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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Sd. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. ject and not attempt to vent any per sonal spleen toward us, because he | may not like us or not asree with our code of morals. It is not high jour- fh? Ledger Is not responsible for nalistic ground, as we conceive it views of correspondent* *. A » Wt * want hlm to do is to confine himself to the subject under discus sion, viz: “Gambling in Gaffney." Hereafter no advertisement* will b* accented at this office after 9.30 o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays. NOTES AND COMMENTS. \Vatcb your label and the date. \nd renew before ’tis too late; If there be an error, don’t Ket mad, Report to us—we’ll make you alad. Renumber, ’tls our aim to please. But errors are like peskv fleas— Thev will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —Original. AS TO GAMBLING IN GAFFNEY. 0 ir esteemed contemporary, the riierok 'eo News, keeps talking about gambling going on in Gaffney and says “that he is being complimented on his crusade against this immoral praeriee. If the News has done any thin! to suppress th evil except to say that it is going on (although re peab dly called upon to furnish evi dence) we have never heard of it. If the ‘News’’ has any proof we think it should be fiven to the proper au thorities. and if it has not f hon stop takirg credit for what it has not done, in other words. ‘‘Put up,” “Get up." or “Shut up.” The above is taken form our local contemporary. The Ledger. It is verv likely that some of those who are demanding a "Put up,” “Get up" or “Shut tip" can ^ive more informa tion on th<' subject of gambling than we can If our contemporary is very anxious to know something about gambi ig its editor might inquire of sum< of ttie members of the defunct Oorwie-reial C'lnb why they stopped paving their dues and let the club go down. It is perfectly natural that the parties who gave the club a bad reputation are still shuffling the cards. We regret to have to call attention to the ('ommereial Glut), because it was composed of the very best in Gaffney, and it is a pity that it was prostituted by a few. We hope that the men hers who regret the degra dation of the club as much as we do will no. take exception at this.— ( ' orokee News. We were perfectly satisfied that The News knew nothing about any gambling going on in Gaffney. The editor of the News never play,# cards, even for fun, so far as we know We do not know that he was ever In the Commercial Club, in his life, and for his benefit and the benefit of the public in general we will say that there was never any gambling in th 1 ' Commercial Club so far as we know of. A few- of the members played cards for pastime, but never to our knowledge was one cent of money ever bet on the result of the game, and he who asserts to the con trarv simply does not know what he is talking about. It. is verv natural that the publish er of a game cock journal—the only one in the State—would want us to “shut up" when it comes to talking about gambling. Cock fighting and gambling go hand in hand, a id Itoth have been outlawed by the State. It strikes us as perfectly natural that one who would go all the w f ay from Gaffney to Cincinati and to Louierana to attend cock fights would want tis to “shut, up” when it comes tn talking about gambling. Th- above paragraphs are from the highly moral Cherokee News and are r imed at th editor of the I>*d- ger .who publishes Grit and Steel, ac knowledged by press and public to be the best all round game fowl jour nal on earth, one that, is read by la dies and gentlemen, boys and girls, in every Knglish speaking country on earth, which is a good ileal more than the editor of The News can say in regard to his paper. It is decent and clean, presided over by one of the purest and most capable women in South Carolina, pays its debts and we have no apologies to make, because we print it Seriously, though, if we desire to go to Cincinnati or to l»uisiana, or any other part of the world to meet game chicken fanciers and form their acquaintance, what, in the name of common sense, has that to do with the assertion on the part of Th*- News that tlmre is gambling go ing on In Gaffney? There are thous ands of people who know we print Grit and Steel, who do not know we also print the Ledger. We do not at- e ims to the old | to the seen by issm of S to daily The amusing feature about the Cherokee New\s “bellyaching” at The Ledger's editorial of Tuesday is that the editor of The Ledger did not write a line of the editorial mat ter for last Tuesday’s paper. The edi tor was in Spartanburg Monday and Capt. .1 13. Bell dashed off the vile stuff that raised the bile in the News’ stomach. It certainly shows that the Captain knows how to upset Broth- • r Parrot. • • • The Charleston News and Courier which, by the way, is one of tbe best newspapers in this or any other country, carries a very interesting column now and then headed “Gos si|> of th“ County Papers." We note however, thai it clips freely from the S’artanburg .Journal and the Oroen- vil’e Piedmonl Wonder how these j big dailies like the idea oi being I r classed as a county paper" • • • The Lancaster News * doubt the probability of Three C’s road going over Seaboard Air Line, as will be seen by the following taken from its issm the 2nd : A dispatch from Gaffney to daily papers states, upon what the corres pondent considers good authority, that “the Seaboard Air Line railroad has acquired the old Three C’s road, which runs from Marion, N. 0.. to Camden. S. C." This reported deal will likely pan out as did the recent widely published rumor that the Southern had sold its line running in to Charleston the old South Carolina and Georgia road. It will be recalled that President Finley, of the South ern, promptly denounced the report as without foundation. • • • Gaffney is kicking because the Southern’s freight rate from east ern points to Gaffney is higher than it is to Spartanburg, 21 miles furth er. Our neighbors will find that their rate is higher than the rate to Glreenvile. '58 miles further, and much higher than the rate to Atlanta Georgia. 213 miles further.—Spar tanburg Journal. Now. friend, you are doing us a service by giving us this information, for which we thank you. If you will only tell us how to remedy the mat ter we will be further indebted to you. Do not try to jest with us by saying “Get lower rates,” or some such stuff, but tell us in truth some real remedy for our ills. • • • The Gaffney ledger attempts to poke fun at us in this manner: “The Charlotte afternoon palters must have indulged In loo much mouthwash Christmas. The News came out Wednesday, dated ‘Wednes day Bvening. December 24.’ while Wednesday’s Chronicle was dated Tuesday Evening . December 26.’ This looks bad for a feetotler town, or were the employees intoxicated with joy because they were granted a holiday?" The latter conclusion is correct, while the former suggestion is highly inappropriate. Were wv not extra- ordinarilv patient and forbearing we should be led to at least call our contemporary a “Horrid creature.”— Charlotte News The funny part of this was that In the same issue of The Ledger in which the above paragraph appeared an error was made in the date line, it reading Friday, December 29. when it should have been Friday, December 2R Items From Cherokee Falls. Cherokee Falls, Jan 1.—Dear Ed itor, will you allow r me a little space iu your valuable paper in which to note a few happenings. Mh”. W. S. Norwood, who spent the holidays with his parents in North Carolina, w'e are filad to say is with us again. Mr. Wt. K. Allen and family have boon visiting relatives in Blacksburg, they returned home yesterday Mrs. F. S. Fayssoux has been very unw'ell for some time, but la pow on the road to recovery . Colds are very common at Chero kee at the present. 'During the holidays Mr. J.G. Kil lian. one of Cherokee’s good friends called around U> see us. Come again, Mr. Killian. Mr. Livey Flaxico, Carl and Wor- Whitesides, of this place, Sunday in Hickory Grove. Rufus Froneberger spent Sat- night and Sunday with his Ous Froneberger, at cester spent Mr. urday brother, .Mr this place. Mr. Zion Martin and Carroll were united as last Sunday. Mr. ir>’ r the ceremony. .Miss Florence 1 tic sister. Grace, with friends and place. Wo are glad to say there was not as many under the influence of in toxicating liquors as we expected to see during Christmas. 1 had better stop off before 1 reach the wastebasket. With best wishes to The Ledger and its readers. Grey Eyes. Miss Minnie one and one Mullenax, ofliciat- lardin and her Ht- spent Christmas relatives at this sa, Impoverished soil, like impov erished blood, needs a proper f'Ttilizer. A chemist bv analvz- c u’ the soil can tell you what fertilizer to use for different products. If your blood is impoverished your doctor will tell vou what *- 4- vou need to fertilize it mid #ive it the rich, red corpuscles that are lackincr in it. It nmv be vou need a tonic, but more likelv vou need a concentrated fat food, and fat is the element lacking in vour system. V ft. There is no fat food that is so easily digested and assimi lated as Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil It will nourish and strengthen the bodv when milk and cream fail to do it. Scott’s Emulsion is alwavs the shtn**; always palatable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults. We will sead you m sample free. Be nun* flint Huh pic ture in the form of u label ih on the wrapper of every bottle of Emul- cuoii you bin . scon & BOWNE CHEMISTS 419 PeailSLUewM 50c. nml $1.00. All Druggiata. A Wonderful Hen. Mr. W. F. Huskey has a wonderful rose comb Rhode Island red hen that has laved twentV'flve eggs in seventeen days. Has layed one egg every day and eight days out of the seventeen she has layed two eggs each day. one early in the morning and one late in the evening. Tais may look unreasonable, but it. is i rue. The hen lays in Mir. Huskey’s dweling house and no other hen comes in the house. The family have watched her closely and find that every time she wtes on the nest she leaves another egg. The hen was raised from eggs bought of Mr E. R. Cash, from hi» prize winners, the Rhode Island reds, which beat them all. Mr Cash tells Mr. Husk ey that he is certain that one of his FINAL DISCHARGE. . ... ....... , . I ,-ens laved two eggs in the same day tenvpt to hide the fact that we print , h<> ho|i( , aVjf but is not Bur . Gnt. and Sb 1. On the other hand that the hen has laved more than we advertise it. one egg in any one day except the We can’t see that our connection ! one dav 41 ® w:,s a * horn- all day n-ov. r’-u i u .... . during ! he holidays. Mr. Huskey with Grit and Steel has anything to alwayg expect8 one ^ t , ach (lav do with the charge of the News of j f rom the reds, almost the year round gambling going on in Gaffney, which but was not looking for two g.s we called on the News to spi-cify to, | f ron * one hen in the same day. nev- and which it failed to do. If the News Hugkey an(1 hfi wtll 8how you rests its case on the defunct Com- , hen and tell you about it. mercial club and the fact that wo , ^ print Grit and Steel, a paper devoted to the game fowl then we submit that Notice is hereby given to all con cerned that w r e shall apply to Hon. J B. Webster. Probate Judge, for Cherokee County, South Carolina, at his office. Gaffney, S. C., on Monday, January 28, 1907, at 10 a. m.. for final j settlement and discharge as execu- I tors of the estate of C ,B. Byars, de- j ceased. All persons molding claims against said estate will present the same du ly attested to the undersigned on or | before said lay of settlement, at 10 o’clock a m. P. R. Byars. N\ W. Hardin. Exe< ntors Estat - C. B. Byars, de ceased. Pub. in Gaffney Ledger. Jan. 4. 11. 18. and 25th, 1907. Foe Emergencies at Home For tbe Stock on the Farm iloaA’s Liivinveivt Isawhole medicine chest lj Price 25c 50c 6 * 1.00 i Send For Free Booklet or. Horses.Cattle, Hogs & Poultry. 1 Address Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass, v IJI This Space Belongs To W. C. Carpenter lAcmnt All kinds of Job Work done rt The Ledgei office neatly and at orices commensurate with high grade work Try us. i Account books to | suit every demand. Our stock is complete £ . in every detail. ^ Ledgers, ^ Journals, | Day Books, Counter Blotters, Cash Books, Index Books, i Record Books. Call on us for any i book you need. I ■■'mm Cherokee Drug Company *3 J. C. LIPSCOMB NOTICE After January 5th. w’e will gin only on Wednesday and Thursday of each week. Victor Cotton Oil Co. Has been so busy that he was unable to quote prices on his portion of the Lipscomb-Goude< lock Company stock in this issue of The Led ger, but will do so in next Tuesday’s Ledger. In the meantime the stock is for sale and Mr. Lipscomb is offering some splendid bargains $100 Reward, $100. The .'eiiders of this paper will l»e pleased to its showing is very poor indeed. The learn that there Is at j!easl one dreaded a Is charge The News made was against the editor of tbe Ledger, hut against the town of Gaffney and no amount of insinuation or inuendo wiP shift its responsibility to speci fy or shut up. We are not going to make any per sonal flings at Mr. Parrot through this paper We have no desire to be unkind to him, and we would prefer that heVonflne himself to the sub case that science has been able te "ure In all its st ages and that Ist'atarrh. Ilall’sCatarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh Is* ng a con**'itutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actlnir directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying tlie foundation of the disease, and tdvlng the patient strength by bqildlnK ip the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative isiwers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. chkney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c, Hall's Family Pills are tbe best MONEY TO LOAN in sums of f 100 to $$00 to members of I The Farmers Mutual Insurance Com- I pay on first mortgage real estate. J. EB JEFFERIES, Secretary and Treasurer. WILLIAM «. HALL, Jft H Attorney at Law. Office over The Battery. Gaffney, «. C. Prompt attention giro-, to all busint in the same. Do not buy elsewhere before you see him. \