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1 * ▼HI LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any No%MpM«r In tho Fifth Congpo—lonni Dlstrlet of S. C. SVIRY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY --PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. GUARANTEE THE R EL I All LITE of Evorv AEvoitloor 'Nho Uooo tho Column* of Thl* Papor. REST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. In AN «MI EM Word la U Em Root Intoroot of tho Pojpl* *f Chorokoo County. ESTABLISHED FEB. IS, 1SS4. GAFFNEY, «L O. TUESDAY. JULY 23, 1907. SljOO A YEAR. A NEWSY LETTEI FROM WILKINSVIiL MOVEMENTS OF “HE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraph* Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of that Section. Wilkinsvllle, July 19.—The Good Book tells us: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” tPsalm 139: 14.) In this the psaralst was no exception. This is true for one reason that it Is the teaching of Holy writ. But how is it with woman? Isn’t she, If jjossihle, a little more so, generally speaking? Take for in stance, a man’s wife, and she thinks her husband sees in her a combina tion of beauty and grace as “perfect ion absolutely perfected” and she thinks his judgment is absolutely faultless. But let him see the same quality in another woman and she tells him he is a poor judge. The late Capt. John W. Mitchell used to say that while courting his wife he would go unexpected to her. He would frequently come up on the backside of the house and in at the hack door to see how she went when not expecting him. But he always found her in a nice, clean, tidy dress and often with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows kneading dough or throwing tho pots around, or. per chance at the wash tub with a big days washing and she was never ashamed of her work. From this he concluded she would make any man (and himself in par ticular! an ideal wife, and so she did. for no smarter or better woman ever lived or died in Western York than Jemima Plaxico Mitchell. She was one of our life-long friends. This same stamp of women are not all dead yet. There are thous ands of them in the land today, and there will be thousands when we are all dead and gone. But there is a noticeable contrast between this and another class. These latter keep their company dresses hung in a convenient place where they can grab them on the run. When they peep out and see a suiter (or prospective suiter) or other well dressed person coming they shoot off into another room, dis robe themselves of their unsightly garments: throw their oid shoes (if they have any on) under the bed or behind a trunk, comb their dishevel led and unkept hair and in less time than it takes to tell It. reappear in fagionable up-to-date attire just as if it was their custom to wear it all the time, and the “gumpish” wife hunter never finds out the trick until after he is a married man. He then wants to kick himself all over the yanj for being such a fool. But often the tfirl gets worse fooled than s he has been aole to fool somebody else and the result is only one unhappy home in the community when them might otherwise have been two. Now “Bud” we don’t want you nor "Sis” to think we are throwing this at you. Its the other fellow and his girl we intend it for, of course. Next we shall perhaps deal with the "frying size” coxcombs and “short dress flirts” who make nearly every public occasion memorable by their presence and exploitations. If our ministers while visiting their congregations, spending nights and taking meals would only use a little tectics they could find out much about the home life of their parishion ers that perhaps they don’t fully known. If when the man of the house, or other members of the family hands him a Bible and asks him to have prayer he would excuse MnNself and say he prefers to Join them (the family). In their devotions rather than to lead in them himself, he might be successful in establish ing family altars where there are none. Then, again, when ho » ft ts down at the table and “the blessing” is to be asked, confer that function on the head of th e family, or some one else at the table—a visitor, if one he ],resent, would be a good subject to work on. In other words, when min isters are among their people they should "he company” part of the time at least. This plan, though a novel one, i* worth a trial, brethren. Mr. C. W. Wflaisonant sa y s he would rather his children would make good Baptists or Methodists than poor Presbyterians. Mr. Henry Procter has some fine watermelons very near the road— too near we think to ever rot in the patch- Mr. Charley Foster don’t want, any body to get done "layng by’’ before he does, or to think he has grass In his crop. ‘Housewives have made good use of the season in gathering and can ning blackberries From five to twenty gallons can be found In al most any home and they are still at work, canning. The season for big meetings will soon be on hand, and usually it’s one that the women do their hardest work. They get up In the morning, and after getting their house and home affairs arranged they must dress their children for church and nurse the baby and look- after the other children during service. Then they go home through the heat and over a hot stove get dinner, and have everything In "Up top” order. to en tertain their company. Then prepar* r upper and go through the same routine of dreutng themselves and their children for th e evening ser vice. Go to church and by the time they get home its perhaps 10 o’clock p. m. Drop down In bed and get only a few hours rest before they have to get up and go through the same rouUne of work Tor the next day and so on as long as the meet ings lasts when they are completely broken down and have not realized any benefit from. It and often they turn up sick for a few days in conse quence of overwork. Just a sufficiency of plain, substan tial victuals to keep hunger away is all they or their minister needs, and he will preach better sermons and no doubt endorse our suggestion. If he doesn’t we think ho ought to. When ever the time comes for him to make you a plain straight visit that’s the time to put <•« your airs If you must do so. Mr. J. Ij. Wlalker has put up a mail box at his Watola farm on R. F. D. No. 9. Most of the children who will take i part In the Children’s Day exercises at Salem are from the York side of the river and belong to the Hopewell Sabbath school. This branch of‘the work has been conducted by and through the efforts of Miss Lyl Smarr, who has been ably assisted by Mr. Erwood, superintendent, Mrs. John Dowdle and other efficient mem bers of that school. , While every body isn’t interested as wo would like them to he we have a sufficient num ber of the right kind to make the occasion a success. If satisfactory arrangements can be made a hand will be present to furnish music for the occasion and every effort will bo mflde to make the occasion a pleasant and happy one for all who feel an interest In it. Rev. S. C. Byrd. D. D.. president of Chicora College, Greenville, will make an address on the occasion and other distinguished speakers have been invited. REV. MR. CROCRER IN SCOTLAND. the ship becomes a little world. \ found * large number of people on their way back for a visit to England or Scotland or Ireland after a stay In America of thirty, forty, or more years. Most of them had gone over ! poor, and were now going hack with ! plenty of means to see relatives. All INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE of them, I think, had return tickets. ! Many a conversation we had with MISSIONARY different ones. Sometimes orf relig ious subjects. On Saturday night a ' big Concert was given in the First Class, and a good many of the Second SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEOEST. EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. SOUTH CAROLINA TIN. Graphic Description of the Voyage Across the Atlantic, anj Happen ings of Shipboard. * cabin passengers went. On Sunday there was what they called "Divine Service” in tho First cabin at half past ten j n the morning. The Cap tain reads the Episcopal ritual l n a Crail, FIfeshre, Scot., June 29. monotonous way, and that is all. ex- Here we are at last four thousand cept they sing two or three good miles from Gaffnev awav i n the far hymns. Several wanted a preaching „„ . .* . . service at night In the Second caJiin, North country. I went out for a an d it fell to mv lot to do Ik Wien walk yesterday afternoon and it wm fhp ass( . n ^ rs get Into the dining cold enough to wear *n °yercoaL | SaU)0n it is i iU e a church well filled. 1 ne da>s are long here, and the sun wer( , twelve or fifteen hund- does not got In his best work in this ' re( j people on board, I think. On region, though he has more time \f ont j a y night they got round to the given him to work at it. I could have j r ,, Cert for the Second (’lass. They read plain print easily last night at hafl songs an(1 recitations, half-past eleven o’clock. r)ne day about mid ocean, suddenly We boarded the train In Gaffney j there were somt quick sharp toots Sunday night. June Ifith, about half- 1 from the whistle, and we saw men past seve n and finished our journey , letting down one of* the small boats over the side, and the ship began to whirl around in a circle, and we knew Thursday afternoon June 27th, after the most pleasant long journey we have ever taken. We were both a that some one had either fallen or little train sick from Gaffney to New ! j um ped over the side into the sea. York, but let me tell you a wonder- ; -The boat was lowered into the sea. ful thing; We crossed the Atlantic and went bobbing up and down in without being sea sick at all. The the waves as the men rowed away ship was the best, in three points, hunting for the lost man. He could that we have ever traveled on. First, not be found. He was a man work- there were no smells, second, it was ing his way over, and for som e un clean, and third, it was steady. Some ' known reason jumped overboard, wit got off a joke on the name of j One day it was foggy all day long, the ship, the “Carmania,” which will and about night the engines stopped suit Gaffney just. now. He said the and we went creeping slowly along company was going to present him j in the deep mist, for they heard an with a motor car at the end of the other whistle from anothed ship, and t' „ D^ck whose illness j J 0 '>mey, because the company had | you know a collision at sea is the NTr8 - Dr. L. It B “ C 1 T’^"letter is car-mania. worst danger of ocea n travel. About r.m sLhT We understand that last. I Opting aboard a ship for a voyage night the other ship passed us close Wednesday Drs Steedlv and Jefferies across the sea is not quite so simple by rl^rmed -in oneration on tier for as going aivoard a train. First, you, Tuesday morning we got glimpses ™£ndrttes operanon follow the signs set up here and through the mist of cloud and rain Sam Strain had the tribe of Devi ; there, "to second class." till you of the Irish land. Our voyage was hoeing cotton for him yesterday. Mrs. Ethel Blackwell is doing some cutting and sewing for our folks. As a knight of the scissors and need e she is a chip off the maternal block. Mr W C Blackwell, who we re ported on the sick list, is well again. To se© some people P’ 1 * on airs and hear them brag, makes us feel sick. come to a little bridge leading on to the ship. A man standing at the bridge, with uniform, reaches out his hand, “Tickets, please.” and you divest yourself of numerous and sun dry packages, bags and bundles, pull out your pocketbook. look carefullv nearly over, the land was In sight, and “good-bys” w-ere said. Oh! these “Good-bys,” they keep crossing our path! Our stay at home in Gaffney was made exceedingly pleasant by home folks and friends alike, and many new- ties were made and old one strengthened. For myself, it in some way, seemed harder to leave this time than ever before. We wish to express our appreciations of*the many that you don’t drop something out of it, get out your ticket, hand It to If all the deceit, conceit and him, and he at once hands it hack to ignorance was taken out of them j you- and you pass on to the deck of tiiopp wouldn’t he much of them left, i the great ship. "Second class!” why.. t i vn * wt w hrVn having a good deal how can an American travel second hearty kindnesses received while at sSSSr “ Was Delilah excusable in betray-, looking up saw these words, “Reserv- . „ _ ! n qomson is a fine question for for first class passengers only,” _. * M “ ch Better Team. in g Samson, ts ^ dls .; and she exclaimed. That galls me following ‘That galls me. was taken from the Sabbath school wi.iv«u..bu B - ^ don , t 1Jke ^7, — p ' Spartanburg Herald of Sunday: '"nor Mend Mose Tate, colored, au- ourselves with the thought that we. . “ Mr Editor: In yesterday morn- I D’ r rn ( ! „„„ hM th - pest I of course, wer e first class people and lr| K K l ,a P er there was an article de- i thorizes us to say he has th e heat that there we % a \ ot Qf S g^d nyin* that the team which went to i "m? W [^Walker has a field of aristocratic, high class, people, like Oaffiey Friday was a Y. M C A 1 about tortv acres of corn on his 1 ourselves, on the deck, so being com- ™m now cal,e J **• c - A T ”" ,f ; r8 S mnvslde Vrm that is simply fine. ! forte, I we were not “galled,” as the hut a much better team. All the SiHinjsiae 1 *i,«nmighlv nre- woman said. members of this team were Y. M. C. lared-just ^ke a^ garden-and it.! There is a l ot to do before you can I A inPn - 30,1 3,1 ^cept one or two 1 wnT pay any one who likes to see dow n on deck and watch the ' VPrp Y M. C. A. team players. Here I . P \. isi ; hls farm an d take a look !£ ,ftln * scenes, and strange people. is thP trouble: the m an who wrote ; aMt Whife of course. It has been Eirst Find your cabin, and deposit ; ’>'e article this morning, beard of i well manured It has had that other | ^r hand bags in it. Second. Go 0,,r ^ feat a " (l d d K not havp * rit most essential help—elbow grease: hack on the docks and see and have: enOURh to grin and bear it and brain power apK to it. What 1 felled your heavy baggage, so they _ v “One of the ’Imposters ”’ iwe have said from time to time about oa " I*H It o n hoard. Third. Get ThP 3hovP ls of local interest be- this farm is no part of buncombe, the ^'r odd cents of American money cauR * >t , r f lateR ‘o the team which ! goods are there to show for them- i changed into English money. Fourth p!ayfJ(1 Friday afternoon at Limestones STven ,ton t take our word for It. Go on the ship again and find the score being 14 to 9 in favor of | j l,. S. steward and buy ticket for dock chair Gaffney. It must he confessed, how- for each. Pay him a dollar for each I PVf,r - th at. the Gaffney team rather Changes in Route 8 Effective Auq 1»t. . F,fth - Take your steamer "hogged” the Spartanburg bo^H by U 9 * ,n , , a 1 nf “Cket in your hand and ringing in some of the first team The following is a description of „ , ' go to ]he , „ rrmte No. *. a* amemlM by <b* P<»‘- th* X y °” r reat » t ' ? office department- - n ' fic e department. thecar- Sh p and 8ee how nmich deck room w - °- w - Monument Unveiled. Beginning P° 8toffl v m' have, and satisfy vour mind' Cherry Camp No. 74 Woodmen rier will go thence. .about your quarters, and smile at the ! the Wor,( I- unveiled the monument S. E. to ’- 1 mile N and stewar <le88, If you have Sunday at Oakland cemetery whjph E ‘ /-R ? Ve 7™, , ra a c F to ,ad,e *. ,n ‘he party—for these stew- had been erected by the order to the E. to Globe Mill and retrac t s - E ft B | ards can make vour voyage nnpleas- memor >’ °f lohn H. Noblett. There Globe Mill corner 8 tnile. S. E. ant if they try—and you will have to was an imT *iense crowd at the ceme- south to Draytonville 2.G mik% S. - give them something more than a ter y 10 witness the impressive exer- on river road to Parker’s corn - smile before you are done with them ! C,8P8 of G 1 ® unveiling. The chief miles, N. E. and north by Cherokee Seventh. Go find your deck chair features of the exercises were the ford to Peter Gaffney’s corner 3 miles. m , n t a quiet come/ where v«n /an N. E.. east and N. E. by Cherokee se e the mo8 f that is going on /Zd bridge to Globe mill lane 3.7 miles, proceed to keep cool !£? sa south to Globe MM and retrace nort.i there watching the crowds comJn* to public road 6. southwest to Teague on, one steward, leaning against a comer .7. west of south to Limestone ; trunk near us. presented to us pasted Mill .4, northwest to Gaffney postoffice , on hls hack, "Wanted on the voyage,” ,'l mile. , ^ 11 v a tnie 8ayinR He had got one minutes held his audience spell-bound length of route, 17 miles; houses of the trunk labels stuck to his back by the magic of hls eloquence. The on route. ICO. hi« T** 8 carr J rln * J t- We called; oration was pronounced by all who a te °G°n to It and Joined in the heard It to he an absolutely perfect Lie* of Letter*. . r , n at just six minutes past; speech for the occasion. : The following I* the list of nn- bridge^and^n. 80unded . on ‘he after claimed letters remaining In -.he „ ta f ^ a u cried out, ‘‘Let of oration by Hon. Joseph A. McCul lough, of Greenville, and the beauti ful music which was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Haines, Mrs. Oscar Shanks and Mr. McBrayer. The eloquent speaker chose as hls theme, "The Fraternal Spirit,’’ and for forty A Double wedding. Watkins. Stanley Blohoskl, Sumter j Black. V. G. Blanton, C. Caldwell, J Sam Cole, A. E. Oonnan, j. B. Dur 1 ham, Miarshall Durham. H. R. Kurdy, G. M. Miller. (2), J. H. McEntire. 1 Worrter Nance, Robert Sparg, J. J. F. Quinn. Call for advertised letters. One cent du* on each. A. R. N. Folger, p. M. Gaffney postoffice for week ending ”” Kt /l' 8i „* a . nd a half minutes Sunday night two young couples July 22. 1907: ' move and thf began , t ? came In on No. 40 from Spartanburg, i Sallle Boyd, Mrs. Mary Bobins,, th ’ ,, an ji >a8M!n * erB 4 crowded They were Mr. J. B. Mitchell, of Miss Mary Dugless, M. O. Gregory. | handkerchiefs answerf/ wav,n ^ Spartanburg, and Miss May Holliday, Mliss Mollle Goforth. Mrs. Henrletter , w j handkerchief 8 ^ a , of °f Greenville, and Mr. J. W. Hill, of Jahson, Mrs. Mattie Jafnes, Mrs.; an a d were nff i/ ho^ v° ck . 8 ‘ Spartanburg, and Miss Ella Cham- Birtha Miller, (2), Mrs. Alma Rus-, Ne Y ork h,it «,heTi beeD h0t i n ber,edge - ot Greenville. They went sell, Mrs Belle Thompson. Mrs. Lena gea it ’ I j” 1 jot out to ^ the Commercial Hotel and sent had to be brought ont We lo/ked aft ^ r Wagl8trate B - p Camp ’ wbo about us and found a giod ™rn/?^ j per f or,ned * doab ; e . G>e had our chairs put there before “7 p f rlor # 8 of bote IJ n Pr e8ence one should take the place We keDt ,of a few adm,r,n * friends. The new- it that day. but the next morning i ly wedded couples left yesterday for our fine comer was occupied by two' 8partanb,,rg ’ the,r future Episcopal nuns, with hood and gown. I “ The first day out you think a lot' Mlnetrel Tonight, about the weather, and have a feel-: Tonight Gaffney lovers of music, ing of dread lest you are sea sick, ] mirth and merriment will hav e an op- and you watch the people who seem portunlty to enjoy themselves If they all alike In some respects. "That i *0 to see Small Brothers and Rude- one looks like a preacher” aome one »«ll’a great minstrel show. The per- oald, and that long bearded old man I formance 'will take place In the eve- has a little the loob of a prenchcer i t^ng under canvas, which will be too. I approached the "preacher” 1 pitched on the depot lot. The man- and found him a Baptist D. D. from J agers promise a clean and refined Philadelphia, making * visit with hls j Aow, one that will not offend the wife to the old country. The other most fastidious. In fact It is said to Dr. Edwin R. Taylor, dean of the University of California, doctor and lawyer, ha* been elected mayor of San Francisco In the place of Smldt, convicted of all sorts of corruption in office and put out —Go to the "Seed Store” for your Turnip seed. lit takes a lot of courage to enable a woman to admit that she Is homely. man was a Swede, visit to the old passengers gathered into kftots and companies after their own kind, and de, going back for a land. Gradually the be a show for ladles, children and gentlemen. far The r. fl ■ Recent Happenings | n and Around th* City and Other Events Gather erf by the Local New* Editor A. W. Clary is now with the ( Gaines bottling works. 1 Miss Mnry Bramlett is teaching ! the Timber Ridge school again. - j Rev. W. T. Tohonipson filled his I regular appointment at Unity Sun- 1 day. The ladies of Buford Street Metho dist church will serve ice cream at the | city park Wednesday evening at 5 I o’clock. There will he an illustrated lecture Ion the "Life of Christ” at Timber i Ridge school house Fridav night iJuly 26th. Rev. E. G Ross began a series of meetings • at Draytonville Sunday morning and will continue for this w’eek and possibly longer. A party of four young men passed through Gaffney Saturday in an ele gant touring car. They were from j Atlanta and were going to the Maine I coast. I j L. C. Warmoth, Miss Dora Scott, Miss Lily Goforth and Miss Edna Brown attended an all-day singing at Arrowood Sunday. They report a grand time. J. F. Kitchens, a former Gaffney I boy who has been living at Concord, j N. C., is now in the city for a few ; days. He will move to Monroe, N. | C„ In a short whle. A sepcial meeting of the Board of Trade is called for Thursday night at 8:30 p. m. Let every member be ; present, as the meeting is of vital In- i terest to the town. 1 Street Overseer Coyle. i s again I cleaning off the city hall park which adds much to the pleasure of the many visitors who frequently drop by for a few moments recreation. The Ladies Aid Society of Grover, will give an ice cream suppe- Satur day night, July 27th for the benefit of the aew Baptist church. Every body is cordially invited to attend. Magistrate Bridges last week tried Will Byars, white, for trespass after notice, and upon finding him guilty sentenced him to pay a fine of $15 or work twenty-five da vs on the pang. C. T. Clary, the shipping clerk of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, is all smiles now. With the coming of yesterday also came an eleven- ! pound son which makes him one of I the happy fathers of Gaffnejr. , There will be Children’s Day exer- ! cises at Macedonia next Saturday, I -T'lly 27th. Dr. a. M. Simms and Prof. Shuford are expected to make speeches. Dinner will be served on the ground. Everybody is invited to attend. Dr. Vf. c. Hamrick and Mr E. R. Cash, left on Saturday night for the north where they went to pur chase machinery for the Merrimac mills. They were accompanied by Mrs. Hamrick and Miss Ethel Ham rick who expect to spend a week or ten days at Atlantalc City. The (?) Club was *»nt@rtained by Miss Mjarion Morgan at her % home last Thursday afternoon. Miss Mor gan Is a charming hostess, and the afternoon was most pleasantly spent. A dainty salad course, followed by Ice cream and cake was served. The next meeting will be held with Miss 15th el Ross. Magistrate Camp heard two cases last week in his court, one against Dennis White, a young white man for vagrancy, and one against Rome Self, white, for gelling whiskey. White was sentenced to work on the gang ten days or pay a fine of $5, while Self was bound over to the court of sessions. Forrest Pennington was also arrested for selling whiskey but his case was continued until this week. A Short Sketch of the Rote Tin Mine. In last weeks Issue of the Mlanu- facturers’ Record appeared the fol lowing Interesting item from the pen of Oapt. J. B. Bell: “Justl outside of the corporate limits of Gaffney, In Cherokee county, South Carolina, is the Ross tin mine. Capt. s. S. Ross, the owner, has n tract of 890 acres in one body, upon which the mine is located. Oapt Ross has had considerable experience in handling minerals, and on one oc casion in 1903, In riding over this pro|>erty after a considerable wind storm had passed over this section, he noticed at the root of a tree which had been blown out of root a sub stance which he did not recognize. He concluded after a close examina- tion that It was hematite, but later concluded that it was casitarite. Up on investigatigation he found that there wer e quantities of th e mineral in proximity to the spot where he made the discovery. He secured enough for samples and sent It to the chemist at Clemson Agricultural Col lege. and wrote Professor Hardin, the chemist, that ‘he guessed he would be laughed at, but that he thought he had discovered caslterite on his farm near Gaffney.' Capt Ross was delighted to receive a let ter from Professor Hardin some time later assuring him that It was casl terite. and that it contained some thing like 80 per cent. tin. He next took some samples to Pittsburg. Pa., and was assured that he had a very fine quality of tin ore. He then com menced in a very crude way to get out the ore, and in a short rime had secured enough to make a carload, which he shipped to Cornwall. Eng land, for which he received about $10,000. He has sunk the shaft to a depth of 150 feet, and at different levels has found the ore in large quantities. With the crudest meth ods imaginable he has taken out and shipped about 55 tons of ore, and has enough in sight to guarantee a like quantity. He got out the last car of or» with the help of three men, and they did it in less than stx months, and when It Is considered that a car of this ore is worth now from $12,- ’•OO to $15,000 it will be seen that Capt. Ross has a ‘good thing’ in hie At the 150-foot level he struck the largest vein of all. It is hard to understand why Capt. Ross does not install up-to-date machinery at the mine, which would enable him to take out the ore in larger quan tities and with much more sase. In getting the ore ready for shipment, after cleaning it, he puts It into double sacks which hold from 125 to 150 pounds. The car which he is loading now will arrive in New York next week, and Capt. Ross and his son, Col. D. C. Uoss 4 will go to New ^ °rk in order to be on f he irround when it arrives.” PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, Misses Nettie and Ha McKenzie, who have bee n visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Lipscomb some weeks, left yes terday for their home in th** lower part of fhe State. Mr. and Mrs R. l. Himes, who have been solourning in northern cities, returned home Sunday. Mr. W. L. Davis, of the Southern f Power Company, was in Gaffney Sun- ! day, and reports very - satisfactory 1 progress at the Ninety-Nine Islands, i Messrs. Anderson and McDaniel, two of the young gentlemen who are connected with the construcion work at Gaston Shoals report that very satisfacory progress is being made J with the work at that point Miss Inez Spears, of Jonesvllle, is in the c tty visiting friends and rel atives for a few days. Col. P. Mortimer Moore, of Yori> ville. was a Gaffney visitor vester- day. D. D. Wilkins, a member of the Suttle-Wbshburn Lumber Company, of Shelby. N. C., was in town yester day. Bridge McCulloch, of Star Farm, was in the city Friday. Cheap Rate* to Charleston. There will be a special train to leave Gaffney at 6 a. m. July 30th, via Blacksburg, Rock Hill and Kings ville, returning, leaving Charleston on any regular train up to and in cluding Thursday, a. m. August 1st. Rates round trip $3.00. For further information address J. E. Ezell, Gaffney, 8. C. —Don’t feed imparities to your family. There are no articles of food on the market that are so universally adulterated as ground apices and flavoring extracts. The Gaffney Drug Co. absolutely guarantees their apices and extracts to be pure and of full strength. —When toe machinery of the Pure Food laws gets In operation to the refuse pile will go stacks of ground spices and flavoring extracts which are still being used by the unsuspect ing public. Tale of * Mouse. “Oh. do send a man out here. There’s a mouse In my desk.” Thus spake Miss Ida E. Edgerton. principal of Scranton school, to Secretary Gammel over the telephon* a day or two ago. says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Oh. a mouse Isn’t so dangerous.” said Gammel soothingly. “May be one of the pupils can catch “Oh, but It’s dead.” exclaimed the agitated teacher. 7 ~TJ| “Dead!” repeated Gammel: “don’t mean to say yourire afraid of a dead mouse?” He repressed a chuckle at the Idea. “Oh. no, no.” assured the teacher; “yon see, it seems to have been dead some time. It—It must have died here in the desk. Itr-” “I see,” said Gammel promptly; “It’s been dead so long, you wish It were alive s© It could run away. Wb’H send a carpenter out at once." —Begin to get ready to plant Tur nip* and Rnta-Bagaa. Buy all such seed from the Gaffney Drug Co., the “Seed Store,” where you can get any kind of seed you need In bulk. —Why buy Turnip and RvU-Ba^i seed In those small 5c paper, when you can buy them in bulk from Gaff ney Drug Co. and save over half th* —Go to the “Seed Store” for your Turnip seed.