Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. / ggKpr rv U * • ' ' ■ rT -' D. C. Ross, Prest. J. A. Carroll, V.-Pre*t. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. National tank of Gaffney Gaffney, S. C. Capital Stock, - - $ 50,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits, 45,000.00 Stockholders* Liability, - 50,000.00 Protection to Depositors, • - $145,000.00 The State of South Carolina, the County of Cherokee and the Town of Gaffney deposit with us. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. DIRECTORS. J. A. Carroll, T. M. Littlejohn, R. M. Wilkins, C. W. Whisonant, Dr. Chas. A. Jefferies, J. D. Jones, H. M. McAden, B. L. Hatnes, H. D. Wheat, D. C. Ross, Maynard Smyth. INTEREST FOR QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 5lst, 1907 Is due and has been credited to aH accounts. Get ready for saving more money during 1908 than you have ever saved before by having already a good balance and adding to it, or by starting a new account. Deposits from $1.00 up received and interest calculated quarterly and added to each account. The Gaffney Savings Bank Office in National Bank of Gaffney D. C. Ross, Prest. J. A. Carroll, V.-Prest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. id Don’t Fail to visit the GAFFNEY JEWELRY CO. Here you will find some.values that will ^please you, at prices you have never heard of before. We have the larg est and best stock. Can show [you more goods than any one in the city. Think of what you need and call and see us, and if you [don’t need it, come any way. Remember we are making some special prices. Thanking the trade for the big business oM907^and wishing one and all a prosperous New Year, we are, Yours truly Gaffney Jewelry Co., Largest Jewelry Store. •ii SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER* 0KEE. Recent Happenings In and Around the City, and Other Events Gath ered by the Loeal News Editor. The Cherokee Commission Com pany moved into the Baker building, in rear of the Post oftce last Tues day. We are requested to announce that the old fiddlers will not meet at Mr. Jake Ross’ tonight on account of the illness of Mrs. Ross. “When Smith Comes Home’' is the next attraction at the Star Theatre. It comes next Monday night and is said to be a very amusing attraction. “ ^ Rev. J. Roy Giger, of Furman Uni versity, Greenville, will preach at the Limestone Springs Baptist church next Sunday at ll a. m. A cordial in vitation is extended to the public to attend. W. K. Davenport has put a fresh stock of groceries into the building formerly occupied by his father, and it is his purpose to keep on hand at all times a full stock of the best gro- cries. YOUNG LADY TRIBE TO EUICIDE. While Deranged Mlee Belle Nlohole Attempt* to Slay H*raelf. Grorer, N. C., Feb. 6.—-Miss Belle Nichols, a well-known young lady of this place, attempted to commit suicide yesterday. The effort at self- destruction was due to a lit of mental derangement to which she has been subject for several months. Miss Nichols had been under the treatment of physicians for the past three or four months, but recently returned to her father’s home near Grover, appar ently very much Improved. Yester day morning she borrowed her fath er’s pocket-knife on the plea that she wanted to trim her linger nails. A short time afterward she mysterious ly disappeaftd from the premises. The alarm was sent out and a search ing party consisting of about thirty- five people was organized and a search begun. After several hours the young wo man was found late yesterday after noon, wandering around in a patch of woods near town. She had cut her left breast open, stabbed herself near the heart and slashed herself a num ber of times on the neck. She had removed her shoes and had wander ed around, apparently crazed, but thinly clad, she was taken at once to her home and physicians dressed her wounds. These are not consider ed of suffleinet seriousness to cause death, but the doctor fears that she has contracted pneumonia from spend ing the day in the woods, thinly clad and with portions of her body exposed to the cold. There are a the old time number of entries to Death of Mrs. p. r. Byars. Mrs. P. R. Byars, who lived about three miles west of Gaffney, died fiddlers’ convention Monday afternoon and was buried which will be held in the Star Thea tre on February 24th and 25th. Come on all ye old fiddlers and contest for the prizes. Tuesday at Mount Paran churchyard. Mrs. Byars was a daughter of Mrs. Morgan, who was killed on the 20th day of November, 1906, by Tom Har- ; ris, for which crime Harris was The many friends of Tom L. Brown! hanged last year. She lived' at the will be glad to know that he is re- same place where her mother was covering from a severe illness. He ] killed. She leaves a husband and has been suffering from la grippe nine children, and was about forty- and rheumatism, but hopes to be out i five yea r of age. again soon. - Capt. W. B. Gooding, father of ex- Countv Treasurer W- Harry Gooding, 1 died in Charlotte, N. C., Tuesday and was buried Wednesday. The Ledger extends its sympathy to Mr. Gooding and his family in their bereavement. Mr. Wm- Wilson, brother of Mrs. Landrum Brown, of Gaffney, died Wednesday in Charlotte. Owing to a delayed message Mrs. Brown did not reach Charlotte until after her brother’s death. Our sympathy goes out to Mrs. Brown In her sore afflict ion. A Chance fo p Bright Youn a Man. Hon. D. E. Finley writes us from Washington that a competitive exami nation will be held In Yorkvllle on February 18th for two vacancies In the United States naval aendamy at Anapolis, Md., from this congressional district This is a splendid oppor- portunity for two young men to secure an education without cost to them selves. OHTWAITi r OI?YoUf?SHIPToCOMt [H Of course you hope and believe that some day fortune is going to smile upan you. Everybody does the same thing, more or less, bnt—those upon whom she does eventually bestow her favors, are the ones who iRaolve to compel prosperity to come their way. The ship that comes in eventually, is the one that has plenty of coal shoveled nnder the boilers. A part of yonr earnings, systematically saved, just naturally generates a steam pressure, and every added pound of steam brings that ship within hailing distance. Don’t sit idly by and wait. Get down to shovling coa into the boilers. Every dollar deposited in this bank gives another turn to the propeller that is bringing your ship to port. Four per cent interest paid on time deposits. GAFFNEY TRUST Authorized Capital,C$20,000. Death of Mr. Parris. D. R. Parris, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Parris died at his home in the city Wednesday about 11 o’clock ■ of pneumonia. He was about twenty- A new enterprise for Gaffney is the six years old and leave a devoted wife P&k Ridge Land Company. The pro- and one child and many relatlevs to motors are D. C. Ross and Boyd L. mourn their loss. He was burled at Loans—Let us loan yonr money at 7 and 8 per cent, net to yon. Our capital guarantees to yon (1) title to property, (2) interest semi-anually, (3) principal when due. We lend you money on »long or short term payment. Real Estate—We have constant demand for city and country prop erty. If you want to sell, we can sell for yon. If yon want to buy, we mil buy for you, and loan the money to pay for it. Fire Insurance—We represent quite a number of the best home and foreign companies. Let us write your insurance. Life Insurance—We represent the Southern Life and Trust Company, of Greensboro, N. C., the strongest life insurance companies in the South. This company invests its total net premiums collected in this territory in Gaff ney. Keep Your Money at Home. A Home Company Pledged to " Development D. C. Ross, Prest. J. N. Lipscomb, V.-Pres. > •>' k ■ a- a’ k*-A k 7 *? ww aLv* aLv- C. W. Hames, Secy, and Treas. J. C. OTTS, Atty. H&mes. The company will deal In real estate and have a capital stock of $12,000. Books of subscription are open to day at the office of Boyd L. Hames. The play “When _ Smith Came Home” which comes to the Star Thea-, tre on Monday night is a laugh pro ducer that would be hard to equal. The entire action of the piece takes place in the space of one afternoon, and the fun is fast and furious from start to finish. There Is not a dull moment from the rise of the cur tain, and when the end comes al last the audience Invariably wears one large and satisfied smile. Some years ago a hypnotist named Boone, came to Gaffney, and many people^iere were sceptical as to his power to Influence people to do fun ny things. Among, thlg number was a certain meat market man, who openly scoffed at any such Idea. On the night of the performance this doubter was among, the first to go upon the stage In response to the In vitation of the hypnotist and it took that individual Just about thirty sec onds to put the “fixings” on the scof fer, and had him doing stunts that wculd shame a monkey. Now this same “Doubting Thomas’’ contends that Boone did not have him hypno- itized and takes the position that Fayssoux’s interpretation of the occult ; is all a fake. We noticed one thing, I however, that he refused all sorts of offers to induce him to let Fayssoux have a whack at him, and the only i logical inflrence Is that he wis afraid to risk himself in Fayssoux’s hands. Draytonville yesterday, conducted byi Rev. E. G. Ross. —Open up that head with a 25c! box of Grip Tablets. Sold by Gaffney j Drug Co. only. 2 a w tf. : 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. Caffnsy, S. C. Please? Grip Tablets and Nature’s Cough Remedy = Panic Prices On Mules! i We have the nicest lot of Mules in this county. The mule you want for any purpose at all. Weights from eight to thirteen hundred pounds. Good teams of matched mare Mules? We sell or exchange and make prices and terms right. Give us a chance at your business. Feb. 7, 4t Railroad Official* in Gaffney. General Superintendent W. N. Fore- acre of the Southern Railway accom panied by Mr. B. G. Fallis, superin tendent of the Charlotte division and Mr. E. H. Shaw, of the traffic depart ment spent Thursday night in Gaff ney. These gentlemen had no bus!- , ness at all, but as Mr. Foreacre ex pressed it were going over the divis’on getting better acquainted. Mr. Fore acre’s father, G. J. Foreacre, was superintendent of the old Atlanta and Charlottee Air Line Railway when this city was known as “Gaffney’s OJd Field.” All of these officials are affable gentlemen and we hope they will see fit to visit ns soon again*- Carolina Mutual prlaa. The following are the prize winners in the contest inaugurated by the Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, of this city, on the first of January of this year: Mrs. Jesse G. Wright, Gaffney, 8. C., R. F. D. No. 6 (87) . .$ ’50.00 J. M. Bramlett, Gaffney/ 8.* C. (88) 25.00 V. M- Champion, Cowpeng, 8. C., R. F. D. No. l (16) .... Jamie Corry, Gaffney (14) .. Mrs. W. T. Phillips, Cowpeng, S. C.» R. F. D« No. 1 (7) .. Wilkins, Brown & Irwin, | mummmumm 15.00 10.00 T HE WHOLE COUNTRY is in the throes of an epidemic of La Grippe. Fully half of our entiae population is now sick with colds, due to the recent bad weather and the fact that we don’t know how to take care of ourselves. Now, we all know what a mere cold sometimes leads to; it sometimes leads to the cem etery. “Crip Tablets” and Nature’s Cough Remedy” are our own manu facture. The formulas are our own. We know what we are doing when we guarantee these two remedies, if taken together and according to the directions on each package, to cure any case of Crip, Cough or Cold in from six hours to three days, according to the severity of the case. While we are aware that there are some cases that these medicines will not entirely relieve, we wish you to remember—Your money refunded without a whimper where not entirely satisaotory. Our Motto—“No Cure, No Pay.” Your friends and neighbors are using “Crip Tablets” and “Nature’s Cough Remedy.” They will tell you that they took these simple remedies and were cured; that their families are using them with splendid results. We can furnish hundreds of testimonials from Cherokee County as to the curing power of these medicines; space will only allow us to give a few:] JHfl . Total 5.00 .1105.00 “I met donkey today for th* fink time In years. He hasn’t changed at all, but he doesn’t seem to realize It” “How do you mean?” ”Oh, he’s for ever talking about *irhat a fool he used to be.’”—Philadelphia Preaa. It gives me pleasure to state that of all the Grip and Cold medirinea that I have ever taken, the Gaffney Drug Co.’a “Grip Tablets” are the beat. They are a certain cure. Drayton M. Clary. I have repeatedly taken the Gaffney Drug Co.’s “Grip Tablets” for colds and they always do* the work. Junius Parrott. Crip TaMata SEa datura's Caugh Namady DO# All thay oast yau 7So IvESSb. ■md by dnuwUu. SBCBEBEuMa Be Sure You Get the Genuine. 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