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THE LEDGER- ; this campaign is concerned, still it is Tuead.iy and Friday, not out of the wav and no vain at- -d. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, i tempt a t flattery to say that he is not J. Brian Bell, Newa Editor. Hereafter no advertlaementa will be accepted at this office after 9.30 o'clock on Mondaya and Thursdays. Watch vour label and tbe date. And renew before ’tls too late; If there be an error, don’t get mad. Report tc us—we'll make you glad. Renumber, ’tis our aim to please. But errors are like peskv fleas They will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —Original. notes and comments. a fool by any means. He is an ambi- I tious Cherokee county young man. above the .average American citizen jn intelligence, as honest as a PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mrs. .1. F. Moore, of Hiddenite, N C.. and Mrs. George R. Ellis, of ‘.ilarksburg R. F. D. No. 1, paid The liOdger a vkit yesterday. Mr. J. G. Holt, from beyond the Broad, was in the city yesterday. J. C. Plonk, of the Cherokee Falls Vote Gen era! for Lyon for Attorney gold dollar. And be it said to his j ^ anu f ac turlng company, was in the credit that the three campaigns he has C j ty Saturday on business, cone through have had much to do .! H. Williams and family returned , , . ,i , , in Friday from Thickety, where they with developing the man that is in ' “ ua ^ •' r I have been visiting Mr. Lee Lipscomb There will doubtless lie many ] an( j f am jjy Lyon lacked but about three thous and coming in on the first ballot. Let Cherokee vote solidly for him on next Tuesday. • • • The Columbia Record is extract ing some comfort from the recent election Surely it is welcome to any crumbs it may be able to pick up. • • • Vote for Ansel next Tuesday. He is a Piedmont product and this is the first time we have ever had an oppor tunity to elect a governor from our own »art of the State. • * • The Columbia Record had a Jiead line over the election news from Gaff ney to this effect; “Cherokee has a Had ease of Lyonitls.” Correct, brother, and we are darned proud of the disease • • • The Ledger's bulletin board will be in operation next Tuesday. We will appreciate it very much if the manag- » is of election will take the trouble to 'phone or send in the returns Tues- dav night as earlv .as possible. • # • Superintendent West has had years of experience as a school super intendent. His way of doing things may not be in accordance with your ideas, but he lias produced results. What he needs now more than any thing • Ise in this new field is your confidence. • • • Send the boys and girls under your charge to school. Put decent clothes on them if possible, but if you can’t send them in silk and broadcloth, clothe them in rags—you can wash the rags and keep them clean. It were better Miat they wear rags and have something in their heads be sides dandruff and creeping things than to wear silk and Ittxiadcloth and grow up in ignorance. • * • The grace with which th- defeated candidates accepted the result shows that they were worthy of the honors they sought. There was nothing neater done during the whole of the campaign titan the manner in which Mr. Hall introduced the next senator of Cheroke* to the audience in the theatre last Tuesday night. And Mr. Otts’ remarks were alright, too. • • • School opened this morning. Did your children enter? If not why not? what's mat? Did you say you would wait a few days, for they would do nothing more than organize this week? Well, perhaps they will not, hut if all were like you. who feel that way they would not do even that, for it takes children to make a school, and with no school th'-ro could be no organization. A train must get in motion. Why not wait until it is go ing full speed to board it? Its Just as reasonable. • • • “We are going down to Columbia Monday to get those doughnuts off the Columbia Record.’’—Gaffney Led ger No, sir-ree; you don’t win by a long shot. Better bring the dollar along with you and settle up now. Next Tuesday it will be ours anyway, and we’ll need It.—Columbia Record. We never in all our life saw any one so hard to convince of the truth as is The Record. By golly, if it had not been supporting Tillman it would have been arguing until now that the cornfield lawyer had been de feated when there was no one in the race but him. • • • There will be an election in School District No. PJ on Monday, September 17th. for the purpose of determining whether or not a special school tax of one-half mi!! shall be voted. This is indeed a very small tax that the progressive citizens of that section are asking for and should receive a unanimous vote. There is no tax t,.a. i:; «o beneficial as school tax and good roads tax. In fact it is the only tax money that gives any real direct bt nefit to Lie taxpayers. The Ledger certainly hopes that -very voter in the district will line up on the side of education and vote for the levy. * * * In all seriousness we think it time for the Charleston News and Courier end other daily papers to cease their Jibing our friend Huskey. While he Is now out of the running so far as him. There will doubtless He many men in the legislature who are his inferiors. • # • The city graded schools open today. Again we urge every parent and guar dlan to see to it that the children un der their care are entered at the opening and refluired to attend until ♦ he close of the session. We are living hi an educational age and yet it is a fact that South Carolina is at the foot of the educational ladder. We boast of our greatness and yet there are hundreds of white men in this State who have to make a mark when :t comes to signing a document. Let Cherokee set the standard in educa- r.ion as well as moral lines. We .law less illiteracy than the majority of the counties in the State but we should not he content until we are recognized as the best, educated peo ple in the State. A Card from Mr. Whelchel. Before casting your vote for Super visor study the figures I give below: While Supervisor I built the Iron bridge across Broad river at a cost of ST.fidO. 1 paid off $15,000 of the county’s bonded debt. The famous .Tune freshet cost the county over $10,000. The road machinery cost about S11,000, and was purchased bv the County Commissioners when I was Supervisor. The Supervisor. who oyer he mav lie, has no vote unless there is a tie vot^ in the commission- <>rs and there was no tie vote on this •oad machinery purchase. The macadam road that was built inder my administration cost $7,000, less than $2,000 a mile. When I went in office the ordinary eountv levy was four mills which raised from the taxpayers $14,000, atnl under niv administration the levy was reduced the first year to $7,200. and the next year it was reduced to $:;,600. Now the levy raises over $10,000 each year. Had the lev., which is fixed by the County Board of Commissioners rested at what it was when 1 went in 1 would have left $10,000 in the treasury when I went out of office and paid the debts that I did nay. The levy is fixed by the County Commissioners and while the levy when 1 was in office was not as great as it is now, the tax payers are no worse off for they have the difference in their pockets, but if the levy had continued at what it. was when I went in, you would have had to pav twice i s much as you are paying now. I saved you sev-ral thousand dollar each year I was in office and paid off a large debt that was on the county. I hav\. considerable experience in at- t< nding to county affairs and if elect ed again will profit by my experience in the past. Yours truly. .I. V. Whelchel A Card from Dr. Anderson. Mr. Editor. I was informed yes terday upon good authority that some persons who did not vote for me on Tuesday last failed to do so because they were under the impression that I neglected my duties in the last Legislature to attend to business at home. These are briefly the facts: I was in my seat in the House of Re presentatives on tiie 9th of January, ;he first day of the session, with my colleague, Mr. Otts, was sworn in and attended every meeting, botli night and day until the 2nd of Feb ruary when I was summoned by a telegram to my wife, who was danger ously ill. She suffered intensely and her life was despaired of by Drs. Itamseur. Darwin, Black- and Steedly. who kindly came to my help. But thanks to a good Providence, prompt attention and good nursing, she so far recovered that l was enabled to | attend the closing exercises of the Mrs. Stanley Mason, who has been snending several weeks with her pa rents. Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Thompson, on Victoria .avenue, left yesterday morning for her home in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Arthur Bauer, of Richmond, Va.. who lias been visiting Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Thompson for several weeks, left yesterday f°r Asheville. N. C.. where she will visit several weeks, and then she returns to the City of Seven Hills. Mrs. R. B. Roper left yesterday for Greenville, where she goes to join her husband, who is employed in the despatcher’s office at that place. The well wishes of their many Gaffney friends will attend Mr. and Mrs. Ro per wherever they may go. Mrs. Charles P. Ligon, of Spartan- >urg. is visiting relatives in this city. Mrs. Hattie Alexander and little daughter, Jenette, of Spartanburg, ire visiting the family of S. L. Hop per. Clester Ellis, of the Grassy Pond neighborhood, was in the city yester day. F. B. Gaffnev and family, accompa nied by Mr. Gaffney’s mother. Mrs. L. V. Gaffn»y, who Lave been spend ing some time at the White Diamond Lit.hia Springs, returned to the city last Tuesday. L. Victor Gaffnev and wife, of Con cord, N. C.. who have been visiting relatives in Gaffnev for several days, returned to their Tar Heel home Sat urday. Roy Whitlock, of Jonesville. was in Gaffney Sunday, the guest, of Leon Gaffney, his college chum. Prof. Martin, of Furman University, was in the citv Friday in the interest of his institution. Sim Sarratt returned yesterday from New York. The bovs are tell ing all sorts of tales on Sam—some true and some untrue. Sam had a reat time but we haven’t learned whether he met anv Indian squaws while abroad or not. C. W. Cook, of King's Mountain, N. C.. spent Sunday In the city with his brother, the efficient superintendent <>f the Globe Manufacturing Co. Thos. Morris, of Wilkinsvllle R. F. 1). No. 1. was in the city Saturday. Dick Hughes, one of Cherokee’s bright young farmers, was in the city Saturday. John L. Blackwood, of Wilkinsville U. F. D. No. 1. accompanied by his lit tle son. Russell, was in the city Satur day. T M. and W. C. Stains, from across the Broad, were in the city Saturday. Zealy Corry, of Atlanta, Oa, who has been on the sick list, is now at home recuperating for a few days. Zealy is always welcome among his many friends here. J Henry Smith is spending several days in New York. Waite C Hamrick- left Sunday for Wake Forest College where he re sumes his studies for 190fi-19D7. Walter Baker is summering at Co ney Island. He said he was going to New York, but he’ll never stop until be lands <>n the bowerv at Coney George Lemaster, one of Chero kee's foremost planters, was in thi city Saturday. Martin Roberts, of the Wilkinsvilh neighborhood, was in the city Satur day. Miss Rosa Little went Green wood Friday, where she will spend some time with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Gaffney, of Con cord, N. C.. are visiting their relatives in this city. Miss Mi non Walker lias returned from Gref iviil . where she lias Ijeen visiting 'iiss Juliet Henry Huger Waters, a popular knight of the s-T' i. who . ails from Charlotte, LEAVES BALTIMORE. Mr. Robertson Accepts Can in Arcat. dia, Florida. Baltimore, Md., September 3.—Rev. B. F. Robertson has resigned the pastorate of Fuller Memorial Baptist church, Baltimore, to accept a flattering call extended by the First Baptist church of Arcadia, Fla. Sev eral important fields have sought Mr. Robertson, but h? has decided to go to Florida. Mr. Robertson came to this city about five years ago. ami has done a splendid work in building up the congregation and strengthening the membership of his church. In the last associational year fifty-four per sons were received into the fellow ship of Fuller Memorial, and there was a net gain of forty-seven; while the total contributions of the church were $4,210.70. A new church build ing is now in course of erection which will cost approximately $23,000. In addition to his own church and de nominational work, Mr. Robertson ha<- been superintendent of the united evangelistic work of this city two summers, which has been so very successful and has accomplished so much good The church at Arcadia, Florida, to which Mr. Robertson goes is one of the best churches in the State, and has a large membership, composed of excellent people, several of whom are quite wealthy. Arcadia is the homo of the Baptist orphanage, the only or phanage among the Protestant de nomination in the state, and about five thousand dollars a year is spent in its maintenance. The buildings of the institution are ample, and it has eighty acres of land in the corporate limits of the city. The church furnishes its pastor with a good parsonage, well furnish ed. and promptly pays a salary almost as large as any church in that State. The clerk of the church has notified Mr. Robertson that a new church of worshin is to be erected at once; but the church has agreed to provide the means .and carry on the work without taxing the new pastor, and without Interference with the regular church work. This indicates a wide awake, efficient church, with the cor rect idea as to the spiritual import of the pastorial office. REAL $ri VALUES FURNITURE! Wo bell the most substantial alwnvfi cjiitv a latfie .assortme fail to be suited. We have Bedroom Suits from - - Sideboards from - - - Dining Tables from - - Hall Racks from - -f- Dressers from - - - - Stoves from .... Furniture to be had. We nt in stock, so you can’t $ 9.50 to $85.00 - 12.00 to 45.00 2.00 to 25.00 1.25 to 20.00 5.00 to 20.00 - 10.00 to 40.00 You shieih: set* our line of Matting, Kugs, Window Shade*, Lace Curtains and Toilet sets. Shuford & LeMaster, Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking. MAY LYNCH ONE OF THEIR RACE Henrv Snelling, Charged With Ae sault, is Being Hunted. (Columbia State, Sept. 2.) The following was received last night from the correspondent of The State at St. George; "Magistrate Horn, of this place, today issued a warrant for the arrest, of Henry Snellings, colored, charging him with rape upon his sister-in-law. Levinia Sanders, a girl of eleven years. The warant was sworn out by Snellings’ wife. ’’Constable Thomas went in search of the negro but he bad fled and at the last report The State’s correspon dent had from that section about six ty negroes were scouring the woods fo - Snellings. and the impression is that if caught he will b - put to death by members of his own race in the event that the officers of the law are not on hand when t3ie capture is made. “This alb-ged assault was commit ted within four miles of the place where Will Spain was lynched about ten days ago. The negroes seem to lie yep- much wrought up about the affair today.' -THE- Money The world over is the result of Savings. Spec ulative wealth often takes s wings and is gone. Our Savings Bank stimulates. Systematic Savings. It’s “OWL wise” advice when we advise you to open an account woL ivl No matter how prosperous you may he, it will he a ■ ‘nest egg” that will come in handy wh( n least expected. Doit and you won’t regret it. The Gaffney Savings Bank Pavs FOUR per cent, interest on ALL DEPOSITS compounded FOUR times a year. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. I). C. Ross, Fres-L J. A. Carroll, V.-Prest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. The Only Semi-Weekly Newspaper in South Carolina At SI .00 ypent ridny in the city. Going Hoggett than whom there is no cleverer in al! the world of trade, wis shaking hand ‘fiends last week. A O. W'hitener wi'h his G-iffney mong * ny. M e vi-itni White'.. - oiTm •sc. was Satur- Yiie L- d Must Pass on Gaming. Rock Hill, Sept. I.—At the mayor's court. Friday morning Jim Jones, col ored, was charged with gaming in the corporate limits of the citv. May or Roddey has takmi the stand that if the city council will allow the cot ton exchanges and bucket shops to do business in Rock Mil! be has no right to fine this unfortunate who had about fifteen cents and was absolutely de void of intelligence, and told him to appear before the city council next Monday night for trial. Jones agreed to do so and was released on his own bond. READ legislature. *! T - t Fte < 11' ■ tv! chillren. I write ibis. Mr. Editor, solely to ■ 'duLv. U i rn i Ma nr.- j-- w correct a false impression ami to f.,1 J, . |n place myself in a true light before the Democratic voters of Ciierokee, * r :oi: • . '■ i w.-nt to to who n I am already under many | V(, i ’i Bryan re fit Dr. W K obligations. RespectfuTy. Wm. Anderson , , *’ iion »* * »n r > f Frank C rson and Alt' Fee- Blacksburg. S <;.. Aug. :iu, r.iot; Leslie McOinri >. of Kings Moun- Card fiom Mr. Huskey. Gaffney. S. fV, Aug. -h'. lie Editor Ledger.—Plea e rllow space in your paper to think lin ers of Ch-rokee county for ’.lie v' received in the primary. I f !! grateful to t! lose who ca-t theSr volt for me. It. is true 1 was defeat ' . but ! ;rn proud of tile fact . and can ■ rut hi iU> sav that I w a* lx *aten 1» 80* her. truthful. < .’i ■istlan h v. rto<i • n tlenv-n. I tried to trei t all my <'])DOTV lit ' like men and the v all trei ated mo tn same way. I ivai . i ’* ! on the ouesti on i«i v vv a i • t *' •. 1 < * > j f * f cause of nv not !•< i - •• •! •• r ,» , i . ♦ V i b.ous -. hut I t hou gilt ! wu, ;-ht. du ! I think so y ot. 1 knew t ;»> ii” v< been wrong hut time : 1 a • i ell With best wish cs to a-. t , i* VO< of Cheroke-* conn ty. 1 am ts ov T. K <). in - v as in the city Sunday. --M attache - of The Le 1- are always glad to see ntice to Advertisers. to a change in the hour of to tress our advertisers are tie requested to get copv in for •i e ; cuts early Saturday after- ind Wednesday afternoon. We to accommodate our adver- in the matter of changes, but a--not insure prompt changes if is delayed beyond the hour of to press. This change, has been ‘e imperative because the postof authorities made a change in the ter of handling mail to and from j point. Advertisers will kindly ern themselves accordingly. Prayed For More Snakes. i Metaphysical Magazine.) in a rural town in Michigan lived a family named Beaver noted for t’leif uardihood in all manner of uaughtiness. They were the great torment of the minister’s life, k in- allv one of the hoys was bit by a rat tlesnake and sent for him. He found tue lad greatly scared and very peni tent. After some conversation the teverend gentleman closed the inter- vi« w by prayer. ’ O. I»rd.” he began, “we thank Thee for rattlesnakes. We thank Thee tkat a rattlesnake has bit Jim. Send another, we pray Thee, to bite Toni and one to bite Joe. And. O Ijord. send the biggest kind of a rat tlesnake to bite the old man. for nothing less than rattlesnakes will bring this Beaver family to repent ance." THE LEDGER. FOR ALL THE LATEST COUNTY, STATE AND FOREIGN NEWS ing —Be sure to come in and se** o line of the most stylish Hats c.: shown in Gaffney. Comp'ciy S r.re. —Now Is the V baga r id r ui. .i- come 'H-. * ’ar. tec Company. f to sow Ruta- ! t: at will Gaffnev Drug —Be one of the boys and wear a Dat from the Comoanv Store. —Have lust received our Fall line cf Kats. They are the nobbiest ever sho//n in this city. Company Store. —The Gaffney Drug Co. are offering $5 for the largest Turnip grown from their seed. Between the 1st and 20th of September Is the best time to sow both Rutabaga and Turnips. Green-Goforth. On Sunday afternoon Mr. Carl Green and Miss Pansy Goforth, tmth of this city, were united in marriage by Esquire C. T. Bridges. The cere mony was witnessed by a number of the verv close friends of the happy young people. Beautify the Complexion IN TEN DAYS. Nadinola CREAM, the un equaled beautifier is endorsed by thou sands, and guaran teed to remove freckles, pimples, liver-spots, tan, sal lowness, etc., the worst case tc 20 days, sad restore the beauty of youth. Price 50c* and $1.00 by leading druggists or mail. PnswW by NATIONAL TOILET CO.. PvU. T»ft> For sai« only b' THE QAFFN2Y DRUG CO. THE LEDGER Is The Best Advertising Medium In Upper South Carolina It enjoys the LARGEST CIRCULATION in the Fifth Congressional District of South Carolina and has A LARGER CIRCULATION In Cherokee County Than Any Other Paper Its subscription IDt is a bona fide one, each subscriber being paid in advance. The cir culation is in no sense padded and names are lifted from the list whenever time paid for expires, thus saving the annoyance incident to dunning the people for back subscription. In other words, it reaches the people who have money to buy what they want. The Wise Advertiser Will Take The Hint!