Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y 'iTi D. C. Ross, Pr^. J. A. Carroll, V.-Prest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. National Bank 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 Carofina, the County of Cherokee and the Town of Gaffney deposit with us. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. DIRKCTORS. 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 IN DECEMBER 31st, 1907 Is due and has been credited to all accounts. Get ready for saving rao:e 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. 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 fyou'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 of 1907, and wishing one and all a prosperous New Year, we| are, Yours truly Gaffney Jewelry Co., Largest Jewelry Store. R V SHORT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. EVENTS IN OAFFNEY AND CHER OKEE. Recent Happenings In and Around the city, and Other Events Gath ered by the Local Newa Editor. The Daniel Morgan Chapter of the D. A. R. will meet at the residence of Mrs. Chas. Hames on Wednesday af ternoon at 3:30. The “Sage of Etta Jane,” paid The Ledger an appreciated call last week. We are always glad to see “J. L. S" He breathes an atmoophere of cheer fulness wherever he goes. One week from next Friday the W. C. Carpenter Company will inaugurate a gigantic mill end sale. It will be in charge of Mr. Shepperd Watson, an experienced special sale man. Mr. D. S. Crawley, who has lived in Gaffney for the past eleven years and has not lost a single days work with in that time, removed to Rutherford- ton, N. C., where he will engage in farming. The J. C- Lipscomb Company are offering their entire stock of goods, consisting of farming implements, groceries and dry goods at and below cost. This is an opportunity to secure some rare bargains. Magistrate Camp officiated in a gret- na green affair at his office Friday. He married Mr. Walter Prince to Miss Eula James. The young couple came to Gaffney on train No. 11 and went back to North Carolina on JNo. 12. Floyd L- Liles, one of Spartanburg’s most prominent dry goods merchants, was in Gaffney a few hours Wednes day and expressed himself as aston ished at the growth of our city. This was Mr. Liles’ first visit to Gaffney for fifteen years. Dr. W. K. Gunter has accepted an invitation to demonstrate before the Dental Association at Shelby, N. C., Friday, the uses of artificial enamel, the new material for filling teeth. He will not, therefore, be In his office on that day. Carroll & Byers invite Ledger read ers and everybody else to their great white goods sale. For further par ticulars read their advertisepient in this issue and watch succeeding is sues for further details and starting announcements. Messrs. A. C. Pridmore and W. A. Turner are building a store house be tween Brown and Buford streets. Looking from the intersection of Bu ford and Limestone, the house has the appearance of being in the mid dle of the street. The building •will be occupied by Garnet Mar tin as a grocery store when finished. Snow commenced to fall yesterday morning about 2 o’clock and by 8 q’clock it was about four inches deep. The mercury was 24 above at 8 o'clock yesterday morning but it commenced to get warmer and rain commenced to fall and the snow to melt. Some of our reliable weather prophets (we do not refer to Hamp Pridmore) say that we will have plenty of fruit this year, as the colder the weather in February the better year it will be for fruit. i Panic Prices On “' ' 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 Conditions of the Contest. The following are the conditions under which those who enter the con test for the $50 offered by the M. and P. Bank must be governed. The bank wishes all those entering, or in tending to enter, to come into the bank and give their names and ad dresses as soon as they decide to en ter the contest: The undersigned enters the contest for the $50 in gold offered by the Merchants and Planters Bank of Gaff ney, S. C., to the farmer raising the greatest number of bushes of corn on one acre of upland in Cherokee coun ty in 1908. The conditions agreed to are as fol lows: No bottom land, second bottom or caught up low lands will be recogniz ed. A head committee consisting of three members, N. Lipscomb and R. C. Sarratt of the Cotton Growers A* sociation, and G. W. McKown, of the | Farmers Union, shall, later in the season, when they are furnished with a list of the contestants, appoint sub committees of three good reliable fanners in different sections of the county, who shall, at gathering time, measure off one acre of land and see the corn gathered and weighed or measured and report to the head committee the amount so gathered and by whom, and when the head committee has decided who is the, successful contestant, they are to' give him an order on the Merchants | and Planters Bank for the prize. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. E. K. Belas, of Blacksburg, called on The Ledger yesterday. George WV Elmore paid The Ledger an appreciated call Saturday. Moees Littlejohn was In Gaffney on business gatarday. Andrew Byars, from the lower sec tion of the county, wag a* business visitor to the ci*y Saturday. J. H. Turner returned home Satur day after a business trip to various points in North Carolina. Magistrate Scruggs, of Ezells, was a visitor to the city Friday. R. S. Spencer, of the Draytonvllle neighborhood, wag here Friday. W. R. Carroll, of Yorkville, spent Thursday night with Cal Parish. Gill Hames. of the Gowdeysville section, was in the city Friday. Miss Mary Robinson, of Hickory Grove. York county, wag in the city, shopping on Friday. Cabe Carletou, of Blacksburg, was here on business Friday. J. Erskine Whitesides, of Filbert. York county, was in the city on busi ness Friday. Andrew Bonner was here Friday. The genial J. C. Lipscomb will be at home for the next fifteen days closing out his Gaffney business. B. G. Kuhne, of Charlotte, N. C., spent Saturday In Gaffney. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Osborne, of Blacksburg, spent Sunday In the city with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Osborne. Howard Gaffney. 0 f Union, was here Sunday. Mr. J. Wi. Allen, of Spartanburg, wa s here on business Friday. The Misses Arial and Mrs. W. G. Cousins, of Blacksburg, were shop ping in the city Saturday. L. H. McBrayer. of Spartanburg, was shaking hands - with friends in Gaffney Saturday. J. Gad Wright, of Wllklnsville, was here Saturday. • Lee Allison was in the city Satur day. Miss Ethelyne Wilkins returned Friday from Spartanburg. John Wright wag in Gaffney Satur day. Col. L. J. Hames, of Union, was a business visitor to Gaffney Friday. Joe Osborne spent Saturday night and Sunday in the city. LeMaste r Humphries. Mr. Ralph LeMaster and Miss Del la Humphries were married Sunday afternoon at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. S. B. Harper. The groom is the son of Mr. G. W- LeMaster, of Wllklnsville, and the bride is the daughter of Mr. P. W. Humphries, of Grassy Pond. The Ledger wishes these young people all happiness in their married life. Of course you hope and believe that some day fortune is going to smile ape 11 you. Everybody does the same thing, more or less, but—those upon whom she does eventually bestow her favors, are the ones who rtisolve to compel prosperity to come their way. The ship that comes in eventually, is the one that has plenty of coal shoveled under the boilers. A part of your 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 sbovling 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. | Beit Cough Sjrrup. Tastes Good, la time. Bold by druggists. consumption^ YOU MAY CALL IT “BILLIE MALONE” or anything else you like, but there is no safer investment than shares in the Peoples B. & L Association It pays good interest and your Stock is never worth less than 100 cents on the dollar. Third Series Opens April 11th, 1908. J. F. Garrett, W. \V. Gaffney, Dirwtoks. R. M. Wilkins, Chas. Baber, H. K. Ocborne. J. X. Lipscomb, W. E. Anderson, R. S. LIPSCOMB, Secy, and Treas. Office M. & P. Bank, - Gaffney, S. C. 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 YHE LEDGER. Gaffney, S. C. Please? | Wilkins, Brown & Irwin, | On-w-jperx**, S. ^UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK A Beautiful Home Wedding. Chester, Feb. 10.—The marriage of Miss Effle J. Holmes and Mr. C. F. I Harry wag solomized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H- Laurance on Wednesday morning at half-past ten o'clock. The ceremony wew perform- 1 •d by BRT. 8. J. C&rtledge In a most beautiful and Impressive manner. The bride looked charming in a white satin princess carrying a bou-i quet of bride’s roses. The house was; decorated in a most attractive man ner with cut flowers and potted plants, i Only a limited number of the bride's chosen friends were present. The bride is well known in Chester having lived here with her sister.! Mrs. Lourance, for the past two years. She is a very handsome young lady KSV with most bright and attractive man-, 1TJ ner, winning the friendship of all who knew her. The groom is a substantial young business man of Grover, N. C. The friends of the bride, while regretting her loss from the neighborhood, wish for the young couple a full cup of do mestic happiness. Mr. and Mrs. Harry left on the Southern noon train for a visit to the groom’s parents In North Carolina. The marriage was a surprise *w'aH as It had been kept a profound secret. Many beautiful and ,h*eful present* were received. SELLING OUT! SELLING OUT! AT COST A! COST The J. C. Lipscomb & Co., offer their entire stock at and BELOW COST. Begiiniig Friday, Feli.14-25 Now is your time for bar gains. Don’t forget the date Friday, Feb. 14th. / it,.