The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 23, 1907, Image 1
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FHE LEDGER.
8S1II*WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY.
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of Cvory Advorlloor
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SEPTEMBER 2y, 1907-
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SHORT NEWS ITEMS
OF lOCRL INTEREST.
EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER
OKEE.
Recent Happenings in -mnd Around:
th. City and Other Events father-
ed bij tfo i!o(uU Editor.. « ,
Postmaster A. R N. Folger went
to Wasbington the Jast s qLUv^ week o»
a pleasure trip, O WlUUlS'i l-F .g
tirely new departure for Gaffney.
There will he an entire change Of
programme three times a week. Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday nights.
It is the purpose of the management
to give a blpe clean show, and to con
duct the place so that ladles and
children may attend with perfect
safety
A meeting was held at the Buford
street Methodist ©hureh after the
Sunday' morning service," and an exe
cutive committee was selected to ar-
mnge {for the- entertainment of the
delegates to the annual conference
hi eh will convene in 5 Gaffnejr on
A
THROUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
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than it has been doing during the last
few days. It will all be open soon.
Miss Sallie Lee spentTuesday
m ill 11 1/1 El Oil 11 I r ^Sht with us. She returned to her
WlLKIfUmLLb. home ,n Che8ter county yesterday.
VVtfcmtWVVb^fet Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Blackwell, ac-
oompanied her.
■ Mr. J. A. M. Estes is making molas-
MOVEMENT8 OF "HE PEOPLE OF 8e ^ , .
Rev. T- F. Boozer has been elected
LOWER CHEROKEE. teach the Sunnyside school this
d term. • I
Xfr. j. G. Kchdrirk has ginned some I
_ _ _ . _ cotton. Hfe Is also running his saw
Personal Paragraph* Concerning Pop- mi j] 0 r Happnlngs AH Ovei* the State Taken
Instead of coming back here Mr.
ITEMS OF INTERST OF PASSING
i EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
ular People and Short
that Section.
» v/c-ShS a7d'XSnirSav.'movTd |
Aboufc.fWJnHhndretf bate# •tif new
crop cotton have been marketed in
GaEfcap this aeasoo. The average
price -paid - was twelve - cents per
POU °^l' IHilMill ~ Ijnir'l'-iliifTIll T ' ' V • -
(Joiton has dropped off a few points
in she Ihft. few days. Yesterday
11.J? 1-2 was l>etng offered but there
wa» not a great deal of it on the
maftet
^ • . t . | ^
Hpr the information of Us readers
The Ledger announces that it rained
almost incessantly last night, and
tha^ the . g|DUnd is now thoroughly
•eorge E. Hood has been in-
staObd as bookkeeper,, collector and
lighting editor of The Ledger, so
when he comes around collecting,
govfjrn yourself accordingly.
Jejhoe j. Darby has settled with Dr.
B. L. Allen for the loss occasioned by
the fire in The Ledger building. All
the losses occasioned by the s&id Are
have beep satisfactorily adjusted.
Tfee autumnal equinox arrived at
Gaflbey strictly on schedule time.
The attention of The Ledger readers
is dulled to the fact that the equinox
does not travel by way of the South
ern Railway.
r’Jftlcisi 10 Lockhart Mils and he has taken ..Told to Ledger Reader*. tc.
charge of the ferry there.
the case of G- Wash Hunter, of
Laurens, who has been tried fear
times under a murder indictment,
1 »ru >'■'. •i’*•» .—’ -* —- ——o—- — 11. null me comet nas mistrials resulting in the last three.
In discussing ine merits of the re- (Taylor’s old cornypoyL , wy changed its position and is puzzling notice of a motion for a change of
recklessly brave—« ddta<» in human astronomers to understand its course venue ha
whiolr' **>' ddmpletely
lends and
mradea ^ehatt tilfr eoci^hby
Ms ruin that his. former frien
dbmradea ^ehntf bib ct
tether than seek his qompanionshi
In Cokt#.’RFBrtwke’ sketches'’
JM) Morris was given a prelimi
nary hearing on Friday by United
States Commissioner Bell Jhn was
charged with selling whiskey without
a Udense. The proof was not quite
sufllcient to hold him. so he was dls-
chajbeed.
m Isliren .unilateral In
ner. He a^d Jeweler Fite are_ run
ning a race te Me t
inate the largest amount of infor
mation ini regard to fbese machines-
Jtoary will uauife ’ In (the nrfldsu A)f - a
discussion of an abstruse legal prob
lem to discourse on this subject and
Fiy* will ;*t*»«FPTk-9» at watch any
dfa tfme to ten 'ton J how your ma
chine should be run. Moral: Don’t
discuss automobiles with either of the
gentlemen in husi&tMn,/ j . | 1
ANOTHER B- A L- ASSOCIATION.
The n«w Organization yyill Be oalled
the Farmers and Mtchcnics.
In the office of J. C. Otts yesterday
morning a new building and loan as
sociation to be known as ihe Farmers
and Mechanics Building and Loan
Association was organized. Mr. N.
H. Littlejohn was made temporary
chairman and presided, while Che.:;.
W. Fames was made temporary sec
retary. Two hundred and eight shares
were subscribed, which is a splendid
commencement. The promoters ex
pect to place at least five hundred t
shares before the first installment is Goodnes of GoA’
paid, which will be Saturday, October J “ u —
5th. The amstltuttoD and by-laws
were adopted, after which the stock
holders elected the. following board
of directors: C.
ffor* ■” ‘he heavens.
has been served on the part
._ . ,,,,, of the State, the motion to be argued
Garys scouts add h!S ttamfe’ Went a i) r \y A Fort, of Gaffney, was next Wednesday. • , .,
thrill of horror t^e rpnks ^of the down on his farm this week looking t"'. ^ , , , , , ., _ ,
lemy.f’ HPu W«S highly' eutlCafdd^ a ft er g atherin K the crops The 22nd annual fair Of the Fair-
le ^on of James Tradewell, who be-. The persimmon and locust cron is v,ew stock show took place in Green-
lire the war was a leading a . failure, and we ean have no bee vi,,e -Fiiday, and as usual there were
I the Columbia bar. ... this season. To get anythinir to about 6 * 000 people In attendance.
After the war (and uatfl about drinb we. win have to fall hank on 1 Thls is the most famous rural fair In
venty years ago) he was a familiar our pet 'blind tiger ^ South Carblina and the best thing of
ire about the streets of 'Colathhifi Farmers are getting busy with its kind probably In the South. It
not as the Jim Tradewell wa their different kinds of work saving (nvns lts own buddings and grounds,
the early sixtiee. *He hft# their erojjB. ’ > '' 1 which are Ipcated about 15 miles from
victim, to the demon of strong Rev. C. M. Teal will nreach at Ab- tbJs c ^ ty in ^ lower ^d most fer-
a i-L.' ' - * - • ■ a . . . ... . ! Hlo o n /I r\*'r»cyv«£xco?Tr/i c
ittfcdon Creek church on the first Sab-1 an ^ proCTCssit'e section of Green*
bath in October, at 11 o’clock a m., vU,e «>ar>ty. The exhibits consist of
We learn that Mr W F Osment a show of fine horses and other blood-
has rented the farm of Mr. J. M. ed stock, agricultural products, farm-
Eoberts for next year and that the * in S (naplements, etc.
Jwtler nnd his cavalry in the war of Intter will fro to his farm noyr _ _
Secession, 18G1-18G5, he has this to N. C - 8 Shelbj.f The engagement of Mias Helen Ir-
tey of Jim Tradewell while on hist Yesterday and today is the 44t)i ^- D ' ° f F P «r ta vl )U IF’ to , Mr ' Z ^ ch
knew him as we did:
i “Poor Jim Tradewell
•bout 20 years and while „ ^
comrade. C .IohnBaylor*Udd me L _ Spartanburg society., and with many day in 1840 my brother, Martin died.
The wedding will take plnoe at Miss
Irwin’s home on Hampton avenue.
was a> bateau, at the river on the op*
posite side, ajjd Wash hollowed for it;
but could not make any one hear him;
so he plunged in and waded across, and
a dear whde 1 It was.
The event of 1886 or ’87—or both
years—was the great docks of wild
pigeons that swfcrmefl efter the eoon-
try. There were thousands la a gang,
and they robbed the hogs of the
acorns. Their rooblwhs lh the neigh
borhood of Cowpens battle ground
and people went there of night* and
killdd^endreds of them.
About this time a muster oaeap wan
estaWlAfcd Mae at “GaEner* * old
field* ag lb was called at that time.
They would amp for a week; fight
sha m battles and play war like they
loved It dne ' day w Maj'"Sflttngs’
horsei. of Torb, was bayoneted,,; in
flicting a bad wound. lap. T. WU-
kins' awd i- were watching the wound
being sewed up, w ben suddenly the
horse ros© on his Mnd feet and made
a swing round, and hit J. T. W. op the
head, damaging his new hat. As he
came out he said; “Well, he has
ruined my new hat,’’ as though he
thought more of Ms bat thaa he did
of hi* head. So, boys, keep Away
from a waunded horse and ’a dog
fight—you might get hnrt to’ either
case. v: <
In 1889 a noted event happened la
mV Ufe. I was born again, born at
the spirit. I will tell you more Mont
this later on. ' so
In 1846 I had typhoid fever; was
down five week*. I took, it in June,
and it was ia my father’s family till
the &ext March. A brother. Martin,
aged twenty-five years, and a negro
boy. died with it. '•
I remember well what I was doing
on the 19th of September, 1840. at 2
i). ra.—eating ash cake!
• Yfr ytr ■wwy-v. t r, . • . - , ** W*44 O ISv/iltftr UlJift X cAvT^AAtAVT,
ell has been dead vant iep of th, takl ” >i: ad . Monday evening, September R0. Bishop 1 I quit off last by saying that I 1
hie on his death*- i Sad^t llvin is one 1 mating ash cake at 2 p. m. I remt
was
remem-
in hjs fire wood tor next Q f the most charming members of i ber ft well for Just at that time of
# »» to ; beauty. Mr. McGhe. i, a S,rain ^
sermon'from Ihe lips of any one On The mowers and rakes are imsv “V »* * wulu ' - v *— ^
fie Goodnes of God.’ now fvathorin raKe are bufc> Carolinian, but is in Washington a* many people had to move awav to get
rn uo an s or Go<t, . Sines hy J f where ^ e8e ma ' correspondent for The state and other Iwead. Some went to f
Whihoiiant, "k. | Power.’
M. Roark, J. L- Walker, J. A. McCraw, j :> iQ the army Jim rtedfRfMj could
‘The world is a 1^ from the bow- chines can be used to an ^7^. * feadfnTsouX™ newsSanS/
of Gods beauty; toft sun is a Mr. L W- Hartford went to Gaffnev K Southern newspapers
•park from tne light of His wisdom, Wednesday on business
the sky is a bubble on the sea of His
D. C. ROBS. J. Ci Otts. N. H. Litle- I _
john, J. J. Scruggs and B. G. Clary. ? .
The stockholders meeting then ad- f M
. journed and the directors held a
r-Mufl' 7' Harri f° n - wll o hap been meeting and elected the following
S SSSih officer8: P-reeident, N- H. Littlejohn:
chueeh for next year, will preach vlce-presWent. 3. L. Walker; secre-
ther* next Sunday morning at eleven
o’clock, it i» booed that a large
crowd will, tun out to hear and greet
vice-prewueirc. j. wauter; secre
tary ana treasurer. Chas. W- Faajes; *./
attorney, J. t.
him on his first visiL
The object of the association is to
do a general building and loan busi
ness throughout Cherokee county,
loaning money on both city and coun
try real Mtate. Thin is a new fea
ture to fig Mdldtog tad-- lean bftsi-
neae. Two other fcew features are
the discount allowed on advance pay
ments and no fines or forfeitures for
The ftegro who stole the trousers
from the Company Store was sen-
gR tenced by Mayor Fr* Te»
days on toft gaag. He got thirty days
in aach of four cases. H* will be A
^.sadder but wiser negro by the time
^his seotences are finished. . . . , , ,
■1 . £ , wl)^dra)yala r it is upt designed by
The Farmers’ Warehbufte Ooihpany thd brotnbtdrft that tne new organiza-
i* making arrangements to build a tion will Interfere in the least with
warehouse otk <hftr property reoMHly th « t Fft pJd*ft<Btoizatlftlte Itp scope
purchased feoin R. A. Jones on Fted- ' is 'Hoer and It is expe'rted to gf*t
erick street. Every farmer in the business that the old organizations
county who eea poeniWy do so sbouM ■ canaot neach—la reality It should
support this laudable enterprise. help the older organizations because
it will stimulate the building and loan
Tnmrsaay night the attraction at plan and th-e more people know about
the Star Theatre Is an adequately this plan the quicker will thev adopt
staged presentation of the most po-,it. The officers of this association
pulap of all dramas, "East Lynee,” by are among Gaffney’s best business
Joseph King's New York company, men and The Ledger predicts suc-
The engagement is for one night only cess for it.
and the special prices will be: 25, 1
85, 50 and 75 cents. yhe woman's Club.
m t
fii
LMlSiUiiua aliMjl! U:' ;Jr. , , . .
A Scene From “East Lynne.”—At Star Theatre, Thursday, Sept 26th
Georgia And
some to Tennessee. Oh! it was a
„ . , 1 , # , igloomy time! At New Prospect Bap-
„ . The taxable property of Union, ac- tist church on© hundred of its maTn-
Strain and children cording to the abstract which the, bers called for their letters, anc? af-
sp. nt Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. S. treasurei has just completed, amounts ter dlemission thev cried and sobbed
Estes. to 28,407,675. According to last for one hour, hating to leave the
—*— — ' >' e ? r '6 figures, this is an increase in red hills of Spartanburg But ko
value of $568,675. The auditor »aia they had to. to get bread (M’ au-
that this increase came through the . thority. Rev. J. G Landrum) * i was
raising as assessments on the mills, going to school that year (seventeen
and railroads in the county Under years old) and 1 fell in love about
the levy wnich has been fixed for this that time. Our boys love when they
year, the amount of taxes which will . are seventeen vears old generallv
S© S n? f . rom , th ! va,ue8 by an d at a most critica! n^e in their
■ So8 C 8- 80 S s °i a X;d 0 /d“ : in t1 l! ve3 ’ °^d advice. Hut.
, f 108.8 j ..so This is divided as fol- boys. 1 got over mv “love «neilmH
lows: For State taxes. $28,834.53; ,did not marnT r * ! . .
for count- tgootR*)? w • i J'O noi marnr until I was twenty-
t r .ount., taxes. 880.fl38.27. years months aT1(J flfte€n
I After a conference lasting nearly :
seven hours a special committee of wa * a ^ r '>P ear
the Greenville board of trade Fridav oat* and corn. We did
made a report favoring the proposed '”^L raj8€ niuch cotton then, in 1848
South Atlantic & Trans Continental ' was . wortb cents per
railway, which Col. S. A. Jones, 50 CPnts bushel:
Waynesville, N. C-. is promoting. The ,??!> 4 9 ^ nt8 - r>ork 2^0*" 2 to
road is dftfelgned to connect Green- • It ' fatt ^
ville and Knoxville bv a short cut ! „I J g8 f 01 F horae in tnose 4a y 8 :
through the mountains and the pro- , wf J ady ‘ ,a1d 11:6: '‘ We
moters also plan to have a line con-<^*7 ^ ed hofrs anf1 hav© fatty
■*wctlng the coal fields and some At- d ' dns: ! ! ;^ ,rR " ,
lactic port. The enterprise has been . T V 8 . 49 8 hie kpow fell on the 15th
4in an embryonic state for more A . pr ] H w»s on Sundav and
l a year and it now begins to look like , ndav rnornin ? 't wa- bright and
! daylight ahead. 'dear and the prettiest, world I ever
( * Paw, a* the snow a nd ice glistened
i plarence W. Gilmore was found whPn (he sun rose,
not guilty of murder in the court at . . In T wa ^ to school at
^Mkxley in Appling county, Georgia •-''meston© Springs. 1 walked six
-• • milPe ...
'H
m
^ ' 11 nfti^
•f
i
ajways be depended upon where per
sonal courage was to be tested. He
nr o o <11 1 o • 1 On Thursday'afternoon at the home | MieW^feothing ftMtot fear end the.
„ Dr ' B- A St f edl y wi , n l 5f ve if 1 *' Of Mrs. N. H- Littlejohn, the Woman’s tumu 1 t of bat % music tof»ver to th© Wnn1iM4«rhf-iio^ I
ney about October 1st fer New York n, lb held its regular meeting Tbl© Mm- •
22JT5: ; u ‘l^ ar-san ^ »«» »r o f ! . ^zr.-p^c- ^rrjEZnr:^,^ sr^^sjsst "zr*:
•Tu.rfm* J r b °KT 0 DK i a stud y an d «vPry member is enthusias- to h ,? (toF f 'n is eBNifleg to-tt# average »Mr. KJrbr is. There !<! no pfslca^ iif^Clarence W Giltner wait'that ^ I ve n * fl rp month-; and *anght
cli^c at-bool 6 Dr'm p e ^rSni P wiio ^ tlc OVf * T the work ' After the busl- professing Christian of today. But nishness about Coleman Klrbv and take# the life of N a. Bunisir^ oiice fitP months. I tell you’ It is "no
’ I?* 1 ? 8 was over tbe program was as ber “ an “'I'lence of tbe saving he is not afraid be will do something 1 quite, a prominent citizen of Richland Hp? J° b tp ach school I would not
Pomoj- of redeeming grace. for nothing, if we and some of our icoun$y, and the owner of a grooery tf ich again for a thousand a year
we nt to farming i n 1851. with one
Mr^ W- C- Kirby and h!s boys have The verdict was rendered at 4:15 * v crv Monday morning and six
fqc^Thursd*r aftei»oo*. bat the home even- Fridav afternoon.
)» not received In Columbia for 24 hpurs ^ hoarding house during the week
itol on account of the poor wire eooaftct- i nree miles from the scuool: and
Ions vdue to the strike of the tele- 1 - ^ 1500,5 hoard for a dollar a
d man grapj ,
ier of Russia. On gourds Mr G. Andrew Byars is doo r neighbors could catch a little of busiJtoss in Columbia. ‘ The
Russian his- abea<Lb*t that ftpesn’t signify thathe his spirit we would work o*t the few to trial at 815 Thursday
is a g$d-bead*V e*y raeaus As thundred yards of road between here Judge Parker of W&SZi
a grooery
case went
10 mai ai 8:15 unursday ramning, bori?f “ an ^ a negro bov: ai- m/ din-
visiting Knights on the occasion of G »? PrB - tIine apo has 108 K° urdB on ‘t— a11 H s a private road over whtoh ai ‘
is well and favorably known in Gaff-j f 0 n oWB -
Eey -I? 1 Vi a ~6« of, Dr. Steedly’s Roll ^ Ab ruhr
prac.kje durfi^wi's absence. Paper. Beginning of
The local K. of P. lodge Is arrang- ' ^ ^
" " ’ ■"« wry tnat needs it so badly. At 3»45 the ftftse .wae/gf*«ii A ^e , 0
.. ,,11 . . private road over which an jury. The J*pr later efcihe'to for tnr- a rr,nl ^firing, and i’ was good and
the district meeting here next moftth, L^ 1 ^’ Ra88 * a beCiim « Chrjs- ^ a^heJi 0 m^klnl^o. abnndanf>e trav el is done. But Itither instructions end then retrrmi' rr,,r ( at ^nner time. I made mosey
We would .suggest that all those who ^ r *- ®. L f oIa , ; 8 ^“h® 60 Tnaka f. m 1 °" so b fl d that Rev. Mr. Matheson, last with ihe Verdict of not guilty at 4*15^ saved it, too. for I had an eve to
own automobiles arrange to take „ r ^ a, * r Tartars of Russia. Mrs. k® has done well both to | Tueuftay. drove nearly a mile to get | r ’ (mirrying and drinking butte- milk
the visiting delegates on a trip to W :.? ^ B*****^*^ }} than drive over it., REMINISCENCE* *»toliny own home, and T did SkrrTto
Gesto® Shoals. Limesone College and ‘ ^11 papers wKe ^ceptk)nal»y -fine 75 gaRAlS. ^ that’s everybody’s business isno- REMINISCENCE® JJh W R L.
other points of interest in proximity an<1 tbo ntott meeting to lool>ed for- ( Messrs. John and Terry Estes en- boily’s. ‘ , ^ • j? J
to the clt)'- vard to with a great ^<jal of ^pleasqre , tertalned a I^w of their friends last The boys have a fox hunt booked Of a Lona Life—Nearly Four SoOfft’ * CATARRH Ift CURABLE
•' •-Vv * H».. . . hyJbt te®alb®te. A eoacft®,f®6«l|ft0li;«ft$’«rday night. Ice cream was serv- f or tonight. Thev will go down on Years j I -
Arttaar A Tavlor the young man wafl **-rved an ^ the afternoon whs ^d a«-- a, refreshment Some good , the York side to'the mouth of Hnl ■ ^ S, s .. 1 f> mr r .1
asSaavs w ^10 r■’*h,
Caskiflf of lrifts|iSi^li fro|T T^^trlln ulljratv (fe* Shy Q Jiifis ~ A V r - Grady Smarr is having a nice ham Is quite a shock to his manr fefni fe ^ y< **‘*’ 1 ,s ^?^2 tlre,y UDnece * Rary
some night* ftgJgftFe boftffoj At-J Vie <*£“ with the girls on this side of the friends In this community where he kL* not hW tolerated
urday *nd was discharged from cus- children of the city schixils to r-ils© river. l} his uncle Jack don’t mind, was so well and favorably known b< l. y ° r ii b * 11 “ €r ^ ol^agerTor a slnrfe day now that Hpotael to
tody 1# Magistrate Brid*r» • ritoepAchase of additional Gtftdv will get ahead of him. Although u© »©r© <_ wbo wl11 8011(5 11,0 t^ 1 ? correct num- so generally known and has made so
amottet of the bond was $20fl and WSI B<,ot k ,-, tir"tT>e'ftcffool libraries. Last
signed by the-father rrf the TOTmy ,y<iar but deed deHi>ra-w*B
man. |fr m Z. Taylor, of Spartan-1 w< ‘ r t ,rH d w ith which tha beginning of
burg. •' J two libraries, one in the Central
» r n -t. • wchool and the other in the Cherokee
Mr.,X. B. Turner, a progressive | Avenue school, were made. These
farm Of near Gaffney, on Saturday : books were eagerly read, over and
bought to rharket fifty gallons'over again by the pupfli of thd rftft-
of <5 «*0 OU ® teolaases which be made : pectlve schools to which they bekmg-
^o^bw^farin tois seaBon. He had no ed. The iatareat wa$ maintained tin-
til the last, and some waited all rsca*
chase of additional G^ftfiy will get ahead him. ^ Althoy^h we were aware be was in
difficnftir whatever in disposing of the
molaasfe at 60 eents per gallon. The
molaftteP boa been pronounced by
Bobbfclones, who by me -ay to an
expert^ the moat delicious that he
eve r Miftedi.
gy 4 •
Thft^fienk of Grover, N. C.. wiU
throw‘apen its doors for business be
tween now and October 1st. Oar
<»wn OH. D. C. Ross is the vice-presi
dent gf this Institution, whlchc Is def-
tined-Ap make itaelf felt J la-^the
financial circles of the Piedmont sec
tion. This affiliation of North Caro
lina ftap Rotfflj Cftwilnt rapItHT «Bff
Btoergy will hero a tendency to
strengthen th* cordial relations which
exist between the two States, and is
a beajftlv sign. >
Mr,
N. C, _
i*.
movi:
F. Plaimnce. gf Charlotte,
opened In febVMKMk MM
A
tloa to get books which they bad de
sired lest term, but which bad been
kept in such rapid ciroi^ation that
tbe opportunity had not been offered
to all who desired to get them. Many
more books are needed and by their
former ready response tbe people of
onr city have shown their wtlitog-
iwuw to help the children la this work.
It only remain* tor them to /under-
stam] thatonly * loginning has been
nflttif* U>l*feAiot them to contribute
liberally to this highly ImpoTlant
work, it Is of little ufte to build
unriqwnj
len we say anything to Gist
lolds about getting married he
illy answers with a broad, dry
Jle. Gist can’t fool us badly.
7e are glad to say that Mrs. W. C.
irks is now able to sit up. This
lady ha# been very near death's
f l vutif !friende fill ‘
tojfeoftfsbgifife a fate way
1 y i j I t*r
fere T* hn dtd fhSnloned fove 1
in rhyme. It's a good way to find
’ if your girl will have you, or vice
failing ot da y« in this length of time.
WLTr eOBntlD * 355 ^ ^ *ear. will re-
have our sympathies in this trying a „ ,Ice pr6Be,lt *1°™ me - Ad * recent times
hour. yrapami s in this trying sn anBwerB ^ ^ H DeCatop, eatarrh was thouBkt to be ft bwod
aii . , publisher Tbe Ledger.
« ♦ v e v - ln <5eB P°ndent fears. Well, here we go: In 1833 or
i? r l 8t baB fu,, the ranBom paid: 1834, the falling of the stars or «e-
He the dread monster captive Jed
And f«r us fbH redemption mafi.
, i; . j. u 8.
teoris display was grand beyond my
aower to describe. They icll a®
Bight and till broad daylight
the notable event was in 1834 or'omeL
*35—the “cold Friday and Saturday:” j Hyomel
many cures to
towns.
Geffnev and other
disease and stmna<h dosing tbe only
foder® science finally
disproved tol B idea of the ease of
catarrh, and brand that ft was a germ
disease and, after many experiments,
th- remedy was decided to be Hy-
Letter to J. C. RatlUf.
Gaffney, 8. C. and it was cold for true. Water
_„i** ar . 81r: Two cans of naipt lOPb. thrown l n the air would freeze before
iF'b pdTHTs took alike, when It hit the ground; trees in the woods
two Jobs took tffeft E» iMEifrote and spilt open, and you could
- is down will 121 base ®Oh®y te J>cw—nnleas one.. is ,AC?nt. hear them pop like pistol shots. Ml.
that aw# you, itove jra#H ( Tasy axe far-trorn .al%e( onei is'i brothers and sisters, with others/'
and u* Ad yrnTn-^ * ’ Vv -^ pa !R t w n( ^’ the other la trash. * went to a quilting at Basterwood
i«, ® *Ir km P^ 0 ® $■ not far fron , ghoals, on p*ooiet river, and it' was
alike. They don't cost alike. One so cold all of them stayed all night.
rand see that me.
•s If they are not Co contaia the very
first essential of culture—well select
ed boobs.
^th*f' illJ Jto* GfEiJV
uite Maggie Estes has been stay-
sdme with
Mrs. Joe Estes since
hds been sick.
'-Amanda Lee is spending a few
With the family of Mr. T J.
^ of the boys had a picnic at
ridfey ferry laat Tuesday to which
I felled to ask' the girls.
Bigham, of Sharon, is
few days with the family
and Mrs. T. J. Batos. He is
to be qnlte feeuie.
takes 10 gallons to paint e house:
the other-takes 20. The cost ot one
Job to 150; the other 1100—it may
be $80—the Job that cost least is the
good one; wears twice as Vmg as the
other.
are two ways of telling good
There wa B not bed room sufficient for
the crowd, and they kept up good fires
and danced al] night to keep warm/
Mv father had a segno man named
wash, and he waded the river that
night going to his wife’s house. His
coltbing froze on him stiff before he
by the name; by the number oould get to the house, one-fourt® of
wo '
medicates the air you
breathe: It bills the catarrhal germs;
It heals the smarting sad raw mem
branes of few passages to the doss
and throat: it cores all catarrhal
troubles
1 4* there to life and health !n the
air In the mounts!e-top* where the
pine forest* give oft their fragrant
and healing balsams, so tfteiw is life
and health in breathing Hyomel. There
is no need of suffering from catarrh
if .the simple end natural treatment
of-Hyomel to anafl.
wo snre
of ralToriF it takes for a Job—least is m
gallons, beet paint By the name De- lived
▼oe: bv least gallons
Tours truly _
M 3 lEofTwraroK * oo
8. Gaffney Hardware Ooapeny
Bur point
away, where old Wm. Wood
Wash was never well after
wards. and he died in September‘fol
lowing. (The cold day was to Feb
ruary.) 1 saw Dr. Nott and Dr, f\ W.
Littlejohn cut Has open After be fled,
and hte Mver had all decayed. There
sure to this preecrlptioa to care
even the worst cases of catarrh, that
The Oaffnev Drag Go. tell r under an
absolute guarantee' to retoad the
money If M does not do nit tint to
claimed for ,,
PHI that
of yonin
Friday tf.
Gaffney Drug Co. has a pink
wfn straightra that stomach