lift the mortgage off the home, then
at the end of ten years she could pack
up her trunk and leave that home and
go off with Iho first worthless charac
ter toward whom she had been casting
her flirtatious eyes during these ten
years of her married life. Is that
right ? Ah, no, that was not Ruth's
Idea of marriage! When she married
Naomi's sou she realized the full re
sponsibility of the relation. She was
ready to meet those responsibilities for
better or for worse.
The Old I-'uMliioned Idea*.
Her ideas of marriage were a great
deal like the old fashioned ideas with
which our grandfathers and grand
mothers were wedded. They may have
started out witli little of worldly
goods, hut they had a big balance in
tbe bank of trust. When they started
housekeeping they were both ready
and willing to put forth their hands to
lift the common burdens. The babies
came, and the father’s hammer and
saw made the crib, and the mother's
foot rocked it, and he mother’s needle
sewed the garments for the little
strangers. When sickness came they
nursed oue another through it. When
financial trouble and want came they
starved together and made the old
clothes do. .Side by side they met the
storms of trouble. Side by side they
smiled in the sunshine of prosperity.
They sobbed together. They sang to
gether. They prayed together. Their
bodies, side by side, are now sleepiug
in the little country graveyard, and
their spirits are now side by side iu
heaven together. “For better or worse,”
read their plighted troth. “For better
or for worse,” was Ruth’s marriage
pledge to Naomi’s son. May God help
us to he true to our marriage vows.
May we be true for our owu sakes and
true for the sakes of those whose hap
piness is dependent upon our faithful
ness to that plighted troth. But Ruth
measures up full to her religious stand
ard as well as to her love test and her
mental test. She stands before us the
noble example of a woman wbo has
surrendered her heart to the true God
as well as her life to the service of
those human beings who were dear to
her. And unless you can have this
commingling of the divine love with
the human love you cannot have either
man or woman meet the full require
ments which God or the world has de
manded of them. Some time ago it
was my privilege to spend a holiday
with three children who had an Infidel
and a skeptic for a father. The mother
was dead. They were three beautiful
children. They were exquisitely dress
ed. Iheir manners were perfect. But,
though they were only children, you
could see and feel something was lack
ing In their makeup. The spiritual
part of their lives was stunted. They
bad learned to love man, but they had
not learned to love Jesus Christ. Not
thus was Ruth. She measures full to
tbe test of human love. She also me&s-
Lot 80x200, west end, $350.00
Lot 2j4 acres, 4 room house, $1,050.00
Lot 135 feet by 200, 3 blocks from depot
$72500.
Lot 200x200, 4 blocks from depot, $700.00.
Fine 6 room house, newly finished, near
graded school.
3 hue houses and lots near depot, $6,000
125 acre farm 7 miles from town, $13.50
per acre, ^ in timber.
185 acre farm near Pacolet Mills, $15.00
per acre—enough timber ou it to pay
for it.
185 acre farm 7 milesfrom Gaffney, $15.-
00 per acre.
140 acre 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. Lmtia
etc., part iu corporate limits, $4.
100.00.
125 acre farm near town, $1,350.00.
78 acre farm 3 miles out, $1,350.00.
129 acre farm 3 miles out, $16.00 per
acre.
81 acre farm extremely cheap.
202 acre farm, good houses, good
barn, etc. Price $1,800.00; easily
worth $12.00 per acre.
The Hill house ^.nd lot, 5 rooms $510.-
00 the cheapest place in tow : for
money. Would rent for $6.0 • per
month.
The Charlie Stacy house, only $800.00
75 acres most all in timber, $1,000.00.
One fine lot right in heart of town
$2,000.00.
One farm (extremely large) $10,250.00
50 a^res. house, etc., edge of town.
Price $4,000.00.
412-5 acres of laud, new 3-2«om
house, circular piazza, 4-acre orchard,
goad barns and outbuildings. Price
$2,350. 100 yards from car line.
Lot 80x180, corner Jefferies and
Laurel streets, near graded schooL
Price $375.
4 room house, L<trn, 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) $”.00 per
acre. ,
380 acres (De Loach lands) $7.00 per
acre.
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 oa Bar-
ratt’s creek. Twenty acres good bot
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 M „^ow
and Grenard streets, 80x200, price,
$1,750.
118 acres all in timber 8 miles out
Lies good. Price $16 2-3 per acre.
67 acres 4 miles out. 2-3 In timber,
on R. F. D. and public road. Lies
well, $850.
281 acres on Thickety and Gilkey
creeks. Lies fine, fine buildings, high
ly improved and good timber.
128 acres, 8 acres original forest
plenty of 2nd-, growth pine timber,
houses, etc., has well. $12.50 per acre.
Nice house 1 1-2 acr , of good
ground, near depot. Price $2,000.
8-room house and nice new barn, 5
acres, beautiful land In Blacksburg,
$1,100.
6-room house, lot 150x150, good
barns and out buildings, $600. Will
exchange for farm.
Nice brick store room, house and
vacant lot in Gaffney, Is rented for
$15 per month. Price $2,175.
5-room house and 1-2 acre ground,
fine orchard, $1,225.
FOR RENT.
Lroom house and one horse farm
In town. House being fixed un.
UNION COUNTY.
One pretty new 6-room cottage In
Union; nice barn and outbuildings.
Yard and garden: nicely fenced; on
Wardlaw street near E. Main. Only
a short distance from railway station
and school bouse. Young rohard,
splendid water. Price $1,500. Two-
thirds cash, balance in one year.
CHEROKEE COUNTY.
lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall
be my people, and thy God my God.”
Do you not grasp what I mean? In
order to worship the true God, Ruth,
gentle Ruth, was ready to turn her
back upon the land of her birth. She
was ready to go forth into exile, ready
to starve and even die In order that
Naomi’s God might he her God. Are
you and I ready to suffer as did Ruth
to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ?
Ah, sometimes we change our minds
in reference to a human love. There
s a beautiful story told that when Hen
ry M. Stanley started on his last great
trip across the African continent he
went with a heavy heart, for the only
woman he had ever loved did not love
him. But when he returned and met
her the first question he was asked by
Miss Dorothy Tennant was this: “Mr.
Stanley, do you find London much
changed?” And the intrepid explorer
quietly answered: “No. I have not
found London changed, and I have not
changed, either.” Then he looked her
gently in the eye us he said, “Have
you changed?” With that the famous
model offiMillais’ great picture, entitled
“Yes or No?" softly answered, ‘ Yea, I
have changed.” And the “No” of re
fusal was changed to the “Yes” of
wedding bells. But, though some of us
may change in reference to the wooing
of a human love, Ruth never changed
In regard to her allegiance to the divine
love. She was ready to go into exile,
to starve and even to die, as she de
clared to Naomi, “Thy people shall be
my people, and thy God my God.” Can
we, dare we, say as much? Will we
give to God today our whole hearts,
full of devotion and self sacrifice?
And what was the result of this self
sacrifice and love for the divine Mas
ter? Ah. Ruth herself uever realized
what its far reaching result was to be.
I think, even from Ruth’s standpoint,
at times she must have become very
discouraged and felt that her sacrifices
amounted to naught. Everything that
she expected miscarried. She left her
own home to go to the land of her
husband's family. There, of course,
she expected to be welcomed and cared
for. Was she? No sooner did Naomi
and this beautiful young girl cross the
Jordan and come up to the home land
of Bethlehem than her old neighbors
and friends came out to taunt and to
ridicule her. They met her with these
mocking %\ords: “Is this Naomi, who
persuaded her husband to go and live
In that wicked country of Moab? Is
this Naomi, who went and married her
two sons to 1 lie daughters of the heath
en Moab'u *s? No wonder your hus
band und boili your two sons are dead.
God has cursed you with poverty and
bereavement.” Cannot you see the
tears trickle down the poor wrinkled
cheeks of the old woman and hear the
panting sobs choke the throat of the
beautiful young girl when the sneer
ing, mocking words are uttered, “Is
this Naomi?”
Naouil'a Trial.
And this is not all. Not only did the
neighbors and the people mock Naomi,
hut they liierally left her to starve.
She seemed to have no frieud in the
world. She went down and down, as
some of you have gone down in the
struggle of life. She got so low that
one day Ruth, who was compelled to
do something to earn bread for them
to live upon, went out to glean after
the reapers. The few grains of wheat
which the reapers accidentally dropi>ed
were not allowed to be picked up by
the reapers, but were always left to be
gathered by the needy poor. Then It
was, when It seemed as though Ruth
could not sink lower, that Boaz. saw
her aud loved her. When we think we
are the most friendless and hopeless,
then the Lord Is going to open for us,
as he did to Ruth, our greatest oppor
tunity of usefulness if we only remain
true to him. Are we willing to go to
the land of exile for him? Are we
willing to trust him? Are we willing
to let him use us for his service? I
ask of you this question here and now,
amid the dark clouds In your life. Will
you trust him and remain true to him
J . One four-room cottage near Irene
j now/ , ,. Mills in splendid condition, on nice
Like Ruth gleaning In the fields as a | 0 . j a ren t e< j f or $6.00 per month-
pauper, in the darkest hours of your life pr^ $700.
can you not learn to trust him and be
both shall livs?” the woman answers, Rutb - ^ D™- .■^ms dla-
•T will’’
mean the
But that promise does not
woman shall loae bar own
identity in that of bar husband as it
does in tbe east. That does not mean
that her mother-in-law and bar bus-
true to bim? Ah, Ruth had her Boat.
Through her Boaz she became the an
cestress of Jesus Christ. You today in
your ’fields have your Saviour, and
urea full to the divine test Let me through him you shall yet win a mighty
draw a figurative picture of what I triumph. Are you, like Ruth, able to
mean. stand the test of being true to your
*» L»»e •* *<*•*- divine Father’s love?
It was a sad, sad sight in one oi tbe Qur sermon opened with a dirge. It
homes of a city of the great and rich began at the door of three gaping
country in the land of Moab. You graves. “The book has a sad open-
ought to know a little of the history of ing," once said Joseph Parker. *Tt be-
that land. Its cities were as rich as gan with famine and misery. It opened
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and him> a clondy day. It went onward la
the inhabitants of these cities were Just (0 widowhood twice told, and the first
as vile as the Sodomites. They were chapter is like a rain of team.” But,
not only Idol worshipers, but worse, thank God, It ends in triumph. It ends
Their worship was similar to that by the ringing of the wedding chimes,
which was celebrated in the temple of Like Ruth, let us all bend the knot to
Baal. In this borne are three weeping the King of kings, who Is Lord of
widows. Naomi la there and Orpah lords.
My dear friends, as Ruth found ahsl-
ter in the home of Boaz, const thou not
find a haven in the love and tbe rescue
of Jesus Christ? Child, wilt thou glean
today in thy Master's harvest field?
fCopyriftat, 1901 by Louis KlepesM
monds, glittering amid the filth of a
•wine trough, is the purity of this
home compared to the vileness and sin
all around it Naomi now is speaking
to her girls those beautiful words
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 rlrur
adjoining the above tract, nicely Um
bered, two good settlements, in fine
condition. Price $15.00 per acre.
455 scree close to Smyrna and Hick
ory Grove, good land, lies well, good
settlements, near good school. Prior
$15.00 per acre.
218 acres, good settlement, pretta
land, lies abreast np to railway sta
tion, well timbered. Very cheap at
$16.00 per acre.
85 acres on Thickety creek, 85 seres
in good bottoms, house, barnc, ate.
Being put Into good shape, good sotl,
not rocky. Price $16.00 per aer*
About 7 miles from town, cloee fit
school.
Prices reasonable.
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R. L. Parish
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