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Farmers and flechanics B. AND L. ASSOCIATION SAVE MONEY! COMMENCE NOW! 'Jtie lew money you have the greater jcnr need for taxings. Yontbculd bay you a home. You expect to buy a home sometime. If you wait until you can pay all cash for it, you will never buy. Commence saving by tak ing stock with us to-day, and when you want to buy or build, come and gel your savings, and if you need borrow the balance from us and pay your house rent to yourself. Don’t you know that the rent you are now paying will about pay your building and loan dues and interest, and at the end of six years you will have a home instead of a bundle of rent receipts. See us. C. W. NAMES, Sec'y and Treas. N. H. LITTLEJOHN, President. J. L. WALKER, Vice*President. J. C. OTTS, Solicitor. . Trust Go., Upstairs, National Bank Bldg. r w--w. ♦-wrw ~W7W-w ’ V iT< 'I 1 »T< Buy a Home With Rent Money! You can do this by taking stock in the Cherokee Building and Loan Associa tion. This is the oldest Building and Loan Association in Gaffney. It is conducted along conservative lines. We can help you to the road of wealth. See any of our officers. Read our Booklet and learn our plans. : in* Cherokee B.!L.‘ V. V. Gaffeey, Sec’j & Treas. C, A. Jefferies, Prest. ![♦ -»»»»>:<>»»»»»»>:^! * SHEET METAL WORKERS We are ready for business. We do all kinds of Sheet Metal work, Cornice, Finials, Cresting, Tanks and anything else you need. All kinds of repair work. We make a specialty of Roofings, Slate, Tin and Metal Shingles, and are prepared to do all work promptly. All work guaranteed. We ask you to share your busi ness with us. Phone 200. : : : : : Yours for business, O, G. WILSON & CO [Opposite Lodger Office. DRAYTONVILLE DOTS Local! and Peraonala from • Thriving Section. Draytonvllle, Oct. 23.—We don’t see why Cherokee county cant have good roads as well as any other coun ty. Cherokee Is coming out In every thing except good roads, and we will be glad to see the time when we can travel with ease. Mr. S. Quinn, of Gaffney, met the farmers at Evergreen last Friday to get up members to organize a Farm ers’ Union. They met Monday night and organized, and we hope they will meet with success In their undertak ing. Mr. John Raines has sold his store to Messrs. Ralph and RAfe LeMaster. of Wllklnsvllle. We have not learn ed what Mr. Raines has decided to do. but we tblnk he Is going out West. Our prayer meeting was largely at tended last Saturday night. Mr. Hus key gave us a good talk on the sub ject of returning good for evil. Our pastor was present and he also gave a splendid tall?, which was enjoyed by all. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Parker spent, last Saturday with thefr son. Mr. R. R. Parker, of Gaffney, who has a very sick child. They returned home Sun day afternoon. Rev. E. G. Ross filled his anpofnt- ments here last Saturday and Sunday. He read the church covenant, Sunday morning just before 1# began his ser mon. There was one addition to the church by letter. He preached his farewell sermon at Ross Grove last Sunday afternoon. Our .ibbath school is still increasing It was well attended last Sunday. Our pastor gave a snlendid talk to the scholars. There will be Sunday school next Sunday at the usual hour. 10 o’clock. Everybody Is Invited to attend. MY. and Mrs. James Coyle, of Gaff ney. attended services here Sunday. ^ssrs. \v. F- Huskey. Stanley Wil son and Larkin Parker attenuwd ser vices at, Ross Grove last Sunday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George McCraw visit ed friends and relatives over across the river Sunday. There will be prayer meeting next Saturday night at half past, seven o’clock. “Man” will be the subject and we hone there will be a large congregation out, If the weather is agreeable. Messrs. Henry Sellers, Grady Har mon and Ben Hammett, of Wllkins- ville, attended religious services here last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Phillips spent last Sunday afternoon with Mr. ana Mrs. Ellphus Harmon, or Ararat, whose child had the misfortune of falling out of a wagon and fracturing Its skull. He Is doing very well, hut there is little hopes of his recovery. Rev. Sam Zimmerman, of Clifton, was a visitor here last Sunday. Mr. S. Quinn and sons, Reid and George, of Gaffney, attended services here last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Whelchel and family, of Pondfleld. visited Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Whelchel here last Sun day. Mr. Ed. Whelchel, of CHffsldes, N. C., visited relatives here Saturday night. Some young gentlemen went to the teachers’ examination last Friday with their cuffs and collars on, but when they got up to the city they found that they needed more school ing worse than they needed their cuffs and collars. Messrs. Logan Jenkins and Hyder Phillips attended services at Ross Grove last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Tom Stroup Is getting along very well. He was able to go to Gaffney last Saturday. Messrs. D. C. Phillips and son, Ru fus, attended preaching at Ross Grove last Sunday afternoon. Mr. William Owensby, of Cherokee Falls, attended services here Sunday. The death of Prof. W. F. McArth ur was a sad dhocb to this commun ity. He was a good Christian and one of Cherokee county's best citi zens. Mrs. W. F. McArthur Is get ting along as well as could be ex pected. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Some of the farmers are selling their cotton. They say If the weath er stays fine there will be a big crop made, and the price of cotton will go down below ten cents. Messrs. J. V. Sarratt and Prof. R. O. Sams were down here last Satur day surveying some land for Mr. Jno. Owensby, that he bought from the Gaffney Land Company. He will build him a bouse before long. Mr. Claude Hammett, of Gaffney,} attended services here last Sunday. Messrs. Sheriff Thomas and Will Doggett, of Gaffney, were visitors to this section last Sunday. We regret to learn that our friend. Mr. Dock Leazer, of Limestone Mills, Is very low with typhoid fever. We wish him an Immediate recovery. Mr. Roland Parker has bought a lot at Gaffney and is erecting a dwell ing house on It. Mr. Elzie Parker has a position at Greer In the mill. He says he likes It fine, but we think he will be ready to come home before long, for there 1b no plaoe like home. Mrs. Felder Phillips and daugnier, Mlsg Josie, of Corinth, attended ser vices here last Sunday. Mr. C. M. Parker Is working at Gaffney thig week. He Is helping his brother, Mr. R. Ri Parker, build his house. With best wishes to The Ledger and Its readers, I remain, School Boy. Gowdeyvllla Gossip. Gowdeyvllle, Oct 25.—The death of Mr. Leslie Wright wag a great shock to his many friends In this com munity. Mr. Wright leaves a wife and one child and a host of i Natives and friends to mourn his death. The funeral was conducted by Rev. 8. B. Harper, of Gaffney. Mr. William Dabb Is very low with cancer and Is not expected to live. Rev. L. R. Gaines filled his regular appointment at Rehoboth Sunday. Mrs. Charles Garner and Mr. E. R. Garner spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. William Dabb. Miss Julia Inman spent Saturday night with her cousin. Miss Mae Mor ris. and attended sendees at Rehoboth Sunday. Mr. Randolph Vaughn has a very sick baby. Misses Margarlte and Grace Fos ter attended services at Goueher Sun day. Misses Bonnie and Amelia Garner attended services at Rehoboth Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. C- H. Sims and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Rims’ parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sanders. Rev. T. B. Owen filled his regular appointment at Mesopotamia the bec- onfi Sunday and preached a splendid sermon. Mr. Owen is a-good preacher. People are very busy hauling cot ton from Mr. Kendrick’s gin to Lock hart Mills. Belle. RHEUMATIC FOLKS! Are Yo u Sure Your Kidneys Are Well? Many rheumatic attacks are due to uric acid In the blood. But the duty of the kidneys Is to remove all uric acid from the blood. Its presence there shows the kidneys are Inactive. Don’t da’ly vltfa “uric **ctd solvents” You might go on till doomsday with them, but until you cure the kidneys you will never get well. Doan’s Kid ney pills not only remove uric acid, but cure the kidneys and then all danger from uric acid la ended. Rupert B. Calvo, bookbinder, em ployed at The State Publishing Co., official printers for the State of South Carolina, living af) 1010 Lumber St, Columbia, S. C-, says: “I thought I had rheumatism and treated for ii on that belief. I used all kinds of lini ments. The pain was in my back and In my hips clear to the shoulders. The liniments did no goon and I took to blood medicines but they did not •help me. I took a long trip In hopes that the change of climate might help me. I was away for three months but could see no change for the better. I heard of Doan’s Kidney Pills and determined to try them, and got a box at a drag store. Thev com pletely removed the pains oat of my bacb and I have not felt a touch of the old trouble since I used tnem." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States, Remember the name—Doan’s—and ta'ce no other. Cures Biffed. Skin DIseaMs. Cancer. Greatest Bleed Purifier Fr«e. If your blood la Impnre, thin, die- r ised. hot or foil human. If you 2 ave blood poison, cancer, carbon- lea. eating sores, scrofula, eczema. . ccblng. risings and humps, scabby, /.dmplv skin, bone pains, cataiTh. irheumatlsm. or any blood or akin (disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) Boon all aorea heal, aches ’and palm atop and the blood la made pure and rich. Druggists or by ox- press 91 per large bottle. Sample free by writing Blood Balm Co.. At lanta. Qa. B. B. B. la especially ad vised for chronic, deep-seated cause, as It cners after all else falls. Sold in Gaffney. 8. C., by Cherokee Drat C^. April S. 1907. 1 year. —The Gaffney Drag Co. hag a PINK PILL that will straighten that stomach of yours. Oct. § tf. SKIN DISEASES HUMORS IN THE, BLOOD to pw.wa. b Ante the Mood, condition of the members of md healthy, the skin wfl some aoMBomor takes i by a skin emotion or of an inactive or alnggkh body whoee duty it is to collect and cexr^ Mted by a generally 1 the body whoee duty ii^ Tr . .-in. . fiff the waste end refuse matter of the system. This unhealthy matter Jeldt leeoar and ferment and soon the circulation becomes charged with the add pomon. The blood begins to throw off the humors and adds through the heme end glande of the skin, producing Beene. Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis Off* Rheum end akin eruptions of various kinds. Eczema appears, nenalkr with a alight rednesa of the Skin followed by pustules from which there •owe a sticky fluid that dries and forme a cruet, and the itching is intreee ■ ia generally on the back, basest, face, aims and legs, though other parte if the body may be affected. In Tetter the alriw dries, cracks and bleadai the acid in the blood dries up the natural ofls of the skin. which are intendoi Is keep it soft and pliant, fusing a dry. Wish condition and givingtte kara, leathery appearance. Acne makes its appearance on the Tace Ls the wits Boaema see foetw torm of pimples and black heads, while oould tLnZ gothiasr’ fa Psoriasis comes in scaly patches* on differ^ JatooM^w^rktha uo^ parts of the body One of the whi 3X .art. . £ forms of akin trouble is Salt Rheum | ■Ilf anisft waili~-—*** f a y or *ta point of attack is the scalp, UMkdwhMS saeaSohed off sometimes causing baldness. Poison Oak TVuflTrTJ trtK Ivy diaagreeable type* of akin » »—- disease. The humor producing the trouble lies dormant in the blood through the Winter to break out and torment the sufferer with the return of Spring. The peat treatment for all skin diseases is 8. 6. 8. It neutralises the acids end removes the humors so that the skin instead of being irritated and diseased, is nourished by a supply of fresh, healthy blood. External applications of salves, washes, lotions, etc.. While they soothe the itching caused by skin affectlous, can never cure the trouble , do not reach the blood. S. S. 8. goea down into the circulation end forces out every particle of foreign matter and restores the blood to its normal, **nr* /vmAltlrtn tVi»»k.T m « affection be all who write. S.S.S. PURELY YE6ETABE normal, pare condition, thereby permanently curing < i. Book on Skin Diseases and any medical ad vi every form of akin .vice desired sent fx»ff d any S. S. S. ia for sale at all first class drug stores. THE SWIFT SPEGtnC CO., ATLANTA, QAm >: V > * V * The Hunting Season soon be here. I We have a complete stock of Guns arid Ammunitionon hand. #;WllKINS-WATS0N HARDWARE C0.I 5: >T< + ^ <n m as s non at e> m e>.n am. a m u-a. m ^ ^ HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed on'the basis of the actuaries’ tables of life expectation, and| therefore, absolutely fair is the*>nly kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. C No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, no schemes for profit, no opening for speculation, no element A scandal, but strict and straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family by providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the time of all times when ] they will need it most keenly. 5** : *‘- It is everv man’s sacred duty to carry life-insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and all men know this. But no Sonth Carolinan need go out of his own State to get it. >5 >• The Sontheastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by the State of South Carolina and subject to the Sonth Carolina laws governing Life Insurance. It is directed by men whose homes and interests are in this State. It is an old line, legal reserve.*Straigbt Life Company of' tae soundest kind, and should have the support of the people of the State. Sontheastern Life Insurance Company, ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. Mar. 16th. 1U0H Ladies’ Coats £ ■ikjjJki Reduced Prices! Our stock of Ladies’ Long Coats is largef than we have ever shown and styles the best. We have on hand Short Coats to go at ( big bargains. 12 Ladies’ Short Coats worth $2.25, $3,00, $3.50 and $4.00 to go at $.1.98. I 1 Ladies’ Short Coats worth $5.00 and $6.50 to go at $2.98. 20 Ladies’ Short Coats worth $7.50, $9 50, $ 10.00 and $ 1 1.00 to go at $5.00 for choice. In Long Coats We have priced the goods at low prices. : : GLOTHING, DRY GOODS AND HATS These lines are extra strong with us this season We have bought with the purpose of supplying the demand, and have a full/stock in every line. Come in when you want any thing carried by a general store—we can suit you. H ^ - GAFFNEY, S. G. W. J. WILKINS <& CO, ‘J