The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, August 13, 1907, Image 4
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Cherokee B. i L. Association
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Fifth Series Opens August 1st
Stock '' _ Taken-Applications For Loans Filed.
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One wian is now living in his own ibusp who joined in jan-
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uary; iJl^de application for loan; mid his dues—75 cents —
which wa«\|ally due February J He made this payment
as a matter ofgiBpd faith. He it in hts own happy home
today—February He is s^ing house rent today. His
property—not the lanoWd’s ■roperty—is growing in ' alue
every day. Name fuinishetlApon application
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Road Our Booklet And/Pass IPAiong. It Means
A GREATER GAFFNEY.
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
At a Bargain
One lot 80x120, west side Oakland Avenue. "
Four lots 80x2‘)0 and oue 140x80 west side of Victoria
Avenue.
House and iOt on west side Limestone St. Lot 80x200,
with eighc-room house, electric lights and water works,
and all modern conveniences.
One house and lot fronting on Frederick street, lot
136x152 with four room cottage and city water. Price
very cheap.
One house and lot fronting on Robinson street, lot
116x152 with four room cottage and city water. Price
very cheap.
This property must be sold at once. Call and see us if
you are interested.
ITOR KKIVT
Four rooms for rent in Cherokee Drug Co.’s building.
See us for REAL ESTATE, whether a buyer or seller.
Before placing your Fire Insurance phone No. 170.
ffney Trust
Office In National Bank Building
Be Honest To Yoursilf
If you were to die today is your family well
provided for? Would the mortgage be paid
without inconvenience to your loved ones? The
prudent man insures his property against Fire
that may never come. |Are there not more
reasons why you should? insure against Death
which is sure to come?* Good and economical
management added’ to careful medical selec
tion gives safe Insurance at a low cost.
Carolina Mutual Benefit Assn.
GAFFNEY, S. C.
LIQUOR IN TOWNS.
Has a City Council Right to Prohit
It's Sale?
When the case of the town vs. B.
U Jones, for selling whiskey was
calleil Thursday morning, after the
jurv was empaneled and sworn Mr.
W. S. Hal] made a motion to quash
the warrant on the grounds: First,
that the town has no Inherent power
to make an ordinance prohibiting
the sale of whiskey, and fixing a
penalty for the violation of said ordi
nance.
Second, that the power of a muni
cipality to legislate must come from
the law making: body of the state,
and must he expressed In the char
ter.
Third, that neither the charter nor
the legislature! has conferred upon
the town council the power to enact
the ordinance in question.
Fourth, the constitution of 1895
conferred upon he general assem
bly—and if alone—the power to pro
hibit the sale of whiskey; and the
general assembly has no authority
to delegate that power to a munici
pality.
That in the exercise of its consti-
tuional authority the general assem
bly nassed a liquor law prohibiting
the sale of whiskey except through
dispensaries, and made It a misde
meanor to sell the same unlawfully,
fixing the grade of the offense be
yond the jurisdiction of the mayor’s
or magistrate courts: and the town
council had no right by ordinance to
make it a less offense so as to obtain
jurisdiction which by law is given
°nly to the court of general sessions.
J. B. Bell, the city attorney, took
the position that the charter of he
town of Gaffney conferred ample
imwer upon the council to enact said
ordinance, and even if the mayor was
tn doubt as to the constitutionality
of the ordinance that the mayor
would make a mistake to declare
same constitutional, as the town
wonld he overrun with whiskey sell
ers sholud he so dwlare. The may
or overruled Mr. Hall's motion and
Jones was tried, if M r Hall’s con
tention is true it will put every town
in the state out of business so far
as trying whiskey cases Is concern
ed.
Mayor Little, after hearing the
testimony against Jones founa him
Ktiilty. and sentenced him to pay a
fine of fifty dollars or serve 30 days
on the public works of the town.
Mr. Hall gave notice of Intention to
appeal to the court of general ses
sions.
OLD CASE DECIDED.
Did They Get Them?
The following from the Gastonia
News of Saturday Is of Interest
locally, as at least one Cherokee an will
know of the Item of news the article
contains:
“Mr. R. B. Bablngton has received
a letter from a man near Gaffney
asking for a pass for his family and
himself to the Jamestown exposition.
The claims laid for a pass were
plausible. The man said he nnder^
stood that Mr. Bablngton was run
ning the Southern railroad and as
he was also running all the telephone
companies and had run a line of
poles through his farm he was en
titled to recognition. He said that
the telephone people had tramped a
lot of his com down but he didn’t
mind that so much as they had paid
him for It. The request appealed to
Mr Bablngton and he proceeded to
Investigate the rights of the claim
ants. He also fonnd that It was not
his line but the line of the American
Co. that was running through the
man’s field and he sent the letter to
Mr. Bassell, of Atlanta, manager for
the American people. He wrote the
man at Gaffney that owing to the
great demand on the earnings of the
Southern on account of recent rate
litigation and the decrease in the
value of the stock he had sold out
his stock In the road and resigned
his Job as pass writer for the public.
The Gaffney man will no doubt re
ceive the news q? Mr. Bablngton’s
resignation with regret and go fish
ing Instead of going to Jamestown "
A Real Estate Deal In Which Fraud
Existed.
A case of much local Interest and
involving large Interests was decid
ed by the Supreme Court last week.
The following history will be of in
terest:
Robert Lipscomb left about 750
acres of land to his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Linder, for life, and then to
the heirs of her body. Mrs. Linder
and the whole family thought she
only had a life estate and that that
was all she could convey, under the
law; she had a fee conditional, which
entitled her to convey a fee simple
title. About ten years ago, Mrs. Lin
der signed a deed conveying this land
to her son, Ed Linder, for a consider
ation of $1,000. believing at the time,
that she was only conveying a life
estate In the lands. After Mrs. Lin
der’s death, her other heirs, believ
ing that she had been Imposed upon
by Ed, brought an action on the
equity side of the court to have the
deed corrected so as to only convey
a life estate to Ed. Linder, basing
their action on the claim that Eld.
had consulted with a lawyer before
the deed was made and had been
adfvised that his mother could make
him a good deed in fee simple, and
that he kept his mother in the dark
as to the real facts in the case and
obtained the deed from her under
false pretenses. Evidence was of
fered by the heirs tendng to show
that Ed had told a friend of his be
fore the deed was made, that he In
tended to deceive his mother. Other
witnesses swo.e that he admitted to
them, at various times, up to a few
years ago, that he had only bought
his mother’s life estate.
The case was tried before Judge
Dantzler last fall, but hedield that plain
tiffs were not entitled to recover be
cause the Statute of Limitations had
run against Mrs. Linder before she
died, for the reason, as he held, that
she knew of the facts constituting
the fraud six years before she died.
The plaintiffs appealed the case to
the Supreme Court, and last week,
plaintiffs’ attorneys, Messrs. Butler
& Osborne, received a telegram from
the clerk of the Supreme Court, an
nouncing that the Judgment of the
lower court had been reversed. The
plaintiffs gtere represented by Messrs.
Butler & Osborne and Stanyarne
Wilson and the defendant, by Messrs.
J. C. Jefferies and h. J. Havnes-
worth.
A Pleasant Visit.
McCormick, S. C., Aug, 7, 1907.
Hear Ledger.—I received my paper
today and was glad to get It.
I was sorry to hear that we had
lost one of the best police officers
that Gaffney ever had (Mr. Henry
Lockhart); but glad to know that he
takes another position there and will
not leave Gaffney.
Mr. DeCamp, I wish to tell you
that wife, children and i are having
a flue time down here visiting my
wife’s brothers and sisters—I was
never treated better In my life. You
never saw the like of watermelons
and good “rations” as the people
around here have; and of course I
am doing full Justice to them.
With best wishes for you and The
Ledger, w. J. Maness.
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May mean the most abject poverty“if it stands alone, bet if
backed u|> by a check book, it meat A thrifty management uid,
perhap-, wealth. The man who carries
little o no money—who deposits his en
tire earnings in bank and pays Ins bills
by checking against his account—lias
adopted the safest and surest Iv -i::ess
methods to secure his money, to save and
to get ahead in the world.
Open an account with us today. We will welcome your ac
count, be it large or small, guard your deposits aud lend you our
assistance on the road to prosperity. Put your surplus into a
time certificate of deposit. It will pay you 4% interest.
HERCHANTS" 0 PLANTERS BANK
GAFFNEY.- S.C.
Arrival 0 f Mail Train*.
The following is a correct schedule
of the arrival of all mail trains In
Gaffney; •
NORTH BOUND.
No. 36 due at 8:05 A.. M.
No. 12 due at. 4:20 P. M.
No. 38 due at 7:07 P. M.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 39 due at .. .. .. .. 9:45 A M.
No. 37 due at 12:43 P. M.
No. 43 due at 10:43 night
Mails for above trains close thirty
minutes before train is due, except
No. 43 which closes nine o’clock at
night.
List of Letter*.
The following is the ]i*t of un
claimed letters remaining In the
Gaffney postofflee for week ending
August 12, 1907:
Mrs. Josephine Alexander, Miss
Alma Huskey, Mrs. Lizzie Harris,
Miss Sa Vannee Jefferies, Miss Odear
Luses. Miss Cinda Littlejohn, Miss
Jenle Morse, Miss Dorcus McKinney,
Miss Caroline Neelson, Miss Ola
Paris, Miss Lizzie Scruggs, Miss
Annie Sims. Miss Ida Smith. Miss
Annie Tayer. Jim Wlalts, H. J. Wil
liams. C. W. Buchanan, Kalma
Bridges, Logan Crugs, Tom Clary.
Francis Crane, Wavls Davis, Fate
Griffin, J. Hoffman, Charley Johnson.
E. W. Johns, Lawrence Jefferies,
Samuel Jones, E. H. Jones, J. E. Lof-
ten. W. E. Lamb. C. L. Moore, Wm.
McCollum. J. A. Ray, James Robin
son. Grady Sowe.
Call for advertised letters. One i
cent due on each.
A. R. N. Folger, P. M.
Subscribe for The Ledger. 91 a veer.
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W. C. Cannier Co.
We will continue the low prices
on all Clothing, Hats and Oxfords
for the next ten days. : : : : :
$10.00, $12.50, $14.00 and
$15.00 ^uits, two and three
piece Suits at
$5.48
Just Wright Oxfords for Men,
the $4.00 kind for
$3.48.
John B. Stetson Hats at
$2.98.
Now is the time to buy your outfit
for the vacation d-iys; the'low pri
ces will help pay your expenses.
W. C. Cannier Co.
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C'RES VNiU Ail US FAk*.
| BdSt •; lUtfti Syrup. T**’.» » tt-cul.
tn time. Sold by Arugglm.
Would
YOU like for your Stationery to be neatly
printed and promptly delivered? If so, will
you let us prove to you that our work will
THE LEDGER. CaHney, S. C.
Please?
HOW
GROWN I
All good business men take a pride in the health> growth of the business they conduct. We are no exception to the rule. Simply to illustrate.
>t to boast, we give the following figures to show the steady growth of the Gaffney Savings Bank. The business was commenced on February
and not
3rd, 1903, and the figures below illustrate more eloquently than words the growth of the business:
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July 1st, 1903, -
July 1st f 1904, ...
July 1st, 1905,
July 1st, 1906 ^
$17,833.56
$39,335.55
$59,227.21
$96,974.42
July 1st, 1907, $125,823.90
These figures show that the people have confidence in this Bank: they Jiow that they are satisfied with the investment; they show that more
people are learning the lesson of saving day by day; they show that this institution is as solid as human ingenuity can make it.
We want more business; we want your business. If you haven’t a bank account, start one NOW, WITH US, and thus HAVE YOUR SAVINGS
EARN YOU SOMETHING. We are now paying over $5,000.00 annually in interest to our depositors, and you should be receiving your share of thr
interest money.
D. C. ROSS, Pres. d. A. CARROLL, V. Pres.
MAYNARD SMYTH, Cashier.
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GAFFNEY SAVING BANK